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THE RALEIGH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1912. Saleigbglfxlg Hurts Every Afternoon Except Sunday. TIMES PUBLISHING COMPaK? JOHN A. PARK, President. J. E. CLARK,. .-.-i-s-. .Editor. mo. A. PARK, Business Manager, SUBSCRIPTION RATES, .(By Mafl.1 1 Tear. 6 Mo Mo. 4.00 93.00 91,00 By Carrie.? 1 Tr. 6 Mo. 8 Mo. 1 Mo, 1 Wk. 95.00 92.00 $1.25 $ AS JO AU Subscriptions Most Be Paid la Advance Publication Office THE TIMES BUIEDING 11-14 East Hargett Street, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. Entered at the Postofflce at Raleigh, N. C, as Second-class Matter. A NEW "SUPREME COURT. The supreme court will be, when Chancellor Pitney is confirmed and sworn in as an associate justice, a Taft court. That is the majority of the members of the court will have been placed on the supreme bench by President Taft. Besides naming a majority of the members he has also elevated one member to the chief justiceship and it may really be said that he has named six of the nine members of the court. Mr. Taft is the first president since George Washington to name a new federal court. It is a remarkable series of events which has given to Mr. Taft, not yet three years in of . flee, the duty of making the greatest judicial tribunal in the world reflect the charcter of a single individual. But it cannot be said that the presi dent has not met the obligation in a manner highly satisfactory. He has not been dominated by partizanship In making the appointment, but has risen above party. Whatever Mr. Taft's failures, and they have been many, he has met the supreme obli gation laid upon him with the spir't and the mind of a statesman. His long personal experience on the bench has no doubt served him to good purpose in making these ap pointments, for while he has created a new court he has done more than that. He has thrown partisanship to the winds and selected judges upon merit. Justice Lurton, of Tennessee, and Lamar, of Georgia, Taft ap pointees, are both democrats. Chief Justice White, promoted by Mr. Taft to the head of the court, is not only a democrat of the old school, but Is a former officer in the army of the southern confederacy. It is decidedly an encouraging sign that a president elected as "a partisan will take so broad-minded a view of the United States supreme court as to appoint distinguished members of the opposite party to that bench. It speaks well for the perpetuity of republican Institutions that In a matter so thoroughly non partisan as the appointment of new material to the nation's high court partisanship is no longer allowed to stay an executive's choice. Had President Taft stuck to the o'.d rule of appointing only members of his own party, there would be but a single democratic judge on the supreme bench, Mr. White, and he would be an associate Instead of the chief Justice., The nation, generally speaking, cares not what the politics of its supreme Judges are, but It ap plauds, an executive who Ignores poll tics In making his appointments. The supreme court Is distinctly one of the bulwarks of popular gov ernment. Any thing that tends to beak down the court or lessen re spect for It is a blow at the whole government and should be resented ai such. But we wonder that Colonel Var ner didn't see sometime ago that they were conducting thlt kind of a campaign. i Wake county tax-payers will, of course, have to foot the bill for the course the commissioners . took in county health matters. " It (ffig?) COUN CtUB A LESSON. uary 1, 1913, Winston will banish , , I , ,. , The moral in the McCullers case hogs from the city limits. The time is easy to place. The county com-' was put so far ahead boiause the mlssioners, or the majority of them, Iwinston people raise their own meal ,. . . 1V , .1 , . , , , , , , could not divorce their own prefer- and they had already started their ence in the Interest of the county, hog farms for the 1912 crop. With As a result they have got themselves the beginning of the new year it is . , , . , ,( ft .... in a hole, have caused a big financial asserted that tne -entire crop will be loss to the tax-payers in the employ- gathered, no new crop star.ed, the ment of other doctors and a lawyer, smokehouses will be full, the people . ... .J 4 I, , iU , ' , auu uavu uuiuiug iu liuiu uy iu uie people but a series of blunders. When Dr. McCullers was elected superintendent of health last June, the commissioners received this elec tion with a rositive insult, and the doctor resigned. No self-respecting man could do otherwise. When Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the state board of health, appointed Dr. Mc Cullers and fixed his compensation for what is an office without is emoluments? the commissioners completely ignored the authority of the legislature. When certain mem bers of the board of health, in the in terest of harmony, offered to compro mise, and Dr. McCullers showed a willingness to do the manly thing. the county commissioners dilly dallied and then "stood pat" all the time spending the people's money in the employment of other doctors and finally in the employment of a law yer to help fight a statute in the in terest of the health of the people of Wake county. Rather than prolong an unseemly controversy, the board of health and Dr. McCullers would have accepted $1,200 a year for his