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TURKEYS CHEW
THE VILE WEED
The w.tt men cf the fir east, up Boston
wjt. dt esclutively in economic questions
j -j they always fir.d the First Cause. The
F.nt Casie having cr.ee been found it it
i-i eajy matter to traverse the winding in
t;,;i;;ci cf Speculation and Fact- The
f.cit:n Traveler the other day contained
ed;tcrial. which it comprehensive, en
J.;hterisg and wcrth while:
There it a man in New Ycrk who
i-jwi all about turkey, and he talks
abcut them in a very practical way.
H;i name it Fey. he it a market ex
rert. ar.d he doesn't conceal hit
thoughts in the slightest degree. For
example, he tells people to remember
that ""butchers cf the preient genera
te! aren't like the butchers cf old.
Ninety per cent, cf them know nothing
abcut turkeys cr quality cf any meat.
So r.erer mind what they say."
That may be all right at far at New
Yctk goes, but in th:t city and others
cutsiie cf Boston there are men who
knew at much about meat at anybody
who sell it ought to know, for their
fathers and grandfathers were meat ex
perts before them. But Mr. Foy talkt
mere helpfully when he says:
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Mr. Foy adrises the buyer net to take
a turkey that wat reared tn Virginia
cr North Carolina. The birdt down
that way eat tobacco leaves, and the
juice cf the plant does net add to the
twetsnett cf the meat. But in all
prcbabil ty the tobacco-chewing tur
keys are reserved for New York. Here
abouts mere genuine Vermont turkeys
are sold every year than are raited n
Verm en t. -.
It so happened that about the time this
wcnierful fct cf information wat spread be
fore the readers cf the Traveler in the Hub
cf the Universe Mr. Martin Douglas, cf this
city, was stepping down at the Tourane or
Young's Hotel, and hisjrye fell upon the sa
cred page and he read aloud cf the tobacco
chewing turkeys cf North Carolina. In a
letter to us enclosing the editorial above
copied Mr. Douglas expressed some doubt
at to the entire truth cf the ttcry, saying,
however, that it was only hit cbiervation
cn hit own farm that turkeys for the mott
rart neither chewed tobacco r.cr smoked
cigarettes- However, he wat willing to ad
tmt that if an occasional quid cf tobacco
was now and then found in a turkey's craw
it wculd only tend to sweeten the dijposi
:.:n cf the national bird and would in no
w-.ic entitle it to exemption under the
Thar.k j giving cr Chrsitmat draft.
It is refreshing to read what these learo
ti men have to say about the natives cf the
pre wcx! the turkeys and the men and
weenen. With the high prices cf tobacco
hoks l;ke a regular tobacco-fed turkey
could P.nd seme justification in asking thirty
cents a pcur.d for itself a price very cheap
when w censiier that common Burley is
wcrth steen cents a pound.
THK CHRISTMAS ADVERTISER.
In these days the l;ve merchant wants to
htlp ycu. He gcet over hit ttock cf gcodt
a-1 tellt ycu what he hat that will mae
appropriate Chhitmas gifts. The man who
reals the aiTertiiemcr.ts these days gets n
'rrrraticn wsrth wh:!e. The perplexing
prcttem cf what to buy for a Christmas gift
rubrics ut all. and by intellirenily tea n run r
the aiirertuementt at this teascn one de
rives great help. The Hand Bill carries the
a nnsunc enter. : s
most hve merchants.
Keai them and profit by thetr
BUY THEM ALL THE TIME.
Frcm r.5w cn until Christmas it over tee
t it that a Red Cress sell is cn your letter.
Iluy entuih to aicm your. Christmas pack
aje w-,th them- The money obtained from
"he sale f Red Cress sealt will help a
sTrukcn tubercular patient. Thit it worth
ssur wh;'e. It it handing to a suffering
i'llim brother a little bit that will do him
treat good. Buy your Christmas tealt to-
' T ani tomorrow and next day. Use th
t he tm e.
WHEN?
