North Carolina Newspapers

at Oxfortl iS.rded Ciosvn fiu'tl tJ'O I'nitetl u' ti:i\3 that the rtct'ived a eoni- aini) to (lOneral li.:;- foi the ally reav hed mai!- ■f* t}iat: two years entcreil look U|) hiri His corn th uiuvii interest ;iy, and ho at onre f ul' liie ‘ Vfagger .! siiUiii WiJid cie- t 'lle. ti'NV days of the •'II ;.»n the street utoi'. The slij?ht, lis tall, muscuUr Htvikhig contrast, lectures and wore ust like any other irics were cold of the pui’fhasiiig of niort' than one id ii» have been dby ihe university li,‘ Mreets at night. I rule among tiie IV aside all the v.irh ^his title ht erjoy to the the Oxford at- •reil bad ta?te uf tlie Prince e tree! or W&rf Magdalen boat rau'- ‘ji tlie i^rince a! oi any other he wap. able t» ito the fliaracter bi.; future -.uhjectrj ill : (.(III r.tead ill K jy GoverneJi. iri aUtiJfcCt tC )1 KO Vt;I‘Uin6Ilt. Or h? It he can do until can't accumulate [mi an Account at Id Trust Co. Try Try and turned fl'he Squirrel said le to{-. of the tree. ’V—-af>d blo?.somed ivinter.” Which n you* --“i can’t t\o thing in this hout trying. Not aiik 6; Go. N. C. il I'iC.'-idont cr. And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.’ VloS MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 1914 No 39 Judge Clark Sick ( hicf Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina sick, Walter Clark has suffering from an very flttn. k of acute indigestion. The Judge j. now ^^oniewhat improved, and it ia h .pe.l will soon be well again. Mill Hiisiness Brighter. I- - manager of the paihiun Hosiery Mill No. 8. We re- ceivc.i l:i^t week orders to the amount tiuo • lo.-^.en pair. Our Mi'l received and cr.it i lor :UK),lK)0 dozen pair to be :d Oluv to New York, that the ‘’ould be placed on the next out- steamer, for the European 1 like good business says Mr. with my present plant it w.iiilil take me over 5 years to fill the ordt^rs our No. 2 mill received, but we hope in the near future to have a Hnsi^ry plant in Mebane, with the i-:ipacity of our No. 2 Mill. Ihi rt Forget Your Farents Christmas. The holidays will soon be here, and boy;^ ilon’t forgot your parents if you art' away from home, make every po>ihle etVort to go to see them. They hue been longing for Cbritmas to come when you w’ould home and make their hearts happy. If you send them a present it will be greatly uppreriated. but there is no present on t-aiih that will be accepted in substi tution for \our own presence. Some of us do not have any mothers or fathers to go to see, and those W’ho do have them should be appreciative enough to visit them during the holi days. Nobody on earth is as thought ful of you as your mother, she will do tor you when all others turn their bai'k. It makes no difference how blaek your hands have been stained With the foulest of crime, she is still your best friend. Your mother’s hairs are now getting hoary ai\d she may not be living for you to go to the old homestead next year to visit her, so go this Christmas. A Brilliant Man. Mr. Tom Lindsy, who lectured in the graded school auditorium, last Thurs day night was of such a high order, that the people have requested him to return the ensuing Thursday night. A great many people are not aware of what an elocutionest Mr. Lindsey is, hence the reason they did not turn out so w’ell last week. A great many of the school pupils have begun to sell tickets for the next entertainment, and the prospects now are that we will have the biggest crowd that have ever turned out to any public gathering at the school building or any where else in Mebane. We will probably have about a thirty five dollar house, possibly more. That, of course, will indeed mean a packed house from the fact that the admissior is only twenty five cents. We understand that it was the negro Tom Lindsey who was reported to have been the mixn that was to lecture, that, too, was another reason why the crowd was so small last Thurs day night. Let it be distinctly under- I stood that the platform men who give lectures at the Mebane Graded School, must establish their AngJo Saxon blood before they will be permitted to speak. The People of North Caro lina Should be Aroused. The people of North Carolina should be awakened to the great necessity of doing something, but when the State officials will not take the intiative there cpnnot be much of a revolution. We are not making a bitter attack on the State officials, but it does seem as if there could be more done in the way of progress. We need a better citizen ship and the only way to have a better citizenship is to have better schools, and better- schools would m^an that we would have a more intelligent voter. We don’t need any standpats in neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties in North Carolina. People should be progressive in their views, that’s what it takes to have a better State. The people in the North, the majority, are independent, and ot course they are ahead of us in prosperity This is not due to any superiority in brain by any means, for the South, has in our mind, produced greater men than the North —or equally as great, at laast. North Carolina needs a man like Clarence Poe for her Governor. Clarence Poe is an able man, a fearless man. He has got courage to do the SECRETARY DANIELS WAITS. Navy Chief May Answer Critics of Navy Later. Secretary Daniels will appear before the Hoiise Naval Affairs cotnmittee Wednesday, he has announced, and un til afterwardas will not reply to critics of navy material or personal. He refused to comment on a published re- Dort that Atlantic fleet submarines were in poor shape and that only one ; g^pport of the serviceable craft of this type was ‘ stationed north of the Canal Zone. Rear Admiral Fletcher, commanding the Atlantic fleet, and Rear Admiral Badger, of the navy general board, also will be heard by the House com mittee next week.; I A Newspaper Duty. What The World has had to say of diplomacy in the dark has more than a domestic application. There are news papers in Great Britain, France and Germany which, m the face of the all suggestions that moral forces en- i most brutal war of aU hisiory, are ^ ^ . « V i.4.1 j I discussing as freely as^ they may the tered mto the decision of battles and u- *. I same subject. face of the globe, and she, too, de spised the “judgment of Europe” and ^ appealed to victory as sufficient vin- j dication for the ruthless devastations and wholesale slaughters of wars of conquest. She, too, laughed to scorn campaigne, or that any cause could | probability is that if the plain fail of final triumph axcept for lack of | the strengest battalions and the heav iest artillery. But the despised moral forces after a time combined the phy sical forces cf Europe, and, lacking first, eventually the people of the great nations of Europe had been informed as to their inter national relations the present conflict would have been avoided. No doubt Kaisers, Czars and Kings, race hatreds, colonial policies, commercial expansion i with its attendant jealousies, violated last pillars of the strength of France, I treaties, old revenges and an all- her armies, dwindled m numbers-and j have had their I part in bringing upon If we did not believe Mr. Lindsey a right thing regardless of what any man man of high order, we would not for} thinks, let him be Democrat or Repub- anything, be w-asting our commendatory 1 lican. There is no question that if Mr. adjectives, to s.ay nothing of having so little principla as asking the people to patronize him. It is conclusive Poe were Governor of North Carolina, he would bring about some of the most and best improvements in rural evidence to anyone that Mr. Lindsey i life that have ever been known. We is a man of no mean qualifications, as I need a man that will do something for Challenging The World ‘•We do not stand before the judg- mcnt-seat of Europe. We acknowled ge no such jurisdiction. Our might shall create a new law in Europe. It is Germany that strikes. When she hrs conquered new domains for her genius, then the priesthoods of all the gods will praise *-he God of War.” This is the latest authoritative for mulation of the school of moral and political philosophy which dominates German thought and is accepted by the-German government as a ruie of conduct. The doctrine it proclaims is embaced and preached by those in au thority, from the Emperor, who coats it with religious cant, to the learned professors of the universities, to whom the earth spirit until her proud career of con- devastation;- but more quest came to naught, and the shat- (directly responssble than any or all of tered remnants of her wasted legions i them, has been the censorship which I did not avail for defense of their own j when not secret has been false. , , . , . . This is why The World insists that land against counter invasion, and L, i. *.1 ^ a ^ , 1, J the ghastly mummery of the American Paris surrendered to allied hosts called , state Department should come to "an into being by decrees of “the judgment j end. With war on every hand, with It is a page of i war threatened at our own doors, ^with A Liquoriesb Christmas. (From The Progressive Farmer.) Let’s have a liquorless Christmas— for the sake of the wife and children who need the money for better things; for the sake of the boys and young men who need a better example from the older men, and certainly from their fathers; and at least out of a flet-ent