services. But there was no compromise in the board where a political enemy was concerned; the fight was carried to the supreme court and the tax payers pay the freight. When men offer themselves for office they ould be big enough to rise above partisan politics, to recognize : that there is law. The commisioners may protest that they were trying to save the people money, but the tax payers are sensible enough to know that the easiest and less expensive way to determine the point at issue was to agree on the facts and allow the courts to settle it. "Conservative" people might not like a progressive health policy, bui. that affords no excuse for the ex pense heaped upon the tax-payers of Wake county by a set of strong- headed commissioners. The decision is Interesting and welcome to the whole state as the law is general. Passed by the last legislature and hailed by progressive counties as a good measure they were quick to act under it In good faith and are doing much to im prove the general health conditions Some counties have, under the law, taken advanced steps towards secur ing and maintaining better health conditions. If the law had been de clared unconstitutional in any of its sections it would have meant a set back to the progress that has been made. It would not have undone the good work that has been done but It would have made it necessary to have new machinery for carrying on the work and would have hampered it for the present. Now that the Wake Commissioners have butted up against a stone wall -we hope the jar will convince them that the law was passed to be obeyed, not evaded, and we hope they will see that It wag passed for the good of the people of the state, to help them to better sanitary conditions and consequent less sickness and a tower death rate, It is not enough for the county health officer to look after the jail and other county institutions, but he should look after county health con dltlons generally, and this we believe is the Intent of the new, or revised health laws. The county commis sioners should not be obstructionists In health matters but should join in the effort for -Improvement. We hope Wake will get in line with the progressive counties of the state in this mat tel. While we have been exhibiting the "bump on a log" spirit Guilford and other counties have been going forward. We can catch up yet If we will go at it in the right spirit The hogltea and the antl-nogitcs of Winston have been engaged In battle and the antls have won a jlc- tory. This means that after Jan- imewise, aim lue mausiry can ue abandoned without doing serious in jury and without putting anybody into an irreconcilable frame of mind. The town is to be congratulated in taking this s'.ep. Men and hogs do live together and will continue to do so, but the four-footed species, can be gotten rid of and while not as big a nuisance as the other kind, is possibly more dangerous to health. Their proper place is on the farm and the more there the better. The city is no place for them. We have enough of the other kind to contend with. Whatever the outcome of the in vestigation into the deaths of three young men recently at a rooming house in this city, the solicitor and the county and city officers deserve commendation for the effort they are making to get at the truth. While it is entirely possible that the deaths were accidental there were several suspicious circums anees and events that made a searching investigation into the tragedy the only proper course to pursue. We could wish for the good name of the city that it cotild be shown conclusively that the deaths were due to accident. On the other hand it is equally imperative for the good name of the city, it murder has been done, to establish it and punish the guilty. The people are pleased with the efforts the offi cers are making and commend them for it. Senor Ospina has been recalled but he let this government know what the home-folks think about it, even if the home government does think it wise to be a little more diplomatic about it. We knew Colonel Varner was go ing to get into it. "His Underwood campaign is only a week or two old and he is already perilously near starting an Ananias club of his own. Mr. Roosevelt may not become the candidates of the progressives, it is true, but if he is not intending to do so, why did he make that speech at Columbus? Press Comment They Don't Mix. Senator Overman is always pok ing around in the Interest of his con stituency. And his constituency means the entire people of North Carolina, because he applies his en ergy, uses his ability, exerts his fine executive power and wields his strong Influence for the benefit of far western North Carolina and then the far east, and touches all places in between. Now he has Investigated what the state pays the federal gov ernment, and gets in return along certain lines, and a big discrepancy is shown in favor of the former. In other words, the federal government got from North Carolina last year 17.316.977. while the federal gov eminent spent in this state only 11,354,100.58 for public buildings, customs, Internal revenue, life sav ing service, public health, marine hospital service, assay office at Char lotte and rivers and harbors, 1,354, 100.58. This leaves a big difference against North Carolina, the differ ence being 5, 962, 876. 