North Carolina Newspapers

--. " - V . --:: ff ,: For x People Vio vj For Peonle Who - sy AL FMRBKOTIIER rcjurttoy tut i tui. inau corr cajr SATURDAV'i'.AROTjo. 1917. ItAXM AXO OX TKJUXS ESTABLISHED MAY, ioa. u n - . . . . . ; LEGISLATURE NEED NOT MEET C-r-rzmTZ lit ff ltru trr f5 wft as if tt f?7 ar 54- frt tUi tV? 4Ury tco tr-l tec the tuW. Of ti t is tcrrf C2f ft K-rs who A3 A2ci 1 O RCth. i vtn hf ,,4--!-? ifcti 13 t-C A lf'. e 3i:C fft'J A5 hit frr.i!f ca lh ht taUry it cot 5xrr.t 10 - h 4t hrr-.f. Ifc4t tt e-.f c t'ur t- 1: to a!: the ;tc? : ta CilhJKktt i --?! rr. Ihc at?ac tffv:tf U crrtiir.: Sett irt thr ftcf c, v r til So--t A trf"ft-Aj coirr-toa f a ' TtfJ rrvr thai fftf t; h?n Ihr cn-wr.Lff fcfw A" ' s MA by t-ere sft !ha: the !fvtAS"-?r r ftt oc?y ' 1 Why. in aII r-xtl fe? I5:ir 5T c a: a- vhr to? the 5 nca c 1 (fr. e a -a w?: It ha It?. if 't! tv-e !f f.iife r-i-fi oc'.y oa tie 4.-5 rr:t fti. I;rwt V ,? r.ctS to da wh at t 4 , j;a!f if a Uc'-f ik --'4 n rU3 ! vi.-r rr ctf?a-!. a?y a it it f a : ZnTT. . EUSt 1 Ic law 1. e that :.rre icfr.t : t a i!s crrtAia taw,, iht Grrrr h rerIatA!ca ce --r-.--r. t?srx the a crtra.n i-e cr-'rr ce crrtA;a th.-rt It i-4 l-e ! lr arr.tt l Ur.4f?i rc-s!4 u? a! tt:Uts tv r.r d-ty. It C fTAI fT- w J;t A l -!--? C 5 rvf-r? c-rry tt ttifk If r. ht rrxt i "r; it ntfAl -5 rrt e-u,e ta fcre yea ft. A it cow erry Tea. t a4 lurry; h.!? fn! Afri usrrp-a 4. At thr I.4!h ;''! est: r-xa cf aI.:,:? as! nn c-o - -'f 19 j?.r.; c:rr yct.r Atrt r rrl ta " iV-v 4T4 ih-err It rtaty r-thi- dae '-'T-i t--y a?.! r-ea..r. He J.c. j le a c i!T-rJ aw;Sv a a rc.aa c f f rn tt ma atp.re -r rf fV r. 7fvf-r.t! 4f ttyfc-r aa U z j:.i!wfr Uuu. busy men J ... ra r 4 . y h.ttal t;rr.e r-e ir,c!iaa t r,U ta -5h a ry.est- True, w c vecJ b;C i e lfo;te Wc draft thrm. to to i it a- 5 t We 4n f I fasts wi:h Gu.l - fr; 'rrrrU'. i?. a.r it a t' maa - a - r ras-M1 r-a4 e a kAcnce to p 4fl !a!:on and Tvaw yi rna fr r-rl 4 j 4jf aor.r orr Uu? l? r-a h-t wants a lt j ' f a- Mr s 1 a: tr.fte. aaj t rvfi'T trerh rear tct throw inlo .rr at any m j,- d J i r ' t V w- da td i4r:ep ar-4 let the e r- rrr- h; xheme. 1 j - w 4f l:tr - th;r j? ill b har.rr 4 W : A t -r - Wtl I i i--t-itd a I.tr : a maa h i i tjtet irTrtr: a.-id tV '--r a b'i;nc !-- ! r a-4 rtfe i-ary to make " 1 A r. J un:sl ihrn it vt;:j - I jf. 1 n-t e 4 r ? ! -Vtrd ejTfc. Cfctil f-"e a3 k:-. it r.f taw ar-4 a!l l wc C li-:- I ' 'e;rd? tiet ca yaur lilT. 1 Th; it. Icr4 atr for Curort v . r-je tie can tr'-iuce the I y J. to rccua' .1 err I . . 1 to . . . . Q- 'i 1 1 or r w u-t;1 C.ritmA. Do 1 cct;tf i early. I no TAFT COMING TO TALK PEACE H Tre:!er.t TaTi 11 bllletl for a TtAce u!k a Gsrtr.tlTtx It it a!! right to'ulk peicr tt tAle it that eW-itr.:ht of the Anrricjn pei'e reJJ vcrte for fxce At a!1 time, un it t terse ru!im lavockriA ch:p off our toal der. When cAtic&Al ho&cr it Inrolved men rtl f-rh? asJ ytja co-jildn'i keep them from it la the p-rexat crin r.cce of ct wist wir, but if GerTSAay rrtiitt in k;Ur.g AsaeticAa dti rtat we riH hxtx trir. asS ro PeAte cocfer rr.ee ta the trctSJ co!4 ket? ct ot. Unirer a! teACr. wor IJ-wiJe pecr. tt a drefn of LTtrpvA. Frcra the rtt 4r of cinlliAljoa wtr hit Wea a ptrt of it. Ha4 we no wart, what n?sl hafea? Haw lojT t"ncntJ4 it be until t had a rct!i otrrtfoirxle4. and oreffiKeJ? TaW the ffrect war an4 it rr.eArtt that a il lca rcp!e ho a!4 hae been here will cot te here. The rju!"