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COURIEE JhUi ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR i VOL. 39 ASHEBORO, N. C, FEBRUARY 12, 1914 No. 7 i j PROUD OF hJY Clark Says Democrats tia x ; Made Splendid Record 5 CITDDADT DDCCinCNT HP SAYS OKI I VA1 1 mUlliai l uu iwm ! Power Has to Be Lodged Somewhere (Ml. Tariff Rill Rest Ever Written Speaker Champ Clarke in a recent Rnppph had something to say of the splendid record of Wilson's adminis tration: "For long and wearisome years, said the Speaker, "all that the Demo crats could do was to promise what they would accomplish if they were given power. It took us all that time to convince the American people that we were in earnest in our professions. "Now all that is changed. We can with pride and pleasure talk about what we have one and also about what we intend to do. Calls It Best Tariff Bill. "At the election in 1912 every in telligent man witin the confines of the Republic knew that if we carried the election there would be an extra session of Congress and that the first great promise we undertook to carry out would be that to revise the tariff. "We proceeded as promptly as pos cikio n tha umrV of revisinar the tariff downwa '!. In my judgment, it is the best taritt Din ever pui on me miu v,,.L-t, If tharo were no other GTOOd feature in it, the income tax section would make it ranK among me very i tn;v " tu- CnooL-ai. HofonHpH the caucus method of putting the bill through the nouse, aecianng urni, iwyuun riiiD Prno-rpssivf i and Democrats were' given every opportunity to speak and offer amendments and that "the bill was debated unui everyuuuy in the House was worn to a frazzle. ' Panics Will Be Prevented. ' Vaferrino' tn the flurrencv bill, the second great problem disposed of , the speaker saia tne new iaw lumisneu x substitute ior one oi me -worst cur ovofama in the world." "It provides a working scheme," he continued, "for increasing the curren cy when the increase is needed and for contracting it when the public good "In addition to this it prevents, as iar as nuiuau wiauum cauuo, .id ling in stocks and bonds; it prevents the assembling of all the money in the country in one Dig cny ana leaves it ot hnnu where it nronerlv belongs: it oi,tVirrivpc national hanks to loan money on good farm lands, and it is believed, and hoped, mat it will to a very large extent prevent panics. Honesty in White House. "It is claimed that it lodges too much nower in the hands of the Presi dent and that it will not bear the light of day. Power has to be lodged some where. The only Question in that re card it whether it is better to lodge the immense power conferred in your Currency bill in the President of the United States, chosen by the people and who has their interests at heart or in the hands of some private citi zens. "So far as I am concerned I choose the former. We have had a great va riety of men in the White House but the honesty or an oi tnem nas Deeu above Question. "We intend now to proceed to re deem certain other promises in the Democratic platform by enacting laws on the subjects of the trusts, the farmers' banks and perhaps on the Phillipines. When we have. When we have done that we will have put more constructive legislation on the statute books than nearly any other Congress that ever sat. Wilson Deserves Support. Mr. Clark referred briefly to the Mexican situation, saying that it was being handled by the President, who was in constant touch with things in Mexico and who knows "more about the situation probably than any other man in America. "It seems to me," he concluded, "that the people of the United States ought to support him and his policies and to remember that silence is gold en when we refer to these matters. I think that he deserves credit for try ing to keep the country out of trouble with Mixico. I have no sort of doubt that the President and the Democrats in Congress will work along in har mony for the glory and prosperity of tne repuDiic. COTTON IN IREDELLi Iredell County is not considered much of a cotton raising county, but the Government statistics up to Jan uary 16, gives us credit for raising 14,222 five-hundred pound bales for the year 1913, and it is not all mar keted. But figure the amount named at 13 cents a pound, which is the average price paid for the crop, and you will find that this county has to her credit for cotton the sung sum of $924,430 nearly a million dollars! Another item of interest is the figures in last week's Enterprise, showing that the Mooresville Cotton Mills used 6,259 bales of cotton. Figure these bales at 500 pounds each, 12 cents a pound, and we have $375,540 paid out for cotton. The majority of this cot ton, if not quite all, is bought in the vicinity of Mooresville. What we want and need is more mills or manu factories. Mooresville Enterprises. BETTER WATER SUPPLY Improvement and Extension ' isheboro Water Works Ft. Ing authority given in a bill passed by the last General As fcembly. tie commissioners of the town of Aslieboio have offered for sale twenty thousand dollars ($20. 