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Can Dr. Clark tell us what will cure
"legislative leprosy?"
Huerta sees in Napoleon's actions a
precedent for hia Own. Doubtless,
he sees Waterloo just ahead, too.
fit is being claimed that fleas and bed
bugs are the cause of pellagra. We
have no objection to the removal of the
cause.
Here's hoping the contest inaugura
ted by the Greensboro News will be a
huge success. The News is a good paper
one of the best and deserves all the
success that is coming to it.
In agreeing to resign, if his resignation
was requested, Brother Keith, of
Wilmington, identifies himself as a
rara avis among the crowd he is flock
ing with.
SOME ONE HAS BLUNDERED
Of course, every one understands
that the primary object of an anti-sa
loon league is the extermination of the
grog-shop; that the first effort of the
prohibition party is to elimunatc the
manufacture and therefore sale of in
toxicants. However, the former at
least should not grow to reckless as to
condemn every man who does not
think precisely in keeping with its
main object. Yet, according to re
ports, the National Anti-Saloon
League went much further than that
and made a veiled threat against a
man, and a strong man, too a leader
who has been in sympathy with its
rause. By invendo it struck at Sec
retary of State Bryan because he 6up
ported in Maryland the Democratic
candidate for the United States Sen
ate, and who, we take it, was not in
sympathy with the anti-saloon move
tent. Leagueites made a bad blunder
and one that will impair their reputa
tkn as to judgment. Doesn't the
league know that there were other
things to be considered before the
question of prohibition could be
thought of in connection with the can
didacy of a man for the United States
Senate? There were big things the
Democratic party had promised the
people in its platform to be looked
after. Secretary Bryan is a Democrat.
He not only had to espouse Democrat
ic principles, but had to stand by the
will of the majority of his party, and
the majority in Maryland wanted
Blair for the Senate. To impugn
Mr. Bryan's motive is tommyrot. In
fact, whatever threat that will stand
against Secretary Bryan can find lodg
ment against President Wilson, as
Secretary Bryan took part in the
Maryland campaign with the sanction
of the President and the President
was one of the first to congratulate
Senator-elect Blah. Anti-saloon league
members will do well to think carefully
before snorting and plunging against
a Mend, especially for the flimsiest
of reasons. Better not mix drinks.
Wilmington Dispatch.
The trouble lies in the fact that too
many of the leaders in the anti-saloon
movement are of the hot-headed, un
reasonable kind. The writer is a sym
pathizer with the prohibitionist move
ment, himself, but is willing to admit
that the liquor question is one, about
which there may be an honest difference
of opinion. It is a question whether
blind tigers are preferqble to saloons.
Wherever you cut out saloons blind
tigers are going to room. They pay no
fa. They make the labor problem
a more difficult one especially in a
community like this.
But notwithstanding the drawbacks
we still think that prohibition is an
improvement over saloons because it
decreases the total amount of whiskey
consumed.
But what we started out to say was
that, unfortunately, most of the pro
hibition leaders are too dogmatic
in their arguments. If a man doesn't
agree with them to strictest letter,
he is a friend at the liqour interests
ae a drunkard. The case of Mr. Bryan
serves to illustrate their attitude.
After rendering invaluable service to
the cause of prohibition, the leaders
ei the anti-saloon brigade are ready to
jump on Mm with both feet because
he supported a candidate who was a1
local option believer, but a Democrat,
In preference to a Republican. To have
supported the latter Mr. Bryan would
have been a traitor to his party and the
liquor question ought never to be a
party question.
Such ingratitude is going to hurt
the cause of the ami's. What they
need is a different brand of leaders.
TH1 DRY GOODS MARKET.
Marshall Held A Co., of Chicago,
ID., eay: "A good steady volume of
trade ip dry goods lines has kept mp
during the week. Sales by representa
tives on the road have run about even
with those of the same period a year ago,
while shipment show an increase.
Collections as a whole are slightly
better than normal. Wholesale distri
bution to the South and Far West
is exceptionally good, and remitances
from these sections are very satis
factory. Retailers of dry goods through
out the South Central States are doing
a better business than for a number of
years, as a result of good crops of both
cotton and corn, for which the growers
are receiving high prices. Future busi
ness in the South is running well ahead
of that booked up to this date a year
ago. Political influences are having
little appreciable effect on the dry
goods business of the country, as
demand is large and merchants are
busyl keeping up their stocks."
