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IV Think V ly (V J ' ly Ai lyiy L UAJJ !r - V V Think SV AL FAlRBKQTlfXR rscTuiTo tu a tx cub con CZXTt SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1917 OH UU AT TBS XnrS ITAXDS A2TD OX TSACTS ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903. NO HARD TIMES ANTICIPATED T. P. Prown. cf the Brown-Bclk Com .tv. send et the following cdi- art the New Yctk American, which it Is present the case at all ... It reads; i -z-r.'.tr i net bankrupt and it rot t ar.kru; 1. tut it aa tc sri bv 1 ether who .1 t ?- h"TU. avc your peer. jo. . . J a cent ; board ycur money. i i . : c cou'4 mean hard linnet and ; : dcpeeson. Lu;nc t stagna ,v r ra'.:orl mtfcrlur.c. The total -rrr 4 the Ceiled Stale amount t to jas 4 r.i!!ua dollar t a year. The ctT rvoey in Circulation and krtp- i . - gvtrc A nation with an in i ' r-i: v t'i;o" cannot Vc .,;;:.1"-ci rr tefwadjr injured by pcnd- All that i needed it . r,-.fT ranrd by fuUc taxation I: ; ; ! raied jur!y an! icr.t ilj'. i?r ;r ! s;rc the ncftr.al luyir. anJ 1, ; c: the crcr.:ry. on. and there :: It r real trwbie. f.aancial cr other- s-s the Cr.;ted :a:e- TIkc that u ae reryth:n. tlan'l bay. be ar,4 :r.j:T."' are danefout J p--!tic weisare and rroperi?y. Hi'i t c and p4nkt are cacxd by a $.; t.:-r ic!er.l cctf4ticn cf buyir-j:. t ;t:;m cxt not tay n i.vc the merchant cannot buy ttxm - ii:j:urer. tne ::urer. the manuUcturer mut y hard t:n;c. dfj re:on. fear and that the ccunuy hou!d moil AtPtl To the circulation " tn X and the ctrr,rr.un;iy, to CiKCouracc lUrz. i I;kc tofpir.i: the pf b!ci in the human body. nt ktc (a';lhful!y. n!l continue hit botisj:. cncoui4rr.: hi (eJ c.t.sen ia tfu-tint, cr-c to the ;. the lhc4.n,.ir to hs (amdr t Uh they are accuorr.r H'j-.r to j.?ry the t-ur.:ry a!or in the - trrvxl, ftft-?'xvxi channel. The l;fe of a t ;:n b a runntrc !ream. It mul not " !c- . i:v:cn by (ear or damrrxd up tiHif-n'f br thoe that rreah fa! and :ful ecorer.j'. t!l rf wh:h it true. T.c talk about eccn- -.; h. Inren jfteatly m:iunder:ood. Where x v4!d and mul eccn;tn:xe t not in 9? nd r - ry fcf t! :t actuary r.cetfrd ana con- f. but $n isner:ric raw material wan 5:.. fVr in;ance. o cry I am;! v. cr not! -try (xiW, drtroyt enough food to feed at rs femoo. Initead cf taking to ma s--rrJzl cr j many drci. at wc wcju! J ;4? r--!;c:r.e. wc ecck up a whote panful cr irvVsI and p-t it on the tabic, and what it V', ? cneratly put in the wtl pa;l to find itt : tve hfen cr thrown into l.e jrarbae tit 1 1 be taken to the incinerator. That it t-'--; And w::ful wate. it it dciroyir. the i"l d ;n-.;nihirc cur power. Tvff 1 r fT4 nsy in hid:rx your money H a f--i-V-.. What r ir! to da i to invrit r ft r-.-ittr. cic it opportunity to do a irf.f tfftiARj x cheer therr- keett it rtrr bctr. f "it Ur. wuth the Urown-lle'k people ti wslj Ur-1 wirr.ewhrrc tU tomorrow. 4-s ritr. a i!'!ar wiH a!war do a fu!l w-?k. matter what cj do with it. -i !nt inet it in t-omethinc that 4-r zv'irz to r.red!r dcitroy. That it rf the prrbtrm, and the editorial i b r .v;r. ilrwri it ;f t-.fe K well worth readsr r.ueton il be- c!:cuMed I,-- I a few ciyt. ir-c lnautrial l;nc hat tf'irycd and pretty toon we will know '--ut the Iept fer7o:!:on. The Otr tt bu :r on lh; nuetjon and a!uMe a: J- I he new crrot i f t ir-trd. an I wanted frctty xn. o Cuilfcrd County All Right. f I cnty reJf red about iv thou e hun-Jrtd men on Tueday. That t'L The twn fro;r ran ovrr i4-d. and the outlying d;trictt made it tf al Urjr. Some of the Xorth wh-ch hate three time the 'fter..-ro rna'r better return on i". thr p-jr.tr aterarrd un with any tatr. .teek!cnburu.wcnt a i;l xn truyur.--i. Ih; ecunty in rr th,'.n ! ne hundred men irate wrre few. f ur ffr tan that there 4 ut i tt aSt-ut it. there wit no n rach mm e!: '?'y an! joenty and e wat at esrty men t ft "t W 4:1: "C. .''Ur.y t:nuv men wore ' W 1 t h,-- " ' W h ; J showed that a!l thrtr tily and da it riht t'-i- t a:i riht. f-1 t?