The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-06-23
Seeing North Carolina
Hontinued from 1St mage

was SHOWN the OH6nQ0I Was d CF1W1-
inal and had committed crime In the
natural course of his habit of crime,
he got no sympathy from me. The
same general rule holds good in civil
life. The courts should not brand as
criminals boy or man or woman who
is not a criminal; but when mans
life for years has been only criminal,
the courts should separate him from
the community, and if they don't do
it, he considers them in league with
the banded assassins. There is hardly
a Judge in the state who hasn't been
laughed at as a joke by some crirni-
nal whom he turned loose n plea of
mercy.
The uniformed peaceable and de-
cent men and women who read these
things will probably not be deeply i'm
pressed by them, because they don't
realize the seriousness of them. They
content themselves with thinking they
are secure and the dangers will not
touch them. It is time for them to
begin thinking and acting, even though
the, remedy be unpleasant. A rattle
! snake gives warning of danger, but
the forces of evil that drag down a
young boy or girl, are not nearly so
kind as ratlesnake. You never real
ize these things until the fangs have
sunk deep, and then usually there is
no relief. If the actual facts of a
thousand families in North Carolina
today, where the deadly insidious poi
son has done it's work worse than
murder, could be presented in this
paper, maybe you would wake ap.
Maybe not, because many people are
so constituted that nothing reaches
them except their own seIfishness.
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l don't get any pleasure or any,,
thing else, for writing these things. I
love North Carolina, and I am not of
peSslmlstic disposition at all, but
one of the things that encourages
crime is the attitude of people who
deny or whitewash the plain truth
about it, AND refuse to entertain the
facts. | wouldn't write any of this
at all, except for the not inconsider-
able number of people who tell me
that the truth does help. Most people
Will idly read it and pass it by, but
there are some who will not act that
way, but who will look into it for
themselves, and produced action. In
which class are you and what are you
going to do about it? Yes, this means
you! What are you going to 10
about 1t? Are you going to give up
and go under because the officials
from the governor on down, forget
the first principle of the oath Of office
is to support the law? | am not us
ing words idly, because I happen to
be doing my little part right now to
help put the words into action, and
there are a lot of other people in
owns and cities all over the state who
are in the same frame of mind.
They are awaking to the fact that
campaigns against flies and noscui-
toes are all right, but that the breed
ing places Of criminals need even more
attention.
Organize a law and order league
On, | don't know about that! It will
be all right if it is to be planned on
new lines, but otherwise it will de-
serve to be reported in the funny
page. Let us consider for instance
the organization of it in High Point,
greensboro, Charlotte, Winston Salem,
Durham, CT any of the other places.
Can't you name the officers, in adj
vance even of calling the meetinp>9
The same little bunch Of perpetual Of
flee cTn,uurn-s desiring tu estatls h
themselves as respectable citizens.
and whose sole WORK would consist Of
holding down the office so it couldn't
Produce any results Get any bunch
like that together and proceed to the
election of officers and what do YOU
get! Not nine times in ten, but eevry
time, they will pick the men that will
absolutely prevent anything from be-
ing done. They will put up the usual
ornaments who call themselves the
shining lights of the community, who
always sit up high in the synagogue,
and who would think it beneath their
dignity to get out and do some really
unpleasant work. If you mention Mr..
Vim, Colonel Results and Professor
Efficiency, they will say they are dam
gerous and might endanger their
cause and instead they will EJECT Mr..
Talk-Talk, Mayor unk, General Nui-
sance, and authorize these three to
appoint the others, who will later be
announced and everyone of them will
be connection of the Do-Nothing
family. | may be mistaken, but be-
lleve Safe and Sane are dangerous
citizens and there is nothing anywhere
that hasn't little danger mixed with
it. The things that it took to stop
Germany were all dangerous. s.,
Next to the Almighty oGd, I wor-
ship the law. I am lawyer and I
have studied the origin and history of
law, and reverence it right next to
the Word of God itself. Because a
thing is law my hat is oq to it. The
law, whatever it is, has my respect
and my obedience. believe this is
right, and according to the Scrip
lures. I don't believe any man has
a right to take the law into his
hands; or to try to live outside of it
The law is the heritage of the ages
and it is right. 1t is the rule by
which all enter into the game of life
and if we are fairminded, we viii
abide by the rules and take no shor
citizen to obey the law and supper
the law and uphold the officers whose
first and only duty Il is "a o,ofo,.co Il