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t ... - - - . '. ' . . People Who ( ( COTl fsf ' 7 F N I'Tl 5 pJopleWho rV AL FAJREP.OTHER LaFOLLETTE'S PEACE TALK t-s Senate in Octcb-er the Hct. Fnrfk St ' cf Winr.essta. -a si .rr state ct v. rt hit view cn the La Fcl- ;r..r -rt speech" harangue. The tpeech It Ktlit jctt reaches ut thi morning. !f fc.a-.dt it to the Vvtctvun agitator arvd i-frIr hit remarks In the following Ian- Mr. President. X have no q;urrtl -.-h the tenatcr frcxa Wisconsin cr the pr.r.cijle enunciated by the I:I Lr,e cf American ttttrtmen quoted lr fc-m who cla ;rr. c-J the hir,htt right a-d ptv.lee cf eiptetalng their cy-n cf the tight cf their country when 5-.cri in a foreign war. Cut. Mr. itrtvdrr.t. this If net A question cf free t;tch. It U a.que.sc cf an crtcr.eout t'a'rmrr.t cf factt rather than cf free ;r:h- t hcr.er that leng line cf state rrn ttferrtd to by the tmatc? We te tter and hii immortal appeal 'CT ry ci the nation: Lir.ccLn. the martyr cf at greatest ttrutgle. arvd many other. Chatte Jarr.rt Fc ftctctiri acaimt iiUr4 1 war wv.h the Fftnch. tut whtn we weft erjfajtxS in war with Mtxuo cur lar.4 wai not f.llc4 with Grrrr-an tirt. ir,tttfer.r with cur citi stTU it;fTir.g uj diKctd anJ ar-arthy. electa s the dtttmcticn cf ffepctty a-i f 2t;r, wish fc?t:n naticc.t. We were net then creases! wj.h the mi;hti ei? au:cracy the wet 14 hat ere known a-4 the TTa!t cf ruhury powtrs fcr the f r.ncjjtrt cf eternal juttice cpn whiih cur j:crtm.T,er,t it fcurvit-i. Sir. t wculi refer the tauter to the Un ju4e cf Irriitrt LL-.ccIn Adiftte4 ta the as;:a:ct in Ohio arvi ether ttatet wtn th:t naTicn wat f.rcisUr.g fcr is Mr. Iteiff.t. I am at Jea'oca ct the rxht cf fftc trth at ar.y menvber cf th- t:ir cr any c;t;:m cf that lar.4- It it a tuht a:u:frJ by the ttrvxc'.et ci ccr artrritcrt fcr jco yea tine e the c?jyt cf Kunnyrseie ri Litrsuiablr r;f! in cur written e-r.it:.tuticn. an4 I b!.re that the fteeirm cf f-eeh and X-. tstxistn cf the f trtt ae Ah-tiuteJy r,e;e-ry to human Lbctty. I hate no riht cr with to critkiie . ny rr-in who xc:t4 acair.tt thit nation r.c.nj: to war. a'.houxh I may dUatee with hx. But. tir. we are at war. and I t:.rre men cf thit boiy, men H in ftutrur. thsurJ net maie ttatementt tcniiHf to aid and enccurae the enemy and to cait diihcncr and dit credit uf-cn thit naticn. Imatne. tir, the cirtuliticn in the German emj-ire cf these ttatementt fef.ectin diuredit ucn cur yrotetuticn cf the war and t:a;run the juitke cf the caute cf the German emrire. Ccutd thete fo- te t blmed fee behenns in a caute. ever tackinr in juttice and ruht. ;f thete are the r eaten wh:cn lead ut if to thit great ccciet and tuitain ut th? suih i'.t trying crdeal? And the meat in the mitter it timyly that- We are enlaced in a war with Ger- rrany. America mutt ttand tzr.Cin&txi, and the rrtCttrnan who gett away with hit rr :u:h.r.it unitr the preteme cf free ?eh th;-tl k-e put cut cf buiinett. La Fccttc' ;tth a; it and girtt comfort to the ertrny. a-J that it treatco. And iny rran who at'.rn-tt, under any pretest, to tt;f up ttrife in An-rrica. who cperJy ceiti citet the j:c-ern.-ner.t fcr what tt it doing. t'.ixr z a;d and cerrfcet lo the enemy, a. 5 there n n way arcund it. A'OMAN TOWER RECOGNIZED IN CANADA- lUt Wi::;vhhy Cumminct cf Tcrcnto h teen a: r,:rJ a member cf the hencr utr war l;4s enmmittte cf Tcrcnto. Caa a'a. Cut.tjsji it weU known to Ar-t?;;a-- rmrn thrcuch her at-tciaticn wi:h the Irirmaticnal Ccuncil cf Wcenen. 34, !1 ,'-;hi direetcr cf pubhc infer-rra:t:-, C::aa. Canada, in charge cf the u'.f icjk. rraket the ttatement that ?he wcrrtn cf Car-ada re ddr,r. fj-Jmdid ir w;fk. War ccmm:tteet there have ucn then both men an J wemen. the d.iltrcr.t eet;cnt cf the ccuntry being fffrtt-ifd- There are few committee cn h;;h w:.-rtn are net acting in admmittra ' 'f f!'u:sz? "ThU putt the heme behind e prcblem." tayt r. Ncho!t. "Suf::ltr C-.c-t"" cf Ca-aia. where : china. Jrr ware and jewelry are ' -"! e-rer t-t-J qu;e a tub-ttantial fund to " crl fcr the ;a?;ng td$er"" wha it taicn care cf by the Khaki League. feature cf the wrrk the women are do " wh-ih it cf t-ecxal interett. U. N;th:i trke a!to in an interview at ' D.T?t;sn cn Weren't War Wctk cf the C:r.;?te cn Iubt;c Ir.fcrmaticn. cf the --fcef".:! tuccett acccmt;thed by wemen Ca-aii in the tale cf Victcry bendt. ,?k -h ecrrrtrend to cur Lbrty lean 1 fv. TtIr d.dn t touch wood yesterday f:nd:y predicted a bright day fcr 4--.iti:V-g. srsucmrrrsoj um a txah. mou com cmarrs KINSTON WISE TO SITUATION The Kinttcn Fret Prett hat thit concern