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THURSDAY JAMUA^' <>i ]oio |
My Mother.
The vonrs hive left some wrinkles on
ho- pretty. saintly f"oe
Car< ; ?*,l to!] arnl t ?"0'sl ! _? on oh l , e
'eft their trace;
But her sunnv disposition and liov
kindly word of cheer.
Have eased other's burdens and has:
made her to us more dear.
Unselfishness and patience has enshrined
her in our hearts.
And she has inspired in each of us a i
desire to do our parts.
A faith unfaltering and a hich sense
of right
Have made her life a bendiction and
her days among us bright.
And. as she sits before the firenlaco
in the lovely evening's glow.
Knitting for the soldiers and gentlv
rocking to and fro;
We love hor and we wonder if she
would care to know
That we think she is the sweetest.
truest mother here below.
?Francis HuffmasUr, Kaufman. Tex
WAKE UP, MAN!
We are living in stirring times, of.
that there is no doubt. In such a
time we cannot understand the attitw^e
of a map who can make up his1
iPind that ha does net need to subscribe
to a daily newspaper. If it
.jJid not have but ten lines of live news,
news of the great events transpiring
In a day, it would be worth the few
dollars a year that it costs. Wake up,
man, and subscribe to a daily newspaper.
If you will not take our daily,
take some other! You owe it to your..,.14
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that you inform yourself You
cannot find safety in not knowing.
You cannot serve best without knowledge.
These be dangerous times
times when men should be informed,
times when men should think and
think straight. And it is nor, going
to come to pass any more that one can
afford to ignore what is going on outside
his own narrow world. Whether
we will it or not, it is a fact, just the
same that hereafter and for all time,
the world is going to be smaller than
it even was before and we are goin^
to need all the knowledge, all the information
and all the straight thinking
that can be commanded. From
this time on in the history of this
earth ignorance is going to walk in
the way of slavery. It has always
done this, but the chains have been
guilded or hidden altogether. If we
mistake not the day fast approaches
when the iron links will not even he
guilded, not even hidden. If you
care for yourself, your children, your
country, awake?inform yourself;
qualify yourself for clearer judgment,
keener thinking. Get interested in
the big things going on in the world.
Help shape the destiny of the world;
be a part of the manhood that is to
rebuild the world. To do these things
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not full information? How can you
hope to escape the snares and pitfalls
if you must needs take your information
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it, subscribe to some other daily. But
get busy; awake! A new day has
come and it brings great opportunities;
only, you cannot see them if your
eyes be closed!
Russian Socialists Experiment.
(By H. II. Windsor, in the Popular
Mechanics Magazine.)
There are apparently as many kinds
of socialists in Russia as there are
varieties of grapes in a vineyard.
These range all the way from nihilists
and bomb throwers to quite conservative
thinkers At any rale t' e
v ord socialist in Russia an dheve. foi
instance, means quite di'Tor* v, thin s
in Tiny rejects. It a most j
be st ia that anv man or p tr"V in
Russia who is anti-czar, calls itself
socialist
It is unfortunate in more ways than
one that Germany has so seedily doj
minated Russia?or apparently so?
for it fould have been interesting to
have watched how some fond theories,
worked out when the opportunity
came to give them the acid test of
actual use
For instance, how far an army
would get under direction of com-1
m it tees of privates; for one of the |
first acts of the Iiolsheviki was to1 <
form a committee of three from the
ranks in each company, which was to 1
decide wha' their company would do. :
and instruct the officers to carry out
such decision. Even Kerensky and
his cabinet associate, Savinkov, who i
soon after the revolution abolished the
death penalty in both military and '
civil life, recently acknowledged to a
distinguished American that to their i
great regret the ideal they had cher- 1
ished proved to be impossible in 1
these davs, and after some weeks i
were obliged to return to the old way. <
And the same was true, they stated, 1
in regard to other ideals; all right i
in theory, but in practice a failure, i
A* date of thi? writing, and from 1
our wistance, it would appear that '<
Russia was listance, it would appear 1
that Russia was lost to democracy i
and that by German intrigue she had t
merely exchanged a czar for a kaiser*. J
Eighty-five per cent of the Russians 1
fire illiterate, and in their newfound 1
freedom many of these have as wild t
expectations as the southern negroes i
when as suddenly set free. On the c
other hand, the very fact of many p- t
tical parties of socialists gives ex- I
pectation that Russia will not per- I
manently be sacrificed to the ignor- 1
ance and gullibilty of the Bolsheviki,
whose present leader is a German
who has changed lys name to a Russian
one. 1
That distinguished physician. Dr.
