North Carolina Newspapers

GATHER GOOD BOOKS Let every man, if posible, gather some good books un der his roof and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost every luxury should be sac rificed to this. R. L. Stevenson. , YOUNG MEN. Do you know that a girl may think you the whole thing when you spend your money freely, but if she mar ries you and finds that you have spent all you had, she soon thinks you are only a half? $1.00 a WEEK lt)R TEN YEARS Deposited with a bank will give the person who tries the plan the neat sum of $631.72. Deposit $2.00 a week and you will have $1,263.47. If you can make it $3.00 a week the amount will be $1,904.44. "..7." $10.00 to $1.00 The average man of thirty makes ten dollars for ev-! ery dollar he will be able to earn at sixty-five. That little dollar you waste today will look mighty big a few years hence. Save something now of all you make and the dollars thus saved will work for you later. Selected. rV" SOME SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS MEN Carnegie, a telegraph operator, James J. Hill, a la borer, Charles Schwab, a messenger boy, John D. Rocke feller, a clerk on a small salary, John D. Archbold clerking in a country store, Barton Hepburn teaching school, all these men are now recognized as successful business men and bankers because they learned the value .of money,sav ed some, and were ready to step forward when opportuni ty permitted. OPPORTUNITIES Opportunities are like flashlights. Thev suddenly re veal us to others, and also to opportunities. We Jiave a teeling that they might disclose some very fine qualities and a high order of ability which we think we possess, and which the world has not discov ered. But the trouble with opportunities is that thev sel dom come properly labeled. ne Knew wnat tney were, but they are quite likely to ap pear to our vision either as insignificent trifles or as dis aster and misfortune. It is with these last and determines many oi the earth's greatest closed. Jixcuange. CAPACITY WILL FIND OPPORTUNITY Burke Cockran says that capacity cannot remain un discovered, because it is sought by so many anxious to utilize it A capable man on earth is more valuable than any precious deposit under the earth, and the object of a much more diligent search. The seeker for the man of caDacitv mav reouire some things. He may want proof of capacity that is shown by the accumulation of money or something of value which shows the capacity man by reason of ability to make pro gress. The man who wants the seeker for men of capacity to lay eyes on him may be sure that one of the best places to be seen is at the bank when making deposits that prove him a man of system and one who does not spend all that is made. The man of capacity is always welcome at the bank and while there is often observed by the man on the look- out lor just nis Kino a man oeiectea. THIS TOWN WANTS ADVERTISING It wants advertising not juitaainrougn uini:jlij rKSUiNIA;iVUKT. We can ALL HELP. ' Business men can help by KEEPING the DOLLARS HOME through ENTERPRISE and GOOD SEEVICE. Town officials can help by GIVING as MANY IM- JrKU V JMEN 1 S as are consistent with ECONOMY. House owners can help '41 ALL TlMUS as Sl'IUK and SPAN as during CLEAN UP WEEK. Citizens can help by SPENDING their MONEY IN TOWN timekeeping it in CIRCULATION HERE. But, you say we are ALREADY doing these things. NO, we are NOT. We are NOT doing these things with UNITED effort, with DETERMINED purpose, with REAL civic zeal. It needs TEAMWORK. Let us organize at once a sensible campaign of pub licity. ' A TOWN PROCLAMATION. Friends, war is here. Your town calls you. It is a war for a BETTER, a BIGGER, a BRIGHTER community. ENLIST. Let the live wire BUSINESS MEN and the EM PLOYEES enlist THEY'RE needed. Let the town CRANKS, the town KICKERS and the town SCOFFERS enlist. THEY'RE needed. Let the SCHOOL TEACHERS and the SCHOOL CHILDREN enlist. THEY'RE needed. Let the MINISTER and the CHURCH AIDS enlist. THEY'RE needed. . . . , Let ALL faithful citizens of EVERY KIND enlist. They're ALL needed. ENLIST, friends, to fight civic CARELESSNESS, civic WASTE, civic LAZINESS. ENLIST to 'make this town BIGGER and MORE PROSPEROUS, to keep our MONEY here, to bring NEW BLOOD in and NEW ENTERPRISES, to put a PUNCH intorour home place NEVER KNOWN BE FORE. . 