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v ff ) ror, People VJho 6 v.. n 7 A. U A W r r i r v j i 1 1 1 T V AL rAlRDKOTHUR ROCKEFELLER A BENEFACTOR Kt t r::ie frcm New Ycrk the annual , :ctr.:r:j ihc RockefeHtr Fccruia I' . r.rcr-f4sc pamphlet, ttr.t preium ' ths An.tncan prtit ar,d other 1 :t. It it to ut an tnttrttting rtpeft: - becaie it tellt cf vait tunu be- ; ttit lex crencliturc in thar.r.clt tad ; irtrJH in channels whete Teat coJ w;Il b dcr.c to carry cut the motto d ;.e Fcuniaticn. "To ptccscte the we!I l : - el manVind threuhoct the world." nxi-dcEer Foundation snncunxed today .' :.nan:ul budget (or the year 1918. at ap-t?;-rd by the beard cf trutues. Then tne k:. paje contains this taUe: U4 -,. f . ................ tlJ4.4MMk M 1 - litis. '14 crtjttt m fr.ia tt t?.TI Ir, iew cf the er' 'cr a Ji.zirnal war work during the ccm-ir-i year it teemi Ulcly that the total cf the ten nuU:crs rrcen'.Iy verted at aa;at!e frcm the princijvi! fend cf 1 the Foundation rall have t3 b called 1.7 n. During 1917 fire nv.nicr.t, cc.e hatf the turn cf the principal fund voted at ara'abte. wat appfcpruted. It semt to ut that the above fjcres ccn tt.tute a mcit remarkable array cf rturner ati. One Fcundaticn to ive in ere year ten rruljcnt cf doIUrt. and all foe the bet ferment cf manV:nd thrc-ujheut the world, no tir rtt to it. no faircntvtm shown, the Kx'mtttller rclS tcirz Into lh rrcme cf the txt f4 rich a.Ae carried by the mcit emi nent cJ fdcntif.c men making research for the cauit cf d.rea- and having rstllicr.s .o extend In "an attempt to check it. to over come it. The Un.tcd States, all cf vu perhaps, at tLmes. have uted Jchn D. RccStefcIler at a rational p?cni;ng bag. It hat been the thecry cf w;nd-;ammcrs and leatherlunged dxmagces to beat the air and create the vmreti;cn that tecauie he pcstesies great wealth he shcni!d b crucif ci. and they have ?uiht to do it- It hat been a plratant raitu-ne for reform wr.ters to hold vp the i-renie fortune cf Jchn D. Rckcfei:er at a menace to the worlds progrets, whereat be hat been a benefactor cf hit race. ttK t:ra!ett ch;linth?cp;it dc;ng needed thingt te wcrtd h-t ever known It appears that he wat made the greatett ! a'! financial wirardt to gather, to hold i"i keep fcr a certain t;me vat tumt cf r-ney and then turn them locte in channtlt :-.:re mcst needed. He hat Hen telected t the General Manager cf the Univerte. it v-trnt. to gather together the geld cf the spendthrift ard the miter's hoard, to bundle eitthtr in cne vat turn many mvllicnt cf ef .;rt. and then, when the time wat ripe. tccie magic power to attitt mankind t.'-rtu'hcut the world. JtraJ that l t abrre printed. See what txt Fcundaticn it doing and what it pro t : -.rt ti do. Nothing to promote art. which ' ;-rry men find tcart need for: nothing to f " I palaces far the rich to Isve in: but --nt cf dctlars in a year to ascertain, if "t'e. what cautet hook worm, and t-rr an! erai;cate them, get them far "4t frcm the human race. Ccntnbuticnt tk,e war work: big tumt to go into !'-:.tn landt and help where help tt need ; t:n millicnt a year: more than the gov-e:--r?nt would tpend cn human beings. :re than all the ttatet and cities would - 1 t:me to collect. And Mr Rockefeller i al this despite the fact that frcm a tvr-wr.d t3urces came the tltmrd to p;l-1-rv him before the wcrld at a trutt mag 'e. a a man dangerout to Society: and try. envy alcne. wat at the bottom cf all " r b;Ste?nett. So m tl te glad Chrittmat days it be--"ires e. cry man who hat said bitter ' -it about Jchn D. Rockefeller to read - 1 1: cf wh4t he hat done and what he !nM to c. artj then, if the spirit cf the ho wt born temcaow is in the he w!l he vctrd the world's greatest fjKtrr. anj all mankind that mankind the world for whote well-being ?- h't geld at Uviihly at a prodigal ; - r will w-.ih him a Merry Chrittmat. curte we can't all be - soldiers, but cf ut can help the war in many ether -earth yourself and see if you art ! cur I t. K RrecH gi;ns new tubrenbers every ... f ere a-,4 two. but ten and twelve. :::r J ;t growing ihoi . wiiii ........... UNTIMELY TALK BY MR. BEASLEY The Wilmington Dispatch hands to' the . Mcnrc Enquirer the following jutt re buke, and'ai it contains so much truth it is well to give it wide publicity: therefore we do our bit In that regard. The Dis patch says: Under the heading -Let the Rich Pay for the War" the Monroe Enquirer " gives 1 iterance to the following: The moneyed data In America is profiting by the war to such an extent that the tales cf fabulous wealth earned in the days cf gold rushes