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i X H.00 A YEAR, SINGU5 COPT S CEJfTfi oni.uiini.,'iiw i umocin 4, lyiu. ON AT TUB NEWS STANDS AVl OS'. TttAINS ESTABLISHED MAWtQoZ; THEY ARE gONE I SIMMONS HAD FACTS .MR. COX CELEBRATES PRICES GOING HIGHER jTQ USE TO TAEK -' V n i mm i -, - ? .. Things Which Concern e d us not Ldtig Ago X- ALL this confusion about politics and poli tics, per se, seems Para mount, wc haven't heard for lo, these many days, anything about the Just Freight Rate Association of North Carolina. For wonderful combination a toiler, time thi's of politicians and hot air artists had the people, up in the air ; had them thinking that they Were beiag despoiled before breakfast and after breakfarl b it'vhat has happened" to the Association? '. . '-- ; . ' :V'.-:; . . Surely, if it; Was in eaiMest, if it was hoh -est, it would not disband and give no notice of its removal. T'.-c people haven't heard a bloomin' thing Aboiit it lately, i'hey wonder. They wonder as well what lias become of the Cape Fear an 1 Yadkin Valley railroad pro jectthe dead one for so many years and to be rejuvenated under the Sherman law. Nothing doing and yet the state went to much expense and where is tivvgrea; Attorney General of the great 'democratic Administration that was just about to eat the Southern railway alive because it bought a railroad and made a de sirable property out of it? ; Where is the talk and wonder about Greens boro being bottled up and unable to give manu facturers a show, and where are those men who wanted to crucify the only rail way Ave had? We are not complaining. We were ready to join in the amusements that added to the gayety of nations, but what we can't under stand is, that if these things were true yester day why are they not true today and why the abandonment of a cause that was righteous if : if.htesfiqer.;:.-j:':'.::,::;.:: :" ;:;: , Wonder it politics played any part-in all this propaganda that stirred the state ? Maybe not, and therefore that is why we hear but little concerning these vital things when a campaign is on. . . . . !'. Below The Belt. Wc believe in fair play, and the esteemed Charlotte Observer strikes the blood hound below the belt that is if a blood hound is foolish enough to wear a belt. It says: We; thought so. A few weeks ago when . word got out that Wilmington was going ; to place dependence on the aloodhounds for catching thieves, The Observer said that; city might expect to become an easy mark for the gentry. The Star is now re porting "a wave, of robberies" sweeping that town., Better ship the dogs and ad vertise the fact, when-things might be ex pected to assume the normal there in re spect to burglaries. . The beloved blood hound finds little endorse ment in the press of this great commonwealth. But the blood hound still abides with us, and the officers of the law wh'6 now and then get busy use him successfully. Not a success as thief catcher, but the bill of expense is "most in generally" allowed. We have never yet stated our position on this blood hound busi ness, and dp not intend to until after election. It might hurt our chances. We believe in walking in gum shoes while the campaign is ' on. This thing of expressing yourself often gets one into trouble. That is why we arc oc cupying neutral ground concerning Dr. John son's bold utterance that a pair of mules is bet ter business than a pair of blood hounds. How ever, the Observer has-been guilty of a breach of promise or neutrality or something like that. V.--'- r . . . .' . ' ' - Mr. Grissom writes some letters to show, it looks; like he belongs to the Junior Order which hasn't any politics in it. " -- """'. o ' '"' ' ' ' Germany In It. The submarine business is extra hazardous but Germany understands that she can get a whole lot of gold by sending valuable cargoes to this country. Her only hope was to come under cover to come under the sea. Wasn't that a daring dream? But Germany. dreamed it and her inventors made the way. - No doubt but what within a year or two, should the War continue, Germany will be running i regular line of merchant submarines into this country and each ship discharging valuable cargoes. Indeed, it is-a wonderful thing this inventive genius of man. y . : r.;, ""':;"" o . " '; One Week From Tomorrow. One week from tomorrow there will be a great election pulled. If the. weather is at all propitious wc hope to go fishing and sec if there isn't something doing. We. shall