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PAGE TWO TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917 THE REVIEW: REIDSVIL! B, N. 0. Its Reidsville Review TUE8DAY AND FRIDAY THE REVIEW COMPANY (Incorporated.) ANTON OLIVER .... ..President . J. OLIVER .. ....Sao. and Treat. WM. M. OLIVER .. .. V.- President 91.50 PER YEAR (Altered at the poetoffloo tl Bolds fElla, N. C, as second clasa KiM mat-is.) TO THE VOTERS OF REIOSVILLE In further explanation of its atti tude in opposition to the sate of the Town's lighting plant and franchise, the Town Ownership League wishes to snake the following statement of fact t) the voters of Reidsville. It con ciders this question among the most Important, if not the most importan issue, that has ever come before the town. If a mistake is made it will be a matter of contract binding for sixty years which cannot be recon ridered and corrected when discover- -cd. Many false arguments are in clrcu lstlon and there is much misstatement of fact. For example, we are told nd many good people apparently be lleve, that the business interests particularly the larger factories, will be greatly injured if our plant and franchise is not sold to the Public Utll ities Company; because, as it is al leged, the Town could not guarantee . tnera sufficient electric power, as could the Public Utilities Company. Noth Ing could be farther from the truth. Uader the plan of retaining the plant nd franchise and buying current from the Southern Power Company, " the Town would have at its command, the entire available supply of the South ern Power Company, and the Public Utll ties Company could do no more, as Its sole source of supply also would bo tie Southern Power Company. - Under Town ownership and service It La proposed, at first, to put in trans formers sufficient to supply 450 horse power. The present consumption of the town Is about 150 horse-power, so that immediate, provision is made for a possible expansion in consumption if three times what It is at present; but this can be further increased at h"rt notice to any desired amount within the capacity of the Southern Tower Company to supply current, by Installing additional transformers and It can be done Just as quickly by the Town as fey the Public Utilities Com pany. The Edna Cotton Mills, The American Tobacco Company or any other industry could get one thousand horse-power or any other quantity de sired just as readily through town service as through the service of the! Public Utilities Company and ad Just as low a rate. In fact the chances of yery low rate woul be best from the town service because the interest in the development f the imanufac tirlng Industries of the Town is more vital to the government of the Town than it could be to a private and for eign corporation, i he town could if It chose give a rate at or below cost to encourage Industry while a private corporation would le sure to want a profit It has been circulated that the Town would have to pay for 450 horse-pow er whether it used it or not. That al so Is a misunderstanding. The trans former capacity to start with will be 450 horse-power but the town will have to pay only for the current actually used. Under the proposed plan of Town service the Southern Power Company will furnish current delivered at the transformers for 1.35 cents per kilo watt hour. The present price to con sumers Is ten cents per kilowatt hour for light and a variable rate for pow er, the imaxmum being six cents per kilowatt hour. If we sell out to the Public "utilities Company the schedule of prices fixed in the contract which the Town binds Itself to accept will be at the same meter rate for ligh- lng; but the flat or minimum rate will be higher, that is fl.00 where It is now only 80 cents. Similarly their maximum rate for power will be higher starting at nine tents per kilowatt hour Instead of six cents.. This means that all small consumers of power, much In the majority at present, will be charged 50 per cent more for cur rent after selling out than they now ray. It should be understood, further more, that these rates, higher on the whole than the Town now charges, will yield an enormous profit to the Public Utilities Company. Under Town service the present lower price for service could be maintained or even materially reduced and the profits turned Into the Town treasury. The cotit of the current delivered at the transformers from the Southern Pow er Company will be low, 1.35 cents per kilowatt hour or less, and it is es timated that the entire cost of deliver- ng the current to the eonsumer, up keep, office expense and all will not exceed 60 per cent of the gross re-1 celpts received from the sale of the current and very likely not over 50 er cent. The gross income from light and power last year. Including a legitimate charge for pumping water, In round numbers amounted to $24.