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' . - '. " - - " . , .- ' - ' ; ". ' - .- ' . - .ZXiS ' V- r?, : .V ' X Y v4. For People Vlho Thin!: BY AL FAIRBROTHUR irwrumtow iim a txa. iurout conr mn SATURDAY J A I i U u ft . ' . I ' ' . - ' . . - . i s . . ,. SHOULD GO SLOW ON THIS V -5br.c of tie papers axe now talking about a fcro cctxt passenger fare on the railroads in this sure. Because the railways have been eujoy- - a little spurt of prosperity, and many ol Ufa spending more money in improvements thin they have taken in, floating bonds to get tvc money, some people think that the general public should demand cheaper rates. Wo do rot aree to this. We insist as we go along tut the present so-called "good times" cannot It counted on. They have no substantial foun ixtloi. It is all artificial. The munition rsikrr and the billions of dollars coming to tils country because of the war hare given us aa exaggerated total. Let the munition plants work, and they must when peace is de clared, and there will be millions of unera sed men in America. We will also face t-.ent serious problem in our national corn -tDcrcul life because of the foreign poods that ill fce dumped on our shores. This is no tifcrr. It is a fact. Topas a law in temporary good times coo tn":r.K passenger rates until another legisla ture meets, two years, might bankrupt our rail V3T. - The Southern railway is spending more rccy than it makes. Because It has a chance r cam money it is possible to sell bonds H: r-tt the passenger rate below what it now K and earnings must drop to such a degree .a: :xk holders will be disgusted and bond E-srJucr cannot be found. V. hit we should do is to pay all the toll we ci- rv- l-et the roads build their depots, j 3!c track their systems; give us service, and : r the improvements arc made then cut 1. 1 the receipts. Cut while they are trying n f arid: while they are assisting so mi tn developing our country, we are op ?. r i't't cutting to the core the traffic rates. 'if rati way Jn fact belong to the people. Y-e r vcrr.mcr.t controls them and the people i - :'-c beneficiaries. The belter, service we c; ':,c rr.rc prosperous we arr as a state or s: i. It is gTii'rtar.d plxf to.ta!k asl T.-:tu:gatr5fcr-crTe advasting-xc!t r? eterj thing used by the railway. And we i?t 01 Jptnion that the present legislature will r very slow -in such a proposed attempt. Cood enough for the paper that plays to the rarefies and the "pee-puP to insist. Here in lifeensboro we want another railway out tv-y are not going to build railways unless th-ry can stand a chance to make a reasonable b:?rest on the investment. - The Good Resolution. Jsst now the Good Resolution is on Parade. Hxr.y men today wilt cut out tobacco and sr.ck to it just about thirty-six hours. In the tifcer drinking towns many a young man has resolved "never again but it will be but a few days and he will be waiting for 1918 to cake another start. The New Year resolution ist of that binding character it once was. Years ago. we do not know how many, we excluded that with the New Year we would : out smoking. We were young then, too Jtcrg to smoke, but we smoked, and we made tttjolution and were serious. With us in the great moral undertaking was a companion. Ar J for jome three weeks we heroically stood tit test. .Never was the motto more strongly ircssed, and we meant it. .To be sure we At the end of three weeks we concluded that a New Year resolution wasnt a legal docu So with our companion we went down hat was called the Town Branch, a little erctk that Cowed and sang and aang and fiow e2 alcng the eastern outskirts of the city. AfTtred with trees were the banks of this lit te stream and in the woods we hid ourselves " then and there, as though we were deceiv i? cur friends-and ourselves, we took from r peckets two big black cigars and lighted fcea and smoked them and came back to the For two or three weeks we smoked "on ti? :r" but finally that was off. We had over and that ended the New Year res-c-; n. Just why we thought that to smoke l Ul it be our secret was within the mcan r f the resolution adopted, we do not know. fc-t that i about the way nine-tenths of the yr4 resolutions go and sometimes we won if it nerc worth while to make them. It i xhkespeare who said that "man resolves a 1 ic-reohcs, and dies the same. And V- 'c4rc a sounded all the depths and s-u "'" of human nature. o 1 then, after the fog, the sun was shining t: The Climate. rth injermation of ring-tailed blizzards in a . u ..U. m.A 1m, III! Mt enjov a!l the vear round would at- jxxple. Hut thev are coming r-.ert ne comes the neighbor hears about 'y he hike. Seme clav "these nine Yl w fil:ed with people who erstwhile "cd all winter. 