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SUBSCKtPTION 1W A YE Alt, SINGLE COPY CENTS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, igi6.
ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS
ESTAfeLISHEDMAY. 1903.;,;
WANTS GOOD ROADS NOT HUMAN BEINGS
HE STILL VACCiLAlES
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Lacey Made Mistake In
'ac on Linriey
MAN may once inawhile
lose hy temper ; ; he may
slip his trolley, . so to
speak,; and make some
wild gesticulations with
arm or tongue but we
really regret that State
Treasurer Lac v got so
boiling mad" that he. employed the 1 anguage
he did employ : in answering Frank Linney,
who made some charges in the course of the
campaign. While David, the young psalmist,
who took tip his harp and sung, remarked, in
his haste that all men were liars, it wasn't ex
actly the thing for Mr. Lacy to call Linney a
liar so many times.
The campaign spell-binder says many
things. Principally his stock in trade is so
phistry, and; if once inawhile he gets over the
bars and calls a man a mistaken citizen ; if he
intimates that bad book-keeping or no book
keeping cost the tax payers a lot of money,
the man charged with these treasonable crimes
should not become offended because the men
who hear the speech do not believe it.
We believe we violate no confidence When
we say that we never believed anything utter
ed by a campaign orator-no matter which
cJd h( was tti .
Mr Lacy got down on ground too low for
us, and we sometimes indulge in picturesque
imprecation ; we sometime take the English
language and employ it with force and feeling
-rijutHjust to sit on the fence and call a man
a Tiarhat is too cheap. Again we say we
regret that 'Lacy, fell to the level where we
Touna -.nan tntmr 'Ttcws ana kju server, vv e
say. mis Kinaiy, Decause we nave aiways uoosi
ed Lacy, have always been His friend, as he will
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; ' Understood Now.
Secretary Shaw in his speech last night said
that when he put eggs on the free list six hun
dred million dozen came in from China. We
understand now why it has been so hard to get
fresh eggs this summer. A Chinese egg is not
a chiha- egg by a' Tbng sight, and Chinese eggs
have a long and lonesome journey from the
Orient. They get that tifed feeling and they
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. Danville. Ecited.
Danville, is : a little, bit excited about mad
dogs. It is . clarrrie'd that some fifteen persons
have been attacked by mad dogs in the past
few weeks: t The wayto have a mad dog
scare is to pester a purp and get him excited
and start , him running down the street. As
he progresses citizens armed with stones
should pursue hini and keep up his excitement.
After he has been running about seven miles
if he snaps at some other dog or some person
in his' temporary insanity proclaim him a mad
dog arid shoot him. Of course the dog wasn't
mad he was angry,' and more people die' every
year frorii the actions of mad men than die in
a hundred years from the action of mad dogs.
Let's mizzle the men as we go along all
those showing symptoms of insanity.
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-K&chiri A't Large.
Claude Kitchin is going through the state.
We see that' he is billed for Morganton next
Tuesday. Mr. Kitchin is perhaps the best
campaigner North Carolina claims. He is now
a National character ; he -is a man of wide
scope and liberal views. A democratic audi
ence will riot heed any stimulants to get up the
hurrah when Claude Kitchin speaks.
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In Their Favor.
Going back to editor Johnson's proposition
to employ a pair of mules instead of blood
hounds is chasing fleeing criminals, there is this
to be said in favor of the blood hounds. It
would not be necessary to harness them, thus
saving some time. In making this suggestion
it is understood that we are not taking sides
in the controversy which has been referred to
the Hague. But now and then as things occur
to us we shall point them out.
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As you pass along do not forget that each
flay .Secretary Dan is adding new features for
the Central Carolina Fair and. this fall's exhibi
tion will eclipse all former efforts.
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The Jig Is Up.
; And all of us who were dreaming- of catch
ing a few hundred bass in the beautiful days
f October the nut-brown and sun-kissed
days have another dream coming. This
weather which suggests stoves and stove pipes
and mashed fingers and "the putting of 'em
n" and other things boreal 'drives the bass
deep down he will sport nd more this season.
ell. we'll all wait until Spring and if in the
Jand of the living go after 'em. .
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Wilson Says One Thing A nd
Does Another Each Day
T IS really harder to keep your
finger on Wilson than on the
Irshman's flea, which, accord
ing to tradition, you riow saw
and now you didn't. He an
nounced, with some of that
feigned dignity for which he is
noted in this country if not in
the .Bermudas, that he would remain in the
shadow of Shadow Lawn and frorn the porch
of that summer home give out his views. It
would be undignified to do otherwise. But
presto he goes to New York and makes a
great speech and then bundles off and when
this is written is halt way across the continent
-in the centre of the Western Hemisphere,
talking to Nebraska people.
