THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. 0.
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MOST DETERMINED EFFORT YET
TO PROMOTE CLUB WORK.
EXPECT 500 TO ATTEND.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raleigh.
Fully 500 members of the boys' agri
cultural clubs of the state areexpect
ed here for the boys' and girls' short
course in agriculture to be given at
at the A. and E. College from August
21 to 24.
Flans are unaer way oy tne onice
of agriculture club work to make one
of the most determined efforts yet
made by the Extension Service to in
struct entertain and inspire the
youthful fanners who will attend this
meeting.
Last August over 350 members ot
the agricultural clubs visited the col
lege for the short course, and it is
estimated that over 500 will be on
band this year. A special effort will
be made to show the importance of
food and feed production to the ones
who will come, and the course of in
struction will be along these lines.
The only charge will be the cost
charge of .the three meals for the four
days and the reduced transportation
charges. Rooms wfll be furnished
free by the college.
The Corn Club enrollment is contin
uing to grow says A. K. Robertson,
corn club agent. The county agents
over the state are responding almost
daily with additional names of young
boys who 'desire to assist in the pro
duction of more food crops. Recently
County Agent Morris, of Granville
county, sent in 14 names for the corn
club, bringing the county enrollment
up to about 60. This is a gratifying
showing as this county is one that is
devoted almost entirely to tobacco pro
duction. Caswell county is another
where tobacco is the main crop, yet it
also has a splendid enrollment of 70
members growing -corn, peas and
beans. County Agent Graeber, of
Mecklenburg, and-Proffitt, of Ruther
ford, both have good enrollments and
write that the members are all hard
at work and that the prospect for
their crops are fine.
Stanly county continues to lead in
the corn club work, with a total en
rollment of 196 boys and as many
acres of corn. In this county Mr. S.
J. Lewis is getting good results with
his boys aswell as with his adult, co
operator. Mr. J. E. Moses, of the Pig Club,
work, has just received a letter from
one of his enthusiatic pig club mem-
hers telling of the profits of pig rais
ing. "I have sold two more pigs," says
the boy, David Worth, who lives in
Wake county, "for ?7 apiece, which
is $14, and, the same man brought a-(
sow here to be served. The tee was
$2.50 and $1 for feed. When all put
together it will be $18 more in the
bank. Don't tell me that there isn't
any money in the hog business be
cause I know it is."
Solve Labor Problem In State. t
The county demonstration agents in
North Carolina will be used for the
purpose of bringing the farmer and
the laborer together and solving the
serious labor situation which con
fronts the state. The clearing house
for all such information will be the
office of farm management of the
Agricutlural Extension Service at
West Raleigh.
The North Carolina State Food Con
servation Commission in co-operation
with the State Agricultural Extension
Service has arranged or the farm
demonstration agents in their respec
tive counties to ascertain from farm
ers their need of additional labor in
producing food and other crops. Also
tor recording labor available f or such
purposes, and to bring farmer and la
bore together.
If the farmer wants extra help he
should communicate the fact to the
demonstration agents with a statement
as to the length of time the help is
wanted,, the purpose for which it is
to be used and the wages he is willing
to or expects to pay.. Parties desiring
work on farms should notify the dem
onstration agent stating when they
will be ready to begin work; what
kind of work they can do, for how long
a period they wish employment and
what wages they expect.
In counties having demonstration
agents requests for labor needed and
nr wirt nr Amnlovment wanted
should be sent directly to the office
New Cheese Factory.
Despite the fact that the factories
are paying nearly twice as much this
year for the milk as they did last,
cheese factories are apparently thriv
ing in Western North Carolina, a char
ter having been granted by the secre
tary of state to the Silver. Stone Co
operative Cheese factory at Vilas ,in
JWatauga county. Last year the fac
tories in Watauga county paid a flat
rate of 10 cents per gallon for -whole
milk used in the manufacture of full
cream cheese. This season they are
paying 20 cents per gallon for milk.
HURT
COURSE
of farm management, West Raleigh
from where the effort will be made to
put fanner and prospective laborer in
touch.
By taking up this work neither the
demonstration agents in the respect
ive counties nor the state farm man
agement man guarantees to get labor
for the farmer nor employment for the
laborer but they do agree to use their
best efforts in these lines.
Soy Bsans Good as Steak.
Mr. C. B. Williams, chief of the di
vision of agronomy, states that there
is a a great increase this year in the
acreage devoted to soy beans in the
state. This is as it should be, and
our people should see to it that some
of these beans are saved at the end
of the season for food purposes.
Soy beans are much richer in pro
tein than lima beans or sirloin steak,
in fact they contain practically double
the amount of protein contained by
these two staple food products. The
soy beans contain about the same
amount of fat or oil that is contained
in sirloin steak, and more than ten
times the amount of this constituent
than is contained in lima beans. The
fuel value of soy beans as a food
product is slightly higher than sirloin
steak and lima beans. Dr. W. A.
