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The Asheboro Courier PublU ied Every Thursday. Wo. C. HAMMER, Editor. PRICE OtiZ DOLLAR A YEAR Theoolumns or Tlie Courier are oiien to all t-KlUmatr aiWeuMiiK. Kuternrd will be sent on request or rato will be luruislied upoii appli cation at bunini mlloe. All coimnuniuatiiiiik imi.t be signed by the real uairie of the wriu i. fiibKriix-Pi w'-hniK their artilrei- chatifreil munt Hire the a'Miws to which the paper has ben cohiK, h-s wi ll as the uew n litres. Oorn.piiiileutt. sliouM mail news letters In t'mo lor them n-m-li this office by Tu. s,iuy mornlnar, to i-.ire ihelr appearaiieu in t lie week's issue. Impm-twit happening"! feuch as Heath, tires. arcilcuts. etc., may be 'phoned at The Courier's expense Discord is a sign of life ; it is only the dead who have no differences- Th-? splendid educational fa cilites offered by Asheboro are attracting attention to this pro gressive town- Ignorance and superstition mean suffering and disease, but intelligent action leads to health and happiness. Investment in education is more valuable than gold- The time is here now when Randolph must build better high ways if we expect our county to move lea nivd as other progres sive communities are doing. Why are the people moving to the cities ? Cannot the answer be found in part at least because the schools are not giving the proper agricultural training. Again for the hundredth add more time, we ask for the views of the people on public questions. We want opinions about public matters. Write us today. We want what you have to say for publication. Provision abould be made for the inauguration of a system of good and lasting roads in every county in the State. Farmers waste thou sands of dollars every year for extra teams, vehicles and harness travel ing over mud roads, and the same amount saved for a few years would macadamize every foot of road in this county. Superintendent Joyner is cor rect in advising provisions for county farm life, high schools and rural high schools. It is also entirely proper that teachers should be trained in summer schools at the University, the State Normal College, and at the A. & M. College. If the general assembly now in session does not provide liberal state aid to good roads in our humble opinion theie will be a lack of duty on the part of the members. The one thing moat needful is to arouse a favorable sentiment for good roads -among the masses. Let every good mid a advocate do mis sionary work. From every part of the county cmes the good news that the people favor the good roads movement. Some one has said the best visible form of progress of a county is its public roads. Education has been the all important question, but that matter has been given the best at tention for many years, until we have in the State, a fairly good system of publio schools. We must keep up our licks until there is an average of six months in all the country dis triers The one most important now agitating the public mind, is road improvement. It is being talked, issued, discussed and agitated every where, world without end. and it is good sign. GOOD ROADS PRIMARIES. On Saturday, February 4th, at2 o'clock the people are request ed to meet at the various voting precincts in the county to dis cuss the question of how best to get good roads in Randolph, and to send two delegates, one from each political party to the County Good Roads Contention at Ashe boro. This i3 a most important mat ter and every citizen shculd go oat and heU arrive at some plan to get better roads. GOOD ROADS BOND ISSUE. There is an effort to be made to get a Good Roads bond issue for Randolph this spring by sub mitting the question to a vote of the people. It is proposed to sub mit the question for an fasue of $300,000 and to make a provision in the bill to use the funds de rived from the sale of the bonds in' the various townships in the proportion of the assessed valua tion of property. This proposition strikes a pop ular chord. It is a question to discuss at the primaries to be held at the various voting pre cincts in the county on Saturday Feb. 4th at 2 o'clock. Do not for get to attend the primaries and send at least two delegates to the County Good Roads Convention at Asheboro on Monday, Feb 6th. Elsewhere in this issue of The Courier may be found a state ment of the assessed valuation of property in Randolph. This information was published once before, but we publish it again by request of a voter from Trin ity, who says that some advocate of the new county claimed that Trinity paid more taxes than any other township in the county. While the people of Trinity are a fine people, and there are fine farms there and many valuable interests are found among the progressive people of that sec tion, yet there are several town ships that are ahead of Trinity in the assessed valuation