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PAGE FOUB. »a /Atcii} liicvuNtiTaM. !&:«;. FWDAY. NOVE^&i.£ 19, tm. eU of what was iheirs at Cbieas^j. It was n party tustom to cispose of fthUshcd Every Tuciaiajr a»d FrM»y ^onttsts |itid dispi»t«s s* they (ftd. Hi Tdce-t-VNk By The State Uiip»tch Pubiidtiiis C».. BarUattaa. 5f, C. , ; OAee, F»»t Ftovr. W«ller BulUifg. tateplMiae XcL 265. Sabaeriptiom 0«e D«U»r p« Y#**, l«yaU* iB advwc^; AU eWiMiiMfktiOMi a Ttgitd J»1 MVS Him* «• •»w*5S?* JHi* imU be MUmmcI U nc 9tai» m—mOi P^vSSig Co., aM aot ^ 5#^55aTiduae»Hieec«ed wKh the met. ■ !;'■#■■ ■ 'AH; news i*t*a sud ‘ tiaiw of impwiaoee niut be >(■•■ V wHter. • We H* net leapaauUe f*r •»»»■■ ■at tte eorre»p»n«iite. Sib^bers will Uk» sMice tlMt M rraipt for sabscriptim f*r Tke State Ap»teh Trill be honereA at this eihe aide«s it is numbetred with stanqna Entered as second-class matter Mar 16, 1908. at the pwt oifiM at BorlinetAn, Nwih Cardina, under tte .Aet of Co«igre»s of March 3, 1879. We want a few more correspon- -dents from the Idealities that are ribt alreads' taken.- Kindly look over this paper and note what sections arc not sending iii items and then let yourS- cdme. We will apfii'cciate your help this Tine very much. We have been ser.aing inis paper | c:;mplinier.tai*y: to some persons who | The same rules were in vogue in 190 i, wUeu Roosevelt was nominated jnd f ihe ^me niles were in vogue in when Robseve.t aided hi or hftd T*ft nominated. . Vfl^et^er these methods . had b^n u^d untii the time had come a change reinains to bo seen. Nej^ter sjdf -would (»/ aside rT>e#i50riaI pr^w- Tnci'- aikl- prejudice for party loj^y. ,that has got nothing p^da victory Re^blicans g'^hed ‘in the northern ^4ites yesterday. Boys, the Repubiinans afe^ rising, 1916 will be a home coming to the ttepublican party, The majority will swell out a mighty multitude. it matters not wbJih the Republi can party . nominates. northei*n Re publicans wiil have to elect him. The south may go Democratic and get their old reg-ular vote., in the electrol college. Because jvu know—Wijsb.i is the monstrous sti'ons—everythi;)^ he stands or has stood for has been repudiated at the polish Republicans, the people ot‘ ihe c juntry. I mean up north, and else- U'here are waiting for a chance iJ 1 sret to vete Wii.son and the whr.ii> i ■ ■ • ■ . I'ie'uocrat fiuiiily out oi che White useJ 10 a-3 •:orr«spcndcnts fvoTii coRiinuniiy sent iv-iy liemi WeUj Uiey wi.l aii be maiTicd vlu:-» buv some have •■•■oi ‘ -rc-^siUy- -c^ui.-e some woman ^:,id quite a wliile an.,1 j columns it was then- busnitfs unlfcss they ri’sunie shortly, wo ;hall; slop sending the paper. If your tim-’ is tC3 precious to 5pn';’e a few mii’.ut-jsi in grathcring items for our culum!'..*,! our paper is too precious to .send to j you free. w.>rd to tho wise ought; to he sufficient. ; ■ >j!ot;i '^.■uu^'o ’.'o; iid \va:it ;ul it is. : ihinii pcniimeri’ is. anti-Ocnl'>- luiiL- without much "L'feioiu-c to '.he ;i:'.diJute. i I.ie.moci-atic her.ciimcn ;uul lenders j! iii offer for iheir defe.;t I ' They were beui i ii j ; -ay—I mear. a nia Ui iriSnistration—a pcKcy; jnaiiitained at a time when the (tepartraent of Labor is sanding out bulletins show- ijjg ,T very large niymberrf s^mptoy- ea i:i practically every city in (he ijnited States. ■ In these days of brganii»tipn for mutual co-operation, every city lias its Chamber of Commeree or' BAard ■;f Trade for the purpose of promot ing local conimewiiail interests, to. en courage tlie developcieiit of local in dustries and iiiyite new enterprises to bekin operations in the local fieU. All these 'organizatiohs uric a' policy expressed- by the phraee, “PatKiiize Hime Indu^ios.” Every local mer chant, banker, ^nd mechanic preaches the dcictrino. Every newspaper giveS; columns of space to arguments de signed to induce its readers to biiy from local merchants. It is sound economic sense for the community, for the county., for the state, and for the nation. .Naturally, it is a severe shDck to people who. have contributed of their hard earned money to build up this se'itiment/when they see Government o!Ticial« usiiij; government money to faster Swiss industries. Not that the ,A.i;ierican' people have any prc.iudice whatever against' Swiss toys. Far fioin it- But the loyal American .has ar. intense prejudice in favor of the .American article, whether it be a toy c:- .somothiiip in the line of daily neces-. 5ity. .A:;(l ih.-it same loyal Amcric.,".n will ;;;. etiimi l‘or insincerity which j.ivachei ■■,Amt>ri;';i K!r.st,” and prac- t^'Oi^ l-’ir.-st.'