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' ' 1 , II'--' ' ' ! )N FREE PRESS - .- - ' 11 ............ - - . . . . i- THE DAILY FREE PRESS , (United Ptcm Telegraphic Reports) . fL Gait BraXton, Editor and Manager JtbUabad Ererr Day Ixeent Sunday by the Kinston Fret ,. Frees Co, Inc.. Jfinston, N. C " SabecrlpUoa Rate Payable la Adfaaes: Dm Wee ,.. .10 Tana Months 1.00 fa Month M Six Montha 100 One Taax 14.00 Catarad at tha postoffice at Kin ton, North Carolina, a eooonU-class matter under act of Congress, March 8, 1879. Communications reoelred and not published will not be retained anleia atampa to cover postage accompany aame. NEW YORK OFFICE 38 Park Row. Mr. Ralph R. Mulligan. In sole charge of Eastern Department. Files of Free Praaa can be teen. WESTERN OFFICE In charge of Mr. C. J. Anderson, Marquette Building, Chicago, where fllea of The Free Praaa can be seen. Subscribers are requested to notify, by Telephone 78, Tha Free Press of any Irregularity of delivery or Inattention whauoaver on the par: of tha carriers. After Six P. M. subscribers are requested to call West am Union and report failure to get the paper. A copy will be aent promptly, if eomDlaint is made before Nine P. M without cost to subscriber. FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 25, 1916 The New Bern Sun-Journal, we fear, is undertaking to promote a lottery. It proposes to offer a prize for. the quickest solution of the European. Mexican and railroad situations. t will only take 1192.31 more to bring Kinston's and Lenoir's contributions for, the flood sufferers of Western North Carolina tup to tha thousand mark. Twenty ten will lo tha work... , f t ':" It is presumed that should Admiral Mayo's v forces elude or overwhelm those of Admiral Helm, the landing wih be purely imaginary and in that respect very much akn to the hallucinations of aome alarmists, who have told os how easy It would be for great armies of Europe to r overrun our fertile fields. V , . . , Tae introduction of a bill in the Russian Douma pro posing to extend to the Jews, living in the Russian Em pire, all the privileges enjoyed by other citizens, Is' In Une with the promises made during tho early part of the war. yThat the bill will have bitter opposition and will be hard of passage ia a foregone conclusion. Russia will ilnj a sentiment of endorsement from the nation of tho wu-)d when it docs elect to give to tho Jewish people, re siding in JU domains, the opportunity to live and proa pr as other people Race prejudice and religious perse cution belong to the dark agos. They havo no place in modern civilization.' THE HIGH COST OF BLANK PAPERS.' One of the most serious aituationa confronting the country today, and particularly the printing craft. Is the high coat of blank papers and raw materials entering Into the making of newspapers and the5 "printing of job work. Aa .increase has been noticeable on every single article requisite to the printing trade.. In some few instance an increase of from 10 to 20 per eent. Is all that has been made' In the majority of cases 150 per cent, and more, and in aome the prices have mora than doubled. For in atarce, common assorted poster paper.which was bought for 85c and 90c a ream six or ight months ago, now soils or (2.00. Bond papers have increased CO to 100 per cent. Of course, the printers have had no altcrnJve than to Increase their prices accordingly for job work and the burden has therefore, been divided with the consumer. Not so, however, with newspapers. As a matter of fact, the papers of this country are face to face with a most grave situation. They have, within the past few months, ' been required to practically double their expenses for newspaper print paper, and not only is there no relief in sight, but the brokers claim that the supply is exceed ingly limited and a great many supply men are only ac cepting orders from their regular customers. This enor mous increase runs from a thousand or two for the small er papers to hundreds of thousands annually for the larg er' metropolitan papers. Some papers have already in creased their subscription prices to offset in part this extri burden. Tfte Free Press is facing an additional expenditure on account of tho Increase in prices of between t2, 000 and $2,500 a year with no offset in sight. The management hopes to tide over the situation without having to call on its readers to pay an increased subscription price; however, prompt payment of subscriptions is absolutely necessary, and we appeal to our subscribers to arrange ti take care of their subscriptions promptly when due. No newspaper can endure the prevailing excessive prices for raw materials and carry any considerable number of de linquent subscribers or those who are in arrears. Prom pi payment of subscriptions is absolutely necessary for the welfare of every newspaper printed in America. THE KINSTON FREE PRESS DR PAGLIERE BLAMES f" l WAR FOR HIGH PRICES; ' RELIEF" IS PROMISED Friday Evening, August 25. 