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.- ;. W; . ' ' .'v.V-- ; .. v. h People Who SY AL FAIRBROTHER NO TIME NOW TO CRITICISE -jf ei'trmed Ash evil! e Times comes to Vf ifffttje cf Asheville housewives at. J S4t tii crJy seventeen r-l cl nuny thou Ji4 -j wccr.ro refused to sign the food pledge ifi thce seventeen wcenen bid dif-ffU-: r titers. The food pledge card wit ',4(Jr ;;r.rl. It doesn't aprcar that a re f al to s;n rnear.t much cl anything, but Is d;c appear that many women who ;-rl d.4 so at a man sicna a petition pre set J by a nctghbcf, without weighing the We have in mind cr.e woman who tinned tt feed pledge card in thit white man's t r-. ataJ who wat telling, p-ethaps forget fi.'Tr. the ether day ahout hew much her .;i wit wasting. "Why."" tald the, "cur c-.; i,-r.f Jjr dom"l item to have any ccn-r-t;n cf the cc-it cl food, and the throws :x..'lt cn the table and cil the taale juit tit they used to do in tie country when tNrrr wit no market for anything. Latt ttk I am sure the waited twenty-five -.;;.-xit cl Ecur Urge plates cl biscuits wtte Irf t ever and finally thrown into the tM-.lS raiL" Ancther weeun. mere thoughtful and rt.-te ttudtnt. taid to her: "Why en earth w'?r. 1 yea tt.l ycur cock that that tcrt cl et;ravaancc went do new: that the cott d th;r.t to eat will break the bank, and t rr.u: go tlow. And the wenun who had tlgr.vd the ?:?ie card and who theoretically thought f;ci ccmervaticn a good thing, rernark ri that the dared net tay a word to her cock if the d;d the wcuJd quit. She taid that the had to handle her with fjenrrt. meet i:i her rr.3:dt and treat her at though the ji di;r.ey ar--cir.ted to wah dithr. Ai that tt the cne teit trouble. - The M habit cl witting here and there and tvrywhere ttill rs cn- The perton who yy the bull cut let m iarr.p that r-kit net be be here, a half bucket cl ril thit r.eeit re: be waf.ed there. In a S r-ired wajrt the r'aymif.er econocniret, t the tervir.t, the hired man. the cr.e not ftyiiZ the billt. at reckJe at Ln the old Ut. arl t.nat it whete the big leak cocrt, and there tt ro wiy to f.cp it- If yoti tjxak hall wiy c;v;Uy to fcrty fr cent- cf peer I e r.cw enptoytd. in lh:t great demand for LScr. ycu are hablc to receive a jolt that wIl break your tiatt. and you are then cl he!;. Put the rltdge card tigned by the wo man cf the hcuie meant nothing unlet-t tn ere it co-cperi::cn w.th the cock and the d rein l know, dxi.n l underttand and d?tn t care. FtrewocJ and table turJ.rt t;rd to ccme freely, and the hired lady in tht kitthen hant gratp-e t.e tcgn;.'; car.ee t( ford ccncmtico- And untU the cne h r-ay the bwlt dct her own work V?te ;I1 ttill b the war.tcn and wilful 4ttt cf h:h cur rretiimt wrcte. THE INXONSISTENXY. Ar I we have the frudiit iniiiting that rcnn ear longer drrtte-t. and traveling e-tn Kiit;ng that theett be made twelve frtt tzrt in crder to cver a tia-foct man. 4- J e hate atl tcrtt cf things hurled at ut -it fearfiil ii:e. It wat cne time mathe- rutuaHy traTtrnthat tf a Chinaman would T4r b.t h;rt cne inch longer hundredt cf c:::n rrXt ccuid be tuttained. and the t;g tX.sx and the Icr.ger thert :wl eer ier rr--?e material, why. in dayt cf err vtriticn. ih;'Un"l a weman wear a $h:tTer d:tv a-u hy thculd a traveling r-4s i--it tp:n hat;ng a twelve-foci theet cn hit hcrl Iti I -a rvih at cn Friday rJght Pretident f-ait cf the raticnal cedtr el P. T. A- wUl ?t n the c.!t e wauld hie to have thit !4!!tr eirl -ti. If the traveling man it ?4ice e ci-:rxiticn at he it in fiver cf ti-itri4t ?n d:n'i tee why we cannot b !? HARD LUC A rcrt tn the ew Ycrk Herald writes el a dm-n Kx.ttt IUI had- iU dttt4 he wr-.t ss hriren and Saunt Peter wouldn't Um, h,.-n tn a-d tent h;m blow. but the de-nl iit-m tht I i-d rrfuied to let Kalter UCl n th-rrr. but ccr.uderately cive him teme ruti.Vt a-d tulphur and tcld him to ttart a cf h;t ewn. The rct wit very clever, v-t he h-!ll hare remembered that Kai lull hit aim y ttart ed and maintained -?e hetl cn th;t earth than it ever knew i"tt. !ret:y cd ttufi to wr'.te retry -w? Ka.ter li but. lai:e and gentle--n he it jcie. Never in the hittcry f the wetlJ. r.eirer in rcenar.ee cr fiction. there ben t-;h a heartlett and cruel tter at Ki;tcf Vu'.L To annihilate him i Kt kingdom it a tatk cf gigantic rro- -.n. and every man who lovet free s n muit help in the wet 5:. Kaiier 0.11 it t - l;cn and net a theery. He mutt be md annihilated. The new depct hatn't matcria!aed yet. there tt h?7 that the underj! tt will be " a few fleeting yeart- There hain't been a r.ew cnderfait pro J?i fr