TILE RALE Kill DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1912.
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4t ADEsTOj COUNCrU
ELON COLLEGE RAISES $30,000.
We note with pleasure that Presi
dent Harper of Elon College has
just completed the raising of
$50,000 for his institution. This
money goes to pay for the hand
some three-story press-brick vest
dormitory and for the heating, light
ing, and water plant for all the col
lege buildings, which Improvements
were recently made.
There were 7-19 contributors to
this fund, from eight states and all
denominations hail a part in it.
Eleven individuals i;avo a thousand
dollars each, the gilts ranging all
the way from that amount to $25.
Those who gave one thousand dol
lars are as follows: General Julian
S. Carr, Senator J. E. West, Win.
H. Jones, Jr., G. W. Truitt, WTllis
J. Lee, .Mrs. K. B. Johnson, J. Beale
Johnson; Kemp B. Johnson, A. B.
Farmer, V. Q. Peele, and C. A.
Snoop. The first contribution to the
itfund was made by Col. J. E. West,
Suffolk, Va., and the last by MrT
T. A. Barbee of the same city, Mr.
Barbee'3 subscription being for
$500.
The raising of this fund puts Elon
on a firm basis financially and opens
up a larger future. The college, now
In its twenty-second year, bus
250 students, four buildings, a
twenty-five acre campus, seventeen
professors, and the income on an
endowment of $76,200.
This paper always rejoices in the
progress that attends our education
al Institutions and so we rejoice
with Elon in this great good fortune
and the confidence this handsome
gift shows the people have in the
Institution.
sri'KRiXTKXim.vr ricot,
The election of Dr. Lewis J. Picot
as superintendent of the Central
hospital to fill out the unexpired
term caused by the death of Dr.
James McKee should be a popular
one. Dr. Picot is thoroughly fa
miliar with the work, Is a capable
executive, a learned physician and
a specialist in nervous diseases. He
Is well equipped for the position and
will maintain the high standard of
the institution.
Kx-Governor Glenn thinks we
should have a curfew law for hus
bands, keeping them all at home
after eight o'clock atvnight. The
Idea may not be bad, but the gov
ernor doesn't practice It. He was
a thousand miles from home when
he said it and stays at home less
thfin any other man In North Caro
lina. i
Says tho Durham Herald: "If Mr.
Wilson should come clean on all of
the charges they would be against
him just the same." And it might
have added that If he, comes clean
. on none of them they will be for him
'just the same.
Perhaps Mr. Wilson spoke more
( truly than he meant when he said
the last Watterson deliverance "ad
mits of no statement from me."
. V Even while they were praising Mr.
,.Wltoon for getting rid of the Har
.'. Influence Mr. Wilson was heg
V'gina; Harvey for his support. '
W thought the last legislature
- put the lid down tight on the social
clubs bul M ems thojr dldu't,
THK FAMINE IX CHINA.
Through Mr. Joseph G. Brown, the
state treasurer of the American Red
Cross Society, we have been handed
some facts concerning the awful
famine conditions in China. These
facts were received by the American
Red Cross from Mr. C. D. Jameson,
an engineer, sent to China by the
society to inspect the famine district
and report on the possibility of
flood prevention in Hwai Valley.
This engineer reported on conditions
as he found them to exist in the
flood districts. He says the people
have had no crops in three years be
cause of the floods and are not only
without food but utterly wretched
and discouraged. "They have no
seed to plant and no animals to do
their plowing with; and this condi
tion of affairs has gone on for. so
long that they have lost ' all desire
for work: they simply want to lie
down in the mud and die."
Continuing Mr. Jameson says:
"Take the 150 miles which I
traversed across Anhui in carts, go
ing from Pochow to Suchow; in the
whole of this 150 miles, which 1
made on the main road, I never met
one single cart carrying produce of
any kind, nor any people. I did not
meet a single man on a pony, and
met less than fifty wheelbarrows cur
rying freight: a few carried pears
and hemp, which was all they had
to carry. There were people, work
ing on either side of the roadway,
coming and going. . These were all
beggars, and all starving. A few
years ! ago, the majority of them
had been successful farners, but now
they have absolutely nothing. There
was not a day that I did not 'pass
two or three bodies of men. women
and children lying on the road.
"When the people get tired and
gave up. they simply dropiied down
where they were and died: hey did
not even go to the raised track on
the side, but dropped -.in the road,
whore they lay unburied.
