8 Uumi Panip!t!(t file ubrmtt OF OAVtOSON COLLEGE BEASLEY’S FARIVI and home: Volume 11. Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, September 25,1941. Number 39. PRESENT VIEW OF VEW SEA TACTICS TELLING ON HITLER 'American Naval Policy, With Aid to Russia Thought to be Hav ing Maarked Effect ALLIES HAVE INITIATIVE Lindbergh Speech Goes Sour And Congress Begins to Shift Disgust With That Speech, Position of Legion, and Roosevelt’s Order to Shoot, All Combine to Decrease Oppcyxiion to Roosevelt Policy The United States News, close ob server of domestic and foreign af fairs, says that the naval supremacy of the United States and Britain, act ing together, is ber»g clearly demon strated on the oceans of the world. This important fact emerges after the first few days of operations by the United States Navy under orders of President Roosevelt to shoot Ger man and Italian submarines and sea raiders on eight. In the Atlantic, during those days, the American patrols swept the seas without encountering any opposition from the. Germans. In the Pacific, the main American fleet is at anchor at Hawaii, without being challenged by the naval forces of Japan. *The fact of U. S.-British naval su premacy is held to outweigh the cur rent German successes in Russia, ominous as these appear to be. To meet the immediate situation in Rus sia, Britain and the United states are sending fighter planes to the Russian front with all speed. But the U. S.-British seizure of complete control of the oceans is re garded in high government circles as a heavy blow to Hitler. In the Battle of the Atlantic, held to be the most vital of all. Hitler is declared to have suffered a major defeat. Holding the Initiative Underlying the U. S.-British strat egy is the fact that President Roose velt and Prime Minister Churchill are determined not to lose the initiative which they seized at the time of their meeting at sea in August. The first action they took after this conference was their joint dec laration of peace aims. This action caused Hitler and Mussilini to follow with a idfeclaration of Axis aims. Next, the Roosevelt - Churchill strategy showed up in the squeeze put on Japan through economic sanc tions. A complete settlement of dif ferences with Japan has not yet ma terialized, but, for the present at least, any Japanese plans for further aggression have been> stopped. The U. S.-Japanese war which Hitler has been seeking has n^t occurred. The third instance in which the initiative was taken was in Presi dent Roosevelt’s “'shoot on sight” or der to the Navy. In official circles, this order is believed to have taken Hitler by surprise. Hitler, it. is be lieved, when he embarked upon his campaign of sinking American ships, counted on disunity in the United States to prevent any strong meas ures on the part of this government. Now, with Russia being forced to give up strategic industrial areas to the invading Germans, the American and British governments are prepar ing further moves in concert. In the Atlantic Secretary of the Navy Knox says that the Navy now is protecting ships all the way from this country to the vicinity of Iceland. He says that con voying is one method of protection being used. Reports that the unusual ly large number of ships assembled in New York harbor are gathering #or inclusion in a convoy are not de nied. I But both President Roosevelt and Secretary Knox make it clear that convoying is only one of the methods of protection being used. From other sources come hints of a new system of patrols, which meets, the modern threat of airplanes as well as sub marines. In this new method of war fare, bombers and observation planes operate from key points and can con centrate at danger spots as these de velop. One advantage of this system over convoying, it is said, is that fast ships are safer when traveling alone than when they have to cut their speed down to that of the slowest ship in a convoy. Possibility that land planes of the army also may be used in the Atlantic patrol is suggested by Assistant Sec retary of War John J. McCloy. “Liand planes ,can opeirate from our bases,” Mr. McCloy says, “and the Navy people tell me that they should be able to exert a decisive in fluence on the ship sinkings in the Atlantic immediately they set about the job on an all-out basis. That ade quate protection does afford safety to ships is proved by the fact that Canadian forces in the war have yet to lose a single soldier in convoy.” Plans are being discussed _ also to have the bombing planes being fer ried to Britain carry loads of bombs when they go. Thus they could hunt for submarines