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t-i wh ih 4harr.r! to lite cf iff;4
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trsni:! est ?ett Nfii. RoeK-rrH
I.t4 r f ert.tt j-jt fc the cr;tf
t the Cftii Ar.ffCA3 w-!4;rf cr.irr a
:;!! fcf4 1 cf :r!?t,
,r..J he h-3c!4 he fira a csr.r.M-A of
h xhf 5 f4r.V. The ifrrtT ris-r cni4 te
--C'itfi. Ar.i 1! rcI4 i;4 th4t any Ct-r?'-
ffc: cf the lTs,;ic4 5t4:e t4t c ::;lte Id
tv J.t4;-e-TTith There hesrr twt
r:-j4 I f?.s!f4 ct if any arr.Mt;t frtv
r fc frictf ! thlt ther. tr ci!4 if
r the h xh t;:!e if they hd-j! S f f t t-e
t irriirr,S TKi ;!4 t-e dafirg
:f?-;rffJJ! il tn'i!4 t t!4h!:h;r Z frw4r4
i ?Ve rr.m hi ttt at ienicntt. No
. K-so-'Mrtelt co--!4 r.4 tit;!4 rr.iVe f-or4-f
t: c l a hoe Nsofi tuIJ i4lt
t-.Tf? r: in htr? hit y-4t poJjJXAl l-c-"iu'i
t.l t-e f-f3"ehe iU he hfa
frrniatfhle.
' c.'-.tt jca Iccit at the h!oody Kene-t he
X f-.utr!. the mete jwa read about ether
i. .r- -tf - tr.:i the tu;r,et cf war. the
r.rfr 'i 4?r tf?ri:;Vy led the ctinluioa
! $ t.-." w4f ar.4 r-4 under man
t: t Vutce Hcxt who refuted to gie
;;:;. -t;.t credit cf the- batt!e cf Water
He cU e ! that NapoJcswa wat dt:urb
f rt-; i.Mffsn cf the ussier ar4 that
" Watxhfsl V.jt cf Ck-4 Almtghtjr tcck a
3-i." a. I :fv. the Cce;caa lo. An4 it row
t thAt thr hq!4 h arrived at that
"" t- t; 4 !i4eTr.cRf when the tupo-tetj
i:-; -r ft: rf Is-g mt te CpOcd. To
i-w Ka:r and h; tziUury gtjtem
r"; 1 3 t-e what rr.ul t-e accom-
-i ;.f 4 1 whfa ij i aKerta-.ned that
I. t-rjt?tr, I ih a rre rst h;g
"-; ; t;. (cts-.jm e!iTiere were im-
b' that !ier i taVe a Karl It a
3 i'
i-'-'e'! that a whoe wt-14 it heir.g
: t. ar,.! that when lh; wrt Id-
vi? cr, !rd thm it n!l te rbte foe
C r"e. "0er r rr.-t r-er ! ccrre."
Ktx cl iVafe. u: woe la that man
Ill fTI
h A3 He!p.
- i -i a a- S B.a.ni ar,4 the tVilfd
' "- -.:S Orrvany th:a a hcet
w.": .nf ur.!rrt?ar.d that hr
-' -I .-r rro-w leit as4 lett. Every
" ' 1 ''f rts!-fy ls?R hf? gUnt C3 Get-
Hit. f"-1- if-jf f-)firfr.r.er.t mut cf ne-
";...,, ttl r-rtthrr r-ewr. BrAiil will
iK,e 4"";v Cuba hat rr.e
' ; i t t-mwUr th art! druted toJdier.
' a i; r Vr ihs ctrty man and etery
rl" ri,s J?u! r"-h rr.-ee ttrength.
1 .r,t rif the Or ma a empire draw
, ''-a --nAp will ceme ia ftc cf all
' r la atmd it.
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BRYAN EADY
TO DEFEND FLAG
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Many cf ihe b;g paper at the North
t'rif-g in their reference to Mr. Bryan
New Ycrk Hcra!4 say editorially:
Are in-
Vi:: 5er!irr wmti to be a brisaief
CecetaL Willum J. Bryan was: to be
1 tira:e. Why col let the two conttitute
a l;t.!e rritate army to fteal up behind
V:!us n'a4 talk hla to cea:b
ThAt it an istalt. Mr. Bryan didn't
as4 trait lAc totr.e ether oa!le4 patriot! to
xk fee a Br.4;er-Genefahhsp. He tire4
the IVetHeni an4 o:letol hit tcrvicet at a pri
vate a4 it ready to mpocd to a call to color.
