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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1916.
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Attempting
U. S.
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VER THE border Old
Man Carranza took coun
sel of himself, and finally
decided that it was best
not to go up against the
United States. His note
seems to make the waters
clear, and for the present,
at least, there will be no
President Wilson's Watch-.
war with Mexico.
c,i Wnitino- has averted war but it hasn t
averted what many people want- and that is
security to life and property.
It isall right for people living in the ..center
of the United States or living far removed
from the Mexican border to say "O, pshaw,"
at the suggestion of intervention. Rut there
is a duty that the United States government
owes all its people and that duty is protec
tion. That is why we cherish and honor Old
Glory That is why we believe the stars and
stripes stand for something. If they do not
offer and guarantee and give protection to
everv citizen living under them, then , they
stand for naught. Merely a piece of bunting
embodying a fictitious sentiment. A rag. A
bit of cloth.
But they stand for more. Those people on
the border, settlers and business men live in
daily, hourly terror. The bandits, carrying the
flag of some revolutionist, rush across the Rio
Grande and pillage, despoir and burn. They
are Mexicans and Mexico should be made to
keep hands off. This is what it will finally
come to. Were it not for the world war now
on and the horrors which it mutely depicts to
us far removed from-the scenes of carnage, we
wouldn't wait five minutes! But just now we
are making munitions to kill other people. Our
factories are busy supplying powder and guns
and machines to mow down, ruthlessly and
brutally, kindred spirits but not our own
blood. And so long as the factories run there
is no great hurry to go into the butchering
business ourselves. But when the world wide
war is over ; when peace thinks it again has a
foot-hold the United States of America will
feel that it it their duty to go into Mexico and
establish a protectorate government do some
thing that will insure peace of mind to those
men who dwell upon the Southern border. Per
haps it is better that the task has been post
poned but it has only been postponed.
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To The Hague.
- It seems that Governor Craig and Judge
Walter Clark arc continuing their discussion of
the appointment of Miss Jones to a point where
it will have to be sent to the Hague for settle
ment. But it should not be. Governor Craig
is opposed to universal suffrage. His party
platform endorses it. Judge Clark, between the
lines, therefore, feels justified in intimating
that maybe Craig isn't a true blue democrat.
Governor Craig insists that he appointed Miss
Jones because she was competent.; Well, about
there is where the matter should rest. We all
know that women arc competent to fill many
positions heretofore filled by men. We all
know that some men are opposed to woman
suffrage.- That is a right vouchsafed us all.
For ourself we are for universal suffrage. We
see in the appointment of Miss Jones a step
forward. It needn't follow that Craig be for
suffrage if he yields to one point, i. e. that
woman is capable of voting. This: he yields
by his official act. Then the way is clear. Noth
ing remains in the discussion but expediency.
The two great parties believe it expedient to
k'ive woman the ballot and woman will have
"the ballot in all the. states in America before
very many years. And Governor Craig's of
ficial act will help her get it. Therefore both
Clark and .Craig should be happy and content
ed. Both have won out.
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But Didn't Invent Enough.
1 1 was Sancho Panza, the grim Squire of the
enchanted Don Quixote who wanted God's
richest blessings' to fall upon the man who
first invented sleep. But he should have gone
further and asked for some sort of an inven
tion that would automatically pull the covers
hack when the night grows cold. In these hot
flays the man who lays him down to sleep and
asks the Lord his soul to keep, gets most of
he "kivers" off before he goes to dreamland.
And then the midnight brings on a tempera
ture somewhere down about forty-two or three
and the aforesaid man is chilled before he
awakens. And that is how comes the cold.
Sancho Panza-might have helped out in that
early day by cailing for an automatic inven
tion that would slide back the sheets and blan
lcts before it is too late.
