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: " "Save Greensboro
To avoid the necessity of frequent protests
from citizens against the erection of certain
kinds of buildings in certain residential or
business sections of our own fair city, how
would it do to start a "Save Greensboro
movement along the same lines as adopted by
ew York, of which the Times speaks thus
approvingly: .
It was announced vesterday that a mon
strosity which it had'been planned to erect
in Times Square had been abandoned. New
plans are substituted for those which had
been' filed in anticipation of the prohibi
tions of the new zone ordinance. It may
very well be that the zone ordinance thus
saved the owners of the proposed building
as well as' the city. Few freak erections ,
have proved profitable commercially. In
most cases the same investment would
have produced better results if spent oth
erwiseThere are other " signs that the
ordinance is doing its beneficial work..
One of them is a suit for $46,000 dam
ages through failure to complete a pur
' chase of property in Manhattan which had
been sold before the ordinance was passed.
It had been intended to tear down resi
dences and erect a ten-story warehouse,
but the ordinance acted as a restriction on
that use of the property.
In Queens there is a case where the or
dinance compelled the rejection of plans to
build a seven-story garage in a residence
section. The Superintendent of ; Queens
says that he has had to reject nearly thirty
plans because of the restrictions upon
buildings unsuitable for the section where
they were proposed. In Broofdyn there
are cases where both garages and flats
have been abandoned, , to the loss of the
owners of real estate, according to then
statements. They may be mistaken about
their loss, and if they are right it is re
gretted. Nevertheless, such cases prove
the necessity and merit of the ordinance
rather than its defects.
The losses of the owners of property
which it is: proposed to improve unsuitably
can be losses of their neighbors through
the depreciation of their property real
and undeserved. No individual can pro
tect himself against loss by any lawful im
provement of adjacent property. If individ
uals suffer in that way there is no protec
tion for the city against the depreciation
of its taxable values. The ordinance is
necessary to protect both individuals and
city against irreparable losses. Until the
courts decide such litigations adversely,
such cases show that the ordinance is do
ing exactly what it was designed to do, and
what the courts have sustained when done
elsewhere. While the ordinance, therefore,
has shown that there are those ready to
profit by their neighbor's loss, thef volun
.. teer "Save New York" movement has
proved that there are those willing to
, ' take a loss and suffer inconvenience to
. amend conditions which the ordinance
iWth. , VYic spirinj
:i by co-operation with the volunteer move
ments and the resistance to the ordinance
afforded a contrast which may stimulate
..... others to help themselves when there is
difficulty, about getting a law to cover a
special case.
This New York ordinance is along lines re
cently adopted by Greensboro when a law was
made prohibiting a coal chute from being built
in a residential section. While Greensboro is
young she is growing and some laws sug
gested by what is happening in New York,
might with profit, be made right! now.
The Pig Clubs.
The Boy's Pig Clubs at the Fair showed that
there is more to the pig club idea than most
folk would think off hand. The pig club
scheme is great in possibilities. It not only
makes money for the boy who joins and works,
but it gives him early in life some business
experience. It makes him frugal it shows
him at the right age how to secure a founda
tion for his fortune. The Pig Club is worth
while.
Cause Regrets.
Many people will regret to know that War
den Osborne has resigned from Sing Sing af
ter all the fight that was made against him. He
certainly did much good, and while he was
completely vindicated the hope was that he
would remain in his official position and intro
duce other reforms. For those who work along
lines of better prisons and better treatment for
the prisoner, Osborne has furnished them
much material. '
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Certainly He Can.
The Chief of Police of Newport News is ex
pressing a doubt as to whether he can enforce
the law regarding prohibition which goes into
effect in Virginia next month. He can't if he
thinks he can't.' No more than a sheriff, weak
backed, can make the howling mob move on
from a jail where a negro ravisher is confined.
But if the sheriff has the back bone he always
succeeds in dispersing the crowd. And so Can
the police force of Newport News enforce the
state law. It isn't a city law or a county law.
The commonwealth of Virginia has generally
held her laws sacred, and all the machinery of
the state will be back of the Newport police
force if it honestly desires to make good.
