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DID THEY E?yan sees light THe Buncombe Scandal Shocks State. HE ABOVE heading is properly employed. That is what it has reached the Buncombe scan dal. It now. appears that in "Buncombe coun ty the Land of the -: Sky. the beautiful moun tains' to the 'west rup where the Rambler RinVrs m ' the Ashe vilte Times and where the Mount Mitchell climbs nearer the skies than all others of the majestic hills, that votes were sold; on election , day at pTices ranging irom $1.50 to-$$. Just .what difference there is in a one fifty vote; and an eight dollar vote wc are not informed, but Solicitor Swain finds that, these "prices obtained on election day. Also it is said that guarantees of offices were givea- that some men were offered positions running ns high at ten thousand likely plunks a year just for their "flobence" and altogether the sorry mess approximates a scandal. Just how far the probe will go is problemat ical. Just who sold their votes has not yet been determined and the names of the purchas ers: are. for the present withheld. But any way yp l6ok at it.it appears that our election laws are yet violated; that good citizens when they get into politics, stop at nothing; that to secure thetnajority is the bioomin' Paramount on parade-rand perhaps, both parties are guilty. . Qf -course it could not be done, but it strikes wtha.t the cleanest and best way out of the Tenth . district muddle would be to show that there, had been no election held and call a spe cial election to elect a Congressman from that disixia.T think,they.are. zcleiPrrthevRrittt people think the same coTT cei'ning. themselves, and the whole mess is sory and dirty; and shameful. "" ' ' ; o . " ' . " ., ;; ; '-:' HU Record Great. - The. National Grange at its annual meeting passed strong resolutions thanking Colonel W. H. Osborn, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, for enforcing the oleomargarine laws. This is highly complimentary. When Colonel Osborn took hold he found that these artificial butter makers had for years been open'y violating the laws. : He got busy. He not only collect ed millions of back taxes but he prosecuted and heavily fined many of the guilty ones ; some were sent to jail and some to the peni tentiary and perhaps the illicit traffic is now -broken. 'v 'i''.: '; But it is gratifying to us to know that the Colonel has made gppd : in every way. The chances are that he will soon surrender his position that he will return co h:s. home town to live; because he is, weary of well doing. He has saved the ; goyernment millions: of dollars and its gratimde is in paying a salary on which no man in that position can, live. Colonel Os born has certainly won lasting fame, and when he romps home he can have the satisfaction of knowing that he, filled the place better than it has ever been hlled oetore ana inai is wu iu more than all the salaries with work half done. YV hut exoress the opinion of all our peo ple when we say that Grepnsboro is. proud of Colonel Osbprn, lie made, good. " . ... " o . '"' Delivex-Us From Our; Friends. Tt has hftpn hppn accented as a fact that often well intentioned friends spill the beans. And thpre ;s accumulative evidence that the special train of the rich women who journeyed across me conunem lo wnoup h m iyi uu6w him' thousands of - votes. As the fog lifts and ivp r h"r email . nliiralitv Wilson received in California it is apparent that the. rich woman's snccial cn;t him the nresidencv. There were many, causes: in California, but had . just one uccn tuminaieu nc vvuum navi vaim-u QfatA Qr liorl Kp wnmpti rpmained at home. U 11. fc S ilUVl. 111V v .T" . "".T : ' as they should have done, or, had they gone in calico and gingham ana iooKea nxe wa&n- wnmpn h tirniilH have carried California. The ranch woman of the west who goes out in the fields and orchards ; who curry s tle mules and who ride hare hack to town : who does her own wahino- nn1 who works earlv and late. naturally doesn't want a car load of New York's best ernwned ladies cominer out her way in tell hor Wha'f frt'rtn - And if the. aforesaid ranch woman imagines that those richly dress- pH nrtA arrxrAa-roA rlompc nr ?1lt-erPtPt1 111 the election of a certain candidate. better look out. she isn t jealous she isn t envious dux s.hp hue- o 'Uol Vio-f if tViAv will attpnrl to their own business she will attend to hers. And so runs the world away. '. -n : .. That VVaqhinirtnti man wlin tnnt his life bv drinking concentrated lye might have died a bit easier death had he struck a blind tiger and asked for some likker. North Carolina 7, Virginia b. Well, that's nothing to brag : ofj becau it shoye4. Virginia. wasn't n1iir!n ." " ' " ' SUBSCRIPTION A YI5AB. iTBfQH CCP , C Tft Says Suffrage arid, Prohibition Are The Issues,, r " N his talk at Raleigh Mr. Bryan J " declared that woman uffrage and prohibition were both growing, and in this proposition we guess all arc agreed. The woman suffrage question has grown more rapidly than pro hibition. And a strange.; thing. In the old days the main plea of wpmen was that if they could but secure the ballot they would, with one fell swoop, wipe whiskey off the map. And it' looks now as though national prohibition and national woman suffrage would both come in at the . same time. Of course the claim of the women was not valid, because in California, where women vote pro hibition wras this year defeated. Out there they made a great fight. The prohibitionists spent time and money -did about all that could be doiie, and yet the liquor, interests won. ' In Oregon, in Washington, in Arizona