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TO BE REPEALED uncle SAM'S big bust
ALL VERY GLAD OF IT
A HOPE FOR BETTER
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That Is What Will Be
Primary -Result
S WE go to press on
the day of the Sacred
Primaries we cannot tell
what will happen. Our
paper is dated for Sat
urday, but as we print
Thursday night maybe
farmers and the reading
public will receive our dope i n time to let it
help some. The primary law is new. Wc
have been admonished by many not; to caH it
a failure before it is tried and that seems
honest enough.
But we have already tried it in Guilford.
They tried to get men to register and went to
a lot of expense and then the news came that
it was an unlawful and unwarranted proce
dure. Then they said the people who had
registered could not have any choice unless
the voter agreed that he was one thing or an
other. In other words two parties have taken
control. They see that that means pie and
the average independent citizen is denied his
sacred rights under the. Constitution. He has
neither freedom nor liberty in choice of ex
pression. -. ':''
It is as though Dr. Russell -were to come
with his Seventh Day Adventists dope and
hyptonitize enough people and they were to
declare that unless you joined that church you
could not see God.
But happily the New Primary Law will not
stand another year. It will be knocked into a
cocked hat by the next legislature;
Does Joe King Remember?
Editor Joe King, in his Durham
Herald,
. says:'
According to Colonel Fairbrotber's explanation some
body missed a mighty good chance of making a democrat
of him. ' - . - - ;
Say, Joe, do you not remember somewhere
along about twenty-five years ago dreary
years some of them have been, when you
Star tobacco and settincr eisrht
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point type on the Durham Daily Globe (peace
to its ashes !) and we came into town and
threw out of those sacred columns about six
running yards of platforms and tickets and
one thing and another political, and wrote the
proposition that wc "had thrown the demo
cratic ticket out the window" and that in
fear and trembling you set that editorial and
then hastened to make the funeral arrange
ments? Aye, you remember that,, although
your "bonnie locks were black, Joe, and your
eyes they were not squaint."
And ever since that mad, glad day we have
been trying to insist that a newspaper should
be independent and that it's editor should
reserve, always, the right to vote as he
thought and should wear no political collar.
Whereas, and wherefore we enter a general
disclaimer to your proposition that we could
have been saved that we were a brand tnat
might have been snatched from the burning.
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Come To Stay.
Those people who looked upon the moving
picture show as a fad, and exclaimed that it
wouldn't be long until there would be vacant
houses, missed their guess. The moving pic
ture has come to stay and each year grows
stronger. The general public understands
what it wants and it is getting it, and the
board of censors will not be needed much
longer. The moving picture has taken its
place and becomes a part of the amusement
feature of America.
Those, also, who looked upon the automo
bile as a passing fancy ; a rich man's play
thing, and predicted that it would soon have
its run and go out, shot wide of the mark in
their calculation. The automobile for pleas
ure and business is a fixed commodity in the
whole world, and as prices cheapen, to Own an
automobile, drive it and enjoy it win oe t
much a matter of course as to own a horse
and buggy.
There are attractive fads coming down the
pike but moving pictures and automoliles
are not among them.
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Old Friends.
The High Point Enterprise fears Marion
Butler's endorsement of Judge Pritchard for
vice-president will do the Judge no good. The
Enterprise should remember that Butler and
Pritchard went into Washington because of
the populistic wave that swept democracy off
its feet some years ago.
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If the rain that came last week was worth
a million dollars as everybody confessed, the
last two, being harder rains, were worth more.
Then with the one on today we have added
about seven million dollars to our nossessions.
With all this being true looks like the income
tax could be reduced instead of increased as
proposed. - ' . .; :'.
Going Into Socialism Paternal
ism and Decay
-AS THERE ever been a time
when there wasn't some pa
ternal law-maker who wanted
the people to own all the
things and operate all the
things? We wot not. The
Government is now going into
the armor plate business, and
this means the chance for great
scandals. It means a bungling lot of politics,
always, where there should be good business.
Take the postlofficc department and it has no
business methods. It thinks it has, and now
comes along your Uncle Samuel and proposes
to establish an armor plate plant.