Commerce and Finance,
THE PEOPLE OF THIS SECTION
INTERESTED IN VITAL
QUESTION.
(By Request.)
Very important information that
every person living in the Fence Law
District should know. A special act
of the Legislature has declared a
No Fence Law or what is better known
as a Stock Law District in the counties
of Lenoir. Duplin, Sampson and Pender,
which goes into effect March 1st, 1914.
The Sunreme Court has decided that
counties bordering on a No Fence
or Stock Law District should fence
their own territory ind keep their stock
from trespassing on the lands of a
Stock Law District. This looks like a
just decision, because if the people
within a Stock Law District keen their
stock from running on their own lands ,
certainly persons who do not live
in the Stock law District ought
not to allow their stock to trespass
on a Stock Law District. (
This means that the Counties of
Craven, Jones and Onslow will have
to construct ntanv miles of new fence
alone the lines of Lenoir, Duplin and
Pender at a cost of many thousand
dollars and a continuous cost of main
taining and keeping it in order. Taxes
are now verv high and with this addi
tional fence that is bound to come
unless the counties of Craven and Jones
go into a Stock Law District, the tax
Davers of country and town living in
those counties will be compelled to
nav a heavy fence tax. This is a big
consideration and should be well weigh
ed in the minds of every voter. It is
verv important that the County Com
missioners act upon this question
at once and order an election so tha
our people will not be thrown inthis
dilemma just at the time when we have
to pitch the year's crop and prepare
for he snrine work. I We believe the
majority of the people are ready and
anxious for the stock law.
Those who have traveled and seen
the benefits in other districts are per
feetly satisfied in their minds" that it
will be the best thing that ever happened
in this country. We hope that our
County Commissioners will allow the
people to vote on this question at the
earliest possible date.
FARMER.
HARK! THE SUFFRAGETTES AP
PLY THE TORCH.
(Special to the Journal.)
Oxford, England, Nov. 21. A large
lumber yard on tbe banks of the Thames
river was destroyed by fire tonight.
Militant suffragettes are blamed for
this act.
$75 FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
Early, A Sailor, Pleads Guilty Of
Stabbing Negro.
Annapolis, Md., Nov. 21. Robert
Early, an enlisted man in the navy
employed as cook on the battleship
Wyoming, flagship of the Atlantic
fleet, pleaded guilty of manslaughter
today and Judge Rrashears fined him
$75. The fine was paid and Early was
discharged.
Early's plea was by agreement of
counsel. He was indicted by the grand
jury of first and second degree murder.
At the first trial a week ago the jury was
unable to agree.
James Wooten, an Annapolis negro,
was fatally stabbed by Early on the
night of June 8.
Conditions down in Mexico are in
an awful muddle, and it appears as
though someone will have to go down
there and assist Huerta in straightening
out matters. The United States goes
not want to get mixed up with these
"greasers" but if this is the last resort
and Uncle Sam declares war against
the Mexicans there will not be enough
of the revolutionists left after the
battle to start another revolt in a
dozen years.
Tbe opening up of so many new sub
urban residential districts around New
Bern during the past year proves
conclusively that the city is growing.
New Bern is fast enlarging and it ia
imperative that new people who are
moving here from other places must
have a place of abode. Vacant houses
in the city are at a premium and the
enly feasible solution of the knotty
problem of where to. put" the new resi
dent! is the opening up of new suburban
districts. The owners of this land are
investing their money in these sub
urbs and they are not only assisting
ia MMing a larger and greater New Bern
but are laying the foundation of a
larger fortune.
The progressive citizens of Wil
mington have induced the Philadel
phia bastbaD team to come to that city
for their spring training. This coat tbe
W ilmingtonians a big wad of long green
but it will mean much in a number of
ways to the progressive New Hanover
city. Chief of these will be the adver
tising which the city will get out of it.
A number of special representatives
ef the Philadelphia papers will arrive
with the ball players and each day
several thousand words of press dis
patches will be sent to the Northern
papers. In securing the ball players,
Wilmington has exhibited its usual
progressive spirit tn matters pertaining
to the advancement of the city.