He aiVt the Tret-dent to him ia any way
any way to aula in the defeaic of hit coun
try. Th;t U all any patriot couM do. Bryaa
hat talked Teacr. He hat spent hi time and
rr.or.ey ia attempting to brir.: about a umver
tAl peace. But when the Trtiident called for
mm and declared war. Mr. Bryan, although
fir- yeart cf age. o5er himtclf a a pri
vate ia the ratAt and tay p-5 doicj
anrthicg he caa do.
An4 ict th:t reatoa we thick the paper
Ihrowirc cut ietr gT;u;ou. jsr-in
day when men are wanted, whea one oiler
hst Mrrvicet he hou!d r.ol be intuited. It it
at much treaoa to juctioa aa honett man
trvotirrt who ciler h:i terricei to hit country
at it it 10 capfcft contempt for the flag the
bene 1 man deviret to defend.
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UniortunAtt.
Let a maa be addicted to the u of ItkLcr,
and r-o matter whai miifottunc befall hira
ihe General Tublic. whkh ijwayt act a
creeper and tt oa a man trouble and rea
der a tcrd;ct. will ay that had he not been
drirA;rg lhi or thai would not have hap
pened. We crKt knew a lovable old man who
r.m and then went on a tpree. He was if
l:rr en hit r?ch daring a tuc-.mer hower
ml luCicnry tiirre wat a otiR-is v
cU rnaa wat gathered to hi fath-cr. The
chair in whkh he tat wat shattered hi body
wat rxol duf.gured. but he wat dead.
And. behold, the tillage folk round about
.!c mr.lv thock their headt and aid that it
wat a matter of regret had he not been
dnr-Vjr.g it pfibably never would have happened-
And o ia theic timet of war. Let a powder
hou blow up something that hat happened
many timet in day of peace and it at once
grxt cut that tpirt did the terrible work. Let
a railway train, because of a rotten cron-tic
t- m. mii-ilirnS rail, ruth down aa embank
ment. an4. behold, the witc men lay "thetc.
t . I - l. - J -
p-,et are coirg ictiijc wm, nu
wonder what will happen next and where it
will happen.
Thai cp!o!on ia Chetier. renntylvania.
where - many men were killed, might have
been accidental bul a nllioa people who
read the account will always believe that it
wat blown up by the enemy.
Strang old w-c-rld ia which we live. The
Cau it alwayt on the tongue of men, and.
generally tpeaking. they know nothing about
what happened cr why it happened.
That there will be much trouble cauved by
ihe German rerist in this country there it
rvo doubt, bul we should not hastily conclude
that every tim a man break a bottle which
he caxtic in hit pocket a German spy was the
cas. Let ut be col too haity to form
rpnnsont.
The West For War.
We note that in ihe middle cf June, when
Nebraika cclctrafc her admittion into the
Union, there will be something doing at Lin
coln, and the citiient hare atked Teddy
Kctctell to come there and make a speech
against PactSimv la other word, the Com
mitter. induJirg ihe Chancellor of the Uni
ternty, H. M. Buthnell, and ether proni'- eti:
cisirent cf Lincoln intitt that Bryan ha
totally mi repre tented the people cf Nc
trakA. and they want Rocxtcll to come and
how the way of rreparrdno. Vethxpi by
J..r ihe Nation will be so thoroughly pre
pared that Teddy will f.zd little to talk about,
and matt by that time Teddy will be lead
ing a million men in France under the star
an! $?ripet. But it it fenny how the Pacifists
d 4al make much headway cxitpl on paper
pec-gram.
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Strange Thing Teat Happen.
IVrhap the tirangrtt thing happening in
thit state wat when Mount Airy, thinking a
bwunrtt manager was whal was moil needed,
employed a man to take the siluatioa. He
made good for something like four months
iiff if it tild. than an uncommonly com
mon city council could do but behold it tran-
.reo that the man caa etcapeo irom an sy
r k AltrkxtrrA from an asvlurn for
ihe injur.e. and after four month cf rsimpng:
he thowrd symptoms of bats ia hi belfry.
