GOV CRAIG ATSTATESViLLE
MENTS AT LENGTH MAKES A
GREAT SPEECH AT STATES
V 1LLE.
cA aig Denocratic barbecue at
Statesvil e last Friday Governor
Craig delivered the following address
on the Constitutional Amendments:
Only One Contest.
'There seems to be no contest about
any of the amendments except the
amendment relating to revenue and
taxation The opposition to: this
seeems to be disappearing as it is
more thoroughly understood.
"Our present system of taxation is
,,ni ucc" aie to raise
of the " f ? 10 meel tne expenses
or the state government, although
taxes are high-too high. We have
been forced to issue bonds to cover
dencit. that have arisen from year to
The System at Fault.
"The fault is not in the officials who
have administered the law, but in the
system. It has failed to raise suffi
cient revenue and in its operation it is
grievously unjust. The average man,
the ordinary citizen, pays his just pro
portion of taxes; some of the wealthi-
w wusscs (10 not. lneiustrv as a co.
eral
il rule pays its part, but a great
ount of intangible property is con-
am
iiaitu ami escapes. Injustices and
inequity everywhere .prevail. Everv
thoughtful man knows that these are
facts, and can cite illustrations of out
rageous wrongs and discriminations
and evasion of civic obligations.
. 'The demand for reform in taxation
is, and has been universal and imper-
,e' i , ,my inauP''aI address I
made the following statement:
The Wealthy Escape
" 'The personal property of the av
erage man cannot be concealed. The
securities of the wealthy can be con
cealed. The poor pay this tax. The
wealthy escapes. If we could segre
gate property and provide that the
property in each community should
bear the governmental expense of that
community and that property of a
general character should meet the re
quirements of the state, the tempta
tion to depreciation would be greatly
lessened, and the effort to conceal less
successful. This is the essence and
the strength of local self-government,
the taxation of each community by its
own people, for its own purposes and
benefits. The unit should be no larger
than is necessary to secure the advan
tages of co-operation. The applica
tion of this principle has enabled our
cities and towns and many of our ru
ral communities to enjoy the advan
tages of improvement and progress.
We must eventually resort to this
principle of local self-government for
the highest development of local in
stitutions. We must resort to this to
obtain the best roads, and the best
" ""'s, and electric lights, and pure
and the opportunities of mod
. To realize the full measure
.ne blessing of this beneticient prin
ciple we need an amendment to our
Constitution. The formation and the
submission of such an amendment to
the people would be the supreme work
of this General Assembly. Such an
amendment would be of mighty signif
icance in the life of the state. I be
lieve that it could be framed to result
in her enduring welfare.'
"I do not claim originality for this
idea. It had been discussed and en
dorsed in various forms by civic
hoards, by many newspapers, by meet
ings of county commissioners-and by
the farmers of the state.
The Imperative Demand.
"Paring the session of the General
Assembly of 101.'!, it seemed to be the
unanimous opinion of the members
that mo itnt'on should be
amended, especially the sect'on pro-
.ui"n ;or revenue. I ti'uKcd vitii most
of the I'V-islators, there wr.s no dis
sent. The present corporation com
mission, and the former corporation
commission were emphatic in the con
viction that an am-n-hnent of the
revenue section of the Constitution
was imperatively demanded.
'bills were introduced in the Gen
eral Assembly of I'H.'J embodying the
proposed amendment. A commisf ion
composed ot twenty of the ablest men
in the stale was created to consider
these bills and report to the adjourn
ed session of the General Assemb'v.
It was generally recognized that tlie
tax amendment was the most impor
tant. This amendment pending before
the General Assembly, before the con
stitutional commission, before the
people cf North Carolina from March
until September, 191.",. The Constitu
tional commission held metings in
various pa,rts of the state. The com
mision was favored in the discussion
of this question by the very ablest
men from this and other states. The
amendment was discussed in the press
of the state. During all this time not
a single objection, so far as I know,
"was made to tHe commission against
any essential feature of this tax
amendment. In its present form it
was adopted unanimously by the com
mission after patient and thorough
consideration, and recommended to
the General Assembly. With but one
or two dissenting votes, the General
Assembly approved it ,and submitted
.it to the people for ratification.
