North Carolina Newspapers

f For -; v-7 People Who .y? j PcopleTJlio I - i ...4 : I I -i i 1 t I f i' v;-r ! ; - . " - - . ,. BY AL F AJRB R OTiniI2 CONE PROPERTY IS CONSIDERED ci. cc arUutcct Cica l cic rtry duck wt.k f r t- xtac ctchicu copy bat the dtenUe- f .... -. rt-: cauJ tniay r: ti4 WC3Jcr fi.it there it deep istereit in the location of Iic5ft hoae. all ajrrre. And at we said trrii te hare a Kali notion thaf .there it an fVj;iT?-i!c4 Uea abost the loatiotj o( a court ce tscttanr. valuer We recall that in Atlanta Fultcm count r wr:: way cat on Fcrtjth street and bailt her lZ!:rs. Mayhe it wat Pryor ttreet hot a:r: the railway trackand out a rxxl half rr; f:cn Marietta or Teachuee ttreeL "Then V-r wa built a bi cfr.ee bcildtr.p; fcr law I: wa ca!!e4 the Keyiutr Building and cser;er.tJy arranged a it wat cenven f'x IxatetL In a few ihort year the llw rr.orrd out went back to the tky ci;ff uptown. The Keyrer BailVnjr. known a tV Uwycr building wa. occurie by ptint r'i cf: prrnin club tod real estate to-,-.-r.'r thrre cr four lawyer remaining. The ;r-w;4f btttinc. close to the court hoaie wat i- 1 then a ranut t tar. d ami a oft drink r "iV:hfr.ent. In other word the location of tV t county court hcvr meant nothing. Cs Ih:fham there wit never any bovL-vc u ! the court hcuc. The new build;njj c- ;; i.c umc ac. .aiuriy huwhcji n f.-,-: r! now there i a play houw near : . ;. mercantile buinciv I a::er cf fact the public building or the . - t a bujisciMk street alway break the ; of ccmmcrce. Take for. initar.ee ; irct in 5an Francivctr an4 b-ecaale t ci'.c ba!MIr it alor.5 about. Tenth ;;wi htocJc are an cp-cti watc, "Take 1 t rr. if i:;ovc who want the eoutt bouse ;:c! a; a certain place truke their f jht. we ';c- t" - t'-rt rr.an wll win. We rejrrel a! I k in't v.ir. but we th'sr.k that a mntakc hat been rude in d:lay. Too much diu:on doc no Thr town should pull together not ll up a f rht that mean detention. o- And another Saturday come along these '.Sf:laV come with charmir.r reularitv. lr wisrl J i disided into two clae the man w -- make the ghoU watk and the man to wm the ghost walk. For the fellow who f-ake the ghot walk Sx'.xzTdiy get around 9- ' T,tt than to the other fellow. 4 The Mass Meeting. We understand that the signer .arc still t:rg acrtm aR4 VC f-a meeting billed for 4!arday to take action concerning the lu.a I n cf the court house will be largely attend rl The trouble with the mas meeting it thai I're will be o many men of so many differ . trini that it will be hard to get any at:-fi-trry result. One thing, however, the citiren - war.:s to express h:mself alway ha the fv,. cf way at a mas meeting. A prole: C ! in black and white would be more cf fr:t:ve. provided the protest set out the criev a'. Siivrdiy is a vrjy good day for the t ---.:rymen to come to town, and if the infori ri!::n is spread he will perhaps be here. . o all pox is abroad tn the . state, several t :- rtrcrtinr iu In these time when there t t ;aran:ir.e law the disea.se spreads. There .v v a time when to sar small pox meant the i t r-g to ul timber. Nowaday, people don't it stampede in "front of it. ' ; i Colcr t KxUway. that Mr. Bird S. Colcr ha shown f. em -.letvt a way to have a new railway. It teen our talk that we needed one, and ' tt uill take some two hundred thousand i. we would consider that cheap The fact that we would be nearer rtafktl; the fact that we would feel wc ;ti!;rn; the fact that several railway r .fe4 in etery live town make it import t we take hold when the orrrtuniir i -4 Wc da r.ol know anything about rail era: 1 wfca! thrv eon err thif Ihv tia t ; know that progressuc ci!:e ftcntime bond "rTil y5ctn and : ufr than Colcr wast are otcd to e-rv'"- grt busy let's all get to- ? r h4c Co'er's road come in, And thtrr are any more in sight go after Fcr De libera ticoc - :-cfr.cd New rightly ay there i no ' ' I Oration like a mass meeting. l rnshfc lur or a Roman boh- zSo when dclibcratioa has an :,? I-an:rg denies that he is going to v :?r. too that Wahirgton newt- ' at strict calculated to worry 'rt and which do r.o good ia any . tV tti lit nutttf ts frstcd lut ruch V roup ...;- fcei'.dinn woti! J be coi-ubtc if the t y - m 4 " cleanltg:up GOLDSP It it fiaied that Col4 t2e setting1 nd of htr dislnct; it had been located in th. wo for a lonp time and it aeerr.a'irr. possible To hae out the bat with the wounded win. In order to make ornc pregTc! along the cleansing fine it i aaid that a Powerful electric lichl has been placed in the vicinity of the neutral rone, and tilent tea line J placed on guard to take down the name of all who enter the houses over which float the scarlet Hag. These name arc duly registered and the book is open to all who want to see. This may doa little good, but the police court register is open, and in most place it is known that the newspaper print :ae names of the delinquents, yet each day the court grist is there. The way for any city to do is simply to get up and insist that such places have no right to exist, and doe them. l or many years it wat thought in Durham that Smoky Hollow, one of the ilet dbtrictj ever having existence, mutt be endured, but finally the good women of the city declared it had 10 go. and after the right k;cd of a campaign the district went, and today where wa No Man Land stand mills and mill tillage. True, there arc some of the women of the underworld in Durham a drag net might disclose them but the notorious flaunting of their shame in the face of respect ability has long ceased. Here in Greensboro the district wa broken up; law were passed which stopped men from renting houses for immoral purpose, and while perhaps there are a few crook walking the street and located in different place, there it no longer a line of hack two mile long waiting 10 do business after nightfall. New Bern broke up her place of ill repute. Charlotte ha decided that the women of sin must move on. and jf the legisla ture will give u the Home for Delinquent Women the court will von break up the traffic so far a its public prosecution U concerned. . o ' V - And now they cijlmjt roVn :y hcre'all icter. rrcn:-linn this ,Ujnov Climate 'Aa to thr Dcg. The mad dog scare it goi;i tiir rou..l and mucn tfiKuuion t now mmt faithful friend. cn coiKtnuni man s . In an agricultural paper wc have just read a column about the dog and hi depredation, hi hccp-kiHmg proclivttie and hi general cu ednes when he become a vagrant cur; but the article conclude by saying: Keep the dog because he i in mot in stance a faithful helper, but keep him un der proper restraint. It i largrly the fault , cf man if the dog proves a ru:sincc r.nd a menace. And perhar herein is the who'e Mcry. - It i the fault 0 man if the dog goo wrong. So ciety must protect Youth. It dare not let it run wild, because when it den- it at once goes to seed and to the bad. The dog ha been man best friend. In the early clays he w'as I largely a part of civilization. Under proper re- ? strain he 1 all neht. If he become an orphan and a vagabond, a tramp, a thief, a prowler, then treat him a wc treat .other criminals. But because there are some bad dog bad be cause of environment and circumstance do not talk about exterminating the whole species. o The city planner will doubtless be worth while for future event, but the question i can i he locate a court house within a week? 1 . o Pretty Good Law. It appear that William J. Burn, the gTcat .private dctectise, and he 1 irreat, has been i j. im r ... . v..v....k - I to hi client. In thi case J. P. Morgan and j company sverc the clients and the informa I tion was concerning the "how come" a leak on (munition order.. Bum went after the infor mation and secured it. Tfie court held that a private detective had no right to enter a man's private office and copv his private letters. And the only wonder i that a mere fine was con idcred enough punishmcnL It look to us that if wc aw a private detective entering our off.ee to ccurc private papers we would shoot him and be justified , Why isn't he the same a any other burglar or thief? . Does the fact that he calls himself a private detective make him immune? Not at all. o 1 9 February Next. February i next . slopand we will has-e Washington' birthday; Lincoln's birthday and Jvaint Valentine's day three propositions tak ing up red space on some of the calendars. o The Leak Inyestigatioo. The leak investigation goes oa ia New York, and Lawson tells his tale of woe. Funny, though, the reading public long ago discounted the Lawson story. Perhaps a few read the daily grind, but no interest attaches. It might be proven cow that there wai.i leak a large as the Mississippi river and all the public men of the nation might be found guilty of being beneficiaries, yet it wouldn't cause 1 thrill. Why? Because the public dis missed Lawoa at a serious consideration, and that ends it. , vad a hard that SATURDAY. FEnniARY -2917. NUDE PICTURES ; ARE TiBOOED The moving picture show people, now an as- sociaiion working loeincr, nave oeciaea inai all producinir companies -will positively cut out the nude, and also concluded that sex problems will be kcirt off the screen-' , This is as it should be and as it must be. The moving picture, like the drama, has progressed, and will progress. Now and then some company starts out. with an ultTJi play, but it soon goes to the wall. The thcaier-lovitifT people, ai.thc raovie-loving peo ple, ire not going to stand for things indecent. There is no reason why the. nude should be in troduced on the screen, any more than there was a reason why -May, Thomiaoii's British Blondes could play to crowded houses twenty years ago. ' It was a moneymaking business for a while, but wc will venture to say that even the bald-headed row will admit that such exhi bitions were againjt good morals and over all the world there. is a great moral uplft. Social service workers,, reformer, ministers, good people generally are. seeing the baleful influ ences of the nude on the stage or the screen. The errotic novel is tabooed, and, after all, the people only get about what they demand. The newspaper is yet to be censored. I We have a notion that we will live long enough to- be tcld that we can't print many of the ttoricjs now carrying the front page. The Nan Patter- son episodes, the Harrv Thaw demonstrations and all such staff vaji be considered against public morals and forbidden. The fxeedom of the pre ts not a license to do harm, and as we nrorrcss the blue oencil must oerforce come. w - m g -w not only in our plavs and pictures and newsna- pcrs, but in our daily conduct The hope is that the ccmirmssioncrs will pot finally be forced to accept the Sellars propo sition and build the court house oh the Htgh Point road. . ',' - ' J . o r. . . " . . . . . s: TooTnre. ' IcaVkcdly dicusing V i'-nsx th ilrV, the.A$hcvlU Cftlxcr ufc ve td -.c!: i . 1 Li' see it. to rc ine - . the land, and a new cult b fpcung on the nation every hour. . . -Iv . Aye, it is true, a true as love or life or death or taxes; and yet the faddist is one of, us; he ha his place; he must needs be reckoned with. Some of the things that were fads pure and simple thirty years ago arc today great princi ple of government. It has been in our time that the faddist was the prohibitionist, "the woman suffragist, the man who thought lqt trrie should be suppressed, the man who clam ored for clean books and dean shows; in fact, the faddists of thirty years ago would be the statesmen of today. And so wc come and so wc go. The cave man didn't care much about breakfast food, he didn't have a fad for jewelry, he didn't change his shirt oftener than once a year because it was a bear-skin garment"; but he played his part. He lived and passed on, and no matter how much wc might want to deny it, he was the bully boy with the vitreous eye who helped produce and propagate the hu man race. A thousand years from now those who come will laugh at the antics of this age; they will call ours the Dark Ages, as we now call the age of a thousand years back yonder. .Men will marvel that we imagined we had advanced far in civilization and yet some of us think the last word has been spoken. o ; J The legislaturcisn't oing to pass the mcdi- j cine bill as it was sent in. The teeth arc com- ing- out, ana snouia