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MONDAY, JULY 12, 1920.
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION
The democratic party looks for.
wad with confident hope to the elec
tion in November of y the splendid
ticket it has nominate?! at San Fran
Cisco. It presents its candidates to
the people with positive assurance
that they will measure up to every
test that their sterling Americanism,
their progressive spirit, and their ex.
ecutive capacity .-will lead the coun.
try safely through the trying days
ahead.
The democratic platform will give
the thoughtful voter the feeling that
the party has a sound and construe
tive program for meeting the per
plexing problems of these times. It
will command the support of intelli
gent people particularly for the fol
lowing' reasons, among many others
that oould be mentioned:
1. It has a clear, definite plan for
assuring peace, by entering a League
of Nations, with such reservations as
are necessary to clarify any doubt
ful noints in that document. The re
publican party does not even promise
to agree to the treaty even amended
by the Lodge reservations, but leaves
the whole question up in the air, with
the, world exposed to the peril of an
other frightful war.
2. It presents a wonderful record
of work accomplished by three dem
ocratie congresses, representing a
body of legislation never before
equalled as measures of social and
economic advance.
' 3. It looks to peaceful and reason
able means of helping Mexico to re
gain stable government. The repub
lican platform tells Mexico that we
shall go fro war with her unless she
meets our conditions.
4. It tells the story of. the won
derful help the democratic adminis
tration has given to rural progress,
and rightly condemns the 'republican
party for failure to do anything to
promote the development of country
life.. .
5. Its program of exact justice be
tween labor and capital will harmon
ise existing industrial troubles. The
platform is a great declaration of
progressive Americanism, and shapes
out a line of policy that the country
can safely follow.
THE INTERDEPENDENCE Of THE
COMMUNITY.
The atodern industrial, cojoMuunity
is a vast, and complicated, machine.
In order for it to operate well, every
part of itLmust be doing its work well.
. If one thing goes wrong, the whole
machine goes bad.
So it is in operating the industrial!
- activities of the modern community
Every person has his work to do, tf
he fails to do it, he throws theveole
Machine into confusion and causes
stiffening and disaster to every one.
Sucb a state of confusion and loss
has been caused during the past two
years by the industrial quarrels that
have, held up business. Perhaps the
jpogt destructive of all these was the
outlaw railroad strike of last spring,
which held up delivery of goods to
factories, prevented supplies fromj
reaching the farms, and thus checked
production of food and all other ne
cessities. It increased the cost of
Daily Southerner, Monday, July 12, 1920
living ior everyone, and its effects '
art still severely' felt' at this date.; j
The railroad strikers of laSt spring
would claim that it was necessary to 1
create this confusion and loss to all
the people, in order that attention J
might be attracted to their just de
mands. But the country is not going
to be run that way. You can catch
more ; flies r with ' molasses than with
vinegar. The whole nation is anx
ious to see justice done to every
worker, but it will not be driven and
bulldozed into granting anyone's de
mands, V'1 - "'
These struggles between different
elements check production, and thus
increase cost of living, and make ocn
ditions hard for everyone. The peo
ple must find some line of policy on
which they will nite, or living con
ditions will get worse and worse. We
need a get-together movement to
take in both labor and capital and all
elements of the producing and con.
suming public.
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THE ESSAY CONTEST
SCHOOL PRIZES.
The best scholar is applauded by
the gentle patter of gloved hands at
the commencement exercises, while
the winning athlete is carried off the
field by worshipping schoolmates.
Yet it is more vitally important fo
be a good scholar. To show young
people which the community really
values more highly, school prizes are
useful. When the faithful student is
handed out some attractive award, he
begins to realize that ability to throw
a ball is not the only thing that will
count.
If some good citizens of Tarboro
would offer a few such rewards for
special success in the local schools
for the coming term, it would great
ly promote interest in scholarship.
The honor of winning counts more
than the money or other prize won,
and it makes a scholarship seem an
end worth striving for.
. POLITICAL TOLERANCE.
Some people can hardly talk poli
tics five minutes without showing a
temper. If you venture to -express
any different opinion, they being to
shout and insinuate that everyone
who differs from them is a fool or a
knave.