Should Have Spoken Before.
"This amendment is of supreme im
portance to the people of the state.
If any man in North Carolina had any
objection to this measure he should
nave spoken to the commission and to
' the General Assembly that they and
the people of the state might have
had the benefit of his views. That was
the time to speak. (
. "If any citize.i of North Carolina
now believes that this amendment
would not be for the welfare of the
state, it is certainlis privilege nnH
bis duty to oppose it, but it is -unfor-v
timate if there be such an one, that
SCORE ONE MORE FOR WILSON
Colorado with all its state officers
and militia failed to control the coal
strike in that state.
Pillage, rebellion and bloody butch
eries of women and children disgraced
the state. Capital defied organized
labor with a resort to arms, and labor
defended its contention in the same
way.
The state appealed to the United
States War Department and regular
army soldiers prevented further
bloodshed and held both sides in j
sulen truce.
Finally, the President, in his won
derfully wise way, proposed a plan of
peace ana work.
The plan provided that union and
non-union men should go to work in
the mines on equal terms, to work
side by side. That none should be
blacklisted and that all future differ
ences should be submitted for settle
ment to President Wilson.
All agreed to this plan proposed by
the peace-maker of the world, and the
oenencient noise of industry will soon
resound through the mountains and
vaneys of Southern Colorado.
Wilson has earned the enviable ti
tle of the "President of Peace," and
the "Friend of the People." Chey
enne (Wyo.) State Leader.
Paint the poultry house outside and
whitewash it often inside.
he should have waited until no error
could be corrected, until after the
amendment had been submitted to the
people to be accepted or rejected in
its present form, to make his objec
tions known. I fear that there are
certain large interests in the state
that have become nervous as to the
effect upon them of the proposed
measures, but I do not. helievo ti,e
their fears are justified.
The State Would Suffer. .
"If this amendment should he vnteil
down, the state must suffer- for years
to come on account of an unjust and
vicious system of taxation. The pros
perity and the development of the
state must not be impeded for lack of
necessary legislation. Many of us are
nrm in tne conviction that the pro
posed amendment would be of im
mense advantage to all the people,
and to our industrial and moral de
velopment. Power Back to People.
"The amendment does 7iot fm-mn.
j late a system of taxation. It removes
11 om tae constitution the restriction
upon the power of the General Assem
bly placed there by reconstruction.
It restores to the General Assembly
no representatives of the npnnV
the power that should never have been
taken from them the power to for
mulate a just system of taxation re
sponsive to the demands of progress.
'I his amendment does not write a
revenue act. It removes from the
constitution the restrictions nl.n-pd
there half a century ago bv a consti
tutional convention that did not un
derstand the genius of our people,
that declared our country in a state
of rebellion, that was not willing to
trust the representatives of our peo
ple. The amendment would restore to
the General Assembly the power to
make for the people of the state a
just and efficient revenue law. It
should have been adopted long ago.
Would Lower the Rate.
"Its purpose is not to raise the rate
of taxation, but to lower the rate of
taxation. Its purpose and effect would
be not to compel the average citizen
to pay more taxes, but to compel prop
erty now concealed to pay its just pro
portion of taxes. Its larger purpose
is 10 enaDie each comunity to ad
minister its own affairs, to levy its
own taxes, to make its own improve
ment.-., and to realize the lull benefit
i lui-ai MMi-Kovernment. llus, v.e
believe would result in a prosper!
and a progress that is n w denied.
ine only objection to this amend
ment is the tear that the Genera!
Assembly ar-shi be unwise and un
just. There are interests in the state
that fear to trust
.'.e repieseiv.ativeh
ot the people.
Siuh fears cannot b
justified. Never yet ha
I.et'is
Hire in this state enacted
just to our larger iiivmcial or indus
tripi interests. Some have strenuously
contended thr.t Legislatures have
been unduly considerate of the laieri
interests 0f or?ani::ed wealth, but no
man can point to a 'single statute i:1
North Carolina that was enacted in
a spirit 01 injustice or class hatred to
the rich. The .-l.-ation ea"'iot be
made with truth again.-t o;rr General
Assemblies of Vp prst. Thr.e j3 no
reason to fear the f-:tur.