Frank Billings of .Chicago, with *h?;
rank of lieutenant colonel, recently
went to Russia at the head of the n
Red Cross Mission. With unusua1 i a
courtesies at his command he travel-1 n
ed Russia and Siberia extensively.; ^
talking with representative men ] a
everywhere. The cabinet in control j *
at this writing is the seventh, but r
Dr. Billings points out that each sue- I
ceeding cabinet, by evolution, brings c
the national condition to a higher *
level than before. His observation ^
as to the intelligence, ability and 11
conduct of the masses there, is of *
a most encouraging nature and places *
the Russian citizen, as a whole, on a
very much higher plane than we have
been accustomed to regard him. They *
are keen business men, surprisingly 1
skillful in all manner of handicraft, '
thrifty, good-natured, and with free- s
dom and education have the making ^
of a nation of world leaders. If. (
therefore, German intrigue finally 1
fails there as uerman arms already J
have, we may yet count Russia anions
the republics, and in the meantime
we must be patient and can be hopeful
that right and justice will, in (rood
season, rule a free Russia.
Sam M'Gowan's Efficiency.
(New and Courier.)
Endorsing the idea that one man
rhould be Riven control over the purchasing
of supplies for the army and
the navy, for the shipping establis
ment, and for export to our allies, the
Baltimore Sun says that "one of the
difficulties in the way of centralized
control seems to be the fact that the
navy department has got along ><> v.ell
unoer the present system and Paymaster
General McGowan, the naval
purchasing authority, has been so efficient
in office that the navy d-.paitn.cnt
officials are unwilling to consent
to a change."
It is hard to see why this should
constitute a difficulty, and if it is so
regarded. The Sun itself suggests a
remedy. Why not put Paymaster
rinnnrnl Mof!Aiim *-* in oViq af t )wi t
viviiuiai in uitui VA viiv j
purchasing for all the departments? i
The same abilities which have made 1
him so extraordinarily useful to the 1
navy would make him useful to the 1
army. The same methods which he |
has worked out for taking care of 1
the cast naval supply problem would i
go far toward solving the army sup- !
ply problem. <
Instead of being an argument .
against the establishment of one-man.
control of government purchasing the
efficiency of Sam McGowan as purchasing
officer for the navy is about
the strongest argument there is in
favor of one-man control. For it
means that the right man for the
job has already been found, and finding
the right man is always the hardest
part of the problem.
Why Tolerate Disloyalty
The Senate committee, to whom was
delegated the investigation of La Follette,
made a faint bluff of doing
something at the start, and then appeared
to follow the course of the
proverbial New Year's resolution.
If they made a conscientious ocort to
get at the truth, the public somehow
haven't been overwhelmed with the
fact, and if they found out anything
it has, at this writing, been politely
hushed up. And right here is where
our law-making and governing bodies
make a great mistake. To varnish,
l. ; a L n
wimcwasn, camounage, excuse, condone,
conceal, or let go by default such
official shortcomings as the senator
is accused of, is radically wrong and
the public simply will not stand for
it forever. What does "senatorial
courtesy" mean to the average voter?
The man with the open life and the
clean record has no occasion to avail1
himself of the "traditions" when accused,
unjustly, of sedition. Instead
of seeking delay and the oblivion
which time throws over congressional
investigations, one would naturally
expect a demand for instant and complete
investigation. Did you ever
know an honest, innocent man, who,
when accused of wrongdoing, did not
insist on immediate and fullest investigation?
Da Follette by virture of
his office, was able to use the Government
presses at a time when the government
Printing Office is weeks behind;
and, we understand, mailed one
million "public documents" under his
frank, the postage on which would
have cost you or me $30,000. But in
ill the million we do not recall that
L.a Follette made any frenzied appeal
for early and through investigation
>f the charges against him. The pubic
can and often have borne patienty
with their servants at the Capitol
>uilding who have lacked in many
hings, who have wasted our money
n foolish appropriations; but there is
me thing they will not tolerate and j
hat is nay question of loyalty on the j
>art of a senator or congressman.?
i. H. Windsor, in the February Popuar
Mechanics Magaaine.
Gentian Not Huns
"oday's Enemy of Mankind Descend- t"
ant of Goths.
'o the Editor of The <5tate:
Your editorial in Friday's State is
misleading. You rr it appear that
. German is a Hv^ an(j a Hun a German.
