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WEEKLY JOURNAL mmrtrfl Hi Twe Sentient, everj Street. Jt J. LA9B FAINTING COMPANY MOPBIKTOB8. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Tmm Ma.th. -20 ThreeM .J5 .50 1.00 Sk Sk Mentha Twelve Mo Month... )nly la advance. AanMHtlaj rates furnished upon SffDCMtJsn It the of flee, or upon in anity by mtH. E Meres' at the Peeteftce, New Bern, N. C ae second-chat matter. The Wilmington Dispatch advises us to leave something else to our pros terity besides a name. But, gol ding it, that's all we've got. To show our profound contempt for Blease we should name a cheroot for him. As we go to Press the Mexican situa tioa is approaching a climax, as usual. Now that Tammany is going on an eaforced hunger strike, it might get some pointers from Sister Emmeline. Not here. Outside the fellow that collects rent on our "mug" they all ass us up. Knowing Col. Gene Holton as we do, w are of the opinion that the only thing that will get him out is a swift appli cation of the boot. . 7 After looking the situation over we are not so all-fired sure that Brother Claude Kitchin will land that job after all. Of course if the Same Old BillSulzer Kves up to past performances he will undoubtedly be speaker of the House. If Brother Will had waited till this year to have got into the race he might have at least got a post office. And hereafter we will have to worry with the Federal tax collectors as well as the State forces. Richmond Jour al. While its not yet time to do your Christmas shopping, it is time to make up your mind to do it early. Those who scornfully ignored the expert advice of the Journal to put 'em on, have lived to regret it. Justice evidently thinks there is logic in the "three bird" theory, and will doubtless see to it that the one in hand does not escape. "A reputable Geraian physician advo cates the use of whisky 'to the extent of two or three ounces a day in the treatment of certain diseases." Chronic thirst is not included among them, it is rertain." Greenboro News. Don't know about that; our arith metic taught ua that sixteen drams made an ounce. Figuring that way it seems that the doc's prescription ought to be sufficient. REPRESSION OF THE PRESS. Of course it is all over and talk will not help any, but the following from the Wilmington Star, anent the Saunders matter, is interesting. We thought much the same and we are glad the Star agrees with us. "Referring to the recent disposal of the case against Editor Saunders, of Elizabeth City, removed to New Bern km trial, the Charlotte News makes this brief mention in its editorial de partment: " 'Editor Saunders has finally pleaded guilty to a charge of sending obscene matter through the mails, and the Judge suspended judgment with the pay meat of the costs provided Saun ders discontinues publication of his ''Down Homer." We understand he has agreed to this settlement of the case.' That is not precisely suppression of the press or mtnrferiag with the freedom of the press, but it is putting a qukeus on the license of the press. We do now know how valuable a pub Ucatioa the 'Down Homer' was, bat if a meant the means of a living for the aery editor, it strikes us that the sap ttjisil n of his paper by alternative asms to be a severer penalty than the law prescribes. AD editors deserve what is coming to them on acaount of their acts affecting the sights of others and the public later eats, hut if the offending publisher an meet the penalty actually pre scribed by w it Is safer to inflfct it M the law provides than to confiscate pumnij by the consent of the unfor tunate publisher. fan IL Batter, writing in the News and Observer, says that this wffl be- coast a pant cattle-raising state when the price of beef goes up. He next anas shsa is whether we want the price of heat ta go up in order la become a callls falsing State. Jotephns ft aaiasafaMag all the to religion get, ha must think p Ming to war with Monica, nough. TO PRtVBNT FIRES. When the stoves are put up this fall great fire hazards may be removed or materially lessened by care in the mat ter of a number of details. Following are some suggestions that may prevent a disastrous fire: 1. The floor under the stove should always be protected by tin, zinc, or asbestos, extending to about 2 feet from the doors of the stove. 2. The stove should be placed 2 1-2 feet from the wall, but if it is neces sary for it to be placed closer, a metal sheet should be hung against the wall as a protection. The sheet should be hung on hooks, leaving a half-inch space between it and the wall, so that the air can circulate, thus preventing the heat from the metal sheet from charring the wall. 3. Chimneys and stove pipes should be cleaned at least once a year. The brick chimney at the top of the house should be cleaned with a long scraper and the chimney hole where the pipe enters should also be cleaned once a year. 4. Stovepipes should be scraped so that if there is any rusty spot or holes they will be discovered and the pipe replaced with new. 5. A stovepipe should not run through a wood partition