BVSEBALLERS SHOULD QUIT.
That's What Governor Bickett Thinks
About It. Baseball Players Should
Either Go To the Furrows or To
the Tranches, Says the Governor in
a Serious Address to the People of
the State.
Governor Bickett shows every day
in the week that he is a man of good
common sense and a statesman. Be
low is his address to the people of
the State, published in Monday's
daily papers:
"The world war is on and we are
face to face with famine. Millions of
men whose business in time of peace
it was to produce are now called upon
to destroy. Unless drastic and revolu
tionary efforts be made to increase
our food supply per capita amount
on hand next Christmas will be less
than it has been for a thousand
years.
"The great northwest advises us
officially that it cannot next year fur
nish us the food we have heretofore
bought from it, but that its surplus
must be sent to feed the men who
fight. In this emergency we are not
called upon to feed other nations, but
simply to take care of ourselves. We
are not required to go into all the
earth, but our work is both to begin
and to end at Jerusalem.
"Much time has been lost, but there
is still time left to provide against
the coming day of want. We still
have six months of sunshine. We have
abundant vacant lands. And we have
the people to cultivate these lands if
they have a mind to work.
"I think the farmers are doing
what they can. The duty rests upon
the people in the towns and cities to
utilize their idle hours and idle men
in making food for themselves. Let
the cities and towns take steps to
have vacant lots plowed and turned
over free of rent to people who will
cultivate them. The teams and labor
in control of the cities might well be
taken from their present work dur
ing the month of May and used in
preparing vacant lands for immediate
cultivation. The towns should also
arrange for the purchase by whole
sale of containers for the use of can
ning clubs and of fertilizers and dis
tribute these to the people at prime
cost. Public funds could well be em
ployed in this way and it would be
better for the streets of the town to
be uns",'?r>t for two or three weeks
in May than for our pantries to be
bare next winter.
"I urge every man in town to go in
to the surrounding country and pro
cure from one to five acres of land
and plant it in corn, potatoes, peas
and beans and thus make sure pro
vision against want in his own fam
ily. Do not expect your neighbor to
do this, but do it yourself. I earnest
ly urge every man in the State who
has an idle acre to list it with the
mayor of the nearest town as rent
free land for any person who will
plant it in food and feed crops.
"All forms of idleness and waste
of time should be discouraged. I love
a game of baseball, but it seems to
me that the summer of 1917 is no
time for professional baseball, and I
think all professional leagues should
be disbanded. The man who is able
to play professional baseball ought
to be either in a trench or in a fur
row. And the 'fans' and 'fannies' who
hold down the bleachers can find rec
ompense and recreation in a corn field.
"Let the automobile joy ride be
given up entirely. Surely this much of
self-denial can be practiced by every
man in the State. If every man who
owns an automobile would cut his
gasoline bill half in two much would
be saved to meet the necessities of
the people and a vast quantity of
gasoline would be made available for
the uses of war. I am advised that
Mr. Rockefeller could in the ?ace of
this economy on the part of the peo
ple, still manage to get along.
"We should make a frolic of our
necessities and should force our fads
and fancies to furnish us food. As the
children would say, let's all play at
farming this year.
"Seriously, men and brethren, let
us shake off our fatuous complacence
and give ourselves no rest until wo
know that we and our loved ones are
secure from ,the wolf whose gaunt
spectre even now looms large against
the sky-line. Let us work while it is
summer. Winter cometh.
"T. W. BICKETT,
"Governor."
Ned Pearce Painfully Hurt.
Last Friday morrting Mr. Ned
Pearce, who was working in Lee^s
mill near here, had his clothing
caught in the shafting and was ter
ribly hurt. Both legs were broken
at the thighs, his left arm was torn
entirely off near the elbow and he
sustained other bruises and cuts
about the head. He was rushed to
Rex Hospital, Raleigh, in an auto
mobile. Chances for his recovery
now seem to be very good. ? Zehulon
News, 11th.
Canned pineapples to the value of
$5,986,190 were shipped from Hawaii
to the United States in 1915.
A Plea to the Hoard of Health.
We desire to call the attention of
every reader of The Herald to the
advice of Dr. Thel Hooks in the issue
of May the 4th, relative to cleaning
up our premises. Let every one heed
its most timely advice. We have put
our premises in order, in fact for
many years we have been wise to the
dangers of stagnant water, and filthy
quarters; and in this day when sani
tation is preached from the house
tops, we are sure that our neighbors
also have been very careful about,
these things; and while we thank Dr.
Hooks for this good advice, we desire
to call his attention to the fact that
we have in our community a hole of
stagnant water, covering about sev
stagnant water, covering about 75
acres of land, right at our doors,
the odor of which is so unpleasant
those nearest it find it a trial in sum
rfier to sit on their porches at night.