Wilson is a man of many moods. Like some
of the democrats have said of him they might
be with him in his policies if they knew them.
Hughes has caused him to get this move on
himself arid Teddy has made it necessary for
him to move on and on. Before the campaign
is over wfc will doubtless see hinv on the other
side of the continent out in California telling
the voters what to do.
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Some More About The Strike.
The news is that another postponement of
the strike has been ordered and that long
about next Wednesday or sonic other date it
will be pulled. The attempt to get up a sym
pathetic strike has ingloriously failed so far.
Those union men who are living snugly; well
paid; easy hours ; certain position are not go
ing to jump overboard just as winter is ap
proaching unless there is real reason' for it.
The street car people are not worrying about
wages. To ail the (aneri . Vho x emain&d .loyat
they are paying double": wages men making
three dollars are now receiving six arid there
are plenty of them to run the cars. The Presi
dent of the street ar company insisted that
the men could strike arid keep on striking.
There was no apparent difference in traffic and
the police have proclaimed for the past three
days that there was really no strike on. Just
a lot of men had quit work was all, and other
men had taken their places.
And we wonder if this determination to re
fuse to heed the strikers doesn't have some
political significance. We note that the re
publican campaign managers have agreed
that the Adamson bill shall be made Para
mount from this on; that Hughes is talking
about that eight hour law and getting the idea
.of. surrender firmly fixed in the minds of the
people. The' threatened New York strike would
have as completely tied up the Nation's traffic
for the tirne being as the proposed brother
hood strike. The intention was to sew up the
wharves ; to stop all kiri'd- of work right in the
very heart of the country's commerce and it
was said 750,000 instead of four hundred thou
sand people were going to join in the strike.
Instead of yielding to the demands the New
York business world proceeded to make ar
rangements and said let the strike come. Well
it didn't come, and we wonder if this is not to
be the object lesson for the people. Will it
not be claimed that had Congress refused to
give special legislation to the brotherhoods
would not the trains nave run just about the
same ; would not other men have walked in
when the other walked Out arid isn't the New
York exhibition proof of it?
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A Nation's Loss.
Those who knew him best say that the late
Senator Clarke, of Arkansas, was one of the
big men of the nation. His death was sudden
and came as a surprise to all who knew him.
When Congress adjourned but a short time
ago he was in the best of health.
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Dick Turpin.
One doesn't have to go back to the days
of Dick Turpin and the yellow back-novel to
get some of the real thing as it was there
portrayed. The robbers who looted a Florida
bank were followed and all of them, five in
number, have been killed. Pistol duels, all
kinds of encounters were, the result, but finally
the whole: outfit was killed. And all the money
they secured from the bank was $6,000 and
five men gave their lives for it. Funny that
the fools do not' learn that honesty is the
only policy of safety.
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While it is true, perhaps that one half of the
people of the world do not know how the oth
er half live, it is also true that one tenth of the
people, who do not own automobiles wonder
how the other nineteenths can afford 'em.
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It is said that Terry will be kept in jail
until riext summer waiting to hear what the
Supreme Court thinks of his case. All of this
comes high but fhe people are always will
ing to give a man every reasonable chance for
his life, and the cost of it never enters the
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N GUILFORD oAmty perhaps there is no
greater booster tKSn Charles W. Cold,
treasurer of the Jefferson '.Standard Life In
surance Company, arid ex-President u the
Chamber of Commerce of Greensboro.
Mr. Gold is interesting himself in the good
roads movement now pn in Guilford and he is
an enthusiast. He isr't simply talking. He
has figured things out ; he can prove to any
Doubting Thomas, if any such there be, that a
million dollars expended right now for ninety
miles of roads in Guilford county, built like
the High Point road, would be the best in
vestment our taxpayers could make.
As the work progresses Mr.. 'Gold .will be
heard from. He has f le facts and the figures
and. is riot personally nterested. Just a pro
gressive citizen proua to call Guilford his
.home, .he wants to sec this "county lead in the
state. And perhaps it takes such zeal as his
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Wonder Why?
Every day there is some gruesome murder
depicted in the press report. The Philadelphia
tragedy is followed by a wife murder today in
New Jersey and tomorrow it will be something
else. Each day contributes to the list of crime
and no matter how many people arc convict
ed and punished there seems to be no decrease.
In North Carolina the court judges say crime
is o;i the increase.
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Think Of The Thrill.
