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?:-;-:r?: "f .71." -. i ''. v. -5-7.' ".-r-' - vCl'- . 5 . 7 i r " - - - TMQk TV , - V'- w : ror U s v , II.. ' L4 V BY AL FAlKBROTlini OROGERS WILL FIX IT RIGHT Tta action d lie rtixll jrocen c( ihU tlty ti ccndadiag to chatje ten ceaU for tich'dclirtTy hi canted the tom to tUJ cp tr.4 uke nctice. The tTxxtrt were IzTctd to do iscethirsj to ttcp the tbuie cf the dclirrry tjntra. It had gTOwn to t jct. Cuttctr.crt wet crdenng dcliv ?rti jrtit c1itAr,cci Lttle iniclci lit tit ukn arJ nutchet. It wu no tr cxnmcn thing to cuke a delivery ten lack j ect aai within a few nuautn rr ive a hurry-cp oil tutir.g thit the cut ler had fcTc:tm a half pcur.d cf chene vd it cutt coerce isitanter. And the rtKeryrran ceuJd net afford to cStnd hit ;tccrr. and a con. a wjgoo. a hctie la rzrSuica for thirty tsir.utrt made the dr 'trj. A cct pot.tih!y d twenty-fitre ce<, d the frot pevLtly cf three ceata o the Ii fccJ cf chene. This has pown. It "J t-rccoe necewarr fcf actn-e tatfthaau ( ' harr three and four deSrery warcr.a I .re er.e ahculd have been fJectr. That why the cTtxen reiclred to do aoese--tj. hecacj cn many articlr the $: ' xr.i hod fixed a frice, and ejeaautiea zcoia which cculd fc-e a&U had been re- .' I he Tocrr rerrr meant to take trap : ';mcn?. as the town now claims. Mr. I n SockwtH carr.e to thit cilice and asked ! feint a notice asking the women to 1 -nd the met ting : asking the cititena to ; a--i help them get at acme p ton ch wculd be satis! act cry. But it hap T ! that a ratnctic meeting wn cn in -1 that rJxbt: the Coremor cf the state t : ccme to make a talk cn the war and all ' ' r' kJ-i been trrged as a ratriolic v. to tU the Municipal theatre, and it r'.::rj. the grocer having no erst slier. f -il p-Un were discussed. The frcfo v i to charge ten cer.ta was fcaally ccn s ' -i the best. and. In what may bt t-r- - I de7rat:4?v it waa acceTled. , T " r;rc are wilLa to shdmit that vHey,har cade r.U'ae. Thry s - city to ctt cceietn ilVMiihot a j ring. Thty ars a ran the town; Crr 4r ccr otisens. and the bcp is that W rj any co-c7erative atcre la started, bt-:r- rr.ro cin tcxethrr to bey gooda at w:l sale and send Cree;ishcfo money cut ct Crrrnshcro. they wul wait. - T: ? general idea seem to fterail that Li tit grocer wculd hare ctve free delivery a i:: if they wcId all agree cn an hour wV-V crder col be sent ta. say up to ten oo ck in the mcraing, and all crder re-cr.T-1 befcre that hour would t delivered frtt. it would satisfy the easterner. If aa cr.'rr com after that hour, a hurry-up cr der. let th grocer send it special dehvery and thargt ten cent, and no cn cculd cb jrvt to that. . , t There wi3 be ancther meeting cf the grxtr tcright. and at the meeting The K recti has no dcuht seme flan w.3 be airfted to ai;uit what has been dene and aa entirely satisfactory solution cf the ftcb li . "which has become very interesting, ww be adapted. Tcr rear in this town we have seen the deiverT system arusei. ve cave ocjotc 1 n'f were f Ae there. Sh immedately cr tUrrS vt two-cent stomps, wanted them dehvrrtd and charged to her cunt SurxLrg in 1Kr 'ett u';rC kT rhcrc. the drug git hod the nerve to tea the Uiy be criy kept stamf to acccen rvtia:e cus!crr who wrte in a ruth to ! hm cut. That was. crse. an eicrrticeol cos, tut it show haw for th delivery "r-r w s ter the del. very system cculd be cur u nl two-ih;ris. la this town ssme-Jung M to h dcr. Th gTtxer have gcre. 1 m be we3 to have no delivery at tzlca tndiviiuol dehvery. But what the rlsa. c e.r?e www rw:.- &f 0 r rr car-net charge ten crnt and a-er- 'pcthJag. The fre deUvery man ci course, r-"5 e0lfT fing. The questicn is cn cf gen-e-i trtrrrtt just r. but we feel certain t -tccer wUl mert it and all wul be sr.-.-'Uj ia a few day. I the mracture cur ir-s should net do anything rash; they rtli'ri i? but again reute tre stcry mat e-t cixh? woman living as far away as the J.'crral ccege. caHed up a drug store and ca-li"-nrd ever the f hcr.e that she had just heard the drcz T T'i Vrf 5?ie waa ctttxj ui maU letter aitrr li rx c cc wcc; ey cost him two cent each; that he J -- wt ihrsx But even at that the s; al frtia the government, strcr.g article recpU to tcte their bur,i;e- To .Hi- Ki?e Cevh and gsscl-.e and maa --j-it. too far. CUT iry ca wisa i-e C; imticro. and we have ro dcuit that fcr'lXcdar erring the dehvery system w3 be f rod jus trd and a sofcifactcry rlaa e- cv;ec?a to is te uct tnotie rtccer 5.Ur rcrT- thL-.k thu snap judgment. V. t r', .L It waa