8CBSCBIPTION fl.W A. TEAK. SIXGXJB COH J CENTS
SATURDAY; SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.'
ON BALK AT THE SEWS STANDS AND "ON-TRAINS
ESTABLISHED MAY, i&oa.
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GOT OFF
Cr SURRENDER BEEN A B IG WINNER
CLAIM TERR V INSANE
BY AL.FAiRBROTHER
FRIGHTENS
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Have
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Gotten More
GREAT many people are
wondering, as indeed,' wc
wonder, how the fellow
Thomas, of Charlotte,
who attempted to assault
a lone woman in a Pull
man car at Raleigh so
easily escaped. He got
one year on the roads. The evidence was that
he had gone;to the berth of the "unprotected
woman a young lady not twenty years of age ;' ,
that he was in her berth and kissed her and
her -fries' brought some passengers to her
rescue and the fiend was dragged out.
The jury recommended that the Wretch be
fined, but Judge Bond sent him to a year on
the road, and he should, in our opinion have
.given him the full limit,, which as, two ycars
But why the fellow was. not charged with
o,o,nir;m;nal assault, wc do not know. If
the "printed evidence is the evidence adduced, .
he lacked only opportunity, nom o.
a design that was. absolutely manifest. He
should, in all justice, have been sent to the
roads or to prison for fifteen years. ,
Had he been a nigger the mob would have
materialized in five minutes. It would have
taken nim and torn him limb from limb and
shot'his carcass full of holes and then burned
the Junk. v'''- . - .- :;: '.
1 Letting men off so, easily as i homas was let
ofT is what causes mobs. It is what causes
men to wonder why some arc so severely pun
ished and others so lightly dealt with Ihc
crime which Thomas unquestionably attempt
ed is he blackest in theatalogue oiemmnal
V Jlhkns lucky stars that he
Scaped with his life and why. he .didn. get
what was coming to him we cannot imagine.
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California.
Wc have been trying to get dope on Cali
fornia and the "situation" out, there c have
asked three or four "astute political observers
of both' parties what they thought; wc have
made Inquiry among friends who. have ordin
ary powers of observation, and we 11 be switch
ed if ever we heard, so many conflicting and
contradictory estimates as have come to us.
Those who want one : thing put it their way,
and those who want another put it their .way
so we are forced to conclude that it is about
the same all over the country.
In California the Progressives were strong.
Hiram Johnson, who was their bellowing lead
er, has come into camp, but whether., he brings
the Progressives with him. is the question. It
was reported hat Hughes didn't even .see .
Governor Johnson; that he kept away. Now
comes the report that the democrats think
Wilson should go there in order to give
strength to the cause; that Hughes made
gixat impression. Then comes the epeff t lhat
the republicans want Teddy to journey thither
ward, and that; he will go, bo it seems that
confusion is on in the coast country, and to
" mof, wnnld be folly. We all can
Uldftt till i ,1
guess, but guesses arc; merely e, expression
of individual belief backed by the wish of the
individual. In this election the Pacific coast
vote will be of much worth, and whether it
is -oimr as a land slide to one party or the
ortSlr whether ithe different states
divide is! problematical. In California, Oregon
and Washington: the women vote and they
think, and that, perhaps, is what makes the
..aa - a nH cvpn that is a puzzie.
SnnVo of the women's: clubs are insisting that
Wilson will receive the women s vote and otn
crs are insisting that Hughe will get it. .
Certainly the man who would bet on the
general result in California would take a long
shot on any proposition submitted 011 the
track. And there is where the surprise may
come to both parties. ,
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As To Standing.
i..A vr,.wu 'pA aftontion to the
errand
jury that there is a law in tms siaie .wu u,
makes it incumbent upon those who employ
I, a rWU a'nri women to furnish them
with a .resting place a place where they can
-: sit down whin they, feel like it. It appears
that this law has been found necessary for
the conservation of health, and many states
have adopted it. In the big store and tac
tories where boys and girls; and women were
forced to be on their feet all day, humamty
sugested that to . sit downl oncp nnawhile
would help some and therefore the law toi-
lowed. And it is a ood law and as we under
stand it it has not been violated in this city.