vote early but not late, and allow the Nation to take care of itself while wc undertake to take care of the bass coming our way. '" O ; ; . Only a few days until jChristmas do your Christmas shopping now. - ' Senior Senator Talked td The Democrats in Greensboro. ENATOR SIMMONS made, a talk in Greensboro Monday: The last time the Senator had spoken here he filled the opera house. Then he wasn't talking for party, he was talking for Simmons. Kitchin anil Brooks and oilier. big. men in the democratic party were out witft-their rhetoric and their spell-binding views teljing that Simmons had voted for Lor imcr, the convicted democratic United Slates Senator from Illinois. They were telling us that the claim of Simmons that he was to be the leader in the Senate was a dream a joke an impossibility. In a dramatic, appeal Claude Kit chin: sard th'at if he could have assurance that Simmons would be with Wilson he would teleefanh brother Bill to withdraw. It Wvas a fight for place, for prominence between the democrats of North Carolina: who have always lived at the pie counter and wanted the rations to come on. Simmons "kim to town." He packed the bpera house and Simmons in the show down defeated brother Bill to a tune as inspiring as that of "O, Granny will your dog bite, no child, no." And he went to Washington and the lime light was his. The great white light that beats upon a throne struck him full and fair in the face. It became the Simmons-Underwood tariff bill as rotten as thev make them and make the people believe but Simmons was there. He has been there there in his power and in his sinceritv. And he comes back to the people of Greens boro tos whom he promised some things and made good although discredited by his own party and traduced by his own friends bigger and greater than: ever. , . ; , " ..;' '. v lull house wi'r await him a full house will applaud him. : ; k- The Back Seat. All the isms have been relegated to the rear. We hear little about the great white plague we hear nothing about the national good roads business ; infantile paralysis has taken a back scat while the candidates arc being paralyzed each morning. But wait awhile, my laddies. Just a week or so, and the front page stories which have been in hiding will come again. The election news will be over. Mr. Wilson will be defeated or he will be elected Mr. Hughes will be elected or defeat- We have about concluded i!:at one of these days there should be a general uprising and the presidential election should not be allowed to happen oftencr than once in eight years; Why make it such a short time and why let a mart be eli gible to the second term ? Cu r pol i tic s out of it so far as the main guy "s concerned. Down here in North Carolina we wisely made it possible for a -man to be Governor but one term, so he is elected and spends all his time trying to go to the United States Senate. But the president Would have nothing higher in sight he perhaps would pay. attention to . his business. The mess of politic?- :s always sorry and we do not progress in this regar :. American Made Toys: School Commissioner S. F. Tomiinson, of Charlotte, has been figuring on the proposition of making toys in America, and introducing in the public schools a toy making department to go with the manual training department. He finds that this country before the War annually yielded to Germany something like six million dollars a year for these goods, and he is of opinion that that six million can be kept at home and thousands of children given de serving employment. Of course the genial Major doesn't think about that Keating law but if his toys were to become inter-state traffic, which they would a little bright-eyed boy ten years old would be forbidden to display his art and earn an honest dime. But What the Major is talking is the right kind of talk. There is no reason why North Carolina could not make thousands of dollars worth of toys and sell them each year. There is no real reason Why wc should depend on a foreign nation for such trinkets just trinkets but the total aggregating millions of dollars. Perhaps it may be many years before Amer ica seriously takes up the toy making busi ness. But with our ingenuity with our won derful creations on this side, there is really no reason why America could not furnish toys for her own children, but there is reason why she should amuse the world with them. o -' Old Man Villa. The news again today is that doubtless Oi l Man Villa has broken loose. For a man on crutches for a mail with his legs shot off and his lungs gone and his head three times decapi tated Old Man. Villa certainly puts up a front. The cat, that had nine lives died young compared to Old Man Villa. -a j. .... --;, A i- .v. r. 5 - '" , f ' Vi'-V""' -',. . " ; - ' "" " -.:; .f -Ar t - v- - . J. . - ; , . ". - '.