The Kinston Free Press from Kinston, North Carolina • Page 4

WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17, TIIE KINSTO FREE TRESS. will? TiiEroiJCE use THEIR POWER? v. .1 TflEjK ARIOSO WAYS-lf U'X tVMA THE AND THE RONG. TIlflslilFE PRESS DISTRICT FAI2 "red The Richmond people have been tolerating a YANXEES ARE GREAT 01D BLUFFERS, I SAYS DIE fC5l It was inspiring to see practically every man, who wss Hon of the city authorities of that city In closing the present at the mass-meeting Thursday night, stand up light" district for many year, because wey JKJUB th IndicaU his intention oi.

suoscriDing to at least one me delusion teat dj sepreguvu wj II. CALT KUIIUK AKU aiui. r.nrti,ular district, and thus Vrtmm KeDorts) fortunate women, or making any preparation for their hare of stock ilC the Kinston Fair Association. Th men lessening the danger of contaminating society by the evil 0M.tV wm 1 (Entered at the postofflca at Kinston. North Carolina, aa wnat80ever.

The News Leader points out that the same conditions have existed for many years, and Now, General Carranxa, you had better be good or that jjj thirty days notice should have been given i I had been called together at the instance of the Chamber The vice commission found out that there were aost aa of Commerce to discuss wsys and means for a district -many women housed outside the district as were to bo man gfa war" fair. Mr. Ragsdale, secretary and manager of the John- 'found In the house's maintained there. More than'fou. mation.

The editorials' renerallJ. el.e a few of our Wg- ships will "hove in sight down The Free Tress agrees with its Richmond contemporary, ston Countv Fair Association, was present and told of hundred of the unfortunates were rounded up on the out-1 friendly. Conspicuous excentin. around your present roosting place, and tt might be pho women are human beings, and to turn them out In necessary for you to move Into at) uncomfortable pros-. fna screers and then arrest thenj or being in.

the; street the successful operation of his fair. It was evident from "and some in widely scattered communities. That however, are furnished by Die Tost and th eTages Zcitung. the outset that thoee present were of one mind there as ris the case most everywhere. A comparison ot ine con irriiy tfi erstwhile friend and associate, Villa.

j8 dcaUng a little too harshly With the anfettunata crea "When something does not suit the Yankees," says Dio Toet i I tur.i Thrf need a helping hind, and drastic action in' Wednesday's editorial entitled "The Cotton Loan without tiotica should not be 'ukeft. There Is right to be a fair, and how best to go about plartiing for it waa d'itions existing in Kinston," where a "restricted district" the object" of the conference. That feeling was embodied has been permitted 'in violation of the law, with thosj in the first resolution offered by the Chamber of Cora- i existing in Goldsboro and other places where no district accustomed-to adopt as threatening and asTrightful a sabre-rattling tow as possible. They reckon that th person thus, treated will be friehten. has been allowed, would probably show it to be the case.

Fund Was Not aa omission or one oronu wrong uu two words iAAe SiglimSni of the second paragraph the Leader's account. The Free Press thinks the Richmond meaning was somewhat beclouded. The reference as in- authorities were wrong. It is quite possible that the i th 'Wrtfeta. was to the Federal Re- uthorities were stung by the severe report of the vice It has been pointed out by some that In these other and givo, in.

"If tills does not conn places tho hotels were overrun with lewd women, and the conditions verv much worse than here. But isn't to pass, nowever, it tho person thai threatened replies with' the strong i -( I onmrnlclin unit nn tn linrn tpn in serve Ranking system. it the case that not all tho. prostitutes operatjing in Kin merce committee: i. 'J "Resolved, first, That we have a fair." 'I The fair wftf stimulate the growing of better crops the breeding of improved stock, poultry closer touch and acquaintance among the farmers and people of this section, Above all, it will serve to identify, as nothing else has done, the bright leaf tobacco section of the world.

