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Many crie?r. terxi;r.c out thouaand c4 letter a jr fcai an escrmcua pestae UIL City pa f rt $jy tr-t treat reiTenctr,er.i wiu icaw a.ivanceri pricrt and that dovhtleaa hun &tU ci pcpe in each city who hare been etr--r.rrj makx era chine letters will be dia ciar;rJ tcau:ie cf the increat cl pet. a fr. t: hat fcen the cuttccn tince the misieo carre into fathicn to hare machine rvaie liff.n retersblin typ-wnttrn onet. and raT rru;l order houwrt ar.d ihotxsandt cl ccn ctrta have Cocded the mailt with the tealed r:itl;?9 thir.kinc it would loci mere Lice a -en;r.il arpeaL Uut they hare becccrie rather crrr.-r;srlace. and the increao cl pottage may a Jteat deal cl that kind cl work, which t.-.'cw oct cl emIoyTTjent thoutandt cl l-tlK arj at the tame time red'ce the gorem rr:i rrrer.ttrt cn poitaje. All d thtt U. cl srir. tculatire. That it will work a i'Wir. cither fcr largely increased rerer.uet ce cfo'rcy the p?etr.t tyitem cl letter writing, u frttTy pred cted. In ether wotdt, it will not It at c-rn break. ABOUT EVEN. t: wasn't very leng that we employed tran cr: eclcred labor fcr ten cents an hour. V't hcur ccrvstitutcd the day's work, about tti r j could get oct cf it. and the eclcrtd man rrtrred his ninety cents, and many worked Tuafly fcrsi:y cents a djy.SWcrr-6e. crt-.s day was ccc.tidertd a good price fcr W1 I r tab-er. At that time wood scU In this tflws at the wccJ yard fcr cr.e dctlar a lead. i cut and deljverrd. Now the eclcred man can ;tt Sr. so a day. regular work, the city needt s-en mat now an4 wui pay that pnee. and : ?c lead ci wood costs St costs St.sa. In other word. ;t man who we a. r . 1 drur.trs3 I U'J JT tc 4? lead d wood, whereat J m t were cneap a cay s labor wou;dn 1 -7 a lead d wood. And in those day there J ?re tccre d idle men. they could find ncth- 1 lX t do. In these day any at:e-bd;ed man j i want to work can find wcrk people are tir.r.z men to wcrk. Tne city cannot secure -ir, fcr ttreet work, and Commissioner ?;vhe it cering $1.53 a day. So it it seen rial the present price cl wood is cheaper than wat five year ago. And ur.Jett there it vzt real reason fcr it wood it not going to Ji.-.ce in price. We mean by a real reaton. btts scene thing entirely unferrseen happens. Tit Urrr.tr will tell wood at four dollars. ;n tisteen mile cl Greenaboro wood can tr.--ht fcr two dollars a cord, but it costs t 3 d llx: to get it here, because it is not near t? reread. R. C Bernau. cl this c;ty, who owns l I c--t toward High Point, has been trying it', in hit own wood ar.d it cost him ly&o a ctri mind you. hit own wood, eff his own a-1 Therefore the local dealer are not "rob i "" l" the r-ecrle and are not demandinr ri a-t tr;ces- There is tlenty cl wood, and p?t te. eicept Ln very bad weather. We r ha I bad weather every winter, and never - e-r many years" residence in this city t retail a wmter when there wasn't a it cf wood fcr a few days at a time. t at never before deemed necessary to Vit. ciral wood yard, and that is why thrrt r-; gctng to be any such thing thit' 1 ,T- WHAT THEY ARE SAYING that the election it over, cr practically sr. im, it t.l to wender if the adntory board rrake a mistake in insisting that it l-.i n lenger serve. It it pointed out by a I njxruimt writing us. net fcr publication, i no 't he carrot figure cut who will be the tcven j : o make the beard d education if the carries. He u inclined to believe that ! wJecticnc! theadvisorr board was a verv S cr and thir.ks tome cf them should not It been to hattr. hMt teen to haitr. cur ccrre render. ihotiid urm-i-J correspondent y. tht seven p-ecjle had the interest d jhc at heart: they had r.a rrrrl a ia they terved their pxirpo and. fearing Xht in seme way stand in the way d j t;an. hie the loyal citizens they are. j t.ec ev;t cf the way. AU tenor to them, and I t i n,.;ng. tney wui be rewarded by teeinr i . . . w ... I . . : r t . 1 . in virrz;iwio iraa we pay Tht bcr.fi r -o- tenfire last right locked pretty, and t:y. tut it wasn't conservation, trt . yim.h ccal dealer unable to (arrdih ccal and - ' man cut cf cccuzii issicn. the ccal man cruch to do. THANKSGIVING IN WAR TIME Laurence Sterne made cne cl hit charactert tay that it wat an Ul wind that blew good to nobody, and it looks like contcrration dayi hare brotight gbd tidings to the great Ameri can bird, the turkey gobbler, if the turkey gob bler knows anything about glad tiding. It it said that Thanktgiring Day this year, ifutead d beinr a dar cf itaiinr. wilL if the Preoident's rrquett it k ceded, be a day cl fatt ir.g. It It proposed to cut out the big Thanktgiv- tng d-.ner the turkey and the cranberry tauce and the cake and the plum pudding r.a mut save a nundred milhon