North Carolina Newspapers

BY AL FAIRBRdTHER SUBSCRIPTION fl.O. A TEAB, SINGLK COPY B CENTS SATURDAY, i SEPTEMBER g; 1916.. 02T 8UX AT THE KEWS STAXI9 AND OX TRAINS ESTABLISHED M&Y.7 7 fit, rWA Y Ur MEN PROSPERITY LEAGUE FOLK IS A BIG MAN IT IS -. . 1 . ' " ' - -i .rv .... j 11 11 mmmmm . a - -. SOCIALISM All AccordmgjThe v.:;- c r vv ay 1 uu oee ii. AN MUST bear the heat Ff I an uren f the day ilwlr I he cannot escape his re- sponsibility unless he breaks into jail for re spite. Seems to us if we 5jM could find a lodge in some vast wilderness far re moved from telegraph. tejephoheh'limain beings and newspapers for about three months, we would rejoice. Every day we must read the papers. The democratic papers tell us that Hughes has "fizzled ;", that democracy has won and the republican pa pers say Wilson has made such - a bust in the recent railway adjustment that he will never carry a state north of the famous line. You- meet people on the street people well intentioned but who know more politics and less politics than all the others of the earth and they tell you how it is . It was Monday, Labor Day, a day of rest, supposedly, and one good' citizen told us, he was a democrat, that the next Congress would be republican because of Wilson's insistence of eight hours and refusing to demand arbitra tion. This good citizen was in earnest and before we had proceeded two blocks a good re publican, with Progressive tendencies, said the American people would applaud Wilson for what he had done he had not only averted a national calamity but he had given justice to those who toil. Another good citizen told us that he had heard Linney at Asheboro and that his talk about taxes and extravagance Would- almost winihim the state. And so on and so forth from early dawn to dewyVeve. And it' is all new things.-will come and pretty soon squads ot men Will be seen on the corners and the debates will run high. It is for this reason that we would like to ship somewhere east of Suez and wait for the clouds to pass over. But you can't , go when the call bids you depart. There are chores you must look after and therefore the brave man girds up his loins and . takes it as he gets it. This, campaign will be tame, however, com pared to some of them we have seen. In the first' go around of William J. Bryan, while we were a resident of this state, we went to Oma ha to do some work and if there was ever bedlam let loose it was in that free silver cam paign. Omaha was the storm centre and to see a dozen street fights before dinner and twenty after dinner was nothing unusual. Men really got warm in those days and they' would fight for their opinions. As October approached all the banks post ed notices- that nothing but gold would be the medium; that no money was there to be loaned and while organized capital did all it could to defeat Bryan he was elected and counted out. There was never any doubt but what two or three states were given credit of casting a third more votes than they had peo plebut Mark Hanna had decreed that Wil liam 1. should not be president, and he wasn t. This year there will be nothing of-personal antagonism. Democrats will talk about their men republicans will do the same but in the Fall of the year when a man could enjoy the beauties. of Nature and the grand climate we have down here it is a matter of regret that nnlitics must surcharge the air. Three more months and it will all be over. And in all candor . it makes no difference to the averae-e man. We have lived through dem ocratic administrations we have lived through rennhliran administrations. There have been droughts and good crops; there have been panics and good times and no man, who hustled starved to death no one really suffer ed because of politics. But those wanting pie, nnsitinn nr tinwpr mint wonderful pictures of gloom or happiness they tell you what ter 11 hannert if their favorites are not elected whereas it is all buncombe. This miintrv will- npvpr fall into the hands of meh who can wreck it and whether Wilson is elected or Hughes is elected the three meals will come, at least so far as results in the elec tion are concerned. But it is the game to get excited therefore beloved, we admonish you to take sides pti to it with zeal and emotion, bet some fellow five dollars, and then talk a hundred dollars worth in order to win your money. ' . :. ., n Tllf Klcn kll c-acrft ic aKrkllt flVPf and - Ut.J, Uai 1 . SVtlOWlA XCJ Miwv : foot ball will 'ho a Inner hv Thanksgiving-. Tust one bloomin' thing after another and it is wen that it is so ordered. Now if ti-iPv-'-urifl ovt tin a law crivinP- all lab- oring people eight hours a day and fixing the price, it will not be long until we have the six gresses?raty ialk iv grow more intense ; WillNot ingBack Whiskey 0 Nebraska. O NEBRASKA maintains what she is pleased to call her Pros perity League that is some of the business men maintain this League and its principal mission is to convince voters that Pro hibition does not prohibit. It is an old story. A thrice told talc an irivention of those interested sustained bv manufactured plausibility and where the Hope is a fond father to the Thought, In the other years, and years until North Carolina adopted prohibition as a law, it was our belief, firmly rooted, as we thought, that the cry adopted by the Nebraska Prosperity League, that Pro hibition did not prohibit, was true. We work ed against state prohibition and we voted . against it. It was our