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HENDERSON DALY DISPATCH
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immoral women in our community,
by the scores as alleged by some, is
that the people themselves have re
mained largely oblivious or indif-
erent to the situation and have made
ittle or no effort to inform the of
ficers of the law of their presence
or to give the officers their co-opera
tion and support in any move that
might have been or should have
been instituted to secure their pun
ishment or removal. How about this
side of the question? It may be
that for this very reason these lewd
characters have for months con
tinued to corrupt and demoralize the
community "with little or no moles
tation from official sources."
In a brief interview with Chief of
Police Williams and Sheriff Bell
Saturday evening, both emphatically
and earnestly expressed their abso
lute readiness to investigate any
case of this sort which might be re
ported to them by any responsible
person and to take energetic action
wherever the facts appeared to justi
fy the same. Both asserted that they
would be only too glad to come into
possession of any such information
from responsible sources. And it is
inconceivable that in an enlightened,
christian community like this there
would be found any officer of the
they insist that they want the paper
at a certain hour, no matter whether
it has been printed or not.
law who under any circumstances
TIME TO COUNT NOSES. would show himself derelict in a
The DurDOse of the two editorials matter of this sort. To do so would
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i thp iat. issue of this naner. deal- &e to Pronely impeacn mmu ia
, , , , the estimation of all good citizens
ing
In ordinary times of peace when
the world is idle and there are plenty
of workmen it may perhaps be justi
fied to find fault if the boy is late.
Of course it make no difference to
the subscriber if a linotype machine
gets out of commission; no differ
ence if the press breaks down; no
difference if the power goes off; no
difference about a man or two being
sick the paper must come and is
expected, and the publisher admits
that he ought to get it to those who
want it. But in war times the
publisher doesn't promise anything
Three times three times has every
man left this shop either for good
or for part of the time because of
war or because of something. Lino-
tvDe operators have gone to war;
blacksmiths who had served only
the part of an apprentice have been
called in to handle the intricate
machines and done them incalcu
lable damage; machines have been
idle, and yet, if the paper wasn't on
time the telephone made merry
music and the indignant citizen pay
ing ten cents a week for a paper that
costs three times that to produce it
was raising the devil at the other
end of the phone.
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ditions in the moral life of this city i n stating their official
and community, was to direct general position and disposition with regard
public attention to the actual ex- to any and all cases of lewdness or
istence of the same. While a great other violations of the law of what
many persons hereabouts have for ever nature which may from time
months past been well aware of the to time be reported to them, the
presence of. these unwholesome con- Chief of Police and the High Sheriff
ditions and degrading influences in of the county would appear to have
the community, it could not be taken put the matter squarely up to any
for granted that anything like all citizen or person who may have
the people were in possession of such I personal knowledge or can produce
Vnnwiprte-A. enod evidence of the existence of
Realizing that the day of reckon- bad joints or places of evil doing
ing must eventually come, the Daily The proposition seems to be a per
Dispatch has for months past been j fectly fair one
keeping a close eye on the conditions In at least the great majority of
to which it now calls attention, and cases where the law is violated, of
from a considerable store of private, fleers must first have tangible infor
confidential information, more or I mation or evidence to that effect be
less of a general than a detailed I fore they may act in their official
character, now in its possession, to- capacity, unless the officers them
gether with more that has come to I selves happen to be in possession of
it bv the voluntary acts of others I personal knowledge of such matters.
since Saturday evening, is candidly Most certainly no officer is justifiable
of the opinion that those conditions in acting upon indefinite informa
were not overstated or exaggerated tion or the statements of ever so
in the two editorial articles to which responsible a person which are made
reference is above made. It is more in the nature of generalities
certain, also, that a very consider- than otherwise. Upon proper infor
able part of the community has not
All this has happened. And a still
worse dose is liable to happen. It is
a hard matter to secure help; it is a
hard matter to print a newspaper
like a publisher would like to print
it, and the subscriber must be con
tent, and if not contented he should
stop his paper and not worry the life
out of a force of over worked men
trying to do the best they can. The
publisher wants subscribers. It is
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his means of paying out; of making
a newspaper. Without subscribers
he cannot run his business there
fore he does all he can. This should
be realized by the thinking person.
And in these war times he Is doing
more than he thought he could do.
