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THE WAYNESVILLE COURIER Friday, Jur.e 26, 1914. C d 1 t o i r a 1 0 a S e a y n c s v i 1 1 Courier PAf.K F.ICV.T HJagnrsutUr (Cmtrirr OUTLAWING WHISKEY II: eJ I :j.i !';. R. it. wiesum. Ono Year Six Man'h.-. Three M otiths. . . .V.M .sl.O'l .t0 PRIMARY WILL SETTEE 11. "The next race in the Teulli will aeitle the contest," James E. .Carra way. of Wayne A'ille, said yesterday morning when he left for his home after spending a day in tne city. Hie Uina for entries rioted June lu and only Congressman Gudger and Mr. Reynolds were entered. That Mean.; that the primary A ike Tenth will be hatter man ever but more easily decided. It will be welcomed by the people, for no ina;t;:' ivw much tney think of their favorites, they want to end it this time. "I have bf'.-n hearing people say i hat iheie Vs great division in the ienh. It isn't true. Either of the men if nominated, will carry the dis tinct. Of course l!.j;e is a iot- of feel ing, fc'Jt it is that of patriotism, The candidates and their adherents do not hate ech other. Wi.cn the p.'.mary i.s over the fighting will ha over. I bidieve that. Mr. Canaway spent for or five nights and days with the Gudger men jl Waynesville and not At the appivai hi liau a rtrong etfort V .'!e the rianutacti: ' ed I'V law in North ruin ale partly "'ia conwnior.t points into Xo.'th Cariib:.a Adertis.ir.g Kaio.i on Request ! Entered at .'.ne Wayncsv'nie, North! Carolina, Post Office, Under the , Act of March 3rd, 1879, as j Second-Class Mail Ma'tter. j FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1911. I A I T1.K MK. WATTS. j Collector Watts stirred up a hor-' net.V ne.it while in Washington last j week. He had to go iiuo the newspa- j per to deny statements of the Wash ington correspondent of the Greens- j boro News. The colleeor expressed j the opinion that there is not such an , overwhelming sentiment for a prima-1 ry in the State and the newspapers are going after him. The Asheville Citizen refers to him as "Ante De- luvian Watts, the reveius collector for the western district of North Car- i olina," and seems to think the fact j that Gov. Craig is for a primary is suiHcient answer to Mr. Watts' state ment that sentiment isn't so strong for it. ' The correspondent of the Greens-; boro News intimates that complaint : may l,e made to the President about Watts: j It is rumored, though they may not go that far, that progressive Democrats in N"orth Carolina are planning to protest to President Wil son against the activitey of his ap-, pointee at Statesville. These men, it , is said, think Mr. Watts should be! satisfied with holding one of the ' President's best appointments. Many of them even resent this. But they intend to ask that his political activ-! jtv, which it is claimed is being dis- aganwc 'juogr.",ssi.-a pontes, ; . -TJlJr' st'opped. jAl leasi ir. wili'be, biouht to the attention of Mr. Wil- j so'n. Any complaint co the President ' , aboiit Mr. Watts will probably be tim wasted. While The Landmark , is of the opinion that the sentiment for a primary is strong, that the pri- ' mary would be adopted if the people ' had an opportunity to freely express ' their opinion, it is also of the ouin-1 ion that tile priniaiy is coming, by degrees, because public sentiment is i forcing it. Mr. Watts does not fancy the primary and ha and those who I believe with him have been able to1 prevent its enactment thus far. The ; people have permitted this and they have themselves to blame, if they j really want the primary, that it has i not been enacted uy now. j While The Landmark and Mr. Watts agree in few things politically,! nobody who knows the collector will I deny his influence or ability and he's j geneiaiiy candid about what hs stands j for. If the Asheville Citizen will ask ! its distinguished fellow citizen. Gov. ' Craig, the latter will testify that the' collecor is not antiquated at least so' far as up-to-the-iinnute political methods aie concerned. Statesville' l.an Jifiai k. ,g session of the General Assembly of Xorth Caro ..iii .ic n.at'e to banish whiskey from this state, o ami sale ef intoxicating liquors is now prohibit laroiir.a. it the beverages which cheer but to ,abie ti all who desire, and have the price. From i: 'I nne. , ei' and Virginia packages are sent i Miimi-.ers that are astounding. Here at Wavnes- ville the expre-s o:hcc does a steady business of large volume, and upon any speirl holiday the shipments of whiskey here are immense. The same thing holds tin; ..f every town and city in the state. It is this That the Geneva! Assembly wil! be asked to stop. 