Vhcn will Creensbcro be bold enough to
" i?s rabbit gum for that Carolina and
-i:n ra:lway. It can be secured and at
expense, and if secured we will prac-
sally have a railroad to the tea tome-
long wanted. Of course war times
y net te eppcrtune to talk new railroads.
tt would be business to plan it right
The ume to tend your Christmas package
r.Ttr.
cwcwmo iim a tua. iiou cort ckhts
GETTING CLOSE
TO SOCIALISM
The usually level-headed Raleigh Timet
makes a serious mistake by turning in an
alarm concerning fuel. It proposes to print ,
each day a statement showing the exact
number cf cords cf wood and the exact
number cf tons cf coal on hand. Naturally,
because farmers, filled with agitation and hot
air, are holding their wood for ten dollars
a cord and dealers unable to secure1
much at any price, this showing will cause
a "run cp the bank." Those with money
enough to buy are over-buying. That hat
been shown in this town. Men who never
before got busy for the winter fuel have
bought more cal than they will consume.
This reduces supply, and the man without
money to buy gets left.
To print each day the amount of actual
coin in a bank would cause a run on the
bank and burst it wide open.
To print each day the number of sticks
cf.wood in a city, implying that things were
in bad shape, will naturally cause a run on
the woodyard. and the man with money
will beat his unfortunate neighbor without
money to it.
The Times it wejl intentioned, but to
print the amount cf fuel on band in no way
increases the supply. It diminishes it, and
no good is accomplished.
If the people are not worked up to excite
ment they will geN along better, and the
man in the country will not conclude to
mark up his wood another dollar a cord.
The ether day in this town a farmer came
in and had a load cf wood worth perhaps in
war times a dollar and a half. It wasn't a
much larger load than the dealers sell at
that price, but the farmer wanted three dol
lars for it. He had beard, be said, that
there was a wood famine here and that the
city was going into the wood business; that
pecple couldn't get wood, and he took a
day off to bring in a load and expected three
dollars for it. Thit paper interviewed him
and watched' hins for information. He sat
all fertneca his wagon hit time teemed--without
value and after dinner be reduced
the price to two dallors and a half. At
three o'clock in the afternoon he hadn't
"unloaded. an j what finally became of him
we do not know. The Timet tayt in an edi
torial: Human nature being what it is, it is
too much to expect the individual to
translate tufJering in the city at hit
own failure to sell what he can sell or
not at he chooses. A farmer who three
years ago wat peddling six-cent cotton
for ten centt a pound to charitably in
clined "buy-a-bale Raleigh merchants
ttated recently that he had wood, but
wat going to hold it for ten dollars a
cord. Unsavory at the incident toundt,
it it a perfect example of thoughtlessly
selfish instinct. And parties of the
ether part are dealers who hesitated in
the beginning to offer to pay prices in
. advance cf custom until prices got
away from them. If they cannot now
buy at prices enabling them to do busi
ness in the line which it supposed to be
their specialty, the fault it the common
one cf enchantment with "war prcfitt
to be paid by the "other fellow.
Much truth in the above, but the longer
the Times prints it on its front page that
there is no wood in Raleigh a scant l&S
cords the more the farmer is going to be
convinced that his good time it coming
and if he can hold up hit city neighbor for
forty dollars a cord he will do to with a
chuckle. The Times thinks the city should
buy wood not a municipal woodyard; it
wouldn't call it that; but it would have it .
that in order to hold down prices. It says:
In this situation the remedy must in
the end be applied by the city not
through a municipal woodyard, which
is not needed, but through the-maintenance
cf a supply of city wood suffi
cient to defeat the demands of the ped
dlers of fuel who come in to sell at any ,
wild price which the emergency makes
possible. The city, so far as wood is
concerned, has the duty of ttableixing
prices in reaton. It hat made a begin
ning of doing to by getting wood. It
retrains for it to make the supply ade
quate for its purpose, to taw it with itt
own engine and gatoline. to "haul it .
with itt own wagons not as a general
proposition, not in unlimited quantities
or at a business, but as a deterrent to
increasing petty tpeculatiwn and at a
safeguard against further economic
brigandage.
If dealers cannot buy wood, if farmers
want ten dollars a cord, how in Sara Hill
can the city buy it and deliver it any cheap- .
er than the retailer unless the city cuts the
profit from the sale cf wood and charges up
the expense cl handling to "general ex
pense?" It can't be done. Agitation con
cming a scarcity of wood which did not ex
ist has run the price to the skies, and the
mere agitation the higher the price, while
the forests are full cf wood to be had for
the cutting. .
