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People Who Think Z' AL FAIRBR OTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER xo, itf. 99 IAXX AT TfiB KTWS STANDS AJTD OH TKATXi TABLISHED MAY; xgoa. A MUNICIPAL i THE SQUAW IS ' PROGRESSING HELP FOR THE OTHER FELLOW HE TALKS RANK TREASON STILL IT IS FOR THE SNAKERY NOW! WORLD'S i t ft n " 1 - ; a. ' GOOD T!uji tswn nftxii a tnur.icipI irakery. It it ir; -r i that there it lUb!e tabe thortJce cf i f.u 41 that municipal wcod)rrd ihould b-e , $:ri- "H:c Naticml Ercftntjr Food Car Cctnrr.:icn, cf hich Charles Laihrcp i ra;5k it tretldcnt. tends cut a warning abcct ::;-jrrf.nr snakts. It it ihown that the x-fj-.ran Fcrettrr Aiaociaiico ha ccraid- on has censid- nds that snakes ii t:s ma-ner in us ma..ner e?t tht tnake prcblem nd :Z tsdtTAt and tneu and iv Utrtlr tn comerw.r forests. To make :cry r-n and interesting we quote tne r..;:e sent by the r.auccal Emergency Feed Carim Anccia! it.cn as f clows: The annual snake show Is cS for this tt at least, fee the snakes are so bury tt'.fir.t save the food sujrly cf the coun try that it has been dec;ded to t:pone :e tnch show cf the American Snake Fa-sters Association scheduled fee Roch tvtt. ?. Y in January. This is the dedwen ci Peter Cruber, "v? Snake King, fcllowing the announce rtr.t cf the American Forestry Assoda ? :n that snakes kill rodents and insects ;?ut would do crop damage ito the mil !. rns every year. The last bench show wis he!i in Grand Central Palace. New Ycrk. in ifyS. and the fanciers had been cr;.ng tig rlans for the siww tTJs year. ""At army cantonments it has been f:-J that snakea are b-etter than cats for .ii - the place cf rats," says Mr. Cru- " itr. "and a busy snake in a granary is ;::h a derm rat traps. It would be trtaim to deprive the country -cf this s :-:e cf food ccniervaticn at this time, a -ij I am very glad the American Forestry Attcoatjcn ts calling attention to the tat-e cf snakes and esplod;ng a lot cf rr.)thi ar.d pcpular beliefs about them," 3-y as a sequence it mutt fellow that if we tttcct to cjir.uln a municipal wcodyard we T. iM first see to it that our forests are not inaiusri by rcien:s and injects, and thus u ; i-z a forest famine. How could we supply run-cipal wcodrard if the forests were all wn up by rcdenu and Lttgtv-ajvt hgw e r rrtlettl Ihi fcrrttt w.Ucut a mur.c:p snakeryf The way to do a thing is to get at the root. The fcreit is the Paramount. Without the f crest there can It r.o municipal woodyard. and without a snaktry to protect the trees there can be r.o forest. Therefore unless cur ;?y ccrnmiiiicners ar.l the b-I-C-d cf the f-eeplc en the;r hands they will proceed at erue to establish a municipal snakery. The It! whrre it was crig nally intmird to start : woojjrard will be large encuch for a me 'i.n sird municipal snakery. Other lets can It rurchaied for a few thousand dollars. W talent that the city shcuJd buy at Irait snousana srars ana pur mem in training g I .r.tt they have been thcrccghly trained let -rn loci In the forests hereabcuts and see i it that they drrcur the imrcta and rodents, t'l then after a x??ljr cf wood is assured i-a:t the municipal woodyard- But to start a -.K:pa! woodyard before the municipal 5krry ettab! shed would be putting the 4rt bf;re the horse. rerpte frco all over the state subject to Ivt'.cria are clamoring for municiral snak errs, and if cur commissioners fail to start c-e and there is a forest famine we will know fault it is. The b-l-o-d cf the people cf Grrrnboro. gcty anj red. will be cn the hands f Ccctmitiicrrrs Ph;pp-t and Foushee. ln-i;jrj: cn meetinxs should be held and ?ve municipal snakery should be estabUshed fen if it takes the I.-ut at.ve. Referendum and KccaH to br.ng abcut the happy result. There is th;t acut if . qjj Jehri BarltVCfm I s 4j n the "tcv ember m. m tft r k:. I - At:.t cr.e moe stand ar.d it is all I r 7 ;1 preh;bc.i next and woman I sv:;jie a!:r. with it. Funnv. taA. hcu S BAD STREETS. tany Citizens complain cf bad streets in I Crtcmcro, jet tf cne will take the trouble J f ccrrpare the streets cf Greensboro with" - Jrr xtT t: will be d;scovered that cur ! mri streets that will compare w;th any I - the state. New and then there is a small I v- rtt net yet tmprovrd. but. taken all in alL ?t-uiro has a system cf streets cf which t may well be proud. And Com par s city tciay with their condition fifteen I ' J-d the chanxe has been so great ro man would rea.Jy beheve what has -;r.ed. Hidttt cf miles cf sidewalk- : hepe ts that the next big automcbile V" th4t r" tHere will be some races. ;;"T rle an hour itn t the usual speed cf ti-gh Point highway joy riders. t.at. I; uu! to be the claim cf th ",,.;,. s thai if tWv i., j ,v. w,w- " , h hawkery would relieve an fear on this score. y naa tr.e ca..ct tney would vcte i . . . . . , rum cc: cf th- Uw nd it sec-ts i xTCZZ Tte irmer would furnish the chicken the city fc vcrri cut aTe1 riwLilfT.Ti: S would now and then get some. We have at a rat.ccal rft-iM " figured cn this municipal hawkery in cennec- r tf i. "7 Tm il . ! 