We guess again, and with deliberation, that
Bickett will be elected by at least thirty thou
sand. K . . , - , -
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. If -this isn't suggestiye of the weather when
: the jrpst is on 4hcfpumpkijj h4..hi.fWer s in
tlie'sliock -thciv'what is itr?"" ';JLll.-J--L--
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Is Opinion of Many Sonth
ern Editors.
CAMPAIGN' hasn't pro-
i " 'gressed much," but Candidate
S V Hughes is out after" Wilson and
111S eiglll 11UUI iaV a law tnvii
had nothing to do with eight
"hours, J-but all to" do .'with iricreas
inir. wacrcs. It is pointed out by
STW Husrhes that such proceedings as
Congress indulged in must inevitably lead to"
a civil war, if often repeated. The Manufac
turer's Record, this current number, repro
duces several paercs from the Southern news
papers, and it is wonderful how Congress was
arraigned -f of- what it did. Men like Watter-
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sonthe best of our thinkers and writers, de
nounce the surrender as cowardly and abject.
It is on this issue "that Hughes is now appealing-
to the iaborinc man, whose friend he is,
and what he is saying will, have telling effect.
The man who looks back and sees how tms
rountrv sat down and surrendered its rights
to the threats of four hundred thousand men
weU: it was abiect and cowardly.
That is the lonsi" and the short of it. We
hnl better have had a strike a general strike
all nvpr the world and then allowed the ma-
iestv of the law which hitherto had been held
supreme to assert itself if it could and it it
ronld not then wc had better have crawled in
our hnlrs and nulled the holes in after us. Wc
take it that Hughes, if he had no issue before.
v.- :nnc that .will count biff lor mm 111
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5 ; Indigo. " .-
Colonel Thomas Beall, of- Greensboro, has
been in AVashineton some several weeks, aye,
hied whv indiiro should not be taxed out 01
Vrht It has been stated that Mr. Beall was
renresentintr the Cone interests, the largest
users of indiero in this country. Mr. Beall, ac
cording to all reports made it clear to the com
mittee that to tax indigo as.much as was pro
posed would not result in establishing in this
country mdisro plants, out wouia restut m m
cfcasiner the cost of each pair of overalls worn
bv the laboring man. His argument was not
based on theory, but upon the fact that indigo
is made ready for use by a patented process
anH that patent is controlled abroad.
Rut what we want to do is to congratulate
Mr. Beall upon his successful mission. For a
voHiip man of Greensboro to gu to Washing-
ton and by persistent effort and unanswerable
argument prove to the Senators and Congress
men that his side of the .question was the right
side, despite all the theories of those, wno want
ed to do something, else, is something worth
thinking about. .. But .wc all knew Colonel Tom
carried the stuff under his hat. .
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Military Training In Schools.
We have been asked if we favored military
training in our public schools, and we answer
that wc do. Waiving all other arguments, the
mere matter of discipline is worth the price.
The young man who has . military training
which means strict military discipline, makes a
better man. Viewed as a health measure,
from all points of -view having to do with his
physical and spiritual being it is worth while.
More necessary than many other things taught
in public schools. v 7. J.- , -
Always A. Good Subject.
We are glad to see that many papers of the
state are writing and still writing, about the
mail order blindness. The citizen who wall
take time, to figure ; to understand that the
dollars sent to the North do not help us m any
way will, hesitate before, he sits down witn a
catalogue before him and sends his good
money away forever; If .the dollar is kept here
it works all the time means just that much
more prosperity and prosperity helps us. all.
The mail order business grows larger, they say,
despite the fact tha't ; there, is campaign
against the practice. The time must come when
public interest must'bc, aroused concerning this
feature of our extravagance..,,.
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.The Amendments. .