'la. approaching session of the General Assembly will be the first one in this stat in a position to pass an act of this nature that will he effective. Under the provisitions of an act of Congress, the Webb-Ken-yon Bill, a state ran make it unlawful for whiskey to be shipped into MAKING TOMORROW'S WORLD By WALTER WILLIAMS, L. L. D. Dean if the School uf J - n'i" if Ihe I'nhvrtity tf "'- its territory. This L1W 1, as been tested and upheld in the United States courts. While it has not reached the United States - upreme court there is reason to believe that tribunal will uphold the decisions of the lower court,. North Carolina can, therefore, really regulate the liquor traffic from adjoining jcates and stop it if the state so desires. The sentiment for such action is growing stronger. It is apparent that by the time the General Assebly convenes public feeling will have been so jrystaiLed that the .egislators will have no difficulty in know ing what a majority of the people of the state want along this line. If North Carolina is to have prohibition the people want it to be of such a character that it will really prohibit. Destroying the saloon and putting half-pint bottles into the pockets of bootleggers for illicit sale is a condition that has grown monotonous. A large proportion of the cases upon tne dockets of the Superior courts of the state arise from just this conditin. It is ne that must be stopped. The legislature can now do it. THE CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY Mr. S. F. Chapman of Asheville in a recent communication to the Asheville Citizen suggests that the district primary called for the fif teenth of August to nominate a democratic candidate for congress in an irregular proceeding and one without binding force, beyond the confines of tiie rules and regulations laid down in the party plan of organization. We do ut know what plan Mr. Chapman has in mind to solve the problem left by the Tenth district convention, which adjourned without having made a nomination. It is possible that he has in mind some method of selecting a candidate that is better than the one proposed At any rate we beg to take exception to his suggestion of any irregu larity. 9 . - , r f'he district convention had two functions, under the democrat! pin of organisation.) One. was t nominate a ea'mlidaW The other! v, to' name a district executive committee. The first function the conv. i tion found itself absolutely unable to perform, after vainly endeavoring so to do for four days. The second function was performed, regularly and in order, as we believe no one will deny. Nov., as to the action taken with regard to the primary called for the middle of August, we maintain that this was also regular. The newly elected executive committee met, before the adjournment of the cc-.ventior ami drew up a tentative plan for a primary to name a Can dida1:?. The plan of the committee was approved by the convention, and f-tl.ie' . ment followed. Uidc thy pan of organization c-f the party, if Mr. Chapman will raV -o that document, the executive committee of any congressional district has the power to call a district-wide ballot primary if the com mitte finds ihat such may be necessary or desirable. This is what ihe Tenth district executive committee did. The only manner in which the committee's action differed from the plan laid down in the plan of organization was in having its work approved by the district con vention. Under the circumstances it does seem to us that there has been nothing rregular, or nothing materially differing from party rules. An extradordinary occasion demanded extraordianry measures, it is true, bu. even in the rush and confusion of the last few hours of the most re markable con.-ention ever held i the Tenth district sane counsel pre vailed and the customs and precedents of the party were closely f.,. lowed. Moreover, there is no denying that tj mass of the people of the district are taiisfied with this i.anner of st-leeiing a candidate after '!e convention had failed in its mission. With two candidates the people will go to the ballot boxe;: in August and vote for their choice, and whoever is successful then will be supported in November. All that remains for the executive committee to do at its meet in- this week is io perfect the details for holding 'he primary. Ghent, BelRiuin. T o w n p I a n ning is not a modern 1 n v e n tioo. Only the pannw of Use planning haf were pte"nfjjyp tardag tor t&4 gSarjfof Umbqi ad the eujby ment of the ferv, for show or for safety against in Taaion. The town planners of to day are working on other and to tally different lines. Almost within the decade has deretoned the town planning which takes into ac count the great