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r 1 i ill AGCTWO biOy Eighty-Four YearV Ago.' :?!y!';;y.Vmt't the MattprVith Charldtte? iT theseldavs of amck transportation by Wd and sea, when every other man owns anvNorth Carolina, has gotten the municipal gov . . , ' . . u t nf : !' ernment science down to a fine point when the automobile and the fellow who hasn t one of council can mect once a month, is it? his own rides in his neighbor's : when all the . . ' trnrt all th hnsiness cominp- hofnre - luxuries of our modern life are provided on the splendid pullman trains that cross the con tinent in less than five days; when a net work of .trolley lines makes of the populous centers one big community, and when every country town has its electric stree! cars and facilities inr npiirhhorlv relations with the outside world. rv - j . ------ it is hard to realize that only eighty-four years ago the experiment of laying a railroad track on the streets ot a city was attempted in America. ".' ".W; A, man living at Summit, X. J.. has brought to light from his collection of treasured relics a copy of the New: York Courier and hnquirer containing- a full and detailed account ot i nc first trip made on the Harlem railroad over the ' mile of single track that had been completed f n , -i . i : . 17.-....- trom rrince street along .tne iowei ij um teenth street. In the light of what is going on today, and by' way of comparison, the report, from which the following is taken, ist $o inter esting as to make pleasant reading : f ' The Harlem Railroad Comfany with the Mayor. Corporation and strangers of dis tinction left the City Hall in carriages to the place of depot near Union Square where two splendid cars made by Milne Parker, each with two horses, were in waiting. These cars are made low with broad iron wheels which fit the flanges of the railroad after an improved model from . the Liverpool and Manchester cars. They . resemble an omnibus, or rather several ;; Omnibuses attached to each other, padded " with fine cloth and handsome glass win dows, each capable of containing, outside r and inside, fully forty passengers. The coni pany was soon seated and the horses trotted off 'in handsome style with great case at the rate of about twelve miles an hour, followed by a number of private barouches'and horsemen. Groups of spec tators greeted the passengers of the cars with shouts and every window in the Bow- ' cry was filled. - The distance was not far from the old residence or farm of Governor Stuyvesant and could our worthy Dutch ancestors, kip Van Dam and others, have beheld what was formerly their cow path, cover ed with iron railways on which elegant . carriages were rapidly moving, they would have imagined that witches and warlocks had been at work, and spooks had whisked their old habitations in the region of fancy. TKose who made. violent objections to lay ing down these tracks, and fancied a thousand dangers to the passing travellers, now look at the work with pleasure and surprise. Carriages of all kinds now cross 'ahd.recross the railway without impedi , ment ; and there exists not a single objoction , to bringing it down to the Park or Bowl ing. Green, except the temporary incon venience of breaking the paving and lay- ing down the stone abutment. The com fort and convenience of this railroad to our fttizehs will be"inc6nceivable. Instead of being cramped and confined to a single lot of ground and close atmosphere in the city, an . acre or two will be purchased and "a comfortable, house built at a reduced ex v pease, a garden, orchard, dairy, and other conveniences follow ; and the train of rail road carriages wilt start from Trinity Church and convey passengers to Harlem and. the intermediate stopping places with as much facility and ese as thev are now conveyed to Greenwich VillageThese are a few of the advantages which this small undertaking promises ; and in fact it will make Harlem the suburbs of New York. For fishing excursions to Harlem River and pleasant summer rides, it is presumed the cars will be kept in constant motion. In those days as in these, it .'will be observed there was the doubting Thomas the kicker! the man who didn't want the streets torn up the men who thought the old wav was good nough, and the man opposed to progress on general principles. But the man with a vision was there he saw things and he convinced others. The track was laid, the idea worked out, the experiment was vntoH a ti,rrMC And todav? Wr-ll trt,K- iuV i oaks from little acorns n-rnw b O ';: .