r.ecrisary that a3 agrre to t axd act what wUI hoiocn. sxvaui corr IS GERMANY IN A BLUFF GAME With a mllli c a men cn strike la German the situation at first blush would look as though there was general discontent and that omcthiag was going to break loos. Hut the well informed correspondent cf the British and French newspaper figure it cut that the strike ha been ordered by the government; that the intention I to get workmen La Franc and England dissatis fied and see to it that they also go on a strike, and then Germany will put her men back to work and hammer all the line while the ether countries enjoy a real calamity. This may be the scheme, but It doesn't lock good to us. It might as wcU be sug gested that Germany la finding some way out cf her dl5icu!ty. She may have ordered the strike and made it possible so she could explain her conduct In coming to her knee. That is just as probable as the. other sug gestion. , It may also be that the men cn strike are acting independently and propose to depose the kaiser. The fact that leading socialists are taking part la the strike; the fact that they a redistributing their leaflet and pomphleta In deEonc cf government crder; the fact that newspaper which have read the riot act to the kaiser hove been ix:rttii, rather suggest that Germany is not backing the discontented workers. However. Germany ha done o many thing which civiiired people do not do; she has resorted to aU the cunning brutality and fiendiahnes possible to Imagine, and to put on asvtrike for stage e .led would not be at all beyond her power cf duplicity and treachery. Therefore it will be Interesting to watch the outcome cf the strike. Newspaper cor respondent, schooled in war, have risked thetr reputation on the proposition that the strike is a German trick, so-we await with some interest the general winding up cf it. to see whether or not they were cn cold trail. A QUfcSTIOU. We get an inquiry from a man who claims to have a hundred bushela or so of com and who has a mill and make hi own com meal. He want to know why he ahould buy com meal when he buy flour when he has corn meal to burn, figuratively speaking, and suggest that the crder is too sweeping. Might be in hi particular case, but the chance are that out cf a thou sand familie there would be not over one with com cn the cob and a mill to grind it. Th idea la making people buy th ether cereals when they buy flour Is to force them to consume something beside wheat. The order must be. general to be effective, and possibly it might work a hardship cn a few people, but they should be loyal enough to com across. Com meal is a pretty ub-( stantial article cf food, and people who live cn flour with the life ground out cf it would do well to switch to the old corn pone--ocnething that not only ausuins ufe. but give a man health and flesh. TO TALK PROHIBITION. In this dty Sunday four eminent speaker will talk at the difTerent churches along prohibition lines. The campaign is 00 sim ply to keep ua the interest cf the prohibi tion people. But there i no real need of that. When submitted to the people of North Carohna this state will put over the amendment by fifty thousand majority. Prohibition has been tried here and it has been aa undoubted success; not pleasing a 3. but pleasing nine-tenth cr the people, we dare assert. The ether tenth in time will come Into camp. o GOVERNMENT CONTROL. The government control cf railroad 1 hasn't yet had a fair chance. It hasn't beta government control but weather control In fact, the weather has controlled the rail roads for twelve week. Wait untd we hove normal condition and then see what Mr. McAdoo get cut cf th situation. In the meantime it is in evidence that freight has moved under the most unfavorable con ditions, and cor that were cut srmewhere ia New Ycrk for i week were sent kiting down into these pine wood. Ccmcment control may be th one solution. Ifr. Bryan toy government ownership wi3 crt do, and that will be decided later. o 1 " r Again the weather man soy fair today but again it was cloudy. It lack like the weather man know little cr rrthing about the corriciou weather these time. It has him guesting, and not a good guesser at that. o The neat time we are gjinr to have a hard winter it wouU be well to let the weather man take us ir?o hia confidence. This thing cf cer.srrL-g a weather report isn't quite what t wart. u ' The report c4 bereaved raovahioe tills hardly justify the price cf corn hkker at irvca d rllar 4 caHaa f. o. b. SATURDAY, TEBHUARV 2.19x8. DURHAM MATHS LUCKY INfcAL That local story we printed about the Durham man who conceived the idea of go- . Ine into the blind ti c e r b uri cr w ai a story worth while. He never hoJ.'sa!d'!