and Colo rado where women vote prohibition has triumphed, but the credit is not due to women any more than the prohibition in North Caro lina is due to women. The woman's influence to a certain degree is always back of it but the woman's vote didn t seem to make much "difference. -; Mr. Bryan declared to his Raleigh audience that prohibition and woman suffrage were the two really great questions before the country. He finds them growing; he hnds'new recruits to the causes every day, and the chances are that he will live to see both of the questions settled by the government adopting what each petitioner wants". Mr; Bryan, also claimed that the fight against trusts had been won, but we fail to see what good it did if it has been won. Prices were never higher the poor man is no better off than he was when the great trusts were flour ishing. In fact the poor man isn t standing the show he used to stand. 1 here is much pros perity on just now but in all candor there is no dinerence today in. tne Dig Dusiness worm than when trusts so-called flourished. Maybe individuals are not reaping a great harvest- but they seem to be. And each subsidiary com pany of the trusts which was forced to sever its relations with the parent concern seems to be doing better than ever before. Steel stock is higher ; Standard Oil is higher every thing that was a trust is doing a Digger Dusiness, making more money and selling its stock at a hierher hgure than under tne old regime, ine question therefore comes to the top and will not down : Were the trusts such vicious or ganizations as politicians pictured? We do not think they were. ; o It Opens. The broad vista, it opens! The News and Observer is recovering from the, election and getting over the Tenth district excitement, and finds time to write an editorial headed: "Money In Bees." That is the stuph. To sret away from politics and charges of corrup tion and the high price of eggs and the carnage of the European war and sit down and write that there is money in bees. Money in bees cert ! mere has always been money in bpes, and if we all could, buy a bee hive and live on honey celestial tood- ambrosia corn bread and sow bosom now soaring upward could keep on soaring. Money in bees and bpys p:g clubs, up- portunity knocks but onc answer the door bell, quick! . : o . Now And Then. Now and then we like to write about the Mexican "situation." We have been writing about it. for forty years. , It , is just;, about the samel Some of our troops, are being with drawn from the border. Each, day there is startling news of what. Carranza or yilla may be doing, lhe same old tuinoiLis op. isevpiu- tion is still there, and nothing has been accom plished. Years, ago. way back in forty when our soldiers were in the "Mexican war" it was thought something woulc happen. But the his tory of those days reads just like the history of these days, vye only write apout tne Mexican situation every two weeks, tt is a delightful pasttime. It is .the same old story and there fore easy writing. -o ' " ' -. ; "Them Elks," The Elks will give their, big minstrel show two nierhts of-real fun and enjoyment, and. it: goes without saying. that Greensboro will turn out and laugn. ine r.iKs never, uo. anj -thine bv halves. It is always the whole chees.e, and inasmuch as they have before entertained Greensboro audiences in a similar . way, the house should be, and perhaps will be packed. With cbal advancing in price it looks like the Giver of All GoodjCyas taking a hand and trivinjr us a few davs of -weather which makes I'us forget all libout the coal, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. HON. JAMES J. BRITT '4 4s 1 - s r : . : a ..:xz.::. yHE most talked about man in North Caro 1 lina since the" election is .Congressman J. I. Britt, of the Tenth district; who is contesting the claims of Mr. Weaver, democrat, and wno won a partial victory, in Raleigh this week when Judge Bond ruled to continue the injunc tion ordered by Tudge Frank Carter, at Salis bury, restraining the canvassing board from issuing to Weaver his certificate of election. What It Means. Primarily the banker is out fur business for his own profit. That is what most men engag ed in business are out for but the banker, in many ways is a public benefactor. He is there with the kale seed when you need money and he is there to help you husband your your money to save it and cause you to get some, real and lastmg Denenc irom u. i aKc here in Greensboro as an illustration and our banks have started novel savings schemes which have done wonders. Not the regular old fashioned savings banks which they conduct- but a special stunt called by different names, and thousands joined these clubs and the result is this year that considerably over a hundred thousand dollars ?of special savings will be dis tributed thismdntS" to -several thousand, peo ple who other wise would not have saved a red dime. " . The idea of these novel clubs was populariz ed and hundreds of people who had never thought of starting a savings account were at tracted and the consequence is that the rule tide days finds them with quite a little bunch of money that in no other way would they have had. Over a hundred thousand dollars of dimes and nickels placed in the bank and to be distributed means a great deal. And what is best about these savings clubs those who were saving for Christmas do not rush out, because it is Christmas, and because they have the money, and spend it all. Many of them have seen a new vision. They see that by saving a little each week; by putting it in the bank and waiting until Christmas it means a start