belief, strengthened by observation and figures supplied by the gov ernment, that Prohibition was an idealist's dream that Utopia was further away than prohibition geographers had claimed. But it came. Lame with a majority of forty thousand: Saloons and distilleries, authorized by law passed. The moonshiner or the blind tiger continued at the old stand for a day or a week and then he changed his abode to the public roads in stripes or a temporary sojourn ' . ' - J" ' - " . ' ' in a teaerai prison. Ana still men are coming and going over these two routes still whis key is sold and men are arraigned before His Honor for being drunk and down. The same however, is true of men who do murder; of men who do other crimes, and as yet no man has come in and advocated a law to license murder because now and then the law against it is , violated. Prohibition has worked .real wonders in North Carolina. - It has banished the saloon; it has assisted the wife and the children who hithyrto ef rt4iry citizens of many men-4)ut "that "is nothing. It 'is conserving' the manhood that is developing it is protecting 1 outh which is here today in knee pants but which will be here tomorrow as the managers of the business of the hemis phere. It is all right and well within the law for the Nebraska people to advocate high li cense; to insist that prohibition interferes with trade but the honest man who wu' come to North Carolina for information will find that prohibition comes near enough prohibiting in this state to cause rejoicing all along the line. . . o A Moral Here. The sensational case which has just been on at Danville carries a moral too plain to be pointed out. It is, that it is possible for doc tors to be mistaken, and that it is a serious thing to destroy the good name of one whose reputation you hold without absolute proof that your suspicions are well founded. In consequence of the incorrect diagnosis of a physician as shown in the autopsy the uovernor ot outh varouna, along with a number of private citizens, is involved in what may prove an ugly scrape when aired in the courts, as now appears likely; - And the question that arises in the minds of the unprejudiced is: Which is the more guilty- the doctor who murdered her reputa tion through lack of knowledge or the surgeon who murdered her body through lack of skill provided her death was due to such cause, as those conducting the investigation hoped to prove. . : The medical men are quite right and should be applauded certainly for their efforts to put down any and every attempt at criminal prac tice. In the prosecution of such professional abuses, however, they should be sure they are on sate ground before they handle lightly the name of a helpless young woman. In this case L the dead girl appeared to have been the vic tim of a malignant disease which- was bad enough in itself, without the added affliction of having her honor questioned by those whose business it should have been to protect her. : Whittling Close. Some of the state papers announce that they are cutting off all free lists ; that even the of fice boy and business managers must hereafter pay for the copy of the paper they receive. The scarcity of white paper; the cost 6f what is on hand makes these new changes necessary it is said. But it does seem to us that the of fice boy should at least get a copy at half price. Two Notables Absent. Colonel Wade Harris who was at Shadow Lawn looking over things from a newspaper man's view point writes in his paper, the Char lotte Observer; that ex-Governor Glenn report ed to have been in the throng was absent, also William J. Bryan. Well, we don't know what Mr Glenn is doiner. but William T. is whooping things up for Wilson with great vigor. Bryan has done more real campaign ing for Wuson, so far, than any other man. J? ft It ii;. i 6 AS EOS ' I 'llESattstmTy, -Postsays : "hormer oo--X. crnor of Missouri, Folk, who is to be in Salisbury for a speech real soon, unless pres ent plans' go wrong, is one of .the leading men of the nation, one of the most interesting men in public life. He made a reputation as attorney general for his state and became gov ernor. - There he added. to his reputation as a big man and -became a national figure. He is a strong speaker and many Tar Heels will travel miles to see and hear him when he comes to Salisbury. In getting this distin guished man to come to the county following the gubernatorial candidate Chairman Wood son indicates that he proposes a campaign ot unusual interest and force from now on until the election. When We Are Young. It happened ."yesterday, Sunday being the day off, that we took time to do a few stunts. and one of them was looking over an old scrap book. We took ' some pages out of our life thirty years ago pages dusty and musty with the use of Time and we read, with more than passing interest, some things wc wrote. In those days we were doing things in black and 'white doing', them, for a great newspaper but to what we thought then, what we thought we thought then we. knew, in spite of all oppo sition in this broader and calmer light, we file a most solemn protest. . Our' premises were wrong; our deductions far from what they would be today, and yet, in spite of the chastening rod of experience, there are low-browed critics who will say that even today we are far, far off the track. Maybe we arebut Age brings with it cau tion; brines with it the result of experience ; brings with it a burden laden with reverses and