- ? . ' . . u , - - Yc a . . ' 'f.f . . 4. :......-.... J'-Mj'v '.V',. V'f-,V j'"- U-l V.l'." - - v. . " .'," r X s : f A J ', : TT IlK High: Point .Hn'Ccrprisc says : ''One of I High Point's. rtKist progressive citizens, and a foremost figurin North Carolina, cele brated something today that not a great many persons "live to enjoy. J. Elwood Cox, hale and hearty, and looking" not a day older than he did when he made the race for governor of the state on the Republican ticket several years ago, is today celebrating the sixtieth aiv niversary of his birth, . Mr. Cox did not ob serve the day as a holiday, rather, he was on the job as usual, if not more so, and seeming ly he enjoyed being at work slightly more than on days that are not anniversaries. "Mr." Cox was visited at his office at the Commercial National bank and was asked if he didn't have a birthday coming along some time in the immediate future. " 'This is the day ; I m 6o,;vears old,' re plied Mr. Cox with a Urxgf of pride in his voice. 'I was born November 11856 he added. " 'I think J should at jeast be cumpjimented and congratulated. ujiQjAthevTjeather provided for.thc.-'aaf'tOTaMK ' . - i , i . ' " Coming To Town. We. are rather giad that Mr. Max. Gardner is coming to town. He is one of the bright and clean young men .in North Carolina he is run ning for an office that is an empty honor but there may be dreams and visions-' which -he cherishes. We want to sec him have a good crowd. But when he talks again of woman suf frage and pays his high compliments to wo men we want to sec him Stand where his con science tells him he should stand, and not al low his managers to attempt any hedging. Mr. Gardner, like all intelligent and pro gressive men of this age stands for woman suf frage or, cquaT suffrage. He understands that a woman is as intellectual as a man, and he favors giving her the right to vote simply an inherent right that man denied his own mother. The suffrage question is not a Paramount this -year but .it will be pretty soon. And when Mr. Gardner again finds opportunitj' to express himself we want him to stand pat. His big speech in Raleigh which was really a won derful effort was punctured because a few cowardly politicians attempted to explain that Gardner was not for woman suffrage. He is, or at least has so expressed himself, and we want to see him reiterate his oft expressed sentiments and then stand pat. Beth of the great parties have gone on rec ord. And the men of today who are really up to date are not' attempting to dodge the ques tion , We bespeak for Mr. Gardner a big audience and wc know he will please it. lie is one of the coming men of North Carolina. o Theodore In Action. If any man has been wanting more ginger in the campaign than has been noticeable Roosevelt's Saturday night speech was not lacking in that quality. In fact it read as though a whole jar of ginger hael been thrown in. He was there with his old time fire his olel time enthusiasm. But the people arc dis counting Teddy these days. His promise car ries no hope and his threat no fear. There was a time when he could put the fire in the boys and set a whole Nation in a thrill. But not now. His swinging away from the party and making Wilson possible was where he lost his goat. He may look for 1920 but the jig with him is up politically. However, to those who admire Art and like the picturesque in ex pression his last speeches are presumed to be the stuph. ; ; O Senator Simmons' will draw a crowd tonight. He will hanel down the democratic doctrine. No particular need for the democrats to do much talking now they have the state by at least thirty thousand and from all indica tions the Congressmen will all be re-elected. But possibly they want to make the best show ing ever. The latest information arriving at this office wasi to the effect that Ben Lacy and Frank Linncy had not met on a bloody battlefield. Just one out break and the eruption was over. People are Wondering What ... . ND GO where you will, on train, in hotel office or at the store, and the universal subject of conversa tion is