TH5" CF^"' 'TTE KTSWr, AUGUST 13, 1911 '
5
S s. Workets
at Sugaj Creek
portant And Eelpjid Gath-
, or Sunday School
Workers at Old Sugar Creek
Church Yesterday And To-
.r.y.
.i: fi'hool enthusiasts, special-
; I :•>- and the rank and file of
:u(.’ ;jp a large attendance for
- annual convention of the
; -\5rg County Sunday School
an Interdomlnational
order which is meeting yes-
nr.d today at the historic old
'•’rian church at Sugar Creek.
from Charlotte, which
’.arze one. went out on the i
I harlotte car line, where au-
: carriages met them and the
.' irney was completed. While
urch or Sunday school is en-
Mielegates the public general-
-' ited and many availed them-
n! the privilege.
,1 the exercises \^ill begin at
and will b« the regular
session, characterized by the
> i f the county president. Mr.
I’onville, of Charlotte, and the
.icr. Mr. K. A Trotter, and the
vf ihe peveral departments
: 3' Primary, Home. Adult, and
’.aining. The nominating com-
• i.ppointed at yesterday’s ses-
\ie?hrs Morris Trotter. .Tohn B.
and Mis.- .ftilia Alexander w’ill
fhi'ir roport aud the election of
’ rs will follow.
■ \ 1/ewis Collins nf .\sheville, was
iightful speaker and method dem-1
• dtor on yesterday’s programme
lis address on organized Interde-
national work" to be made at
!>>rk IS looked forward to with
•- expectancy of plea^ure and prof-
I o’.lins givfs his entire time to
r-chool work and with the ad-
igf.' of experience, talent, magne-
and training his influence has
nivifi p!rai=ant and inspirational
i;; the Mecklenburgers. In his
-■oarF rpiidence in North Caro-
le ha." organized nine of the West-
■ nlntie^' and active associations
• \'i«. his former home. Mr. Col-
' ' t-T three years at the head
-'ft.' orsanization.
'’resident Fonville had call-
i.vontion to order at 10:30
aiorning the devotional ex-
' -ie led by Mr. H. R. Herry-
H. Caldwell, the vice pres-
• \t»>nded a warm welcome to
'i'' re on behalf of the Sugar
I’ mgregation announcing that
: - pionii' table spread with the
'he drought allowed and plenty
r.noiled but pure libations for the
ial delectation of Charlotteans
■ 1 . V ait the company at the noon
linUer the grand old trees that
iini the church. President Fon-
response to the greetings were
••h usual form of appropriateness
ease.
iss Julia Alexander, superinten-
of the Elementary department.
■w«d Rev. l.ewis Collins’ talk on
> to Secure a Township Organiza-
V. ith one of the treats of the
fri^n, a clear concise, practical
and specific but perfectly bright and
interesting address on the details of
Sunday school work with the child
under ten years, from his enrollment
in the cradle till he wins his diploma
and Bible promotion to the “Bib Sun-
aay School." So keenly was Miss Alex
ander’s work and the helpfulness of
her suggestions appreciated that the
association both voted her special
thanks and requested that she formu
late the address for publication in the
county and state press.
Miss Mary Owen Graham, one of
the State Normal College. Greensboro,
answered the question; ‘‘How' shall we
teach the lesson in the Elementary
Department?” in a thoroughly valuable
and helpful way, she advocates what
the schools sorely need, preparation by
the teacher and work by the scholar,
she would have the training aud in
telligence devoted to day school work
put by parents and Sunday school
teachers into the teaching of the
Bible.
After the generous picnic dinner, the
song service of the opening exercises
Mr. Collins presented the subject of
‘•Adult Organized Classes" in the place
of Supt. H. M. Wade, who w’as un
avoidably detained. The efficiency of
such organization is demonstrated ful
ly in the fact that six hundred thous
and men have been added to the Sun
day schools in the last 5 years, that
for the first time in its history con
gress adjourned for a religious gather
ing last June when seven hundred
thousnad men were in a Sunday
school parade in the capital.
Hon. W. C. Dowd had next place
on the program. His subject; “What
to Do With the Big Boys and Girls."
Sunday school exjierts acknowledge
as difficult but Mr. Dowd’s study of
it evolved practical remedies for the
tisual exodus from Sunday School
among adolescents. In ,:eneral, a way.
a change of public attitude toward
the manliness or womanliness of Sun
day school studentship; parental pre
cept backed by parental example em-
phazise thes ocial or sympathetic pos
sibilities of the Sunday school, utilize
the developing energies and powers
of the youthful men and women in ac
tual service. Give them something;
furnish teachers who are not only will
ing but prepared and capable.
Rev. G. Kennedy, superintendent
of the Teachers’ Training Department,
presented definite plans for securing
supplies and organizing a teachers’
class in each school in the county. Mr.
Collins had prefaced this with a black
board sketch of why teachers should
be trained that was most convincing
very large crowds. Eleven are expect
ed at today's sesion. which will begin
at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m., respectively.