17 ' V Greensboro to raise someth:ng like 5ai. , :;.w" r!,." lr. ,;w..r,,tr be expended in work among the sold .r. us C;c cur norcrr.tM is cation wide the i When Alexander Pope remarked In his cele brated Eiuy on Man: " ! t4 NlM I IW he didn't kn&w that Mrs. Bone Necklace, of the Wakptmna dittrict cf the Pine Ridge In- , ?:Yuamt tT7ri ? J ' twr5!cxl rme 01 , cmicilc c,cril t South Dakota, was today five dollars and a national r m ...r. .u. k. ,a j . -r,;. r. , . fe . ref?,mdon .rnronriated five thousand dollars. U beinc earned on in j every Indian school in the country as well as at hundiedi cf state and county lairs and scores cf war garden exhibit. A committee composed cf Mrs. W. iC Blish, Mrs. B. E .Dunbar and Mrs. B. E. Brigance, in conjunct;cn with C L. Ellis, the special In dun agent in charge, passed upon the exhibits cf the many contestants at Pine Ridge. Here is the exhibit made by Mr. Necklace: One quart wild plums, one t)uan green corn, one quart string beans, one quart rhubarb, two quarts garden beets, one quart garden peas, one glass plum butter, one glass strawberry preserve and one glass Buflalo berry Jelly. We tip our beaver to Mrs- Bene Necklace and assure her that canning vegetables is bet ter business than scalping white men and eat ing raw dog. The Indian maidens who erst while painted up for the war dance are now in the kitchen, what few that are left of them, and the pity is that the hand of Civilization rather than the hand cf Extermination had net been reached to the red man three hun dred years ago. But he was a savage, they said made a savage by the white man and extermination was the indictment. The North American Indian had gTcat intellect, and the stcry runs that he was as friendly as any tribe cf people could be when Columbus came in sight with his new fashioned rigging. The theory that the North American Indian was criginally seme lost tribe of people holds good, and to know that before they passed Mrs. Bone Necklace received a prise for her .v gTatxlying. - - --.-" ;-r . A MUNICIPAL HAWKERY. Greensboro should establish,, right now, a municipal hawkery. If she doesn t do it the b-I-u-d cf the people who starve to death in this town will be cn the hands cf our city commissioners. It wouldn't cost much to start a municipal hawkery, and if we haven't the money what boots it? We can go in debt as we are now doing for other things, and the hawkery is hidy needed. In fact, with the advancing high prices of food every citv should have its own hawkerv. tt "e oooer ureensooro gets one tne better. r ' Cleveland Star: A chicken hawk fed Mias Bertie Rivers cf Aberdeen last week as the ravens once fed the prophet, Mias Rivers was sitting cn her front porch, lamenting the high cost cf living and the scarcity of chicken, when she suddenly saw a hawk flying to ward her dwelling. She taw that the hawk was carrying a heavy load. When directly over her yard the hawk dropped h.H burden, which proved to be a fine chicken, and proceeded on his way. The chicken was breathing its last, so Miss Rivers promptly beheaded it and enjoyed a chicken d.nner. We take it that this city could buy, say, five hundred hawks and train them to go afttr chickens and drop them in the yards of those who want wood at a dollar a load, and thus relieve any actual starvation. A well trained euni 10 to i uj otc cnicens I t . - . -1- C ! -1 f cay ana crop ir.cm in me ngr.i puce, a municipal nawkery in tnis way would not only conserve food among farmers, but would help the city folk. There is danger of indiges tion u a man eats too much, and a municipal city snakery ihinr are mere badlv needed. The citv torn. rnissicr.ers may squirm and dodge, but we finally expect to dnve them to it. The people cf this town need the hawkery and snakery and they are going to have them if a new elec - tion has to be cxllexL When men take time to solve weighty problems and present them. to have them laughed to seem, it is time to call a halt. Unless we get the municipal hawkery and tion with a as we go along I snakery within the next few days there is go pare the streets I ing to be something doing. Well write an- ether article about them - o A BIG CAMPAIGN. The Y. M. C A. is launching a campaign in ooo to iers, and hepe is that all who can will give cheerfully to this fund. The organization is complete and next week there rill be a hurry-up campaign. Greensboro generally does all she can for such worthy causes and we expect to see her come to the front in this last chore. Every citiaen cf the county