* Ik'r.ce iJie likenhoOKi iiiai the de- .vn:,'.!: ,comincrco wi’l be e;;:':ai:; iifolf. > PRESIDENT SPEAKS FOR NA- - 1 TURNING OUT TUBERS, ,\ t’OKRECTfON. I 1* i ity- !Ml. .-\ir>, Nov. a lack of votc'.' .■V READER, i Kn.li-! E ,'iGHTED 'JH' P.AN. Fin INC. In our last issue we staled that Mrs. J. C. Copeland w-as visiting Mrs, > 0. F. Bennett in Greensboro. This "KOKfclGXEKS was a mistake. Mrs. Copeland is visitirg: Mrs. Bennett in Durham, X. C. These little errors will creep into a nawspaper office, but we regret it just the same. We want all our read ers to believe it is so when they see it in the Dispatch. 1:)15 TOO MUCH, Some of our friends are asking a most too much space ir. our paper for items that only interest same local cpmtnunity. We are always glad to give tTiatters of public interest, but to take up nearly a whole page for one community is spi'oading it on rather thick. In the future ve will give general publicity to all these mat- KI.RST,” t’R.'iTWC’ I’OLICV. DE.^fO- Caplain of Steam Barge Reports Encountering German Officers Sun day Week Asi>—Tried to Throw Liof .Aboard Yawl in Storm. (Special Correspondence) Washington, Nov. 10.—It is alto gether probable that Demotratic leaders in the coming session of Oan- gress will call some of the administra tive department heads to account for the manner in which government ap propriations have been expended. This administratian ha.s thrown itself open to just criticism in so many instances 'and in such important particulars that Democratic Congressmen will find embarrassment in defendinjj the party i-ecord in tiieir 1916 cam- paigiis. and they do not relish the predicument in v;h)ch they are un- i wi'liiifrly placed. I it i.s not mereiy extravagance that of every small detiil. We trust our I, . , j h;!s uut the Democratic parly jn bad friends will understand what we are .=:tanuins before tne ODun,try. If the driving at and will govern themselves! , , j j - I money .vere mereiy «~as;ed, domg no. accordingly. However we do job print- , , , . « . i ., J f (hody harm, there would be suiRcienc I Itig and v.-ill be glad to have the work I . , ... . ^ : I grounds for criticism, but when the i done upon this basis, i i • ■ . . • .t. j' ! aamsnisti’ation uses the nvoney and offices of the -Americun people against i the interests of our own countryme:t, ^ . ... I distanced the heavy steam barge and the situation is one that invites a , , J , ■ , I ;il’-l,;:uEh Captain Wilson hailed the degree of censure and rebuke that' Taxes and then more taxes! Li cense taxes and more license taxes seem to ba the order of the day. Re- iji'iigcpori„ Conn., Nov. 8.—Capt lin George Wilson the steam barge Mary Ann, just arrived in Bridgeport from Brunswick, Ga., reported today that he sighted the auxiliary yaivl Kciipse on which six interned German officers recently escaped from Norfolk as he was 'off Fryinjf Pan Shoals, North Carolina, a week ago last Sun day. Although positive in his identifica tion of the vessel, with which he is very familiar. Captain Wilsor. has not yet notified the State Department of the sighting jf the fugitive officers craft. Captain Wilson stated that he sighted the yawl during a bejivy wine storm. She seemed to be having a hard time keeping her deck above water. The barge captain bore down upoi', the Eclipse intending to throw a tow line alwavd. Fiour of the Ger mans, however i-ushed on deck and hoisted the sails. With sail? under water the liltle craft sped away before thi wind. The light y.iwl easily ou,- TlONAl^ PREPAREDNESS. C»Ued. Upon. M» of All Shade* tif OpinioB to Support Program—Call to ReelconiBg. cently a gentleman representing the • venders the word “criticism” inade- ■ ] nit:i '.!i the yawl they gave no re state Auditor has been in this com- , quate. , sponse. munity, looking up special taxes and . ^he recent example of the depart-' what he did to the boys was A?., And | ^ent cf commerce issuing a statement' I'.VSTOR .\GA1XST PROHIBITION, the end is n^t yet. The government j press boasting that it had aided ^ of Stace is being run with a lavish ! Swis.s manufacturers in securing or-! Infrinpement of Personal Rights, He hand and they must have more money ; jers for toys in American is a case ^ Tells Colleagues, and still more. Those who have mast j While American toy itianu-1 have it taken from them, and thos3• employing salesmen to' (Pittsburg liispa.tch.k wh^ have n^ must have even that j pi^ee their go^ds in their ow'n home : Declaring that prohihitio:’. :if the which they have taken from them. | market, the department lent the aid liquor traffic- i* impracticable and that This may not be just exactly orthodox jjjf Government employes to the mar- such action deprives citizens of their but it illustrates what we mean, and : kiting of Swiss goods in this country ' consitutiona! rights, the Rev. John S. those who have visited know all about jj,, competition with the .American p.