North Carolina Newspapers

THE COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY VM. C. HAMMER. EDITOR. A. W. CLINE, Associate Editor and Business Manager. TELEPHONE XO. 5. Asheboro ,N. C, August 20, 1914 THE SIX-MONTHS' SCHOOL AMENDMENT "I got along without an education and my son is no better than 1 am we have heard that argument or rath er excuse, given for opposing special tax levies for increased length of pub lic schools and the argument was in variably made by men who would not be required to pay ten cents in addi tional tax. Such excuses were heard years ago but are rarely heard today, for North Carolinians are beginning to learn that an investment in brains is even more profitable in dollars and cents than an investment in good roads, an investment in improved machinery, an investment in soil-nourishing fer tilizer, it is brains that push anv state forward and our duty to the ris ing generation is to give them every educational advantage possible to pre pare them to engage in the battles of business, the battles of life. From all corners of the new South the cry is for better schools and long er schools. From far-away Texas we hear the papers appealing for an in crease in lumls allotted to public scho. is from $12,000 000 to $o0,0u0, 000. The Progressive Farmer seconds the motion and urges every Southern state not only to proclaim the six months' school, but to double the edu cational appropriation. That paper well says: "The farmers of the South can never reach the level of prosperity, influ ence and intellectual development of farmers in other sections until we double our expenditures for public schools. There is no use taking it by driblets in the average Southern community we must actually double tie amount spent for public schools; and even after doubling we shall be only just abreast of the average American state." On yesterday we had somewhat to 6ay about the propsed tax amend ment to the Constitution. In our opinion an amendment of equal importance is that which would provide a six-months' public school for every town and community in North Carolina. The hope of our state rests with the farmers of the future. They are the bone and sinew of our very existence. If the six - months' school is worth while to the city is i$ not of equal value to the farmer lad? And, after all, would it be waste to put more money in public education? Let the other states answer. Did you know that today there is only one state in the Union which spends less than North Carolina on public education ? Did you know that the average annual amount per child spent in this state is only 4 ? What kind of an education can we give the rising generation on such a basis of pauperized expenditure? On the other side of the continent lies black-soiled Washington. Blessed by nature with an abundance of alkali in already rich land, she turns out more wheat than any state in the na tion. She raises cattle by the hun dreds of thousands. Sheep graze on every hillside. Washington apples are sold on the streets of Charlotte. But Washington's people are not naturally more enlightened than our own. In fact with her hetrogenious foreign population that state can not be com pared with old North Carolina the home of patriots. Washington makes money rapidly but it costs a great deal more to live there than it does here. There is one way in which that state excels all others. She has seen the value of public education, and where as we only spend four dollars per child Washington invests thirty-two dollars in the education of every boy and girl within her bounds. Go where you may over the sedge-grown hills and plains of that state and you will scarcely get out of sight of a beautiful school house. Teachers' salaries range from $75 upwards anil the educational sys tem of that Western state is a model of perfection. We have a hundred natural advan tages over Washington state.for while her income is derived from only a lim ited number of sources, we have a thousand avenues of profitable busi ness enterprise. Some day we will catch up with Washington, and the balance of the states, for the whole South is awakening to the importance of public education. The amendment to the Constitution which provides for a six-months' pub lic school is a step on the upgrade. Here is a table of figures which tells more than we could tell if we wrote all day. It shows just what the states of the Union are doing for their boys and girls: Average Annual School Expenditure for Each Child by States, 1910. 