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THE COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY WM. O. HAMMER. EDITOR. A. W. CUNE, Associate Editor and Business Manager. .Asheboro, N. C, September 17, 1914. As the Charlotte Observer aptly says the Republican land slide has ended before it began. There will be no avalanche in the direction of Re publicanism this year. Wilson's in tellectual and moral character shines more brightly than ever before. . The Republican State Convention adopted a platform endorsing the splendid principles of Democracy State-wide primary; six months school and the proposed constitution al amendments submitted by the last General Assembly to the voters of the State. THE EUROPEAN WAR If ail good Americans will observe President Wilson's proclamation call ing upon Americans to refrain from war discussion and from expression of opinion on the subject, each person young and old, will help our govern ment to maintain its neutrality and fairness to all nations. The Courier will be neutral, taking no sides what ever in the everchanging conflict. Such real news as may come across the waters, we shall print, but shall endeavor to keep out of our columns all war news doctored to suit the taste of any certain country. a SOLID TRUTH The Wadesboro Ansonian, one of the State's best weeklies says most truthfully what ought to be said in both press and pulpit: "The man who can pay his bill and won't do it in a time like this, is a bad citizen. He is in a class with the fellow who expects to get higher pri ces and speculates on the misfortunes of the people. Every man who is able should do his part to help in a time like this. The brave men are not all soldiers, neither is the battlefield the only place where true patriotism is needed." A MESSAGE TO MEN The Iron Age. There are days when men are men. The craven hearted and sulking and falling back they are finding excuses for going to the rear they have no stomach for a fight they are licked. The real men of America are going about their affairs they have given up their vacations, they are on the firing line of big business, and their courage and patriotism are in evi dence every hour of the day. They are not lyng down they are standine un and they will maintain and improve our places in the sun of commerce and industry. The way to locate the real men of business these days is to listen to their talk and see how they act. The real business men have not pulled down the flag, they have not quit advertising; they have not called in thir salesmen; they have not locked the factory door. Yes, they have in many instances pulled the belt straps a little tighter They have perhaps curtailed a little here and there as they have mobilized their working and reserves and gain ed srreater efficiency thereby. But haul down the flag and lie down ? Never! ' L Let us look about. A nation with a hundred million people with an untrammeled working organization and the smallest per cap ita burden of military expense in the civilized world. The nation with the greatest internal trade and self contained in having practically every essential of life within its domain. The nation that has length, breadth and thickness in its resources, with its own coal, its own iron, its own grain, its own forests, its own cotton, and with absolute Ireedom 01 internal commerce. We have a flexible fiscal system that has made financial panic impossible The ingenuity of the American, al ways best displayed in a time of stress, will find a substitute for every needed article that enters into our daily life and which we formerly se cured from Europe. We will continue to buy from Eng land. France and Germany all the things that we need which they can send to us. We will sell to the world all the things that we grow and make which the rest of the world can buy from us. There are some men whose middle name is "Cancellation." They have run to cover after phon ing, wiring and writing the people they deal with to "fetop Everthing. " The quitter who stops his business campaign recklessly is the man who trades recklessly. He is the anti-con servative. He lacks poise and balance and he will be the first to go under when pressure comes. The trade routes of the world are being redrawn. The great continent to the south of us beckons and says: "We want you to take our hides, our cattle, our coffee, our rubber, and we will buy your textiles, your ma chinery, your shoes, your hardware your oil and all the other things that you make that we need." The machinery of distribution is the requirement of the moment and we are making rapid progress. The Panama Canal is open; cargo THE COST OF KINGS (By William Randolph Hearst, in New xork American.) The war in horrifying progress in Europe is, in