North Carolina Newspapers

THE FLOWCRS COLLECTiOff ror People Vho For People Who TWnk Thinli . . - f W- . , . ,. . rift I-J :n n Trio P. u n BY AL FAIRBROTHER irwcrnm LIFTING LID . IN THIS TOWN Tht Gry Cemmlsusoers ytttcrday after ruoen ccei tiered biting the Ld and finally left tit quvsticn epcn ur.td tcenerrow. The Wril Society repee-iented try tcm.e mn v eight phyutiar.s ha i oet ia the forenoon -a.i p-arscd m-ticn that ti bird to ur- dentond. It called fcr aI3 pctublc mtric tkns cn ra:r where crowdt may sucmtlr.. Jtrtji: "EreTTd. that erery po.tle rrttrk ticn b plaard upcn aU piacrs where cwrii may vrtr.;r, erpCiay pucti cl Amscmrr;t. chthcs, schools and ipecial win-" If churches, schoclt and places cl amus-"rr-r.t wttt already closed the question arce thow couZd rrttnctieevt be placed oa some- thing that d-da"l exijt. However Dr. Reives, the City rj-tkian, who has excused t ev er 4 d-f crest pciu5 cr this opening ques tmen Intrrperted the resolution At meaning that the Li now cn must be kept ea. In ""rr mevtir.g there wttt but ma cr tight physuiaruk and te cl them ni la f sroe cl cperung cp si h4-e tht City tht prctt to krr away frcra crcdi. He taii that th iu!t Uw ccf quf ar.tiA th fc-ri trru3 po, that th thcry r to ' trt ca Tt iricciru'.fvj er tuiJer Ih cr,t ;trti Ari t tlctt wn no Uw cctr.clliax a hm.-j to fo is:o j ctcvJ t thocli be up to him to drait iSr.hrr be w-n!t4 to run tbe rttk ct uik:.-: jf the He uihoriird u to prist hit mtttncr.t. When it it ftmera brt J that there are tccr.e thirty-crm rrvrnv Wri cl the rr.eiiCAl tc-irJ r,4 but a Kr,d full uw enough Isternt la the tn-etiiaj to attrrvj it tt rot to be rcrettxl at that the CcmsA icrf tLdn l kr.aw jctt what to do. Oa the :rtrt there it the f hrate letdown at "rMir. the bock" art.! Ihit teetse4 to be about what h4 h-pfr.f i Maycf Su2cr J beliijr toiJ that he thocht all the Ctnirujuoner were doir.g rat flar,"X cry turnout quetben. that 13 h;t rr.;r4 the ccr.tinurd dourtg wit a farte ar,4 he war.te-d to i-.trocf-oce a rro. thre t:4 he thought the town Hcukl be C7TT.e4 wv4 atJ tav4 the crJy thing wrat the fetcicn. Naturally if the Corrrrut.uor.era Cf-err4 the town ar.i a death excurred thra the fcfulace wou!4 put the blood ca the har.4 cl th Ccct.Tut.tior.eri- Howrm, be tali he wouJSJ be abier:t from the city to- day. And be di4al wast it tal4 c! hL-n that be dedfed a qutitico, to be aikrd that the matter t leit C7a cr.tJ Wedr.etday. Whe?e'-7a Mayor SuScrd corrected aad the vcte wat ret taken. Cctnrrut-ticr.er rhipr J keepu-. a tectd cl the r.urr.ber cl catea ia h.t ci!Ue. He aa;4 the phytic iast were oot c-ryv'fc aw ta rrcnc om and be wat try emrhaiic ia demasd;r.c that tocte thisr ba4 to be dsoc cr warrar.ta wou!4 it tue tst th? r.eetrctfuL The Mirittem! ataociatioa cl the city wat rt7frrr.:td by Krr. Hodxu And the rr. t d that at-icoat-.sa wii that the prayer r-ert;-.jx Suruiay a-thcclt and churches thcttU be aHc-wrd to cpn at utuaL Jiayor . Stafford thought that satrr.ua at the .church pcU teprrtrstr4 etht tcniht cl the pp;e they thecal be beari Xt wat pcir.ted en;t that the Chrittmat xr.T and Chrittrr-at crcwdt were ca . a-4 wcuil b-e cn: that ttrret cars were run iV.r.r and t teres wrte ia fs3 blatt: that pub- 1 ; Vi mret;r,xi were brsrj; held and count were cn. and it wat wondered wtry the rr f c't few thirst rcw elated coc4 r-o? t i cpene-4. The Oty ryalclaa tal4 the citrate wcu!4 It cn a3 winter, no daht, and the thought. ful pcrssn wendeted tl the town wat to be depnred cl itt tchoctt. churcbrt and places el a.rru.icrncr,t timply bauc aa eptiemk which bat net cauted aa alarming number cl deaths wat perralrr.t. The Ccrncritticners will act tceacrrow. J-tt what they wiU do depends upon the in foematicn Ci p'.xln Fouvht gets between row and thea. Do cne cf two things lake the fc4 c2 cr put it ca! 34R.MAN? RIGHT. Mr. Mann wat right when be sakl it wat wrcng to embarrass the Iresi4ent- The : Prrudent wante-4 to go to Paris, ha 4 a right to go and should go. The Nation with one wiU a.xlaira shcull bare ir.sitted that he go. It was President Wilson who Ui4 down th law and the gcspel to the German peo : p:e. It wat WUson who tubrnitted fourteen prcpMiticns and it wat Gcrstany accepting thera. Therefore Wilsoa ha 4 a place at the corierer.ee. It is really essential that be .be there, and we arc gla4 the Republican lead- er tpeke as he did. Mr. Sherman who bat been lambajiing Creel ar.4 Wilson for some time, perhaps has bis eye cn the presidency. 