sound ridicu lous in comparison. Untold sums are being made supplying war r.eccttities to the government. Evidently Mr. McAdoo hat succumbed to the old cry. The present generations fights for liberty, let future generations pay. It would have been no surprise had Tcm Watson written that for the Jef fersonian cr Bob La Follette have given expression to such views in a speech, but we are attounded that as sound and conservative paper as the Encuirer should utter such sentiments. It ts a dangerous doctrine to preach, and cne unworthy cf the Enquirer. It it an attempt to array different classes cf society against each other. We can't believe that paper intended an endorse ment cf the ideas its language indi cates. It is absurd to talk about con ducting the finances "cf this war cn the principle cf pay as you go. This gen eration could not begin to furnish the money needed, and. besides, that would not cure the imaginary evil the En quirer complains cf. That it plain talk, but it it the plain truth. Every man mutt help the Secretary cf the Treatury. He is doing a wonderful work: he needs the co-cperation cf every man loyal to the flag. o The thought cf a seven-year prohibition fight suggests the seven-year plarce. Why not rot it cC in one lamp ttt rfd'ef If at once and forever. A seven-year fight may mean a big loss to prohibition. The many states already gained get back into the fight. However, there will be thote who will give up their la tt dime on both sides to win. and a protracted campaign, helps the hot-air amttt and the publicity agents. NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE. We have 'intervie wed several merchants in different Isnes and they tell us that trade was not much different this year from last. Some people allowed the war to check them in their expenditures and selection cf presents, but fcr the most part the gift buy ers bought at utuaL The Chrittmat card wat curtailed this year, presumably on ac count cf increased pottage. Not that the cost cf one card would check a friend tend ing another friend greetings, but when it was cne cent it was the custom to buy a hundred stamps and a hundred cards. The fact that a hundred stamps this year cost two dollars instead cf one dollar made the thoughtful person allow he could get along with fifty cardt. That it the human na ture part cf it. and that is. what happened in many cases. o The Liberty Stamp is going, but not at rapidly as it should go. Perhaps after the holiday season is over and men get a better bearing cn what to do the Liberty Stamp will hold the boards. We haven't been long enough in the war to get the thrill, and Christmas mutt be observed. Merchants report better trade than ever, and gift giv ing ran high. Give us about as many years cf war as cur allies have had and we will be eating corn bread and buying nothing but necessities and maybe we can't get them. War is cn. but few cf us know it. o WOULD SOLVE IT. When the woodmen appeared before the Commissioners they said they were willing to co-cperate in any and every way with the city. Now would be a good time for the city to borrow one cf their plants and start the wood business on the basis of $4 a cord on the side track. o Naturally a cold storage egg hasn't the cackle cn. but if you th-X your eyes and don't let your tatter kna what your hands and mouth are doing you can get by with cm. -a And if we didn't with you all a Merry Chrittmat in time here is hoping that it will be a happy New Year. Kaiser Bill is thinking peace, but Kaiser B?ll will never see it until he throws up bis hir.it and asks Cod to have nxrrty on hit wicked souL o Wonder what 1918 will bring us? Peace cr a continuation cf the war? Many men say peace, and many men say war for sev eral yeajrs yet. And no man knoweth. SATURDAY, b lCEMDER g, 191?. WOOD t IALERS QUIT THE GAME The fact that thre Woody trds have closed down, two cf the biest In the. city, claim ing that they cannot sell wood it the prices fixed by the fuel administrator, makei a serious situation in tDreentboro. The further fact "that Messrs. Anderson and Bain, the two big dealers, had been be fore the City Comttitticners and stated that they were in positicn to buy as much wood as the city could buy: that they could con tract is at $4 a cord delivered, and that if they were allowed -tp sell at 57.50 a cord they would continue tn the business, and the still further fact that. this waa agreed to by the Commissioners, Jeft the fuel situation in fine shape. But it appears that the city can buy wood for $4 a ccrd delivered on the side track, and