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V People ..Who f Think " fl f i: l 1 X AL FAIRS R0T1LER THE LIGHTING WORLD PEACE -QUESTION UP TO COME HIGH 7 frS aJmiriitratcr all ever the ccun trr succeeding In ha tin j electric lights ftl.cri- a-l the cer ium -lien cf ccal nll r Imr-fi. It U i rifcht, to turn on a t xu-IXhts in front cf a playhouse so it trc is fuel to burn, tut htn there t a scarcity cl cool the lihta ua ute t.:rre cf it- The people commencing learn. The New Ycfk p-sper rrpen that mt?i! theatm cJ;tc-4 down inder.itcly 2 t cf the cit!ahcuse and show cn r;a3 are ccc'imencir.g to n4 it hard f.r. After ih;!t the Nation will be fa jeactke economy, and all kinds cf ;:?..-trt befcin to curtail. This w-.ll be ntiurf fee marry reascnt, an4 it will t e i-r7vie to sec the big concerns first -4rt ta ttttxn by half their cr-tfut r,4 then tf a!:TJ thtte U a rctalte tlrcteate ct t!p -.:h cr a harviivJ cf atti.eta en ; ;r 1 ccer-4?tJ with the number that muit tLt:. ihat mil it nitan when two cr three r rrxre tr.m are ca"ri to go to the I: v.'l cnean that weevtn rvU cccr,e in a- i O the fZacn cf rr,m: it mil rvtaa that 4 cf ccetrti ym3 curtaJ in output. $:;ttt cars i3 run en itsrwer ahriulc: r-Tt;4yri mil fr.r.t fewer rart: carviy wUI te cut cf the rur.r,;r.. and the ra !?s4i 14 y fcur hunw!:r4 an4 fifty corn rsi,:;t cci" by fre-ht wul be de r'.ri trantctta:;ca. Thii witl mean all r ft cf buwi.f! rr-a:etia!fc. al kind a cf r-.:al intrurr.er.M. atl the thir.rt r.ow jt:!:t!y eter.?ial in the way cf living. Tie three cr fcur rr.;Ucn rren at the frc-.t t?c rr-utf J cr awh;le. and then the he! w-.Il aa;n tun tmocthly. The ;uet::cn then cc-rr, what will haj- m w:n Ik the three cr fcur nt; en men :,re hrr.c. if they da? And Cad grant '.hs: t rr da. V.'iU 1 1 r. c t b char-J cocn KttttUl wc! t. a It wiIJ b-e a cruced r.to j::ah::al wc?i n far at r-envrttien cf ter r.tsry it cc-nternrd? W err-en wiU have Irarr f'J rew rltcet anj r.rw arts. Men w$U ccrr.e heme to ea and ro f lace fcr them to r.-ciue. Certa;n'y thia century will 'wijr.cat a tran-tferme-d wcrid in rr-any wjyt, Ij teerni strange to kr.sw that fcr the f.rtt l;n.e In a thsuwnij year Ihe HcJy City hat aain fathers into Chr.ttun hanit, and it locks r aw tae there miht b-e a chance to cake the fecf hecy cctre true, and Ia!ri!:ne ence r-te bececre the hraiuaftera fcr the Jew ;th rat;cn that to !cn- hat been vcatterrd cer the wcr. L All cf ilurce w.!l be trant f :fTr.eti. ard the cccrimett-al life in thl :untry w;IJ be an altogether different $Tiry frctn what wat erer befcre imaj;inrJ. LIVE ON. LIVE ON! In the Carc'i-na Mountaineer J exit Daniel f" t each week a frcntf4:e tcn. an.! h;i t;rre he tcck hit harp in cr.e hand hit f cuntam fn in another and wrote te fir: ttn in thit way: I w m mi t a 4 Hit, A.-d yet there be-rren who meet and fet-!-te a;:n" t:iacce, that great aocxhtajrer. anf tnt;n-ate that the man ho makes $wer cf hit mcuth by chewinx it cr a '.T.cttack cf h;t nctc by smoking it is ?n route to the Ha J L4nJs under the suer-;-n cf Mf7h;tc;hc:ct- So it seems to w that ti a man burdmevl w.th the job cf a frtnt rare pm each week, no -UTTer ale-: weather conditions, can fnd j-s lit c-t jrani. sweet tong by simrly ? a c-r- ccb r;y into action he thc-ii ce a:-wed to go free and unre-ttr-itri ft trem. inderd. that if in tur.ea cf war. whe-s all the world is bleeding and tcrrc";.--. a corn ccb f if-c wiU put into a rr-an's rr r naught but thoughts cf haryi rttt a-i fry and ccrr.fcrt i: is up to the rt?ctn to start a Muny Cil IX'pT rf;:e t-f vet. To hare Ue arj-ear jut aw. tf? t2 ce advancing prices, aa cne ""xra-l iwttt tg"" it wtU worth while. -'"-5 tf a cm ccb r-e f;"ed with tobacco rr g??n w-H do the stuns, to ycur tents, n ditjcmbtr?. an i let "a start a Muny Drf-' ; 7ry r.;ht r.r. Is m:rht be recorded as a matter el gfati- Z t-i:rrrati:n that there ham t been the S-cuthem c-tragc"" fcr a long time. I ;r the attempt t ccnierre wood has "Jmsbt in aV-rjance when ctherwiie they ' b-ite burrrj s:r-e cne at the stake. tt the weather man en!y ccuU hand it -y. jic-s two weeks ahead as a sure 'I ati sen hia t jt. th nk what an Old -ey he wc-td tc sn be! . u-tli ratJrrr rice to hear real s:eigh h n-an who utes ccw bells cn a H tir iir. i the stu;h. Hi" Ani then it snswrd. 