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TIIE KINSTON FREE PRESS THE DAILY FREE PRESS KINSTON FREE PRESS CO, INC, KINSTON. N. C. EL GALT BRAXTON EDITOR AND MANAGER (United rrcM Reports), Zumi at tha jxwtofflca at Kinston, North Carolina, at weeni class matter undar act of Congress, March 3, 1879.) TKLEPIIONE ALL DEPARTMENTS 75 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ( Payable la Adranc) Ona Waalc ................... .10 On Month .85 Tfcm Montha 1.00 Six montha 2.00 Twalra Months 4.00 Subscribers are requested to notify, by Telephone 75, The Free Press office of any Irregularity of delivery or inat tention whatsoever on the part of the carriers. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5. 1915 Th Frea Press la not familiar with the full provision! of tha bill regulating the compensation of Are Insurance agents, which was passed by the House Wednesday. When the cost of soliciting, handling and losses sustained in , failure to collect premiums, which the agent has to guar- antee, lire taken Into consideration, there is plenty of room for doubt as to the wisdom of making any reduction in the commissions, paid. The contingency basis is sound, for it give an incentive to decline highly questionable risks, which at closely competitive points, agents are in clined to accept If the Legislature could provide some : safeguard to protect the agent from imposition on the part of the insured, the matter of a reduced commission would not be such a material consideration. , or Jess annoyed and which it has made an effort to rid it J self of, that were handled lese vigorously than a good many ( dtixens of Kinston felt was best for the community. The Free Press Is not making any' particular criticism of Judge Peebles. He is of the old school of non-reconstruc tionists (for which class the editor of The Free Press has a high regard) and suggestions or criticisms from any ' source would not alter the old gentleman. ' The Free Press Is concerned about the local affairs and it feels that Kinston people should have more say in the matter ( of who shall administer the laws as pertain to the minor offenses committed against the peace and dignity of this city. The county or recorder's court; should give that privl- lege. The judge of that court should be elected by the' people and should be responsible to them for carrying out their wishes in law enforcement here. The bulk of. the vice and petty cases which affect this district would be disposed of In such a court ' This would mean a speed ler handling and much less expense eind uncertainty In the outcome. A recorder's court under certain conditions would be advisable, but under other possible alignments unwise. ' . fall:'. i&ftf to tffrt&wi Ml The lower branch of the Genera! Assembly has gone on record very decidedly with reference to its position on the question of equal suffrage. There is practically no possibility of the matter again coming before the House at this aesnion. This question ia one that mut come by education and force of circumstances. In the Western Slates its application has, in all probability been necessary and expedient, bat here In North Carolina, where the home is revered in the South's peculiar way, and the woman is looked upon as the guardian of the cas tie, there is not so much need for the privilege of the Bal lot for women as in the sections where she has to hoc her own row. ' The Free Press believes that woman's more direct influence in the making of the laws would result in removing from the statute books those measures which o coviously are man-made and which tend to throw ton much of the burden upon woman; but there is time for this question, I The people are hardly ready for it yet, although its eventual coming is, no doubt, inevitable. KINSTON'S POSTOFFICE APPROPRIATION. Congressman Kitchin has advised the editor of The Free Press that he has investigated the status of the cost of the postofflce building for Kinston, and that he Is in formed by the Supervising Architect that the building is to .cost when completed anl furnished, around $(10,000. The architect, Mr. Kitchin says, stated that "under the . system prevailing now the building would be equal to a 70,000 or $75,000 building as formerly built." The archi tect