But to get cold feet before tKedaw goes into
effect to wonder if the law can be enforced
well, that might result in flagrant violations.
The police force of Greensboro enforces our
prohibition laws. The Commissioners employ
detectives and when the blind tiger rears his
head he is captured. Of course they can en
force the Virginia law if the sworn officers
will remember their oath of office and go to the
chore with determination.
. The real estate market has been a little more
lively than usual the past few days and when
ever we get that hotel and depot and just a
few other things the man with real estate can
start a bank.
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!:'Tbe last rose of summer is getting readv to
fPP'-'fc , v. .'' the last
one is left
blooming alonei.
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The Choice.
Think of the man with a sublime thirst who
must sit down and in grim determination make
a choice in Virginia after November first.
When the waiter brings in the menu card just
now he can order wine, beer, whiskey, cham
pagne, cock-tails any old thing that will make
a man desperate. But under this new law the
rations are to be cut short. So short that the
man who hesitates is lost.
The Attorney General of Virginia decides
that a man can order one quart of whiskey, or
one gallon of wine or three gallons of beer
each month- but he must make a choice. Nat
urally the fellow who is spitting twenty cent
cotton and foaming at the mouth would: say
he would take a quart of likker. There is sup
posedly more drunk in a sacred quart of likker
than there is in a gallon of wine or three gal
lons of beer. But it must be figured out and
! there is no going over the dead line. Now if a
man ana nis wne use. .intoxicants 10 a immt
degree, and they happen to be like Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob ' Sprat t, there Avill be some trouble.
It will be recalled that Jakey Spratt could eat
no fat and his wife could cat no lean and be
tween the two they wiped up the provisions.
But in this instance if Mrs. Spratt must have
her beer and Jake must have his likker, how will
it work out. Until woman suffrage comes we
take it that Mrs. Spratt cannot order three
gallons of beer and Jake his gallon of whiskey.
If this were allowed there must be coercion
and the old man would often force the old lady
to order a quart claiming it was for her con
sumption, whereas, it was for his use.
However, Time, that old and cheerful flat
iron, will soon take out the wrinkles. When
we first were confronted with the Quart law
and the limited law many men didn't see how
they would survive the drought, but happily
all has ended well, and the mail order business
isn't anything at all like it used to be, and
when the next session of the legislature gets
through with it there will be no mail order
business worth talking about.
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Kentucky Chivalry.
Kentucky realized yesterday that this is the
open season for killing negroes and proceeded
to hang a couple and then burn the bodies. The
mob was, of course, orderly and dignified. The
automobile was brought in as a part of the new
play. The idea is to run the machine under
the tree; place the noose around the neck and
then drive the machine away -thus leaving the
victim dangling in mid air. The laughs and
shouts of the reputable citizens mingle with
the groans of the desperate victims and the
mob then quietly disperses.
In this last act of shame the negrc vic
tims were accused, one of attacking a whit
I woman, the other of voicing, approv of what
I the negro did. This was too much. While the
j negroes charged with crime were safe in a
I steel barred jail; while a speedy trial would
I have been given them, the Kentucky spirit
j could not wait it wanted its fun then and
j there, and the police reserve was pushed aside,
u f h jailadapce battereddnn ivUfjar4pf lis-j
I grace added to the land of the night riders
j and bam burners. And yet the civilization of
! this century is supposed to be about the top
1 notch.
Guess It Will Wait Awhile.
At least until after the election the good
roads question the million dollar bond issue,
will be held on ice. When the talk got to be
pretty general the republicans at once com
menced a county campaign and were makincr
a big fight against the proposed expenditure.
I That is some of the politicians were. And as
j the democrats expect to elect their commission-
ers this fall it looks like the question of a mil-
lion in bonds will not be discussed just now.
j And yet if Guilford county can build better
I roads than any other county has built ; if she
i will go the limit and let it be known that
good roads are everywhere in the county's con
fines she will make an investment that will not
only pay her bonds but pay a handsome di
vidend each year.