000.00) of bonds, the proceeds to bo devoted to the extension of the water supply of the town, which has heretofore been derived solely from two deep wells, the flow of whlcii lias been inadequate, not only for domestic and fire purposes, but has by reason of the small supply that might be stored in the resorvoir, trovented a proper and just lower ing of insurance rates in the city. It is the purpose of the commis sioners to cause a dam to be built across Long Branch, a vigorous and clear, clean stream about two and a half miles from town and install from the pond thus made, a line of ten (10) inch pipe to the filter plant. This filtering plant will be located it is understood, near the power house, and it is expected when completed that the available water supply for all purposes will 'la almost, if not quite, a half a million gallons per day. This increase will put our town upon a footing equal to any town of like size in the State, so far a? water supply is concerned, a nd should materially reduce the pres ent high insurance rates, as well as guarantee an uninterrupted suf ficiency. Our citiezns may now well pull together with earnest purpose to secure manufacturies for our grow ing town. Former efforts along these lines have been met. hereto fore, with the discouraging fact that we had not water facilities to at tract steam users. Let us now put our shoulders to the wheel- pull "all together" and build up. a hustling shoving factory community. Terms of Randolph Court The special session of the Gen eral -Assembly passed the following act relating to the terms of court for Randolph County; "The terms of the Superior Court for Randolph County shall be as fol lows, and not otherwise; A term beginning the second Monday aftpr the first Monday In March, to ton tinue for two weeks, for the trial of civil cases only; a term beginning the fourth Monday after the firtt Monday of March, to continue for one week, for the trial of criminal cases; a term beginning the seventl Monday before the first Monday of September, to continue for two weeks, for the trial of civil cases only; a term beginning the first Monday of September to continue for one week, for the trial of criminal cases; a term beginning the thir teenth Monday after the first Mon day of September, to continue for two weeks, for the trial of civil and criminal cases. Each of the afore said terms designated for the trial of criminal cases shall also be a re turn term for civil process and for the hearing of motions in civil causes'; and civil cases requiring a jury may. by consent of parties thereto, be tried at said terms." Boys Corn Club For 1914 The following have enrolled in the 1914 boys' corn club of Ran dolph county; Dennie Cofle. Seagrove R. 2. Ralph Cox, Ramseur R. 1. Yancey Y. Cox. Ramseur R. 1. Ray Hill, Jackson Creek. Eugene Homey. Farmer. Delmar Hlnshaw. Liberty R. 3. Jeffrey Homey. Farmer. Ernest Macon, Climax R. 1. Theo. W. McLeod, Strieby. Edward Morgan. Farmer. Floyd Otwell, Randleman R. 1. Guilford Training School Misb Anna Meade Michaux. of Greensboro, who is greatly interest ed in a training school for boys in Guilford County is here today. Miss Michaux has compiled some statis tics about our wayward boys in the county unprovided for and have been sent to the workhouse and tj.e roads. The conditions will ap peal to all of our citizens who are interested in boys and willing to help them. Guilford County could not do. better than to establish this school. It should appeal to all. High Point Enterprise. DANIEL MILLIKAN DEAD Died at Spero Sunday Morning Was Eighty-Six Years of . Age. Daniel W. Millikan, a highly honored and respected citizen of Back Creek township died at the residence of his son Walter Mil likan, at Spero, February 8th, of paralysis, at the age of 8o years and one month. The funeral was held at Marl boro Friends church, Monday the funeral being conducted by Rev. Amos Gregson. A large concourse of friends followed the body to the last resting plae. Deceased was a lile-long mend of the writer, a good citizen and lived to a ripe old age. A large number of children are left to mourn the loss of a father. Among them are: Mrs. C. J. Cox, Mrs. J. B. Ward, Gurney Millikan, of Asheboro, Mrs. J. C. Robbins, Mrs. T. F. Robbins, and Mrs. Thomas F. Hinshaw, of Randleman, Walter Millikan, of Spero, A. R. Millikan, of Worth- ville, Robert Millikan, of Ellerbc, and Garfield Millikan of Fayette ville, and one brother, Hon. Ben jamin Millikan, of High Foint, and a former Sheriff of Ran dolph county, Turner's Romance No. 3 ( Continued from last Issue.) - The school buildings in my boyhood days were built of logs and filled up between the logs with mud. Our par ents would meet every lau beiore time for school to start and fill all the open places, ready for the school to start. The seats were made of slabs and punchings split out of logs with legs put in them, borne were nigner than others, to suit the big and the little folks. I have seen the little tots fall off backward, as the seats had no backs to them. After dinner all the big boys had to carry one load of wood and if you wanted a drink of water you had to go to the spring after it, and drink out of a gourd. But it is not that way now. um.es nave irnnroved. The girls wore shoes wilth the heels from one to two taps high, Now they must be from two to three inches. I notice now that when the girls walk thev are mostly on their toes, and 1 look for them to grow pitched for ward. The little tots that pass by every day carry a satchel full of books that I look to see them all bow legged when 15 years of age. But there I am not criticising for I