dinners that ctherwite would be on. It is claimed that by coscg xnis mere wui be saved to the nation a wonderful tuprly d food. It may be all right to.tuggett thtt. Many a man who hain't the price cf a turkey will be glad cf the excuae not to hustle fcr one, but we fear the food conservation bat to far amounted to fettle. i tt sax as a tact, and the repons are so many tnat we mutt berve them, that at the c;Scrent contenments there is a willful and wantca watte cf lood: that the soldiers are cr?o-jga looa every cay to leed an other army, twice as large. It is talked freejy. Soldier wnte back and tell about it. and it is said that the thing has become a national scan dal, and that when Congrett meets already there is an organisation which will strorrly wcai tt goxg cn. The average touthern ccck doesn't under ttand the neceitity I conserving food we tpeak now cl the colored cook and the tame watte is on. True, the people raised a rieat ccai mere iooa tnan rver before, but when it cornet to taving it and economiting but little manufacturing city. Therefore we should im cf t.at is done. pr0ve every opportunity to make the city a However. U this Thanksgiving it to be a day c na prayer instead of a day of dys- Ffptit maicing. an welJ and good. The Thanks- giving turkey is being saved, and oerhaDS f Christmas will witness his slaughter. One I bird dene. And perhaps, in all candor, it should be o- NO CAUSE FOR EXCITEMENT. ne Associated Frett report brinrt rlad tidmgt cl great oy. It says there will soon be cheaper ccal and that all it wr!L The miner who have been cn a ttrike in thi have returned to work, and ualeig dealers rxr- w w w. t m luiKr in inrv wir ttm i utx dvancing prices of coi. and Garfield says it can t be done, the fuel situation it not dark at aU. The crest report reads: Fuel Administrator Garfield announced today that all cool miners have resumed work in Ir.dUm, practically all in Ohio and all miner are resuming work in Illi nois. He said that repons from all sec tions indicate a gratifying tendency down ward in retail coal prices. The following telegram summarizing the middle west strike situation was re ceived by Dr. Garfield from President White cf the United Mine Workers of America, who is dealing with the situation from his headquarters at Indianapolis: "All miner resumed work in lrria- thi morning and practically all in Ohio Latest repons from 111 nois are that all mines are returning in line with our in fractions." The strike situation in the southwett is unchanged, so far as the government is advised, the men there holding out under advice d their leader on account cf the operators" penalty against ttrikes. 1 o Mayor Stafford it willing to buy a hundred cordt d wood and be ready for an emergency, but he isn't going to stan a Municipal Wood yard, and neither is Commissioner Fouthee. and neither is Commissioner Phippt. They were not so tuy taken off their feet as was hoped. GETTING READY. EXk-s are making fine prorrest with The their rehearsals for the big minstrel show which is, to be put cn in this town next week. There will be two nights d this amusement, thus giving every citizen a chance to go and enjoy b mse'f. In the meantime there will be excuse not to buy a ticket. This entertain- ment it for the benefit of the Red Cross and Elks, This means that the price d a ticket roe for wenhv purposes, and therefore r citizen, mole and female, should buv a ticWr is not mcney thrown away, but money spent it-m,. Senator Overman Is at home and speaking in the state for Liberty bonds. He made a tpeech at Aahcvilie and told them what he thought. And so it is decided .that there is to be no Municipal wood vard. The rich nun mutt ,t r . ? . . vr.c pntc; ana me pnee is nox too mgn when ether prices are considered. o A mass is as good as a mile, and well, thirty-eight will do. Might mention as a fact that the O. Henry is r. earing completion cf the first floor, and the ether stories will no up very rapidly. t a year in tr.es Mgh cost day should suf fice, and if the American people will all agree to pojl up the Thonkirivinff dinner it can be SATURDAY, OCTOBER a;, 1917. THE OLD TOWN VOTED RIGHT ine ejection to determine whetner U re ens- boro shquld increate UaUon twenty cents Fighting For- Mr NcweU jyht HiUis, un on the hundred dollar valuation of all astetted . . . , T property and change the charter so-that chael birA r UrrA f mtxA crested, or whether the present existing con- dition should continue, was decided in the af- firmative by the MxruxU margin of thirty-eight majority. That was a dote shave, but for all practical purposes it was jutt as good as though the election hod been unanimous. The Record is not crowing over any victory. The result is highly