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M SMUHFIELD HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. REATY & LASSITER Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Cash in Advance. One year. 11.50 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Months, - .75 Three Months, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. DOING THINGS IN GASTON. When it comes to finding live coun ties Gaston is one of the liveit of them all. The County is having a big farmers institute this week at? Dallas, the location of the farm life school, of which Mr. Sam J. Kirby, of Selma, is superintendent. The in stitute is to last all the week und is to be one of the big events of the year in Gaston County. In order to make it the best institute ever held in that section the very best help, of both men and women, has been se cured. They came to Johnston when they wanted a man to run the farm life school and now they have come to Johnston for help in their big in stitute and secured our popular home demonstration agent, Miss Nell Pick ens, who will be with them part of the time. The Gaston County people know how to do things. They have nine well organized farmers pure-bred live stock associations, with as many pure-bred sires of the dairy type. They have twelve well organized community fairs which will be held this fall to be followed by one of the best county fairs in the State. They have live farm and home dem onstration agents. They are among the progressive workers of the coun ty who are helping to put Gaston in u conspicuous place on the map. 1 The Gar.ton County people are well organized and co-operate in all the live progressive movements which irean the building up of all the people ? yes, all the people. The Gaston way is a good way and other counties of the State might follow this way with pride and profit. 1 BOARD ASKS FOR MORE MONEY The conditions confronting the Johnston County Hoard of Education demand more money for the public schools another year. The teachers arc going to demand more money for their work and they ought to have it. ' The jrreat advance in prices of every- j thing hr.s made it imperative that ' teachers have more money. The Board of Education was in session here yesterday und decided to make an appeal to the County Commissioners for a slight increase in the tax levy for the public schools. They only ask for 3 1-3 cents on the $100 worth of property and 10 cents on the poll ? provided this does not go over the constitutional limit of 66 2-3 cents on $100 and $2.00 on the poll. This is a modest sum to call for r.nd it is hardly believed that the County Commissioners will turn it down. Salaries of county officials have been increased and it seems that the Board ought to be willing to make a small increase in order that the teachere may have a slight in crease in salaries. If the people are willing to stand for increasing the Falarie3 of certain county officers, they surely will be willing to stand for tlie slight increase of taxes asked for by the Board of Education. RUNNING IN A RUT. Running: in a rut is a bad business. People run in ruts in the roads, they run in ruts in their business, they run in ruts in their conversation and in their habits. If you nsk one what is a rut, he mijjht not be able to {five you a clear-cut answer, though he has been runnirur in one for years ;ind years. Here is what one man tfave as an answer: "A rut is a lonj? narrow jrrave with both ends kicked out." If one wants to keep out of a jrrave let him keep out of a rut. THE FARMER'S BOY. The Bethlehem Steel Corporation has made the interesting statement that out of three hundred employees holding the most responsible positions in the company two hundred and 'sixty-three were born on f.irmH. Al though a number of therh were taken as children into towns, many more i were reared in the country ? a fact 'that jrives new force to the repeated assertion that the American farm is the bent training school for Ameri can boys, because it breeds in them two qualities supreme in citizenship: resourcefulness and independence. We are all prone to lay stress on the technicalities of education. We prize the town because it gives kin dergartens to babies, manual-train ing schools to boys and business col leges to young men. It jfives free li braries, free doctoring and perhaps free dentistry. It gives encouragement for talents of every order, keen com petition and a wide field of activity. Parents say that they cannot afford to lose those splendid advantages for their children. Immigrants say that in the town there is always a helping hand, and that in the country there is no one to depend upon except themselves. Depending upon ourselves may be the most salutary thinp in the world, but it is not, and never will