on the way over and, if necessary, drop a few bombs. Another plan now being discussed is the arming of merchantment, as President Wilson advocated in 1917. Secretary Knox, however, points out that one drawback to such a plan is the fact that there are not now suf ficient guns for this purpose. To leg alize the arming of American merch ant ships, the Neutrality Act would have to be moidified. Meanwhile, the Navy announces measures of another kind to make sure of a bridge of ships between this country and Britain. A new govern ment corporation, Ships, Inc., is being formed for mass production of vessels of revolutionary design, called “sea otters." These ships, intended for transfer under the lend-lease pro gram, can be completed in two months MORE ON PAGE FOUR Two things have influenced the op ponents of the Roosevelt fpreign pol icy so that keen observers in Wash ington see the decrease of power of the anti-Roosevelt members of Con gress, both in the senate and house, and many think that the isolationists will soon begin to climb on the band wagon. These two influences are the last speech of Charles A. Lindbergh, in which he said that Churchill, Roosevelt and the Jews were the great war mongers, and the resolu tion of American leaders sustaining the President’s position. Arthur Krock, the well known Washington correspondent of the New York Times, thinks that the opposition in congress is about to break up. The reasons for the shift that has occurred and is about to occur, he says, are not hard tx) find, and then continues as follows: When the President ordered the Navy to shoot at sight obstructionists to our war-bound commerce in any waters he might deem essential to national defense, a condition sup planted a theory. The foreign jwlicy debate became to a very great de gree thunder in the index. Represen tative Dirksen of Illinois, who voted against the reneal of the arms em bargo, the lease-lend bill and the se lective service law, expressed the view of many when he suddenly said to a cheering House; “The President has announced a policy of patrolling and clearing the waters which are deemed necessary to our defense and for the mainten ance of freedom of the seas. That policy is now known to all the world. To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the _ President’s position, impair our pr.estige and im peril the nation.” Great Change Over House He was challenged next day by Representative Thill of Wisconsin, who declared he and others would not surrender the right and what they conceived to be the duty of cotitinued policy opposition. But from the re ception of his remarks it was evident that a great change has come over the House. Things were not as they had been. The resolutions adopted by the American Legion, which long has ar gued against another war adventure abroad, are another factor in the shift. Among members of Congress the Legion, because of its local activi ties and the size of its roster, is one of the most influential organizations in the United States. Its endorsement of proposed measures or policies at tracts a large following at once, and its Milwaukee resolutins were care fully noted by all the members of Congress. The bad news from the Russian campaign had a similar effect. Ger man successes against the Soviet i-poved further into the zone of real ism the situation in which this coun try finds itself. Many who had been hopeful that Hitler would meet his doom on the steppes and in the marshes of Russia, and were the more determined to try to keep this country from war involvement because they believed events would destroy the ar gument of necessity and inevitability, saw their hope vanishing and with it their expedient reasoning. A very important element in break ing up the solidarity of the Con gressional group was Charles A. Lindbregh’s Des Moines speech. No one has yet ventured to defend it or its utterer, a most significant symp tom in Congress. Members returning from the Midwest reported a vigor ous revolt against the speech, which naturally progressed into opposition to the policy on which it was based. A Washington correspondent for Northwestern newspapers canvassed forty representatives, recently from home, and found some of the strong est opponents of the President’s pol- MORE ON PAGE THREE Human Interest HITLER MUST BE DESTROYED- WEEK’S EVENTS IN DEFENSE WORK President Asks For Six Billion; New Tax Bill; New Kind of Ship, Sea Otter The President asked Congress for six billion dollars more for materials. Lend-Lease Administrator Stetinus was given power to approve aid re quests; this with other changes is expected to