satisfactory to it, but it understands that many men were of a different opinion, and while they didn't go to the polls to express themtelve they had regitterc and remained at home. Thtt wat the some thing as voting against the proposed measure, and it conserved thoe leather or gasoline. it occurred to us, and still seems tenable ground, that tcven wholly disinterested people terving the city from purely patriotic motives would make a better body of citizens to con- uuci uui iuiwi vnan ixjc tarcc uusy toramia- Si oner, whose handt or already full. Because we believed this we favored the meatures and voted for them. Time will prove whether or not we were right; but one thing is certain. the city schools mutt be built to a higher standard, and if we are on the wrong track now it will not be a bard matter to change. . There are more reasons than one why. Greensboro .should .have .the .finest .public school system in the state. The first is that we are necessarily more of a residential city than anything else. . We never have been and pernaps wui never oe wnat coiua be coiled a still larger residential city. Good schools will do this. Then we have here several educa- tional institution!, foremost being the State Normal ColWe and the Grmhoro rcAUo for Women. These two inttitutions are help ful in many ways, but' in no way more than making Greensboro attractive to those wtih daughters to educate. But we must have alto the public school In order to attract the man wtth thryxttz-$tJhc Culdrea-who musf first go through the high school before enter ing upon higher educational grounds. Greensboro is a growing city and she needs more school bouses; she needs more money to Py the teacher already employed; she needs moic iraLurii: m rci inn riccnm win nrm anm in the way of going ahead with what is needed. In the election there is no personal triumph 'or any one. no need of bilter disappointment for anv one. So far as the school board is con cerned it can be experimental, and certainly seven loyal citizens, laboring with the only re ward which a hope of success constitutes can commit no grievous wrong. If it should prove that some other way is a better way, we have no doubt our citizen will adopt it. In the meantime let us all pull for bigger and better tchools. A touch of winter put people to shivering. and overcoats smelling of the moth ball, the which conserved them during the summer, were out this morning. SUGAR SCARCE. The country reports a shortage of sugar and the telegraph reports speculator hoarding it hiding it; putting it under different labels. Wonder f the coal supply isn t beinc iuecled in some sort of a similar manner?. Wonder if it won't become necessary to take drastic meaturet to put the tpeculotor who comer food tuppliet out cf businett? Sugar is one thing that the world wants because the world has a sweet tooth. But the world might get along without sugar. Today we received an order cancelling a chewing gum advertisement for a few weeks. the big concern claiming to be two months behind on order for chewing gum. Perhaps the high price of cotton has made it difficult for so many people to chew the rag, and they have taken to gum. But from everywhere come reportt that millt and factories cannot fill order. Hdw much higher will our speed go? To what a dizzy height have we already climbed, and when, we wonder, .'will the old car turn turtle? Bound to hit tomething un less tpeed is reduced, and maybe shortage of food and sugar and wood and coal will help bring us down to the earth. God works in a mytteriout way His wonder to perform, it hath been said, and surely something will hap pen unlett thit4 nation reducet the tpeed. o THE FIRST TO RESPOND. The Fifth Federal district, of which old Guilford ia a part, was the first to respond in the campaign for the sale of its quota of Lib erty bonds. The fact-that Guilford county went over its allotment causes general re joicing among those who have been fighting for the success of the issue. And to know that our district this includes Richmond and the many Southern cities was the first to make a report, and favorable at that, shows the South is no slacker and her sons and daughters are loyaL . -" Cigarette smoker should be carefuL The . threat is to again double the taxes on them. If this happens the pnee will become almost prohibitive. x tor: t , ,, ....... ,THI VXWg SXiXBS AXX OX TXOJVS OUR ENEMIES THE GERMANS In hi. eiphth article on "What We Are a J" P"V ucparxmcn, uic x-iucny Loan Committee of New York, writes thus I entertainingly and inttructively : "Jesus made his choice between Hia convictions and ijhvsi- cal death. Mankind survived His crucifixion. but the race could, not have . survived a big moral compromise to save