It is another step toward socialism. It
means that pretty soon, before wc know it,
too, we fear, that a billwill go through making
this government the purchaser of telegraph
and telephones. That will be another pretty
mess and mix up. Then the railroads will
come in. And that will be the parting of the
ways. Then the United States of America
will commence to go down the hill the same
old hill that all other Nations have slid down.
Perhaps that is the Plan. .Perhaps we have
reached our fullest development. Mayhaps
individuals have gotten to the top in invention
and in progress and now will come the poli
ticians and ride the great enterprises to death
and the Nation will decay. This is no wild
man's dream. The signs of the times point to
completion.
Perhaps It Is Best.
The Charlotte Observer looks oyer our
broken promtse the plank that we didn't ob
serve, and comments in this manner:
11 PdirKi-ni hpr lms luvn forced to tbc admission
that it is an impossibility to rnn a daily paper in North
" Carolina and ignore politics, ite siartea out on -ue
Greensboro Record with a non-political platform, but it
"ave way with a spliuteriug crash before the paint on it
was drv." It is an easy matter to run an independent pa-
i.V tn L-n frnm anmirinir it all over With politics IS
another matter. It is well that the broken plank of The
i.M-i roitltoil in i broken resolution. I'olitk-s is to the
newspaper what salt is to breadand how could 1' air
brother expect to resist the teuipiatiou to take a hand at
stirring the waters?
It mtay be best. But it was our intention,
as it was our hope, to. let politics pretty well
alone. Wc expected to comment on this or
that. Wc knew we would find ourself ex
pressing an opinion, but it was not until we
attemoted to tret bv with the primary that wc
put on some fighting clothes and didn't care if
we soiled them.
We had looked out on God's fair world and
seen the flowers bud and bloom. We had seen
the children playing at their little games ;
heard them in their prattle singing to "go
choose the one that you love best to take her
by the hand and tell her how you love her;"
we had heard the birds in their morning carols
and We had seen fish disporting themselves in
Hamburg pond. We had seen fair women
and brave men engaged in civic work and
civic life ; we saw announcements of numer
ous societies for the betterment of mankind.
We knew there was before the world in the
People's Forum a thousand economic ques
tions that should be discussed, and we dream
ed, aye, we dreamed that wc could put back
of us and forever back of us the game of. poli
tics and talk of things that were of more hu
man interest, b
T.ut like the drunkard whose swearing off
Is followed by deeper drinking,
As Colonel Ella Wheeler Wilcox has said,
we went back to the pool and wc commenced
to nlav our favorites. True we have not gone
deeply. We have riot ventured beyond our
depth but we have been in tne w-aters anu
we hone that the result of the conventions in
Chicago and St. Louis will make it possible
for us to ero along quietly and decorously.
On our fence is a rambler rose bush a ver
itable beautv a Miracle wrought by God-
and we would rather look at that and write
about it than to look on the page of faces
recently sent out of North Carolina politicaris
but we suspect that we will fall again.
However with all our expressed preferences
we shall remain strictly independent. No one
need look for us to cry "party" because in
this orint shop we shall analyze men and
measures and then suggest what we think is
best for our state.
A Just Complaint.
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The Danville Register raises its voice
against the street beggars. These people travel
fmm town to town; sit on the sidewalks and
olead oiteously for help. They add nothing to
the pleasure of life. The average pedestrain
cannot afford to go into his pocket for a coin
each time a hat is handed him he must pass
up the pleasure of giving. These people who
are stroncr enough to sit on sidewalks in in
clement weather: who arc strong enough to
travel over all the country are amply able to
take cafe of themselves. They should not be
allowed to molest the industrious citizen.
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ENERAL j.y S.' CARR has returned to
V-J North Carolina after a long visit in Cali
fornia. During his absence he visited the
Sa'ndvyich Islands, but California was where
he enjoyed himself the most. He says the call
of Comeback greeted him all the time and he
was glad to get home again.
All welcome the distinguished gentleman,
and all are glad to know that- he is "fit and
fine" that he is actively engaged in his busi
ness pursuits. The first thing he did was to
attend the exercises at the State University
and donate $4,000 a year to be used by that in
stitution. General Carr will go to St. Louis
this month as a delegate at large from North
Carolina. Of course he is for .Wilson.-'
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Dr. Johnson Called.