$c&i tlaio on the f.eld of bAt tit a-Ji hae fiaaJljr feetj the wot I J. Dut tie win corrr; rr.ca arc cut Jcn and the pep u!Atoa in thtt way. pcrhapt, baed.Vd. Then the wam cosr.e to lak care of the'percentacc wh;ch it Aien!sreoer.e. which if unxmicl. It i a trve b!l thai if wt ha4 no war ac4 no jht tiJcr.ce ae4 the prop!e who talk thing tarsi tary t-ay petnlrate can be Avoided it would om be lar-c ta the eyelet of firae until' there wcan I l tJAs4tnr room ta the world. The trrra-jccottt gof it a pretty biu piece c real ei!ate. but the cure" thow that the tacreate cf reputation prowt larsrer. There are rwt ftpie bcrn than 4e. at the ncfe po. if wc f ale into arcotrnt the natural pro cm ef depart a re. Ifa4 there bten no wart e.ce e-ur cju4iatioa the wt!4 to!ay rou!4 rrt ates:a-.cIa!c the people who would hare attrmpird la life in it. Thst rr.ay be an eACurc fancy, but it it a fact Wc rr.uH hare omr way to pet ri4 of the oerfow. Ore way it war, the other it farrr-r te" petief?ce or tfueaae. We claim to l trrxfir.:xc etcn tASertcfOMt, which cUiaa tti er-tavan e, cae.rxrurretj trtfrr a; wc 4 "r f f c t-.! ihrrUi: a trir tettziilc rcwareh a fcsjUy ture ihc riS;xa!voa .of tae-"reace i ,-r.atr" drtart a&J have no wart, 00 diteate, mh.at wul we iJa wilb lh efuatlett biJIiOfit whxi mut itrri Maa proji, bul God d;t- the caitrrkc, well orfcre4 and imrnuiable la acJ or-e of thrm it to the effect that we car.r-c, mcrrroWd the worfd. And urJett war c t 'i'.(zc. bow rany yeart wou!d it be the ;n wat tern itandinff Koom joj ctrf thtk c-f thif aa4 isa'l it worth ht-e to oeder cr rr? o Ccenes Home To Rooct. Juii r-txw i4:cr-ARl edticrt are criticising the 5n.a!ft tbo ht-14 up the bill of Irei dent WiJkkt. TKry Are pnr.fi LaFoIette "d&n the cou&try at the thae runt, but l-aKr!!c:ie to blame? Ita't the Senate i:!f to blame? It pad and maintains the ru!c that i!)oi otk man to rtop a!l Jrptla if he hat the iut and the will. A few jrar aa j a f;Ubu:cfir cape 4i lion cf r.r c: cr ether 5nAtcr Allen, a populist from Nrtfai.A. he 14 the 5nasc for over two dart acl r.'htk. He wat a maa of wondrr fcl i:rcr;:N ph sicAly, ar.f when he ten k the he jut: kept oa la!Jkran4 reading, an4 wo'w!4al y e !1 llr gained hit pcrposcbut it ta ere maa locking the whcelt of prog rr il ti rtiia tL' t-tr.tr If rnhfinn iA tniitf. jr- cn 4 ;14 ma at dream. But whobuilt lhc w j. ,te ch',(itM 'izhl come ft was the Senate. That rule it put ia there by the rc!;!;cians for an emergency. i a t:ittt rule. They hare ngurcd' that me day it may be r.eceAry for the cor-terr a Mt maa to hire the power to block lh? whrtU if a wil4 man tries tomcthmg. ' So r are not blamrr.g those who threw the mar-.kry mrch into the Work t we arc blamtr. she klcUberatrre b4y that adoptt ru'rt thai may run it oft the jrack. -There b no real rraun why any tach rule should oh lAia. I rt facxlherf i real reaum why; uch a ruk- thould nc: tlj!aia.an4 whea the Senate, row awaXened and now indignant because its tiul wat defeatfl. realixrt that ii mutt carc i: ru!et And bt horer And decent, the Ntttr it w:i be. IVrhapt the incident of the tc"." K! hi ,rf lh Ircmiv ta ihir.Linf-. Ixl u b?;. v A Wccderrul Crop. : " s "f t .raremtnt u mac that ta FredcrtcK a o county. ircir.ta. zc arp.e crop iar. year amounted to lo million doliart, Oae county frv;urir.j; lwt' million dell art. worth of ap- irx :atemcnt xemtatouscinr. uai the t rc2hti far br 'State Senatrr. Harry who i editor of "the Winchester Star. And a few trees planted at t!t nor many ear ato. Wo::derful how wealth xan br in created if the pr per mean ate taken. The ap'HC ir.4utryof North Carolina grows every rear. . ' , . . . . o . Egs Is Exct. .o matter ulc .'icr it be the geniu t ctowne egg t rggt at thirty-fire. the romcr. thod. a d- icTU Ar.d an o!d hen -oa trie, ob gets mere than she cer got just a living,. ON MAN 1 3WER j - . IN ilERIGA Whateer elte maylte Oii!ntf nHrrrr it ran said 'araintt. the nev er - b . ch a rged with the erime of noti "staadinr behind the Ireldent.