that the local dealers cannot do this ; Therefore it must.be understood now and without parley that the situation must be met. If the local dealer cannot buy wood, as cheaply at the cify ; if he must pay more than the fuel administrator allows .to be paid, which is $4.25 k cord delivered, then it' is up to the local dealers I o turn their plants over to the fuel af;ninistratcr and let the people have duel. . If the city wants run the wood business there is no objection, provided' local dealers cannot run it. ' ; .,-,... This much it certain: We are going to have fuel, and if the ahowHlown reveals the fact that the local driers cannot buy in the cpen market and rrfect the demands of the fuel committee and Ihe city can THEN THE CITY MUST GO INTO THE WOOD BUSINESS, because these people are not going to suffer because of lack of fueL , Messrs. Anderson and Bain stated that they were in shape? to take care of the situ ation. 'They were; in the business, and it was for that reason that we opposed chas ing them out of bu:;net by letting the city come in and furniti. wood at cost. That was socialistic: it. t destroying a legiti mate .business ifcat hwtniog within sea-. son. The 'fuel committee found that the price they were charging, $7.50 a cord, was not unreasonable, and gave them authority to sell at that price. The false claims of wind-jammers to the effect that they were charging $10 and Sia for wood were proven false. But after telling the commissioners that they were going to handle the situation and the price was $1.50 a load they found that they had to pay more for wood. Why, we do not know, but the city was still buying wood, and bought as late as Mondayday before yesterday fifty cords of one man at $4 and on Saturday another fifty cords at $4, and it seems that the price has not ad vanced everywhere. The wood dealers who cut out their teams and quit business did not come before the Commissioners officially, but simply stop ped the works and left the community be tween the devil and the deep blue sea no wood on the one hand and the fuel commit tee on the other. No honest man has accused us of insin cerity in opposing a municipal woodyard. We still oppose it provided there are local dealers who intitt.that they can meet the situation and supply fueL But when the local dealers refute to co-operate, when they find that they cannot buy wood as cheaply at the city can and refute to sell at prices fixed by the government, then there ts but one thing left, and that is for the citizens to see to it (hat there is a supply of wood. And naturally the city govern ment must take hold and supply fuel. And if local dealers are in earnest and are out of the butinett, then the city mutt equip it telf and run a woodyard. and run it on the right kind of a scale. If it can buy wood at four dollars a cord, it can sell it at $1.50 a load, and in this way lose no money. Mayor Stafford says that it may, because of advancing prices, be necessary to pay more than four dollars a cord, but the six hun- dred cords so far bought, a hundred of them being in the last four days, cost not over . four dollars. o STRANGE WORLD JUST NOW. Sounds funny to hear the president of a great railroad system begging the people not to travel-rto put off the pleasure trip if possible. Sounds funny to read the advertisement of the coal dealer telling you not to buy too much coal. Sounds funny to have the grocer tell you he hasn't a pound of sugar in the house. Sounds funny to have the price of sow bosom quoted at fifty-five cents a pound and yet these things are on. And all this before the war is started. All this before the second call is made. AH this when we are just getting ready to en ter the war. What will it be, say, two years from now, when we have a couple of million more men in France and women are filling the places cf men? Don't ask us search us if yo . want to search. ".' fKaxxs GERMAN IS NOT WANTED Everybody is more- interested in: peace talk than anything" lse.