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BY AL FAIRBROTHEF - - C:' " - IS REAL Where the Spread Starts 1 1 1 In the Disease. ANY things have hap pened in this state, but nothing that Strikes us with greater force than the admission of the State Board of -Health that it is all fol de rol to fool with infantile par alysis. Dr. Rankin states tfrat?bndtc& qi deaths occur from tuberculos-isVhere--one occurs from infantile paralysis arid yet for awhile all cities and all towns were throwing ..nervous fits about a disease that is absolutely a stranger to the profession. & . And the suggestion that doctors know noth ing" about infantile paralysis; that it is folly to quarantine one unless all are quarantined; that'all human beings are carriers of the dis ease suggests that maybe we have been dreaming1 about other diseases. ' .The. editor-of Everything several years ago wrote an article that attracted considerable attention "concerning the development of tub erculosis. He asserted and insisted that tub erculosis was not contagious. He said.that it might, under, certain conditions, be passed to another person, . and he pointed out that the great .transcontinental railways, carrying hun dreds of tubercular patients each day in their Jfullman cars were instrumental in the spread of the disease. And yet the government which insists that it is interested has never done any thing to force umtgation of the cars. -States su? supineiy :- aown ana - auovv tne germ ; iaae.n car.that earned "a tubercular, patient art he- last tr&.Y uu: iy vavft., wmu me ;t -au sons ot sanitary measures are urged, and ye&thevrailways of America carry . each day in the .Fulltnan. cars these gcrms; direct from pa tients in the last stages, and not a voice is raised to check the outrage.' Funny how we' stand for so much and .yet we do. To Be Regretted. It is to be regretted that the North Carolina Children's Home received something of a set back in Durham, because of some advance literature furnished the papers for publication. The article furnished the Herald stated that General J., S. Carr has secured the services of the present superintendent, whereupon Gener al Carr, in a letter to the Herald says that when theseservices were secured he resigned as President, and the Herald throws anything, but warmth on the general subject by saying" it made a mistake and that: is the penalty for publishing stuff furnished by interested parties. While there may have been some misunder standings and while all might -not ha ve been smooth at one time in the internal workings of the Children's Home Society, we think everything is all right now and we know a more worthy cause never appealed to rational man for, support. We hope the good people of Durham will contribute their mite to this Home. The Hon. A. M. Scales; of this city, is now" President ; a receiving home has been secured ; much good work is being done, and we hope it will continue.:- ; - . ; There was a time when the Home was in hard linesr but right now it hns bright pros .pects before it. We would like to see our good friend General Carr again actively behind this organization. -0- Where Was It? ':; -; In the dispatches yesterday there was a story about man who-had just received a drum; head s?i?rit to.him by mail twenty-five or thirty. years agp. The question naturally came upwhere had the package been through all the years? No one knows and no one will ever know. But this shows the lack of system of the mail service. If Uncle Sam ever takes over the railroad business and the express business and goes to it in the same blundering .way he has always conducted his post-office there will be more confusion than one ever dreamed was possible. V - , : ' . ' Bu,t there is this , about it : Had the drum head been sent by express or freight in these days the company would have paid for it. If not there would have been a. suit As it is you can't sue Uncle Sam for negligence. Think what it Would mean to the people if the law suit against express, telegraph, telephone and railway companies was cut off .the bill of fare. No more mental anguish.; No more contingent fees. ' No more ambulance chasing or railroad baiting. Happy world and men. predict that with government ownership will come perhaps j 1 ' ' -1.1 ' f ' . " . . . 1 . . r xne mnienium.or wmcn men have dreamed! v Wait for the fire-works when Bickett and Ljnney get on the stump together! SOUR r, r 1 riu... n-.Mijii.il mi, wrir;i rscjuPTioN ti.oo atkab, single cop s cents Cfcs-ri" 1 1 "cm run rsim The Four Sacred Admendments Should Be Defeated. CAREFUL reading of our ex changes, and Everything tries to exchange pretty generally with the papers in the state, discloses the factthat but few, if any of the papers are boosting the Four Sacred Amendments. We are triad of this. Because if those amendnients carry the state legislature in other, years will have nothing to do but consider ap propriations and things that should never come before a North Carolina law making body. It is our hope that every farmer will see to it that the proposition, to adopt the four amend ments is defeated. There is no reason for their ; adoption. Politicians will tell you, like they told us before about the Ten Sacred Amend ments, that we must have 'em. But really and seriously, haven't we gotten along pretty well without the amendments proposed two years ago? You