North Carolina Newspapers

THE COURIER WHAT WILL BE? PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY WM. C. HAMMER, EDITOR " Aahebori N. C., March 11, 1915 Boys and girls are urged to join the Pig Clubs and Poultry Clubs. A tide of revivalism has f pread over the country, in the cities and towns as well as in rural sections. One important argument that should influence every girl to join the Girls' Tomato Club is that the United States imports from 40 to 45 per cent of the tomatoes used in the United Staes. The public school is a great institu tion. Time was when a large per cent f the people of the state possessed only the bare rudiments of education, but good schools are in nearly every school district in every county in tlie state, and the children are required by law to attend school. The Greensboro Record calls at tention to the fact that Orange coun ty built sand-clay roads last summer, and when the heavy, almost incessant winter rains came these roads did not stand up, but the commissioners put hands to work repairing them un der competant supervision of course, and it is claimed the roads are now better than ever, which fact shows thai repairing roads is quite necessa ry as the building. You can patch a sand clay or gravel road and it is as good as ever, but a macadam road wM not stay patched. The Civil War between the North and South marked the beginning of a new ODoch in American history. It represented a exeat human convul sion. Even unto this day, a half century after the close of the Civil War we often hear the older people speak of what occurred before I since the war. The great blood waves of that fearful struggle, ' cleansed the South in a way. We got rid of slavery, but our land was ' left in bleeding ruins, our homes ' were burned, our fences down, the fields grown up in broom sage and . blackberry briars. Ittook a generation and more here in the South to get on our feet financially. Is there a city of refuge, no tower of Babel, no Chinese Wall of peace to restrain burning passion? Some one has said that civilization has been no more effective bull v.ark than bullrushcs to "dam up the Nile." The art, culture and intelligence of j the nations of Europe have no more restrained than if they had been illit erate naked savages. When hate, pride and arrogance get the upper hand of a people, intel ligence counts for little. The Baltimore Sun recently had an interesting editorial on what will be ' after the war is over, we clip as follows: What is to be done about the fu- ! ture? Are we to accept the cynical i view of the case and put our trust j mainly in big battleships and big consider it, would they have plunged The dead weeds and rubbish in the ml,n rA .fklsnlv intn anrh a 1 orchard should be raked up and struggle as this? Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, some weeks ago embodied this thought a thought that has been in thousands of minds recently in a proposed amendment to our Constitution, 'pro hibiting a declaration of war, except In cases of invasion, until the people should pass on it at the polls. Soon or later, if the world's peace is to be kept, the people must have the deciding voice in the matter. War is pre-eminently the people's business, and until kings and diplomatists are made to conduct their burned, as such material affords a fine place for orchard pests to pass the winter. RANDOLPHS SCHOOLS Efficient Work Being Done Through out the County. Having had very good opportunities to see the workings of the various schools of the county, it gives me the greatest pleasure to say that at no time in the past has the outlook been brighter than now. Coming in personal contact with al most all the teachers and many of the committeemen, and those interested in the management of the schools, I have learned that it is a well nigh negotiations , universal sentiment that they are with absolute publicity, and the peo-1 SSSrS pie of each country are made the desired and hoped for by all true ..i i a it.t--n1 jriemiH ui euucuuon. ieriuiniy, were court of last resort, international are p0rhapS( 8ome exceptions but they peace will continue to be at the mercy are exceptions and not the rule. There of tyrants, of ambitious statesmen no Mnjimem xnai "y enve. cdiu atioii and nobler and higher ideals life. i mis lact is in v and clearly leni tives when this war is over. We can oust