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J.- - For ; For- People Who People Who Think . Think u u FY AL FAIKBKOTHER SECRETARY LANE WARNS NATION 5 f-?;tfy ta- trtke the new ct:Sy r w 1 fc that cf-i wc f-S I trt S.ft fa fVh: c, Ar i that t ? thr t--: 2 the ih n cf it- ll had t-f . a4 there wa r rri3n why See- l,j, r-r c!4 r.-t; 5utr ".atf4 it j.;! a t-r ca :h c-if - j ifT--! K u i tKt he I -In"! cojfl f f t -t he a r;;"5 actv cvran ta t-e 1 That ra I t. rr to t. r atrrare .:;e I . i (iirn !a:e ! tal he c'ini rtt Al t.ih t-rc il;:ar.r--thi: he 4;4?i"l I c . far frcfi h.rr e S3 h!p l!ue a:.;r. I - ! t?c 1: rt;c I Ire 4h;'f. l!-t in a'.l I i we are r-rir it rht Ckrrr.any e j i i wherr iKtr.isr 1. aM tt e rrS : - t Uttre la j&n th-e aH; arw j t w.'c tSrr t: hate :rerr?h to help 1 ;t !j ur-.!-.; thrr are ct I the j f r xt Uii nr.z'c hnif 4 la the !rpratc , . . the f rr--an arrrv. V arc a mah j a i'rarxe re EreUnd or , I he f rh:. a i.v-n M tfpu;rr,i-'4 1 , e fjrr l rr? rf thf :54. ar.4 ntty e ; .!. r H:r - to hf!p tfc:rpy the iaivrf by - i". army cf a hur-4re! rr.In men un -.e i actK-n ,:h that arry. Af4 p if? t- frr the fray, tf e rcay rr.can vox a-J in r-'r jjD;ar'.a:: n. e mt c i finer a? ! thrrt a r.;IIr3 r to rr-cn in rfr;hr ar-4 a f rc-w. , ; - lr.4ft-c arfarr i a uccei: there i.Vijw cf fam-f e. ar.4 ur.tc ler- ik. r--fr xtrrly r:;7ed than yet ap- ; h-r t m thape to .-ep ihift- ; hc 'no h?r er-r-;f All the tw;n .if that r n'.4 os 11 i'.!J fnt le wtcrth :a1 c nf can hcJp ;!h an.rr.uf.i r- ' rtq a?r r.ffind l:hi txm- tt, the " -i ttiir. ar,d the vr.rr c a!l a cx er I rri-iVf cr-4 the lhtr thete the "'f i t Jutjrn w;!J !. There i no '' 1 are the ;ta:;. a4 l-efore x $.t ?o!i there w?,J he a rr.;:on 4- i.i.rz u,4T Ot4 f!ofy m fcf- f . If . 4 H-e r-ir. tn Chka f;t in c-4 !rfir 1 he ti t't'Te 5ari '.4 c-rr hwa:e that -d ay the fc!? r a rraw .e -- the nx I'iT. l:t I r-.non dren err -iry rv?;e ul h..i a h...e tr-eth; to , 1 Henry cf Ttrr.e. " . 1 .cr;?;nn r.rtJ rt l.e to.acteef wiIJ... e who ert'C-tc-d err. 'mu :! tie char.ee he wrx h it 1 the t-M wt'4 r: te eperatne tefoee S; tern The Nor Yctk Heta!4 ay: htter run c r-V!e t.o act;e s-rttice hiit h' charge. He ncrvj r-ct wa:!. ttr. f -e thr prfeion cf the army " W'i-trrf are eh-Trf'-!'y wecrrr r-ay. the rrri-ar armyl the rrttiSja "rt-:a. 1 1 thr :a:e whkh wi!l he f; rair l wsth the army, ar?J the ma- ef r c i v e r-a. lo to it : r wui rr? oh the war feiraw ' a to CO aJ the who Wn I to K to M . I f f tcrlCff , ! hsC r-fr.tr ' -r to ztl rrady. ar-4 .o w.l the man who w m u f t crecrtr:?c-5- It it an ill wind ll , f r. ;!y. ar-l the r.rcevry to rrtur- the df alt t i.l ur.:er way - a hane. At the Herald 4y. "Go Locit Better. r mw a thT.-rh th r rrvi t.cV- r 7 r - ccet tecM t j ce;rea:;r-i tn 't i cure -s:hc:?r.? reeeur to p? e -r-r if wi!J !e charf 1 The etcet ;..--n c-.r that r-.-rht d;turb the a . The etet 4f? what w.r; te nrx4e-i by erfpcf. r- .. h a rerr.-e wH rerde ! by """ rfTs Mar,so?jr;rc Knrrr' r ; " 4 XT ! fTPir. If thr iot create nl l " talr ff j cr-. n:rn whlh ic u -f-r-f-: en war iranj'.r, "4 C i'-t to liUt ic a!l e?;ea. h?-e are the t"v .i .-h wti: !-- -r xt. J rretentrd. The U rrice. .l v wtvo th-.-k bstler tn thi cocn- V t cp !y thr IUVn crrarr.cry v"-4 t -k whai ! crg m tn ' U:-t th'fe wa rec-ar I by the ' " - -t?y.r-.?e er-t a rond wa " I ? I : xt i ;or4 ihe crd-b-"'f l'h sc cf hif . - . i. 1 ...i.. 1. I - r.tc 10 a;.rr u wiw ..r. -v i ii a Jne pecr.e to fc;Lc thitherward. H ' ; f 'J-M -JLS i a.Ui.ii--rx.Aayfcx j. f r t eotrrtfyon Wi footoU an --'f-- ?T i S" -Z w-'fM : here t rwm for dcvelcpmenf in a!! lint. : a e !a the f.r-.!. A rr.