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A ' A . t- ' . . . : . - '..r. ;.;-,. -;,t ; --V Hr FLOWERS COLLKTiON V -': ... . - .... ... , . , . .-.... . , People vho -( ; , ;. M I ..- M ' ft1 ; DY AX. FAlTnOTIim A NEW WORLD ' MAY BE BETTER U cuy La thit the war win btirz bct tsctt char.ri ccr.di'Joct Oua wcr cxtf drexsrd cl by tm iht tbrctrucaj It Lai ci:tn brcn cULssed thTt 3 cl Cod bour.sio ccai, the rock, the cU I1 lLI2i pU;H turtly wiihla the bctcca cf t ccthtr ttnh ttlsr.jtd to tht ccsnsaoa lam Dy. ari that the rcp.e ahcU cm thtsn sd centre! thrrs. ar.4 tscccyc! ahouJi crrtr hart a haJ tn dertrvr.c the oodt. TLe trevhte raj hawrrrr. that tix peo pl alet asj left euc?ucer.t coal LeUt Alc?t: it? the water powen to to waate fcr ctr.turin: let the cU wtllaiu.-vl ttcothe4 ir:?J ffiTate cr.trrym e, citen at rtat hjut accjht to denrtlep thrra. Jtut ro ther aeerra tob a nctica prrr !eat that aU theae thir.ji thculi ccrse un der j:oTrTrrr.tt:t cwr.ctvh: p, ar3 at a "war nte5 feuadxrda d ihisjpa r beisfc fct crrrr. The raH ways will dc-ht'eaa be gcrem rxrr.t cwr.ri,. tcaut th coTemrrrnt now practical: y owrva Ihen. It U ces-.trcUac . thetn, and crsc ttep farther an J a till will to thrccih authcrixir.j the prchae cl therr rl. prnta bt crte Ly ccctmercial tranaicrrutjen wiU t wtcjjM that will char rrerythinx We C77 gcnrrrrr.er.i ownerahip for the reaaco that it U r;rr.eraIJy politic and red ta?. We eppc-a ar.jrthis that tervda to at-:!e cr dUcccrage the Ut-traired nvaa . who ari thir.i ard does tifr.ja and it will lr?r to atke the jassbier'i chance. V.li;!c the OTrrmn,:e?tt aaaiated U bui!4 tr.5 the cTt-1 ttanaccrrtinmul railway. whJe it wai cr.ly poiaiKe becoac cf gor errertt a;d. the rjtatett ca?dal rrtr aiart ed waa the bxiiLii cf the Central Pacific But b-efsrr the overnrrtent waa iniuccd to txie a part aniblera. pure and aL-npJe, la the ccrtrnrrctal wct!4 put the thins over. It lock jm tnd ;tUujU Cjrrva W.ReU. to try t;?r Alucti: catJf.arvd the qic kticti la il the jcrement finally owna a3 theae th-r:ji what about derelcpcsent? How can we eipct raiircada to be buUt beicre there are tewna cr pecf'e? In thne dayt il we war.t a rural cull rocte we raua: ahow that there are er.ccjh patrcna along the way to crake it cHrceaAiry; whereaa. rren who built these railrxada acrcta the continent ferat bu:!t the rcada and thea made the t owna and pcpltd the country alone the right cf way. Would the gore mmcr.t be to be Id? EmJer.tiy net. In the matter cl telepbone urtur. Think cl the wonderful a urn a cf money the Dell Telephone and Telegraph Company ha eipended ta rqurpment. It cctct wait for t:a mjhery cr inatru men? to gtt eld and baclete: it haaten to put ia the Utrat and beat, and throw away a a junk those thing that are not right up to the minute. It underatanda that the public hoiia it reaper. tible fcr aerrice. and it give aerrsce. the ttt chtainable. What would the gcremment do with its red tape and it pclitical puIU? Il make one shudder to urar"- what it would da. and yet because cf the war we are Micptir. all ott cf fccZ.th th;ng and gcvnr headlong in re Icrrn we know r.c?h;ng about. S-o it may happen, besides oubliihing a wcttd peace and universal democracy, that the whole ayatens cl ccsnnaerce wvll be changed: thit cuitcma and condition, now we3 crdrrrd. w;3 te put atiie and the red tape, the p-cl.t;c and the pull cl the "peo ple" w.ll come ia and give ua scrannbled . eggs la cur butircsa al!a;rs. and we w21 be fcrcrd to accept what we get. because cr.ee Ut a pcl.tical party hae such immrnse ma chinery and it wJ fcrerer rennaia la power 1 until the rercl-ticn! An J la al ccuntrie rrrcluu'on mutt come come at certain a the sua i certaia to come cp otf the can era edge cl the earth. - And yet auppese all this harpers. We all must gr.a and bear it: we wul all be ia the same beat; so, "what the eddar-' 11 ALL LOOKS GOOD. The financial and Imurance Inatituticn cl thia city all make arlerdid showing fcr the ?ew Year. The year Just raised saw thrra all fcifr an! espand, and the chances are that the New Year has ia its keeping still greater th-tg fcr thrra. Ortenahcro" buaifita iaterest are ia fine shape, the tank, the trulla, the inaurance companies, wh eh aU do state and interstate business, while the local concerns fcr the most part all en;?yrd healthy growth la 1317. and the ?ew Year fer them, too? lsks prcmiaing. A CAIN WnRECRET IT. Again we e press regret because the North Carolina congressmen could tvet vote fcr the a --rare amendment- The party is pleigri to er-irersa! suSrage. The Preti drnt cf the United Sutes wants it. and the socr.rr a urttroa bke that is cut cl the way the tetter. Il must te