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THE ELEGANT
FOCH CANE
Aitt? a Jeer wait, brcautt perhaps thrr '
week to da on the designs, Tif any ft
Co. Mii th.r idea cf what the Fcch
ca.-e shewd t. X: w3 b la eighteen carat
gd er-ame! ao and tbjt and the
I cat w have tectri at most appropriate
wul co-st three hundred doUr t New
Yc?k. Of courx w wvJ tnr ih ti-t
dswa her and Jet it b exhibited fee a coo
p'r cf days befcre parting it to Fr tr.ee It
wUJ be a beauty and doubtUta highly treas
ured by the tear oid Grrvtr! bo wtx
frttdrta fee the wet 14. The furJ hat UjrJ
tcs tc4ut r. cnt kr.ew juit r!ui re
wi-trvl. Now r k.-vow, aadl we aolt a3 who
r.tt ta fc counted la the lat to kuxTjr In
their rub vendors. Ar.yxhzr.i frco a
drr.e t a daU4r ricit! If the kidie
wisti in. wi3 t receired. Up to this date
the fsrtdl It cTrethir.f o-rer a hursdred doJ-
iUt. reference to the locjil celssnru todiy
rul thow j-tt bow much, tt we wtr.t now
to hurry thir.n aior.j: 4 et the ctne
turted. It wxU fc-e cedered in a few deyi
and the hcye it to jet it ihrc-jfh la at thoet
a tiir.e at tsihle-
If yea wmt to jtt In tend la your tuh
tcriptico at er.ee. There It a fcUr.k fcrca
jointed ia the r-pe today and ycu can cut
est thit coepca. Yccr tuh-criptioa will be
jxxxr.fjf acknowledged- The cane at de-tip-.td
win be at keautiul at to-ttlhle. Tif
fany & Co. re the wctU'a leading c
trritha and ir.ry wi3 tike pride la doing
their part well.
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Wjth the riht rate en ttlruraa rnet
xgt cut in half between ocean nd ocean
we hare a half notion to go to California
js.t to get eren with the telegTah coea
piaies. It hat ceil ut a tsnaa fortune to
talk acrctt the continent the y-ait thirty
year.
STARTING SOMETHING. m -fiow
that the war it orer everybody it
tuypced to start tcmething. and we get
frcm the Doard cf Health a let cf IcaHcte
ttilus alLahcut fxILigra-and bowvrire
ven: it. Fee a tne fIlagra waa a great
Paramount in North Carcl.na. It wat wite
ly detidr4 at r.e lis.e that eating too much
corn rreal caused the diteate thia because
ence upon a tune. long yeart axo, Italian
who ate danraged com ha J the disease and
of course that wat what caused it. But
were all the war came and we cn this tide
were aU put cn com pene alloaace corn
meal again became king, and there wat lost
the tujgestion that the Indian maixe caused
the dreadful dittxtt. In fact we almost
last the hooking worm and the Pelly Gray.
There wat altogether too much war newt.
But a tin cent the !eai!s and again, no
doubt the raeaget cf r-eHagra wiU be her
alded and the wvse men wi3 be brarely com
batting it. There are crJy a few thingt
that make ut tired In thit world cf woe and
ten cent do?, and cr.e ci them It the over
worked Board cf Health which printt fic
turet cf cciEnt cn Its bulletint and daunt
that all the babiea dying are vaxxrictt4.
Greensboro ii building up quite a repu
tation at a tobacco market, but pricet on
I the djrtne weed will doubtlest fall after
thit year.
THE SPECTACULAR FLEET.
Kaiser Bill used to ten hit toliien that
-then and there it my fleet."' But that Ceet
' didn't do much. Just now it it tailing to-
ward the men who are to receive it and held
it for good behavior. Those Inside tay that
had ever kaiser B;U ventured out with that
Ceet cf hit, there wouldn't have .been a
i rplir.'.rr left to float. The navy cf the
1 world wat lying long-tide, and tf the Ger-
mana had undertaken anything there would
have been tomething doing the like cf which
i wat never teen cn water. Poor old Ctr
. many. Laid in the dust and the imperial
kairer begging for a place to lay hit weary
head. It thould go into the batict-
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And now the investigation Into what the
brewer did with German money, especially
La handing It cut to newspaper promise to
give ua tome head hne worth while.