rated in almost every section it nnil nf enlfieTi intorpsta We can take our choice of alterna- put our trust in more tremendous armaments than we have ever had before, converting this and all other countries into armed camps, or we can our county in many ways. Hardly half a hundred school districts have voted on themselves a special tax to aid and carryforward, better oppor tunities for their children, and I often hoar the expression from the people, put our trust in educating mankind "thit. thc rnol'e willingly contribute to a realization of the folly of war, and in making the people the arbi ters of their own destinies. NO TIME AS GOOD AS THE PRESENT EVBRY LAND OWNER DRAG ROADS M every farmer does not have a rd drag he surely knows how to wake a split log drag, and the sea Ma is here when the roads should be dragged in order to have good roads before the middle of summer. If every land owner would take the time to drag the roads, border ing n his land, good roads would be vary-where and no farmer would miss tie time it takes to do the dragging. guns and big armies, determined to SHOULD I maintain our "place in the sun" re gardlesa of cost or consequence, see ing in every other nation an enemy Friends of Mr. Thad R. Manning, iewerly editor of the Henderson Getf Leaf, will regret to learn of his Wth which occurred last week at his fcesso is Henderson, North Carolina. Leek well to the garden this spring, fr remember that much of the living dsjjaf; the, summer can be obtained 3rem a good garden. Garden vege tables will help save in the cost of feeds and these foods will furnish mere healthful balance in died during the warm days of summer. The faul ty will require a vegetable diet and the garden can be made most profit sUe. Raise everything you can in year own garden. From an editorial in the Stanly En terprise we clip the following ex tracts: And while it may not be generally known, yet according to best informa tion at hand, Randolph county is lead ing the State in the establishment of new rural libraries, thereby giving to the boys and girls of the country dis trict access to books and papers that have only been in reach in the past of those of more normal section. The spirit is abroad. The time is at hand and let it be said that our coun ty is taking hold of it. While writ- MAtiK HANNA IS DEAD The Journal of Saturday morning carried a dispatch from New York telling of a meeting of manufacturers with Chairman Hilles, of the Repub lican National Committee and the ann ouncement later by Chairman Hilles of the motion reached in the conference that prosperity would not return to this country until a Republican was put in the White House. The New York World of yesterday paid its respects to this conference as follows: The high-tariff Republican manufacturers who held a. secret conference in Delmonico's yesterday with the Chairman and Secretary of the Republican National Committee, to discuss plans for the 1916 campaign, wasted their time, their railroad fare and their hotel expenses. Mark Hanna is dead. Mark Hanna Republicanism is dead. There will be no resurrection. These gentlemen are living in memories. If the Republican party should be returned to power in 1916, it will not be their kind of Republican party and its emblem will not be the stock-ticker. Moreover, it will not try to enact their kind of tariff. It was Tor their benefit and their profit that the Republican party cut its throat during the Taft administration, and the party is not keen to repeat the experience. It was because the Republican party "was their kind of Republican party that the government of the United States was turned over to the Democratic party. The old Bourbon protectionists neither learn nor forget Their campaign contributions used to swing, national elections, and in return for these con tributions they used to write the tariff schedules. Those days are no more. They will not return. The Penroses and the Cannons and the Gallingers may linger upon the scene. They may be nominally in control of the Republican organization, but no national campaign could be won under such leadership. The rank and file of the Republican party would not follow them. The 1912 revolt had its theatrical aspects, but it was not all stage comedy. The Re publican party, if it comes back to power, must be a different kind of Re publican party from what was driven