met. and it were bet ter to -pl il and be through wjth it. Wo man tu-rage la certain. Prohibition ia certain- Why r.ct wrap up the package and let thrse mtereittd tote their bundle and te OLD JOHN D. HANDS 'EM OUT There is no use to talk about it. John D. Rockefeller Is cne d the most wonderful tnea this world rer had 4a the Unancial world the most wonderluL "Starting out with a scant saving account, putting to gether hi dime and nickela. bc finally got a nest egg and batched more milliona than any ether man. Instead cl attempting to comer the boun ties cf Cod. he took bold cl them and sold them thtpr than Individual producers could aell them: let the world have it light and cil at a figure much smaller than would have been possible lor small dealers to furnish it. The lollowing new item is worth while to read again, even if you have read it: a New Ycrk. Jan. Receipt cl a check for $5,300,000 from John D. Rockefeller to enable the Rockefeller foundation to meet increasing demands for it various form cf war work with out having to make further inroads 00 it principal fund was announced here today. by President George E. Vincent, cf the foundation. In making the announcement be pointed cut that ia 1917, due to war re lief contributions to the Red Cross and to the Y. M. C A. and to meet ether needs growing out cl war condition. $5,000,000 cl the fund principal was s tzjxadcd ia addition to It Income. The trustee alao, authorised the expendi ture cf another S 5.000.000 cl the princi- pal la case cl need, but it is thought, President Vincent said, that 23 r. Rocke fellers additional contribution will make . this unnecessary. Not taking into account the many ether, miilioca Mr. Rockefeller has given, be sees the need cl mere money in the great work and hands la a check for five million five , hundred thousand dollar and goes along , about his buaine a. The new agencies . handle it ia a matter oi faoswqrair.. And yet had a single man turned loofe' that much money in a icjle check fifty year ago there would have been a subject about which the world would have talked for month. Dut it seems to be a matter oi fact, the eipected, when John D. Rocke feller sits down and signs hit name to checks for many millions, tosses them over to science and charity. Wonderful, indeed, is Rockefeller, and the world has benefited by his being in it. And yet the government thed. under a harsh law it had made, to put him cut cf business. The freight congestion get worse and people who have cars out and rolling have concluded they are net rolling, but gone Into congestion for the winter. : TWO CHANGES. Colonel Jim Robinson, known a "Old I lurry graph. again become editor el the Durham bun. Colonel Jim started the Sua in Durham something like thirty-odd years .ago and ran il fcr many yeas. Then be acid it. and now, ia his renewed youth, he takes the quill in hand again. Jim is one of the best known editor in the state; be la breeiy, original and strong. Here Is wish ing bum well and congratulations to the Sun upon securing hit services. Another change cl note ia that cl Editor Field, cl the State Journal, who goes to Waahington and leases bis weekly publica tion to Colonel Tom Boat, an editor, d re- nown. We have La eur pcaaeasioa a letter from Colonel Tom written some ten year ago, when we gave him some fatherly ad vice, and la it he stated that he wanted to have charge cl a publication some day, just about what the State Journal is. The Jour nal waant going then, but Colonel Torn wanted something where his original thought could be handed out regxrdleas cf a business c&ce attachment. Ia bis new field be will 'do some stunt worth while. At leaat here i hoping so. And U good wiahe were dollar we fill hi pack right here. GETTING TO THE BOTTOM. ' In Pari orders have been issued that no more candy will be made and private owned autcmcbile muat go out cr coccmiaaicn. In thia country the automobile show is on iutt now; dealer are making: big contracts for 1518 delivery, and we srtn along with out thinking. Pari ia forced to come down to hard fTo condr allowed to b made and no private owned automobile allowed to operate. We are to nuch farther re moved from the war, and having been ia but a short time, we do not yet feel the pinch we will feel if the term cf pelce are not accepted wiihia the nest year. . The coal situation ia all right. Plenty. d coal .la the ground, and by neat winter the hope i that it will be dug out. While it ia enly government ceatrol the right to "sue tht company" still cbtaine, but government ownership would knock out that herrtcfer ccnatitulicsjaJ right enjoyed by so many patxicta. SATURDAY. JANUARY is. 1918. COUNXT. WORIC