- likker. He simply saw that there waa an Immense profit la the business, t-nd cf' . ' course thought he could manage'it. So he -went to Baltimore, purchased tv?o" big suit cases, brand new, went down and filled them with thirtyfour quarts cf bottled goods, paying $1.75 a quart, and started to the Bull City, lie got as far as Greens boro. Something about his act! or., some thing about his big new suit cases, some thing suggested to the policemenon duty that be had something. A search! warrant was obtained and the thirty-four quarts . loomed before the officer. The taan vva . let loose on payment cf costs. Hi whiskey was confiscated and the Chief cf PcKee emptied it In the sewer, and the 0-jrbam man thanked the court and said it wa the best thing that ever happened to him. lie was out. all told, about a hundred cfclUra, and perhaps will now live a useful life, whereas had he made away with his first venture doubtless he would have landed on the road and then from bad to worse. INTERNAL TROUBLE. While Germany is trying to deny that she la having internal trouble; that strike art . already on and greater onea imminent, th6 v new leaking out confirm the belief that all ' C of Germany ia on the verge cf a big rrtfc7 lion. It may be that the present unsettled . condition may be overcome, but it must. $f s. secesaity, be for only a little while. The . people, the mssaes, are evidently dissatis fied. They are impatient. They are restles and are already giving evidence cf revolt Peace may come through conference, but, as it locks to us, the way it 1 going to come is when the German laboring men and , the German soldiers see. the hopelessness cf their cams and refuse to further obey the ' dictates' cf' the" mad kaitfr. In the air ia I r.cood to Kaiser BUI and his programme of laughter. The end ia in sight if you look through the lies and bluff that a censored press ts putting but. 0 MONDAY MORNING. The Captains of the wood-cutting brigade had a meeting yesterday cveoing and it was agreed that each captain is to select his lieutenant, and every enlisted man is to report at the dtr hall at 8:30 Monday morning, and, rail or hine, there is going to be some wood cut, if only one cord for a starter. General Manager Daniel report to us that all the Captain are enthusiastic, and because cf bad weather last Monday, excessively bad weather, there is no loss of determination to do the chore as outlined. There will be several heatles Monday yet, and next Monday there will be something doing. Let every enlsted man get the date well fixed in his mind. And if he has a neighbor who hasn't enlisted and who want to enlist, let him bring him out. There will be ample machinery for all, and plenty cf trees are standing. o MAKES IT SERIOUS. Because of washouts, bridge being gone en the railroad lines, many communities are reported as actually in the midst of a fuel famine. Diverting coal In other direction and routing what was deemed a suffident t-jpply for certain cities caused this. But the washout were not expected. Com munities being put bard up against it for coal wiU get through some way. But the lesson has been taught. The long summer that is coming will be utiliied, no doubt, by every community to prepare for emergen cies such as have confronted us this winter. Where there are local dealers able to take care cf thing they will get busy, and where there are no local dealers municipalities will promptly act. Greensboro ha local dealer who have handled the situation ad mirably so far this winter. The wood-cutting brigade will doubtless furnish us a big emergency supply and the summer months will witness gTeat quantities cf fuel stored for the winter. o The different expression corxrerning the action cf the grocer how that, when a man's pocket book is hit be promptly find means cf expression. The interview pub lished today are a sample cf what we bear all over town. . (J ; Only the brave men dare venture out in this weather. Pneumonia takes most all it gets, and the cautious man it to be com mended for his prudence. ... o The grocer have fixed the price of deliv ery at tea cent not much when you count the cost cf driver and wagon and horse: feed or gasoline. o If that German strike is merely a make believe, it is rather an ex penal ve affair fa the matter cf production. . , - fcUUti AT TBI yiWI TAJTOI Ajn ox TXZ THfc INCOMETAX M U S T BE PAID -The income tax report must be made .be fore the first of March,' and time is fleeting. It anoears that this vear every man almost. ! 