-3- jA'oung. pa.stor of the W^est End Pres it, Dearly beloved, there is still one!^,j(.j illustration of the Dem-'byterian Church, startled his fellow ■.•emedy and only one, turn the rascals J jjgg gf “America First” this' ministers at the weekly meeting to- otit. LOOKS FOR REPUBLICAN TORY. Editor of t.he Daily News: I have been following tht- letters in this department with keen interest. 1 only asked the Republican writers to wait with due patience and iet tke party select a candidate for Presi dent and not try and cross the bridge before they reached it. I asked the Deirinerats thank Roosevelt for Wilson and not thank God. Roosevelt and his followers claim ed they were steam rolled, or depriv- ■ is ,1 shining example that has prob- ■ ably never been surpassed. The VIC- nearest approach to it was the re- I movnl of the sugar duty at the re- jouest of men who openly admittied tliat they expected -such action to di ivc American producers cut of busi ness. With an administration preaching “.America First” and practicing “Switzerland First.” the Democrsitic spell-bindar of 1916 is certain to have a sorry time. He will have an em barrassing time of it when some na tive bom American citizen stands up in the audience and asks tho candidate •to expl&in this feature of Democratic day of Presbyterian clergymtn. “I have said and now say,” went on the Rev. Mr. Young, “that I am not an advocate of prohibition. The sa loon today is the destruction of our .American citizenship, but prohibition, which is directly against the Constitu tion of the United States, will never cure the evil. “Men must be educated to leave li quor alone. No other way will be found in my opinion, to correct the evil. And unless our Constitution is changed I see n-:> other way to avoid depriving a man of his constitutional rights.” Gratitude is aij^ of thf hardest debts pay, v. .. New York, Nov. S.—President Wilson opened the .Administration campaign for its Natrjoal defense program in a comprehensive .and ftilly prepaml address delivered at the Manhailan Club baniiu^, H-' declared solemnly . tlat the United States had no agifi^sive purposes, bat must be prepared to defend id^tlT in order to. assume “full liberty and self-develbpment.” Significantly, he said that “with ourselves in this great matter we associate all the people of bur own.hemisphere,'' adding thet "we wish not only for the United States but for them the fullest freedpm of independent grow'th of action." The President was received with enthusiastic applause as he entered the banquet hall and during his ad dress. The hall was deeirated with -American flags and filled even to the galleries with Democrats happy over their victory of Tues,day in New York City. When the President aros«j to spc?.k every one spplauded until he was forced to sij-nal for quiet. i “Within a year,” said the Presi dent, “wc have witnessed, wliat >ve did not think possible, a groat Eu ropean conflict involving many of the greatest nations of the vrorUl. Tho ir.fiUciices -if the srient war are ev- j;ywhere i'.'. thy ai'% .A,;l Europe is ■1 i'attle. i'ors'f everywhere speaks tut with a Imul ar’.d imperious voice in a litr.iii.' sirusiiie of Govermnent I’.iiii fivni one er.J of jui- own dear I'lu n-y to the other men nre asking Oire another what our own force is, l;;,w f;ir we are prepared to main- ::;in oaisRive.; airainrt a.'iy interfer ence wiih GUI- .National action or de velopment,” The r’ieside::t called upon “men ci al! shade.s of political opinion” to ral ly to the support of the defen.se p'-o- grani. He said it repre.sented "the best profession.il and expert opinion of the country” and gave warning that “if men differ with me in thi,s vital matter, I shal! ask them to n-uilce it clear how far and in what way they are interested in making the permanent interests of the coun try safe against disturbances." There is no need for the country ti3 feel panic-stricken, the President declared; because it stands in friend ly relations '*ith the world. He spoke of the United States as “a nation too big and generous to be exacting but yet courageous enough to defend its rights and the libeitics of its people wherever assailed or involved." Outlining the defense program the President said it included an in crease in the standing army, the training within the next three years of 400,000 citizen soldiers to be rais ed in annual forces of 133,000 and the .strengthening of the National Guard. Ha laid particular empha- .