"It was the Inst Genera! Ass- mb'v
that fixed intrastate fiviirht rates and
impropriated ten thousand dollars of
the people's money to have these rates
thoroughly considered to P-na-.l
against the commission of anv wronis
to the railroads. This is now, and has
been, the spirit of North Carolina
legislatures.
Fairness is Demanded.
"The people demand fairness and
only fairness for all the rich and. poor
alike. They will tolerate noth'nc else.
Some would prefer that the honest
people of the state should continue to
suffer, that the development of the
state should be hampered by a sys
tern proven by experience to be wrong
and inefficient, for fear that the Gen
eral Assembly of North Carolina
might be controlled by unjust and vi
cious motives.
'The constitutional commission that
prepared these amendments was com
posed of men noted for ability and
patriotism. The deliberations of this
commission were characterized bv
thoughtful patience and an earnest de
sire to serve the people of the state.
The amendments come to us with the
endorsement of this commission. They
come to us with the endorsement of
the General Assembly. They come to
us witn the endorsement of the press
of the state. They come to us with
tne endorsement of all the Farmers'
Unions of the state. I hone nnH h.
lieve that they will be adopted by the
peopie 01 morxn Carolina.
"B U Y-A-B A L E" CLUBS FOR
SCHOOL TEACHERS, PUPILS.
ETC.
Mr. Joyner Sets Forth Plans and
Urges that Teachers, Pupils and
County Superintendents Adopt
Them.
To Superintendents of Schools, teach
ers, and school children:
On account of the disturbance of the
world's markets and the consequent
depression of the price of cotton by
the deplorable European war, the far
mers of the state and the South are
seriously threatened with the loss of
millions of dollars and with demorali
zation of business in all lines by the
forced sales, under financial distress,
of the South's chief money crop, cot
ton, at prices less than the cost of its
production and less than its intrinsic
value. To avoid this threatened dis
aster to the agricultural and other
business interests of the state, a co
operative movements, participated in
by patrioMc citizens in all parts of the
state, and of South, of all classes, vo
cations and professions, has been
started o help the farmers protect
themselves and all the rest of us by
helping them to store and hoW their
cotton, by aiding in providing the
money to take distress-cotton off the
market until normal conditions can be
restored.
No class of citizens are more patri
otic or more ready to respond accord
ing to their ability to any call of pub
lic service in any hour of public need
than are the teachers and other edu
cational workers of this state. In
times of need the schools should al
ways be the rallying places for civic
ervice, teachers should always be
among the trusted leaders thereof,
and, for their training and blessing
the children should always be enlisted
therein.
As Superintendent of Public In
struction, therefore, I confidently call
upon teachers, superintendents of
schools and all other educational
workers for their active aid and loyal
support of the "Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton
Movement" for mutual protection
against threatened disaster in this
hour of common need.
I beg to suggest and to recommend
the following plans for helping:
1. Buy-a-Bale Clubs for Teachers:
Let every teacher and every superin
tendent of schools that can possibly
afford it, buy a bale of cotton at ten
cents a pound and hold it. Let the
county and city superintendents pre
sent the matter to their teachers in
their teachers' meeting and country
teachers' associations, and form teach
ers clubs of two or more to buy a
bale of cotton at ten cents a pound and
store it. When cotton reaches ten
cents it should be purchased at half
cent above the market price and held.
Buy-a-Uale Clubs for Children:
A tine lesson can be taught in thrift
ind economy, as well as in public ser
vice, by having the children of each
school, or the children of each teach
er in each school, to invest their own
money in their own bale of cotton at
ten cents a pound, or a half cent above
the market if the market price is ten
cents or over, to be held, and, when
sold, the proceeds thereof to be re
turned to the children themselves, ac
cording to the amount invested by
each child. Where this plan is adopt
ed a certified list of names of the
children investing, with the amounts
invested by each in the bale of cotton
purchased, should be deposited imme
diately after the purchase, with the
bank in which the deposit of the pro
ceeds of the sale of the cotton is to be
made. When the cotton is sold the
fund arising from the sale should be
deposited in the bank to the credit of
the teacher of the school district, in
trust, lor the investing children, as
each child's interest shall appear from
the certified list in the banker's hands.