out of power. The once highly protected gentlemen who think that the first duty of Congress is to legislate for their pocketbooks overestimate the power of money in politics. Money can do much but it cannot do everything. Other wise they and Wall Street would be in control of the government. The Delmonico conferees, however generous their campaign contribu tions may be, will not rehabilitate standpat Republicanism. They will net rehabilitate any kind of Republicanism. They would break the back of the most promising political organization that the mind and hand of man cetrid devise. If they really want to do something. for the Republican party, they should shut up and keep out of sight. That is thet one service they are still capable of rendering. Winston- balem Journal. TWO YEARS OF WILSON New York World. On the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's second inaugural, Woodrow Wil son completes half his Presidential term. These two years of the Wilson Administration have helped te make more history than any other two years since Lincoln. The coming; two years of the Wilson Administration must inevitably be the most momentous period that this country has known since the Civil War. It is a fact of enormous importance that this crisis finds in the IThite House a President who is completely master of himself. Being master of himself, he is the master of his party and of his Administration. - The ia no kitchen cabinet, mere are no Dane-stair aavisers. wire j ing on this subject, it would be unjust' are no 8ecret influencea that pull and sway the policies of the Executive. No "The secret of success and economy & 0f who isn't the heaa 2m T, i SE?i ?'ZZll Mr. WieE SAND CLAY AND GRAVEL ROADS The Sanford Express calls anen Mon to the fact that sand-clay roafls we all right for light traffic, but for heavy hauling during long continued spells of rain there has no road been built so far through that section which will equal the gravel consin. tion. This can be said of the t.cc eounty roads. We hare heard much eomplaint of the conditions of the sand-clay roads. The roads built c gravel are almost as solid as tT'.r.v were before the bad weather set .. The most permanent road is the roau built of gravel. If all the roads in the county were built with a gravel dressing they would ba worth raou te our people." A MARKET DAY In Georgia there is a movement on foot in some counties to have a mar ket day at which farmers are to as semble with their products and live stock. The country merchant ia also te bring produce he has purchased. Large dealers, wholesale and retail, attend on ouch occasions, in sufficient anmbers to create competition., Ia European countries the market day ia the arrangement above all then for handling- the product of lb. small farm. Randolph county should have a market day at the county teat, and it should b encouraged. The mora trade ley the people tbe better for the basfaesa ,mtm ef Ashabore, bseaus. fee sure trade aa madk Isy, fee tr tl wS fceSji Q feme. who may fly at our throats at any moment, keeping up the polite fiction of treaties and international friend ships, but prepared to throw civiliza tion overboard at an hour's notice and to strangle and trample to death like the most primitive barbarian, anybody who gets in our way? Is this what we must do, as some of our wise men advise, or is there any surer and better way? Those who have lost confidence in tremendous arma ments as peace-preservers suggest a world court with an international po lice force at its back to keep the peace and save us from ourselves. Perhaps that idea may be worked out ultimate ly to. the advantage of the world, but unless the heart of mankind have been converted first, would such a court be any more potential than the helpless decree of The Hague tribu nal? Must we not start at the heart and the brain of the nations, if there ia to be any real healing process? What i all-important a a result of the war is not an alteration of nation al boundaries but an alteration of the national point of view. It is not the cm Tin which are dangerous, but the spirit behind the guns. The English man hates the German and the Ger man hates the Englishman, because they have been educated to suspect and fear each other. Might they not be educated to respect each other as much as Americans and Englishmen do today? The common people, the