respect to the Founders of the Christian religion whose birthday is celebrated. If there is one time of all the year more than another when a nian ought to be free from dissipa tion and immorality, that time is Christmas. he could not have held the chair of Oratory in one of the leading Colleges of Tenn. The entertainment is given under the j pers. Clarence Poe auspices of the Graded School. The either, if he sees an school profits to inure to defraying some of the expenses it has incurred. Work on the tennis courts have been done, new chimney built and electric lights installed—all of which take money. the farmers, for they are the backbone the revelation has been vouchsafed of our State If they prosper, the merchant prospers and everybody pros- is no standpat evil he does not hesitate to call attention to it—he did it kaleigh. Mr. Poe has said emphatically that he would not run for | brutal doctrine thpt governor, but we need a man of similar | right; that no man or I th^t the modern world is in desperate ly evil case and only to be saved by the administration to it vi et armies of heroic doses of German “Kuitur. ” Stripj^ed of its veneer of verbiage it is nothing but a reaffirmation of the might makes aggregation of seat of Europe.” It is a page History from which the prophets of the new Teutonic evangel may draw profitable lessons. They are in revolt against the spirit of the age in which they live and the paojects they uphold | are as impossible of attainment as-the pleas on which they seek to justify them are offensi\e to every enlighte ned sense of humanity. They are thinking the thoughts and speaking the jargon of feudalism in an era of light and liberty. They are mooning over prospects which, if realized, would civilization reeling under the shock of war that came like a thief in the night, we are pursuing the tragic methods of Europe almost without protest. —New York World. Does Shaw Crave {Sympathy? ^“Never play a man at his own game” is a maxim that a number of excellently well meaning and highly excited individuals have forgotten, even to the extent of attempting to answer Bernard shaw. Among them is Christabel Pankhurst, who only succeeded in showing that whatever she is nothing as a constitute a negation of all the political and social progress the world has made i jg g militant, during ten centuries of constant wit. struggle. The very words in which j Shaw is not answerable^ because he thev invoke the deities ot War and' ‘he instruction Success suffice to prove that the goal j they seek is the one that the rest of the world can not afford to let them win.-'-Norfolk Pilot. convictions. VVomler if there is a pair of “motley flyed” .socks or stockings in this coan- iv‘^ Don’t know what we mean, do vou say? Well, if you do not you are young are ignorant. Our mothers made the motley socks or stockings tor the children away back in the knitting needle davs. They took a hank of pure whit^ wool thread, dipped one end in a deep red dye and then made that harik iato a ball and then went to using the knitting needles, making socks or Slocking for the children, and every kid wanted a pair of motley socks or tockitigs. Hearing a discussion about the war cutting off the shipment of dyestuff from Germany brought to •^ind the little motley stockings of former years. No, we did not depend ('ii (lermany for the dye for the mot ley socks for the dye was home-made. the (lays gone by the bark of trees, the herh from the field or gardan, or the berries along the fence row furn ished the dyestuff for the wearers and knitters—and that dyestuff made hues just af gorgeous as any German m:du‘.—Monroe Enquirer. EDITOR J. T. OUVER OF REIDSVItlE, DEAD. Was Recently Appointed as Deputy Collector—A Sufferer From Bright’s Disease. John T. Oliver, one of the editors and ownera^of the Reidsville Review, died at his home on Maple Avenue at noon Saturday. He was 39 years of age, and had been a sufferer from Bright’s disease for several years. He was a prominent Democrat and in fluential in party councils in the county and State. He was appointed deputy revenue collector on December 1 by Collector A. D. Watts. The deceased was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal church, also of the Jr. O. U. A. M. lodge. The funeral and burial was held Sun day afternoon. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Lil lie Linebury, of Fayetteville, two brothers, R. J. and Manton Oliver of Reidsville, and one sister, Mrs. T. N. Preddy, of Memphis, Tenn. hfland Items Mrs. J. K. Turner who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Carl Forrest has returned to her home in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. York of High Point are visiting Mrs. York’s parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Murray. Miss Lalla Womble, teacher in the E. H. school spent last week’s end at her home near Chapel Hill with her parents Mr. Jesse Baity spent part of last week in Burlington with his aunt Mrs. Jack Price. men has any valid title to any earthly possession except that which lies in a sufficiency of strength to maintain it against rival claimartts; that twenty centuries sf Christianity and civiliza tion have failed to establish for indi viduals and nations any better law than that ‘sHe who can may seize on power, and he may keep who can.” It calls for a return of humanity to the relations which exist among wild beasts and substitutes for the reign of reason and justice that of tooth and talon. It resurrecrs and exalts for ! worship a demoniac spirit which in the Misses Maud and Beulah Brown went I . u XT-11 . 1 4. o 4. ^ dark ages of the human race estab- down to Hillsboro last Saturday after-1 j lished a hell on earth. It is but a Fitzpatrick, operator on, slightly altered version of a creed noon. Mr. Harry the Southern has been spending a few days vacation off and visited friends in Danville and Dry Fork, Va., also High Point and Greensboro and spent Saturday night at home and returned to his work in Pellam, Va. Sunday morning Miss Nannie Pratt came up from whi'ih never yet was professed except as a clerk for the lowest possions to which humanity is subject, and never put in practice except as a pretext for | slaughter and spoliation of those whose only crime was to be the possessors of that which excited the cupidity of law- J. JN. Warren Mebane has a clever and obliging set of warehousemen, and we believe that the prices paid here will average well with any of the other markets of the country. The man who has been with the Mebane market from its inception is Mr. J. N. Warren. He has put his whole heart into this business. An old colored man watching his tobacco going exclaimed: “Jes watch Mr. Jas Warren, If I had a million pounds of tobacco to sell I would bring it to Mr. Jas.” This is a common sentiment among the farmers towards Mr. War ren. He is a good warehouseman and if every business man in town was as interested as he, we would double our sales here. This is not written to pull business to Mr. Warren or the Piedmont, The Planters warehouse is doing a fine business and paying fine prices. We simply wish to express our personal appreciation of Mr. Warren.— Associate Editor. Raleigh last Thursday night to spend a | jggg strengthr few days with her mother Mrs. A, i \Yhen an individual declares himself Pratt near Efland j emancipate from the influences Mr. J. L. Efland has returned from a Western business trip Mr. Jack Thompson from near Oaks Notice. ^"^'^^Kular communication of Bingham Lodge No. 272 has been called to meet the 2.‘ird of Dec. instead of the 26th ^ full attendance is very much desired, ^••rk in 3rd degree. Refreshment Committee: R. S, fy?on, W. H. Mason, Chairman. A. Mebane, S. K. Scott. W. O. ^^arreii, .1. N, Warren, H- E, Wilkin- W, S. Hai.is, A. M. Cook. A. N. Scott, W. M. Cotton Wrong, All Wrong The feature the past week with the financial papers was the large book ings of orders by purchasing agents of foreign countries for supplies of a kinds with American manufacturer and supply houses. The contract call for millions of money, and one of the best features is that it makes possible the return to work ot thousands of laborers in all parts of the country. The factory and farm of the United ^ States are under tribute by practically l much snccess in their new the whole of Europe, but for all of that, this country will not get back mto j Rymor” has it that ere long normal shape until cotton is once more j goon be ringing moving in the regular way. The con-, dition of the country can never be will Sharpe has gone to Hinder- made right while softo elr business^ with the Real XteTes”n the SniteS 'state^ are go- Estate Co We wish Mr Sharpe much much news this week, cold dark dreary spent Saturday niglit and Sunday with his brother-in-law A. T. Riley. Prof. Arthur Crawford of the E. H. School spent the day Sunday at home with his mother Mrs. Crawford, near Orange Grove Mr. James Thompson of High Point was an Efland visitor Saturday and Sunday. Must be some “attraction in Efland for “Jim.” Mr. J. H. Murray and son have moved their-stock of goods down to West Hillsboro. We regret to see Mr. Murray and son leave, however we If strangers or enemies be litigants, whatever side thou favorest, thou get- teth a friend; but when friends are the parties thou loseth one.