His life. Today mankind can survive the loss of this genera tion of boys, American, French and British, but one thing society cannot survive, namely, a compromise with German lawlessness, Ger man cruelty and German crime. Today in many cities and continents men are wondering how the German spies and se cret agents manage to keep proposals for peace in the newspapers, at public meetings and before the people. Short of ammunition, short of food, alarmed by the breaking of the morale of her soldiers, the German war party begins to fear a revolt against its leadership. In the hope of saving her plunder Germany i is now using every conceivauie innuence to force, a peace proposition upon the allies. During the first three years each week I brought, its own revelation of German prepa I ration for war, through the sinking of hospi tal ships, the looting of cities, the murder of all the inhabitants of villages, the treachery oy ner ambassadors of every great capital. Having ended the war epoch, Germany if now preparing for peace, and once more she is uiing gold, bribes," lies and treacherv to train the desired end. VVe have the news from Rome of a public official who has fled, having: been a secret agent of Germany, spending millions in brib ing men of influence.. Then came the shock incident to the revelations of Bolo Pasha, with the fifty millions sent to this country for se ducing Americans from their loyalty. Ard now a shock is due to the discovery that last November pro-Germans began to join all the American peace societies, to control the nomi nations and the officers to be elected for Jan uary. ' . - A full expose of those machinations would. venal of all the subtle and-seductive schemes for peace conceived by diplomatic tricksters. As never before, Satan is now transformed into an angel of light, that the soul of man may be betrayed and debauched. For thousht ful men who have weighed the issues there is something startling about the enormous gains uermany would make by securing an immedi ate peace. " "Germany has missed the goal she desired namely, the conquest of a kingdom from Hamburg on the North sea to the Persian gulf and two hundred and fifty millions of people. By withdrawing from Belgium and France and then closing the incident Germany would leave France. Great Britain and thir broken by invasion and saddled with ninety billions d debts. The rich fields east of the river Rhine have not been invaded. "Belgian steel mills, iron foundries, silk and cotton mills, sugar factories, have all been looted of machinery and then burned, but Ger many's factories are intact. France's farms, granaries and vineyards have been destroyed, but not Germany's. To rebuild the ships that England has lost would mean the labor of half a generation. Not in fifty years will Belgium and France, Poland and Serbia recover their former prosperity. But while these lands, ruined by German cruelty, are being rebuilt, Germany, having lost nothing by invasion, will put her biliions upon a new army, and then strike a second time, and complete a vic tory but half won. The cessation of this war, therefore, at Germany's request, and the ac ceptance of a German peace, means an abject THE VEAL LAW REPEALED. The City Commissioners, have passed an or dinance repealing the veal law passed a few weeks ago. That law prohibited the killing and selling of veal within the corporate limits. As this paper pointed out from time tor time, lthe people on the outskirts of the city were 1 1 1 . 1 . . . . KUiuig uivcs Ana scuuig mem to people just over the line, and therefore the new law ac complished no good and worked a hardship on our local meat dealers. There was'a state law which prohibited the killing of young calves, but the last legislature, for some unknown tea son, repealed it. Therefore the City Commis sioners saw that a 'mistake had been made and wisely repealed the law. This gives Greens boro meat dealers an equal chance with their outside neighbors. . o fc CONSERVATION. The story to the effect that the government had found one warehouse containing one hun dred and fifty carloads of sugar labeled some thing else suggests that Uncle Sam will final ly be forced to deal, severely with food specu lators. With a sugar famine on and one con- . cern secreting a million pounds of sugar in order to speculate on it, and all this in defiance d law, should call, for prompt action. And hanging would be none too good for the man who worked the scheme . Thirty-eight majority well, that was prettv nearly a bust.1 . ESTABLISHED MAY, xgoa. BIG BUSINESS IS VINDICATED Big business for many years was hard hit.'; Populistic spellbinders used it for a pounding bag 'Climaxes were reached by politicians who wanted to send to the