The fund being to the credit of the
teacher ot the district, instead of any
individual teacher, in trust for the in
dividual child, will be subject to the
check of the teacher, as trustee, for
each child according to his interests
ii-espectivf of any changes in individ
ual teachers. At the proper tinit eueh
chin! can. in this urn. ileieiini.,..
disposition l.c desires to have made of
his part, ami can be cm ouraged to
use his part 01 the proceeds tj start
tor li'.mseil a .i'jiari.te savings uc
count.
:J. Cuy-a-I'ale Day: Let the eoun
ly superintendent set apart the carii
ei purine i;;y after the opening of
tne public schools of his county as
l'Uy-a-l.ale-ol-C'otton Day in every
public school; call a meeting of all
the people- at the public .school house
at -i.-.U o'clock in the afternoon on
that day for the purpose of raising
the money to buy a bale of cotton at
ten cents a pound and hold it for the
School. Let him cive nntire of this
meeting through the countv press, in
struct the teacher in charge of each
school to give notice through the chil
dren to the parents of the school and
to enlist the children in the campaign
for raising the money to buy at least
one bale of cotton, urging them to
contribute, and, to get their parents to
come to tne meeting and contribute.
Let the superintendent enlist also, the
active co-operation of the school com
mitteemen, the Woman's Betterment
Asociations, the Women's Clubs, the
Farmers' Union, and other organiza
tions in the various school districts.
With the funds raised let this bale of
cotton be purchased through the
school committee or through some
other committee designated bv the
meeting. Wherever possible it should
be a bale of cotton raised in the school
district, and where it can be done, it
should be purchased at ten cents a
pound or half a cent above the market
if ' the market price is ten cents,
through the organized channels for
purchasing distress-cotton and hold
ing it, or where a distress-bale is forc
ed on the market in the community it
should be purchased by the committee
at the market price and stored and
held. It should be stored either in the
nearest storaga warehouse, or, in ru
ral districts with no convenient storing-warehouse
near, some member of
the school committee or some other
reliable farmer in the district would
prebably be willing to store it, giving
a receipt for it When sold the funds
might be placed in the hands if the
SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 13. An aggres
sive movement to bring about a re
duction of next year's cotton acreage
through special legislation of cotton
belt legislatures was started in Tex-
as the week beginning October 5 by
leading members of the Southern Cot
ton Asociation, which has recently
been reorganized, and througn tne
present movement intends to repeat
its success of 1905.
The campaign was started in Texas
Monday when Harvie Jordan, of At
lanta, president of the association,
former Governor Noel, of Mississippi,
Walter Clark, of Mississippi: John L,
Hebron, of Jackson, Miss., and John
H. Sherrard, of SheTrard, Miss., be
gan a tour of the state.
Ihey were scheduled to hold mass
meetings at McKinney, Sherman, Dal
las, Fort. Worth, Waxahachie, Taylor,
Paris, Marshal, Henderson, Temple,
Waco, Corsicana, and other points.
Delegations from these points will lat
er appear before Gorevrnor Colquit
and the Texas legislature and urge
that the substance of resolutions
which appear below be enacted into
law.
The Texas campaign will be dupli
cated in every other Southern state,
The association believes that only
through legislation can the acreage be
reduced. The next state to be visited.
will be South Carolina, the plan be
ing to work east and west through the
belt.