to Isng that many rxcxle have 'i-.tten aU abcut the reject. cscajJTto ilm a tsa. nvou corr csjrrt FOUR-MINUTE MEN ENLIST The Four-Minute Men who have been talking cn war tubjectt, material furrithed by the government for the text, number tome fifteen thousand in thit country. They have done a great work. Many of them do not understand that they have en luted for the war, and that in accepting they are duty bound to retpond whenever the chairman cl the committee, dulv ap pointed, callt upon them- However, they do very well, when all things are consid ered. In giving up their time to talk four minutes at the movies. President Wilson recently had this to say cortcerrung the Four-Minute Men: May I not expreit my very real in terest in the vigorous and intelligent connection with the Committee on Public Information? It is surely a matter worthy cf sincere appreciation that a body cf thoughtful cituens, with the hearty co-operation of the man agers cf moving picture theaters, are engiged in the presentation and dis cussion cf the purposes and measures cf these critical days. Men and nations are at their worst cr at their best in any great struggle. The spoken word may light the fires cl pinion and unreason, or it may in spire to highest action and noblest sac rifice a nation I freemen. Upon you Four-Minute Men. who are charged with a special duty and enjov a special privilege in the command cf your au diences, will rest in a considerable de gree the task cf arousing and inform-, ing the great body of our people, so that when the record cf these days is complete we shall read page for page with the deeds cl army and navy the stcry cl the unity, the spirit I sacri fice, the unceasing labors, the high courage cl the men and women at nome who held unbroken the inner lines, My best wishes and continuing in terest are with you in your work at part cf the-rrservt:or5cer corps" In nation thrice armed because through your efforts it knowt better the justice cl its cause and the value cf what it defends. In Creentboro there are si men enlist ed, supposedly four regular and two subs. Recently the chairman at Washington sent the J oca! chairman a letter telling htm to call upon all Four Minute Men to refrain from miming in ether public meetings and to see if it wasn't possible for them to hold all their fcrcea for the Four-Minute Men campaign exclusively. Of course some of the men cannot do this, but it is shown by this request that the Government consid ers the Four-Minute Men as part of the army wcrk and feels that they are abso lutely under orders. This makes it impor tant that whenever it is possible all citizens shcuid hear the Four-Minute Men. because they are accredited representatives cf the Government and speak for the Government. o Thanksgiving, turkeys strut with a haughty asr. They will sell for about Nine Hundred Dcllars each -cn foot. HITTING THE ALIEN HARD. The proclamation bv the President in sisting that all alien Germans must have ptmi!s to go about over the country is ftctr. It has long been needed. There are thousands cf GttrnAtt spies in this country, aliens they are. under cath to pro tect the German Rag. They have had free access to every public place: they have been gcing and coming at will. - Under the new. crder they will be forced to show by what reason they are rubber necking. If the American people will interrogate every German they see who looks at all suspi cious: if they will help the secret service men in locating the enemies cf the coun try, the war will progress in a fmnntr much more satisfactory to the allies. Just now almost every town has its German spy, and Germany not enly keeps Informed, but the is able to plan and plot all kinds of trouble. The proclamation issued by Pres ident Wilson will doubtless prove a great blessing. o THREE SO FAR. Up to date there have been three North Carohna soldiers buried in French soil. One of them died, it is true, and two were killed in battle. Three are not many, but three cl our boys have given their lives, so when any cl us at home are asked to give a dollar for the war let us give it, and give it cheerfully. Think what a price the boys in the trenches must pay. o Get ready now to help in the Red Cross seal campaign. No use to think you arc thrcugh giving. There are so rnanjr things that mutt be helped, and those of ui it home must put up the money while the boys in the trenches put up their lives. o Only another month until the rush for ChHstmaa shopping. Better commenco gradually and get busy now. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 34. 