. The other day a man stopped his
paper in this city. A business man,
he calls himself, and said he knew
this all right about paying In ad
vance that the puDiisner was ai
tempting to get some money
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INFLUENZA
been blind to all these matters
Those who may have taken the
pains to give the two editorial ar
ticles a careful reading, as we sin
cerely hope and believe many did,
it must have been plainly apparent
that the Dispatch had carefully
avoided even the semblance of an
attack upon any person or persons
ptcfint the shadowy characters to
whom it directed public attention.
Neither did it directly or indirectly
charge any person or persons, nor
yet the officers of the law, with re
sponsibility for those conditions.
This was no part of the purpose of
either editorial article in question.
Wi?ile these matters are now more
than likely to receive the airing out
that has long been coming to them,
it is the firm purpose of the Daily
Dispatch to be governed throughout
by principles of fairness. In this
respect it will endeavor to follow the
usages of the courts and presume
anyone and everyone innocent until
he may have been proven otherwise.
No attack upon the good name or
character of any good citizen or of
ficial will be permitted. The sole
object is to rid the entire community
of the vile characters who publicly
disgrace it by their presence. Aside
from these, the Daily Dispatrh de
sires to make it perfectly clear in
the outset that it is not after any
body's scalp.
But as was anticipated when the
two articles in point were written,
some at once jumped to' the con-,
elusion that officers of the law were
being publicly attacked in these
columns. That was no part of our
purpose. Only once was there the
slightest reference to officialdom,
and that was purposely intended, but
not as an attack or criticism, how
ever. It was merely the statement
of what the paper conceived to be a
fact. '
Responsibility for the presence of
evils in a community does not al
ways rest with the officers of the
law, although a great many persons
annear to think it does. And rarely,
if ever, does it rest entirely so
Officers of the law, in this free coun
try, are but the servants of the peo
ple, not their masters or dictators.
In order to make the enforcement of
law effective, the officers of the law
must first of all have the united sup
port and earnest co-operation of all
the good, law-abiding people of the
community, and it must be given
without stint or hesitancy.
It may be that the chief reason
lor the presence of these lewd and
Advisory Committee Will Be
Appointed To Help Con
duct of Campaign
When the Democratic executive
committee met in session Saturday
afternoon, folowlng an Informal ses
sion a week previously, it confirm
ed the tentative action of the first
meeting. J. C. Kittrell was elected
chairman and II. A. Dennis was
made secretary, both officials to serve
permanently. A committee of three
to have direct charge, with the chair
man and the secretary. In conduct
ing the campaign, will be appointed
by Mr. Kittrell, during the next few
days.
Plans for the compalgn that Is to
be started in earnest after the close
of the Liberty Loan drive are to be
worked out by the committee that is
soon to be announced. What these
gregatlons, have been Imprisoned by
the uermans because they concealed
church bells to prevent their confis
cation by the German military au
thorities, Warsaw papers report.
None of the prisoners have been
brought to trial. They were merely
told that they would have to remain
In jail until the bells were found.
Some years ago Paderewskl. the
pianist, gave a magnificent bell to
the church at Kansna. This the Aus-
tralns have requisitioned to the In
tense Indignation of the parlsboners.
One Clawi of Fuel Not Scare.
INVADES H
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NBERSON
mother, Mrs. K. W. Edwards.
mation from others or their own
personal knowledge, officers of the
law may under certain conditions
raid or search places or premises.
But this cannot lawfully be done in
a haphazard sort of way.
As we see it, the situation is
squarely up to the citizens of the
town and county to go to the of
ficers and tell them what they know
about violations of law, places of
lewdness, disorderly persons and
houses, blindtiger joints, and any
and all places of evil doing. How
many citizens of Henderson and
Vance county have heretofore taken
the pains to do this without those
particular cases receiving proper at
tention from the officers? And how
many more who may happen to be
in possession of such information
will now come forward and make
the facts known to the officers? It
seems about time to begin counting
noses.
plans will be. other than probably
a
If the I several speeches about over the coun
publisher needed the money, he told ty, is uncertain as yet.
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l Miss Pauline Edwards, who Is
it IO nun. DUt ne uiuu i pruyuse 1 , . , , . : , .
