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I I : 1 1 I I . - I f . 1 I l i I J J g Si I I ; I . . f I f 1 II People Who Think ;:; . ... ?Mfrc. BV AL FAIRBROTHER 11 w n nrrrcr Early e it ; 1 H E Su prcm e Cour i o t t lie V X-ut-(l tjitcs lias allowed f hctfanjr bill to;c.; .placet! ahc;uV" of most all ti other ;iucsi inns and it will 1 1 bergucvt :oij January; .tn.;: .The law? jibes' inio ef ' fcift Janu anist, lui 1 1 ic vriUvvriv; havo aerrced to keep strict account of alt jinw earned by employes, and ti tlie bill is pronounced consti tutidfiaV to pay. them promptly when the de cision is readied. I his is sam 10 lie sausi ac tor v to the government and ro those who de niamlcd thev surrender. " . :yBut it it happens the law is said to be un coiTfeft4utipnal -what then? Tiu- strike order has never bp.cn rescinded. Tt 'stands and by a sinic ilash ev'cy railway in America can be tied up. The hope is that the law will be found to contain a ilaw. Then-the Congress can proceed, fairly and hom stly to investicrate. Pending investigation and arbitration Con gress can pass a law makin it proper for the Vlovcrnment lo run railways if a strike is put into' effect, and this would then forever settle the great problem. There will doubtless be an arbitration law passed this winter. Wilson fa vons such a law. The railways want it. and ol codrse if the employes do not want it they stand in. their own lt-"ht. The threatened strike: last Jail has . doubtless forever put an end to railway, disturbances. Laws will be passehau-iJrm-itln .ill that mav eomc-aiid Uncle Sam mUltaWcrvTctthc very men who: propose to- waTlv..out. This could not happen in apnvaiciy. " ninhnod'concern- -but as a matter of fact the Government is akcadv controlling the railways aitd has virtually controlled them ever since the formation of : the inter-state commerce commission..; All' of us want to see both em ploye and employer have a s 1 uare deal. A n 1 mostvof the men' employed by .the railways v.ant.W more. ':.n impartial and honest coni niutVc oil arbi 1 ration could '' determine, these questions;; -betU-r than the interested ones oil both sides. -. .'; Kdttor Tlritton is now receiyiiig congratulation- liecause of the success of his editorial -ablest which he pulled in Chapel Hill. Good enough he deserves them. V . ' ; ... ' ' : ;.-:' -''J' " o - : . Always Something. A Chicago man. panting as 'did Kror.tratit?, for fame, no matter how it comes, has -tarteu an efficiency contest. He wants to ascertain if middle aged men are not as active in their several lines as the younger' men. He nas started them keeping books: wiapping pack ages, doing all sorts of vari d stunts, and he is certain th.Ttthc r.nn up -to sixty-five has about as much efticicnev as the man under thirty. Possiblv so. liut he hasn't the endunmee. The grav" beard is always toid to ?tand aside when a younger man is Avilling to do the chore. The old" man may be able to keep books ; he no doubt. has more common retire developed; lie may be efficient in many ways but for en durance Youth beats Age every turn out of the box: Xo use to. talk about that. And outh 1 .,1 inwi rA rrp I nnL's down the hill. Ee- lil 11. t him are the dreams of youth it his v.ius- rs areAvhite before him are the dreams and hones. and ambitions if his moustache is just sprouting. The voting man has the old man skinned just thirty city blocks when it tomes i seeking and securing a situation. , o They have completed the lisi of casualties wherein foot ball was responsible and it naches almost a hundred. Plenty left for next year's death crop. No Surprise. It was no prtrticular surprise to learn that the iurv in the Knstein case at Goidsboro f-m::d the voun- man not trinity.- He loved a girt ne t W.'l.S-InrhuMon irninfi- nil IP Oi C Illles. 11 U .l nlno- nn Hip "! r mises. it :-w stated. The girl was a .witness for him. al though her lover shot her brother. He went courting toting a pistol. That was bad business- and of course the claim of self-defense was probably justified. The brorher saw him on the premises and naturally believed he had a right to get him off. If lie made a motion that looked to Epstein like an at tempt at vio lence, he had a gun and was looking for just ueh a thing and shot. Ij. happened in the uight. .There were doubtless two sides to the question and perhaps the jury was up in the air and couldn't conscientiously convict him. li generally takes a competent witness to con vince a juror of another person's guilt espe cially when self-defense is claimed and there are circumstances to make it look plausible. As we have said, we were not at all surprised that 1 he defendant Was found not