THE COURIER
FUBLJSHED EVERY THURSDAY
WM. C. HAMMER" EWTOR.
Asheboro, N. C, Thursday Jan. 28
In the old days the com bread bak
' e ia the open fire place was delight
ful. Girls, nowadays are taught to
ok almost everything except corn
bread and yet corn bread is hard to
beat when it is well cooked. Write the
Department of Agriculture, Washing
tn, D. C, and get, free, Farmers
Bulletin 565; it tells how to cook corn
bread in various ways.
.,fv1 is to have its charter
amended so as to vote in May giving
authority to the municipality to appro
priate $300 a year to aid in establish
ing and maintaining a public library
A town snends thousands on streets,
water works, etc., why not spend
fW hundred in rlacing va'uable books
in reach of ail ?
A land and loan association is a
good thing for the farmers. It is a
form of thrift that pays in dollars and
cents, besides enabling its stockhold
ers to borrow for longer or shorter
periods at small interest. Such an
association should be organized in
every county in Xorth Carolina.
NOW IS THE TIME
Now is the time for the merchants
to advertise. Times are hard, money
scarce and the cost of living high.
The people are looking for bargains
for an opportunity to save money on
groceries, dry goods and clothing. The
wise merchant will cut prices, adver
tise his bargains and have a good
trade.
PASTURE AND LIVE STOCK
Where pastures are clear of shrubs
in abundance, but a few acres sown
in natural grass will produce grazing
for pigs, calvos, sheep, goats, or colts
may be- kept and in this way get a
start of animals. It is surprising how
fast animals increase under favorable
conditions. A brood sow properly kept
will soon furnish you a stock of hogs
sufficient to provide the family table
with meat and some for sale. Two or
three heifer calves if properly cared
for will soon furnish the beginning
of a dairy herd. Two or three ewes
under favorable conditions will soon
stock the farm with sheep.
There are opportunities for seil:ng
animals at good prices to the butch
ers or direct to city consumers. Fat
pigs weighing about 100 pounds are
now bringing good prices. Sheep may
be slaughtered and sold in most towns
for good prices. Jsutcher yearlings
ire readily sold. With farm animals
market every few weeks during
he year store bills may be promptly
met and the living expenses provided
for without charge accounts. This
ind of farming is more independent
than cotton growing and is more pro
fitable to those who make it a study.
OrPORTUNITY ON
FARMS
SOUTHERN
BAKE CORN BREAD
Many are surprised that at this
time more is v.ot heard about the re
ally superior qualities of corn bread.
We read about a move to introduce
potato bread, but we in this country
don't have to do anything of this kind,
that is if the housewife knows how to
bake.
Corn bread when properly made is
a real delicacy. It is not wanted for
very meal, and no more is quail on
toast. Put for a fair portion of meals
it is the most palatable thing that can
b offered in bread. One can't imag
ine that the makeshift known as po
tato bread can be in the same class
with corn bread. If the housewife
doesn't understand making this choice
morsel she should proceed at once to
learn, for she can't buy it from bakers
and it should be served warm.
A WONDERFUL STRAWBERRY
Mr. O. W. Blacknall, president and
general manager of the Continental
Plant Company at Kittrell, Vancq
ounty, has perfected a strawberry
which bears continuously from April
t November, when snow falls early
ia November finds the fields red with
these strawberries. They bear heav
ily all through the summer without
stopping, and when protected from
cold they continue bearing all through
the winter. This wonderful variety-
Mr. Blacknall says, is the result of
thirty years test of more than five
thousand varieties, and we must not
forget that they are a North Carolina
product.
Mr. Blacknall calls this strawberry
"Never Stop."
The Courier has heretofore called
ttention to the fact that according to
nvestigation ami report ot the L nitod
States Department of Agriculture
that of all the localities under obser
vation and after a survey of a large
number of farms in North Carolina
and compiled with the surveys of
farms in all the States of the Union
North Carolina made the remarkable
showing of yielding :.2 per cent of
the food used by the farm family,
while the acreage in New York State
is only o0.4 percent.
So we find that results of a study
of rural living conditions in several
States announced the first of the year,
by the Department of Agriculture,
showed that in the localities under ob
servation in North Carolina the farms
yielded 82.3 per cent, of the food used
each year by by the farm family while
the average in the New York localities
was only 50.4 per cent. I
The survey was made on a large
number of farms in North Carolina,
Georgia, Texas, Kansas, Iowa (Wis
consin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York
and Vermont. It showed that 63 per
cent, of the food consumed by the
farm family was supplied by the farm.
