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V. C, u Mail Matter of the Second
IHUttlUf, AUGUST «, ll»
SANFORD KNOWS
0OW TO COME BACK.
From the Sanford Express we
)esrn that the business people of
that good little city are down but
Hot out They have organized in
to a business unit, canvassed the
territory and secured subscrip
tion* sufficient to make up the
capital stock of a local independ
ent bank. Breakings and dosings
have reduced Sanford to the
classification of a no-bank town.
That would never do, and will
not do, for such an enterprising
place. Energetic peorfe of the
Lee County capital Will not stand
for it. They will take their great
losses, bat they will not take the
count of down-and-out.
Recently a big tobacco ware
house burned to the ground.
With barely sufficient time for
reconstruction, live business men
went about the: task, and now it
is announced that a new ware
house will be ready for the open
ing of the «eiling season on Sep
tember 19.
That’s the way Sanford does
things. The keynote of its suc
cess is Organization, Business
people of Sanford get together
when they want to put things
over. Fact is, we believe^ they
star together, for without com
pact organization of people who
stick together for the common
good there could not be succex
for such tremendous undertak
es Sanford haf been able tc
carry through.
Business and industry will
Stage a come-back from the
nerve-racking stamp of the past
five /ear*. The News believes
that much-desired condition will
not be long delayed. Already
thefe are sura signs of a return
of prosperity of a definite *ort
—not booms, we hope, but good
solid and substantial conditions
that-will put honest business on
around basis.
saniora u nelping to bnng the
•o untry back. It w not calling on
-- — "George” to do the work. It is
, up and doing on its own hook.
Sanford knows how to come back
—it is coming back. ,
• ' ' The above editorial is taken
from the Harnett County News.
The Express wishes to express
its appreciation of the high opin
ion our esteemed contemporary
----- . has of the , business people of
' Sanford and Lee county. The
1 News Is right in saying that the
people of Sanford will take their
great losses, but they will not
take the count of down-and-out.
Vou may .think It strange for
this paper to make the assertion
■ that this depression is having a
good effect on Sanford at this
time and the effect will be more
marked later. This struggle^n
the part of the business people
ef Sanford to raise money to
build a warehouse and oranixe a
b bank at the same time, is not on
ly going to be successful; but it
means that the people of the
town have learned their lesson
in the school of hard knocks and
«v' ere ready to join hands and co
operate in the work of building
J up the town as they have never
cooperated before. A few weeks
ego* many of our citizens were
skeptical as to the outcome of
. this movement to do the thing
thet seemed impossible, especial
| ly at this time, They have now
V;'.:. about reached the conclusion
s . that they can put over anything
that they set their heads to do.
the man who thinks that be
; cause Sanford has a number of
T empty "ton buildings and dwelt
Imts thet she U down-and-out,
wSU mob have another thought
coming to him. When conditions j
improve «ui things become nor-; c
mil, watch Sanford come io the j
front and grows as she has never l,
grown In past year*. «
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GOOD BUSINESS THIS 1
FALL?—WHY CERTAINLY. j
Taking everything into eonsi- j
deration there i« no reason why; j
business should not be better in j
Sanford this fail than it has been:
in several years. There is a good ■,
yield oi cotton throughout this t
trade territory and it was produc j
ed at a «naller cost than any j
crop that has been raised in a ]
number of years. As the crop is i
unusually early the fanners will ,
probably have it gathered and ,
marketed before j bad weather ■
Bet• in the latter part of the falL ;
The gins in the county have been ,
overhauled and are now ready to \
gin tiie fleecy staple as fast as t
it cornea in. Cotton is now selling .
at a much better price than it did .
this time last year and it is be- |
lieved that it will continue to sell <
higher than it did last season. ,
No doubt plowing up part of the j
crop haa helped to stimulate the ,
As has been stated in these ,
columns there has been a big to- j
bacco crop raised in Lee and ad- ]
joining counties. There is a con- ,
siderable increase in acreage ,
over last year and the yield per <
acre is greater- Planters teU The !