Some time ago we took occasion to com
ment on some remarks made by Dr. John
son of Charity and Children. He stated that
the State Normal School was "fashionable"
and "expensive'5 intimating that poor people
stood little show. Dr. Johnson a few days ago
said that in fact he didn't know about it being
"fashionable" but as to it being expensive
there was no doubt of it.
- Along thi Tirie'we receive the following let
ter from Miss Lizzie J. Roddick, County Home
Demonstration Agent, of Winston-Salem. We
print it, because it breathes so much loyalty to
our greatest educational institution. Miss
Roddick apparently is in earnest, and we take
it that now that Dr. Johnson has seriously
madc a change against the institution he will
get busy. Of course what one might think
"expensive" another would not. However :t
is always well to straighten such things up
when they first start. Miss Roddick says:
Dear Col.. Fairbi-otlier:
I am a graduate nf the Slnte Normal and my blood just
boils at the unjnsi ateusaiion that Mr. Johnson is bring
ing against the institution. 1 have written and given him
my eHUie account f.r four year $!ix.00 im-lndiiig every-
thing and nm wondering if there is anything else that I
could do to get lit m to correct his views. I am a Ilaptist
and would have .attended Meredith College hut simply
colnld not afford it. The accusation against the Normal
Is too uniu.-t lo lei pass. Can t we iihIik-c him to nivnige
the names of the girls who informed him of the tremen
dous expense at the Normal and investigate anil see how
they did spend 11. Aim wonni ir n any goiwi 10 iti-i mm-
exense a-coiiiit or a good luinincr 01 gins wno grauuaieu
at the Normal and ask him to publish them. I am willing
to go any limit to get this corrected. It might do the
institution injury.
Best wishes. 1 am.
Sincerely.
l.lZZIi: J. RODDICK.
It appears that Miss Roddick found a Iiap-
tist school too high in price and took the State
Normal because it was cheap in price. And it
appears that her four yours at the Normal im
pressed her deeply. She feels she owes much
to it; and therefore loyally deiends it.
And alonjr this line it is interesting to read
the following from the Winston Journal of
this morning:
Miss Cora Caudle, of the Ilamptonville community. Yad-
i-tn onnntv .-wori tlirouch the citv Saturday en route
home from Greensboro, where she had spent six years in
craduated at the St:te Normal this year, having none i
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id stitu nrin-ii :inii imius.riai i n h'lt. .hiss
vears preparatory a no iour yciirs niin-r .-..
it is interesting lo note that she went to the Normal
u-ifhtnt mminv I n 11 IIOII 1 1:1 1 frlCllOS. .1 COIintTV Ciri. Hull
tiimii-rli the institution. She went home
mi- hoi- riiiiiiiii Mini iliM'sn't owe a dollar for her educsi
fi,. ii in-t iiorroivcii ii dollar. Nor has she re-'
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ceived a penny from friends or parents, except what sue
earned. During evcv.v vacation Miss launie woriteu uu
known national magazines to pay tier expenses m ij
iii.iuu riiMiip ii m f- - -! - . i.
nn...,i. ....iiiixv sii wir ninn! to one or me -
Normal the following fall and winter, in mis wa.v
managed to get Ihrough and come out owing nobody.
She expects to be equally successful at the ltible Train
ing Si,.i...i -in Louisville. Kv.. where she expe-ts to enter
for work in the fall. .Miss randie win spenu iue Biiiuiurr
In this and adjoining States traveling for her favorite
magazine and at the opening of the school term i- in the
fall expects as usual to have enough laid by to tide ner
over next winter. She expects to complete the course nt
the l;ihle Trainine School ami then enter mission.-ii.v
in the foreign field for tne ;. n.-rprist . iirauiiiiiunuii..
Looks like Dr. Johnson has his information
wrong.
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All Welcome Him.
The whole state, regardless of politics, men,
women and children welcome General J. :?.
Carr who has returned from a six months trip
in the west and in forcisrn lands. He comes
hale and hearty "fit and fine" and says he
is sroinsr back to work. All of us extend to
him the glad, warm hand of welcome.
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This About It.
The so-called political "Machine" is this year
workiner in several directions. It may be true
that several different schools of politicians
fondlv imagine that they are all machinists,
but it looks like the new-fangled line up is a
new model in mechanics.