"TV iT teaching at Lumberton, is spending
pay m aayauce. n iu yy f A few -day8 in the City with her
ing like ne taiKea mienerea -wnu
the prosecution of the war. Because
the Government has held that news
papers were essential, placed them
on that list, and this business man
of Greensboro was interfering with
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a business aeemea essential jusi
now. He was insisting that the Gov
eminent had nothing to do with the
navment in advance. The editor of
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this paper upon his return from San
Francisco last Sunday visited Wash
ington Monday and went to the War
Industrial Board and talked over the
situation got the official dope on
what he had to do. And the thing
that must be done we were officially
informed was to make all people pay
in advance. Failure to do this would
mean that we couldn't get white
! paper.
While the State Fuel Administra
tion Is warning of probable fuel
shortage during the coming winter,
there Is one class of fuel that will
bep lentlful beyond a fbadow of a
doubt. That consists of the houses
in which we live and the buildings
in which we transact our business
and store our chatels. The pity of
it Is that this waste could be stop
ped by a "stitch in time." This
newspaper Is doing everything prac
tlcable to awaken the public to Its
opportunity for self-preservation
and patriotic conservation of re
sources by preventing the careless
fire. It's the little commonplace
danger that needs attention. Think
It over.
Several Cases Reported By
Local Physicians, But
None Are Serious
Spanish influenza, which has tor
mented the armies In Europe, and
which later crossed the Atlantic in
some way, and more recently cat
broken out In some of the large
training camps In this country, baa
made Its appearance In this city, ac
cording to local physicians. The
number of cases thus far discovered
are not sufficient, however, to b
called an epidemic, and it Is the hope
of the doctors that such may cot be
the case.
Some Henderson young women
who are In school at Raleigh have
contracted the disease, but their
condition Is not regarded as serious.
Patients In the city or the county
who have developed cases are get
ting along satisfactorily. It Is re
ported. The doctors say that Spanish In
fluenza Is merely the old-fashioned
grippe, and that persons who havejt
suffer almost exactly the tame.
LISTEN TO COL. FAIRBROT1IER.
All good-hearted, good-natured,
fir-minded persons, who really de
sire to do unto others as they would
have others do unto them, most cer
tainly will take the time and pains to
read the following editorial from
Colonel Al Fairbrother's pen. .And
all who really want to be patriotic
in these trying times to the extent
that they are perfectly willing to
abide by the rules of the Govern
ment should do likewise. Colonel
Fairbrother goes right down to the
milk in the cocanut. Listen to him:
HEART TO HEART.
Many of the people who take news
papers think that they come just so.
That all you have to do is to press a
button, and presto! like the eggs
from the magician's hat, newspapers
fall by the thousands and boys wear
ing seven league boots cover the
whole citv with them in three
minutes by the watch.
They do not understand that
newspapers are made Dy SKiuea
workmen; that it takes time and
plenty of time to set the type; to as
semble it; to stereotype the pages;
to get them on the press; to count
out the papers; to set the boys in
motion. They do not seem to under
stand that telegraph news cannot
be put into type until it arrives over
the wire, and they are often cock
sure that boys are on the streets
with papers hours before they get
to the home of the subscriber.
And then they telephone and
threaten to "stop the paper" unless
the boy is there earlier in the day;
The government has had wheat-
ess davs and heatless days. It now
is having paperless days so to speak.
It wants to see all newspapers run,
but it prescribes how they shall run
and the man is a fool who stands
around and tells the publisher who
is trying to be loyal that the govern
ment has nothing to do with it. The
Record wants all the subscribers it
can get. But those who subscribe'
must meet the rules of the govern
ment. They are not our rules they
are rules made to make it possible!
for all newspapers to run and
every loyal citizen should gladly
come across, pay his money and see
to it that in the war period his home
paper was able to print the news'
and boost Liberty Bonds and do
other essential chores to send the1
to his death. Do you under-
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A Word on
stand?
Already the Allies have brought
Bulgaria down upon its knees, and
if America and the Entente will only
keep it up for a while longer, Ger
many itself will after a while begin
to inquire in a very interested man
ner what terms of peace or sur
render they likely would be granted.
King's Daughters to Meet.
The Whatsoever Circle of King's
Daughters will meet Tuesday after
noon at 5 o'clock in the Chamber of
Commerce.
Consult Dr. Rapport
At Henderson at the Vance Hotel
Wednesday, October 2nd. If you
susDect failing sight there is no way
in which you can profit by putting
if off. Eyes do not get better with
out, help. Have your glasses fitted
by Dr. Rapport and you will have
the satisfaction of knowing they are
correct in every way. Adv.
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