1 J; j-x !-r.d of Horida with the machine ,-r- ,,r'"w a: Cheyenne and trains lost in I e. ro'thwest breaue of continued snow t Ui lit tHU Vrtrth-rarnTin rllmiif AGAINST ALL COMMON SENSE i. . . And the new law proposed in the corrupt practices act, and which has been introduced in the Senate, looks into the newspaper adver tising side of political life. It suggests that if a publisher charges more than his regular rates for a political advertisement, or refuses to ac cept the "advertisement of a party opposite to his faith, he will be denied the use of the mails for ten days. That is a very queer law. The average publisher courts on a regular run of ibout so -many columns of advertising from legitimate- sources merchants and play houses, etc - If it happens, as it has happened, even in a town as small as Greensboro, that the space was all sold and it was practically impossible to add more pages, and a candidate comes down at ten o'clock in the morning and wants a half page and you can't give it to him, why should a publiher be compelled, at a loss' to make arrangements to take care of that one day's business. The Record mortally offended some politi cians this last campaign. Our facilities were such that we could print but eight pages. Thc space was really oversold, and one morning at ten o clock some enthusiastic republicans brought -in a half page advertisement and wanted it printed that night. We couldn't do it. It was a physical impossibility. The columns were already overloaded. To have ac cepted the half page would have meant to either kill this page or the front page-and that would not have done. To make more pages wasn't possible. According to the new law proposed we would have been compelled to omit the other political advertising or take care of all of it. , Looks like" the government was about to lake over the newspapers. Already it noses about; makes you tell under oath who owns your stock, who has a mortgage or holdsbonds forces you to reveal your private business affairs, often embarassing, and then makes you trll the number of carers voti nrint when, in , , w r f m w fact it is none, or should" be none, of the gov- iruo fne compuM&K roo;n and lorce yoo to ac cept advertisements if offered when you haven't room for them and if 'you want to make room at additional expense throws you out of the mails for a period of time because you wanted to charge the cost of additional pages in the edition. Seems to us that a newspaper publisher should have the right to establish a rate for political advertising, be cause the politician comes but one season a year whereas the merchant is in every "day. Hut under this wise law proposed if you charge the politician more than your regular rates you are denied the use of the mails for ten days. That is the limit. Political adcrtise ments should be worth fifty per. cent more than merchandise advertisements. Because they generally call for increased pages; they come but once a year and halt the time the committee regrets that it is short of funds and you wait months for your bill or never gcMt. o Lacking the Space, A doctor down Raleigh way has sent us a few running pages of closely written manu script and it is devoted to skinning in a strong style, the medical trust, as he terms it. He thought that because we now and then suggest that the Health Bulletins issued by the State of North Carolina go too far, that perhaps we would like to illume our, columns with his rhetoric. The medical profession contains some of the best men in the world. It has as members of the profession men who give of their time and moner to help the poor and needy and afilictcd. 