- With itgz.llto the Wilson ad- r.nrfiilon it hat acx? rud liter ally ana un wateringly the idea!' af itudc of the men. in the rank toward a lcidry at deteribed by Mr. Tcnnyton in his facui poem: Under the head of " SeH-impor'tant Con creiimcn that loyal (zr.d oncompromittoij The disposition " of- rre of thei-con- 7 prettmen to make, th-. President divulge -the .tecreu . of the ?...r.merma&a . letter ; taort of a petty tplrlt vf jealousy. They 'appear to beliere .thit' cor.jfreti ihould. have had the iftforraa'a' along" with the IVeisdent't request kr rowera to taktr the tituation in hard that "itr waa duo ccngreti the whole "r.Tatter' thould have been laid firat before Uj It ia somctiraes" to the adrantage of ' rovemment not to reeal teereu of thii ft. arid that PreiT dent Wilton did not feci al liberty to take cocp-ett and the country into his. confi dence at the time cxrtit the supposition . that he had ample rcisor.t for not doinp to. That the letter i.f;couinc there, is no doubt What concern it it to confcrrets ' how it was secured? ; If ihc trovernmcnt Were to make public? gutter of that'aort;' how lonu would the iecret service be "of, any uc to it? Some cfor-ebmeo appear to'lhink thcmselres tjjjrjcr than their." country. Manifctily in rccctrt day aome have completely Iot jsigh; sof sentiment ", back home. ' - . . ; : We may be entirely wroq'g-, but wc are cannot tubacr:t5e rawhU .wc UD- the. life and.libcrty as .well as. the honor, ef the r-eople. they were elected to represent. Wc behcrc they have a .right to know and thou! 4 be made to bear their part of the re tponwbility which no one man., no matter how wic or great, should, be allowed to carry alone in a country profcting to be "democratic and governed for and by the people. . " , We would like for the Observer to explain why reproentatircs should be made. the suV jectt of ridicule, as appearing "to' think them tclvca bigger than their country?" Who is their country if not the people they. represent? And if presumption on the-part of ccmgTess at a collective whole to imagine ittelf "bigger than their country, how about one man im agining himself Iriggrr than the collective cenrrett? - Thit it not, at wc have .before stated, ques tioning in any way the ability or the judg ment of the President in handling the situa tion, but wc are' against the principle, and practice of any one man power in free .and democratic America. "Die trouble with the Observer it that it teems to be obsessed with the old idea that "the king can do no wrong." And a a hero worshipper it certainly goes,th? limit ",.i - o . . .'- Ought Net Happen. , . v Jdooney, the labor agitator of San Fran- cico, hat been sentenced to ceatn.. .inis, we think, should not happen. Mooney may have used hit mouth too much in other yer$, but he wasn't tried for that. Although. that seemed to convict html The explosion of the bomb wasn't absolutely put at his door.' The cift cumstances were strong, but when we get' A man into court he thould come as pure as the beautiful snow save the indictment- against him. True, previous ch-iracter can be proven good or bad, but if a man is charged with the specific crime of murder the fact that he stole, a horse ten years before should not enter into the equation. That he stole a her s-e might be used to show that his chara'cter was bad,' but there arc other men with bad characters and they 'were not accused of throwing the bomb.' If all men of bad character wrVe-marshaled A&d tried for the ofTene it would be different: We have no sympathy in-thb world with, the labor agitator. We are understood on that. Hut wc have read the evidence in the Mooney cae and it never looked to us like conclusive. Naturally in , San Francisco i -they