1 tJM'C&n-Tto tiM a ttutt. ttiau ton Ux'lresider.t Taft put it all in one sen tence when he said: He who propose peace now, there fore, either does not see the stake for h:th the aKies are fsghung cr wishes the German military autocracy still to control the destinies cf all of us as to peace cr war. Those who farcr per . manent world peace must oppose with might and main the proposals for peace at thia juncture in the war. These who la!k peace, and sincerely talk it. are misinformed. There can be no peace until Germany wins or the alliea win. If Germany wins she will simply take the whole cmUied world under her authority, and we will all be slaves. The allies can not stop thia far until'Germany is routed, f oct and branch. And the only way we can win the war is to fight, and those who can't fight mun talk the right kind cf talk. The man who throw a monkey wrench in the wcrkt at this juncture is not loyal to his government. The man who undertakes to raise dissension: who goes about whisper ing that he doesn't know about this or about that: the man who asks what right we had to go Into this war. and thereby throw cold W4ter cn thecaue. is a traitor to his coun . try and he should search himself. If he is unknowingly a traitor, he can easily re form. Rut if he insists on insinuating many things: if he talk about what it going to happen if we keejp on spending money, a half hundred way he dampens enthusiasm, he coots ardor, and he ia dangerous. There p-erhaps was no greater pearc advocate than Taft. unless it was Uryan. But these two big-brained men now understand that we are in the war. and there is no backward path and r.o returning until the kaiser is dethroned. And to dethrone Mm is a stu pendous task. Therefore it behooves us all to keep solidly behind the President, to in sist that we are willing to give our last cent, if not our last drop of blood, for the freedom the world. That spirit meana much to the man in the trenche. It means much to the man who is going to the trenches. It means Victory: whereas the cold-water man means to help in defeat. o DO NT DE A SLOUCH. And the war is doing much. It it chang ing cur xmnr,ti, our customs, our tastes. It prescribes meatless days and low-cur shoe: it show us that our weet tooth must be satisfied with less than half the sugar we erstwhile used: it brings home to us the wonderful advantagea to be derived from thrift, and now it ha been left to a ecHege president to show his student that !cuch:ness has cost many an ambitious young man his "brigalia. as the colored man calls the trapping and trimming in geld and gilt known as the insignia of office. Dr. Hibben. cf Princeton, insisted to his students that he had official informa tion that because of the slouchy appearance cf many young men they didn't get the coveted petitions carrying titles, and that many a private could have started higher had he given more attention to his personal appearance. Perhaps it i even so. And when we lock back and ee old Hor ace Greely with hi breeches over one of his boot tops, view his neck whisker which were wild and wide flowing, we wonder if he would really lave been so great a man in the if.bJic estimation had he tried to be a stats cf fashion and a mould cf form. When we read about eld man Diogenes in h: tub. dirty and disagreeable, telling a king to stand out cf his sunlight, we won der what he would have been had he in sisted ca wearing creased breechcrloons. When we think cf old Den Johnsor rare, they say, but gouty and grouchy and dirty and distracting wonder if his slouchines didn't help some. Dut the page of history are filled with stories cf the eccentricities cf genius, and all genius seemed to revel in the uncouth and slouchy sloughs. However, there are two things a man should do. If he wear whisker he-should comb them cr trim them often: and if he can afford not to wear a celluloid collar, he shouldn't wear one. T black the boots, to wear the clothe in the proper manner, to see that your hat is dusted and the necktie is scmrwhai regular, re word while. But if an army officer turns down a strong, bright man because he is a genius and ufces in his stead a boy from a bandbox, cftet the army suffer. o THE PENNIES. When the Liberty Stamp campaign be gins in earnest, which will be the 14th cf this month, the little inconsequential penny is capcctcd to play an important part. Fig ures are yet warning, but it is id that when the rennie arc let loose from toy banks and (rem a million places where they now lie idle the increase in the circulating medium will be most remarkable. The man who early learned that "little drops of water and little grain cf and made the mighty ocean and the pleasant land" never did learn that a hundred pennies made a dollar. . SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15. 