North Carolina Newspapers

". . ' ' 51 - ' - .vi . 1 'I ;:if P. is ?3 :1 'A tr ' 11 1$ hi I 4 til Pi E ii as 1 1: 4 4 : ! m. t1 !' ,''y. FOUR BY AL FAIRBROTHER ' -' SUBSCBIPTIOV 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE ' IclUmate Advertisement Solicited Terms on Application ;i Subscription Books Open to AH Advertisers. OFFICE: Record Bldg. W. Market Street. . PHONE No. 1036. Sverythlns was Established May, 1802, '. nd is Independent la All Things and Neutral in Nothing. ' KTerrthlnr la Sold at all News Stands In North Carolina If Ton Fail to be Supplied Favor ns by Dropping' a Card. Sntered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Greens-" boro, N. C, ander Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. i. . Address all business communications to Everything, Greensboro, North Carolina. ' , . . VAfter years of active experience In newspaper worK, and with newspaper men, I am more than ever convinced that a newspaper cannot afford, any more than an indi- :"' Tidual, to be without character; and that as a man's character is summed up from his life, from the good he bas done, the evil he has prevented, the homes he has . brightened, and the hearts he has gladdened, just so will ' the inexorable judgment of posterity, and of the ,"reater public, to which no passion nor prejudice of the --day can appeal, measure out merciless justice to the Journal whose sole object and aim it has been to coin the j woes of the human race into grist for its owner." John A. ! Cockerill. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1916. Wonderful Loss. And now Professor Fisher, of Yale, has compiled some figures which those assisting in frightening nervous people print. In regard to tuberculosis he finds that each year So ciety loses $570,000,000. The Charlotte News .; says:-'' The annual loss to society, not counting" the loss to victims and their families, it not less than $570,000,000. If in the same way we calculate the losses to the victims themselves, including the losses before death and the capitalized earning power cut off by death, we reach a still larger sum, making the total . loss well above $1,000,000,0000 a year, says Prof. Fisher. . These cold calculations take no account, of course, of the fact that a man's own life - is worth more to him than the 'earnings he expects it to bring and that the loss of monetary support is not the chief loss which widows and orphans suffer, nor does the calculation take any account of the impairment of working, efficiency: in the .years preceding the breakdown from tu berculosis. Colonel Fairbrother is on tlie wrong track when he opposes the propaganda of the state board. of health. It is doing a work in this regard that is meritorious and deserving of the. sympathetic support -of the people of the.entire state. And these figures 'are based on the fact that men with tuberculosis die. They presume that all the tuberculosis victims, were thev free of ; that particular disease, would live right through -the- average .life. They do not take, into consideration the fact that possibly Half of , them would die from some other disease; they do not take into consideration tlie fact that thousands of people die who have tuberculosis along with other .complications. In other Words they are figures that can not be proven. They - are the figures of the alarmist. They have no place in the public prints, ' 1 he study of tuberculosis is open to all. A man of ordinary intelligence can acquaint him seit with the disease and he need not be a doc tor All the doctor knows is from observation and .what he reads in his text book; The text books differ, widely differ.. We have read a 1 the writers, not once, but a dozen times V e have talked with at least two thousand V1fct'ms pi tuberculosis seen them in all stages . of the disease, and we are here to insist that nigiiL ana Homesickness and more than the disease And poverty kills ujtu iu uic uoarcis ot Iicalth fright um,8 people unuuiy. And we shall to object. continue Hughes Goes After It. " Hughes has been in Ohio and the Press dis - bifcwlf ts mUch applause and draws . big crowds. That doesn't signify much We A, have seen so many men following Pan and mg, for that you couldnf coun'em ad Wcn Section-day came they e nS !al1 votl"S for the other fellow 1 ITBBI WEEK. ;" . -.