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BY AL FJ
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Every Man Has Advice
For Representative
it-
O WRITE wisely and
learnedly in telling the leg
islature what it ought to
do' will now be in order.
Under the guarantee of our
Constitution every citizen
has the unquestioned right
to make suggestions to
the official who repre
course the official under-
sents him. Of
stands that he represents no one he ' has been
elected and he will run the boat to suit him
self. But we all have suggestions to make to
the legislature. We have only a few thou
sand laws, and what we need are more of them.
There are a great many things lacking. There
are a few things which will receive attention.
Thereformer will have his budget. The poli
tician will be there with meaningless stuff, but
make-believe. : ' i
Wouldn't . it be a grand day in North Caro
lina if our legislature would pass a law pro
viding for the. expenditure of a million dollars
in publicity. Not in North Carolina newspa
pers ; not on bill boards; not here and there
and everywhere, but real genuine publicity
the fund turned over to the railway companies
provided they met the state half way, and let
them flood the country with the stories of what
we' really .have. '
In the West the golden west the railways,-
backed by cities and states, have done
things. Millions of people have been located
in that country because the railways used
enough money in printer's ink to make a
rrtafk; ' They "exploited their climate ; they ex-
pioitea everyimng mai imgiu apcai w iuV
human mind and the people came they tarried..'-
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North Carolina has as good a climate, all the
year round as is to be found in this world of
sin. She has in her agricultural possibilities
as much as any state in the union of states.
In her minerals she surpasses all other states
in America gems of ail kinds abound here
hundreds of things. Before the war and before
the gol d excitement of '49 which took all peo
ple to the far west North Carolina was con
tributing millions of dollars a year in gold to
the general fund. We never yet have gotten
the tenth part of what lies under our soil.
In timber, in tobacco arid in cotton we lead.
But the man at the North and ilie man at the
West doesn't konw about it, and never will
until he is shown. The South is yet to him
the shattered plantation of ante-bellum days.
We talk with people in the west ; we talk with
them in the east ; and while they are intelligent
and well informed on all other subjects appar
ently, they really know nothing about the
; South. .
If we could interest them far enough to get
them to investigate ; if we could attract a mil
lion tourists we could entertain them and de
light them if we only had the kale seed and
each tax payer could afford to put it up be
cause it would bring returns 01 at least miy
per cent. ;' - ; :"'"'
But for a man to advocate such a thing to a
North Carolina legislature means the horse
laugh. The legislator will devote a whole day
to spell-binding on something inconsequential
but get a committee together to recommend
something worth while and all is off.
However we throw this little gem of thought
into the air-maybe a kindly wind will lodge
it somewhere, and in after years, if not now, it
will germinate and bring forth fruit.
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They Come High.
The republicans report an expenditure of
over two million dollars and the democrats
about three quarters of a million less. There
will be sunolemental reports and the chances
are that the republicans will go to three mil
lions and the democrats to two millions. This
seems like a vast sum of moneyj but it takes
lots of money to move a national campaign.
All kinds of literature ; speakers by the hun
dreds; special trains and no telling what. .
Individuals will also spend thousands of dol
lars of which no account is taken. The law
making it necessary to file reports is perhaps a
good one, but if managers want to dodge it it is
said it is easily done.
In the old days a trust magnate would walk
in and lay down fifty thousand dollars. Un
der the new law he perhaps gets it in in a dif
ferent way. However these figures are refresh
ing. They show that politicians and business
men areinterested and back their judgment
with the kale seed.
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And so Cuba is going to sue North Carolina.
That is the important news today. We take it
that there will he a hot time in Cuba when she
recovers. V;..-'
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Greece is trying to get up a civil war and
perhansit can be done. ....
StJBSCBIPTION 1.0 A TEAS, 8INGLK COPT CKMTf
THE WOMEN DID 11
Vote In The Suffrage States
Decided the Election
N THE anticipation of a demo
cratic victory and the part
whidh woman would play r in
the present election, the Ashe
villc Citizen says : "One and
one-half million women in
twelve states, hold the na
tional franchise this year. In nine of
these states the women may-determine their
electoral votes and so the national results. The
psychology, or mental influences of the great
war have been felt by these women, by the
more than two million other women holding
local franchises of various sorts, as they have
been by nearly all' women in this country. The
Republican party itself was born at a psycho
logical moment, of mental influences. It
abolished slavery and accomplished its sole
mission. The mental influences of the war
have incontestably been felt by the men voters
of the United States. How much greater that
influence has been on women, how much
stronger to them has been the appeal : "He
kept us out of war," will be shown in that ex
traordinary election so close at hand.