The good road proposition is the one thing
on which all live men are agreed. It has been
demonstrated that no better investment can
be made. The same is true concerning good
streets in a city. Good sidewalks are always
the best asset. And in the proposed million
dollar bond issue all that we must do is to pro
vide for maintenance ; ascertain what kind of a
road will endure and the intelligent farmer
will be as much in favor of the issue as the
city man. Because all farmers have seen what
good roads do.
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For Wilson.
And so now comes John M. Parker and ac
cuses Roosevelt and other Bull Moose leaders
with the high crime of breaking up the Pro
gressive party; says they are guilty of base
betrayal, and while he is the nominee for vice
president on the progressive ticket he gives out
a talk in New Orleans and says he is for Wil
son. In other words John M. is sore the
same as many men were sore when Roosevelt
betrayed the republican party.
And that is where wc fail to see that Teddy
is aiding the Hughes cause much. It certainly
is now clear that he betrayed the republican
party, purely on the grounds of pique that he
was personally ambitious to be president and
saw a chance to do the Samson act bring
down the pillars on his own head if necessary
to destroy Taft. In his egotism it appeared to
him, doubtless, that he could escape. Then he
posed as a great progressive; set his pins to
capture the republican convention and failed
Then he betrayed the party he had builded, the
Moose' Party and is out now with the party
he destroyed four years ago.
Just where a man like that finds any chance
in the world to criticise Wilson for being vac
cilating we do not know. Certainly Wilson
hasn't attempted to scuttle his ship he has
been true to his party, and Teddy is raving
like a mad man whereas he is the cause, and
the sole cause of Wilson being President. '
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It was good news to know that Major Sted
manVhealth is all right, and that he will be
home in a short time. Just a little temporary
trouble detained him, and his friends will be
more active than otherwise on account of his
detention.
It Has Come To This. ; .
And now the National Association for the
study and prevention of tuberculosis is wast
ing its good postage in order to correct editors
and others in their use of words. It appears
that there has been some misunderstanding and
a "gramaticism" as Artemus Ward termed it
has been committed improperly. The Bulle
tin says :
Thus, if one says a certain individual is
tubercular, he really indicates that the per
son has a disease process manifesting it
self by tubercles or little lumps, but is not
necessarily tuberculosis. To say that the
person has tuberculosis, the adjective
"tuberculous" is the correct word. It re
fers directly to diseased conditions caus
ed by the tubercle bacillus. Thus, when
an institution for tuberculosis recently
labelled itself as a "tubercular sanator
ium," it not only indicated that the sana
torium was sick, but that it was sick with
something resembling tuberculosis. The
adjective "tubercular" shou'd be used
very infrequently.
Verily this is tuff. To think that people
are urged to buy red cross seals and drop their
pennies and their dimes into the box to assist
in destroying the doodle bug, and then to see
a national society spending its good money for
printing and postage standing on what may
or may not be the proper name for a disease
which has been handled with a dozen names.
Consumption is what the people dread. Con
sumption is the old name for it, and consump
tion is good enough. Now it' must be referred
to in a strictly proper and grammatical style
or the National Association will be offended.
Truly we have fallen upon hard lines. What
difference, under the sun, does it make what
3'ou call it just so you don't add the glitter of
romance and talk about the "Great White
Plague."
However it is gratifying to know that con
sumptives are learning that a little common
sense home treatment will cure many cases.
They are also learning to know that a per
centagc must die just as a per centagc of
people otherwise afflicted die. The last year
has done much to stop the fright that was on.
The attempt to chase people from home; the
campaign to fill with fear every person who
gave out the slightest suggestion of a weak
lung has about collapsed, and the victim of
consumption is trying to cure himself by liv
ing a quiet life; by getting plenty of fresh air;
by eating the right kind of food and realizing
that he isn't a dead one by a long shot.
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Won't Get It.
The democrats are "now claiming that forty
five thousand majority is the lowest figure that
will satisfy them. Yc hope they will get all
they want, but if they exceed thirty thousand
this year they must get more ginger into the
campaign than so far lias been spilt.