majority of the people who dwell in the towns. The new town-planner is a prac tical democrat This was the cen tral and significant thought of the First International Town Planning Congress held in this cualnt, historic city of Ghent, Belgium, In the Palace of Congresses of its beautiful exposi tion. Town-planning Involves house planning. Plans are futile unless workable. The provision of funds and the direction and control of expendi ture were discussed. And because town-planning takes into account in its largest vision the city's suburbs BSfn oosld empkry, if dull m 7. mreflsocy poweis to purchase land in coaaidentble blocks, erecting cot tages, four to an acre, thereon and make the scheme profitable at 75 cents a week. This estimate included. subordinated to the interest of the 1 in addition to $750 for the cost of the community. The crowded housing. co". fJW for tha land. After due which the greed of real eBtate pro moters so frequently brings about in small as well as large towns, is not permitted' under th nesj town-planning leglslatlcp. &jcfcy ba rights which even the real estate agents must rapect. CJtles, which were for merly built tor the power and tie glory of the owiord. and, more lat terly, for the pocket of the landlord, are to be constructed for common, ordinary folks, the class to which most of us belong. Life is to be preferred abore mere property. Now all this can not be brought allowance was added for loan charges, repairs. Insurance, and supervision, the total annual cost to be met was set down at I60 per group of four, which work ovt about 75 cetrU a week for each. Model Cottage-for 62 Cent Weekly. The model was ahowd of B) pottage tn Surrey, England, actaally btdlt and rented to three youo? wOmen earning their living. Tbia cottage has three bedrooms, parlor, kitchen, pantry, bathroom, coal-cellar. A framework of block weather-boarding was used ror tne external walls. Between this about in a day. The building of ' the plaster interior is an air space Rome took longer, whatever Its plan- ' which is said to make the house warm ning or lack of planning required. Progress, remarkable progress, has been made. The Ghent Congress shoved that much has been accom plished in less than a decade. The reconstruction- of Vienna, the working men's houses in Germany, the mak ing over of certain poorer quarters in Paris and Brussels and Ghent, Gar den City, near London, and other city suburbs In Great Britain, are examples of the new but widespread movement for better housing for town and coun try. Better Housing Progress in England. Great Britain, where conditions of life are more nearly similar to those and dry and perfectly weather-Droot. It cost, land included, G00 and rents for 62 cents a week. Better housing on the farm may not, of course, check the movement of pop ulation to the city. Perhaps it is neither necessary nor desirable to re tain upon the soil, under today's con dition, so large a proportion of the population as yesterday. The more rural conditions are improved, the bet ter the wages and the housing, the higher the education at the school, the less will the farm-laborer be satis fied with the country as it Is. So better farm conditions, through Hous ing Reform and In other ways, brings in the United States, contributed the ; an Increased betterment of all rural results of Its recent experimental leg islation. This legislation, In substance, was designed to simplify and cheapen and the country side, even far re-, the existing procedure for acquiring moved, there was report of farm ! land for housing purposes and to deal dwellings and farms, of the provision ! with insanitary areas and unhealthful I phaslze the need for a more comforta- of houses in country as in town. The 1 dwellings, to require landlords to keep ' blu rurai iiie and for a more intensive gathered experiences of a dozen ia- j rented houses in proper repair, and to agriculture. Hons, through official rpnptwpntjiHvpfi TiraviAa fnr tnwn nlnnntriff TTnHor A ftlum Llf Stoi"v. from Jheir chief fjties, were presented. ', this act 140 British towns have ' Over against the progress of the Conspicuous" was the object lesson 1 adopted schemes of town planning to new attack upon the old slum, as life conditions for those who remain and, with better conditions, fewer handB are needed. It was not a far cry, therefore, when the Town Plan ning Congress heard one speaker em- shown by the Ghent Congress, may be put a story told a few eveningB before at a London club. Miss B., an old presented in an exhibit by a learned ; guide their growth and development, St. Andrew's professor, in picture, i Farm land to the amount of 160,000 chart and model, of