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V1 'i-"V ' people Who I I vLM I J (M 7 11 1 ' j rx PeoPle : C Think IJC U : lju yLyU: LW - Think 7 A: . j. SV AL FAIRDROTHER AUCTION GAME A LOSING ONE . xtt :tl tr.:efri!f4 ai an auction ; .i - I.-i: nn the ur,4 tttr,tfy f -f f Ka4 t;? at tht n-r- Thrtc t?e otal t;4IfT r fin aro-.r-J thfv hucrrl o'Urt w r-.rn -jrs at it ar.4 ra$4 each r at a t;r.r. The ffic hlb hi I r-tr:V.? acrrra wa the a ! tc rod rai Ir?V;rj to the ; ,' - t ;h .;h :ht j were in a cen',et fcr ,f ! they ran en the b4 to three the cither rr.in three e te other rr.an ai ! three r.Ir.c 4 met? aiJ "four hunire"4."" r- n tried to correct it, atc he r un, but tefcte h cot;!d :r!;m the other fcl'ow :4 four 0 a r r : -ten r-.an lhu rr.ade fcur f tf ur.:?;?ent;ou!Iy ieeauv rhr auti.rcf. in h-swrz a tu!djr.g which wa ft r f , hundred dollar te mau t 4? rt trn d!ar ho! I cut no ie. r-- bf lUrc 'lcn go a few dtJ- x- - 4: a t:f.e. ar I dfp o-j:. He doeni - real wrrth oi what he bujs. but .. fV,--h; hr c--!l gte and get a bar- ! jut what a bargasn i in such a t" tlrfe 1 r. way t- lf!I'. Nmply a rough - 4"r Ard a r-.atter cf jugrter.t. That i 4 - 4-i;o-fr h- un i?r :ar.d hi bui . u-eie r.-.h juke -I of a r Tht 1 why the mn who h ptiie t :' rt froie to tx bla-rd hrjd i t ffcm h gre. He i lable ; frvkte ar,d make tt a t-crona! matter I t-pp-rent. j . I '.t tttt a ftrrte -tr, tmtv year art we I or r-it pct.3-i c.rr.t:h;r;g isie thifly-fite coi- 1 jvtj;i r.avr a iioard 01 rartjoni; why . a5 t Kappn4 that we a!send"dji xhon) one man. who of necessity mut play politic, 'eft -rf tt w p?tp.odby vfne tras- t should rnt be allowed to set ade the judg rir: fik-r to j rcrr.t to the p?e!siet tomn ment of judge and jurie. The Summer cae t.e bu-h a bau!;ful r .1 p4$r.:;rg wotth 1 abIutcly idcfenible. Not but what he t'-hp two do"at a- 3 a hVf. ar.d the- o:;r.g f b d--e at twenty-hte cer.: a o:e. V. t terr a irarger in a :rarge lard, but a f ! grrc trt. an! it ha; pr.ed thai a w--r-: a! a'i rrrtty. but who i the hol v 'f. W4 placed in rim:r.??n a cr.e rf f fttty gtr'. The rf the it!age were i if'-jr part ta I to th:r sweetheart, and the bgn. The shl teacher loomed cp .;-.-.'e a r-ur-.ST rf 'r an ! it struck u h!.J h-. in ar.1 he: her out. Ae- 1 -r! tf ine!ed a CrHr. wn;cn r.acc m mm m d !!. and then er.e of her friend d pcd her in rrrjr-atin carre acro. i ' ' r',-.r.jr m ltnetn a really pretty ; " 4 thr Mhcl teacher who ta rn!y pa- 1: - I rt eCcitrrg. the campaign did. and t t:r rvr fasrnte fell a bttle thind we "f ri aether !oIlar. And fir!Jy it wa W - 4"t.v! ih the town wa not gr.g to jet a zt "run thirg"" and it pKfd it iue -: t! fasrrite seseral o;e ahead of the ; wife backing. Tlut wa when the : t tc uVr.iwn ua;!y which how it - T-r at an auction sale came out. We - ha d at er.c shot- fite dI'ar - tiiktt. which put eur candidate again ' - " !. ir ! tt lok jrr.e time for the p-3ol " '-uh rnnct to gtl ahead of us. 'ttr rr four bor who had put the '-uttr in r.?-;r.a?:on haJ early gtr.e !wf were left a!r.e to how the whe ? r-ake srl. To make a long story , r r.. pjcture. We can see it tvow. r--ay frame, ar.i it cl u twenty '?. featirg jut a?x?ul enough in our --! trraure to gel out rf town. But ' 4 ! -rr.tn hero for a few minule, ' - a --r-T-n hero, but naturally a de r -.'ft'-iyf tewe! itrrri the r-atiir' " We earned that picture under or.e ' a"'-! hrre b; ie that girl teacher 't gr,.J r-:gh!. and went oacfc to c hur a-i J tronderedl until late j ft wa that man w a such j e coach ! - r,f !av we forc A stage ..I, r"i-a4-.:. a largrr town, and the e ha. I frgrltcn all a!xn:t the h'f. "t rturr. an! only recaHevJ j . r... r w4 much 1 -hfer than I !TR; h-.i V,rf ln -h ad Uur have ! S 5- at r r- a !e good. Strange how ittv t rat agr wi'l enre upon ! jrrj rrv a"1. wtth d;?incirc the en .'r thr fae. lite again the fw 5 mm m m r- J-..,' -.;a :,t,i f r-s u -i-t iS if ic-j rti to " ' nu! remated within T , V. r- .v- i pretty soax J r-ak- i: a rYu! fight with the I ir4 l t b5 r.eces.ary to make a dozen call, w : n. je-j. Fg-rc ,n tJ:u MI x re'Xir r.ctc the number hi h far 4 are go rg. f irft needed i entially small com-V-a get there graceful ide s:rp. hc lcn wI.ic a c can furnish if nerarv. the man with a wife. no matter rourrtor tt-M a tbak. ttoLa con cxrr SUMMERS CASE NOT FORGOTTEN The Hukory Time-Mercry ha the foUow ?Z to My anent the Summeri cas, one of the foul on the fair pigtt of North Carolina h;!ary: It i reaonab!e to ppoe that the covrt of North Carolina found out wheth er lf. J. V. urr.mer of Charlotte, who had hi er.tenec ef man!auf:htcr