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3T At- FAfRBKOTHER HIGH TAX I 1 FRIGHTENS US! the tcf-fTGs fax t-ctrg t- ; -t ha f-.ie t.r-.-l 0-3 the cKt han-i. r-.'t f n of the c-n a?r C' l hate tetur J , , tr-"'T rift ir.r. ntn ret a, Ksr'ry a Jf.:S.";".f !c Irrcghi : 13 jrar cf :ara:j:v I trit thai r-a4 a tr t d . icJ !& - 1 ' - a-J i the r-sI4 hc t ' rsf hvmri-ii. a-- 2 ? ft. pet f . f . -V . l y Uar a a legacy to t e cf rr.ar.y r , wifr t;ht:r ; fc. I( we Ki'str ; S Ce utt! 3 ar.4 th-c fstKJe i?r t r;r 1:. wr i- rot f why tr im, j- s 'H' A t jai;t fct Whit It I : tl ua the trxctr-rt f :;ht tvf r t: the ir-hrr-.tas-ic ;r t xcr by far tian the in U a r-n m th- fr.raci .! wh.l he t rtraton ray fcf the The 1 tr.t?t -fi!: t the 5rat-! terf-cu?y f.C cr l;tr of. :fr ri an ir-rr;!ar.r ta 1 cor- i'-t'-:r fTr.(?i!j r a:r the or.o f whit thrv trhrfit. The the re ar ! ! Ci!. thev were wh -r:crr'!. ar--! thr 1:4 l t K'tn 1 rif Kr-r wil4 in etr the car;l Iiho!4! I k at the are in w ;;h I No rr-.ofr wt!4 r-m to fht: ctcry - rttMh-r reacefu!. The - L r.r kr.w th irrrMc war my v. Here i rr !:. a!rea4ir IXor.t ft hie that ti4 r I rl the fact that hi fore- t. 9 . ' ?t lake4 a lt:Jc charge. thr bill ar-4 u::cr ro other j1 1 , t that way to v f 5 '-f 4 ? yet l-nfn wt;!4 le ?re m-rctart- r-art if wr a -t " te worry and rvanare the Wul rcrhaa Win. 4 . rr.rr, nb hate teen mak:r : - ft. sr;i;;ni: that -ev re- ? tr ire cm-: iran;rta:; n ffT r ... ,,,3, . 1 win. wha Hut u t.e the i V : 1 r thi: ctery man ay h- pa:i cf the coj. The i.:r C- 05 C tr. They tt cp - ! a iter" v.t t. mai,e thf?r Th r f 4-. i r:4e practically free. : r5; c-e c;arj wu.i tnr ;"-:a:?n. There t a much a:fT- ds:?rr them a there 1 hetween r.rt 4 mad matter The newtpartr 4 - f th r news i neeestary. The I. tt f1rl t;h a4ertnemcnt t ns en!:al. There thauld if the new tp;-er men 1 t; the fee Mem co-!4 be Kt- 1 i trf y i" " I:lf ' T n 4 ?-.!r.e the t? e w cla. lake a at with -e and hor that r.rwM- I i rf rrws are r.rer- Jet the a:sfd4t KteninglVi: I o: n. rot edscattonal err- f - a-t;;rg 'ew leaS rth;ng but fiction b--t httlc more j - at ...... thty take a it arujre cf a law an4 in a U with the eewrarrr V.,' tew an! tn th: way make them 4?y to the fc;al an 5 tuinr rr a Ther iut i-r-p on and haten'l r r-rwpsr p-jl-!;he?t k them rf. r A Surprise In Stcxc. ; - xhr Kan ;:ut rw m 1 vf i: J.e eral t!ayt l-med up thrre ; : tn -.t-rr f r .:-r.r one. The a!:;e " - -1-- at ; frrrmanv t waitmr. what w!J h; per;.. If Kui m if A r-aratr race. fka' ---h har !er fee LV.le 5am. r a ;e it. and that i why the affy w-endersr-g at l! AH Seem In GoS Cheer. Mr, K V. Wharton. whi f '- New York, where 1-1 ! a-v,r? fr -n a'! part of the . u; t-u" etertt-o4j t cj t;r;; acreird that rl Isrr.r will et?ed cf I ghl mcner ' ! pentjr r rrsK.r.ey rgM w, . a-! whr-1 fhr ta if rtir. a c thi l manr t i thr ttr fin.ir. -,;tf hate rt:re4 the arr,e 4- ! by the tankrrt cf the United r i th; t gcJ new-. ecaurTto txm a taluk, $taLm con caurrt WHAT ABOUT DEAD CAT? Yc let day ta rolicc cocft a rrgro who hani 4s leg and who hi a thirst for corn wh:tVcy wa git en a sentence of four month a ihr rr.4 f?f Icing drunk and disorderly. The n;cnc it rot to commence unit! Thurs day, a wcrk from tolay. In other urd. if the culprit i fc-n J around the town a week from ity he wV.l U- tent to the road for (orf ro-th. He i crn notice that he i C'.ty 0 being drvrk and di.rdcrly. but be he i a cripple anJ can't work and is in thr w it h- can hike. It i simply a though ice imghl-cf were to throw a dead cat in an e thee e?ghbcr' yard. If the man committed in t"c?t if;ftif Society in tht tcmn it t tp (a th? town la pur.iih him an4 not to send h;m to aether town to continue hi tiff i!!af.v, If the City drtn't want to riunuh h;m. Irt Kim rtjrt for r Uhancr; but wc r.c: tJioe in chami: oil fcbjector.ablc r-stt;rx the?n tn other communities. Th; ha brti the t-raciier an 4 i the culoro. It i rQl a new lh;n. ar,4 we hate hopet that )zlt Jok wu) charge the cuf.oro. Yctief day in Durham. accortLrg to the 5un, a rrettr h;ir ritI. Mary Garr.er, wa pven Krr chcr of Iratirs town or rvir. a four r-.-th ttrrt at the count work hou. be-ri-ir hr wa ctmktf4 of immoral con4uci. Ar. J jc-r,,: white man. Artier Pickett. wa lro! 'Sjn ar4 coili for the fame oflenje. He w the ifu t rreicii. 