4 It's a fight worth WAGING. It's a fight worth wag ing TOGETHER. ENLIST. -, ourselves. We all long for Any one would grasp them if in the courage that eraDDles to get the best of them that opportunities have been dis wno can and will do things. so much through printer's by maintaining their places WITH-OTHER EDITORS WHAT DOES THE EXPRESS REC ORDS SAY? A government official has been re ported as saying that the violations of Federal and State laws regarding: intoxicating liquors have decreased 60 mke itself felt in the next Legisla per cent, within the past six months.!",1" ha f these measures. u u nin fn v, r.f-o fV. While North Carolina has always been law to have such roseate views, but!stronS fr Ir- Bryft" many f the before declaring ourselves convinced of this astounding decrease, we should like to see the express office records. While of course no acount can be kept of the amount of blind tiger liquor clandestinely shipped into the vicinity the legitimate record would at least be a guage of whether the fondness for the forbidden beverages has wan ed so miraculously in these parts. wew Bern sun. SUIT. P. L. FEEZOR The County Board of Education is to be congratulated on their wisdom in the selection of Mr. P. L. Feezor as county superintendent of schools to succeed the late Prof. J. E. Hill. Mr. Feezor is a native of Cotton Grove township and is one of the best young men in the county. He is clean, able and experienced in school work and Ihe Dispatch believes that he will make an efficient superintendent of schools, equal to the best iit the state. Mr. Feezor is popular with the people and knows their needs. He is deeply interested in educational work and the general betterment of Davidson county. He is thoroughly prepared morally and educationally! lie is a graduate of Wake Forest College. in accepting the supenntendency he is making a sacrifice for the good of the county and will enter the work in an unselfish, non-partisan manner, ex- erting his best efforts for the uphuild- r .1 u.. .j 1- . r . . . county eoucauonal syslem ms Mr. "Feezor received the appoint- rv. .-i. i. of his fitneis for the position The appointment is an honor to Mr. Feezor and will be an honor to Davidson t : r: wu.,.,.-.,, xiapatcu. PROFESSOR HILL We record in this issue, with great sorrow, the passing of Professor Joel Edffar Hill, oniint.w KiinerintonHonf nt schools. He lived among our people many years and if he ever had an en emy we never heard if it. Gentele. kind, unassuming he went about his business in a tactful, careful, pain - taking way that got results and left no, dissatisfaction, or hard f eelinga be- hind. He made a Rood superintend- ent and will be greatly missed. Lex- ington Dispatch. FACTrmiFS KPrn hut? v n pears When h TTnHorwAnH.Pimmnn. iff bill was passed the Republicans said that the country would be flooded with imported goodsand that American fac - tories would be forced out of business by the underselling of foriegn manu - iacturers. As a matter tf fact the figuwa for the past year, just given nut .far Koeroi-iftr prifioi nt fka n. partment of Commerce, shows that there has been only a slight increase m tne imports of the United States and tht the Tiulk nf this inorooso hoc been in the importation f food stuff s, this havinir haan mvAm k. the inadeqaate crops in this county He began railway work in April 1832, last year. If the tariff had not been a ar boy for a section gang on taken off f the necsities of life, tne old Western North Carolina Rail therefore. w wmiiri nmir inAaaA way, now a part of theSouthern Rail- Ithe cost off living soaring to a point wjiere tne average ciry-aweuer woaia have a hard time makino- ton. nH buckle meet. The total increase of imnortfltion of food stuffs, the department's figazes snowea, was 00,7 00,43V, While the to- lal increase in all imporations for the period w as only $55,136,685. "Ihe