HOUSE CLOSED The new waa printed in thl paper yes terday to the effect that the County Com mit ti oners had decided to close for an in definite period the county work house. Th: pen was a place where women and boy and girl were sent who were convict ed cf crime and who could not work on the roads. ; . . It was the belief, of the Commissioner that to send a boy, or girl to such a place where- there were three or four hardened women was only to-further corrupt and de base them. It was shown that the women could be utilised in the jail in doing work there that' wa needed, and the youthful offender would be. cared, for." in .some other way. Accordingly the county work " houie, long an abiding place for the utterly abandoned old bata which flutter here and . there, la a thing of the post. Now, il the County Commissi on era would ee their way clear to give ua a county welfare league with a whole-time . uperintendent, the youthful offender would be cared lor. When a boy yet tender ia year and young la vice, which bad not yet reached crime offended Society, instead of hustling him oil to jaiL a work hQuse or the road, he would be taken by this superintendent and found a home somewhere. Some farmer, some business man, somebody would give him a trial, and the chances are that he would make good. Tht is why we need, and badly need, a county welfare league, a life-saving station on the land, an organiza tion that would look after the yoilthiul "offender and help them. Thia would not only save to Society a boy needed by So ciety, but it would reduce the expcne of maintaining priacma. It 1 a fact which atatiatic prove, that the youthful offender -who is rushed to a prison cr a jail cr the roada ..always comes .01"- with .his hand 1 . rai tedjain;t' f pcicv, IX:- 'i.idill-r Jag (o continue through life rrm hi hand raited against. Prisons do not reform. .It is an impossible thought. To throw a boy among a bunch of hardened- criminals meana that the boy will come out a gradu ate in crime. Hi surrounding are all against him, his teaching axe in the other path. In abolishing the work house the com rmaaioner did a good day's work. Now if they will carry out the same iCea and give ua a superintendent for. the county welfare league they will have done something well worth while. AliABfE , The government sends out word that potatoes this year are more plentfiu! tnan ever: that they are the cheapest food that can be found. And yet potatoes sell read ily at two dollar per bushel fifty cent a f peck which i out cf all reason. Were the people el America to conclude that they would have a lew pctatoless days, cay about thirty hand-running, potatoes" would fall to a dollar a bushela good price" for them. But because the high price on all things goes, no matter what the product is. it is a habit to make the retailer and the consumer in turn pay a fancy price. a lifeI-ineT In the President's message a life line is thrown to Russia. If that muddled coun try can see the point she will accept, ia sin cerity, what the United State hat said. If she doesn't see the point she will go to ' destruction. The indications are just now that Russia it sincere. She bat refused to allow the Germans to catch her la the web so finely spun by the kaiser, and the chance are that before another week has pasted Germany will have given up all hope cf using Russia as a stepping ttone. LONDON BUTCHERS CLOSE. The newt from London it that tcoret of butchers of that city have been forced to close their stall because there is no. meat to be bad for love or money. Those cf u who in this country still sit down to a dou ble porterhouse steak and wonder why times are hard should rejoice to know that America ia still well supplied with meat but meatless day will help keep the up ply. Not until we have been harder pressed than we are at prcaent will we felly appre ciate the privations of those rich people in the old world. GOT TO BE. j The different investigation concerning the conduct el the war are tiK on, and Sec- retary Baker explain thing to hi satis faction. No matter what happen there i always acme fellow who wanta an investi gation. It is an inherent right to demand it, In these day, when there are so. many men " cf so many minds,, the wonder is that there are not mere investigations, , o ; . , January bob along and so far ha brought no warm weather. December wa freighted with enow and ice. and it isn't very long until spring. Can't touch wood, because there la no wood. ... . I C UtX AY TBI XXWI rTAXO A3tp ON TA1K CLASS ONE TO FURNISH MEN Provoat Marshal General Crowder tell the nation that he thinks from class one will come enough oldier for the