- I . J i 1 1 1 -''-Vv.?rr''i The Terry Case. ' ; It took the jury - but a"shoft time to arrive at the conclusiori that Terry was not insane when he killed John R. Stewart. The evidence was that he had been doing business before the killing an(J that after the killing he was sending to friends to be as easy on him as possible, if they were witnesses. He evidently had a weather eye on the main chance, and he evidently knew what he was doing the night he took the life of his neighbor. '. The scientific man who preaches prohibition tells us that the long continued use of alcohol will derange the brain that men who indulge too freely for a long period of time will sec things that delusion ensnares them:; They will tell us that a distorted brain is the sure re sult of excessive use of drugs or whiskey and in the Terry case the defense argued that because Terry had for years drunk to excess he was irresponsible. , , . The jury didn't take that into account. It is said that right off the reel nine; were-for con viction and it took only a few moments to get them all of one mind. In the celebrated Thomas case at Ralqigh, recently tried, it seemed that because the defendant was drunk or alleged to be drunk, his sentence was much lighter than it otherwise would have been. This whiskey excuse didn't go in the Terry case. .. "V1. '-..;.:.;. . Men who have drunk whiskey to excess know that there is a lapse acts are com mitted which are not remembered, but those best posted insist that at the time of the commission of a crime the drunken man un derstands perfectly well what he is doing. It is because of this that criminals of the lower type always resort to strong drink to give I them what they call "courage." i .;; :-;;; ; j The prosecution argued that because Terry, ! while half drunk, had accused a man of steal- ing his money and afterwards found he was I mistaken, and had to pay five hundred dollars ! for libelling his neighbor, that it Was the loss j of the five hundred that caused him to commit : the murder. .Five hundred dollars to a man in Terry's physical condition, financial condition, and at his time of life was a likely pile of gold. It had doubtless been gained by long days of work. And to lose it because while drunk, he had slandered a neighbornaturally caused him to grieve. That was the great sorrow that sat upon him and was ever with him. And it appeared that so deeply did he mourn this loss that.-whenever he got under the in fluence of whiskey the thought that was up permost in his mind found expression, and he kept threatening to shoot somebody. That somebody was evidently Tohn Stewart. Be cause jonn had been instrumental in that Terry retracted his slander. sceing . " t : And all that is left now to be done is to wait for the Supreme Court to act, to see if Terry gets a new trial. If not thev will, send him to the chair and out o'f the world. We take it that his friends will continue the fight ; no doubt they will attempt to convince Governor Craig that he was not himself mentally when the crime was commit ted, and commutation of sentence will be ask ed for all condemned people wanting a life sentence rather than death. And no matter u hat. the outcome, there was perhaps never a stronger temperance lecture delivered than the sentence that will be imposed upon Terry that he go to the electric chair and die. There were hundreds of young men and old men who sat through this trial. And as the burden of it was the fact that Terry was a drunkard that he drank whiskey to excess, there was more evidence adduced against whiskcv drink ing in the five days of the trial than was ever printed 111 all the tracts sent out by prohibition propagandists. As we have often stated we arc opposed to capita punishment. Wc regard it as a relic ofd.arbansm we feel that the old Mosaic law which called for an eye for an eve and a tooth for a tooth was repealed when Christ came to save the world and gave man a new line of conduct. Many states have done away with capital punishment, and it is our hope that al states will finally pass it up. The man who knew John Stewart big hearted, kindly disposed, quiet, a good neighbor and a good citizen, wants to know what you would do with men like Terry when they shoot down such men with no provocation worth While And almost instinctively you-sav "hang them " But Society only wants 'protection. Those who commit depredations should be confined .should be placed and kept where they can no longer be a menace to Society but the thcorv as we understand it is not to kill other people simply to protect those who might be ex posed to the vicious. V While there was no exultant rejoicing over the verdict in the Terry case It is generally understood that most people were satisfied those who oppose capital punishment, in this case, stretch the point, and conclude that per haps it was best to put him out of the way The county has spent a lot of money but if it had cost fifty times the amount, so