- 000. The profits of the lighting plant considered alone, were in excess of $10,000 last year which were used in meeting the deficit in the operation of the water and sewer departments and other necessary town expenses. The water service is a losing business, as it is in every town, and the Public Utilities Company has positively re fused to Include that service in the purchase. Reidsville is steadily growing and gross recelplts are constantly larger, which will yield constanly Increasing t profits from the lighting service. Under the League's plan these increas ing profits would be added to the treas ury of the town Instead of the treas ury of a foreign corporation. If the plant Is sold the profits will not be pent In Reidsville; the Town will have no opportunity to make special reductions la the price of current to encourage business n because it will have sold that right; taxes will have to be increased to meet the deficit In operating the water service, or water rates be again advanced; and to imeet HMHKHHMHHKHWK UNDER WHICH FLAG? All voters who believe in municipal ownership and control of public utilities thus making it unnecessary to greatly increase municipal taxes to make up for loss of profits now made in the operation of these public utilities --are asked to vote the following com missoners ticket: J. ED SMITH DR. J. W. McGEHEE J. H. BURTON W.S. ALLLEN D. r. HENDRIX All voters who believe in turning over Reids ville's most valuable and profitable utility the electric light plant to an alien corporation and are willing to stand for increased taxes, are ask ed to vote the following commissioners ticket: JOHN F. SCOTT G. E. CRUTCHFIELD W.B.WRAY J. F. SMITH N.C. THOMPSON Sectional Bookcases "BulIt-to-Endure" "I will study and prepare myself," said Lincoln, "and thai, some day, my chance will cornel" YOU ambitious young man or young woman, look about yenu You' must perceive, as Lincoln did, that there i no success without knowledge. Prepare yourself. Read for recreation. . Study for auccesa. A Globe-Wernicke Sectional Bookcase in your room will help you. It ia constant invitation to read and study. As you add section to section to take care ol incoming; books, it becomes a guide post of your progress, the outward symbol of tha growth within. Placa it in your room whet you can spend those intimate hours be tore retiring in mental companion hip with the great minds of the world the great minds that will ptexm you for the day your chance will come. BURTON-CHANCE WALKER CO. Furniture and Undertaking - '.'i Hi' i rf- nw M 'till : Jof L Ham TTOJ BWrattoa shews 1 CJobs- Wernicke mwihinafion al two book. case sirtinas and a sat tine. Tea desk otfers bread si ms el writing sod reading sua. various for and writing ma Janata, aad folds out o ike way whaai swt ia m. ha i be iwiwliassd in any other expenses that the profits liom the lighting service would cover. It should be understood furthermore and this Is also a matter of serious Importance, that In the event of the pale, we would be solely dependent on their current for pumping all our wa ter both from the creek and into the stand pipe, a servic which by the way will cost us at ljat ??,00 per year to start with, and If a tire should occur at the same time their electric line was out of coiim'ssion, we would be in a desperate condition and at the mercy of the flames. For this reason, ' Insurance companies would certainly ailvance their rates on property and our larger industries would be .greatly burt. This wonld make it necessary for the Town still to keep up and main tain its steam plant as an auxiliary and running expenses would not be so very much less than at present, but as will be readily seen, all income will be completely cut off. Reidsville is now only forty years old and before sixty years are passed, may, and very likely will have 20,000 people and the profits of the lighting service correspondingly Increased which ought to go into the public l-easury and not into that of a foreign corporation. And be it further remem- beted that after ten years there is no limit to the price the Public Utilities Company may charge. In