9X7- TOBACCO GETS . . A BLACK EYE Colonel Garland ''Webb, of Winston, in this week's issue cl the Tobacco Journal, takes a tumble with the proceedings of the Methodist conference just adjourned and hands down his views as follows: We are, as a; rule, disposed to ac cept the pronouncement of the preach ers without question or protest, but on this occasion are Compelled to say that the recent action cf the Methodist con ference at Asheville prohibiting the use of tobacco by its members is fool ish in the extreme. Followed to its logical conclusion, if it be wrong for the preacher to use tobacco, it is equal ly wrong for the layman; wrong also to grow, sell or manufacture the weed. And the question naturally arises, if this be true is it not wrong to accept money made in the manufacture and sale of tobacco for the purposes of the church, and wouldn't it have been more consistent to have condemned to bacco before accepting from the Dukes, General Carr and other prominent to bacco men the millions of dollars that built Trinity College, than to take their money first, laud them as bene factors and then condemn the business that furnished the money? These devoted 'men of God protest against sending cigarettes the mild est form in which smoking tobacco is manufactured to the soldiers in France. After allowing these soldiers to cultivate the taste for tobacco at home, without protest from the church, their nickels and dimes going through the pockets of wealthy manufacturers to church institutions and these gener ous men praised by the cburch for their liberality, then to deny these soldiers the solace of a smoke when they most need it is so inhuman that if it ema nated from any other source one would suspect that the Idea was made in Ger many. , ei?ticmeot is taade that thereto- 'iutionTpasaed without opposition. We will hazard the guess that four-fifths of the preachers are opposed to the action taken. There is no fear in our mind that this move means the beginning of a crusade against tobacco, nor that this declaration of the church will hurt the tobacco business. Our honest fear is that the efforts of the church in its legitimate field of usefulness will be weakened, and such a result would be deplorable at any time, but more espe cially now in these days when men are , sorely tried. The conference also takes a whack at Brother Candler's coca-cola. We can't help wondering if, since they "de plore the success of his business, they stand ready to pay him back the mil lion or so dollars contributed to the theology school of the church at . Atlanta. The Colonel has open?- an old question, a question that has been before the house for many years, and the answer has never been given. For some good reason God Almighty put the tobacco plant in the ground and the North American Indian was, guided to it- He smoked it and found solace in it. The white man came along and proceed ed to imitate his red-faced brother, and today wherever ships run tobacco is used, and so far as we know but little harm has come from it. Excess in cigarette smoking has dwarfed and debased and debauched youth -no doubt of that but is tobacco to blame? Are those who manufacture it to blame? And if so, why should the man who manufactures, or rather prepares, pure to bacco for the market be any more a bad man than the farmer who plants it and sells it? Coca-cola has made its fight and it has won. It has been before the American peo ple and it has proven that it doesn't de bauch and that it isn't a habit-forminp dope. It has given its money to the churches, as the tobacco men have given theirs. Just something to talk about, just a little spread eagle business of the holier-than-thou idea. For years the late John Webster lambasted the Dukes, but it didn't do any good. The Methodist church went on receiving their money and it was found that it wasn't blood money. That splendid institution of learn ing. Trinity College, was builded with to bacco money, and surely it is an institution doing great good and an institution of which all the country is proud. Colonel Webb, however, should go slow. Let the Method ists have their fun the open season for the Octopi is always on. o Isaac S. London, who for many years has been successfully running the Siler City Grit, has sold that paper to Mr. P. H. El kins, and London goes to Rockingham, where he has bought two papers. He will consolidate them and run them as the Rock ingham Post-Dispatch, and here is the hope that be will win out, as he deserves to do. OJf UB AT TDK KZWI J OS AXO OX TKAXJfi