- and the. following from the New York Herald, a strong and loyal paper, presents some views which our readers will enjoy. The Herld says: "Let no cne inspired .by the love of liberty and by the hatred of calculated . brutalities . be deluded by the promised peace offensive . of Germany. Germany can and will be de-. featcd In the end, and those to whom this duty cf humanity is intrusted may well be sure of the final outcdme. Repeatedly Bis marck confessed that the object of Prussian statecraft was to fool the foreigner, and though the world no longer accepts this cynical vie f rription of a mission the 'Kaiser and his gang do not seem to understand -that its hour has long since struck. . Yet it must be kept in mind that the men if they may "be called men who engineered .the world war still control, and the various vas sal states of the empire and their bemused , inhabitants yet bow in submission to the mandates of the Prussian war. makers ; ,The impending attempt of Germany toj attain peace by negotiation and understand ing' means merely that with brazen effrorit- ery the 'allies will be asked to enter,. into . treaties with proved rascals that scoff at the . sanctity of treaties. Germany has no in ten tion .of limiting her armaments, espc;. dally naval armaments; of accepting as final the loss cf; her oversea and African colonies: of giving up Alsace andT-orraine;, of abandoning a German owned highway'; from the Baltic to the Indian ocean, or of withdrawing her,troops from, Belgium and Poland, except on the .condition that both acknowledge her suzerainty. The peace offensive, whatever its terms, is a mere sparring for wind in order to regain even the least she may surrender when' the sea son is ripe for a new war. "Behind all this bluff and mockery Ger many recognizes that the coming year will be big with fate for-her and that the space ev saiat at rttx mri rraxD PEACE to m aKenajgisn; JS iimiTrnJt.,.Tn: rcag.wxrpqor cucxwooayettw "H 1 . t ' a - . t , s she dreads the appearance of American armies, not only cn the western front, but wherever duty calls them, and of American fleets in her narrowed and narrowing seas. Germany knows that by spring .the allies will have an overwhelming preponderance of men and material in the decisive theater of war and that the enormous expansion of their aerial squadrons will end in the inva sion of the Rhenish-Westphalian valley and carry terror to the largely, populated indus trial centers, already cringing in fear under the threat of such assaults. This invasion .will destroy her munition plants and deprive her of direct food supplies from Holland and Scandinavia, while at the same time the ever-growing intensity of the economic bllockade must bring her foolish people to the brink of starvation. "Peaace with Germany' and on .German terms 1 This is giving up the game when almost all of the master cards are in the hands of the allies, especially the Meets. As long as the British, American, French, Ital ian and Japanese fleets remain German vic tory, like its submarine warfare, is a pipe, dream. So here is a message of cheer and of warning for Christmas Day." . LIGHT WINES AND BEERS. j There is to be a big fight,. as there has al ways been, for light wines and beers. Many people think that a nation should have a mild stimulant, but it has never shown the. real reason for it. Light wines and light beers containing their part of alcohol weak en the system, do no good, and should not be manufactured. That is an opinion of ours, offhand, but it isn't the opinion of a great many well-meaning and well-informed people. Just now in the great national prohibition fight the light wine and the light beer will make a stand for life, and if they succeed no surprise need be expressed. However, if Old John Barleycorn is for ever driven out, that will be a great victory for the first go round. Naturally those who have been drinking their daily mug of beer and sipping their wine hate to give it up, and they can show that no great harm re suits. But the rising generation, the men coming on, need not know what the social glass is, and, not knowing, they would nbt miss it. THE MILL VILLAGES. In the Christmas drive for membership in the Red Cross the mill villages of Greens boro responded most nobly. -Those work ers there understand what the Red Cross means to soldiers; they are loyal and cheer . fully gave their money to help in the great, cause. Greensboro has reason to be proud of her mills and their people. . o QUERY. If the farmer refuses to sell his wood, how in Sam Hill are we to get it? Garland Daniel says he isn't going to take his Com mittee of One Hundred Men out to cut . wood when just simply a matter of price is (,allthat is in the way of plenty of it. JESTABLISHED -MAY. 190a. FUEL In; this office yestejdywere': torefarm- 'vers; -at three ;c!iffere tinies; ; Tx to pay their respects to the editor "and'their ' ; -1 V -r " il: 1 m. . .' QUESTION HARD SOLVE . suoscnpxicn on iweryxmng, uiai- jjuwcacaa v j Album of Song wnich; circulates- treeiy here ; -Jv and there. : Incideiitally we . talked -wood y : with them, because we ere.interested-!! One farmer, who , lived