'Don't Rock The Boat
Was President's Plea
Gist of Speeches on Swing Around Circle Has Been That
Progress Fieiup Made Toward Normalcy W ill Con
tinue if Administration Is Kept in Power
Tty DAVID LAWREVCK
C???rifM 1923 h Tti? (Jul,
"Hold steady, don't rock the boat." This may be the slogan
of the Republican party and the appeal of President Harding for
re-election in 1924. It epitomizes all of his speeches on the West
ern trip. It is the theme which he persistently proclaims; name
ly, that compared to the rest of the world, America has made sub
stantial progress.
Just three years ajto this sum
mer, the country was tired of
war time restriction and cried
-out "we want a change." If -the
American people will be patient,
?the much sought after normalcy
?yill come sooner bv a fontiiiiiM.
tion of the present administra
tion than by a change in leader
ship or party. This is Mr. Ilar
ding's whole p|inform.
?Nearly every speech the iWsidvut
made un ttia WeaLtjn iave jUL
inkling of his camjtiflgu plan. Cau
tioned to the extreme about mak
ing too many promises, the Presi
dent felt tempted, again and again'
to emphasize what had been accom
plished by way of reducing the pub
lic debt, absorbing the unemployed,
maintaining fairly high wage levels
and the general prosperity of tile
f?u",rjrl7_ *" of ,hl" being evidence
to Mr. Harding's mind that at least
America has gone forward and not
backward In the last three years
The statement of Oord'ell Hull,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, criticising Mr. Harding
?or giving the Impression In his Salt
I-ake <lty speech that the reduction
f. ^?P"Wlc debt had been accom
plished ernlrely under the Republi
can administration drew promptly
from Mr. Harding a reply thai h?
Wn" ?0t !ryln* 10 '?'aim credit for
all that had been done and that he
was merely pointing out that ever
elnce the war the record of America
was unparalleled throughout the
world.
"Tho President Is a shrew.l
enough politician to know that he
will gain more votes by generously
toeetowlng praise upon the precced
ing administration for sudf progress
** " n""le by .denying it any
credit whatsoever.'/
The President known that lire p,.0
?** pie will vote on the Harding admin-'
Juration in 1924 entir.4r -upon the'
queation of whether the man In tho
-White Hons*-deserves a further vote
of confidence. His whole Western
trip was an efTort to instill contl-!
dene? not only in his personality but
In hlH administration.
Anyone who imagines that tho j
President prepared for his Western
trip In a hurry, or that on the spur
of the moment hr emphasized the
various points, he made, in mistaken
Mr. Harding for many months h.is 1
been thinking of this tour around j
the country and when tho correspon
dents started Westward on the pres
dential train they were handed sev
eral printed speeches -which were t-he
woik of several weeks. Mr. Hard
ing sought advice and got a good
deal of it but the general strategy*
of hi* western trip was his'own - ?
What kind of an Impression did 1
the -rrertldent make? The answ< r
to tht* quem+on would be-nt doubt-'
ful value even if every person in his
audience could have been interview
ed. Modern campaigning does not
permit of oratorical appeal alone
because there in no particular spell
about a speech that Is read from 1
manuscript. .Mr. Harding being- a
newspaper man realized th*? /i.i?^
would get better publicity by prewir
ing his speeches In advance becnu* L
in that way the newRpnpers generally
would save telegraphic expense and
be able to provide space to handle
them at greater length. President
Roosevelt was the first to see the ad
vanag of this and often got his
speeches Into the malls, subject ;o
release, as much as a. month ahead
of the speaking date. President
Wilson disliked to prepare speeches
in advance and oven his addressee to
Congress were often held until the
last minute for correction. Mr.
Wilson used to say that he derived
inspiration from the crowds and
tnat he hated to road a speech from
manuscript.
President Harding Is a remarkn
oiy fine campaigner and can make a
good Impression with an extempor
aneous speech hut he knows the
dingers of dealing win, Important
atibjects In speeches composed on
,.T"** wa" wHI aware of
the difficulties of impressing a crowd
with n written speech anil once or
twice during his Westewlrd lour
D?7' h? ??lde his mantlscrlpt
after finishing it and made an e*.
temponaneous appeal. All - the
back platform speeches were extern
poraneous. how. ver. with one or two
exceptions tHoufh the President was
very guarded In what lie said and
did not attempt to do any more than
Impress his personality upon the
crowds at the train.
\ Whenever .Mr. Hardin* departed
from hw manuscript and endeavor -1
to reach his nudlence with a personal
appeal he made a very effective lm
premlon. It was only In the big
auditorium where the heat and stif
ling atmosphere were not conducive
U> enthusiasm on a (en thousand
word lecture on government flnancc
FOB TIRES
Hood. Oldfleld and Mlchleln?the
bwt tires for the money invested.