be, popular. It is losing favor every day in a country that owes its exist ence, its freedom, its best traditions, to the sturdy independence of its first settlers and to the spirit they trans mitted to their sons. The resourcefulness of the farmer's boy is forced upon him by fate. As has been often observed, the farmer 'cannot send for a carpenter in the next street to put up a shelf, or for a locksmith to mend a broken latch, or for a builder to patch a hole in the roof. He cannot stop on his way home from work to make half a dozen con venient purchases. His son learns in childhood to do thinps for himself, because there is no one ready and waiting to do H.hcm for him. He ac quires dexterity, and something far mare important than dexterity ? the habit of depending in emergencies upon his own ingenuity and exertions. He is the master of his fate. It takes a good deal to daunt a lad who has had to meet the endless cxn?tio?is of a farm. i Another quality as imperative for I good citizenship as independence is i readiness to serve. There is nothing I in the wide world at once so ignoble and so enervating as the plainly ex pressed determination of many Amer icans to do as little as they possibly ] can for their country, in return for its protection and support. They are willing to hang out flags and sing The Star-Spangled Banner; but they leave it to other and better men to make sacrifices and brave dangers, while they sit smugly by. Now, the farmer's boy never expects to get something for nothing. The first les son he learns in life is that the good old earth yields no harvests to slack hands, and by the light of that knowl edge he comes to understand that cit izenship means giving as well as re ceiving. There is bred in him a home ly dijrnity that makes the beggar's role distasteful to his pride. If the "embattled farmers" of Concord and Lexington had been more mindful of their own security, the history of our. country would read differently. Life was perhaps as dear to those plain J men as it is to us to-day; but they thought it not too high a price to pay ' for the honor and freedom of their land. ? Editorial in Youth's Compan ion. Mr. R. A. Wellons made a business , trip to Kaleigh yesterday. GENERAL NEWS. James E. Ferguson, governor of Texsa, was indicted on nine charges of felony by the Krand jury of Travis County Friday. The indictments were made public when Sheriff George S. Matthews notified the governor. Sev en of the indictments charge misap plication of public funds, one diver sion of public funds and one embez zlement. o Orders for 2.") ,800, 000 feet of lum ber lor constructing six national guurd training camps were placed with mills Friday by the Southern l'ine Emergency bureau. Each camp will require about 4,.'j00,000 feet of lumber. Camps for which orders were placed were at Deming, N. M., Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco, Texas, Alexandria, La., and Hattiesburg, Miss. o About 7,000 tons of corn, compris ing the cargo of one of the eighteen neutral grain-laden ships in port at Baltimore awaiting United States government license, was dumped ov erboard last Friday becaused it had spoiled. Of the eighteen vessels, which have 90,000 tons of grain in their holds, fifteen are Dutch and three Norwegian. Some of the ships are said to have had their cargoes under hatches for months. o Major General Pershing, comman der of the American forces in France, will leave Paris by automobile early this week for his first visit to the permanent American training camp since troops arrived in France. lie will spend two days at the camp. The first day he will visit Major General Sibcrt's quarters and on the second day will make a detailed inspection of the various units. General Per shing previously has visited the French and British fronts. o The second contingent of Young Men's Christian association secreta ries who will work among American soldiers and sailors in Europe and (amps will leave the United States soon, announced in New York Friday by the Y. M. C. A. war board. The men are from virtually every section of the country, and include regular association workers, trained business men and ministers. All are college graduates. The Y. M. C. A. already has more than 500 men in actual service abroad, and many more are in 'training for the duties that will be 'required of them in foregn fields. o | Complete confidence in the ability of (he United States to transport to t France as many American troops as may ba necessary despite the U-boat menance, characterizes the attitude of officials in closest touch with the transportation situation. Announce ment Saturday that the navy depart ment had taken over sixteen of the German merchant ships seized at the outbreak of the war, including the hupe