Elsewhere duly noted by the Associated
Press is the storv of an aviator who fell ten
thousand feet and escaped uninjured. His ma
chine was a total wreck but he escaped from
the debris, unhurt. After, he had come down
about half the distance he concluded the jig
was up, but he still had faith. Imagtnc the
thrill the emotions. Think of falling from
the clouds ten thousand feet and still having
enough faith to hope for a safe landing. Say
man, that 4 aviator didn't come down alone
God Almighty was with him.
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Advancing Prices.
We note that because of the demand for
mules abroad the price is steadily advancing
and mules are worth almost their weight in
gold. This being true we urge'it as another
reason that the noble blood hound be retain
ed instead of using a pair of mules to catch
fieeipg criminals. We hope Dr. Johnson, of
Charity and Children will note the economic
reason thus advanced, and, if he can secure
the consent of Judge Rufus Clark withdraw
his suggestion. This must be understood as
not committing us on the blood hound ques
tion or of advocating the blood hound as a
means of overtaking prisoners but merely as
a suggestion by an interested looker or. in
Greensboro.
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The Bright Side.
Lucky is the man who always sees the
bright side. The man who knows that tomor
row things will be all right. The man who
doesn't borrow trouble and refuses to endorse
for the man who wants to borrow trouble. Sev
eral citizens this morning insisted that this
kind of weather was just what they wanted to
see. They explained that if this week was a
little off ; if bad weather visited us that by the
,time for the great Central Carolina Fair the
elements would be subdued ; that the sun
would shine ; that genial and hazy October days
would bring forth the big crowd that should
come.
And that is the bright side. "Hope, ever rad
iant, still beckons us on." And without hope
there would be little left. So back to your
caves, base pressimists. Back to the gloom
from whence ye came -and on optimists
come in hordes proclaiming that grand day
thatxawaits us!
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There is this worth while about the cam
paign. Hiram Johnson, of California, hasn't
broken into the-castren. newspapers. What
ever noise he may be making appears to be
entirely for home consumption. It is well.
Farmers Thristing For Gold
Starve Inhocehl Babes
HE one thing happening in. the
United States that looks to us
like the limit that causes us to
friy grow disgusted with the preten
w thf milk
panic in New York City. There
was some dissatisfaction between
the men who sold milk and those
who distributed it. Those who sold milk want
ed a fraction of a cent more on each quart, and
because this was denied them those brave
Americans those sturdy farmers refused to
allow milk to be sold, picketed the roadway
and spilled the milk of those who would sell,
on the highway, while frantic mothers with
starving children in their arms pleaded for
enough to sustain the life of their little babes.
If ever there was a picture that would cause
the blood of an honest man to leap high and
warm that picture was presented in New
York City this week when those mothers, in
their desperation and their love, stormed the
headquarters where milk was stored, and de
manded by force, that enough be given them
to sustain the lives of their starving babes.
And out on the highway, farmers, men, pre
sumedly, were spilling the milk, throwing it
out to waste, because some certain dealers
would not give them a fraction of a cent more,
a quart.
Had those farmers been really human be
ings, and not brutes and beasts, they would
have seen to it that no innocent baby starved.
That no devoted mother should be made in
sane because, with the price, she could not put
up her hard earned dimes to buy food to sus
tain her off-spring.
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uut Among Jkm.
President Wilson breaks away. He is to de
liver speeches all over the country. He goes
as far west as Nebraska half way across the
continent will speak in Omaha October 5
just a couple ot days. In Nebraska there is
great excitement. Senator Hitchcock is mak
ing the race for Senator and it is hard to tell
whether Bryan is for him or not. They have
been far apart- though once they were as
close as Bill and Teddy before the break.
Nebraska is a doubtful state. It has been
as strong as forty thousand republican. It has
gone the other way and elected all democrats.
Hitchcock was elected by popular vote and a
republican legislature had to declare him the
Senator. Those inside say the race is a most
exciting one. Wilson's entrance into Omaha
will help romc. In fact it will materially aid
all the ticket, but especially give Senator
Hitchcock strength.
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Perhaps Another Dead Man.
The town was startled to hear that a white
man had taken a base ball bat and crushed the
skull of an unruly negro last night. The de
tails are not necessary here, but there is some
thing to be said about the case, and that is that
the police officers arid many citizens have stat
ed that the negro with the crushed skull was
a bad citizen ; that he had several times been
in police court and on the roads and that it
was generally udnerstood that he was a "a
kind of a crazy nigger."
It is to us more than passing strange that
these "kind of crazy" folk arc not locked up
and kept away from Society. If they are
known to be crazy or known to show symp
toms of insanity, why should they not be lock
ed up before the commission of a crime. Why
should they not be protected in their person
by being confined? Why should they be al
low to roam about at will getting other people
into trouble?