It is true that the great war is
eing conducted on the other side in
very strikingly Hunnish manner, but
he ethnographer knows that the
nodern Hun is a scion of the ancient
>eople of Tartary whose diabolical
leed3 caused the Chinese to build the
treat wall across China that even a
Hun could not scale or batter down.
Under Attila, "the scourge of God,"
,hese people invaded Europe and what
.hey did is too well know nto repeat.
The German on the other hand is of
Teutonic stock, the descendants of the
Uoths, and the stndent of history is
ilso aware of their doings. We find
ihem as VisigothB and Ostrogoths but
ire the same people, the one coming
from the west (visi) and the other
eoming from the east (ostro.) Their
leeds are also well known trampling
into rust, utterly annihilating the
world's most lasting civilization, a i
livilization covering a period of 2,200
years and wiping from the face of
Lhe eartli a people, the greatest lawgivers
of the ages.
It is not generally known hut is a
>atent fact that nearly every civil government
today has its code, the basic
laws, taken bodily from the Roman
eode. The Jewish laws were taken
from the drastic codes of the Assyrians,,
Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptian
and so on. Civil liberty where
iver found is a legal jewel left us by
>y the Roman, a precious heritage of
paganism. The Hun and Goth are
strangers, have ever been strangers to
^his pagan gift of Rome?liberty.
A.W. Brabham.
P. S.?In my varied readings I must
;hink from scraps picked up here and
ihcre, the Goths were the people who
invaded India at a period so remote
.hat the historian can not get at the
>asic facts. At any rate the invaders
lid not overrun the Hindu, but assimilated
or amalgamated with them,
[ 'acts that can not be disputed demonstrate
that the white man was born
in Europe, and the white blood of all
the East, even in prehistoric times,
ivas of European stock. Evidences in
t)oth France and Germany have come
to light that make the white race at
least 50,000 years old and had its beginning
somewhere on or near the
Somme, Of course this does not
loincide with the teachings of the
Jews, but they claim everything and I
i ?
have not the least right to do it. A.
W. B. Olar.?Colombia State.
Bids for Chamber of
Commerce Supper
The committee appointed to accept^
bids for a membership supper for
Chamber of Commerce on January
31st, in accordance with the spirit of
the times has decided on the price of
.35 a plate.
These bids are open to the ladies of
the various churches and should give
the proposed menu. All bids are expected
to be in the hands of the Secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce
not later than noon, January 29th.
Colored Insurance
Company Had Gains
11 a ln/?roaoA A ? * ?
?Jip, Auvivooc ail uiVBB ABBCU) &IIU 111
Net Income of This Company
The Morning Herald, Durham, (N. C.)
. Jan. 2, 1918.
I
The nineteenth annual report of the j
financial condition of the North Caro- |
lina Mutual and Provident Association
shows that this, the largest colored in- j
surance company in the world, has
continued to make fine progress dur- i
ing 1917. The report shows that there
is over twelve million dollars of insurance
in force in four states of the
union and the district of Columbia.
In addition to North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, in all of which ;
the Durham company already had
good business, application has been
made for admission to Maryland and
other states. These are included in
the plans for 1918.
The North Carolina Mutual, which
was founded by colored men of Durham,
is officered by Durham men and
under these has attained its position
of leadership that is unique in the
business world; has assets of $350,000.
The annual report shows that these
assets are divided into the following
classes: $100,000 in State bonds,
$35,000 in Government "Liberty
Bonds" and the remainder in municipal
bonds, first mortgage bonds, real
estate, policy Joans and cash. The
annual rental income of the company
amounts to $16,000.
ihe income for 1917 was in round
numbers $626,000. That was an increase
of $124,000 over the previous
year. During the past year the company
has paid in claims about $24,000.
The gross assets have doubled during
the past three years.
The North Carolina Mutual and
Provident Association is operated tin
the legal reserve basis, and i& today
the largest and strongest insurance
company in the world financed and
managed entirely by colored men.
_
(Editorial)
A SUBSTANTIAL ENTERPRISE
The North Carolina Mutual and
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owned, controlled and actively
manage by colored men of Durham
has developed into an important asset
of the city during its nineteen
years of existence. It is not idle
boast nor advertising motto that this
company is the "largest and strongest
Negro insurance company in the
world." It is just that and more. It
is managed along the most modem
lines and is a business which notonly
the colored people may be proud
of, but one which also deserves a high
place among the new insurance com?
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Supt. Union District, office over Piedmont
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