SATURDAY. DECltMBER 8, 1917.
WILSON MAKES
LOYAL SPEECH
The intensely patriotic address of Presi
dent Wilson to Congress has doubtless
given new inspiration to the loyal members
of Congress who heard the President ex
plain that this country was going to fight
to an honorable finish, and that there would
be no peace which wasn't peace. The
chances are that before many days elapse
there will be on foot a determined move
ment to impeach a few Congressmen and
Senators not many, but perhaps more than
one. Senator La Follette it already Under
investigation and it will not take much of a
match to kindle a mighty big blaze just
now. The New York Herald, which is as
intense in itt loyalty is any newspaper can
be, figures on the situation and says that
"Senators and Representatives returned to
Washington for the reconvening of Con
gress speak with enthusiasm of the attitude
of their constituents in support of the war.
The people they say, 'are all right.'
"Never has there been doubt of the 'all
Tightness of the American people. The
only thing that concerns them, the only
point upon which they themselves have had
doubt, is whether the American Congress is
all right.
"Some of the members of that body are
under suspicion. These have been prolific
with lip service in behalf of patriotism, but
their acts clearly have warranted doubt of
their Americanism. One Senator is under
investigation by a committee of the body of
which be is a member, at least one other
Senator deserves to be put in the same to-be-investigated
class. Still other Senators
and Representatives have been guilty of
utterances that, in the opinion of many pa
triots, were designed to give aid and com
fort to the enemy.
"Congress, should understand that the
American people expect it to purge itself of
any semblance of Hun-Americanism. Fath
ers and mothers who are sending their boys
to the battle fronts c Poland or.seawtMr wot..-.
submit tothc spoctacM'cf the hall of Con
gress being used for -the utterance-of trea
son, near-treason or anything approaching
treason. When the people are being called
upon for the supreme sacrifice they have a
right to expect, and do expect, that men in
public. life make willing sacrifice of such
portion of the 'sacred right of free speech
as covers freedom to speak the words of
disloyalty or of a questionable patriotism.
The people are not hypercritical; they are
willing enough to permit loose thinking
during the period before the United States
entered the war to be offset by thinking in
straight American lines now, but they will
countenance no fifty-fifty patriotism in
members of Congress or in anybody else .
while this nation is at war.
"Each house of Congress is the judge of
its own members. Each must judge them
by the yardstick of true Americanism and
promptly part company with those who do
net measure up to the one hundred per cent
Americanism standard.
FILLED WITH SPIES.
The officials tell us that this country is
filled with German spies; they bob up in all
sorts of guises and in all sorts, of ways.
The duty of every citizen is to be always on
the alert, and anything looking at all irregu
lar should be reported at once. There is
no defense of the spy. There is no defense
of the pro-Cerroans who pretend to.be talk
ing for peace or moderation when in fact
they are aiding and abetting the enemy.
Judge Boyd, of this city, hands out the
best along this line that is handed out. He
boldly says that every man in sympathy
with an enemy doing what Germany is do
ing is a traitor, and we all know that when
one is guilty of treason he richly deserves
death. .
The talks of Judge Boyd are doing much
good. Let every loyal American talk
against the common enemy, and there is no
use to wear gloves. -Talk It straight; talk
it loud and talk it often. And when you
hear some fellow insisting on free speech
and wanting to defend the Germans set him
down as a traitor to his country. This is
, the long and the short of it.
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Christmas shopping is reported as far
ahead of last year. The old slogan to do
your Christmas shopping early is gradually
bearing fruit. It will take some time to put
the idea over, but it will be put over.
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THE MESSAGE.
Ordinarily the President gets his message
ready for Con gT ess and sends it to the print
ers and g;ves it to the news agencies, and
it is held in confidence for release. But the
message to the present. Congress was not
finished until Congress met,. and therefore
the wires bad to carry what the President
had to say.