We have never attached any importance to
the campaign Linney has been making where
in he charges demratic extravagance. The
figures sfcnwi liat tf fcAtfis ipiuling some
money but it isn't-sending enough. Show us
a business that is what is called "stingy," and
we'll show you one that never progresses half
as far as it could progress. There is a deal of
difference between extravagance and good
business judgment.
North Carolina should have a higher tax
rate. She should expend millions on her high
ways and on her public buildings. She should
see to it that the school houses arc doubkd
and then she should appropriate a million for
advertising her resources. This may sound
like extravagance but if the money were ap
appropriated and judiciously and not extrav
agantly expended, it would all come back
and come back ten fold.
Each year we have more peopjlc. The de
mands are greater for more money and if it
happened, which it will not, that the republican
party was victorious, it could not go into power
and make good and pledge to reduce expenses.
Because if it made a record worth while it
would increase expenses.
Away with the silly talk about democratic
extravagance or republican extravagance.
Might as well say that one of the live Greens
boro merchants who spends a coupic of
thousand dollars, to put an up to date
front in his store room was extravagant bcr
cause he kept abreast of the times.
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Again The Straw Vote.
TheN ew ork Herald has given us the third
returns on its straw vote. This means now
that over a hundred thousand people have vot
ed out of several million, and the Herald con
cludes that Hughes is still leading; that Wil
son isn't making as much head way as he did,
and that Hughes is losing some votes those
votes going to the Socialists. Wc can see how
a republican might vote for Wilson, because
of many things. But we can't see how a rock
ribbed and painted in the face and tattooed
on the back republican could throw down his
party and hump into the socialist's frying pan.
Think of that sweep and yet the straw vote
discloses this state of affairs.
The Herald has for years done the straw
vote stunt. Like Mother Shipton's prophecy;
like the Roman augurs of old; like many ne
cromancers with more than a local fame, the
Herald's straw vote has had believers. But
when one understands that so far but a hun
dred thousand people topsy-turvcy have
voted and there are several million voters in
the country with the women this time an un
known quantity, the straw vote, however hon
estly compiled amounts to no more than the
prediction of the Seventh Day Adventists that
every so often the world is coming to an end.
But to add to the variety of its news, and put
people talking, the Herald does a stunt that
can only be regarded as journalistic enterprise
having no foundation as to facts.
Reciprocity.
President Wilson has shown by his acts that
he believes in reciprocity. His wife was cele
brating her birthday Sunday and the dispatches
say he gave her a diamond brooch. But it
wasn't long ago that she gave him a whole jew
elry: store on Pennslyvania avenue and wc
take it the brooch was to prove that he believes
in and practices reciprocity.
' j ) -j The ;Same Old jStorrvv t
Editor Hildebrand, of the esteemed News
has journeved to New York and gone to head
quarters of both parties to find out something
as to general results and he writes his paper a
column and a half story but it is the same
thing we have been saying and what all have
been saying. He finds that democrats arc
claiming the Middle West he finds that a few
men are insisting that Hughes is winning;
that others see how Wrilson will be elected.
But that is as far as any of us can get. Re
cently Secretary Daniels spoke in. Philadel
phia and he quoted a democratic Congressman
from the Middle West as saying the whole
thing was for Wilson. Recently in this town
was a Nebraska orator talking for the repub
licans and he claimed that the Middle West
would go for Hughes like a house on fire. One
man will tell you the tariff is going to cut the
ice out there; another will say that the tariff
isn't in this campaign and so it seems that no
matter whether you jQurney to headquarters
or journey to the farm just outside of town
you get no definite no information that
gives one any chance to form an intelligent
opinion. The mere belief of some individual
is cutting no ice. That Henry Ford is for
Wilson carries no particular weight ; creates
no particular enthusiasm. Roosevelt seems to
think he is going to bring into the fold his
Bull Moose people. He feels that if this is
done the whole country is safe- and many
people have believed the claim made that it
would take over a million republican votes to
elect Wilson. We had believed this, just hear
say talk, but the following letter throws some
other kind of light on the generally accepted
figures:
Col. Al Fairbrothcr,
City.