guil i y. He should be pmched for carrying a gun on a courting ex pedition. ' 55: ri Aifjn . . Ikmm., A J A VISUM r! mmmmrsued January 3l. t li SUBSCRIPTION A XKAK, SECGUE COPY 3 CEXTS i.i.w mn izrrr&l GOING TO WAR 'Cc: The United States Will Find a Way to Avoid It. OMR news received and printed showed that another American boat had been submarined with out warning, ami perhaps ihi news will cause those w 1 u specu late on the probability .of our go ing to war with Germany to take on new colors. .The chances are that President Wilson will wait a loner time before he croe to war w tin Germany. Tlvese stories about sinking inp without'warning so far. .when fully investigat ed, do not sustain themselves, and perhaps in v this last case reported the full facts wm put a different phase on the situation. : - Germany may want to get us into -war with her. we-do not know, but it is reasonably certain ihat AVi! son's policy is to keep out ot war. ;mi lie isn't jumping at conclusions or deciarnig vai or asking Congress to declare war on the first reports. ly the time Air. Lansing gets through with lite investigation which must be full and complete the thrill is over, ami those of a sanguinary nairc are cioled oil , and t nen we wait for another submarine encounter and then' we investigate again. Off hand we do not recal 1 how many Amer loan .Vessels have bexm sunk witnout warning, according to reports, but full ami fair investi gation has proven in each case that there was wariiing ave ptr'naps the I.ttsitania disaster. Those wanting 'his country to go to war per haps voted for Teddy and Hughes. Those, de- -siring peaceAid tor AYilsou and Wilson knows it.- Of course he is not ging to allow the honor, of this nation to be sullied.. hut he "irr'rotrrg to fTiakc urfnm-of ittrnsTf. ' - A new medicine ad. reads: "How to peel off a Weatherbeaten iacel" The man win peels off his face is in hard luck, no matter how he does it. ' :;- :- . To Be Sure. '"' ; Times are pretty .gool, they ' say. and .of course when inor.ey is; plentiful' and,- labor scarce the laboring man. if organized pro often figures-on' a strike, itist now .nie thir ty thousand clothing workers, in Xew; York j - . - 1 1. : 1 jiropose to go on a strike.-, t ney warn two uoi lars a week more wages and a- reduction of hours. The request may be granted and ( )ld Man L'ltimate Consumer will . jay more Tor his jiants. More money -and fewer hours. That is. the i-ropisition. Xo matter what the price to the fellow not organized and who cannot or ganize because of his employment but just demand more money and fewer hours ami force the manufacturer to raise the price of his goods and let the other fellow pay the bill. Section hands working for a dol'-ar and a half a day - of course all this is delightful news to theni men working on half time because of illness men with big families certainly. ( Io to it. More nnncy and less hours. That is the stuph. ...;..' The hitrh cost of food staffs still remains a mvsterv, alt bought there will be people who think a great eon. -piracy is on. r Their Angry Passions. It had come to be the universal belief ol those who attend court and hear tin- law yers abuse each ..titer that such bluster was what we term urand stand ilav stage work to have an effect 0:1 the jury. We. have heard lawyers paw the air and. denounce the oppos ing counsel ; een shake their, lists at each edit ed and the.iminitiaicd.would think that in just about a pair of 'minute's there would be a court house floor desprinkled with gore. Ami then we have seen those lawyers when court ad journed laughing about the way it happened, and we never suspected that their angry pas sions 'were really on tap: Put i f seem s t ha t now and then the real thing is introduced. The Raleigh News and Observer notes that a pair of lawyers trying a case this week in Raleigh almost came "to blows, 'flie thing got really exciting and one lawyer.:' started to another and the other ex J aimed that he would cut the throat of the other if 'certain things were repeated. A con; table being close at. hand parted the belligerents, ami the Squire laid down the lawand then apologies were made and they lived happily ever after. I hit it was almost the real thing. ; .' . , o - ';, That Press. Pecause we still occtqn- the sidewalk around our print sho. and because pedestrians are forced to walk in the slrect, which is excellent ly paved, niany are wondering if such a pile ot j'unk can be placed in the buihlit-.g. Why cer tainly. When iluit press is assembled, ami the work is rapidh progressing, it will occupy 'but a small part of the floor space of the build ing occupied by " The Record. In' fact it is a small press vhen ics capacity is considered. 