THE COURlEIi
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
WM. C. HAMMER. EDITOR.
Asheboro, N. C, December 24, 1914
The only permanent thing about a
road is its location, therefore it is
important that all roads before they
are improved, be properly located by
an engineer who knows his business.
The English and French are buying
up horses and mules in every part of
the United States and are making
shipments principally from New Or
leans and Baltimore.
The top soil and sand clay roads
are not the kind of roads we should
build in Randolph for the material is
at hand to build gravel roads and
after they are built they need nothing
done to them except to put on more
gravel as they wear out.
Something should be done to pro
tect the birds. The quails which were
to plentiful u few years ago rre rap
idly becoming extinct. It will take
heroic efforts to prevent the partridge
from meeting the fate of the wild
pigeon.
Now is the time to repair yout
buildings or build a house or burn.
You can get your work done by con
tract or by the day cheaper than here
tofore. Do not wait till spring for
everything will be busy then.
RANDOLPH COUNTY Ml' ST I SYMPATHETIC ALLY AID BLAC uSI
UTILIZE WHAT IS IN SIGHT IN EVERY WAY
(Continued from first page.)
There seems to be no end to the
building of good roads i:i this comity.
And the most satisfactory road that
can bo built in lliis section is the grav
el road for when it is properly bi:i!i
in the right way with the material
that is in tv:ich within a short tli
tance it it dry and firm and la.-ts lon
ger than, macadam.
Every person should own at lea.-.',
a small library. Heading a borrowed
book is better than not reading it. but
books should be lend slowly and re
read often couch to make them a
part of ourselves.
Yen can buv a tr
i ir books.
eheape.-t thine
The keeping np of roads is an im
portant matter, but the keeping up of
a properly buiit road is a .-mall mat
ter. When built of the proper mate
rial which can be found not too far
away to haul almost everywhere in
Randolph county, all that is r.oee.-sa-ry
is to put more gravel on as the
gravel wears out, but a topsoil or
sand clay road must be dragged after
every rain if the road is to be kept
in good condition.
The reports submitted at the Con
ference of the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church at Smithfield and
also the Conference at Thomasville
indicated the accomplishment of much
good especially by the young minis
ters. There are higher standards
than formerly. There is a cleaner
and more effective ministry and a
more religious stand is taken. The
laymen re n,or'?: active' The colored
race is improving much and (he whiif
people of the South are grateful to
see the marked progress and improve
ment in their churches, schools and
industrially.
DEMOCRATS WILL PRACTICE
ECONOMY
The Appropriations Committee of
the House of Representatives in it.
report December 14 lopped olf nearly
!?.". COO.OOO from estimates submitted
by the van.n-.x il-partrn'-Tts. cut;.!;;.:
salary allowances all along the liiv
and brought in a measure appropri
ating $:'.S.T44,Tj:,..."0. The bill pro
vides for more than lf,000 salari"!
of government employes.
The total of the bill shows an in
crease of S!,l'2.Kn over last year'.-
measure, but u.is years measure
included a special appropriation
&2.2M5,10O and authorizes one t'-o-j
sand additional employes, for taking
the agricultural census authorized by
law covering the k'.st regular ct"itiri1,:s '..s much meat, the householders
in r.nu. 0f tjie n
The rommittee cut $1fl2.2G0 from!as mnnv
the estimates of the Secretary of Com ', mills several times as much cotton.
merce for the work of the bureau of
just as every section of the state
does. The farms are too far apart.
Two or three times as many people
should be raising wheat and cattle
on the fertile hillsides and valley bot
toms. Randolph is another illustration of
the need of thousands of industrious
farmers in North Carolina. The
growth of mills in the county and in
the counties immediately surrounding
has drawn on the farms steadily for
mill hands, and in spite of the effort
of the philosophers to find a way to
bring the people back to (he farms
they do not go back to the farms. In
spite of the terrible tales told by some
of the professional agitators a' out
the condition of the mill hands the
hands continue to stay at the mills.
And the people at the rdlls continue
to want from the farms things to eat.
just as is the case in every place
where mill communities are providing
markets for the farmer.
Room For Good Farmers
Randolph county has plenty of room
on farms for good farmers to live
and thrive under the most agreeable
conditions, and at the farm is a mar
ket for everything that can be made.