or ceiling unless a metal collar protects the wood. 6. If the pipe is long horizontally it should be wired so that there is no danger of it falling down. A large number of fires every winter are caused by the stovepipe falling down. 7. If a stovepipe runs along under the ceiling for any distance, it should not be closer than 2 feet from the ceil ing. $ 8. Fires are most numerous during the winter months, and most of them can be traced to carelessness in regard to heating stoves. This carelessness is caused by not properly cleaning and putting up stovepipes, by allowing stoves to become overheated, by using cracked or broken stoves, by not pro perly protecting floor, walls and ceiling near stoves, and by leaving garments hanging near stoves. TO UPBUILD NEW BERN. "Success can only come to a man who bestirs himself, and the same prin ciple applies to a community. You cannot just wish success on your self. You must work for it. "Raleigh has been successful in many things which have been undertaken in its behalf. But there has always been work needed. There is now another matter on hand in its business life and there is work needed to carry it to success. "This is in the matter of an establish ment of a tobacco market here. The outlook is good for such an enterprise and Raleigh citizens are called upon to unite'in seeing it established. The Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has the matter in hand and is leading in the fight for the establishment of the tobacco market." News and Obser ver. We hope that every member of the local Chamber of Commerce will read the above editorial and then get out and get behind the proposed cotton mill and push it through. It is self evident that unless new industries are started here, we are going to stand still. We want to go forward and a cotton mill will help us to do it. Right now it seems there is danger of the whole thing falling through. The Chamber of Commerce should see to it that it doesn't. We don't mean to imply that that body has been inactive; on the contrary w know it has been pretty busy. This is merely for the purpose of calling its attention to a danger which we hope it can prevent. MR. POE'S POSITION. In an editorial in the Journal of November 2, on the race segregation plan of editor Poe, of the Progressive Farmer, we made statements to which Mr. Poe takes exceptions, and in a letter to the Journal which is printed below he sets forth his side of the question. We agree with Mr. Poe that the situa tion is serious and is becoming more serious all the time. It may be as he suggests and probably is that we do not exactly understand just what he proposes. We profess to being somewhat skeptical about the working qualities of the plan although it sounds good on paper. But we are not antagonistic to it; the position we took was more of a "show me" attitude than any other. Whether the plan is feasible or not If Mr. Poe's agitation succeeds in fo cussing attention on the evils it is sought to remedy a great good will have been done. When the seriousness of the situation is fully realized a remedy will be forthcoming. The letter; Editor, the Journal: 1 notice your articles on my race aatMantion proposition, but you do not seem to understand it clearly. Win you permit me, therefore, a few wards of explanation? In the first place, I am not proposing at all, any general segregation of the negroes at 1 think one might infer from your editorial. 1 have never far a minute thought of saying that we should pick up the negroes who are in one place and move them to another. Mar have I ever thought of saying Sat white farmers, even in white earn inanities, shall not have negroe I sat its under them. What I do say mark this is simply that In communities where s maioritv of the land is held by white people, and they wish to keep it white for the protection of their families ad their social life, those white people shall have the right to say that in future no land shall be sold to a person of the opposite race. I am simply saying that where they desire it, our small white farmers of the South should have the right to live and build worthy homes for themselves and their children and children's children with the assurance that the community will remain predominantly white. I want to give the poor white farmer a chance to have a community provided he wants it and a majority of the other land owners want it in which he can build a home with the assurance that he will not be run out by an undesirable flood of negro land owners crowding around him. And if this can be settled constitutionally by law, as I believe it can be, it will be better than if left to private agreement. That is all I propose; and if you think there is no occasion for the idea, it is probably because you have never been through the tragic experience thousands and thousands of poor white farmers in the South have suffered. Even in town, with adequate police protection, you would not want a negro owning and living in a house on each side of you; and would it not be worse in the country without police protection? If you