‘sis on the need of ample equipment. The Pre.>>ideni, declared that the Navy already i.s a ‘"very great and ef ficient force” but that in order to bring it to a point of “extraordinary force and efSciency" a definite policy must be adopted and hastened, and an adequate supply of men and equipment provided. In addition to speaking on Na tional defen.se, the President attack- e.'l "men who love other countries better than -America” and men who stir up religion.-^ and seotari an a;i- ti.gonism. He declared that such men sJiauId be “called to a reckon ing.” Just before the dinner vhe Presi dent shook hamls with all the guests, includin.tc Charics F. Murphy. KRYAN ADDRESSES GOLDSBORO CROWD. Ftirmtr Secretarj' of State Fays Tri- butc to President Wilson. Goldsboro, Nov, 8.—Some of the jingo papers have been throwing fits over Mr. Bryan’s alleged criticism of President Wilson’s prepardedne.^ policy. No fin^ tl^l^ufte oould be paid Mr. Wilson than was spoken of him by Mr. Bryan in his address here today. Two incidents stand out in the farm ing experienres‘of Will'Edwards, 6f Lee county, North Carolina. Both were valuable. Icsajns driven home by experience. In 1901, when cotton was his chief crop, his yield from tweiity- one ncres was only seven iides. That .was a co^ivincing lesson in favor of divcrsifieation. The other escpprleijce c,amc iii 1913, when he traveled: alt ;i»e way to Pittsburgh, Pennsjlvaiilx' to interest commission merchant&^^ia the Southern sweet potato—only to return homeland create a k^cl mar ket. . ^ese two revere were bi^ factors in establishing his future .suc cess ^with sweets. : When Mr. Edwards first began growing sweet potatoes for the hoEne market he was looked upon as. a fad dist. For fifteen years, however, he' had . supplied his own community as well a.3 other towns throughout the state with sweet potato plants for bedding. Why iiuld not the vege table itself be gro^ii at a profit? How ue!l this one-horse farmer did create a deniar.d linds abundant testimony in figures. He has kept records on his t\yo-acre potato field. Here are the figures for the year, 1914: lie bedded sixty biishelst Prom those beds he gathered and shipped to local markets 88,500 potato plants. The market price ranged from a dol- Uu- and fifty cents to two dollars a tiiousand. His total income from that source was .sir)2.7.5. Two dollars for i;!trate of soda represented his cash ol:t!ay. Seed potatccs, manure and k-.bcir misrht thus be reprrssr.Le-;!; Potatoes were wjrth six’y dollars, twenty-eight dollars, bedding :,r.d ma;’.i::re ten dollars. This still left ;i profit of fifty-two dollars and j seventy-rive cents. He marketed 400 of the oOO bushels produced at an average market price ef eighty cents a bushel. The total income was Fi^^uring his ex- j-er.se for labor in handling, storing jflnd barreiiji^r at twenty cents a bushel jisnd the other itom.s of expense are i thus distributed; Coat of bedding, three cents; plants, twa cc-nt.-i; waste I by shrinking and rotting, five cent.s. (These figure.s place the cost of pro- I duction at thirty cents a bushel. ,' The local market used his entire I crop. A railroad dining car service was his biggest customer. A division ojvcring a distance of 200 miles en.. gaged nine bushels a week from Sep tember to May! The potatoes were packcd in apple barrels and deliver^ r.t the !o«iI siatian. They were as sorted in three grade-s—fancy, medi um and “strings.” The potato diuiy kept by Mr. Ed- wai'ds revealr, ihe cultural methods I'.e fjllows. The land is broken in March to a depth of four inches. Sub sequent workings with a harrow are made between March and Juno to pro duce a medow seed bed. Ten two- horse loads of stable manure are ap plied to the acre. Six hundred pounds of commercial fertilizer are used, the analysis being ammonia, thi-ee per cent; potash, ten per cent; phosphoric acid, eight per cent. The plants are r.rt the first of June. The rows are three feet apart and the plants are set eighteen inches apart in the row. four cultivations with the plow and two with the hoe are given. His methods of storing sweet pota toes through the winter months are significant, since he attributes a large share of his success as a potato . grower to this matter. Here is ivhat ■ his diary records; Potatoes arc dug 'after the first killing frost. The.v are hilled in the