failures, and the Old Man who can pick himself up and think that at last he is on the right track, should at least be heard. If he be wrong, if xouth decide that he is a back number, let it so decide. The same kindly Time that brought him into camp; the same kindly Time that followed and chastened the Youth of yesterday will finally administer to the louth of today. There were follies in those days as there are in these, and there will be folly in all the days to come, because those of us of earth are far from perfect. --. -o Difference Of Opinion. Some of the big papers insist that Congress did wrong in making a law, under a threat, to do what a labor union wanted, while others of thenvinsist Congress did exactly what it should have- done. The way we figure it out is that Congress passed the law that averted the strike, and the greatest national calamity ever threatened was averted. This being true, it looks like Congress did the proper thing. -How. ever some politics has mixed into the ques- . . r . t .1 "11 I tion ana tor -t lie nonce tnis win uiinu some partisans. ..;.';;..-.,-'... : o The ice man will soon' now find a place to hibernate but bless us, the coal man will come right along in his tracks. M 1 -l5.V: -j ..-4. -. DOUBTS WISDOM OF IT Thinks Osborne Should be Sat isfied With Vindication WRITER in the New York Times doubts the wisdom of Warden. Osborne in following up his complete vindication by a prosecution of those who sought to destroy him. He says: "It is with what are vague ly but intelligibly described as emotions' that the friends of Mott Osborne will learn of the 'mingled Thomas '- proceedings instituted by him to bring to the sort of justice allotted by courts men who, partly as a means, partly as an incident, of re storing a system of prison management from which they had profited for many years, coolly ' undertook to destroy his reputation both as a man and as an official. On the one hand, it is, of course, desirable that those who originated and as far as they I rnnld rarnrd out this method of oustinff a Warden of Sing Sing whom-they found worse than useless for their purposes should get the publicity and the punishment deserved by them. So if Mr. Osborne is sure of proving his case in court which is a very different thing from feeling a moral certainty of their guilt the Grand Jury investigation now in progress, is a commendable beginning of action and all good citizens will hope for its success. "On the other hand, however, conspiracy is of all crimes the hardest to establish, and in this instance it will be especially difficult be cause the case involves to such a large extent questions whether discretionary powers were or were not honestly exercised, and also those of motive where all certainty ceases. "A third consideration is the fact that Mr. Osborne has already wonTa brilliant victory over his -foes, and ir is 'properly. held: super fluouKto beat the bones of the thoroughly dead4'4 A V t a c ,.,:it -A-Um r i -to-enforce. , u-cannotifj ojitb: tailrpada .tr . iTjjp $;wUL d attention fronra t&ore important task that of carrying into effective operation the new ideas of prison management, of which, in no small degree because of the attacks to which he was subjected, he has become the best known and therefore most effective exponent, in a way, threfore, he owes a sort of gratitude to those who made his triumph possible. He even might have strained magnanimity to the point of re membering that his conflict was with men who by misfortune rather than fault were survivals from a political era in which the practices he interfered with were so customary as sincerely to dc held legitimate. So remembering, he might have seen that animosity on his part was unnecessary, and have been content with hav ing reduced the 'prison ring' to permanent helplessness. But What Will They Do? One of our exchanges, we believe it was the Salisbury Post, has this to say: The tirwnsljoro Record does not tlilnk mtu-h of the nieet- Inif of tbe-inrwsT;iiHr men to le beld in Oreensljoro tomor row to lisiis print pnper. ' Th Rwonl ma? I rifrbt alto- iretiier, it if the PbiWr sit stiii and do uothmg they will lie rn into ImnkrnDtiT on a short notice. But what will they do? The paper makers insist that they have but little raw material; they tell us when we ask for quotations that they can make no new contracts ; they insist that they are interested in keeping down prices but they cannot do it and if we want paper we must pay the price they ask. The only thing the publishers can do is to start a paper mill meaning an investment of many hundreds of thousands of dollars and that is a wild dream. If the publisher meets and declares he will not submit to what he thinks extortion he . can do nothing but close up his shop. That is all he can do. If he wants paper he must pay the price and if, after printing on it, he wants to sell it, he must charge a profit, or his finish is in sight. That is the white paper situation and all the meetings and resolutions in the world could not alter the situation. o No Doubt About It. The editor of the Kinston Daily Free Press stopped a minute, but he didn't stop long enough. He simply threw his eyes across the city scape and the landscape, and he says A Riiuint at the home town of Editors Ilildebrnnd and Fairhfotber, in the few moments nllo.ttel one in b;inpinp trains there, is euougb to convince thrtt the progress, which Is making wb niaiilfeat strides all over onr fair State, is