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m r. F. D. Mo. 1. Mr. Tom Boswell and sister Miss Minnie visited at Mr. G. 'W. Patterson Saturday and Sunday and attended the picnic at D. M. Elders. Misses Lois Reitzel, Vivian Kendrick visited at Mr. J. F. Homewood’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Watson of Elm City are visiting friends and relatives on No. 1 Mr. ‘Biir Bennette was a caller on No. 1 Saturday and Sunday. He took in the picnic too. Messrs. T. H. McPherson, Roy Homewood and Miss Eunice Homewood attended the meeting »t Rock Creek Sunday. Mr. E. V. Pattereon is spend ing a few days with his father Mr. E. Patterson. Mr. Ben Stockard of Greens boro visited on No. 1 last week. Quite a number of our young people are preparing to go to College shortly. Miss Myrtle Moser spent Sat urday night with S. Homewood’s family on No, 7. L. J. Bramble visited relatives in Burlington Sunday. Dr Isley of Va. was out on No. I Monday visiting relatives. We wish to thank D. M. Elder for the use of his grove etc. for our picnic Saturday, also the Speakers, Musicians. No. Iwas well represented and we appre ciate the fact that these good people helped to make same a success. Fine showers on No. 1 these days. Miss Coble and Sam Cameron, of Greensboro, and Mrs. Joe Shof f ner of Burlington spent Tuesday with Mrs. J. A. Loy-. Rev. V. R. Stickley spent Fri day night with R. S. Shoff nefi*. The following visited A. L, Co ble since last writing: Dr. L. G. Coble of Greensboro, Rev. V. R. 5tickley and wife, Mrs. W. J. Thompson and children of Whit- sett and Miss Nannie Isiey of Richmond. Miss Lois Reitzell went to Ral eigh Tuesday on business. community visiting relatives and iriends, and attending the pro- raeted services at St, Marks. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Boone of W hitsettand Mr. and Mrs; C. D. Story of No. 6 visited visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sharpe Sunday. Several fi*om the route attend ed the picnic at D. M. Elders -Saturday and report a fine time. The protracted meeting closed ^t St. Marks Thursday afternoon Each service was attended by a large crowd. We hope Rev. Cox can be with us again for he is a splendid speaker. Mr. and'Mrs. J. M. Cheek spent Thursday evening with iVIr. and Mrs. T. C. Whitesell. Mr. Andrew Crouse of Hickory N. C. is visiting his brother Mr. A. B. Crouse. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Whitt and daughter Pearl spent Saturday and Sunday visiting Mr. Whitt’s brother near White Oaks. R. F. D. No. 4. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dixon of Washington N. C. are sending two weeks on the route visiting Mrs. Dixon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Whitesell. We are glad to note that Mr, Albert Sheperd is improving. Miss Bertha Boone has been visiting in Builing^on. Miss Emma Huffman of Bur lington spent last week in the Roosevelt and Perkins. . George Washington was a good soldier—and about the richest man in the country, when he did his great work for this republic. No^y suggests that he ought to have kept out of politics be cause he happened to be rich. Jacques Coeur was the richest man in all Europe when his pow er of organization and his great capital were put at the service of France in a crisis brought on by incompetency in government. Disraeli, who did so much for England—more than any other man, perhaps, except Pitt-~was a man of great power and would have been a man of vast wealth if he had thought it worth while to make money' He made mil lions for England in his purchase of the Suez canal bonds, and hundreds of millions in other ways. If other men, having proved their ability in the big industrial work of the country, will follow the example ol Perkins and take a share in government and a place in politics, they will do much to increase efficiency in government affairs. And they need not abandon their big undertakings—if those undertakings are legitimate. A man should be a builder as well as a talker and a lawmaker, j The ablest men in government ! have been unusually able in prac tical affairs. The wonderful fight that Vol- j taire made against oppression and vile injustice did not prevent his building up a prosperous com munity and making himself a very rich man. Necker was a business man as well as a. great statesman. Colonel Roosevelt should not seem to apologize for having Perkins with him. On the con trary, he should b€i proud of having started a progressive movement that can attract suc cessful men, and not merely at tract the hacks and the failures of other political parties. While Rooseevlt was spe*iking to thirty thousaild, men and wo men.in Boston, some one in the crowd yelled, “Tell us about Perkins!” Roosevelt replied, “I’m glad you asked thiat question,” and then answered it. He said tliat f*erkins although ajich man, has joined the Pro gressive party and interested himself in politics Becanse He Has Children And Felt That It Was His Duty To Do What He Could To Make Conditions Better In The Country In Whi^h The Childrien Would Live After Their Father’s Departure. Mr. Roosevelt also said that Mr. Perkins had made all the money he wanted ^nd now want ed to do something really useful and worth while for the country at large. This^country is glad to see men of ability come oiit in the open, work politically in the open, use their influence and intelligence in the open—instead of working in the old-fashioned “rich man’s way” behind closed doors, using cash to buy those in office, or pro mote legislation. This country needs men of ABILITY in public affairs. Gov- ernment means something more than getting offices and dividing them up, something more than collecting taxes and spending them extravagantly. This country needs all of the ability of its ablest men. It should have such men as J. J. Hill working for the nation, instead of working, however 'jse- fullv, as railroad builders for themselves. The big rewards in this world attract the big and the able men. And the small rewards, outside of periods of great national ex citement, attract the small and feeble men. Our Government has been of fering small rewards to its em ployes, while industry, railroad building, great corporations and organizations of all kinds have been offering great rewards. Therefore, men^ of unusual, power and ability have been drafted into the industrial field and away from the field of poli ties and of government. It is a good sign when a man like Perkins. able as any of the big organi^'^rj! and managers, decides that it i*’ more worth while to snare in (government than to make addit ional money.’’ Agassiz, the great seientistj preached a whole sermon when he said, “I am too busy to make money.” « It would be an excellent thing for America if more of the ablest men should tire of the money making game, as Perkins seems to have tired, of it, and should find, tliemselVes, “too busy to continue making money,” too much interest^ in, pub|ic and im portant affairs to continue work ing for private profit. The articles in the IJearst Mag azine shows us our collection of ^enatore and other public officials acting as toadies, servants and handy men for the big geniuses of the industrial world. It is humiliating to see the re presentatives of the people and of the government accepting the pay of industrial organizers and acting as the lackeys of .those organizers. The country needs the work of such men ai E, H. >larriman, powerful and strong enough to build thousands uoon thousands of miles of railroad in a life that ended too soon. The country needs the imagination and power of such a man as J. Pierpont Morgan, wasting his energies now in the accumulation of mon ey that does him no good—al though they may be useful to the country in future. A mail like Morgan, if he were interested in the Uni red States, instead of being interested in J. P. Morgan and Company, would give this country the canals, roads and other facilities that it needs, and very soon give it the beginning of Government owner ship that it needs. The country has been served too long and too often by men who went into politics and got places in Government Because They Were Fit For Nothing Else In Particular, or because of a hysterical, half baked ambition that led them nowhere. One first-class BIG man of the type that this country produces in its industries and its railroad building would keep half a dozen legislatures hdnest. One such man as George Per kins, giving to the business of the people the eriergjr ftttd Cap acity that he had given to pri vate business undertakiiigw. Would be a good new thing in politics, and a useful pian in gov ernment. And the! people are bound, until they; have proof to the contrary, to assume that Perkins is sincere in his advocacyi of the ne w party r^which has an tagonized and is denouaced by most of the men richland influent ial as Perkins is. A proof of the value of Perkins in a political org:aniza;ti6n was given at the Roosevelt cohtfention in Chicago. Mr. Perkins dirfects the finan cial and practicikl management of the Roosevelt party- Luckily For ThdJParty. The Roosevelt convention hirea the hall occupied previousiy by the Republican (convention, It had the same bands: it printed the same finely e^ngraved tickets. And the Roosevelt convention cost altogether in Chicago seven teen thousand dollars, whereas the regular* Republican conven tion, managed by the old fashion* ed grafting politicians, Cost More Than Ninety Thousand Dollars. In other words, under (Jldl^h- ioned political managehient, a Republican convention costabbut seven tv-five thousand dollars, or five hundred per cent, more than exactly the same kind of a con vention managed by a man used to business undertakini^s. It would be interesting to know who got the seventy-five thour sanddollai’s difference in the cost of the Republican convention. The fact may also be mention ed that the Roosevelt convention not only cost seventeen thousand dollars as coaip>ired with ninety- odd thousand for the Riepubiican convention, but the iwosevelt convention sold ticcets of admis sion, to^k in nineteen thousand dollars m cash from the public which was really interested in the birth of new Progressive party. And when the conven tion was over, the Progressive party, financially manajged by Perkins, had two thousand in cash more than it had when the convention opened—^ something quite new as politieans will ad- rnit. The country needs to get rid of political hacks and profession- al candidates. It wants to inter est in politics and in government the ablest men that country possesses. Wherever big work has been done in a country, it has bee^n done by men of power —and usually by men that have proved successful n else besides politics* ing.'.V _ Fine results must be follo«r,v the ninnmg of a dairy stock train over the linoc ^ Southern Railway in North Carolina and upner Carolina. Several dairies have been succS ,1® established in some North rlv ohna counties, and it SsTf!: the South Carolini farmers hecoine specially interested ! the badly needed industrl 2 buttenroking. We have ureri cwqwrative dairying as a maS of Stouth^ salvation, 18 mihniited demand S products right at home and S sequent assurance of sucS when danes are properly conH? cted on a sokle that will pernJi of business like distributfon^f home dwry products of ality.-^ Wilmington, N r Star. ’ Tlus good movement should not be given a set back by the wmpetition of counterfeit nr-u duets> Those interested in utheTO dwrying should resist any lowering of the restructio- ns now existing. If the pfeseat oleomarganne law is to be cha nged it should be strengthened- rather ttian weakened. The Nation D^ry Union has perfe- which expresses what the dairy interests of the country stand for. Southern congressmen should stand for developing Southern dairy, ing. The North Carolina STATE NORMAL and INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE Maintained by the State for the Women of North Carolina. Five regular Courses leading to de grees. Special Courses for teach ere. Free tuition to those who agree to beconie teachers in the State. Fall Session begins Sep tember 18, 1912. For catalogue and other information, address JULIIISI. FOUST Pres. Greenslionijifi; Henry Watterson predictstbat Bryan and Wilson will cme ta blows. There is nothin? bores a Kentucky editor like too much harmony, I. MAZUR )UR NEW AND HANDSOME STORE BUILD INC ON MAIN STREET Next to Freemans Drug Store. $7,500.00 worth of fine Clothing, Shoes, Dry Goods and Ladies and Men’s Furnishing; is still left over in our store, which we want to sell before we move. Broken lots, od( numbers are worth half price to the Merchant but not to the customers Come here and get good new seasonable stock for nearly a half of th value, our aim is not to carry over any goods from this store to ou] new Store if cut prices will help us to do so. Come Early and ^t the Best Bargains Left I J. MAZUR,
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