ing the fuel tituation. which itn't cf the tentaticna! crder. It tayt: The warning note tour.ded by Fuel Administrator Route Ln Friday'a Frea Pret thottld be heeded by the people of thit community. Mr. Route urgei that thc-te who are in potition to do to pro vide their fuel now while the open weather permit the eaiy hauling and ndt cf thote who are not in potition to buy large tupplie at a t'roe are net to acute. From everywhere come report of fuel thcrtage. Transportation facilities are hard to obtain. No thipment deliv ery date can be guaranteed. Thit, cf c curve, hat and will continue to be a handicap in the coal tupply through out the winter. Kinttcn thould not tuffer, however, if the opportunitie for providing wood which are available and which can be made available be taken advantage cf. It behoove every citiren to take advice cf the fuel admin ittratcr and look to hi woodyard and coal bin in anticipation cf their need fcr the neat three cr four month. In thi connection it might not be amitt to tuggett that the ettimate be conaervative. that no hoarding and con teauent inconvenience to other be in dulged in. That U the way to do it. The prudent man will see to it that hit coal bin it tup phed. and if he doetn't tee to it. it itn't up to a city to buy wood And furnith it to him at cott. There it plenty of wood around all tewnt in thit ttate. and if the citiaen who mutt keep warm In the winter doesn't help him-telf, he certainly thould not be helped by the taxpayer. The City Ccmmiiticncr cf Greentboro are buying cme cord wood, which they will store at a convenient place. And if it happens that poor people. thoc unable to buy wood, are found to be u2eringbe- cause cf lack cf fuel, the city will relieve such cases. The farmer who hauls wood to town hat made himself believe, because cf tensation al a citation, that his wood is priceless, and fcr the most part he it waiting for higher prices. On the streets cf Greensboro yes terday one farmer wanted two dollars and a half for a load cf wood but little larger than the load sold by local dealer for one dollar and a half. The farmer informed the writer that he understood wood could not be secured in this city, and he hadn't time to haul it. but thought he would bring in a load. We saw him two hour later and he was still holding out for two-fiftv. Whether he got the exorbitant peice we do net know, but we do know that useless agi tation over wood has caused a scarcity and much higher price. o No tugar in town and a Muny Cippal Sugary it needed right now by the man who hke "three lump, please. in hit pot cf coffee. THE ONE HOPE. It it to be sincerely hoped by many people who are opposed to letting the government build up a gTeat machine, greater than ever dreamed cf. that government ownership of railways will not happen. No matter which party might be in power, the one in power having a schemer at its head could build such a party with such an army cf men that it would be worse than the kaiser's throne. The railroads are sorely pressed just now fcr money: they are crippled, and it may be necessary for the sxovenment to take them over. But if it does, it it good-bye to the present fcim of government whenever it happens, as it may happen, that an ambi tious and unscrupulous man gets at the head cf things. So it is not a party meat ure to oppose government ownership; it it fcr all people who want to remain under a flag that floats fcr freedom. o Only two dollar and a half for a load cf wood containing nine pieces-7-as brought in from the country. One farmer yesterday, who locked cold, sat for an hour in front of the court house with a load of wood, not the best, we should say, and when Colonel Max T. Payne asked him what he wat getting for hit wood he replied: "I ain't getting ncthin. but I want two dollar and a half fcr it. But I've been here two hour and it hasn't moved." Naturally it would not move when a Muny Cippal woodyard Is EXCELLENT STATEMENTS. The Greensboro bank are making their atnements. two cf them today, and the shewing it most escellent. There has been great growth in Greensboro the past few years and the Increased business of banks ts the thermometer which indicates the prosperity cf a city. The Greensboro banks have grown to big proportions and they keep cn growing. SATURDAY. DECEMDER x. 19x7. THE PUMPKIN IS THE STUFF The war is .bringing cut many new schemes, from Muny Cippal woodyards to railroad control, and therefore we expect to hear cf a new world when the war is over. One proposition that looks good. oShand. is that suggested by Mr. Harvey