penitentiary, those, who had been successful and created here the 7 greatest commercial country in the world.. It t was . very unpopular a few years ago to say anything in favor of Big Business, because if you did, and printed it, you were at once pil loried before the world as a subsidized and venal editor, holding up Capital in a black mailing way. But times have changed. Conditions have changed. These days it is. hard to get a big, verdict when you "sue the company." Capital has been recognized as having rights, and it has proven that it is necessary in the economy of the world. This week's letter from Henry Clews, the banker, tells the .story in a cheer ful way. He says: , ' . , . ' It is worthy of special mention that a ' very remarkable change, has taken place ' : in the attitude of the Government toward " big business since the war began. ' Pre viously . our leading business men were ' often persona non grata at Washington, prejudice having run so deep that men of unquestioned character were frequently. regarded as criminals, ' simply because ( they had been successful. . All this has changed. The big business meri of the United States invaded Washington in force to help the Government, without pay and at heavy sacrifices to themselves. Such a remarkable display of patriotism by the leading men in industry nd trade, has never been, seen before in any coun try, and the result is there was never a better understanding between Govern ment and business than exists in the United States today. Let us hope that these better relations will extend to the national legislature also, where prejudice has proved most injurious. Of course there are men .today who say .that these big-brained business men who are offer- ' ing. their services without pay. to the;;govern ment have 1 something. . up their sleeves : but tbaXJsakjLl mi difference ; Tbbve;shOT 1 M. 11 , a.i' ? ness will hereafter be better understood. ; o . - , .There will be no municipal wood; yard I in Greensboro, and for this -reason the people should congratulate themselves. For a con cern already over a million dollars in . debt to embark in the wood business would be folly. : o ' TRULY AMERICAN. The American soldier is everywhere hon ored for his bravery. In the report of the sinking of the submarined Antilles this para grph stands out and sends a thrill through the blood of every American citizen: All the survivors commend the captain oi the Antilles and the men of the gun " crew, who stuck to their posts while the officers searched with field glasses for the submarine until the waves closed over the vessel. It was at Gettysburg, and no matter wheth- er the uniform was gray or blue, that . the American soldier showed the world that he was the bravest of the brave. And when the 1 Antilles went down the captain and men of the gun crew watched to the last moment to see if it wasn't possible to get a shot at the sub marine, tsut it wasn t, and when, the waves closed over the vessel ' to send those men to the bottom of the sea they were .standing- ready to fire upon the enemy. o A city official says it would cost five hun dred dollars to build a fence around a wood yard at the side tracks in order to keeo oeo ple from stealing the wood. That would buy quite a lot of wood that five hundred dollars. - NO MUNICIPAL WOOD YARD. The wood question is not a war measure. Soldiers do not use wood, and if you can't get coal, , although Dr. Garfield says coal will be plentiful, those who do not lay in their supply of wood cannot expect a city to furnish it to ,y them. Local wood dealers will do the best they can. If there is an abundance of wood, y why not private capital go into the wood busi ness? Bacon sells for fifty cents a pound; and when the government called on municipal! authorities to encourage pig raising inside the r ' m' . m . . limits 01 ernes seems to us we neard a howl go up. And fat is more important to a soldier ; than stove wood. The Municipal Wood Yard ' . as at first proposed in this town was simply X socialistic, and for that reason there will be no municipal wood yard. : - ; A MATTER OF REGRET. , vx It is a matter of regret that a citizen who opposes a municipal wood yard should be :. classed as one guilty of treason. The man v making the accusation is certainly hot guilty of reason. .-i There were but few slackers in the Guilford county bond campaign. . Every citizen, save some of the fanners, having the price came across. And many pinched to come af.rn but it was loyalty and when a man is loval , 9 -; he doesn't count the cost. . v Dr. Garfield says now that the strikes are settled the coal question is not to be serious.! A v - n '.V . -2 i ' ''!
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