"Women are peculiarly subject to psycho
logical influences, and during the past three
years these influences have been actively at
work. During that time the daily newspapers,
the weekly newspapers, magazines and period
icals of all classes have been filled with the
greatest conflict in history. The average
American woman reads more than does the
average American man, and is doing about as
mMl thinking.1 They-'tatve mar all the un
thinkable horrors of the war thrust before
them, in every newspaper front page and in
every magazine for years. There has been no
escape and a well recognized state of mind has
made the result. Relief associations have been
formed, American women are nursing Europe's
wounded, until now, above all other things,
above daily cares and everyday life, in all
minds there is the consciousness of incon
ceivable suffering across the seas spared this
country through one man alone, who 'kept us
out of war.'
"This state of mind prompts women to
'Thank God for Wilson,' for women do not
want war. Men answer the call to the colors
gladly, for they go to seek the great adventure
while a woman's heart breaks. Women did
not want war w ith Mexico, and neither do they
want it today. They do. really and sincerely
'thank God for Wilson a man of peace. Their
minds and brains and hearts are saturated
with stories of Europe's battles and a state of
mind has been created which will prompt them
to vote and to work among their fathers, their
husbands and sons for the one man who 'has
kept us out of war.' They will reduce Repub
lican majorities in strongholds of that party,
may decide the result in nine of the twelve suf
frage states, and may hold the balance of pow
er in the election. The psychology of Europe's
conflict will determine the national election in
the United States of America,"
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In A Few Days Now.
Perhaps President Wilson will wait until
after the election to issue his Thanksgiving
proclamation. Maybe he feels that he will
have more to be thankful for after the, returns
are in. The last Thursday in the month seems
to come on the 30th, and there is yet plenty
of time. But in the meantime the man with
only a few hundred dollars should commence
to save up a little more $0 he can buy, a tur
key and a quart of cranberries. The high cost
of higher living makes turkey -quite an expen
sive bird and as Christmas and Thanksgiving
are coming so close together we again repeat
our suggestion that maybe one bird will get
us through both holidays. Let the turkey be
well baked for Thanksgiving and then make
hash for Christmas. So it seems that the Lord
not only tempers the wind to the' shorn lamb
but helps along in other ways.
And hv the wav. when we look over the wat
ers and see what, has been going on over there
for the past two years we, as a people and as
a nation, certainly have much for which we
should be thankful. Peace has oeen ours
and certainly it is preferable to war no mat
ter what Roosevelt thinks about it.
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No Matter Now.
Think of the five millions Tf dollars which
have been blown in by the two big parties on
this election. Think of the hot air that has
been spilled. Think of the oratory and the
spell binding and tonight it is all for naught.
One side or the other loses both can't make it
and the world chases on. Some time we will
declare a king or an emporer in this country
because the king or the emperor can do things.
nlmost reached that dizzy height
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER xi, roi6.
IS STILL-. PRESIDENT
VjTOT until a late" hour Thursday night did
I V the opposing party concede the re-election
of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United
States. Not since the second election of
Grover Cleveland two dozen years ago has
such general and sustained interest been mani
fested in any election or have the results been
so uncertain for so long a time. It was a hard
battle fought to a finish and the greatest dem
ocratic victory in the history of the Nation.
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Why Is It?
All of us will admit the whole bunch from
Weary Willie to malefactor of great wealth,
that it is necessary for some individuals or
some corporations to have a surplus in excess
of seven dollars and a half. It takes money to
do big things and money must be concentrated
or you can't turn the wiheels of the chariots of
Commerce unless yotf reconstruct the chariots
and make pony go-carts of all that is in the
commercial world. .
And why, we want to know, in a Nation
that has been greater and grander than any
other Nation, in the whole world within the
last three hundred years,, do the democrats,
every time there is an election - on,, proclaim
from house-tops and step-ladders and with
megaphones, that the republican party isthe
party that is being boosted by the Big Con
cerns? In all candor haven't the big concerns made
this the wonderful commercial nation that it is
and isn't it true that for the last fifty years
the republican party has been in power and
done these wonderful things in the business
world?
And yet, there are people and many of them,
w ho listen to the appeals to crush this sort of
business and go marching to the polls to de
stroy the Big Things as merrily as they would
march to a wedding feast.
True, it is their business T)ut somehow,
when we sit down to figure on it, it looks to us
that when a man or a corporation or a nation
is prosperous all of us can prosper. This is
not a political thought it is simply some gpod
horse sense thrown in without extra price.
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Mexican Outrages.
.The stories that the bandits who are now
holding up passenger trains on the Mexican
Central railway and causing men and women
to disrobe, and stealing all their wearing ap
parel make the average man want to fight.