in the world it means capital. It has shown them that it doesn t take long to get together a few hundred dollars more money than they had dreamed of having so sopn so they leave it ; they let it draw interest and they dream about how much larger it will be by next Christmas. Then they see they have enough to buy a piece of ground pay part down and maybe build a home. It is the start. The start is alwavs hardest. That is why we make bold to say that bank ers are real'y benefactors. They help commun ities and they help individuals. Were it not for these savings clubs those who today have fifty and twenty-five and a hundred dollars in the bank. would not have a copper. lhey would have spent the small change for soft drinks. and other things not particularly wprth while or at least not necessary, and unristmas would have found them empty handed. The savings clubs are a good thing, ine savings .account, is a good thing. The bank account" is a good thing because all these things save. your money .ior you. n you nave ten. uuuars in your pocket it is very easy for it to gctaway; .because you have" the money .at hand. But if it is in an open account in the banH you explain to yourself that you "have no change" and you guess you will pass up some contemplated pur chase because you da not want to write a check. A check" is a good.name forit because it is a check, often, on your extravagance, al though you do not . use . it. , We are glad the Greensboro, bankers are progressive, enough to maintain these clubs. Of course as we said in. the beginning the banker does this as part of his business system he makes spmc money out of it but he makes mdney for you and that is why we repeat that he is a benefactor: . The, Great Commoner, It mu.st.be pleasing to Mr. Bryan to know, that notwithstanding. the fact he is forever out of. politics, says so, and means it he is always shown distinguished consideration by his fel low citizens. He is. easily the First Citizen of the land a great Commoner, indeed, and has scores of friends in every town and city in the United.. States real, genuine .' friends-r-and what greater distinction could a man haver:-, even were he asking? . . ON SALE AT THE NEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS IS A COUNTY AFFAIR Sanatorium Urged For Care Of Tuberculosis. QOKS like there is no doubt about there being in this county an almost unanimous desire on the part of the citizens to build a county sauitorium for the treatment of tuberculosis vic tims. The physicians point out that this disease is on the in crease and that at a sanitarium is the only way to properly treat many of the cases. We hope that if it is built it will be built large enough to take care of all who arc un fortunate enough to need special attention. As we have often insisted more men die when they are sent far from home than ever recover. The distance and the worry and the despondency which" follows from being ampng" strangers hastens death. If each county, had a place to care for the unfortunates many more would recover. Taken in time, and with proper treat ment, tuberculosis is not half as bad as roman cers have made it seem. The fool who named it the "great white plague" perhaps is guilty of taking ten thousand lives. The disease can be conquored. Indeed, one Greensboro phy sician boldly asserts that perhaps ninety per cent of all our people have at some lime or other ill their lives had tuberculosis. This be ing true, it shows that it can be overcome. All there is of . tuberculosis is the ascendancy of the germ and proper food, proper exercise, the right way of living gives nature a chance to repel or. subdue this particular germ, and he rides ph his raid no more. We hope our legislators will sec to it that the county is authorized to issue bonds to build a sanatorium worth while. The progressive citizens and nine-tenths of the tax payers will vote fpf such .bonds' if the question "is fully explaineif tjr'them.J The county should "do this: It is not for individuals to do the whole pcor pie are interested, and vitally interested, in eradicating as far as possible the one disease which seems to fill with dread the unfortunate victim of it. Soup? For many years, Horatio, as long as yc can remember the first question that was asked at the American plan hotel by the waiter was "Soup?" And so it appears. that yesterday all over this favored land where the sun was shining bright, the Salvation Army at its dinncVs serv ed soup instead of turkey, it being understood that that organization had boycotted turkey and eggs because of the high prices obtaining. Therefore when the question was fairly put to the thousands partaking of their dinners it was answered "yes" because apart from a few vegetables that was all that was served. Brave men die on the battle field but braver men yesterday took soup instead of turkpy. Imagine a Thanksgiving Dinner of a public na ture without at least a little of the breast or a little of the dark meat of the Great American Bird. Impossible. o Not This Year. Not this year, and perhaps not next, but it is a safe bet that Uncle Sam will own the rail ways before Wilson's next term expires. That is what all this investigation; all these thicat ened strikes ; all this noise is leading to. Well, it will be indeed a sorry day for this country but perhaps there will be sorrier days from other causes. We are running sjxty-fivc, miles and hour and we're going to skid or hit a tele graph pole pretty soon. Just a matter of time. The whole nation is drunk with prosperity with big business deals and a thousand things so high up in the air that we