The stock is to be issued in shares of the par value of ten dollars each, and is to be non-participating. The est expressions and shows "'that he it spirit of retaliation. Be that as it may, more considcra ston are restricted to the red lisrht district? Some, who not scared and will not let himself tion should have been The Free Press believes, as does the News Leader, that vice districts should be Down In Montgomery, Alabama, there is a 'saloonkeep. namf "AiK-uai" Since the action of the Legislature profess to know, say that there isas much of the evil driv the 8wa I renne calm scattered throuehout this city now as tnere wouia. doi i.

I in passing a SUte-wide dry bill to beeome effective June jdosetf up. wot onnr Kichmond, but everywhere should nn tut. v.rrUA lin an hla windows which i this be done. It may not be pos8ibleio suppress the evil should the segregated district oe up anq me m- I entirely, dui Ane jree rress nas never recognize we has attracted considerable' attention. It readss.Mune 30 dividends will be applied to the betterment of the fair mates deported.

-The Free, Press is inclined to take thel CADMr'pC'' IflfAI AWFft and to stand between the association and ruin when the view that the evil of prostitution is about as hard to regu-1 LUtiiLO AOAtU necessity for countenancing it by segregation or other will be the last of August1 weather conditions are unfavorable. That does not mean late as Is the liquor question, if not more so and that! TH MEET FEBRUARY Wise. that the stockholders will mako a contribution or they uhere should be no recognition or tolerance of it Be-1 a The red light district in Kinston should be closed up, "The Free Press Is glad to note that there a possl will get nothing in return. As Mr. Ragsdale pointed I cause it i not possible to stamp out Immorality is nocau lssued by State President H.

0 and could he If the police made up their minds to close bility of the Legislature putting a prohibitive, tax upon out, 11 win mean a great aea to Amnion imv goou reason wny snouiu oo uuowcu jruw iiu.ut;- Alexander and Object Is to Plan it Up, fortune tellers and palmist. It notes with Interest that ten or fifteen thousand people come here. They will spend velop unmolested. I for Welfare of Planters for Speaker Wooten reflects the sentiment of this commun Ensuing Year. much money with the local houses.

The fair will be the The red light district in Kinston ought to be closed magnet which will turn the tide Kinstonward; will bring up. The police power of the city is sufficient to put the ity, as expressed repeatedly in the columns, that palmists ra rraftcrs and imDostcrs and should be legislated out TIIE ADMtNISTRATI9N'S REMARKS TO GERMANY. H. Q. Alexander, State president people from Lenoir and adjoining counties here to do hd on tight-'.

Will that power be used as It should be? of the country, i 1 1 Tho note transmitted by the State Department to Am bnsnndor Gerard at Berlin to be handed the German Gov their marketing and every man, woman and child will i participate in the "dividends" ol the lair, either directly Superintendent Kinsey of the Lenoir County Schools of the Farmers Union, las sentut a notice to every local secretary ask- ing that the locals in eery county in North Carolina meet in fspecial emment, though clothed in diplomatic language, smacks plan of the Richmond City Council to purchase the old Trigg hipyard basin calls to mind the observation or indirectly, because a fair will be of incalculable benefit Lunds "back" to the farm" idea in a little different of the most determined stand for the rights and privil to Kinston, ana that which helps Kinston, fieips every way na sya. fgtay in the country and improve tho by a traveling man years ago, after his first visit and extraordinary'' session next Sat- eges of this country's and their property-that single one or Its citizens. schools there, instead of seekinir educational advantages urday, the 20th. has been taken since the of the European war, The committee of seven appointed to solicit stock sub- in the cities." Certainly the suggestion could easily bs meetings are to consider im- The Imperial Government is informed that life and prop I I 1 'V V. it iU.