1 rflo frTe 'c om u k ftuT:i and force yooto ac- I The doctor gets up at any hour of the night; he never wonders about his pay that is some of them and such men arc indeed adornments to the human race. But as a collective organization they have gone toc far in many ways. They have under taken things collectively 'which individually they condemn. At least, they have individual ly, not only in North Carolina, but in a dozen states, personally to this writer, condemned practices which are universal. It is to this that we object. Wc understand that organization is necessary, but wc feel that other people have some rights. The Health Bulletin as issued by this state has contained many things. that it should not have contained. But wc arc not jumping the doctors. Wc recognize the pro fession as one necessary; wc know that in it are first-class honorable men who arc well in tefioned and whose lives are clean. If wc had plenty of space wc might print the Raleigh doctor's talks and then claim the privilege of reviewing them. But they are too long and the topic is of not enough general interest. He pomes Back. It was onlv the other day that wc were won dering in this page what had become of Harry Thiw ertwhilc io prominent on the front pages of newspapers. ' We saw in him a man wearied of notoriety and concluded he had set tled down to peaceful pursuits. But alack and. alas he comes back. This time it is stated that a bench warrant has been isiucd for him and he must report to Kansas City for assault ing a chool boy in the city of the west. This will doubtless give him front page and that will satisfy him.- i " THE' REA ; - CAU The Adamson law -row presented Con gress is not what the t rcthtr hoods .want. and isn't what the railways. ant. - .It is a law that doesn't meet the dera.tr 'i of the times. The eight hour proposition is c!I right, perhaps, but people arc worrying about the high cost of liv ing and forgetting ; th.it tey- arc the sole Cause. . .. ,' Any human being mut: understand that an hour employed in labor .will produce so much product. ' If it is layinr bncks, raorc bncks will be laid in nine hours than arc laid in "eight: If in setting type more type; will be set in nine hours than will be. set ia ci::ht hous. If in making paper more paper will be manufactured in. nine hours than m cipht hours and so on down the road of manufacturing and produce tion. It wasn t very lon a-ro'as we reckon timc in our day, and wc arc yet young enough to dream of doing many thicks that ten hours constituted a day's labor. Now eight hours is the standard. Naturally with two hours. of production gone, tnc output 01 me mm is cun- er decreased or the expense of, brinrinir. about the same result is increased by the employment of more labor. If the seven hours a dav as now advocated by labor leaders is adopted another hour will be lost in production and naturally the manufactured product will continue to in-, crease. The prices arc not too high. Labor is responsible for the prices. . It says it would rather loaf another hour; rest If you want to call it that but that hour among the millions of laborers means years in a day and for that reason what was once called over production is unknown and because of fh? scarcity of rvro- ducts and labor, prices ro uji. The raw mate- nai orougnt irom tnc earth ts scarcer because less hours are devoted to bringing it to the sur face if not less hours more men employed a increased briccs. You can't ret away from it It as all right to have. f:h rr. :cs for the men at work -lor the- si if I-at for the man case in poini. v c receivcu today irom a New York manufacturing concern with whom we arc dealinr. a letter tellincr us that a motor which wc bought three months ago wa& worth j today something like $350 more than we paid for it. That a second hand motor just like purs, .though with slower speed was worth two hundred and twenty dollars more than we paid for a new one, built to order. Why? Well occause pcopic wain motors ana men are working over time at 'increased salaries to build them. The raw materials arc scarce be cause of decreased hours of production.and any price demanded will be paid because men with machinery must start it or go broke. Some say fricndships. thcre is ntither desire nor oppor the hours of labor have nothing to do with it. tMn;tv tff ,;nf tu H,man nfth. and some men will tell you the moon is made of green cheese. But facts is facts. Ixrt tnc seven hour a dayf come and again'priccs will