other words we bind ourselves to them for sixty years, while they are bound to us at an extortionate price for current, for only ten years. We will be selling to them a virtual monopoly for $30,000 that will immediately yield them forty to fifty per cent, on the investment, end within the sixty year period in all probability at least two hundred per cent. And what will Reidsville obtain for this gift? for it is virtually no less. Nothing Indeed in service Of any kind that could not be obtained as well or better through Town owner bliip and service. Q Is not this a rich and tempting plum for any corporation, soulless as they proverbially are? But the League firmly believes that full information is t!I that the voters need to promptly squelch at the first opportunity at the polls any such attempt to filch from us for a mere song the only profitable utility the Town has or is ever likely to have;", A number of towns in North Caro lina have sold their franchise; but happily much the greater number have seen the truth in time to save them selves, fn those towns which buy the current and maintain their own ser vice, as the League proposes for Reidsville, the price to the consumer Is much below what it is in those towns where the franchise is sold, in sons cases less than half. Ask for detailed information about this. The League much regrets the neces sity of a political fight over this one sided issue so far as the best interests of our Town is concerned, and this is evidenced by the fact that only a Com missioners ticket is put forward; but determined forces appear unmistak ably' at work, ;and. the only sure means of defeating this unhappy proposal for the sale of our plant and franchise is oy the election of a board of Commis sioners pledged against such sale. This is why the League feels compell ed to put forward a ticket, and inci dentally we believe that it is composed of .as' able and conscientious a set of men. with in'erests fully identified with those of our beloved Town as any that could be put forward and worthy of the support of every voter In Reidsville aside from their attitude toward this all Important question. There is no desire on the part, of the League to attack or criticise any mem ber of the opposing ticket but it con tains the names of men known to be and are on record) In favor of selling the plant. They are trying to give the impression that selling eut should not be made an issue in this election but we have reason to believe, that if elected they will at once take up the It-sue and vote for the sale. By pro vision of law It wll then be necessary to can an election and submit the question of ratifying the sale to the vote of the people, and In fact. It can- rot be so submitted to the people ui- Ul the Commissioners have first voted to sell and approved the contract If you are opposed to selling, as we are confident a majority of the voters are, the holding of an elect!-, n for this special purpose, would at least be an unnecessary expense. If you are op posed to selling the only sure method is to elect a Board of Commissioners known and pledged to be opposed to selling. ' Therefore vote for JOHN BURTON, J. E. SMITH, Dr. J. W. McGEHEE, W. S. ALLEN and D. A. HENDRIX. Repectfully submitted, TOWN OWNERSHIP LEAGUE THE NEGRO IN THE WOOD-PILE Those who got out the ticket of G. E. Crutchfield, J. F.' Scott, W. B. Wray, J. F. Smith and N. C. Thompson, for Town Commissioners, tell us "that the question of selling tin Municipal Electric Plant should be eliminated at tlits time and not made an issue in the flection." Let us see whe tier they mean what they say and whether or not they are telling the truth. A pro position was imade to one of the lead ers of the selling out side that if the above named candidates for commis sioners would come out publicly and state over their own signatures that they would not vote or make any con tract, while serving as commissioners, to sell the town's electric light plant or to grant, a franchise to the Southern i Power Company or to the Southern Utilities Company that no opposition ticket would be put up. but "they re fused , to do this. WHY? Because the above named gentlemen stand for selling out our . electric light plant and granting a franchise, and unless prevented will do so. People of Reidsville, THERE IS A NEGRO IN THE WOOD-PILE. WATCH OUT. Respectfully submitted, TOWN OWNERSHIP LEAGUE iilnge of civilization until the excite ment Is over; but he Is very free with a promise of the town