We have recently maaei it our ousiucss
talk-with .some intelligent farmers we know
concerning the four, amendments xo oeuu-u
on this general election and all with whom
we talked said they didn't .see, why the Con
stitution should, be -changed. But they did
insist that-there, were -too many Jaws
the legislature was given a tree hand to pass
general laws and wasn't ob iged to fool with
focaP legislation the good Lord only knew
what we would have on the books. And in
that there is some good horse sense. The
amendments may carryv As they are not vici
ous as they-are simply a.change to give law
makers a chance to make more general laws
'maybe they will carry." But your Uncle will
swat '?em when he Votes: And that i is otic
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'THIS YEAR. Avtill' be the twenty-hith an-
niversarv of trinity College in its loca
tion at Durham, and naturally the quarter of a
centurv of such woiidertul success will be ap-
nronriatelv celebrated. We recall when
" r 11 tv l.o e?e nrst came ;o imnidui
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-we were tnerc ih.cii, iu wv. n-in-'"
a big thing it was.;We wmcmbcr when it was
dedicated the Duke lknlding, ana can touaj
recall-seeing the ; Hon. J homas Jarvis, ex
Governor of the state making the principal
speech. - Durham was a small town then
and the Duke Building; was no great thing
but those who look jack over the twenty-five
ycars.and sec wliat Trinity, has accomplished ;
look at the magmficcnt.:. buildings 011 ; the
grounds ntanv ot them giyen by. the. sons of
Washinjrton .Dukd 'J B. and: BKwell. it
. is an institutkn ttfetrainga
the South! ' 'An3 it willljc greater. -
President Pew was called upon to succeed
the. gifted Kilgo, and he. too, has made good
exceptionally good. There was J. Franklin
Crowcll, there was Kilgo. and there is Pew.
Great men these were and are and Trinity
, College will endure.
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A Commission,
President Wilson announces that right away
he will appoint a commission, one that will be
acceptable to the railways, the trainmen and
the public, to fully investigate the eight our
law recentlv passed by Congress that he will
have the facts in plenty of time to correct any
thing that is wrong, if anything is wrong, be
fore the. new law goes into effect. The new
law does not go nto effect until January. In
the meantime a conipctcnt commission can
gather data and reach a just conclusion. Con
gress meets again in December and if the find
1112s iustifv the law can be amended. This,
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in a great measure,
and lisrhtnincr from
wiii remove mc muimu
the Hughes campaign
charges about the surrender.
' ' Local News.
Ye editor-reporter went down the main
street of the town today and he hjoked about
for some items of interest, and he saw several
funnv things or, rather odd -.rungs in the
way 'of what Da'mc Pashion docs or docsn t
do. The morning was a trifle ;nilly just a
breath of rare old autumn was in the air, and
Dick Milton came down the street jauntily-attired
in his palrji. beach, limited, suit and a
panama hat. Di-k looked as coot as a cucum
ber on ice and said the pants were no hotter
now, than-in August. Across the street a lady
tripped along wearing furs, and on this side ot
the street Mon Recs, Commissioner of 1 ubhc
Safetv- glided bv in a pair; of low cut shoes.
The -redeeming feature of these shoes was the
fact that they werc black, and not -sorrel. our
Uncle looked further and saw men with light
overcoats; men without vests and men. with
vests and he concluded that attcr an, it
"fittcn" for a man to appear just as he wanted
to anocar. and that style or fashion had really
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After Business.
Uncle Sam is going to start an armor plate
factory costing something like eleven millions
of dollars and some hundred odd towns have
bid forthe location. Eleven North Carolina
towns were ambitious enough to put m bids.
This shows decided progress. . Twenty years
nirn' and manv North Carolina towns didn t
have the enterprise, nerve or ambition to put m
a bidor a blacksmith shop. Diftercnt now
and gets a little more different all the time.
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Of. course they say it; but Hugh Dorsey. of
Georgia, has other things to his credit beside
the fact that he' prosecuted Frank. Dorsey is
a voung man of fine ability and excellent char
acter. Harris was too old a man to handle
the business in a. progressive state.
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And now "comes the county fair. And-the
Central. Carolina Fair - as wellthe biggest
show.in the state. XThis withrdue reverence ifor
;and appreciation of the State Fair.at Raleigh.
Big Murder Case Being Tried
In Greensboro.
V T APPEARS that the defense
in the Terry trial, on as we go
to press, is trying to prove that
Terry was insane before lie
hot John Stewart. It has been
brought out in evidence " that
Terry was.' drinking a great
'deal: ''that "he -'had been sucxl
for libel and signed the libel and had to pay
money for what he had said. This it is claim
ed made him despondent. . - " . t
And the trial proceeds. When a man . is on
trial for hisjifc, when it looks like the electric
chair was waiting for him, naturally there is
ch sympathy excited,. Men look at the
woman who is to be left behind they allow
sympathy to control them to some extent,
and it is for this reason that so many men
escape the chair. , . ,
. What the verdict will be in this case.no one
knows as we go to press. But those wrho look
calmly at the case;. recall that John R. Stewart
was one of the best citizens of the county; a
kindly disposed man and a good neighbor, it
seems incomprehensible that the man who
took his life. should be allowed further. liberty.
