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- -t , t" "A v . . -, SY al fax i hi h oti I eh ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903. c4cjrraw n a ruuk tiyLm cort ctjrrt SATURDAY, JUNE 33. I97- ox uu at rwu mrt'Ri9Di axd ox taijc M . 1 ' Mi r GIVE HOOVER ' A EREE HAND rv-r.".h rr liVrn bj ;tw!A?o from I "'Tt t r - rravca hy cox! f.ovf ni cl ftch T.t 7ut:tr ar.i era r. t-sf Tt! i at! ihttt u W4t u. ar.i t tht pifr.r l;r!jr t! wit er,t ti alter:!; tf In th c J tar in rr.ir.:.rc Cirr-r Mrr.t Ki'I-v ct tttirL Or-ce t?a rr t i. pc-7t r Vt 1 ta ihctcwttr tK?ct l 4 J;;Ur (or a ttn-tr,i on c4 ot ej-!rtt. P?ti tc!4 af a J'Uf a lcf. ar. ! fcit!urf r-cti maft cr,otc rxsrvry I Kan cchS rv-iftK Tt ar7y wa o r.! : rr; : tvj I ot t Uc-5 wa f4 tsi h-urrry rr.cn ar. 4 dfrr !t r-.tt: Ka4 !a Kac tc&l ar.4 tht rr,cfc.r c'a!tf J it a! ar.y f?cc that 'S-:tS iHcir far.y. Hat rr r ihc fr;C ft.Jr! that t; -ihotit.fnl tr,'.;r..;c tiui war. ar. 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Tr hae crrtTtr.: "4 Ke..tl a..5 Tfty rvac m..:.,:ftr. .-4 the Go! ln! rr.!r can irt aSnl of thtrn. it Vrrar;xe4. tty craft arl prefc fft?m the d waaiff ' ur.;cn ta the 'J;. a-;a:n cf Air.eficj. it hoc tri furz trehfrr. ar,4. UT. rtctwttJ interest 1 ra.ar.;:oi w... f Tfce Lati Day. i,r u te la. I tlay rf tht hri Ctt earra:rn. ar. 3 tr.t rc,T i i.-a.. t:m V fc v,.Vi xen the l:c-t t acr t.-r-.T hn;rr trr caj . ; " 1 ! "J;.!l j S.eT hatf iKasht that Zl Bat that t the n-rttn. It t.r-: what other I .... ' . T , v.Ur ! at ctrr? ;cl. un thenar,! r" a rrtaT.fr ai. Thfte art many mm ha , r tr- fa "H rccrrn re th- ifnancc cf hae ?tt a. f s t ix. .... ..r ar an I thr :f! Cr 1 l"c j r . ;4-tt h:ri that Duty cai:t an4 j r. VtV-Vr ietfioir. .Let ui here the S h' r- rer- . . , . .rr-tr.: pica Gufct4 ra-t f:cr a!! t t etttr tee th. i'atttcJ ia;cc:K BIG BUSINESS IS NECESSARY I: it fc:.r.!c4 cut that all th Die Butintt ccr.ctrn hate been tatitcd in to kelp the gov errenx in isi war rotcaon. It if ta4 thai the 5tar.4ard Oil wat fOicxutc4 and p!il op fcf btir-c a rr.mjcpoly. Toiay the Govern rr.tr.i cajlt Mr. Bedford, rroicnt of the 5:an4a;4 OA cf New Yok. to rtfrtstnt the oil in:cttt r.oi cr.Jy of the Standard pjoup but cf tht ir.itpjtr.4tr.ta in the Council of National Iffcr.e. TKe Government fc!t! uil to dit K.he the Lc;!ed 5:att Stttl Corporation. Now Mr. Gary 11 ca!!e ! in by the Government to brr.c all the ftctl compar.it into cloier re lation for war prpo. The Govtrnmtnt ttttd to intcijjh aratnt the hippinx trut. Now the Covcrrmeni i jorx into the ihip bu;r.ttt cn a trutt batit, Fur.ny how the mhccU 1:0 round and lime char rev, r:-. UuM.-.ttt it abo!utt1y exntial lei lh;t fcur.:ry or any other country. Big n:r.r ha beta thrtattntd by the calamity KawJer ttr.til many p?p!e think a man with i d V.arf i a malefactor of gTtat wtalth bul vhcn it betomc r.tctttary to do biff thing thrre mail be Biff Buir.t to help out. Commerce and Finance, commenting: aloni; theie lir.t, conclude an article by faying: Th tte would etm to be need for pav rrrrr.ental rtc-lation r.t only with thought of curmc vthal i nrors; in indu iml prut tt4ay. bul ith full apprtcia tton df the toMjVihtic of afler-thc-war day. Taat;n or price regulation, or to:h. would be nothing more tKan poul tictK What it needed i a yttm by, which B; Buino can work with the Gotftnrntr.t for the bel inter rt of it xlf and the Gottmmtni and all the peo p!e. Wc hate had loo much of .corpora te greet! and too much of gottmmtnial thrtat. Between one and the other the -uMic hat r.ft bencnttd. There hould be harmony btlwten buinei and the Gottrnrr.ent and the people. There has not been harmony. There ha been u picim when there ha not been open op There mul be regulation, htlp ful. crft?ruttive r-ptIro that. H rtal. .