plain peo ple, the people who do most oi tne fighting and the dying and the suffer ing, might listen to such an interna tional gospel of good will and come in time to feel as little disposed to murder each other over trifles as the nrrlinnrv man does to murder his next-door neighbor. When the peo pie who bear the burdens of peace and war begin to realize what a cost ly thing war is in every respect, they will listen to such doctrine gladly. But if we are to have any peace an chors that will hold when a hurricane comes, the people of each country, and not a few so-called statemen and rulers, must have the right to decide whether they will fight each other or keep the peace. A war in which hundreds of millions of human being are involved, and which i sapping the strength of the whole world, mor ally, physically and materially, was virtually Inaugurated by lee than baker's dozen of kdasly and diplomat ic potentate. Could the question of war or peace have been submitted to the people of thoce countries fairly and folly, with a dispassionate itate- saaat tf what It meant te then all, aa wfS a few TftHat er && tt on the farm lies alone the line of nro-' of the educational system of the coun- .... v,, . ty,. m,. v;m - n riiciric him : hut ducing everything that is needed for ty',the ard ?f ucJionWS.f?II" ! everybody knows that he and he alone is President. Everybody knows that ' b neeueu iut nate m the seect10n of a superintend- ... :: t t I,:- twn , BnA h. Ion wfiT he President. home consumption on the farm. Dr. ent who has come up through the unu8Ual man, meet to cope with a very unusual situation in the President who in an omciai relations aispiays neiaier nor ansrer nor personal ambition. If he has friends, their friendship counts for nothing in affairs of state. If he has enemies, their enmity weighs nothing in the balance of government He seeks neither to reward the one nor to punish the other. . .. . So evenly does he hold the scales that the members er tne mpiomanc Seaman KnaPP, of the National De- Sughth partment of Agriculture, speaks to the cation till he knows the needs of thosw their friendshiD counts i i ! . .Y.. ' who are traveling tne same roau. point along this line. We quote as fol-, No officcr of th C(nmty 0 whom lows: rest more responsibilicy, and to whom "'These Southern States riirhtfullv Pr0Psli,ve1 esj more strongly ap- c with a theip highIy developed facilities for obtaining informadon, inese bouthern btates rightfully peal than to the superintendent of jP8' been abIe ,arn whe the President's personal sympathies should be the nchent in the land, schools. It 18 to him that the ttaou- ,. . t a:i. ; ,l,,actat;nr Rim. Whntirver hia in- They have the greatest crop-produc- fg" fottrn'teadiwrSf dlviSePinAons mr be' he " "n,othered them in the WsiMH- of ing power. They control the clothing moral and intelligent fitness to in-ihis 0.ct-hia -jod in their first term most Presidents have been carefuHy 1 aWfc WTflv w 6truct tn.em. Ihe success pt tne ai-. . .. tr . chances of nomination and re-election. Nobody Icmws most entire scnooi system oi tne coun-; . tl .i i ... j.t a. wi m Not nave Deen raising cotton and selling ty snows mat mis auty nas oeen weii it and buying everything else. That , pe a "1?? As time goes on our schools are aiming more at practical things and aj. wc wiu pruuuee everyuung mat tial idea of thoroughness. The bright practice never made a people rich. ocf. tnr n hone for Randolnh conntv ! is her wefl trained young men and ' ?ln?' we consume, our own butter,, cheese, poultry, as well as horses, and let our cotton be a cash crop, we will own authorities are laboring, the factories, we will own the banks, we will be a factor in the policy of the country and in the control of the world.' " CLEAN UP BEGINS MONDAY MARCH 15, 1915 And to this end the school Citizen. A GREAT CONGRESS uiWIiop Mr Wilann intends to be a member of the Cabinet, not a member ot Congress, can say oi ius own knowledge that the President desires a re-election or that he would at re fuse a renomination. What all of them know is that the President wwrtd not stoop from principle to win either a renomination or a re-electapm. There is where his great strength lies. That is his great usefulness hen in this crisis. It is ess tm rattle the sabre. It is easy to make the weakin It is easy to be spectacular and sensational ana