19x7. U. S. sUfkl ME COURT RUi-ES The Suprettae Court of the United States has decided that a st.te can pass a law pro hibiting a man from having whiskey in his possession for his own personal use. The eld idea of personal liberty that a man's house was his castle, and a lot of those things we learned when a kid disappear before the progressive ideas' of jurists in these day. There are old men who would fight a dozen sheriffs if they came to de stroy a sacred quart of likker held in bond and bondage fcr personal use: yet hero ccmes the Supreme Court, the highest tribu nal, and say that if a state wants to pass a ' law saying a man cannot have for his own personal use as much'as a drop of whiskey, the roads confront the culprit This is not a far-reaching decision. It is simply saying that under the constitution the courts may decide anything they want . to decide and that is what courts are for. The constitution says, and says it boldly, that a man charged with a heinous crime must be given a trial by a jury of his peer, and yet men are sent to the roads for two year at a time by a police court judge, and the constitution would doubtless permit it.. The constitution is a chart by which we sail, but when the men who interpret ex ercise their own good judgment and see the necessity of making certain decisions they find that it is within the constitutional limit. In this particular case the court held that if a state wanted prohibition it had a right to have it. and therefore the man who did anything to keep it from hav ing what it wanted was an offender. Fifty year from now the people will ay such a decision was the only one to make. Just now there will be those who want to know about it: those who want a little lik ker in the house for personal use; but that makes no difference. A man's house is his castle, but if the castle is used to store un lawful commodities, then the law should have a right to search :t and confiscate the goods thus found and punish the offender Iwbo Ticlated -the -bW- Prohibition haft l come to stayand gradually it will be abso lute prohibition. Just now it is pretty nearly that, and such decisions as were handed down this week will help in the glorious cause. No doubt about that. i THE LIBERTY STAMP CAMPAIGN. County Superintendent cf Schools T. R. Fouse is also county chairman of the Lib erty stamp campaign, and he is going at things in the right way. On Friday a: noon ninety speakers will be at the differ ent school houses in this county and each speaker will tell the children about the stamp, the duty they owe to the govern ment and what the Liberty stxnp cam paign means in the successful prosecution of the war. Mr. Foust is determined that Guilford shall do her part, and State Chair man Fries made no mistake in choosing Mr. Foust for the work in Guilford. . THE SUGAR SITUATION. It is predicted that by the tin c tnc Food Administrator gets through with his work, . and he is hastening it. there will be plenty of sugar. Big concerns using great amounts of sugar and carrying large supplies have been asked to let loose their surplus. Food Commissioner Page tells of one concern -and how it patriotically came into camp. He says that "the Wilmington branch of Garrett & Co., Inc.. having been discov ered to have on hand a large amount of sugar, was instructed to dispose of all above its immediate requirements at a reasonable profit above cost to it. The company promptly agreed to comply with the in structions. This is an instance of interfer ence for the public good which under nor-, mal conditions would never have been dreamed cf. As a reputable business con cern the right of Garrett & Co. to purchase sugar for their use for any period of time desired would never have been questioned, but the whole course of the food adminis tration is without precedent, and the few precedents which may be cited are being smashed to smiithereens. And yet because every reasonable person recognizes its ac tivities as a necessary means of winning the war and of protecting the 100.000,000 con sumer of foodsstuffs at home nobody is kicking and a gratifying spirit of co-operation is being shown." ( 0 THE MEANS CASE. The Means case has had front column, megaphone attachment for the past week, and after all it is mush. There are many people In this state who have already dis posed cf the Means case. Whether he killed Mrs. King or not is purely a matter of circumstantial evidence, and there will be those to believe he did and those to believe he didn't. It was a dirty mess and a sorry mess viewed in any light, and the hope with many is that it will be over in a few day and stay over. o , Only a little while until the Christmas shopping day is patsed do your shopping now. , - - ,.s 11 t'K dTAMCl AMI OH TRALICS THfci KIDDIE'S SCHOOL LUNCH The Raleigh woman's club and the Ra leigh doctors, some of them, are up in arms against the custom obtaining in that city of giving school children but a half hour to eat a cold "snack," a snack generally con sisting of pickles and jam and cold bread. It is contended that the child should have at