( " lhat neither wJ Ihul eirtfprie nor hill bu;r.ri ttcaute of rc and yet will afc rvard the put he araintt txh ao economic mjuttkc a thai of to!ay. The only way to weld the people of a nation into one great patriotic family i through economic j jutice. And that i aVoul the re of it. The policy of the Ckittrnmenl should .be to encourage Big Buinct. Let it hate opportunity to do big thing, bul do not let it do unlawful thsng; make the laws gmcrning it rtanon ablt. Bsg Buir.ct can't become big unles il ha a room- The little boat can t!aat in a few feel of water, but the bi boat mutt have depth. B:g BuMntt it onlr little butines grown large. The wonderful wizard in the nnannal world should be encouraged. We take in the inttntor and have thtm create thing for u. Kdion i called in to help find something to destroy submarine. Why not call in the biggest and best Financial Invent ed, turn thtm loo to make all the money pble, to gather il and then have something to help out when we have a bond sale or a Red Cro campaign? No use to talk about the poc devil who can'l make il having hi share. He wll gel hi share, and hi share i only measured by hi capacity make :f We work a hard a any mat and find that we can't make a much in a year a some of the, financial wirard honestly make in three min ute. But we arc satisfied to do the btl wc can "and we want thtm to pile it up in order o have somtthing in ight when ready money is needed by the Government, by the munici pally, by the railroad builder or the banker. . o TKe Kcd Cros worker arc nol Mtisfied with the general mrer.se of our peoplc, but it mul be remembered thai our people arc loyal and perhaps arc doing all ihey can do. It 1 cay to think "the other fellow" should come laoti handsomely, bul the -other fellow often ha trouble of hi own. Yet every man should give something to this cauc. o Buaineta Gettinr Better. Krm the big cities the report come that merchant are buying heavily in all kind of gtsod far fall business; everything that ha wheels it in motion or to be in motion: Con gret will soon adjourn and quit it dilly-dallying, and the proptct for big buints wtrc coer better. Taken on the whole, the crops in the United 5tate are a good a anr average v ear there will be more foodtluff harvested than ttr ttfore, and the pessimist will find but Kttle hce to interest butr people. TKe billion cf dollar to be expended by Uncle ham will find their way to every lown ar.4 city: t!d;tr will be drawtrg pay, and all tbotc hitherto unemployed will be busy on day sh.il and night shift, and jusl a oon a the temporary slump i over gold will run in streams, , . . ' It all look goo! from a business standpoint, and il look good from a moral standpoint, be cause America i gtrir.g in to wn the war. and she i ging in not only in a buimcs way but in a stupendous way. THE CHRONIC " KICKER ALWAYS I There i in this world of woe the chronic kicker. Sometime it is an acquired habit, sometime il come "natural liVe." One of the hard working women who is trinK 10 tc'P secure subscriptions to the ftet! Cross Society tell ut about two or three citizens who ex plained to her that they were getting mighty tired fthi begging program on in Greens boro. One- of them told her he couldn't walk ou! on ihc street without being held up to buy a Liberty Bond or to subjenbe to the Red Cro. and that he was not going to subscribe to 'anything. Of course lhat would have been all right had the woman importuned him to subscribe to some private charity or to invest some money in a newspaper or a church or some thing of the sort. But here was a woman giv ing of her time and energy to help in a peat common cauc, answering the appeal of the President to assist the Red Cross nothing in the world to her bul patriotism pure and sim ple and the well-intenlioned citizen, without thought, had it in his mind that he would be giving her something if he subscribed a few .dollars to help defend the flag of" his country a flag that may be in deepest peril before the winter comes. And that is where many of us make the mis take in not stopping to analyze the proposi tion put before u. The Liberty Bond issue was essential. Finally, when the nation got away from the commercial end and saw that Duty called and Duty commanded, there was ovrr-subscribed a billion dollars. And just as oon a all understand that this Red Cross business must be taken care of, that it will take a hundred million dollars for this depart ment of the war, there will be no difficulty. and those wrio retuse now 10 give iheir oouar or l4icir ten dollars will gladly come across. o . The Funny Thing. There is something more than passing strange about the figures from the revenue office concerning receipts on alcoholic bever age. 