The resolutions upon which legisla
tion will be based, were adopted by
the convention of the Southern Cotton
Association at New Orleans on Sep
tember 29-30. They are as follows:
RESOLUTIONS
Whereas, The boll wevil, wilt and
other pests and diseases have for
many years been destructive to the
cotton crop in large portions of the
cotton producing states and their con
tinuous spread now menaces the whole
area devoted to the cultivation of cot
ton,
Whereas, Owing to the diminished
demand for cotton and the increased
requirements for food stuffs caused
by the European war, the planting of
cotton for the' year 1915 can be
largely reduced or entirely eliminated
without imposing undue hardships on
the cotton growers or extraordinary
burdens on cotton consumers, and
Whereas, There is imperative ne
cessity for early drastic action to de
stroy the boll wevil and other cotton
pests, and
Whereas, Great benefits will be de
rived by the substitution of other
crops for cotton during the year llU'i,
thereby reducing the cost of living,
bringing to farmers the advantages
and benefits of crop diversification and
restoring wornout lands to their form
er state of fertility besides greatly
enhancing the value of the cottoncrop
of 1914 by establishing an equilibri
um between supply and demand,
There, Be It Resolved, That it is
the sense of this convention that it
would be greatly to the interest of the
cotton growers as well as of every
commercial, agricultural and indus
trial interest not only of the South,
but of the whole country that the
planting of cotton be entirely elimin
ated or reduced to the minimum dur
ing the year 1915.
Be It Further Resolved, That for
purpose the growers of cotton, bank
ers, merchants and other allied inter
ests in each county, including Farm
ers' Union and the Southern Cotton
Congress be requested to meet and
organize at once (if no such organi
zation exists) in order to give imme
diate consideration to the foregoing
resolution and especially for the pur
pose of signing binding pledges to
reduce their respective planting of
cotton HO (FIFTY) per cent or more,
to pledge themselves to omit the
planting therof entirely for the year
1915.
Re It Further Resolved, That, in
order to insure that no cotton be
planted, or net more than 50 (FIFTY)
per cent during the year 1915, the
said associations and organizations
request the Governors of the various
cotton states to convene the legisla
tures for the purpose of passing uni
form laws prohibiting the planting of
cotton, or of reducing the acreage to
such a point ns to eliminate all fu
ture damage from boll weevils and
other cotton pests as well as to ac
complish the many desirable results
above enemerated.
Be It Further Rusolved, That this
convention recommend and advise all
cotton producers, Dangers ana mer
chants to co-operate in withholding
from sale as much cotton as possible
until it can be sold at a price that
will give a fair return to the produc
er, - "
Be It Further Resolved, That these
resolutions, as well as proceedings of
all meetings or associations and or
ganizations held in connection there
with be given the widest publicity by
the Press of the whole country.
A new match bov is nmviAoA t,-itv.
a shield to protect lighted matches
irum wind.
county treasurer to the credit of the
school and paid out upon the voucher
me oui'iui cuminiuee lor sucn pur
noses of cehnnl imri.nmn.. it. u
be recommended by the teacher, the
committee, the school betterment as
sociation, or othr organization for
scnoi improvement in the school dis
tnc,t; Jn this a tw-fold service
could be rendered by 'one act a need
ed service to the farmers and to all
the business interests of the South,
a valuable service' to the community
school.
4. Let superintendents, -teachers,
and other school officials co-onernte
with all others in their community for
tne encouragement and advancement
of the "Buy-a-Bale-of-Cotton move
ment, and of all other proper means
for the protection of the farmers and
eneir interests in this crisis. Let
them permit and encourage the use
of the school building for community
meetings in the interest of such
movements.
. Yours very truly,
J. Y. JOYNER,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction.
TO CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY
Governor Locke Craig has issued
his proclamation setting forth the 3rd,
4th and 6th days or uecemDer as
Community Service Days, and calling
upon all the people of the State to
observe them, in acordance with tne
outline set forth.
The observance of these days in
this community service work is em
inently worth while. There has been
some of this work done in the cities,
inspired by the activities of the Civ
ic Leagues and other societies, but
there are few country communities
that have organizations to
promote these betterments, and our
people have thought little about them.