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THE UD.
Just when the lid will be Hted cn moving
i picture thow we do not know. There are
people who think a moving picture show
tpreadt disease while crowded meet car
help abate the epidemic Look to ut that
Itctxly ventilated, prtperly fumigated, the
picture thow can do no more harm than
many ether placet now running. The town
know that the big jubilee brought about the
return cf the epidemic: it know that the
case thit time are much milder than when
the plague first a pre a red. and the question
. It: Are we going to keep rlace closed aH
winter timply because there it dxr-itt ot a
person taking ecld. We hepe not.
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And to the flu it still raging aad so the
pUture showt are out. But let us hepe for
net long.
su a ttjul clvclb con c cxxri
JOE SMITH'S
GREAT BURDEN
Jce Smith, head cf the Mormon church
who recently died la Sail Lake City had a
cry Interesting family ln hit time. He had
fiv wive and thirty children. It wa
Artemut Ward who, upon being Introduced
to BHgham Young, remarked: "Mr. Young,
I believe you are a married manf" Mr.
Young replied that he had tkirty wives and
Anemua thoughtfully remarked, "You are
the enott married man X ever met- And it
would teem that Joe Smith was pretty
muchly married. When polygamy wat out
lawed tbott who already had a plurality cf
wive were allowed to continue, a the law
wat net retroactive. Smith was a powerful
man, aimctt at big aa Young. Of course It
wat Brirham Young who got the Mormons
Into Utah: who built the church cf Zioo;
who did thing that 'really seemed as
though divine help guided him. Polygamy,
however, because cf abuse of the system, be
came so obnoxious, that it was abolished.
Mormons who believed In the plurality of
wive, honest men and good men, said that
their system was better than the one horse
way, but reformer finally got their lungs
keyed up and of course found some Mormon
women who had taken a husband for better
or worse and found him worse, and they
went about with their murmurs and com
plaining, and finally the American people
concluded that polygsmy wa against all the
rule cf decency. Thcn Senator Alvin
Saunders headed a commission to Investigate
and that gave a lot cf clerk and Idle men a
chance to draw a salary for a long time, and
polygamy was outlawed.
It appears frccn the reccrda at hand that
Old Man Solomon, in all hit glory had many
wive was sealed to a great many more,
and it is also claimed of the distinguished
gentleman cf Jerusalem that he wa the wis
ett man in all the world. Maybe he was.
But he would have found hard sledding in
these day cf high prices, notwithstanding
that all the gold of Ophir wa his. He man
aged to get along and died full of year and
glory, whereas, the man wboitakxt irjto his
btom two wic ia qSeaa furs, la pulled .
up before a jury cf hi peer and tried and
convicted of bigamy and sent to the roads
for sixteen months, and the populace points
at him the finger of scorn.
Joseph Smith held the church together in
Utah: he waa universally respected, and
apart from hi view on Mormon questions
waa what is called a good citirery
Many cf the latter day philosophers, but
not Latter Day Saints, such as the Mormons
call themselves, have tried, however, vainly,
to get the afSnity dodge into play in this
country. It was claimed by this lustful
choc that it was perfectly all right for a
man to have, a real wife and then hook up
with two or three afSnitie, but the a&nity
business hasn't paid dividends for some
year. Other men, wise in their generation
have insisted that polygamy waa really the
better thing: that it established larger fam
ilies: that in case of death of one or the oth
er heads there were always interested mem
bers of the family left to hold it together.
But that couldn't be put over. So when the
last of the Mormon' muchly married die, ,
there will be no plurality of wives in this
country. And doubtless it were better so
or it would be otherwise.
Of course if a turkey costs thirty or thirty
five cents a pound it doesn't happen often,
and somehow a turkey is the emblem for
Thanksgiving day. Just why a strutting bird
should be the bird for such a solemn occa
sion we do not know. A little of the breast,
please.
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THE CASUALTY. LIST.
The casualty list still comes. The Record
receive thi by mail in confidence, from
the Associated Press, and we have long
lists already reaching several day ahead.