much the P01":..11 jho that men who commit crimes n Guilford will be punished. It shows that he community is law abiding. There was no &ia!!?: -ajesty proceeded uJ l , 1 , r,y ana a human life not nt;0f Terry'S passingllmoary humiliation to know that he is to be hanged he heart ache to know that he forfeited h s are L1 hiskey-those things are but of the moment. It will be when he stands before the judgment bar of God with s hands imbrued with his brother's blood that his real punishment will be inflicted. : o - ; Still Worse. maaiiXfrm thVPhiIadelPhia tragedy makes it all the worse. It appears to have been a bad mix-up and one husband, at least is vvon denng how he had been fooled so long5 Per haps there is still more to come out in the tiii wime nas Deen thrown aside. The ' . The Thimble Rig Garrie. ' When a campaign isjn, both parties, claim a lotof things that never happened, or, if they did happen, amounted to nothing. In order to plainly show this point, the Raleigh News and Observer writes a column editorial in which it takes issue with Hughes concerning the eight hour law ; quotes the republican governor of Kansas, and others, and concludes its article as follows : The summing up of the case by the pa per of the Republican Governor of Kansas is a clear knock out for the Republican nominee for President, that paper saying: "It is unfair to the brotherhood to jump to the conclusion which the managers ask the public to do, that the eight-hour day issue was merely a blind for a wage ad vance, with the Railway Age Gazette for authority that this is a problem for man agement, and that the difficulty is the crowding of trains with maximum loads for the sake of maximum profits." Now that is all right. But the question is: Did the Railway Gazette say what it is quoted as saying? When did it say it? And if it said it, it is worth nothing, because in its issue of September 8, it gave prominence to this paragraph in a long editorial headed "The Triumph of Mobocracy" : "With a pistol at its head and a bayonet between its coat tails, Congress with an unprecedented celerity rushed throgh the so-called 'eight-hour dav bill. The defects of this measure are so" paipable and vital that it is inconceivable it can ever go !nti effect. First, it was passed under duicss. Everybody in the United States knows that Congress never seriously considered enacting such a law until .President Wil son demanded that this price be paid in stantly to buy off those who were threat ening a strike. Second, the law does not provide for an eight-hour dav. It merelv provides that the railways shall pay em ployees in their train service a day's p,ay for eight hours' work. It docs not pro vide that train employees shall giv vthe railways eight hours'' work for a dav's pay. It does not provide that anv train employee shall quit work at the end of eight hours, but by requiring them to be paid overtime after eight hours it clear'v contemplates that they shall work anv number of hours up to "the sixtccn-hour limit number of hours up to the sixtcen-hour limit fixed bv the hours-of-service act ' inira, it attempts to )rovidc that the wages paid for the basic ten-hour day shall be the minimum paid for the basic eight-hour day. Now, if tha Railway Gazette Age insists that the eight hours had nothing to do with it and men insists that it ' is. a' question' of ' ,1 . . manage- . - vo,,uul-15 wiiai il says wortn any thing. Fhe Railway-Age Gazette further said in its issue of September S: . "Let us not deceive ourselves as to what occurred. It was an insurrection of 400,000 men, who threatened to ruin and starve the nation unless tho notwv v . menr in nil rinin,- ... : within a week passca aTaw in irfinint.,ti; selfish interest of the insurrectionists at the expense of the rest of the people. It was a revolution ; for it was successful, and successful insurrection is revolution. So it would appear that Hughes is hewintr right along the lines laid down by the Railway-Age Gazette on September 8. and certain ly up to that time it was not a ravorable wit ness to the proceedings which gave us the Adamson bill, which Hughes denounces. o . Strenuous Session. U c have no doubt Tudge Webb when his court was over. He had n was glad uous week the murder trial no doubt being a task he did not relih. But as usual he made vcrv strcn- good. Judge Webb is one of the troiig judges ot tJie state. -0- Another One. Because Th e KaleiL'ii I imcs do.