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wa rroven
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than r-f th-juar4
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afrr to krrp h. aftal figure
at the r-a:hea ! cf h
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circulation.
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4
ct cf th? Hcrr.e Jocr
til
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. ar-d th-e n-.:";n. co-.Mr 51 !.
Kp cf pfv!c dra !. r-.o e! away and
tSf.-:- tie f "3ua:;.on in thr wa:c
We Kate a pt c f"rl;e t in this town
Vi-se
ha ! it f -e cral yearv I.verr now
we rcTie r-r.e c;
lhe rr.M-.ati a
ta
cn
who
't tern hf?e f . e ca!
bat h at one
rr,r a!d.ed to
11,
a. I they
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we !1 a
the name ct the
that t horn we
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ar!
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ha r
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a l-ol rf m-n r.ey or.e
c!am lhruA??d
en he had tat a few
a- !
t
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fihy. actf d:rg tn t!
k.e
that
s th-uar. 1 evargera-
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l-t it c-t h n hurruatsn
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wa
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K.t whrri ihe
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we!! alarm
her t
of ar
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a r e.fiJ f-e h: l-rasrf
In T.c Air.
e r-ut l in thr ar tc f e
tV't-. I r it'taie. in Irf.
4 I
war ne-w
rci the? ftc
l!rfcn
.-jo'jrr.:rtg in
thf-.r namr to the con-
it
1 ta ratMr
battalion
to
ar. 1 tn;..
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at :
'd f-r da! v i rca !v 10
V ttx t the war ptrt! the
? fr 4!vr iiicr here, where we
1 ' f ic; ;!:r. hnefmgoer
w afr r S r4 1 r-g the 1;! tf ihe
! ar- ! r,-.M;rc. we pay but
v h.4!
h4p.rr.;rg. Ijel th;
c
-e ' e-J t -marine: let
hr!
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r e appfthendH an!
esrry American citi-
f 1 r
I tl. ar.d hell rrl
under
txr,l ta
h
march, T4t i the
;
tccmirTta um a tui. at&ui cort a cxrrl ,
A - V
EASY TO RAJV .'
LARGE RMY
r ccuni then' J : fcftycicht
t Ihev ruU:rltt4 o 11 nol loni; ago
ytair
itai ttr ftaliy Ion track of cm ana u cca
:a:e rrr la cire bat ttn thcrjiand vu!'jstccr f
tKry wtvlA practical! fc'.l the frit call.
!!--! ihc f.nt call be (o'.'.owed by a fC
col ca'.i- It will take no le than a million
.-U;rT ;o tale caxe cf thinj in thit coantry.
Thrte are tit mithca Gerrran-Arr.encar. tn
thu or.try and one m:.'.Jon ix hundred thoti
4T. J Gtrtnant who are um natcralued- Take
it (rotn u I hit blood i thkkrr than water, and
tnny of thr-e German
tcr;e
arc zvir.g to
many of them will have trouble, and it
w:i take 14;er to keep the r-eace. Zio doubt
alout thit. The German ipe in t hi country
arc r'c:ifttl. Hailrcad bridjre will be wreck
ed with dynamite cr.lo carefully CuardH;
lunneU will be blown up. terminals dearoyed
an! all of isicrrul trouble unlet the
vc44;er are on duty. And in thevc forty-eight
ftate will be found enough territory to re
quire at leat xeral hundred thousand to
ratrol it.
So it xtn tafe to av that a million men
mut raUed at once; that mean an average
of a hitle more than twenty thwdand to each
tate: and it would seem that to raie a mil
be n men would be an eay tak that tkey
wo!d respond to the f.rl call. It is conferva
tit ely estimated that oar fighting strength it
at leat len million: to it would seem that eas
ily one-tenth of Ihat cumber would be anxious
and eager to join. Hut one thing about it if
the refonc. because of the general lack of
er:huam, int heird Uncle "am ha sraya
JK? Jcr. and preito! ibemia who arises
in the morning ana sweareto inai ne win nn
go ta war finds himself at the recruiting
o,T.c bncfore breakfast and the beans art
sjnltrd. He autcmatically become a aoldier
under orders, and no matter what he think
alxul it he must go and fight. That is one.of
the rule of a free country or a monarchy.