Since this mud hole has been in our
midst, we are not afraid to make the
assertion that there has been mor.
chills and malaria in this community,
than anywhere in the State, and jet,
we have been unable so far to inter
est the Board of Health (County or
State) sufficiently to get even so
much as an expression from them;
we do however give Dr. Hooks credit
for passing through the' community
last winter, and making some inqui
ries, (and let me say here that the
information he obtained was sufficient
to convince the most skeptical), but
we have been reliably informed that
he says he can't express an opinion
until hot weather, when he can catch
Madam Mosquito, and see if she is
really loaded with a deadly weapon.
We wonder how he knows that mos
quitos from small tin cans and mud
holes arc deadly, and what his rea
sons are for doubting that those from
a mudhole a million times larger and
offensive are less deadly or none at
all. A person must have a very ab
normal stomach who strains at a
vnudhole, and swallows a mill pond.
The Board has been well informed
about what this pond has done for
this community, also, what the one in
the same place did for us forty years
ago; and they were informed by
people who were living at that time
and whose word of honor no one has
ever questioned; and if this were not
sufficient, enough could be told by
people who know where of they speak,
to covcr the side of & newspaper.
These tnings didn't happen in a dark
corner, for neighboring communities
looked on aghast while the people
died by the score. The present pond is
much larger and has been making the
people sick just like the former one.
If all this evidence is not sufficient to
convince the Board, neither will they
be convinced "though one rose from
the dead."
We MUST have help and we MUST
HAVE IT NOW, for delay may mean
death to many, and if they who have
had the power given them to help,
procrastinate, and any one should
lose his life, they may wash their
hands in reasons and excuses as
Pontius Pilate did in water, and
cry out "I'm innocent of this man's
blood," but the Lord will surely re
quire it of them. Our little girl is
sick at this writing of malaria, and
had a tedious case of malarial fever
last summer and fall. We had four
cases of fever in our family and have
had to take medicine nearly all the
time since last spring, and in this in
telligent day we need no doctor to
tell us that it is injurious to take
medicine constantly. Come, let us
reason together, would it not be bet
ter for one man to lose than a whole
community? We will have to leave
our farms for the tenants have
threatened to leave our farm and
others also I hear. Some have been
here since they were young children,
one over forty-five years, and none
of them were sick of malaria before
this pond was re-built. The owner's
loss would be small compared with
the community's. The owner con
tends he doesn't believe the pond
causes malaria. The Pharisees refus
ed to believe that Jesus was the
Christ, notwithstanding the abundant
evidence and many miracles. We
agree with Dr. Hooks, that now the
war demands so much of us farmers,
we need our best health to make
enough, and to spare; and if ever
there was a time when we needed the
help of those who have the power to
do for us what we cannot do for
ourselves, it is now! In the behalf
of every man, woman and child, white
and black, the writer implores the
Board of Health not to turn a deaf
ear to our petitions, for like the Mace
donians, we cry "Come over and help
us or we die."
MRS. S. H. AVERITT.
Penny Grove Farm.
A Practical Mind.
Minister's daughter (archly) ? Now,
Cousin George, you must come to
church this evening. Father is preach
ing from the text, "Love ye one an
otheT."
Cousin George ? "Really, Mabel ?
But can't we stop at home and prac
tice while he preaches? ? Ex.
WORK THE CORN LAND.
Patriotic Duty of Every Corn Grower
to Take Every Precaution for
Largest Possible Yield.
In emergencies it may be necessary
for some patriots to unyoke the oxen
and leave the plow standing in the
furrow, but the lasting support of the
Nation requires efficient patriots to
keep the plow going. The soil supports
the corn; corn supports animals; corn
and animals support an army; and
"armies fight on their bellies." Let us
properly care for the goose that lays
the golden egg.
Whether corn prices are high or low,
the farmer's profit depends on obtain
ing large acre yields. Large acre
yields reduce the expense of both la
bor and land. It is remarkable that
acre yields are increasing most rapid
ly in the States southeast and the
States north and west of the corn
belt States. These increased acre
yields are largely due to earlier and
thicker planting of better seed corn.
Unnecessary losses from planting
poor seed corn are diminishing as it
is becoming better realized that neith
er frosts nor droughts can extermin
ate good acclimated varieties if suffi
cient seed be saved from good crops
to last until another good crop is ob
tained. Good seed corn will retain its
powers of germination and production
for four or five years. ? Government
News Letter.
Benson Town Election.
A great deal of interest was shown
in Tuesday's municipal election, three
separate tickets being: out to be voted
on. Neither faction polled all their
strength, several Democrats and Re
publicans taking no part in the elec
tion.