That nuuket will become more insis
tent every year, for the multiplica
tion of mills will require more (arm
products. The problems of feeding
the tow n of Haden alone is one that
will mizzle the farms that are in the
vicimtv. I Me city ot ingii loint nas
crown up just across the line from
Randolph and it is grow ing up farther
everv dav, and as it grows is asking
for more supplies. Greensboro is call
ing for more farm stuff. All of th
state is asking for more Hour am
meat and poultry. North Carolina has
to buv several million dollars worth
of food products now, and will either
have to continue to buy farm priduct
or make less cotton, which will mean
to buy cotton or gel more farmers.
Tvpiial .f Mate.
Randolph is typical of the state as
a whole. Randolph has the land to
raise all the food products the county
needs, all the cotton the county i.eeds.
and has the eroner soil and imat".
It is short ju.-t that one thing people.
It is an interesting situation. Few
farm sections of the 1'nited States
have such an unsatisfied market a.i
the door, and s'.a-h soil and ilimat-'
to make the supplies, with insulVicie:,:
people to make them. Rando'i h coun
ty is not like the new states of th-1
West .chiili s.;-.y to prospective settle"-.--that
an opportunity to make a farm
and home awaits them. Randolph
goes that far and says a chance i
here to make a farm and home, am!
also that the tanner is neodoil to m-ip
the market get the supply of ti.i;
imperatively dttiiandcd. In the est
the farmer can hunt his market. He
must look to the East or to the old
world. In Randolph ail he needs 'o do
is to provide the stuff. The market
does the rest.
Example in Road liuilding.
Randolph is setting an example to
some of the other counties of the
state in the way of building roads.
The people decided that they did not
want to put a bonded indebtedness on
the county, but that they did want
roads. So they arranged to build .-
hundred miles of mighty good roads
and to pay for them as they were
built. Fortnuately the county has an
excellent road material convenient at
nearly every point. It is a hard gravel
from the broken down silica rocks,
and five hundred dollars a mile grades
and builds aroad that is almost as en
during as the old roads of ancient
Home. In all directions in the county
ih bard crave roads have been
built, and the hundred miles already
constructed are sullicient to awaKen
the people to want an increase of the
dose. When you start a good road
in a community you have snn-eu up
trouble, for one good road iaevitam -.-means
the thing runs through the
county like an epidemic. Randolph
count V is fairly well gridironed with
good roads on the main inovougii
I'ares, and the mileage built has i howr
what a good thing a hard road is.
You know the rest. F.efoiv Randolph
stons t'-e road work a g--od road will
go within easy reach if every farm
v. i'li. ii lha countv boundaries.
With pood roads is coming another
good feature it country 'ii ami inui
is the school house. The farmers have
voted soecial school tax in uiany o,
!,, ,li'.i,.ts. and are nutting up new
school' houses, extending the school
tn.-tn mid e-nirn: to the front along
rr.0,1,0-1 lines in education. Randolph
i doing even thing it can do w ith the
ooimlathin it'has. What it needs now
is two or three times as many peopu
ti, f.rms ih.-it the crnst mills may
hii-.-n two or three times as much
wheat, the meat market two or three
SECK ETA Ii Y HOUSTON'S
ADDRESS
President Wilson Outlines His At
titude Toward the Negro Rare
Outlining his attitude toward the
negro. President Wilson recently told
the University Commission on South
em race questions, made up of repre
sentatives of 11 southern colleges,
that our object is to know the needs
of the negro and sympathetically help
him in every way that is possible for
his good and our good.
Dr. C. H. Drough, of the University
of Arkansas, chairman of the commis
sion told the President the commis
sion was organized to make an impar
tial study of the race question from
the standpoint of the negro's economic
hygienic, civic and moral betterment
He said a deep investigation of the
subject was being made with the good
of the negro alwi-ys in mind.
"I am vey glad to express my sin
cere interest in this work and sympa
thy with it." said the President in
reply.
"I think that men like yourselves
can be trusted, to see this great ques
tion at every angle. There is not any
question, it seems to me, into which
more candor needs to be put or more
thorough human good feeling than
this. 1 knew myself, as a southern
man, how .sincerely the heart of the
south desires the good of the negro
and the advancement of his every
thing that can be done in that lace on
sound and sensible lines and direc
tion is of the highest value. It is a
natter of common understanding.
lhere is a charming storv told
ibout Chiirles Lamb. The conversa
tion in his little circle turned upon
ome men. who were not present, and
Lamb, who you know stuttered, said.
'I hate that fellow." His friend said.
Charles, 1 didn't know vou knew him.
Lamb said, "1 don't: I I can't hate
i fellow I I know.'
