Journalism' Gift
To Civilization
(By J. FELTON LANK)
The following article was writter
by J. Felton Lane, Publisher Hearn?
(Texas) Democrat, and was read tc
a gathering of the publisher* of his
State:
I would not undertake to say th<
profession of journalism is the great
eat of all the professions, but I will
assert that in its service to mankind,
in its high ideals, in the personnel ol
the men and women who are its vota
ries, it stands second to none.
We take pride in the illsutrioui
names like Prince Edward William,
Prince Napoleon, William Caxton,
Father of English Literature, Horace
Greely, Charles Dickens, James Buch
anan, fifteenth President of the Uni
ted States, and, greatest of all, Ben
jamin Franklin, who were proud tc
call themselves printers. In late
years there is Warren G. Harding,
later president of the United States,
and his equally worthy, though de
feated, rival for that high place, Jim
mi* Cox, owners of great and worthy
newspaper, and then.though the near
est he has ever gotten to the presi
dency was some half half dozen nomi
nations, a man who will ever shine
with luster as one of the greatest
Americans of any period of our
country, there is William J. Bryan,
who has just closed twenty successful
years of publication of his great
paper The Commoner, because he is
too busy with the world's largest
Bible clam and with his work on the
lecture platform, and his brother,
Charlie, who has been running the
paper for Bill all these years, is now
too busy being the Democratic gov
ernor of the Republican state of
Nebraska.
In the field of literature, besides
Dickens and Caxton, just named,
there is William Cullen Bryant, Mark
Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward,
Amos Cummings, Bill Nye, Sut Lov
ingood, Petrolum V. Nasby, Bayard
Taylor, Henry George, Lafcadio
Hearn, Joel Chandler Harris, Wil
liam Dan Howells and others whose
names shine as brilliant stars in the
firmament of letters.
We take pride in the part our pro
fession has had in enlightening the
world. While men have written in
one form or another, one language or
another, for thousands of years, there
was no wide dissemination of learn
ing until the art of printing by mov
able type was invented and the proc
ess of printing by rapid presses/was
perfected.
The world could not have gone into
eclipse from about 300 A. D. to about
1460 A. D., the period known as the
dark ages, if it had had newspapers
or even books for the masses. Here
and there men were writing on a few
religious or romantic themes, but the
world was in darkness and ignorance
because only a few could read- With
the advent of the art printing by
movable types and shortly thereafter
crude forms of newspaper enlighten
ment came here and there in spots
and nurtured the small and forever
hampered tree of liberty.
Whether we credit John Gutten
berg with inventing the art of print
inb by movable type in Mainz, Ger
many, about 1449 or take the view
that credit belongs to Laurenz Jan
zoon Coster in Harlem some twenty
years earlier, this invention and the
use of printing presses started the
spread of intelligence about in spots
throughout Europe, then to other
lands. It is true that only a few is
sues of one of these early and crue
newspaper would appear before its
editor would find himself in prison
printing apparatus'destroyed; but, as
"the blood of-martyrs was the seed
of the church," for every pioneer
printer imprisoned a dozen sprang
up in other spots to proclaim the doc
trines of human freedom. While one
editor was in jail another from some
secluded cave would issue a sheet de
nouncing the tyrant who had put
him there.
Without newspaper and pamphlets
the momentum could not have been
gained until perhaps centuries later
1 to dethrone tyrants and give liberty
to the world.
In 1622 there was published ip
England the first newspaper, and
shortly thereafter Charles the First oi
England lost his head. The news
papers of France and the French Rev
olution came along together, hand in
hand. It was a French editor during
the period that led up to the Revolu
tion who gave us the slogan, "Suffer
opposition, suffer arrest, suffer im
prisonment, suffer the guillotine if
necessary, but express your opinions;
H is not a privilege, it is a duty." In
1704 the Boston News Letter appear
ed in the American colonies and was
the first American newspaper. A few
yean afterward James Franklin
founded a paper and was pat in jail
for expressing opinions favorable to
freedom. At the ago of sixteen Ben
jamin Franklin edited the paper until
? < his brother Jim could be released, and
shortly afterward George the Third
!; lost his colonies in America.
