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i MB? id VEETisnra ixed n m EABTEBIT OAUOL IA I Established 1882. I. MILLS KITCHTN, Editor sad Projrrisfcsr. Ml OH," IS QUU MOTTO subschifttoij fbxgo, $lco texi that VOL.XXKI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1915. NUMBER ' ! Ceil I --It Pays You What quality Stock Service has been f ally dem onstrated in my Great Patronage, which is larger now than ever. It cant get so large, however, but your smallest shall have the Uial oidei most careful atten tion. '3 1 L .! i ne largest retail stock of Fancy Gro- T T IT naiirax caries in county. Prices low as can be made. Doth Telephones 1-7-4 Clee Vaughan Tho Pocahontas Virginia B?acb, Va. T!"-:Tp-5torv Cottage, very vile 'rnJa?, directly on ocean, fine K!e and good service. Near 17th . StaMon. For ti-:rrr-s address Mas. A. B Williams. Mmcoek-iloiise Go.,Tiic Embalmer Roanoke Rapids, N. C. 1 ay or night service anywhere 0 William, Licensed Etnbalmer J. E. Woolard Transfer Scotland Nock, North Carolina Cars for hire. Cars repaired. 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Elihu Root, in discussing this question before the constitutional convention of New York, recently said in part: "I am opposed to the granting of suffrage to women, because I believe that it would be a loss to women, to all women and to every woman; and because I believe it would be an injury to the state, and to every man and every woman in the state. It would be useless to argue this if the right of suffrage were a natural right. If it were a natural right, then women should have it though the heavens fall. But if there be any one thing settled in the long discussion of this subject, it is that suffrage is not a natural right, but is simply a means of government, and the sole question to be discussed is whether government by the suffrage of men and women will be hotter government than by the suffrage of men alone. "Into my judgment, sir, there enters no -element of the inferiority of woman. It is not that woman is inferior to man, but it is that woman is different from man; that in the distribution of powers, of capacities, of quali ties, our Maker has created man adapted to the performance of certain func tions in the economy of nature and society, and woman adapted to the performance of other functions. "Woman rules today by tho sweet and noble influences of her character. Put woman into the arena of conflict and she abandons these great weapons which control the world, and she takes into her hands, feeble and nerveless for strife, weapons with which she is unfamiliar and which she is unable to wield. Woman in strife becomes hard, harsh, unlovable, repulsive; as far removed from that gentle creature to whom we all owe allegiance and to whom we confess submission, as the heaven is removed from the earth. "The whole science of government is the science of protecting life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the divine distribution of powers, the duty and the right of protection rests with the male. It is so throughout nature. It is so with men, and I, for one, will never consent to part with the divine right of protecting my wife, my daughter, the women whom I love, and the women whom I respect, exorcising the birthright of man, and place that high duty in the weak and nerveless hands of those designed by God to bo protected rather than to engage in the stern warfare of government. In my judgment, this whole movement arises from a false conception of the duty and of the right of both men and women. "The time will never come when the line of demarcation between the functions of the two sexes will be broken down. I believe it to be false phi loroDhv; I believe that it is an attempt to turn backward upon the line of social development, and that if the step ever be taken, we go centuries back ward on the march towards a higher, nobler and purer civilization, which must be found not in the confusion, but in the higher differentiation of the sexes." S URGEDTO CO-OPERATE WITH umuu SOUL MATERIAL HAS j ENTERED THE BANK VAULTS OF THE NATION. OUR PUBLIC FORUM I j TRUNKS ! OUR PUBLIC FORUM s Peter Radford On Church and State The recent action of one of the leading churches of this nation, in annual convention, demanding that the laymen vote only for candidates for office whose views j coincide with those of the clergy on one of the leading j political issues, and direct and indirect efforts of otaer ' church organizations to interfere with the freedom of the ballot, make one of the greatest perils of this age, and j present a problem that should receive thoughtful con- j .sideration of -both levmnn ;:. iij'ons. j Suckling babes may well squirm in their cradles I when ministers in convention assembled release the ! hearts of men and grab them by the throat,, for Chris-! uplift industry. .lctiuiy nas uiuneu uuwii, reugiun lias uecome a iarce anu the pulpit a failure. When the church substitutes force command for conviction and coercion for reason, the sheriff i for persuasion 1 had as well pass the sacrament, plain-clothes men take charge of the altar and policemen bury the dead, for why a church? ! It is as