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mm MHOS HERALD fCBJLISHED EYERT RIDAY IT KtriLi PaUuhing Company, lac J. T. Stain back .... Editor SaWsipdea $1.00 Tew ia Advance TELEPHONES Day 870 - - Night 568 Eptered m Second Class Mutter April 8. 1914. at the Poat Office at Roanoke Rapid, North Carolina, under Act of Marco 5, 18. All communications should be e4red to the Herald Publishing Co. CtrMi wishing- return of mss, matt in all cases enclose stamps. splendid condition every mile o the present highway system and also to open up the road from Roanoke Avenue through to the cemetery for the convenience and use of practically every per son in the township. That they have not already been granted this road is because the matter has not been brought before the Road Board with sufficient force. We hope the Ministerial Union will start a petition for this road at once; we believe that the majority of the people will sign it and the Road Board will grant it All cards of thanks, resolutions of re pect, etc.. etc, will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. Cash must accompany article in all cases ex ceot where customer has a regular ac count No insertions made for less than 25 cents. Friday, Aug. 18, 1916 It looks almost Hughesless, doesn't it dear reader? Don't forget the memorial ex ercises at the Cemetery Sunday, Cotton is not only king but crowned emperor at fourteen cents the pound! Some progress from the Roa noke Valley to the Virginia League! - at that! Well, Roanoke Rapids got through several weeks ahead o the rest of the Clubs. "William Jennings Comes Back at Hughes" as headlined by a contemporary reminds us of the saying about "one fool after another. Perhaps it was best if they really didn't have any bands of ball players who could make it interesting for THE TEAM. The Russians taking Jablonitza was no surprise to us - we had figured it out that prohibition in a savage country like Russia wouldn't really prohibit. If the government can't settle the strike, it can at least settle the strikers by presenting them with the alternative of going to work or going to jail. The Asjociated Press used a column lately describing the wonderful sneak King George took to the front Supreme rot We would be overjoyed to know that King George and Kaiser Wilhelm had fought the thing out personally and that there were no survivors. Perseverance Necessary It looks now as though a cen tral road from Roanoke Avenue to the Roanoke Rapids Cemetery is going to be difficult of attain ment The County Road Board, who should authorize the put ting down of this road along Sixth Street out of the Town ship Road Funds has declined to act, tendering a counter proposi tion to have a road opened up by the town of Roanoke Rapida along Fifth Street, which, they state, they would be willing to keep up out of the township road funds. As the road in question will be used by the people of the entire township we believe it is noth ing but right that its cost should be borne by the people of the entire township and we certain ly do hope the town commission ers will turn down the pro position of opening up Fifth Btrt M wion h it is put rr them. The position of the County Bead Board is peculiar in this matter and we certainly think the people of the township should bring more pressure to bear on them in the attempt to gat them to open up a road to the cemetery. The offer to maintain the, Fifth Street road, if built, is illegal, as we under stand it, contemplating as it does the expenditure of county road money inside an incorporated town, and the town could not de pend upon this offer any longer tfen the present Road Board holds office. " Roanoke Rapids Township pays enough taxes for road pur poses we believe to keep in 25 Cents A WEEK Buys One Share in the 5 th Series AT OUR Id a Matter of Life and Death It is to be hoped that by the time these lines meet the read-1 er's eye the President of the! United States may have succeed ed in effecting a settlement of the dispute between the railroads J and their men. Somebody will have to effect it for the thing has got beyond the bounds of an economic dispute. It is a matter of life and death. Hang up the railroads for a week and people would die like flies in our great cities especially the sick, the aged and the children. Legally there is nobody con cerned in this dispute but the railroads and their men. The oretically the men have a per fect right to walk out if they feel so inclined; but practically they have no right to condemn scores, perhaps hundreds of in nocent people to death by disput ing over their wages. Theoreti cally the railroads have a right to discharge every one of their men, and hang up traffic indefi nitely; but imagine what would happen to the railroads if they were to try it. The attitude of the men, as ex pressed in Monday morning's pa per, is that they have the power and consequently are going to exact their demands to the ut termost farthing. If they throw two million other people out of work. why. that is the lookout of the two million. If the cities starve, why, that is not the rail road employes' affair. They fig ure that they have their hands on the throat of the railroads and they intend to squeeze until they get what they want. But have they the power? There are 400,000 of them, it is true-but there are 100,000,000 of the rest of us. The country is not looking for a fight. The last thing it wants is a fight. The country's President is toil ing like a ditcher in the effort to prevent a fight. But if the rail road men are spoiling for a row, and will be content with nothing else, they should