don't blame people for keeping up with the style and fashions, for if I was a young man, I would be in the "ring" with them. My teachers are all dead except two Benjamin Moffitt of Asheboro and . Miss Lov An Pugh of Frank- linville. My school days ended and I began farming. It did not look like farm ing but fighting grass. In the spring of 1859 I asked my father to let me go and learn some trade. He told me he could not spare my time, as all ap prentices, to learn any trade, had to serve three years. Their wages were only ten cents per day, so I did not say any more to him. In the spring of 1860 I told him if he would let me gq, I would give him, after I had learned a trade, all I could make for twelve months. He then gave me permission to go. There was a good carpenter in our neighborhood by the name of Dorris York. I started to work for him and every thing moved on nicely. Every few weeks there was speaking at dif ferent places. I woul go to hear what was said and it was always on "war." They urged the boys to go to war, telling them that they could wipe up all the of the blood spilt with their handkerchief. They also said that Yankees could not shoot a gun. But when I went to war I found all this different. On Saturday evenings we would meet our neighbor boys and they would meet me with "Well, John, what is the news?" "Nothing," I replied. "What with you?" "War.I think I will go," one replied. In the spring of 1761, there was a free dinner set and sneakinsr. and calls for volunteers. The clouds of war were rising fast over the South land, and volunteers were needed. James M. Odell was making up a company of twelve months boys so l couldn t stand back any longer, as I saw the girls were liking the boys who volunteered. I gave my name to Mr. Odell for twelve months and then I had a time. The boys had a time drilling. The company was formed and our first drill camp was at Joshua Bains near Liberty, cooking our meals in the blacksmith shop and sleeping in the barn. . (To be continued.) Two Young Women in State to Be Lawyers. The present law class at Chapel Hill has the distinction accorded few law classes of the university in the past, that of two of its members be ing women, who are taking the full law course. Miss Mattie T. Ham, of Charlotte, joined the class at the be ginning of this spring term, while Miss Margaret Berry, of Chapel Hill, registered for studies at the begin ning of the college year. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS Interesting Items From Here and There Briefly Told For Busy Readers Howard Regan, a nine-year old boy of Lumberton, died from poison caus ed by eating paper caps, such ars are used in popping sticks. Rev. Jos. L. Benr.ett, a Baptist min ister, conducting a funeral at Marsh ville, was stricken with paralysis, while standing at the grave repeating the Lord's Prayer, and died in a few hours. Congressman Robert G. Brenner died of cancer a few days ago. He underwent radium treatment for can cer and much interest has been taken in his case. Hubert J. Latta. proprietor of the Lockmar Hotel in Durham, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. It was a surprise to the people of Durham. lhe JNorth Carolina society of Colo nial Dames will erect a marker at the grave of Richard Caswell, first Gov ernor of North Carolina as a State, representative in the Continental Congress, general and Master Mason, whose dust lies in a little burying ground three miles west of Kinston. A monument to Gov. Caswell stands in Kinston. Mrs. A. C. Brayles. wife of a prom inent physician in Durham died the first of the week. Dr. Boyles was a son of Rev. Boyles and at one time lived in this county. The Fifth Annual Negro Framers' conference is in session in Greens boro this week. Many farmers from various sections of the State are at tending this session. Several experts are there to give lectures on agricul tural subjects. Work ha3 begun on the Carolina & Yadkin River Railway station at High Point. The station is 400 feet long by 60 feet in width, and will have all the conveniences of a modern freight depot. The Queen Chair Company, of Thomasville, has been placed in the hands of a receiverby the United States court and an order to show reftuse why the firm should not be placed in bankruptcy has been made, returnable February 19. Thirty thousand dollars stock has been subscribed by the citizens of Morganton for a furniture factory They have begun to realize the vast timber advantages of Burke county Also, full stock has been subscribed to build a knitting mill. North Wilkesboro will have new factory in the near future. It i to be a handle manufacturing en terprise. of gfrom $15,000 to $2.". 000. and will furnish employment fo 35 or 40 men. The pages have bougl.t out the Bank of Aberdeen at Aberdeen and will increase the capital stock to $200,000. The Pages will move to Aberdeen and will give their time and energies, to the development of that section. The North Carolina A. and M. College is making elaborate prepara tions for celebrating their 25th an niversary of the founding of the col lege, next October 1. 