America Trust Company
10 Act as Executor
Mr. L. C. Harrison, whose death oc
curred recently, left no will. His
wife, Mrs. Mabelle Harrison, natural
administrator on the estate, has re
nounced her rights to act and re
quested the clerk of the court. Mr.
C C. Moore, to appoint the American
Trust Company to administer on the
estate. The estate will be handled
by the Trust Department of the
company, under the supervision of
Mr. Paul C. Whitlock, trust officer.
—Born to Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Glas
cock. yesterday at their home, 1,600
South Boulevard, a daughter. Ivalita.
UST ra WHS I gheit
WEEK FOn FK
DECKLE KB line
Th© week just closed has been has all other professions are man-made.
been a rather eventful one among the i^^ther earth was made for man’s home
and things are badly perverted from
farmers of the county, and the tillers ^^^oper and natural condition
of the soil have had the right of way j when a few own the land that should
and have been in the spot-light almost. be divided among the many and I ap-
all week Besides the series of farm-11^®^^ you farmers to wake up be
fore the United States and the South
become like Ireland, a country with a
few' landlords and many tenants. The
soil devoted to agricultural purposes
produces 87 per cent, of the nation’s
wealth today and yet a very large per
cent, of that wealth-la in the hands- of a
comparatively few people and that con-
dition is becoming w6rse instead of
better every day. Trusts and monopo
lies are constantly grabbing up, not
only the government lands, but thous
ands of small farms every year. Small
homesteads, the bulwark and safety
of th country, are beiijg given up at
the rate of 60,000 a year to large land-
buying corporations. Already 10 per
cent of the country’s population owns
more than the other 90 per cent, and
o,000 men own 50 per cent, of the
total national w'ealth.”
Such conditions, said the speaker,
can not be remedied at once, but they
should be remedied as soon as possible
and he contended that the American
farmer is to have a large part in ap
plying the remedy. The capital remedy
he said, is the proper education of the
great agricultural class, an education
that would not only fit them for
a corfect understanding and apprecia
tion- of the economic and political
problems before the nation, but an ed
ucation ihat would enable them to
produce wealth more economically.
The greatest step tow'ard a realiza
tion of this condition of things, Dr.
Alexander said, was such schools as
that authorized by the last legislature,
called “Farm Life Schools,’’ provision
by this act of the legislature being
ers’ institutes that have become an ev
ery summer event with Mecklenburg
larmers and that have been held at
some point in the county almost every
day during the past week, there was
held the big farmers’ rally at Lake
wood park, where farmers from every
section of the county gathered Friday
to hear Dr. H. Q. Alexander and ext
Governor Charles B. Aycock, and on
Thursday to hear Mr. C. C. Moore,
president of the committee on Farm
ers’ Institutes in the county, aud Dr.
JJ. B. Templeton, vice-president of
the State Farmers’ Union. So that all
the week past farmers and farmers’ in
terests have had large considera
tion from the public.
It was conceded by all who heard
him that Dr. H. Q. Alexander, president
of the State Farmers’ Union, made a
notable address at Lake'vood Friday.
It was an addres-s calculated to make
the farmers think and the close atten
tion accorded him, as w’ell as the fre
quent applause which interrupted him,
v.as proof that he was striking' a re
sponsive chord in the minds of his
hearers. The address w-as one that
dealt with questions having a vital
bearing on farm life in the South and
one full of cons-tructive ideas, which,
if carried out by the great farmer
class of the country would result in
incalculable benefit to the farmer and
therefore necessarily to the country
at large.
Among the ideas that stood out *£^de for a small agricultural college
prominently in the addrass of Di'. each county of the state.
Alexander and that were no doubt ^ Dr. Alexander also advocated strong-
carried away as food for thought by
many farmers present was that re
lating to alien ownership of land in our
country, a fact which is not confined to
Alaska, acording to Dr. Alexander, but
a fact all over the country, in the
South and many parts of North Caro--
lina. He adjudged it a real menace to
the best interests of the country at
large, that 56 foreigners own 26,000,000
of land in the United States today. In
this he echoed a warning that has been
sounded to Southern farmers by Presi-
ly as a means of preventing, in some
measure, at least, the concentration of
wealth in the hands of the few, an
amendment to the national constitu
tion that would abolish the electoral
college and make the president and
all legislative officers elective by the
people, e thought, also, in view of cer
tain recent doings of that high trib
unal, that the judges of the supreme
court should be elected by popular
vote and for a definite period, rath
er than for life, e also expressed hlm-
dent Barrett, of the National Farmers’ self as favoring a graduated land tax.
Union, who has again and again and
by every means at his command urged
the landowners of the country to hold
to the land they already possess at
all hazards and to invest more and
more in the land round about them.
The speaker was led to this remark
by his argument against the concentra
tion of wealth in the hands of the few.
“God made the farmer,” he said, “but
like that of New Zealand, and an in
heritance and income tax, from which
a revenue for the administration of
the government might be obtained,
rather than a revenue obtained by
tariff.
The address throughout was brim
ful of constructive ideas and was pro
nounced by many the best address they
ever heard Dr. Alexander make.
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