1 -i r 1 ... -v. 9 port, and if he doesn't there -will be fines and perhaps trouble. The following letter, 'from.the collector's office is received with a. request that we publish it, and all persons should read it and act accordingly: Statesville, N. C January 29, 1918. Somebody is going to tell on you if you don't pay your income tax. Con- gres has fixed it o that somebody must tell, whether he want to or not.. One" section of the war income tax law,- exhaustively comprehensive in scope, require every person, without exception, and every corporation, part- nerahip, association and insurance com- pany, in whatever capacity acting, who paid $800 or more to another person, corporation, partnership, association or insurance company, as interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, remuneration, emolu ment or other fixed or determinable gains, profit and income, to report the name and address of the person, cor- , po rati on, etc, to whom the payment was made, together with the amount of the payment, to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, using a form prescribed for the purpose . Form xo99now to be had from all col- . "lectors' office. The form must be filled out and returned on or. '.before ioqS, which is a letter of transmittal and affidavit' certifying , the accuracy, of Form X099." If any firm, corporation, insurance?1 company, partnership or individual who- are due to make returns have failed, to recdve the forms, application shoulde to the nearest deputy collector. . . And in order to pre an a fair opportunity .ample notice i. aW The officials do 4 want to impose any additional hardships; they simply insist that the law.be complied with. Accordingly all should ' heed this warning, and if in doubt as to liability Colonel Stanley McDowell is in the city, at the federal building, and he wll gladly as sist you or give you any information you might need. Attend to this at once. Do not wait for the last rush and then be too late. Uncle Sam's laws are very strict and he tol erates no procrastination. o BRIGANDS. Once in a while it has been a pleasant pas time for the Bulgarian Brigands to catch a missionary and hold her for ransom, but the proposition of the Russian anarchists to hold ' Ambassador Frands responsible for the safe keeping of Emma Goldman is the boldest proposition yet coming out of that disor dered country. Emma Goldman has long been the one chief fugleman of the national anarchists. She ha 9 been allowed all sorts of freedom, and she has never hesitated to. make the roost of it. Now that she has been convicted and the highest court says she can have no new trial, the question is, will the threat of the -Russian anarchists to kidnap and hold Francis stop the machinery of the law? Francis is in hard luck, but it will never ro to let a crowd of Russian anarchists stop proceedings in this country. - o Sleet just about put street car traffic out of the game, but happily schedule time was almost maintained. THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT. The telegraph brings to us today from under the sea and across the sea the tidings that the American soldiers have had their first engagement, and there were a few casu alties some dead and some wounded. This is the first of what may now be a long series of battles because with five hundred thou sand fighting men in France and a million ready to go and needed there right now we suspect that each week there will be the story of Americans in action. All should be thankful that the first engagement was not one of many aeddents. . o - . LOCAL WOOD DEALERS. The local wood dealer report that they have a good stock of wood and new ship ments are arriving all the time. It appears that the stock of wood by local dealers has not yet been exhausted this winter, but coal hast run out. So it would seem that what we really needed here was a Muny Cippal coal yard. - o Anxious will be the, parents of the boys over, there, now that the Americans are tak ing part in the battles being fought. But the list of casualties is not a large one no use to worry until the time comes. JJ i j t RIS Wv WHILE There was in the Superior Court yesteiv day a case which 'Showed what Character, will do, and that with it a man is thrice armed. It happened in the particular case the defendants were black as a raven1 and as dark as the night, but' the color of. their skins madeno difference." Two negro men were "charged with- Imowingly. receiving stolen goods, and the case looked bad because the circumstantial evidence was all running toward conviction. 