-. . ; o ' wn Urge Sanitorium. Promoters of a tuberculosis sanitorium for Guilford county are planning to go before the board of county commissioners Monday with definite plans Jor the construction and main tenance ot the proposed institution and attempt to show wherein our people are neglecting their duty in failing to make provision-for the class of tuntortunates which has created the urgent demand. ; The committee appearing before the board will.be one ot the strongest ever presenting similar petition, the idea being to have twS representatives for every voting precinct in together with large": delegations i Gsro, High Point, Jamestown Guilford College, and wherever there is or- I md effort ot any kind for community bet- terment. The sanitorium will be urged not as a matter of charity or sentiment, buZ S more practical grounds of proiitable invest- : ment and self-protection. This not to suggest ' bi f.n' "jeans, that our people are lacking in i .ntitneiit or sympathy for the afflicted ut merely that lt is to be worked out as a business ! 1 reposition in which the whole county wfll ' S'tSa Guihord and every other county m S Carolina should be nmnnri 4 ' m Aorth , against this dangerous emS K be supported by lllX !? 1 bv; a tew public spirited Ldua , r 1 o- And It Didn t Snow. had honorl fi-r';., 'ii:ili . Many r siii'iiT rriiil.- ; Tl,,i 1 ine rain for this K1 x, .. . . - . a not what was vc ;,re thankful that it we wanted. And was no worse. M ft Am- W The city .Charlotte the tTiat miP-nst hoHv in thirtv-five minutes bv the e " j j -. , J ; clock. Following is a report ot tne last meet i ing, as given in the Charlotte Observer: Exactly 35 minutes was the time taken by the executive board for transaction of all the city's business Thursday afternoon, , timed by a clock at the city hall. During" that short space of time very few matters cam ebefore the body and nothing of an Important nature was attended to. Following the reading and adoption of -the minutes of the previous meeting May or Kirkpatrick read a request in which he stated that $5.50 had been expended in dec orating the city hall on Wilson day, asking t hat the money be refunded him. The board unanimously voted to refund the money. The only stage of the 35-minute meeting which took on a interesting angle was when a request was ready frotn R. D. Cra ver. chairman of the Charlotte committee which is in charge of entertaining the ap proaching convention of the North Caro lina Motion Picture Exhibitors League, that he be leased the auditorium the night of December 19. After the request had been read, Com missioner W. F. Elliott rose and stated that he did not know whetler the audi torium should be rented to the convention or not. , . ' When asked why. Commissioner Elliott stated that in view of the fact that it was to be used for a big ball the plans might con flict with the recent "Stewart law." There was a laugh and then the boards voted to rent the building to the motion picture exhibitors. And we are moved to enquire, what's the matter with Charlotte? How does it happen that in a great and growing city dealing with all the problems of our complex modern life, during the period of an entire month there could be no question of sufficient importance to be acted upon by this official bodv bevond parsing upon a $5.50 bill for money advanced by the ma-or and a resolution to rent a public hall for a motion picture exhibit. Seems to us that the city is either standing still or is being operated by a city manager and doesn't know Take it here in Cireensboro, where our com missioners meet every day, and it is hard to limit the sessions to the time aliofed for dis cussion of public questions. There is alwavs a demand here and a suggestion there, and enough public interest to call for a dailv report in the newspapers. It is to provide for such demands and to consider such suggestions that we have commissioners, and why shouldn't they be made to earn their salaries? That is the way the taxpayer looks at it and he feels that, inasmuch as he is paying the bills, he has a right to say what disposition is to be made of his property. But Charlotte appears to have solved all her problems and presents to the world the finished product in town building. Wonder what has become of Booster Kuester? '" o ". -; ''-. Object Lesson in Government. As an object lesson in the workings of the initiative and referendum the State Journal cites the recent case in this state of the con stitutional amendments. The point is well taken when it says: Those who consider the initiative ami -.WV...UUIU UI great value as an aid to government would do well to consider the history of the constitutional amendments recently adopted. Here were .several very important changes in the law which had to be relerred to the people. Two vears ago they were submitted and the people voted them down by a substantial major ity, not because there was anv real objec tion to them, but because thev" did not take the trouble to understand their purpose and effect. They have just been submitted a second time and adopted bv a good ma jority but a strikingly light' vote. This light vote means that the people do not want to be troubled with such matters even when they are of verv great im portance in the government of the state 1 nevdp not want to be troubled with such questions because their time and thoughts are taken up with their private affairs If the people will not take advantage of the i tierenaum in a matter nf iKic L-;. 