-sii -r,r... .. the d democratic faith and ioin what it ltlir.nf.... as "tU r w.v. .uuutm luur-rjng circus ot the de cratic party" it has been accused bv a de mo- cratic omcc holder in Chatham count v of b em o- eiii"- a rcpuDlican paper. Answering this charge of ireason the 1 imes ablv savs: As to being a Republican' paper, the charge will appear absurd to all who have been considerate enough to read, what we have had to say. We are running no "or gan for either party, chief! v for the reason that we wish to do some good as well as to have some profit and some fun and good nature, and .wc arc convinced that when a paper commences to be an "organ" it works for the closed mind instead of in favor of tthe open intelligence, and thus to the height of its -.ability works in the inter est of ignorance instead of light t,AVSC-C,mV-0 h? absolutcl- incomprehensible to the dyed-in-the-wool democrat how a man can be entirely independent in his politics how he can sit on the fence and see the follies and foibles of both parties and talk out in meeting about them. But there arc such news PnaPcrs absolutely independent. And The l imes is one of them. In these days the people should welcome the newspaper that has no axe to grind; the news paper that plays no politics; the newspaper that is big enough and brave enough to Kivc both sides a fair and respectful hearing. Whcn ?in!teW better governmen" -o- Happy Day. Tell it not in Gath keep it out of The Record-proclaim it not on the streets of Askclon or Ralcigh-but some of the papers do tell us thJ1TCUVu lYlS state-Robinson's circus at that and the broad vista, it opens ! The newspapers keep on talking about the OSAnPapr and the manufacturers have met that ta k and send word that they have no paper to sell at any price. 0 If that New York strike doesn't get more action it lopks ike it might be counted the latest comedy of the season but not enough motion to call it a movie. 8 '.) ' '. ' A New SuperintendentJ v J.;' It is well that the Soldiers' Home is td:haver a new superintendent. Whether those inmates who were continually objecting to Linebcrry, resigned, were justified is not tlie question! That they did object and that the Soldiers' Home under his management Was continually in the papers makes it a matter of rejoicing to know that a new man has been chosen. We all know that the old soldier down and out in both health and finances, often diseased be cause of wounds received in the earlier years, is not the kind of a man to sec things as those better situated see them. We have no doubt but what they are hard to please. They are often old and childish, and the man assuming the position of superintendent must be espe cially fitted for the place. Of Colonel D. H. Milton, of High Point, appointed to succeed Linebcrry, the Enterprise gives this pen pic ture: ' . . The board of directors of the North Carolina Soldiers' home did well in se lecting Col. D. H. Milton, of High Point, as superintendent of the institution to suc ceed Capt. XV. . S. Linebcrry, resigned. Colonel Milton's friendliness, typical of the old time southern gentleman, will go far toward making the days of the veterans lighter and give peace to their minds, while his executive ability is such that the affairs of the home will no doubt be con ducted in a manner entirely satisfactory to the directors. Colonel Milton is a good mixer, jovial, kind-hearted and with a wide business experience. The directors and inmates of the Soldiers home are to be congratulated upon securing his services. And wc take it that that kind of a citizen would be just the one to have charge of those old people those gray beards hastening to the end. Thev are old. but thev are our rharw and we should humor them and make life as Jnn....t !t.1 1 11, o i I'liasuiii aj iuMuie ior mem. nna ncrc is j hoping that Colonel Milton will be thc right man in thc right place. ! o The Great Strike. 1 It appears that the great strike didn't cut i much ice. New York officials sav that had it not happened on thc Jewish New Year, when some hundred thousand Jews were out for three days on a holiday, there would have been no indications at all that a strike was on. The strike leaders say that today and tomor- ! row they will call for more sympathetic work- I ers to join, but if the response is no greater ! than to the first call, thc much heralded tic-up j will prove a fiasco. The union is a great old j girl, and those who have "jincd" arc generally ! zealous. But the man who responds in this strike, where it has been abundantly proven i that both the railway people and the unions have violated their agreements is simply a 1 bloomin' idiot. Other trades arc not interested. ! Both sides to the present difficultv have violat- I cd their agreements and thc federated unions i should insist that they fight it out alone and ! single