Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-07-29

GHNCIOdhS ~ SoNuAC tOopOAStOl1lty lO&
that trouble upon the President Of the
| United States. President Wilson is
stronger with the people of America
today than he has even been before,
and the latest note to Germany has
raised him several notches higher n
their estimation than he was a week
ago, That masterful document alone
should make him President again
and it will.
A petition recently presented to Sec
rotary Lansing. by Representative
Buchanan and former Representative
Fowler, of ~Illionis, and Frank S. Mon
nett, former Attorney General of Ohio,
requests the United States to refuse
clearance papers to any ship carrying
war munitions. These gentlemen are
said to be acting in behalf Of the Ma
t,onal Labor Peace Council, compos-
ed largely of the members of labor or
CARNATIONS. Leave all this to our safe
and sane President, gentlemen. He
has the foreign situation we'll in hand
and may be depended upon to do the
right thing at the right time.
There appears to be several brands
OF Republicans figuring in the political
calculations for the 1916 campaign.
Recent information is to the effect that
a National Progressive Union has been
organized, with headquarters in Wash
;ngton, for the purpose of trying to
Offset the influence of the National
Republican Publicity League. The
new organization will work for the
nomination of a Progressive Republi-
can for President. The Republican
Publicity League is composed Of az
aggregation of s~tand-patters. Go to
it, boys.
The Southern Railway rightfully
boasts of a most remarkable record
shown in the official figures given out
some days ago touching the high de
gree of safety that has attained in the
handling of passengers on it's trains.
OF more than sixteen and a half mil
lion passengers hauled during the year
ended June 80, only one fatal injury
to a passenger occurred, and that one
was standing on a zeal platform IN
direct violation of the company's rules.
During this period there were sixty
crossings in the states of Ala
'bSma, Georgia, North and South Car
DINA, Tennessee, and Virginia, re-
sulting in twelve deaths and serious
injuries to ~f1fty-eight. Each of these
accidents could have been prevented
had the drivers observed the warn.
ings of the Southern officials. The :
accidents n hair-breadth
escapes that, occur to ~trespassers !
upon railroad property should serve
as a warning to the public and be the
means of inducing people to adopt
's~afetyfrst" as a protection against
dangers to the careless an6
Indifferent pedestrians who so often
comes to grief on the railroad track
stop, Look, and Listen" admonishes
the Southern, and if this warning were
observed fatalities to persons. would
reduced to a minimum. And why
not observe it?
The Raleigh News and Observer re-
came out with another annual
educational edition which fully sus-
the reputation that great news
paper has long maintained as a leader
IL progressive thought and action. On
I'll questions of morality, education
md industrial progress, the News and
Observer may be counted upon to ring
rear on the right side. For fourteen
years it's educational editorials have
been disseminating useful information
md wholesome doctrine amongst the
of North Carolina and the latest
measures up to the high
,tandard set for these editions by Ed
Daniels during the educational re-
wal inaugurated under the match.
yess leadership of Charles Brantly
These editions are very help
I'll to the cause of education and are
generally appreciated by the people vi
he State, who doubtless feel Them
selves indebted to the News and OBJ
for the valuable assistance It
as been and is still rendering in the
light to obliterate illiteracy from the I,