least an hour for his midday meal; that he should go home and have something warm, and plenty of time to eat it and di gest it. One physician writes the Times, about it, and the Woman's Club has spoken. Looks like the kiddie could get along very well with a midday lunch; that is what has happened for many years. A child is al ways "piecing" from the cupboard at home, and a good breakfast and a warm supper has been deemed sufficient. But we do not know. We are not at all posted on what should constitute the meal habit.' We do know, however, that Man is the only animal which has voluntarily arbitra rily set an hour for eating. He makes his beasts of burden which do his chores con form to his written rules, but the animal of the field and forest eats only when hungry. That is why Man is the only animal that makes a drug store profitable and a doctor, possible. The cow in the meadow eats her grass and lies down when she feels like it and chews her cud. The bear eats when he is hungry, if he can get food. The eagle will watch patiently the chicken in his cage for maybe three days and eat it only when appetite or hunger suggests. The snake will eat when he feels like it and pays no attention to the dinner bell But man, the most contradictory of all animals, says that at a certain hour dinner is ready, and one is supposed to eat wheth er hungry or not. And if hungry at another hour one must wait, because business duties hold him in bondage. Eating may be an acquired appetite: maybe one could' get along on one meal a day. . It was that wise old sage, Thomas Jefferson, who talked some other things than politics, ,who in r .sisted that one, should never complain be cause hTTJad -eaten" "too 1 little. It has been hurled at the. world for a hundred years that it was eating too much, and now comes Raleigh and insists on .three square, warm meals a day fcthe kiddies, who do not care whether they eat or not. Just so it is some thing to talk about seems to be all there is of it in this later life. THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL. The indications are that within sixty days, perhaps thirty, the government will have complete control of the railways so far as rate fixing is concerned. It will take over all the lines and operate them in conjunction with the present general man agers. The Sherman law which forbids - pooling will become obsolete so far as transportation is concerned, and Uncle Sam will send goods this way or that way regardless of the system. The fight for commerce by the special freight agents will cease, and if one system has empty cars the other system will be supplied, and in stead of the several hundred systems, zeal ous of their rights. Uncle Sam will make it one big family, and if empty ucars of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy are on the side tracks those cars will be used on the Southern or any other road where traffic is great at the time. In other words, as a war measure the government will control. Whether this will lead to what many men think, ultimate government - ownership, is problematical, but it can safely be said that . it is a great step in that direction and may result in final ownership. It appears from the best advices from Washington, and that is information from railroad men pretty well up in'the circles, that it will be but a short time. One thinks maybe two weeks will see the order issued,' and sixty days will be ample time to make the -change. In that evenut a neSv system will be on, and the freight rate "question, the strike question, the mileage book ques tion, and all agitation will automatically drop out, and Uncle Sam will have but a single eye, and that to get all that is possi ble out of transportation companies in order to more successfully prosecute the'war. o JERUSALEM FALLEN. The news that Jerusalem has surrendered . "after hard fighting came as no .surprise, ex cept it was a surprise to know that it had withstood the many attacks. It had been surrounded for seme time and had to fall. -o- THE BIG WEEK. This will perhaps be the big shopping week for Christmas. Merchants report reasonable sales,, and it is expected that while the presents this year will be more on the order of service, no greater holiday trade will be recorded. Everybody has some money; Christmas has been univer sally observed as the gift-givirig season for so many years it will be hard for even those who consistently preach conservation in other seasons to draw their purse strings. Perhaps a couple more years of -war and .we would better understand what is on in 'the world. ; ; .J ESTABLISHED MAY. xgoaJ TOBACCO NEXT WORST THING Now that prohibition has about succeed ed and is soon to become a fixed fact, those . .who