funds to some local institution, when by pledging them he can see a chance to win a few votss in the town election, or by of fering this bribe which In all proba bility he has no Intention of ever ma king good, for he' hates to part with caoney secure concessions that other wise would cost him good dollars as u return for a brief bask In the lime light. He is the Incarnation of parsi monyunless there are dollars in sight before sundown, and even then. his greed is a sight to sicken the big nearted citizen The knocker is the most ignorant man in the community. He s so ig norant that he does not know that ev ery knock hurts, not only the party ho knocks, but his own inierests as well. The only place for his breed is In a community set apart strictly for chronic knockers, where, like the Kilkenny cats, who On pugnacity bent, Demolished each other to such an extent, As to leave nothing else but the tails. he might actually perish like the Dodo and give suffering humanity a long needed rest NEGROES WANT REGIMENT ON EUROPE'S WAR FRONT THE KNOCKER Yes; igentlemen, the knocker ye have with you always. He is born a knocker, and a knocker he continues to be till death claims him, and we verily believe he kicks against the lust usefulness of the human body fertlizaton of the earth, and thus we have the cemetery; the soil robber of future generations. A deputation of our citizens, men who have an eye open ever to the call of opportunity, made a hurried trip last week to Charleston, W. Va., tliat lively little town where our gov ernment recently decided to locate an armor plant... Speaking with one of these gentlemen upon hs return we asked him what struck him most dur ing his stay in Charleston, and his reply was: "I never met a single knocker while I was there. Real es state men boosted the town, and boost td one another. I never met a real estate dealer who, w hen he learnt that n brother of the rraft had sold a piece ci land (and fhey are selling them jn hundred thousand dollar lots before breakfast every day) met you with a remark that had a better bargain to ffer you. No, in every such case I was met by the frank statement that I had made a good deal. They are the kind of people in Charleston that. If one of them cannot get the business he does does forthwith proclaim the fact that every one else in the town in the same line of business s a thief and a robber, and, if he wants to save kit skin he had better go over to some ether town, where he will probably find an honest man like himself. Now we have not many of this kind in Reidsville One is a plenty; an em uarrassing plenty and the town would be better without him. You will In-1 variably nn4 that kind of citilzen al ways on the verge of leaving the town but the town Is never lucky enough to be able to shake him, and he lives outy his life, a curse to himself, and a detriment to his community. There are none of that kind of bird In Charleston, and probably the United States Government took that into con- rideratlon when making a decision to locate a twelve million dollar factory." The knocker you will know him is self branded. He does his own ad vertising, and does It plenty. If a chance occurs to gfet a factory, he is Johnny-on-the-spot with a hunch that it la all a fake; if a gambling chance occur to put over something by put ting a dollar into it, he skirts the London, April 3. America wUl be represented almost Immediately in the f eld against Germany by a negro regi ment, or at the very least by a com pany, it George Washington, negro doorkeeper at the office of the United States Consul-General, has his way. Washington asked Consul-General Skinner for permission to start re cruiting a body of American negro fighters today. Mr. Skinner is inclined to favor the plan. Washington was a member of a col cred cavalry regiment in the Spanish American war and says he can easily raise a regiment of negro warriors her. The inclosed clipping will be of in terest to all the people of Rockingham county, but particularly to those of tbe Reidsville-Ruffin section. ueorge wasmngton Mitchell was Lorn and reared near Ruflin, N. C When W. R. Walker of Spray, was in Haimburg, Germany in 1913, he, with nis family, called on Consul-Skinner who then occupied the United States consulate there. "Wash" admitted the party of North Carolinians and was overheard to remark aside, "Here comes some of my folks!" He imme diately took the Httle five year old daughter under his care and lost no tiime in discovering that he