reality, that most dread ful of all wars a civil war. It is a war between states which should be living in peace and amity in co-operative effort, in intellectual and material progress, and even in governmental accord," as "The United States of Europe." It is a war between a large propor tion of the civilized nations of the world in which human progress will be halted and civilization itself threat ened. It is a war in which the proportion of civilized human beings on the plan et will be greatly reduced, and the contribution to human progress of those innumerable units irretrievably lost. It is a war in which the accumulat ed treasures of centuries are being de stroyed, treasures not merely of mon ey, but of art and architecture which can never be replaced, and whose re fining and elevating and civilizing in fluence will forever be ended in this world. The disaster of this war, therefore, is not merely a local disaster. It is a world-wide disaster. It is a disaster to the civilization of which we Ameri cans are a part. It is a destruction of the heritage of civilization of which we Americans are part pos sessors. It means a diminution of the num ber, and a weakening of the power in the world of the white nation of the Occidental nations of which we are i. It means an assault upon the stan dards, the ideals, the conditions of life which have been the contribution of those Occidental nations to th civ ilization of the world which, indeed, have constituted the civilization of the modern world. It means a corresponding strength ening of Oriental alms, ideals and am bitions. It tends to make possible an eventual triumph of ideals and condi tions wholly foreign and offensive to our own. One nation allied with Orientals is actually importing Orientals into the scene of this conflict to show them how they may meet and possibly de- teat Occidentals in modern wartare a lesson which will be readily learned and ever remembered. Another nation is as recklessly de stroying priceless heirlooms of art and architecture to penalize a prostrate toe, without consideration of the mes timable loss it is inflicting upon the whole civilized community of which its own people are a part. No one nation is to be blamed more than another for these illimitable dan gers and disasters, but all are to be condemned for having invited and in stituted so cruel and fearful a conflict, In the judgment of prosperity surely all will he held responsible for the in finite injury of this war, recklessly and and unreasonably inflicted upon humanity and upon human progress But, while the nations engaged in this internicine struggle will be, and must justly be held responsible for the endless disaster incurred, the peo pie themselves of the several nations can hardly be held responsible. ine war is indeed convincing and distressing proof that the veneer of civilization lies but thinly upon all so-called beings, that civilization her Keif sits but insecurely upon her throne, liable at any time to rade di placement by original savagery. Yet the people themselves under strictly modern forms of government, would probably never have become in volved in this war. The war is attributable to the sur vival in Europe of Mediaeval institu tions long outgrown by modern socie ty, to the prosecution of imperial pol icies in the selfish interest 01 greedy hereditary dynasties. It is a war of the Middle Ages, causd by those conditions of the Mid dle Ages, monarchic and aristocratic, which still persists in Europe and as long as they persist will repress popu lar development and dominate popu lar sentiment. This is a war of kings, brought on by the assassination of a king's neph ew, who is of no more importance to modern society than the nephew of any other individual, citizen or sub ject, in all Europe. Born of mediaeval misconception of the importance of royalty, this war has speedily become a war of inherit ed mediaeval traditions, of imperial greed and glory. But the glory of war is fading fast. The people of the world are no longer children who delight in destruction and exalt the destroyers. In the histories of more enlightened ages, the rulers responsible for this war will not be described as heroes, but as homicidal maniacs, as traitors to the sacred trust solemnly imposed upon them to promote the happiness and protect the lives of their people. mere is no glory in murder and robbery, and war is but organized, authorized piracy and manslaughter. Jo country points with pride to a citizen who shoots down another in the heat of hatred or in a passion of jealousy. Jo country exalts as a hero the man who holds up another at the muz zle of a gun and takes his watch and pocketbook from him as "indemnity. No country applauds and approves the man who hides in the