1 1 is compact and gets close .together. It will be in operation at least by the first of the year. At any rate that is the promise and the hope. ,..v SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916. TALKINGmUFFRAGE ,'r-v. r -"-V..- t J: X A RIXEXT speech before the Equal Suf frage League of (iffccnvillc. Xorth Carolina, 1 udtce. Clark .said "H' mav be asked vvliat can be doi.e in view 1 of the Constitution North Carolina to pro cure justice for womcjl. ' There are four meas ures' which I will Mibitni for the. consideration of this audience as feablc andwlji;hsliotild be adopted by the legtslafure thisAvintef. " I. , In J llittois in the lat election o.o.r v .women '.W'cn.i to the polls and iiei for Presi dent and a wbhian was1 one .of those chosen as elector. Yet in that state . their Constitution, like ours, prescribes that onl v niaie persons 2i 'years'-old.. can vote. 'Ay hat the lllirioisdegisla- j Hire did we con d". Presidential sutfrago is ' not -a matter in the state Cnstiutio:i but the federal Constitution prct:crtbes that the elec of Illinois perceived that the intluence of the liquor trusts and brewers was such that a Constitutional Amendment to strike out the word male' .'in state elections-. could not be .'uloptcd at the polls they procured the passage of arf'act'.by a majority vide, indcevl in one house by a majority of one. which directed that the selection -of the ' jq Presidential elec tors for that state .should be made by the vote of -men and women 21 years of age. I pon the alidity of this action the presidential election might have turned.. Hut. not a lawyer frm ocean to ocean lias ventured t.. tK-stiott the 'o-ver of the legislature of Illinois 10 do this. "This i" winter the legislature of Xorih Caro lina shouhl pass an act .Miiferrit-g Pre-i.lential suffrage upon' the women of th:s state. This will require only a majority vote in each house .and "will . not need to be ratifu i: at the ballot box. As the democratic party' ha.- ph dged it self for Equal - Suffrage by 'st.ue action" no . meiidiT;of-the legislature who : tands hy the .platform of his jarty can you against it. The. same is true of the. republican members of the .legislature-, for that party too is pledged to Equal Suffrage by state action. These pledges . were, put in the respective party .platforms as a bil for the 91 eicctoral votes in the states where .-'women voted and to repudiate that pledge wotild prove insincerity and an attempt to obtain the Presidency under false pretenses. Since the' adoption of the recent amend ments our Constitution cutting out local leg islation' it will be nece ;sary to pass a general act providing-for'-the incorporation of towns and cities. That general act shouid contain a provision conferring municipal sinTrage in all the towns and cities of the state upon women equally with nu n. or at least a, provision that it shall be inscrtcd'in the charter of any town where on a vote by men'and women such pro vision shall be adopted." Going After It. It is stated that the coming legislature will he -asked to appropriate Sjo.ooo to the State P.oaril of Agriculture to assist in eradicating the cattle tick. This is good news. -There arc perhaps twenfv thousand cattle in Xorth Caro lina and to get a tick at a dollar each is what we would call glorious work. My 'all means let us eradicate the cattle tick. e have' play cd havoc with the ho(king worm ; we have sniothercil :ellagra at (ne fell swoop; we have gotten over our infantile paralysis scare and the cabbage snake is about extinct. Put the cattle, tick looms before us like a lull moon as the fog is lifting and if all it takes is twenty thousand dollars-' to eradicate it b all .means let us go to it, and at once. - In passing it may be -remarked that the towns over the state are talking for a quiet Christmas that is a day free 01 noise but if you, will listen you will hear the lire wcrks and all other kinds of noises. The South lets loose on Christmas day--and neither Ir "or uecency can restrain it. '.;:.'.,';-. . o -' He Palled Out. "(Our hat is off to Mr. Herbert Asqu. 11 who resignetf as Rritish Premier after about eight years of uninterrupted trimming. It was the only way out of a bad mix-up. and the resigna tion showed that the old man still carries a level head and knows what to da in a case of drowning. 1 ''".' . iv-a-.je,t;;)ua'Jf A.f -m: st.-s. Ls. f - t v V - -i ----- . Trr le.'.'.-s.t..-..v ' a' J y ' ' - : ' - P tors 'for' IVesidentsh. (h(t; ! the-. lalie,. two .himdrcd, tJjausatuPckaiarVM'.c e- .1...- tomJlir tl,otW.f ,r.t . ''IS COtlCe : lU.s SUg-tr, 111-. stt.lK- .III UIO. v , . . .Tfl.. ' . t: -J-.