Express that they have cured ,
some beautiful tobacco and that' j
the season for making and cur- ,
ing it hit lust right. According )
to the prices that have obtained \
on the border markets even the ,
•and lugs are selling at much ,
better prices than they did last ,
season. Planters who have car-,,
Tied tobacco to the markets that',
are now open say the sorriest i,
lugs put on the market bring),
about twice the amount they »oki
at twelve months ago. It is plan-!
ned to have three warehouses'.
open here during the season. Ex-j
perienced buyers will be on the.
market and all the leading to-r
bacco companies wifl be repre
sented. The new warehouse i* be* (
ing so constructed that thefiv
baeeo can be brfeught fa^Aveigh- '
*®d, placed, 'sold " 'and moved out
with as little confusion as pos-'
sible. As tobacco can be handing
with greater dispatch the plant- j
ere will not be kept waiting for j
the sales till the day is half gone.
This wffl give more time for'
handling the sales at the other)
warehouses. This all means that!
.the Sanford market will be pre-j
pared to take care of all the to-]
bacco that will be marketed here
with but little loss of time for
the busy farmers.
Last year the farmers of Lee j
county made a poor crop of corn. .1
Many fanners did not make a1
sufficient amount of coni fordo-'
jnestic purposes and had to buy
corn before the present crop was
made- Their hay and forage crop
was also short and many a ton
of Western hay was soil in this
county since the first of the
spring, borne or the farmers in
this section will raise this year
a sufficient amount of com to do1
them for the next two years and
should they succeed in gathering
the hay and fodder crops they
will have to buy very little rough
£»d for their live stock next
year.
MIGHT EXTEND THE LIST.
Dr. Wade Harris handled the
defense of the local press in
North Carolina—the weekliesi
and semi-weeklies—most effect-1
IveTy in his reply to Mencken’*1
in-informed attack. With the list'
of live local paper* there is agree'
mant here, except that some good'
oxMnploi that were overlooked [
come to mind- * !
For instance, there are such'
papers as the Cleveland Star}
■ (issued three times a week but1
stiU a county paper in essence)
Elkin Tribiihe, Lumber-ton Rob
eson! an, , Moore County News,
Aaheboro Courier, News-Report-1
er of Whiteville, Laurinburg Ex
change, Sanford Express, San
ford Herald,' Hertford County
News, Mount Airy Times and
others whose titles do not come
quickly to mind. Indeed it is a
simpler task to list the worth
while local papers in North Caro
line than to try and pick opt
those not living up to their op
portunities.
i ■
The above short editorial is
nedited to the Lexington Dis
atch, one of the best semi-week
r newspapers in the State, and
ne that is highly prized on the
xchange table of Hie Express,
here i* great improvement la
he general make-up of the week
lr and semi weekly newspapers
n North Carolina daring the
ast twenty-five years.
One who has engaged in the
reeldy newspaper business for
tearly half century is in m pass
ion to appreciate the great im
irtrremenU that have been made
d the local newspapers from
ear to rear. Marked improve
nents have been made in both
aechanieal department and sub
set matter. Back 40 years ago,
ind even up to 25 years ago
nany of the local newspapers in
his State were small patent
heets poorly printed. Upon an
iverage they carried a column to
, coLumn and a half of editorial
natter and four or five columns
>f local news. The front pages
.ere filled up with matter clip
ped from the daily press and oe
asionally the opinions of corres
wndents. The foreign advertis
ing was made up of a few patent
riedicine notices. There was very
ittle jocal advertising as the
nerchants and other local con
erns had not learned the value
f printer’s ink
nn«u rural, man ivuus were
stablished carrying the daily
tapers to every nook and corner
f the country, the publishers of
he weektgr papers realized tliat
he front page of their papers
vould have to carry live local
tews stuff to take the place of
niscellaneous matter in the
hape of dead press dispatches
>r they would have to quit busi
less. Some of the most progres
tive weekly paper publishers
lave studied the art ofarranging
heir reading matter and now
lave about as attractive front
pages as the daily papers.
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WHEN WILL ILLITERACY
BE ENTIRELY WIPED OUT?
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out in North Carolina?
question that should be of vital
concern to every man, woman
and child in the State to-day.