It is presumed that it will be weeks before
it is completed. This because tt was so
Large that it was deemed unwise to burden
the wire with It. Just how many Ameri
cans were killed during the war Is not
yet known. It will be some time before
those figures are ready for release. But the
list, it is claimed, will not be as large as was
espected hut !t is large enough, God
know.
TO HOLLAND WITH THE KAISER.
The American people were regaled with
big display advertisements announcing a
lUturt "To Hell With The KaUer." and the
people stood for it. But It seems that In
tead of to hell with him k waa Holland.
WeU, It commenced with a Capital "11" so
that pretty near filled the bill. 2Sut In Hol
land, with no frienda and wondering all the
time if they are coming after him; in HoU
land an outcast stripped of his. glory,' per
haps the Ueaat cf Berlin- Is suffering mora
than were ha literally In hsll roasting- for a
mini 00 year. Poor old kaiser BIB he wat
so soon dona for, . t
' SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ai.?i98-
LET US HOPE :
WILL NOT BE
The New York Herald sees, or thinks per
haps it sees, a move to get a little nearer to
government ownership of the telegraph and
telephone. It says: f - .
As yet the country has not been fav
ored with an explanation cf the action of
the Washington authorities In : taking
control of the cable service at a 'time
when fighting' hat ceased and peace is
only a matter of'agreement among the
victors.- A first natural suspicion was
that somebody in authority had in mind 1
exercising a censorship over cable mat
ter during the peace negotiation period,
but we are assured that censorship' is a
thing of the past. Accepting that assur
ance at full face value, the natural sus
picion next on the list Is that this sud
den, though belated, move represents a
desire on the part of the administration
to get into the government's tentacles
all possible instrumentalities of com
munication and of commerce, with a
look ahead to government ownership.
It may be that the action of the Wash
ington authorities was inspired by some
thing else, but in the absence of infonna-'
tion it is inevitable that the people
should suspect one or the other of the
two purpose Indicated. If, the cables
had been. taken over at the, time the
United States became a belligerent there
would hve been no questioning the
propriety of the step, although after
eventa have shown that nothing would
have been gained thereby. It la mani
fest that government operation would
In no wise have bettered the cable ser
ice to the public There has been no
complaint ci the service rendered to the
government, which, it la understood has
had at all times the right of way, and -certainly
that special circuit arranged
by the Commercial Cable Company for
the convenience of the President by -which
communication from the White '
House with the American Embassy in
Paris is made almost instantaneous
' marts -the high wattr roarYof service!
" Leaving out of consideration the cer
tainty, born of experience, that govern
ment operation would be more costly
and lea efficient than private operation
and that government operation would
almost certainly mean a money loss to
be borne by the people and assuming
that the government haa no desire of ex;
er citing control over the cable lines for
purpose of censorship, since we are as
tured that there is to be no censorship,
the reason for the action bf the President
and the Postmaster General remaina a
mystery.
Is there a ge'man of saffron hue hid
ing somewhere in the woodpile?
The hope is that this government will
never own the railroads or telegraph lines.
It is all right to talk about it but wherever
it has been tried it has proved a farce, and
we all know bow much red tape and how
much politica there is in these things. The
fact that a Republican Congress will per-
haps have to settle the question, there is
some hope that the private owners will be
given bsck their property, and the govern
ment will simply control. To let the govern
ment own these utilities spells ruin in the
commercial world.
LOTS OP DIFFERENCE.
There is a lot of difference In the way the
German fleet surrendered and what kaiser
Bill dreamed. The story today of that sup
posedly mighty fleet sailing into the hands
of the allies and no guns being fired just as
peaceful as though it were a fleet of fishing
smacks pretty picture, but lacking the
thunder and glare and noise of what the
world bad expected some two or three year
has now shown herself naked
and it appear that her greatest capital waa
bluff. She was starving; she was on the
eve cf a revolution ah e was whipped "two
year ago and nobody seemed to know it
However, she will never again, raise her
hand to strike, at least not for a hundred
year. The generation here and the one to .
com will live In a world cf peace. Of coure
there will be Internal trouble but nothing
world-wide will disturb the people.
ARE WE GOINO TO CELEBRATE?
The question Is: Will the people- of
Greensboro have a big time Thanksgiving.