The proportion varied in the sever
al sections, but was greater in the
North Carolina locality.
The Department pointed to that as
demonstrating how Southern farms
may be made self-sustaining.
four times as much as corn meal anf'.j
as corn meal is wholesome food it oe-
comes necessary to eat corn bread
Several months asro The Courier
published a large number of receipts
for cooking com bread, we would re
publish the receipts now but for lac
of 6pace, we call. attention to the fact
that these receipts can be obtained
if you will write to the Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C,
for Farmers Bulletin No. 665. Com
Meal as Food, and Ways of Using it
THE BANKS ARE WHAT THE
PEOPLE MAKE THEM
MORE AND BETTER CATTLE
One of the additional benefits to be
added to the farm demonstration work
in this county this year and Randolph
is to be made one of the leading cat
tle growing counties.
The United States Government fur
aishes a representative and pays his
salary and all expenses the counties
paying nothing, to co-operate with
unty farm demonstration agents,
Mr. J. F. Brown, of Randolph, work
ing in connection with the United
States Department of Animal Indus
try and with the Division of Animal
Industry of this state, is expected to
rkit this county soon, and will no
deabt make addresses to the farmers
si? tiVa county.
THE OLD SCOTCH FAIRS
Most business and professional men
are dependent upon the people and
none are more so than the banks.
Home money in home banks helps
homo people to develop home indus
tries. Money in ones pocket may be
a consolation to the timid, but if in
the bank it helps him and others.
Most banks are strong and well pro
tected, it is almost impossible for pa
trons to lose, and ihe stronger they
ire the more helpuii tney are to tne
town and county.
The Salisbury IV-1. in writing about
the banks of Rowan county, makes the
following sensible comment:
Ranks like other institutions are
what the people make them. If the
anks of a community have the cordial
upport of all the people, receive their
lepusits and are made the vehicle for
arrying on of the linancial interests
f the community, they arc enabled to
grow strong and helpful. If the peo
ple patronize barks, deposit their
money with them, tl.ey are enabled to
become the great !nl;."ul institutions
they are planned be and in turn
support the people in financing local
business and homo development.
"The stronger the banks of a com
munity, the stronger the credit of the
community, the more secure the in
vestments and the more' prosperous
the people. If the people are selfish
and suspicious and withhold money
from circulation they weaken the very
heart's blood of the community, the
state and the nation. Money in circu
lation is active, working money, pro
ducing wealth and bringing happiness
to a community. Money dead, stag
nantly lying ouside circulation is re
straining trade, crippling commerce
and bringing stagnation to the farth
est corner of the land.
"The financial system of the coun
try is in far better condition than ever
before. Banks, as the great open door
of our financial system, stand ready
to serve and help the community, and
the extent to which they can perform
this service depends on the patronage
they in return rceive from the people.'
Onion, Wild, Method of Eradication
(Farmers Bulletin No. 610).
Potato Lessons for American Grow
ers, from German Experience (Depart
mcnt Bulletin No. 47).
Poultry Clubs, Boys' and Girls',
The Organisation of (Farmers Bulle
tin No. 562).
Road Drag and How it is Used
Farmers Bulletin No. 697).
Sheep the Management of, on the
Farm (Department Bulletin No. 20).
FORWARD STRIDES
The Charlotte Observer referring
to a recent editorial in Fairbrother's
Everything on the growth of North
Carolina says:
"It is in evidence that within so
short a space of 10 years values in
this State have almost doubled. Ev
erything eloquently sums up the truth
about North Carolina in the state
ment that the State is growing rapid-
v growing morally, commercially,
and in nil ways. There is more ma
chinery in motion all the time; money
is coming in from all directions. The
insurance companies of North Caro
lina will make the State rich, because
they keep money at home and money
kent at home does wonders. The man
who looks over North Carolina sta
tist its of today and compares them
with statistics' of 25 years ago can
hardlv believe his eyes. Of course in
a quarter of a century a State should
nrosper, but North Carolina has
crown more in tne past i; years man
she grew in the hundreds years be
fore. And in the next 15 years there
are wonders to be revealed. North
Carolina is destined to be one of the
most important States in the Union,
and the nvan who claims it as his home
should count himself lucky.
WH.vTlS A DEMOCRAT?