I think that is a very profound
lUinan fact. You cannot hate a man
you know. And our obiect is to Know
the needs of the negro and svmnathet-
ica'ly help him in every way that is
possible for his good and for i-nr
ood. I can only bid vou Godspeed in
what is a very necessary and creat
undertaking.
President S. C. Mitchell, of Dela
ware college, told tne openinc session
of the commission's conference that i to liv? stock and those crops
the l-.uropean war emphasized there
must be sot letl ing more than r.id'eal
in. I national sentiment in solvii g the
pies', ions of humanity.
Dr. .lames II. Dillard, of t!i" Un:-ir.-ity
of Virginia, said he v.;-.; fat-
s!um tr.ero was a growing seiu:nient
imar.g the while and pegro lca-ers in
the south in favor of the education o?
the negro race.
In his annua1 r port. Dr. IVotigli
viewed the pr -hh-ms of the race in
the south. Under the Anna P. .learner
'otindation, he reported MS muntie?
in 12 States last year improved their
negro rural school's, while all tie util
ities represented on the cemniis-
ioii were offering courses in the race
piestmn. Dr. lirough referred to
egregation as "a mooted question"
which formed the only cloud on the
horizon.
The constructive work before the
commission he declared to be:
"The socializing and rationalizing
of the impulses of an inferior race by
imposing upon them the importance
of preserving the racial integrity of
both races, securing industrial train
ing and attaining the goal if econo
mic equality of opportunity."
Dr. Hrough believed there was too
much zeal among negroes for the ex
ternals of education and a growing
dislike for domestic service. He plead
ed for higher standards among teach
ers and preachers of the negro race.
foreign and domestic commerce, al
though an increase of $25,000 over
last year's appropriation was allowed
for promoting commerce with South
and Central America.
There is an unparallelled opportu
nity for the South because of our
unrivaled natural resources. Our in
dustrial wealth is enormous, and' our
mineral wealth constitutes much of
our wealth, and our agricultural in
te rests are equal to the best.
With the superior advantages we
have around us, there ia no cause for
despondency, but all should strive to
take advantage of the great oppo
tunities.
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my gratitude to
the many friends who were so kind
during the illness and death of my
wife.
T. L. WELCH.
Cheeks, N. G.
The countv needs two or three limes
its present population tnat ine goon
nnrts mnv he settled more thickly
with fnrm houses on each side all the
way to the county line, and that the
rnnntrv schoo may have increased
attendance and increased force' of in
structors.
The People Will Come
The increased population will come
Asheboro has a lot of energetic men
who are putting their town on the
industrial map of the United States.
Over on the Deep River are several
live towns. Ramseur and Randlemari
are factory towns that indicate that
thev have a future. Manufacturing is
scattered all over the county, 60 that
the entire territory is diversified in
its work, depending on no one tnmg.
The accumulating capital of the coun
ty is in the hands of business men
who are progressive and clear headed
and they are building for the future:
Their surplus dollars are going into
productive investments that foreshad
ow further development of the towns
and the county.
And what a picture of intelligent
thrift and satisfied prosperity you can
NORTH CAROLINA'S TRIBUTE
Raleigh News & Observer Welcomes
Sec. Houston as Son of State
North Carolina extends a hearty
welcome to David Franklin Houston
Secretary of Agriculture, says the
Raleigh News & Observer. It wel
comes him as a son of the State whose
areer has been such as to reflect hon
or on North Carolina; it welcomes
him as a member of the Cabinet of
President Wilson, who is rendering
a service of great, and lasting value
to this country. Secretary Houston
is not a mere theorist on matters
which relate to the progress of this
ountry in agriculture, but he is a
man whose deep study and whose prac
tical contact with the agricultural life
of the United States gives him power
to speak with authority. Less than
two years at the head of the United
States Department of Agriculture he
has given new life and vigor to that
icpartmont and is making it an in
creasing torce lor tne good ot the
country. I
Horn in Monroe February 17, 1886,
Secretary Houston graduated with the
degree of A. 11. from the South Caro
lina College in 1X87, and with the
degree of A. M. from Harvard in 18
92, the degree of LL. D. being confer
red on him by iulane in IWi, by the
University of Wisconsin in 1!)06, and
by Yale in 191:1. He taught in the
South Carolina College, was next su
perintendent of graded schools at
Spartanburg, S. C. Later he was a
member of the faculty of Harvard.
and in 1804 he became a member of
the faculty of the University of Ten
nessee, being professor of political
science l!)00-02 and dean of the facul
ty 1899-02. He was then elected pres
ident of the Agricultural and Mechan
ical Collesre of Texas, holding that po
sition 1902-05, when he was elected
president of the University of Texas.