-.tUcn rr.en c r - - I crc mxrrtox u.m a tul iivclx ton rnrrt j NOW ALASKA GET HOMESTF : 3 "r:d Unck i.c hundred who will go A!aV it txw infixing ten ' an tt r:?rr:r.g a homrttra J' fixxy acre free So thc UaT there and c tn the land and improtc it for fUe year, Thi will draw a gTeat many pe rc lhat way thoe th J0c adventure. It ttt. tn t bzl titrrday, although it is a r-a,I crr,:urj ar, that the irat trct wn of-(rtiT-c thr arr.r a!;urtrr Un4. .Vol w eo!d a;srtr. at Atatla. tul tut tlecrt Un4 tht ro'j!Jrt ppw gra of anv kinl ar the tu::aio CTa. a irrai that rtcw in ui:.e in tr.e iuni. 1 noutanc ana ten t-f irWstarw! cf tnonrcrik eame and -took up" - m m a fcor-.rur 14, in xr.oc you entcrra the us-J t a mfrmmi lanJ o:;?r. naul four- trrn Ia,.r entrance Ire. liied fe yearn on ' r hfr-oteal. then "r;fprt! up. and the !anI yccr Itat the of:crit:c thor iroptr ts'sffl. the ruty. the tul. the har!hlr; yet y.rv ppfr.M up one 01 tnc riciKlteelion J f1 un;ere. and tay thoc land that ere o:trt ed frre are clhnj: at anywhere from r.ny ro jm. r.uncrrts ooiiar an acre, nut the man tho pioneered, the man who llarcd the ay. who af?crrd and died, he pot nothing r t the atifactioo ef knowing that he had helped rtar.Vind. And hor who j;o to A!a. to a country LleaJt and barren and co!4. they mil crt the land in hape. they will ! ItVr Kiplir. Kxplotcr: t a two .(M it r4 --f tt waarv r Th turdy p;oneer who xttled the RTeat M44"e Vet left a legacy to a!l the world. Tciar the focIiu??4 conte from there in gTeat aVunance. and the day ill come when .MatVa w$!J furn:h food, the sane at it hat fsrr.ithe-J !4. iliwter. lone a the rental tun of the f'edrtonj cton thine on u we are not j;o- ere ! The-rove-k hae tried to bloom, but the cold har.4 fcf Winter which till linrert thee early f rfr.ir hour ha been laid upon them. The b4 are beautiful, but they cannot "but. PJcnty c4 Time. It i now gien oat that the draft bill will fj jjm, into e:fet Ifore September first. Thi ititr thc5e -ho hae hern fearing con w?:; n a ra ture ti rr-Jfc for it. It i a:! that the mar.t:n plant mut have time to frt,e iv-: rrrni : that trasnmf? force can r-ct ct ready 1-efcrc that time, and it will be th;rx mr tn lhc umc volunteer will le accettoh If it take until September to get the tiraa siartnJ. it suggest that we f are crtting ready for a long war. It will be many month before our hip are ready rr.ny mete month before old;er arc sent 1 aorttt the ea In the meantime the tubma- rir.e wf,! be tloir.g their dailv chor nd Ic!ar.d look upon famine and starvation. g Thr rere donn thi way are beginning to rraare thai we are up again! the mmi e- fK-4 pfrptsin err confronting the west- rrn crl !. and they are thawing their appre j aton of the fact in many way. The spirit . rf ir,4i;Trrrnce n manifest a few week aro i I r.o? nitr in evidence. Ser iou minded men are talking; the young men are beginning to i rrtbre that we mut firht the German and ... to f r-h! thrm trr mut f firffri - Ate WilHin iJ-rrr rr-n-iV - - - wt-v 1 . to m every American sH?er will be eager to go to France. It take time to work out these thirrt. but they work out. no matter what one may first think. True indeed it i that there i a divinity which shape oar end. rougn hew hem a we wiJh o- The Example Of Mr. Cobb. . Wc ran a local story teliinjr about the work i letrtg done by Mr. J. B. Cobb, the retired to J l accor.i:, On hi farm on the High Point I read he ha :arted to do xsmething whicb a wrrth rrffdirg. He own thirtyfive hunirr 4 acrr rf land, and he has been uing ; it fr a hunting lodge juail and pheasant I and rail:: and squirrel And each year hi ' p!ea-re wa to hate friend join him and tpn4 a few week hunting B-41 Mr. Cci S heard hi country call. Too r.!4 to t to war. but net too indi:Terent to do what he eoJi, he come down and employ j mm. pvrcha mue and machinery and goes t trto thc bu;ne of raiting oat and wheat and i . t : -..i.:....!