The man who enjoy the rights of cititenhp
can be force! to fight for hi flag, and hi only
.vc; of escape li to-Atbe coalry aul he
can't often da that. In the old day men who
d dn'l want to fight h:red substitutes. Wheth
er that opportunity new exist we do not
know. Mseo Groter Cleveland hired a man
la reptrsenl him a the battlefield. Out in
the day we take it that all loyal cilixen
who are able bodied will gladly respond.
o
The .New York Herald regret mat we
j hae r-a rati ing song for the army, and sag
J ges that songvmilhs get buy. It thinks
"TKere a hot time in Cuba tonight
wa
will
wvrth while. Let u hot the atrocity
r- t I rr;eate4.
o
The Difference.
North CarcXna inl Ihowini; much wai
j',nt. The North t all aSame with war and
war alarm. Down here we are no: enlist
trg ta bct the band; we are walking around
and wondering what will harpen. Hut wait.
North Carolina inl scry wift in ome thing.
he a amcrg ihe last to ecedc in the old
day, but when she finally got organized and
gxt n motion he wa ct to muic. She"
fought an! hc kept on fighting with the
demon of a tsger or a madman. She never
gate up. and when she finally get herself in
rea l;ne to lake part in ihe war now n you
can count on the Old North State to deliver
her hare of the gwd. She will be there and
her ovce will be in ihe thickest of the fray.
"Oval 1 North Carolina. We are not worrying
rr her apparent apathy jail now we are
waging to set her in action. And she will act.
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And ""en daring of ihe war" we upccl the
man with the child labor bill will take a day
o'T,
And FiraUy.
And. finally after telling ihe people lhal if
ihe !re;dent wanted war he Mould vote for
it. Gum Shoe Bill Stone voted against the
resolution, We fear Mr. Stone will find but
few frieri la endorse him. When he voted
againt giving Ihe Ireident aatljortty lo arm
he wa within hi right and hij an un
f oubtH right to vote a hi conomcc die
latcl. Hut when he saw that war wa on;
when be- aw that ihi country wa going to
wage war with Germany, and it wa mcntai"
blr, then wa ihc time for him to come into
camp, a he a J he would. Hut he remained
out tide and will go back to Minn;ri lo seek
vindication. Hut it will hardly come hi way..
o
When It la Bone Dry. -
men in .pftn varoima wr.u ci whiv
key and
rc a few months on the road or
(vii a fine ihmk Ihe hardship of life arc some
ihs'ng trrriMc. but they grt off very easily
compared to what UlurcKnisr in Mexico. A
d;ra:h from Juarez say that General Kran-
it ro Margie, cttr.rnar.drr of the ncrihca stern 'j crty. God knows the. stripes, insignia of dis
v.lstary rone ha iMued an order lhat any.t grace and dUhonor, arc burden enough. But
man guilty of selling liquor thill be put to
death and ra riuestion aiked. Three saloon
kcoet at Chihuahua City have been execut
cd fcr violating the General order, and
tlial inl a bescdry country, what i it?
if
SATURDAY. APRIL 7. 1917.
THREE BILLION
FOR FIRST YEAR
The first .dash out of "the box'the depart
ment want over three billion dollars to start
the war. Three billion dollars, my-on think
of I hat. Three billion dollars, and that will be
but a drop in the bucket. Out this Nation
can raise three time three billion in a very
short time. It cost money to murder people,
but when it i necessary to go into the murder
ing buvines it should never be done in any
half-way fashion. England ha spent more
treasure than she was supposed to possess;
Germany' treasury aecms never to run short,
and now that Uncle Sam is going into the
buincs we will show the, world that we can
raUe more money than any of them.
Three billion dollars constitute a sum that
staggers the mind, even io tlVse days of big
figure. Just how we will raise it is not
known, but when the Union was fighting the
South it eemed that there was no end qf
mone;. The last,, resort will be the Grecn
back.'tf we want to put it outthree billion
of Uncle Sam's I O U'a will pas current' with
the merchant without any bullion piled in
the vault to make it good. In other words.