night and from mean motives of revenge de stroys a tenement with a bomb, killing and maiming innocent women and children. In, modern society, men such as these are regarded as criminals and punished for their crimes by impris onment or execution. A crime is not modified by its magnitude. If a man who shoots another is a murderer, the rulers who cause the shooting of a million men are a mil lion times more guilty murderers. If a man who robs another of a few dollars by force of arms is a thief, the ruler who robs cities and nations of millions in money by force of arms is exactly that much greater a thief, If a man who destroys a tenement and endangers the lives therein is a criminal, the rulers who wantonly de stroy cities, the priceless treasures of cities, and the lives of unoffending cit izens to satisfy a savage revenge, are a thousand times greater criminals. If th smtll criminal is to be punish ed by imprisonment or execution, then surely the fitting place for the greater criminal is not a place of a throne but prison cell or a scaffold. Is this anarchy? No, it is abstract justice, seldom seen, and therefore seldom recogniz ed. We all deplore anarchy. Then let us deplore the things which make for anarchy. We all denounce the anarchist who kills a king. Then let us equally de nounce the royal anarchists who in cold blood and in snug safety murder a million I el low men entrusted to their protecting care. Time will be when society will in clude nations within its organization, when united natives will patrol the seas in the interest of peace, and unit ed armies will police the land. Then any ruler who disturbs the peace will be arrested and jailed, and any king "By the Grace of God" who commits, inspires or instigates murder will be duly and properly hanged. Heaven speed that happy day. ships of great capacity are passing through the great waterway. The west coast of South America is at our doors. The wheat of California, the lumber of Oregon, have a new pathway to the Atlantic. The greatest blessing that civiliza tion has known in a decade comes to us in the year that brings to Europe its saddest blow. We deplore the war the greatest cataclysm created by man that the world has known. For this is a man made war and as men started it, so will men end it. Where do we stand ? We have goods to sell and compe tition largely eliminated. The gods of war have given us a large monopoly of the surplus of the needed things of life. We will put idle men to work in vo cations where there will be a new demand for what we can make that peaceful nations want. We will advertise to the world that American men are going to prove in this year of years that the American type of civilization is triumphant. The American nation now has the opportunity to prove its position as the world power not the power of armed might, but the Power of Peace. The advertisement of a business is the outward visible sign that it is alive. When the advertising flag disap pears he who hauls it down admits that he was a merchant of yesterday. We are dealing with men of today and tomorrow. The American men of today who see the true trend of things are mob ilizing for a great forward movement a movement that is fraught with great opportunities and great victo ries, and our victory will be just as great as we desire to have it, for the nations of the world are all our friends and even though Europe fights with the right hand, we will erasn the left and prove our position as the friend of all and the enemy of none. Join with us in this new conquest of the world, that we may be acclaim ed the real victors when the war is over victors through the Arts of Peace. This is the time for Commercial Courage and not for Commercial Cowardice. WHAT IT COSTS TO KILL A MAN By General Percin, of the French Ar my. Condensed translation of an article in La Science at la Vie. The cost of killing a man is obtain ed by dividing the total cost of a war to any of the belligerents by the num ber of men killed on the other side. In 1870-71 France spent $400,000, 000 in the actual expenses of the war. Reparing materials and giving succor to the victims of the war, expenses that are justly to be added, cost an other $200,000,000. France paid $1, 000,000,000 as war indemnity, plus another $400,000,000 in interest on the sum, loss of revenue, forced contribu tions by the enemy and upkeep of the German army of occupation. This CatelTOrV Of CXnenRPS nnt. hoinrr inouif. ouie m an wars cannot properly be included. On a similar ha sis hero mni facts about other wars: Kusso-Turkish War (1877-1878) Turkey, $400,000,000. Kussia-Japanese War 1877-1878) Russia, $1,200,000. The number of men killed or who died of wounds in these wars were: Franco-Prussian War Germans, zs.euu. Russo-Turkish War Russians, 16, ouu. Russo-Japanese War Japanese 58.600. Whence it results that the cost cost oi Killing each man was as follows In 1870-1871, $21,000. In 1877-1878, $15,000. In l!)0.r,. S2(V4ftfV What will kill the greatest number and reduce the effective force -most will not be the rifle or cannon, but fatigue, typhus or cholera. In 1870. 