1. Washington $32 2. California S27 3. New York $25 4. Masachusetts $25 5. Nevada $25 6. Montana $24 7.. Colorado $24 8. Illinois $23 9. Ohio $22 10. Connecticutt $22 11. New Jersey $22 12. North Dakota $21 13. Arizona $21 14. Vermont $21 15. Oregon $21 16. Rhode Island $21 17. Wyoming $20 18. Utah $20 19. Minnesota $20 20. Idaho $20 21. New Hampshire $20 22. South Dakota $20 23. Iowa $20 24. Indiana $19 25. Michigan $18 26. Pennsylvania $18 27. Nebraska $18 28. Maine $17 29. Kansas $16 30. Wisconsin $15 THAT MOREHEAD CALL The more we come to think of it that call of Standpat Regular Repub lican State Chairman John Motlej Morehead for a convention of the rem nants of the Republican party th( more the wonder of it grows upon us. If it could be answered by a gathering of the forces he calls to meet in Ra leigh on August 20th what a curious gathering it would be. The invitation in the call is for the Republicans of the Lincoln-Grant-Garfield, McKinley-Roosevelt-Taft brand to assemble in convention. This would be an incongruous gathering, rather a motley crew, to say the least of it, if one will for a moment consider what elements of Republicanism would be gathered in in one convention. Let's consider it briefly. Lincoln and Grant were as unlike as it is possible for men to be. Garfield and McKinley were entirely dissimi lar. The world knows well what Taft says of Roosevelt and what Roosevelt says of Taft. These two could hardly be said to have purposes in common. This variety of contradictions invited by the Hon. John Motley to assemble is only equalled by the brew of the witches in Macbeth. In one of his re cent letters in this paper "Savoyard" applied the language of Shakespeare as to this witches brew to the Repub licans in the Senate and it fits in just here as to what a mixture there would be if the contradictory Republicar forces named in the Morehead call should be corralled, that description reading: "Fillet of a fenny snake In the caldron boil and bake, Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind worm's sting, Lizzard's leg and owlet's wing. For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell broth boil and bubble. Here's another thing along this line. It is a most noticeable thing, one to cause wonder if the reason were not at hand, that the call for a Republi can State Convention in North Caro lina is never made in the name of any of the representtive North Carolina men of that party. The Republicans never use names of local Republicans with which to conjure. It would seem that Charman Morehead might have added to his call the names of some of his party leaders in the state, some of those who were to the front in the dark days of reconstruction, and that he might have come down later and placed with his sextette at least the name of the last Republican Govern or, Russell, so as to say, "Behold, we Are Seven." But that's not the Republican party way, for the record at home is one it wishes to bury in the dead past. Dem ocracy is different. It appeals to the people of North Carolina in the name of its national, State and county lead ers. Will Chairman Morehead do as much? Democracy's strongest asset in North Carolina is the work of Vance and Scales and Fowle, of Jar vis and Carr, and Ayeock, of Glenn and Kitchin and Craig, in the State affairs. Not so with the Republicans. That party would of the record made by its leaders cry and cry, as did Macbeth, "Our damned spot. It is a party bereft of state names with which to conjure. How many men, indeed, would at tend a Republican State Convention if the call were boldly made in the name and oihcial record of the Republican party of North Carolina, called in the name of its reconstruction day lead ers, of its one Governor since then. Dan Russell; or of its last nominee for Governor, Tom Settle? The call of state chairman John Motley seems to have slipped a cog or two, and to have slipped some names. And we are not surprised that it did. With the Republicans it is "Let us forget and not that call to remember great services in "Lest We Forget." COLLEGE STUDENTS AND TY PHOID "Why don't you tell the college stu dents of the state about the anti-ty-L-oid treatment?", said a college president a few days ago. This is a Lrgood suggestion. This precaution uguuisi. vypnuiu is an me more urgent since statistics indicate that there is nearly always a rise in the typhoid fever rate when people return from vacations or to college in the fall. The thing for the college students to do, is to get immunized; that is to take the anti-typhoid treatment be fore going that he may be ready to enter unhandicapped when school opens. But if for any reason he should not be able to take the whole treat ment before school opens he should start now and finish after entering, whether the college offers the anti typhoid treatment free of cost to all its