Evans, president of the American Pub
lic Health Association, has stated that
for men who are engaged in hard
manual labor, where they burn up a
lot of their tissues in the effort, will
find soy beans as siutable as steak as
a fuel.
Because of the possibilities in the
use of the soy bean as a food product,
the folloWing recipes is given for the
information of those who are interest
ed in the more extended use of this
rich nutritious food product when
properly handled:
Soak the beans in a 10 per cent,
common salt solution over night.
Then drain off the salt water and
roast the beans in an oven or a peanut
roaster.
In roasting exercise great care that
the beans are not scorched, as this
would impart a bitter taste to the
beans. Watch from time to time,
and when the cotyledons begin to turn
brown remove from the oven.
Other recipes can be obtained by
writing to C. B. Williams, Extension
Division, A. & E., Raleigh, N. C.
Busy Preventing Blindness.
North Carolina has been listed by
the National Committee for the Pre
vention of Blindness as one of the
states of the Union most active in the
work of blindness prevention. At the
last meeting of the general assembly a
law was passed requiring all phyhi
cians and midwives to use the prophy
lactic treatment, a one per cent solu
tion of silver nitrate, against inflam
mation of the eyes of infants within
two hours after birth and to make
record of such use.
The law further provides that
opthalmia neonatorum or babies sore
eyes, is a reportable disease, and as a
still further safeguard as regards this
disease, the law provides that all mid
wives nracticine in the state resrister.
witlllout fG6- theIr namea and addresses
th socretarv of the state board
of health on or before the first day of
July, 1917, In order that the prophy
lactic solution and necessary instruc
tions may be furnished them- Provi
sion was made whereby the state
. d f healts shall furniQh. this ore-
ventive solution and the necessary in
structions for using it free to physi
cians and midwives.
Some Increase Necessary.
In concluding the presentation of
the case for North Carolina carriers in
their petition for increased freight
rates, applicable to intrastate traffic,
it was agreed by the railroad officials
and the shippers present that some
increase is necessary and that the in
crease in the intrastate rates be on
the same percentage basis that the in
terstate commerce commission adopts
for the interstate petition now pend
ing. There was a further agreement that
the matter of adopting a new basis
rate schedule such as the proposed
Georgia schedule submitted by the
railroad companies be deferred and
that the question be further thrashed
out in a hearing July 5 before the cor
poration commission.
National Guard Officers Promoted.
Dr. J. A- Bangle of Charlotte was
commissioned by the adjutant gen
eral's department of the North Caro
lina National Guard as first lieutenant
in the Medical Corps and assigned to
the command of the sanitary detach
ment of the Coast Artillery. He suc
ceeds Dr. J. R. Ashe of Chrlotte, re
signed. Dr. W. P. McKay has been com
missioned as a first lieutenant, Medi
cal Corps, and will be assigned to
service later.
J. F. Williams, Jr., Raleigh, has
been promoted from sergeant to sec
ond lieutenant Company B, Third Regi
ment, to succeed Lieutenant Parrich,
promoted to first lieutenant.
Life " Extension Work Popular.
The first month's report of the life
extension work now going on in Ala
mance county shows tnat such health
work is not only what the people need
but what they want. Since Dr. A. J.
Ellington started the work about a
month ago in this county, two weeks
of the time having been given to lec
ture work and organizing, he has
given examinations to 225 people,
and now has on file the names of 25
more applicants. He gives on an aver
age fifteen examinations dally, the
patients being near middle aee.
NIEMHIONAL
SUMSOICOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute.)
(Copyright. 1917, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 10
JESUS CRUCIFIED.
WESSON TEXT-John 19:16-22, 25-30.
' GOLDEN TEXT Christ died for our
Bins. I Cor. 15:3. .
We are compelled to omit a consider
ation of that dark, despicable trial in
Pilate's judgment hall. Pilate's weak
kfleed subservience to custom and the
cry of the politician is one of the black
est pages in history. His scourging of
the man whom he, himself, declared
innocent, is practically without paral
lel. After the mocking and the scourg
ing, Pilate said unto the people, Be
hold the man" (v. 5), and later in sar
casm he said to the same people, "Be
hold your king" (v. 14). Teachers
should emphasize at the beginning and
all through this lesson that Jesus
suffered and died for the sins of all
men, ours as well as those of his own
day.