"In one of the walled cities, while
walking round the wall, one morn
ing, just after sunrise. I came across
the emaciated body of a young boy;
five years old; a fine boy. His throat
had been cut from ear to ear, and
a piece of paper was pinned on him
which stated that his father and
mother had nothing to give him to
eat: and the children of the village
we're" standing around, looking at
the corp.se. The eiiect this sort of
thing is having on the-children of
that region is that they are growing
up beggars, if they do not die. Their
fathers and mothers are either dy
ing, begging or robbing. The schools
throughout that section are all
closed, and 1 lie children are getting
no education; they are simply becom
ing beggars, with "no object In life,
and those strong enotign are begin
ning to rob. In one place, in three
weeks thirty men were executed for
robbery."'
It is these conditions existing not
in one district only but extending
over 30.000 square miles of land,
with a population of ;;,u00,0oo peo
ple, that Americans are asked to
help alleviate. The American Red
Cross wants $700,omi to send to
these people. Allowing only ton
cents a day for the support of a
family this $700, nod would support
only 30,000 families through the
winter months, and tiOO.O.lu families
are destitute. How is this money,
which the American Red Cross is
sending being used, the prospective
contributor may ask, and what steps,
if any, are being taken to prevent the
periodical recurrence of these floods?
This engineer was sent into the dis
trict to learn what was best to be
done as to. the distribution of money
or food' and what could be done in
the way of conservation of the river
valleys. He believes the floods can
be prevenled except when abnormal
conditions prevail, but that it will
he a huge work, with which the
American Red Cross has nothing to
do at this time. What is needed
now U immediate relief. But there
is much work that can be done, drain
ing and ditching, building dikes and
roads, and the plan followed In giv
ing relief Is to have these people1 do
this work and pay them for it, not
to feed them and let them do noth
ing. This, the committee thinks, is
the best kind of charity. Of course,
where the people are unable to
work relief is extended anyway. To
those who say the Chinese govern
ment should look after these people,
the committee says in effect that the
government not only has not done it,
but can not do it. It couldn't do
it when It had peace and today It
is seething with revolution.. With a
new government China may meet the
situation in the future but the need
1,0
la now, with sufforing, starvation
and death if it is not supplied im
mediately. As to individual Chinese
in other parts of the country, who
are able to give, the committee says
they are most liberal.
As president of the North Caro
lina division of the American Red
Cross Governor Kitchin has issued a
proclamation asking for contribu
tions. Those who want to help to
alleviate this distress are asked to
send contributions to Mr. Joseph G.
Brown.
Press Comment.
The Donkey's Ears Protrude.
The adoption by the house of rep
resentatives of an amendment to the
judiciary bill, requiring the president
in making nominations to the fed
eral bench to make public the names
of all persons endorsing the appoint
ments, is so palpably an assault on
the prerogative which the constitu-"
tion lodges solely with the executive
and the senate as to excite amaze
ment that a majority of the demo
cratic embers were willing to go on
record in its favor. Such a provi
sion will be treated by the senate
with the contempt it deserves, or if
that body should so far abdicate its
rights as to assent, the president
would be recreant to his constitu
tional obligations if not answering
the attempted usurpation with a
veto. Performances of this character
by the majority in the house are
calculated to shake the confidence of
tlie people in the ability of the dem
ocrats to wisely administer the government.-
It is no excuse lor those
supporting the measure that they
knew it could never become a law
and only voted for it In'' deference
to Mr. Bryan's insistent wish. An
exhibition so asinine is likely to
cost the party more votes than
would be lost by rejecting mad lead
ership from anv individual. It were
a great ileal cheaper to make .Mr.
Bryan temporarily angry than to
make the democracy in congress
ridiculous in the sight of the coun
try. -Virginian-Pilot.
Poor Siicllers.
It is often said that ours is a na
tion of poor spellers. .'There Seem
to be no facts to disprove the allega
tion. Opinion diners only as to
whether or not as a people we spell
better , than we used to.
Words in common use are often
mispelled by those who ought- to
spell well. Professor Beall, of the
Kansas Agricultural College,, has
latelly made an interesting experi
ment. He compiled a list of .'com?
mon words fioni the Fifth Header
used in that state, and submitted
them to groups of high school and
college students. The results were
astonishing. Only one word,
"measure," was correctly spelled by
all of the 112 students who tried the
test. Ninety-two missed on the word
"villain," and 74 flunked on "ceme
tery" and "excel," while 72 could
not get "attacked" right. So it
went through the long list. Ten
Could not spell so easy a word as
"writer."