should interest himself in attempting to convince the county commissioners that they should strive to strain .a point and help the dty secure the whole-time superintendent. There is sentiment in .the proposition, but there is more real business. The whole-time superintendent of public wel fare will assist the boys who are to make our future men. If a little fellow is starting on the wrong road he will be put on the right road. The whole-time superintendent will look after those who are now neglected. It is a helping hand. It means mote than we can figure in dollars and cents. It means a reduction of costs in criminal courts. It means fewer peo ple in jaiL It means that society is strength ened; that good citizenship is increased. It is not perhaps necessary to read a poem to con vince a business man of his duty, but this par ticular bit cf verse now going the rounds and its author's came is not given tells much of the story. Read it and let it soak in : Am 4 , clff U Mckr. V - m tw 4 ir,r. T- m p m4 Ma TW M mm 4 I U IwtUsfct ttt U Uw4 M Mf IW Mttff 14 A4 Mil frr(4 ! h 114m. "1 mm mr aUat y r lrrttk mum fcU4lc Kr t mm )mmrmT "U r4 Ilk IK r4)c mf mm msmtm win pm IhJ, ri t r m 4 iho m 4 mid; Why fcat.4 fm IM mX4g ml wmM Vfc W.U4r tm4 tU 44 tear r,- W Ml4. n rtiwii nr wm i4r A lk.lHM M iK Ula mrmtm TTi r . tk mm mm mmmght tm mmm, T IM fair lr4 ytll Mr m4mU m. II . tmm. rn ! tlk IMM 41 ' C,r4 trirm4. I lt4lag Ikia mridgm far Sim." That's what it is it it bridge building; building a better road for the boy and girl who must come down the pike. Only eigh teen hundred dollars are asked, and certainly Guilford county, in making up her budget for 19 1 8, can find a way to put in that tmall item. Let every Interested citizen talk it over with the commissioners; get behind the movement, and let us see if we can't have a whole-time superintendent. It is needed. The commis sioners want to appoint him they simply just now -can't te where'. thaTQcneyia.. coming from. Hejp tt Ctew tllem that it will pay to make a way to get it.' o DR. ALEXANDER'S CASE. The case of Dr. Alexander it a queer one in North Carolina. He is president of the Farm ers Union or tome such title, and it amounts to nothing in the world. The farmers' union, like all other farmers organizations, meant nothing but a name. The Grange and the pop ulists and all such things floated only a short time. In this state when an attempt was made by politicians to put over a lot cf amendments which meant disaster to the state. Doc Alexan der was liberally quoted by the press as having the Farmers Union ready to endorse the measures. But. behold, when the returns were counted it was found that the farmer, who usually thinks for himself and acts for him self, swatted for fair, almost everywhere, the" propositions, and if there was such an organ ization in this state as the Farmers' Union it cut no ice. Just now it is said that Alexander hat been a pro-German; that he has made speeches which were not filled with the kind of patriot 'ism that loyal men like to hear, and the Gov ernor gave him a first-class roast, And then comes the news from several sources that the farmers have looked in vain, and find in Doc the enly man to head their or ganization, and that no matter about what he once thought he must be re-elected. Perhaps that is the best way out of It. But if Doc is the man they have painted him, the farmers should go slow in endorsing him unless. .1 t . t .t - . u n, my icci as nc iccis aooui several tmngs. snai is worm consiaering. The South Elm street paving will soon start, and then let us hope the new building line will be next on the list of wonderful improvements. o KERENSKY S FALL. ' - The fact that Kcrensky was deposed makes cf him no less a patriot makes of him no less a statesman. He rose from the ranks and when Russia was in peril he stood between the two extremes between the intriguing king and the extreme socialists. That those social ists bordering in their philosophy on anarchy have secured temporary control of the govern ment; that they have deposed Kcrensky. makes but little difference as to the real condition of Russia. Naturally a nation of revolutionists, like Mexico, it is first one on top and then an? other. A week from now Russia may be en raced in a civil war that will shock the world. . A week from now and Kerensky may aair be in control of another capital, directing the loyal soldiers. No telling what is to happen irf Rus sia, and to count on her it out 'ef the question. It was unfortunate for' the aliler.that the"up heaval came just when it didbut it had to come, and will come again. These things we roust expect. France and England are tobe always depended upon but Russia, never Ljl Meatless days are quite a fad; and whetftl&ts, days are also coming, into