f prop erty. Asheboro is ahead, then comes Randleman, Franklinville and Columbia, etc. Representative Turlington, of Ire dell county, haa introduced a bill in the General Assembly making it a felony for any member of Congress or State officer to accept a fee or agree so to do against the State. This is a proper measure and such a law on the statute books fifteen years ago would have put Marion Butler in the penitentiary for its violation in the South Dakota bond case. The Statesville Landmark commends the bill, but wants it to go further, and we agree with the Landmark when it says: The offence of which Butler was guilty may not be repeated oece in a generation, but it is no uncommon thing for lawyers who are the re tained attorneys of public j service corporations whose interest may be affected by legislation, to appear in Raleigh as the representatives of the people. They may think they serve the people by serving the corporations that employ ihem, but we know it is not natural for them to vote against the interest of their clients, the cor porations, and that it is rare for such representatives to oppose what the corporations ask for. Mr. Turling ton s bill should make such attor neys ineligible to public office. A proper sense of the proprieties would suggest to them to res gn their attor neyships when they accept public office, but as many of them do not have this sense of propriety they should be made to have it. PLUM CULTURE. No fruit is more saleable than plums. Who is it that does not remember the damson plums of thirty and more years ago and the delicious preserves made by our mothers. And there were the blue gages and the little red and yellow plums. The ad vance through selection and crossing the fruit is . nothing short of wonderful. The largest and best varieties are known as Japanese, the Abundance being one of the best known varieties. The plum can be grown almost any where. It grows to perfection in this sec tion of North Carolina. It is one of our richest fruits in va riety and quality. There are numerous kinds of plums and some of the finest are of comparatively recent develop ment Those who are growing fruit for the market would do well to plant many plum trees. Farm ers should plant plum trees along the fence rows and those who live in town should plant them in their back yard. Six one story dwellings were burned at Salem, N. C, last Friday. FARRIS IS INTERVIEWED Mr. J. J. Farris, who bas organ izftd a lobby and collected consider able money and is maintaining an expensive headquarters at Raleigh, came home last week and whooped up the boys and arranged to keep as many as four High Point people in Raleigh all the time from now until the expensive fight for a new county is ended. Mr. Farris has given out an interview in a Raleigh afternoon paper in which he says in reply to the question, from what source do jou expect most of your opposition? "From Greeosbonj and Asheboro, uuu cycii in njtroc uuuimuuiuro mr new county has strong supporters. There is no ground for opposition except of sentiment and that should not count against a proposition which means so much to the State." It would be interesting to know the names of the strong supporters of the new county, in Asheboro. The Courier has a fair knowledge of the sentiment of the people of Asheboro, and so far as known, no one in Asheboro favors the new county, except one man, who is now and has always been against the best interests of this county and is only happy when he is slandering and throwing dirt and mud at his neigh bors, lie may have one or two mo- tives to actuate him, the hope that Randolph will be Republican after the slice is t.iken off or he may want to move his washing to High Point where he can rest assured he will live in a Republican county. And listen at Mr. Farris further: "It is true that a few organiza tions including the bar of Greens boro have passed resolutions against the movement, but all of it was done at meetings called for other purposes, and not for the purpose of deciding for or against the new county. "What do you think of the report circulated that you will be a pauper county, etc?" "This is the weakest point or the opposition, because we will have un limited proof before the committee that eveiy claim the advocates of new county have made will be bourn out by the facta namely, self -sup porting, democratic, 18,000 popula tion and that it is asked for by over, 95 per cent of the voters in the ter ritory. This is one question on which the legislature can act favor ably with the assurance that then action will meet with approval by all the people in the State with the exception of a few in Greensboro and Asheboro." 