'The report published in this paper Yes terday showed that revenue receipts on beer and whirVry vrtrr rrralrf i than rvfin- history of the country.. There was an expla nation to the effect that because of a pro posed increase on whiskey much had been taken from bonded warehouses in order to es cape the proposed increase, but naturally it would seem wilh over half the country dry and drunkenness not one-half what it was a few years ago the revenue receipts would dwindle. But they do noL They increase each year, and this year's report shows the largest ga;ns of aJl. The report says this year will be the banner year, and so far one hundred and seventy tight million have been collected, and there arc yet eleven more days to do business in the fica"l year ending July first. , Receipts arc said to be over a million a day. Tobacco also yielded more revenue this vcar than ever before, over a hundred million hav ing already been paid. It is also said that cigarette smoking is increasing and that the fifteen per cent, increase in that commodity is because women are learning to smoke the lit tle white coffin nail. So there appears no room for the philoso pher. He can t find a place to sit down or a place to hang b?s hat before these figures. Two-thirds of the United States prohibits the -.1- f ,k;Lv and men arc not drunk and dow n as they used to be, consumption is pre-. ( sumed to oc materially nuviu, i.u m. nuc figures show an increase and this year to be the banner year. Take the case, gentlemen of the. jury. Wc can't find anything in it that is satisfactory. o- . Taking Advantage. The men who traffic in young girls have laken advantage of the war times and the ex citement on in other places and proceeded on their work of destruction. It is said that in New York alone eight hundred girls between the ages of ten and twenty years have disap peared since January first just about six months and the police force of New lork will be under investigation. The white slave industry has picked up wonderfully in these lati few months, because the war has claimed the attention of the people. When one thinks that eight hundred young girls have been al lured from their homes and thrown into a life of shame it i enough to make one wonder what would happen if our laws were left in active for a year. Such evidence of vagcry hows lhat man is not civilized at all that he is simply restrained fearing punishment. o Wonder Why? Wonder what has become of the nation wide war which was being waged against ci garettes some dozen years ago? Don t hear much about it now. and the figures show that the manufacture of cigarettes has increased fivefold in a dozen years. 7daybc the reform er have concluded that the cofiin nail is quite the thing. o Better conclude that watermelons arc the stuph and go to one of them Sunday. Maybe paregoric will be needed, but that isn t under the ban. TRAIN ROBBERS GET IN ACTION 0 The story from Chicago of where two mask ed men entered the express car on a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train bound for Omaha,, gagged the express messengers, tied them together with a rope, opened the safe and, took with them some thirty thousand dollars in money, reads like one of the stories of the old days when Jesse James and Cole Younger were doing business almost every day.. Once in awhile we tezdx( train robbers, but nothing like it-used to be. And every time we read of them here of late suspicion points to the poor messengers who have undergone, physical and mental torture. In this case the two messengers who were bound together, who were overpowered, were questioned for half a day by the human sleuths and yet they told the same story and stack to it, although separately examined. They may have been guilty of the robbery such a thing is possible but when train robbery was in its flower," when Burrows and Jennings and James and Younger and other lesser lights kept the coun try terrorized, it was accepted as a matter of fact that such gentry could do the work. But because the industry fias decayed, because the stars have left the stage of action, it doesn't" seem to occur to the human sleuths that others could engage in the business. They always want to suspect I the messenger, the man en trustel with the treasure. Those who have read Bret Hartc's frontier stories and seen Yuba Bill in action understand how easy it was in the old days to rob the coach and take the treasure box belonging to. the Wells-I-aro Express Company. In those days when an extra heavy shipment of gold was sent, extra guards were employed to fill the box. In these days the express companies throw the treasure in the coach and expect one. man to guard it and land it safely. o And the play grounds and the city parks well, il costs money to buy 'cm, and just now wc have no money. . , , . - - , ' : O ; : , 7. Increasing. "- .wJ-wi'; Xh6se"vvho sccn!