liner Vaterland, to refit them as transports, explained the feeling to some extent. A tremendous addition al tonnnge for this purpose will be made available when these ships are repaired and commissioned. o The men of the expeditionary forces have settled down into the routine of the new training very quickly, as their officers expected, says a Paris dispatch. They are up ' at five o'clock in the morning and reach the training ground not later than 7:45, drilling and digging with out interruption until 11:30. After about half an hour for lunch and an other hour for rest, they drill again from one until 4:30 o'clock. The men lunch in the field, having sandwiches 'and other cold rations prepared for them before they leave camp each morning. The French soldiers who are training the Americans rest from eleven to two o'clock. ? - ? o The headquarters staff at Washing ton has received from the French government meteorological data of the department in which the American troops are training and also for the 'part of the line in which the troops may e\entually be employed. These figures show January is the coldest month of the year, with a mean tem perature of thirty-three degrees Fahrenheit, a maximum of fortv t six and a minimum of five above zero. July is the hottest month, with an average maximum of ninety de grees and an average minimum of forty-five. Protect the men cs far as possible from winter hardships. The dampness causes the cold to be felt keenly. Creeds fade; faiths perish; empires rise and fall; And as the shining sun poes on his ways, Oblivion covers with a dusty pall The life of man, predestined to decay. Yet is there one thing that shall never die. The memory of the Dead for Faith and Liberty. ? Ormistead Churchill Gordon. first call goes out today. Exemption Board No. 1 Will Ask for 298 to I 'reseat Themselves. Exemp tion Hoard No. 2 to Call 101. First ( ontingent to Ik' lk-fore the Hoards on Monday, August Sixth. The two Johnston County Exemp ? n Boirds were in session yesterday g tint? ready to send out the first call for men to present themselves lamination. ? l)i irict No. 1, with 1717 serial numbers has been asked for 149 men and the Board has been instructed to call twice that number, 298, before it for examination, the government re lizing that an average of two men will be called in order to get one. Exemption Board No. 2 has been n> ked for 202 men and instructed to call 404 before it.There are 2136 rr.' n of draft age in District No. 2. Notices are sent out today to 98 men to meet Exemption Board No. 1 at Smithfield next Monday. The others will be called to present them selves on the following days. The Exemption Board No. 1 is composed of C. M. Wilcon, chairman; Dr. Thel Hooks, secretary, and John W. Sanders. This Board has jurisdic tion over nine townships, as follows: Smithfield, Wilson's Mills, Pleasant ( rove, Cleveland, Elevation, Banner, Miidow. Ingrams, and Bentonsville. Exemption Board No. 2 is compos ed of N. E. Ward, chairman; II. L. Skinner, secretary, and Dr. G. I). Vick. This Board has jurisdiction over eight townships, as follows: Boon II ill, Pine Level, Beulah, Micro, Oneals, Wilders, Clayton and Selma. Exemption Board No. 2 is asking for i:;r> men to present themselves before the Board at Selma next Monday. Why Children Leave School. Boston Transcript. Of the many loose ends in public education in all countries none hangs much looser than that which leads to the premature separation of pupils from the schools. Why do children leave school? The problem is as old as education itself and seems not to be a great deal nearer solution to day than it ever was. Compulsory education laws and a steadily ad vancing age limit have been of value in alleviating conditions, but the na tion must find and remove the un derlying causc before the trouble will be corrected. Children leave school because they don't like school. Pain ful as it is to admit it, that is" the truth of the matter. Teachers know it and parents know it, the world at lar: e has often suspected it and the Government, through an extensive in vestigation just completed, proves it. All children, of course, do not leave school for this reason. Some leave because economic necessity forces them to go to work, others because the condition of their health will not permit confinement within a class room, and still others because they can't seem to learn." But with the majority it is a case of not liking the teacher or not liking their studies. This is not conjecture: the conclus ions are forced by the confessions of the pupils themselves. They are dis satisfied with school-work and they don't care who knows it. What are we going to do about it? The answer naturally is to make the chool curriculum more attractive. Hut how? For