191c THE GRAND JURY'S CRITICISMS. It Is not our purpose In this article to make comment tiprn the full report of the grand jury, which criticized rather sharply the county commissioners in rerard to thu expenditure of the road funds and the handling of con victs. We do deem it necessary to direct the public's at tention to that part of the report dealing with the con vict system. In tho first plaoe, The Free Press believes that ths Botid of County .Commissioners has laid itself liable to sharp criticism for continuing in the service, Convict Boss Mincher, who was convicted at a recent term of the Superior Court for brutal and inhuman treatment to priconers. and who is now out on bond pending the ap peal of his ense to the Supreme Court. The evidence ad duces at the trial of this man was sufficient to convince every right-thinking citizen in the county that he was unfit for the place and his continued employment by the county commissioners border not only on contempt o' court, but contempt of public sentiment The grsnd jury indicated in its report that its recep tion at the convict camp was discourteous. This is not the first report of this character which has been made. Sonu months ago a prison reformer passing through com plained of having been accorded discourteous treatment at the hands cf the road department. The grand jury was in the discharge of its official duty in making its inspection. We are informed that it has the right to see every record and to look into every phtfe of the work ing of the criminals as much so as the county commis sioners or their agents. The same, of course, could not be tsald about the prison reformer, but the commissioners and their road superintendent must not lose sight of the fact that the convict camp is a public institution. It is open to inspection and if it is being properly conducted it is logical to assume that there will be no objection to a visit from an official body, such as the grand jury, or any representative citizen, who might desire to visit it. There has been too much mystery and vagueness about our county convict system. A thorough investigation shoikl be made and those in charge of the road force should be exonerated of the alleged shortcomings or "lace the music,", if tho reports are substantiated. Some action oupht to be taken and taken now. WHAT OTHERS SAY IS DECENCY TO BE MATTER OF FASHION? Richmond Virginian; "We commend to the attention of American women the following, written by the Italian Bishop of Cunoo, in comment on a letter to the clergy from the Archbishop of Turin, Italy, in which the prel ate urges that indecently dressed women be Tefused ad mission to the churches: "In times of war the matrons of ancient Rome used to dress in mourning. Our women, on the contrary, go about dressed like tight-rope dancers, short skirts, high heeled boots, transparent stockings, bare necks and arms, face a rouged and painted, absurd coiffures, and hats of shaoes as varied and fantastic as the caprices brewing in the silly heads that wear them." "We have often wondered why our women in Ameri ca fsel constrained to follow any and every style that corves out from we know not where. Who is the auto crat anyway who decrees that women's dresses shall swing but slightly below their knees and that they ehal oftn be so thinly clad that their attire can be described in hut one day? "Who decrees that indecency in danc'ig must be ac cepted as a matter of course? Who was responsible for tho terribly degrading mesa of alleged literature served up by many of the so-called leading magazines, as a hand-maiden of the Indecent in dress and dancing? "We must believe that there has been a terrible loss somewhere a loas in delicacy, a cheapening in all that true womanhood holds most dear. "We wonder, at times, what form the campaign of in decency will next assume." Buenos Aires, Aug. 2". Dr. Jose Marcos Pagliere today denied the re port that ths Radical parly soon to nut its hand ' to the administrative machinery in Argentina has no pro pi am. The statement has been made by a number of their political oppon ents and by many-radicals themsel ves. Dr. Pagliere, a prominent Radical, who probably will have a place in President- Elect Irigoyen's cabinet, says they are mistaken. "We Radicals,'! he declared