dastardly a crime against government for a minister to under- i take to deliver the votes of his parishioners to a candidate, as it is for a j jars with souls. ; wiiiti uceiei lu ueuver a diock oi votes to a political doss, ana Dotn ougnt i to be prosecuted, for the law should be no respecter of persons. i j It is as objectionable for a convention of ministers to seek by canonic.il flaw to control the votes of church members as it would be for a convention i of manufacturers to issue orders for their employees to vote for a certain . ; candidate. Such conduct is offensive to decency, business morals and a crime ! against society. Any convention, whether composed of saints or sinners, ! rich or poor, white or black, that seeks to prostitute power and coerce con- ! ; science ought to be broken up by the police and its leaders arrested for j ! treason. ! j A crime by any other name is a crime just the same. An ecclesiastical ' robe cannot sanctify treason, authority to preach does not carry with it ! : license to become a political ringster, or the right to teach us how to pray ! ' give a permit to tell us how to vote No man in joining the church should ! ; sacrifice his citizenship, forfeit his constitutional liberties or subordinate his j entered into the vaults of our banks ; ciuty to the state. The earth many times has been drenched with the blood , of our forefathers fighting to throw off the ecclesiastical yoke from the state, : and the suggestion of a return to these medieval conditions with their horror j and their torture should not be tolerated for a moment. j Laws should be passed prohibiting any preacher, or combination of , preachers, from delivering or attempting to deliver their membership or congregation to any candidate for office, and suitable legislation should be I i passed preserving the sanctity of the pulpit from political vandalism. It is j as much a menace to church and state for a politician to occupy the pulpit j as for a minister to preach a political sermon. He has no more rieht to ! preach his politics from the pulpit than a teacher has to teach his politics ,to his pupils. A preacher cannot make political trickery righteous by usage any more than he can make profanity respectable by practice. It is one of the ironies of fate that a preacher may become a scandal as well as a glory to civilization. The Bank a Financial Pc)wer House to the Community. By Peter Radford. One of the greatest opportunities In the business life of the nation lies in practical co-operation Of the coun try banks with the farmer injauilding agriculture and the adventure is laden witn greater possibilities, tnan any forward movement now before the American public. A few bankers have loaned money to farmers at a low rate of interest, and ofttimes without compensation, to buy blooded livestock, build silos, fertilize the land, secure better seed, hold their products for a betetr mar ket price, etc. The banker in con tributing toward improving the grade of livestock; the quality of the seed and the fertility of the soil, plants in the agricultural life of the: community a fountain of profit, that, like Tenny son's brook, runs on and on forever. Community Progress a Bank Asset. The time was when money loaned on such a basis would severely test the sanity of the, banker; such trans actions would pain the directors liko a blow in the face. A cashier who would dare to cast bread upon waters that did not return buttered side up in time for annual dividends would have to give way to a mure capable man. This does not necessarily mean that the bankers are getting any better or that the milk of human kindnesss is being imbibed more freely by our finan ciers. It indicates that the bankers are getting wiser, becoming more able fin anciers and the banking industry more competent. The vision of the builder is crowding out the spirit of th pawn broker. A light has been turned on a new world of investment and no usurer ever received as large returns on the investment as these progres sive bankers, who made loans to The bankers have always been liberal city builders, but they are now building agriculture. A Dollar With a Soul. It is refreshing in this strenuous commercial life to find so many dol- When a dollar is ap proached to perform a task that does not directly yield the highest rate of interest, we usually hear the rustle of the eagle's wings as it soars up ward; when a dollar is requested to return at the option of the borrower, it usually appeals to the Goddess of Liberty for its contractural rights; when a dollar is asked to expand in volume to suit the requirements of industry, it usually talks solemnly of Its redeemer, but soul material has ft ? Otto Kahn On Financial Farm Loans Every citizen who desires to become capable in business should study banking, and every farmer who wants to see the business of agriculture properly financed should study diligently the financial systems of other indus tries. All other lines of industry have developed financial facilities adapted to their needs. We have all sorts of financial syndicates authorized by law or custom to deal in a certain line of securities, but in none of these finan cial channels will farm securities travel without a bonus in the way of an excessive rate of interest or heavy aia counts. The most powerful financial institutions in America are private bank3 and they are the most important to the financial life of industry. In no line of business does honesty, efficiency and stability make more imperative demands than uion private bankers, whose greatest asset is the confidence of the buying public in his business judgment and integrity. Mr. Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Com pany, when asked to state the relation of the private banker to the business of the nation, said in part: 1 "One of the most important functions of the pi ivate banker is to be tho instrument fcr providing the money needed for the efficient conduct and development of railroads and other industries. He does this by buying securities in bulk from those needing capital, for which purpose he usually associates himself with a largp number of other financial houses, great and small, thus forming what is called a syndicate. Having in this way concluded the buying transaction he offers to the public the securities purchased by means of advertising, circularizing and through the facilities of the retail houses included in the syndicate, many of whom employ traveling salesmen. Of course the banker and the syndicate count on a reasonable profit for their services; on the other hand thry run the risk of the securities, which they have definitely bought and paid for at a fixed price, remaining on their hands wholly, or in nart. if the public, for onb reason or anorner, sjouiri te un wi ling to buy them. The selling of securities is a higb'y specialized trar requiring much experience, c: ranization, machinery and scrutiny. this i3 one of the reasons why corporations d boiter in offering seer iiis to ihp. public through bankers than 5f they uii'ered them airect. The wilUug-ic of the public to hny depends upon their confidence in the integrity and trie judgment of the banker who makes the offer, and a banker who attempts to mislead the public, or who is deficient in care or judgment, would very soon find himself without customers and, therefore, out of business. In many European countries, the functions of the private banker include the placir of bonds secured by farm mortgages. Bonds of th's nature are issued in large quantities by mortgage banks who buy LiOi-tgages on fan- .t.ncf otbor j real estate and deposit them us sec urity for their o.vn bonds, which in tl?ir turn are sold to bankers. It is to be hopea tnr, similar institutions win, in course of time, be created in America, thus placing the farming industry on a par with other important industries in facilities. to obtain capital." We have in stc a nice line of Trunks. .V some ' K",'.,;:5'U irunk i you to A. -3. you it nee will I OUR P UBLIC FORUM mmmm see our i, bef. r OUR PUBLIC FORUM Dr. T. D. Kitcliin Physician and Surgeon :.:olirnd Neck, North Carolina Oiric" v: i'otouice Building over North Enrj Drug: Store. Telephone? -01 Ike 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon S -ntV-vi Neck, North Carolina Office in buildiner formerly used .. P..-. J. P. Wimberley. I Ralph Peters On Railway Mail Pay A controversy has been raging in the columns of the j press between the railroads and the Federal Post Office ; Department over the question of proper compensation for handling the United States mails. Mr. Ralph Peters, , miT-rr.r.T. of th Railway Mail Committee, when asked to state the railroad side of the controversy Amnrin fnrTnor snirl In nart: "The railway mail pay question will be settled and ledger account with progress, making settled permanently and with justice to all concerned ' thrift and enterprise stockholders and as soon as the American people realize that the whole thQ proSperity of the country an subject, while seemingly complicated and technical, boils ; asse(. tQ the fcank put behind it i - A iw 4- . k n-u n Afn n a't nil ir to the and rate, time and volume have a new basis of reckoning in so far as the ability of some of the bankers permit them to co-operate in promot ing the business of farming. God Almighty's Noblemen. These bankers are God Almighty's noblemen. Heaven lent earth the spirit of these men and the angels will help them roll in place the cornerstones of empires. They are not philanthropists; they are wise bankers. The spirit of the builder has given them a new vision, and wisdom has visited upon them busi ness foresight. The cackle of the hen, the low of kine and the rustle of growing crops echo in every bank vault in the nation and the shrewd banker knows that he can more effectively increase his deposits by putting blue blood in the veins of livestock; quality in the yield of the soil and value into agricultural products, than by busi ness handshakes, overdrafts and gaudy calendars. Taking the community into part nership with the bank, opening up a G. E. Gasse! On Railroads Co-operating With the Farmer Co-operation is a theme that, lends itself most readily to theory but yields stubbornly to practice. It is easy to speak the wcrd but. difficult, to understand it and more