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- . f ii V li . , ) Cir.l-VVLLK.LY KT PEELE .or id Publisher I'.. . HERBERT. PEELE Aoeiata Editor , 'JootPH PEELE 'if Correspondent with th Color ,.. umber op the associated' 5 'press The Associated Press li ej- clualtey e jutted to the use tor trediteA to it or not otherwise cred.tod.in this paper and also ' '.. DUHLkunU there- In. , JAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY 1 ti, l'BSCRIPTION RATEti ,PAIUV rnintht-hvcinail ar carrier HJ month by niT or carrier 2.1 or carrier ij manthwhv mil - - iNmni ........ I month "by mail or earner Jo 1 iwwn r-v earriar..... ...10c i .,; it iv.l-WEEKi r ' a months ll-W e torecvnq rates anolv only to subs srlptions old in advance. All arrears are cnargeo a me rate oi mo a. weva. Subeoriptiori v mail are not entered Mr tfortt period than one month. Entered at ths oostoffice at Elizabeth i au ayunoov pub eiqvpuduap ao; uo JOSH-PROOF MEN Wy uacfc m rourteen ninety two Columbus with his nervy crew set out'fronx Sunny Italy to take a sail across! iee. sea.- i.x ."You- are a nut," the people said, "and even noyr as good as dead; we have no faith- In all your schemes for they are wild and foolish dreams.' '.But heeding not their slams and knocks tie left them gaping from tne docks, and yelled, "Who says the Tirld la. flat Is batty underneath the hat:- --lA So we are now sojourning here be cause Columbus did not fear the ridi cule of those he knew who scoffed at what he strove to do. Thus Robert Fulton plowed the stream aboard his hobby, run by steam, while on the banks at either side the crowds came down to laugh and chide. But this man did not heed or quit for he was well supplied with grit and soon the mobs had ceased to jest for he had won out In the test. Thus someone had to pioneer each .benefit that we have here and those were, safer as a rule who were lm mune to ridicule. N. A. LUFBURROW record of W..G, Cox in his own community show that he has always been opposed to con solidated schools? Is it not a fact that J. M. LeRoy has stated that he hoped the spe cial tax election in the Weeks- ville community would not carry? Did he not predict that there would be a lawsuit con testing the reeent special tax election in Mount Hermon township and has he not been seen cheek by jowl with those who opposed the special tax since the election? Is it not a fact that with the County Sup erintendent planning for new schoolhouses all over the coun ty the Board of Education has made no provision for funds for the construction of these buildings? To sum it up, are not the members of the Board of Education striving to bring o nausrht all that has been ac complished for better schools by Superintendent Vann since he has been in office? Are they not against his work rathgr ;han for it? Have they not, therefore, abused their office, and if they do not resign, do they not deserve impeach ment? This matter is now with the people of Elizabeth City and 'asquotank County. The Ad vance feels that it has said enough. Everybody knows how the people stand, but nobody knows what the people will do The editor of The Advance is no lawyer, neither is he versed in the law. There may be doubt as to whether the people can do anything. But one thing is certain. If the Board of Edu cation succeeds in robbing Pas quotank, of the services of Pres ton S. Vann, this newspaper and the people will not forget And the man who must BETTER A MILLSTONE As the member of the Board of Education have themselves refused to offer any explana tion of the hostility that has developed with the Board o Education to Superintenden ., Preston S. Vann, the matter is left tottyecxure. ThAfavance has considered fevefrtwg coming to its ears thimerokSi'of the Board have le wjinlpublic utterance or private conversation and for a ling time found