- I vt-rr.r t.tr hundred acre in cultivation ar.d already planted. He told the reporter that he wa w$!i;,ng to forego the pleasure of huntirg; he was wiJr.g to do all he could, and he th'-ht that corn and oats and wheat wt'4 he needed later. So he put in five rendrtd acre a!l thr available land he haj. a!:l,cvh if thc war lat next year he will pre; are another thoutnd acre to produce thirg to eat. Jhat i the kind of an example icr a riOi man to set. Vorctl personal picas- ccmc to t;;e cvur.iry s caiu j SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1917. NO PARDON FOR WILCOX Covcrror Bickctt hat rtfued to grant a pardon jo Wilcox, the convicted murderer of N'ellie Cropjy. This Wilcox case has been one .of the myttcricj of the state, hundreds of pep!c living in the vicinity where the crime trji committed believing in the innocence of the alleged slayer. WIcox had two trials, the 6rt time he wa sentenced to death, the sec ond time escaping with a life sentence. It is aid that Wilcox it now in the last stages of coniumption and had alcd th'ii last pardon in order to die a free man. That, however, i purely sentimental. The nun who ha to die can diq anywhere, and stand jut a good a chance for tnc hereafter. If Wilcox it guilty of murder. Governor Hick ett cannot cleanse the soul of the guilty man. ll i before a higher tribunal that pardon must be nought and obtained. If Wilcox be inno cent, then before the'judgment bar of God he will receive hi due reward, and the mere fact that he make hi exit from the world of flesh in a convict garb doesn't mcin anything at all mi far a the soul' salvation is concerned. Govcrnur Bickctt argue the question and ay the presumption of guilt is established leeauc Wilcox didn't go on the stand. Wil cox alone knew what happened, but because he refused to open hit mouth it i taken as evi dence that he 1 iruilty. Hut tnat isn't necc- arilv o. . Gocrnor Hickett never wis a crim- f inal lawyer; he wa an average lawyer who trine togc! g tojeetner catcny pnrase and soars to ublime height in oratory. The fact that Wilcox didn't ct on the stand is not z gainst him. and the fact that he was convicted on purely circumstantial evidence is in hi favor. However, there is no real reason that Wil cox should be pardoned. He has given up many years of hi life in the service of thc com'ict's world; he is now said to be? physical ly a wreck, and if Wilcox will lay aside the sentiment of the thing he might a well die in pmon at out of prison, if d;e he must; If he had before him life ehU. he. could make tucful; if he could be of benefit to himself and Society, it might be worth while to come from hi prison stripe and take hi place among men. 4 Thc fact i Governor Bickctt i establishing million three hundred- thousand people. It is the amc old progTam. Too many people are j figured that because of decrease in births, bc being pardoned. We have court at great ex- j cause of the war, thc total loss to Germany is tne; we go through long and tedious trials, and one man i given power to knock out all thc proceeding of the thing we call justice." If all the pardon granted in thc last ten years hate been justified, then many of the courts we Ime held have been mockery. When a i ry find a man guilty of crime and the judge f pronounce the sentence, the man should pay j the penalty a imposed unless new evidence is 1 forthcoming evidence that establishes be- j y and the peradventure of a doubt the man's 1 innocence. j The same day the pardon was denied Wil- I f cox five pardon were granted one lor man- j k .f...MLl.. . . f m mn.J.. in m ifiAn1 f " m m jCTee and the two others granted were for i larceny because the Governor thought they j should be nardoned: whereas a iudre and a m 9 mm . I mrv. it rrrai rxtene. had tound them cuiltv i mm a 1 and imposed what seemed to be reasonable sentence. Bickctt i pardoning many of them; some j would be