State School Facts in its current
issue, calls this a rural problem
and says the small decrease in
number of illiterates in the State
during the past ten years indi
cates that something more defi
nite should be done about this
problem during the present de
cade. In 1920 there were 241,603
illiterates; in 1930 there were
236,261. One out of every ten per
sens 10 years of age and over is
il.iterate. The University News
Letter ‘publishes a tabulated
statement which shows the per
cent of illiterates by counties in
the State. Lee ranks 39th in the
list and the following figures
show the total and per centage
of illiterates in the countv: To
tal number of illiterates, *1,154;
per cent illiterates, 9.1; per cent
whites illiterate, 4.6; per cent
Negroes illiterate 19A
Analyzing the above figures
showing the alarming amount of
illiteracy in the State one is con
vinced of the fact that the late
General Assembly made a ser
ious mistake in shortening the
school term and reducing the
salaries of teachers to almost
starvation figures. Unless some
thing is done to advance the sal
aries of qualified teachers there
is a possibility of the schools
falling into the hands of poorly
prepared teachers who will prove
poor agencies in wiping out illi
teracy in the State. This kind of
business Is calculated to foster
illiteracy. For a number of years
North Carolina has boasted of be
ing one of the most progressive
states in the Union. Great pro
gress was made in her education
al system, but the last Legisla
ture certainly did give her a
black eye by shortening the
school term and reducing salar
ies of the teachers. Some of the
operatives in the Sanford Cotton
Mill are now drawing higher
wages than the salaries that will
be paid some of the teachers in
the Lee/county schools this fall
The mill operatives probably
earn every cent they get. but
how much money did they spend
on their education? The teach
ers not only spent money for
their education, but it was years
of toil with them in preparing
and equipping themselves for
their work. ^ .
The Express is glad to Know
that the Commissioners of this
county have made an appropria
tion to the library that was est
ablished in Sanford some 25
/'ears ago. The town has also
riven assistance to the strug
tUng library.
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1TiiUitk»aatt«*«ttkiwaab
the public schools at Lea county will
•pea to Wfia vat of iiwHiit
year. Thau, to paraphrase a pkna,
f«o4 in aaa af Sebqkoe'i plays
wham ha speaks af the seven aces of,
Men, the nail hoys with their satch
els and shining morning faces will be
creeping like snails unwillingly to,
school Creeping She snails? These
words are not applicable today for
boys ride to school at the expense of
their fathers who are nnahle to pay
their taxes Unwillingly to school?
that will do, tor Jboys are just) as re
luctant to attend school today as they
were when Shakespbere Was a hoy
and skipped school to lead the gang,
to the old swimming hole on the Aron
or write fanny rhymes aboitf bis neigh
bom and posh them up in the village
tor every one who .read them to. laugh.
at. Troth is, boys never have liked the
confinement of the school room and
that is why so frpr men are trained
and educate! today. )
icaconv in our consouaatea scnoois
with their modeqn equipment and well
appointed recitation rooms are in a
position to (he their pupils a better,
start than were the teachers who
started the fathers and mothers of.
these pupils thirty hr thirty-five years
ago in the one-teacher schools and yet
the teachers in these small schools
were able to lay the foundation for
the thorough education which their.
pupils in some instances acquired later
at higher institutions of learning. The
state_ which is today trying to educate
all of its children finds it more eco-!
nominal to train them in inrger groups
in consolidated schools. Hence, the
abolition of the «q»H schools. j
Men and wumerewho attended the
small schools in days gone by remem- j
ter quite well the programs which
were put on once a month on Friday
afternoon when books were laid aside.
These programs consisted at declama
tions, recitations and compositions. -
Sometimes a debate or a play wzc pat
on by the students. The compositions
were supposed to be original but
sometimes they were written in such
good English chat they were known
to be appropriated. The declamations
were usually extracts from speeches
of American statesmen and orators
' eodb as Patrick Henry, Henry day,
Daniel Wehster, Jiobert Toombs, Jef
fetsfc. Davis, AftaMm Lincoln, Zebu
ion B. Vance, Henry Grady and others.