1 The white light that beau upon a throne it . said to blind tcme people. an4 Mr. Sherman baa started the wrong way to develop a presidential booen right rxrw o . And the question it: Should the lid go on cr cccse c3? tut a txuul kxclx can i clxt DR. GARFIELD HAS RESIGNED Dr. Gtrcld baa resigned at Fuel Admin iatrator. He wat appointed and tilled the place according to many people la a man ner satisfactory, and according to many mere made a beautiful butt. Just bow that is wr do not know, but it appears from the Washington stories that the President wat g!a4 to promptly accept hit resignation. If wat ia evidence all along that Gare!4 wat not a practical businest man. knew but lit tle about the job be bad. bet as we got away with the fuel question and won the war. there it no us to throw brick-bats ot pir.l cut what might bare been. The grit ifyir.g thing la that the fuel ques tion is no longer a hideous gbott to confront people who think that a fuel famine is lerr mtnent- With the government out of the market fcr wood; with no more soldiers to ship across the teat; with the coal fields cf the old world open to the countries that and with men to work them, the fuel situation will soon be normal. The price cl fuel is still regulated, but even that will soon pass, and dealers will be allowed to buy and sell In open market. The winter to far bat been so eruld that million! cf tent cf coal have been saved, acd the, thought cl a fuel famine no longer ! enter Uinrd. The municipal wood yard will not be urged. Ia Greentboro tht city baa on band some six hundred cordt cl wood to mevt any emergency that might arise, and altogether the situation ia the ttate appears to be good. So it makes no difference why Garfield re signed ; it makes no difference whether other men ccul 4 bare belter tiled his place. THE DIFFERENXE. We note La the New York Herald In the . want section that yettrrday't paper carries about twelve times aa many advertisement? for "Situations Wanted" by men as for "Help Wasted. Thia shows that the men arc coming home Today we have a letter from a man late in tba Canadian.: Eapedi tronary apfffrf g for situuaTi en this paper. Yesterday a newspaper man who bad made arrangements to go to France in Y. M. C A. work applied for a position ttsting that the war ending bad let him out cl his proposed dream. Xt will not be long until ab?r it more plentiful The price it not yet considered, but the fact that labor it seekmg employment and advertising for ll it quite a different song than the one tung a few wetks and months ago. By the time the boys are all discharged: by the time thiors become normal in the commercial world you will End it very eaiy to secure laborers at prices not like those paid by the government to ship biulj ers and la other hurry-up branches. A con tractor approached us yetterday and said thai bu:.ldr2 would soon be possible. And so there it a ray of hope behind the dark clouds which have so long lowered about cur bouse. Xt us hope that there will be no bread line like there wat la 18-33 let us hope that each ma a who seeks employment will find it- And let us hope that food ttuffs will come down and that the world will a rain be peaceful and happy. SHOULD OPEN. . Dr. W. P. He ail. one nl the conservative physicians cf ihit city and a ddien cf abil ity and fine judgment says be thinks the lid should be h.'ted right now. He says .that the e ic will be on, and per bars to lift the L4 may cause a little Curry, buHt is bet ter to have the thing over with than to string it out Indefinitely. O'Jfer physicians agree with him, and the Commissioners are up against a proposition. Mayor Stafford says be Is sautAed the best thing to do it to cpea up and it willing to assume the re tpcntibility and for that reason tomorrow be wiU vote to take off the U4. EGG-NOG. Long about Chrittmat time many a man wiU think be bat the Flu If be can twitt such aa excuse for a little likker to make egg-nog. No more beer being made In the world. Whiskey to be cut out the last of June and nothing left to make a man fee) rich who bat only thirty cents la the wide wcrld- And yet it wiU be the best thing that ever happened. Not to the fellow who got a tatte of the good old rye but to the generation coming on which never wat poisoned by Old John, . National prohibition means, more than one can tee. It means so much that a world free of alcohol wiU be almost a paradise. Those who have been used to their toddy do not agree .with this proposition but those who are to come and fight their way will have cause to be thank ful to this generation for the good It did. o The County Commissioners : have filled the place made vacant by the death of Reg ister of Deeds Rankin and that campaign was very short. ' o The President has sailed on the wide blue tea And 'ere is 'oping he won't be sea sick. ATUROAY, DECEMBER 7. lilt MUST BUY MORE