cut from 30 to 15 days the period between receipt of a request and actual authorization for assis tance. Mr. Roosevelt told Confess that of the original seven billion ap propriated six months ago, all but $720,000,000 is “now moving througn the sucessive stages of allocatioii, obligation, proiduction and delivery.” He said $246,400,000 in materials and $78,170,000 in services has been given the anti-Axis nations. The Defense Supplies Corporation, an RFC subsidary, contracted with Amtorg Trading Corporation, a U. S. Corporation owned by Russia, for the purchase of $100,000,000 of manga nese; chromite, asbestos and platinum. The supplies agency arranged tc pay Amtorg half of the amount in ad vance so Russia could us the money to buy war materials here. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau similar] v ad vanced the Soviet Union $10,000,000 on future gold deliveries to the United States. Navy Protecting Ships Navy Secretary Knox told the American Legion convention the Navy is using all methods, includiag convoys, to protect vessels of all flags carrying aid to Britain. He sa;'l the Navy has orders to capture or de stroy, by every means at their dis posal, Axis-controlled submarines or surface raiders in the waters between the U. S. and Iceland. Neutrality Act Interpretation The State Department announced that as a result, of an interpretation by the Attorney General that the “United Kingdom’’ is only England, Wales and North Ireland, American ships may henceforth' carry supplies and passengers to parts of the British Empire not designated by the Presi dent to be in combat areas. Under this interpretation American ships are still barred from going to France, Poland, India, and the United King dom, Australia, Canady, New_ Zealand and the Union of South Africa. Navy Expansion Progress The Navv reported it has contract ed for 2,831 ships, including 332 fighting vessels — every ship _ is authorized .under the seven billion dollar program to create “the great est array of fighting ships under one flag the world has ever seen,” 32 battleships, 18 aircraft carriers, 91 cruisers, 364 destroyers and 186 submarines, a total fighting fleet of 691 ships. The Navy announced development of a 1,900-ton cargo vessel, the Sea- Otter, so “light in weight, simple in construction, relatively cheap in both original cost and upkeep . . (it) will challenge the "submarine and provide a new bridge to, the free nations of the world.” The vessel is so small it can be built in inland yards in two months. It will carry an anti-aircraft oattery, be manned- by only a few MORE ON POGE THREE —- McNEILL’S ODE TO OLD NINETY-SEVEN Retirement of Mailman Dun lap of Washington and Char lotte Recalls Old Wreck FRENCH BOYS CROSS OVER No one in whom the spirit of ad venture lives can fail to be stirred by the story of the five French lads, none of them more than 19 years old, who braved the dangers of the Eng lish Channel in two small canoes to join the Free French forces in Brit ain. For two nights and a day they battled the tides, and those who know the choppy seas of that waterway will appreciate what that means. In daytime they dared not hoist their tiny sails for fear of being seen from Germ.an patrol planes, but paddled stoutly on.. Near land one craft struck a rock and sank, but the three boys in it swam safely to shore. In these five youths you have the true spirit of France. Two centuries ago it car ried the indomitable Champlain by lake and river into the heart of the Canadian wilderness and gave the French an oversea empire. In the last war it drove back the Germans from the Marne and held them at Verdun. That spirit is not dead. It is only benumbed by great misfortune and held cajitive by the might of for eign arms and the treachery of self- seeking- politicians. WAS NOT AVAILABLE A 26-year-o.ld Atlanta negro laborer, William B. Crawford, was wanted by Uncle Sam the past week to serve his hitch in the army, and was so notified by At lanta Draft Board No. 7, at Peachtree and Baker streets. Saturday, 0. C. Puckett, draft board chairman, received a let ter from the prospective rookie stating that he cannot go to the army now because “I have been detained a little bit.” Then he ex plained that he is now serving a three-to-five-year sentence at the Ben Hill camp, so is “unavail able.” Crawford’s two-page fing erprint record shows that he has frequently known the inside of Georgia prison camps during the past 10 -y^ars and that he began his present service last February for burglary. By H. E. C. (Red Buck) BRYANT The Washington Post of September 23rd printed the following story: “He was