I. The Crucifixion of Jesus (vv.
16-22). It was about nine o'clock in
the morning when Pilate gave his infa
mous order that Jesus should be cru
cified. It was indeed a sorrowful pro
cession which moved itself along the
"Via Dolorosa" (the Sorrowful Way),
consisting of the Roman soldiers, the
tottering, physically exhausted man of
Galilee, and, Luke adds, "sorrowing
women." They took him to the place
of a skull, a hill about sixty feet high,
at the foot of which was the rock
hewn sepulcher in which his body was
later laid. The place was called in
Hebrew "Golgotha," the Aramaic for
skull. Calvary Is the Latin for the
same. On either side of him were
crucified the robbers, which was an
evident effort to- add to his shame as
well as a salutary warning to the Pass
over pilgrims. Over the cross Pilate
wrote a title on a wooden tablet. Fol
lowing the usual custom, this was
nailed at the head of Jesus, setting
forth his crime. The words it bore
were, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the
Jews," as though Pilate would take
malicious revenge upon the mob which
had made him perform a deed he had
sought- to avoid. Literally this sign
meant "This man is the kingliest of
all Jews, and see what they have done
to him." In response to Pilate's ques
tioning, Jesus said, "I am the King of
the Jews." Pilate knew that he was
innocent, and sought to let him go free,
but, rather than incur the hatred of the
Jewish authorities, he yielded to their
demand for his blood, and became a
party to the murder of the Son of God.
Men today take a part in his cruci
fixion rather than surrender wholly
to him, and pay the price of open con
fession. "They crucified him." How
these words laid the pride of men in
the dust. Human nature is the same
today as It was two thousand years
ago when the world's bitterest hate
was wreaked not upon a bad man but
upon the best man, the perfect man,
the God-man. The pain Jesus suf
fered on Calvary was no imagination.
He suffered it all for us (Isa. 53:6),
I but the physical suffering was not the
j most severe agony he bore (Ps. 09 :20 ;
! Matt. 27:40). Tlie crucifixion of Jesus
was part of the eternal purposes of
God's love and redemption.
II. The World's Darkest Hour (w.
23-30). Each of the Gospel writers re
fers to the . part the soldiers took in
casting lots for his garments. They
were unconsciously fulfilling the
prophecy of Psalm 22:18, and it was
from their number that one of the sxi
preme testimonies to the character of
Christ came (See Matt. 27:54). The
first three evangelists tell us of the
throng of pilgrims who passed along
the highway from the north, close at
hand, and who wagged their heads in
imitation and mockery of the agony
But there were others who were spec
1 tators of this event, a group of Christ
lovers (v. 25).
"It is finished." These are remark
able words. He had finished his suf
fering ; he had finished that for which
i he came into the world when he be
; gan his ministry ; he had finished the
j mission for which his father had sent
him into the world; he had finished
' and fulfilled the prophecies concern
; Ing his suffering and death; he had
1 completed the work of the redemption ;
the atonement was finished, and Sa
j tan's power was finished; the Mosaic
law was finished as far as its claims
1 upon the believer were concerned
(Rod). 10 :4 ; Col. 2 :13 ; Eph. 2 :15 and
16). Outwardly it seemed to be Sa
tan's supreme hour. It was the world's
darkest hour.
The seven last words. These would
be an interesting study for any class.
(1) "Father forgive them for they
know not what they do;" (2) "Today
thou shalt be with me in Paradise."
(3) "Woman, behold thy son ; (4) "My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?" (5) "I thirst;" (6) "It is fin
ished;" (7) "Father into thy hands 1
commit my spirit."- Christ had power
to lay down his life. He had power to
take it up again, but he laid it down,
submitting to a burial in the tomb.
At that moment note the effect upon
the malefactor, upon the centurion, up
on the elements of cloud and sky, up
on the veil of the temple, upon the
people and upon his friends. What is
the effect of this story upon yourself,
teachers, and upon those who are lis
tening to your instruction?
. 1 Rookies at Fort Slocum who have Just received their soldier clothes and are proud of them. 2 Latest pho
tograph of MaJ. Gen. John J. Pershing, selected to command the first American expeditionary force In France. 3
British artillery on the western front preparing the way for an Infantry advance. 4 American destroyer Rogers,
put Into commission at the Charlestown navy yard for the Massachusetts Naval militia. .
NEW HOME
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This is the new building of the American Red Cross in Washington which was formally dedicated recently. It
was erected at a cost of $800,000 and Is the general headquarters for all Red Cross work in this country.
OUR DESTROYERS ALREADY ACTIVE IN THE WAR
Sbme of the American destroyers that, according to official advices, already are in European waters taking an
active part in the war on German submarines.
BRITISH LABOR COMMISSION
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These are the meraoers of the British labor commission now in this coun
try conferring with the representatives of American organized labor and
others. They are : Seated, left to right, Rt. Hon. C. W. Bowerman and H. W.
Oarrod; standing, Joseph Davies and J. H. Thomas.
OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
NEW STACK FOR THE GEORGIA
Lifting a. new ten-ton smokestack to
be placed on the S. S. Georgia, at
the Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard.
This naval crane can lift a burden of
60 tons.