must come down. And when we come it will be with a dull, sick ening thud. If it should happen that the adoption of the amendments" plays smash with our park and play ground programme then what will the boosters of the amendments have to say about it? And those who are lawyers say it will do that very thing; . . o In Cultured Boston. In one of his bursts of eloquence, in Boston on sunaay, amy runaay in paying nis double breasted respects to Sir John Barleycorn said he would fight "Ruqi till hell froze over" and then he would buy a pair of skates. Perhaps that didn't shock the cultured hub of the uni- . verse. It is an old saying as old as the hands that pen these lines. As a boy wc heard it; as a man we have perhaps repeated, it concern- ing some o.tner tmngs, ano tor uiuy to spring such a chestnut, carrying its profanity and force ont a Boston audience well, wasn't John L. Sullivan a respected aiid honored citizen of the Hub? To be sure he was. The Elks will make the . whole -town, laugh when they pqU that mlnstrel j4kv. Just a few more days noAy 'and-it will be here.. ' We are speaking of Christmas ESTABLISHED MA Yv xtoa. ; HE LIVES ON NUTS But The Farmgr Cashes In For Him, HY THE high cost of living? No one knows. There is no way to solve the problem. For instance, it came our way the other' day to purchase of a grocer man two young squirv rcls. 1 hey . looked ap petizing looked like sl little change, from gutta pcrcha beef to- something right from the woods would taste pretty good and the little squirrels cost twenty cents each. Time was, Augustus, when "we could buy squirrel as big as a chimpanzee for.:. ten cents -and fifteen cents would have been the limit. These squirrels were not stall fed. It cost the man who sold them nothing because he killed them for sport. Perhaps a charge j of powder but that was all. Why should a squirrel advance in price? Simply because the man who had him for sale to a hungry world made a demand the demand was granted. The farmer brings his eggs to town and the yef age farm hen costs no more to keep today than a year ago because she does her own chores and has no help to pay. And. yet the farmer man has an eye on the market page, and he knows just about what will happen. He under stands that the price is a certain figure and the certain figure comes. Somewhere, perhaps in this favored land where the sun is shining bright a cold storage man holds forth and he has locked, up a million 'ggs in order to keep a scarcity of them, lhis trives.the iarmer man a chance to unload and the fellow who toils wants eggs and he days down the price- and then -cusses if heisaJTUSn 'man. -JThe - high cost is our own fault cut ouff. these.; - things and let it go at that. . ' Y . : " -' . it - The Shop Windows. trifle early yet, and still the merchant Js putting in his Christmas, windows. We note that several have decoratcd-placed their tin- el and their evergreens and their cotton to imitate snow in the windows and. the boys and girls and the old folk too are peeping in. They arc looking it over. They arc dreaming abput their gifts. In about a week, perhaps ten days, and the city will have the holiday spirit permeating it. The Salvation Army is already out with its iron pot and the sigKto drop in your coin. The old man stands with his bell calling your attention to his enterprise. But dollars are not yet dropping. But they will. Tt takes a little more Christmas hi bur bpnps than the first few. days of December bring to get the action. But about five days before the Great Day and then we all feel it. It is there and you can't get rid of it. The old wallet which has long been tied tight is opened and a few coins are shelled out in gladness. Great -institution is this-day-we all celebrate and feel the spirit of the celebration. But a trifle early yet. Yet Christmas is coming! t . o ' Hogging The Game. Mr. Reid, the Associated Press man in charge of the leased wire in The Record of fice tells us that yesterday he, save one other lone operator at Richmond, was the only man who remained at the key after twelve o'clock. All the other afternoon newspapers went to press at twelve o'clock and let the force. eat turkey while it was hot. - Perhaps The Record should have done the same perhaps it hogged the game by. staying with it until the regular hour, bur we had just read a Bulletin from the North Carolina State Board of Health stating that cold turkey was better for the health than hot turkey so, 'in order to conserve health and do what 'we thought was right we gave the usual paper. And then there was another reason. Yester day's Thanksgiving Day was the first time in the history of the paper twenty-six years that it had furnished its subscribers a paper oii Turkey Day. Therefore we concluded if a thing was worth doing it was worth doing well and wc did it. ' If however we over-stepped the bounds of propriety we ask to be excused and promise that wc will never do it again until next Thanksgiving. -: o - Mr. Wax.' ' It seems that MrWax. arrested in Chicago, and who confesses that hp is the man v,'hp im personated Attorney Osborne, wants tp dp the square thing. There Were few people who thought Osborne guilty of the charges when the trial was on, and now that Ir Wax volun tarily confesses well, that ought to settle it. Except insofar as Mr. Wax is concerned. -n Trjp News and Observer things Tejjdy will be the nominee in 1920, Wc dq noj :.kqov just how long it takes for decomposition to "set in." but as we understand it a-corpse i pretty well "all in in four years. - - 188P i m. mm mm i. m t
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