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Trade IftlUC 4 M SV AT HOME AT HOME Always Always I t 1; BY AL FAIRB , Subscription i.oo a teak, sixglk copy s cknts " ; v , SATURDAY, JULY i, 1916. ESTABLISHED MAY. jgdi. J- ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AXD ON TRAINS I GREENSBORO IS IN IT A WONDERFUL MAN ISA MATTER OF TIME HUGHES & A. u ft ) :r2?s : . i : '. . : HL ; ; - "' i " j OLD JOHN ISMmT TEDDY Anti-Saloon League Says He Must Go Now HE anti-saloon league of America has. been hold ing its annual convention in Indianapolis this week, and among other things it declared for a nation free of intoxicat ing beverages. It had figures to: show that prohibition and local op tion, the Twin Sisters of Gpod have made won derful progress in the past few years. . It, was shown that universally there is a sentiment against Old John's being openly sold. The figrues coming from the revenue department of the country show, however, that while the open saloon is getting to be a thing of the past the private bottle consumption goes merrily along. - The question is: Will the present genera tion, the generation used to taking its toddy and believing that the individual can handle himself if he drinks at home, give Old John the high ball, and let him go? The man who will go into thousands of homes will find a "little likker" hidden here or there. The old folk who have been drinking all their lives still want their toddy; the women use it for illness in the household, and it will be many years be fore whiskey is unknown. But the saloon will go. The open bar room where youth finds a shelter ; the open bar room where the laboring man spends his last dime and goes home to mistreat his family ; the open bar-room, a brooding place of hell, will soon hp numbered with the things that were Uni versal is the Ijelief among1 men who employ , men that whisTcey - has rio place? ' And the"' sooner we have Old John outlawed in all the states, the better for all concerned. The meeting held this week furnished the world with some gratifying, yet startling fig ures. We hope to see 1920 bring us universal prohibition. Then as a Nation we can rejoice. . : o- The Truth In Advertising. There has been a great campaign on here of late, the idea of which has been to make mer chants be truthful in their advertisements. It seems that because the New York Tribune printed a big article showing wherein the truth a libel suit for something like a half million dollars is now being defended. The average merchant tells the truth in his announcements. Now and then there is an artists who tries to put it over,Jmt generally the public is not deceived. The "old reliable" merchant ; the up to date merchant ; the progressive merchant understands, as oth er men understand, that the public- will not be humbugged for a long period of time. There fore it is. true that stores, like newspapers and individuals, must have character, and most of them have. ; o - - : ' Was It The Whiskers. When Mr. Roosevelt was making his bid for the nomination he wildly insisted that the candidate must be one of heroic mould. He looked over this fair land and saw but one - man that was himself, and he solemnly de clared that if the country really wanted such a man he was its oyster. And it didn't want him but as Teddy did, the question is: Is Hughes heroic or are his whiskers heroic? Lit tle things like this should be answered. They have great bearing on what might happen. Teddy has certainly found some new virtue in Hughes and it may be that a study of the Whiskers has revealed the light. -a 7 The Full Dinner Pail. When the republicans undertook to come back with McKinley they had the cry of the full dinner pail to assist them. Big factories all over the country were closed. Men were walking, hungry the streets of over crowded cities. Everywhere the distress signal was fl)'ing. Different today. People are at work. A war seems inevitable. Money will be plentiful and no matter about taxes, the patriotic citizens will cheerfully pay what it costs to defend the flag- .: '.' :v--;,':-: There can be no great rallying cry. In fac-, while Champ Clark says it will be a horse race, we fear the people in the grand stand will not be very enthusiastic. The rooters wi'i go to sleep and the boys peddling peanuts will find nothing to dol The procession to the polls will resemble a funeral procession more than a party of joyous people going to bet five dollars on their favorite "hoss." Buttermilk Charley is receiving quite a lot of puffery from all over. But Buttermilk Charley doesn't understand why he isn't