The government of Mexico seems powerless
toXmaintain order. All kinds of lawlessness
daily erbes alone:, and we wouldn't wronder,
were it not for the war across the pond, to
see a foreign gfovernment step in and take con
trol. Mexico today is certainly in a bad fix
and some government should step in and try
to straighten things out. We have the soldiers
on the border protecting United States terri
tory but the people inside are certainly need
ing protection.
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A Little Hope.
The Hoe people who have been building our
new press write us and tell us that they think
shipment will be made about the 20th of No
vember. This means that it will be just about
Christmas when the wheels are started. A
Christmas gift think of it!
It takes three or four weeks to erect such a
machine the Hoe folks send a competent man
to do this so it really means that about Jan
uary first the Glad New Year of . 19 17 The
Record will feel equipped to do a stunt that is
in kecpinc; with Greensboro.
We mention this because weeks ago we
purchased the machine and many people have
wondered when it would come. As stated we
have had this press built right up to the min
ute it will be a machine up to date for twenty
years all that Greensboro may ever want or
need, in her evening field. It has taken some
courage to do what we are doing but from
all the kind words received on every side we
feel that it has been worth while, and that our
enterprise is fully appreciated.
Not long now,. as time hits the pike, until.
The Record is equipped to do things. Ana then
it hopes to do them.
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ON BALK AT THE NEWS STANDS AND OS TRAIS
HOW IT WAS WORKED
Solicited Charity To Purchase
More Dynamite
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WRITER in the New York
Times makes some timely re
marks in the following: "Now
that it has become known to
what purpose a considerable
part of the street corner col
lections of the striking rail-
u'av emnloves was put. both
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the contributors to this fund and the
wiser element among the strikers themselves
must see the danger that lies in 4ving to un
known solicitors money for which no account
ing in ever to be made. Nominally, this par
ticular money was to be used for the relief of
distress among the families of men out of
work. The appeal had force, even for those
who had no sympathy with the continuance of
a contest that had become hopeless, and many
gave, presumably, who thought the strike a
mistake from its beginning and who had been
further chilled by the violence that had attend
ed it violence which, never excusable, had
been deprived even of explanation when ob
viously it could only hasten inevitable defeat.
But the old, old notion that to give is in itself
and necessarily meritorious persists, and so the
raising of money with which to buy dynamite
for blowing up the subway was easy.
"The result -fs that every contributor to this
relief fund now finds himself an accomplice
before the fact in a heinous crime a crime, by
the way, that might well have had himself for
its victim. .
"The strike leaders and their counsel say,
and there is no need to doubt them, that they
do 'not approve "of dynamite as a means of
proving that, a strike is still on. They go so
far as to declare that they will do nothing in
the courts to help dynamiters who confess af
ter they are caught. For those of us who be
lieve thoroughly in unionism, as distinguished
from its incidental abuses and stupiditcs, it
seems lamentable that the labor chiefs and
their lawyers do not go still further, and not
only say that they strongly disapprove of vio
lent measures, but prove tneir sincerity ny
using their great powers in the maintenance of
order and in facilitating the punishment of
those who break the peace."
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Unlucky, Friday.
We haven't had anything frightful happen on
a Friday for so long that it has almost dropped
out as an unlucky day. In the old days wnen
men were hanged on rnday it appeared to be
an unlucky day for those hanged, but it seems
that somehow or other the day has. won its way
back to respectability, and people do things on
a Fndav lust as on other days. Yvc recall in
our time that men used to postpone a trip be
cause they feared that to .start on Friday would
be unlucky. But we note that the trains are
now filled with Friday travelers and automo
biles are as much in evidence on that day as
any other.
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For Some Time.
It has been some little time since Greens
boro built a new railroad. Bird Colcr is ready
at any time to give us another railway. The
Southern Power Company is ready at any time
to build in here if we will come across and
help out-in construction but it seems all we
do is talk. And it also appears that the town
is growing and getting along with the one
splendid railway system that passes through.
True we have been busy building depots and
hotels on paper, and perhaps the railroad
building has been forgotten. Almost time,
though, to build another one.
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Federal Trade Commission.
The federal trade commission has given out
some of its findings in the. cost of white paper
and while it tells us . the supply is short and
the prices too high, we fail to see that it has
done the publishers much good, wnitc paper
has become a luxury and publishers will find
that prices will never again be where they once
were.
Around three cents will be the prevailing
price in car lots, at the mills, as against two
cents a year ago. And wnen an puDiisncrs arc
on the same footing the price of advertising
and subscription will be adjusted to meet the
increased cost. That is about all there is to
the white paper situation. Between now and
the first of the year the men without a contract
will suffer. All their profits, and then some,
will go to the paper makers.