Holleman, cf Chase City. He writes us about it as follow: . I am working on a plan for ettablith Ing a colony in each state which de sires to co-operate' with the govern ment (a la national good roads) of small farms for returning soldier, twenty year to pay for same, farm to. be complete with cottage, etc, and to be sold the soldier at cost of raw land plus actual cott cf building; the farm to surround a reserved 3.000 acres lor ' civic center, which will make this country life just a attractive as the city attraction which have lured young folks from the farm. It's the nation's bett opportunity to. swing the pendu lum back toward the farm. Mankind's noblett profetsion.it making two blades of grass grow where one grew before. While we are sending over there busi ness men. lawyers, doctors, clerks and other from our ofSces. they will return with a taste cf the open, like you have seen in the west, and never again will they be satisfied in the city. The plan is self-tupporting by sale of the central portion to pay for good roads, telephone, etc Every man will have to farm under direction of govern ment advice, and products marketed through a central bureau direct to con sumers. " Very truly yours. HARVEY HOLLEMAN. Now. why isn't that worth while? The men will want the open," the world will need the products from the earth, and the chance to tell a returned soldier a farm at cott and give him all the home life he wants looks good. We hope that Mr. Holleman will proceed with his idea aatd work it to suc cessful termination. THE ANONYMOUS. The Record receives a letter from a citi aen, so he says, eating alive some people about the purchate cf a fire truck. The let ter says to publish the letter in The Record and sign it -CitirenM or "Taxpayer." The writer, after handing out a page and a half single-lined type-written stuff, ex plains that later on he will have more to say on the subject. It is a roast for fair, but the man writing it expects us to distribute his grievance and let him remain in the dark thooting from behind a tree. Naturally he has explained that the newspapers will not print his stuff, per haps thinking they are in league with the truck people who get the contract. How many times, we wonder, in forty year on a newtpaper have we insisted that people must sign their real names to letters? How many times have we tried to argue with them and ask them why an editor should be the means of assailing his neighbor to gratify the whims of a man who hasn't the nerve to stand up and sign his name to what he thinks? How many times have we told them that the editor prints his name every day and is responsible for the utter ances of his paper? Ten thousand we should say, offhand, and yet the anonymous scribbler rushes in and thinks he can scalp a citixen before breakfast and get away with it in ambuth. If the man with the grievance concerning the City Commissioners will sign his name to his article, stand in the open like a man and make his charges, we will print his let ter: but unless he does, the watte basket must receive the article. Thit thould help some, but it doesn't. The other day a lady wrote a poem and said we must print it just why we do not know. She called us up on the phone, re fused to give her name, but thought it scandalous that we wouldn't print her -piece for the paper, and we never could explain why the old rule must apply. o THE RIGHT WAY. Kinston people have solved the woodyard question in the right way. The following from that city shows it: "Kintton. Nov. 36- The mayor has been instructed by the city 'council to purchate 500 cordt of wood to meet urgent deficien cies in the fuel supplies cf Kinston'a poor during the next three or four months. It . will be stored at the municipal electric plant. It will be handed out to the needy under the supervition of the superintendent cf the United Charities and the preacher of the city." o And they are going to have an epidemic cf teptic pneumonia. This i a new one, by way of diversion. o The Hindenburg line seems to be easy when General Byng goes to it. Bingl Why, that in itself is a smashing name OH SAUK AT TDK XX WB STANDS AND Of TRAIHt IS GIVING AID TOBOLSHEVIKI South Boston threw a fit. South' Boston is in Virginia. The city concluded that it would put out of business the local coal dealers as well as the local wood dealers. The result is that coal is sold by the city at a profit of $1.50 a ton. This includes all expense. Naturally it is cheaper than the indivdual coal dealer can sell coal. The in dividual coal dealer has an investment of his yards, his