Now that the Greenville Reflector
has brought to the notice of the public
that a new solicitor for this district
is to be nominated next Spring, inter
est in this matter has increased and the
politicians have already begun to
prophecy m to whom will be the
fortunate candidate. Charles L. Abe
nethy, of Beaufort, the present in
cumbent, will be "among those present"
in this race and if all rumors are
correct he will be there good and strong
Mr. Abernethy has made an excellent
record since becoming solicitor of this
district and will have the united sup
port of hundreds of his friends when
the battle is launched.
"Standard- oil doubles its profits
within a year" reads a headline. This
is not surprising to those who are
familiar with the working plan of this
giant corporation. A little thing like
the dissolution of the company by the
courts does not in the least fease them.
It is just as easy to start a dozen
or more subsidaries and after increas
ing the price of the product, rake in
the profits from each branch as it is
to collect the profits when they all
roll into one large company.
There is a great fad in this country
for setting aside different Sundays
in the years for various purposes,
such as "Tuberculosis Sunday," etc.
The editorial writer on the New York
American does not think that this
should be done. In his contention he
says "Sunday was set aside for the wor
ship of the Lord. If certain Sundays
are to be picked out and observed
as a mean of bringing the attention
of the public to the existing evil of the
various diseases, why not go through the
cycle of the year with the numerous
diseases and maladies? Why not
start off on the first Sunday in January
with 'Malaria' and so on until the last
Sunday in the year and then observe
that as 'Insanity Sunday'? In a degree
the argument of the New York man
is plausible and contains good for
thought, but the main object in setting
aside Sunday for the purpose is in acj
cordance with the Lord's instruction
to "heal the sick" and there is no
other place that this great evil can be
so vividly impressed upon the mind
of the public than by .the preacher
bringing it before their congregations
in the thousands of houses of worship
in the United States.
COTTON MILL FOR NEW BERN.
According to all reports the promo
ters of the project to erect and operate
a cotton mill in New Bern are meeting
with much success in their campaign
to secure subscriptions for stock in this
enterprise. It has long !een known that
but for manufacturing plants, no city
could grow in size and population.
Take, for instance, the city of Pitts
burg, Pa., with its great steel mills
and other industries. It was only a
few years ago that Pittsburg was just
a medium-sized town. Now it has a
large population and its pay roll amounts
to millions of dollars each year. Over
in Western North Carolina, in the
county of Forsyth, is the city of
Winston-Salem. This city is right in
the centre of the greatest tobacco
growing belt in the State as ia New
Bern in the center of the cotton grow
ing belt. Twenty years ago the citi
zens of that city did not realize the full
advantages of manufacturing plants
and there were but few in operation
there. After awhile came a man who
saw a brilliant future for the city in
manufacturing industries. He saw
that there was an opportunity to en
large the city and to make it one of the
most prominent in the South. His
ideas were put into effect and there
began to spring, up on every hand
large tobacco factories. Immediately
the population began to increase,
the pay rolls grew larger, the "twin
city" soon became the leading market
for all that section and today the
hum of its machinery neve.- ceases
and all over the world its products
are advertised.
Thus did the citizens of that town
see an opportunity and grasp it. New
Bern has the advantage oyer Winston.
Salem in numerous ways. It is in the
center of the greatest cotton growing
belt in the State. It has waterway
facilities which are not afforded that
city. It will be only a matter of a few
years before millions of pounds of to
bacco will be raised in this section
every season. Now Is the time to grasp
an opportunity. "Faint heart ne'er
won fair lady" neither have non
progressive citizens ever broughtfame
and fortune to a town. A cotton mill
in operation in New Bern would
mean that thousands of dollars which
are not now in this section would be
brought here and turned loose every
year among the merchants, among
the manufacturers, ow here and among
the property owners. It would mean
an increase in the population and would
In time attract other manufacturing
industries and outside capital. '
New ern needs this proposed cotton
mill. It needs it badly and every pub
lic spitired citizen who has a little ready
rash on hand and is seeking a good la-
vestment could use it in a no more
practical manner than to purchase
stock in the proposed mill.