Economy Tire Co.
"I
Advises Less Food
for Maturer Men
San Francisco, j?jy 6_Tlvo
? especially
?'m 'Hi imi I. .|IIn.. u,.,.al ..ji;-.,
i i , ?,*oul|l ?volu diaorder*
kidney* ?nd
vf -"Mlvnk. of Denver, lol.t the
',."'.'nuy" A""ocl?tlon hire
!n."d.wi'U??k "1,a,"<r^? study of
lnd"r?f. ;j y-l".."u""'-r Of ftm.
wThe !* ,h" caloric value
or th. <l.ill> meals Increased. break
fast having 111.. smallest Value lun
*??( n<'," ai"1 dln'>"r the larg.
. "A? persons Rrow older, the apne
of the h!" f''''b','r for first
of the day,- and yet the quantity of
're!>nalMn?hm*d "" ?? r"""U of hablt
vak name, added Dr. Spi
nr academic subjects like the con
or the railroads, .that the
audiences were more or less unre
sponsive. But the writer has hud
so much experience in observing
presidential candidates and Prbsi
in?Mln il<'rtre,,5i"B crowds that he
would not hazard an opinion as to
the Impression made by any of them
' ' 'y Kazini! at the assembled
multitude. one cannot forget th.it
"hh;;" ,p.re,w""m ir.
hlladelphla his fatuous speech
?shortly after tile sinking of the l.m
Itania In which the
phrase "Too
proud to fight" appeared, the au
dience stood and Cheered for nearly
live minutes. if lb:* M?.erh w?r?
considered n blunder. It is attributed
entirely to the disadvantages of ex
temporaneous speaking In fact
the interruptions j>t applause are
said to have prevented Mr. Wilson
from completing'his thought. At
any rate what was considered a very
effective utterance at ihe moment
was condemned If not misunderstood
b> the press of the couutif.
Mr. Harding made no secret of th'*
fact that he was endeavoring to (
reach a turgor audience than the I
people Who stood immediately before
him. lie'confessed on one occa
sion that these days of telegraphic
communication and wide distribution
through the newspapers of presiden
tial .iitterancVs. ? the Targer audience
reading the American newspaper was
really hl? objective |, |? f?||y lo
say therefore that .Wry-Harding made
a good Impression nr a had impress
ion by his speeches ?>n the Western
tmir. it is 11 fact, however, thut he
made a good personal appeal anil
that folks everywhere like him and
showed their affections. Mrs.
Harding as a campaigner showed an
aptitude lhat was almost lloosevelt
Ian. Despite her recent lllneis She
went rtght a Inn e with the PrurTrtent
lo all ihf' auifltorinms and never
tailed to appear on the back plat
form with hint. Her greeting, lo
Ihoirowd, rapid lire conversation
aW comment, and whalesoinnoss
were aa much remarked upon by the
;."..ple ns were ih- President's own
manifestations of kindliness.
Of ail the Presidents v ho have
been hack platforming in the 'ast
generation. President Harding Is un
questionably the most natural In de
meanor. President Taft was
w-eil liked but he carried somewhat
the ntlr of the Judiciary. Pri *ident
nooosevelt had a w ly his own
and depended for his impressions
upon antics of speech 'liai were
wholly characteristic of his person
ality. 'President WIMn was un
bent considerably when he went
campaigning hut th?re was always
on atmosphere of dignity which In
spired awe if not reverence He
was frequently witty in his responses
to the comment of a hack platform
.but always one had the feel
ing that Mr. Wilson w.m uncomfor
table in what he was doing. Pres
ident Hording on the other hand,
walks out to the hack platform says
good morning as If bo had been ac
customed to doing It in that very
plaie for years and as if he was a
part ol the community which he was
visiting.
Whft the people thought of his
speeches will probably be batter re
J lee ted in the press comment of.the
next few weeks. Ills success at the
l>olls of 1?24 will not depend of
tourse upon his personal triumph
but upon the concrete achievements
Of his administrations and the ex
pllolt measures undertaken for tha
future.
Nice Tomatoes
Home < fiown
rOlXTHY C.tllll.KiK '
M< K I'OII V
(TCI'MIIKRn s<j(\hii
Call 697?698 *
K. L. GAKRETT
( tromn.l the Corner)
Old Type of French
Peasant Is Passing
Modern Method* of Far-mine Getting
Foothol<k Among French
lturallM#
Paris. July 6?Movies in farming
centers to teach the French peas
ants news methods pf cultivation
have made the people of the cities
realize with something of a shock
that the peasant is changing his
ways.
The policy of keeping land hold
ings small has made the Fremli
a nation of proprietors, so far as
'such a vendition can exist. The
I French inheritance laws tend to
ward the equal treatment of chlld
iin wills, so that in most cases
pile.farm Is actually divided into
small tracts rather than sold and the
proceeds distributed.