students or not. Colleges are now taking advantage of the btates free offer of the ty phoid vaccine and are arranging with the college physician to give the treatment free of charge to all the students not previously immunized. One large college that for a number of years has suffered from the rav age of typhoid, completely wiped it out last year by immunizing practic ally all the students. Other colleges will no doubt want to know they are safe and will look to the immunizing of their students before or immediate ly after the school opens. Pope Pius is confined to his room by illness, lhe doctor has ordered that all audiences by the Pope be suspend ed. 31. Missouri $14 32. Oklahoma $13 33. West Virginia $11 34. Delaware $11 35. Maryland $10 ib. Florida 37. New Mexico $8 38. Louisiana $7 :yj. lexas $7 41. Virginia $6 40. Kentuckey $7 4z. Arkansas 43. Tennessee , $6 44. Georgia ' $4 45. MlSSippi $4 46. Alabama $4 47. North Carolina 48. South Carolina $3 Charlotte Mews. FOR STATE-WIDE PRIMARY Hon. Josephus Daniels Has The Fol lowing Article in a Recent Issue of The News & Observer: "The next Legislature is committed to the State-wide primary. It ought fn o-.i fni-tVipr and include the coun ties. Nothing short of an up-to-date State-wide primary law win ao. Any thing else will put too much power in the hands of a few men, who make a profession of politics, and dominate their precincts and counties. No boss ever desired a primary. The people of North Carolina by a long and hard fight finally compelled the Democratic State Convention to adopt a plan for a state and district primary. The counties can demand that they be in cluded; they can select primary men for the Legislature. That is what I predict will be done. "The Progressives the Bull Moose party will favor a primary or go back on everything they have said since they came into existance. If there be any Republican counties in the state this year the men sent to the Legislature should be primary advocates. "No state that is progressive lacks a primary law. North Carolina is progressive, and should enact the leg islation proposed. "Snmo timid Dpmo'-rat 8 are uneasy about the primary, lest it hurt the nom.vfiti nartv in North Carolina. They have not studied what has been done in Mecklenburg, tne pioneer pri mary county in the state. Before the ni-imnw. mnfiirtinp Democratic fac tions kept that county in an upheaval charging crimes againsi xne Damn, and the Democratic majority was not laro-o Thp maioritv has steadily grown. Every voter there knows that his vote counts for just as much as any other man's vote. The poorest man in tVio onnntv has as much voice at the ballot box "as Chas. Tillett or Frank Osborne. If his candidate is not named he knows that he lacked votes. "Look at Haywood and Buncombe. Haywood was the first of the moun tain rnnntifs to admit, and tut in operation the primary. The Demo cratic majority mere nas grown. Buncombe county used to swing to one nnrv nr tho ntViur. Now it is Demo cratic. Take Guilford and Forsythe. and compare them. Guilford adopted the primary and Forsythe was afraid tn An if Hiiilfnrd in stronclv Dprao- cratic and Forsythe is often doubtful. Had Forsythe discarded the old sys tem and adopted the primary when Guilford did. it would be safely Demo cratic every election." ON THE JUMP Outline of One Week's Work .of .a Whole Time Health Officer. No county is so poor it can't af ford a health -officer and no county is so rich it can afford to be without one. The trouble with counties hav ing health officers is, they try to kill their health officer. They seem bent on working him to death. Here is a part of a personal letter from the Nash county health officer which shows how they appreciate health work there: I am still busy with my typhoid vaccination campaign. The past week was the busiest 1 have ever spent, 1 believe. I will mention some of the things that I did. On Monday I spent the day in the Mount Pleasant com munity trying to organize them so as to obtain the community work being done by the Rockefeller Commission. On Monday night I gave an illustrat ed lecture at Middlesex, 28 miles away, getting home at 2 o'clock the next morning. On Tuesday morning 1 spent the time preparing advertise ments for new dispensary points and on Tuesday evening I read a paper be fore the rourth District Medical So ciety at Tarboro. On Wednesday I held my dispensary at Middlesex and on Wednesday night gave an illustrat ed lecture at Momeyer. On Saturday morning I conducted the dispensary at Spring Hope, in the afternoon spoke at the joint annual meeting of the Juniors and Woodmen of the World, held at Rocky Cross, 19 miles away, On Thursday evening I had a