The Wilmington Dispatch discuss
es what is a Democrat and says among
other things:
"In other words, some folks have
contended that there could be no dif
ference in the calibre of men, in the
desires of people calling themselves
Democrat:
'a Demor
hold good, provided these same peo
ple did not attempt to justify then
position simply by title. But because
a man calls liimseu a I'cniuiiai, v
I-ivq li-im to beinir such by reason or
the way he voted does not make him
Democrat. Therefore, mere are
en of different impulses, different
sires under the Democratic plat-
orm. I'resniont vwison mum- im
ain long before his election, inn
those who doubted varnished u over.
ow what do we have: in nis in
n nnnnlis snoech the President de-
ared that two thirds of the Demo
ntin niii-tv are rjroerressive. What 1
the inference, the only logical infer
ence? It is that one-third is not pro
gressive. There now!"
New Meat Market
Just Opened in Rear of J. C.
Hannah & Son's Store.
A full line of meats and fish will be handled.
All meats will be inspected by a competent
inspector.
Asheboro Meat Market
Three Hustling Markets
We have three hustling markets
Asheboro, Hiscoe and Franklinville
and we must keep them supplied with
good meats, and we want to encour
age cattle raising in Randolph.. Don't
forget that we are always in the mar
ket at the highest top notch, for good,
sound, fat and saucy beef cattle. ....
Star Market
MAJORITY
VOTE FOR
TION
PROHIBI-
Tuesday, December 22, 1914, will
go down in American history as the
date on which the resolution propos-
REACHING THE PEOPLE
KELlUiua
n is me easiest. hers opposed to the measure. The
to "get religion, as it 7 chamber was decorated with p!
FARMERS BULLETINS:
Agricultural fairs were held
Richmond county before the Civil
War, beginning in 1856 or 1857.
One was held at old Laurel Hill
church some ten or twelve miles north
of Laurel Hill. Cut the Scotch Fair
about which the people in this part of 'No. 566)
the State know and remember most
about was held at or near what is
now known as Elerbe at what was
called the Fair Grounds.
Every fall in the month of Novem
ber, hundreds of 'people in wagons
and on horseback could be seen going
and coming from the Scotch Fair.
Most of them came from Yadkin, Da
vie, Forsyth and the upper counties
along the Virginia line. Those com
ng by Asheboro usually went down
the old Plank road as far as Page's
Toll House, but hundreds of them
went down the Buffalo Ford road and
on via Carthage to the Fair Grounds,
Finally the Scotch Fair was prohib
ited by law, because of the demorali
zation of the gatherings, where liquor
was plentiful and drunken brawls pre
vailed, cursing, flighting and in many
instances advantage was taken of the
fellow who had on too much and he
was cheated in a horse trade. These
and other immoral practices were
common.
Many valuable bulletins of the Uni
ted States Department of Agriculture
can be obtained free for the asking.
Some of the most important are:
Beef Production in the South (Far
mers Bulletin No. 580).
Beef Production in the South (Far
mors Bulletin No.627).
Boys Pig Clubs (Farmers Bulletin
ly and yet impressively, and it is the
host ttunn to pet and hold to. It is
the best kind of investment a man can
make, because it opens a big field
to mental calm, to sweeter associa
tion and to stronger work in behalf
of 6uccess. To "get religion" does
not mean to simply grab hold of some
fanatical idea, to indulge in any nys
teria, nor, under the excitement of
the occasion, to become but temporar
ily good. But it means simply to de
termine to live a righteous life. That
is all there is to it and it is tne Dest
kind of investment.
TW are various ways or reacning
the people in order that they may "get
religion." Upinion diners as to Buiue
nf thi methods, hut. after all. the idea
is for religion to get a neanng. mi
can get a hearing it can undoubtedly
do good work, rnererore, we sup
pose, the conduct of Billy Sunday's
CORN BREAD
With orn and wheat the highest
it baa been in a Quarter of a century
it ia imperative to look to the cost
of bread. Flow ia Balling for nearly
Brk'ge Construction (Departmert
Bulle- :n No. 5.,).
Cattle, Economi-al Feeding in the
Corn Belt (Farmers Bulletin No. bSf.)
Clover, Crimson, Growing the Crop
(Farmers Bulletin No. 550).
Corn Meal as Food, and Ways of
Using it (Farmers Bulletin No. 565)
Corn Pop, For the Home (Farmers
Bulletin No. 553).
Corn, Pop, for the Market (Farmers
Bulletin No. 554).
Eggs, Shipping by Parcel Post
(Farmers Bulletin No.. 594).
Flies, for Protecting Animals from
the atacks of (Farmers Bulletin No,
131-.