the higher cost of things wc need. People arc talking and cussing if they cuss but all the time prices reach a higher point. The man with a large family is non-plusscd. He finds his clothing bill bigger; his shoe bill bigger ; his coal bill bigger; his grocery bill bigger and he knows his merchant is not to blame. He marvels. He hears them trdk about prosperity but .hi- finds he has less money loft after paying our tinm he had when times were said to be "hard" and he doesn't know whether or not prosperity is th thing. Manufacturers Complain. Publishers com plain. All people complain at high prices and yet spell binders tell us to look at the pros perity of the country and we wonder if it is really prosperity. 'But there must come a time. There will be an adjustment. There must be. What goes up must come down a law of nature when ap plieel to gravity anel it has been a law when applied to commerce. With eggs selling at forty cents a dozen and scarce at that, you won der why. The tariff has been taken off of eggs and millions of dozens find their way here from China and yet the prices arc higher than ever in the history. An average pig is worth more than a horse used to be and the man who buys the pig and pays four-times .what he used to pay isn't getting four times the salary he used to get. There is where the ho pinches! There" is where - thic 'adjustment t must -' : come. us" how trt-adf-ust it. - . .i- '- .- ? :-. - . ;. O ; ; Seems Some Time Yet. We have been talking about putting in a new press and some of our friends keep asking-us when it will be along. We tlo not know. e are receiving blue prints; we are getting infor mation and we hope some tlay to be able to an nounce that the press has been built and ship ped. Wc are buying a first class machine and they do not carry them in stock. The other day we saw where an order had been taken from the same company from which we are getting our press for three new ones to be de livered fifteen months hence. It takes time. The hope hcre'is anel the chances are that long before the New Year comes with its gladness and its hope The Record will be printing from its new press. But it makes no promises. It simply explains that several weeks ago it con tractcel with the greatest prcs-s builders in the. world for a new machine, anel just as quickly as it can be built it will be here. Until then we are goinr to wait. And if wc can't wait long enough then we are going to call in our friends. -o- The Betters. The morning papers announce that the men with money to burn arc betting on Hughes about eight to ten or ten to eight. And the papers play it up, and give the names or" the men betting. Indeed, they have commissioners now who handle the coin. And on the roads in North Carolina are poor niggers hard at work in stripes because they dared to play at a game of craps. Their gambling was" no niore than the gamble of an election bet. They sneaked off somewhere and did their chore in secret whereas, the news gathering agencies arc telling vividly about spectacular gambling and people are saying nothing. This shows that wc haven't progressed far it shows that when the multitude wants to do something the laws wc enact arc nil. Funny old world in Which we live filleel with funny old people and funny young people. o : He Materialized. A special from Warsaw, this state, tells us that Marion Butler was present at a political meeting. It says he was there only as a spec tator he viewed the para tic -of the Woodrow Wilson day, and said nothing. And this is the first time that we have seen Mr. Butler in the lime light. Wc have heard about him; wc have read about him but for his Very Pres ence to be there is something new. And to know that he only looked on as a quiet specta tor well, the Marion Butler ghost that they tried to trot in North Carolina didn't work. The wires were strung in the wrong way. ; o His Nerve Unimpaired. In his talks today according to our leased wire Candidate Hughes insists that he is going to carry Indiana and Illinois." He just has a happy way of claiming about all that is in sight but the trouble is the other fellows arc tloing the same thing. Certainly all will rejoice when wc can pick up the local paper and find on its telegraph page something besides politics. r 7, rr . ri 1 tiooseoelt t ruing Ham Now to Get Batk-Z ATTERS very little now how many speeches Mr. Roosevelt may makc'Hc may make ten orr he may make a thousand, trtc ci fect of his