pardoned, but to keep up. a proces- J ion. a Craig did. and a it seem his sue-J on resor i doinc. makes thc average citizen feel ihat court houe should be abolished and criminal invited'to go to it. a " ll appear to be a question as ta what Rus- sia will do. Russia herself says she will not accept a separate peace, but Germany at-, tempt to make her soldiers believe that such will be the result. o Good Enough. The chief clerks of ail different divisions of the revenue department in Washington took occasion to remember Colonel Osborn Mon day, that being the anniversary of his fourth year a Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Colonel Osborn has under him some five thou and people, and they all honor him. No other Commissioner of Internal Revenue has done a much at Colonel Osborn. He has filled the chair; he ha saved the government millions of dollars; he hat been successful .in all his undertaking, and it it gratifying to his count Ie North Carolina friends to knowthis. Some time ago the Colonel had fullyf made up hit niind to come back home, but under the new order of things, with all the immense war revenue to raise, with so many things confronting thc adminiiation, thc chances 't t i i.t. ..'fL.:. t ..m are. if hit hcahh will permit,, he will remain at hit tost until the war queston at least gets down to running smoothly. o What Wat It? Long years ago when there was civil war in thi country there was a very popular song concluding, MI thought they might spare a lone widow heir, but they drafted him into thc army." That is all wc recall of the proposi tionwonder if any of the older readers of this paper know anything about it?- ... t OX CXXJB AT TBS yZWS ITAXDS AND OX TKAXN8 SEN. BORAH JUST HUMAN Because a United States Senator gets up and suggests hanging men to the lamp post who happen to'be dealing in food -supplies the nation should not be startled. A United Mates senator is just an oroinary man sometimes hardly ordinary, but he is no more than your Mr. Average Citizen. Generally ambitious and always wanting the limelight, it is natural that once in awhile the over-ambi-tious should make some remark that has a tendency to thrill. Senator Borah is. said to be a candidate for the presidency. As a politi cian he knows the value of advertising, and he naturally wants thc front page, surrounded by pure reading matter. And yet there should be a law to suppress food speculators, and it should also contain a clause to suppress thc , sensational leather lunged man who gets up in the Senate ofthe United States and talks about hanging men to. lamp posts. Such talk is incendiary; it is' against good government, against law and or der, no matter how much the rabble may ap plaud it. A United States Senator should be law abiding. He understands that no law could be made to hang a man to a lamp post because he dealt in food supplies, and he understands that until a law is made denying him the right to deal in food supplies he is not a candidate f for prosecution. What the Senator should do fc to prepare a bill and make it unlawful to speculate in food supplies, and then have a penalty prescribed. The machinery of thc United States is ample to prosecute and convict men who disobey the law. But for a member of a supposedly digni fied body to get up and talk about hanging 'men to lamp posts well, the sowing of such seeds of anarchy, lawlessness and disorder should not be allowed. A law to curb the. tongue of such men as Borah as much need ed as one to curb the rapacity of the food spec ulator. . - Appalling Figures. The figures given out by the Germans, and therefore supposed to be accurate, show that since the war began Germany has lost one- three million eight hundred thousand lives. It is said that the surplus m females has in creased from eight hundred thousand to