WOMEN LOYAL. IN ASHEVILLE (Aabertll Times.) An interesting meeting was held . in Greensboro the other day and patrons of one of the schools, together with members of the Woman's Club, gathered for Arbor Day exercises and a flag raising. On the program was an address by Superintendent of. Schools Foust. Mr. Fsust had" read the news stories purporting to tell of the re fusal of Asheville women to sign food pledge cards the same stories that have already been repeatedly denounced. Con cerning the address of Mr. Foust the Greensboro Record said: . . Superintendent Foust in a ringing patriotic speech made it plain that every citixen must do his part in this time of the nation's stress, and paid his respects to the Asheville women who, according to a newspaper correspond ent, had refused to sign the food pledge until the interned Germans at Hot Springs were put on conservation food. The speaker declared that he had no -patience with such acts of disloyalty: no patience With people who criticised and failed to conform with the require ments of the government as prescribed by those directing these matters. .Asheville . people are equally patriotic: j they have no patience with "acts of disloy alty." They have no patience with the dis position to create distrust in the adminis tration. They have no patience with a dis position to manufacture a sensation. The Asheville women have not refused to sign food pledge cards. Out of a whole number of people visited by the canvassers only seventeen declined to sign, and they gave all sorts of reasons. Every reason is of record. One of the good women present at the same meeting had read the same untrue news stories about Asheville women. She had no further knowledge,, but she knew the temper and heart of the women, of the hill country. She spoke her conviction. It was Mrs. Al Fairbrolher. She said:' Having personal acquaintance with a number of Asheville women, she thought that the women of-Asheville would measure up, as a whole, with those of other sections in the matter of patriotism, and that there must be some mistake, and that the correspond ent had in mind, probably, some iso- ' lated case. Asheville women appreciate the gracious spirit of Mrs. Fairbrother, whose good sense led her to speak in the defense of the wo men of the mountains. . The "refusal to sign food cards story" is false so false that it looks as if "sympa thizers of the kaiser" were at work some where, in Washington or in Asheville or both, striving to discredit the administra tion in its work. MAYBE SOMETHING NEW. The fact that war times has caused some ' trouble in getting cars, and as sidewalks must be laid, our City Commissioners agreed to let the contractors use terra cotta, which is burnt clay, instead of crushed stone. So it happened that our attention was called to an article in the Engineering and Contracting Journal of last May which showed that burnt clay really was better material than stone for concrete work; in fact, a great deal better. This article is a brief of some investiga tions carried on at the Iowa State College of Engineering and reports in the Iowa En gineer. It deals with the construction of two reinforced concrete beams, one of con crete containing crushed stone and the oth er of concrete containing fragments of burnt clay in the same proportion. The concrete containing the burnt clay at the end of 28 days developed a crushing strength of 1.250 pounds per square inch; the crushed stone in the meantime devel oped only 860 pounds per square inch. In 38 weeks the burnt clay concrete, showed a compression strength of 3,680 .. ' pounds, and the crushed stone ' concrete showed only 2,300 pounds. The beam made of burnt day concrete withstood a load of 65,000 pounds placed at the middle of a nine-foot span, while the crushed stone concrete beam withstood only 47,000 pounds. - So it may be just possible that our side walks will be even better than under the old prescription of crushed - stone, and maybe the terra cotta idea will be finally used in all concrete buildings. All of which shows that while necessity is the mother of inven tion, once in a while necessity also picks up something it never before cast its eyes upon. o . If railroads stop shipping automobiles,, then the world will wonder how it is to make a get-away. o : And the British are not out of the game, as was plainly shown when they plowed five miles deep in tho Hindenburg line, an im BrMaiU (rnnt. mm warn claimed.' ESTABLISHED MAY. 190a. y PAPER BULLET THAT COUNTS The campaign for the Red Cross seal sale is now