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Tlie fly swatting campaign goes merrily on
hut these new fangled traps put out by Col
onel Wharton seem to bea't the swatting pro
cess all to pieces. .-; v- .:- "
Whispered Talk Does Not Cut
Much Ice It Seems
GREAT many people arc afraid
of black and white not the black
and white worn by milady these
daySbut the black and white
made by the printing press, the
ink and types: To know that a
whole community is whisper
peri ng; that a whole community
has been apprised of some short
coming, and you the luckless victim, doesnt
seem to disturb your equanimity but let the
details be printed on the white pages of a news
paper, and presto, friends and all think the jig
is immediately up.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about a
young girl who was operated upon and the
physician was held to answer for criminal
practice, and many have been the requests m
different printshops to say nothing about it.
And nothing of name or detail will likely ap-.
pear. And yet on every lip in the old town
the story clings; people arc whispering it to
one another, and so far as publicity is con
cerned an extra every twenty minutes couldn t
give it wider circulation. But those who feel
that black and white record the history, those
who feel that there is something in a printed
statement unsubstantiated stronger than in the
verbal utterance where every 'detail is fortified.
reioice to know that "the papers didnt print
it "
Happy indeed is the individual who can see
no further. Happv indeed is the one who can
feel sure in an atmosphere; laden with rumor
provided the "papers didn t get it.
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-.''' AH Agreed.
""All are agreeduTiat 'the Tourth of July cele
bration in Greensboro was an unqualified suc
cess. Every citizen is eager to bear testi
monv to this fact. And what does it suggest?
Sim nl v that there was nothing doing. There
would have been.no celebration had not some
one man suggested it and others at once got
I11KV Tt was concentrated ettort. Jt was a
little otitlitisin;m that made a bin blaze and
the hip- blaze trot results.
Therefore the object lesson is plain. Things
do not come iust so. Hotels are not built by
wishes. It. takes a few men to get busy to ac-
comnlish results. Greensboro has shown that
she has the men and she has the enthusiasm.
t,-. omrnio-nc for v. i . l. a. ouiiaintrs
this spirit has been on exhibition. What we
need now is a little more energy ; a little more
enthusiasm and one of these days the big hotel
will have an existence.
Greensboro has the men. She has the
money. She has the spirit. All we need is a
get together crowd a few men who will as
sert themselves as leaders for this cause or
that and, well, if we can't move mountains
we can do things worth while.
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A Building Genius.
Colonel Santford Martin, of the esteemed
Winston Journal, deals not alone in prose.
He writes poetry real heart-touching and
tear fetching poetry with as much ease as an
umbrella sheds water. It is an intangible pro
position. When but three yekrs old, with
hands tied behind him and his tongue between
his teeth he wrote these touching lines :
I love to look way over yander
Where the tail fentv standn so high
And where the sooses and the gander
Catch the June Bugs in the rye.
This poem is1 said by J. Hampton Rich, Dr.
Waters and other experts in the Poetry Busi
ness to be one of the most beautiful ever writ
ten. In other issues, however, we shall, by
snec ial nermission of the gifted poet, print run-
ninp- vards of his Works. We shall show what
we want to term for a better word, The Evolu
tion of A Poet. Those who have been thrilled
with the above lines should prepare for what
is cominsr. Remember this chore above print
ed was written when the Colonel was but
three vears of aee. Those at five and seven
and ten and twelve are corkers. Watch for
them. This paper, ever alive to securing the
hest that is made, has the exclusive right in
the Piedmont section and it will print them if
it busts a belly band.
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Congressman Stedman.
Washington talked about Major Stedman
last Saturday the members of Congress talk-
ed about him and the galleries went wna.
When the Question of paying soldiers a decent
wage was under discussion Major Stedman, as
a soldier a Confederate , soldier who had
marched under the stars and bars and starved
under them and fought under them gave Con
gress a piece of his mind and when the vote
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was taken but two men voted against tne diii.
People in Greensboro were mightily pleased,
ris thev should have been, to know that our
Congressman was there. It was a great speech
and we congratulate the Major. Those who
have talked about the Major being an old malt
should see him in action.
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NCLE P. EX Tfl.l.MAX, once known to
fame as .Pitchfork, 'lien, but now a quiet.
calm and consei vauve i;iu'siu;tii sim uimm
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that we have the biggest battle ship in the
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world, xie warns u i.ugvi.uy uuuvumh .my
other nation ever dreamed of building. He
wants it big enough to wipe out a whole fleet
of anv other nation which is now afloat, and
he savs it can be done.