bet we have. That was a lot of politics but the farmers arose in their wrath and swatted them. As a resident of this state, as a tax payer and a law abiding citizen, we urge all who arc in terested, tp swat the amendments. They mean nothing for our good they mean a great deal for our harm. Tell your .. neighbor to vote against them. -o ; : The Bad Egg. Presumably a bad egg is the superlative of all things bad And accordingly the merchants of Statesville have agreed that all N eggs pur chased hereafter "shall be . "candled." This meansj as we understand it, and frraon't know Umuch about .it, ; that eacb. egg delivered must wearine: canuieriest a nsntea. canaie nem to -Eiggs ia the Greensboro, harkt areelling-at j 3i cenis-a. uuzeninereiore t wnen one js Dau the purchaser has lost somethingArid it often happens that a whole nest of stale ones find their way to-market. Vi This is accounted for from the fact that some wise old hen had se creted herself and laid her eggs and perhaps laid a dozen or so before they were found. And the honest farmer proceeds to bring them to town and the man who is waiting for his soft boiled egg and keeps waiting only to discover alas ; that there were no "good" ones in the last purchase uses explosive expletives sounding a good deal like cussing in the Mexican lan guage. The candle system is-the thing and all merchants in the hot days should light the candle and insist on getting the pure stuph. No Use To Wait. One of our reporters today writes a story wondering what will become of the speed maniac when the new High Point road is open-, ed. There is no use to wonder. The speed maniac will do as he has always done use any street that looks good to him. Last night, or, rather last evening, three cars went down north Davie street at least thirty miles an hour and one of them came within a hair's breadth, to use a figure of speech, of running into a horse and buggy: North Davie street this summer has been a veritable race track. Cars have gone down with such a, great rate of speed that no officer, had there been one patroling the street, could have distinguished the number. We know -nothing about other streets but are familiar with Davie. There day after; day the law is violated and- there is no way to avoid it. To patrol a street would cost too. much. And If you patrol one you will be forced to patrol all. The speed maniac has not yet been prevented. Some day there will be a device brought forth that will call him. .'. o One Cent Postage. . Postmaster General Burleson announces that he hopes pretty soon to be able to give us one cent postage on letters of the first class. And then what a time we will have opening the mail. Hitherto we could throw the one cent circular into the waste basket and not take time to look at it. Now if one cent postage comes and everything is sealed we will be compelled to open the thousands "of circulars. However stenographers are multiplying and ah extra helper to open the mail order likker invitations and the circulars telling about the beauties of the. last health resort will be in order. The hope was that Uncle Sam was going to have the nerve tp make publications pay what it costs to transport them and remove. its limita tions as .to entry, number published, and all that monkey work now imposed. o ' Somehow or other we feel pretty well vin dicated to know that when Hughes got into the west Tariff became. Paramount. We have all along insisted that that is the only real question before the American people. And it is on that question the election will be decided. For ourself, be it known, we are for enough tariff to pay running expenses. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916. 75 HE STILL LIVING? F EVER a man went into Silence, after a garrulous existence of many years, that man is our beloved Teddy. Wc print his picture in order to keep alive, in the heart of the erstwhile Bull Mooser, the fire that burned. Since the great Chicago convention, when Teddy ad mitted that he had been up all night for many nights hand-running; that he was at the end of a long distance telephone; that he-was try ing to serve the people he loved -we' have heard nothing from him. or of him. True, he attended a dinner and talked it ;.- over with Hughes. But no more we hear the welcoming words' of "Bully" no more we see a Great Man posing a heroic sacrifice in fact it seems that Mr. Roosevelt is dead. Looks -like the Bull Moose people should make inquiries. Read the records at the mor gue. Go about over the land searching for the whereabouts of one, Theodore Roosevelt who, when, last heard from, . was offering himself as a sacrifice to' the American people, r - : The?Jence is painful, and past belief ifhc e be; .V"' Old. John And The vSoIdierk And now .tomes'" the information .startling and-disheartening to many in the field, that ! around Camp Glenn there is gloom and lack of cheer. It is stated that military police from Colonel McGee's force will be stationed at near-by express offices, and any . soldier at tempting to carry from that office a package re- . seinbling likker will be confiscated. That is to : say, as we understand it, both the soldier and : the package will be confiscated. V The report goes on to say that there has been no great amount of booze received or de livered by the express office, but in order to j see that Old John does