-e fT the new court Kouve r y. and thrn 1 k s if th rztn ;ut U wvrk. THE WOMAN IN AMERICA The Wilmington Star, after taking a s urvey of the situation, conclude! at follow: Thit it the day cf the American woman. Her national importance it recognized more keenly than ever and all over the country he i doing a marvelout part for tne nation. Ksght here in ilmtngton the women are doinr nation work of vatt importance. The government is giving woman her place at never before. . Hardly a thing t done without woman influence and ability are taken into consideration. The household it recognixed by the gov ernment and many government bulletin! arc deroted exclusitcly to woman's part during thit emit. Itjffould be of interett fcr all women to know fully jutt how the government it prrpared to advise with them and to get .their adtice and assist ance. Aye it it true, true at Holy Writ. The wo men not only cf America, but of the world, have proven themselvet in the last three yeart most marvelout beingt. They have taken the placet of old;eri who went to the trenchet: they hae driven ttreel cart; they have filled men place in munition lactone; they have cared lor the dead and wounded; they have acted at nurct for the dying and been first to take away those who had fallen on the field of battle. . In America today the woman it in the front. Co to any "city and you find that women have not watted, but they have perfected all ortt of organixationt. They have been an inspira tion in even getting men to plant more teed. They have orrnied different societies. They have given of their time and money, and, at Judge Boyd taid yesterday in hit address, the men would do well to imitate them. The gov ernment hat called them and they responded without the threat cf imprisonment being held over them. They know that they cannot bear arm and go to the trenchet to fight, but they know thai by organization they, can be jl. mighty force to asst in the prosecution of the war, and without aritic orders, but rwith an exhibition of tublime devotion to 'their country thry organized on their own volition and have cpidertaken and arc doing a woman's part. j In the ld timet it wat said the slacker would hidrj behind hit wife' petticoats. Were he to do t.Hat in these day he would perhaps per nap have hi I ock s.ot off. She it in tne front. She it doiri; thing, and to her wc cannot give loo much raise. ii'ew that registration it over, the June bride it being taken away. The married man will huily be called on the firtt go round, to it it up to the girl to say yet p. d. n. o Accepted. And iul now, except the individual who ha heart failure when told that a tmall steak welch out seventeen dollar and naturally CAclaimt in a loud tone of voice, -What's that r we hear nothing about high price. The nation hat accepted the outrageout price at the inevitable, and not until the speculatort run up the scale another hundred per cent, will the paper be full of the boycott talk. It wasn't many Heeling weeks ago and wo men all over the country were holding meet ing. They were talking about boycotting dealer. There were to be meatiest day and cggles day, but, presto, and wc hear no more about it. True, the wheal speculators allowed flour to fall three or four dollar a barrel: the gov ernment ha taken hold and jay it doesn't propose to allow cold storage men to harbor the world supply of.ejrg and edible and while price arc going no higher, they remain at about the same inexcusable figure. And wc murmur not. Our grocer informed u the other day that potatoes had gone up from nine cents to twelve and a half cent an ounce, or a pint or a fjuart something. c forget which and wanted to know why. We figured that at the upply came in we. would gel them cheaper, but it i the reverse. Even the old bunch of banana which erstwhile came at ballast sell now at two-fifty at against one-fifty a bunch wholesale, and thi. not because of any scarc ity, but because a trust or combination con trol the market. Look where yem will and the finger of com bination i on the food product. Cncle Sam can. and reed:ly should, remedy this evil. If the market is free and it not controlled by speculator, foodstutT would fall at least thirty-three and a third per cent. Let u hope that the lawmaker will give ut relief. o The liberty Bond campaign in Guilford cxruniT warn a otjT ctr, anu u i uun Guilford w ill go to a million dollar yet. The campaign doet not close until June 15th. Buy f J . i a bond today if you haven t already done so and buy another one if you have the price. . o The Red Cross still want new members. Do not think that because registration is over the war is ended. Join the Red Croi. . RAiSE SALARIES FOR TEACHERS A serious condition confronts our city, and there seems to be no way to get things right. That our school teacher are not paid enough to live on has been proven and, while they arc loyal and want to remain, it is understood that a majority of them will refuse to continue at present salaries. And if those already here cannot live on. what is offered, it goes without saying that it will be hard to find competent instructors to take the place of those who go. It looks like Greensboro should make a move and do something to increase its school