vogue. That, f&'.l-je way to conserve food;; Senator La Follette is now using his frank ing privilege to send broadcast over the coun try his latest fulmination in the Senate. The title carries the big type proclaiming somehing about free speech, and the document .is some thirty-two pages, which should not be allowed circulation. In his speech he advocates the conscription of wealth; says" that we have as much right to do that as we have to conscript men; he talks about the hundreds of thousands of our young men being taken to wage this war on the continent of Europe, -possibly Asia or Africa or anywhere else they may be or dered." His clerk addresses his franked pro-German utterances to the "chief editorial writer" of tne newspapers addressed, and altogether it looks like something should be done to stop -such literature from being sent free broadcast throughout the country. La Follette wants the people to discuss the war and the war measures, after Congress has given the President authority to act, and the President has acted. Imagine a thousand monkey wrenches of the La Follette brand be ing thrown into the works at one time. Im agine mass meetings being held and people misinformed handing down their views. The Senator asks: Shall we ask the people of this country to shut their eyes and take the entire war programme on faith? There are no doubt many honest and -well-meaning persons who are willing to answer that question ." in the affirmative rather than risk the dis sensions which they fear may follow a free discussion cf the issues of this war. Answering this question, we would say, Yes, follow the President because he is given au thority to do and to act, and unless we can fol low some one man in control certainly we can not follow a thousand hot-air artists. Generals, on the field of battle give their orders and the soldier follows; not his "to reason why, not his to make reply,his but to do and die," and so with the present situation. The Congress of the United States ordered this war; it gave, the cotxtmaadrrnn-chief-amthority 'to- proceed - his way, and it is up to every loyal citizen to stand unwavering behind the chief. La Follette should hot be allowed to send such stuff through the mail, even if he paid postage on it, and certainly it should not be sent broadcast postage free.' Such men, no matter how sincere they may imagine themselves to be, are a menace to the country they 'give aid and comfort to the enemy. O : THANKSGIVING. ' President Wilson has issued his Thanksgiv ing proclamation, setting aside the 2gth in stant as a day to be observed by the people of the United States as a day of general thanks giving. In concluding he says: And while we. render thanks for these things let us pray Almighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look al ways to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His gTace our minds may be directed and our hands strength- ' ened, and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comrade ship of a common justice may be vouch- " safed all the nations of the earth. ' And it might be well to render these thanks every day, for every day we should be thank ful. N matter what the condition of a state or nation or individual, it might be worse, and because it is not worse there is cause to be thankful. o THE PROPER THING. The City Commissioners very properly did what should have been 'done in the matter of securing bids on a fire truck. It was not their intention to ignore- the home dealer. There was a misunderstanding, and inasmuch as the Commissioners thought they could save the city a thousand dollars by acting quickly they acted; but in rescinding the telegraphed or der they did a wise thing, and all comes out of the wash in good shape. o The Indian summer, still lingers in the lap of winter but ft won't linger much longer. . o BAD NEWS FROM RUSSIA. That is bad news coming from Russia. Looks like the many millions -that Uncle Sam has loaned Russia will now be lost in the shuffle. Perhaps it is best, but we can't help what happens when wild men refuse to listen to reason. Russia has always been two-sided, and just now she seems to be three-sided. The last news is certainly not good news. o ' - PAID THE BILL. Terry was electrocuted at Raleigh. He mur dered in cold blood a fellow citizen and neigh bor. Whiskey was at the bottom of it, and while there is regret that it was necessary to' send a man out of the world by such a route, Guilford county for the most part endorses what was done. John Stewart, sturdy, stal-. wart John, was one of our best citizens, and the man who killed him deserved no better fate than legal execution, i One writer suggested that this was a war . not to make the world safe for democracy, but simply, a war of self-defense. To this Henry Watterson interposed an objection arid stated .the case plainly when he said "a war of self-' defense prosecuted to a successful issue by the United States always will be a; war to make . the world safer for democracy. than it could be otherwise.