difBcnlt. still to practice it. All can be selfish but it takes vision to he progressive. Tho organized farmer has been preaching co-operation for lo! these many years, but now come the railroads talking co-operation in the language of the soil. " A recent, paper road by G. E. Cassell publicity agent of the Norfolk & Western railway, is so full of horse sense that Ave reproduce it in part and urye the farmers along that roadway to continued co-operation with the m"nage ment cf the road in all problems of mutual interest: "We are now dealing with two of the most gigantic occupations of men farming and land transportation. They are the basis of nretty nearly all ; wealth. When they fail the whole country fails. Therefore, how important jit is that these two should fully understand each ether, and work together not only for their own commercial advancement but for the prosperity of tho .nation. "The farmers and the railways are natural allies in all their interests. ;It is difficult to conceive of greater service to the com-nonwealth than that of firmly fixing in the minds cf both the railways and the farmers that they iare mutually dependent and that the prosperity of one depends on the pros- 'perity of Vie other, but that suspicion and misunderstanding destroy the various interests of both. Many of the most progressive and far-sceing rail ways have rally recognized this relation and dependence. i "In the study of economic conditions in all branches of human endeavor, 'from the birth of our nation down to within quite recent years, we are aston ! ished at the utter lack of the co-operative principle the 'work together' idea and not only that, but extreme selfishness and purblind prejudice has 'more apparently dominated in the different branches of trade and cthpr r.ve- inues of enterprise. This was a condition that government could not remedy. No statute law, or even written constitution, can do more than safeguard ! those inalienable rights of the individual. I "The mutual advantages of co-operation and sympathetic understanding I are many and varied for both the ra:!wa md the farmer. The farmer is (peculiarly, dependent upon rapid and cheap transportation. His products iare always comparatively bulky and '-equpntlv perishable. The railways igh'e farmers a worldwide market for their products. An intelligent under j standing of the fundamental improvement of railway transportation is essen jtial to the prosperity of any agricultural community. Worldwide and nation jwide markets are made possible only by regular and cheap transportation ; such as is offered by the railways. " "So the farmer may conclude that when he co-operates with the railroads, ', his most potent allies, he is doir.g good fcr hkr.self and much good for his : country 1 " 'While thereva leaves in the forest and foam on the river,' The farmers and railways shall flourish forever." and prices buying. Scotland Neci FurnttureComi Cash or Credit r New Ice House AT- Womack's Grist IV 1 We have equippe stora ge for ICE and hr received our first b) ment. Ice will be delivt from wagon any 1 and anywhere in tov Prompt attention, en to evei.y order fo: and your patronagi be highly appreciate Full supply ot lee be kept through the tire year .summer winter. OUR PUBLIC FORUM 3 Dr. II. J. Stiviie U .cky Mount, North Carolina Will ha in Scotland Neck on the : Mr 1 Wednesday of each month at .e hotel to treat the diseases of the Kve, Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses Ir. D. F. Keel Dentist Gotland Neck, North Caralina Successor Dr. A. C Livermon Office up stairs in the Whitehead BuUdiner. Office hours from 9 to 1 K-d 2 to 5 o'clock. From 7 to 9 p. m. by appointment. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Kepresent'mg the Metropolitan T-it'e Insurance C-.. c v-rk. norn tn 9 fpw KllTlTlie BOintS OI lair OUSUICijo uwaiua uui .- . - which no ono need be a rate expert to understand. ; "The first is that the Post Office Department weighs the mails, and re- ; adjusts the pay of the railroads, only once in four years. This compels tne : railroads to carrv the increase in the mail tonnage during the intervening vears without pay manifestly an Injustice in the case of a rapidly .growing .business. One consequence has been that last year the railroads carried fully j "half the parcel post for nothing. , "A second point is this: In addition to carrying the mails, the rail- . roads are required to operate many traveling post offices for sorting and ' distributing the mails while in transit. But the Post Office Department pays for such post offices only where they occupy whole cars, and pays nothing in the manr cases in which it merely requires the use of post office apart- ments in combination cars, although such apartments differ from the full railway post office cars only in size. More than 4,200 apartments of this , character have been fitted up, and are maintained for the exclusive use of the Post Office Department. Failure to pay for them has been an especial j hardship to the smaller roads on which the Department does not find it ' necessary to utilize whole cars. ; "One last point: In thousands of instances (though not in