'You can say," added Mr. Farris, ''that the committee does not intend to weary the legislature with this proposition by resorting to any long drawn out lobby we will submit in a business way a business propo sition which we are sure will appeal to them. Did you ever here the like? The Raleigh water evidently is not suit ing the Enterprising High Pointer. OUR HEAVIEST TAX. The heaviest tax any community can have is ignorance ; the next heaviest is bad roads. The following from the Sanford Express is a most sensible preach ment : Not one mile of Lee county's roads is improved. They are all shifting sand or mud deep, narrow streaks of sticky, oozy, slimy mud. The farmer fights with mud when he takes his cotton, his wood or his empty wagon to market. It is said to cost him twenty-five cents a ton to hall his produce, while the thrifty Mecklenburger or Guilford county man on mndless roads does it for half as much. The Lee county farmer pays for his mud in de creased profits, in idle acres, in poorer schools ; his wife and daugh ters pay for itin loneliness and isola tion. Nor is the farmer the only ' man in our county who pays the mud tax. Mud puts its price on the fuel that townsman buy from the farmer and other things that he uses daring the winter season. We can think of no way in which our people could get less fun for the same money. The indications are that our people are about to make a protest against the bad roads tax. , Every interest in Asheboro should be, welded together in the interest of town improvement. Fire and force must be put into efforts for the growth and im provement of this good town. Results should be sought On Saturday Feb. 4, afternoon at o'clock, be certain to attend your voting place and send delegates .to the County Good Roads meeting in Asheboro on Monday, Jteb. 4. RECORD OPPOSES NEW COUNTY. The Greensboro Daily Record in a recent editorial says : The Asheboro Courier says : "The Greensboro Record is all wrong when it says that the new county would have its county Beat on one side, meaning that High Pofct would be on the southern edge of the proposed county. The facts aie that as given out now, it ia under stood that there will not be more than Gfty square miles taken from Guilford's teiritory, lees than any one of the cownshipsin Rmdoipb aa originally laid off. But Randolph is expected to give up about ninety square miles of her territory, and Davidson not as much rs twenty five miles, only a part of Abbott's Creek township. No part of Thoin Bsville being willing to go into the new county, where a heavy tax rate they believe will be levied. If the county goes through, thecounty seat would be located near Old Trinity if located in the centre of the county as now proposed." We stand corrected, though we know that Trinity was in the cen tre of the territory. Speaking of the new ennty, The Courier aiys that a big taxpayer of Trinity town ship, beini interviewed, said : "A good many of those wbo hav signed petitions for the new county repent themselves of their busty action. A majority of the tixpayers of Trinity township would greatly regn t be ing separated from the old county of Randolph. And it might be added that a great many of the taxpayers em braced in the proposed county will find to their sorrow that they have been hit between the eyes and will continue to be hit for many years in the shape of increased taxeB if this new county is created. Guilford can stand the loss,but it has a kindly feeling for her neighbors who are going to get hurt and wants to pro. tects them. Greensboro evidently has a sensi ble man in charge of the city schools. "Listen here :" "If the boys and girls of this country are compelled to carry Buch great piles of books to and from schoolas they have been doing, we will be a nation of bow-legged people. If the Record should say this we would be pointed to as an old fogy, an old fossil. Who do yoo tuppese made this re mark? : Dr. Mann, superintend ent of Greensboro's city schools. Probably be did not expect to be quoted, but it is too good to be pass ed by, for it shows what manner of man be is. He has been stirring things in the city schools stirring them on the right lines. When a boy enters school he ascertains if bis parents are going to fit him for some profession. If not, that boy never sees a Latin grammar ; he teaches him the fundamentals. He reminds us of Dr. Nereus Mendenhall forty years ago. -truly, we are getting back to hard pan. Thoroughness is the one thing most lacking in modern education, and how can there be thoroughness with so many studies ? Let us have fewer branches taught, and let the subjects taught be taught better. The child e hould thoroughly ma8t-r each book and each branch of study before passing on. Dwelling House and Building Lots RANDLEMAN, N. C. Saturday, January 21, 1911 SALE BEGINS AT 10 O'CLOCK On the above date we will sell at public auction the resi dence and adjoining real estate of the late Now owned TERMS: One-fourth cash, one-fourth eighteen months. J. W. Long, TWO BRIGHT YOUNG LAW YERS GO