Uncle Sam's personal notes for. thirty, billion
are just as rood a cold, and therefore there
i no chance to cripple us in money matters
-o
Naturally the German sympathizers don't
like what's coming, but the roan. who skulks
when his country calls Well, they used to
call "em traitors. :
o ,
The Negro It -All Ritht.
Before we have talked about the negro
scare. , An interview with President, Dudley
4 vf the ArTiculruYatud Technical College
set u all at rest concerning the negro's
place in this forthcoming war. Dr. Dudley
says lhat when the Star Spangled Banner
wa sung by the student body of his college
he never saw such enthusiasm, and when
thost students were asked if they would go to
war, with one wild acclaim they said yes.
Not only the student, but the faculty pledged
support to the flag and the. country.
And we note that in Wilmington a negro
regiment is being organized; we see that
Charlotte i also filled with loyal black men;
and we will wager most anything we possess
that when the call i made the African in this
country will be found as loyal as any other
race.
We are glad that this i true. The rumors,
baed on the stories printed in the northern
pajrs, caused some concern down this way,
but happilv the stories cannot be verified.
We had information yesterday that the
New York Tribune of that morning carried a
cock-and-bull story from this city telling
thing that are not true. One story was that
ihc planter were organizing bands to repeat
the horrors of the Ku Klux days but that
wa moonshine on a shovel. The negro is
understood down this way, and he isn't listen
ing la any siren voice. And Ihe Germans
know better tkan to undertake to organize
hni.
-o
A Good Law.
Th last legislature made a law that stops
the hirinn out of convicts to corporations and
individual. Thi was a long needed law.
This tatc has a whole lot of worthless stock
in railway and things on paper, paid for by
the sweat of men in strite.
1 Society should only demand that its wcak
! er brother be restrained. It has penitentia
ries to top the depredations of the wicked.
It wa never intended that a man should be
caught, chained and put to work to enrich a
state. Such barbarous-conduct does not be
long in a Christian land. The convict is an
unfortunate man. The more wicked a man.
the more unfortunate. Often hi wickedness
i ihe result of dicae. The truth is that no
convict wa ever happy. He may be a bluffer;
he rnav aume an air of merriment; he may
laugh and he may scoff and he may jeer; but
in n licari fie is wreicncu. in 111s nours 01 j
lonelino. when sleeping in his cage, with j
Iron bar lo keep him there, he talks to him- s
self, he look back over the trail he has I
walked, and he is an unhapyy and a mUcr-
ab!e man. '
t t I r 1
And what Society should do i tu soend
time and rnpey and cjtarity in attempting to
reclaim this, fallen brother. It sdiould make
lite prison af reformatory rather than a death
hou and al.Vweat hop. It should try to
Uplift and mjljio further degrade and debase
the unfortunate who has surrendered his lib
.to hire him, to, try to make a little gold out
of lu boor wny, sucn a inougnt, is repulsive.
Wc arc glad our state ha gotten away from
thi custom which would fut to shame the
barbarian brigand.
03f tXI-B AT TVS XIWI IT1XDI AKD OX TKAXHS
GUILFORD MAN
ORGANIZING
Mr. Edward W. Myers is calling for a hunt
dred.men to join an engineering company,
North Carolina national guard, and it looks
like such ah undertaking should be easily ac
complished. This is a splendid chance for
the young man who. Wants to serve his coun
try, and those who, expect to respond to the
call shou'd respond quickly.
The average young man in Greensboro
hasn't yet felt the thrill. We indulged too
long in watchful waiting and too long regard
ed our .President as a man who had kept us
out of war. Naturally the young man con
cluded we would be forever kept out, and, we.
take it, accounts for the apparent lack of en
thusiasm and patriotism everywhere mani
fested in the South.
But the thrill day will come. One of these
mornings, when we read that "one of the Ger
man submarines has shelled New York or
Boston, when we read of something happen
ing a little closer at home than the shores
across the seas, we will all get busy and go to
looking for a gun. It may be necessary for
speakers to come and instill in the mind of
the average watchful waiting patriot that now
is the time to enlist.
The inducements offered by the engineer
ing company should appeal to ill young men
started a-nd completed by next year. And
when it is completed Guilford will have as fine
a building as there is in the state. All of
which will be a matter of congratulation, and
especially to the broad-minded Commission
ers, who are not going to do things by halves.
o
Judge Boyd In Good Health.
