The gold leaf., 1909-09-23
EDITORS WHO THINK ALIKE.

We noticed last week i'm a certain
well known newspaper in the State q
couple OF bright, short paragraphs.
We decided to use them, and SO pro-
ceeded at once to string them on
our file. The next paper We picked
up, was New York exchange and to
our surprise found the identical para
graphs in its leading editorial column.
Not knowing which of these papers
to credit with these two gems, we
threw them aside. It's hard to write
a good editorial, hard to produce
one that is passable, not one in a
hundred that contains anything of
real value, but hard as it is, to write
is some account, it's better to plough
with your own heifer. We are not in
favor of raising the standard for edi-
tors too high. An editor can not af-
ford to be too good, he must either
be seen, heard or felt, or else he does
not count for much. But he ought
not to 'cut" the Fourth Command
ment twice in the same issue of his
paper, whether he lives in New York
or in North Carolina.-Raleigh State
Democrat.
Syndicated editorials perhaps-or
it may have been a case of one editor
bodily appropriating the brain pro-
duct of another and unblushingly
trying to palm them off as his own.
There is good deal of that sort of
thing done in some newspaper offices
but we are not saying that it is
either right or honest with ones self
or his readers, to say nothing about
it's Unfair attitude toward the real
author.
'THE hotter the day the more men
you'll see who don't know thing
about agriculture but who are sure
it's good corn weather." says an ex-
change. Not necessary to be an agri-
culturist to know good corn weather
Some men contend that all kinds of
weather is good ''corn" weather-it
will warm you up in cold weather
and cool you off in hot weather.
BUSINESS and booze will not go to-
gether. There is no relationship be-
tween the two and they will no more
associate in perfect harmony than
oil and water will mix. In this day
OF strong competition q clear head
and a steady nerve is essential to
success. The young man who drinks
to excess will sooner or later find
himself without a job and the business
man see his prospects gone to ruin.
JOE King, the bright paragrapher
of the Durham Herald, is evidently
not as "young as he used to be-" He
gives himself away in this fashion:
We enjoy a circus just as well as
ever, but we no longer sit up to see
the train come in.
When man gets SO far away from
boyhood that he will no longer sit up
to see the circus train come in and
gives the red lemonade tn. goby, it
is a sure sign that he is getting old.
NEITHER Cook nor Peary will gain
anything by mud slineing.-Concord
Tribune.
Please take note that DR.. Cook has
not done any mud singing. His
course throughout has been perfectly
honorable and commendable in the
highest degree. He has thrown no
mud himself-nor has any that has
been thrown by others stuck to him.
His garments show neither the signs
of his traducers nor smell OF the odor
OF the charlatan and faker.
The nearest North Carolina has
come to claiming DR.. Cook, is that
one man has been found in this State
who was his classmate in college.
And that man expresses faith in the
Doctors discovery OF the North Pole.
-Greenville Reflector.
As most other folks do who know
what manner of man DR.. Cook is or
who have observed his course and
conduct both before and since Peary
made such a sorry spectacle OF him
self
ENGLISH justice is not delayed
whereas in America that guarantee
extorted by the Barons is not assured.
On July 1st, an East Indian shot and
killed Lieut.. Curzon- White; on July
23rd he was tried and found guilty;
and i'm six weeks he was hanged. la
America it would have taken weeks
to try the case and n whole week to
select a jury-News and Observer
And after the jury was selectsd and
the cu~e tried il would TAX" three
years (nnre or Iessl tn wear lis '-'i-e
out on appeals and new trials "i, iI,.'
ground OF technicalities. Great is
iustiee(?) i'm America.
THE extent o which cocaine is i~ing
used by certain class of negroes IL
somewhat alarming. Stringent n~a--
ures should be taken TO check this
evil. 1t is a menace and q growing
one the import of which is not fully
realized Commenting on the death
of two negro women at High Point
from cocaine poisoning, and the
hopeless condition of a negro bus
l.. C=S