not take up rooms with : the boys this prccautioncry measure has been : adopted. ' : With the likker cut out of the navy ; with soldiers guarding express offices to see that the soldiers on land are denied the after effects of ice water and swollen heads with a world gone dry, why is it that the revenues from whiskey loom up so big? - : o - Again Settled. An esteemed contemporary, nameless here forever moie, writes in a paper received this morning that "AH the drift is toward Wilson." Why, we" wonder, why, does Mr. Hughes con tinue in the race; why doesn't he get back on the earth? All for Wilson the democratic papers-say and all for Hughes say the republi cans. And the American people that vast army of silent voters haven't yet spoken. Be cause a few poppin-jays with lungs and a de sire for pie express themselves the papers rush headlong and headline to explain that the jig is up. The situation is such that no man knows anything about it, and why wearythe reader with long stories about the "drift" being for So and So. There is no drift yet and there will be'none until the ballots are counted. -o- . Handing Them One. Those belligerent -Senators are told today by the President that if they pass the immigra tion, bill containing the literacy .clause he will promptly veto it. This is supposed to be a clincher. The Senators who put" on their war paint would be foolish to waste time to pass a bill. that they know will go to the waste basket. However the immigration bill is a political measure and it may pass just the same. The democrats unhappily are having some little family quarrels that should be avoided just now. - - They Rush In. Judge Caleb Green was not yet buried when the men looking for his position the place he had held so long were busy with petitions and their talk. It would seem like a decent respect for the dead would cause those ambi tious to wait, at least, until the funeral services were over. But politics knows no shame it has a nervous system all its own and it is sublime. If that Jamaica ginger storm ever started this way some fellow in a prohibition state further South must have swiped it. v i X 1 r ' V - v V H . - .Y ON BALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS TRAVESTY ON JUST ICE Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Dollars The Price. T TRANSPIRED that Mrs. ff Slaughter didn t get her hus- nana. :nc aion t dig cnougn, and then the joke was so ab surd that the Commissioners who hired him out thought per haps they had better let another party have him, so they rented him, to his bondsman. It was the case where Slaughter, as Chief of Police of Draper N. C, shot a man. He was tried and found guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced for two years in prison but the commissioners were given the right to hire him out to save him the dis- grace of prison life. His wife put in a bid, but later on a man, his bondsman, offered $435 for two years $18 a month, and Slaughter will work for him. And it is just such things as this bold and reckless evasions of justice, that make mob law in the South. Slaughter was guilty and should have been punished as other men are punished, or he was innocent and should have gone free. There are no two ways about it. But he pretends to be serving time when he isn't. And he. killed a man and for less than five hundred dollars the state seems satisfied. What soft of justice is this and what can we finally expect if we allow such things? Think it over, seriously, you law abiding and peace loving men. You must conclude that justice isn't always given. . ' : . o : . The Conscience Fund, i r In the telegraph there is a story to the effect that a man in. Texas has returned vto the .con science fund four dollars-; "tbs amount he .one time stole from' Uncle Sam :lle claims that he hat' recently7 seenTG so muci 'that ; he. is, forced to, return it. ; -How many. of us forget to epxigh up" fcfr sins of' the' past when we, try-to turn a new leaf. ,;. r -X. The new fangled way of keeping books is the old fangled way.. of conducting our affairs with conscience. -"The new fangled way of the loose leaf ledger simply removes the bad ac counts, destroys them. The old way the bad account remained in the ledger. And man, for all we know to the contrary, has always kept a loose leaf ledger account with his own con science. Were all the people who have de frauded Uncle Sam to return their loot there would be no need of additional bonds to meet expenses. Cutting Down. All the Philadelphia paners have signed an agreement to cut down the size of their papers, no one of them to exceed eighty pages per week. They have investigated and find that there is a scarcity of paper material ; that the mills have no supply of raw material and that a paper famine doubtless is on. These papers gravely announce that it is feared manv news papers Will be forced to suspend. And to think of the waste in former years, and to won der why all this great scarcity and high prices came on so suddenly! The chances are that there is an African somewhere in the wood pile. But the federal investigation failed to reveal him. Good Enough. We were mighty glad to sec the Governor commute the sentence of that man Home. Home was not crazy he was just an imbecile who didn't care. His actions all the way through the piece showed him t6 be as stolid as an Indian. He killed