come our. 1 ne meaicinc man ha some rights, and wc do not think J North Carolina vill take them away from him. J , O ... The Medicine Law. . If the newspapers would discriminate, would print only the advertisements of legitimate medical concerns throw out the fakes and the sensational advertisements, there -perhaps wouldn't be much need for a new law. The proposed bill which is before the legis lature prohibits newspapers from printing cer tain advertisements those of medicines con taining alcohol. The prohibitionists believe that until the alcoholic medicines are prohibit ed they cannot have real prohibition. Perhaps this is true. But the old originals the medi cincs like Hosteller's Stomach Bitters; Peruna of the old darsvBegs's Dandelion Bitters those erstwhile jag producing medicines are not now in evidence. They 'carried around forty to sixty per cent alcohol. In these days under the pure food law a medicine is not' al lowed to rarry over fourteen per cent alcohol, as we understand it. However it doesn't re quire that much for preservative, purposes, therefore the minimum should be the law. . o . On Their Job. - - The Senate at Washington is now holding down the night shift in the hope of getting through by the 4th of March. It is under stood that if it fails to clean up the proposed legislation' there will be an extra session, and that may mean many a long day. So the dis tinguished gentlemen are working day and sight, and this, too, ia fear and trembling; as there are less than thirty days, and about sixty days work ahead. Bat the hop:U that all will end wtIL . ; it-j" 1 . 1 1 t . 1 t t ' m t m m t rm w a 'Him Ax xfts-vm rtAxw Axxbk tbaiks ITW O BIT MEAL IS LATELT Miss McClary, who ha$iinduccd President Wilson to try the quarter meal twentyrfive cents per feels confident that ultimately there will be a widespread demand for this new-tad. It is claimed that wc all eat too much: that we throw away money, and that accounts for, the high cost of food and thehigh price of living.. The police squad in-New York which started out to try the two-bit meal seems to be pros pering; plenty to cat is the-report, and if it is made a nation-wide . fad naturally food prod ucts will fall in price. : - ... However,. we are not much on the new fad.. Wc think that the poor devil who works and wc are one of. him should have all he can get' to cat, if he wants it If a man enjoys a beef steak and it costs fifty cents; if he has the price 1et him buy it and cat it and enjoy it. There is uu um: iu laiuw money, uui iu, sian out in middle life to chancre the food and the diet doesn't appeal to us. -Once in Boston, when the vegetarians were.- navin tr a pitf Doom . ana a doren restaurants started, we were induced to 1 try the newly discovered route to happiness. r rom vegetables they had imitation butter, urn tation oysters imitation lamb chops and imita- lion everyining, ana 11 a man couia worx up ms -t it ft'..'. f " I enthusiasm, really feel it in his bones, he seemed I to get along. -It was perhaps plainly an exhibi- tionof the mastery of mind oyer matter, but for I our part wc cpuldn t get the thrill. We could I eat a meal of the new kind and then go out and get something to eat. I . Colonel Sam Mulberrv Sellers found amole - 4 to sustain life in raw turnips, but it was be- cause he had nothing else to eat. He also .got up plenty of warmth jn his room by, putting a candle in the stove and drawing upon the im agination.' But any animal we see must have a certain amount of food, and the animal that is weu tea jooics.tnc part. yna so witn people. Wc may disturb the stomach and dieestive orr. gans by -aJ lowing fahcy: copks to fill us. full of. fon;.but;th$ rfian who sits rdown" and .spreads' cr- r.-r:on -!ro- rr a.covnie porternouscstcaici isn'C r-T'ir.j r - ? 43 J with rr.uch;of a grqXich." T We; gcv r u i v iiici ivj .iwcuiy-nvc tenia is hardlf among-ihe-poisibilifies of thisagei-We . - 1 . ... c are talking now about the solid, tangible. stuff.-' xou sec men cai oreaKiast iopa ana insist .tncy have satisfied their appetites. .Why?; Because they were not hungry. But none of us ever saw, an exclusive dinner food. .