'But. it so happened that these two black men had white friends, who took the stand in their behalf. Mr.. Paul Lindley said that one of these men had . worked in his nursery for him for twenty one years, and the other, a brother, for six teen years, and they never missed a day and -had never stolen anything. Jn fact, said Mr. Lindley, "I leave the keys to my house with them." Mr. Sikes, in charge of :the cut flower department of the same 'concern, gave the two men good characters, as' did also Squire D. H. Collins, who had. known them for fifteen or twenty years. The lawyer appearing for them, Mr. E. D. Biaoadhurst, made much, of this fact, but the state, with a great deal of evidence, 'the story of white men, railroad detectives, the story of a state's witness who had con fessedhe stole the goods and sold them to the defendants with the knowledge ;thaU they were stolen, all that didn't amount to anything, because the jury, no doubt, in ex amining the evidence, every time it looked up saw the word CHARACTER standing in front of it, and irresistibly it had to con-, dude that it was worth something. Neither of these two black men had ever-befr.ben. in court They had lived and worked anr attended, to their own business,-and -the marr receiving the stolen goods and paying a small . price fof them insisted that when . confronted with the charge he was1 wupsQt,' ..' . .tip prtfef white btcii.jpi$e00:. '.S' SS,5 iSS.""??'' - a.. - toVtlaA - . man s story, "they had vigorously denied that they had any goods on their premises. The state presented a strong case, and So licitor Brower argued ably for conviction,, reviewed all the evidence and insisted that while these men had had character,. in a moment of weakness they had been tempted and fell had fallen like a cashier of a bank sometimes falls; had slipped a trolley, even as you and I. - The-jury was out but a short time. It came in and the foreman said a verdict had been reached and it was that the two men were not guilty and the spectators for the most part were glad of it. In this case is a lesson for the young man, a lesson for the old man. It is that Char acter is the one priceless possession. It means that with character, no matter who assails, one can go on the witness stand and tell his story straight; he is armed with a magic power, something that gives him as surance, something that impresses his hear ers and gains their sympathy. It may be barely possible that the negro man who was . acquitted was, guilty. In these . strenuous times of high prices it might have been too great a temptation to be offered clothing and provender at far below cost and refuse to buy it. It might have been that he had agreed to take the loot, but that made no -difference. Piled up against the charges and 'the evidence, but standing there as his de fense and his . strength, was that fadeless flower Character, and from it the jury couldn't get away and didn't want to get away. Doubtless members of the jury felt it not worth while to live a blameless life, to . toil and struggle and deny oneself of things that might be had in order to build Charac ter, if, when first put on trial and offered as evidence of innocence, that it was worthless. No doubt this was the conclusion, because the twelve men agreed quickly and reported cheerfully. So if any young man reads this story or if any young man heard that trial yesterday, saw the state believing it was doing its duty undertaking to punish men who had done wrong according to its theory, and failing only because the accused had lived blame less lives and offered the accumulated self denial of years as evidence that they were not guilty, he can get from it a moral worth while ; he can see where to build his founda tion, the rock upon which he can securely stand. 'That Old Glory which is in keeping, in this print shop. and for which the people paid is as anxious to get to the winds as we are anxious to get it there. But this weath er is hot flag-raising weather. ' One of these days the sun will dry up the earth, the skies will be dear, and Old Glory will float from the staff in front of the court house. Watch for it and wait for it. V Buy that smileage book todav. And a Thrift Stamp tomorrow.' Get- bu&. ' , '";ld Wii N J
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