advance. Make it six and they will go still higher. And if labor wants it that way wc say t - f. 1 . . , . ici ii nave 11 oui it is in oaa taste to com plain about what happens. o This weather a topic always fresh just as fine as silk, and yet some of. our North Carolina people arc going to Florida to catch cold. lo At Last. We feared that it would come to this. A great scientist out in California, after four years of endeavor research that was. painful and far-reaching has found the substance that produces growth in the human body. He calls it tcthclin, and says it is located at the base .of the brain. Uf course no qoc of us ever thought cbout that. We took it for granted that we were like Topsy, of Uncle Tom Cabin fame, that wc "just crowed" and that was all there was of it. But' this scientific man this grim explorer in thinrs mystic and beyond the lay man's veil has found for us the scat of the juice that enlarges our bodies that causes us to gTOw, and he calls it tctheun. Of course it is the real thinj Trees and weeds and vegeta bles, wc take it, have concealed somewhere about them a substance which can be called tcthehn, also, which causes them to grow. But the great point of this wonderful discovery is that by knowing where the particular key is lo cated on what wc might; term the switchof. human life wc can feed that substance and make jt produce giants or wc can dilute it and make it inactive and oicrmies will be the result. If it takes, for instance a slab of bacon weigh- inga pound to iced a man six tect tan, why not J get your hngcr on the tethelm camp when the kid is young, and le'tahe man develop only two feet. Instead of having six feetmen, broad and big, let the race be but two feet tall and naturally in these days of high prices of I t-'t-l!-.? IJ .1 ' 1 - f.- ', I high living.wc' could skimp along. Surely a lit tle runt of a fellow, but.lwo feet tall, fully ma tured, isn't goin to say, "please pass the eggs", the second or third time. -.Surely he isn't going to surround a twenty-seven dollar beef-steak at one sitting. Tliis is a lucW find, this chore of the California scientist. , He has spent four years in doing it, but he has certainly rendered preat service to a world that delights in nurs-' mg fads--wbich grov. 5 joyous when it hears of some new crazy prop j itioii. ' - . )::-o. as to the :jmm00imaM 'Because a New. York broker got mixed up with a woman who wasn't his wife; who had a" quarrel with her over money matters; vio had himself gone broke and when" accused of killing the Woman and a warrant was about to be served on h killed himself, several pa pcrs in editorials and headlines are asking the question: "Does such a Pace Pay?" and .others similar to it. . . ' Perhaps these questions are not addressed to us, but perhaps wc might for a moment enter into the realm of speculative fancy arid make a few remarks not altogether out of order. Cer tamly such a pace does not pay no one would be fool enough to even suggest that it would : but after all such happenings arc worth while. If in this sin cursed worl.d there was jio cyU," there woulU be no rewards. 'All is by compari son and if every pebble was as rich in brilliancy as the diamond the diamond would'be common- place. If all men were honest, industrious, en ergctic and filled with the milk of brotherly love there , would be a monotony and there would be no goal for others to reach. The har lot who creeps in the shadows furnishes to the virtuous sister her reward, because she shows the depths of depravity to which one can dc- scend, and her object lesson places on virtue its priceless seal. The man who is honest, who resists tempta- tion would get nci credit for what he does were there no -dishonest men. The world would naturally think that certainly a man is honest and think no further. But because now-and then a community is shocked by the story of j some good man going wrong, that cqmmunity receives a warning and the collective city thinks about what has haonened " Everv now. and then we receive a shock the story is told ui in ah gunc wrung ur mc woman gunc wrong and while Jhe individual who errs suf-s fers physical and mental pain the sacrifice is for the good of others. -These happenings are the red ; lights the danger -signals thrown r lj . across