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WpII whv. not!' 11 we are eroincr into the
shin buildimr business whv not take fifty mil-
lions and build one that cannot nc cquaneu
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anvwhere. And it some other nation builds a
biesrer one, then let us get busv ami huild a
still larger one. Thatv would be business.
Xothino- but business. If big ships can stand
tVm. fW nnd .thev sav thev'can. whv not have
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the biggest one in the world and keep on hav
ing it?
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The esteemed Winston Journal says:
If Colonel lloosovolt shonl.l t;.ke the stump for HtiRhos.
in whi. h c;is h- w ul.l liii'l it m-r.-ss.iry t. iMwmI tlio
t. 1'. orK:iniwtlon. tViiros.. UimU. faiuion ami the rvt of
the Old Guard lender who are i:uk.m
aninXn. all the lemmrats would have U do tc
luip.ii. . ....tpifa in the audiem-e with
:i ' priiphophone sel.i t ion entiU.-d. "Theodore Uoosevelfs
Kevnote pe.--M in me . :iiiii;nn
It is
all right, if he feels that way about it.
lor
Mr Roosevelt to come back tt) the lold.
It is perfectly proper and not inconsistent for
him to say he thinks he was mistaken and that
the best way to get what he wants is by sup
porting Hughes. But unless he has the un
blushing effrontery of a cast iron man Roose
velt cannot go out over the country making
speeches for the republican party. He has de-
nounced all its leaders. nen as-u 10
a choice he knew that Hughes was strong in
iho Aesi he knew that Hughes was t Me man
-h lit, he sent word to name
word to name Codge. He was
whipped to a frazzle. He was put out of busi
ness and if he wants to come in he should be
allowed that privilege, but for him to go out
over the country telling his followers and oth
er people to vote for the party he tried to
wreck; to vote for a party dominated ny men
he has villified and abused in a word to swal
low all he has said, it will never do. We arc
of opinion that but few people will take Tcd-
dv's advice in this campaign. it the Lull
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Moose people go back to 1 lie republican pany
it will not he because Konscveii invues intin.
He ccrtainlv is the last man in this world ot
sin to ask people tt) vote for those whom he
has villified.
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After The Lynchers.
Colonel Tom Bost, through the News, tells
a story worth while if the fulj, programme is
carried out. He says the evidence is now com
plete against the lynchers who took an old
negro and hanged him because his son nau
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commuted a crime, j " j
was in I.enoir county. The mob tore down a
iail and took an innocent man out and killed
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him. He was a negro and tnat sccmeu iu
justify the act. It might be said in extenua
tion of the crime that the father, following the
primal instincts of man, had furnished his son
with weapons of defense but that was all that
could be laid at his door, the old man was
mobbed. The party quietly returned to their
several homes and concluded that that was tne
end of it.
But according to Colonel Bost there is go
ing to be something doing. Judge Bond is go
ing after the guilty ones it appears that their
numbers h.ive been obtained. In all candor
something should be done. There was never a
more high handed piece of criminality. That
mob should be taught a lesson and one that
the whole state should remember always.
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Wrhen Teddy gets his twelve thousand men
into Mexico he may shift again and have him
self declared emporer of that republic. Then
there would be a job to his liking.
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Six months of the Glad Xew Year gone. Six
months more and we'll be writing it 1917 and
Whisker Paint thev tell us, because of scarcity
of -Diamond Dyes," is going higher in price all
the time. :
A Syeech That Thrilled All
The Members In Congress
T WAS gratifying to his many
friends to know that Major
Charles M. Stedman made a na
tional hit when; he arose in
Congress to talk about paying
e soldiers. He talked from the
shoulder it was an old soldier
reviewing what he had lived,
seen, what he had felt when
what he had
marching under the flag of Lee. It is said that
the whtle House congratulated him, the gal-
Icries applauded their approval and the Major j
let it be known that the. Fifth district of Xorth
Carolina had a commtent ivnresentative.
