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' THB ORNtNG ItEliALD, APRIL' 12, 1913.
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; E-HL.T EXCEPT ii ONDATS.
with the editors
Should Not Embarrass Him.
deal of It, but the return from only a
single flood such as bas been the one
through which Ohio bas just passed
would more than pay for the initial
J. M..KJNQ.. tat..; ..Editor
Z. T. ROLLINS. . .Business Muqtr
J. ff. King and E. T. Rollins Owner They might also .attest
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and Publisher.
It does. look as, if some few people LOBt
who vigorously eupporiea , senator In addition to these reservoirs I
Simmonsi might Terrain VTrom embar- would advocate the erection of a sys
rassing ,nim 07. no , seemng. omce. tem of wir,ies8 towers coverlnir -the
in inai wayientIrft TTnted States and under eov-
to their, candid and sincere support L,0f th.t .
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I of a cause. Wilmington Dispatch.
A Welcome Sound.
Ons Tear.. .. .... .. .. . ...$2.60 "It is considered vital in the inter
One Week.. .......... .05 lest of the. public that new blood shall
Entered' at the postofflce at Durham
N. C as second-class mall matter.
tion of the country would be entire
ly cut off from communication as was
Ohio during the last few days of
March or Omaha during the week pre
vious. The navy department has two
wireless towers of great strength at
Mare Island, California, Arlington,
Virginia, which are able to communi
cate pver the continent In favorable
weather f conditions. If these were
De Drougnt into tne , service," an
nounces Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo in supplanting all the high
er customs officials at Philadelphia.
This sounds like the talk which dem
oeVatic patriots, especially regarding I augmented by two more at, say, Den
the po8tofflce8, are anxious to hear. ver and Chicago with small stations
Charlotte Observer. . at New Orleans, Cincinnati. Atlanta.
Bangor and New York we would have
Th President's Idea. la network of wireless messages which
It seems to be safer In some towns I Tne idea of the president, stated a wouia encompass tne entire continent
to kill fc man than to sell liquor and "ie differently, perhaps, is that the ana renaer communication instant and
president and members of congress
are all human beings delegatd to con
sider measures relating to human wel
fare. The president, a human being,
should therefore address members of
DURHAM, N. C, APRIL 12, 1913.
Greensboro may be one of them.
An Industry that cannot live with
out a' bounty from the government
can hardly be considered legitimate.
The1; state did little for the good
roads . movement yet the more pro
gressive counties were not expecting
It. ,
certain between , all portions of the
country.
Secretary of the Interior Lane also
told me that he favored the reservoir
system of taking care of surplus wa-
congress as human beings. John ter Dut ne wanted the government to I
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Buury wiiiiams, wun nil nis nieaer 1 6" a-oicp iaiuia.
fdisonia
THE PHOTOPLAY HOUSE.
THE COWBOY HEIR.
. - ,An American western drama
.A LANDLORD'S TROUBLES
tr, A Keystone comedy.
FORCED BRAVERY
' Another Keystone comedy.
3.AKE OF CANDY.
A Mutual Educational
subject)..
A CHILD'S C6NSCIENCE.
'! A real heart interest story.
MONDAV: DAYTON FLOOD. '
800 feet of real motion pic-
tures of this great disaster.
I education, will find it difficult to of
fer an objection to the arrangement
that will make much impression on
the country. Greensboro News.
' As tbey have tried to establish a
Btandard, wonder what the progres
sives will do if they"fail to defeat Mr.
Watts.
9ef0re taking a friend's advice to
become a; candidate for office be sure
that Jie . intends to attend the ward
ineetjng.
While the house bill may not be
exactly fair to all concerned, it snows
that ;the democrats of that' body are
Infavor of reducing tbe tariff.
' A complete change in the board of
alde?men will of course mean that we
will'liave that many more streets
paved during, the next two years.
A Small Piece of Business.
That is a small piece of business
that is now being carried on by the
board of the central hospital at 'Ral
eigh. Dr. L. J. Picot Is the present
efficient and Capable superintendent.
but he Is a friend of Kitchin and for
this reason he must be kicked out of
office, it has come to a pretty nass
I in this day that an institution of our
unfortunate insane is made football
for the game of small politicians.
Catawba Cpunty News.
' while the president has the ap
pointing power It occurs to us that
; the patronage belongs to the party
rather than to the chief executive.