-Why? Be cause about dinner time the, system has eaten up its fuel and demands something more than com cobs or parched corn. If it were true that breakfast foods filled the bill, there would be dinner foods and supper foods pur upjn pack ages, but they don't do it. . J There is, of course, a difference between the sane man and the gourmand, but air animals re quire something substantial and plenty of it, no matter whether it is baled hay or beefsteak, and man, wc understand, is an animal. : . : o . There is this" happy thought: They, tell us that if the court house is located it will last for at least fifty years. ., Glory be I, We won't be here to chfp in on the. next location. ' o Nothing, in Sight. ; The deficit still climbs up aha those who figure on the future say it will be much larger than now "estimated. -.And the only way to raise the kale seed is. to tax "men who have'it. The American people-'sabmit' to this process. .When the republicans were, in power they had a protective tariff ; the' treasury was always full; and whcn-Groyer Glevelana gave us.free trade he gave us "a bond issue in times of peace. " Again the republicans came into power. McKinley and protection was the slogan.-The. full "dinner pail came to succeed the empty one and we soon had more money than wc knew what to do with. The Spanish war came on and -we turned to the adhesive stamp, to help but, but we didn't ' need "to carry it that far." The revenues were. so great that we stopped-using-stamps- on our checks before the time limit.. There was no deficit. There was no selling bonds.- There was no income tax which Thomas Jefferson said was iniquitous and . we all sailed along, smoothly. -The democrats wanted to give the laboring man a cheap coat, and they took the .tariff oft wool,' and the laboring man pays more for his coat than ever. And so on down " the list. Not only has the . laboring man been , stung, but the rich man has been stung. - Then why not, a protective tariff ? Why go broke on a theory that doesn't pan out? Why not pro tect, the home; industries? Why not levy a tariff on importations; and have money to burn? The only reason is it is a republican policy, and the democrats insist that free trade is quite the thing. We do not believe it. ; Doesn't Get Fax. The "trade at home" slogan doesn't get far, it seems. Sears, Roebuck & Co., the big Chi cago mail order house has just declared a twenty-fire per cent stock dividend increasing the entire capital to seventy-five million dol lars. All but eight million is common stock and the dividend rate was increased on that from seven to eight per cent. Think of the enormous profits this one concern has made, and then wonder if it i possible to get people to trade at home. Seems not ' FAD I (iETllIiBE MORE -'. Senator Allen, of "Wayne: county,; has intro- HIIMAWF. auceq a diu wmcn-wouia aoQiisncapiiai. mm -uu. ishmeni iix, this stated except in cases.-ofcrinC inal; assault, . and then .here ;niast; beii'ipjii more witnesses agaiinsltfthe-defeaidatfticr. 'PM: , We hope this-bill-will become a ::lawCapital-.'sl j age" when .men didrijurder b sport.' To the. age when Draco wrote. his laws' ; ! in ;blood. To : the. 0 age when , ;Tamn)erlanj5t if t butchered people and called-himself ; the" great."' r:s: general; " To many people, there is something abhorrent abontthese judiqal murders. .vy,e . - j noted " in Guilford recently that' many' rav ; ; when asked the quesh-if hey were - opsed; 2 j to capital punhnv;rit 'saidthey were. Jt.ha; ' . been ascertained bv men who make a study of . - : v -. such things that the electric chair does not crease crime. It "has pee claimed .that, otteji -men who should: be found guilty v of -critr espipe altogether .' because j uries will not' frail first degree murder,which means dcatb.--- To put a man up for Ufe..TptaJce"awaxix him forever his liberty.