Our people as a rule have very little
civic pride, and they take very little
thought of the simple laws of sanita
tion. The first day, Thursday, is set
apart as "Public Roads, Grounds, and
Buildings Day." This day may be
observed just as the Governor indicat
ed, but there is another feature that
I would like to emphasize in connec
tion with the work of this day, and
that is the cleaning up of the home
grounds. There are many, many
homes that have not had a geniuine
cleaning in years. I do not mean so
much the inside of the houses as the
outside and the yard and grounds im
mediately surounding the house. I do
not say what I am about to say with
any incriminating motive, but simply
call attention to it as a fact. There
are many home grounds that are pil
ed with all sorts of rubbish and junk
of all sorts, and even weeds growing
with utter .abandon. I have seen in
almost every county in the state piles
of lumber, old half rotten stuff, piles
of rocks and brickbats, old wagons,
broken down buggies, and old farm
machinery scattered all around the
house, even in what should be the
front yard, junk is exceedingly un
becoming there. It is even vulgar. In
the busy life of the farmer he lays
this thing and that down and feels
that he has not the time to remove it.
Then slops are thrown about the
dooryard, and pig pens are planted
too near the house with their teeming
swarms of flies and the air is full of
their ill smelling odors.
Now, on this first dav of Communi
ty Service week, Thursday, why can
not every farmer as well as every man
in town, take his hands from the
farm, the regular work of the day,
and put them to cleaning up the home
grounds? Much of the junk lying
around had better be burned and
make short work of getting rid of it,
but some of it might be of some use,
and that should be carted off to some
out of the way place. It is necessary
tor every home to have a sort of
"boneyard", but for heaven's sake,
let it be in some out of the wav place.
where it will not be an eve-sore to
every member of the fami'ly, to the
passer-by, and the visitor. When all
the rubbish is removed, the grounds
should be plowed up, manured and
limed, and sown in grass seeds. Then,
there should be some nice trees and
shrubs planted to beautify the
grounds. If the house needs painting,
and you are able to do it, this can be
done later, but there is no excuse for
making the front yard a dumninor
ground for every useless piece of junk
on the place , for any man can cart
ay and keep away this unsightly
rubbish. When the grounds are once
clean it will not be so hard to keep
them clean, then the grass and shrub
bery look so pretty.
The work of cleaning up should be
extended to the school, the church.
and th cemetery, as the Governor
suggests. It seems to me to be a good
idea to attend to the home grounds
first, then on Friday, "School and
Neighborhood Day," look after the
school house and school grounds. This
is the one thing that our Southern
people neglect. It is said the pret
tiest grounds and finest buildings in
Switzerland are the school buildings,
and the lives of the children are so
impressed with the beauty and attrac
tiveness of their schools that when
they go to a foreign country and see
a fine building and veU kept grounels,
they immediately ""exclaim, "The
school, the school!" It is not so in
America, and especially in the South..
Now and then a city school is a verit
able 'beauty spot", bur more frequent
ly you will find city s -hoots with bare,
unornamented ground, and the coun
try schools are nearly all of this sort,
1 see perhaps as many schools as any
man in the state, and if I were to see
a country school with decent grounds
I would not know what to say to the
people of the community. Generally
the grounds are as bare as the lane
the grounds are as bare as the lane?
they go to school over, and some times
almost as muddy. There may be a
few trees, but they are uncared for,
and it is a rare instance to find a
transplanted tree or a flower. Weeds
are permitted to grow up all the sum
mer, and in the fall when the school
starts some times a patron will take
a scythe and snake out the yard in
front of the building, and the boys
will trample down the remainder.
How easy it would be to keep the
school grounds neat and clean. On
this Neighborhood Day when all the
people are together at the school
house cleaning up, planting trees, and
beautifying the grounds, with fathers,
mothers and children present, let them
perfect an organization to look after
the school in the future. This might
be known as the Community League,
or the Civic League of School.
It would be well to elect some good,
woman as the president, and let every
man, woman and child in the district
become a member, with a small mem
bership fee so as to have a little mon
ey to carry on the work, such as buy
ing grass seeds, lime, orfor other pur
poses. I think this would be a great thing
for any community. Suppose the
people of the entire state should get
together on these days and clean up
the home grounds, the school grounds,
the .church grounds, and the cemeter
ies, what a difference we should see.
It would have its effect upon the civic
ideas of our people, and especially up
on our children. Mot long since I was
talking witii c gentleman from Penn
sylvania, and he said: "This is my
A FEW IMPRESSIONS OF KANSAS
Alma M. Winninghsm, of Washing
ton, D, C, Writes Interestingly 0f
Her Trip to The "Sunflower State."