fund. The law now takes all the fines which the city im pose on offenders and put them in the county fund. As an illustration, the other day a man gave a cash bond for hi appearance in court He was caught with several quarts of whiskey. Knowing the roads would be his post office address for six months, he didn't -come to court, forfeited his hundred dollars in cash and left for parts unknown. That hundred dollar didn't go to the city school fund; it went to the county school fund. The city employed and paid for the officer who cap tured the prisoner; it paid for the court which would have convicted him; did all and was protecting itself, and the county, under the law. reaches in and takes the money. There have been thousands of dollars which the city should have had to pay it teachers gone to the county, and this law should be chagcd. but it is a part of the constitution, as vvc un derstand it, and as the lawyers and politicians have tried so many times to put things over by pretending to change tne constitution, con stitutional amendments arc in bad favor. But no matter about that point. What this city should do and do at once is to vote more taxes. A special school fund should be the cry. The teacher should be paid a living wage. It is not unreasonable la say that a living. w ire" ahuuld be" paid all pcvplc who work, and L sureJy a school techci.iJiaoi.liye on. thirty- seven collars a monin. 1 rue, lor me iimc act ually given they get more than this, but to be a teacher means no side lines it means the whole year. The three months' idleness is generally spent in preparation, and on must live just the same. It is an outrage that teach er arc paid so little their task is one of the utmost importance. I-et our citizens sec if something cannot be done. The Gty Com missioner have no authority to pay more than the revenue of the city justify, and already the school fund is low. o : Hammel. ' The Advisory Board has not yet made any report to the City Commissioners, and will not, at wc understand it, until the people have been heard. The Advisory Board wants to hear from the people concerning a superin lendent of the public schools. The Record also wants to be heard, and it desires to say that it has found, from its investigation, that Professor W. C Hammel, the present super intendent, is making good, has shown himself possessed of wonderful executive ability, and has proven by his works that he understands what he should do as superintendent, and has the ability and willingness to do it. When ifammcl was first chosen wc doubted very much it. he was tne man tor the piacc. We had known him a a busy man and a use ful man in the community, a man who was al ways willing to" do his bit when called upon, whether to aid the boy in rnaking trinkets from wood or in running the lav tern for the picture if a public entertainment was on. Wc wondered if a mistake had not been made, and when he was elected to succeed Dr. Mann wc refrained from any comment that might imply the Commissioners had done a wise thing. But it is as true today as it was of old, "By their works ye shall know them," and Hammel has unquestionably made good. He has shown by his recent exhibition of the, school survey of this city, which he made in order to enlighten the Commissioners that he is on his job, that he thoroughly understands every detail of it, and, while it is none of our busi ness, except as a taxpayer, wc would be glad to see Hammel re-elected. The Advisory Board is to settle the matter, as wc under stand it. and inasmuch a it has agreed to let people be heard wc thus make bold to say that if it recommends Hammel it cannot go wrong. o A Worthy Came. The City Commissioner yesterday voted the District Nurse an additional ?j$ a month to be used exclusively in tubercular work. The Committee waiting on the Commissioners showed why we needed money to help the un fortunates, and as much as the contemplated building of a county sanatorium has been post- porjed the Commissioners wisely concluded, until that bu.fding became possible, it was up to Greensboro to do its bit. While the sum appropriated.it very small to fight such a formidable foe to society, it will materially help, and the regret is that it could not be cade larger.