comin’ down the grade doin’ 90 miles, an hour, “He was foun/i in the wreck with his hand upon the throttle . . . ”‘ Jennings J. Dunlap, 61, of 2023 North Capitol street, will board the Crescent Limited at Union station at 6:50 p. m. today, bound for Charlotte, N. C., and the end of his career as a railway mail clerk. A high point of that career was on September 28, 1902, when Dunlap crawled alive from the battered mail car of “Old 97” while Joe Brodie, the engineer, lay scalded to death in the steam. During 41 years on the run, Dun lap has rolled up a total mileage of 57,000 miles, with the experience of the Old 97 still the lingering road mark. Seven of the crew of 18 sm-vived the famous wreck between Lynchburg and Danville when the racing train failed to make a curve and plunged 100 feet. At the time, Dunlap was resting on a mailbag after having finished his work. The cushioning f)robably saved his life, he believes. He remembers “a furious uproar, upheaval, grinding, smashing, falling, and I crawled out of the wreckage alive, but dazed.” He said yesterday he has no plans for his retirement. His son, W. J. Dunlap, works in the Washington city postoffice. There was romance in the life of “Old 97.” One of the most fascinat ing poems written by the late John Charles McNeill told of the flght of that Southern mail train. Every town had its stories of its wonder ful speed, and extraordinary mission. Unusual persons were nicknamed “Ninety-Seven.” I recall that in Char lotte, a large, powerful and danger ous colored woman appeared in Re corder's court under that name. She was about as formidable in her field as the mail carrier was in its. McNeill’s stirring verses ran: OLD NINETY-SEVEN “When the rails converge to the sta tion yard. She stands one moment, breathing hard. “And then, with a snort and a clang of steel, She settles her strength to the stub born wheel. “And out, through the tracks that lead astray, Cautiously, slowly she picks her way, “And gathers her muscles and guards her nerve. When she swings her nose to the westward curve, “And takes the grade, which slopes to the sky. With a bound of speed and a con quering cry. “The hazy horizon is all she sees, MORE on ?AGE FOUR GIRL KILLS BOY Nine-year-old Henry Antolini of Los Angeles died of gunshot wounds Saturday because he wanted to look at some “funny books” which Bar bara Ortega, 9, didn’t want him to see. H,'n>'ii4,apl four small boy com panions called on Barbara Friday and asked permission to look at the books they knew she had. “Get out,” Bar bara said. “My daddy has got two guns and if you don’t get out. I’ll shoot.” The fourth grade schoolgirl went to a closet and returned with a double-barreled shotgun. She point ed it at Henry, standing nearest. There was an explosion, the force of the blast throwing the weapon from Barbara’s hands. Henry fell, the oth er boys ran.'After awhile police came to the Ortega home. “I didn’t think It was loaded,” Barbara whimpered. “I just wanted to scare him.” Some time after the shooting Barbara’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Orte ga, returned from work in a cannery at Redwood City. The father told offi cers he had used the gun on a dove hunting trip Saturday and thought he had unloaded it. Bailey Offers Substitute for Words of an Ancient Roman (AN EDITORIAL) When Josiah William Bailey was young Will Bailey, editor of the Biblical Recorder, and the darling of the “Baptist Hosts” of North Carolina, Dr. J. D. Huff man, Baptist sage, looked at him one day and said: “Bailey, you smart thing.” Young Bailey was smart, but he was more, he was solid. And on the solidity of primary char acter he has built the structure of a great and powerful person ality. In his speech before the Young Democrats at Winston- Salem last Saturday he was at his best. No wavering, no equiv ocation, no aimless peddling around the great question of the day for Americans. The whole speech was devoted to the one question of our position in rela tion to the war that has engulfed mankind through no action of ours. And that position was de fined by a paraphrase of the An cient Cato who always closed his speeches with the words, “Car thage must be destroyed.” If the multiplied number of speak ers who are now talking to the American people were to follow Mr. Bailey’s modern version >of Cato’s words and close their speeches with “Hitler must be destroyed” the American atmos phere would be cleared and the country would come out of its lethargy. Senator Bailey reviewed, step by step, the developments of the American position and showed that the administration’s policy has been the result