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From the standpoint of numbers interested, the problem of farm devel opement in American agriculture transccnds in importance by far the problem of the fine points of operation on those farms which are already well developed. Futhermore, in one case the result is merely an added enrich ment of an already well-to-do man by a greater production from a farm that now produces well. In the other case th^re is as the result a citizen moving up from degrading poverty to the possibility of good citizenship and a contribution of consideiable magnitude to society from a former debit source. / The prbolem of farm development is peculiarly different from that cf the better operation of a furm already developed. The advice to the latter man merely involves the abstract statement: "What the best thing is for him to do." The advice to the poor man on the undeveloped farm must be toned down to terms of expediency. His problem is what to do with what he has ? and what he has is oftentimes precious little. The new Farm-Loan Law should provide some relief to the farmer mak ing a small beginning on a difficut task; but such a man is inclined to feel his way along with less expen diture of money and more of labor than would be the case were he en gaged in a proved work. The farmer on the undeveloped farm is inclined to make sure that he can walk well be fore attempting to run. As matters now stand, however, there is plenty of advice about how to run, or to run faster, but precious little about how to take the first steps of the walk. The old farmer who wrote to the Virginia pditor, saying: "I am pore and my land is pore; won't you tell me a cheap and easy way to git it up and one whereby I can make a living at the same time?" struck the keynote of an important national problem. ? Country Gentleman. SEW TESTAMENTS AND BIBLES for sale at The Herald Office. /Tdvertisers will find this paper an excellent medium in which to display their bargains and maVe their wants known ******* * ******* * * '* THHIFT. * * * ** Earn What You Can, Spend W hat * * X * You Muat, Give W hat You Should * * * * And Save the Rest. * ? K ******* * ******* Learn to Save the Little Suing. The first step in forming the saving habit is to be mindful of the value of little things. Small sums saved in crease as the snowball rolls down hill. Pennies soon make dimes, dimes dol lars and the dollars as the years pass, mount up into the hundreds and thousands. Teach your boy the ad vantage of having a bank account, which should be opened with small savings. The boy who will not open a savings account until he has accumu lated five or ten dollars to deposit is not likely to form the saving habit. Some of the biggest fortunes repre sent the amassing of small sums. The soft dnnks that have put millions in the pockets of a few men are but a nickel n drink or bottle. The tobacco trust that has amazed millions ac cumulated it largely through the sale of cigarettes at five ctnts per pack age. Lst a bjy learn the advantage of small savings and soon he will have targe ones to invest. ? Edgefield Ad vertiser. To Teachers. We as teachers have an unusual opportunity at the present time to teach thrift. The idea in the r.bove | paragraph about saving small amounts is good. The Woolworth Building, one of the highest skyscrapers in New York City, was built out of the sav ings of nickels and dimes from the Woolwcrth Ffve and Ten Cent Stores. We can teach thrift by using the "Wise Sayings" on thrift found in this "Thrift" column from time to time, by reading these to our pupils, by using them for dictation, by as sisting the pupils' themes to be writ ten on the subject of thrift. Biogra phy and history is a rich source for the teaching of thrift. The lives of the most of the Presidents of the United States are good examples. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is worth the reading by every student of the upper grammar gradea. As another method of teaching thrift we commend to all teachers the "Thrift Cards" and "War Savings Certificates" offered by the United States Government. Let us confess that as a people in Johnston County we are not given to thrift. The same applies to our nation. We reckon too lightly the value of small things for getting that it is the little added to the little that makes the much. Many of us waste cn trifles what if saved would be a comfort in old age. Mr. Vanderlip says, "An idle dollar is a slacker dollar." In th-* Parable of the Talents especial condemnation is placed upon the unfaithful man who hid his money instead of putting it into circulation. In the issue of Thrift stamps, our government makes a di rect appeal to the small investor and especially to our boys and girls. It shows how the odd pennies can be made profitable. Sixteen twenty-five cent stamps may be exchanged for a War Savings Certificate Stamp which may be registered by the owner at any post office. As another says: "The owner has now entered on the career of a capi talist with the government of the United States as his guaranteed debtor. This plan affords the finest opportunity for thrift. It should give not only the grown-ups, but