Fly Larva, Experiment in Destruct
ion of, In Stable Manure (Department
Bulletin No. 118).
Fly, Swatter (Farmers Bulletin No.
640).
Garlic, Removal of Flavor from
Milk and Cream (Farmers Bulletin
No. 608).
Medicinal Flowers, Fruits, and
Seeds, American (Department Bulle
tin No. 26).
Milk, Clean Production and Hand
ling of (Farmers Bulletin No. 602)
Milk and Cream, The Caen of Pas
teurizing (Department Bulletin No,
f peop.e calling th n se.ve . thp Jo . f amendmcn't to
s. Ferhaps the I I niton of , h Federal constitution, prohibiting
rat is a Democrat, w oulfl - , ,,,.,. c . f'
importation and exportation of intox
icating liquors, received a majority
vote of the members of the House of
Representatives present at the ses
sion. Notwithstanding this remark
able showing, the measure was ne
feated because a two-thirds vole is
required for a resolution proposing an
amendment to th constitution. The
vote was 197 for, and 1S9 gainst the
resolution. Only sixty-one votes were
lacking of the required two-thirds.
It is a long time since the House of
Representatives has been the scene ot
so much excitement, animation and
enthusiasm as marked the proceedings
of this eventful day. The galleries
were packed, almost exclusively by
friends of prohibition, fervent tem-
WITH ' Perance addresses were made from the
I uour oi tne nouse, wnicu were repueu
roiri vjila in accounted for,
Evanirelist Sunday s work,
if
placards
proclaiming the evils of alcohol. Along
the south gallery hung a petition
signed by twelve thousand societies,
representing six million people, pra-
ing Congress to submit the prohitw-
tory amendment to tne btates.
The battle of oratory waged for ten
hours, under the leadership of Kep
scntative Richmond Pearson Hobson
of Alabama, who proposed the resolu
tion. In the course of hjs remarks
Sir. Hobson said:
"When the great war in Europe is
over it will be found that the sum
total killed on the fields of battle foi
all nations will average less than fif
teen hundred a day. Alcohol avera
ges two .thousand a day.
"When the fact is established that
opium and cocaine and other drug.'
are poisonous no question has evet
been raised as to the power and the
right of the Federal government ano
NOTICE OF PAST DUE TAXflS
Your town taxes for the year 1914
are past due. The town needs the
money, to pay the school teachors.
T. E. LASSITER,
Town Tax Collector.
The congressional committee en
Federal aid to good roads, is hsJinp;
some material to help the cause. The
committee has made the estimate
that 700,000,000 tons of commodities
are hauled over rural roads yearlf at
a cost of 21 cents a ton-mile or $1.S
a ton for average haul of nine mles.
The commission believes a systesi of
first-class highways would reduce the
cost to 13 cents a ton-mile, resulting
in a saving of $504,000,000 a year. On
6 per cent basis, expenditure of $8,
400,000 for good roads would be jus
tified. Meanwhile, The Observer wld
not encourage any county or State t
wait on Government aid, but preceed,
as North Carolina counties have gen
erally done, with the building of reads
out of their own resources. Charlette
Observer.
jt the States to co-operate in the sup-
stood alone might not hold his thou
sand of converts, but we suppose u
pression of the popular distribution
of those drugs.
"Alcohol actually kills fully seven
lays the foundation or tne "'' ; hundred thousand American citizens
. m 1. 1. ii:,. ; u'ttiMi Via is
insr. to go to 'work. It gives a line T
on the people, and sows thoughts that
can be developed. At least that is
the way it seems to us, judgimr
reports of his worn in nmrr
He is just now stirring Philadelphia;
he is getting big audiences and is
reaching every waiK in me.
Up to last Friday night the con
verts of his Philadelphia meetings
had gone bevond six thousand, and,
in addition to his taoemacie iPeeuuK,
he had preached at a Dig prison a.m
also at a special meeting arranges av
the home of one of Philadelphia s so-
EvidentIV i'Uiy ounnay """V. "
stirring old Philadelphia as nothing
hua ever done before. New York
is thinking about signing a contract
with him. Yet so great 13 tne de
mand for Sunday and so vast must De
preparations for his meetings that
it is considered that he could not
conduct a revival in New York for
at least two years. in fact, ine
World tells that plans have been
working for two years to get Sunday
to New York and will be brought to
an issue this week. The worm aiso
tells of some of Sunday s require
ments, as follows: .