It is a remarkable record Judge James E.
Boyd has made as Judge for the Western dis
trict of North Carolina. Holding office foi
seventeen years and never missing a single
day at court except the October terms lasi
year and the November term at Asheville.
Because of a temporary illness; nothing seri
ous, the Judge passed up his-Charlotte court'
for this week and will hold court there next
week. The report was sent over, the country
that he .na.Un.caPJ5itatetLaj?dl trrat ,V Judge;
wouiu nave 10 oe appointed to taicc nis piace.
'While this sfory was fresh fhe Judge was at
his office in this city in fine spirits, attending
to business. He held his December term of
court here and the business of the court is
right up to date no litigants .suffering be
cause of delav.
Judge Boyd is over seventy years of age.
That is what causes the bunion to burn. The
democrats had slated a patriot for this place
and Judge Boyd didn't die and he. didn't re
sign and then the policy was to smoke him
out by repeated stories that he was incapaci
tated. If there is any shame left in the man
who would willfully circulate such lies in or
der to get a piece of political pie he should
awaken to a scne of duty and crawl off some
where and himself, rather than the Judge, give
up the ghost.
Judge Boyd feels that so long as he can
render c(ficicnt and acceptable service it is his
duty to remain on the bench. , And he will do
this and all the laws they can pass will not
retire him. He is appointed for life, and if he
is physically able to conduct the duties of his
office he cannot be removed so long as his be
havior is good. The constitution guarantees
him this protection, and all the hurry-up dem
ocratic laws made to take care of the politi
cally orphaned and fatherless ones would
avail nothing. But it is shameful that an old
man should be harassed by reading daily" re
ports that he is a dead one.
o
Good Old Summer Time.
Who says this is not already the good old
summer time? For we read in the New York
papers that Barnurn fi: Bailey's, circus has al
ready given its opening exhibition in that city,
and looking over the state papers we sec that
Sparks' circus is doing the smaller towns of
North Carolina.
The animals arc out in their cages; the
sawdast ring is on; the fents are new, and the
clown's jokes arc Jd, all of which is n6t only
a harbinger of Spring it is Spring, it is sum
mer itself.
In the old days we liked the circus.. In fact,
wc would walk ten miles to follow the old
wagon shows into town. Wc would, indeed,
carry wrtcr for th; elephant, arid wc would
join the Mrcct parade. But in these later
years wonder if wc arc getting old? the
! - in,
queen of the saddle and the spangled prince
somehow well, looks like past history, and
wc can't enthuse. t .
-However, if a jam-up circus comes along
this summer wc have half a notion that we'll
4nr1 1 M T ill-' nl tno rilnrl xt'irrnn , K a
look at the street, parage, and maybe, as the
day grows on apace, we'll venture out to the
gTounds and, yielding, step inside the main
tent and stay for the concert.
O
And now Old Glory i floating in this land
of the brave and the home of the free. The
stars and stripes will perhaps be floating in
the barred zone and Americans will man the
ships. Terrible to think about, but there are
millions ready to do and die if need be.
o ,
Good evening! Have you run out your flag
yet? If not, why not?
ESTABLISHED AfAY, igo'a .0
CLAUDE KITCHIN
VOTES WRONG
1
When it came" time, to vote on the -Senater -i
resolution declaring , that a state of warnow;
exists between this country and Germany, and -
authorizing the-President to proceed to fight,VS
Claude Kitchin, of .North Carolina, made : a . "
great-speech against war and voted no". .. Het
would not follow the President and the.sentiHy
ment of the American people, and in. makingf
the speech he made he threw a damp blanket..
on the fires of patriotism. He tiid more. He." ;
used his place as leader of the House to sug-;, :
gest to citizens that thev had no moral right
to wage war with Germany: he wanted ti v.
bring-England in for an indictment, and alto-i ?y
gether his speech was far from what we had;;;
expected to hear from a Kitchin. . 'v :'-; -;.fCW
We have hitherto boomed Claude Kitchin
for President. We have insisted, that he was. v
presidential timber, but we must withdraw,
our conclusions and we must insist that what.