..Naturally f.c quit me joo, oui incrc oc
Mount Airy people who claim that he was the
Uil man the city ever had. Stxarge old world
and how ihe people get through it i a
tsytscry.
cred;rgly bad latse. wr. uryan it a wmma
grntJffr.aa a great man btgger than anr of
tt. KifniM who i urea hsrn. and ia thex
SATURDAY. APRIL 14. 1917
THE VOLUNTEER
IS REAL PATRIOT
Wc are like Teddy in the matter of volun
teer. Wc feel that the f;rt chance ahould
be given the man who really wants to be a
citizen soldier who wants to show hi loy
ally. The man who desire to fight for his
country will make a really better soldier than
the man who wait to be drafted. This 1 a
reasonable proposition. The man who want
to be a lawyer or a doctor will make a better
law)rr or doctor if he ha a mind running
lhat way far better than the boy who is
forced by.his parcnti to take up a line of study
that is distasteful to hira.
A wc have engineer and electricians and
muiician and mechanic born, so doubtless
there are born soldiers, as there are born
poets. And the roan who comes into the
world with a desire for blood and a hanker
for gore will make a better soldier than the
maa who come into the world with an olive
branch in one hand and a white dove in the
other. It is said that the Spartan mothers, by
a process ot leiepainy, r circa soiaicrs, idu
thai was why the Spirtan wa a born oldier.
Jn ihi nation of a hundred million people
there arc doubtless a million boy and men
who would ralhcr go to war than go to col
lege. They would rather -fight lhan eat, as
the saying goes, and we feel that these should
be given an opportunity to say that when
their country called they at once responded.
The man who linger, who doesn't want to
go to war, will of course go if drafted, but he
goct faint hearted he doesn't go prepared to
give one hundred per cent service from the
start.
In ihis town yesterday we atked sixteen
young men bright young men they were
-if they had gone to war," and the invariable
reply wa that they would go if they had to,
but not otherwise- Thote young men, alter
becoming seasoned and drilled in the way of
a soldiers life, would all make good on the
battlefield but they would not be, like the
young man who wantf to f.o at thr drc? of
th hat. 1 's -
That is wbytrffjynxr a..-vol utile er calMoif ar
miliioa men. Trie, if there wa no response
to such a call it might throw some dampness
00 the scheme, but that Would be forgotten
when the other five million conscript came
along.
The engineering company raised here in
Greentboro didn't find a hearty response at
first, but in a few day the required number
came ia voluntarily and o if the recruiting
office wa opened and a call made for a mil
lion volunteer there would be response.
However, Congress i going to decide thi.
Wier men than your uncle have the matter
in hand, and perhaps it is well that it is so.
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It Is Even True.
With snow in the North as late as April
tenth and with people down in Dixie sitting
around fires. the oldest inhabitant has some
gTound upon which to base his expressed be-,
lief that this is the latest spring he has ever
seen.
But we don't know about that. Once upon
a time in ihi town, some several years ago,
ve had a chilling frost, a freezer, as late as
April 14th. All the trees were "out" and lost
their leave. Those trees in front of the post
office after that frost looked like a candidate
on the Progressive ticket the morning after
election. Finally hot weather came and
came suddenly. Then again we recall with
distinctness that one vcar in this town wc had
no spring at all. Cold weather and bad weath
er ran right into summer, and the merchants
who had bought spring goods were unable to
ditpoe of them, bo we seem to forget, as we
go along. The chances arc that the seasons
average about the ame. Some years spring
is a little backward; winter a little late in
coming on but the Good Master hands us
out about the same thing.
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A Lire Wire.
Mayor Candler of Atlanta, although rich
and busy, yet finds time to devote his talents
and business ability to his office. He is just
now launching a plan to organize night train
ing classes for the business men of that city
and teach them in ihe art of drilling. The
Mayor understands that the business man
itn'i going lo volunteer ar enlist unless he is
absolutely needed, as business must be carried
on. but in the event of an emergency that far
sigh'cd official proposes to have srMiert ready
at a moment' notice. This i not a bad idea
contrawise an excellent scheme. Other cities
could follow Mayor Candler' plan and it
might prove a gTcat thing before the war is
over. Mayor Candler is one of the I i vest wires
in the ISouth and while he is immensely rich
he ha never lost the common touch. That is
why we all know he is essentially a great man.
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Loyal All Right. .