We don't mean will they blow horns and
yell and ring bells and do stunts like Indiana
as we all were forced to do on Monday when
the big new came. But will we olemnly
observe en masse. Thanksgiving day and col
lectively return thanka to Almighty God for
the great blessing he this yar bestowed
upon mankind? Seem that we ought to
try to do this." The weather'may not be
propitious 1 there may be reasons for not
defng it, but if It can he done, looks like we '
should observe this great day as we never
before ebaarved 1L
-o.v sale at the news stands and on
WHEN THE MUD
WILL FLY FAST
Already the members. of Congress are lin
ing up and nuking faces at each other the.
, time has come when appropriation bills will
be closely scanned when the recklessness of
expenditures will be assailed, and the inno
cent bystander who wonders what there
will be on the front pages of newspapers
need not wonder long. There will be all -kinds
of charges made ; some of them true
and some not true; there will be politics
played to beat the band, and before it is all
threshed out the citizen in plain clothes will
think he has been fiim-flammed. .
But he should not think so. He must re
member that the war was a hurry-up propo
sition.' The' government wasn't ready for
war and it was confronted with a condition
such as never before confronted a nation. Ac
cordingly money waa spent right and left
no matter about what it-cost, the result was
, what had to happen. And the American na
tion really performed miracles. Miracles
such as were never before performed. Send
ing two million soldiers to France and never
-losing a man although two hundred subma
rine were active ahowed what America did.
The munition plant ran night and day and
camps were established like magic. No mat
ter how much money was wasted the fire
was extinguished and we all-feel happy.
RATHER LATE..
The proposed dog law circular now being
sent out loses much of its - thrill. In big
black type the several pages tell about chick
ens and says "this country is at war." It -repeat
that this country is at war several
times and yella for people to save fat. It
telle about the allies who must be fed, and
dwells on the fact that the soldiers must not
be interfered with by the dogs eating their
fat.
Happily that thrill hat gone. , The coun
try ia at peace and the ham fat will again
be plentiful. The country is not at war
and' the dog, brave, noble animals, played ;
" a big part' in toppingrthe.war. . Ask a-sol-
, dier. what .heMbujks'oL the. doz. and bejarijl
" say "spare bis life because" he ha seen the
dog in action, fighting for the freedom of
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ALL SHOULD BE THANKFUL.
Every citizen of the United States should
be thankful that the democratic party gave
us the Federal Reserve law. That takes
away all chance for the money kings to hand
out a panic And were it .not for that law
many would fear a repetition of the rich
man's panic such as we had some years ago. .
Under the law as it is today there can. be
no framed up panic And it is well.
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. WONDER WHY?
Wonder why they warit to kitn on build
ing tanks at Raleigh. Suess they do not,
and the chances are that the tank camp
will be abandoned pretty soon. Better be
. making farm machinery because that can.
be used. Any tanks made for fighting pur
poses now would be obsolete by the time
another war comes on. That will be a thou
sand years from now.
GET READY.
Let every bloomin' mortal get ready to
have a big Thanksgiving this year. No mat
ter what your condition you have cause t-
be thankful it is no worse, and this natio.j
certainly should feel thankful that the war
wss won before more soldiers were killed. -This
national Thanksgiving should be the
most generally observed of all Thanksgiv
ing Days.
JUNK.
It is said the iron crosses with which
kaiser Bill decorated his soldiers are now
being offered in Paris for a price equaling
one penny in American money. And there
are no buyer. The man with the iron cross
finallv ot the double cross from kaiser Bill
and didn't know it,
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DENIES STORY.
The evidence brought out in an investiga
tion that made it appear the Montgomery,
Alabama, Advertiser had accepted ' some
thing like a hundred thousand dollars from
the brewers is emphatically denied by that
paper, and the explanation offered as to the
. negotiation of loan seems, up to this date,
to put the Advertiser in the dear.
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A MOTHER LIBERTY LOAN.
It is still talked that another Liberty
Loan will be floated. The date has not been
set. It appear that the last loan was over
subscribed about one billion dollars, which
certainly showed jjust about how the people
, of America felt as to winning the war.
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WRONG PLACE.
Emited Hickory citizens burned the
kaiser la effigy. That was the wrong place.