no stranjrer in the "Onte City." Cowl nrreet. and x imsilnii of desirable reftldentlnl sections as well as a hum and 'bnstle. characteristic of cowl - times, are favorable signs, w.hicu greet the eye of the vmitor. And had he tarried long enough to look over our schools, the State Normal, The Greens boro College for women the mills, the beau tiful homes far off from "between trains' Fisher Park and Irvin Park and other sec tions; had he gone inside some of our stores the largest in the state had he had time to see what our big life insurance companies and fire insurance companies are doing well, he would have seen things to actually astonish him. They are here not only in their beauty and their orogress but -here in volume of business that reaches throughout the south Come again, old man come tarry a day or two and we'll show you things that will be wilder. Socialist Editor Sees End Of Democracy. HEN Victor Berger, edi tor of the Milwaukee Leader, a socialist daily, and the first socialist to be elected to Congress, was in New York" this week he discussed'the re cent action of Congress in passine the railroad cighthour law.' He said the passage of the l'iy. was a step toward government ownershipof the railroads, which Congress had taken unwit tinglv. While he welcomes the passage of . the lw as a step m the direction of governmenttQwri- orahip, Mr. Berger added that in his ote the settling or "temporary, postponement, the strike was, after all, a pie.ee of buncombe in which Congress and. the public generaUy were the dupes. cvr Congress, said Mr. Berger, "Has takenofle of the most momentous steps in the historY.of our country, one of the greatest steps in- (be direction of socialism ever taken, and whea-it took that step Congress did so without know ing what it was doing. For the first timfc in. the history of our country, Congress has pars ed legislation fixing the hours of work Sind-' practically also the scale of wages 111 privately owned enterprises, for the railroads of Amer- ; ica are privately owned. Heretofore Congress has scrupulously refrained from enacting leg islation of this-kind. . ,ilr In my opinion: everybody has . been; bun- coed, Congress, the general- public and the- j. wjTkers. ln the first-placcLongress has'-pass- i pay a certain wage as long?as they are private- ly owne.a. qu. cannot compel the raiifbads to do this any more than you can compel-the owner of an American newspaper- or. any other privately owned enterprise to pay a certain wage. , "1 do not know what the United States-Su preme Court is going to do. But; -unless President Wilson appoints enough new. mem bers of the Interstate Commerce Commission to make possible the granting of an increase in passenger and freight rates to the railroads, the railroads will simply say that they cannot pay the new wage scale because they must pav diyidendsand interest on bonds or declare - themselves bankrupt. Then the Government will have to step in and run the railroadfe Tis is all said under the supposition that- the Su preme Court decides that the law is'cotfstijftr iionai. .- - But now, let us suppose that the Supreme Court decides that the 'aw is unconstitutional and void. In that event the men will .get neither the eight hours nor the increased wage! I -,.,,1 tfin thorn i, t: " V amA inen inert: will be nothing to keep them from striking again, and: we will be face to face with the same situation we were up against last week, the only difference' being-, that it won't be seven or eight weeks before a .national . election, and that Mr. Wilson, or whoever hap- i t: - i . ii . - - "- pens io ue rresiaent, win not nasten to send special messages to both- houses of Congress i to pass laws for his especial favor in order to help along the personal boom of a nominee. "The worst buncoed . element in any . case, . . however, is the great public, including the working classes, who not only will have to pay , uie aniercnce in wages for the men, but also $5 in profits, dividends, and interest for every $1 of increased wages paid by the railroads to the men. Moreover, in the event the wrangle be-tween-the -managers and the brotherhoods leads to a strike after all, business will be par alyzed, there will be a general cessation of work, and the people will face starvation dur ing the period the managers and brotherhoods arc fighting the matter to a finish. "Very soon the country will have to come to the- only solution of this matter, which is col lective ownership and governmental marJagV ment of the railroads. '.'""J4. "However, I am glad that Congress hasvtate -en this step, because in doing so it has unwit tingly established, the principle that wfieTT.jhp, welfare of the people collectively is at stake' the question of profits and dividends fakes se&uid"' place. That is what Congresc has done. FroTh I this it is only a short step t collective owner J'i"- - . ; "That step must, and will, be taken-vr soon, because this settlement has settled notion ing at all. I even question whether it has setnf tied the re-election of President Wilson; Tler only settlement possible is government owner-Jr ship and operation." . .11. mi I - M. ft II , If Mr. Dixon had' postponed the writing oj his play until after the settlement of the rail- roa'd strike, there would have been more juSti-" fication for the title of it. ' r " Now that Guilford has set the pace Durhani ' ana Kaieign win have one too. I ?iuur a day accepted. -j : IV '"- - '-" ' '' ' ' ... - - " .