It wasn't any play to the galleries which
cnecreii : it wasn t any poimcs 10 a nouse
which responded unanimously in its vote it
was just a statesman talking and telling what
should be done. Perhaps never before was a
.orin Carolina congressman so universally
applauded. Everything is glad of this be- .
cause it has urged upon the people the fact
that Major Stedman was not an old man that !
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ne was aDie and uniy capamc ot noiamg down
the position of trust and honor which is now 5
his.
We Had Promised.
In our verdancy and our youth we allowed
the News and Observer to drive us from the
pleasant task of sitting at the feet of the June
Bug and extolling him. We had seen in this
gold-plated insect a thing of beauty. Wc knew
he had been debased. We knew he had been
the subject of ribald song and jest. We knew
that the man who would come to the rescue of
a helpless bug and not put his foot upon him,
along-the4is suggested by. the poet Gowper
had hopes of believing a heart beat within his
breast. But the News and Observer attempted
to side-track us. It wanted us to sing of June
brides happy and careless and fancy free
wanted us to let the June Bug, the only gold
plated insect in all the world walk his weary
way in silence. Finally we fell for it. Wc
promised. Then Britton hiked to Si. Louis and
left us boosting the June bride to beat the
band. Then he wanted to switch us to fight
ing the fly instead of singing June Bug ditties.
W e explained why wc couldn t usurp the place
of Colonel E. P. Wharton who was making
Greensboro a tlylcss town. Then this base and
ungrateful fiend in human form with a type
writer attachment fhrows at us from his
trenches this withering volley of linotype
metal:
Aha! We have him on the hip! Kdilor Kairhrother at
tempt to slide from under our advi.-e M him lo seek now
I In- .Inly Fly. as the June Hug es aM-d liim. by saying thai
.'ilonel What's His Xante of ( Jreensloro has a monopoly
on tly swatting to make a Flyless Wr.-enshoro. We are of
the firm opinion from his remarks that be is not .ui)tiainted
with a July Fly. which is in ordinary house tly. And his
attempt to' have us lelieve that a lady sent hint a June
Bug at the last moment to save the day will not work, for
Colonel Falrhrother says he lei I lie June Hug go, llius de
Kiroying the eviden.e.
But it will not work. There are others.
There are fair-minded men standing upon the
beach and they look on and tell us what they
think. They know that our task has been a
hard one that the June Bug because of
wretched. weather couldn't get out to thank
us; to tell us how much appreciated our efforts
were, unc lady sent us a living june ug.
We exhibited him to many people and all will
bear testimony that it was even so. And the
esteemed News of this city, our neighbor, in
forms the world in this fashion that it was a
poor month for June Bugs:
The late lamented June was, as Cot.' Fatrhrother lias oft
testified. .1 poor June for June Hugs. lint we aver that the
i:l( model rhlgger Is present in full fore, a:id terribly
s.irvlgotts.
Therefore wc feci vindicated. And it is now
our solemn purpose just as soon as we get
through with the proposed skirmish of assault
ing from ambush the democratic party, as pre
dicted in this town, to align our guns upon the
"terribly survigous" chigger and chase him
to his grave. Our war paint is on. Our
sword is unscathed. Our canteen is full of
corn likkcr and we are going to the front. The
Chigger must go and yours truly expects to
go with him to the last ditch and then tum
ble him in the ditch.
We Wonder.
The news from the world war is in effect
that the English have gotten things to their
way of thinking and that now with a couple of
million fighting men they are going to push
things to a finish. It may be. There is no
man living who thought this great war would
last as long as it has lasted. Those who fig
ured on a year have been appalled. Two years
will have passed next month, and still the
forces are there by the millions, the countries
involved seem, still to have plenty of money,
and the fact looms big that it is simply a mat
ter of wearing out one side or the other. Ger
many insists that she is only starting, and
the fact that England still brings in fresh
troops by the two hundred thousand at a time
suggests that she has plenty of reserve forces.
ThTman who undertakes to predict the end
simply shuts his eyes and guesses.