1 to the Old Dominion's Capitol, and after the railroads had e-eced viaducts running down the river in some places In the city. The knight of the grip thought It a "peculiar place where they ran, trains down the river and suuscripuuus Vl occeu wiui uw ui ua 8ppiiei to the elementary, studies. Now, with the county nortant matters affecting th. erty of American citizens must be and that association will start to work at These men have nigh gf. movement being developed, the boys and girls er's welfare, and to mokft busindss should the carrying out of the recent blockade proclamation of the German Government cause injury to subjects a btg undertaking.

I hey are big men and equal to the win have little reason for leaving the country until they land other plans for the comini ca- built ships on dry land." tasK, out me peopie or Kinston ana uirougnout u3 ais- reach the college stage. The, improvement of the country swv The nature of any particular of the. United States, this Government will hold the Ger trict, can make their work much easier by coming to them schools must, however, be very marked in order to justify I business that may be suggested by mans strictly to account, and It is pointed out that a very Let the farmers of Lenois get busy and see to it that with their subscriptions, and not await a visit from tho these, seeking adeauate education, in stavine awav from we.owte headquarters for considers- a goodly portion of the first year's premiums ot the Kin committee. gravo situation might arise unless thews is a modification of the fulfillment of tha! edict of February The evur uiun in jvuisvoa iamb at least orlo the City I uui ston District Fair are kept In the county, Not that we share and DO IT NOW! lie supposed that if there is any special topic of state-wida interest American people will approve the action taken by the Administration, and they will support the enforcement would suggest according any lack of hospitality to the nlanters from adjoining counties, whose share in the The coming National Conference of Charities and Cor to be discussed the" locals will be in- ClOSE TIIE rection, to be held in Baltimore, May 12 to 19, will be of the proper respect for the rights of their fellow-citizenn'. for tit it during the next two 01 proposition is one of the chief features, tut then we would one of the most important yet held by the charity work SEGREGATED DISTRICT.

There has been considerable anti-American three days. not want to be so as to allow all the prizes to ers of the Greater problems are confronting tho fest in and it is now reported that popular In Thursday's Vox Populi column The Free Press our visitors. all the States of America, in Press printed a letter from Dr. H. 0.

Hyatt, commenting charity associations in feeling is forming against the United States in England HORNER MILITARY SOIOOL Notwithstanding that feeling the United States has more ENGAGES MR, NATTRESS. AS DIRECTOR OF upon the paper's editorial expression with reference to dealing with, the poor, whose condition has been mado the location of the negro school. Dr. Hyatt suggests that wors thn. heretofore on account of the depression All colors look alike to the Kentuctcy feudfct-bred citt-tens.

One of their fellow citizens was strung up a day nearly preserved its neutrality than has any of the bel ii. i.i brouirhl on bv Ihe EuroDean war. The Dubhcitv com- ligercnts in times past, and the time for psserting the uu.u uo tuUBC uV mw u.uu kJ An interestinir feature of th. vift or two ago for killing a popular constable. Judge Lynch undertake to remove, As stated in another uK3 ini cnar.iy worners xrom an parvs Ul tn c.fl tVptfc-n rights of this country has not been too hastily selected is holding too many courts at the present timo.

The sta Iet Bermnny, England and all the bellieerents under article in these columns today, the plans for tho removal country arrange to be present order that there may be p1ay tne Charlotte Y. M. C. is the tistics for the Ht vear nhow a falling off of the number stand, that tie Vplted, States ia. showing partiality to of, the.

school been perfected and work devised plans for the conservation of the available re- engagement of Mr. W. E. Nattress; of lynching yaaravbut the-record dur- none-ja playing po favorites, but rights which must commenced on the guilding at the now location. That sources the United htates, and at the same time, the oy colonel Horner to give impetus Inr the latter Part of the year we believe.

much be and which it kt in position to have respected. however, docs not by-any means nullify Dr. Hyatt's sug- greatest, possible alleviation, or tne sutrermg and dis- and direction to athletics at the: Hor- ner Military. School, and'toict as ad greater-than in thet.first months, a tress. The conference should have the attention and gestion to close up tho vice district.