revoked and changed to a fine of Stxr. wa able to ray the m before the ehangc wa made. It look iut about a bad for the court to hate that change a it doe for Dr. 5emrrer, who conpromUed hi honor and the acredne of hi profeional cath for the paltry turn of Stpoa It look like a cat of breaking the law at to much per infraction. The 5urr.mer ca wa simply a ca where lawyer helped out. and where a Governor didn't hae the backlne to tand up and init that a doctor who had violated hi professional oth, who wa found guilty of manlaughler. be pur.nhed. Dr. hummer got o:T ery light :h a three vear xr.tence. It wa manifest ly up to the Crovernor to either let the sentence mnd er nrl hrn free. The blunder the Go rrr-or made and the position i indefensible, no matter abn;t Summer guilt or innocence ra in spying that a man guiltv of crime co!d pay for it. That a thousand dollar in money would "meet the purpoe of the law" and reach out and take the thousand for the state. If a thousand dollar in cold will let one o:."rr :cr oS. it certainly hould let other of- ttrictt orl. And douhtle there arc many men in the penitentiary today, there for man slaughter, who wtjuld gladly make arrange ment to pay their way out. The people of North Carolina have become accuttemed to seeing the law played with that the Summer caK. while exciting their indignation, didn't cause much noise. The celebrated Winston murderer who were aved from the gallow by the gallant Craig still re- main a blot upon our book. Hundred of case of pardon by M-etal governor have mtght hate been deserving of executive clem ency we do not know about that but we do know that no man should be let Iooc only be came he can rai a thousand dollar. Sur pm. he could not hasc raietl the thousand; ir-cn three vear of eritude would have been hi fate. Three hundred and thirtv-three dol ; lar a vear to escape from the penitentiary i cheap business. Hut when the poor devil . han t the com he mut take hi medicine let the ourpMr of the law will not be met." To , laugh ye; and yet it i no laughing matter. o Weeding Thern Out. The government i tiddly weeding out the ocwpper which have claimed that untjer the Constitution guaranteeing free pce;h they could print all kind of seditious utterance and flaunt treason in the faces of all their reader-. Thi war 1 teaching a few of the smart Aleck who thought they had a right to indis criminately shoot off their mouth that the President ha charge of thing, and that any thing conidered a giving aid or comfort to the enemy i treason and the so-called free prech may be just that. The pro-German paper which tore their hair and said wonderful thing before the war hate for the mot part come into camp, but a few of the so-called socialistic ua anarchistic sheet kept up the black flag, and they have been called. Happy day when CongTcs wa git en the right to make any law it wanted to make in time of war. Once in a while the city that i in distress declare martial law. and in ruch an event an ofTcssitc citizen is shot on sight and no ques tion eter aAcd. When Mayor Schmiti of San Francico declared martial law. although mot always a man must be found guilty, a half hundred men who were looting house were shot without warning, and up to thi hour no investigation ha been asked. We are under martial law, o to speak, and the news- paper which think it can say what it want to ay will find -out that it i mistaken a will the muguicea etiren wno talk too much. I T.e Married Man Given Preference, mm, m " m 1 reioest uon r.a mase it plain tnat the rjxxut4 man will be git en preference over the single man. Ani tr.t 1 a it should oe. II a man i mate! and he i Irving to lite the life cf a good citiien. he should not be, torn from hi home and made to fight until there were 1 r-o s;ngle men left. And the ir.gle man who is the -rrH tof dependent mother or sister hculd alo be one among the last taken. It mar not be necesarv to make the second call. whether the wife i dependent on the husband . . t tit.. . t . . turpri or not, ,-ot;;i ie Kitcn prcicicmc. x 4fc Kua cicer.i uson nas so ruieo. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER x. 1917 NO PEACE YET the Allies say Tresident Wilson's reply to the Tope's pro posal for peace rings dear and strong; says in a few words, without embellishment, that the United Slates i in a war to a finish with the German kaiser. It is made plain that the allies do not propose to enter into any agreement with the misguided rulers of Germany;, that until a free Germany is established and the military machine which has so long dominated and which ha o long dreamed of world con quest is crushed' there will be no acceptance of peace terms, becausi already we have been made to understand that Germany's most sa cred obligations arc regarded by those who make them as mere "scraps of paper." The President again states the object of this war. and says concerning it: The object "of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irrespon sible government, which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long established practices and long cher ished principles .of international action and honor; which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and sud denly; stopped at no barrier either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also, and of the hclp les poor; and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy of four-fifths of the world. This power is not the German peo ple; it is the ruthless master of the Ger man people. This again makes dear the cause for which America entered the war; makes plain to all tv. fc "rt.tM. mmstrra of the German oeo- pic" must be&rougfit low; in a word, that mdi- it Amf -a i enltted to tear it. root ana a a.jkA?Jk.K A ah aSK mM I branch, from cividlitation. Concluding his strong and fearless paper, the President says: , The test, therefore, of every plan of peace i this: Is it baed upon the faith of all the peonies involved or merely upon the word of an ambiguous and intriguing government , on the one hand and of 2. group of free peoples on the other? This is a test which goes to the root of the mat ter, and it is the test which must be ap plied. The purposes of the United States in this war arc known to the whole world to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. They do not need to b stated again. We seek no ma terial advantage of any kind. Wc believe that the intolerable wrong done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the imperial German government ought to be repaired, but not at the expense of the sov ereignty of any people rather a vindica tion of those that are weak and of those that are strong. Punitive damages, the dismemberment of empires, the establishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues, tve deem inexpedient and in the end worse than futile, no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice and fair ness and the common rights of mankind. Wc cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of any thing that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in. accepting. Without such guarantees, treaties of set tlement, agreements for disarmament, covenants to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial adjustments, re constitutions of small nations, if made with the German government, no man, no nation could now depend on. Wc must" await some new evidence of the purposes of the great peoples of the central pow ers. tod grant it may be given soon and in a way to restore the confidence of all peoples everywhere in the faith of nations, and the possibility of a covenanted peace. It is gratifying to note that the President make it clear that this government is not go ing at any time to demand punitive damages; it i not going to ak for the dismemberment of the German empire; it-is not going to de-. mand any unfair settlement in the matter of commerce; it is going to protect the misguided, people, who have blindly : followed .the insane leaders who havc: been blinded by the dream" of conquest, and let thcra establish. a democ racy and govern themselves. That is the' whole story, and the Pope will now under-' lnd that when he wants to submit a peace proportion the furious and brutal power'- 9M AXJI AT TBS KIWI TAJfDS AXX Olf TXAIXS IS CHARACTER WORTHWHILE? The Kiriston Free Press is wanting to know something about the too frequent happening of men notoriously corrupt proving a good character in court. It asks After all, isn't the proving of character on the witness stand more easily accom plished than it should be? Is it not akin to the "to whom it may concern" brand of recommendation? The trouble is that "good character" is not well enough defined. What might constitute a "bad character" in one man's opinion might be considered all right in another man's opin ion. The Free Press was talking about gam bling. On that subject there arc more vane tics of opinion than Heinz made pickles. It has always been our opinion that the whole bloomin' plan of life is a gamble, pure and sim ple, and. while the law will draw the line at any game of chance, it is forced to, we don't endorse all that some people endorse. When it comes to a gambler