11 tr.e cnarrc m m m, .... Aj:aint him i true, a ruUty a th ftxwy Rifl vho h nt to the work house lor tour month cr who ccul4 Icatc town if he wanted to Irate. TJsc rfl a enro a few hour to pack her ctdhe an4 xl away. And where will hc t Jul to another town an4 mix up with me other your. fool, and then to another town, and p'n down until he reaches hell. That i r. way to da. IVctty toon we will hate a home for uch women. -c IiIT? Ccr-TTtK-Mir-ot) fkrrrcr nUktllSdai Ktnon w herein re Ujcee)ien inai oiKoiti tram o out cf bunr. Colonel Robert Gray of the Ralcifch Time hand down thi propo- ;tk?n: Hcmeter r;anir. it may be to have rre"i twobtt amusement triced w-ith, the main objection to the appeal to dip1ay patr:im by dropping baeba!l i that tt t fuprrfuoa. With the cotter of the loal cluS at empty as a fifteen-year-old hr4 !-oy and the local patronage hardly larj;e crrh to eat half a dozen package of crackcrjack per d:em. the North Caro l;na Ixaue may lite until the firtt of iure. This aGterr.or Hickett well now, will pve amp!e time for the util isation of the bel fitted for furrowing to produce a fine crnp of late roaV ear. Well. rnm. i it upcrftuaus? Isn't any Er,c that i innocent, any game calculated to lake away from man the care of the busy day, to let h mml run fancy free between first lae and the heme rlale, really a weel boon? The man who roc out and works all day on the irrnf lmk de the chore for exercise he think f hit body, but it i reallv a rest for his m:nd. The man who sits up all mgM to get the ci-tix'a return find in hi foolishness re laxation. an4 if it happen hi candidate i a winner he gel a great deal out of it. The rhi'owopher hke Colonel Gray could conclude that the man wa a fool that he had better enjoted a night rest And crawled out of bed with the bird and read his morning paper an! had more real news than he got on the bulletins. The man who enj'oyt baseball enjoys it jut like an old leper enjoy his first glass of toddy in the morning. It 'thrills him and delights him. and he sees nothing cle. If he has a note due in the bank he doesn't recAlI the fact; if his mother-in law it visiting at his house at that precious moment he doesn't care; in fact, the babIl fan. while the game is on, enjoy undisturbed the life hi God has given him, so why say that to watch a game or play a came V Ac HobcTt Cr' l wiu not " ... ,.ti.j ...u The Virginia base ball league ha disband ed and no more came will be played this sei oa The base ball buiness has long l-een a nation! game; a certain percentage of people go wdd oter if. but ihi year, because the war 1 on. !caue of a half hundred things, base ball int gong over six bushel to the acre. The North CarolinA people are holding out and will keep on playing ball, how long it problematical, but Virginia closing sown will hate a depressing e:Tecl elsewhere. , . o Looks Like It. The AtMXtalcd IVes tells u that already there t a uadrvn of American destroyers in fierijm water making war against Germany, ar! that the fteet arrived safely and the Eng lish gate cheers and were happy. The next th:r.j we hear almct it will be the arrival in France of a rrU!;cn or so Americans, and then all of y will get the right thrill and go to reading "war news" in dead earnest. SATURDAY, MAY ig. 29x7. GOING TO BE BAD BUSINESS It look like the mec-ibers of Congress and the "critic arc fcoing to insist on operating mud geytrrt. The Trtjudent is not going to ckape. The men handlicg the money arc al ready accused of recklessness, and all this will get the people dissatisfied. Of course if the charges arc true we arc not in favor of walking in gum shoes or talkie g in whisper - t dct seem that before the char" it' e we snouio an tc ure fXZ-' wn grcMman Howard .-narged that unle something isv vieck the reckless tjndilurc the n4wdwill be bankrupt in six months. All this is fol de rol. But it hurt. What thi Nation must do is to go whole hearted in the war that is on. That it will cott billions of dollars no nan must for a moment doubt. And if one billion or two bil lion melt away like a snourtlakc on the water there must be no surprise expressed. Eng land and France have shown us that billions are as brownies. It costs more money than a man can count to conduct a war, even after you arc prepared. Thi country has all to do it mut get ready, and the billions must come. And it were better that Scandal hold it tongue just now. For one we do not be lieve that the President is going to allow any thing unlawful or reckless. o : Cutting Salaries. In these times of Jiigh cost of living the City Commissioners are handing out a few -slight shock to thoe who want to hold office by