60, and nat urally much Interesting speculation is being done. However, as this! Cured By Inexpensive Treatment, revenue to the government from this! When you suffer with any skin state is about the sum total, we trouble even though the itching suppose (though we are not certain ' seems unbearable; do not think that of this as yet) being derived from J It is necessary to use some disRust Internal revenue, corporation tax ing greasy ointment. Try Hokara, and miscellaneous, why the matter a pure and simple skin food that U has not gone far enough, as the gov-1 guaranteed to contain no greaao or eminent has other expenses, such as acids and which is so cleanly it 'does postofflce service, including the not soil the linen, rural delivery, courts, etc. Uow-I its power to instantly relieve any ever in light of the present figures, 1 irritation of the skin and make it i( looks like the federal government soft, white and beautiful la almost is making a pretty big thing off miraculous. North Carolina. However, let no! Not only are minor skin troubles man get these figures or this dlffet-' like pimples, blackheads, acne, bar- ence mixed with the tariff. We see ner s itcn, etc., quickly cured out tne a strong inclination to do that in worst ulcers or cases of salt rheum some quarters, which would muddy or eczema are cleansed and heated the waters, as well as make a gross by this wonderful skin food, misapplication. These receipts and In order that any one may try expenses, so far at we can aee, have Hokara at small expense the Henry nothing In the world to do with the T. Hicks Co., Is selling a liberal slsed tariff. It they do then It proves jar at 25c and In addition guaran thai the higher the tariff the less tee to refund the money, if the treat North Carolina would have to pay, ment does not do all that Is claimed and tbft the high republican tariff for it. Larger slie SO cents. the country has been suffering under has rea,1y kePt North Carolina irom paying more to the federar govern- ment; tnerefore the tariff 8hould M higher, no matter what becomes of ; tne consumer.! This would be the only argument that could apply ir one jg tQ accuse the tar,ff wth DeiJg responsible for these figures. The tariff is supposed to protect indus-( .tries, according to the cry of tlie ( protectionlBt8. hence if it is protect. ing them, why North Carolina has Paid a very 8mall amount for Indus-1 trial protection. But remember that ' the tariff is derived from imports. The truth of the matter is that the tariff had nothing to do with these figures, and it should also be borne in mind that some of these receipts came from liquor and oleomargarine licenses. The tariff has no bearing on this matter, and the tariff should be re vised, and there should be no scram ble to see which section gets the best of it.; If so, there will never be a fair tariff revision and the con sumers will suffer."; Along the jame line, the reciprocity bill, that was voted for by every democratic sen ator save three (and we don"t sup pose Overman, Kern, Stone, Martin and Williams were all wrong), should have passed. So far ns wc have been aWe to see the N'orth Car olina farmer has nothing that comes in competition with the Canadian farmer; hencei he h.id nothing to lose if the bill had been ratified, while the consumers had much to gain. If the bill had been ratified the North Carolina farmer would not have gotten one cent less for his products, while the consumers of Hour, etc., would have been .benefit ed.... But if neither the farmer nor the consumer down this way would have been injured, what was the object in 'riot helping other poor consumers at other points? its true La Follette and a few other insur gent senators, from the west, yelled against the bill, They wanted to protect the wheat industry, although we do not believe it would have been injured, and some folks down in North Carolina who have been yelling about the tariff being a local issue wanted to help them protect (?) their wheat, while the consum ers, the laboring men, the clerks, the housewives and others in North Carolina, paid more for their flour. Lots of people who voted for Taft didn't agree with democrats on the reciprocity bill, . but they voted for Taft. The democrats didn't think that reciprocity was the best, but it was better than what the country did have, and look at prices today. Why if it had been possible for prices to have been so high under reciprocity those who were again -it it would have yelled that the bill caused it. Judging by some of .their tricks, they would have even charged the slump in cotton to it. But how about now? Wilmington Dispatch. Mr. Roosevelt at Columbus. Is Theodore Roosevelt's Columbus creed national republican doctrine today? Does a majority of the re publican party stand behind his ut terances at Columbus in fighting form to force them upon the Chi cago convention? We need not dwell upon the pro nouncement in favor of a short bal lot, popular election of United States senators, and the shackling of cun ning in the operations of big Duel ness. Interesting as they are, their significance is small by comparison with Mr. Roosevelt's pronouncement in favor of the Initiative and refer endum and the recall, the latter to extend as a last resort to Judges. Is that national republican doctrine? Or can Mr. Roosevelt make it so.' No new arguments are advanced. Mr. Roosevelt rests his case as popu lism pure and simple does. The