on, and every citizen is again expected to do his bit. True, almost every week there is a call upon those with money, and each week all seem to cheerfully con tribute. The thing for the patriotic man to do is to assess himself a certain amount and give it, and keep his purse open for the next call. In a few days now the stamp proposition,, the raising of two billion dol lars for war work, will be on. This scheme is on the principle of the trading stamp. A mart , can buy a twenty-five cent stamp, paste it in his book, and when he gets some thing like five dollars' worth of the stamps he exchanges them for a bond, and then keeps up his savings each week. This gives the man who has no opportunity to invest fifty dollars at one time a chance to help his country first and then help himself. The bond buyers get their money back, so those who have bought Liberty bonds must not confound the transaction with their, gift giving. Those who give to the Red; Cross work, those who give to Y. M. C. A. work, those who give to the Red Cross seal giye outright. But "those who will buy the stamps and those who buy Liberty bonds only make an investment; an investment that pays interest, and when they want to get back their money it can be done. So in the giving do not think because you have bought albargain jn Liberty bonds you have given anything. You have simply accommodated Uncle Sam by landing him money. The Red Cross seal is not for war work ; it is for the people at home suffering with ' tuberculosis, and certainly we should help them. 1 THE PUNK. There are more committees these days . than anything, else. Our mail every day runs from fifteen to thirty letters from dif-. ferent committees, each, one sending in a -batch of stuff for , publication, the, which . woufd make a sixteen-page" newSpaper'oncev"fc" a week-1 and for the most part punk. The money spent on publicity which never gets further than the waste basket would feed a thousand suffering Belgians every day, in . the year. To enumerate the different kinds , of organizations which this war has created -would fill a column of this page. Many of them are useful, no doubt, but so many of them are overdoing the publicity end. The average newspaper hasn't room for such junk; it isn't of general interest, and the white paper, postage and . printing and clerk hire all go for naught. Better take the money those things cost and give it to soldiers who need articles of clothing. The newspaper man with a slight tip can pre pare his own copy,' and will do so, no matter . how many tons of printed supplies come to . him each month. ANOTHER ENTERPRISE. The announcement yesterday to the feet that the Latham Company, Inc , .would start off knitting mills in this city December 15 for the manufacture of hosiery and socks, running a hundred machines and giving employment to about as many operatives is good news. It means that Greensboro has just that much more of a pay roll; it means that the product will be sent outside the town and money brought in to be spent here. It means more than that. This cor poration will be a success, and as enterprise begets enterprise there will perhaps ber more hosiery mills located here. THE BILL POLES. After this week, it is announced, the po lice will be instructed to see that no more advertising matter is placed on the tele graph poles in this city. This is simply en forcing an old law, and the civic end of the Chamber of Commerce entered protest con cerning the recent - desecration, and the Commissioners have ordered the .law en forced. Perhaps it is better.- -o- THE ITALIANS BRAVE. It must not be doubted that the Italians are brave warriors. Romans they were and Romans they are. They fight like the very old Nick, fear nothing, and walk into the -mouth of death as calmly as a maiden walks to a marriage feast. The hope is that they will save Venice; that the Ger mans will be repulsed in the big battle booked for most any day. Mr. Gerard says that the United States as a nation should hang all traitors to the nearest-lamp post. That is law and order; that is the fate that should overtake every .traitor to this country. Better get ready now to buy a Red Cross Seal but don't let that interfere with your I subscription to the Y. M. C A. fund. . Both must be attended to in this town. . v n -o- It was rather as it should have been to '-: allow General Pershing the opportunity to . see the British in action when they made their great and glorious .drive. N j , ' r- - .-. " J; " ' - ' .. .r . -
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