cutting salaries. The police judge was cut from $Muo to Sl.200, the convict camp super si M?r cut to $;o from 73.' and the prosecuting attorney had $tco takea from his salary. Other reductions were proposed, but after de liberation the commissioners concluded not to make them. . ', This is all scry well irt its way, but in these timet, when the cot of food is advancing, when railway arc forced to. raise salaries by law, when day laborers get $1.50 a day," it looks like the present saljnc mirnt cave -obtained iqgrA tbe-iwp? "tvcuM have filed nubjtctr6h. In the matter of the police judge, an elective office, certainly $1,400 is not too big a salary. The City Commissioners receive $2,400 each, while the Mayor receives $,2,600, and these salaries are not considered at all big. The po lice Judge must give his attention to the place, must be on the job each day, and inasmuch as the office has paid the $1,400 wc feel the com missioners made a mistake in cutting down the salary of Jones. However, this is merely an expression of an opinion, and perhaps the Commissioners don't care how wc feel about it. The man who runs the convict camp gets hi board and sleeps at the camp, this item be ing the big one during the high cost of living, and while five dollars a month is not much cither way, we presume the Commissioners take it that if here and there they can cut down sihrics quite a sum will be saved. G The Elks at Raleigh gave a prize for the handsomest man, and New Bern's delegation contained him. Wc had thought, of course, that Greensboro was going after this prize, but her modesty seemed to have kept the handsomest man at home. ; o Buy a Liberty Bond. The nation calls on all people who have as much as twenty dollars to invest to put it in a liberty Bond. The banks of Greensboro will receive your subscription they charge nothing for their services, simply a patriotic duty. These bonds arc a good investment. They I pay three and a half per cent, interest and no j taxes. Uncle Sam is always safe, and the Na tion need the money. Buy a bond today thai i the cry from Washington. , o The Liberty Loan. The people are responding, but not fast enough, to the Liberty I.oan. All the banks in the country are offering their services free in this great work, and every man who is pa triotic, if he ha the price, is wanted to sub scribe for some of this loan. The investment is gilt-edged; it pays three and a half per cent, and is free of all taxes. Uccjc. Sam is pood, and you can buy a share for $20. Do not wait for the other fellow to subscribe. Go today and have your banker reserve you some of this lock. Yo not only help yourself, but you aid in the cause of your country. De-Lighted. Doubtless Teddy is getting more fun out of hi last front page campaign than. he ever got before. Congress rejected him and then pick ed him up and now he is in the hands of the President, and he doesn't care much, we take it, what the President does. His soul was de lighted when Congress came back and took him on the running board. That doubtless filled his cup of joy and he is happy. Naturally he would like to go to France., but he now has an excuse which he will call politics for not going, if h doesn't go, and that, he may remotely figure, puts him in line for 19.20. And he understands that 1920 is not so fax, far away. OI fXLX AT TBS KXW8 STAXD8 AND ON TRAINS THE GAMBLERS SHOULD GO The board of trade is one thing and gam blers in stocks arc another bunch. The board of trade is the one thing needful to make a market. Some, head must give out the news. If it wasn't for the board of trade the farmer would never know what his product was worth. He must have some head office of in formation. If wheat is wbrth a dollar today, it may be worth less or more tomorrow, and the board of trade tells the world what it is worth. Therefore the board of trade is essen tial. The speculators who attach themselves to that board of trade well, that is where- the rub comes. The law might be made to pro hibit speculation, to stop dealing in futures. If that were done perhaps the trouble now complained of would cease. . Let the board of trade deal in today's stuff today and not run up May wheat or May Pork to any old figure that a few wild men may determine they think it worth simply a gamble. The trouble, is now, however, that instead of getting through laws to curb these evils, some lawmakers are starting what we used to call on the prairies back fires. They are accus ing the administration