It may be that they spell better in
other states than in Kansas at
least, It is to be hoped so. The
school pupils of half century ago
might have spelled better, but the
matter is open to question. The
old-fashioned folks .who were
brought up on the "blue bark" and
the spelling-bee will certainly con
tend that the golden age of spellers
has gone.
A misspelled word in one of his
public pupers caused Governor Cole
Blease, of South Carolina, to send
a special message message to the leg
islature of that state, explaining
that he really knew how to spell the
word and that he did spell it right,
and that It was somebody else's
fault. What reform we need in
spelling when even Blease nods!
The Times-Dispatch.
How the Triiit Murk l'ronrewt. ;
An article by T. Good in The At
lanta Monthly presents an English
view of the Pnlted States Steel Cor
poration, commonly known as the
"Steel Trust," that, if his figures
are conclusions be true, (lings a
strong light on the trust question
generally. .
Mr. Good asserts that in 1900, be
fore the formation of the steel trust
the iron and steel industry In Ameri
ca was expanding at a tromendous
rate - with - the promise that the
I'nited States would In a few years
control the export trade of the world
In Its products. At that time the
plants in America were a little more
than capable of supplying the home
demand and of exporting 1,100,000
tons. The total exports of Germany,
England and the I'nited Kingdom,
are now about 1,400,000 tons but
the American share of them is only
1,500,000, the Increase In ten years
being about 400,000. The German
exports have increased in the same
period from 800,000 tons to more
than 4,000,000, and those of the
United Kingdom have increased
something like 2,000,000 tons.
Meantime, the capacity of the
American plants Is now 33,000,000
tons annually and, if they were op
erated, their production would ha
sufficient to meet practically . the
I whole export demand. . But one-third
oi mom are uiie wen equippoq ana
modern in all respects though they
are. The cost of pioducing in Amer
ica has risen from $8 a ton to $14 in
the decade and the trust is able to
pay only an average annual dividend
I of our and a half per cent, to its
common and preferred stockholders.
The trust controls about one-half of
the American industry, including bre
bearing lands as well as furnaces
! and factories.
j Coincident with the organization
. of the trust has been seen the sud
. den and great ( in Germany's case
extraordinary) advance of the Cnited
States principal competitors in iron
and steel exports, while the United
States lags, Its increase in exports
being negligible by contrast with its
plants able to produce 1 1,000,000
tons lying Idle with their engines
"dead." If It be said that the
higher wages paid to American
labor are a principal factor in this
decadence of the iiidustrv, the an
swer is that the idle plants repre
sent the idleness of hundreds of
thousands of laborers, and it can not
be set down that the laboring class
is benefited when one targe group
of its members is helped at the ex
pense of another. Nor can it be said
that American labor is benefited by
an institution that induces partial
paralysis to one of the great indus
tries upon which it is dependent for
einploynient.-Coliunbia State.
KKWKIt DAILY M-'.WSPAPKKS
Statistics for Past Year Shows They
Are Diminishing in Number
Philadelphia, Jan. HI. Newspaper
census figures for 1 !' 11 . compiled by
the American Newspaper Annual
and Directory, published here today,
indicate that multiplication of daily
papers in the I'nited States has
come to a halt. A year ago the
number was 2,472; the 1 IH 2 Annual
lists 13 less, showing that the trend
is now in the downward direction.
According to this authority, greater
mortality than birth rate is ex
plained by suspension or consolida
tion of . newspapers in crowded and
unproductive fields. New England
has lost four dailies. New York four,
middles west states nine, and the
western states have thirteen less
than a year ago. Gains have been
heaviest.' in the southern states,
while the middle Atlantic section
has an increase of three.
Weekly and semi-weekly newspa
pers also seem to have reached their
limit in number. The -I9-12 Annual
names and describes 16,22!) weeklies
40 less than in 1911, and 60 i semi
weeklies, as compared with 017 in
1 ! 1 1 . , . v
The 11)12 Annual marks its forty
fourth -year, contains more than 1200
pages describing 24,345 newspapers
and periodicals, presents ten district
items about each, including its circu
lation rating, and gives l!M(i census
populations for the 1 1 ,000 towns in
whb-h newspapers are published.