We are opposed to capital punishment. But
wc are in favor of restraining such' men as
Terry no matter whether sane. or. insane.
When they commit as desperate a deed as. he
committed, then their liberty for life should
be forfeited. No doubt about that. Society
must demand it. . . . .
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ButNotSo We. .
tion, the National candidates urged icdcral as- 5
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sistancc.-JJr. t-andntn; inc.:canaidato .fpT3vicc
president; said ; 'JThis state m'r yl'
Vill hot be as Jong as there is one wet spot in
the United States." . . , r r
Possibly true. , But prohibition by states
helps wonderfully. National prohibition must
come, and wc believe will come, by 1920. If is
in the vcrv air we breathe. But until we set
that all of us know that prohibition states are
dryer, much dr;. cr, than saloon states. North
Carolina isn't dry. She has her blind tigers
and moonshiners, but she hasn't as many
drunkards. The boys arc uot looking into bar
rooms ana maKing up ineir mina to emer
them. Prohibition hy states does not cut put
all the strong drink, but nf. helps in a great de
gree. National prohibition, is certain. It may
be delayed. Mighty interests arc behind op
position to it and the .vast .revenues derived
from alcoholic drinks stands like a wall be
fore the march of temperance.' liut the wall
will be scaled and finally John Barleycorn
will be routed. There will be no. legalized wet
spot in the United States.
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The Income Tax.' .
It arrars that the income tax ha.i been
doubled on the people with modest incomes
they -must pay more money, if they receive
more than a certain sum this coming year
twice what thev paid last vcar. Our law mak
ers think this quite the solution of the tax
gathering problem. Ihc republican party
thinks that protective tariff la-.vs which take
care of the revenues arc better. The demo
cratic party thinks that people with moncy
should pay this freight. On this issue the
election .-will be settled in November.- The
New .York Times points out in a column edi
torial that the poor man under the present law
from his modest income pavs much, more than
the rich man,, and suggests that the way to
beat the income tax is for all people to get
very rich. This is an excellent idea. A most
happy thought. Perhaps, this is what the pa
per manufacturers have in. mind.
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Wonder Where?
Wonder where Old Man Villa really is mak
ing. headquarters. The Grand Old Man was re
ported to have lost legs and arms and lungs
and, if we remember distinctly, had his head
shot off .a time or two and he kept on going,
being located at many, different places at the
same time. Wonder if there ever was such a
person as Old Man Villa. Guess he was just a
myth an imaginary person wearing Seven
League Boots and. riding clouds.
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A Year Old:
The Daily Record, of Hickory, is a year old,
and lusty yearling at that. Sam Farabce went
to Hickorv and talked about a daily paper and
some of the boys. thought he was joking. But
the .year just rounded out shows that he has
made good and made a good paper. Next year
it will be better. -And Hickory should stand
behind such a paper and such an editor to the
limit. Here is hoping for a hundred years of
prosperity for our namesake- - .
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Cole Bleasc may be wondering if lightning
struck anybody else but he certainly gc.-.a
shock that oaght to convince him that South
Carolina really doesn't need him in her busi
ness.
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Liter aime: About Gre&t
Wh ite Plague
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E REGRET b mikilX
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the State 'Board 'J pi
Health is already .b'OQht
itgt4ic -National Tuber-
cuJosis Day. Regrctut;
because it means : much
to so many pc6'ple-T-.
means that theXatibu.
wide movement v.'d.oiCs
grpat harm. In; all the medical .journabs;we
are able to..get hold of, -and 4n all the bpoks.pn.
tuberculosis written by: what 'they call "au
thorities," wc find so many divergent opinions,
Ihat we shudder to think-tliat people iaresb
grossly imposed upoiu.; In the lat number, of
the Medical Journal .published at . Charlotte, te
leading. article is a paper read by a Texas, doc
tor. He says so many things that many of the
books do not .say ; he contradicts many things
that the books boldly assert,, that we read his
article and pass it along as a well expressed
guess.. .And a guess is the sum. and substance.