VLL ;
.The dignity of the senate has been
shocked a few times, -but the presi
dent ;has done nothing yet that the
people are disposed to find fault with.
If the senate stands cn its dignity
Do Not Vote the Ticket. "
The member's of the American Cot
ton Manuracturers' Association, in
session in Washington this week,
passed resolutions protesting against
the cotton schedule of the tariff bil
introduced in congress. The cotton
mill men are lobbying against the bill
and many of them insist that they will
have to close their mills if the bill
passes as introduced. Protesting that
they are democrats and have a right
to expect better treatment from their
party, some of the mill men threaten
to vote the republican ticket if the
bill passes. It is a matter of common
report, and can probably be substan
tiated, that a good many of the cot
in this state have for
unit knnalro tottti ha nrnoMant tt mo.r I .
, ,7 ' ' 'fr5'" "" " ""' ton mill men
.j'. Vi auaa's luo "- some years voted the national repub
pjeof the country have In that body. lican ticket becau8e they favor a pro-
' ' ItfWIVA tariff OtofaaTrillA Tnnmn1r
' f wti ni , I L"umon,
iuc ouariuiit: jueiver oeiieves in
protfiptlon now and it happens to be
one -of. the few papers that admitted
that' it bejieved in It before the elec-
STUDYJNG FLOOD CONDITIONS.
' The protected industries should not
complain eveif if they did have-a few
lean years, considering what the re
publicans have done for them in the
past
While we have always thought that
Mr. Simmons and Mr. Watts traveled
In the eame boat, we will admit that
Mr..' Simmons is the best politician of
thetwo.
We have never been able to under
stand how an industry that cannot be
made self-supporting without a rake
off from the people can be of benefit
to tne people.
jie tact machine states trust com
pan secured a charter without trou
ble.but goes to show that they are
.about as easily secured in this state
as divorces.
tt is. said that a number of blind
tigers went out of business here the
first of the month, still we have not
heard that it has been any harder to
yet on that .account
u tne cotton manufacturers make
good their threat we shall not hold it
against' them. There Is nothing wrong
wita tne man who believes in pro
tection voting the republican ticket.
m m a . .
jr senator gimjnons stands up for
a democratic tariff bill we shall be
ehfy disappofnted. but we do
oi snow now some of those who
supported him are going to feel about
1L
-Maybe in making Mr. Simmons
chairman of the finance committee
yrugresMves inougnr tney were
patting nitn in a position where he
would bare to support a democratic
QbIM a number of North Carol In
laas wlo are now democrats might be
republicans If the state was in the
fcaWt af electing republicans to coun
ty offices and sending them to con
gress and the like.
If some sections that do not t
lieifc II tariff reform did support the
aeraocraue party last fall they will
bave ao Just cause for complaint If
the party insists on living up to iu
platform obligations.
It Is sot plais that tbe promoters
or tae stales Trust compasy intend
" ir uynoay. it appears
tfcat they wen attempting to promote
a scheme without earthing back of
1L aoi It might sv socceeded if they
"a a let aione.
Kow that tb boose bas tbe matter
- - it s&Asid rrame ap Jost muck
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' v- tbe bill ea K cxmms from Ue
ca be rorMd o tbe by
---it. bacaed bf psbUe opta-
: Is time for playtat to
Washington, April 11. Unprece
dented as it was and therefore not
likely by all the laws of nature to
happen again, the terrific flood which
has swept over the Ohio valley and is
now descending along the Mississippi
toward New Orleans and the other
river cities in Louisiana has caused
much thought in Washington as to
how similar calamities might be pre
ventea or, ir impossible to prevent
mignt oe roDDed of the greater part
or their Intensity and destructiveness
Among men prominent in public
life who have given a good deal of
time and thought to this problem at
least one of them having studied the
question at first-hand, are Secretary
01 war uarriBon, who headed the
government relief train which left
Washington at an hour's notice for
the flooded section, Secretary of the
interior Lane and Senator Newlands,
ot ivevado. both of whom hum
wwe experience with floods, their
cause and effects.