far beyond two million. This for Germany alone. Then figure on what France and England and Russia have lost figure on thc whole ghastly business and we have some faint conception, faint indeed, because the numerals staeerer thc imagination, of what this war has cost thc world. In money there have never been such expenditures, but that is .immaterial, But to think of the miUions lost in an -age of so-called civilization causes one to wonder "a 1 . why and wnerciore. Ana yet some grim j .Iaic el.. I - ll'ir Vile fTT 11 C f Kmin T-J i Germany can hold out has been the marvel, but that she does hold out, and hold out rrandly. there is no denying. It will take a a .1 two million American soldiers riht awav to help out across the sea, and unless wc get i them there and put them into action it wi'l take ten million to keep Germany out of this country. It is a world war, but it is evidently j God's war He is bringing mankind to a real- izing sense of its duty. I Going To France. Here is betting two to one and give you any other odds that President Wilson will sencl a few thousand soldiers to France. It is argued from all sides that an army of American sol diers in thc trenches across the sea an army of Americans fighting under Old Glory, which would wave side by side with French and English colors would have a great moral ef fect on Germany. It is claimed that if the soldiers from this great country started that way Germany would realize more fully than in any other way that she was to be annihi lated. Whether this theory be correct we do not know, but wc feel that wc do know that it will not be long until our soldiers start across the sea not over a hundred thousand the first go round, but they will go. And it looks, irf all candor, as though they should go, if we really arc fighting Germany. How can we fight her at a distance of three thousand miles, and why raise two or three million men, if. we are not going to use them. On to France will be the slogan, as on to Richmond was the slogan dur ing thc civil war. ' t v o A Popular Judge. Judge Benjamin F. Long, of Statesville, who is holding the criminal term of Superior Court here this week, is one of the most popu lar judges in the state; popular because he is attentive to business, because he dispatches .busincss and because he is learned in the law and knows what is what. Other judges are Vntitlcd to this much praise, but Judge Long 'has a happy knack of doing things which put 'him close at the head of the procession, if . the judges were to have a procession. ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903. MAGNIFICENT IN HER VICI The story of shame and degradation just ; now coming from Christiausburg, Virginia,. ,rCts 'ajj thc readers it wants. On the stand ; ; j the woman, Mrs. Vawter, in.o; order to save her . : husband's neck, bared her life to the jury anclv-!; the spectators told how she had kept: up "an j illicit intimacy with Heth, thc man, Vawter : ; murdered, and insisted that when she was-.;", sober she repulsed the advances of the wolf ; but when she was drunk she couldn't, to save " her soul, get away from his pleasing man- ners. In other words, she didn't seem to try - I to keep sober always was eager to drink - whiskey when Heth brought it, and she knew v what it meant to drink it. Simply a wanton, a woman who betrayed her sacred vows ; a . , cheap bat who played a double game, and yet; :. the story sent by the news gathering -agency about her conduct on the stand read in this x -Z wise : '; Mrs. Vawter was magnificent under : the rapid cros's-examination, never once ; allowing her testimony to be shaken by- ; f any questions of Attorney. Lee, who used ' every ingenuity; to break down her --story Perhaps her testimony was not shaKen. ;Jj No doubt a woman who could do what shev; :-, did; a woman