The school's location inere nas oeen a growing tendency in some circles to vertising agent for the school, should be attended by representatives from every state interpret the determined effort of the Administration to is only one of many for the removal of this moral cancer, Nattress has been the moving and important center in the country. keep this country from becoming involved in war, as evl spirit in all athletic at States- The Free Press has already gone on record, repeatedly, in urging the enforcement of the law- with reference to se- donee of unpreparedncss for such a conflict; but the impression must not be permitted to take root either at ville which town has turned out manV well-known ball' players and other athletes. WHAT 07 HERS SAY gregated fice districts The vice problem has never had a solution aywhero throughout the ages, but at the same home or abroad "that the United States la not in position He is also known in big advertising time its erowth in some nlaces is much more nrolinc than I to take care of itself In any eventuality. centers as a man of splendid adver A NEEDED OPPORTUNITY. at others.

In Washington a few months ago when Con tising ability, and his engagement i Greensboro News: "'All of which' the Democratic promises big things for, Horner. debate in the Senate over the seven seditious senators SENATOJl SIMMONS NOT A REACTIONARY Horner is most delightfully locat- gress authorized the: police to close the vice district, a number of those quartered in the houses affected, sought Mifnrrn in flnavtmnnf. KnitQBfl an1 inA lion tao. nnf.la "seemed to amuse the Republicans." And little enough led, in Myers Park, three miles out of General Passenger Agent Leard of the Norfolk South era has made a very Interesting suggestion for giving to Eastern Carolina some desirable publicity lie wants to devote about two pages of his company's issued for the information of the public and distributed generally throughout railroad stations and offices in the country. to historical sketches of the points of interest along his lines.

The Chamber of Commerce should see that Kin. ston Is represented, i 4, i Tho contention of the owners of the Amorlcan steamer whose cargo of foodstuffs consigned to Bremen has been siesed by the British, that inasmuch as the edict of Germany and England with reference to their respective blockades against foodstuffs reaching the other were not proclaimed until after the ship had left America, should hold good, it would seem. At least the British Government should see that the owners of the ship are duly compensated for" the cargo, 1 In Saturday's Free Press an extract of Savoyard's Charlotte. It offers to the ambition 1 I real cause for hilarity have they had these latter years." was nothing new or strange about that Such has hap-j I youth a preparatory training, mental- i ly and physically, that is second to pened over and over acain where the pressure has been hroht to i T.fw nn. W1T" A LITTLE HUMAN HELPr WOULD no school in the entire South, An un- others.

Those who advocate the maintenance, of "red niAK. uuuu kuaus i usually large, enrollment" is expected for the fall, and applications should light districts" cive.thls as a -reason, and contend that aw--yia soi, tne roaa mender, has per be mado early to insure admission. the'evil cannot be Suonfessed. Whv can't th nolU rormei in the, past five days. There was more Charlotte Observer.

-j watch thY probable placesf refuge for evidence of the wat the glnmd five days ago, perhaps, than. there correspondence his string of papers regarding Senator Simmons was printed, Savoyard is a Kcntuck-ian, and one of the best known Washington correspondents and poUiicul writers. During the Simmons-Kitchin campaign Mr. Savoyard, "as he expluins' in his lcttor now, exerted himself to the utmost to 'defeat Mr. Simmons for re-election to the Senate.

At that time, Mr. Simmons, wm claused by Mr. Savoyard, as well as by a great many otherobservers of national politics, as a re. actionary, He was not considered, generally speaking and outside of his home Stato, as being in the same school ns President when he was chosen as the majority leader of the dipper House of the National Assembly with tn -lin-. has been at any time these seven years.