There was a time when they had what was
called the Simmons Machine, but it looks like
thit patent had expired and most all the men
in politics were their own "machinist opera
tors" as we would say in the linotype battery.-
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- bum of Song and Story
T HAS been a little hard for
the makers of this paper the
last two weeks, because of
moving the office because
of taking on a daily paper to
assist in getting out but by
next week vc hope to have
things again running
smoothly and then to hand
you a weekly publication j
which wll make you feel good all the time, j
The management doesn't often apologize for j
what it does, but it appreciates the fact that
there have been many short-comings the last
two issties, and this issue is well but we are
getting there, and therefore hope all will un
derstand, and understanding, excuse.
Everything wants to finally visit many more
homes than it visits today. It has been a suc
cess from the day it started. This week we
have received many, many letters. One in
particular we are going to print, coming from
a Wilmington minister. It sounds pretty good
to us and gives us a definition of neutral and
independent that we haven't heard before. The
letter reads:
Wilmington, X. C. May 20, 1916. j
Editor Everything,
Greensboro, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I have been getting "Everything" for sev
eral weeks from the Newstand and have be- I
come so fond of reading it. that I am inclos
ing the price of a year's subscription. I
It is very seldom indeed that I ever find
myself unable to endorse all your conclusions. ;
Among the many reasons that I might give -why
I enjoy reading your paper is that you
are "independent in all things and neutral in
nothing." There is no such thing as neutrality
where there is brains enough to think. Suc
cess to you in exposing shams and puncturing
bubbles.
Sincerclv.
JXO.'H. SIIOUK.
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Broad Platform.
In a half column or more in the Salisbury
Tost, Mr. A. H. Trice, who is running for
State Senate hands down a tew sunnmc
thoughts concerning a candidate for high of
fice, and among other things he says this:
tu m-.n nim Is a nominee of any party, appeals to
nreludi.e and feeling in order that ho may be elected to
mil.l .- offl.-e is unworthy of the office and iiadcrserving
The man, wno. ns a mouiui-,- t.i . i--.-
undertakes to stir t.p anger, hatred, bitterness or s r fe
between iu-ighlNrs or menus in orm-r 10 -. ....." --
fice is nothing less than self-seeking demagogue and polit
ical Impostcr,
T.A, f l-.,ct Ulf hrihcl of solid truth
There IS at least a liail DUntl oi mjuu huwi
111 tu. i 1 h 1 1 i;-:;ofio nre
trnnh e is that two thirds of the politicians are
demagogues and political imposters. the man
who runs lor an omce snouia get im- n.
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we 1 nraifa in ins iuuiu umi '-j
he is simply offering his services, as a public
servant, to the people. They will pay him for'
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nis tunc. 1 licy win. c.p.ii inm -
But alas, that isn t the way it comes out oi
the wash. The average politician imagines
that the people must serve him; that he elects
himself, no matter mucn oy wnat means,, aim
wnen eiecteu, inj mu. uouw - -
He at once, this now the collective two
Thirds, commences to build his fences ; to en
trench himself to make it impossible to get
him out. If a man of another political faith
offers his services it is understood that the
mud geysers are to commence to throw out
their filth and slime. Character is used as a
oot ball and reputation as a pounding bag.
Voters have foolishly accepted tne proposi
tion that in politics all is fair, and men have
been humiliated, disgraced and outraged by
mud-slinging opponents. In the general elec
tions cartoonists arc allowed to slander, vilify
and disgrace respectable citizens, and the
world accepts it as a right.
Wc arc glad Mr. Price, a most able citizen,
has written as he wrote. We hope the day
will sometime come when two gentlemen can
enter a political race and remain gentlemen
in their actions until the campaign closes.
There is ho real reason for the present tactics.
Pic and ambition should not be sufficient ex
cuse. But so long as the demagogue and political
impostor bobs up serenely and brazenlysteps
in and pushes back the really deserving and
modest man, just that long we will see the
slander mills in operation and people will
stand by and chuckle in delight because Char
acter has been blackened and hearts broken.