he talked, while absolutely within his rights,';
lacked the metal and the patriotism that we
thought were his. This is a time when Presi-; ;'
dent Wilson must needs have with him thev
moral support of the country. In the old days 0
when men skulked in duty they were called ,
copperheads; they were called traitors.' Whilely
Mr.. Kitchin said nothing treasonable nor did
anything suggesting, treason, he shot off -a-; '
most eloquent mouth at a time when silence,
if he couldn't, endorse the Inevitable) would Vf
indeed have been golden. ' ' ; " l;
Fifty Congressmen voted no. Those fifty
votes mean a great deal tp the enemy. .w What . -we.
should have. had under the circumstances ,
was a vote without oratorical, opposition. AvU
The members opposed to war knew they were p
hopelessly in the" minority. Thev knew that
the resolution would .be passed. They knew
theirjjpposition was nil, and, it seems to us. as
we grasp Patriotism by the back of the t k
and look into its face, that Patriotism, would .
have suggested that if they "couldn't vote-forv
the measure there was nov particular ueatfH
this time to follow in the footsteps of Baalajn'si
ass--and Jalk. They could have kept still and
2&U&i C butljtseem;ed UhaXhgaetlep
were'-packed; that tEe "press Wa'rifed:thesen- :
sation : that, it might, be a good - gamble in '
after years to tell the Nation through liistory
that "they told you so." . ' v : i-:
We confess we are disappointed in "Mr. '
Kitchin. He has been our candidate for Pres
ident; we have admired him for his-bravery,,
for his utter independence, and commended:
him for speaking his mind. But we take it, at ,
this survey, that he made a fearful mistake.
The Nation is going to call for several million .
men, and speeches like Kitchin delivered are
not calculated to make the blood leap high. -The
several million men will come if it. -is "
necessary to resort to drafting them but how
much better it would be to see them volun- r
teer, rather than be jerked up with a rope and
tackle to the recruiting office. And a few 1 "
speeches like those delivered by Kitchin -adroitly
usedby the peace talkers and pacifists. ;
will do infinite-harm, and certainly no good.'.;
True, Kitchin claimed the right to let poster- I
ity know where he stood, and his speech' be---v
comes a part of the Congressional Record, the
history of the Nation's. Congress. But he
could have left to Rosetrity a nobler heritage. :
He could have said that while he didn't be
lieve in war, a majority of these people had V
elected Wilson their President and he felt it -could
have left to posterity a nobler heritage. .' ;;
his duty in this crisis to gve hm and the na-
tion all the moral support at his command.- .
But Kitchin didn't do that. His speech
showed that he had carefully prepared ithat -what
he said was the result of deliberation .
and meditation prayer, he claimed. The war '
is on, ana Mr. js.ir.cnin stands before the Na-.
tion as -one who used his talents to assist the
enemy. That is the incontrovertible deduc-, '
tion, and we are sorry. J:z:??H
o
In all this rush over the war stories do not
forget that this is clean-up week, and all of -:
us should go to var on the rubbish and filth, -5 V
thus saving , us the trouble of going to war '
with disease this summer. y
: J ' 'C-h
Painted It Yellow. ,:-:-''r
The headquarters of the Peacemakers in s ?
Washington were painted yellow the .other Y.-.V;
night and the literature -was destroyed. This
was carrying the thing a little too far, but it
suggested that there is some patriotism in ,
Such conduct, however, does no good.-r Jt
only separates factions and right now all::
loyal citizens should stand united. There is -no.
telling what may happen, and when a man
fights and sees that he is -whipped, as the '
pacifists certainly are, it is time tp come into ;
camp, quietly surrender and join hands .with
the majority and help out. All citizens save a - V
small percentage favored peace, but when ; '
Germany made,war it was necessary that all- jy
patriotic citizens come in . and 'end a hand tp ' v
help whip Germany. Wilson waited too long, X-J
but he finally got it right, and back, of him
should be every American citizen. - ; v f v
And now that Bird Coler is. talking of runfi'y
ning for Mayor of New York all will wish him," - ;
well. Why didn't he remain down here and; ,
run for Commissioner of PubUc Safety? C
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