of develop ments over which we have had no control. And on the subject of aid to Russia he said, “When I see a Russian shooting a mad dog I raise no question as to his cul ture or his politics. I wish him to kill the mad dog and I am glad to give him the gun.” The Sen ator, in giving a history of the developments which have lead us to our present position, empha sized the fact that our whole course has been one of defense and reluctance to enter the war if that could be averted. The logical sequences through which we have gone, and which bring us to our present position—“Hit ler must be destroyed“ — are thus set forth by Senator Bailey : “Two years ago, at the in stance of the President, the Con gress was setting about to define the position of our country in view of the war in Europe. We did not then consider that it was a world-war. We determined upon a position of absolute neu trality. We demanded that such munitions of war as should be bought here for account of na tions at war should be paid for in cash, that title be vested here in the purchasers, and we should assume no risk of delivery; that MORE ON PAGE TWO EARTHQUAKE AND SAM JONES NOTED IN AUDREY DIARY The Earth Shook in 1886 and Sam Shook Charlotte in 1888; Captain Puts Them Down THE FARMERS ALLIANCE NEW MEDICAL BOARD In order to distribute the work, for which there is no con'ipcnsabioii, the Mecklenburg Medical Society^ has recommended a new set of physicians for the examining work of the draft boards. ^ The new medical board approved by the society consists of Dr. Robert McKay, Dr. R. Z. Query, Jr., Dr. Elias Faison, Dr. Paul Sanger, and Dr. W. Z. Bradford. Alternates are Dr. S. E. Fleming, Dr. Stokes Mun- roe, Jr., Dr. Angus McDonald, Dr. J. C. Montgomery, and Dr. Thomas W. Baker. The retiring board consists of Dr. Andrew H. Blair, Dr. Luther W. Kelly, Dr. Harry Winkler, Dr. H. L. Newton, and Dr. Preston White. The Junior Chamber of Commerce has arranged to supply clerical help for each of the boards to assist in the work on'days when examinations are conducted. HITLER AND LINDBERGH A debate on ^^merican for eign policy was started in the House -the other day by Repres entative Luther Patrick of Ala bama, who waved a copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and said that “it sounds just like Charles A. Lindbergh.” Reading excerpts from the iDook, he continued: “Now Lindbergh even tracks him (Hitler) so closely that he says , we are being pulled into the war by the seat of the pants by Pres ident Roosev,elt and the Jews. Lindbergh has turned sour on the United States. Any barber is his his equal and any justice ’of the peace his superior in the matter of international relations.” STILL SAVING COUNTRY In the summer and fall of 1936 American voters were urged every morning in the columns of a New York newspaper to “‘save the Amer ican way of life” by electing Alfred M. Landon as President. The writer of the appeals was Mrs. Preston Dav ie, militant Republican and foe of the New Deal. Mrs. Davie has now turn ed her energies from the battle of political parties to the problem of national defense. Last week she was appointed vice president of the Amer ican Women’s Voluntary Services and director of activities in the New York area. The organization, founded last year and modeled after British wo men’s defense organizations, is de voted to training women in first aid, air-raid precautions, motor trans port, canteen work and similar tasks. An independent organization, it has 113 units in twenty-seven states, Alaska and the Philippines, and a to tal membership of 88,000. Mrs. Davie’s chief interest at present is the recruiting and training of volun teers for the aircraft warning service now being, organized by the Army Air Corps. Women who have finished the course successfully will take part next month in the East Coast ma neuvers. What happens when a glamorous heiress engaged to a man almost as rich as herself decides that she can marry without love? You’ll find the answer in Maysie Greig’s absorbing new serial, “Pathway to Paradise.” Don’t miss the first installment in the 'American Weekly with Sunday’s Washington Times-Herald, now on sale. PREPARING FOR SOLDIERS While Charlotte is not in the area over which the armies will fight in the coming maneuvers, it is within the recreation area for the soldiers while off duty. And being the largest city in reach, Charlotte is expected to be crowded with soldiers. Efforts are being made to prepare for them, especially on week-ends. There will be a great demand for lodgings of all kinds. The Ministerial Association is prepared to see that as many