The esteemed Danville 'Bee prints an edi
tion of some fourteen page in red, white and
blue a business edition which was liberally
patronized. Old Glory flutter from almost
every column, and as this is the first Patriotic
Edition of a newspaper in the field the Bee is
to be congratulated. It was a distinct novelty
and worth while. . ' J
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OX ULB AT TBI XXWI gTAJTDS AJD OX TKAXXS
VERY LIVE ONE
IS JUDGE BOYD
Those who think, or rather those who have
tried to make it appear, that Judge Boyd is
not able to hold court will read with pleas
ure his patriotic talk to the grand jury in
Charlotte. The Judge said among other
thing the following:
Whatever opinion any person in the
United States may have entertained
about the war heretofore, it is his duty to
waive all personal considerations; lay
aside his preferences of whatever kind,
and stand unreservedly by the flag of the
government of the United States now.
The United States is now at war with
the greatest military power that the world
has produced up to the present time.
The world is now practically drawn into
two great opposing camps. It is inter
esting to reflect that the idea for which
we, one of the most powerful nations of
the earth, have entered the great conflict
had its origin right here in Charlotte,
when a handful of men took their lives in
their hands and defied a king, saying that
each vould be his own monarch. From
this the idea of democracy has grown
until it has come to embrace a large part
of the old world.
The issues of the war are: Shall the
world revert to the ancient and long dis
credited "divine right" of kings ruling
autocratically, or shall the people of the
various nationalities have a say in their
government?
All of which suggests that the Judge has
still an eye on what is going on, and didn't
fail to judicially endorse the Mecklenburg
Declaration. . Judge Boyd is intensely an
American, and his powers are not the least
impaired. Those who are waiting for his job
should crawl off somewhere and prepare for a
long wait. The Judge is competent to hold
court and defend his country, for, a long time
Claude Kitchin announces that if the' party
doesn't want him as leader in the House it
has opportunity, without offending him,' of
selecting a new man. This is all right, but it
suggests lack of candor. That isn't, the way
to put it. When Mr. Kitchin, no doubt a
thoroughly conscientious man, and no doubt
a man of signal ability, saw that he couldn't
endorse his President and couldn't follow the
sentiment of the American people, it was up
to him to resign as House leader. Simply 'to
say he was a round peg in a square hole or a
square peg in a round hole, a misfit, and under
the circumstances he wanted to be relieved.
Norris went out to Nebraska and told them
that if they didn't like the way he voted in the
matter. of armed neutrality, to have an elec
tion and put him out. But that rather savors
of the grandstand a second exhibition of the
Washington performance. Mr. Kitchin has
read the papers. He knows how they feel.
In fact, he anticipated all that has come to
him, and 'were he essentially great ,when he
made his" speech and cast his vote he should
have concluded by handing in his resignation
as majority leader. Then he would have been
bigger than he will ever have a chance to be
again.
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Select Conscription.
President Wilson wants to pass up the vol
unteer businesswants to take all the young
men up to twenty-five and make no difference
in the rich man's or the poor man's son.
He wants to do this in order to leave at home
those who can run the farms and factories
select, regardless of social position, a certain
number of men who can be spared from the
commercial life of the country. In this there
is wisdom but somehow we feel that the
first chance should be given the volunteer.
However, as wc are not a grim strategist of
war just a plain private wc do not care to
butt in with our wisdom. We are willing to
let Congress decide the question, knowing
that never before in the history of the United
States has Congress had such a load on its
shoulder. And the man who envies Wilson
his job well, that man isn't serious in his
envy.
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Hard To Believe It.
The man who stands on the streets and
looks up or down can't sec anything that sug
gests that wc are in a world-wide war that
we arc raising riyc billion dollars the first
"whirl to finance it; Now and then you see a
soldier, but not often. No particular enthu
siasm; simply a matter of fact proposition.
Howeyer, when the German submarines com
mence to shell these shores; when the Ameri
can flag has been shot down a few times and
a few hundred members of the navy butch
ered, then the blood will be high leaping and
the whole situation will change. '
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The Red Cross.
Greensboro is to have a Red Cross Chapter
and with R. D. Douglas chairman it will be
doing something worth while. The men and
women responded to the call for organization
and, as usual, Greensboro takes her place in
the world's doings and is ever ready to do her
full part. ' . v .
ESTABLISHED MAX, 190a. :
THE WAR NEWS
BEING CENSORED
Wnile we were on the eve of declaring vVar
there was more war news than we could han-, -die.