speech-making has been measured. The question, was whether, of nnt W rmilil brinir into linetfe fgressiVerf. We take it that he lid t fit si I n drtit f wihdk without Roosevelt there was no progressive party. He was the whole show, therefore it becomes apparent- that there was no crying demand for a new f.a'rty. The people uie voters, were saiisnea it) ngnt iiaui between republicanism -and democracy. The Bill Moose party Was born of the ambition pj one man. It was his hope to become the czar of America. He was defeated in his" ambition--but the fact that the party he fofnfcd vteht.to pieces wheri he elesertcd -it-as he had1 deserted the party to which he' owed all that he-wis showed that there never Was a party of prin ciple formed jus a party of nian-Worshipl.-.-, Teddy's speeches have been strong. Ptfvrcr ful, indeed, they have been but have they had their effect? The party" known as the Mxosfc " party went to pieces the day he deserted-.t at Chicago. Therefore the natural "thing 'lor eignty per cent or its mcmDcrs to eio vra? 10 come home as the Prod came homer'An'tl they did. But that was all. " r. " Teddy at 'Battle- Creek, at Scran tcnrT;.:: At rhdenix or wherever he ha"$- becfi Ris;ni ply .exiHoded; some', expletives-. lie hzbr tsti: his meittal dyaimteuVAbthm He':thteV it- int .the -air.- His asults. oa'AV'il of the crowd. He was asked rjuesttpn, which . were cmbarrassi n; 'There waV " no' '"foxier v about him that t6uch,6f divrftity which; 'doth guard antf protect kings. He' was commcii clay and as common clay they handed it tel him. , " r It is our belief that had .Roosevelt simply said he felt that Hughes w6uld make a kcUit President than Wilson and einphasized '.rthe' fact that he didn't want cither of themanct gone again to the jungles where the mighty lion roars defiance to' him and awaits' his comb ing, he would have done the republican party more good. .' Thousands of Bull f6ose people, led by Teddy is about all in. If Hughes is trlccted he cannot hope for much. If defeated! hi hasn't shown that he has strength; so thtfe seems nothing for him in icj2Ch arid we Hfcc h that he is a elcad duck in the pit. And if ever the retribution came it came to him",;.a-it should have come to him. . ' )- . John ' M. Parker, are sore. They . see. 'that . Hughes is elected it is in an ihdir"ect, Way-a Roosevelt victor-, and they will on Xqveftw t 7th vote for Wilson in order to' rebuke tHc-hiin who failed to accept their iiominalibri raftec they had journeyed to Chicago toV rion'n'nMc, mm. - -. :. : : -n ' ' , - ' Tomorrow Night: . . ;":'-S;j At mitl night tomorrow niglit the wincey business in Virginia is outlawed. No rhattfr how much has been, TnVc'stcef or is jnvesfcet ihfc4 people said at the' polls that bn a certain; day? the. business must cease that '"to contnue:.:it was unlawful, and there fori 'all thc'Kar. roojit, all the mail order houses and all the makcrV. of the stuff must qttit. . .. " And they know it and they aft quittingi'Thil will help North Carolina material!'.' ft- ha been easy to order whiskey and to" transport whiskey into this state just beca use ft was oyer the border. But now wc arc on a'ri island ;"st to speak, not only prohibition ourselves-b'df- entirelv surrounded by prohibition stales', aiiii iU ...:.u u: . .. l -1 ! 1 1 : a . nit Mian w iiji ui duiuiiiuunc win nc ooiigCUjtp travel further. Of course the mail order b'us ness Will flourish as l6ng as any state .is1 Wfct; but pretty soon all states will be dry. It i Comb ing and coming rapidly. " r 0 : .: Just A Cotlpler. -. After tomorrow there" will be but two mor,e months in this year of 1916- it .'seemsr somehow that it just s.vurig into the DcachYa few months ago. But ten months will hiVo gone, and then another start. We yet Havc-th election; Thanksgiving and Christrrias-ihre .important days. But the question is: Have" you done this year any where near-half whit you expected to do what you wanted' to dd? If there are yet some omissions you still h4vte time. Not perhaps time to make the moneV you foolishly thought you could maKe-but there is time to speak that kind word; to'do that little favor to make brighter some home, or lighter some heart. Remember trie' days' pass rapidly and tomorrow never ccmifs'. Xe this year give you somcthing to your credit. lit sixty tlay s one can do as much. Those wanting a soft drink tomorrow must remember the early closing hours. "
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