STAMPS The War Stamp campaign la now on, and Greentboro and Guilford mutt do their parts. The Committees are at work; men are cheerfully giving their time; merchants arc contributing to the publicity campaign and the War Stamp must be put over. Re member this Is a first -class Investment. It pays you Interest and It helps the govern ment complete the great victorr which we have helped to win. Do not think that be cause the war la ended it fs all over.. Recall that after you have bad a big dinner the dithes are to wash. Remember that billions of dollars arc yet needed to put the country In thape; to care for the soldierto do things necessary. Instead cl paying heavy taxes you are given opportunity to invest your money and make it py you. What Uncle Sam needs just now is a big roll of money and he it only borrowing it of you. And you know bis credit Is Ar. So when the Committee calls do not say you can't help. . If you have pledged your self to buy so many be certain to make ar rangement! to redeem your promise If you have bought all you can afford to buy write it on the card. Set down bow many you have bought and sec to it that you have done your bit. 'If you can afford it frankly say so but inaitt all the time it la a good thing. If you haven't bought any at all come acrott for some beca ut e every" man can buy a little bit if only one stamp. So get busy and see to it that the. cimpxlgi endt early and successfully. THE RED CROSS. The Red Cross campaign for membership the hope to secure seventy-five million members at a dollar each in the United Sutea wiU be on thia month. The New York Herald has this editorial concerning the Red Cross which is timely just now: On his return from a tour of three months In Europe Inspecting Red. Cross activities Mr. H. P. Diriip, 'chairman o the Wax Council cf the TAnUtioa. issues; a statement .telling' of itt great work in for eign countrita and citing expfcasioni of ap preciation from those who know most about It And beat qualified to fudge. . "General Pershing said the value of ser vice rendered wat beyond computation. Geral Ireland, chief turgeon of the "ex pedite oary forces, declared that the Red CroCrorkers have "rendered an estential tervice to our men the value of which can never be fully known. Admiral Sims and the most conspicuous -personages of Great Britain, France and Italy unite In praite of the service rendered by the American Red Crots. Syria and Palestine share In the expres sion of gratitude and. General Allenby has asked his government to urge the Red Cross to continue its work there. Cessation of hos tilities baa ended many emergency but open ed up new and pressing. needs. Mr. David son points out, and there will be an appeal ing cry of humanity from all over the world. The people cf America can do the most, and In Mr. Davidson's opinion we owe the most to tuffering humanity. - "The American Red Cross must be kept strong' and efficient that it may do its share in full measure. IN COMMON JUSTICE. It is told us that some physicians In this city have done their best to report every esse of Influenza, and it looks, in Justice to " those who coply with the law, the Com missioner of Public Safety snould see to it that those who do not be warned to make quick compliance. In this way no doctor would be under a cloud, and perhaps the citizens could really understand the situa tion. 'As It is now all kinds of stories are afloat concerning the number cf cases, and the reports at the city hall are not correct, imperfect and misleading. If half of what we hear be true then the situation In the dry la alarming and some-. thing should be done. But so long as the doctors fail to furnish the Information ne cessary and rumors float, the average citixen doesn't know where he stands or what risk he runs. Let's get facts and figures and see that the record is kept straight. o "BOB" -WHARTON. Everybody Is really glad today to know that "Bob Wharton has been made Regis ter of Deeds. As deputy clerk he has filled the place admirably and made many friends. He Is fully capable for the new position. In the clerk's office everybody will also be glad to learn that Clerk Gant is going to make a shift for a 'deputy and hold the deputyship for Mr. Andrew Joyner; Jr., who relinquish ed hit position there to go into5 "the navy.' Mri 'Gant expects Mr. Joyner home by the " first of the year, and thus H Is well r 0 - May politics Isn't' on yet-ibut that there" will be some there Is no doubt. The City Manager is still one of the things talked about, but one of the things that may or may 'not happen.." -. ., V , . . , . ; . m-1 : - f ON HALE AT THE NEWS STAND 3 AND ON SCIENCE WAS HUN'S BLUFF