whose honor had disappeared, , a woman who was. willing- to. confess her " shame and dishonor without flinching; air?' j woman who admitted that she lived her dou- -r ble life and deceived her husband and neg-- V lected her sick child to toy with the scoun- drel who wrecked the home,- could appear " I magmheent: These wantons ' have always . j been magnificent in their audacity. - Magnifi-1,0 j cent, indeed..s To what sublime heights dotK:Uf'3j depravity reach when opportunity presents to 3 fi a determined wanton the means to carry her ' : I point. - ' - . ' - -;. :'The stage setting here .was all that -couldv . be wished.: With a story of- crime and sinand : shame still fresh in the mindsof the jurors--- ";. , the.stprjr a.dVuiikejjmsia to shoot down the despoiler of his homethe ti; woman comes on and. unblushingly admits, - U that she was without honor or shame, puts up ! a spectacular stor3r and hopes by doing so to " " i sve the man she foully betrayed: Reads -like, romance. Aye, it is worse than romance, be- ; -cause it. is the truth, which is ever stranger M man nci;ion. vv en, tne trial will De over in a " few days, and we will doubtless read aeaiir about the unwritten law.' And then, uTaybe, ' the man Vawter will receive back the sullied woman, take her again to his home; but ifhe - does it "wUl be a home without sunshine, .a. home darkened and saddened, into which no joy or happiness will ever come again. ; And . all because a plausible seducer with John Bar-. leycorn as his trusted agent entered it and left " :. a i- - v : o- ' '--..-1 The Fourth of July Celebration will be all I right. There are a few details to be-, worked Vj out before publicity of what is going to hap- -o pen will be given. But we take it tljat the ; ' j Battle Ground Company will do the right . thing and the Celebration will be a success.; , Didn't Come. Off. v: It was fondly hoped that May Day would , witness a demonstration in Berlin that might v; suggest peace for the world. But nothing v? happened. We are promised some oeace talk? happened. We are promised some peace talk tomorrow, and it .may be that the end is in . sight.. Washington had given out . the . hefce -'V that labor conditions in Germany wcjuld bring . . . . about something sensational yesterday, but' '- so far as we know nothing happened. Yet for ', all that, with a censorship that is wonderful, there may have been great things doing and v ; the outside world would not know it. When 1; it comes to system in suppressing or 4nyent-i' ihg news Germany has us all skinned some several city blocks. ' ' ';--v 1P ' f ;'-;'-'fi. The Puzzle. While we are all talking about producing increased foodstuffs the farmers come in and T j say that it is next to impossible to secure help ; I, a. . a a ' - that all the colored men are being taken put of the country. Labor agents are filling?' the i South with promises of big wages,. and Sambo ' ' iccis uc iidu ucucr 'uikc in Virginia it is said ten thousand colored men have gone I North this spring. In this section farmers re- port help almost gone, and the wonder is how ; can we raise farm products with no one, to . work the land? - ' : . o . . . The Hope , ' ; . Uncle Sam is still talking about taking: hold ' I of the food supply question of doing some- - uiiug mai. win slujj spccuiduun in ixie iningS men must eat. .Wheat the other day went to " three dollars a bushel, and the next day fell " off thirty cents a bushel. It was explained -,V that speculators thought there was a shortage ' in Canada, but learning there was not wheat . fell thirty cents a bushel.; This should not be r allowed. Speculation of. that kind,' the; kind that runs flour to twenty dollars a barrel, lis " 4 without reason. Cut . out the : speculators : in M food supplies,-at least until the warJs over. i f : , : .V -J.