wwtmctu. , to be a demagogue. It is easy to juggle witn tne late oi a nauom tin man rati forsce what the next day will bring forth. But it is not i a .n; onT tndiVfnl Tt is not easv to face everr re i. ..j wff limit TMnurion. It ia not easy to hew straight to the line of first principles, regardless of applause or censure r prsfee or denunciation. It is not easy to be sane when the world ha gtvea atsdf Kept Faith With People-More Work over w maan rf Ufute1 gt8t. ta the Than Usual Done. I, '"i -omiW vnn is that their Chief Magistrate m stme In considering the work of 1 mind today that is intrusted with the responsibilities ef gv- Sixty-third Congress, which came te " J. i -itriirirttrm. an end yesterday, it must be judged . emment anywhere in civffixatfoa. as a whole rather than by the short i. a. l.-j-j t : I session jum cunuuueu. in view vi w ' ... t v- ..ti., - - brevity of the second regular session to the advantage of the nation as a up, Thin ia t.h tiniA nf va . . ..-knT j - ...x ox our national law-matters n m nu i "";" . ., . . . All the premises should be usual for them to attempt much se-J laiceii .in i i . i nous legislation oeyona tne passage r Y'a j cleaned up. of the Appropriation bills. It is not , Congresses that preceded i jhe work All litter and trash should be Grange, therefore, that of the rather : of ZiZ g burned. Old cans and such rubbish ,,nn. ? rat influenca upon the welfare of as cannot be burned should be piled plished. It would have been a mira-, the un;ry " toS aopar. convenient place near Bf8wQ. tt.,ftU Nf f with the people. Popular approval NOTICE OF LAND SALE TJffJMBR MORTGAGE oortant constructive legislation had will ever venture to unao iw cv vx that team. mil fn, u Wl been nassed. 1 all, the Democrats nave n ioi" I When, however, the wnoie me or witn wie ,Tt'" e ; Vn t w9v. I .i ' . i', i.- :j i ...no ninui lat fall when they meres , congress is lanen into conaiuera- i b"w" . .: . r. j The humblest home is made pret-' tion it fally merits ttepraisc ,of jd gVTaS tier when the front and back yards it met in extraordinary session For a more decisive enues. we to are cleaned up. m April, 1913, it had received a man- w"ur,V " ;j m , . , , . , aate irom'me American people, n r The colored nennle Rhmim taIca nn j i a.: r mm r expressea in ine eiecuonn vi ijit., w r,r mm n at nr this question and by appointment of do certain things. First among these , KWUK l ur inn ... . was the revision of the tariff. In the t.uiiiiiiiti,cco ui. wicir wn laio vuiuuku nrevious Presidential e.ection. that oi . xi-ti. r.mlmn t diligent missionary work induce every 1908, the Republicans had pledged cloge of busine8B March 4, 1915, , , ., , , . , tnemseives to a reiorm oi me wnu u,.,,M colored person thoroughly to clean up and then had 8tultified themselves by Resources his premises. i pushing the duties upward instead of , Loans and discounts JISSJI.ZJ ... . . . ... ciownwara, as tne voters naa apwuii. . uyuii ......... . Asheboro has the reputation of be- For thig betrayai 0f f aith the G. O. F. Asheboro Graded School Bonds ing a town with more . Deautitm was nunea irom power, uiu uir . ... .... . . . . . ... mocracy came into full control of the Banking HousejFunuture and ' homes than any other town of its Government. The Sixty-third Cong-t Fixtures 5,000.00 size in the State. ; ress kept entire faith with the Ameri-; Due from Banks and Bankers ... . , , , can people. It revised the tariff in ! We want not only the people who oo . mnADra faahinn. retain- C.h items 1.562,69 livn in hi fine houses to kepn their inir nrotective duties where essential Gold coin 5,755.00 ... . to industries ana eliminating or re- ouver coin, luciuwug " premises ciean out everyone in every dudng them where it waB Bhown Xhey home, however, small or humble it were not needed. In connection w:ui l mi v. i 1L i j the new tariff it also passed an in- may be, will help themselves - and me tax law, to whicfc all parties help the town by keeping their prem- had pledged themselves. j i ..1 j Thin henencient legislation, achlev- ises ciean uie year ruuiiu. ""V"-"- s ,aa n, tsia th,A 25.000.Uli . . CU 111 Bit Dcmuvu, .wTTv uiuyiuD .......... The worst eye sores in the town UD j the regular session by the pas-1 Undivided profits, less current are right by the side of th railroads ; sage of e Federal running into the town. f revolutionized and safeguarded: the Cashier's check outstanding 1,763.32 , . . . . . ': anti-Trust laws, including the crea- Total Z8.487ai Trash, rotten saw dust and shav- Feda, Tradomnjssion state of North Carolina, county oi ings, black mncK ana mire, can oe and the law admitting ioreign-Duui jtanaoipn, ss: coin currency ,iiv.tv National bank notes and other U. S. notes 6,218.00 Total 280.487.11 Liabilities Capital stock paid in .... 