itself totally ugAbletav discover any satis fatohypothesis upon which to account for the Board's sud- den'tfeeTmination that Vann wasotjthman they wanted. Butwe believe that now we are bednninjr to see the light. The Pasquotank County Board of Education is out of harmony withMr. Vann's aggressive campaign for bigger and bet ter schools in the county. They wete possessedijf Jhe idea that is frequently atf obsession of school committeemen they ha'd.hed this man and there- - forf Hewas to come and go at their beck and call. But a toacher knows more about teaching than a school commit teeman, and it would be no sort of teacher who would sub mit to the dictation of school committeemen as to hia meth r.rla of teaching. So a superin- - tendent of education in any county is. or. at least ought to be, a man of more education and ability, than the board of education and it would be a poor sort -"of superintendent, who wm merely a catspaw to his boards , The Board has not been averse" to letting it be under stood that Superintendent Vann has not devoted himsel to the duties of his office. The Advance ventures the opinion that he was doing more and accomplishing more than the Board wanted to see come to pass, This is only a guess, to be sure, but this newspaper is persuaded that v It's a pretty good jruess. Does not the it. bear the burden of blame will be J. M. LeRoy. The statement in these col umns yesterday that we would support an enemy rather than a friend if we believed the enemy a better man for a pub lic office was purely hypothe tical. If The Advance has an enemy in these days of peace and harmony, we do not know it. AGONY C0LUI.IN EVER SINCE THE NEW CITY administration WENT INTO OFFICE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL HAVE BEEN ASKINO ME FOR SUGGESTIONS AND THEY OUGHT TO KNOW , WHAT THEY WANT BETTER THAN ANYBODY NOT EVEN EXCEPTING SAUNDERS HIMSELF BUT SAUNDERS WITH HIS own innate modesty WANTS ME TO BE MODEST ABOUT SUGGESTING THINGS TO THE NEW BOARD BECAUSE I DIDN'T VOTE IN THE LATE ELECTION HAVING FORGOT IN THE PRESS OF MANY MATTERS TO PAY MY POLL TAX BEFORE MAY 1ST THE FACT THAT ALL THE CANDIDATES IN MY WARD " WERE FOR A REAL CITY MANAGER AND AN OPEN MARKET DOES NOT EXCUSE ME BUT I THINK THAT'S WHY I FORGOT AND I DON'T BELIEVE I SHOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN IF I HAD HAD A CHANCE TO SAY WHO SHOULD BE ALDERMEN FROM SAUNDERS WARD BE THAT AS IT MAY THE ADVANCE IS A NEWSPAPER AND PUBLIC MONITOR AND AS SUCH WILL CONTINUE TO OFFER THE ALDERMEN OR SAUNDERS HIMSELF SUGGESTIONS AS IT SEES FIT REGARDLESS OF MY SINS WHETHER OF OMISSION OR OF COMMISSION BUT I CAN'T HELP REMINDING THE BOARD AND SAUNDERS HIMSELF THAT THE ADVANCE HAS OFFERED THE BOARD NO SUGGESTION ABOUT WHAT IT SHOULD DO FOR OR AGAINST "BLUE SUNDAYS" Not by his system of book keeping but by his work for and in the schools of the coun ty is Superintendent Vann's work in Pasquotank to be judged. This is not the job oi an office man but of a school man a teacher and a teacher trainer. The teachers and the school children of the county are the onies best qualified to judge Superintendent Vann's work and his fitness for his position. Where do they stand? THIS TS A MATTER AS TO WHICH THE ALDERMEN HAVE NO RIGHT TO DICTATE AND AS TO WHICH THEY SHOULD BE GOVERNED AND DOUBTLESS WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE POPULAR WILL AND I WAS ONLY CONCERNED BECAUSE I SAW FRIENDS OF THE OPEN Sunday WERE MAKING themselves heard AND I WArn-E" THE OTHER SIDE TO BE SURE TO DO LIKEWISE ALRRAMA TONIGHT "The Spell Of The Yukon" Also - PEARL WHITE IN "LIGHTNING RAIDERS" TO-MORROW-GEORGE WALSH IN "I'LL SAY SO" "MONEY TALKS" Sunshine Comedy PHYSICALLY FIT AT ANY AGE It Isn't ate. It's carries, ovug that Euts men "down and cut" Keep you; items! organ In rwd condition and too will always be