Without the leadership of Colonial
newspaper we might have had no De
claration of Independence, no suc
i cessful revolution, no Constitution
> which has been a beacon light to
> struggling republics throughout the
i world, and no man of his day did
more to bring all of these things
,; about than did the printer-journalist
. Benjamin Franklin.
1 j The profession of journalism is not
, as old as that of law or medicine or
' I the clergy, but the young giant is out
? of his swaddling clothes and has tak
en high rank at the very forefront of
i usefulness and service to mankind.
, Reaching each day with its messages
perhaps ten times as many people as
! the ministry preaches to, it is only
surpassed in its opportunity for serv
ice by that other young giant, about
twenty years old, the moving picture
i industry, which is estimated to seat
> each day in its playhouses to witness
i the messages of the diver sheet some
, twenty million men, women and chil
dren.
The invention of typesetting ma
' chines, rapid presses and folders, the
discovery of wood pulp as a cheap ma
terial for paper making, the develop
ment of photography and color print
ing, new facilities for transmission of
news, such as telegraph, the tele
phone, the ocean cables and radio sta
tions throughout the world on land
and sea, the great news-gathering
agencies to collect and transmit the
world's news to the printing plants
of every nation with lightning speed,
enables the poor man in his humble
cottage to have delivered on his gal
lery a daily library of literature and
art which was beyond the reach of
emporers and kings even a century
sgo. 4
WANTS EXHIBIT FROM
THIS COUNTY AT FAIR
(By De?n C. B. WILLIAMS, in
Chars* of County, Farm and Indi
vidual Crop Exhibits.) '
This year, the/State Fair, which
will be held during the week begin
ning October 15, is offering very lib- .
eral premiums for county, commun
ity, individual crop and crop products
exhibits. The occasion will afford a
rare opportunity for those interested
in the advancement of the State to
set forth the Agricultural resources ,
of the different counties. To those '
who send excellent exhibits carrying
valuable lessons in profitable farming
an unusual opportunity will be of
fered to win premiums, varying from
1500.00 downwards.
As something near ninety per
cent of the income of farmers of the
State is from the growth of crops, di
rectly or indirectly, if a display of
the Agricultural resources of the
State is to be made, farmers and
others interested in farming of the
different sections of the State should
see to it, if their counties are to be
properly represented, that the best
from their counties is sent to the
State Fair in October. It will pay
you and your community to do so.
If all will heartily join in, the 1923
Fair will stand out as the greatest
exposition of Agricultural resources
of the State ever seen in Raleigh.
As North Carolina ranks high in
total value of crops produced among
the States of the Union, let's show to
people of the State and of the world
generally we have and can do in the
growth of crops of excellent qualities.
Effort put into sending worth?while
exhibits to the Fair, will be in the in
terest of the public good. No county
or community can ill afford not to
have a good exhibit of the best prod
ucts of its soil at the State Fair this
fall.
More than $4,500.00 is being of
fered North Carolina farmers for
county, community, farm and indi
vidual crop exhibits.
Bring some of the very best of the
tobacco, cotton, corn, clover, soy
j beans, cowpeas, hay and other crops
you may be producing, have a good
?nd profitable time, and secure cash
prises that will be well worth your
effort. Indications are that the Fair
is going to be a big one. Everybody
connected with the Fair is bending
his efforts as never before to have it
surpass all previous records.
[ Get 25 cents worth of anything
: you want at any store of place of
th.MHERirinh0*We by ,ubscT*bing to
' 11,, , ?" ?P*nin* d?y. Au
, K?st 23. Look up the newspaper rep.
resentative or come to the office just
in the rear of the postofflce, subscribe
rrr'r1 we*wy n*w,p,per ?nd
get that 26c. coupon.