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oecremry uarnson. in addition tn
nis flrat-hand information gathered
.W11 11 . .
wuiio me waters or tbe Miami nnri
Scioto were just beginning to
ana oerore the Ohio river has reach
ea its highest point, also, has the ad
vantage of the knowledge and exper
ience of a hundred or more of armv
engineers who have been ntnrfvin.
a j .... -
uiwa conuiuons for years add know
more about rivers, their ebb and flow
and the various phenomena of floods
than a lavman wnnM im..in.
v wwbMC iUCIC
was to know.
The terrible floods which recently
swept over the Ohio valley, said the
secretary of war to me recent It hll.
aiscussing the effects of the Inunda
uuii ana US DOBS hln nrac.nt.n.,..
was doubtless due to the abnormal
precipitation of rain in the stfM r
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. This, of
course, cannot be prevented. While
unprecedented, it as likely to happen
lumurruw or next week as It was to
occur when It did. Therefore we
ought to make some preparation to
taae care or the consequences of thp
cause rather than to attempt to, reg
uiaie tne cause itself.
icii me mat th -.
ters descending in central Ohio con
verged. Into two streams, the Miami
and the Scioto, until both of these
ireams Decame raging, roaring tor
f A ... 9
,cul toBieaa or tbe placid rivers
nicn they ordlnarilv wrn th
tien. informs us of one primary fact
it is not the big rivers which are
o much to be feared it Is their tri
uuunea. The persona living .inn.
il. all .
va'- Missouri, the MisalMip-
"uo 109 oiner great rivers were
floods are of annual occurrence re
prepared for these visitations snd
take precautions against their effects
The denizens of tbe land rir.in
the smsller rivers are taken by sur
prise and have not time to more.
i aerer ore tt U mr oolnina th.
omght to bare some eystem of rever-
otaer means of ninin iv.
smaOer streams so that tbe overa
boadaaee of water could hm atia
off aad beld aagainst times of flood. I
Tfcis wosid cost Doaey. aad a rreat
"I a jntold," said the cabinet officer
from California, "that the greater
portion of rivers which enter into
larger streams have forced a sand
bank or other natural obstacle's at
the point where they become tributa
ry. The water, rushing down from
above, strikes this bank, which acting
as a dam.'forceB the flow backward
and It wells out over the surrounding
country with, great destructiveness.
One" thing ' the government ought to
do is to dredge : out all these sand
banks throughout the country and
thus prepare tte way for the free
passage of a great portion of the su
perfluous water. t
This dona" the government should
construct a Series of canals and res
ervoirs; to .carry -off the water which
could not be controlled in the river
bed. , By-these means I think that a
repetition of the inundation of the
Ohio Valley might be effectually pre
vented. But the construction of the
canals and reservoirs-ought to be left
solely in the hands of the government
and its experts, both because the fed
eral authorities are better equipped to
do the work and because the preven
tions of floods has ceased to be a mat
ter of local import and has become a
question of national importance. A
flood in Ohio, Indiana or Kentucky is
likely to paralyze the business inter
ests of these sections and this, in
turn, exerts a marked influence on the
business of the rest, of the United
States.
Like the secretaries of war. and in
terior Senator Newlands is in favor
of the reservoir Idea and claims that
it has worked with excellent results
in "his country." The Nevada states
man has already visited the white
house to try and get presidential ap
proval for the Idea of government-
owned waterways and canals to drain
the rivers in flood-time and it is prob
able that he will introduce bills look
ing toward their construction at the
present session of congress. If Pres
ident Wilson follows his policy of be
ing guided by the feelings of his cab
inet, it is almost certain that these
measures will have the hearty appro
val of the white house, "for Secreta
ries Lane and Garrison have won most
of their colleagues over to their way
of thinking.
Edison a
Th Theatre where the Ladles
and Children Go. ' .
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Many exquisite fabrics and charms
or! trimmings will delight you in War
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perfect proportion, even the lowest
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en the extra long skirts are so finely
-flexible that! every wearer, whatever
her size; may know1 the untrammeled
ease without which no Corset may ber
pronounced a perfect foundation' for
figure elegance.
All the Warner Bust Proof 'Models
here are under the satisfying Warner
Guarantee, Priced from $1.00 up.
The House RenovalflTlte
Come here
toilet articles,
stocks incfude
for drugs and
Our complete
everything in
the drug line which a thorough
ly progressive drug store
should carry. We watch our
stocks carefully and replenish
them as often as is necessary
to keep each asortment - un
broken. Trading here you
have the satisfaction of always
getting precisely what you de
sire.