Aeronautics, moving pictures and
Esperanto are responsible for new
lists of publications devoted to these
subjects. There are over two hun
dred of these lists in the book just
from the press. Religious publica
tions number 865, agricultural
journals total 463, and there are no
less than 129 separate divisions of
class and trade periodicals. Ex
ponents of more than forty secret so
ciety orders and catalogued. Foreign
language papers printed in thirty
four different forms of speech are
described in a classification of their
own.
These statistics arc gathered from
returns by the press of the country
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Restore'-' Faded'- and (5 ray
Hair t Natural Color
J ai ul ru ft Quickly
Removed.
There is nothing new about the
Idea of using Sago for restoring the
color of the hair. Our grandmoth
ers kept their hair dark, glossy and
abundant, by the use of a simple
"Sage Tea." Whenever their hair
fell out or took on a dull faded or
streaked appearance, they made a
brew of Sage leaves, and applied it
to their hair with wonderfully ben
eficial effect. .
Nowadays we dou't have to resort
to the old-titno tiresome method of
gathering the herbs and making the
tea. This Is done by skillful chem
ists better than we could do it our
selves; and all we have to do is to
call for the ready-made product,
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair
Remedy, containing Sage in ' the
proper strength, with the addition of
ulphtir, another old-time scalp rem
edy. .'"':...
This preparation gives youthful
color and beauty td the hair, and-is
one of the best remedies you can use
Tor dandruff, dry, feverish, itching
scalp, and falling hlr. Get a fifty
cent bottle from your druglst today,
and you will be surprised at ' the
quick results. All drugiats sell It,
under guarantee that the money will
be refunded If the remedy is not
exactly as represented.
Special Agent, Henry T. Hicks,
101 Fayottevjllo Streot, "'j
SARIN POWDER
Absolutely Pure
The only Baking Powder made
fom Royal G rape C ream of Tartar
NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE
and sifted, verified and arranged by ;
the publishers of this directory, who ;
are engaged in . such revision
throughout the year. The im
portance of the newspaper publish- j
ing industry, likewise the develop-'
ment and rapid increase of adver-
tising. is impressively illustrated in
(lie magnitude of this Work.
ELOX COLLEGE NEWS
I'ire Escapes for East Dormitory
Evangelistic Services.
(Special to The Times.)
' Elon College, Jan. 31. The exe
cutive board of trustees of the col
lege corporation has decided to put
file escapes on the east dormitory
and the administration building, not
because we expect any fire, for all
the buildings have steam heat and
electric lights, but that we may be
like other folks. The installation
of these escapes will begin at once,
and be pushed to completion with all
dispatch.
The board also decided to build
a three story porch on the north of
the west dormitory. This porch Is
to be one hundred and forty feet long
and ten feet wide and will add much
lb the comfort and .convenience of
the west dormitory, which is the
home of the young ladies of the in
stitution. The contract for this im
provement has been let and the work
begins at once. Mr. J. C. McAams
of the hill is the successful bidder.
The series of evangelistic services
for which Rev. ('has. I'nderwood
Butler and wife and doing the sing
ing, and the pastor of the college
church,' Dr. J. 0. Atkinson, ; the
preaching, is not only being largely
attended by the students and vil
Rheumatism Advice
Prominent Doctor's llest I'rescrip
Mi'iptioii Ka"ily Mixed at Home.
"From your druggist get oil"?
ounce of Toris Compound ( in original
sealed package) and one ounce of
syrup of Sarsaparilla compound.
Take these two ingredients home
and put them into a half pint of
good whiskey. Shake the bottle and
take a tableBpoonful before each
meal and at bed-time." This 'is
said to be the quicket and best rem
edy known to the medical profes
sion for rheumatism and back-ache.
Good results come after the first
dose. If your druggist does not hive
Toris compound in stock he will get
it for you in a few hours from his
wholesale house. Don't be Influenced
to take a patent medicine instead of.
this. Insist on having the genuine
Toris compound in the original one
ounce, sealed, yellow package. Hun
dreds of the woist cases were cured
here by this prescription last winter.
ASSOCIATE PRACTICE
DrHW Glascock. Dr L O Morris.
OSTEOPATHS.