In 1908 he was made chancellor of
Washington University at St. Louis,
a position he held until called nto the
cabnet of President Wilson.
Masterly Treatment of Problems
Which Confront the Community,
State and Nation.
Secretary Houston's address before
the Sandhill Farmers' on Wednesday
was a masterly treatment of problems
which concern not alone the communi
ty and the state, but the nation, which
as he expressed it, "is just waking up
to the fact that we have been rela
tively neglectful of rural life prob
lems.' Community subjects, also, the
speaker dealth with emphasizing the
necessity of making rural life prac-
buy out side and pay middlemen's prof
tical "profitable complete unto it
self. "It is not so much because you
buy outside and nay mddlemen s prof
its, but because you are dependent,
because you have nothing to put back.
The one crop idea he discouraged, urg
ing comprehensive agricultural activ
ities, emphasizing especially the op
portunities ottered for live stock ana
poultry production on economic lines
in the South.
Has depended on Cotton to Excess
The South, said Secretary Houston
in opening, has depended to excess on
cotton as a crop, arguing that one crop
economy was unwise because it means
uneconomical use of land, labor and
capital; especially dungcrou because
when anything occuis to intmere
with that particular, crop, the entire
section is prostrated. This was clear
during the Ci;l War as it is today.
It is, therefore, excceoingly apparent
to most ueoule that it is extremely ur
gent that the South much more rapid
ly diversify. Should war continue and
the South stiU produce as much cotton
next year as this, would clearly be an
economic waste since ir..' price wouiu
ontinue as loc or even lower than
now. ine necessity oi a uccrease m
m-iidoi-iion is a ui eieciuisite not only
to present but t 1 utme betterment oi
conditions and it is generally true that
if the world was !ure there would be
decrease next year, there would be
a rise m tne present prices,
The f.outh'8 Opportunity is Uve .stock
The question naturally arises, said
the speaker, what is to be done, what
is to be planted, and in that connec
tion he emphasized the opport.umt)
the South has by turning its attention
wli.ch
m ike live stock economy profitable.
especially in lings and poultry becausr
they ca:i be r'j.-onab!y ami quickly
nicicased, and lecaus.' the small far
mer can, with ri datively leva trouble,
ad.d a lev s i s and increase his poul
trv. l. 'out i:Uiin,g. be referred to the
present meat .-.itva'Jon and pointed out
that while the population had increas
ed twenty-live millions in fifteen years
the prodiiition of beef cattle i'tas de
creased between the census years,
about tweUe million head; shep by
nearly the same figure, ami hogs by
about the same proportion, adding
that in the judgment of experts of
the Department of Agriculture and
elsewhere, the " ay to increase the Na
tion's meat supply was, to pay more
attention to beef cattle, on settled
farms, rather than "ranches;" more
attention to hogs and! poultry; tAe
latter as becoming an increasing part
of the table consumption of the Na
tion. In conclusion he urged the im
portance of eradicating' hog cholera,
tubercular cattle, and combating with
periodic outbreaks such as the foot
and mouth disease. In the judgment
of experts, the Secretary urged, the
South has a peculiar opportunity to
develop live stock interests and grow
the crops necessary for the founda
tion of this interest, giving necessary
attention to all sorts of food products
and careful attention to market gard
ening. Neglectful t Opportunity
The South ha been especially neg
lectful in the production of live stock
he continued, pointing out that while
the average Iowa farm had, for inr
stance, thirty-five head of hogs, the
average Southern farm had not over
five; that while the average Iowa farm
had one hundred and ten head of poul
try the average Southern farm not
over fourteen. Further, the judgment!
of the authorities seems to be that the
South could raise hogs and poultry
especially, quite as profitably if not
more so thaa the Middle West if it
used the same judgment and intelli
gent methods. The climate is more
favorable, the seasons for growiny
crops longer and the grazing season
correspondingly long. Secretary
Houston admitted that it might be a
question as to whether the South could
grow wheat, corn, oats and forage gca
erally and produce meat stuffs for
foreign and interstate consumption in
competition with the West, but he con
tended that it should, at least, grow-
enough for its own consumption. In
one year, he said, the South imported
two hundred mill'on dollars worth oi
wheat, corn, and hay, paying all mid
dlemen's charges, transportation, etc.:
that in one year North Carolina lm-po'-ted
food stuffs of the kind in val
ue equal to the entire cotton crop.