—Bishop Taylor. glDomy weather, we are waiting for “Santa Claus” to put in his appearance hope he’ll bring nice weather. “Patz.” I of that concensus of opinion which re presents the ultimate conscience and matured judgment of a community, he becomes a social derelict and a menace to the highest good of . the greatest number of the members of his com munity. When a nation so proclaims irresponsibility to the world’s opinion, and takes for its sole guide th6 im pulses bred in it by an inordinate faith in its own invincibility a rebel against the least fallible of earthly courts and 5 . ' I* menace to the peace and order of the universe. To avow so boldly a purpose of world-dominion is to challenge the enmity of all mankind; and to confess to such blind devotion to the gods of Success is to serve notice on all other peoples that their peace and safety can only be assured by utter crushing out oi the boasted powers which bow to no law save that of self aggrandize ment and expansion. To such a dream as interpreted. Fate can make but one answer. Deluded by just such visions, France set forth a hundred years ago to spread by the mouth of cannon her peculiar “cult’ over the A Preacher Who Discov ered That He Was Getting Soft. In the December Woman’s Home Companion Grace S. Richmond, writ ing a love story entitled “The Brown Study,” presents a preacher who, find ing that life was getting too easy in a rich parish gave up his work and start ed a mission in the slums. The preach er’s own characterization of himself follows: “Soft living makes me soft. I love the good things of this life so that they unfit me for real service. Do you know what was the matter with my heart when I came away? I do. It was high living. It was sitting with my legs under the mahogany of my millionaire parishioners’ tables, driv ing in their limousines, drinking af ternoon tea with their wives, letting them send me to Europe whenever I looked a bit pale. Sott! I was a down pillow, a lump of putty. J, who was supposed to be a ‘fighter for the Lord!” masked as direct statement, the two- faced paradox, the impertinent asser tion. To fire a* him is to receive a broadeside for a shot. In fact, like tiie old-style duelist, Shaw stalks abroad with a chip on his shoulder, spreading insult and inviting conflict,. Like the duelist, he is more apt to be wrong than right, but as the sword decided the issue under the “Code,’' so an irresponsible wit leaves nothing but humiliation to the challenge of indignant virtue. The weapon in such a case should be an axe instead of a rapier. This being Shaw, it is astonishing to hear him replying to an attack from a Labor Party paper in a mooi which has in it nothing of bluster and a deal of apparently sincere regret that ho should have been assaulted from a quarter to which he had looked for sympathy. Indeed, the scoffer is al most pathetic as he announces that at least he is glad to know whence to expect the blows that he had looked for from others—that, even should the socialists share in the general condem nation of h?s “Common Sense About the War,” he will continue his s'olitaiy and thankless course of being disagree able. Is it just possible that Shaw meant what he said in his article*? about tho war and that underneath the mounte banking of his satirical philosophy he is in fact the lonely Don Quixote he pictures himself!—The State. The Same Old Story There has been so little change in the European war situation during the past month that it is scarcely neces sary to read the newspapers, in fact it is about time that the front pages were given to something more inter esting. As at example. We pioked up one of the leading State dailies the other day. Snpposing it was the morning paper we glanced at the was news and read the account without discover ing that it was just two weeks old. Taking the old paper and comparing it with the paper of that day we could tell very little difference. In fact if the date lines were changed from one week to the other the public ^ would hardly know the difference. There is such a rigid censorship that we only get what is wanted given out and get very little real news.—Bur lington News. There is this difference between a wise man and a fool; the wise man ex pects future things, but does not de pend upon them, and in the meantime enjoys the present, remembering the past with delight; but the life of the fool is whooly carried on in the future, -^Epicuru8. General Joffre is said to direct the French armies from a position seventy miles back of the firing line. The po sition of Commander-in-Chef. may have its 'responsibilities, but there is no doubt about it, also having its com pensation. So far not even the ingen uity of the Krupps has succeeded in turning out a gun that will shoot sevj enty miles.