880.000 Hormone cfor the hospials. Although they did not die of their illnesses they were none tne less made useless for a certain time. In the Crmean War the allied armies lost four times as many men through disease as were killed in bat tle This nmnnrfinn wog 9 in 1 .mni the Russians in 1877-1878; it was only 1 to z among tne Japanese in Man churia, thanks to their excellent hy giene. : Are You Looking Forward - Towards Buying a Home? 1 Have Bargains in Farm and Town Property, Improved and Unimproved. FOR SALE AT A BAR GAIN 105 acres more or less, with good 6-room house, good barn, smokehouse, crib, &C 35 acres very good soil in cultivation, of which 4'i acres is bottom land, 70 acres in woods, good timber, farm well watered, 3 miles from Ramseur, N. C, post office on new sand and clay road. A BARGAIN. Cash or Terms. FOR SALE AT BAR GAIN 95 Vz acres, good house, barn, crib, smoke house, etc l'j n"1 from Ramseur, N. C. po.t office. Farm situated on Deep River 35 acres fine, rich soil ready for cultivation.about 12 acres bottom land, CO acres wood, no timber, well, springs creeks and river, unusually well watered. Terms to suit. FOR SALE in Coleridge Ridge township, 9'j miles from Ramseur, N. C. p. o., and 1 1-2 miles from Cole ridge p. o. 75 acres more or or less, on good sand clay road, 25 acres in cultiva tion, 50 acres woods, no tim ber, 2 story 7 room house, halls and porches, barn and outhouses, well, spring, creek Cheap For Cash. One 1-story 6-room cottage in the heart of Ramseur, Main Street, fronts east, ce ment sidewalk, near post oflice.school, churches,screen ed summer porch on west side, nice front porch, fine 75x325 lot north front, well, barn an outhouses. This house is in fine condition in side, and surrounded by the best of neighbors. $1,200.00 takes it. Terms, one half cash, balance 1 and 2 years, 6 per cent interest. One 2-story residence (frame), 6 rooms, halls up and down stairs, porches front and back, barn and out houses, one half acre lot, ma jestic trees, also fruit trees, Campany well on adjoining lot, fronting west on main St. (sand clay road) in Ramseur (Brooklyn) N. C., 5 minutes walk from post office, good neighborhood and fine neigh bors.. This hous is situated where the growth of Ram seur will soon make itself felt. If you have an eye to business this is your chance. First money takes it. $800 one-fourth down, balance in 1, 2, and 3 years, 6 per cent interest. The Last But Not the Least A 10-room one and a half story brand new resi dence and two and one-half acres of ground in south Ramseur (Brooklyn). .The coming to the front part of tamseur. Now, Mr, if your name is "Wise" you will in-, vestigate as this is an ideal locaton for a home and a nice one. .$1200 takes it. Don't all speak at once. FOR SALE BY VILLERE REAL ESTATE Local and Long Distant Phone RAMSEUR, N. C. She is Growing. Miss Eugenia Tysor Announces her Fall and Winter MILLINERY OPENING FRIDA Y and SA TURD A Y SEPTEMBER. 18-19 A CordttI Invitation to All iv KNO KM 1 1 aw ft ' . " m m Mm. mm They have style, finish and durability. We have put a little more than seemed necessary into the ROCK HILL BUGGY in material, workmanship and the latedl improved manufacturing ideas with much attention paid to the little that go so far to insure buggy satisfaction and long service. For Sale by McCrary-Redding Hardware Co. Asheboro, N. C. HEALTH LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA ' Attention is called to the following act of the General assembly of 1913: Section 4460 (a) : Any householder in whose family there is to his knowl edge a person sick with cholera or ty phoid fever who shall permit the bow el discharges of such person to be emptied without first having disinfect ed them according to instructions to be obtained from the attending physi cian or the county superintendent of health, shall be guilty of a misde meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be lined not less than two dol lars nor more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than thirty days; and in case where such discharges are emp tied on the watershed of any stream or pond furnishing the source of water supply for any public institution, city or town, the penalty shall be a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars or imprison ment for not more than thirty days, and any physician attending a case of cholera or typhoid fever who refuses or neglects to give