; * ?!nb memb" Craven county
walked and ran five miles to notify
whenTbW?/b?nt th* enc^Pment
I k m*'U W6Fe del?>re<1 When
the home agent came for them the
cWJdren came barefooted and in their
*ork clothe, just as they left the
r*nd ?ffcnt says, "You
ow I tried to make that meeting
. well worth while for those children."
NO TROUBLE TO GET RID OF
LICE AND MITES ON POULTRY
Without Dilating or Spraying
Minnralisad Walar Dona TWa Work I
This doot away with all bother, auch |
aa dusting, greasing, dipping and ,
sect free without the poultry raiser
chickens grow faster and increase ]
spraying. The necessary minerals ,
can now be obtained in convenient ,
tablets, known as Lubstaba. Soon i
after the fowls drink the mineralised <
water all lice, mites and insects leave |
ability of eggs and cannot injure the 1
guaranteed to help the hatching <
doing any work. It is the simplest, 1
their egg yield by simply adding min- ]
his flock of lice and insects, make <
discovered. i
product keeps the poultry always in
methods for keeping poultry free
from lice, mites, blue bugs and other i
lutionize all the commonly accepted ]
Any poultry raiser can easily rid 1
other vermin leaves the body. It is ]
eral township and school district bond a
them. Taking into the system of the
easiest, surest and best method ever !
bird, it comes out through the oil 1
glands of the skin and every louse or i
were compiled before the one million i
erals to the fowls' drinking water. I
has awakened the sombulency of the i
flavor of the eggs or meat Little 1
chicks that drink freely of the water i
will never be bothered with mites or 1
lice. Especially recommended for t
no risk of soiling the plumage. r
and if not delighted with results in I
ten days?if your chickens are not i
healthier, laying more eggs and en- t
Lustabs are sold under a guarantee r
raisers of pure-bred stock as there is 4
tirely free from lice and mites your I
money will be refunded.
Any reader of this paper may try
Lustabs without risk, we are so con- >
fldent of good results that to intro- I
offer two big $1.00 packages for only -
duce them to every poultry raiser we
$1.00. Send no money, just your
name and address to the Grace Com
pany, 205 Wheat Building, Fort r
Worth, Texas, and the two $1.00 *
packages, enough for 100 gallons of 1
water, will be mailed. Pay the post- w
man $1.00 on delivery.
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GET A QUARTER'S WORTH OF
CREAM OR DRINKS IN ANY 1
AHOSKIE STORE NEXT THURS- -
DAY ENTIRELY FREE OF COST S
TO YOU.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
UNDER MORTGAGE
Und?r and by virtue of the power
conferred in me aa administratrix of
the estate of the lata D. L. Minton
by a certain mortgage deed made and
executed on the 18th day of Aprils
1912, by Sarah Jenkins, Tincie Jen
Una, York Jones, and wife Mary
Tones, J. D. Jenkins and wife Ella
Jenkins, mortgagors, to D. L. Minton,
mortgagee, recorded in the Register
?f Deeds office, Hertford County in
book , and page Default
having been made in the payment of
:he indebtedness therein secured, and
taving been requested by the present
lolder of the said indebtedness so to
io, I will, as administratrix of the
laid D. L. Minton, Mortgagee, sell on
The 18th Day of Sep to saber, is S3
Between the hours of twelve M.
tnd 2 p. m., in front of the Court
louse door at Winton, N. C., the in
terest of the said parties of the first
isrt, in and to the following de
icribed real estate.
Situated in Hertford County in
Saint Johns Township, containing
lfty acres, more or less. Beginning
it a small bridge across the Minton
?oad, thence running up a ditch a
>oundary line for Dr. G. C. Moore,
16 poles to a white oak stump, thence
*. 32, E. 23 1-2 poles, N. 19, E. 17
>oles, N. 46 3-4, E. 20 poles, N. 44
1-4, E. 11 poles to the poplar corner,
hence N. 80 1-2, E? 86 poles to cor
ler pine, thence a new line, S. 11 1-4,
5. 170 to a stake at the aforesaid
oad, thence down the road 62 poles
0 the first station, and which is
lore fully described in book C., page
>68, Hertford County Register of
)eeds Office.