the changing ' acres has been purchased and upon it plans of towns, from the glorification have been installed 13,000 smallhold- maid with much money and nothing to of the Caesar, the church or the state, ers. Ninety per cent of this state ac- do, became Interested in slum work. Berlin or Rome or Washington, to the quisition of land was not by compul-1 She rented rooms in a London slum good of the men and women and even sion but by voluntary agreement with I district, gave tea and cake the Brit of the boys and girls, who were the landowners. Ninety-eight per cent of lh climax of afternoon hospitality residents. the 13,000 smallholders rent the land. I to children who came and presented Takes Parks to the People. Only two per cent bonght it from the I material for any garments they would We have built our towns not to fit state, the others preferring to be ten- j make. One little ginl worried Miss B. us but to fit our neighbors' eyes, ants of the county councils, to which She looked so poor and ill and mis Cathedral and castle and capltol, bou- Is entrusted the local administration I erable. Finally the Good Samaritan decided to invite the child to her coun try home for a week's holiday, an in vitation e.cceDtod with delight. Tha, ocu woujaii uiaffe"eTjp7S fcsioh T6ir" her comfort, a pretty bedroom, toys and playmates and books, food and flowers. The child of the slums could i stand it only four days. She wanted i to go back to London the second day, ; she cried all the third day and neither . food nor fruit nor fi6wers could tempt j her on the fourth, She invented ex cuses to induce her benefactor to take her h?"k to her tenement dwelling she dreamt her mothe." was dead, she had sprained her foot, her father had written that her baby brother was ill. The truth was that her small Cockney soul fairly sickened for the sights and smells of the slums and that a ha'pen ny worth of chips eafen from a scrap of newspaper tasted to her sweeter than a well-cooked omelette served in a china plate. "They are all the same," said he who told the story as , Hearthy and Happy Children. , argument against the new crusade j levard and avenue and park, contrast of the scheme, ffor has this result, ! aa,nBt the Blum, town-planning for all ! sharply with dwelling houses. Edin- according to its advocates, depressed 016 PP'6. "they a a" the same; j burgh has Prince's Street, most beau- private enterprise. Landlords, im- ' you can do nothing with them dress ! tlful, but has or had also North bued with a spirit of enlightened self- them feed tnem- Pamper them, it is I Canongate. Paris has the Champ interest, entered into healthy compe- j " the 8ame' they fsJl back into Elysees and the Avenue de l'Opera, tition with the state, and leased 40,000 , Bul,-er Bnu regara you as an enemy and all the sparkling boulevards, but other acres to 3,000 tenants. The ! for, tr'lng to lift them out." also the sidestreets of Montmartre and scheme has cost the state about 215,- "II ls no an efTort to llft men from Belleville. London has St. James' 000,000. In the towns, last year, 47,000 ; the sIum9." Quietly replied the St An- Park and Whitechapel. The same dilapidated houses were made fit fir; brew's professor, "it ls an effort to was true of every city yesterday and human habitation by the law's control aoolisn the slum, so that no one will is true todav. The town-nranners hone of landlords. 14.000.000 was loaned for ' born therein. For if there is no for change tomorrow. Parka and worklngmen's dwellings and all on the broad avenues and plans with noble basis of economic prices and rents, monuments may be beautiful and de- Private enterprise was here, too, ap- eirable, but If the space which makes parently stimulated for In two years ( I'I'KR CKAIJTKEE NEWS m farmers .-n-n I'ettiiv !lr,i;ir i,;,.f. 'i'h their work. Most of them ' '""!ay t'vc'nin!r 'with Miss Ruth Walker Sunday. ; Theie will be singing at this nlacf are ovi-r their corn the third time. We are having a large Sunday v ' We are glad the people are taiip.'i so much interest. Scveial attended the children's day at Hy.i'er Mountain Sunday reported ; '.'! 1 1rne. e rt'ant alUthe churci members to . ui't .Sur.day as ve are going to tall a pastor,' Miss Mildred Mot!, returned to iter home in Statesville last week after spei-.dinp.a month are so at this. Several are expecting to attend the singintr at Thickey next Sundav. t: . -M i r. i . . . i -jiss -wauue inicKett iook tiiime: with Missess Mammie and Hernia Bry son Sundav. them po. sible is taken from the living rooms of the people, they become, to him who r,ees beneath the surface show of the city, u:;d :sirable and hideous. Park3 are a city's lungs, the breathing places for Its people, but one may not live at his beet if he breathes only on Sunday afternoons. So the new town-plan, aa the people, particularly the little people, can not come to the big park far removed, takes the park to them. Town-plan- I ning and building of towns and coun- try houses are taking on a new and Wo n.nu i i c I .. w ..w.u .