further takes the position that the $00,000 building Is adequate not only for Kinston, but for a town many time larger, and that owing to the condition of the pub- lie treasury the officials are trying to economise and save wherever they can. The economy idea is all right, PRINCIPLE ALL RIGHT, BUT MOTIVE QUESTIONABLE The abstract principle of submitting the liquor question in Alabama to the people, as suggested by our esteemed contemporary, The Wilmington Dispatch, is perfectly sound. In commenting upon the Dispatch's endorsement of the suggestion, made by Governor Henderson to the Alabama Legislature, The Free Press took the view that the complete story was not known by its Wilmington friend. The motive must be considered, even in the ap' plicntion of the highest principles, and The Free Press is quite confidis" that the suggestion of Governor Henilor- ' - . m i . a a i son, wniuti was made alter me Legislature naa passeu, by a two-thirds majority, the State-wide bill, was sug gested ky the liquor organs, namely: The Montgomery Advertiser and The Birmingham News, and was a vain effort cn the part of these journals to stay the tide of prohibition. Eight years ago the Legislature passed a county-union local option law and many of the counties practically all which voted on the question went over whelmingly dry. Jefferson county, in which Birmingham is located, went dry by the largest majority that had ever been given to any cause, up to that time, and still the whiskeyitea contended, after state-wide prohibition be came effective, that the people of Jefferson were opposed to the law. The first state-wide bill in Alabama was passed at an extraordinary session of the Legislature, following pretty soon after the regular session, eight years ago -not four, as the Dispatch is under the impres sion. The Alabama Assembly sits quadrennially, and not every two years, and very shortly the Anti-Saloon League endeavored to put through a constitutional amendment which was overwhelmingly defeated and gave to the cause of prohibition the set back, which resulted in a repeal of the laws four year ago. The Free Press would endorse tho idea to submit the question to the people If it did not believe that the people had expressed themselves in sending an instructed delegation to the Legislature ufid if the "let the people rule" cry came came from other! than liquor sources. The Free Press and its Wilming ton contemporary are not apart on a matter of principle, but on one of expediency and application. The Chewiest Chewing Gum ever Chewed ' r a V s Chew "Boijs 5c. the packet or two "Bobs" for a cent at all the better stands and stores. 1 .O OME . pep to "Bofos the hewpeppermint flavored, : candy-coated hearts of real chewing gum. Say! one or two at a time they give you -a new taste and flavor, a new class to chewing pm. Get -the Today TOTOTT TODAY'S QUOTATIONS PRODUCE the WHAT OTHERS SAY GAS METER WORKING ALL RIGHT? Greensboro Record: "There must be a few car loads of gas ranges in this town. A man advertised in The Record Monday that he wanted to buy one, and received forty-five answers to hig ad., and they were still coming in today. Must be something tho matter with the gas meters. Are they working overtime? Seems a lot of people want to unload," Wholesale Prices Reported by Kinston Peanut Company Perk 12',S Lard 14 Bacon, side , 15 Bacon, ham 20 Bacon, shoulder 15 Corn, bushel 80 Potatoes, sweet .CO Eggs go Country butter 30 Hens, pound 10 Broilers, pound 12 Roosters, apiece 25 Character Counts in the home as well as in the People. Here is a big stock of well chosen Furniture - of - Character and every article is a bargain. EVERY DAY IS BARGAIN DAY III WATERS We Appreciate Your Patronage GRAY & Barber Shop la Hood Basement 1W F3 beg to an nounce that Our Spring Line gf Men's Suits has arrived nd we will appreciate it if you will look our line over be fore buying else where : : : no more cif;nn no less UIU.UU We Include the Extra Pair of Pants With Our Spring Line . MARYLAND TAILORING CORP Dr. O. L. WILSON Dci;t Ofiire over J. E. Hood & Co's Store. BENTON & MOORE at least, tha principle is, but why should the superviHing architect take it upon himself to say that a $00,000 build-1 ON TIIE CONTRARY ing is au wai Ainston neeua when