MENTAL HYGIENE EXHIBIT.
The Mental" Hygiene Exhibit to be
held in Raleigh from November 26th
to December 3rd in the city auditorium
is expected to do much toward giving
to teachers and others a clearer con
c ption of what ia meant by efficiency,
As has been well said, the briefest
critical consideration makes it apparent
that all types of efficiency are funda
mentally the same, and, in the final
analysis, there is no efficiency. The
object of the exhibit, which is beiny
engineered by Dr. Albert Anderson,
Superintendent of the Central Hospital
for the Insane at Raleigh, is to promote
mental efficiency by spreading a know
ledge of some of the basicfacts that
underlie it, by showing how the minds
of the people may be conserved and
improved, and how thos -J already
diseased should be cared for, to the end
that they may be cured, if possible.
N. C. Health Bulletin.
JOHN H. MARBLE
DIES SUDDENLY
MEMBER OF THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION
PASSES AWAY.
Washington, Nov. 22. John H. Mar
ble, a member of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, died here tonight
following an attack of acute indiges
tion by which he was stricken yester
day in Philadelphia.
Mr. Marble's death came unexpect
edly, not even the members of his fam
ily being warned of the approaching
end.' Mrs. Marble and their 18-year
old daughter, who had been almost
constantly at the. bedside since yester
day, were not in the room at the time
the family physician having just been
called in.
The Commissioner returned here from
Philadelphia last night, where he had
been conducting the commission's in
vestigations of anthracite coal carry
ing railroads. He had been taken
suddenly ill and his condition was so
serious that it was decided to post
pone the hearing and bring him home,
Mr. Marble had been connected with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
for a number of years. He first came
here in 1906 as confidential clerk to
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, now
Secretary of the Interior. Shortly aft
erward he was made attorney-in
charge of divisions of prosecutions.
Later he was appointed secretary of
the commission and acted as its legal
adviser. He succeeded Mr. Lane when
the latter -entered President Wilson's
cabinet and had been active in the
commission's cases, particularly its
criminal prosecutions.
SENATORS WILL GET NO MILE
AGE.
Washington, Nov. 22. When the
Senate assembles for its last meeting
of the special session, it will meet at
1 1 o'clock on the morning of December
1 and continue until noon, the
hour the regular session begins. In
that way there can be no recess not
even constructively and no fight ove,
the much mooted question of mileage.
This was agreed upon today by. the
leaders as the solution of a problem
that threatened to become a tangle,
The House leaders will stand by the
Senate program.
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White People who attend this Sale
A valuable farm,known as "The Oaks"
adjoining the Fair Grounds and Glen
burnie Park has been subdivided into
villa sites from one to twelve acres and
will be sold
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seeker. This property is compelled to increase in value
very rapidly.
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SCORES OF VISITORS ARRIVE
TO GREET THE PROSPEC
TIVE BRIDE.
Washington, Nov. 22 There was
about the White House today a de
cidedly festal air. All afternoon three
of the big limousines of the White
House service stood in the White House
grounds ,and scores of visitors arrived
and departed, some to greet the bride
and her prospective husband, Mr.
Sayre, while others left only cards,
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for it
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AUCTION
at the executive office building went
on almost uninterrupted today. 4
President . Wilson abhors ostentation
and display. It is his wish that the
wedding will be as quiet as possible,
but has about given up hope of the
wedding festivities coming within what
he believes to be the desirable area
of privacy.
The wedding guests those who will
be members of the house party in the
executive mansion, as well as those
who are only to witness the ceremony
are already gathering. Among the
most important of the wedding guests
will be President Henry Garfield; of
Williams College, who,..with Mrs. Gar
field, is not expected until Tuesday
morning. Miss Helen Hughes, daugh
ter of Associate Justice and Mrs.
Hughes, and now a student at Vassar,
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is not expected until tomortow.
Around the White House sightseers
flock with greater persistency now
than is usual in ordinary times. Every
one is seeking a glimpse of the bride.
They were given a treat this afternoon
when at 3 o'clock, following the lunch
eon to Mr. and Mrs. McCombs, Mrs.
Wilson, Miss Jessie Wilson and Francis
B. Sayre, went for a motor drive.
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