decrease of export food staffs" iatfI " BKK"" "oss. n aier a or the SecMtary added, "amounts in the:tram bos3, "er that he became a eight nuonths to $97,573,558: a fact : conductor, trainmaster, assistant sup fiuffipiehilv avnioinDM u i I erintendent and finally sunerintend- ing theiood stuffs to sell. A further decrease appears an manufacturers ior iurtfter use in manufacturing $30, - renecting ihe depressed con- dition 'off 'industries in foreien conn. ftries:" Out xu a total decrease in Ttorts ifor the eight months of $145,703,640, mnu Un eioo nrr, int ' . i mu fxi.a,vvv,vvu wag in IOOU stuffs :and manufacturers for further i - B' lotal imports lor the eight month3 were eXJSoo.bob.U41 compared with 233,519365 for the same period last year. IVee merchandise for the two periods was respectively $800,214 038 land $683,015,455. Total exports were: u,ou,A05,duo against $l,78b,07v,94o. ""i""" iuujt i5x amounted io $1609,5J.5 compared with $133,723, - na a year ago. jbxnorts were S161 732,619, a decrease of 16.9 per cent a"35L the Previous May. ine ngures. saia secretary Rca. field, "show the results of the world wide depression in commerce as modi-; fled by our awn shortage of food stuffs arising from the inadequate crops of lot .V,:U . J.-..: .. passing away, with the promise cf also that our competing power in man-; .jug vi uyo una vear. iust lnairaie uiatim iiiK is wen csustainea. vrin- ston Journal. 1 t the goat of circumstances who con- GIVE THE PEOPLE A CHANCE fuses politeness with servility, rude Remarkincr that North rnrnlinn ness with independence. "Despise not needa, the initiative and rtferendum, anotJier who is as thy wast, be to Congressxnan Small observes that wards him as towards thy equal," "reform springs from the people; it counseled Patah-Hotep, thirty-three does not come from the leaders." Cer- tainly true, generally speaking. Once ' in awhile a public man. becoming im- pressed with the need for reform, will mitiate a reform measure and cham- pion it. But under our political svs- tern, our public men usually stand for even mougn ne is tneiast one to avoid "lettiijg well enough alone." They're the fight worth fighting. "Manhood afraid of change; afraid that if con- first then gentleness." Good man ditions should be changed they might ners are based on instinct or on edu ce anected disastrously; afraid of the special interests who in turn are afraid that a change might cost them mon- ey or power. Uive the people a into manners," said &merson. "Man chance to say what they want. Under ners aim to facilitate life; they aid our the present system they have to agi- dealing and conversation as a railway taiv uuu wKtwiLe uuu agiittte until vue MATcuug. leaders are thoroughly convinced a I He who prides himself on his boor mesure 1b popular before, they will ishness has generally made, the mis take hold of it Statesville Land- j take of imagining good manners to be mark.;. ia veneer "applied from without BRYAN BELIEVES IN THE PEOPLE. If Col. Bryan could make a tour of North Carolina, speaking for the pri mary and the initiative and referen dum, it is probable that he would arouse a public sentiment that would people who have shouted for him in the past have stood against the. prac tical application of the things he stands for. His speech in Statesville Saturday night in behalf of these measures was but a reiteration of the doctrine he has always preached. Col. Bryan believes in the people and with him a "government of. for and by the people" means what it says. He has cause for congratulations, too, in ihe fact that the country is fast coming to his standard. North Carolina has been backward but even here it is evi dent that the change is coming. Statesville Landmark. TWO BRANDS OF COURTESY Occasionally some city daily paper takes a wallup at country people, pic turing them as the typical rubes" of ancient days. It serves as a vent for the citv edi- lr's surPlua egotism, and does no , harm. But for the sake of friendly com- &S0"Jet utaHe a ,P,eeP at Just one P 86 f Clty hfe courtesv to ? , lU V?" from he cu.nty was. ln a city recently and had'occasion to . mua. trif t0 Ahe suburbs about five " T j . Vu """"" PeP a K hTC f'lm dav s labors and the man from the ri, V' P'a gen,tlemai; ,' of th clty arbed in immaculate attire ann an PYnrsa. sion of "intellectual superiority." A blIdlady !ntered th C" fnd the absence of a vacant seat was the s.ide. sch re" P0Tri?fn8upeTrv-,nUL1,gence; . wtCtHUaLhlghbrr f CIft i breeding looked up. gave her a cold (stare. nnH ,.011 rVcm fh ,Al j The man'from the country as pTInptly gave her his seat.