German scientists did wonders in the war propaganda. It u believed by many well in formed people that they spread the germ of tuberculosis over the world in order to weaken it before It turned Its guns upon it. In many ways German scientists have long enjoyed distinction, but the peoples of the world are going to cut them out. The New York Herald lias this on the subject which is Interesting: "The recent decision of a con ference of scientific men in Paris to exclude German scientists from intercourse with the interna taoaal- scientific world Is very just and proper and should meet with general indorsement. We know only too -well to what base uses" Germans have turned their scientific knowledge and attainments during the war. - "The. world ia notl ikely to forget the manifesto issued early in the war,- bearing the signatures of nearly one hundred of Ger many's most prominent scientists and learn ed professors, in which they gave ardent support to their country's flagrant violations of international law and humanity; and con doned such vicious acta of barbarism as the destruction of the Library of Louvain and the Cathedral of Rheima. That incident caused an irremediable breach, with the scientific men of the allied countries, and also disgusted those of neutral countries who could discriminate between right and wrong, between truth and falsehood, and between the gross materialism of German scientists and the high idealism and human ity of such men as Lister, Simpson, Faraday, Edison, Marconi and scores of others who have devoted their genius and attainments , mainly, to' advancing the cause of civiliza- -tion and human progress. "There has been a great deal of nonsense and falsehood talked, chiefly by Germans or pro-Germans, about the" superior char acter of the Teuton "Brand of science. Ger man scientists are laborious, "precise and painataJdnz. But of criemality'they have littWaa haa td often been pomted cfut. They i cessarpr., - Und 'take the ideas aid luvfriuons of cVoiTtsaryy sometimes improve upon them. -while more often they pervert them from the benign and worthy purposes for which' they were origin ally devised. - - "The Germans have gained the reputation, by no mean deservedly, of being the best chemists in the world. But they gave them- L. selves that reputation by artful propageda, and it is far from being conceded by others. In 'science, ai In other matters, the Germans are very picturesquely and properly describ- ed as four-flounthers. and German scien titts are going to ditcover that the world can do very well without them." . o . MR. SHERMAN ACTIVE. Senator Sherman,' of Illinois, plays much politics. He announces that he is going to introduce a resolution in the Senate declar ing the office of President vacant when Wil son leaves the United States, On this some Republicans will vote with him, but the seat will not be declared vacant. President Wilson has told the country why he should be in Europe and his going will not make any difference. He took over the cables upon expert advice, Theodore Vail advising itand in this way he will be in quick touch with Washington. The peace contract is not yet signed. President Wilson carried the great burden of the war on his shoulders; refused to take a vacation; was night and day on the job and certainly deserves a vacation. While the trip to Europe will perhaps cause him much work, it will be a change, and every citixen under the flag should willingly con sent for him to go. We like the came of politics and like to see It played. But until the peace confer ence concludes ita job we feel that Wilson should not be molested by those who play politics. And Senator Sherman has always been playing politics, btft he will hardly, get as far as be wants to get. - He has never said so, but many think he would like first rate to be considered Senatorial timber. , o THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. President Wilson's speech was . simply heart to heart. It made no disclosures worth while; it was a frank open talk, tell ing the people of the United States what had been done and what was in the keeping. The Associated Press started, it out yester day but found it too long lor the afternoon report and cut it out. The Record printed all that had come over the wires up to four o'clock and then quit. Dark comes too early these nights to hold too long unless the .news is of extra" value. . .,' . . The -doctors are 'telling us what to do arid Commissioner Pkipps says they are not obeying the law: made-and-provided. Not 'all. the doctors, .but the Commissioner says the most of them. Then isn't it'up to the Commissioner? No," James Henry the price is now