church es as possible will be open as recrea tion centers. The committee appointed Rev. Mr. Boyce and Rev. Thomas E. Morton to write letters to Charlotte churches urging that they co-operate in mak ing their facilities available to_ sol diers and their relatives and friends during the war games, J. E. Burnside, chairman of the Mecklenburg Defense Council, who attended the meeting, told the minis ters the -population of Charlotte may be doubled on week ends, and that the city’s only hope of caring ade quately for such a large influx of vis itors is through the use of all exist ing facilities, both public and private. TEACHERS MEETING Dr. Will Durant, author of “The Story of Philosophy” and other im portant books, will be the headline speaker when the Ninth District, of the North Carolina Teachers Asso ciation meets here Friday. His sub ject will be “The World Revolution.” Friday night he will speak at David son College on the influence of ideas. The association’s annual meeting will be attended by a large number of teachers from the district. Other speakers will include Baxter Durham, secretary of the teachers and state employes retirement system. Dr. Don ald DuShane, secretary to the Com mission for Defense of Democracy Through Education, Dr. _ William Betz, specialist in mathematics, from Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Frank P. Gra ham, president of the University of North Carolina, and Dr. W. S. Taylor, dean of the college of education at the University of Kentucky. MANY FLIERS TO BE HERE A city of tents is rising near the Charlotte airport in preparation for the maneuvers. The tents will accommodate the 170 enlisted men due to arrive here on October 5 and the 241 men, also of the 20th Pursuit Group, scheduled to arrive November 5. The 17 officers who vill arrive with the first con tingent of men and the 85 pilots due in on November 5 will be put up in the bachelors’ quarters. The first glimpse Charlotte will get of the air maneuvers will come on October 3 when approximately 80 pilots and pursuit planes of the 20th Pursuit Group will land at the air base for an overnight stop. They will be on their way from the Louisiana maneuvers to interceptor maneuvers on the east coast. Two days later, the 170 men and 17 officers of the ground force of the 20th Pursuit Group will arrive and move into the tent city, where they will stay until the com pletion of the Carolina maneuvers. The next action at the air base will come on October 19 when Gen eral W. H. Frank, commanding offi cer of the Third Air Force Combat command, whose permanent base is Tampa, Fla., will move his headquar ters to the local air base. He will op erate from the Charlotte base from October 20 to 26 during the maneuv ers of his command over the Caro- linas area. PROPOSED COMFORT STATION Sometime before underground trol leys run under Charlotte there will to be some underground comfort sta tions if proposed plans are carried out. Architect Willard G. Rogers has presented to the council a drawing showing how such a station might be constructed under North Tryon between Trade and Fifth. The council received, the matter as information and sometime something may come of it. Such places become more and more necessary as the city grows.* THIS IS DOG WEEK Mother and father and son and daughter and the cook have had their days and weeks, and now the dog un der the wagon is having his week. It is national dog week and is being observed by the Mecklenburg Humane Society. “A home for every dog” is one of the slogans. Why not a dog for every home. NYA DIRECTOR Edwin R. Poole, former principal of the Mocksville high school, has been appointed area educational sup ervisor for boys’ work in connection with NYA training projects and has just moved to Charlotte to take over his new duties. 'The appointment was made from the office of the North Carolina de partment of Public Instruction in co operation with the NYA, and Mr. Poole’s duties will cover 20 counties in th6 Charlotte area. His office will be in the law building. Mr. Poole stated that this phase of vocational education is being carried on under the direction of the State Board of Vocational Education, De fense Program 5, .and is designed to give NRA -workers training for na tional defense. LIQUOR TAKEN AT HOTEL Thirty gallons of liquor—240 pints in four steamer trunks—and all of it described as high grade bottled in bond beverage, were captured by city police in a before-day raid at the Barringer hotel. The police said no one was in the room when they seized the contra band but that several very handsome pieces of luggage were included