2. and 3rd. About 5-000 former students and graduates of the colleg will be in vited. The receipts of leaf tobacco have been heavier at Rocky Mount the past week than any tine during the month of January, amounting to more than 300,000 pounds, and prices have been higher than at any time since the advert of the new year. The matter of admitting Harry K. Thaw to bail n ill not be de cided for several weeks. In a re script filed at Concord. N. H., few days ago, Federal Judge Edgar Aldrich said there would be no hearing in the matter of bail until the final hearing on the the ques tions involved in the extradition and habeas corpus proceedings. The Asheboro Road The Enterprise hag been in con sultation lately with citizens of Asheboro in regard to the road from Archdale to Asheboro and it is the desire of these people to begin at once plans for the building of this road. It is highly important to High Point that this country should be opened up by means of a good road and we hope that our citizens will respond liberally when asked to do so. It is useless to go over mis matter in detail. We need the road badly and If it does not come here it will go from Randleman to Greensboro. High "Point Enterprise. Arthur V. Jarrett Captured. Arthur J. Jarrett who was indicted in this county for forgery and escap ed jail some three years ago, was ar rested in Kandleman Dy J. uanieis, Chief of Police, Tuesday night and returned to jail. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION Met Saturday In Asheboro The Randolph County Teachers As sociation met in Asheboro last Satur day. Owing to the bad roads there was not a full attendance. Prof. D. C. Johnson, of Trinity High School gave an interesting talk on general school problems, viz: Preservation and Conservation of School Property, Settling difficulties among children and Personality of the Teacher. Mr. Johnson's talk was most beneficial and all the teachers present should proht by his remarks. This discussion was followed by Miss Mary Petty, of the State Normal and Industrial College, Oreensboro, " ei.B3 : RuiSomn it which was a general conference of the teachers, oa.-h nr,e tolling what hud been done in their respective communities for in creasing interest for general improve ment. Miss Petty advocated the or ganization of community clubs and made timely ruggestions, some f which . are: Home Interests: School Interests: Farm Interests: Community and Busi ness Interests. Under these heads Miss Pettv suecested plans bv which any of the above-named interests may be carried out. bhe spoke oi her loy alty to Randolph county and of her interest in her progress and oi her welfare. She longs for the time when the entire county is interestd for good roads and for a creditable county home and jail. She thinks that the organization of community clubs will do a great deal toward gen eral improvement and human uplift. Miss Rains, director of Manual Training at the State Normal was al so present and made helpful suggest ions concerning community develop ment and progress. The different teachers present were called upon to speak of needs in their various sections. Mr. T. Fletcher Bulla. Superinten dent of Public Instruction, appealed to the teachers w-care for the libraries complimented those present for the work accomplished in their respective schools. The meeting was one uf great benefit and much interest. Democrats Need Not Fear It has been given out that in post offices paying more than $180.00 the rules of the civil service will have adherent to by giving appointment to the person who stands the best ex amination. This is not correct al though a circular was sent out that there would be no political pull or preference for it this wereht-Hcni2ef preferences for it. If this were true a negro man or woman could take the examination and if they stood the best examination they would be placed in post offices in white com munities. Mr. George H. Manning, writing to the Winston-Salem Journal, Charlotte News, Salisbury Post and Raleigh Evening Times and other North Caro lina says: It will be found that in Democratic districts that the old methods will ob tain and after the fourth class exam inations are all over in North Carolina the friends of the Congressman and Senators will all be in office and the ratio of Democratic to Republican postmasters will be about 99 to 1. From my conversation with Post master Burleson today, I fully be lieve that in North Carolina men will be appointed as postmasters after the February examinations who are the choice of the people of the community, regardless of whether they rank first or third on the examination papers," said Mr. Godwin today. "Mr. Burle son told me it was the desire of the department and the administra tion to give the community the m-m it desired as postmaster provided the applicant made the proper showing in the examinations. "If the department intends to ap point as postmaster the person mak ing the highest rating, what necessity would there be for having the Civil Service Commission certify three eli gibles? I do not believe it is the in tention of the department to appoint a book-worm vho can make an excel lent showing in a technical examina tion in preference to a man who is the choice of the community, and would make a far better official. As I un derstand it the department will take the names of the three highest men on the eligible list furnished by the Civil Service Commission and first see if the high man is adapted to be a good postmaster and the choice of the community. If he is not, then the case of the second man will be taken up, and