There have been, in' . Grccnborq men... pro
nounced in the last stages of consumption Avh'o
have recovered; from whatever aUcj3thcrn.
Th,erc have been other raeiu treat ell Aor some
disease or other and - when. 'they .w.ere ainiost
dead it was found by outside physicians that
they were suffering "from, tuberculosis. Jmei:
are hot necessary.- The .books will tell yq'u
that you must be examined even before thr
arc any, germs, to indicate , tubercle bacQiU-2-thev
iniiist that the "first symptomstVariJqy.
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hut for the .love ii.God''do'hrectxcited-e
the cxcitemcnt.pf a Tuberculosis Day and ;C6fry.
elude that possibly .you arc marked for. the
grayc. Remain at home on this great "Natrona!
Day keep away from the whole pragra&mc.
If you are ill ; or if .you think' you arc sic.-gb
quietly and have your family physician exam
ine you and tell you what he thinks.,. But do
not "join in. this great, hubbub this. set apajft
day to frighten people under, a ..tombstone.
Even Dr.. Gradv who writes some lurid stuff . in
his svndicated "Health Talks" now refers to
the much exploited, tuberculosis ghost, as a
three ringed circus of theireat .White plague:
The State Board of Health should' reebnside.
It is doing incalculable harm when it sends out
this literature that frightens, "but docs not r$
More nervous and hysterical people. ' :
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Fire Protection.
The chv has its officers around just now
looking at stoves and searching for what
might "aid in causing a conflagration." Peo
ple are too careless, altogether, too carclefsr
and it is a wise, thing for the city to.ta"ke .a
haml. This moniinir an officc;r.vpointcd.crut"tO
one citizen a veritable . fircl trap somcrHng
alarmingly dangerous, and the; citizen expres-v''
td great surprise to know-that" such a CondiM
tioii existed. All--of us should, make. a. search
on our premises. It takes but a little i'ttrte and 1
it might. sae a disastrous fire. Aiid jbrfofe
starting up the winter .(ires is a good tirrfe to
get busy looking aTonnd. , .'7C
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Judge Clark., of the States ville tan3iriark;
refuses to endorse Judge Bond in his talks on f
flf ra$rc from the b chch, b ut 'it aoH
endorse Judge Bond on his platform concert! v
ing.blood hounds, and this, brings tpgetljej: JwoV
distinguished citizens. We are, glad,'. ourseU,-
although we have.occupied. an. entirely,. neutral .
"position on this blood hound WsincsS, to.;
Judge Rufus Clark judicially endorsed. . Tfh -in
a great, measure opens ithe' pastuTc hairs fot4
Editor Johnson's pairof mules to.be jjs'e in.
pursuing escaping fugitives. In-chec word?,
the blood hound cannot .hope' to reswainParaj
mount much longer. To employ Jthe last .yy'or4f i
uttered by General George Washington, -the, -distinguished
Virginian, as he passed from th
field of earthly action, "It is well." ,f.
Marshall Acdtpts.., ; ; ;r.
Vice President Marshall has been jvotifie of
his Jiomi nation and in a strong speech, accept"-",
cd it. All, speeches of acceptance are alike ift;:
many : ways, -but -Marshall was originaL ? His
closing paragraph is a gerh. IV reads i , JJ
-Not for additional honor, but i tle hope lht 1 mif
s? In the re-elei-tloi. f Wowlww Wllon. -who bvnot
talked bcre the putb bus led. bot wbo baa w-lVd wbere
There i "o ptbDnd Vbo has left trail. I .ecept this
nomination." .. . J Z . j
This is a new vay of putting it. .Marsnall
, .,,n of -rrpat abilitv : a rrehtleman of the old
school without the years. , He is quaint and.
will do his best to carry Indiana.
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.Each dav .gets us closer, to. voting, time, in t
November," and doubtless ajl of . tis wilL eel.
bctteV .when "the election is over. However this,,
presidential-campaign is Hot tying up busi
ness; it is putting money, in circulation. . -
ational cxaminatioa da'v-is .oiuV'.
achance toroctqr, iu&&jWwU
vti do not 'feel wcii.eoiwtifr'tjur.. doctorr--
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