old system has broken down, and needs' to be strengthened. The people's representatives have not been at tending to the people's business, Legislation has been influenced by special and selfish considerations. Let this be corrected by a direct participation in legislation by the people themselves. Let them initiate measures, and, after being licked Into shape, let those measures be referred to the people for final Judg ment. Every man his own states man Judges on the bench have not a 1 ways decided questions In the peo ple's Interest. Miscarriages of jus tice have not been frequent, but ITCHING . IRRITATION Worst Form of Skin Trouble Quickly none should have occured. Let steps be taken to prevent them in future, or instantly correct them when they occur and punish judges who of fend public opinion by their de cisions. Present processes to that end are inadequate. Impeachment is.slow. Court proceedings are even slower. Let it be made possible to "get at" offenders recall thein promptly, and Becure new decision- by new officials chosen by the peo ple to do the people's will in given cases. Every man his own lawyer, notwithstanding the time-hbnored description of the client In such 1 a case. Mr. Roosevelt doubts if the recall would often be required. The reply is that by empowering it upon the allegations he makes the machinery for agitation would be set up ana agitation Invited. That agitation would result and judges be harassed by frequent criticisms and threats from selfish rather than general sources seems certain. Agitation in' that line would tend to become an industry. . Mr. Roosevelt is cloudy and in felicitous in h's citation of the Dred Scott case, and what followed under Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan's weakness was not In bowing to the Taney decision of tfee snnreme court, for all had to ao that, but in his supineness in the face of preparations for disrupting the union, which were going on un der his very nose. His Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, was a leader in the movement, and did not qun the cabinet until within a few weeks of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration. Had Andrew Jackson been in the white house a very different story would have been told. Mr. Lincoln's strength was not in his criticism of the Dred Scott case admirable as that but in the promptness and vigor with which he met the emergency when the men who had profited by that decision appealed from the court to arms. Mr. Lincoln took no action for the re?a!l of the Dred Scott decision, but act ed solely for the preservation of the union. He stated in plain terms, tnat.much as he abhorred slavery, his supreme object was to save the union, and that if he could do that without freeing the slaves he would. The slaveholders by appealing to arms raised a new issue which far overshadowed the Dred Scott de cisionand Mr. Lincoln accepted their challenge and defeated them. The country is expecting a letter in a few days on the subject of Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward the Chi cago nomination. The belief Is that he will signify a willingness to ac cept it if his party tenders it. Not withstanding Mr. Roosevelt's tre mendous personal popularity and following is this tender to be ex pected on the basis of the Colun- bus deliverance? Is it on the cards for the republicans who agree with Mr, Roosevelt to go into the conven tion arena, and after the hardest of struggles, commit their party to a candidacy which w.ould make popu lism the issue, with a man as leader against whom the third-term issue and his views upon it would also be raised? Washington Star. THE LAX-FOS WAV. If you had a medicine that would strengthen the liver, the stomach, the kidneys and the bowels, and at the same time make you strong with a systemic tonic, don't you believe you would soon be well? That's "The Lax-Fos Way." We ask you to buy the first bottle on the money-bnek plan, and you will ask your druggist to sell you the second. It keeps your whole insldes right. There Is nothing else made like Lax-Fos. Remember the name LAX FOS. EXPLANATORY NOTES. Pi OhaTtlon taken illi. in., leventr-flftb me ridian time. Air ptemure reduced to aea level. IaoiAM (contlnuoua lines) paw thrown point of equal air pressure. Isothkkms (dotted lines) passthrouKb point of equal temperature; drawn onlr for lerofreesins, W, and 1UU. i O clear;, partly cloudr; O cloudr; rain; snow; report' mlsslnr. Arrows n with the wind. Pint figures, lowest temperature Past ui noun: second, precipitation of .01 Inch or more for past M hours; tblrd.mtxl- ' mum wind velocltr. r , ' -..''