-to understand the" situa tion say the moonshiner has already been ad vised of the bone-dry law which goes into ef fect in this state the first of July, and corn likker is being stored for the grand rush that will follow. One citizen says an automobile was in this town the other night and within an hour dispensed what looked like several gallons of .the ardent. Asked if he bought any he said no, but he insisted that moon shiners were very busy. As wc understand the situation, the bone-k dry law will only put out of commission the people who run blind tigers in a small way. It is said that the larger dealers in illicit goods buy in large quantities and it comes by freight labeled something else. The old game of put ting a small barrel inside a coal barrel is be ing worked, and boxes containing about ninety per cent, whiskey get in by freight and no one is wiser. Once in a while these good:, are discovered. -It was in Tennessee that coffins were used to ship in the whiskey," and it was not until one consignment got in a wreck thats the game was discovered. It is related to us that one man shipped in an automobile cas ing and within it vvere ten pints of whiskey no one would have ever suspected what was going on. Until the nation is prohibition, until Uncie Sam refuses to give a government license, whiskey will be in evidence; but not as much as there once was, and the bone-dry law, while there is chance for evasion, will make whiskey' harder to get, notwithstanding the fact that the moonshiner is wise as to what is going on. o ' And now they are still talking water metres. The hope is that water metres will not be uni versal. o The Sorrow Of It. One of the sorrows of the war is the fact that men, for gold, are willing to debauch the young soldiers who go to training camps. , It has just been "charged by Secretary Daniels that the, naval training station at Newport, R. I., is exposed to gambling houses, bar rooms and all other things demoralizing. The Mayor of the city denied that there was any thing unusual in this fashionable city, this wonderful resort-where Harry Leher nad his monkey show, but Secretary Daniels' made a separate investigation and found facts as he. first charged, and has appealed to the Gov ernor of the state to suppress, the joints. - And they should be suppressed and at once. And wherever there is a training camp it should be the mission-of this government to see to it, beyond any doubt, that all immoral agencies were removed. The young man who enlists as a soldier 'should find other things to do than drinking whiskey, playing cards and consorting with-vicious women, o . And a little later, if the weather gets warm, wc may have some excitement about water metres. , ' 1 , . . O-; The weather marr promises to give us a chance to lay aside the blanket. This is good news aarf refreshing news.- IF AMERICANS ONLY KNEW IT In addressing ' the Rotarians at Atlanta a British gentleman went on to say that what ailed America just now was the lack of, infor mation concerning the atrocities committed by the Germans in Belgium; in fact, committed-everywhere, but' especially on the people ' of Belgium.. He maintained that if the people of the UnitedStates really understood what they were up against,-the possibility of a war lasting five or twenty years, and the further possibility of the Germans invading these shores and doing to our'people what they have done for Belgium, this nation would respond so quickly in sending men and money to the' front that the war would speedily end. He recited a dozen or so of the dastardly crimes committed by Germany; crimes that make the blood run cold to contemplate. And perhaps he is right. It has been our privilege to read, because such