get a charKC to crucify a man they do it, bat there thould be an ajpeal' in this. case. Mooney should be given the benefit -of the. doubt, and let tubtequent events .attempt -to help, him ; but to hang him on circumstantial-evidence of the kind it was doesn't square with, our idral of justice. - : , ! . r ' . . ': : ' . . . -O ... . . t Again we g!ide- along with a Qimatc as Gloriou a Any under the sun. ' Tomorrow it may le and all" lc raining, but the sun-1$ shining today the men you meet ik if this isn't About At fine as anything you ever saw.' - It it; Mike, iris. ; .... ;- - - i . m . . j t r.MAv f Hit irt. 1 m 1 . . . 1 - - 1 . wry. nnui iuukjiw .mv v- 1 1 ;ceptea;:ai-A:compromise.pyrtnc mouse,: .1 v.breakr through the ioird -of ,"M -v y. t" .1- .tiorca unoer.xne .nnnuencp .ox:an. aucaueuc . i . rred ta barrier and: soate her: the 1 'r:- :-:v .1 ;i - : . ? ' -1:7 .u!i. J ? ,P.nr: cwcrirroirr.oitw.-pms.rxq v : timty.and distrape;of passifrthe" m are ir.e .tria :-; IJ i . : tr.ztH nct xt its ttefc;v ivt -1 ; derahe tame xoofLtH-dra act oiunaiy oo mturet invoig erert -.this crudtincr rcfornfprJvarerr to - Only a few. days novr-until-January. 1030. day. The ground-hog- is -perhaps trying to The "New York Then the prohibition biirwilhbe.complctc: And; make. Rood:ia: the last" days, fearful: of being isnt that a joke per there will b a ration dry. ' - v -.' V ' AJtnvhitatcd;.: " -'rh' . , x- ,f- t r';- V : - SOUTH FORGETS THE FORGE BILL Editor!" Gray ."enthused" too. soon. The .supposedly perfect- bill which Senator Turr. ner had drawn with gTeat care And discnmi- nauon. Appearing. to Anncipaie every pnase 01 prison, life and discipline and . providing" a remcdy..for the conscienceless brutalities le gally practiced in this cnlichtenedf?) Chris- .tian:ttate. was on too. high. a plane, it seems, to be-understood or appreciated by. an ele ment, from eastern North .Carolina, . wmch "dings to. flogging as a tenet of its1aith.";r . The Raleieh Times does not attempt to conceal its disappointment over the .failure of the! Turner bill to-passC unanimously,' in its original form,, as 'expressed , in .the following: . After a brave show upon the first two . readings the senate -'adopted a substitute amendment to the Turner prison reform bill, which permits the "infliction of cor- , poral" punishment on convicts .of theflow est grade :estaWished by; the Act. " Itprp - tides that the strap may" be used when all other -methods fail. It requires the-' presence of a" supervising physician to direct the executioner in his work, and provides also' that the 'chaplain shall bet among (hose in attendance ; Thus' with authority; and the cloak of the church! a 'Christian state; clings to "'the scourge jas. ; the final -argument, its intelligence can bring ' to bear upon an "incorrigible" prisoner.. "' ;;' ' ' ' v ) There is this to be said for this sur--' render ; of thejust principle of mercy' written in Mr. Turner's original measure. It will sax-e the indiscriminate whipping of convicts in-' the care-oT the state. It will take away from' the infliction 'of tor- rure .the dansxr tf 'death .'or permanent .disability. And.it is expected to be ac- grudging r cf otot di wva gery prison '.'ctmpsr. does not ", extend 'to the " ;cduntiein avhich Jiundreds X3f;men are " .working out rentences ".imposed :upon: them by the' state, authority, r These men, formerly -entirely forgotten - but -by . the Turner bill put partially under supervi sion as kr camps and sanitation, still are left to the mercy of their guards. On the county' roads there are. scores of prisoners like, the boy Jacob's -so 'brutally whipped in Wake, -who have done nothing more.' than offend .against-'town, ordinances.. These .men. it is to be supposed, still will be whipped at will, till their backs are .blistered, their spirits broken and they arc- turned out at .