. February .23, 1012 Forecast For Raleigh and vicinity; Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday with increasing cloudiness Saturday. For North Carolina: Fair and warmer tonight and Saturday becoming un settled in west portion by Saturday night; light variable winds shifting to south. WeAtiM-r Conditions The ltorm which has been' attended by"-remarkably high winds In the Atlantlo states has continued to move northeastward over the Atlantic. The weather Is now clear In the eastern dis tricts but Increasing cloudiness la reported form the Mississippi; valley west with rain In Texae ftd mow In Utah. The weather- will be warmer In Raleigh and vicinity during the next two days. , . i'i in i ' ii i ' ' I I mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm u in ' n ' s aw Books "THE DRUNKARD" What It's AU About and Why Every, one is Discussing It. ' Guy Thome's recently published novel, The Drunkard, is certainly a much-discussed book, and a startling and Impressive one Into the bar gain. The explanations of its ap peal is not far to seek, and the fol lowing brief account of it may be welcome. A word first as to the author. Any book by Guy Thome is sure of wide attention, for his When It Was Dark, published some years since, held an immense audience, and some 3, 000,000 copies of it were sold here and abroad. Without rashness a prophet might foretell great good fortune for its successor, The Drunkard. Now for a sketch of the story it self. With the opening of the novel proper, we are introduced to Lothian, the "hero," a brilliant and success ful man who, as a youth, with money to spend and many friends, gave himself too much to the gaities of the town. With his marriage to a lovely and devoted woman, he at first puts the brakes on his inclina tions, but the love of alcohol sticks by him and passes into the settled habits of a heavy drinker. His wife vainly seeks to change him, but the unfortunate Lothian goes swiftly down doomed and 'disastrous steps. His love for his wife gives place to an entanglement with a strange wo man. Black thoughts and criminal plans spring from the poisoned and perverted brain, and involve others as well as himself in tragedy. But we must not betray the plot; the reader may discover it for himself. As to why this novel arrests at tention, in the first place, because it presents, alone in English fiction, so far as we know, the real phychol ogy of the Inebriate not- the fan tastic notions held by abstemious old women of both sexes as to his phys ical and mental state. Imaginative writings dealing with intemperance abound, but these have treated the subject either feebly or in a purely external fashion. Walker Besant's Demoniac, for example, Is a puerile, preposterous, and fantastic tale over which the scientist and the drunkard alike will laugh. Mrs. Henry Wood's Danesbury House is, for us today, weak and ineffective. And the con cern of Zola's powerful novel L'As sonioir (entitled in English the Dram Shop) is with the obvious results of intemperance rather than with the shattered mind, tortured nerves, and perverted feelings that are the hidden horrors of the victim of al cohol. Again, to women, for whom the intemperance of sons or husbands is a bitter personal problem, this makes a very special appeal, for they turn to it for help and information. The book will be hailed, too, by temperance reformers as a strong ally, for they shrewdly recognize that a vivid story, leaving Its read ers with a lively sense of intemper ance' as a menace to the happiness and well-being of the race, is more potent ton warning and reform than the most eloquent exhortation. But it is the intrinsic merits of a novel as a novel that make real suc cess, and may we not thus sum up these merits in the present case: It is an engrossing story, varied In scenes and characters, deeply moving in sentiment, dramatic in incident, graphic in characterization, and In delibly Impressive in its great mo ments. If the appeal of the novel is so varied, and If its artistic merits are such as its admirers claim, what U Department of T t-n WEATHER CUnULAU I . WEATHER BUKUiAU more natural for The Dunkard than a great and wide-spread success? . Sturgis & Walton Company, New York. . ' - , , The Way of the Eagle. By E. M. Dell, with' frontispiece in color by John Cassel. $1.35 net. By mail $1.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York:. . A love stoYy that moves with un hesitating sureness through a swift succession of events to an impres- ' sive climax. Clear-sighted and steadfast of purpose, unbending in the pursuit of his aim as an eagle making its swoop, the hero is an ab sorbing figure. How the heroine , responds to the appeal that the strong and the great and the loveable in man make to the impressionable woman is told in a story rich in in cident and adventure. . Art Pottery We have just placed on sale a line of Jardiniers, Umbrella Stands, Pedestals and Fern Dishes, that surpass anv thing ever shown in Raleigh, and the prices are reasonable. SEE WINDOW DISPLAY. ELLINGTON'S ART STORE, RALEIGH, N. C. Made A Pcqvv llnn Of Kim. II T re.. - f ,!., I vnv. etoin&ca, tivA ud buk," writes If. T Alston, Kaletph. 2J. On "and my 5 iiver mh Kiiir.eys did riot work right, but tour bottles of f lectric Bitters nictie iai like a new man. ipniCE SQZiS. AT Alt DHUQ STORES, Tf For Calif ornia Canned and Evaporated Fruits Call us up. Both Phones. RUDY & BUFFALO, 10H E. Hargett St.. Raleigh. N. O. ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE. Having this day qualified as ad ministrator of Lucy Green Emory, deceased, late of Wake county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons Indebted to said estate to make im mediate settlement, and all persons hvlng claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned for payment on or before the 2nd day of February, 1913, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. THOMAS L. LLOYD. Administrator of Lucy Green Em ory, Deceased. ARMISTEAD JONES & SONS, Attys. 2-2 1 aw 6wks. Agriculture j Eieetii :B Iters r r-: rr-.; 1 r
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