The Democratic ticket was compos
ed of the old Mayor and Board of Al
dermen. For Mayor, J. M. Britt; Al
dermen Messrs. W. T. Martin, Pres
ton Woodall, P. B. Johnson and W. D.
Boone. For Constable Mr. G. G. Wood
all.
The Independent Democratic ticket
was composed of Mr. E. F. Moore, for
Mayor, and Messrs. C. C. Creech, J.
H. Godwin, James E. Wilson and R.
F. Smith for Aldermen and Mr. C.
L. Johnson for Constable.
The Republican ticket was compos
ed of the following: For Mayor, Mr.
Ezra Parker. Aldermen, Messrs. A. L.
Barefoot, R. D. Langdon, J. B. Fair
cloth and C. B. Clifton with Mr. W.
P. Reaves as Constable.
Following is the vote for all can
didates except Con -**ible, Mr, Reaves
being elected to that office:
Mayor ? Parker 77; Britt, 73; Moore
16.
Commissioners ? Martin 79; John
son, 79; Woodall, 77; Boone, 78; Bare
foot, 67; Langdon, 68; Faircloth, 66;
Clifton, 66; Wilson, 18; Creech, 18;
Godwin, 18; Smith, 18. ? Benson Re
view, 10th.
Senator Foraker Dead.
Former Senator Joseph Benson
Foraker died at his home in Cinnati
last Thursday, aged 71.
Joseph Benson Foraker, twice Gov
ernor of Ohio, United States Senator
from that State from 1897 to 1909
and for more than thirty years a
power ir the Republican party, was
called "the greatest bulldog in Amer
ican politics." "Fire Alarm Foraker"
was another pet name bestowed upon
him.
He was born on a farm in Highland
County, Ohio, July 5, 1846. In the Civ
il War he enlisted as a private in the
Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infan
try, served through the war and was
breveted captain. He was graduated
at Cornell in 1869 and started the
practice of law in Ohio in the same
year. He was Judge of the Supreme
Court of Ohio for three years.
His first campaign for the Gover
norship of Ohio on the Republican
ticket in 1883 resulted in defeat. At
the next election he was successful
and two years later was re-elected. In
1889 he again headed the Republican
tic^pt but was defeated. At the Re
publican convention of 1884 he pre
sented the name of Gen. Sherman for
the Presidential nomination, and in
1896 and 1900 he made the speeches
nominating William McKinley.
OVERWORKED MOTHER"
Finds Health In Onr Vinol
Collinsville, 111. ? "I suffered from a
nervous break-down and terrible head
aches, and was tired all over, totally
worn out and discouraged but as I had
a large family I had to work despite my
suffering. I saw Vinol advertised and
decided to try it, and within two weeks
I noticed a decided improvement, and
now I am a well woman."? Mrs. Ana
Becker.
We guarantee Vinol, our delicious cod
liver and iron tonic, to strengthen and
build up weak, run-down, overworked
mothers.
HOOD BROS., Druggists,
Smithfield, N. C.
EI). A. HOLT
Paaler in
High (>rade Coffins. Casket*
and Burial Robes,
princeton, . North Carolina
Abandon Food Prejudices
Don't Be Finicky
Be willing to try new foods. Certain plentiful and nour
ishing foods widely used and enjoyed in one section are
practically unknown in other sections of the country.
Learn to know ALL the good things ; not a few only.
People too easily get into food ruts ? insist on eating
only the food they are used to and refuse to give a fair
trial to others. This causes undue demand for certain
staples, with resulting scarcity or high prices when crops
are short. At the same time other valuable foods may be
relatively cheap and available. A striking instance of this
is failure fully to appreciate rice ? a valuable source of
starch ? when potatoes are scarce and high. Another
example is refusal in certain sections to use anything but
wheat as a breadstuff when corn ? a^valuable cereal widely
used elsewhere as a breadstuff ? is plentiful and relatively
cheap.
Cook Food Properly
Learn how to cook all kinds of staple foods and to serve
them in a variety of ways. Simple dishes well prepared
are better than expensive foods badly cooked.
Many persons are prejudiced against certain good foods
because, when first tried, the foods were improperly
cooked or prepared.
Remove from your vocabulary "don't like" or "can't
eat."
Most individual prejudices against widely popular foods
are either imaginary or baseless.
Try to like every simple food ; give it a fair trial.
? Government News Letter.
The use of Printed Stationery is no
longer confined to the business or
prefessional man---Farmers, Con
tractors, Builders and in fact men
in all walks of life are beginning to
realize that Printed Stationery costs
but little more than the unprinted
kind and that every letter they write
is a silent representative. Come in
and let us talk it over with you and
tell you what it will cost to have
your stationery artistically printed.