They should have burned him In Berlin. .
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JJsde In Germany Isn't going to be such a
scare-crow after we have the folk to make
it.
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ESTABLISHED MAY. 190a
THE OLD BULL
IN MOURiNING
Durham is in sorrow. Large cakes of ice
hang on her brow, and from her eyes there
is a look of sadness that' time fails to take
away. It ii 'all because the Durham Ball
prematurely bellowed and gamboled in the
pasture. The Bull celebrated two or three
days in advance of the signing of the - ar
mistice :..TJ because the Ignited .Press
made "a complete bust and sent out - word
" that the -great document had been signed.
This town also had. a cotton wire report
but those who wanted to know came lwn
to The Record office and found that thevoid
reliable A. P. couldn't say it was so. Hence
the" celebration was withheld until the "A- P.
announced the fact early Monday morning
and-the town went wild. '
. The Durham Herald explains that Dur-'
ham was sore because she had been fooled.
.She had celebrated the limit on the false re
port and couldn't be convinced that the last
report was true; The-Durham Bull has
been put back in the pasture subdued and
muzzled. Hereafter there will be due-pre-.
caution taken in the Bull city before hats
go into the air. Hereafter there will be no
premature reports printed as extras but "
never in the' world again will there be such
big news- to come over the wires."
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The influenza is spreading to some extent,
and no matter about what is closed or what
is' Open each individual has a duty to per
formand that is to exercise all possible
precaution and keep out of crowds. J -
BY THE THOUSANDS.
The news today is that demobilization of
the army commences at once. Two hundred
thousand to be released next week and then
at the rate of thirty thousand a day- mean
ing that pretty soon if you want to hire a
man he will probably be found.. This means
much. Also in today's dispatches are indica
tions of labor troubles in many sections. Tfie
man who can see what is coming within uie
next six months has eyes stronger than we
can enrnigme. .iBut the army must be -'turned
loose. Why holdl;"' - ether with
nothing, to do? That is wl;?.-' the shoe
pinches. .
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The republican Congress will be the one,
perhaps, to adjust things. Wilson will make
suggestions but a republican congress must
bear the burden of straightening things oi'f.
The revenue bill may be re-written to meet
changed conditions.
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THE WAR STAMPS.
Colonel Fries writes us to say that the
big War Stamp campaign will be pushed to
,the limit in November. All who have sub
scribed will be called upon to redeem their
books, many who have npt yet subscribed
will be asked to take some stamps, and the
campaign must be over by January 1, 19 19.
The War Savings stamp has proven, a good
investment' tb hundreds of thousands of peo
ple. They pay interest; they mature in a
short time, and thousands and hundreds of
thousands of people have in this, way been
given opportunity to start a savings account.
The habit will grow, and the War will help
make this a nation of thrift.
If all reports are true Germany must be
in a worse fix than any one ever believed.
Starvation seems to be in sight for much
of the old world and again we will be called
upon to go to wheatless and meatless days..
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CHARLOTTE PUTS ON LID. t
Because of another outbreak pf influenza
Charlotte has been forced to again put on
' the lid and close public places. The influenza
is a stayer. In this town there are perhaps y
two hundred new cases but milder than
before. Physicians feel that a contagion like
this will in time spend itself, and finally dis
appear altogether. Greensboro has been
lucky, and with, the precaution now being
taken it is predicted that it will not be long
until the lid can be again lifted.
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GERMAN FREE STATE.
That letter President Dudley sends Presi- ,
dent Wilson asking for a Negro Free State .
in Germany is quite the thing. Why not?
The Negroes played an important part in
this war; they have been lauded by the great
generals, and if they want a free state in.
some of the territory which belongs to them,
why not figure it out. President Wilson will
doubtless in due time answer this letter, and .
President Dudley may have started some
thing better than he dreamed.
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NO RESTRICTIONS. .
No restrictions on flour except as to price -one
may now secure a reasonable amount.
Good bye old corn pone; good bye, at least -':
until we get a little white bread again;. And
sugar next month Will go to four pounds.
All of which suggests that the war is over. ,
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- .The republicans must learn - that . when "
they put up!men to run for-office the ticket
must be strong. My old thing does not ap
peal to all the people. ; . -
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