1 can they be expected to do so if many less important and complicated suM far ects v. ouuuiuitii 10 inem . People insist on considering the elective franchise as a privilege, and thev seem to think that the electors are eagef 1 v await ing - that privilege : but such is not the case as the history of our constitutional amend ment shows. exeLtVJher-0,"13 llCni aPI'r"ie and exercise the privilege is to build up two strong parses so evenly matched thar bolh mei?and heCcVn,PCl,d t0 PUt men and the citizen who is reallv interested 5n seeing his side win will see the neciu-of do mg his duty as a voter. The wav it the solid South there is little incentive to vo to any great trouble to express a choice The SScSS & ?ftgs but not direcv Sf r f S ,that the Party majority Wvvt. a -publlc'an u Z , 1 therc is no chance for him s what s the use to waste time on a forrn hop? . In the great turbulent and progressive W ' mto the campa.gn and the people respond -o- Jack London. . The death of Jack London, war corresoonrl P 7lt. -d withal a literary git leases a hole m the world of letters "that vM be felt around the world. tUat U,M lar-L- t ,-..1,. . . men are who have sn, U :j V ma,s' as a" Luiiuun was a 0-r ,-.f . .m 1 , ",,7.uv'"u' nature whole world kin?" that makes "the Problem Serious. SIHAh elYpi-y to reduce'thc price of food stuffs to somctning like normal, m order tnat people of moderate means may be able to obtain the : absolute necessities of life, has been begun in I New York city by the various civic organiza ! tions co-operating with the labor unions and citizens who see in the continued upward ten dency real suffering ahead -for many honest wage earners and a class of the unemployed in danger of winding up in the bread line. In this great land of peace and plenty, wli' t-. ' UIJ" t- perity. it doesn't seem reasonable that people able and willing to work, and with plenty of have put it up to the women to assume that pleasant burden. State Commissioner Dillon, discussing his plan for a $3,000,000 terminal, wholesale foodstuffs market said: "When the people rise up in their might and demand the changes which would reduce the cost of living they can get what they want. I look to the women of this city to solve this problem. They arc beginning to be interest ed, and as soon as they fully understand the situation they will force the hand of those in authority. "At present producers haven't access to cold storage plants. They won't let them have facilities. Now, if there was a public terminal market with storage facilities, producers could store foodstuffs when things were cheap. What do you suppose would happen if the State of New York had such a plant and released for saic a lot 01 eggs wnen eggs were nign ana 1 11 . t 'lit 7 ..vu,hh, .v, were beimr he d bv soeculators for still hnrher , ,7. " ,, . ..." prices? Prices would comedown rijiht away and speculators would have to be satisfied with fair, instead of exorbitant prices. And the consumer would get the benefit." It is planned to organize a demonstration of 50,000 housewives to present to Mayor Mitchcl a protest against high food prices. Unions in . . t .-y- ... other cities are getting ready to send delega- lions o ashington to make a demand upon President Wilson for a Government investiira- tioiv of conditions and to pave the way for remedial legislation. All labor unions in the country are being asked to indorse the action of the American Federation of Labor's executive committee in calling upon the President to order such an inquiry. United States Attorney Marshall admitted that the' local Department of Justice is investi gating the rise in food prices. If enough evi dence is gathered to justify an investigation, Mr. Marshall says,; .Washington will decide which district in the country is to undertake the burden of an omnibus proceeding instead of allowing the various districts to carry on disjointed actions on their own hooks. ; . ; o ; ; ;-. The Pity Of It. The other day on the train we saw a man making a melancholy journey to Arizona go ing there to get .well, he said. He had with him some Doodle Bugs, no doubt & that.and he told us his tale of wie. "A feiiow feeling always makes us wondrous kind, therefore we were confidential. He carried a thermometor which he was continually putting in his mouth : he had a half dozen ex-ray photographs of his left lung; he had a jug or two of different kinds of dope emulsions and cod liver oil and the Lord knows what. He was well along. The bugs had made deep inroads in his path, and it was plain to be . .oM us ,.,e doctor advised him ,o go. He had i left a wife and three children hnrf nmrtrrrr.. v.i . iwui iiv uuuui umie nome in a dox. lie left a wife and three children had mortgaged jus nome 10 get enough ready cash for the journey and the sojourn and thus he went alone to die. And he was told bv the doctor that when he arrived he must not'worrv. And that is what makes us tired. How can a man who leaves all his friends and goes to a strange country to be separated from all the money he has in the world with death staring him in the face do anything but v.