A message from -the President at this
time of peculiar interest to all our-peopl.
and no doubt the document delivered will
be eagerly read by all those who are taking
an active part in keeping up with the prog
ress of the war. . - '
f ALJC AT THE NKWt iTAWDl .Nlrl TBAIXS
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AUSTRIA NOW
OUTSIDE PALE
It is announced that by Friday at the lat
est this country will declare war against
Austria-Hungary, and many of those who
have been looking over the war map think
this should have been done long ago, but
that it is better late than never. Just what
we will do in this move is not yetknown,
but Italy will certainly be glad to hear the
news. Austria-Hungary is a country that
. is inhabited by all lands'. of people. In. a
recent address to the students at the Uni
versity of Chicago Dr. Judson had much to
say about the German campaign and plans,
and in his address he referred to Austria
Hungary in a manner interesting at this
time. He said "the house of Hapsburg has
reigned in Vienna for centuries. It has
come down from the Middle Ages and re
tains to the full the medieval ideas of abso
lutism. It is only since 1806 that the title
of Emperor of Austria has been used; in
fact, the head of the house of Hapsburg
reigns in many of the crown lands of the
empire by inheritance as duke, count or
what not. In 1536 the Duke of Austria was
elected King of Bohemia, and in the same
year he was elected King of Hungary.
These titles and the regal authority which
they gave, although in each case the crown
wa,s by right elective, the Hapsburgs have
kept, as hereditary and despotic, quite, as
much as their hereditary upper and lower
Austria. Thus, in. the first place, we have
as an essential factor in the dual monarchy
a medieval and aristocratic monarch and
a monarchy in a German family.
"The second striking fact is the diversity
of races and languages. Germany is nearly
homogeneous. It has on its borders some
non-German subjects, inhabiting lands
which represent some of the plunder of
Prussian wars Poles in Posen, Danes in
Sleswick, French in Alsace-Lorraine. But
the great mass of the people of the empire
are German in blood and speech.
"In Austria-Hungary, however, the. Ger
mans, are.ariiinorfoy44r
of about 50,000.000 there are only 12,000,000
Germans.; The other races are, in round
numbers: Slavs, 24,000,000; Magyars (Hun
garians), 1 0,0c 0,000, and Latins, 4,000,000..
"In other words, the population is 24 per
cent German, 48 per cent Slav, 20 per cent
Magyar-and 8 per cent Latin."
However, if jthere are twelve million Ger
mans and this country goes up against them
they will be counted in the general results
when the war is over and the allies win.
The truth of the matter is the man who
opposes a Muny Cippal woodyard isn't
guilty of treason.
THE WAY THEY HANDLE NEWS.
The Associated Press does things. This
morning its operators or receivers over the
broad land received information that the
lunch hour must be changed for the day;
that four or five thousand words were to be
put on the wire, the President's message,
and that while it was on there was to be no
cutting in or butting in, and nothing sav"e
an E. O. S. flash would be looked at.' Thn
at twelve o'clock the message was started ;
it was to be let loose all over the world, be
cause it was of international importance.
Jn San Francisco, in New Orleans, any
where and everywhere in this country and
under the waters of the sea the message
traveled, and. was read wherever man can
read. , , - . .
Think .of it. And yet we read a few of
the miracles recorded in Holy Writ and
'wonder if they be true. Where is there a
greater miracle than that a man can read a
message in Washington ,ano!( by wireless, it
is flashed around the world ? And, where. is
there a man who thinks he is pot now liv
ing in an age cf miracles miracles greater
than were performed when Christ said to
the troubled waves, "Be jf'll?"
The W. C T. U. with a thousand dele
gates in Washington will" urge Congress to
pass the bill that will give to all states the
chance to vote on a constitutional amend
ment to put likker out of the running. With
New York just coming In with over a mil
lion women voters it would be a wonder, if
New York state didn't vote for prohibition,
and when New York slip's from her moor
ings and goes to dry land the Nation. may .
be pronounced a dry one.
Already- the . prohibition sentiment is
strong enough to carry the question na
tionally; And. as we long ago predicted,
1920 is liable to see National Prohibition..
No doubt of it, and the W. C. T. U. workers
will rejoice as no organization ever rejoiced
before. Then they go after cigarettes and
tobacco and a long fight is on. Finally, the
reformers will get all they want, and the
question is. Where will they get off?
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If this weather keeps up, Old Santa can
come in on. his sled. - Looks , like snow but
looks do not always count.