-,-... In all the states for years the leg sbatures j ; ,,0 "ia S S itt Wilf elected the electoruVs. if this ,was j done by South rolinaaiter the ;war, ainl ' 'ASf iScd tl.c-millions cosUaol.tfit)a x SAi-i: at Tin: m:ws 'stam .xi on ti:ai5 FORTY CENTS A DAY Thai Is The Cost of Living Well In Chicago, III. XU so in Chicago they have pro -cd to the satisfaction of all con cerned in the experiment that a man can lic, get fat and be hnp- py on forty cents a "day -expended for food. It may be even so. 'hit to save usMrom a visit to kaleigh we can'i out. With eggs at' live cents figure it each; with beef steak thirty cents a pound ; with butter worth torly and iitiy cent -won life size chickens elling at the prices .pioted on .ostriches five years ago -with a slab : b.Vcon as: big as a watch charm si lling tor ten or fifteen cent.-; coffee up in the sky and Migar seven or eight cents a pounl --well, it may In that a man can live without thee things. In his delightful romance of his Achievement of the Pole Dr. Frederick A. took tells about living on walrus nicat raw with a little moss on the side. For many dreary"' months; he claims he lived on this'na; ticular food with a little raw musk ox thrown its. and that would hac cost over twenty cents a 'day. Put the question comes: Is ail thai a man is living for an existence: Is he presumed to j similv fill his hungry bowels with enough food to prolong a" wretched life that he may toil to- ? morrow. IS lie, necailM; oj me mu yt.i vi ! more. If all there is of this world's existence 1 is found i:i the bare effort to "Teeo alive--to 1 k.-.-o iin- li ootl itowinir 111 oroer mat me slave who works' irnlay. may to;i attain lmorrov ana lh:il is the lone journey Lo tlxc -raw. is j . ...l.!l . 1 ...... ... .-lit nut ..vi-rrrliiiii' worn 1 wn.ie. 11 m nv n n 1 "i v . 1 k,, excet.t the bare necessities--iust enough fat j and food to keep the. fires burning in order that I we may work another day---what i- tin- use ot j rolonging such an existence: r.vcrv man wn unows uicpiueoi ioo4 sum know.s'thaV no living human being can satisfy Ifmself lay in and day out 011 forty cents a da v. It c:;utiot be clone. A man can gradually starve hi msi If tc death u forty cents a day- -gradually drift away and finally 'die from sheer s!aratioi and not know it. If all this world i- coming to is to chase dollars to give them up for things to ..at and no: get enough of them it is time we halted righi hen- and took an inventory and an.siou.-ly inquired: "What are we lu re for?'" as .Mr. Haimagan. of Tesa-. once dramatically exclaimed.-' o - Must Do It. Yc must a.-k our readers to bear with us for the luxt livii or three weeks, for we are surely . up.-ide down. Installing a big rotary press in a building where your room is limit ed is not child's play. It is a man's job and to print a newspaper while the merriment is on. while everything is upside down well. Colonel" Job had many troubles, but he was never in the newspaper bu-i;ie-s.. Had he been when P.ildad ihe Shumite went lo -ee him he wouhl h.ae ..said: "My dear friend. ob. all these troubles ott enumerate of death, of lire, of destruction of 011r i.enl and our boils and your anguish they are ea-y. I .-' how w" couhl gvl away with all that, but '.las newspaper-vou are running- that is vour tin ish so I will bid you good-bye." Ami while Job had plenty of. faith' he 'would have turned his head to the wall and g'nep up the ghost. We hope by. ami maybe a little before, the first of the year to be in some sort of .-hape- : so if the paper these days is not quite ail you expcct,: bear with us and hope for better thinfs when the 'dad Xew Year brings its r" r hope and happiness to us. Glad of It. Somehow we are glad that Engineer Tank ersley, who ran hi- train into another train at Salisbury some time ago, and who was sent enced to the roads for criminal carelessness, is told to go free by the Supreme Court. The -opinion is that the engineer did all he could do. and was not to blame. This is as it should be. '..-Those who know Tankerslcy to be a faithful, sober, careful locomotive engineer, for manv 'years in the service, know that he would not for the world have done what he did. It wasn't criminal carelessness. And that is the trouble. If a i.iilroad does something or a man working for a railroad the public clamors for blood. We dare say that in this state there have been a hmulred deaths caused by what are called automobile acci dentsami pascd up as a matter of cour-e, that were nearer criminal negligence accidents than the one in Which Tankeisiey played a part. .We, are glad the Supreme Court hand cd down the decision it did hand .down. Ami we congratulate Engineer Tankerslcy, '- '' v " ' '-'- ...v.