and the men in its em ploy with all sorts of deals and showing, or trying to show, that money is being recklessly and uselessly squandered. The idea of this is to head off needed legislation. There can be no demand for stopping the plunderers in one quarter to let them operate in another. This is doubtless the scheme, and it is to be re gretted. It is doubly regretted that scandal should rear its head at this time. Just now we need a great many laws, especially on control ling the price of foodstuffs, one suppressing the gamblers but if the charge is to be trumped up that the officials handling the war money arc reckless and extravagant beyond explanation.. legislation against vicious things will be hard to secure. o Inside War. As was to have been expected, but not so. soon, the -men 'having charge of the phms'-for the gigantic war now on are being assailed. It is said the Senate went after all hands and poured out buckets of wrath, even upon the President, criticising him for many things. In times of war it appears that many things arc done,. and must be done, hastily, and this gives the man who sees graft, smells graft, feels graft and knows grift, the opportunity to talk. The chances arc that we must have a national scandal. That is sure to happen, but it is unfortunate. The senators and congress men who feel that they should air their griev ances arc justified by law in what they do, bu it looks to us that at this time peace would be what we want inside. When billions of dollars are to be spent and spent quickly; when thousands of. boats are to be built; when contracts running into the many millions arc let and let in a hurry, there is no doubt but what there would, in normal times, were such acts recorded, be room for criticism. But when the war is on; when ac tion and quick action is necessary, it looks like there should be no cross-ties thrown on the tracks by home people. Wc all have con fidence in our President and his cabinet. If we haven't wc had better quit right now. o : More Money And Still More The announcement by Secr'iry McAdoo that it will take $2,254 ,925, 58 1 instead of the insignificant sum of $ 1 ,800,000,000, and all to be raised by revenue tax, created quite a lot of astonishment in the House yesterday. . When wc go to talking about over two bil lion to be raised before breakfast it takes the breath of the man who only, carries small change in his pocket. Naturally this means that the revenue must be raised on some articles, and if there are any articles which have escaped it must be put on them. Two billion, two hundred and fifty-four mil lion, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand, five hundred and cighty'-one dollars! Well, go off, Johnny, and figure that out, and let us know right quick how much it is. Figures like those arc so astounding that no-man com: prehends what they mean. And yet we must raise that much because it is going to cost that much right now. o- Sit Steady In The Boat. No matter where you look for information, the general verd.ct of the big financiers of the country is that money will be more plentiful than ever; that-business in all lines of neces sity must expand. Just now there are some merchants who are afraid to buy big stocks, but they are not many. Some manufacturers are wondering what will happen, but the bankers of the country. and after all thejr are the ones who know say that there are ahead of us the best times financially we have known in many a year. , All this is good news. It is said that under the Federal reserve law there" can be no panic forced; no rich man's panic like we had -under Cleveland, when banks withdrew their horns and refused to loan money. No matter what taxes we . pay, no matter about the cost of the war, money is going to flow freely in this country and the live man will get his part. . - ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903. FREE PRESS JOKE UPHELD We notice that Senator Overman announces that he will fight to have the administration censorship bill passed. He has fouod a couple of democrats who are willing to reconsider, and the hope in his heart is to pass the bill. The whole thing is immaterial. The news- ' papers are not going to print anything they should not print; the officials are not going to give out information that should be guard ed, and the censorship bill amounts to noth ing except the cross-grained fellow may feel that his freedom of the press toe is being; pinched. - ,-.' But all this talk