Roads, 'that A VALUABLE SUGGESTION restricted districts? The Free Press believes that the hen 88 5f they never wonld betnavigable again police hae the power to minimise the vice evil. It is 8re now in pretty fair especially the drag A I has been used in time. However, there are still treachcr- largely a case of "where Chore's a will there's a way, Important to Everyone It is now conceded by physicians The Kinston police can close the vice district, if they' will ous Plnces lok "uch better than they are, as auto- that the kidneys (should have more attention as thoy control the ether org ta do so. If the laws now on the statute books are, in nve been finding oat, to their sorrow." their estimation, inndpmiatn nn nnnf.nl tnr ralmf ans to a remarkable degree and do a I x-r- be forthcrmmg. As Dr.

Hyatt says, let's remove the WOULD SAVE THOUSANDS tremendous amount 1 of 4work in Te- Editor May of the Wendell Times, which paper traced a case of drunkenness to whiskey procured from the hands of a deacon of one of the Wendell churches, was set upon by the accused deacon and two of his relatives, and tho accounts Say the editor gave a very fair account of himself, considering the odds. The action of the editor in printing the facta in the case will ho commended by 'the right thinking people, and the conduct of the con" will be held to be but an addition to his reprehensible liquor dealing. Two wrongs never made a right and there waa a feeliijg throughout the country that the selection was perhaps, not the wisest. As Mr. Savoyard says, tho Republicans were even counting on Mr.

Simmons' "reactionary tendencies" to defeat the policies of rat from our back yards. I Greensboro News: "Public roads must be drained, and movinir the noisons and waste mat-; 9 I in connections wrth their drainage culverts must be used. ter from the system by tiltering tne Rirhmond FinlrniHi V.tra nlnoif In th. A I Thousands of rlntlnrn or a enenf Mh in I Mood. the Administration.

The record mado by the Senior Sen jvi'ivu s.a wmv p.a-vvjiv LiaAU I vj-iv vtmvs vui at i.1 u. VOIVT I charge. They claim, aecordinirMo the Richmond News- for various kinds Of culverts. Instead of the counties 1 curing the winter ator from North Carolina is too well known by his con 4 Leador, that with flour at its present hiirh flenire thev relying on manufacturers to advise them whether or not ially when we live an indoor life, the stituents and thel people of the Nation now to need the has two wrongs now to account for rather face ruin unless more income" is forthcoming for their obtaining the right kind of culvert nd at the kidnys receive 8ora0 8SfSt: less very muh elaboration, and Mr. Savoyard pays the Sena ance when as we "take than one.

product The reduction in the size of the loaf is not Msfo kind of price, should they not be able to Wain the tor a wcll-deserved tribute when he says: "Butj never President has had more loyal support than this man has exercise, drink less water and often ni-nrtMn1 tl.Ar .1. I An clvfi InfnnA.fln. C.m4m 1 1 4, wi.au vj. wio iiwcsaity i.or 1 otAbv jnuway ut'nartmenc 1 ,1, t. "i 1 eufc more ricn neavy iouu, maw A.

IMAM. H.i 1 MM I U.M 13 I nvn vt ymwt ivr uuKing. idb oaicers Claim I ouv ucinuuiwrih wouiu savs tnousanos 01 1 r.j given, and not in forty years has the" Senate been more ably, more successfully, more brilliantly led than this I i.tl I immuimy irom rasponsiuiiity lor the increase, laying all I tne counties in tne purchase of this item of road tlian nature intended. Evidence man has led It" I the blame on the speculators on the wheat market. If in iwppnet.

kidnev trouble, such as lame hack. reality the speculators are to blame, it would appear that I "A commission 'would mean a better noying bladder troubles, smarting or The Kaiser la quoted as saying that there ran be no i modification of the bloeade ruling. The Kaiser will have another thought coming if any of his blockaded "under i take to do harm to American citizens or their property, The neutral nations of the world have rights that must ba repccteL and It Is gratifying to hear that the other neutral powers are in accord with Unqle Sam in the position tlTd Jas. lien fiWij with reference to the Ger-man blockade and the misuse of American flags on Eng- Th Free Press is very glad to learn from the school authorities that a new sjte for the negro school has, al tne Atioi-ney uenerai could devise some relief. The bak- system pi public roads in Worth Carolina, which in turn, burning, brick-dust or sediment, sal- ers and retailers have to get enough to insure them a would mean better schools and better churches in all parts low complexion, rheumatism," may reasonable profit, but an increase of one cent a loaf on of the State." weak or irregular heart action, warns bread will mean a considerable item in the household ex you that your I klneys require help ready been secured, and that work is now under way "to erect a suitable- building.