Office Masonic Temple.
Both Phones.
Residence Phone 822R C. C.
U S.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
Ohsert1on tHkcn t H . m.. ii'venty flnli ran
rt(1ln lima. Air pri'wuire ril inert U bp IovH.
Ihobim (codUiiiiouii linns) paw throuith ixilnui
of eqiicl lr premium. laoTliKRMa liluttrd Hum!
pm through pulntunf iil temnrtur; dr D
onlr for lero, froiiliiK. and luu,
O clear; Q partly cloudy; cloudy;
(g) rain; mow; report mlmlim.
Arrows fly with Uin wind, Flrat SfuriM. Inwe.it
ttttupffrature pant L'2 bourn; Mound, prpclpitatloa
of .01 Inch or nnre for pant 24 bourn; third, uiaxl
mum wina velocity.
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Fair tonight and Thursday; freeting temperature tonight; moderate
. - west and northwest winds. i
Weather Condition.: i With the exception of scattered, light snow flurries from western North Carolina
to New England the weather is generally fair in all parts of the country. Temperature, range from-sero
over Lake Superior to about forty on ths middle gulf coast. Condition Are favowble for flr weath. m
this vicinity with freezing temperature at night, and there are no Indl
ins next two or inrwe oars. . .-.
lagers, but by many from Burling
ton, Greensboro, Raleigh and other
towns and cities, who know the rare
gifts of the gospel singers and ex
pounders of these devout evangelists.
The meetings will close sometime
jlitrliifr llin ti'onlr t'i,llnniinir Hit tirat
Sunday in February. There have
been many conversions already.
The town of Elon College has de
cided to place arc lights on the prin- j
ci pal street corners of the town and ,
to install fifty candle-power incan-'
descent lights on some of the others. '
They will buy their power from the
college electric light plant. .
Probably a rose by any other
name would have just as many
slugs.
Just ali
'nicker
every siro
makes the
1
LightTouch
onarcj
the
typewriter of efficiency
Light Touch Monarch Ma
chines makes possible, a stroke
that is just a little quicker
than is possible with any other
Typewriter. With every stroke
a little quicker, more Work
can W done In the same time
Hence, more business, more
profit.
MONTH LV 1MV.MKXTS.
Monarch Machines may be
purchased on the Monthly Pay
ment Plan. Send for .Litera
ture,;' Learn the many reasons
for Monarch Superiority.
Durham Book and
Stationery Comp'y,
DURHAM, N. C.
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Department of Agriculture
WEATHER BUttiAU
W1LUS UM0ORC.CJu
Jan. 31. 1912. ForecaM For
and Thursday; not much change In
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If its Electrical,
we, handle it. For
quick sale, we are
offering fixtures at
14 off for cash un
til removal.
Carolina Electrical
Company,
Next to Express Office.
YOUR
LINEN
Will look better and last
longer if laundered by
us.
If you desire your
work done in any par
ticular manner, let us
know. We are equipped
for such service.
Peoples Laundry Co.,
THE BEST.
Office 107 Fayette ville Street,
Both Thonea 74
I FAIMfHRS AXU rTTV PKOPI.B
TAKE XOTICE.
Po UE POSITIVELY SOLO
B" ORBKK OF THE
HrtCTIMOKE CONTRACTING
COMPANY,
aV HORSES & Ml'LEH 1M
HORSES, $25 TO $05 UP.
MULES, $75 TO $iOO A PAIR UP.
All young stock, suit any and all
business purposes. P. S. -To be sold
at the rate of 20 head weekly; also
10 big young fat Mares, slightly
pavement sore, will come sound la
the country, and two Mares that have
proven to be In foal, very cheap. N.
B. It will be a benefit to buyers to
cat land see th's slock before buy
ing elsewhere See SUPERINTEND
ENT at company's main office and
stable, 2828 Pennsylvania . avenue ,
Baltimore. VA
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as executor of
the last wi)l and testament of Lea
H. Adams, deceased, this is to noti
fy all persons having claims against
the said estate to present same to
me, on or before the 10th day of
January, 1913, or this notice wi"
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make Immediate pay
ment to the undersigned.
STONEWALL J, ADAMS,
Raleigh, N. C,
l-10-o.a.w.6wks. Executor.
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Raleigh and vicinity: Fair tonight
temperature. For North Carolina:
cations of any decided change within
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