Congress has already, I Wilmington Dispatch! , "The esteemed Kinston Free wrough Kinston s representatives, allowed 70,000 T It Press seems to think that our agreement with the Cover- appears a case of tha tail wagging the dog. If a $75,000 nor of Alabama that the prohibition question should have value can now be built for $00,000 why shouldn't Kin. been left to the people is caused by lack of full under- TODAY'S COTTON MARKET ton be tha beneficiary and get a $90,000 or a $100,000 value for Its appropriation? Kinston has waited five1 years for tha additional $20,000, and It ia, by all that Is I fair and right, entitled to the full appropriation. Some cllixens think It best to let well enough alone and take no steps which would tend to delay the Inauguration of, tha construction work, but it must be taken into consid eration that the building Is not for a day or a few years, i standing of the caso. Ter contra, by what we think is a full realisation. The Free Press tells of the methods employed to block legislation, to defeat prohibition that caused the Governor's veto, and of the fact that the counties of Alabama had the question before thorn when they selected their legislators. "We underatund all these things, and still we believe what the Governor said was right We do not know his New YorK, Feb. 5.Today's cot ton futures quotations: March 8,73 g.Gfi May 8.95 8.88 July ....9.15 9.06 October ...9.38 9.30 December . . .9.52 9.44 Wilson, N. C. 1 abouta should be utilised here. i L " .' ' " "l. a A RECORDER'S COURT. ' - century oeiore lunston gets motives, but the general principle of referring the actual any mora money from the Government, and the building question of prohibition to the people is correct In the snouia do planned accordingly. Tho directors of the Alabama caso there are other reasons why this course v-ur amerce ana ewer interested citisens should should be nursued. It would nv f,ii..., ,,fW ml. At. . 11. . it . Ik 4 .. I ! VilW .r. u.. nmuer mougm ana decide upon the best plan, big friction and enable Alabama to think and talk about 1M rrw rew Iem lnat iu appropriation or there- things other than the liquor ouestion. Four years ago the Slate went dry by legislative en acimoni, two years ago this law was repealed. Now the State goes prohibition again. If an election was ordered the Deonlo wmiM i.ttlfl 4f Ttta v. ii rfm m, 11 . i : I - - .. nvruiu W flu UUVSUUII i7eM beUvea that there are a good many about what the maWitv nf t, r. .7 CU 1 WUld dV,8aUe f0r W0U,d prevent furthar ctlon the Legislature, bring , tw unutr nrum conditions the I Ing on a state of unrest. imcrt.int ,a - i i establishment of auch a tribunal. There are certain con- would keep the matter from being made a big 'part of r" " . wnicra wouia IMU the pro- ever count election. ti th. !ni .m posed court much less desirable than the present order tions. " ' u.." i meiaoa 01 seiecung the judge, his auali- "As it is. the n..tln 1. vlfc ... v ' . . . ficatlon. .rut MMA.lst. -tt . . ' . ' v" vuu w irom r ... mu nwtwii ui prime import-1 now. First In countv i -.,.):., 1 ance. The Frea Press doubts the .dvtBl,i!i ,. .v. . ... ' ",,u . . . . . . . .ijriww u .auier quesuons; second, there fa ' possibilitv for PI Vina" the nrnnnuul mnrf l!-.i:..t m . . I ... .... ' yvnuutuiif - 7 1. ; v T oer next JLegisJatura will reverse tho present action need, however, for . change in handling criminal cases for No Legislature wM dure thwart the expressed will 2 under the present system of rotating Superior Court people. Judges, it frequently tapoMlble to hav. M problems, -Being responsible to the people, legislators are not ,0 which come befor. the courts, disposed of in the way that constituted. That is why weTought IrnZZ , . people of the community think they ought to be h.n- Governor's pretense. ,a the matter fSZ d.ej. Last week when Judge Peebles u her. . great right, and w. believe, after weighing the entire latT,, many eases were heard and fine. Imposed. There were our Kinston friend' will agreT rnfi disposed of with fines which TJi. I'm. tv.. ki: I it. '..,. . ...... ""WKucra .... nuria varoiioa settled th m. t . t . -M have had work sentences. TW . ..-.t- - -1 . . P - . -T . . " WBy , - . ... . . . 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