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Looks to us that live, bright attractive bill
boards look better than old weed grown corn
ers. Looks to us like bill boards if they con
tain attractive pictures and bright colors add
to the gayety an4 life of a town and we hope
the Commissioners will not go too far in their
stand against them.
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HE HEALTH Bulletins
arc still being sent. The
newspapers are - still
printing the cheap syn
dicate stuff sent out by
ambitions young doc
tors who like to see their
namles in the papers.
The c'itOTsKuy the stuff about ten cents a
day and print it because they arc too lazy to
write live coprv. This paper advises all its "
j readers to leave these health hints alorie. It
j advises its readers to live decently, eat good
food, keep in the open and if it happens. that
illness 'comes call in the family doctor. If vou
see something advertised that looks good try
ii. It may bevthc mental dope in liquid form
that you want. But do not feel your own
pulse. Do not look at yourself and get fright
ened. More people are put under tombstones
through fear than go there by the route we
call disease.
These Health-Societies and associations
must do something. They must make a show
and the milk the public and the public thinks
it is helping humanity. It is hurting humanity,
and our advice is to cut out all such literature.
I -or this we ntav be hanged for treason but
the truth ought not to hurt.
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James J. Hill. . -A
In the passing of James J. Hill orieof the
greatest constructionists of any age laid doWn
his work. He was kemwn as the empire build
er. Once upon a time, he walked. the raihrqad
tracks as a section hand."- He saw a light a
vision and i did things in thd. North west, that'
will live forever. He became, a benefactdf -io
all ages to come. His great. railroad schemes
were magnificent beyond the dreams of the
average mind. Always a plain, blunt man he
will be missed by hundreds of thousands of
people. His great works will go on. But the
name of James J. Hill must be forever asso
ciated with the development of the northwest.
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Matter Of Opinion.
The esteemed Winston Sentinel, strong in
favor of a Board of Pardons, does not think
our state should abolish capital punishment.
It does believe, however, that when notorious
criminals arc apprehended and convicted they
should not be pardoned because of hysteria or
sentiment on the part of one man. That.is
why it wants a board of pardons. In" com
menting on the question of abolishing capital
punishment it says, among other things:, - .,
As we have said before we are not ready to agree with
1 jori'ty cf people wr.nt .1 change made they have a right to
j j . they should sav so. but we do not believe a
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l-airhro.her on thts proposition, tu wursp, ir a m-
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lntary mnnence. e hnie nerer
ti u.'iv lii ilptpr men f mm. ron
iiiltllug grave crimes was 10 111:1 kc me punisuiiieui uKBtec.
Our contention is that because many people
are opposed to capital punishment criminals
often escape a just sentence because the jury
cannot agree upon the proposition to take, a
man's life. There has always been a favorite
axiom, accepted universally, that 'certainty,
rather severity, of punishment" was what
would deter crime. This may not be true.
But it is true, to our knowledge, that many
a red handed crininal has escaped because his
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offense was first degree murder of nothing and
the jury wouldn't agree to hang their man. In 4
recent cases in North Carolina men have been j
tried for murder in the first degree and their j
guilt not established. However the; judgfe l
has ordered that a verdict could be found for j
second degree murder or even manslaughter.
This is a new way, but it has worked in some
cases. But when the lawyers talk about tak- j
ing a man's life; when the innocent wife arid
children arc weeping around the prisoner the
jury often hesitates because the grave judge j
always tell that body of men if they find any
reasonable doubt they can return. a verdict of
not guilty. Wc have believed, but it is only
a belief, having no figures to prove our con
tention, that if capital punishment were abol
ished and it was understood that a long term
in prison awaited the guifty one crime would
be less rampant. Perhaps it -is only theory
However many states have concluded .that as
a business proposition it is better to work
the man; to save his life and deprive hifn of
his liberty. And in those states where capital
punishment has been abolished crime has riot
increased. And those who are against capital
punishment will tell you it has decreased. i
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Wanted: A Market.
They buy tin foil ; they want old paper;
they go for old rags junk of most all kinds
has a market, but we see no quotations on sec
ond hand celluloid political buttons those
charming miniatures of your idol who is run
ning for office. Long about Sunday a car lodd
or two of these beautiful buttons .will be ready
for delivery and no buyers. Yet we marvel,
at the high cost of living.
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