will come into my office and read some of the letters from farmers' wives you will need no further answer. Here is a letter now from an intelligent farmer's wife who says: "We are now surrounded by many families of negroes; the whites are moving to town and other places. I don't feel safe when I lie down at night. Just last Saturday night two of my neighbors' doors were tried just after the family had retired." Contrast that with what a white man in a white farm community said to me last week; "We came to hear you speak today without locking a door. Nobody needs lock a door in our neigh borhood, and white girls are not afraid to go anywhere." On the other hand, here is a note from a 16-year old white girl now before me: "My school began the twenty-eighth of October. I live about one a and half miles from the schoolhouse and I am afraid to go on account of the ne groes. I also live a mile from church and am afraid to go in the daytime down the public road. I am in favor of your plan." Or consider this concrete case: an actual happening reported to me by one of my subscribers only a short while ago. He wrote: "I am living on my farm, off the pub lic road in an isolated place; have a wife and daughter. A negro has bought land adjoining. The negro is undesir able and has mean boys. I don't feel safe in leaviug my wife and children at home. The father of the man who sold this land to the negro told me that he told the negro he would kill him before he should buy land and live on it near him. He went on to say that he might die at any time, and should he leave his wife and daughters, with this negro and his mean boys owning land near them, they might as well be dead and in hell. Yet this same negro is forced on me." You do not need any one to tell you that condition like that need reme dying. My own father in his old age was forced to move from the old home stead because of the preponderance of negroes in the community; and the white man who was on the same place last year left for the same reason. It is inded a condition and not a theory that confronts us. I do not believe that the contentions I have set forth in the following paragraph can be controverted: "It is the small white farmers of the South, their wives and daughters whose welfare and safety are most imperiled by present conditions, and it is in their behalf we speak. At present the unrestricted settlement of negroes in white communities often threatens the safety of our white farm women, causes part of the white farmers to move away to begin with, thereby lessening the social advant ages of those who remain, the in coming of other white settlers is stop ped, land values are depreciated, white schools and churches dwindle and as a result of such conditions, thousands of white farmers are driven away from their homes, selling them in leav ing for less than their actual worth." But it is objected to by some, that the plan does not go far enough. For example, the Knoxville, Tennessee, Sentinel says that: "It seems to have a practical weakness as so far advanced that it does not take tenants into account." This is true, but I do not now see any plan of regulating this evil that would not be susceptible of much abuse. As yet the proportion of white people wanting to rent land is small, and it wound not be fair to absolutely limit renting to white people even in these white communities. What would happen very surely, however, would be this: once a neigh borhood had mid, "We want this to be a white community, and no more land here shall be sold to a negro," it would ha easy to bring pressure to I upon landlords, even absentee landlordr to get s better class of tenants. If the people took enough interest in the mat ter to say to a landlord, "We are trying to make a white community and here is a chance for you to put in a white tenant," he1 would be mighty likely to listen to them. Moreover, these white communities would attract white settlers to them in increasing numbers. Wouldn't people from other sections begin to say, "I want to get into a permanently white community, with its better white social life, better white schools and churches, end batter chance of co-operation" and wouldn't white people soon be Willing to offer to fair price for the absentee landlord's land that he could better afford to sell it rather than to continue renting it to shiftless, soil-destroying tenants? In this way we should expect the white communities to become steadily whiter and gradually solve the problem of the negro renter. A few of my many reasons for favor ing voluntary segregation and not merely for favoring it passively but for profoundly believing in it as the only way now in tight out of a perilous situation may be given as follows: Because it is necessary to give our white farmers and their families a satisfying social life. Because it will insure them greater safety and protection. Because it will give them better schools and churches. Because it will open the way for co operation and co-operative enterprises work in which it is almost impossible for whites and blacks to work together