the proper instruc tions for such disinfection as soon as the diagnosis is made shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Your eyes shall look upon a face Calm in eternal sleep: The speechless lips, the wrinkled brow The patient smile shall snow You are too young to know it now! But some time you shall know! Look backward, then, into the years, You see me here tonight- See, O my darling, how my tears Are falling as I write; And feel once more upon your brow The kiss of long ago You are too young to know it now I But some time you shall know. Eugene Field. A SURE PREVENTIVE FOR HOG CHOLERA SOME TIME Last night, my darling, as you slept, I thought I heard you sigh, And to your little crib I crept, And watched a space thercbv: And then I stooped and kissed your Drow For oh! I love you so You are too young to know it now, But some time you shall know. Some time, when, in a darkened place wnere otners come to weep, SCHOOL DAYS The Rexall Drug Store invites the school children of Randolph county to visit their store and see the great assortment of school supplies they have in stock. Almost every thing you will need in the school room can . be found here-Table ts, Erasers, Crayons, Pens, Pencils. Lunch Boxes, etc, School supplies are but a small part of the large &ock we carry, which includes any and everything in a complete Drug Store. Let us fill your prscriptions. They will be filled carefully and accurately by a man that knows how. Our Fountain is the cleanest, coolest place in Asheboro and you get the be& Drinks and Iceshere. Agents for Mary Garden Candies and Rex all Fountain Pen. We will appreciate your business. THE REXALLDRUG STORE The North Carolina Department of Agriculture has for the past three years prepared and distributed to the farmers of this state anti-hog cholera serum at cost of production. This serum is used as a preventa tive for hog cholera, and if injected before the hogs show any si ens of cholera, it will prevent them from de veloping a case of cholera, even if they are exposed. It is not claimed for this serum that it wil cure a case of cholera, as it is a preventative and not a curatve measure. We begun the preparation of this serum in a very limited way and have found that it has met with uniformly good results. The demand for it has continued until it was impossible to meet the demands at the plant where we first begun the work. In order to be in position - to meet all demands made by the farmers of the state for the germ, we have built and equipped a large new serum plant which will be used exclusively for preparing anti hog cholera serum. For full information and directions for using this serum, apply to the North Carolina Department of Agri culture, Raleigh, N. C. B. B. FLOWE, Director Veterinary Division. PROFITABLE FARMING In Order to Make Farming Profitable Eliminate the Middleman ana1 v Parasites. J. Z. Green in Progressive Fanner. Home and Farm says: "There is one common-sense proposition that ought always to be injected into ev ery debate carried on by philanthrop ists, teachers, reformers, uplifters, politicians and statesman who are dis cussing the lamentable conditions in our rural regions, in advancing the ories concerning the cause and the re medy. This proposition is that farm ing must be made more profitable; that is, that the American fanner, if he is to be kept at work on the farm, must get a larger proportion of all crops." "Farming must be made more pro fitable!" Thats the idea I have been hammering on from one end of North Carolina to the other for six years. If you'll stop interfering with the far mers' profits you'll coon begin to see a transformation taking place in the rural districts. If you'll simplify and correctly adjust marketing conditions 8Das t0 elimnate parasites and sup erfluous middlemen that stand be tween producer and consumer, you'll increase the size of ' the farmer's dol lar until he can begin to provide bet ter home conveniences and keep his buildings painted. If you will protect the farmer against Imposition of city markets, by commission merchants, by commercial trusts and by trans portation companies he will put car pets on his floors, and pianos in his home, and make his general home surroundings more attractive, if you will give, him as much credit, and as easy credit, and the same rate for in terest the city man pays, he will not be compelled to buy his fertilizers at a "time" price that is equivalent to 20 or 30 per cent interest All of your 'uplifting" will continue to be pain fully disappointing If you neglect to look after the things that interfere with the farmer's profit, 'yf' aatica. Its. It to and era.
The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.)
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