- length the finished criminal product, cringing through , life, t . For ; them there are . no "gradations." i .For them there "is no sweet privilege of: boing .whipped '.in' the .presence of the high "authority and- with the preacher looking on. For. them is no benefit of clergy... They will remain the- forgotten men, except when society, suffering erup- -t ion, searches from .time to time for the 'cause and observes their contagion; . which it 'creates for; itself -with a leather strap. , - .... . " AH -of which moVts urto ask: What is the matter, with casicrn North Carolina anyway? Time was. when to be 'from eastern . North Carolina Was much the same as being frbmi Virginia; or CHarrestbn, or Boston, don't- yer Icnow? " Eastern North Carolina was the cen ter of culture "and 'hospitality' and religious sentiment. .' ; : ' ' '' . : ; '. . . Dut.how the mightyhave fallen if the atti tude of a "certa'n element' under. the -influ ence of which the legislature -.is persuaded to "fling to flogging as a tenet of its faith "'is to be taken" as representing the moral and intel lectual status of the erstwhile proud and chiv alrous people'who were .wont to refer to other sections as. beyond the pale of social or politi- cal 'recognition.. ' True, there.are many good people in eastern North Carolina many of the brightest and best to be" found anywhere in .the state.. But it is in evidence that thesc'best. people are no longer in the ascendency.. Isn't it about time that the good and intelligent people of eastern North Carolina, asserted themselves -in-an.' ef fort to' redeem that, now discredited "section from the stigma put upon it' by the perpetua tion of a'systcm entirely out of harmony with the'age inwhtch we are living, arid which puts an otherwise great state in a most Unenviable light .before 'the word -where Humanity, and Frogfcss walk hand, inland? . . " ". . ' . . . ".","' -o '.'; . ; " The 'Austrian Note..:' ' . : Austria scnds as a note. ; Uncle" Sam will consider it.; Looks like" we had but more notes than, we could'ever-redeem,' and.it looks like the note. business ts.thc'bestia'nd only evasive way. . Diplomacy is One thing doing things -is another; i . f . .. - ji . The Glorious Qimatc Came back aga-.n. to- FORGOTTENMEN THESE COWIGTS --- X . The New York Herald writes an-editorial' which finds in. our heart a response that would make us walk, if necessary, to New York to. see that the garne ended even. -It appears that : a shop girl ; was accused of tnet,rand she s wasn't guilty. She was thrownTinto. a: cell and i ' passed a night . of wretchedness - because .'a cheap, skate with a star-thdught-heTiiaol-some, rights. The ' Herald, which . doesn't " often burst-into indignation, says:. ; :. uj.;.. ' ' ; rT "If the city had spent $?6(&i&biffid- ' ing a' prison and court for the exclusive . : "use of women in difficulties little Frances , Kelly,: arrested on a "false chargeripplck . ing. pockets and forced to -spend-a5 night , in a' police 'cell, 'would not hve felt she . had been in jail. She would Jhaye had' a . . -nice room with a nice.-clean bed. and; with' curtains on .the. window, 'and . she would have been -out -of hearing of bad lan- guage." . . This is the official excuse for. one of the ' grossest official outrages the city has" wif- ; nessed in years.- '. : 'v -v - : .- " It has become the fashion of officials, to " excuse stupidities and ' shortcomings 'of - -their administration by pointing efse- where and saying,- "They- would give s .- no appropriation." In this-case the - ex- ' - cuse is a mockery. If this energetic young . shopgirl - had been . a.