about freedom of the press is bosh bosh for the most part and pretense for the rest. The freedom of the press is more abridged by the business office and the thing v called public opinion than it will ever be by. the bill that Senator Overman might urge. The average newspaper these days, must play ; its politics the same as an individual. It may mean to 'be "fearless and independent," recog nizing no "cliques or clans"; it may be un-. bought and unpurchasable, but if it knows its own soul, in the confessional, it will wonder -why it did this or why it didn't do that. Some papers are naturally venal and soulless; some papers naturally coin their grists for the gold that comes as toll, but the best papers we know anything about seem to have a faltering 1 step at times, and when the great editor is ;: V about to tear his soul. into tatters and hang ;r if on the public clothesline there is somehow s ' or other a still, small voice which reaches his , ear, and he doesn't do just what he thonight- V ;;.v he'd do before he got into action. Just human;; nature. Just the wonder why one should cut. .fe off his nose to spite his .face; just allowing the : word "policy" to wave the red flag in front off the typewriter and danger, while not seen,' i3-c v averted. - - r ' And with all this, the average : newspapervS editor is honest, and he means well. -But'; he ; ' is taught that the General PubliS.Iafge p palpitating- bunittrf,nd-tc:tc Dumon means 10 get a murqer .cry, at oiicc,j; and therefore, through deference to: the bun- , ion, the editor treads softlyV where his con-' science says he should throw a four-inch shell. . It has been our undertaking to always talk out ' in . the pulpit, but we know we haven't, alw.ays'i't?! done it. It has been the undertaking of every , other newspaper man to do the same, but; "-f every other newspaper man once in awhile is forced to sidestep not by threatsbut because!!: Policy, that giddy old girl in silk stockings and, ; ; a stage make-up, seducve to the last.degrei3 winks her other eye; put her finger on her';- mouth and says with puckered lips, "S-h-K . r . . , ,v-i-?''' ; Let the President have whatever law&e.. wants. He is a reasonable man and wilJt-0 abuse the privilege of causing newspapers.rftl individuals to remain silent when they shonIdT-i not remain silent. Let Overman put through; the bill, and thus assure harmony. We are inr; a world war. Our laws I make the President commander-in-chief of the forces on land and sea. We have confidence in him. Give him a full and free hand. : O x Let Us Hope Not. , There is a great deal of talk in the city about putting in a water metre system, and, the hope in this department is that it will not be done. The cost of the metres is no small item, and to those who own cheap houses, the houses especially rented to colored people at three and four dollars a month, the hardship would be great. It would cost the city thirty c or forty thousand dollars to buy the metres, and where the metre system has been tried, it hasn t worked. We recall that in Athens, Georgia, the water , company undertook the metre system. People who were paying ten. and twelve dollars a year ran thei: vater cost down to three and four dollars, and anally the 1 metres were put out, after hundred of people J; had purchase-1 'Hem. If our waf ply is conserved; if the po lice can sto- . people who water lawns all night; if the isumer will do his part, we have the best "system as it is. The metre sys tem would decrease revenues to the city, be cause when a metre is on consumption of wa- ' ter materially decreases. The man. who has. all he wants for so. much a quarter uses a-, great deal more than he needs. But let the , metre system be introduced and the change is " wronderful. There is a go,od profit selling wa-; ter, and if there can be some plan devised where the wilful waste will stop the present ;; system is far more satisfactory fo both con sumer and the city. o . A Big Man Gone. ; Mr. Joseph H. Choate died suddenly this, week, and I a big man in the nation has gone., Mr. Choate had once" been ambassador to- Great Britain, and was a man of wonderful in-'r' tellect. He died full of years and honor. . , O . : " "Those whd want to know - about the' O. Henry and work commencingon it arc as-1 V sured that things will : be started by the first . of June. 'The contract will be let this month,- ; work will begin in a short. time, v .; - n
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