Dear Sir: Your editorial "The Guesscrs"
in the Record dated October 9th, gives
figures of the last Presidential election
and contains in the concluding para
graph: "Figure it out old man and tell us
if we haven't rung the bclU"
The statement is made that it will be
necessary for President Wilson to get over
2,000,000 men to vote for him who voted
for Taft and Roosevelt in 1912. The
World Almanac of 1916 gives the 1912
popular vote as follows:
Roosevelt 4,119,507. .
Taft 3.484,956
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Wilson 6,293,019
1,311,444
Wilson needs, therefore, to get the
votes of only 655,723 of the men who voted
for Taft and Roosevelt in 1912, if you
figure on only those who voted four years
. age and dojiot consider the Socialist and
Prohibitionist. You are certainly correct
in stating that mathematics is" a true
science, but you are far from correct in
your practical application, and you place
the number of votes that Wilson needs to
gain ironi his to chicC.opponenls at. more. . .
than three times the correct figure.
Please print these figures and apologize
to the Democrats for making their task
seem much harder than it is.
Yours verv trulv,
"OLD MAN."
We have no apologies to offer for a mis
take honestly made but we take pleasure in
complying with the request of f orrespondent,
as we always like to "keep historv straight."
A Long Time.
Wonder what Old Man Villa has been doing
the past two or three weeks. Wonder why he
hasn't sacked and pillaged a few more towns.
Wonder where he is. Wonder if he hasn't
been killed long ago. Although wc have down
on the border thousands of brave soldier men
we never get any news of the Old Man. The
Mexican situation has been wholly lost while
the 'American situation is the one thing. If we
could only understand just why we arc main
taining an army on the border perhaps we
would feel better. But inasmuch as it is not
for the average American citizen to know, we
hold our peace and await, with interest, some
more news from Old Man Villa. Because he is
a dead game sport.
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Banks Are Happy.
It is said the banks over the country have
plenty of money. They are loaning it and they
are not lying awake o-nights wondering if a
panic will happen. The man who has a loan
knows if his security is good that he isn't go
ing to be called before breakfast. No longer
is there fear of a rich man's panic like Teddy
gave us some years ago. No longer does the
business man wonder what will happen The
new banking laws passed by this administra
tion cut out all that fear. And while the re
publicans assail that law; insist that Pavnc
Aldnch law would have answered the same
purpose as the federal reserve law. few be
lieve it. Lnder the present law good security
is going to get money at a rate of interest that
docsn t make it prohibitive or impossible.
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Still To Look At It.
The allies insist that thev shall continue to
censor the mail, no matter about the protest of
L nclc Sam. They promise remedy of whatever
abuses may exist at the present time, but as to
censorship it will continue. And certainly
they have that right. With uncensored mail's
the enemy can do many things and as long as
the allies have opportunity to see what is go
ing on detrimental to them they propose to sec
to it.
Therefore our notes addressed to them fall
on deaf ears. Wc take it that if Teddy were
the nation's chief he would stop it but then as
we gather the news, Teddy is not the nation's
chief.
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One Thing Significant.
So far as we have been :.ble to sec there has
been no big democrat cone out for Hmdic
U hile many prominent republicans have an
nounced that they will support Wilson wc
fail to see the names of any big guns deserlin"
the dcmociatic ship. This doubtless means
something. How much no one knows.
GREENSBORO. N.-g
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The Death Rate.
'Xhe Gaslonia Republican ha
where, some misleading figures concerning the "
death rate of North Carolina, and accepts
them, as being true. The story was that our
death rate was 17 to each thousand people and
according to figures this was the highest in th
Nation. We have elsewhere seen that this
statement is"'not true, therefore we are not in
position to respond to help as asked by the
Gazette. The Gazette man in trying to figure
out what he thought was a true state of affair
says: Why is this? We believe that we have
as robust and as healthy a population a
any state in the union. We know we have
as much patent medicine as others. W
have more farmers than most states and
yet our death rate is higher than all others.
We have all taken the hookworm treat
ment so they are. not the cause. We have
been vaccinated against fever so that ain't
it. Vc could not take a drink if we want
ed to, so that's not it.
We are not overfed prices arc too high
for that. We arc not starved rabbits
and blackberries still grow. We can't
work over 8 hours, so work don't kill us.