war. In other words, he thinks that a million men will be secured from this class. ' " Class one comprises single men with out dependent relatives: married men . ' who have habitually failed to support their familie: married men who, are , dependent upon. wive tor support; men not usefully engaged and whose families are supported by income in dependtnt of their labor; .unskilled farm laborer, , unskilled industrial laborers; registrants by or in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed ' or made; registrants who fail to submit questionnaires and in, respect of whom. . no deferred classification is claimed or made; and all registrant not including . . any other division of the schedule.' There are five classes, and the men who are in the third and fourth and fifth classes feel that perhaps they will escape military duty. In other words it 'seems to be the idea of the government to take first" those who are worth but little at home. The man who is engaged in industrial work, the man -who is supporting dependents, he will be chosen last. If a million men can be se cured from class one. the chances are that a million more soldier will be sufficient to win the war. . It is a cinch that sooner or later the war mutt end. It cannot be drawn out forever, arid Germany no doubt will finally be forced into submission. She has shown wonderful pluck, never such before exhibited; but if . reports are true she is drawing dangerously near1 the starvation line, and the fact that she can't bitch up her way with Russia gives us all hope that the end is much . nearer than it otherwise would be. Those who'iirT other.; classes in th . questionriaitaV w AlSL. neede3Tbtrt egcicsar befe'noiv is that class ooe will furnish the remaining sol dier who will go "over there." ' 0 . GETTING CLOSER. Mr. Hoover now surges that the govern- ' roent control all sugar for the next year;' , that it virtually own the sugar refineries and that it also control the prices of all kinds of things to eat.. This would do the business. If Uncle Sam concludes. to go into the foodstuff business he can make short work of what is on ha no. The ques tion is, can he get the product if the element of chance is taken away from the man who gamble eacb year on his crop? If be can, . all right; if Tae can't, -all right. Try it, any . way, and then ee what happens. The su gar business has shown that people get along without it, and maybe it would be a good idea to teach us something new in the way of tastes. The North American Indian never used sugar. Hunters anc . trappers who live to be a hundred never know vhat sugar means. Persaps if we would cut su gar out there would be-less sickness, less dyspepsia, less kidney trouble, less a whole lot of things. Why should a man volunta rily throw a pound of heavy fruit cake into his bread baaket and expect his digestive organ to work it up without charging over time? Why tpoil the taste of coffee by using great quantities of sugar? Why? Simply because the sugar man put it over and caused he peoples of the earth to form a habit. A dbg will soon develop a sweet tooth and raise shinny if you don't give him candy, and a kid will cry for the sugar teat; but all artificial, all a halit that need not be formed. Wby'sujar?- SETTLED. The message of President Wilson, hand ing down the "ultimatum of the United States on a question of peace, perhaps is one of the most important papers yet issued by Mr. Wilson. Without heralding his in tentions he informed Congress an' hour xn advance that he had something to say, and . . he said something. There is now no chance for Germany or pacifists or German sympathizers to be asking what we are wanting in this war or why we are in war. Our intention is made ' dear and clean no ifs and no and. Germany must now either conclude that we are able to win the fight and. come into -camp while she has some little face left, or she must fight to the finish, which will mean her defeat and annihilation. The as- sumption is that if the German people get a chance to read the President', message, . in connection with the message of Lloyd George speaking for the British, they will insist that Germany make arrangements to close the war. . ... . . The issues" are now clearly defined. No longer is there any chance for Germany to throw the burden on the allies. Germany must answer these two messages and her answer must be soon. . Kaiser Bill has many admirers in this country, and' tome of them seem to.be in the Comzreu oi tha Untad ESTABLISHED MAYxgoa. J.. BARLEYCORN Those who are. against the" prohibition amendment are putting up a great fight. ' It, , j. is the old story of ' state's rights !and