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The Farmer and Mechanic
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Thus for One Dollar and Seventy Cents you
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V. C, MOORE, Manager.
Mo
rn ing
Toni
(Ft. Matthew vi. 1, 2, 3, 4.)
TAKE heed that you do not your alms be
fore men, to b-D seen of them: otherwise
yo have no reward of your Father which is in
heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms,
do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hy
pocrites do in the synagogue and in the streets,
that they may have glory of men. Verily I say
unto you, they have their reward. But when
thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms
may be in see ret: and thy Father which seeth
in secret Himself shall reward thee openly.
(Ry X. F. B.)
HILL SIMPK1NS was the kind o man that
didn't believe in taxes, and it was strictly
"agin" his rule to contribute to the school! But
Hill got cured one pretty day when he decided
to go away to where the cliildren held full sway
down in Raleigh town.
HILL GOT CIRED. Bill, right sheepishly,
says to me, "Zcke, ye're
right, 1 bound, by gee! It wux purtietst sight I
ever see; I guess them eliilluns need the school,
an' it's me thets th' fool!" Yessir Bill got cured
that day an' you'll never hear him say educa
tion is dead wrong, but he'll push the thing
along with his means an' boosting fight to give
the children their right. There are other Bills
who should have seen the beauty of Wake's
wondrous sene of little faces beaming bright
with their banners, dressed in white; young
America in full array, the men and women of
the future day. The men and women that are
to h' 'tis ours to sliuie their destiny!
Republicans may howl calamity as much as
they please, but it will be noted that this howl
ing is not keeping business from going ahead.
THE FARMER AND MECHANIC
CONFIDENCE AND AMERICAN" BACKBONE.
We cannot but feel that our manufacturers
who use dyes are becoming unduly excited in
their views that there will be a dyestuff famine
in this country, and we base our belief in this
matter in the thought that there is to be de
pended upon American backbone and American
determination to overcome any and every ob
stacle which appears because of the war in
Europe.
What is the need right now is confidence and
that same American backbone which. will pro
duce a program of initiative for the manufac
turers of colored fabrics, such a program as
will tear them away from any idea of depend
ence upon the government. Admittedly the
war situation for a time will prevent imports
of dyestuffs in the quantity which has hereto
fore reached this country, and that very thing
should prove an impetus to develop the" do
mestic industry already in existence, and - to
increase its scope.
We are of the opinion that there can be
manufactured in this country the dyestuffs
which are needed by the mills, and that all that
is to be needed is that our manufacturers throw
themselves into the matter with vigor, and end -
a period of hesitation. There is Thomas A.
Edison who is setting an example along this
line, Mr. Edison having entered into the dye
industry, and . saying as to this: "I thought I
would at least make the start, and I hope some
of these timid Americans w-ho lack backbone to
father a movement worth while will now come
along and follow suit."
The statement has been made by chemists
associated with the dye industry that there
could be made in this country all the dyes
. needed "with governmental assistance." Here,
comes in the trouble in the matter of holding
back and depending upon the government in
the supposedly aid of a tariff, in place of going
in when the war has made conditions stronger
to keep out foreign competition than any. tariff
wall that could be erected, and when a sub
stantial trade could be built up. The need, and
we want to emphasize this, is that there be
confidence and the "use of American backbone.
A new help in the situation has just come in
the announcement from England that there will
be no interference with shipments of dyestuffs
and other merchandise bought in Germany be-"
fore the first of March for shipment to America.
This should prove a great relief, for the bulk
of the dyes for the 1915 season" were bought
before the first of March. But leaving this out
of consideration we renew, our contention that
in this country we are able to meet the situation
on our own initiative. As to this let us submit
the following from the Philadelphia Record:
"We shall be making dyestuffs fast enough in
a little while. Mr. Edison's enterprise is rather
a demonstration than a commercial undertak
ing, but a dyestuff factory in Connecticut is
being renovated and re-equipped, and a St.
Louis chemical concern has just ' begun work
on a large plant in Elizabeth, N. J , foi the
production of dyes. This company has a Ger
man manager and the German formulas. At
Birmingham, Ala., a plant will be erected that
in 60 days will be producing 2,000 gallons of
benzol daily. Nearly all the raw materials are
abundant here; there are few secrets in the
chemistry of coal tar dyes, and the dyestuff
industry, which is already established in this
country, is likely to attain important propor
tions in a few months."
The .sidewalks of the city of Raleigh are "a
horrible example" of how not to do it in mak
ig Raleigh a model and progressive city. Is it
not time for a change?
Saturday a week ago the snow storm had
Raleigh in its grip. Yesterday newly painted
ice-wagons were making the rounds of the city.
The coal man is one 'who prefers that affairs
remain as to temperature as it was a week ago.
The News and Observer presents today the
second of the series of ten drawings by Charles
Dana Gibson, which are to appear in this paper
on successive Sundays. Last Sunday the title of
the Gibson drawing was "Serious Business."
This Sunday it is "The Announcement of Her
Engagement." Next Sunday it will be "Ladies
and Gentlemen." The series of ten will be
worth preserving.
It will be up to the voters of Raleigh on the
nineteenth of April to say as'to whether or not
they are pleased with the private sale of. bonds
ni lefs money than could have been obtained at
ail open competitive sale'; whether they believe
in th" city incurring debts and then being called
upon' to issue bonds to pay for them; whether
thy believe in the people's business being
looked after in a business way or as a rara
nhncKle affair.
MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE FOR WOMLW
VICTORY FOR WOMEN.
At the rate of progress which is being made
by women there will be left no argument to
those who say that woman is the inferior of
man. We refer here particularly to the fact
that the winners of the high school debate in
the final exercises at Chapel Hill on Friday
night are two girls, Miss Lalla Fleming and
Miss Ethel Gardner, of Wilson.
"Women are illogical" is often the cry of
those who fail to see in womanhood the equal
of the best manhood. Does not the victory in
debate of the two young women of Wilson offer
contrary argument? These two girls had won
their way to the front over young men as con
testants for the Aycock memorial cup for'nhe
victors in the high school debate, and their
final victory came when in their defeat of two
young men from Statesville. - -
It was a notable victory won at Chapel Hifl
not alone for the two young women from Wil'
son. but for all the women of the State We
hasten to offer our congratulations to Mis'
. Fleming and Miss Gardner ' Th-
- lu,ltr- -tnej, have proven
.themselves worthy exoonmt Z -
, - r "".y :" oest youner
womanhood of North Caroli
na in their winning
Vll negative of the auerv r,
,7Z 1? . marine- eEtfged in
X-
ry
In the General Assembly just adjournc: -n
act to authorize municipal suffrage inw ;-
of sex, for the towns of Thomasville and I.o.
ington, passed the lower House and tho
and second reading in the Senate. Unfor: .
nately it was defeated on the last reading x
the senate, it wouia nave oeen wen if th
periment could have been tried in those
towns; when it could have been seen -t,
operations would have been beneficial an.
injurious.
... Besides the twelve States and one Tuu
in this country, and the many other cour"-if..
which have full equal suffrage, there are
eral other States in the Union where the v,-..nn
either have municipal suffrage or vote upon t.
issue of bonds and upon matters of taxation ar. j
schools. Municipal suffrage for women also
tains in all the provinces of Canada, and like
wise in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales,
though these countries, unlike Australia ,na
New Zealand, do not confer, as yet, full e.v.l
suffrage. -
It would have been most fortunate in r.-.;?
State if municipal suffrage could have b-:n in
ferred as an object lesson upon some of our
towns. Those wlio think that the women dt
not desire suffrage, or that it would demora.lh:
them, or that they would demoralize th suf
frage, would thus have had an opportunity oZ
a demonstration of the correctness or incorreel
ness of their views. The opponents of f inal
suffrage, if . convinced of the soundness of their
views, ought to have welcomed the oppminniiv
to test the question.
DUPING THE GULLIBLE.
Some vendors of whiskey who are put ir n
making large sales by reason of the North m-
lina "quart every fifteen days" law are r,.w ;u
work trying to dupe the gullible with the .fr-r
of whiskies of so iiigh a proof as to allow th.
purchaser to double the quart with lb. : .,!.
tion of a quart of water.
A circular which has been received by pni.
in Raleigh sets out that for a dollar a quan ihe
liquor house jyill ship a quart of 150 pi-oof
whiskey, and that out of this the buyer ran
make two quarts by the use of water, and rws
"save express charges." The scheme is a plain
one. The whiskey firm is after the dollar n o
the fellow who buys will be stung.
That is one plan which is being used in b.-luiir
of the "blind tiger" in order that be may find a
way to beat the law. There will be other plans
evolved as time passes and there will be needed
the - vigilance of the authorities to circumvent
the. plotters for the sale of whiskey. But thi
dollar a quart for 150 proof whiskey to which to
add a quart of water is simply bait thrown out
for suckers. Very gullible, indeed, will he tlx
who are duped by it.
if you, Mr. Voter, failed to register to '-e in
the primary election to nominate candidates rvr
members of the Board of Commissioners f
Raleigh it is your own fault. It is a negW't of
the duty of citizenship to fail to get in a i
tion to be able to vote and to fail to vot.
The baseball magnates are quoted as .in?
that the, expectation is that 1915 will prow a
most prosperous year for baseball. The .. .p!
who are talking about depression in 'om:v.'
keeping up are simply dreaming.
At the rate the Republicans are
charging everything in sight tha,t is not of tl
best to the Underwood-Simmons tariff, w --
suoii vney win De saying nut .
tuiuuiauu ictiiii. uausu nio j nil, r.u-'
interned.
u o JL Ji U) tlOIl JJf lllcil MIIUS
On Friday the Senate of Alaska passed a
submitting the question of territorial prohibit i :
bill has already passed the House and if th
voters approve prohibition it will become of- -ive
on the first of January, 1918.
The fight against tuberculosis is a fight ul i' i
is extending m seeking preventive measui
Arrangements for medical examination of vr
v.u.v-i. an tizTT i.V 1. ill K. pUUllC ?CI1UI r
may Vje suspected of having tuberculosis ver
v A vilJ Vill. A J V' A V4 V. -
of New York"
In the schools of Raleigh township the
rollment is . 4,664 and there are seats for oni
as mat not a. matter which neeas n-n
edvin? This itv oVimiM it- ihnt th
reproach is removed from it. There should
no rest for Raleigh till there is a seat for ever
child at school.