-orry? Why send him from his loved ones when ihe story is that two-thirds of them never come back and none of those in the last stages have a chance? ' T rue many physicians now have awakened to the fact that climate has nothing to do with it; many have found that the light kind of treatment. at.home is far better than the same treatment away from home. But not all. There is still a melancholv journev going to the southwest for treatment and that countrv is nothing m God's world but a clearing house for the cemetery. Naturally we' did not take from our new made friend the hope that seemed to be his wegave htm what information we had on the subject and the section into which he was -o-mg and when we shook his hand and said good bye--we saw the grafters clown there plucking him and saw the box on its homeward jour ney. The doctors should not send such men into strange lands. . o- To Avoid The Rush. The postmaster general sends word to all good people to do their Christmas mailing early. It used to be urged to do your shop ping, but now Uncle Sam comes in and wants all patrons to send their packages as long be fore Christmas as possible. But it will not do much good. The man who receives a Christ mas package two or three weeks before Christ mas doesn't get the thrill that's coming to him. And the one sending the gift generally tries to time it in order to get it there the dav before Christmas. What Uncle Sam should' do, but he doesn t. because tlmr. nr,i ImIC;,.AcL- ...ti. , . . . " .. v. tiw uuouivoo 1 1 1 V. ill ods 111 his work, is to anticipate the rush and put on extra men and extra cars like private individuals would do, and take care of the traf hc the day it comes, no matter how much it may be. And another thing the post-master general suggests which would be a contradiction of hu man nature is to send the package a couple of weeks in advance and write on it "not to be opened until Christmas." Imagine a woman getting a package two weeks before Christmas and , telling her not to open it until the glad day. Why if she didn't open it the minute she recetved it she couldn't sleep a wink. The Xew York' Sun does not think much of the methods adopted for testing the constitu tionality! of .the'-Adamsdir eight' hour law. Jt; savs : ' 114 A mmmmmmm w tr mm, m m -m -m mr - - - conspicuously violated in the disposition of the litigation instituted in the West to test the ... constutionality of the Adamson eight hour la- bor law. "In the first place, the judgment is only a pro forma decision. It is not the outcome of . x : careful In the careful and deliberate judicial consideration, t.:.,i....: V . :."f" III c " ,un uwiiiu iu s'-'- "'-'V-, "F Court at Washington as speedily as possible. "The motived the Attorney-General is natural, but it has carried him too far wnen he insists upon a decision in the court of first in- stance which is only a decision in form. It has heretofore been an nvariable rule in appellate courts that they will review only actual dc- terminations of the courts below, not fictitious judgments rendered solely to expedite appeals. 1 his rule is based upon substantial grounds. The parties to a litigation arc entitled to the carefully considered judgment of the trial court, not merely to a guess, as in the present case whether, an act of Congress is constitu- tional or not. Furthermore, the appellate tri- bunal in all matters of grave import is entitled to the aid and advice which may be furnished by an opinion from the court oelow. Here, ". vv. axv me uupieteuenicu spectacle . nf a F.