his man without pro vocation but the man's intellectual works were insufficient to guide him properly. A life term is a hard and bitter pill and that in this -case will suffice. The State should not have the blood of such creatures on its hands, and we congratulate the Governor for inter fering. His reasons are good. -o- Guess That Ends It. We read in several papers that Candidate Hughes didn't enthuse the republicans ; that his speeches aroused no enthusiasm and' the leaders are wondering what to do. If this be the case, and it must be as it has been in the papers, the best thing for Hughes to do is to go home and call it off. But when you read the republican papers it is a horse of a different color. They say the west is aroused as it has never been before; that Hughes will carry everything before him like a cyclone. What liars some of us must be ! An Old One. We receive the Virginia Gazette, published at Williamsburg, and it claims as its particular right to distinction that it was the first paper to publish the Declaration of Independence. This paper was established in 1736 by Park Wil liams and has been jogging ever since. Some age, that. . ESTABLISHED: lA'Y.Vigoa'i' DEMOCRACY GAY Think the State In Peril and Get Excited NE WOULD think to see t :'ih' t'ie cmocrats getting eh- jffffl Ifei&sS has con' ommenced to shell the that the 5 result m North Carolina was doubt- ; I iui. uicivtii iias un ready been at several t rH; - places, notably Graham, and High Point. The campaign -is doubtless on. Mr. Linney has not yet taken to the stump. Interviews so far have satisfied him, but in a couple of weeks he will be out telling the people what is what, viewed from a republican stand-point. ' As a matter of fact there is no difference in Nprth Carolina between the democratic plat form and the republican platform. The Na tional issue is different because in that we have the-tariff. But here in North .Carolina there would be no noticeable difference were.. the whole republican ticket tp be elected s- - Mr. Linney has nothing. to offer. .'The re nublican nartv has nothing new. It has made a little poise about a few things immaterial, but when ,it comes down to the brass , tacks there is nothing to fight over. .Of course .we undcrstandj that the democrats do nojt projose to let the republicans get into powerV-)Ut ;io far as the average man.isjconcerned it wouldn't . niake to him a particle of difference, V . , That is why wc are glad are big enough not to be wedded "to a party.V sTiicf enPuVH to.' . i r : - ns-. .'.i." aresDre' : JM ' ' -It ts amusing 'to"sjee thelittle fcl!r t poli ticlsqthing in .Gbdybcagtif ul voru nut-'-pie'and power; naturally al,lmer SVah it and all men- hgnt iorjt. : ;'-;. - tvy ; Talk About Whisl Five thousands-New York harhefs areYmt nn. a strike and, others. areto -fpIldwi,r'Tfcaitte.l9 the barbers asked for. one dollarmpre a week, and the bosses wouldn't standvfOr it.- This ' mav mean an over oroductioh of alfalfa, and it . might mean a great increase in the sale of the safety razor. It is said tp.be aa.ill.winxl that If" f - f . f . T V Sterne said it was and .if this.barber .businvcss spreads those of us who wear widefioujjff whiskers will be in style. -o- Like Romance. . That is rather a romantic story comingljrbm Danville the holding up of two sweety girls for further orders. It reads like a romance in a book might read and the final, chapter to be concluded in our next will doubtless also foe of interest. . . . ; ' -o- High Point Growirig. High Point keeps on growing. Professqr Claude Smith, who is taking the school -censas of that city, thinks that Jhere will be. abpnt 3,500 names when he completes hi task. ..It will take him some two or three weeks yet to complete the census, the Enterprise says, but the figures will go around the thirty-fivehuij-dred mark. It is a pains-taking task to secure all the names but just why it should take. two or three weeks longer is a mystery.- Greens boro employed a capable man who took the census in two weeks and surely -Greensboro i much larger than High Point. . . 1 . -o ' " ', . .. , ..-' We'll Go A Hat On It. We are not much of a sportsman, but we ate willing to wager a new hat with most any man in town that Mr. Bryan is not a candidate for the United States senate from North Carolina. Because he has expressed some inclination, to make North Carolina his home, and because he has bought land here, all the wise opes are saying that he is coming direct from Nebraska as a candidate for the Senate. Mr. Bryan will be welcome to North Carolina". Should it trans pire during the course of his residence in the state that the people wanted him-to offer for office he might jdo so, but we'll bet there is no such bee in his bonnet as has been represented. o : Women Win In Georgia: Late last Saturday Governor Harris, of Georgia, signed the bill passed by the last Jeg islature that state allowing ;womerri lawyers Atlanta, admitted four this week, andqw.'we will see in the Georgia toyns the signs-of-the women lawyers and it is quite an. innovation as before this a woman could not .practice Gradually the woman comes to the fronts .gradually she takes her place and the wonder grows when women are in ail - professions; when women crowd in. to take the place of men what will the men do, then, poor.things?.
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