professionally live by passing the hat of easy money are jumping on the tobacco band wagon and getting out their literature for a drive on that particular plant. Many men are conscientiously opposed to tobacco and have fought it and will always fight it But the professional who lives on the clap trap of reform propagandas is already in the harness, and already he is sending out bis literature. ' We received one piece of it,, in. which to bacco is denounced as. fiercely as whiskey was ever denounced; in fact, it is the same old story, dressed in a new suit. But it will not do. Tobacco isn't going to be put under -the ban like Barleycorn was put under the ban, because Tobacco can plead not guilty and prove itself innocent of nine-tenths of the counts against it. v The particular sensational bit of litera ture to which we refer insists that tobacco infects and poisons' the human race; that it drives away women and fills the air with stencli all of which is a bloomin', false hood. The North American Indian used tobacco all his life, and no race of people enjoyed better health until contaminated by the white man. It was not until the pale face appeared with the Bible in one hand and venereal disease in the other, that deci mation of the Indian commenced. His tuberculosis, his many diseases of the blood are all at the white man's door. Tobacco; is a filthy weed, no doubt of that, and the man who chews it and paints a panorama of the dismal swamp on his , white shirt front with .it" should have no place among the highbrows of Society; but when we; say it is filthy that is all. It is not in the class with, whiskey. The .use 'of--it ..causes-, no mother's tears, no moans and groans andagonies such as hell only knows; iis' at once a narcotic, an opiate, and has done much good... The.! tiette usedtoexesa by boys intheir teens, has "debauched and ; degraded mannood,.but that is because the boy violated the laws of man and became a lawbreaker to' do his chore. Tfhe man who uses tobacco, unlike the drunkard, does not -become an outcast. It does not . destroy his manhood or his character. It simply ie ' a habit that brings to him solace and does no real harm. It will be a hard fight to ever convince the millions of American people who use tobacco that they should cut it out. It 'will be a harder matter to convince the tobacco grower that he is sowing seeds cf destruction direct. . It was said of old : that the man who raised the wheat and rye j and apples that went into the manufacture of strong drink was a party to the crime; but that indictment was untrue, njust. The tobacco grower is a party to tobacco using, because tobacco is a weed fit for nothing in 'the world except to smoke and chew. It cannot, like cereals, be utilized for food. It is worthless unless made into ' smoking material or chewing material. , But the fight is on. There must be some- - thing to keep the reformer busy It. is his job to assist his fellow brother and point , out, before passing the hat, how near hell is. But with whiskey gone, with the Har- .. rison narcotic law putting dopes beyond the reach of man, tobacco will be first, and then the innocent soft drinks. Let us .wait, let us hope, let us well, let us pray that all will end well. S..4 The Liberty Stamp sale goes on in earnest, ; on Friday, and all over every county in the state there will be speakers at work trying to enthuse the farmers to see the point and ! help Uncle Sam raise a few billion dollars needed in the prosecution of the war. . . - r O ' MISTLETOE. '. Mistletoe is a vagabond in the vegetable world; a barnacle that flies in the air and' attaches itself to a tree and lives off the blood of another. It costs nothing to pro duce. It comes by chance, and yet the price this year has materially advanced. Cost of manufacture sometimes enters into the ' equation when an explanation of soaring pricec is sought; but just why a bunch of mistletoe should go skyward is,not satisfac torily explained. - 7T O - . ' " And now comes the cold storage man arid explains that he has plenty of eggs, fresh and crisp, at a price making it possible to retail them at 45 cents a dozen.. This wiil help some. - t . o TTTT-rTT' A O A T" T "" O We used to call him "Judge," but Mr;-? Asa Biggs say Colonel Asa Biggs who ifi? ersewhile did work on this paper and who i for a year has been with , the High Point -v mixcrpnsc, leaves xne state tms weeK tor': Beaumont, Texas, where he has purchased an- interest in. an afternoon paper, i His - friends in this city will wish' him well, - - - . r-r. O r Food Administrator Page seems to have on his -war paint and ingoing after those viol? ting the law. . - - - r.vj 1 -. - .A
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