- Upon the success of the great-;4 est free country in the world rests to a large; extent the future of democracy throughout the. World, wherever it has been inaugurated or dreamed of by a people weary of kings and saste and. privilege and graft and gross injus tice. arThis war will nqt be won by the United: States and her allies until the military power ' of Germany has been so bitoken that notagaint ; within a century will German arrogance and murderousness and dishonesty attempt a con-; quest. If the world would not be safe for. democracy with German militarism shot: to pieces, in the sense of the slang phrase and f, literally as well, we should like to know why. "Speakers who attempt to draw a distinction' between what they term President Wlison'sv fine phrase and the facts about our reason for; . fighting are blunderers . The United States is fighting its own fight. Americans would: not fight, their President would not urge them to fight, while any hope of . avoiding a war oL self-defense .remained. Nevertheless, this , country fights the battle of democracy and- justice against autocracy and rapacity, v :vi "After, this war the world will be safer for democracy than it has been in all of its history,; and there will be more democracies in the twentieth century than there are today.", n r And in this, as in so many . other things, ; Marse Henri is about right. A war of self-de-.'. fense and still a war to make the world safer for democracy. . J :i The street commissioner says it seems ; ihv possible to secure helplabor will not labor;5 and he fears the :, street improvements which7 should.be made will be a little slow, but through oaultithcty. .. -O- -- JUDGE HYLAN. ' Judge Hylan, who has, been elected Mayor of New York, sets aside all fear that he isn't an American and in sympathy with America and her allies when he, says, after election : I want to make it plain to the world that there was no issue of Americanism or ; loyalty involved, so far as I am concerned. There could be none, for I am as good an American as any man, as loyal to my flag, as loyal to my country and as firm and determined in support of every act of the " government in this war as any. man. ' : ' I ask the editors of 'the newspapers irT. this city and in other cities to give prorhi- nence to this declaration so that there may' not go abroad I to the people of this country who have no appreciation of our -local situation the slightest intimation that the question of the war or the war policies of President Wilson and the United States - government are in, the . slightest way involved. My first utterance in this campaign in . response to a question put by a reporter of the'New York Herald was that I stood uncompromisingly behind the President ' . in support of the acts, and policies of my country and that the war must be fought to a conclusion which would bring an hon orable peace to America. That kind of talk should satisfy all con- ; cerned. Sounds to us like the Judge rings true. . . - -O- JUST ONE MOTOR. One little half-horse motor which propels the advertising linotype machine went to the bad yesterday, and it played just ? as" much . havoc in this print shop as though the biggest . : motor in the bunch had balked. Just a half- horsepower, but it stopped vhe works stop ; V ped the works last night and up to noon today : ; and this should suggest to us all that the' little things are to te taken account of along with the big things. . -',-' There are eight electric motors in this es- tablishment, each with a chore to do, and if one goes down there is something doing by c; .. . an electrician Last night Mr. Lewis, super- ' intendent of the Wysong-Mues Corrpany, good-natured fellow that he is, remained at his works and helped us out for a few hovTs by working overtime. ' yHM : o -, y-m7m MISINFORMED. . .C . f ;,' p r Charity and Children, usually we'll informed,- . 'j announces that Greensboro has & 'municipal" -woodyard. ; This is wrong. Greensboro has : no municipal woodyard. The citw-js to buy ;.a lew nunarea corqs 01 wooa ior f "emergency.- The majority of the city comrrsionerslau- thorize us to state vthat they wiu resigin thfir! positions before they cvirrt(6 thewocrdl business. The local , woodyards''will .cethe woodif necessary, ; but :'the city will .neither i saw, split nor deliver wood. That is the situ ation. ' v . ' . The glorious climate still, continues but a .. -': flare up is. expected most any old day. ff? '"y'.S:'-, . . 'v ' . :-' .' -.T V
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