This August 3, 1923.
MRS. BLANNIE MINTON,
Ldmx. D. L. Minton, Dec. Mortgagee,
lurgwyn & Norfleet, Attorneys.
NOTICE
i
Notice is hereby given that a Ford
una bout has been left in my yard,
t Ahoskie, N. C., by R. B. Speller,
?id Spjeller having left this State. I
rill, therefore, dispose of the said
ir, if after thirty days' notice claim
1 not made.
This 11th day of July, 1923.
-18-23-41. C. S. YEATES.
ECOND HAND OLIVER TYPE
WRITER. cheap. W.RJfOHNSON.
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE
AGRICULTURE AND ENGINEERING
TmWmI Rflaaallin at BUI* CUkamuai It* *radu*t*a foe p.raaoil will
aad tm Uadarahl* la IndaatrUl proem* Th. coll*** off*r*
POUR YEAR COURSE* IN:
A*riwltar*?Includln* Omeal Acrlenltur* and BpocUUud Coui?* la Tana Crop*.
Axrl cultural SnctnMrln*. Animal Husbandry and Dalryin*. Btolofy, Horticulture. Poultry
?ntatlL Sotla. Ymrtaary ModMao, Vocational Rducaton.
Ck.al.try. jtxrlcultural Ch.mlatry, Taxtll* OwmMry aad Dydn*.
Oh* Ea*la**rla?. Architect ura and llfhway Knglnaarla*.
M??hailoaI CaglaoarMif.
Taxtll*?Taxtll. Sadnoartad, Taxtll* Maaafaetorlnc, Taxtll* Cktakttr aad Dy*tn*.
AartaaNaral Eaoaaatlaa. Bnalaaa* AdMaMraUaa. Raral Ufa.
Saaaral lataaaa. flu ale*. BMocy. t*
TWO YEAR COURSES IN I
Afrlealtar*, Madunlc Alt*. Textlla Manufacturing.
On. v.ar Court* la Aat* Maahanlaa.
Wlatar Cauraa la Agrlaaltar* far Parmaas.
Ratmr Beaalon for Taachoi*. tat Coll*** Ratranc* and for Colic** Credit
Excellent mhaaM la all dapartmnU.
?mtaa 1MS-1M4 b*do* September 4. _
? nays** raoulramrau for Prcahman Claaa. 15 unite?Enfllah. J; TTtetory. 1;
Mathematics. 114 ; Science. 1: K1*ctlra. *14.
For catalo*. Qloatratad drculart, and entrance blanks, writ* E. S. OWEN. Railatrar.
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Opportunities
lie all around for the man who has .
"ready money."
The man who hasn't it is already
embarrassed by seeing the other
fellow seize the "big chance" and
forge ahead.
Don't envy him his "luck". Practice
his forethought.
Why not open your Saving Ac
count here Today?
The amount doesn't count. It's the start?
that's the thing
Farmers-Atlantic Bank
' AHOSKIE, N. C.
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Your car and motor are
balanced - the fuel
should be, too
PRACTICALLY all the development and improvement
in cars and in motors have been in the direction of finer
and still finer balancing of parts, weights and stresses?to
obtain greater and still greater flexibility. It is only natural
that some car makers have succeeded better than others.
Most gasolines today give you more flexible and versatile
power than they did a few years ago. Here, too, it is natural
that some refiners have succeeded better than others in their
effort to produce a really balanced motor fuel.
There's a long story of refining experience and study behind
"Standard", the balanced gasoline. It is the logical fuel
for any finely balanced motor. It gives you everything you
need in a motor fuel. Stick to "Standard"? the all-round,
balanced gasoline.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(New Jersey)
I
Mid. right hat* la \
tha CinHm at
Ckarlaataa. SoU at
toidwdi of pnaipi
that bear tha ?aal.
STANDARD
The!Balanced Gasoline
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