ten years we have been vitalizing the curriculum by ad ding about every subject which has come into anyone's mind. Shop-work and sewing have been introduced for the special benefit of the "manual minded," and pattern-making and household economics to placate pa rents with utilitarian ideas. But no measurable improvement is notice able. Must we still further sugar coat the course of study? School work is much easier today than it was a generation ago, but it is not yet easy enough, apparently, to attract the modern child, who seeks to sub stitute play for work and who wants to learn without studying. But it would be wholly wrong to put the entire blame on the pupil. In a good many instances he is only thinking as he was brought up to think. "I didn't go to school after I was eight years old and see how suc cessful 1 am" is the attitude of alto gether too many parents ? an attitude which they have a perfect right to take if they will not proclaim it to their progeny. When they do that it becomes a community menace. Pupils dislike school because they are not encourr.ged to like it and bocause they are not taught to appreciate its value to the man or woman of today and tomorrow. In the new education there will be a definite role for the home to play and it should not be a destructive one. Hail to the land of our fathers! Hail to the land of the free! God bless it! As its flap we salute, let no voices be mute. To swell, from the sea to the sea, The son? of the land that is free. ? E M. Harper. The Feeling of Assurance that a bank account gives is worth many times the effort required to establish one at this bank. Because this feeling of assurance plays such a large part in the Success of Life your boy should have it at early age. Give him assurance and self-reliance by entrusting him with an account tcday. pUSR c??tyb4Z SL , TRUST CO. ^ Stock *es,ooo.oo Sm/thf/sld, a/ C. j PEACE INSTITUTE, Raleigh, N. C. For The Education and Culture of Young Women Classical, Literary, and Scientific Courses leading to diplomas. Graduate credited by State Department Kduoation for Teachers' Certificates. Special diplomas awarded in Music, Voice, Art nid Expression. Excellent Commercial Course, Domestic Science, Domestic Art. INSTRUCTION: Specialties in all departments. * SITUATION: location in capitol city gives special opportunities. Dilightful social advan tages. ATHLETICS: Supervised indoors and outdoors by nthletic director. Special attention, indi- * vidual development. Climate permits outdoor life all winter. For catalogue or other information, write at once to MISS MARY OWEN GRAHAM, President. Tobacco Pack Houses and their contents will form one of the tobacco farmers biggest assets until the tobacco can be marketed. Let us give you protection on this tobacco for three or four months until ii is sold. We will give you a fire insurance poiicy covering it at a small cost, and with the present high prices you can't afford to carry the risk. Write or telephone us for rates. Selrna Insurance, Loan & Trust Co. W. L. STANCIL, Manager Phone 76 Selma, N. C. trading Tobacco We are receiving lots of Tobacco to be graded. If you want any graded for opening sale bring it to us any time. Yours for business, oyett Bros. Smith field, N. C. LARGE LOT OF SCREEN DOORS' and window Screens at Cotter J Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING & Loan Association has helped ? number of people to build home*. It will help others, and maybe you. New series of shares now open. See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. ICE CREAM FREEZERS AT? Cottc Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. LOST AT SELMA ON JULY 24TH? An automobile rear lamp and auto Number N. C. ? 11005. Finder will please bring same to Herald Office and receive reward. ANY ONE WISHING TO BUY THE fishing privilege of the famous At kinson pond in Boon Hill township should see or correspond with S. N.Liles, Princeton, N. C. Can draw the water almost any time. This pond is noted for the large amount of fish in it. LARGE LOT OF TOBACCO trucks on hand, iron and wooden wheels. Cotter Hardware Com pany, Smithfield, N. C. DII) YOU EVER READ THAT great little story "Ten Nights In a Barroom?" If not get a copy at Herald Office. Price only 5 cent9. By mail 8 cents. ICE CREAM FREEZERS AT? Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. THE PAIN CAUSED FROM PILES is very bad. Dr. Muns' Piles and Eczema Ointment will relieve you instantly. Creech Drug Co., Smith field, N. C. FIFTY FARMS FOR SALE. Wanted ? Buyers for fifty good to bacco, cotton, fruit and grain farms. Will sell on good terms. Good roads, good water*nnd a healthy community. Write me your warts. Carthage, Moore County, N. C. A. G. MARTIN.
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