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Died Poor Worth Many
Million Dollars
XD Hetty Green,' sup
posedly the richest wo
man in the world, and
undoubtedly one of the
most peculiar, died in
New Yorknd the. great
news gathering agencies
sent the word around the
were devoted to ;her.,ie-
globe, andcolunmj
parture from the material world. Today and
thousands of editorials are being written about
j her millions of people have spoken her name
j For the nonce her memory lives. . But it is. in
I the current gossip of the world. Tomorrow
and she will be forgotten. Til the years to come,
i when curious strangers pass the mausoleum
where repose the remains, of this world's rich-
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cst voman, there Will be related, as her name is
rcad, that in her day and generation she was
tnc richest woman had more of the world's
dr0ss than any other of her sex and then an-
other tomb, or another name, will engross at
tention. and that will be all. Brief ami sim
pic annals were hers! No' name left resplend
ent. No more than a passing sorrow that she
had gone merely an incident in the world's
doings. In that eternal Hall of Fame where
live the immortals of her sex not the :grandly
gifted like George Eliot or Rosalie Bonhetir or
Ellen Terry or Adelina Patti those with ;thc
ten talents who left forever names that nothing
can efface from the tablets of the earth but
we speak of women no more gifted than Hetty
Green women like Susan .B." Anthony, ; VKe
Frances Willard, like Florence .NtghtitAgte. x
like-Annie-C. Shaxrrlike'rameir,"
the list is long and brilliant, and the nameJof .
Hetty Green will not appear. . . 1,; r. :
Anna Gould had her many millions aria ot
them she gave liberally even Mrs. Russell
Sage, so long held down in bondage. by the
close-fisted Uncle Russ, has broken away and
will leave a name far-reachingbut Mr.
Green, like Silas Marncr of old, seemed only to
count her gold, and wear clothes that showed a
miser's greed". ,
Supposed to have died possessed of a hun
dred million dollars money enough, to have
endowed and supported a thousand charitable
institutions and the loss not felt money so
great that it piled higher than the ransom of a
U'mg and yet she laid down to. die, and left it
all in slocks and bonds and gold. Went'out'.
lo stand before the Great Judge, and the won
der is, will her monumental -sin of omission be
forgiven. When those staring eyes ..were
cl0se(i those eyes that greedily looked .upon
the totals of her uncounted wealth those .eyes
that seemed to see no good in God's many
bounties those eyes that strained to feast
upon the figures of the books that revealed to
her additional gain eyes that never in' Joy
feasted upon what had caused happiness to
others darkness' came, and her mighty for
tune gained at such great cost, was swept away
was her's no longer to enjoy. .
Did it pay? Did she from the one source
derive happiness?- She stood, as it were, in
the centre of an immense vault surrounded
only by gold. No flowers, no nging, birds
no heart made light, because it is more bless
ed to give than to receive nothing, nothing
but the daily scene of gold, gold, gold. .. : :. .
The old writers in their intense, desire" to
draw man to the narrow path ..which leads, to
heaven painted the New Jerusalem -with' gold
paved streets and precious stones painted
nothing but what would appeal to the sordid
mind and in such a heaven Hetty -Green lived.
The philosopher who dissects;; who Mooks , to
long continued sojourning, knows full ...well
that heaven must be full of song and music ajid
flowers and joy and peace and happiness-en'd
that beyond the grave gold is. no longer.currot
with the merchant and precious stones Jje
without a market value. But in the. heaven
dreamed of by those old Hebrew writers-?-those
men who knew that an appeal to fgrced
would claim attention, Hetty Green lived, and
counted her treasure and held it and hoarded
it with miser's care. ;
Let us hope that as she stepped on the peace
ful shores beyond the dark waters of the . river
Styx she saw there the unnamed arid .unnum
bered blisses, a glimpse of which she might
have caught in this world had she only had
the timeor, had she only known!
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Black and white is the prevailing style in. the
summer dresses but it has always been in
this country the whites predominating.
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After the Mexican muddle is settled we sus
pect it will be time for the newspapers of
Guilford to move on the "party." .
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With all the great parties' declaring for .wo
man suffrage it looks like all that is necessary
to putit"Aover nationally is for the women in
the several states to get bUsy. 3 u .