-v. totally different asoect. oi tne writers, nnat lias Occonie of! Tar Heel of Florida, Grey Eyes of I Rock Springs and all the rest? Write again, liyp.-ey, line last week. your was just PAXSIES. A ' DLLiriOL'S" EPIDEMIC A typhoid fever epidemic, said to have started by a "delicious" sal.-.,! The wedding bells have been ringing . course served at a luncheon at Scat ound here. Mr. Boone Rogers of 'land Neck last week, was assumed having this place and Miss Maneese Med-. alarming proportions, as it is said hat 1 legislation sanctions loans by states Landlords Subordinated. In Gnat Britain the Conservative party, when in power some twelve , years uo, pasted through Parliament 1 the Small Dwellings Acquisitions Act. i The Liberals, by the Houo.ng and j Town Planning Act of WJ, added to j the provisions of the earlier act the i feature of town planning, for the iirst time in British., legislation. France, I 'I .: mcny, Lelyium and other subetan j tial countries hava made large prog : ress, though not always on the same lines. Speaking generally, the, new enough convention came down to the iora oi iron uua got married humsay js out ot Z.i who attended the rectptio i 8111(1 municipalities lor tne acquisition Slate meeting. 'It v;as all that he June 7. We hope them a long and have contracted the disease. Will the' of land for & provision of parks, needed thit week --Kaleigh News and happy life. j Waynesville Courier please copy? (ibserver. Miss Gussie Medford spent the day Canton Observer. i the erection of dwellings and other purposes. The Interest of the land- the number of ne.w houses of low val uatioa land rent, 'constructed by land lords and real eBtate owners, under hog-wallow, even the swine cannot're turn to it." Heaven, if the town plans of John the Beloved are realized, is to be a slumless city not a country-place a city to which there will be neither sor ww nor crying nor pain, for the for- lord or the owner of real estate ls The Ghent Congress heard that Great i state-approved plans, increased by "er things of yesterday will have 130,000. "oea away. Ana inis city, near at State to Build Laborers' Cottages. I haa on earth- the zealous, optimistio The British county council is often ; vn-Planners of Ghent all see, at controlled by landlords and other own- 8t ",n the,r mind's eye, Horatio!" ers of yef&estate, who, in a spirit of : (Copyright, 191. by Joseph B. Bowles.) shortsightedness, seek to keep rents ' high. Walter Runclman, the British Cannot Fix Age of World. Minister of Agriculture, plans to have j The age of the world Implies fixing the state at large build cottages for ; the date of the creation, and scientists farm-laborers and town workingmen j do not attempt to do that beyond say when necessary. The state, he esti-j ing that it must be reckoned by mil mates, ould build cottages of ade-; Hons of years. Many Bibles are print quate size and character, at $750 each , ed with the year 4004 B. C. in the and rent them, without loss, at 75 margin of the first chapter of Genesis, centB a week. He thinks 100,000 Buch ! indicating that as the date of the cott-ges are immediately . needed, j creation of the world. It is only with W ttli each cottage would be provided j In comparatively recent times that land sufficient for small farming and science has demonstrated beyond gardening. Housing ls regarded as aj doubt that the world existed millions central evil in the present situation j of years before the period formerly alike of the farm and town laborer. I assigned as the date of the creation, ,Tbe insanitary and ill-provided cot-1 and that its occupancy by man covers tago which the laborer on the farm! a period hundreds of timesas lone as receives in part payment ror his labor from the farmer or which the town workman rents at an exorbitant price, keeps the firm laborer in economic subjection or promotes congestion in the towns. The Runclman plan com mits Great Britain to a further step toward solving this housing problem that formerly accented as the aee of the world itself. The prehistoric period means .the period antedating written history. Human records by means of hieroglyphics which, as now known, reach back far beyond the period formerly accepted rs the date of thu creation of the world. .
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