per- ' sonal freedom,, but it .will not work. The , " New York Herald views . it this way :C ' . ' ' From' Albany there comes report of . k of a determination on the part of some-: . body to force a vote at this session of ' . the legislature upon ratification of the , prohibition' amenclmenti. Wliether, as 1 " ; intimated,' personal politics plays a part in this movement or does not; it is one that should be dropped immediately: "t There 'can . be . no warrant for an at- tempt, to take snap judgment upon this t -or any other proposal to. amend the -, constitution of the - United i States. " -. There is less than no warrant: for at- -tempting to comniit this state to prohi- . y bition before the people ; of the state . , have had opportimity to express their - will.' . . ; : l .::.'-'.: : r- ': '-V; The) issue involved in this i proposed - t ' amendment to the. constitution is one ' that should not - be forced" at a time - when the country , is at .'war when the minds. 'of the. people are directed, ; and properly directed, to the problems that ' war has brought. From the great, the . v - overshact owing, cause . in '.which ..the ' United States is enlisted the minds of ' the people should not be distracted un , der any pretext. . - v . v ! I After this war is ended there 'will be ' Sample opportunity to submit the prohi- , . f bition . question to the people of New . . York. Any pfolitician who, from selfish" or other .motive,, lends himself to snap judgment methods and tries to deprive ' the people of their right to "pass upon ' . "this -question on "its merits! .will earn I their .eternal condemnation: ' ' But there will, be no need of it after the ' war is oyerJjetatjse-before the war is over of the oeorfe krt in . f avoev of it v the hand- a: - writing is on the wall; and Old John Barley-' corn is' really orse off than the Raiser; and : that "is about the- extreme limit. " Great ' things are happening and are to happen. o - - . ARE THEY GRAFTING? ' There has been a society organized in this country to solicit tobacco for the boys at the front those in the trenches. The idea was for the American people tojauy tobacco and send to the boys' abroad, and ; the scheme was that in each package , was' to be a postcard that was to be returned as1 . a souvenir to the man who sent the tobacco. . ' " In the Thanksgiving number . of the "Oo La La" Times, published somewhere ' in France by the 17th U. S. Engineers, we. read -this paragraph under the caption, "Pertinent Paragraph": ' We note that the. congressional party has returned from a trip over the blood-stained battlefields of . Europe. We are wondering if they, had an op portunity to investigate the activities " of the: "Get -Rick Quick Wallingfords" . who are increasing the size of their ' bank rolls by selling tobacco, cigar- ettes, etc., so generously contributed ' by the folksat home to the boys over here. This js food for thought, and if you don't believe it, just buy a carton ' of cigarettes and see if you don't find a ' postal card enclosed for acknowledg- ment to the donor. How about it? . So it would appear that in some way the consignments of free tobacco have fallen . into the hands of dealers, who are- selling the gifts to the boys for real money.. Naturally it is a pertinent 'paragraph, and the hope is that Washington authorities will be informed and look into this matter. Hundreds of thousands of packages, of to-' Y bacco have been cheerfully donated, and it . is a pity that some grafter has secured the 'cargoes and is holding up the boys for what is by right theirs. V " O : ' -'. - THE SHOE CO?T. The gove'piment is now looking into the cost of shoes and it is going to try to find out why it is that a pair of shoes should cost two or. three times what they" should cost according to its information. There is ... " this about the shoe situation? All of us can go barefooted in the summer, if necessary,, as a war measure, but we can't go without food; So perhaps by the time the. inyesti- . gation ends' it will be the good old summer time, and some Society, with a press; agent will be advocating Jjaref ooted days six days ; in the week and shoes, only, for Sunday. That would help some, and if Fashion de-. creed it would give the bunions and ingrow ing toe nails a chance.; : . r r , - . o .. . ; ' ' f i'. And then it rained, and then it melted the snow, and then it turned and "friz," Same old story. V : "; v C . - - . , ' 0 , . ?-' . - If you can cut it down to dne grate, do so. i- Coal is scarce and said to be getting scarcer.' .- -. - ' . '.'.-: ' . ' . . . . : "-; if - ,' ' '.' ' ' ' 1 - J 4 : t 1
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