ask ed to walk in front once inawhile. This is the secohd time he has been drafted to help carry Indiana. To Have Big Fourth of July Celebration This Year HE county is going to have a big Fourth of July Celebration this year and Greensboro is not be hind. The Chamber of Commerce "'has' gotten behind a movement of our live men and already as many as five hundred dollars have been subscribed, and Old Ulory wm float with greater significance than usual on the approaching natal day. Everything, on behalf of the . citizens of Greensboro extends to all people a most cor dial invitation to come to Greensboro and en joy the day. There will be all kinds of amuse mentsfire works at night, and the visitor who comes will be most welcome. We are glad our people and the people over the state are more seriously considering this great day. For a long time we forgot it, almost, but we not e with pleasure that many cities are awake and propose to have an appropriate celebration. Come to Greensboro if you can find the time. Our country friends are invited. People from nearby towns are also asked to come and see a real live town. . . ; o - - ' They Are Excited. ' Editor Toe King wonders how it is that so much Mexican war news comes that was never on the wires. Well, everybody is excited. Take for instance the story printed that the letter of Carranza had been received in Washington yesterday. Many thought it was a cinch. But the real news today is that Carranza's reply had not left Mexico up to this morning. So runs the world away. The two news gather ing agencies vie with each bther in doing thngs buL:"most in ffenerally" you' wfll, find that , the Associated Press is reliable and- hardly ever asleep at the switch. o Generally Sound. Every week, and sometimes every day, the Governor pardons from the Walled City s--me unfortunate wretch i- who was sentenced 10 serve time. And under the law the Governor must give a reason for his officiafact. -".-And in reading the reasons given the average man will conclude that they are good. And seriously, Cole Blease was not far from right. We dare say that in the penitentiary at Raleigh are hundreds of men who are not lost to Society, men who could be turned out, pardoned, and the state would suffer nothing from it. But there must be a reason ill health, doubt, something, and we are not blam ing the Governor for letting loose those unfor tunates already receiving his pardoning power. : o It Came High. Thf fnllnwinp- news item from Raleigh tells the sad story of man's disappointment and man's coughing up his loose change : " ; All 'candidates in the recent state-wide primaries have submitted their final statements of expenses and they are being classified and finally filed in the department of state. Verv few of the candidates reportel any considerable ex penses in addition to the nmonnts certlflel to in their first filings. Lieutenant Oovernor Ihmghtridge reported something over ?.MH additional expenses after his first statement. The bisfgest expense account ;u the final stretch were I.t. Oovernor Hanghtridge, Col. -,T.' Bryan .tl rimes and J. K, Hartuess for, secretary of state. Colonel J. Bryan Grimes was the winner -but Messrs. Daughtridge and Hartness paid for their whistles. They didn't get in. They took their medicine and the great primary sys tem didn't work their way. Those who took part in the primary will vote this fall. But the figures show that thousands didn't take part. Now the question remaining unanswered until November is: Are some of the erstwhile going to vote some other way? It will be interest ing to compare figures this presidential cam paign with figures of four years ago. "- o . What Will Happen? If . John Parker, Bull Moose nominee for vice-president concludes to remain on the ticket, why will not that force the Progres sives, if any of them "are left, to have another meeting and declare that John is the Hero Teddv had been looking for, and proclaim him the presidential nominee instead of the nomi nee for Vice-President? It would be interest ing to see this performance. Then we could tell whether the Bull Moose people really had a platform and principle or whether they were simply blinded by the wonderful personality of their leader who deserted them on the field of battle. - ' -.