patch in conical-shaped mounds, each containing thirty to forty bushels. A -one-horse load of pine straw is used to each hill, the straw being piled to the depth of a man's arm. Then a sprinkling of earth, Just enough to hold tho straw and to exclude air, ir. heaped on the mound. The hills are capped at the grower to thi matter. Here is what top with straw when no wooden shel ter is provided. A variety ,f potato to easily subject to “sweating’' is best stored with the straw cap, rather tha^i under a wooden shelter. The tem perature of each hill ttsrtakeTi at*Tcgui lar intervals. From October to ejirly spring the potatoes .ire kept in the hills. October interests share Mr. Ed- «-ard’s attention. Catton, My betiK*,' dewberries and a plum orchard ate profitable enterprises on his sixty ' aerw ia caitivatioii. But : potato^ we his-hobby. Furthermore, He be- : li«T^ that two Mres that iirork are wjrth fiftj ^at siilk. S. R. W. A PROFITABLE SERI^ OF ; ■ swAP^. (Fi'om the; J^thfinder,) If some genius would e»tab!i^ g. sort of 'iinivwsalt , ohe could trade - off his un-heed^ ojr .. tinuscd pojssesisipnii for’those of somcs one else which he could profttsbly use would be universally hailed its a benefact-;-. Such an exchati^ would ddubtlesj. prevent many dis appointments and losses ithat result when dissatisfied pJ.sons undertake on their own hook to dispose of property of which they have gi'O'.vn tired, or for which they have no furtlier use, for liot every one is fortunate and successful as Harry Turner of Ger mantown, Pa. Turner had a box cainera for which he had paid |28. It was a perf^ly good cainera and gave satisfactiDry re sults blit he grew tired of it and in-.^. serted an advertisement in the ex- change-and-sale columns of . a news paper. Not long afterwards the own er of a white elephant in the shape of an organ called t.i talk business v.'ith him. It didn’t take them long ito close a bargain and Turner found himse’f the possessor of an orsan. In tir.ie, however, the music of the organ leg,-.-!’, io pall on him and he swap ped it for a bicyc’e, .After riding the bicycle a while he yielded to the long ing for music wliich had returned an ! exchanged the vehicle for a phono graph and a bunch of i-eaords, gel ling ?2o to boot. The phonogi-aph vva.s a,l right but when it. came into his possession Tur ner began to see vhe possibilities ip. ii continuous exchange of property and determined to keep right on. He cpn- ti.iued to patronize the advertising columns of the paper and in a short time the phonograph became the prop erty of an Englishman who gave in return for it three good old painting.'. Turner re.illy ditn’t realize th« valoe of these works of art until he was offered eight bailting lots for them. Ha quickly relinquished title to the pictures, honvever. and became owner of the real estate. In a short tisne he traded this p^^perty to a man and his wife for an automobile that had cost $4,000. Turner and his family enjoyed rid- i -.ir in tho machine for six months. Then they decided it would he moie fun to ride ir, a mott^rboat. An ad was inserted in the paper as a matter of course and in a trice the auto was turned over to a man who gave a 30- foot motorboat in exchange for it. The family enjoyed this for quite a while and then some one made a cash offer cf $57.'> for it. Turner promptly sold the boat and with part of the pro ceeds bought a smaller one. -At last accounts Turner was rest ing on his laurels, well satisfied with the results of his trading for, in ad dition to the motorboat he had ac cumulated enough money to buy a number of cameras if he had wanted them, Beside.s, be says, he had lots of fun out of the experiences and at the .same time had the use of every one of the articles that passed thnsugh his .‘lands in the series of exchanges. Best of all, every one concerned was perfectly satisfied and glad to’make ’.he o.xchangos. Not long ago a legal light in Wash ington had occasion to call upon a cer tain ofl^ci-il of the treasury department I whose softly modulated 'voice had ■ g.-'-inet! him the designation of “the ; E'ilent one.” ' Tho messenger to this -oCicial stop^ I I pcd the lawyer as he was going i;rto the room, saying th.it bis chief was “not in.” “Oh, yes, he is,” said the lawyer, “he’s in there!” and he pointed to the room, the inside of which was rtot \isible from where he stood. “But, sir—but,” bega» the puzzled and bewildered messenger, “how do you know that?” “Because,” chuckled the visitor, “It’s so still in there!” POOR PI - •
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