be dealt with like any other enemies of the people of the United States that is to say, smashed with all the power of the government of the United States. We take no position hereon the merit of the men's cause. We hope there is something left of conscience, something of equi ty, something of justice, in the American people; certainly there is left much sentiment and it inclines to the physically weaker side in any contest as a rule. The people are not prepared to admit that power any force, old or new, consisting of mere weight or contrivance is to the meas ure in the settlement of dis putes. The question of the jus tice of the demands of the men, or tne unngnteousness oi tne roads' refusal, are not properly in order so long as either side refuses to submit them to trial in some competent tribunal rest ing its jurisdiction in the con science of the people of the United States. Until the best effort that hu man intelligence and orderly jus tice can make has been made to determine them, there are in this quarrel between the men and the roads no issues of right and wrong before the people. But the proposed method of righting any wrongs the men may suffer is in itself so gigantic a wrong against the whole coun try, that the good that might be accomplished by a strike is a drop compared to a very Atlan tic of ill that would attend it There must be no strike, if it humanly possible to prevent it; but if there is a strike any how, the side whose stubborn ness caused it must feel the full weight of the anger of the peo ple. Greensboro Daily News. I of the Roanoke Rapids Building and Loan Association BEGINNING SATURDAY, 0 1 SEPTEMBER nQ J. L PATTERSON, President. W. L LONG. J. T. CHASE. Sec'y- & Treas. V. Pres. OFFICE FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING W. T. ROWLAND District Manager MUTUAL LIFE Ins. Co.. oi New York OI4.it sas Lart.il DirifceJ Ptyiaf C om its; ia tlx Unite Slabs For further information CiH si First Natiesal Bans at ktuott tssiat "And they brought him home" These grey hairs cama when they brought Will home, after the fire. Afterward, it was all I could do to pull myself together and think of some way to keep the chrldren and not break up the borne. Will was good husband and it was not bis fault we couldn't save much money. He was more than good he was thoughtful, too. I found, then, that he'd taken out the iETNA TEN DOLLAR COMBINATION POLICY and that I was to have over $3000 for it Just think 'it cost him only (10 year to ETNA-IZE so little be never talked about It and it brought this windfall to me! You never can tell when an acci dent may come. I'm sure if you told your Jack about it. Mrs. Rogers, be wouldn't rest until he'd gone straight to the agent C. A. WYCHE, Agent is WHERE THE FIRES OCCURRED New York Firs Commissioner Ana lyzes the Origin of the Losses In That City. The campaign to Interest property owners in the reduction of the fire waste and to encourage a sense of personal responsibility fat prevent able fires should be helped by a state ment of the proportion of the fires which occur) In the homes, where the lives of women and children are en dangered. Robert Adamson, Fire Commissioner of New York City, has made an analysis of the MM fires, shewing that 64 per cent occurred In the places where people live. He re ports that the total number of fire alarms received in MM was 16.245, ol which 1.820 were false alarms. The actual number of fires was 14,425. Of this number 9,243 eccurred in places In which people live private dwell ings, tenement houses, hotels and boarding houses. This was 64 per cent of all fires. Of the remaining number of fires, 1,414 occurred outside of buildings, so that only 1,768 fires oc turred in buildings other than those used as homes. There were 6,781 fires in tenement Bouses alone, 1,167 fires In bedrooms 1.674 in cellars, 478 In chimneys. 1,340 In kitchens, 1,081 in parlors and din tag rooms, 376 in closets, 186 In bath rooms, 490 awning fires, 105 dumb waiter fires, and 316 fires under stoops porches and areaways. To each one of these fires the ure department had to tend men and appa ratus. Most of them were due to downright carelessness, and the New York department has established ia court Its right to compel the owner to pay the cost of extinguishment la cases where the loss was due to tail ore to comply with fire prevention regulations. Insurance Post. FIRZ FATALITIES. Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young eays there seems to be an increase in the number of deaths by fire reported of late not only in the daily press, bat especially In various sections of this State, which had come to be comparatively free from these fatal burnlshlngs for some time past. Constant vigilance and attention to the details of fire prevention and maintenance of safety and fire-escape appliances are the only remedy for these disasters, and Commissioner Young appeals for this care-taking and vigilance to be exercised, pointing out thai it will result not only In saving life and property, but' In the ultimata reduction of fire insurance rate, which are to largely controlled by the volume of lire losses sad cost of adzoftUttraUon. SMITH MOTOR WHEEL ARGAIN COUNTER Closing out all Oxford Shoes d? at less than cost price of 1 0 per cent, off on all Low Cut Shoes 25c. Dress Goods in a big variety of Weaves and Patterns are being sold rapidly at 1 0 Cents Per Yard CALL ON B. B..HIGGINS Roanoke Rapids, N. C. or L. A. DANIEL Rosemary, N. C. $7.50 Suits of KEEP KOOL KLOTHES Now $6.75 Patterson Store Company GEO. L. HAYES, Jr., Manager A. L. 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