if necessary the third man, until a man is secured who is thor oughly acceptable to the patrons of the office. "I believe this is as it should be," continued Mr. Godwin, "as a town should not have as its postmaster an undesirable man able to gain appoint ment solely through ability to stand a technical examination, although for less adapted to be postmaster than another man ranking second or third on the list. "It is my opinion that in the circu lar letter the Postoffice Department intended only to ii'form Senators and Congressmen that it w.ll be useless o appeal for the appointment of a man as postmaster who is unable to pass the examination, while at least three others have passed the examinations, one or more of whom can fill all the requirements." WEATHER BUREAU Tells Courier Readers How Storms are Forecasted-An Article Interesting and Instructive It will be interesting to the Cour ier family to read the explanation of the weather bureau at Washington as to how it forcasts storms. Here is what it says about it: Many people have an idea that there is something mysterious and occult about the work of the Weather Bu reau in forecasting the coming of frosts, storms and floods, iNot a - think that the ob '"fCe3?a" ' "b&" i "" F''i.a, As a matter of fact the forecaster in the bureau foretells the coming of disturbances in a business-like way, verv similar to that in which a man i "i'V. f it rri. val Suonose a business man had order ed a shipment of pineapples from the Hawaiian Islands. He would Know the average time it would take the steamer to make the trip to the Pa cific port, the average time for un loading and loading into refrigerator cars and the average num'r.er f days to be allowed these cars for their trip across "he continent to Nw York His estimate, however, wo.na ue sud- ject to error, because the steamer might be delayed byy log, or tne cars might meet with an aTident. Storms, ike pineapples, a-? 6 whoie do not orginiiVe in the United States. They come to us some from ihe Ihil- hpme Islands, Japan, bineria.AiasKa, Canada or the Gulf of Mexico. The weather Ijuvjui gets irnblo, ttd-'graph-ic or wireless notice of a foreign storm. Station .after station, r ves sel, after vessel reports the storms arrrratln its neighborhood, so that the general direction and rate of progress of the storm can be detei mined very easily. In fact the ar rival of some storms can bo foretold ten days in advance. The forecasters watch for the re gion of low barometer, which is the storm center around which the winds blow. This whirl or eddy moves bod ily forward with the general eastward drift of about 650 miles a day in our latitudes. As the lines of equal pres sure (isobars) around the low cen ter crowd closer together, the winds attending the storm increase in force The forecaster determines the directi on of movement of the storm and its velocity. When weather disturbances are re ported, the forecasters know from ex perience about how long it takes them to reach our Pacific coast, and then how long after they will reach the Atlantic coast. For example, if a storm coming from Siberia drifts eastward around the North Pole and reappears in Alaska, it should ap pear in Washington and Oregon in about two days; should get to the Great Lakes in six days and to the Atlantic Coast in seven or eight days. Unexpeced conditions may delay storms or divert them from the straight track just as a refrigerator car may be thrown off its schedule or be shipped by accident on a wrong road. Some of these storms deplete themselves by running into regions of high barometer which are of greater magnitude and extent than the storm itself. Some of them, however, travel completely around the world. To keep tab on the cold waves that come out of Canada and Alaska, the Weather Bureau studies the Canadian ( weather reports. England sends re ports irom iceiand ana tne Jtsnstisn Island and Continental Europe and daily reports come from Petersburg on the conditions in Russia and Si beria. The same business like system used in tracing the track of a storm is applied in determining the the ar rival of rosts. Flood forecasts are made in much the same way. Information as to the amount of rainfall at the head waters of streams that cause floods are cov ered by telegraphic reports sent by local observers. As this rain reaches the main channel is determined by successive gaging stations. Past rec ords establish how much weight, say of 20 feet at Dubuque, Iowa, will pro duce at Davenport, another station 80 miles down the Mississipppi. This plan is followed all the way down the river, and at each point full allow ance is made for the effects of water from tributaries and from additional and local rainfalls. As a result of these observations in the recent flood, the people of Cairo had warning a week or ten days in advance. The Pittsburg district can be given only 12 to 24 hours' notice, because a flood is upon them within 24 hours after a heavy rain. LADIES OF FUIKXi CHURCH TO MKKT The ladies of the Friends church ma those identified ith them in their work will meet at the horna of the pastor, Mrs. Ada E. Lee, on Thurf-dpy at 3 p. m. to organize a woman's club for the ir.tere?t of the church work. A pleasant social occasion is also expected. All la dies interested in the wcrk cf the Fiiends church are cordially invit ej to be pieseu.