Tli's is bad economy and should be
corrected for it is highly important
in this emergency that the South
should provide enough to subsist on
within its own borders and be relieved
of the necessity of relying on selling
the cotton crop immediately to subsist.
I
DEAR CUSTOMER :
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pliments of the season, we off
er you our special attractive
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CII1ISTMAS
1SL ' yT F0R THE
Why, the HIRDVIRE STORE is iust the
place to buy sensible, useful Christmas gifts.
ollverware, carving sets, table cutlery
pocket knives, ranges, and a thousand and one
other things will make presents your family
and your friends will like.
Don't throv your money away buying
some trashy present, but come to us and buy a
sensible gift.
Cox-Lewis Hardware Company
Asheboro, N. C.
read in the fate of Randolph county
when the resources are developed by
a busy farm population supplemented
by the growing towns that have made
their start in every direction in every
township.
Randolph has no occasion to ask
for anything further. Her equipment
is all there. Her task is simply to
utilize what is in sight, and it should
be her pleasure to invite her to help
a lot of energetic neighbors from ev
ery State in the Union where there
are people to spare.
Community Organization Essential
Continuing, the Secretary referred
to marketing problems to be solved
in case new crops were grown, not
alone Community but State and in
terstate, suggesting the assistance of
State and Federal agencies, leading
up to a discussion of the necessity for
Community organization for market
ing. It is the opinion of experts, he
said, that concerted action among
producers is essential in order to ship
in economical units and find the best
markets. Referring to the difficulties
he also called attention to the fact
that the Federal Government was con
ducting an active inquiry in all Bee
Hons and would wiling give all the
assistance and advice that it could as
the result of these investigations.
Community Co-operation Necessary
The necessity of co-operation in ru
ral life was the next topic discussed
more especially co-operation as to
standardizing packing of products,
Give Furniture this Christmas
WHAT'S BETTER?
More practical gifts of real value cannot be found and the fol
lowing are some of the articles which will give you a good idea of
the advantages offered in this big line:
A LOOK AT THE USE WE II AVE WILL CONVINCE YOF OF
THE REAL PRACTICAL VALUE OF Fl U.MTI RE AS GIFTS.
Bed room suites
Reed parlor suites
Cpholstered parlor suites
Davenports
Ladies' desks
Pictures
Rugs
Hook cases
RoikiiiKchairs
Buffet ts
Sideboards
Kitchen cabinet
0, R, FOX, Furniture and Undertaking
building of good toads essential not
only for marketing but for develop
ment the right sort of educational
arrangements, tlie necessity for sani
tary conditions and the promotion ot
reasonable social life in the Commu
nity. It is impossible, he said, for
the student of rural life to limit his
attention to any single aspect, and
the whole pioblems of production, but
we must recognize the importance of
making it profitable; the necessity of
education for children, healthful sur
roundings, social activity.
The Locality as an Example
Referring to the existence in the
local Community of active Oo-opera-tive
machinery the Board of Trade
the secretary spoke of its success
in promoting co-operation in the pres
ent emergency by providing for ware
housing cotton and the good roads
movement suggesting that other de
velopments on different lines, would
follow as a natural consequence.
While it will take time, he empha
sized, nothing short of a successful
solution will make rural life profita
ble and retain the requisite number
of efficient and contented Deonle. The
urgency of making this effort is em
phasized by th- fact that while oaf
population has increased nearly
ty-five millions, not over five million
is found in the rural districts.
Nerlectful of Rural Problems
T.. tk-irtit has bM
directed to building up great iwl
trim tremens ruiiciuucu v .
Eager to have the biggest cities, to
tercd by every device, we are j""'
ing up to the fact that we have d
relatively negieciiui ui im v: . tkt
lems.. The country finds itself m
singular state of being rtcpenaei
foreign countries for food stuffs. i
.- j the head
way we are making in apply""
ence to agriculture, we i.h"'
doubtedly soon regain our former
sition. not onlv BUDDlyiug our
food RtniTs. hut a large portion
the rest of the world.
a uthi Tii Visitor
"I have been very Jd
witn tne cnaracter ami ?,mma-ft
the leading members of ywr Wjl
nity, said tne aecremry tbe
view," "and keenly interested
unique problems which pre8e?;(n- go
..i-L. fcw nnH which are being "
successfully solved."