handed. j The truth of thc matter is, since the railway , brotherhoods put one over on Congress there is not-aimich -sympathv for-. strikers, as- there - might have been. New York made it its busi- I ncss to see that no concessions were made. The threat didn't bluff the other people and unless ! thc strikers get up a great deal more steam ', than they had on yesterday, thev might as well bank their fires. In this connection it is inter- I esting to note that the grand jurv is returning indictments against those who "threw bricks and bottles and other missiles,. Some thirteen i indictments were returned yesterday, and thc ! law is going to see about "the destruction of ! property. o Rev. H. M. Blair Back. 1 Rev. H. M. Blair, of thc Christian dvocatc, who has been for several week very ill has been fully reMurcd to health, a fact which will cause his many, friends in thc State to rcioicc. He had a close lread rier. but call along the banks of the he climbed the heights and i this is the brave and manly way in which he reviews his case: On Thursday, July 27th, I was taken violently ill and for some days seemed to linger on the borderland. While there was no intense suffering at any time I fully realized for days in succession that only a fragile thread kept me moored on the shores of mortality. It seems almost a miracle that I am, at the end of eight weeks, ready to resume my work, and who will say that it is not thc answer to main prayers in by behalf. God has been very, graciously manifest and I feel that I am coming back clothed with thc strength of a new covenant to finish the task which the church has given me and to be a more faithful witness to the simplicity of our faith. All arc glad to know that he is again in thc harness and all hope that Mr. Blair will be j spared many years to continue thc good work j in which he is engaged. I o Smoked Out. a . They hav ,c been tclhner us riLTht alonr that rlughcs was cutting no ice; that his speeches ! . t 1-1- t . ...... 1 1 V ' o . wt-ic jootisn, out wc note tnat the democratic National Committee has shifted. Instead of al lowing Mr. Wilson to conduct that "dignified campaign" from the porch of Shadow Lawn, the papers say that he is to plunge right into the heat of thc campaign and take thc stump. This adds to thc gayety of nations. It makes the sparks fly. It puts the ginger in thc bot tle and gives the average American citizen something to assist him in enthusing. Wc arc glad it has come to pass in this manner. o And now that thc time for the fairs is com ing on, naturally it gets cloudv, and naturally it will rain. However, Secretary Dan, of thc Carolina Central has promised fair weather. Unless. Thc Durham Herald suggests : Nine gallons of good liquor is more than any man should be permitted to have at one time, law or no law. The Herald is judicially right unless every man is permitted to have nine gallons. . ' GREENSBORO, w n U1 say:; 1 They 'sary that when1 Teddy delivers his Vln ble-barrelled speech at Battle Creek. Michigan" it will be a hummer. It has been descrihr-H ' the; "skin 'em alive" speech of Ihrcanmat38 And had Teddy remained steadfast four v ago alfltin- nl it v-n !ntnti1w1 ,-.,! t t . -' cinvi n.1 ins iriend l ift 0 would have been the republican standard bear cr and he would have wiped up the earth with any opponent. But ambition caused him ! kick out of the traces to get back on his' hind legs, and as he goes down the hill todav 'fiaUr ativcly speaking, with his tail over the' dah board, he is viewed as. men view a run-a-vav-horsc, and what he says docs not brinr ,i,V erstwhile thrill. ft thc However he feels that he helped season the bread 111 Maine and he now feels that with hi skin 'cm alive speech he will build new fires on what he regards as the altar of patriotic Michigan will always respond respond as it did in the days of sturdy Zach Chandler if it ffcts the right kind of dope. But whether leddy is thc man to administer it this cam paign is a question. His speeches arc designed to thrill the whole nation and his abilitv no one doubts. . , - e J " iviiuvu. iuudv r t 4r 1. Accepted. Thc esteemed Asheville Times, under a head ing "Apologies to Colonel Fairbrother " pro ceeds to say that "thc Times regrets exct'edin-. ly, that in thc issue of September 2 a clipping from thc facile pen of Colonel Fairbrother rc printed in the third column of this page'ap pcarcd without the credit line. Thc explanation and apology is made freely and gladlv. The credit line was in thc copy but inadvertently was overlooked in thc proof." " No apology was necessary. Those who read Thc Times know full well that its editor as