-. o ,:,- The Back Seat. Base ball news is flat these days; politics isn't in it; gossip is commonplace. The War and What About; The War? those are the topics coming under the head of live ones. : -o - ':. '. ; Mr. Carranza is doubtless feeling the weight of his position more than Mr. Huerta felt it. o Now that we are about to have a war we will be told that until it is settled it will be im possible to build a new depot. mum "-:v 1 iff ! i I rURELY if ever in this world there was a i3 man untiring and in earnest in what he ad vocates, it is Jmlge Walter Clark, of Raleigh. He is just now ilevoting some of his spare time to telling people about woman suffrage, and the interview in another part of this paper to day, where the Judge expresses his delight to know that Miss May Jones has been appoint ed -private Secretary to Governor Craig, shows that the Judge gets. busy even when attending to other thinsrs. He was at Wrightsville, at tending a meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association but he;found time to give out an interview that is as snappy and as bright as any enthusiast ever wrote. Judge Clark is a wonderful man. i - - & Rumless. Our Mr. Davis at Indianapolis declared that there was soon to jbe a rumless nation -that from Maine ' to California the people would . outlaw John Barleycorn. This declaration is nothing new. We have heard it since the gray dawn of our existence.; The twilight gathers it deepens and .yetabove the din we hear the ameemphrCropsitio We look about us and around us and be hold that within the past few years many states have swatted old john. For many years there had been Iowa and Kansas and Vermont and Maine and those opposed to nrnhihitinn -showed that the law wasn't work ing. But- when other states commenced to come into line, when local option seemed to clear the way for total prohibition when the South went dry in fact it made the differ ence. Before we depart from this old earth in fact we have predicted 1920 as the time not for our departure but for John's we expect to see total prohibition -practically a rumless na '. tion. r And those who have been hardest up against likker in its various forms; those who have talked loudest for its perpetuation and its leg alized sale are seeing that to have a rumless nation would be the greatest thing that could happen. o How Comes? If the Chicago convention of 1912 was con trolled by "criminals" and that famous and infamous crime was perpetrated of which Ted dy told us why were not the same criminals in Chicago in 1910 and isn't it a fact that they put over the man now endorsed by Roosevelt? Looks to us like Teddy's return lacks much f the redfire. There wasn't any veal on the rack. There wasn't any of the real stuff that made the return of the Original Prod a historical fact- a theme upon which ten million sermons have been preached. Looks like Teddy's re turn to the feast was observed with a few c "id dishes and not a bit of the fatted calf. Perhaps. The esteemed News and Observer looks at things in a strange light, and offers this in ex tenuation of what it saw: Gnashing his teeth with impotent rage (note the classic touch of that expression "impotent rage.") the tireensboro Record man who 'failed to find any June Bugs in .lime is now calling for Snake Stories. Behold, my countrymen, what a crawl we have here! The News and Observer was the sole cause of our desertion of the June Bug. It admon ished to look for other things and we saw snakes. And because we explained the situa tion it now accu.-cs us of gnashing our por celain store teeth. Well, we are willing to for sake the snakes. Pretty soon and we will be driven from the border. o More Exciting Than War News. The women of Durham are on the war path one thousand strong they are going to peti tion the city commissioners to have one gen eral market where vetgetables and meats shall be sold. If they can have a general market- not make it just an ordinary meat shop, they will do a stunt not at all bad. But to make the meat business a monopoly, like it is here in Greensboro, just so many stalls and hours to regulate it, it becomes a joke with .Whiskers in no way resembling those worn by Carranza or Mr. Hughes. -o : ' Mr. Wilson asks the democratic friends to refrain from anything about the Whiskers of Mr. Hughes in this campaign. He doubtless thinks they speak for themselves. We Must Finally Go Into Old Mexico And Show Her OR MANY years we have advocated going into Mexico simply because we know, as all men know that it must finally come. Those of us who have live5 on the border those of us who have foueht Indians and under- stand what it means to be exposed to savages, can more fully appreciate the condition exist ing today on the Mexican border. We spent some months in Arizona last winter and those people say the inhabitants of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and lower California live