The recitations usually included
among others one or two such poems
as “Paul Severe’s Bide,” “Marion's
Men," “Charge of the light Brigade,"
“The Sword of Lee," “The Men at
Alamance,” “The Conquered Banner,”
and the “Star Spangle Banner." “In
Flanders Field" and "The Spires of
Oxford" were not then in existence or
these would have been included.
On one occasion when one of these
programs was being rendered a hoy.
who was called on for a speech advanc
ed to the front and recited this amus
ing bit of doggerel:
“1 had a little dog, his name was fox,
I sent him over the river after my
box,
He got my box, he spilt my snuff,
. 1 think my speech is long enough.”
A* I recall, my first recitation or
speech in the little school house con
sisted of the following lines:
“I am going to my own hearthstone,
Embosomed in yon green hills alone,
A secret nook in a 'pleasant land
Whose groves the frolic fairies
• planned.
Where arches green the live long day,
Echo the black bird’s roundelay. ]
And when I’m safe in my sylvan home
I tread on the pride of Greece and
Rome, * |
And when I stretch beneath the pines
Where the evening star so holy
shines,
I laugh at the lore and pride of man, '
At the-sophist school and the leant- j
ed clan, • I
’For what are they in their high conceit
When man in the bush with' God
may meet?” J
Now, how came I to get these high *
sounding lines by heart?. Well, as
they were read aloud by some one 1
thought they sounded pretty and then
they were easy to mamorise because
of the wey they rhymed. Today as I
racalt these lines I grould substitute
the word beautiful for jtwtty in des- j
eribing them. Of course I didn’t know,
what they meant any mote than I
knew what the Shorter Catechism
meant, and I can’t say now that I
know exactly what Emerson was driv- i
tng at when he wrote the poem of (
which these lines are a part, but what
matters it? Although the sage of con- j
Sord must have been in one of his my
santhropfc moods when, he wrote'this1
poem the reading of the poem lifts
you for the moment fnto si higher at-;
mosphere than that in which you larej
accustomed to live and the poet'beau-!
tifles and spiritualizes your environ- j
ment. Is not that what poet-^vre for? ■
Today some of our best t\eakers
and debaters in Congress and else
where will tell you that they first
-learned to speak and debate thirty
five or forty yean ago In the little
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Ryan TiBmaa who im his day to «nc
«t the beet ijofan ia the United
Stain Senate Mi is ir rpaerfb which
he Made ia Sanford mm yens age
an the ran question that he probably
had senator had he not leaned hear to
talk when a hoy to a little school hones
ia the bade weeds of Sooth Chndtaa.
Today public opoalriag is being1 redue
ed to a fine art. Everywhere—through
the radio, on the screen, at the her,
ia the pulpit, nt legislative halls and
on the hostings—public speakers oust
he prief and to the point, aad the mar
who cannot think quick and talk Carl
an his foot has to taka a hack seat aad
listen to some one who can talk. The
public has no time to lutes to a mar
who stumbles and fumbles for wordt
and ideas and who oounds like a dog
acrambling through a shuck pile. No
doubt every school boy and girl to lac
county would like to be able to get up
pefore the public and talk, and the
place to loam Iso is the rostrum of
the public school.
The aiz large consolidated schools
which will open in Lee county next
month have absorbed thirty small one
aad two teacher schools which child
ren of school age attended a few years
ago. These schools ate graded ami
have high school departments in which
boys and gills are prepared for col
lege. Lee county’s first graded school
was opened in Sanford thirty-two
years age in a brick building located
at the corner of Cartilage and Steele
streets. This budding was tom down
several yean ago and a larger build
ing constructed on the coiner of
Steele and Weathersgoon streets. The
ear* building was constructed about
the tome time. Professor D. L. Ellis
was the first principal of these schools
and the first board of trustees was ai
follows: '0. E. Mclver, chairman; Dr.
W. A. Monroe, W. S. Weatherspoon,
T. L. Chisholm, G. W. Temple, J. B
King, J. K. Perry, E. a Moffitt and
B. Cole. Mr. Cole is the antji one ol
these men now alive.