all) the Post , Office Department requires the railroads to carry the mails back and forth . between railroad stations and post offices, but pays them nothing for this , extra service beyond the rates covering the rail transportation. The rail roads have no choice but to perform this additional service gratis, or refuse , to carry the mails at all. i "Now for the remedies the railroads ask: They do not ask to have the mails weighed daily, or to have each shipment weighed and paid for sep-j rratelv, as is done in the case of private shippers. They merely ask to have the mails weighed, and the pay of the railroads adjusted, at least once a year instead of once in four years. They also ask that apartment post j office cars be paid for, at reasonable rates, according 10 size, asuy, iubj ask that the Post Office Department cease to require of them free messenger service between stations and post offices, and either relieve them of this service or pay fairly for It. These are the reforms the railroads ask of Con fess They gladly lay these reforms before the public, confident that tbey will appeal to the common sense and fairness of American voters. . stability far more desirable than a letterhead bearing the names of all the distinguished citizens of the com munity. The bank is the financial power house of the community and blessed is the locality that has an up-to-date banker. i'x-.t, V- A R. C. Duff On Cotton As Contraband. highest authorities on anl one of the most i Call 1-5-4. woMaovs KC HOD. S. H. ALEXANDER, Mgr. POLITICAL PRAYER MEETINGS It is a sad day for Christianity when the church bells call the communicants together for a political prayer meet ing. Such gatherings mark the high tide of religious political fanaticism, put bitterness into the lives of men; fan the flames of class hatred and de stroy Christian influence in the com munity. The spirit actuating such meetings is anarchistic, un-Chrislliko and dangerous to both church and state. Tor a Sjralnel Ankle. If vou will cet a bottle of Cham- berlain's Liniment and observe the directions given therewith faith fully, you will recover in much less time than is usually required. Ob- ' tainable everywhere. Hon. R. C. Duff, one of the International law in the ration capable cit'zens in the United State, when aoiud to investigate the exporting of cotton and hitjrpret the laws of nations on this subject for the American plow man, said in part: "Article 28 of the Declaration of London reads as ; follows: The following may not be declared contra-1 band of war: (1) raw cotton, wool, till:, etc.' Great I TV , i 1 ,- . C Pi. V sij London, a.i in fact v-allcd the conference ami insisted ...-. upcn inclusion o? ra-v rottou on the list cf absolute non-contraband. Under this declaration, which was cubseiibed Lo by ail the maritime nations, wc have p. right absolutely to ship cotton, not only to neutral ports of Europe, but to Germany and Austria themselves. Humanity shudders at tho thought of the death of the splendid Americans who went down on the Lusitania, but humanity would have more cause for shuddering if it. could have resented to it !n some similarly strikine and dramatic way the woe, sorrow and suffering that wi'l be occasioned to multiplied thou- ' sands of men, women and chilaren in the Southern staTs as a result of j cotton being forced dovii tj ; tarvaticn nrices. j "The reason why cotton dc -z not n-ra'-.-an'T IS or 20 cents per pound is I simply because Great Britain ha?s a r:.-al strangle bold on our shiumects ' V and, therefore, on the world supply- England sends her ships cf war cut into the open seas, captures American cotton, no matter to whom the same may be destined, carries it into British ports, sets up prize courts of her own nomination, which prize courts, of course, are operating in her favor and which, under such circumstances, nfter whatever delay they elect to im pose, assess the damages of the American shipper at whatever prico they see fit and then, after having by such process 'bought' our cotton, che avails herself of the extraordinary high prices existing on the continent of Europe, produced in part by her diversion of our shipments, 10 resell it at a profit. The American shipper has no recourse except to the government. The act3 of Great Britain referred to, according to the well-recognized principle o International law, constitute war against the United States. "This grievance is now of many months standing and the South is about to bring to market another great crop of cotton. Under such circumstances one would expect that our government, without prompting, would know per fectly well hew to deal with acts on the part Of tho British government, amounting to warfare against our trade and country. "It is not necessary for us to resort to war asalnst Great Britain in re taliation. A simple, adequate and obvious remedy weald be for the president to advise Great Britain that unless she vcrr.wt ilie law of nations as regards our foreign commerce, he v-'i call on corgrsas to- 'lopt a -esolution forbid ding the exportation of arms and munitions or . war to foreign countries." 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