and the Walkers were once neighbors. He thowed the deepest interest in his fellow Statesman and often visited Mr. Walker who was several months In Prof. Deutschman's Angenklinik in Hamburg. He was always, eager to secure copies of The Reidsville Re view, ;'. He also told Mr. Walker of his leav ing North Carolina with the Buffalo Bill show; of traveling all over the world with them until while in Mar jeilles, France, an epidemic of gland ers among the horses necessitated the killing of the entire herd and ruining the management. Not knowing what to do or where to turn, alone and without friends in a strange land, he applied for advice to Consul Skinner, . then located at Marseilles. He was first employe.-1 as butler in Skinner's house and later became a valuable member of the Con sul's offical household. He had become master of six lan guages and in those countries where negroes are so rare he wjs known as "Mr. Mitchell" by every one except the members of tin consul's family 8nd his North Carolina friends. "Wash" is a son for Rockingham to bo Droud of of pleasing personality end most courteous manner. AFTER GRIPPE lira. Findley Made Strong By Vinol . Bevery, Kans. "The Grippe left me in a weak, nervous, run-down condition. I was too weak to do my housework and could not sleep. After trying different medicines without benefit Vinol restored tay health, strength and appttite. Vinol is a grand medicine and every weak, nervous, run-down woman should take it." Mrs. Geo. Findley. Vinol sharpens the appetite, aids digestion, enriches the blood, and builds up natural strength and energy, Try it oa our guarantee. C. H. FETZEK. Dmrtfrt WAR OR NO WAR Fires Keep Coining And We keep paying My Companies Are lots more Able tobear a Loss than yon are; Therefore, BE PRUDENT And insure With FRANCIS TOACK, The Insurance Mac FIVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL? HORRIBLE Calomel is Quicksilver and Acts Like Dynamite on Your ': Liver Calomel loses you a day! You know what calomel is. It's mercury; quick silver. Calomel is dangerous. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite. cramping and sikening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. When you feel bilious, sluggish, con stipated and all knocked out and be lieve you need a dose of dangeroua- c&lomel just remember that your drug gist sells for 50 cents a large bottle cf Dodson's Liver Tone, which is en t'rely vegetable and pleasant to take end Is a perfect substitute for calomel. It is guaranteed to start your liver without stirring you up inside, and can not salivate. v Don't take calomel! It makes you sick the next day; it Tbses you ai day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight eta you right up and you feel great Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe We Will Supply Anything Wanted IN PERFECT GALVANIZED IRON ROOFING, V CRIMP ROOFING, TIN ROOFING, GUTTERING? SPOTJT. ING; CHIMNEY PIPE, BOTH ROUND AXSD SQUARE; WELL TUBING AND- SEWER PIPE, , STOVES. RANGES. HEATERS, ' LAUNDRY AND COOKINQ STOVES, FIRE BOARDS ,V AND PIPING. - PLUMBING GOODS CLOSET LABORATORIES. BATH TUBS AND BATH ROOM SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS. V GET OUR ESTIMATES ON PLUMB ING AND SEWERAGE CONNECTIONS. R. G. Gladstone. WANTED! OLD JUNK FOR CASH We want to exchange for CASH for your Scrap Material, such as Bags, Bones," Feed Bags, Scrap Bafg'wg, Brass Copper, Lead, Zinc, Ola Rubber Boots and Shoes, Auto Casings, Inner Tubes, Carriage Tires, and all kinds of Scrap iucuiis iuu -iron. trJTl Bring us your material. FOR SALE 1 One ton Truck Winton. j 1 Five passenger Ford. 1 Runabout with Truck Body FonL All in good ninning-jcondition. Eth er for sale or will trade. Walker Hide & Junk Co. Dry Prizery Bldg. Opp. Depot ment for pains in the chest and lame Rheumatic Paint Relieved "I have used Chamberlain's Lint ness of the shoulders due to rhauma. Item, and am pleased to say that St xa never failed to give me .prom)! Hef." writes S. N. Finch, Batavia, N. Y. The Review and Bryan ' Commoner $2.00 Tier year. HIGH GRADE m BUILDING BRIOE Brick la the most enduring moat ecare against Are; moat comfortable In all weatheri most econo mical in final cost and tho XLost beautiful ot aay building uat3rlaL II quality appeals to yon. mt na and get quotations Shipments made promptly. WILLIAMSON ft HEDGECOCK. INC Martinsville. Va. RICE'S ' Red J" GINGER ALE fl. L. RICE MANFACTDRER AND BOTLEB REIDSVILLE, N. C. i
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