in terror. Their families are exposed ; their prop erty is in jeopardy. ' We understand that to go to war means a great deal. It may involve us in trouble with other nations; it. may cost millions of money but a great Nation if it is self-respecting, must count neither money nor lives when it becomes a duty for it to defend those who live under its flag. If the flag means nothing, then give citizens a chance to organizeand defend tVinmcolvn One of these davs. it may be years and it may be only hours, and Uncle Sam will be forced to go into Mexico. It has been our opinion that the sooner he goes the better for all concerned. o - To The Front. Colonel Roosevelt now proposes to raise some twelve thousand men and go with them to Mexico. But the question is: Would he stick? He raised a couple of million men and ith them to the slaughter house but he didn't eo throuerh "into be:open grave" as ; he got them or their representatives an rouna- . cd up at Chicago, when they were there with banners floating and colors flying, ready to follow their great chieftain to the last ditch, Teddy suddenly recalled that Lodge would be acceptable to him ; told them he couldn't lead them to the path of dusty death and turned around and accepted a man he didn't really want for his candidate. Now the wonder is could he get his twelve thousand men to follow him and if he did would he remain steadfast. Teddy has estab lished a record that isn't just what all people think it should be. o : Old Ben In Motion. Ben Tillman wants this country to go the limit in building battleships. He wants them made as large as possible just so they will go through the Panama canal, and he wants all that it is possible to build. Mr. Tillman has chanced wonderfully. Older, more conserva tive, he sees things differently than when he was the "corn field" lawyer talking against all things progressive. The idea holds with him that this nation should be better equipped than , any other nation. And in this view he is sus tained by a great number of people. Prepared-, ness, in his philosophy, means that we will never get into trouble. The other school, with -Brvan as leader, feels that if fully -prepared we" will fight. And the only way tosettle the ques tion is to prepare. Then if we fight we can lick 'em so what's the odds. : O : 1 The Right Ring. Mr. Lansing has handed Mexico a note that sounds exactly right. He concludes as fol lows : Whenever Mexico will nssnuie and effectively exercise that responsibility the United States, as it has many times be fore publicly declared, will be glad to have this obligation fulfilled bv the de facto Government of Mexico. If. on the contrary, the de facto Government is pleased to ignore this obligation and tt believa that in ease of a refusal toTetlre these troops there is no further recourse than to defend Its territory by an appeal ti arms." the Government of the I'nlted St.-ites would surely le lacking In sincerity and friendship if it did not frankly impress upon the tl facto Government that the execution of this threat will lead to the gravest consequences. While this Government wontd deeply regret such a result, it cannot recede from its set- Iii Ita Nutiunal rights, and to lltm Hciriuiiuuii"ii ... ........ . v 1 i fnii intv In nrpventinff fnrther invasions of the territory of the United States and in removing the jwril which Americans along the international boundary have borne so long with patience and fortliearam-e. That is the whole bottle of milk. This coun try must eventually take Mexico in hand. Whether Carranza wants to accept the note and do what it tells him to do is to be determ ined later. But no matter how often we patch up differences, this country must finally straighten out things in Mexico. Wrhen we fought before we took a lot of territory, paid Mexico fifteen millon diollars for it, settled about three million dollars in claims and let.it go at that. This time we do not want territory. We simply must insist that order be preserved and that the lives of foreigners on thaV soil must be protected. This it will take Uncle Sam to do. And perhaps the sooner it is done the better. ' . o President Varner. H. B. Varner has again been elected as Pres ident of the Good Roads Association of this state. In this position Varner has made good. We congratulate the good road boosters on se curing! the services of Varner for another year. mm A iNew Business Firtii Just Starting Qui V -E HAVE read with in terest the letter; Mr: Roosevelt wrote a the Bull . Moose . people. !at. Chic ago: W e see . wherein-, he concludes : ih&t Judge Hughes is'the