dispen sary at Momeyer. rriday morning 1 conducted the dispensary at Rocky Mount and on rnday afternoon visit ed Red Oak to attend a meeting of the health committee of the commun ity. Today I am conducting a dispen sary at Nashville and hope to go to bharpsburg this evening." At these dispensaries the principal work consists in giving anti-typhoid trtitaent,in ezamining for hookworm and giving the treatment, in vaccinat ing against smallpox, lecturing on health matters and explaining details of sanitation, such as construction of sanitary privies, anti-malarial work, etc. Time never hangs heavy on their hands. It has been shown that if these health officers did nothing but wipe typhoid out of the state or greatly re duce it, which is an easy possibility now that we have the anti-typhod vaccne, they could save at least 1200 lives annually. These 1200 human lives valued at $1700 apiece would be $2,040,000 or over 400 times the cost of a good health officer for every county, tvery county should have a health officer. Does yours have one? RAILROAD EXPECTS PROS PERITY Few chapters of the country's econ omic history compare in interest with the growth of our railways both in mileage and mechanical equipment. And the advance is always going on The Pennsylvinia Railroad is about to change its 100-pound rails for still larger 120-pound rails. In addition it is ordering tremendous locomotives locomotives that will pull as much as sixty old-time locomotives pulled. Such plans mean only one thing. The Pennsylvania is a business proposi tion; It is not run for the purpose of speculation. And it knows that bust ness is going to be good, that it will justify the great orders for new equipment. It has learned the pre cept oi wr. morgan that "the man who is a bear on America will go broke." It looks as though real business con cerns were not dispressed by the out look. They are gtting ready for pros perity. Milwaukee Journal (Indepen dent Republican). ; Sickened by Calomel it con. onvnno marie sick bv calomel you won't want any more i 1 Tlmo'a nn noal rea- caiomei juuioch. . son why a person should take calomel anywav, when fifty cents will buy a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone a good remedy that perfectly and safely takes the place of dangerous calomel, which is only another form of deadly and poisonous mercury. i Tnno ia a nlpasant- iiuusuil a uiyci r--- . tasting vegetable liquid which will .u i:., jncf qi cnrolv as calo- siari uie nvci juo. j - mel, and which has absolutely no bad after-effects. Children and grown people can take Dodson's Liver Tone without any re striction of habit or diet. Asheboro Drug Company sell it and guarantee it to taKe tne piace oi caiunici,ouu refund your money if it fails in your case. OLD SAYINGS As poor as a churchmouse, As thin as a rail, As fat as a porpoise. As rough as a gale, As brave as a lion, As spry as a cat, As bright as a sixpence. As weak as a rat. 1 As proud as a peacock, As sly as a fox, As mad as a March hare, As strong as an ox, As fair as a lily, As empty as air, As rich as was Croesus, As cross as a bear. As pure as an angel, As neat as a pin, As smart as a steel trap, As ugly as sin, As dead as a door nail, As white as a sheet, As flat as a pancake, As red as a beet, As round as an apple, As black as your hat, j As brown as a berry, As blind as a bat, As mean as a miser, As full as a tick, As plump as a partidrge, As sharp as a stick, As clean as a penny, As dark as a pall. As hard as a millstone, As bitter as gall, As fine as a fiddle, As clear as a bell, As dry as a herring, As deep as a well. As light as a feather, As hard as a rock, As stiff as a poker, As calm as a clock, As green as a gosling, As brisk as a bee, And now let me stop. Lest you weary of me. Exchange. NORTH CAROLINA CROPS. North Carolina crops on August 1, according to the government report, were in a satisfactory condition, the principal ones being some above and some slightly below the five and ten- year averages. Corn, rye, hay, apples, peaches, wa termelons and cantaloupes were above the average, while oats, buckwheat, potatoes, both Irish and sweet, to bacco, cabbages, sorghum and pea nuts, were a little below the average. At present prices the indications are for a $41,000,000 crop of corn. $20,000,000 crop of tobacco. $6,000,000 crop of wheat. $1,500,000 crop of oats. $1,200,000 crop of Irish potatoes. $5,000,000 crop of sweet potatoes. $7,000,000 crop of hay. The conditions as to other crops are given as follows: Cabbages 68, ap- cantaloupes i'J, sorghum 80. Deanuts 83. No figures are given on these as to yield. With the exception of cab bages, these averages are higher than ior the United