There were many people who swore that
Terry had been acting strangely at times for
two or three years before an infiocent man lost
his life. Why should it not bef the duty of a
citizen, when he has good reason to suspect
that some man is crazy to make his complaint
and have the fellow examined and if off his
mental balance lake care of him before he
does murder or harms his neighbors?
Why wait until the town is shocked by a
tragedy and then bring in the evidence that
the fellow who caused the trouble had been
crazy for years and everybody who knew him
knew it?
Looks to us like this general proposition
was worth thinking about.
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His Ommission.
Evangelist Ham in his talks at Durham
recently explained the different routes to hell
and they were: "Love of money; infidelity;
procrastination ; indulgence and suicide."
Wonder why he didn't include in his list
"running an independent newspaper in a dem
ocratic town?".
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The news from the Fifth district is yet to the
effect that Major Stedman will carry it by the
usual majority of presidential years
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Guilford Bloomers After
90 Miles of Road:
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HE good road boosters
of Guilford have on their
high pressure ste3rrt
thev arc not talking', in
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L, -J tens of thousands or hu,ri
' 55 1 1 dreds of thousands but.
gadzooks, they tell ;s
about a mlilion dollar
bond Issue they want for some ninety ; 'qdd
miles of first class road to run through Guil
ford countv.' - . -
A million dollars in bonds a cool million
seems to be quite, a likely sum to the farmer
who fingers and, fools with a dollar pair of
shoes and wonders if-he can Stand for it.
But good roads -are something else. Good
roads meancheaper taxes; good roads mean
decreased cost of living..
How?
Easy enough.
Where there are good roads money is saved
in time; in horse flesh; in wagons; in harness.
And mnrh monov "
Where there are good roads money is saved
in taxes because the man who has a sorry
road in front of his place has property worth
thirty or forty dollars an acre, and let a trood
first class road come along and his. property is
worth twice as much. If he doesn't want to
sell he must pay -the tax but some -.day he
won't be here and the property must be sold.
Wherever there are good, roads you .find
prosperous rural communities. '
, 1 ne question we want - to t sol ye hrst is :
vHnve thv rpsdlv fnnnd crnrCrt rrA if cV
ahCorninjftwo4i6rsva4:rangfornnutritii-v
ance. If they have uic good iroadpiie, that
stands the acid test, .and if they Will arrange
for maintenance each year we suggest that
all fall in line and declare that Guilford. coun-'
ty shall have finer roads, than-any county in
North Carolina.
And if we have finer roads good, lasting
roads, Guilford will be 'the best county in the
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- Advanced Its Dates.
And now those who arc among the "oldest
inhabitants" proclaim that never before did
they sec such September weather cold enbugh
for fires and overcoats, whereas, generally
speaking September 'is about our warmest
month. Always we have fine weather in Oc
tober, and Old Boreas doesn't commence to
grease up for action until about Thanksgiving.
But this year, all will agree. there have been
more different kinds of weather than ever be
fore. In fact we had but little real summer
weather. Some think the war had to do' with
this they claim that the guns being discharg
ed in the old world knocked out the air. cur
rents arid sent us all adrift.
However there is no climate in the world
that beats the Piedmont section the year
around ; there is no better place to live than
right here. California has its advantages.aijoL"
ui.-iautaiuagi. 1 tuiiud appeals iu us -
when it isn't chilly and. when if doesn't rain
but take 'em all, starid 'em side by side and
this immediate section of the earth will
compare most favorably with any and all of
them.
Doesn't Take Money.
The general comment, on the passing of
James H: Southgatc is that it doesn't . take
money to be popular to be universally, es
teemed. Poor in the coin of the world, but
doubly rich in charity and heart and mind,
James H. Southgate had as big a funeral and
was as' universally mourned in his home
town, among his neighbors, as though he had
been possessed of five hundred millions "of
dollars.
as it nas oeen several days since Okl Man
Villa shot up a Mexican town, or crossed th
border to rail a mining camp it may be that
he has lost another leg or two.
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Durham's New Court House. - '
Raleigh built the. finest, court house, in-the
State, but if Guilford had as good a building as
Durham is just now completing there; wpuldn't
be any kick coming for. many a year. The
Durham building is big, roomy, and carries the
jail on the fourth floor. The new buildingrwilP
be completed before the first of the year. And
Durham tore down a better building than Guil
ford now calls its court house. Without at
tempting to be presumptuous or wanting to be
presumptuous, it is really time that Guilford's
court house question was taken up and settled.
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Tomorrow is Sunday. Rally Day at the
churches and every man should join in the
rallv.
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If the frost wasn't on the pumpkin last -night
, was because the pumpkin jwas in..th,ej3arn.
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