-rlrT-i lm r,. mnf omn e r- nowever wc have the uirprecedentcu spectacle j " f." "v'"w" "l v,wu- - irress as unconstitutional wt;vt tli;nn- grcss as unconstitutional without telling the reason why! at any price. "In the second place, if a sta.ute is suscepti- j "The present situation may be, and unoues blc of any reasonable construction which will tionably is, far from satisfactory, so far as con uphold its validity it is the duty of the courts ccrns the consumers, but to attempt to rclievr thus to construe it. Admitting that it is im- it by the imposition of an embargo would be x KV.k..L mm a ui uie eigm nour law oy the Supreme Court should be expedited, and . therefore that a speed y decision in the District Court was desirable, the District Judge, if lie i" j"'"!' i I.WIH.IUMIIU, miouiu nave acted upon the presumption In favor of the constitu tionality of the law and pronounced it valid. "The methods adopted in getting the courts to pass upon the Adamson law j.re almost as bad as the methods used to compel Congress to pass it. We shall be surprised if they re ceive the approval of the Supreme Court of the United States."' -o- No Cause to Kick. Colonel Bob 'Gray, of the Raleigh Times, "calls" the sporting editor of the Richmond Journal who tried to say something mean about the Tar Heel boys but who appears to have been knocked out "in a collision with Mr. Syntax. This is the story : "Says the Richmond "journal or. rather, some very young man writing on its sporting lf they (meaniiiir the I'nivcrsitv of Vnrth Carol.inn.))van'dthouUtle m(iBey.Rieh-!... mond has nut un for veN tn dJv litv of football l?irlr,,i luuiuuii. ivicnmotK run rr-r. tainly do without the game. . . Virginia, as far as the football struggles have gone has more than done its share to make things interesting, but Carolina's misera bly weak elevens for years has made the contests too one-sided to be worth seeing. "There is more in the same strain." savsthe 1 lmes. "althoueh this last is th. i ', ' : :.... i... .... , , VI1" a Pluai sud in which this eagle-eyed sport expert manages ject. But. speakimr of retusc to believe that the author of these im mature remarks is familiar with the relation of Richmond to the Carolina-Virginia game. "In the first place, we have no information which leads us to believe that the universities of the two states are allowed to play in Broad street park without paying rental for the in closurc. Again, we refuse to believe that the University of North Carol away any appreciable part of the moncv which unfortunate man to prison. He simply order its followers carried to Richmond. Richmond C1 him to pay a certain sum of money to th hfnlt 1... iL . - " ! J e . 1 - piunieu u me game, so did Kichmond places ot amusement including the bars. In fact, the game meant more money to Richmond than to any other interested party. As for the fans, all admit that they did not alwavs see the class of football which North Carolina would have liked to have exhibited, but the gates opened both ways and nobody held any of the dissatisfied in the park. "Still, we have no idea that Richmond itself - - J ' - - , ... and the people thereof bear the L niversitv of .Norm Carolina any ill-will tor wanting game played now and then on liomc soil the It would seem that the ournal has recently hired a new .50 a week sport expert, who must bluster a. bit while his mustache annovs him by its failure to put in its appearance.' ; : o In The Air. we av that something is in ih.- When concerning what is to take place we suppose J .aa m m air. it is a telepathic proposition. It is related that in the years before we had telegraphic com munication great battles would be fought at long distances from certain places and the news would leak in somehow. That was wireless, the same as telepathy. It has "been in the air" for several weeks that peace across the seas is probable. Now it is being said that while Ambassador Gerard has never admitted, and diplomatically , denied that he had any message from the j kaiser, the belief will "not down but what he I has. Once at Shadow Lawn Gerard held a ; long conference with the President and anoth I er conference is booked for the near future, j Well, let us hope that what is in the air in j this regard will materialize into a fact and let Christmas witness world wide peace. That ; would be the day to fix things up. -o A Minister Replies. A Hillsboro minister takes issue with the mayor of that town regarding the effect of ! Mr. Ham's preaching on the citizens of his j community. The Record is pleased to print ' the minister's article and let those interested torra their own opinions. Suicidal ? What seems to us a sane and reasonable po sition regarding the proposed embargo on food . Muffs, 'as a means of meeting the present cri is taken by. the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, which expresses the belief that the government can not be misled into the adoption of a policv so suicidal. "It is, of course, unforunate that there aiiuuiu u.ut Dttn M4i.ii a ueavv snortatrc in tli crops of foodstuffs this year, when there is vUch an extraordinary- ilnnnnd for tU .' u. S argument is advanced that "this situation is 11V t ; to be helped by artificial attempts to rrmi-... distribution, while anv snrh ttmn.. , , undoubtedlv have the effect of dtrr :.. greater or less measure, the legitimate stimulus production next year constituted conditions." ss such an embargo as is proposed reduce trre farmers of the countrv "J uiousanas