pur .path to .warn -us ;to "beware to. When wc sec same man who goes. the pace who walks' the primrose path of dalliance who seems not to care, and who puts in icopardy- his life and honor and finally purs to his dis- ordered brain a pistol and ends it all, we hare- supreme pity lor that unfortunate wretch lie nas noi oniy paid nis diji Dut ne nas icit socie ty a solemn warning that it will not pay. f ' ; - We are'all going a pace that docs not pay. The man out for money grubbing; the man led by ambition's seductive whisper; the man bent on doing still greater things lives a pace that does not pay. There is no longer the simple life. There is no loncer time to make close ity times ctow irrcatcr with the passlnjr years. In the old days a man understpod that he couldn't afford a piano, a carriage, a mansion for a home. " He was satisfied a"hd, aye, by the God in heaven, he was contented with his humble lot ; he worked and sang and dreamed only of a few hundred dollars. Because beyond him, and far beyond him seemed the things the very rich possessed. To be the owner of an estate worth ten thousand dollars was quite an interesting thing and the man owning so much was reck oned rich. We recall in our time when Jay Gould was considered one, of the most daring and wonderful merf of the age and now there arc men doing, what Gould 'did in different ways, so rich and wortdertui tiat jay oould would look like thirty cents and his achieve ments nothing but kindergarten lessons. Multi-millionaires on every hand. Every shack owning a piano a mere toy, these days, and men bwing grocery bills long over due joy riding in six cylinder cars and dreaming of the da they are to have a million I. And that is the pace wc arc all living or, most all, and there is no "use to wait until some fellow hits the ceiling, plays against the loaded dice of the Fates and blows out hii weary brains, to ask does the pace pay. We are all going a pace too fast and just now, as wc have said before, it is a nation drunk and on high speed with an unlicensed cnauciier. oome-.aay wc an win skid some day we will turn turtle as a collec tive whole and then, maybe, hard to tell, we may starfin again and go to the snail, consid er his speed," and be wise. Let lis hope.' .i o " .. z Should Not he Allowed. A Wilmington man, a civil engineer, pays two dollars to file a suit -against two railroad companies for the insignificant sum of fifty cents. If he wins each company will be forced to pay him twenty-five cents. The-plaintiff aK leees that -these two corporations which1 he . j-r.- . -w-1. ; sues, the lidcwater rower company, ana tnc Atlantic Coast Line charged him fifty cents too , much for baggage one day. last summer. -, If they owe him fifty cents they should pay it. But to allow a man to come m ana tatccup the time- of courts to settle such. a claim ; let it. cost the taxpayers perhaps hundreds of dollars, is'somethmg that should not be allowed. It may bexlaimed that as-a matter of principle a man has a right to do this if he has he should' J. enjoy "no such rights. ; v . " v '-: Let us hope that the County -Commissioners: will'armrpfia'tp t1irfiil1 value rf thp hid-hflfend-o by the J etterson standard iite ? insuranceL50; Of course that bid is made as a proposition oi - h what the ' Jefferson will do. XThe property willv; be sold at public outcry-an'd 'the Jeffersorias V, had the nervetor say v in advance that it vill .i'; give for it one hundred jtnd fifty thousand dol? v :- lars, that if it succeeds in securing it it will as : rf quickly as possible commence the erection cmt- 111c iwivi kjl ct uuuuiug lu-yuou at least. t vjiuutc.;, of mijlion dollars. '. "y- -li't W;f(f - There are some citizens who wart' to bttyv the land or parts of It'f or speculatiye purposeisVt'Vr; We hope the County Commissioners wUllun de'rstand-that. ifVthe. Jefferson Standard) givts $150,000 fortheland and then erects a buildlr. costing $250,000 on the isjte, that rthat;willmeah , , ' a great deal for the town and county. It means v .' that right off the reel the cbunty tan commence 1. to collect taxes on aqU'artervOi..amllIton"''dpUarif;;v .building and that beats having the ground H'e-;. ' v until the town's growth makes it worth more to : the speculator than he gave for - It means vt . that if Greensboro Could: hayc 9-tmagnificjent-'- ' office buildings there would come' to this" towii. -I . men to fill thev pfificcsrr. Therelorclnt.6cfcV.; ing the bid if-theJefjfersbn;;Starrdard wehope- the Commissibnersiwill ;pt Concludecthat;v ! rffrr1 ic all tint' tc V-ftrf4 ' - -: - "r '-:.' " t1- ' - - - -- V .' . ' ' Some say we do not need ntorc office ' 1' bulltk ings.' - They point out that there are new a fi:y vacant. omces in certain buildings m teiaty; True." But let a northern in ari conic owii thlsS I .way looking for headquarters for his nor iheh;?; concern and he wants. something up to the'min7y utc. Atlanta built iGxtzen stgry.; office ,Uj: ings - ancf not a tenant; in sight; Bcf ptc itheyc were completed the offices .were', occupie'd by high salarie'd Southern: Agents for; big"c(raeerH ? at the north. ;CharlbthaH.beenh.ujidini5o splendid office. bnildings.ian building; wc takiltht$is& I 4TwohIg:office ftvliyirajJi' -! juin fifc-i worn d"7De; t hutt; invnz GrecnsbororC-' : '-z? 'i'-M riil: Not to get off; tfie' stwect,' hut. tficlluVtclitlvj uation, is the. samey V .icn'. ttc. "Ollcy, iS i epened with its two hundred roonis wcwilf ber j-1 i crying for a new hbtelr because one fnpccl' will : not meet the increased demands.' -r .-f j'.-' - Thc-courthouse location trKus mimaterfe q rial thing.. We think the proposition made by rfi Mr. Ceasar. Cone is a good one. It gives the" -. rnnntv a gfoodsite at a small .cost at-half - what the land is really worth. But no matter j o - , I where it goes the present site is too expensive -1-for a courthouse. Some people think the court- V house should be on the public thoroughfare :ffiy along with stores and office buildings. But it should not. The whole county uses the court-af house and a block or two or, three should makes no difference. At one time some of. the lawyers vfu thought that the court -house; should be built rjear their offices as; ,though the people xared anything about where the lawyers had their ' Vsj place of business.; Other people think that the I " courthouse is a city affair. . It isn't Jt belongs to the whole county and at some time brjOthen V in the year most every man in the county has 4 business at the courthouse. .y ''-yy T::::iC However, the; Commissipnefs haliardj 4 job.; They are not going'to please. all the peo' ' pie and the thing for them to :do is to please themselves and let those disappointed vrhi&ifey tle. We are rall" interested; therefore all- otis have an undoubted right Jo make suggestions. t -All of us who pay taxes wiU f oots the bill; .and ?: therefore we feel a proprietary right, in the new: building - What we need, is a new courthcSus u .,- and it looks like we are going to get it vTKat should be pleasing to all." . ZX-Jt:.: " Now that we 'have secured the ; netv hotel, iT v , the depot, the new court house and the mil-'.-.. lion dollar, bond, issue for good rtds,t what's ' the "matter with trying to erect; a drinking . fountain for horses? - : . -'. :x ' -V w I ' : ' . ; . The Cost' ' jy y .I.They say.it will cost five, hundred thousand ' dollars to transf orrri , some; of the ; paper mills , south into a mill to' produce print paper.: The ; matte'r of handling a five hundred thousand dol lar "proposition, is no small. item. -Let. us hope -.v . ;ii .iTT '1.. mat some capitalist wiii appear. ..- jxis. output ?, will be taken at a good figure.1 The papers of " the South' will ' giveU' justified bond topatrb- . nize him . ahd-will , contract" in advanee. y No" f matter jvhat may happen as to lower;price& the -' papers willsign pow. j Is: ;there any enterprise : ing man or set of men looking, for a first-class "r ' investment ? If so, now. is the opportunity. To '-' .have a guaranteed sale of the entire' product of a plant, before a-wheel is in motion "should w;, "mean a great deal. ; Such a- sale-.will be -abso-"' - lutely ciiaranteed- y-yyri-14i::C., t-". " r The leak jiewsVspread put twohderfully; but y really there doesn t seem much to ..Jtv.'j. ' ;, As we understand the situatjbn the' 'legisla- '.y ture is still in session. -y v yty , .;y . y 1 5 " The new hotel will now be oyersbadowed,by courthouse talk but'the gTound will be broken next- month.-. ,. '"-T' . i-.rx
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