I have just returned from a visit to
my uncle, Mr. J. S. Steed, in Kansas
and I thought that since so many
Randolph people have gone to Kansas
to live, some of the Courier readers
might be interested in hearing about
it
The "Sunflower State is not a mis
nomer, for wild sunflowers are every,
where. They are much smaller than
the cultivated sunflowers one sees in
this section and they flourish in all
soils and under all conditions, making
great patches of gold in the landscape
It was a surprise to me to find such
rolling country and so many trees,
but I was in the eastern part of the
State and they tell me it is much
more level farther west. However
I saw plenty of the flat prairie from
the windows of the train on my way
from Chicago to Kansas City. There
is a great deal of Kentucky blue grass
in Kansas, which was also a surprise
to me, since I had always imagined
from the wav Kenturkv rwnnla hot
of it that it wouldn't grow outside the
Doroers 01 tne state.
.Kansas is a creat State a lifM.
crude in some ways, perhaps, to east
ern peopie, out very up-to-date in
others. For instance, patent washing
machines run by a gasoline engine are
not uncommon on many farms, and
there are automobiles galore. The
SOUnd of tthe"VnrA" oa u-nll u.
grasshopper is heard abroad in the
ianu. xney nave an the most improv
ed farmlnc imnlempnta flraim kn
horses or mules, and the sight of a
man waiKing oenmd a plow is un
known. They don't have nearly so
many nice houses ns in fCnrty, r
Una, but when it comes to barns and
stocit and wheat and corn, the Tar
Heels aren't in it. M nnlo ho. ten
acres of land and this year his crop
consisted of 2500 bushels of wheat,
1500 bushels of oats, 1000 bushels of
corn (which is only half a crop) and
$800.00 worth of hogs. And that is
a sample of what almost everyone
did. One has onlv m An o l.-tti.
uring at the present prices of grain
aim meat to see results. If they can
only have a few mom nn4i iran 1.
will be in fine shape.
The women have had the vote on
school questions for a long time and
this vear were o-rnntorl -f,,il
of which they are going to avail them
selves you may oe sure. While there
I Saw two harhelnr o-Ilo ,1 :.,.
through the country with a double
ii-ain, campaigning tor themselves.
One of them was thn Mimtu
tendent of public instruction, a candi
date for re-election, and the other a
i-umiiuate ior cierK ot the court. We
shall Soon have them in fnr.o T
feel sure. Horrors! Can you imagine
a Democrat or a "Black Radical" man
in the Good Old North State relin
auishinc one tpenv. woor.tr l.tn es
to a petticoat? Nay, nay! But truth
compels me to Bay lor the Kansas
men that when it rnmu in a ,1
of work, they are just as liberal as
wnn me vote, and as for the little
courtesies accorded women in the
South, thev are often WVir.fr an 1 aim.
pose everything has its price.
There is a quite a little colony of
Randolnh nnrl Cln'tnrA nennlo in
Johnson county, among them Gordons,
itiarsns, steeds, aiid others. 1 also
met a- Miss Cox, who is teaching
scnooi mere mis winter, so it seemed
quite 'homey.'
Altogether, I had a most interest-
intr trio and Rome time I hniu ta rrn
back and see the great wheat fields
wnen xney are ripe.
ALMA M. WINNINGHAM,
Washington, D. C.
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READERS OF THIS PAPER
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For youngr pigs furnish a dry bed
where they can get lots of sunshine.
first trip South and the thing that
strikes" me most is the fact that there
are no lawns. I see country home
without a sprig of grass or a flower,
and even in town many of the homes
are no better." Somehow the remark
put me to thinking and since that
time I have observed a little more
carefully, and what he said is true.
Just the other day I 'saw a really nice
country home, and just in front of it
was an old log wagon, and in the front
yard was a pile of brickbats and other
rubbish. These things can be reme
died without costing much money.
The other things the Governor calls
attention to are good, but I want to
see the things mentioned here looked
after as suggested, and they are .
worth while,
' yE. S. MILLSAPS,
District AgeoV