- " : -V SEC. BAKER AT CHAPEL HILL crctary of War Baker has been at Chapel Hill ami Durham and made a talk to crowded houses: He told our people that the whole country was together; that there were no divi sions, and he was glad to know that the ten million men responded so cheerfully. Judging by the reports of the crowds going' to hear the Secretary of War it is apparent that North Carolina has at last got the thrill, and when she does her bit it will be as much as any other section. . It took a little time. As Judge Boyd re marked from the bench in talking to the grand jury, the scat of war is a great distance and it takes longer to get people interested, but they will be interested. He said when Mc Kinlpy made his call for soldiers to go to Cuba the recruiting offices -could not take care of the men. The reason was the enemy was right at hand the "slogan "Remember the Maine" filled every soul with a desire to pun ish those who had made war upon our flag. And so it is going to be in the present conflict.. One of these days and the Germans will do something-closer at home than they have so far done, and then the blood of the whole na tion will leap high, and America will be hard to hold. o Money Is Plentiful. You can't understand why it is, but peo ple arc not worrying about , money matters. More automobiles were sold last month than ever before in the same length of time, and the banking interests all report plenty of money. Merchants are not complaining and the farmer, who at first concluded he would hoard, his savings, has concluded that when we get to spending the seven billion dollars maybe there will be enough to go around. There-is no doubt about good times. The war will make money more plentiful than we have seen it-In a long "time. ; When you. go to circulate seven -billion dollars, use it. in war. preparation, that money circulates freeJy and quickly, and when money circulates every man who performs any task gets his share. There'is no reason to think that times will not be good for years to come. There may be a lean year when the readjustment comes, but that isn't Coming for some time. The man who puts his money in the ground or in a trunk is simply foolish. He is a last year's bird nest with the bottom out. o Now Let Us Get Busy. The registration days are over, the month of June is rapidly going out and the glorious Fourth of July is about here. Guilford county should have a rousing big celebration on the Battle Ground Mr. Paul Schenck advises us that there is still some red tape concerning the transfer, and perhaps it may be too late to celebrate the taking over of the grounds by the government. But be that as it may, this year of all years the Fourth of July should be observed in America. It is a patriotic day the day we celebrate our Independence, and as wc arc now in another war for the same cause there should be a hundred million people take that day off to show the world that we arc still here. 1 o Right Now. Already the early cantaloupe is in the mar ket. Pretty soon the home-grown one will be here. Wc spent all last summer and nine hun dred dollars trying to find just one cantaloupe that tasted it, out we failed. We are going to try again this summer. Wc want to get hold of just one old-fashioned cantaloupe that tastes like cantaloupes tasted when we were a boy. Long time ago? les. But we remem bcr. These new-fangled cantaloupes taste like they were made of cotton; in fact, they-are tasteless, or were last season. Once in a while, though, there is one that makes you dream of angels, and as wc arc all gamblers that one is what wc arc going after. - o The Tornadoes. Almost every day the middle west sends us the report of a death-dealing tornado. "We have been peculiarly lucky in these pine woods so far. Just why there should be in one sea son so many wind storms in a certain section is hard to understand. And the Professor who looks at. clouds and tells us all about the ele ments is himself up in the air. He has been guessing for thirty years, but his theories al ways fall. The middle West has always been the home of the cyclone. True, the South and other sections have been visited, but never with such serious and disastrous results as ex perienced' in the West. The middle West is the home of the cyclone cellar. It is there that death is dealt and houses blown away. It would be interesting to know the cause of these ring-tailed twisters which appear with out warning, and deal destruction in their path.- ,.