But since warrhas been declared there
seems to be a dearth of it. It may be that a "
strict censorship is observed and war news is
held in cold storage. However, it may be i
there isn't much worth while coming over the -wires,
so far as our country is concerned.
True, Congress is busy and is talking about r
five billion dollars with'not as much' apparent
concern as an ordinary man talks about the
price of a gallon of gasoline. - . ."
And this suggests to us the' stupendous pro-, 1
portions to which this country has grown.'- ,
The man who stops' to figure how much money -five
billion dollars really is, is lost in the dizzy,
maze of figures. He is bewildered. We speak
of four billion or five billion with calm indif
ference, and yet if a man had a railway train
up before him loaded down with five billion
dollars he w6uld of necessity have to live as
many years as Seth lived to count the load, . ,
and then he wouldn't be half through, even if -some
of it consisted of five-dollar bills. ,
And yet Uncle Sam can obtain credit for
five times five billion dollars and the genera-.; :
tions coming on will pay the burden, charge it ':
up to profit and loss and never know what
happened. - ' . . . , .
When the United States went to war with, .
its neighboring states of the South' a war debt .
of preat maenitude was incurred. In those.'.
r days the adhesive stamp was placed on every-,
thing where room could De iouna to piace z.
That was the means of deriving revenues..
There were no incomes' in those' days that '
could be taxed; there were no automobiles
nothing to speak of in the way of luxuries, but1
the necessities of life were made extremely ex
pensive because of the "war tax." . The war
tax sounded in everybody's ear, struck every
body's purse, and before-.we are through; this .
last adventure uoon which we have started it
1 may be that the war tax will again become r. n
aLuimiunv" -4. v-.w-. -j- o; - - , - . 9 . : .
if-not our own. V . ,
But regardless of expense is the. way Uncle
Sam has always gone. If we go into this
world-wide war, as we have done, it is under
stood at the. outset and -was fully understood ; ,
before we started, that it would cost both ,
blood and treasure. And we are in, and that U
why each citizen under the flag should bear'
loyally and willingly his part. .If he cannot ,
go to war he can help pay the expense of jt. i ;
And this he should do without counting the
cost this he should do enthusiastically and. "
gladly. ; ' . : - 7
The Patriots. ;: V,-';
A Committee calling itself the "American
Committee on War Finance" sends out a
hurry up call and Vants everybody to appeal '
to his Congressman to vote for a bill. that will,
make the prosperous men of this country pay
the war bills while those with little incomes' .
are to escape. .-:',.;(
We are opposed to this and hope our citi- 1
zens, if they write at all to their Congressman, : " V
will insist that the war money must come from
all people who enjoy protection under our flag..:
The rich man, if he has a son, must send him
to the front; the rich man, if he is eligible, !
must go to war, and there is no real reason, .-
why he should bear the burden both of battle -
and of coin. ' .: r- -:-
Thc poor man who has no income can pay ,
his part of the tax that will be put on the luxu- ; '
ries he consumes, and it is not only right, but;
if he be a patriot he will insist that it is his , .
duty to help pay the freight. , -
It makes us tired to hear the self-styled pa v
triots, every time there is revenue to raise, de--mand
that the prosperous citizen who . has .
about him as much as seven dollars and a half "4
must come across. The income lead looked .
good, but it is being worked to death. vr:-
It is our high hope that our Congressmen '; .
will understand that war tax, like the gentlel U A
dews of heaven, should fall alike on the justr . .
and the unjust. ',
To Be Congratulated. .
The police force of the city is to be con-'
gratulated upon its effective work in appre
hending some twenty-five or thirty negro
tramhW and frettinfr them into oolice courts
w w O O X
The idle colored man who depends on the :
blind tiger route and the gamDiing aen to ;
make his living will find it a Jiard row to hoe.;
It is only a matter of time until he will pay
tenfold for his folly. He had better awaken t
to the .situation and go to work. There is '
work here for all able-bodied. men and there
is no room here for idlers and gamblers. It .
may take the police force some time to locate :
these men, but it seems that it is alert and it
is to be congratulated on what it has already
'done. V' i
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England is just now scoring great successes;
against Germany but tomorrow Germany's-,
turn may come. This war, almost tjiree years
on, has played about even with the opposing -foes.
The question is : How can Germany ;
stand out much longer, and she replies that ;
she is good for many years yet. And then you
are bewildered and stop trying to figure it out. -
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