This .love of the land, and a secre
(tiveness born of living to himself is
-*aid iby_sociologists to be changing"
The farmer of today looks upon his
land as an instrument of fortune
j building. He will Hell it at a profit
i for ho can buy more.
kt-nt as a secret the return from h's
crops and and quality of
; fertilizer ho used* If he needed
| money he regarded borrowing with
? su>i? dismay that he went to a money
| lender in another district, often at
l-night, and paid usurious interest to'
escape publicity.
| The modem farmer* although
still perhaps in the minority, joins
cooperative buying and selling or
ganizations, discusses the best me
thods of cultivation with his neigh
bors, and is proud to tell what good
bargains he has made.
This, however, is the rosy view of
country progress. There still re
mains the old type of suspicious
peasant, guarding Jealously his bit
I of land and the secrets of his sav
ings, hidden in the house or buried
under the floor. This method of
hoarding, nknown as the "woole
sock/' h* believed by financiers to
explain the rapid disappearance in
France of gold and silver, and even
of a great mass of bank notes. The
French people hnve learned to sub- ,
scribe to bond issues as a matter of ;
patriotism, hut the police records <vf '
big hauls by thieves , in apparently 1
poor homes show that many French- 1
men still have no use for banks.
WEEVIL DAMAGE IS
CONSIDERABLE NOVT
Raleigh, July 6 ? Considerable '
damage by the cotton boll weevil has,
been reported to the Department of
Agriculture and State TfrUege offj
rlals by W. Bruce Mabee, in charge I
of the field station of the division of |
entomology at Dunn, N. C., it wan
stated at the Department of Agricul
ture here today.
Mr. Mabee reports that the weevil j
has punctured 17 percent of the
squares on the farm of M. L. Baling
at Kipling; on the farm of Dr. O. R.
Underwood In one field 18 percent
of the squares have been punctured;
and 12 miles south of FayettevUle on
the F. M. Morali plantation a nine
per cent damage has been found.
According to Mr. Mabee. this'is
the time when farmers should ibe on
the alert for boll weevil damage anfl
preparations should be made for
dusting the cotton. He states that
time should not be wasted in lgfljclng
for grown weevils but rather that
attention should be turned to the
punctured squares on the. cotton
plants. Where the damage is not
general oven the entire field,'time,
poison, and cotton may be saved by
dusting the heavily infected plants
and thus preventing the spread of
w-rcvils over an entire farm.
For the. purpose of determining
the percentage of infestation Mr. Mil
l>ee suggests that 100 squares on the
stalks be examined., This will .give
a general average for the field being"
considered and. Mr. Mabee saj's, if
10 out of each 100 hundred squares
are* punotured, it is tluio for duel
ing.
Dusting has already begun at Kip
ling. Salemburg, and in the fields
south of Fayettevllle, according to
the Department of agriculture. I?a<st
year dusting did not ibegin until Ju
ly 2ft but it commenced this season
on June 26.
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Cabbage Patch Made
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Five hundreds dollars an acre,
half of it cl?-ar profit, is what Her
man Newbern, native Currituck ian
now conducting farming operations
on a' bit: scale in Camden County,
says h? got -from a 12-acre cabbage
patch on his farm this year.
Mr. Newbern put $800 worth, of
, fertiliser on that cabbage patch jind
that fSOO is deducted from the
gross ^revenue in figuring the net
profit per acre. But the cabbage are
now out of the way and Mr. New
bern still has time to grow a crop
of sweet "potatoes* or soy beans or fall
potatoes or fall May peas on the name
^land. In case he plants sweets or
sov beans, no 'additional fertilizer
*w;llT lie required; and if he plants
fall Irish potatoes or May peas very
little fertilizer will be needed. j
The ?crop?wit* made Ulld
harvested in a little more than three
illOIIUIri. riapitim was compi? t? d on
March 27. cutting began oil May 31
and the last of the.cabbage crop had,
been marketed"by July"!. Mr. New
. bern says that he sold 4,000 crates
f row - hi* 4-2-aeres at an average price
of $1.50 a crate, making a total of
$?>.000 for the entire crop. ?
r " 'Mr.- Xewtiern's* experience la' but
another illustration of the handsome
1 profits to be made by farmers who
l will get off the beaten path of grow
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spring May peas, . Against Mr. New
Bern's profit of $250 an acre on his
cabbage, the average farmer of this
(section was lucky to make a net
! profit of $80 an acre this spring on
potatoes, and thls'was fir little better
than an average year for potatoes.
Profits almost If not equally as sen-!
sational as Mr. Newbern has made
on cabbage have been made on
beets, spinach, snap beans or fall
May peas by other farmers in this;
section who were not afraid to try
something a little out of the ordin
ary.
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