ot labor- ers dependent upon the agricultural interests from unprecedented prosperity to a condition' , of comparative penurv. The transporta o ; lines, too, and their employees would be dis- ; trouslv affected to an equal degree for noil," ' ig would move from the field of production except a sufficiency to meet the domestic ,1, mand. In fact, every industry in the countrv would be more or less paralvzed and condition , would follow approximating the business sta- , nation and bankruptcy that attended the Amor" ican embargo instituted by Mr. Jefferson a crn ! tury ago. Prices would, indeed, fall but much ; greater would be the reduction m the abilin- of the great bulk of the consuming public o buy. .Hundreds of thousands, if not millions : of people who are now finding it difficult to make income meet an increased and increasing 1 outgo; occasioned by advanced and advnnr?,, prices, would then be without cmnlovemom prices, would then be w thout cmplovement . '1 . i-'iuemcnt auu so wiuiout any income at all and coikc r..w.i. ki.. . . ' ; quentlv unable to acouirr tho n,r,.;.;c ..r 1:.- only to make a bad matter worse for the con sumers, while inflicting a heavy and stupX useless fttnint Z ux l J:T and the country as a whole." ' -o- Playing For Even. James West, the Egg King ui Chicago, not giving ..himself any concern about how iuin Miner ior iacK 01 lood. it he is corrcctlv quoted in the dispatches, of which this is "a sample : "Seventy million eggs?" he repeated, when told the New York Mercantile ex change reported he had thac many. "I have more than that. I have more than 20,000 cases of eggs in Chicago alone. And what are they going to do about it?" "Did any one accuse me of being a manipulator last year when I got stung nl finer w-itli Vw -w-f" X,.. . T would notice it. Why docs the public' set upji howl for help Jh'is year and not last? "This is the brokers vcar, and as for me, I am going- to sit tierht and watch tli. ?Kt4V,m? Up ailiVlc .Cail W.' 1 4M1U? to uaW"atd5urrfs orScdrr , ; " . . ' l hc public might just as well prepare for the highest prices we ever had. The egg crop is i,ooo cases short of last year and the demand is greater." These arc the kind of fellows the govern ment should go after and go after hard. If he lost money in his speculations las: year it was his misfortune and he was only onc'individual. easily taken care of if thrown upon the char ities of an unsympathizing worlc?. In "plaving for even" he is depriving children and invalids of the necessities of life and has no moral right to put money in his own coffers by such disre gard of the life and welfare of the million a; his mercy. : -o ' ; Some Common Sense. The young man who ran over and killed a citizen of Salisbury was found guiltv of man slaughter. In passing sentence Judge frank Carter, and a hin- TnHrr. "iuow 01 me man he killed: wav the court costs: and appear at court each session for fne years to show and prove he had drank no whiskey. It strikes us that there is seme com mon sense in this. The man who is running an automobile certainly has no malice against hi victim. It is accidental and the only reason for punishment is the fact that the man wa? drunk. So. in order tr mat-n 1 cmsxA -::, , him Judge Carter gives him a chance. The widow of the dead man gets something out of it : the state has lost no money and the mur. mut cut out his booze or go to the penite:i tiary. That is about all that Society ;ouM within reason demand. Judge Carter "may be peculiar in come things, but it looks to usfthat he carries a level head and sees things as thev should be een. - - The Epstein Trial. The sensational Epstein trial which was t have been on this week at Goldsboro, when: Hvmen Epstein is being tried Tor his life fur killing Leonard Ed wards has been postjxmcd. J hp reason is the obi One. Hard to get a jun . ' I nder our wise laws a man who has read about, a murder case or expressed an opinion without knowing the facts is not eligible to determine the case. 5 AVhat is generally wauK-d is a man who cannot read ami who's so in dilterent as to what transpires in his oui: neighborhood that he never even heard of a tragedy that shocked a whole community. Looks like intelligent men should be called to jury duty: put under oath and let the ca-e proceed. But that would not be accordirg t the so-called "science of law." In the first trial of Epstein the jurv cou'd " ....... u .VUU V.lll,V.il ' 1 "V . g"-"-' and a new trial was ordered will commence Monday. WtUCll Raleigh is ready for the North Carolina leachcrs Assembly and Raleigh cannot have anything too good for - the North Carolina teachers. -o- Keep your money at home a good .-.luaa -but it you do look not on the Christmas cata logue when it cymes ukn about now.
Everything (Greensboro, N.C.)
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