Mates as a whole. "Thp Tirnsnei-ilv fnr .. V,!.!, H, ,,.. try has waited since the Republican panic oi L-jvi is almost nere, and in our efforts a kind Providence smiles upon us. Crops were never better our granaries will soon be full to burst inf with oarnaiwvl vmin the elections are held this fall, in the pleasant Southland 30,000,000 acres Will be White with rnHnn n.ir i.M.Et exchange crop, the crop which brings neie Koiu irom an. tne rest of the world; when the elections are held this fall, nn i fiT linn ruin ; tt, colder north the ripening corn will be (usimiK in tne oreezes oi autumn. It is imnnssihln fnr Pannhl.Vn., for Republican journals, for Republi can uiupneis oi calamity and disaster tO StOn thp rising tillo nf nrnemintvi they cannot contend against the con- muons wnicn conrront them now ReDresent.ntivo Uonrv T ri'iu of iiunuis,, in congressional Kecord. HOW FRENCH PEOPLE CURE STOMACH TROUBLE A household remedy of the French ble oil, and said to possess wonderful merit in tha tnuiimnit nf atnmarVi liver and intestinal troubles, has been introduced in this country by ueorge H. Mayr, who for twenty years has husn nna nf k. luJUo ilnura in-arn druggists of Chicago and who himself 'o tuieu uy ilh use. oo quicK anu effective is its action that a single flnp IP ncuollv Anmicrh trt hri rt rr rrn- nounced relief in the most stubborn cases, and many people who have tri ed ii oeciare tney never nearu or any- 'J'inir to nrnrlncp snrh rcmni-lrotila w- suits in so short a time. It is known as mayr s Wonderful StomachRemedy and can now be had at almost any drug store. It is now sold here by Asneooro jjrug More. The United States government last Saturday announced itself as opposed io me noaung oi loans m uus count try for the benefit of a beligerant power in Europe. 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I Clean, Press and Repair. Ladies' Work a Specialty Asheboro Pressing & Tailoring Go. W. P. ROYSTER, Manager Phone 137. Next to Rexail Drug Store. READ THIS ! A new and complete line of TALCUM POWDERS In all the latest and most popular odors We call special attention to Violet Dulc and Rexall Violet which are recognized as the best all over the world. We have the Mary Garden Line as well as many others. This store is in charge of Mr. John S. East who will be glad to welcome all his friends to his new location. THEjSTANDARD DRUG CO. Have Your Clothes at Steam Pressing Club Phone No. 80. OPENING OF TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL The fall term of Trinity Public High School will open Monday, September 14. To all students living in the town ships of Trinity, New Market, Back Creek, Tabernacle, and Randleman, there will be no charge for tuition pro vided the student can enter the high school department. To others not in the special tax district tuition ranging from $1 to $2.50 will be charged.Board can be secured from $10 to $15 per month. Students who complete the high school course can enter the State Normal College without examination. The assistant teachers for the coming year are as folows: Primary depart ment, Mrs. Kate Norment, of Trinity; intermediate department, Miss Emma Hunter, Huntersville; assistant high school teacher, Miss Lula Rudisill, of Henry River. We earnestly intend to carry out the following three-fold policy in conduct ing the school: discipline, thorough ness of school work and the instilla tion of the fundamental principles of morality and religion into the minds of the students who attend school. For further information concerning the school address, D. C. Johnson, Principal, Trinity, N. C. Invades Your Home Gleaned and Pressed the TO MY DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS I wish to return my sincere thanks to all My good friends in Randolph who gave such leyal support in my recent contest for the nomination as clerk of tie court of the county. The fact that I was defeated only by a fraction of a vote is evidence of the faithfulness with which you stood by me in the race. For this I am deeply, grateful. I take this occasion also to pledge my hearty support, as in the past, to the entire Democratic ticket, and shall expect to see the usual safe Demo cratic majorities rolled up next No vember. Very truly yours, A. E. BURNS. August 18, 1914. The first American eggs for tho London market since the war troubles in Europe, were shipped on the steam er New York, of the American line one day this week. In the refrigera tor department were 86,000 dozen eggs for the London dealers. These eggs cost 25 cents a dozen here; con ditions were such in London that they went on cable orders. There were calls for more, but the steamer could not accomodate them. .