versatile as any writer in the state doesn't need swipe his articles. Every now and then wc see some glittering gem from these columns being passed along without due credit, but it only gives us assurance that once in awhile wc write something. There is this about it: No matter what hap pens the fashion makers get out something each year that appeals to the man with the price. The Greensboro show windows arc things of beauty at least full of things of beauty. -o ' ; High Point Proud. High Point is proud, and she has a right to be. The other day she sold her $50,000 issue of 30 year bonds at a premium of $7.21 on the hundred. This shows thc credit High Point enjoys, and when a town can issue bonds for improvements and .sell them at such a premium she certainly should never hesitate to issue them. At R anaom AS IT WAS. The Ik.v KtiMxl on tlie burning lc-k Anl swore tli.it licM stand iiat If lie stood flu-re .ill winter Ilc"t wear Lis old straw hat I 10 NOT nESEKVEITT The lawyer always conies in for Jokes that he d-s not deserve. J lie latest is thar in tin. rnm .... i.... f..- niirnier a punish nienl. Quakcr was asked if he was onnosed to eatiital "W it ti one exemption." replied the mild mannered man who u.-i.i just reiiifteu to swear. Iul who aflirine.1 ... jwt ..1. ..-u 10 swear, dim wno afflrmel. ,H thl,i l"u? asked the lawrei "ell. I rn-k.iii I would be in favor of haucius w and llieu." n ulied the On.ik.r ryer. n Ijwrpr u-jw .inn ineu. n Mica me Ou.iker. "VKICV CE.NERAL. Many papers ,f n,o slate are won-leriiic wlir Thomas escaped s easily. They all insist, so far as we liavi al.le to see ..iiuuent. that he ru-hly deserved nio.c ..unH'i incut than he received. As IT WAS. i- boy stood on the burning deck Tin- heat scorched up his braiu he put the First .M!lto vu tue taud prove he was insitue! Th So To STILL AT IT. The advertisers again take possession of The Kei-unJ.-Tlicy are out today with a hundred bargains an. I wise is the iiiaii or woman who will read these .special invitations, rhe merchant w ho advertises has. something worm whIK and he pays out his rood money to tell ron abo'it i;. Uead the advertisements it means money to yon. o " INDIAN SIMMKK. This feels .1 ood deal lik Indian summer not i.il- liarr enough. I,nt Ix-tter for it. The real Indian summer docs not come until the first week in Xovemlr let us hoM- thi-se advauce day of U will continue nntil late Fall. o THE GAY BANNERS. The str-cts are lined with pay banners proclaiming tb- cmrai a ron 11a fair ami Secretary Daniel has his wagons out pasting paper over all the county. The Fair this year will be great." AS IT WAS. The boy stood on the burning deek He heard his sweetheart shout: 0, John, my dear, turn 011 the hose And put the derned thing out." PROFESSIONAL. The lawyer who undertakes to convict a man and send him to fhe elecri- chair, explains that he Is an oliiccr of the court, that he is protecting Society. Very good. Uut in states where the"eople have revolted at the horrors of capital punishment and decreed that it should not be, the lawyer doesn't engage In the judicial murder. SOON NOW. I'retty s.-Mn now. and the 'possum Tinntlng will In- " After a frost or two and brave men will walk all niht with :i coon dog ami land a "possum. .Ve onee walked Nine Hundred Miles and the Coon log stoped to bark, and w-e cut down the tree and there was no 'possum there. H was afterwards discovered bv a Scientist who was with th party that the Iog was liaj-'ing the Moon. Wc would have lelieved it had the moon been shining. Joe Stone and Charley Harrison who were along said dogs often did that. AS IT WAS. The boy stood on the burning deck And vain were his regrets He had drunk tip nil his likker And was out of cigarettes! O . FOUGHT HARD. While the state had a great array of able counsel in tl Terry ease, if must not lw forgotten that Terry's awye: were there. Mr. Osear Sapp never made n srroiiger tigi' -and in making It he showed that he knew what h- ' doing. With all odds against him, he was there with S"ni? of tlie goods. o WANTS BAGGAGE CHECKED. What in the world does Kd Ilritton propose to do w j.h baggage check? He calls for 'em in this fashion: "From the lireenshoro Kecord we learn that The I.o' has 'checked his straw hat.' This confirms us in the be!i-r that checks are in fashion this fall. As for us we are al ways in favor of checks. Send 'em along." ONLY FIVE WEEKS. Just about five weeks more of election talk ;.nd th" the vote is on. -Hasn't been very lurid yet. the atmosphere, but we suspect that bv the middle of October the heavens wUl be Uliuoinated with the red fire of both sides, . - -A'-'Y.A'A A' :-B", .X.J,