UP HIGHER. There are not two brighter young men or abler lawyers of the State than Mr. Burton Craige, of Salisbury, and Mr. George B. Nicholson, of States ville. Mr. Craige is a grandson of Burton Craige, who was for many year3 a leading lawyer of Salisbury. Mr. Craige's father was the late Kerr Craige, a most able lawyer and elegant gentle man, who was Third Assistant Postmaster General under Presi dent Cleveland. Mr. Craige has had an excel lent practice in his home town of Salisbury since he has been at the bar a dozen or more years. He was in the House eight years ago and made a most useful and popular member. He has taken a lively interest in political mat ters. He goes to Winston as special counsel for th3 R. J- Reynolds Tobacco Company at a salary of $10,000 a year. Mr- Geo. R Nicholson, al though married recentl ' to a daughter of Governor Turner, is a younger man than Mr. Craige, but has been practicing law for more than a decade, has recently been fleeted counsel for the J. I. Case Machine Company and will move to Racine, Wisconsin. His salary is large and under stood to be some twenty thou sand or more dollars. Mr. Nich olson is an able and painstaking Special Washington t Correspondent Engaged The Courier has just closed a contract with Clyde H. Tavenner, the well-known writer and travelef, by which he becomes a special Washington correspondent for us during this session of Congress. Tavenner became known all over the country as "the man who told the truth about the tariff" when the Payne- Aldrich bill was being framed. He had studied the tariff question in various countries in Europe, known from fiist-hand investigation what the cost of production abroad really was, and therefore was in a position to show by actual figuies that the Republicans were not revising the tariff on the basis of equalization of coat of production at home and abroad, as promised. During the last three weeks of the recent campaign, Mr. Tavenner not only wrote his articles for the press, but as the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Fourteenth Illinois district he pat np the strongest kind of a fight. Although nominated but three weeks prior to election, and despite the fact there is ai yet little insurgency in this district, Tavenner reduced his opponent's majority by 3,000, Tavenner was given the nom ination as a result of his vigorous espousal of the cause of the people as a newspaper correspondent. Tavenner enjoys a close personal acquaintance with the leaders of Congress. The following letter from Champ Clark, who will be the Speaker of the next House, shows that the work of our correspondent is appreciated by the Democratic leaders in Washington : "My Dea Mr. Tavenner : I am always in favor of giving every man his due and I wish to thank you most heartily for the very excellent ser vice that you have rendered Democracy and the country by writing your Washington letters. They were very largely used as ammunition in the recent campaign and had a large influence in changing the complexion of the House of Representatives from Republican to Democratic. "I think yow personally for many kindnesses. We have a golden opportunity, coupled with grave responsibilities. My desire is that the Democrats shall do what is right and then that the people shall be in formed of what they do. Your friend, CHAMP CLARK. en 0 i ji OKJXLM.M. XX. X by his widow, Mrs. L5. W. swaim. Trustees. lawyer. Like Mr. Craige, he is as good as the best. He was born in Davie county. Began the practice with Judge Long. He has been for the last few years a partner of Mr. R. B. McLaughlin. Mr. Nicholson has made a brilliant success, and his ability is recognized by all While Mr- Nicholson has never been a candidate for public office, he has for eight years been the secretary of the executive com mittee of the tenth judicial dis trict, and made an active can vass. His appeal for the elec tion of the Democratic nominee for Solicitor was a strong docu ment circulated throughout the district, and . was most effective in appealing to the voters. The success of these two bright young North Carolina boys should be an inspiration to every energetic young man. Let it be remembered in pass ing that both are young men of excellent habits, and have lived clean and honest lives. G"t together in Good Rnnda pri maries .Saturday Feb. i and tiV over tbe question of good roads. Disonss the best plan for good road. Feel i lie pulse of your community and eend delegates to Asheboro to the County Good Roads Convention on Mviuday, Feb.uary 6 th. Mr. T. L. Cbisbolm has leased the lower floor of the Smith building formerly occupied by Mr. Joseph Greenbaum and will engage in the mercantile business. He has purchased the bankrupt stock of Mr. Greenbaum. Ssnford Express. M. A. Ferree. in six, twelve and M. D.
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