- social: outcast ;the -board of city magistrates' foresight would have - permitted her to be. arraignedr;at :once, without a $700,000 appropriation; ior a building with curtains at the windows. A prbfessional bondsman ' at he - policei' station probably would have ; spared her - r . the indignity, of going to. conrtvin the cus ' tody, of A policeman. But she-was proved innocent in the police station. nd yet 'ap- . parently-. ho. potic.e reffqrt .;was. made . to' . magistrates. sndigT htrunr -is.of.tcr" . blame for An "act: thftt stirred i theLwhdle .city's ire.-) The. blame. rests' on those wtho : administered, a; law r with a stupidity-that; matched the brutality-of . the man whqt iti sisted on sending, the: girl ..to a cell after she had proved her. innocence. '' : To -know that New York was stirred';! to know . that,' in the , greatest city . in the world T when : a shop . girl, .virtuous and . honest, . had . been wrongfully ' accused, there - was "an.. exhibit of that thing which men call -decency, pleases us. ' 4 - " : . .. "-. The. woman wasn't guilty she should have v had her. hearings ' But a low-browed official, - somewhere, wearing, a star and. presuming he t was -the. mighty Mike-of the Pike, threw her into jail and; caused .her to suffer, humiliation : which.no woman should have' had offered her. We: are glad the New York Herald took: the I pains to rnake editorial- mention of ah ."out- rage, not against .one woman, but against k many- - ' : ; .' -. 1 . 1 ' '' ' '; : . ' - - O : : " . ' :- ; -; ' When AH Butt In. - ' A case has just been - decided at Fremont, ; Ohio, which was one of the most interesting in the criminal -annals of-the-country. A man. named Kisc.r was accused of "poisoning his wife. ' He maintained that she was poisoned by eating contaminated oysters.'. The carse Was started in 'December and has been on , practically, daily . ever :' since. The. wife died . the year, before and gossip . kept whispering that.Kiser had killed her.- Several times' the body was examined, and. the cost to ' the countywas'over forty thousand, dollars, .with 4V the result tnat nnaiiy in two nours a jury, re turned a verdict of .not guilty. 'This was per- ' haps all right. If Kiser was' innocent and vrongfully accused, had it cost r forty times ; forty thousand dollars he shoMd , have had -the benefit of it. 1 But St does .seem ;in all rea- son-that to run a murder case three months at a "cost of : forty thousand dollars to ;thef county,' to say nothing of what it cost the defendant, suggests that there is something , wrong" i- the system. Any "murder 'case ' should be gotten through with in' ten 'days, ' unless, it is simply a grandstand .exhibition for lawyers engaged on, both sides to. make ' all. the show they can. In fact, a week should TJe" long ' enough . to establish or disprove all that could be claimed." ' : O . ; The Fun Of It. ' . l t. Thp New .York! Times for -a long time-has carried: in one of its ' boxes Jhe -proposition, "All the news that's fit to print and. we all know that the( New York Sun elaborated the proposition that it "Shines For -All." That is all right.. But . to see the. New York Hetala carrying- on its right-hand head box t'All the News That's Fit To . Print" and oh its let-. ) hand head box "It Shines For All" shows that the younger Bennettin his old daysisyhaylrfg -some fun. Imagine -the"; New York; Herald shining for all. . : Imagine1 that it got 'down; off . its p'erch and saw some fun in the boxes car- , , ried at the mast head.; Of course Bennett can - afford- to have this fun, but :it seems cruel Herald It Shines For All se?:.-: . - . .... . . . -'-i - - v...... . - . - - - - c f -1 1 -i - - I