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A Creditable Edition.
The Columbia Record printed last week a
textile Industrial edition which was perhaps
the largest newspaper printed this year. It
was all about the cotton mills of South Caro
lina, and it certainly covered its field. This
particular edition should do a great work in
setting some of the Northern professional
I weepers right on several subjects concerning
the cotton mill situation m jjuue. . .
ESTABLISHED MAY. 190a.;.
HIT ABOUT RIGHT
A
Prediction as io Tues
day's Outcome -
AKING a final size up-in
Monday's paper the New
York Times figured t4t '
this way : "It is fitting
that the Republican cam
paign of false pretense
should end in an explo
sion of roorbacks. The
so-called reunion of the
Republicans and the Progressives was ' it
self a false pretense. Either the - Otd
Guard Republicans, unchanged m their .
4 principles, or the Progressives, unchang
! cd in theirs, were and are deceived. . The
.nomination of Mr. Roosevelt would have
been a straightforward nomination. Every
body knows where Mr. Roosevelt stands. He
does not disguise or soften or conceal his opin-""
ions. His Republican enemies beat him. The
nomination of Mr. Hughes was one of expedi
ency only. He was a union candidate simply
because his opinions were unknown and; he
had been immured for six years from the quar
rels of the factions. He was taken not because
he was wanted, but because the semblance of
party harmony might be created by his nom
ination, consented to by Mr. Roosevelt not
from love of Mr. Hughes but from a curious
hatred of Mr. Wilson. ;V
"A dangerous precedent was made by . this
immixture of the Supreme Court in political
ambitions. But everybody thought well of, -Mr.
Hughes as a Judge. As a candidate fo.
President Tie has steadily .. ami armazingly.dis- r -appointed
his party and the public. The mes"
sage of acceptance to Chicago seemed tdf cbn.
tain the promise of courage and vigor. Thfe
notification speech did not keep the promise.
Vague, uncertain, discursive, it fell flat. The
declaration the next day in favor of woman;
suffrage by Federal amendment was another
disappointment. It had the appearance of "a.
haphazard bid for the woman vote in suffrage
states. It led to grave questionings of Mr. "
Iughes's political judgment, of his regard for '
the Constitution. It could not but be inter
preted by many as an act of expediency,- a
ruse of politics. That interpretation may be
unjust, but it has been corroborated by Mr.
Hughes's course throughout the, campaign.
What impression of strong conviction, of orig
inal thought, of positive policies, and of supr
crior fitness for the Presidency have - his
speeches made?
"In his first campaign tour, his devotion to
immaterial and trivial criticisms of Mr.. Wil
son chilled his audiences. If he has since dis
played more physical and vocal vigor, the illus
ion of a real intellectual grasp of .affairs Jias
still been wanting. Why should the people
turn out Mr. Wilson? Why should they pre
fer Republican promises to memorable Demo
cratic performances? Their paths drop fat-'
ness. Abroad the President has maintained
honorable peace and Arnerican rights.. TfTe
statute books have been enriched with.bene
ficcnt acts. National self-defense, financial,
military and naval, industrial,has been pro
vided for. What weighty reasons can be ad
duced for preferring a novice to an experienced
man?
"We believe Mr. Hughes to be of perfectly
straightforward and sincere charcter. Is it the
unfortunate exigency of his party, which has
no ground for asking to be restored to power
but its hunger and thirst for office, that makes
him resort continually to circumlocutions? .1. .
"Mayor Magee, of -Pittsburgh, had a lovejyi
euphemism for the panic of 1907, which the
powers of malignity permitted to happeh un
der a protective tariff. He called it "semi
prosperity." Mr. Hughes exhortations on the
tariff fall on deaf ears, but it is a time-honored
Republican issue, too old to work. His Re
publican Cabinet of 'the ablest men in th
country,' his Republican 'efficiency,' Republi-
can 'economy,' and so on, belong with thS
tariff. He is the ancient standpatter. He
might have run fairly well in 1892.
"A noble series of Democratic achievements
is before the eye. The voters arc asked to
repudiate them for a series of 'ifs. They are
asked to give up the certain for the unknown.
They arc asked to prefer Charles E. Hughes
to Woodrow Wilson. A comparison of the
intellectual power, the familiarity with nation
al and international affairs, the experience of
the two, the 'firmness,' is a sufficient answer."
Colonel Osborn In Town.
Colonel W. H. Osborn, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, came to town to vote and look
over the old scenes. Colonel Osborn is the
one man in the administration who has done
something worth while. He has saved the
country millions of dollars; he has shown that
graft doesn't necessarily have a foothold. He
has been Wilson's biggest asset as the history
of the party is written.