-..:, , 1 -I 111' II II"1"W t - III. II III II1 IUIO llil I ll ' m M - . . ESTABLISHED MAY, zgoa. CAMPAIGN C OSE Both National Parties Millions of Dollars N TflE last camiaign cacii naticiai party spent money running into the millions. Representative Owen. . of Oklahoma wants tf pass a bill limit iug the expcmliture fVot anv presidential election to four hundred thousand dollars. He thinks; that .oyer that amount is. too much. AYhyiV . The candidate" is. not called , upon to'spend. his wu money. In t!ic case-otjhc:-Vilfion campaign halff he fund was raiseii by ifbllar ,. i:!scriptions Ihrotiglioul the whole. United ' ' States. If a slate manager vants-to spend, a half million lollars legitimately why nOtTlet T him pioc.evd. The only objection ever, urged " In fore io. the u.-e of money in a tampaign was corruplion.. P.ut this is a big A'ation. It ta3ce millions of lithographs ;U;takc all Jdmls of. ad vcriising: it takes "special trains; it tak'cs?pc?akY ers why limit the amount patriots vanti to spend just so it is spent in the open and spent legitimately r , - i 'fake the rich woman's special that. went, to " " the coast -and it is said that joy ride cost over two hundred thousand - dollars-halt. . the ( amount Air. Owen , would : alio expended. I rue it cost HuiriU'S-hi.H, clcction-but it-cost wauled got a er good picture "or the President. It gave work to he rinter.sj to those who djstriiutvd, them ami certainly did no harm. We arc in favor -of letting theni spend all t'ue money they waut to spend just so 1 hey gi e us an account of tin expenditure's and , we t'cvl sure that no corruption fund Ints been employ cd. - " Put -in tl?e.e days of retn"mcrs the man wlii wants to reform something must have a hobliy; -And there arc lots of hobbies in the w orld. . ,-, - ... -...r,r,v. Passion And Whiskey. I he announcement that Monroe JohisoVi who shot nnd killed Carl Prcddy out ihe' cot toa mill way is to be electrocuted January -36ll, ha- local interest only. Prcddy had assigned a sweet heart of Johnson's to another rooni-for work and Johnson thought it was his duty lb kdl imcbody. The evidence was, however, thai a little of John Parleycorn. always stirring up strife and looking for and fiuding trouble wa-at the bottom of it. Our people had almost iorgoticn that Johnson was in jail awaiting the execution until the announcement came that he was lo go into eternity on January 26. N'ot a very happy Christmas time for such' a man. oi :i cry happy' picture ha- he" to look iq1 is. H . " " . . And philo-(ihcrs and grim stoics who look in 10 things and analyze them tell us that So ciety doc- vt.x iiar.g men to puni.-h them. They claitii that these occasional hanging.- are the red lights -the danger signals that must hi' dashed acr.is-. tin- track so that others will takV heed. A life of imprisonment wouhl perhaps-'-' be worse punishment to the man condemned'; to die. but Society figured it out when it iiiady capital puni-linum a part of ii .prograifnc that lit hang a man up on the scaffold woid.d be -uch a 'read warning to all other men that crime , wouhl decrease and many a man who othcrwi-c 'iiight feel like killing some one would think ab.ru; what happened to Smith' or Jones ir Johnson, ami pi on low speed. How ever ii is, we arc unalterably opposed to capital punishment. We think that a man like John son who killed hi- man couhl serve the stale during his natural life. He 'might himself get something out of living although in prison for life. Socie ty should only ask that murderers be restrained. It should not - demand .rbpir dood. Anl the dav i- coming when it will mt demand the hie of the man who violated its rules ami u-ages. ti ... The Mistakes They Make. Well intentioned. no doubt, but the -ulTrag-i-ts who lowered the yellow banner in front of President Wilson when he was reading his message, made a mistake. Then w as no place for -uch an exhibition. It distracted. It did no good, ar.d made many a man who was half way on the fence di.-gu.-lcd. There is a time for all things, it hath been remarked,, ami when the , President of,- the I'nitcd States appears before Congress to read a message of importance it is no time to lower a yellow banner in his face and ask him what he i- going to do about the suffrage question. And the hope, i.- that the President will tell . them so when they call on him again. He can, with dignity tell them that such an exhibition of ill manners shows- that tho-e responsible Tor it arc not capable ol self government. 'J -..'"': ' ' f :. . .. -"" .uu t fit rt r i 1 1 -
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