21.400.Oo fru i k. Mn vessels to American registry, by I, W. J. Armfield, Jr. - Cashier oi seen. These place ought to be con- merchant marine has been th shoved named bank do solemnly demned as nuisances. greatly benefitted. To the everlasting swear that the above statement is ,,. -n honor of the United States the pro-; true to the best of my knowledge " i viflinn of the Panama Canal act erant- his machinery should be under the ( ing exemption from tolls to American .belter when not in use. Exposure J tZ'Zi'TZ to tho elements is far more injurious American people was greatly enhanc- to farm implements than well directed d abroad.- Ihe European war intro wunuiuyiouxiuoaiu. duced many complications that im nsa. Therefore, the farmer who takes ! nnuH duties on Congress. The good car. of hi. implement, will tat. ernment yUyJ insur. this 10 day of March. 1 awl heilief. W. 2. Armfield, Jr., Cashier. Correct Attest: P. H. Morris, D. B. McCrary, T. H. Redding. Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before m, By virtue of the powers vested ia the undersigned by mortgage seed executed by John R. McLeod, ana wife Cassie E. McLeod, oa the CTth day of February,. 1914, recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph county in Book 15 page 155, I will sell at public auctteai for cash, at the court house door ia Ashe boro, ti. C, on the 11th day oi April, 1915, at 12 o'clock, noon, the fallow ing lands: lying and being ia Trinity township, Randolph county, Nerta. Carolina, bounded as follows, te-wit: Beginning at an iron stake in Haracu Ragan's line five feet west of a stone corner planted by A. U. TomMasen and D. M. Petty,, thence along, the public road from Freeman's store in the town of, Archdale to Trinity ia an easterly direction 247 feet to aa iron stake in Mrs. Horace Ragan's line; thence in a northerly direction US feet to an iron stake, Mrs, Horace Ragan's corner; thence in an easterly direction 97 feet to an iron staae in Mrs. Horace Ragan's line to the cor ner of what was formerly knows as the Shube waim place; thence m northerly direction 149 leet x we Petty line; thence in a westerly di rection 551 feet along- the Archdale Roller Mill road to an iron stake; thence south along the road betweea the Petty property, and Horace pa gan's property 102& feet to an iroa stake, Horace Ragan's corner; thenca easterly along Horace Ragan's tin. 182Vk leet more or less w an stake, Horace Ragan's corner; thenca 229 feet to thebeginning, contain ing 5 acres, more or less. The asm being what was formerly know aa the Moses uammona home piace. Said mortgage deed contains power of sale authorizing the under signed to make sal. of said laad ia event ox aaiauit oeing suae m payment of th. debt secured , by said morteaire deed.' said default having been made, this sale is accordingly made under said power. This 10th day or uarcn, EMMA H. SMITH, Mortgagee. them for use much longer than hi neighbor who allows them to remain under th. old apple tree all winter. How any weeds that may Le standing round th. homestead and driveway. improvement of our export trade. In th. session Just closed th. most important legislation ever enacted for the benefit of th. navy was pafti- ed, and provisions was made xor strengthening th. national defenses. Notary Public. LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS The Legislator, adjourned last Tuesday nicrht for th. session. 1.43 A. number ef isieasures failed, rX ; " hats been raufled. RANDOLPH SUPERIOR COURT March term of Randolph Superior court, for the trial of civil cases eon-i venes next Monday, March 15, and continues for two weeks, on aaarca 29, a one week's terra for th. trial of criminal cases, will begin. Persons who have 'civil cases will . attend court on the days their esses are calendared on during the first two weeks, and those having atminal cases or those who are witneskies ia criminal eases should attend at the term beginning March 29. v i