Most of us arc married and married peo
ple live longer single cussedness ain't
the cause. Very few of us are very intel
lectualso study don't worry us. There
are no submarines or aeroplanes or reven
ous beasts in our state they can't cause
it. It is true we have some rattlesnakes
and no remedy for their bites, yet they
arc very scarce since prohibition became
effective. Then why have we the highest
death rate of all the states? Surely Uncle
Joe Cannon ain't responsible. The office
holders at Raleigh ain't for they never die
or resign. In our extremity for the cause
of it all we appeal to Col. Fairbrothcr, who
knows everything please help us Colenel.
If our latest information is correct the cause
of the alarm is produced by lie-etus but
the facts do not exist. You will please remit
the usual fee.
Couldn't All Be.
W c printed a little human interest storv of a
man named Miller who died at the ripe old ae
of ninety years and who was the Cattle King
of California. He started as a butcher's hoy
and bought a steer here and one there and
finally made his millions and a reputation. But
he played in luck. All the butcher's boys
couldn't be cattle kings. In fact there is only
a small per centagc of people who can be at the
top of the ladder at one time. The nine hun
dred and ninety nine in the thousaud who try
must see as a matter of fact that there can he
but one. However the life story of Miller who
started out as a butcher boy, poor and un
known, and made, himself a national reputation
and millions of money, reads all right, and all
the butcher's boys might try to take his place.
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Explained.
We have, in candor, asc(l ncT AunlelfV
know, just why the army was on the border
and how long it was going to stay there. Pres
ident Wilson answering a similar question pro-L.
pounded by the Governor of New York ex-V
plains that the army is there to repel invasion
and is doing a good work.
Well, if that is the reason wc take it that we
should all be satisfied. Wc note however,
that whenever Mr. Villa feels like coming over
he doesn't seem to stop on account of the army.
As wc understood it the army was at Colum
bus to repel invasion when the town was shot
up and raided and "the soldier boys were at
tending a swell dance some twenty miles or
more away. But if it is really repelling in
vasion there is where it should be.
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Non Political.
In the discussion of extravagance the politi
cians insist that each party is the guilty
wretch. But we notice that neither party has
taken up Judge Rufus Clark's proposition to
the effect that the high cost of dying can be
cheapened by using coffins not to exceed $12.
This is a question that Statcsville is going to
make state-wide, and while it perhaps isn't
exactly a suitable subject to talk about atull
times, it is worth while. Dr. Anderson, of
Statesville, ably assisted by Judge Rufus Gark,
proposecs to show the people why. And they
have a subject in which all should be inter
ested. Colonel Bill Ragan.
As will be seen bv an article from the Hij:h
Point Fnterprise, Colonel Bill R agan inist
that Carter Dalton meet him in joint debate.
Just why Colonel Bill insists upon this we !
not know. The fact of. the business is that
Carter Dalton will make just about as good a
law maker as Colonel Bill and as the legisla
ture is to be democratic anyway Guilford sees
no reason why she should "send down a lone
some republican to chew the rag.
The joint debate doesn't mean anything.
Kach candidate stands up and paws the air
and "points with pride" to the achievements
of his party but when itHs all sifted down
and the chaff carted away both parties are only
out for pic. The recent debates between
Doughton and Williams have done good fr
neither party just a personal exhibition of
hot air. Wc are rather inclined to believe ar.d
it is our hope that Carter Dalton will pass up
Colonel Bill's challenge, and let the voter de
cide what is what.
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About Two Weeks.
Say, boys, it is good news to -know that
just a little over two weeks and this election
heart ache will end. No matter, how the flec
tion goes the world will move along about the
same. The only thing for you to do is not t'
get excited and bet against too manv odd. It
is a cinch that the Prohibition candidate f'-r
President will not be elected. You can bet
this and if you lose make a sight draft on u-
If the State Board'of Health would only tell
us why these buljejins appear all- would .be
well. When there i nothing, really, to write
about, why send in a fire alarm about tuber
culosis', and' scare a man to death who was on
.the road to Welltown? ' .