successfully. Because it will improve moral con ditions in the relations of the races. Because it will give the rural South what it most sorely needs a greater proportion of white people (1) by stopping the crowding out of white farmers by negroes, and (2) by providing all-white communities such as white people from other sections will be willing to move into. Because ambitious young white men will then be willing to go into these all-white communities as tenants, work and save, and become good farmers and good citizens, whereas they are unwilling to go in and compete with negro tenants. Men are not mere beasts. They do not exist merely to eat and drink and pile up certain heaps of material things called property., Their most sacred treasures is their home life and their social life; and the protection of this is a duty higher than that of protecting mere property. It is, in fact, the highest duty because it insures not only their own future but the future of our children and the race of today always exists for the race of tomorrow. Is it not the height of folly, therefore, to say that Southern white farmers have a right to protect their barns and houses and lands, but have no right to protect their higher treasures, their home life and social life? I simply want to give our white farmers a chance to set aside some communities exclusively for white own ership where they want it. I simply want a few "cities of refuge" as they had in the old Israelitish days where a white man may live with his wife and children with some partial assurance at least that the community will remain predominately white. If this be treason let my opponents make the most of it. In other words, let the men who would refuse the poor white farmer and his family this protection and safeguard for their social life take their stand. I have taken mine. Sincerely youts, CLARENCE POE, Raleigh, N. C, November 10, 1913. A SURPRISE. Good Roads Days appointed by Gov. Craig have passed quietly by in tome placet, and considerable work has been done in others, but some of us are much surprised to find in old patriotic New Bern, the Athens of N. C, the home of the best citizens of the com monwealth, a streak of mud, sometimes nearly 300 yards long between a paved street and a first class sand clay road untouched by shovel or drag or any other progress, and this in the city. We had pulled through streaks of mud on sand many days, and tried to turn out for anautojwherc the road was I a . too narrow, many timet; but we felt lure this would end on one of the good roads days of N. C But not to. Broad street is still disconnected with our fine sand-clay road by a hyphen of mud. We wonder if it is going to continue so 'till the next good roads day is announced. We know of no place in the county where a little well planned work would do more good. CITIZEN. When it comes to sticking qualities a G. O. P. office holder makes glue cement, etc., look like thirty cents. BRADHAM'S NEW DRUG STORE WILL BE BEST IN STATE. Three car loads of fixtures which are to be placed in C. D. Bradham's new drug store, atthe corner of Middle and Broad street, have arrived and as soon as the fourth car arrives, which contains a number of necessary attachments, the work of installing these will begin This will be one of the most handsome ly furnished drug stores in the State when it is completed and in readiness for opening. For months Mr. Brad ham has been engaged ia purchasing the fixtures, for hit new store and has succeeded in getting together an as sortment the like of which have never before been seen in Eastern North Carolina. The new stare will be in readiness for opening within a lew weeks, the exact date to be announced later. YOUNG COUPLE MARRY. T. E. Finer and Miss Nettie B. Gilli kin were marrisd at the Methodist parsonage yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. J. B. Hurley oflkisted. The Music Club will meet ia GrUse auditorium this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Every member is urged to he present Personals r Mrs, J. P. Pennington, of Tarboro, who hat been visiting Mrs. C. W. Munger has returned home. Miss Marion Woodley, of Elizabeth City, who has been visiting Miss Cora Munger has returned home. D. L Ward spent yesterday at Kinston attending to professional busi- S. R. Street spent yesterday at Wash ington attending to business matters. Miss Myrtle Gaskins, of Cove City, spent yesterday in the city shopping. Ai r r. ..r u ..-. was amnog the visitors here yesterday. Miss Mary Hatch Harrison spent yesterday at Kinston visiting relatives. Mrs. L. H. Cutler left yesterday for Greensboro where she will visit her daughter Mrs. J. C Watkins. D. L. Ward spent yesterday at Kin ston attending to professional business. S. W. Smallwood left yesterday for Goldsboro to attend to some official business. J. L. Hartsfield spent yesterday at Beaufort attending to bnsincss matters. Frank Weathersbee left yesterday for a short visit at Wilmington. 'Theresa Difference ASK YOUR DOCTOR Pepsi-Cola .For Thirst Thinkers. 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