wagons, his office force; he must make a profit to cover these things, and the city only figures in a part of the real cost. The overhead doesn't come into consideration. If a city is to have a munici pal woodyard, by the same token the coal yard must come. The South Boston situa tion is as follows: "The city purchasing agent has not yet secured prices from any coal dealers for coal to be distributed to citizens, should the city council so order. He, however, had a psrsonal interview yesterday with Hon. W. T. Penick, mayor of South Boston, who advised Mr. Talbott that the fuel adminis trator at Washington had responded promptly to South Boston's official request and that the town was receiving coal regu larly from the mines. "South Boston pays for run of mine coal $3.60 per ton at the mines; the freight rate is $3.30, making a total of $4.80 per ton de livered in South Boston. The town distrib utes the coal to its citizens at $6.30 per ton, the difference between the cost price and selling price being $1.50, which covers all . costs of handling, including drayage, la-, bor, etc" The above item is from the Danville Bee, and it shows that conservation of coal is not considered. Instead of conserving coal and forcing or assisting the .people to burn wood, the South Boston people are getting coal, and selling it at $6.30 a ton. This simply means that the city is taking advan tage of a situation, putting the local coal dealers out of business and furnishing coal so cheap that it will be wasted instead .oL-,. conserved. , That ism pretty AS w-doytn5'-:-do. No doubt if Greensboro should go into the coal business it' would sell coal cheaper, than it is now secured, because $1.50 a ton . will not pay a dealer to fool with it. One fifty a ton profit would be a big thing, but one-fifty gross will not pay expenses of maintenance of the yard and delivery we all know this. And if it is simply a propo sition to furnish coal cheaper in South Bos- , ton there is no reason why the same city should not buy the groceries and meats for the people and sell at cost. No reason in God Almighty's world. " o THE STUPH. It appears that the De Saulle case is the juicy stuph the people want. We find the papers carrying two and three columns of the gore-dripping tragedy an injured wo man, a woman who is a murderess. Simply because she has plenty of money, simply because world-renowned experts are on the stand, the wires are cut into the court room and expert writers are told to , play it up with plenty of color. . And we print this stuff just as it comes off the reel, write glaring headlines be cause Because other papers print it. That is all. And were we not to print it we couldn't talk about "news when news is news," and they would say the sports would that we were attempting to as sume a virtue we didn't possess; and so runs the world away. In some remote period newspapers will play up such things no more. A five-line story of the unfortunate woman's case will suffice. But now such sensational tragedies must be presented. Yesterday ,a whole - -. column and more about Gaston Means and we have had murder trials of more im portance in this county and the wires were never used- But if it is news, and other papers print it, all papers feel called upon to yell "Me, too," and give space to stuff that had better be left out. The financial reports show that the gen eral business of the country was never bet ter, and this is good news when we realize the gTeat strain that has been on the money bags for the last six months. . o STILL GROWS. The campaign on, in a quiet way, to se cure a flag to adorn the splendid staff now bare in the court house square goes for ward, slowly but surely. Today the list ex tends and encouragement is given all along the line. Just a quiet undertaking, but one worth while. Old Glory r hould float in this white man's - town from the public square, and Old Glory is going to float, and fifty men and boys and women of Greensboro will put up the needful. The offer of Brown-Belk Company to fur nish the flag at wholesale and pay charges of delivery is a good one and shows that the town is getting interested in a People's flag. If you haven't sent in your napie well, there is to be no DersonaJ solicitation. ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903. THE OLD FRIEND OVER TRINITY The papers are having a great deal to say, concerning the fact that John C. Kilgo, be cause of the much talked about flag inci - dent at Trinity, resigned as chairman of the board of directors of that great institution j of .learning. Some of them are saying the " Dukes are hard hit, because Kilgo was their personal representative, and a lot of other : . foolish things of the same kidney, r The story of Trinity college is one that has not been often told, but when it-is 'i finally told it will be found that the Duke boys, Ben and Buck, only; 4id what their 'father would have had them do, and they , never thought whether Kilgo was the head , of the concern or" whether he was in any " way interested in it. Years ago Washington Duke, as good a man .as ever lived, a substantial citizen, a Christian gentleman thought it would be a good idea to bring Trinity College to Dur ham," and to secure it he gave the money to build the main building. That was over a . quarter of a century ago. It happened that s the college grew, and Washington Duke several times gave it big sums of money, because he felt he was doing, good for. his . fellow brother. He never cared who was at its head. What he wanted was to assist in building a. great institution, and he lived long enougli to see it built. While he lived his sons gave liberally to its endowment fund; they built needed buildings and be came, like their father, interested-in Trin- : ity, and not in the individuals running it. When the Kilgo fight came on, and it was bitter for a long time, the Dukes sided with:'' Kilgo in the fight, but that was a personal matter. J. B. Duke and Benjamin Duke have been lavish in their contributions to Trinity, and they will still be lavish. Kilgo is their friend, but because he is it will not in any way take away, their enthusiasm for Trinity. That great institution is in a measure a monument to the name of their ,, father, and they are ; not caring who are o , rectors or. 1 who s president, ,- Pil-tEatf below the belt who have done so much for . their native state some men :nsist on strik ing. The Dukes have done much for North Carolina. They are doing great things how," and Trinity college is only one of the many things. The people of North Carolina owe much to the Dukes millionaires they are, but lavish with their money in many lauda- ble ways and oppressive in none. V T . NORTH CAROLINA COAL MINE. "The coal mining, operations of the -Seaboard Air Line at Cumnoc, Moore county, North Carolina," .says" the Wilmington Star, "are beginning to assume consider able importance as an industrial enterprise. The deep mine from which coal was mined as late as twenty years ago is being re opened, but the Sanford Express says ; it will take some time to pump the water from the long-abandoned shaft. - f "Tt is going to cost a nice little sum of money,' says the Express, 'to get the. Cum noc mine, ready for operation A large force of hands has been employed and since midsummer they have been working in night and day shifts operating the pumping plant to pump out the millions of gallons of water before regular mining of coal can be gin. There is yet a large quantity of .water to be lifted, and possibly it will be late in ' January when the water problem is solved "There are busy scenes around the coal mine these times, and it is said that the pay- roll now amounts to $700 a week. That is adding considerably to the already prosper ous conditions around the old "Egypt' coal region. Work is being hurried up on the shaft in order to relieve, the co-operating coal' problem of the Seaboard Air Line inf this day of stress for the railroads of the South. "It is said that the North Carolina coal mine will be operated on a scale never here tofore undertaken and that it is hoped to make the mine contribute its bit toward taking care of the war .necessities of the r South "'Atlantic railways, "experts pro nounce Cumnoc coal to be of the very high est steaming quality, while geologists and mining engineers advance the opinion that there are indications of a vast supply of : coal to be had at Cumnoc." RUSSIA OUT. Unless a turn soon takes place Russia is going to be for peace or she will tie up with Germany. It would be no surprise to see Kaiser Bill get his hooks in on that coun try. In the meantime the armies fighting Germany are winning out, all making good,' and the week closing has been one of great victories for the allies. - Wonder what the news agencies will do for front-page stuff when the. war is over? Oh, there will be plenty of . baseball and things like tnat. : -it The proposition to" raise a fund to buy an Old Glory seems , to meet general favor and OldGl'ory will be floating by- well, say5, within a couple, of weeks or so. v r,'-'; ' - . 1 - t III -'t
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