"A "requirement that sunaay insists
upon is that Miere shall be co-operation
among r.t least a majority of
churches of the community. He re
quires, also, that within a certain ra
dius of his tabernacle no church ser
vices shall be held when he is preach-
K- . . , ,
"Other requirements include organ
ization of personal workers, ushers,
choirs and administrative committees.
The number of personal workers
needed for New York has been ten
tatively fixed at 15,000 and the choirs
at one-third of that number. It is
believed this preliminary work can
not be done in less than two years.'
Wilmington Dispatch.
Mr. Hobson pointed out that fifty-
six percent, of all the people of the
United States already live under pro
hibition laws. Of all the territory in
the United States on the North Amer
ican continent seventy-eight percent,
is dry. Fourteen States have state
wide prohibition and five more are ex
nected to become dry in 1918.
Party lines were forgotten in the
fight on the prohibition measures both
Mr. Underwood, Democratic leader,
and Mr. Mann, Republican leader, an-
tatromzing the resolution. Mr. under
wood snoke of the loss from an eco
nomic standpoint ' entailed by the
forfeiture of $325,000,000 yearly reve
nue on alcohol.
Representative Garrett of Texas,
soeakimr for the resolution and ad
dressing the northern members of the
house said: "You tooK our negroes
away from us at the time of the war.
That was confiscation of property,
but it was confiscation in a good cause,
I do not see why any one should ob
ject to the confiscation of saloon prop
erty.7
Representative Campbell, epeakng
for the measure, referred to the ad
dress of Emperor William to his
troons in 1907 in which he urged them
to avoid the use of intoxicating
hibition. The composition of the vote
Czar of Russia, prohibiting the manu
facture and sale of intoxicating iiq
uors. Mr. Campbell said that most of
the poverty, pauperism, insanity, di
vorses and murders were traceable to
the use of alcoholic stimulants,
Representative Lindquist of Michi
gan said: "The destructive wars of
Europe would never wreck the future
progress of the nation as can the
curse which we are fighting here
today.".
The leaders of the prohibition for
ces at Washington, Representative
Hobson and Dr. Dinwiddle of the Anti
Saloon League, are being warmly
ITS A LONG, LONG WAT
Health work is barely begun aceerd
ing to the facts revealed by the eat
munity surveys recently made ia
North Carolina. In compliance with
the Governor's proclamation, a large
number of rural and urban conuMni
ties throughout the different coaatiea
observed Community Service Days
during the first week in Decessfcer.
While the weather was all that was
unfavorable, much real service was
accomplished and valuable faeU
which to proceed with the work were
brought to light.
Sampson is one of the leading -ties
in the State, havinar raDidur ad
vanced in the steps it has takea ia
public health work and comnwMty
upbuilding in general. It emplays a
whole-time health officer whose wrk
has had telling effect on the heaU ef
the county; it has two model naral
health communities one at 3As
burg and another at Ingold; aesl it
nas gone rorward in educational and
all other matters pertaining te pros
perity and progress.
But the surveys made in ceaaect-
ion with the observance of Commaftity
service Days revealed astonishing
facts, especially along the fundamen
tals of health. Of the eighty-feur
school districts in the county, thirty-
five adopted the suggestions of the
Community Service program, made
surveys as to the needs and improve
ment of the school and neighborhoods,
and organized an order to best Meet
these needs. To the question, "De
you use patent medicines?" 51$ re
sponded in the affirmative and 448 ia
the negative. Only 221 families out
of 935 have their houses screened, and
out of 1123 only 401 sleep with eaea
windows m winter. 870 were found
to be church members and 667 oat ef
893 children attend Sunday ScheeL
These figures cast no reflective oa
the work of the leaders of this pro
gressive county, but on the other aaaa
throw light into the darkness of ether
counties less active along this lias for
better organized work, for rural edu
cation on matters of health and sani
tation and for co-operation alone
lines of community improvement.
Selected.
resulted in so fine a showing fer the
advocates of prohibition.
The New York Evening Mail, eem
menting upon the vote, declared:
"Certainly the country was startled
today. At breakfast tables all ever
the land there was amazement at the
size of the vote in Congress for pro
hibition. The compositon of the vote
was tremendously significant Con
stituencies typically American were
generally in the aye column. Dis
tricts in which special local conditions
were favorable to the liquor business
made up the opposition. Studying the
vota from this angle, remembering
that in the long run the predominant
sentiment of the American prevails
in national legislation, it must be ad
mitted that: thfl tent of strenirtJt Tea-
praised for their campaign, which has terday protends national probJa&ba.