official things are sept to newspaper men, some of the stories of, bar barity and savagery toward the Belgian peo ple, and we feel certain if this nation under stood it would be very hard to keep men within the present age limit from entering the war .and going to France to fight. Never in the history of the world, fronY the savagery and insanity of Tamerlane to the march pf Sherman to the sea, ha,ve there been such exhibitions of total heartlessness. Ger many has violated every rule and law of civil- -ized warfare. She has wantonly murdered in nocent women and children. She has sent her I hordes of soldiers into peaceful villages with orders to violate the person of every defence less woman. She has burned buildings of public nature and destroyed churches. She has poisoned wells and fed famishing prison ers of war poisoned foodstuff. She has done everything unspeakable and cruel and wicked she ha's been a demon with; power and -anger. ' . True, we made a mistake and are partially responsible for the apparent indifference of our people as a nation. Being lovers of peace, , we - kept out o,.the war too long. :Btit now -that W? t are, we are , withthe gentleman who addressed the Rotarians ; we feel that this gov-' r ernments should officially; compile a ristof jthe : horrible arid'unspeaTrableTEingsMo ? many and see to it;that? every ..American citi- ' zen understands- what, has happened. v Ever y avenue , of publicity should; be . employed. Every newspaper every picture show, every billboard, every pulpit and every, rostrum, should be occupied'., . Men should tell " their brothers what has been and' what will be' on these shores unless this great and powerful nation wields a blow to annihilate, the mad. kaiser. Too long and far too long we have shown indifference. It is time to hold , more patriotic meetings; time to come across with a part of our money lest Germany takes.it all. r Aroused, America would be invincible ; but indifferent she may, suffer the greatest Josses and the greatest sqrrows. ' . . ' ; - o " Times wuTbe- dull when everybody con cludes that they are dull. The way to have good times when money is plentiful is just to say so and act your part. . A ' , - o t -- ; Nothing Yet. Doing. Th: report of the British dn losses, of ships by submarines" shows that last week " the U boat ot in its work in a more deadly fashion thanany week previous. It appears that with all the ingenuity of the world it is impossible to find a device that puts the submarine out , . of-commission. It was our hope that Ameri can inventors would find 'something, but the task seems hopeless. Mighty hard to stop , warfare. The submarine is like Nthe highway manhiding behind a tree or clump; of ' bushes. It bobs up when least expected; it is quick of action, does its deadly chore and dis appears. And with the sea filled with them it appears impossible to head them off. The man who can solve the - problem would be voted the greatest inventor of the age while the - man who ' really invented the submarine, -apparently. just now the most wonderful of all inventions, isn't having his praises sung.. - It had been our impression that Holland t made the first submarine,but reading the other day we found that other countries had successfully r used undersea craft over a hundred years ago. Perhaps the day will come when the subma- ' rine will find its equal, but hardlv in this pres ent war. It seems that timei )f peace are when the great death-dealing r . chinery. is in vented. Necessity was not the mother of the submarine's invention. There was no neces sity for such a thing here was all reason in the world why it should never'have been per- . ' fected. ," . 4 p .: The Red Cross week is aboufto close, and up to date Greensboro hasn't done her. pai-. Let us hope in the next two days (the figures ; will be increased. - : The death jn the county yesterday evening, -where a farmer and his wife, working in the field, were killed by lightning, was . a tragedy such as has 'often happened, but where . no blame attaches. : ". . o r - "And during all the other excitement, are you : swatting the fly whenever; opportunity offers? If not swat, and swat right now. , . i , . , v. .- ; r 4 1 " - - -i i , , - 1 t
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