-. ; o : Kaiser-Bill should understand that this first .ten million is only a drop in the bucket. Wc can get up another ten million and-not exceed the speed. limit 'in doing it. ALL REGISTERED NOT ELIGIBLE It is estimated that at least fifty per cent, of those who registered will not be eligible for war service. This includes the thousands of. men. holding government positions, married men and cripples and those not physically able -to pass examination. However, if we get down to brass tacks, if the war lasts three years, as- is predicted, married men and men over thirty years of age will be pressed into the service.. In fact, the age limit as passed first by the House, forty years, is about right, -and there will be at least a couple of million . eligible under that plan. The United States can furnish, it is estimated, if necessarv at ' least twenty million men. In these days, . when we talk of the big things in big figures, , to speak of a million men doesn't sound very loud, but if one million Americans were drawn up in battle array it does seem that it would, make a most formidable army. Five million. ) ' men why, bless you, it takes an army of five million a long time to pass in review, even ; four abreast. Think of the procession five -million men would make. And yet we talle r about five or ten million like our grandfathers used to talk about five or ten thousand. : o- '; Not Satisfied. The- board of aldermen of Durham con- - - eluded to employ a city manager. The Herald sees no reason for this. It says to pay-a man three hundred dollars a month with authority ' ' only to boss the streets is bad business. It seems that under' the Durham way. of doine business the Manager has no absolute author- ' lty. He must simply do what a full boar 1 of " . aldermen instruct, and those opposed to this ' last addition insist that a hundred dollar man - would fill the position fully, as well. : Ihe City Manager idea is to take the initia- - - tive in all things-r-to be the manager. In a . Virginia town last week a city manaerer dis- charged the chief of the fire departments -He - 4 simply shot hinTddwri '.'the' i "chute without con-' suiting any of his aldermen. The chief called - ' for reaspns'for his dismissal, whereupon the City Manager explained in detail why he had fired him; showed that he hadn't examined the " ' fire plugs for a year;. that he played cards in ' the fire room when he had other things to do; that he was incompetent, and a whole lot of " . other things. The 'aldermen, who are supposed to have ' nothing to do with the Manager except to see that he makes godd, didn't know what to do. " To attempt to reinstate the chief meant going J -over the head of the manager, and the manager explained that if he was going to manage he would manage; if not, his place was Vacant. J Then the aldermen concluded that that was the way of it, and the deposed chief is out of a - -job. And that is a City Manager in letter and in spirit. If the Durham way obtains there really is no city manager- Just a" clerk or a hired man, to carry out the expressed orders of the aldermen. ' v ' And for such a position, it doesn't require a high-priced expert. However, Durham has al ways been mixed on its city's affairs", and oer- - ' haps always will be. 1 - : P A third of June has gone, but the June ""- -brides haven't averaged up in numbers. There was a time when June brides were as plentiful as June bugs, but that was "before the war.", o Good Enough. The revenue -lawmakers remember that it is well to temper the wind to the shorn Iamb, and have accordingly put a two-cent stamp tax on all checks over five dollars. That is what we wanted to see. There are some men who can write checks for more than five dol lars, but they are not publishers of newspa- pers. This exception was made purposely to take care of the newspaper. man who will be called upon to pay a tax for his existence, but - '. hecan write his check up to four ninety-nine and the revenue will never hit him. In the Hanko-Spanko war all checks carried the two cent stamp, but to make, an exception and let . a man in free under five dollars was wisdom. It will give no one a chance to refuse to pay his subscription by saying he hasn't a stamp . for his check. Hard Luck. Just about the time we got ready to submit the Gaston street hitching lot to the - City Planner he was called to New York and will be absent a week or ten days.- But eventu ally that hitching lot must standf fire. It must be fully exhibited and in some way rushed out of the city's confines. In other words, it will be shown that it is a nuisance. , ,. v In these war times the campaign against the r great white plague, foolishly called, is not as fierce as it once was. But the great white plague isn't stopping. ' I ' " j ; o- - ' r r . . If-the bone-dry law goes into effect the first of July, the blind tiger man should .stop busi ness 'and come in and register. . ; ; ' ' - J - r: -- : 6- : ' ; . And chewing gum is to escape 'the revenue - tax. Wonderful! ; ; A s ; ,3 -i-r'i -1
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