like John Oakhurst, the chief of the Outcasts of Poker Flat, then wc think he should be driven from the community as John was driven from the community; but wc think iierc is no harm in a few angelic women sitting down at a Pink Tea and play ing a game of bridge for the grand prize or the booby prize' Naturally if a house and lot con stituted the stake it would be no greater wrong than to play for a mouse-colored pair of gloves, but the law would say it was. Some of the Superior -irt judges in this state two passed bcyoi md good men they were held that a gauiC of whist for a prize was as much gambling as a game of poker in a nigger bar room with a one-cent ante and a five-cent limit. Wc never agreed with that kind of rea soning. Wc never believed in our philosophy that a nigger who played craps for a few cents should be sent to lb' 'Dads, but the law holds that such should be the case, and judges and juries have sent them on to pay the penalty.' The great American game called Poker, is universal, and Our ablest statesmen; play: at eard the same as coun try- iweochcs .filayed t j. . M. A aM akM '" 4 M 4 4k ak WiA1 that nmr of our rrcatest men didn't have good character within the meaning of the law would be a hard thing to do. Character is simply according to the stand ard of a community. It will be recalled that Old Follinsbce's daughter, the lily of Poverty Flat, was very much flattered when she thought of How I onra treat down tbe centre With tbe roan that hot Sandy McGee the same being Truthful James. But were Truthful James to have attemj.ca to pose as a hero because he had shot Sandy. McGee, in Kmston f'r instance, he would be tabooed and his character would be pronounced "bad." It is our pinion that if a man lives, in a Christian city and deports himself according to the rules and customs which obtain therein: if he pays his debts and doesn't annoy his neighbors: if he attends to his own business and strives in whatever way he can to make the town bet ter; if he docs not do evil things with brass band and megaphone, he has good character. If in the silent watches of the night, in the pri vacv of his own room, with a friend he plays a little game of cards, simply to kill time, his character, while perhaps breeding a few spots of taint, docs not become entirely lost, and perhaps his own parson will take the witness stand and when, asked the question, "Do you know the general character of Mr. Smith or Jones?" he will unhesitatingly and unqualified ly say "Good." And that ends it. Character witnesses see but few faults in their friends. It is said that the most homely persons in the world are good looking if you love them; and so with charac ter. If the Kinston gambler was a notorious card charp: if he was a shade in the under world, and if he practiced hypocrisy and dou-. ble-faced living, his character was "bad," no matter what the witnesses may have thought, and the chances arc the jury so understood it. i o The question of water metres bobs up once in a while, but it will be a Ipng day when that trick is put onto Greensboro. The water should be furnished free in these bone-dry days. ------MMalla--lfc which has caused all this world sorrow must not be considered. Germany will still remain Germany, but the mad men who have occupied thrones. must be deposed ; they must abdicate; they must throw oft their royal robes and no longer must they claim a partnership with God to do the 'devil's IHs now plain that until there is universal freedom established; until the German people" establish a parliament and-make their own' laws and become free of the dominating influ ence of Prussian madness,. the war will con-' tinuc until Germany surrenders and; throws herself upon; the mercy of ; the world powers which arc to'win this war. . While it was understood by all that Presi dent Wilson's answer to the Pope would be just about what it is, still it causes a thrill in the American's blood, and he better under stands jubt why -we are in this war and why we will win this wax. ESTABLISHED MAY, 190a. CHILD LABOR LAW IS TESTED The Keating-Owen bill, which finally passed r . Congress and became a. law, provides that chil- ; dren under the age of fourteen years cannot ;, work in mills or factories, and those under six-; -teen years of age cannot work over forty-eight hours. That is, if the product of the mill or-; factory goes into interstate commerce. .;. This is where the government comes in to v: -exercise paternal care over the youth of the V land, and, regardless of what states may think I ?f. of the conduct of their, factories, Uncle Sam