today, "are men if action, with deed.!, not words, for our daily motto. Person ally, I look forward to a new consti tutional life in Argentina, which will make our nationality as immovable as the rock. "There will be more security for the people and the stranger." Dr. Pagliere said the Radicals will reduce food prices. j "The European war," he said to day, "has unnecessarily increased the cost of bread in Argentina to 15 l-2c for 2 pounds and 2 ounces. We have Studied this matter and at the end of 3 months of experiment have dis posed of much bread a 8tce a posed of much bread at 8 cents and 8 mills for 2 pounds and 2 ounces. This was done without the' lotia of a single cent. We will do the same with meat and milk very soon." POOR LITTLE RICH BOY ' 'I MUST GO BACK TO HIS STEPFATHER'S MOTHER - j ?Nyack. N. Y 'Aug. , 25.-Willie Crossman Lee, "the poor little rich 'boy," who cried and said he was "tir ed of being dragged around the coun try", by relatives interested in the $2,000,000 estate he inherits from the late William Crossman, coffee fling, will shift guardians again here today. Supreme Court Justice -. Tompkins decided that DeWitt II, Kenyon, Port CHester lawyer, must return Hhe boy t6 Mrs. Emma Lee, mother of Fred erick T. Lee of White Plains, step father, of the boy. The battle for possession of the 2-million-dollar boy has waged hotly for more than a year in the New .York courts between William Mills, Jr., of California, father of the boy and Lee, his stepfather. His father started seven scparte actions to gat the boy FREIGHT HOUSE DOVER ROBBED DURING NIGHT The freight warehouse of the Nor folk Southern Railroad at Dover was robbed either late Thursday night or early this morning, according to local police office. The Kinston depart ment has been advised that one or more persons entered 'the warehouse, taking off three suit of clothes. quantity of whiskey, a bicycle and pos sibly other articles. , An axe and inside. There is said to be no clue, hammer were used to gain entrance, and the implements were loft on the SOUTHERN RAILWAY Traia No. 21 Lei. fes Golds boro 6:45 a. mH for Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Aalfevllle and Waynea- ville. Through train to Asheville, handles chair car to Waynesvllle. Greensboro. Handles free chair car from Raleigh to Atlanta, making con nection for New Orleans, Texas, Cal ifornia and all western points; also connects at Greensboro with through trains for all northern and eastern points. Traia No. 139 Leaves Golds bore 2:00 p. en. for Raleigh, Durhau and Makes connections at Greensboro for all points ncrth and east, and at Ashe ville with Carolina Special for Cin cinnati, Chicago and all western points. Train No. Ill Leaves Goldsboro 10:35 p. m, for Ra'cigh, Durham and Greensboro HaniiOs Pullman sleep through train for Atlanta and New Orleans, also makes connection for isheville, Chattanooga, St. Louis. Memphis, lrmingham and all west irn points. Train No. 131 Leaves Goldsboro 5:00 p. m. for Raleigh, Durham and Greensboro, making connection for Washington, Dal timore Philadelphia, New York and points South and West J, O. JONES, Traveling Passenger and the management of his estate, but lost every; one. . The boy's mother, who divorced Mills and married Lee, died in New York two years ago. Testimony at the hearing said that Mills never had taken any interest in his son until he Inherited the estate of the coffee fling. The boy testified that his mother had impressed on him the desirability of remaining with his stepfather. The lawyer Lyon was ( appointed guardian a few months ago, and the boy taken away from Lee. Lee and his mother hid the boy and were hal ed into court. . It as expected that they will now be permitted to keep him. v fKoRFOiKSoumEmf Operates Passenger Trains from North Carolina into Terminal Sta tion, Norfolk, without Transfer. N. B. The following schedule fig ures published as information only and are not guaranteed," J TRAINS LEAVE KINSTON 'East Bount ' ' 11:21 p. m-ight Express," Pan. vv. man Sleeping Cars New Bern ' ' Norfolk. Connect for all pobfc North and West Parlor Car Ser rice between New Bern and Ner folk..1 . ' '; 7:50 a. m. Daily, for Beaufort, New Bern and Norfolk. . j: f 4:41 p. m Daily for Beaufort and " Oriental. West Bound 5:40 a. m Daily for Goldsboro. 10:03 a. m. Daily for Goldsboro. 8:14 p. m Daily for Goldsboro. For further information, or ireserva tion of Pullman sleeping car apace, oapply to W. J. Nicholson, Agent, Kin. ston, N. C '., E. D. KYLE, -Traffic Manager, Norfolk. Va. H. S. LEARD, General Passenger Agt,' Norfolk, Va. 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