-Anso- lutt" FROM WATER BOY TO GENERAL A striking instance of the ODnor 'tunities for advancement which the 'railway profession offers to the man who applies himself earnestly and in Itelligently regardless of how humble his position may be at the start, is -furnished in the recent promotion to 'general superintendent of the north era district of Southern Railway Com pany of R. E. Simpson, who began his Irailway career in the lowlv caDacitv 'of water by for a section gang, I ,.From that meagre assignment to lIus Present position of responsibilty covering a period of thirty-two years, 113 -was no? a steP ?n tne lom? laa- "51 "L eiiei icnte wnicn ne ianea 10 :ct?mb' and having filled each position .with ability, he has now at his com lmand tnat knowledge of the details of .operation so necessary in the proper u new omce. I Mr. Simpson was born at Glen Al ! pine N. C, on October 20, 1870, and was educated in the common schools. way Ifc is said that in "ms position he r z , .ciuui. boss, by endeavoring to make himself useful to the section men. Instead of sitting in the shade with his water bucket. it is related that young Simp- uj opirvca ohu neip me m 0h.er llttle things. It was not on nnul .e was section man, a little i e.nt I?.e.1s been superintendent of ' tn"e ,"?8103 and , was supenntend- i f " "-"OAVl."e "'vision ai me . j" j w Keneim sup erintendent, April 15th. Southern xews bulletin. GOOD MANNERS ON DECLINE Lord Roseberry is a fine example of Bn "Snsn srentiemen Deing a form, er party leader, a scholar and an ex. I nonent nt hio-h iM..i. i....; I some school boys at Guildford he told : them that tne 17th century produced the hrooH nt Pniiotnn a coupled with this statement that the 17th century .set great store by good i manners. 1 Good manners are today on the de cline. he MmtinnoH rrnini many personsaomehow associated with Ithem flabbliness of one order or an- other. Yet. vnnA monnoi-c nnt :lv a sic nt rhivolrv nt. xhoritv tnmaA fellow men, but also an evidence of self respect. The Rosebery ideal must not be lost, if only because there are many base actions which it better than anything iHe. win Knnre rnnea vhA Dn..n .t The man who is sure of himself is al- roost always couretous; it is the snob, the climber, the pretender, or at heat nunarea years belore Christ. The coward blusters, the man with a weak case ' raises his voice in ar- grument.- But the man with good man- ners s generally able to do without the more ignoble weapons in strife cation; tney are more dependable when they rest on both these props, "I think all solid values run directly COL. OUR FARMERS' COLUMN be Articles Pertaining to Agriculture Will Found in This Column Every Week Tllf nnpsr'O datvt fv virw rv SFMmVr. 00 ,!, , comes He 'would tell his driver that he feels the heat on a very warm day quite as much as if he could read a thermometer. He. woulds ay "Give me a little water many times a dav. when the neat is intense, but not much at a time if I am warm; if you want me to keen well don't give me any grain when you any grain when you ito the stable. Just lows of water, and Bta I am cool. . a half dozen swallows Tn'w.,?.T T.. -A r have eaten my grain, wait an hour. I Renor.i.iiiw Ac i nnnA ,Un . k, ' 9 and 10 at night. I am thirstier then seZe u a ke u-f .stroner- f than at almost any other time of Stockholders liability is an amount day." . ,equal to the capital, which, in case of u, "..j' ' ,,-nn. ..i.