says his nephews must not labor on goods that ' ' ;, are to be sent into other states. , ' The constitutionality of the law is being tested, and perhaps Judge -Boyd will render his decision today, arid then the case will go; to the'Supreme Court of the United States for final settlement. When the constitution is in volved it takes the highest tribunal' almost.al ways to finally fix it. The child labor agitators, some of them dreamers of the wildest socialistic schools, others passing the hat of easy money, and still others, well intentioned, have aroused much interest on the subject in this country, and many a sentimental woman has -wept for the tender child ground into mincemeat, as the story runs, whereas the tender child has learned a lesson in life's hard school that has been worth his while, because it made a man of him. The child labor law passed by the. govern ment was an unnecessary law, because in these days of civilization states control and govern -f their affairs in a mariner highly satisfactory. The law as passed is plainly a law' not govern ing commerce, but governing the factory that makes commerce. This Jwas argued by the 4 lawyers appearing agin' " 'the,: government, ; and jvas made "as! plain as AEfc 0But:yet it P m 9 'j'. .-,'. Vh at HOnreW hWa.d2ibe V I ' i . - . - tion, to make such a law. " In arguing for the government Professor -Pound, dean of the Harvard law school, a writer of 'prominence and a. well known so called authority, admitted that in some sections -of the country there was a demd for this -law because it interfered with adult labor; that because children did the work in one state their product, made cheaper, came in competi tion with adult labor in another state, and this was one of the reasons why the government had come into North Carolina and made a law prohibiting children from Assisting supporf their parents in mills and factories wrtere every condition was the best and where no ; such pictures as the north paints exist. In other words, it is a labor union law a law put over by politicians playing to the galleries, and. the "blood" of the tender kid was over looked because the tender kid was interfering in a way with the Saturday envelope of the . bearded man in another part of he country. That was argued, and that is why Uncle Sam v should not be allowed to interfere. In one sec tion of the country conditions are unlike con ditions in another section. Child labor, where the human sweat shop is allowed to exist, is Avrong; wrong not only to thus crush and grind a child to death, T)ut wrong to allow an aauit to be killed by inches. But states should have the right to govern their own factories, to say : how many hours a person should work, and what should be the sanitary condition of the factory. And states do this. The Keating-Owen bill may or may not be "constitutional"; that is a matter of opinion and the court of last resort will pass upon it ; but no matter what it. is the Keating-Owen bill is certainly one that protects certain manufac- ' turers or factory operators and crucifies others. It is plainly class legislation because it says that a factory can operate ana employ noth ing but children, and if it closes for thirty days 'i before it ships. its product there will be no ob jection. As was argued by the lawyers, this means that a canning factory can put up its, , perishable fruit all summer and close thirty ;: ; j days, discharge its children and ship its prod- - i uct, and then resume operations at the old stand with the same crowd of kids. The cpt- I ton, the coal mine, the quarry cannot do this; ! it must operate the year around, and suffer the penalty of dismissing child labor and let the ; other fellow in another line get away with the -goods. So strict is the Keating-Owen law that i ': 1 if one child happens to be a water carrier, Com- : ; merce comes in and says the goods produced , I in the -mill, although no child may have had a V' part in their production, are tainted for thirty-?. ;. days; blood of childhood drips from them' and the manufacturer must. wait thirty days until K. tne- Diooa congeais ana men ne can snip ms product to the four corners of the earth .and be within the law. ' - '?, ;':V ' Plainly such a law is ; vicious ; such a law should never have been passed, and the hope is that the highest court in the land will say, as u nas sometime: saiu, tnai laws piayingvia- vuiiies cauiiui uc passeu... - : Ch ". ; :; The street car company hasn't yet put on : . its new cars but it will in a short time. - ? -V t
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