five cents at aH-fotmtainv. - ' JTKAINS . ESTABLISHED MAY, 190a MAIMED MEN PROVIDED FOM The United States government is resolved to do its best to restore every wounded American soldier and sailor to health, strength, and self-supporting activity . Until his discharge from the hospital all the medical and surgical treatment neces sary to restore him to health is under the jurisdiction of the military or naval author ities, according to the branch of the service he is in. The vocational training, the re education and rehabilitation necessary to re store him to self-supporting activity, is un der the Jurisdiction of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. . J" .If he needs an, artificial limb or mechan ical appliance the government Will supply it free, will keep it in repair, and renew it when necessary. If after his discharge he again needs medical treatment on account of his disability, the government will supply it free. While he is in the hospital and while in training afterwards the soldier or sailor will receive compensation as if in and his family or dependents will service receive tneir allotment. A wounded soldier orsailor, although his disability does not prevent him from return ing to employment without training, can take a course of vocational training free of cost and the compensation provided by the war-risk insurance act will be paid to him and the training .will be free, but no allot ment will be paid to his family. Every Liberty Bond holder who holds his bond is keeping up a part of this great work of restoring to health, strength, and useful ness the men who have suffered for their country. . . THE BOYS. ; .' Look on most any street and you see" a uniform. Too bad that those wearing them : didn't get across seas, but. glory enough that they went to, the. .training, camps and were ready to make the supreme-'aacrifice if ne- u nacr. tuc iawxnc reiurrane soi-ysi -tinffoTttoT thteeyithsr and many of .them will dohis; but already " . some of them.afe getting back into civilian . clothes and accepting their'.old positions in the commercial world. By. Christmas, the uniformed boys from somewhere in -France will be seen on our streets Already a few rHjcome over, but by the first of the year Jreds of thousands of them will be back ii 'icrica.' And a glad hand goes out to every one of them. t The hope is that the President will en counter smooth seas and have a splendid trip across the pondv While he is absent the boys left behind will run the ship of state, and although Vice President Marshal will not act in an official capacity it goes without saying he will not act the baby. He isn't complaining. SOMETHING DOING. Fromnow on until the next election there will bemore politics in this country than ever .known before. It will be red hot politics the kind mother used to make, and there will be plenty of it. The women are going to vote in the next national campaign, many more than vote now; the Republicans are preparing large books concerning Democratic extravagance, and the tariff will be a Paramount Bug. You will in the next camp,ri find many high tariff Democrats, and it will be tiard to tell Just why the country is divided. The Demo crats will be divided on government control of railroa"as- and the Republicarft for the most part lined up togetheron the subject, most all being agin' the proposition. These . issues will soon come to the front and the man at the corner grocery iri the small town ' will again regulate affairs of the world, while the Man on the StreetMn the big cities will tell us all about it. Arid then the peo ple will vote to suit themselves, and so will run the world away. o THE SUPPLY OF, LIKKER. Doctors still disagree as to whether likker is worth while in influenza cases. Some phy sicians say it is worthless and others insist that a little toddy for those recovering is the best medicine in the world. The supply of likker has not been large, but it is in evi dence that all that can be secured is eagerly taken over by ill people. In fact along about Christmas there are many people who see in the egg-nog a restorative unequalled. But this year the egg-nog will not be much in evidence.. - : O- ; ; Better get ready for the Christmas gift and remember it is better to give than to re ceive, so don't expect anything and you'll not be disappointed. ' o The lid wiH rncin on perhaps until after raristrjrjstPerhaps all year and all of next yearthat-is that small part of the lid that is on. The greater part oiit is already, off and that's what spreads disease 'doctors . - --', -.,":. "'.! ' ' ' - ' - . . 1 f i' v,'- V----'. " .'-, . . - j - - ' - ': - . : ' - ? . . - j . . 1 . I .