- . impairment of captial, the stockhold- A. wuuiu hay r lien iiie &uii a hot and I am w-orking let me breathe nnl eJ" Zl if I teiSl Yor banks' capital, surplus and ? fit;ipLyYn ft hHf stockholders liability 'as well as its on the street leave me in the shade if , d discountsare protection to possible. Anything upon my head, ,v" F between my ears to keep of the sun, i i01!?" , , , , is bad for me if the air cannot circa:!, work horses and mules, milk cows, late freely underneath it, unless It is IayinsL he,"s' and, .Srowin .ca"0e' a sponge kept cool and wet. If you :a"d .poultry all pay their way and treat me as you would treat yourself, ,hdA pay a, pr?fit' , . , A m-n and do not clip off my foretop. yoJ L Feed your land, and your land will need not have much fear of losing me by sunstroke. "If on an Yt0rrr,cw v a t give evidence by panting and signs of avVia.tefiv. t XllaUStion that. T nm h&inr nvorrnmoK with the hPnt. nhnmna ta m . . . . . "w load pushing him to the fall, the bruis- ed knees and wrenched joints, and the feel of the driver's lash. He would tell of the luxury of a fly net when at work and of a v blanket when standing still in fly season, and nt t ho hnnn t n Him nf Bpruno m rhn stable to keep out the insects that bite and sting. He would plead for as cool tnd com fortable a stable as possible in which j to rest at night after a cay's work under the hot sun. He would suggest that living through a warm night in a narrow stall neither properly cleaned nor bed ded is suffering for him and poor eco nomy tor the owner. He would say that turning the hose on him is altogether too risky a thing to do unless you are looking for a sick horse. Spraying the legs and feet when he is not too warm on a hot day he would find agreeable. He would say "Please sponge out my eyes and nose and dock when I come in tired and dusty at night, and also sponge me with clean cool water under the collar and saddle of the harness." Dumb Animals. COUNTRY SCHOOL TEACHERS, CAN YOU DO IT? Can you enter into the daily life of your community with the feeling that you are associating with one of the oldest and one of the noblest class of toilers on earth? Can you sit down in a farmer's home and discuss the problems which perplex him and his family? When .bit? of gossip come up, can you so direct or turn the conversation that some thing really worth while will be discussed? Can you talk for half an hour with a patron of your school without spend ing 27 minutes of the time telling him what a poor teacher taught in the dis trict before you took up your work? Can you tell him about some good books he ought to read along his fa vorite line of agriculture? Can you, with interest to yourself, go out to his cow stable and discuss with him the amount of light and the number of cubic feet of air each cow should have so as not to contract tub erculosis? Can you give him a little advice in regard to the proper care of milk and the value of a Babcock milk tester on each farm? Can you mention five farm naoers or magazines he ought to have in his I home? Can you talk intelligently about the different breeds of cows, horses, sheep, hogs, dicks, geese chickens and other farm animals? Can you name all the pieces of farm machinery which a farmer in your section ougnt to own : Can you tell him something about the soil on his farm and what fertil izers it probably needs ? Can you get the children of vour aistrici mterestea in a pet stock and poultry show at the schoolhouse early thi3fall? Can you name all the different vari eties of fruit which can be success fully grown in your neighborhood? can you make friends of the vounor men in the neighborhood without set ting the tongues of gossip to wag ging? Can you step into the kitchen and get supper when your landlady is sick or away from home? Can you start a literarv or debating club ip your neighborhood ? Check yourself up on this list. If you can pass your are competent to teach a country school and vou are worth $50 per month to the district whether you get it or not. A. C. Nor. ris, in the School News and Practical Educator, PARAGRAPHS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER After marketing your crops, always deposit a part of the money made in the bank. , Remember that he who helps you