physically fit The kidneys are the, most over worked organs In the hnaa boon When they treat dowa ander the strain and the deadly uric acid ac cumulates and crystallises look- out! These sharp crystals tear and scratch tbt delicate urinary channels csaetng cxcrndsting pain and Set tip irrita tions which may csuse premature de ftnmtion and often do torn into deadly Bright' Disease. . J , One of the first warnings of slug- Ksh kidney action Is pain or stiffness the small of the back, loss of appe tite, indigestion or rheumatism. l)o not wait until the danger is upon yon. At the first indication of trouble ' . .V. -....a at mM flat trial fcox of GOLD MEDAL Xlssrlem OU Capsules, imported direct from the lahotenes In Holland. They will give almost immediate relief. If for any cause they should not, your money will bsrefundsd. But be sure to get GOLD MEDAL None other is genuine. sealed boxta,.thre lilt AND BY THE WAY SPEAKING OF MODESTY I HAVE JUST READ THE INDEPENDENT'S LEADING EDITORIAL IN WHICH THE EDITOR ASCRIBES all his early difficulties TO A HABIT AND fASSiuix FOR TELLING THE TRUTH REGARDLESS AND I AM WONDERING IF HE STILL THINKS HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH WHEN HE ACCUSED ME OF PREACHING social equality OF THE RACES OR WHEN HE CALLED SPENCER CHAPLIN A quasi quondam hydrocephalus preacher IF HE DOES HE WASN'T ON THE SQUARE WHEN WB SHOOK HANDS AT Burka Culpepper's meeting r AND ANYWAY IF SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO CHIDE MB FOR LACK OF becoming modesty I DONT THINK SAUNDERS HIMSELF OUGHT TO BE THE MAN TO CAST THE FIRST STONE adopted it; it Is with us to this day. n: i ' ui:ii l l a: ' AnA thm Bra thnu in hfffh mllltflrv authority who would retain it unmodi fied. All ,the major generals of the regular army who recently testified be fore the committee or the American Bar Association testified in effect' that miHtarv timtlcA and military disciDllne can not co-exist; that is, that Justice ana discipline are lncompmiuie irrma and that discipline can not be achiev ed through Justice. Of course this is anarchy in any Institution. It is gov ernment by the whim ana caprice ana power by a commanding general. It is government by a man and not by law. It places the stamp of approval upon the harshest brutality and the most oppressive, spirlt-cruBhlng penal ties. Such is the ultra-military view. That view has its supporters in Con gress and throughout the country. b'vurv rt.nr'Tinn.irv view nits ua buu- porters and they can be overcome, not by force o logic, dui Dy iureu ui puum. and nMinn. The army of the tti..j cut., hoinncs to the people and is to be governed upon principles which the people approve, nui, in iv. it has heretofore oeen larneiy governing, self-sufficient. The react lnMnvv vlawav nPRt De 1UUI1U uicm ed In an editorial from a Chicago paper a i.in th. PnnirrPBslonal Record oi February 27, 1919, by. a gentleman who today Is chairman oi me toum -"" - miiltirv nffairs. In ORPOSl- . m nun efforts to modernize and liberalize this system. The text taken was the statement maue u i..r Roman centurion as ne apuiuB-ii..j. himoair to Christ at Caoer- naum as a man having absolute au thority over his soiaiery. n that absolute personal ; commanding officer is an essential of military discipline. In 'this connection the article proceeds io ,. "An army 10 oe u '"V" field must from the moment It begins to train at home nave ttimuiuvc trol of its discipline. The command ing general Is everything. He must hoM the three keys. He must have final control. He must be the Judic iary, the legislature and the executive, i; I' I - , would not have an army. He would have a collection of armed Individuals. That Is the whole argument upon the .. -u rrk.t orittnrini was reaa Oiner nw- mv . Into the Record at the request of the present Judge advocate