-. To make him work for J the state his full allotted time, is better busines: than hanging him or "cooking him to death "with r -electricity. - The hangman has been a long tinia on the screen.. Human beings ; do . not: ;f j?ar death if they are frenzied and have; murdeia .: . their- heart. When Vthe Prench evolution b&i&i on the headsman had as. many as fifty vyictinlsL a day the blood stained axe of the guUiotinc didn t'stop people from jloing what : the'want ; ed to do.; TherewiU always;bevcriminalsvinc : the r wpridV There willi be acisXofles-bug v; they can be - restrained. - Steel cages' and iron ' , bars and guard s will, protect Society. Capital punishment is believed in by rnany'. ; We have: always been opposed to it . We" have ever in sisted that a life s'eritence' was better for Sb-'H' ciety; " We '' hope the Allen" bill will become! a' ., law. - Perhaps not tHisnimet grad r.;--' ' -.. ; , 1 " , -o m -I..- . ;. .AytJkabwhat-VterMur lose 'hisipbte. want Uba-:iinai"'.16sc:.fh'fc rnoincofle -; -; "o, ." z.r'. .. Uii-: '. V ' -I ''7i- ''Te-Ferncl.-v - r We get oh exchangeorlratn ary, a publication called Our Fatherland, andSti? is the; United States-;organ of Germany, .e last issue . takes a.new iview of the prohibition-; ; question,: and the. leading editorial is to e?eJ4; s fectJthat by declaring it -constitutional "tostbp . jk whiskey from being shipped into dry territory. ; the 1 whiskey, makers thaye, achieved a., notable . :v victory. Then the paper argues that there , is ? yet personal liberty jn'the-breasts ;6f "'men, and that when we finaily havesrearprbhibiti6nHe pendulum .will swing the; other way." .,. , v:fVi. But;we do not believe that now.v; The world has awakened; - Gerrbany.has long been a beer ; 1 drinking and wine drinking country;; arid:there fore has nevermet-the seriousi jprdbleni- of milder 'drinks.1 The v wir has ' shown ' us : that whiskey aud alcoholic beverages zre a' terrible load, and that'is" "why the .; governments of France and - Russia; cut.them put and why JEng- land is seriously consideririg the drink problern. it is our Denei - mat a new .cycie js;,onuiai . whiskey belongs to van age; that; is i passing;; Our Fatherland may' make .itself believe , that x ' some, other day whiskey will .be inviteel back into this countrpir, but we do not think so.' - ;- . . -'.-" - '.'---,.'. y.li - We; frankly admit Ihat' thereis. rnuchvtnys. tifying about the ,whiskey-business." j Herte-in -the United States many-states are. dry in ,f acX , two-thirds : of alfour territory is dry-territory. -and. yet the figures ; from eervenue depart ment show that : the consumption -"of ,whkey was ; greater jh ,1916 .than'; in; any ;year.-ince " 1909, twenty-four, million' dollars more reen'iie. than in '. 19 1 5. ;Now,-How can ;we account Vf or, that? -Some say .that the -fraudulent. whiskey T manufacturers haver been run out of business, but it hardly seems, possible, that there could "c have been so much whiskey; made -which didn't pay reve'nueV In; th is consumed,- certainly' not -one tenth as jffiuch is consumed as under.wetUwsandye , figures show us that there; is an increase! --We would like to understand just hbw to, accoijtjt forthis.: . ' " ; "-K - .: ' l, V- - ' o . r.f- ' - ; - - Getting;1 Better. . ; .. '. ; - : Editor. Varner who; has been looking -after the white paper for the newspapers of the State was in' Greensboro .yesterday and -says the situation is 'getting better; but it will be a long time yet before "newspapers can get; print paper at . the rights price. ; He says - the' only- 5 thing left is. for all. the papers to. join hands and raise . subscription and advertising rates. r He is certain' the.' reading public will . under- stand that such a move is necessary. The 'newspaper publisher is certainly. up agaihst.it, all his profits are being taken. We understand , that most everything has advanced in price V but we know of no hold up like the white paper situatioq. ' v: ,' ! ' : ' o Ezperiencew After all. there is no teacher like Old. Man Experience. Youth thinks it knows it all in about twenty minutespbut ; it-doesn'L. The old er one gets the less he really knows, but. when you tell a kiddie this he laughs at the gray beard and puts him down a has-been; 4 4 mm J!