In recent years as people have mov
ed from the rural districts of Norti
Carolina to the cities and towns tc
lire an important! man has disappear
ed from the country-side along wit!
the little schools, country poet office*
country stores, and in many instance*
country churches with its pastor. Thii
individual is the old time country doc
tor. People in the country continue t<
get sick as do people in town but whe:
the farmer needs a physician for hint
self or same member of his family h<
finds when he sends to town for i
physician that about all of the doc
tors have become specialists. There t
be brought into use. Then there is tha
nerve special/,t, the specialist foi
nose;, ears and throat, the eye special
ist and last but not least the dentist.
If then is a general practitionei
in town and he goes out to see tin
patient he often finds, after diagnos
ing the case that he needs to be sen)
to a hospital and pat under the can
of a specialist. This is done and tin
patient', after, recovering from hif
illness, find* a number of bills against
himself. There is the doctor bill, th<
drug bill, hospital till, a;id in case o1
a special nurse tlje nurses bill. Not
one of three bills may be tee high bul
all of them taken together oftei
amount to a sum that the patient ii
unable to pay and he leaves the hos
pital worried that-he is unable to pa)
the people who have taken care of hin
in his illness. In the past twenty-fiv
years medical science has made won
derful progress in the treatment ol
disease but the treatment is costing
patients too much and all the parties
concerned need to get together anc
work out some plan of relief for them
selves.
.Referring again to the old trap
country doctor, be waa an institution
within himself. This paragraphs]
knows of ten country doctors ' who
once lived in this section and travell
ed over a wide range of territory in
the practice of their profession. They
were: Or. J. L. Sheppard, Dr. Chilli
Budd, Dr. John Mclver, Dr. George C.
Newby, Dr. William Arnold, Dr. Hec
tor Turner, Dr. Alex McDonald, Dr.
Richard Street, and the elder Dr. Pal
mer. Dr. W. A. Monroe, who lived in
Sanford and who practiced at a latei
period may be classed with these men
Dr. Monroe had a practice that ex
tended to Buckhom on the east and
Governor’s Creek on the west and he
was often on the road day and night
and getting little sleep for weeks st s
time. Not a bigger hearted or more
upselfiah physician has ever practiced
medicine. These doctors had their own
drug stores on their premises and in
their saddle pockets they carried me
dicines which ihey, compounded and
rolled at the bed side of their patients.
In the summer they had to wrestle
with typhoid fever which sometimes
mounted to an epidemic and in whiter
they contended With pneumonia and
many other diseases. In their day the
pufelie roads were Tittle better than
ttmd holes and gullies and in their
(ravels they underwent all sorts of
hardships and privations. There were
no hospitals to which they could send
their patients and no trained nurses
with whom they could leave medicines
and give instructions for the care of
patients. These were big men, big of
body and big of heart and they were
made of iron. They had to be else
they never could have undergone the
physical and mental strain to which
they were subjected in the war they
...
made on disease. Today the apaa oi
human life u beinr slowly but aural)
lengthened by medical science- Thi
doctors an attacking diaeaae at ever)
angle of approach. Hence, the a pec [al
lot. We honor the trained, capabla
aparialiat who ie conscientious in the
performance of hia work aa a physi
can, aad we honor and revere tha
memory of the old-time country doc
tor w^e was faithful to the utmost in
Ha performance of hia duty to hli
patients.
LIBRARY RULES
ate a. eta,.
2:30 to 6:00 P. M.
2 old books 1 new book to
each person Issued for 3 weeks,
with one renewal. Penalty, 1
cent per day for overdue.
JONES BO BO CHURCH
DIRECTORY
Jonesboro CW<fc ’ •'
Rev. J. 8. Cook. Pastor
R. A. Watson,
Superintendent of Sunday School
Mrs. Wajdoc Bine'
Pres’dent Woman’s Auxiliary
Jutvsboro Baptist Cfearck
Rev. Frank Ham, Pastor.
T. T. Lanier,
Superintendent of Sunday School
Mrs. E. B. Faulk,
President of W. M. U.
Thomas Adams
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