save your money is your friend. All farm lands should be rested at least one year in seven and while rest ing should be shaded by clover or grass, which should rot on the land and thus furnish humus to the soil. inio tne snade and appiy cold water Watch Vour markets and raise what Itr? iJFL&tfiS'S buy rather th- -hat ffl legH.f?onWnef BtroofJ Raise all the grain, feed, potatoes an? t J :lffnna it iMZ JlluS and vegetables that you use but do not and the sensations of falling on cruel all vou r&itc- spII snm city cobblestones-the pressure of the ,use JVKnr mn u An apple tree makes a nice shade i trees besides bearing good fruit. Growing cedars- make good fence posts as well as beatify the farm, If all pulleys, hollows and low lands ;are kept in grass they will catch the soil that washes from the plowed fields. ' ieve Never run a row straight across a illow, curve the rows so as to carry .hollow, curve the rows so as to carry the water from the hollow instead of towards it. I Intelligent farming, fewer acre3. Srear .production, and more clear Pr?ts' ,s.t,he best ,m?"- . . , 1 Never.nsk a ve.ar,s la,bor in a single .crop, raise an Kinas oi gram, gra3S ? l,over , we" as au lne veeia' . ' . ! Horses and mules raised at home !Q0,nl nave . ce Paw lor aDroaa. 1 ,ou are. no compelled to quit your work and haul grain and hay from the , market' ralf th.em ,at. home- . LIfVf,a ank 13 one of -'thfi owners nf tha hsnt 1 ou aie, no compeiiea to quit ; the owners of the bank. The, lurpius ,of Lthe W,18 money earned by the bank and held as a re- m - . i . i " ? J.ou- ememDer lnal savinS S la"d 3. sav, your, money. . Cutting water furrows is cheaper ,tha?bT"gvnd; I " a plow, noe, or wmnie tree snouia " . "" "uc break. have another ready, it is cheap or t.hnn Insino- t.i rr. o ', nt.L. D A j " Jjiin h Z ItSc? ete P I Lg'"lilayJL tJfj.,-. :i 1 in nicnmalT nackaees rememberthat nl. ?a ?af f ".ffi!?,6!!1 be triat Z. l? I r- ueposuors represent tne money placed in bank for any purpose, and depositors are the people who depost money in the bank. Your money placed in bank on time deposit will be returned to you with interest. Idle time, idle land, and idle money bring you no profit. In choosing a bank select the best, the strongest, and the best managed. YE MODERN MAID. I met on the street one of your up-to-date girls, With skirts a la mode and peroxidized curls. "And where are you going, my pret ty maid?" "To the moving-pictures, sir," sho said. "Why aren't you home as your good mother wishes, Darning or cooking or washing the dishes; Practicing music or sweeping the house. Preparing yourself for a helpful spouse?" And she looked me all over with a homorous twinkle, And said: "Beg your pardon, but are you Rip Van Winkle? You must been having a twenty years' snooze To hold such provincial, puritanical views; For we modern maids are not secretly itchin' To serve a life sentence in any one's kitchen; Besides, recent inventions have ao lightened the load That the old thorny way now's a prim rosy road. Do you think I'd wash dishes? Why, haven't you seen That these are now cleaned with a pa tent machine? And as to sweeping, I am more than surprised, For brooms have been banishedl We're vacumized. And darning the stockings ? Say, you are way behind, For we wear nothing now but the 'hole proof kind. And the practice of music is in the discard. I For we now tread it out with nnr foe by the vard. So you see, my dear sir, you're decid- edly slow!" And off she high-heeled to the vaude ville show. Moral: Now I'll add my reflections to this brief interview, That the old-fashioned girl "puts it over the new. And because these old duties are now obsolete, Is one the reasons your girl's on the street, And I will add (tho' it may not be news) That Satan's still friendly with "noth-mg-to-dos." George D. Alden. : ROUGH BEHAVIOR Cutting an acquaintance. Breaking into society. Mashing a girl. Hitting the high places. Smashing a record. Knocking a performance Choking off a speaker. Ripping out an Jrath. Hanging a picture. Roasting a neighbor. Jumping onto a proposition. Killing Time. Judge.