more es pecially the youth of our nation, a new angle on the possibilities of the pennies. It will instill the saving habit ? which is a good one for every body to acquire ? and at the same time it will carry with it the knowl edge that a patriotic duty has been performed. . . . There is little doubt that in a very short time all the allotments will be taken up, and a boy or girl who has not done his or her 'bit,' in becoming the owner of some of these stamps, will be hard to find. Save your pennies and buy thrift stamps and you will be doing ms much towards helping the govern ment in proportion to your means and opportunities as the most ardent pa triot could desire." o THRIFT. (By Cherry Gurley.) Someone has aptly said: "Thrift is the management of one's affairs in such a manner that the value of one's possessions is being constantly in creased." Thrift is knowing the value of money, knowing not only how to get it but knowing how to keep it. The old saying, "Money burns our hands," is often true. Most people can make money more easily than ithey can keep it. There are several ways a person may develop thrift. All, even when small children should keep an account of the money they make and all they spend, to see whether they are living withing their income or not. Good investments will help a person. Now for instance if one should buy a house for five thousand dollars and sell it for six thousand, a thousand dollars is gained. Another good plan is to put money in saving banks. There are two good reasons for this, first one will not have it in his pocket where it is so easy to spend, and another is, it will draw interest. Another way of developing thrift is insurance. A person who takes out a ten or fifteen year policy, gets the money himself if he lives that long and even if he does not his people get the entire amount. A thrifty person would like ly own his own home. A good way to do this is through the building and loan association. But as has already been stated thrift implies not only making money but keeping it. I have in mind a little boy who climbed from the very bot tom because he was thrifty. His par ents were very poor. His mother was atfficted when he was but two years old. They had only a poor one-horse farm and made very little money. It took all they could spare to pay the doctor and the medicine bills. He learned very fast on the fr.rm and at school. But when he was only ten years old, death robbed him of his father, thus leaving him with afflicted mother and little farm. But he went ahead and worked ? did all he could and was obedient to his mother. He went about his work cheerfully for he was always full of life. His mother's health was never re stored, so when he was about fifteen years old his mother was also taken. Thus he was left in the world to fight his battle alone. He did not sell his little farm, he stayed with his uncle and rented out his land until he was about twenty. During this time he went to the free schools and learn ed all ho could. Then he went off to study medicine. At college he worked very hard in his studies and learned fast. During vacation he did not do like most boys, sit r.round and rest up. He went home and hauled cross ties, cord wood and even helped the tenant to improve his farm, never idling one day away. He was very sociable with his neighbors. When his vacation was up he would return to school and work just as he had worked at home. He did not try to dress so fine or throw his money away foolishly, but he tried to put every penny to. a good advantage. Thus he went year after year till his study was completed. Then he set tled down in his old neighborhood town. He had never lost a foot of his farm. His medical course had cost him eighteen hundred dollars and he could hardly tell how he had paid it, for he had worked his way through. His practice soon grew great far and near, for he was always friendly with everybody. He had prepared himself for a great life work and still had kept what he had to begin with. This is the growth of thrift. Wise Sayings. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. ? Franklin. A penny saved is two pence clear, a pin a day's a groat a year. ? Frank lin. There are no gains without pains. Many a little makes a mickle. Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves. Take care of the ccnts, and the dol lars will take care of Themselves. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ? Franklin. Who needs not a penny shall never have any. Penny :md penny laid up will be many. A penny saved is a penny earned. Beware of little extravagances: a small loak will sink a great ship. ? Franklin. Where there is dime leakage, the dollars run away. ? Uncle Philander. No boy ever became great as a man who did not in his youth learn to save money.? John Wanamaker. 38 Lynchings in 1917. 12 Charged With Rape. Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 29. ? R. M. Moton, president of Tuskegee Insti tute, tonight announced that from the records kept by the division of re cords and research of Tuskegee In stitute, there were 38 persons lynched during 1917, of whom 36 were ne Igroes and two were whites. Thirty j seven were men ond one a woman. Twelve were charged with criminal assault or attempted criminal as sault. The States in which lynching oc curred and number in each State were as follows: Alabama 4, Arkansas 4, Arizona 1, Florida 1, (Georgia 6, Kentucky 2, Louisiana 5, Mississippi 1, Montana 1, Oklahoma 1, South Carolina 1. Ten nessee 3, Texas 6, Virginia 1, Wyom ing 1. CALL ON BEATY & L ASSITKR FOR your Letter Heads and Envelopes or anything in the Printing line. WILL OPERATE RAILROADS. President Wilnon Taken Over the Carriers and Gives Hi* Reasons for So Doing In a Statement Issued Wednesday Night. The President of the United States, in taking over the railroads of the Country, issued the following state ment in Washington last Wednesday night: "I have exercised the powers over the transportation systems of the country which were granted me by the Act of Congress of August, 1916, because it has become imperatively necessary for me to do so. This is a war of resources no less than of men, perhaps even more than of men, and it is necessary for the complete mobi lization of our resources that the transportation systems of the country should be organized and employed under a single authority and a sim plified method of co-ordination which have not proved possible under pri vate management and control. The committee of railway executives who have been co-operating with the gov ernment in this all-iniportant matter huve done the utmost that it was pos sible for them to do; have done it with patriotic zeal and with great ability; but there were difficulties that they could neither escape nor neutral ize. Complete unity of administra tion in the present circumstances in volves upon occasion and at many points a serious dislocation of earn ings and the condition was, of course, without power or authority to re-ar range charges or effect proper com pensations and adjustments of earn ings. Several roads which were willingly and with admirable public spirit accenting the orders of the committee have already suffered from these circumstances and should not be required to suffer further. In mere fairness to them, the full authority of the government must be substituted. The government itfcelf will thereby gain an immense increase of effici ency in the conduct of the war and of the innumerable activities upon which its successful conduct depends. "The public interest must be first served and, in addition, the financial interests of the government and the financial interests of the railways must be brought under a common di rection. The financial operations of the railways need not then interfere with the borrowings of the govern ment and they themselves can be con ducted at a greater advantage. In vestors in railway securities may rest assured that their rights and inter ests will be as scrupulously looked after by the government as they could be by the directors of the several railway systems. Immediately upon the re-assembling of Congress I shall recommcnd that these definite guar antees be given; first, of course, that the railway properties will be main tained during the period of Federal eongrol in as good repair and as com plete equipment as when taken over by the government, and .second, that the roads shall receive a net operating income equal in each case to the average net income of the three years preceding June 30 ,1917; and I am en tirely confident that the Congress will i be disposed in this case, as in others to see that justice is done and ful? security assured to the owners an< creditors of the great systems whicl the government must now use unldei 5 its own direction or else suffer seriou embarrassment. "The Secretary of War and I art agreed that, all the circumstances be- ' ing taken into consideration, the best results can be obtained under the im mediate direction of the Honorabb Wm. G. McAdoo, whose practical ex perience peculiarly fits him for the service and whose authority as Secre< ? tary of the Treasury will enable hirr to co-ordinate as no other man coulc %. the many financial interests whicl will be involved and which might unless systematically directed, suf fer very embarrassing entanglements "The government of the Unite< States is the only great govemmen now engaged in the war which has no already assumed control of this sort It was thought to be in the spirit o American institutions to attempt t do everything that was necessar through private management and i jj zeal and ability and patriotic motiv v could have accomplished the neces sary unification of administration i J would certainly have been accom plished; but no zeal or ability coul i >' overmoce insuperable obstacles, an 1 have deemed it my duty to recog nize that fact in all candor, now that it is demonstrated and to use withoiK reserve the great authority reposed in me. A great national necessity dictated the action and I was there fore not at liberty to abstain from it.'* CALL AT THE HERALD OFFICE and get your 1918 Turner's North Carolina Almanac. At 10 Cents each. By mail 12 Cents. I FOR A BIG FAMILY BIBLE. CALL at The Herald Office, where you can get a nice on u for $3.50. Big type go thr t old people can read.
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