genera of the p .i rkiui u voices. It franK- amiy, w nunc ...... -v ly concedes that there should be no ,;.... n tho nower of the com- nri! that the Roman .v,h ia tho method which does ob tain and ought to obtain In our army. Under the Roman system the word of . . . i n a idirii in I'm i iii ili av the ceniunun, ul mo . a AD v tho pmnprur wan aer, ttnu in...j -t t , , , rt law. By a word the most uaruai penalty could be imposea aim . -tence of death pronounced, ungoverned w.. io,.r mnrthv of the name: ana many of the old Roman principles are 1 J . ... m.lAl. tt nan- still practicea wun u. ital or other most serious offenses have indeed bv com- mon fairness and decency were trifling travest ps. and li me um-i'"'j ii how had its way the penal mum ; . i wnnin HHVH UKKll caci.m- ..j t mn victims of this . t ininatirp. have been lan gulshing. and are still languishing in military prisons. Much of the resul tant harshness ana emeu hv extraleital interposl- a. ..nr nprsnnallties bent upon ilUIl Ul i.v - deflecting the system from Its Inevit able end. If a commanding genei to make the law and then Is to become it,. i.iri of the law and Is to pass the sentence and execute It, how can you expect Justice reguiatea Dy iaw i 4 la not a. avstem of law. I had the other day one case that is typical of many. The military aumui - ..... o tron for a hnv. A young Ann nrpnnred the trap. Whether the enlisted men were guilty or not centalnly can never be known to any ... mind am a. rpniilV of such a trial. This young officer was, of course, tne nrosecutina witness, ne ura.ii.cu rhnivea and Dushed them tnrougn. Than hA Vfll fttinolnted the Judge ad thA ronrt and as such pros- VvoiiG vm. 'w w - ecuted the defendant; as sucn aiso ne hAnma th leiral adviser of the court- martial. Then to make matters worse he was assigned as counsel for the accused. He lunctionea in an capac ity. That la ha wna the nroHecutOI for the Rovernment, he ras the legal adviser to the court, ana ne was tne nminaal for tha nppllapd WhOID he DrOS- aXiit.il Whan T nnlntpd out to the commanding general that auch trial was a farce, he contended wun great emphasis that all this was, as truly it is. nprmiftslble under the system. As though I were touch'lng something dfrnannct. he exclaimed. 'Tne acting Judge advocate general Is attacking iach fail and Kule Kloth WJL are in position to give GOOD SERVICE in Laundering Keep Kule Suits. A LBEMARLE LAUNDRY L Phone 125. Matthews St W. S. WHITE & CO. Dealers In FEED FOR STOCK AND POULTRY SEED FOR FARM AND GARDEN ELECTRIC SUPPUES 120-122 Poindexter Street Phon 64 Elizabeth City, N. C. slsisMsss)sa NOTICE! STOVE STORAGE We will go get your stoves, take care of them in summer, put them up when wanted and polish stove, nickel work and piping, for price quoted below: Residence Stove $1.00 Store Stove . . J $1.50 Stove with over 7 ft. pipe $2.00 Any Repair To Stove or Pipe Extra. E. J. COHOON Phone 935. THE MODE' GROCERY : OF THE: MODE CITY M. P. GALLOP COMPANY Phones 3 and 57 New Flora Building Corner Main and Water Streets I THINK YOU COL. ANSELL'B SPEECH (Continued From Pags One) of war and tee if It Is one which P- peals t6 your Intelligence ana oi wmcn you at this day are proud. John Adams relates that in the early days of the Revolution, iron discipline at one time came to be thought necessary, and that Inasmuch as the Roman system of military Justice, which had been adopted word for word by Great Brit ain, had succeeded In carrying -by force of arms those two military empires .v.