nine - miles from ' town, said-he had over a hundred cords of . wood, but he -wasn't :going to bring it to : town ; ' that he had .heard ; they had a 'city ;'V woodyard- and were selling, wood at. four ; ;; dollars a cord, and be 'could, get- more than that for his wood.. ' v .Y-'5 .. ' ' . ; v :;:g; Another . farmer f said he had quite a j big supply cut last year; but he wasn't going - V .to-take time-tp haul it in, because.it took too long to maker a trip. He ; lived - seven J1' miles from the city;- and saidi-that 'it 'toofcZ about 'all day; to go out and loa'dt u vhaul to town and1 get back home.. - He said he' -, 'I didn't, have , to sell the wood, and; it; Would keep ; that :neighbbrs of his . often. meVf or it . rather than cut their own front thefbr- :. . ests, and he wouldn't undertake 'to contract viv any.- .' -. ; ' ; . . . : . ;;-:" --f Another farmer said he had plenty- of . wood," quite" a-lot of it, but he wouldn't v brings it to Greensboro because he could sell all - he could haul. at White Oak, ahf- that was.murh nsarsr. TT said he r.onlfln'f r get help to haul . the ; wood, and he didn't feel like bringing" it so far, even if he got a little' more" money. We told him that we would, like to 'have some wood at four and a half, or five dollars a cord. He said he' , wouldn't;haul anyo- this town, Y because he was too old. He said he was seventy-three ' years old, and to haul wood ten miles was : quite a job in rough1 weatheir, and in good weather he found other and more profitable things to do. Inasmuch as this story about a man seventy-three years old sounds some thing like a fairy; tale, we give his name, Mr. Andrew Wagoner, of McLeansville. In other words, farmers have - heard all sorts of stories about ;. wood,' and they, are not in the market. They do, not havi to. sell heyere to do it, and that is what makes th wood to situation bad so far as this town is con cerned. Men with wood to sell outside the county will engage in other lines, and so far as any municipal woodyard is . concerned that will never happen in this town. There fore the wood situation grows worse, and those who can secure a supply had better get busy right now. It would be absolutely futile to atttmpt; to commandeer supplies.because cf their wide distribution, and therefore price .fix ing will be nil so far as supply is' concerned. . The farmer who has wood and lives but three miles from town can sell wood cheap er than the farmer who must haul it ten miles considerably, cheaper. ' The; farmer who has wood for sale and happens to live on a good road can sell it cheaper than the man who lives on a hard road to travel. Therefore what would be a reasonable price to one farmer would be a loss to another. Theory will not handle the grave situation -in the wood supply. o- ' .:" THE SAME HERE, COLONEL SAM. Colonel Sam Farabee, in his excellent Hickory Record, says it all when he-says this: ' We are dead against snobbishness in the army, but we are also against a gang that would magnify this abuse in -order to render, aid to Germany. You must watch the Germansevery minute. That is the dope. Colonel Sam. Snobbery isn't going to hurt any one while a war is on. The fact that snobbery has been al lowed in times of peace,' just as much as now, should justify what is on. We didn't hear so much about military snobbery be fore the war, but braid' and gilt and brass -buttons have always strutted and always will. The proud bird of Juno sees its won derful plumage and struts - accordingly, whereas man, an inferior animal, is to be excused. But just now, when we must all pull to- gether in the army not all together in fakes and dreams and schemes of the com mitteemen appointed on the side, but in the - army it isn't timely to talk too much about an abuse that has been forever on. WHAT IT WILL TAKE. Z Kaiser Bill can issue peace notes, but peace notes as Kaiser Bill writes them and wants them will do no good. Once upon a time General U. S. Grant wrote to a Con federate general that "none 5other than' an' unconditional surrender will be accepted I propose to move on ypur works imme-;' diately." The surrender came. And when Kaiser Bijl asks for peace he will be given to understand that none other than an un- conditional surrender will, be accepted. Uncle Sam, with his allies, will move oh his works with such force that they must fall. -'-'S And naturally, those depot blue prints -will have faded before the Southern starts to work, .and then what g6od will they be? No ebod at all. - -:. v t
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