in the haul. At the hotel it was explain ed that the room in which the liquor was found had been occupied by a man registering from Atlanta whose MORE ON PAGE TWO -™- By H. E. C. (RED BUCK) BRYANT TENTH INSTALLMENT The year 1885 was veiy much like others, with a late sprin.g, and little early progress on the farm. Captain Ardrey spent January and Februai'y in Raleigh, attending the sessions of the legislature. The Carolina Academy school ex hibition, conducted by tlie teacher, Miss Maggie White, was held at night, and not so good. “The audience large,” said the diary, “but not as pleasant, and not as profitable as a daylight one.’” The 20th of May celebration in Char lotte that year was “a failure—every body too busy.” The District Conference was' quite a success, with all of the preachers present, among those preaching were: Rev. Mr. Hoyle, who preached a “feel ing sermon,” Rev. L. E. Stacy, “a fine sermon,” and Rev. Mr. Rol^ey, “a grand sermon.” ^ The community was greatly “grati fied.” “I have never heard finer preaching in all my life,” Captain Ardery wrote. Fodder and other roughness that season was scarce, and Captain Ardrey gave liberally of his supply to others. By August crops were fine, “cotton and corn never better,” but by the 24th, with hot dry weather prevailing, they were in a bad way. Ups and Downs of the Crop “As warm weather as I ever felt,” the diary reads. “The thennometer 98. Extremely dry and for the past ten days I have never seen crops fail so fast; cotton looks like it would die.” On the 31st, after rains that started on the 8th: “Fine seasons. Corn crop fine. Cotton pretty good.” Septem ber 15 “Cotton extremely light.” Always pi'Ogressive, Captain Ard- t'oy was among the first farm(^r:s m the county to try a sulky plow. “Our sulky plow does fine work,” he said November 20. “It is the best plow I ever saw. We are plowing in wheat and oats with it.” Eighteen hundred and eighty-fiVe \vent out in the Ardrey neighborhood with a succession of turkey dinners, One man who enjoyed them still lives, Mr. Harvey McGinn. Bird and rabbit hunting were indulged in. “Clear and warm,” the Captain de clared. “The quietest Christmas I have ever seen. There is no money in the country; times are extremely dull.” ’M'oney Makes the Mare Go The old saying that “money makes the mare go” might also be applied to farming communities. Short crops, low prices, and lack of money makes farmers dull fellows. “The weather is fine,” Captain Ard rey wrote January 1, 1886, “and the neighborhood remarkably quiet; I have not seen it more so.” This note was made January 10th and 11th: “As cold days as we ever had in this country. Snow, ice and cold southwest wind. The water free zes in our room at night. Our quar- tei'ly meeting a failure. The preachers there but only two or three persons out. Four degrees below zero by Sig nal statioTl in Charlotte. Said to b^ the coldest since the cold Saturday in 1835.” January 20: “At two oclock had a thunder shower, lightning and big rain, with snow on the ground.” Old man weather was just as un certain then as now. January 29: “I went to Pineville to settle my debts. I just about cleared expenses last year. Did not make any thing. Times hard and everybody complaining’. More failures than we have had since the war. The farmers all behind.” Febraary 12: “I bought ten sacks of flour at §2.50, one barrel of molaasses at 33 cents a gallon, and a half box of .tobacco, 33 cents a pound. Bought five pigs from Mr. Dave Hyatt. Sold two bales of cotton at 7 1-4 cents per pound. Granulated Sugar Comes In “Mr. Will Roller of Kentucky, at Pineville with a drove of mules; I bought one' for $112.50. Sold Mr. Bryant the Prince and guinea heifers for $33. Bought a barrel of granulated sugar for 7 1-2 cents.” April 30: “Big hail storm. The most hail I ever saw. I was in Pineville, and it lay two or three inches oir the- ground.” August 31: “The Charleston earth quake. Houses shook and everybody was badly alarmed. Such has never been felt here before. I was in Char lotte at Brother Robert Miller’s and his brick house shook like a cradle.” October 21: “Mr. Bell and I went to Charlotte to hear Governor Vance. He made a fine speech and had a largo crowd.” The last days of 1886 and the first ones of 1887 were bad for farmers. Religion Crowds Out Blisineps Feb. 1, 1887, Captain Ardrey t “Everybody gloomy, and compl.' of hard times. They never havt as hard times before, and they see how they are going to ge^ but everybody has something and all are enjoying good' lou cannot realize money on 1 MORE ON PAGE TW

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