- anv nthar.had avr aoAe. he favored the adoption of It her under the emergency, little expecting to get it. The Continental Congress with 11. .1. ka til unn'arata.ndlna' our ivitpm In another case tne accusea was an orphan waif. He knew not his own true name nor father nor mother. All hia life he had been the , Inmate or an ornhnn flflvlnm. Tpavinir the asv lnm ha fp into the hands or a wiCKeu fnmllv and was nut to wicked pursuits. This was in the far west. At last he .anan.H anri pama aflat into M firVlnTlll CDM.IT . - - - " - . " ana enlisted in tne army tne miter pan nt 1Q17 Ha hnd aprved but a short while" when he went absent without leave for two hours, for which he was trior! i la difflniit to rv how long he na. halrl In nrlann before ne was tried or the period of imprisonment to which he was sentencea, dui tne racu arc that he was still in Drlson for this one lio-ht nfranaa a vnar afterward. After fruitless inquiry as to the reasons for his long imprisonment, giving up an hnn nf Aver hnlnar nermitted to ser- form his auty as a soiaier, ne resoivea tn aarane rrom orison, ana aia so on .ha nlirk nt laat -r?lirlatma. Ha wu . V ... B . . . v .. ... . . nniiiwl anil tnu trlnd for tha earane and desertion. He was convicted and sentenced to a long term or imprison ment: It turned out, after all, that this karnihu waif tn whom. If tha world owed aught. It had given nothing, was mentally aeiective, ana mat mm was known to the government at the time or nis last tnai. veruy, u tem must "have its victims. "It the spirit of the citiaen is not to suffer, Justice must oe aone mm as a soldier. Discvpune can ne majn- talnaA anl with fiiatloa. Tha snlrlt tha moral nualitv of our men. must be appealed to. We cannot afford to adopt the Ideal recently voiced by an officer of the regular army In a pub lished essay, which persuaded him to say: "Hagenback, of Hamburg, has shown that that ia no haaat. on earth that cannot be made to behave itself In fear of punishment by a higher power. Tne same ruie appuea to ui men. t la nnt hv auph an Ideal that dls cipllne In the American army, In the correct sense of the term, can be at tained. Justice must be established In the army. While waiting .Justice sleeps. Wrong will continue to rule military methods. Never again must we let this great Interest of the army depend upon the myriad of chances that sway military men. We have too many men in military prisons. We have too many men who have been spelled from the army In disgrace mttmr a trial that waa hut a travaatv. The people should be, tney are. In- BIG REDUCTION IN TAILOR MADE aw fvw a"i One hundred and twenty this season's choice fabrics, reduced $1.50 to $13.00 on the suit This is your chance to get a Suit made to your indi vidual Measurements, for less than stock prices. Can fit any man that walks. We sell Everything that Men, Young Men and Boys wear from head to foot. The latest Styles, at the low est prices. ' C. A- COOKE Elizabeth City, N. C. ii I ! r f i y ty - - y i f" naj-ir" - 'fit i 17 , A 2rs asssortmeni: of ke-your-feet-cooi A la 4 V rf L a. Im mtn 7 1 ;plGAseyoa! . DijjyfjQ the summer months remember this it's just as necessary to keep your feet at the proper temperature as it is to keep your head cool. Our low cut tans or canvas shoes for men will help ward off Old Sol's attack. They are designed to meet the require ments of folks who know what they want Gallop & Toxey Shoe Co. Main Street , HintonBIdg. terested In 1 reforming this system. Military Justice ts but human justice. It Is the same kind of Justice that Is defined as one of the objects to be attained by the establishment of this government Justice lit the army must be established under laws enacted by the people, and of military Justice the people must be - tha ultimate Judge. V s , - s - "- - - W t for one, am not willing to trust Jus tice of any kind to a few selected men who, by reason of their positions, are constituted the Judges of Justice. Jus tice In the army will be established. I have that faith. I quote with Emer son: "Whoever fight., whoever falls. fJ tsayvaw vvuuci at f fi UkVI Va
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