New Bulgarian Flouncings.
I The newest of the new, full dress
lengths, fine white Voile with borders
of embroidery in Bulgarian colors. '
Some are ecru ground, also, with the
colored borders. The price is $1.50 a
yard. The bands to match the Flounc
ings are here also.
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6PM- - ; p. m.
f FERTI L IZ E R Si
" a m$imM Warn
Just at this season of. thejgarvwhen
every woman is house cleaning, pre
paring for Spring and ' thSuinmer
months, she will find the neettbf New
JJheets, Pillo WvCases; djc'ftiapfi White
Quilts. ul ,
What About New, Cmfciw M
vlhe Wlndowsrfc. ;
You'll find here a large stockto- select
from, also beatiful Oirtaifjateid.ls, j
Scrims, Swiss, Nets, Plain, also with
the Fancy Borders.. . . , .
r Dpholstry Reps, and Pamask
Plain and : Figured, Gretons and
Silkalines, also Fancy Art Denims, a
fi t "
Beautiful Collection. ;f;t '
e.i.r
Fine White Tea Xtaens
No other house can shot'you the
I exclusive patterns or the: 6xtra fine
Imported Linens you'll i ee here.
Plenty of Napkins to matqli-the cloths.
We are the White Goods People of
North Carolina; and we sell -thousands
of dollars worth every seaepn. It is
worth your while to . alwayi ' come to
the best house for such tnings, and;
then you are sure of getting the BEST,
This Is the Store That Supples
the Best in Every Department
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JLMrjAA8lftser"
ThflM woman onoe ehildlrai, now hxppy unf
paymoHUT wu wun oeaitny eouarenwlll toll ho
iruis e.. nnnwn'i vegetable Uompoand made
alUhif poeiible. Here are tbe names and entrant
a-ldrenea write them If you want to, and learn
for yourself. Tbey are only few out of many
thousand. . . .
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we aUribate this re
mit to the timely use
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Mrs. fBKD
Kent, Oregon.
" I owe my life and
my baby's good health
to your Compound."
MIS. W. U. BPBNCEB,
K. F. D., Ko.2, Troy,
Alabama.
" I hays three chil
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Mrs. Joh Howard,
Wilmington, Vermont.
" I hays a loyely
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Mrs. Louis Fischer,
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"I bare one of the
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"Myhnsbaml U the
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"Now I hare a nice
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txt A Cot I, No. 117
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ter, Mass.
" I hare a fine (trotic
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newittrllle. N. Y-
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Mrv GondwWj
1 turn J
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FOR SALE!
ON
Saturday, April 12
AT 12 O'CLOCK
We will sell to the highest bidder
at the court house Durham, N. C,
two nice farms on the Fayetteville
road, twelve miles from Durham.
One farm, 120 acres, small house
and two barns. Also one farm, 68
acres good three room house, barn
and good well of water. Fine Tobacco
Land. Terms of sate CASH.
For further particulars
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, Standard Brands for
TOBBACCO,
COHON, CORN
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Also the Famous Blue Star
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for Gardens and Lawns.
BARBEE
& ELLIOTT
Cor. Mangum & Parrish Sts
ANNOUNCEMENT,
hereby announce soyaelf a can
didate for the position of alderman
from tbe second ward subject to tbe
action of the democratic primary.
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br. a. t. arc rack tit,
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i
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Phone Orders-or Leave
Them at
Main St. Pharmacy
Wa
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REMEMBER the times when we had to smoke the
mosquitoes Sway or an evening? And to brash the
flies or simply endure them? How times have changed!
Now we know that these insects were the means of
spreading dangerous diseases, and protect our homes and
families by screening them out,
It pays both from
health.
the standpoint of' comfort and convenience '
or
Our stock of Screens and Screening permits you to fit any door or
window. We handle the -beat quality which will last fof years This
means that yon can put them up in a few minutes next season thus
saring you the time and trouble of fi tting new ones as weU as the cost
of buying them.
How about screening off that porch ? It will be the most Donular
place in the neighborhood. Come in and see how litttautt really will
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HOW'S YOUR WATCH?;
If it is not keeping good time
there must be something wrong
Bring it to us
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Watchmaker and Jeweler.
Inspector aboard. Soatisrm and Norfolk VWectrm a3wmj
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