It has never yet proved possible to
divide people so that all the honest
men shall be on one side and all the
rascals on the other. It is permissi
ble to consider that your own party
includes more ' intelligence than the
other, but it is not intelligent to feel
that your neighbors who differ from
you are any less honest.
People of small minds rant and
rave when comparing their views.
The really big men of the two par.
ties are good friends. They exchange
views with good temper, knowing
that much can be said on both sides
of any big question.
Anyway the Bachelor of Arts de
serve their title when they get to
flirting with the girls.
"Ten Ways in Which I Practiced
Thrift" is the title of a prize-winning
essay written by Miss Annie M. Cole,
a student of the East Carolina Teach.
ers' Training School, in a recent con
test held at the school, which js now
making thrift a part of the daily class
room work, and is also introducing it
in a systematic way at the general as
semblies of the summer session. Ac
oording to Miss Miriam McFadyn,
who has been appointed to take
charge of the work of putting courses
in thrift instruction in the summer
schools of this state, practically every
school now in session in both the
Carolinas is doing class room work in
this subject.
The ten prize-winning points men
tioned by Miss Cole are the making
of a spring suit for $15, which it
would cost $45 to buy; canning vege
tables to supply a family of three for
the winter and selling the surplus;
raising-Irish potatoes; buying a hat
late in the season at a reduction of
$1; remaking old clothes; having
shoes half-soled; saving on summer
it hool tuition; installing a flreless
cooker to save fuel; buying books
and ?iagnziniis wit'i a friend, each
paying, hulf the c iase price and
both reading them saving labor by
having the pump moved from the
yard to the back porch,
Miss Cole's essay was awarded the
prize at an assembly held at the end
of a week when chapel exercises each
day featured the practice of thrift
as anessential to good citizenship.
Miss Mary G. Shotwell, director of
the educational division of the War
Loan organization for this district,
was present at the exercises and
made a talk to the students, congrat
ulating them on their work.
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"HARD TIMES" WOMEN
SEEKING MATRIMONY
Tokio, July 10. Japanese find a
close connection between money and
marriage by reading the lessons of
the existing financial depression in
Japan.
The passing of easy money-making
has caused a rush to the Japanese
matrimonial agencies and women are
leading in the rush. In prosperous
times the agency customers are men
looking for wives, bat now, say mat
rimonial managers, the old order is
reversed. In view of the approach
ing "hard times" women are appar
ently seeking safety In Hie protection
of husbands.
' One result of the feminine ad
vances is a marked increase in mar-,
riages. f'
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It's all right tp jail all the little
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ou, can't prove that you have
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Formerly they build water troughs
long the roads of Tarboro for the
tired horses, but now they need an
ewrgency hospital for the smashed
up motorists.
Being warned against the evils of
mal-nutritiom, some folks in Tarboro
start in to consuaae more ice cream
sodas.
The conventions always come out
with ringing declaration on points
which everyone agrees upon. .
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the new, graduates will be complain
ing in a few yeara because these in
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"POPULAR THEATRF .'
ORDERED BY FRANCE
Paris' Ju'y 10--A "popular theatre"-where
Pus and operas will be
given under government direction
has been definitely agreed upon by
the cbJjjgj, 0j jgpytjga and jt- is be
liev id by its supporters that the sen
'.te will agree. The plan has long
been contemplated.
A temporary appropriation of
100,000 francs was voted to start the
new theatre in the Trocadero Palace
and the Comedie Francaise subsidy of
250,000 francs was doubled to en
able it to present plays there.
Plays will be given nightly with
two matinees at the Trocadero which
seats 6,000.
A feature of the plan is the decis
ion to make it a producing playhouse
for the government conservatory for
the training of actors arid musicians.
JAPANESE SOCIETY
ON LEAGUE-NATIONS
Tokio, July 10. A Japan Society
of the League of Nations has been
organized here with Baron Shibusa-
wa as president of the society and
Baron Sakatani tvice president.
The society aims at the realization
of the spirit underlying the League
of Nations and tor this purpose will
undertake the following:
Investigation of subjects relative
to the League of Nations.
Establishment of connections be
tween Japanese and foreign public
bodies organized with similar objects.
Despatch of Japanese delegates to
all kinds of international conventions
to b held abroad.
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