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fCold storage eggs for 45 cents is a good
proposition if you can't get fresh' laid ones
at any price. ' - .
ESTABLISHED MAY, 1903.
WOMEN MAKE
BEST JURORS
jNoWy that women have secured the right
to vote in New York state the New York
Herald sees a little in the field of specula
tion and it proceeds: ' ' -
The reduction through the war in the : -number
of men available for service as
jurors and the fact that women in this ."
. state have obtained the suffrage sug-. s
gest that before long we shall have wo
men in the jury boxes.
If the next legislature makes woman t .
v eligible it will be interesting to see ,
whether they will willingly serve or
whether they will be like the men who .
daily besiege the office of the commis- .
sioner of jurors seeking exemption and .
resorting to questionable devices in the
attempt to obtain it.
In the case of a woman on trial for (
crime women jurors would have a hun
dred clews to character and conduct ;'
that are imperceptible to men. And
when passing upon one of their own
sex there would be no danger of wo
men being so emotionally lenient as
men have shown themselves to be. ,
And why not a woman juror?' Why f
leave it to the man to decide the important
questions handed down by the judge? Isn't " V.:
a woman as well qualified to say whether "
a divorce shall be granted as a man, and .
can't a woman get an idea as to whether or - l
not the fellow accused of arson really set j
a house on fire? The woman is the best . ? i
juror1 in the world. She is called upon to:-,:
decide one of the greatest questions ever ', ,7.':'
propounded to a mortal being, and she is
generally left without advice, and acts" ori . . - I;
her own responsibility. When a man comes -u y .
along and proposes to marry her and take r - V
her and live with her and go through thei ?
world with her, she becomes iLjuror in onei
mitted. Once in a while she makes a rrits- ,; ;
take, but it is because the evidence is false. (
She has allowed herself to be gold-bricked
by the hot-air artist, and the mistake is a 1
natural one. Left alone to decide a ques
tion of what is right and wrong and give 1
her all the evidence, a woman will get -J
about as much justice out of it as there is' t
in it. It is our belief that women would
make better jurors than men, and there is
no reason why women should not act.
It might Be in some of these unwritten
law cases the defendant would fare worse
than when being tried by men, because if a
woman was notoriously guilty of murder '
there would be no weeping among a jury of ru
virtuous women. That jury would not stand
for the sobs and the soft pedal. It would
go to the bottom of the question, waive all
sentiment, and if the frail sister who had
,shot her victim was guilty and had no jus- V
tification she would be promptly thrown to
the wild beasts and the matter dropped.
But in all cases where justice was wanted,
where evidence counted, the women in the
jury box would return a fair verdict. No
doubt of that; and why a woman isn't qual- ; I
ified to sit as a juror we do not know.
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The Red Cross seals will be on sale at
many places and every man should buy
some. This money goes to the nurses who
are helping the stricken ones. No better
. charity come across. f " '
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CHRISTMAS SOON. 1
Christmas comes on Tuesday, and, as. the ,
fellow remarked, "I'll swan, it comes on '
the 25th." And the 25th is not such a great
way yonder, and every one intending to
make a purchase for Christmas use should -get
it early. Not only, does the early buyer V-i
stand a better chance to get what suits him,
but delivery of his present should be con- ,
sidered. Do your Christmas .shopping now
is a slogan worth while for the next few
days but of course "there are going to be
a few hundred good-natured shoppers who
will postpone it until the eleventh hour.
RUSH THEM OUT.
The railroads and the government call on
people to hurry up with their Christmas '
packages. The mail this year will be large, .
Cars are scarce and the parcel post business
is called upon to handle a great, deal of
stuff that generally goes by express. Those ;
who intend to . send packages to friends
Christmas can, if they only knew it, do their '
shopping early, and thus help all around.
The parcel post business has grown to ;
wonderful proportions, and since the var
it has doubled. That, means that often a
parcel post package is a few days 1 behind.
Get your packages off as soon, as possible. -This
not only assures their delivery in time,
but it prevents a congestion that will be v
terrible. . . -
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-The War Stamp will soon be on sale and
every man will have an opportunity to help
Uncle Sam. Just lend him a- quarter every
now and then, and Uncle Sam will, pay it
oaCK wlio mieremz.
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