It is understood that the old penses and the burden will fall most heavily on those, who rmirvn ciTnr. i vtx-k tnnv immediately to avoid more serious graded srhool building will he removed to the aite of ean least afford to stand it Something ousrht to Ann I w.i-i. trouble. road, and remodelled for the use of the ne- iur Manv nnvs rinns Mnim that in hero- lijh nierchantmeiu The rieutral countries should stand Tower Hill firm for thei. ij-hts j.fVmuiio as have the TJt, erents.

I puMIshirj ef above information aj not AflJ prior: to the medicine containing no minerals or to Jlicve the country from the grip of the stock gam- nUled the excitement for Raleigh the past week. The trS Ku Public hearing given the subject at which time Dr. -Anna opiate the article in WooVjlday'i FrcJ has the most healing influence. A I. .1 titled 'Negro School Badly Located." The point in" Wed- i inonara cnaw aenvered an address, vm i Tmt im nil AUCOl iiiri uai tuutuuuuu I hA vch.t.

TT. 1. i. I "rw, aosday's editorial UU holds good, however, and The Free muKKt uy wnicn an muca interest, ine bill before the Lee slatine wan d- had most rpmarVnMn supeess as a persons confined the jaU have been required to submit verscly reported Jhy both committees. nd l-Mn-nl hUAAr romv Ik Dr.

Kil- -v nKM- -re ot Press hopes that the work will be rushed en the new build- roe.aw vanety One day Russia Is aaid to be putting the ordcp negro children may be removed from rlt1 heXtlh! 5T th. disreputable community in which they are now forced naving tneir heads shaven and to wear a peculiar quietly tucked it away to take another nap. But the ones- mer's Swamp-Root khaki uniform even their guilt or innocence had tion is not settled. The cause has made You may receive a sample bottle i'r ma. wt jvaier oas given to attend been determined was, to The Free Press' wav ot thinfc-1 rpss in the StaU in I of Swamn-Uoot hv Parcels PoSt Ad- i jxa ooserver oil up hope of reaching and that his plan now Is to dress Dr.

Kilmer Binghamton, mg, sort or high-handed jugghng with those consUtu- the course of public sentiment is bound to tw crcentraie every effort to crush the Russians. There is1 Not a sinrie ease of Vif. Uonal pi-ovisions which guarantee a fair and impartial fact whether he likes it or not It is one of tko KT. and enclose fen cents; also mention the Semi-Weekly. Free Press.

adv a It trial to all accused and the assumption that an are inno-1 ments that sweep the country occasionall trith ta i.n in some quarters that Germany playing her Kinston the way City Thysician Kornegay puts it arJ be advewa row, That is a record, for even Kinston sometimes has a few! Mr fvr negotiating peace will be better cases ot communicable ills. The v. uvuvt vrs ov communicauie ills, llie raUmad will fc.v. cent until proven to the contrary. Senator Snow's bill lessness of an incoming tide.

There is much r.A u'nv nj rcl pf in iK -wi it OTnoc 51- 1 1 i time Fine, the ouU.rMV 1 I Q0 rot liKe- who i i 4 is uuii iirait.ii resort 11 Pas appeal to tne Court ha-e been as well prepare to make the best of a situation that they FOR ALE-OId Papers, smfable for -iht Vir mthoritier n-n. v. iisTr iit HIt.p tin no I ke .1 kmuansi nres tnpse cooi V. -Cc Free.