very man he was lodkiog icw--a man with a clean record, and a man who will do about -all 4 jfie Progressives wanted done. He assails Wirsdn with brutal force calls him something -wbfe than Buchanan who stands in history discred ited. And the republicans are sayingt'hatll the Progressives will fall in one grand procs. sion and vote with Teddy do .what he ;tells them, v - - ' ,: We cannot believe this. If the Progressive party was really a party with principles it cam not fall, for all the leaders -of the. republican party have done. They have calmly and . liberately yet fiendishly. crucifie.d their leader. -They have put him out of bu8tnessjBO.?ar:S'he is concerned on his own hook and he sees ih& point and rather than allow himself to be for ever effaced he comes up smiling, breaks bTedd with Hughes, the man used to put . Ym y&t&tt a political tombstone, spends t wohours aitti ' a half with him-and says he "will "take the stump for him. This is not because 'Roosevelt toyes Hughes but he does this for .selftpre&enation; He sees in this play a chance to comegairu-.'. If the members of the .Bull .Moose party oiow come intb camp and say the f ndorsethe if1t forrri rprepared hyr the?Ol4 -Xu'aid;,af tHcry-ay.r -"Hughes offersUh?tnalL 'tliey admit -that theifschemealr th?4lffir Was not a matter of principle, but a mattef;Gr4Jia; Roosevelt should be rebuked. Th6se .staxsdy -men who followed him n his de9perate;ork tuncs of the campaign of 19 12 should say0 him that Bull Moose principles still live, .even . if he be dead, and there "should be menbrV1 enough to carry the flag. Principle is never surrendered to expediency or pie. x . ; . n : ' ' Don't You Believe Jt. . ' The Winston Journal says' r ;: . " . With his action yesterday Theodore Roosevelt 'pttBBed ofT of the political Ktnge " forerer. 'Having deserted -on party and cringed before the power of another, he has'th respect and confidence of neither. Never in" ail bin ' life did the t'olonel speak quite bo truthfully as when he Mid he was out of politics. ; -. And again Colonel Martin is mistakehCol ohel Roosevelt yesterday came back to political life. He was a dead cock in the pit. Hejwas trimmed for fair. He was a dead onebtlt bp was wise. Instead of allowing himself o Wc embalmed and interred he simply furnished -itt- -other corpse- and that was the 'Bull ."totdse party. It leaves Roosevelt a possibility in, 1920. It makes him again .canspicuotisVft gives him an audience 'with the Qli. 'Guar. Hughes welcomes him into his companiot)hLp' Teddy was a dead one but 'hie came .back to life. No doubt of that. . "No matter lhp:vir. ih!s -election goes Teddy will be there .with. ?a record to show that he did all 'he could .JIc will await his reward and 'having purged jind cleansed himself he will 'be .restorcd. jWe. re gret all this but the (acts stand beforife us arid will not down. ; . s " t ; lo , ' ' Human Nature. . The Philosopher of the Wilmington ttt sees it this way: . . - ' People who want to put the blame on you don t. rare wh.ether you irxe it or not so long .s tney use It laein- selves. But the question is, should you allow pebdie to put the blame on you if you -do not desert it? It is just as easy to knock off .fne-blarrle if it has been thrown on you without cause as it is to dust your whiskers and free .them -0t! Doodle Bugs. Blame and Doodle Bugs seem to take to good natured people but the gbsdd naturcd man isn't forced to, stand f 6t, at. 'We are all to blame for a Whole lot of things,Uj"ut when a man comes to see us'ibout the-ekUnfl ed rains and wants to know ;what we areigd ing to do about it, we get busy and reaclthfc riot act. Some people. thirik weirerespdnsible for the death of the 'Bull. Mooserparty, and joth ers have reckoned that maybe we "had'.Sprne thing to do with putting the flies in Noahu'srk. Other people have attempted to make it'appeaf that we are responsible for this rwartX iin times of peace, and still otltfer enviotls iind jaundiced folk have stated that if it'hadn;tbieh for us Carranza would have shaved betore tnts. But we treat all such idlers with scorn. W f refuse to share the 'burden of such blame, and - .go aily along chewing plug tobacco to beat j the band. . . " -;;.-. .4. - , t ; o - ' i-. . And now that the line up is .in 1 sight let 411 attempt to prove .how the election will .go ,ih j November. We have it straisht from, several i weir intentioned , gentlemen that both HigheS -.nd rWilson will be elected. Possibly aome mistake here, but the men are good citizens 1 and men of veracity. . .V : f' " X
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