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MELDING
It b refreshing, la this day when
*ke Cloom Goblins t*m to have get
tow a etrssge hold upoa to ataay of
our leaden of thought, to oee a mews
papw of tho Greensboro IJaUy Mows
typo coma floating In about breah
fait time with optimism Jset oooing
ftfm nil ito pores. Every morning
*-V.» good big brother breathes a lpir
«t of confidence In the safety of busl
‘-hat is bound to hare a good in
faonso upon eeceyman who reads it
r.r.d goo* forth to give battle to the
?o~ee« that ace striving to tear down
‘Vi country** morale.
Th!r morning wr find this tacked
**W among its rdtoraU:
“It doe* cot requ’r.' especially *
sire drreerrraeAt to mad '.ha signs of
tit times as they relate to old man
Auga.tus fllocm. In t« Greensboro
vfe nity. The old party i making pre
parations to move out. Tho atmos
pneru ar* environment no longer
welcome nor encourage him. He is
-— —- — • -- mcia hi rr<
He i* oat of place.
What -II true ao to Greensboro li
Jr* “•», “S oth#r North C.ro
°ni *•*«■! sorreipon.
d*at» articles reflect it. The col
•tana of the local newspapers bear
cumalaUve evidence of it.
“Not much would be risked In the
• way of prophetic reputation in the
dx. oration that even the txtnao
-x-tora part of the state. where them
hxa been mol dlrtresa of mind,
r Here badness has teemed to face
•"<> where the
wycholory of dejection had lain hold
Of whole neighborhoods of people, la
going with >n the next 6 Odayi to And
on altMothar different outlook on
, . "**‘1 i*T* “»y indeed be put
t.n* it with undue conservatism.
*>*?pl* down there art not
ruined. Thor have oil their basic aw
The inly flow! la
the watt soma yearn ape wrought
aetsml rain, in many local:tic*.
£•* 0»»“h »t*l bold together after
tho flood had aubrided. but of soil. of
**** .. tillable cense, there was
‘ Those regions are to this day
1 »f desolation. That was a con
■ Indeed. Nothing like
1 to the eastern far
1 not utterly lose
‘ ion.
his things
• out
outworn his welcome. Now our folk
“» preporing to Make tho wheels of
Industry hum.1
MORRISON PROGRESSIVE
Those who have known Cameron
Morrison tnd opposed his supposed
attitude toward progressive State is*
**ei were agreehely surprised hy the
tone of hie first message to the North
Carolina Legislature. We were among
them.
Through this meaaoge Governor
Morrison bos proven himself an shit
lender of that thought throsgh which
tho progressive element of what was
until recent years the slowest mov
ing State of the union. Through It
too, ho has informed the standpat ele
ment that they can expect little help
from him.
It Is probable however, that there
are enough of tho pompous little gen
tlemen still in the legislature to pre
vent the carrying out of the policies
championed by tho Honorable Camer
on. They may hold him back for the
Tint two years of kis administration.
But, two years hence the voters of
North Carolina will have another op
portunity to elect membors of the
isgbalore. If this crowd does rot
stand to the Govcrno ’s shoulder, it
may ba that sv ea. e.vJ a better
crowd t> Kjle'frh
ROAD.
Thera aits -no-, o.- ... North
Carolina legUlatu e b-.lL. which, if
aaopieo, wiu proviac .ax; ibc Bute
take over the construction a; 4 main
tenance of the priucip.l h gnvaye of
the commonwealth a d auihir’xo the
State to iteue bondt fo sufficient
money to build an adequate u-d per
manent system of roada th.cughout
North Carolina.
U l* estimated that at least 160,
000,000 will be needed as the Stats’*
■art in this venture. The Federal gov
ernment wiD provide an additional
ISO.000,000. Thit, according to engi
neer*, will bolld something like 6.000
miloe of real roads.
Fifty millions la a big tan. The
casual observer might say right oS
the bat that it la too much—Chat be
doesn’t want to pay the additional
taxes necessary for iueh a bond issue.
The chances are that he will not be
called upon tu do that. It It figured
that the present automobile license
tax with an additional tax on gaao
line erfll pay the whole bill.
These measures will be considered
by joint committees of Iho House and
Senate Thursday. Large delegation*
favoring them will ge from all parti
of the State. Those who favor them
; will be glad to have you go aloift.
HUMMING
Hear the factory whistles T
wad awn and women to honest labor.
_ DU!
Monday morning the rrasciodo trill
of tho Newberry whittle will briiv.
many men back te the machine* that
fall ldla In November.
March 1 will »ec steam spouting
ftw® the big exhaust pipes of Tllgb
■aan mill and *ve hundr.-r) brawn;
men laboring around the machines,
on the yard* and In the log woods.
The roar of the planing mills, the
steady knock of cabinet hammer*, the
: hum of the textile machine* — the
Isweet miiile which helps to make
Dana tbs Best Town Under the Sub.
—will soon he tramming it* steady
tone.
| Meantime: the Seminole is tuning
'Its instruments to join In the choru*
end the m^y smaller induttriea are
preparing to add relume to the
music.
You can’t keep a good man down
any mow than you can keep * *ipiir
rel on the ground. And the Donn Dis
trict is full*Of good men.
We arc going to hum.
I R-r-r- ahl Wah! Wahl
I It’* great to be a newspaper guy:
.ho la cussed for what he doe* Just a*
I thoroughly •* he i« for what he does
not do. Daring the pas: weak the
.that acquaints other folk with Dunn
toor dub wlfo grinds out the stuff
at had to build h'prwe'.f a bombproof
1 rar.etum to escape the wrath of Gr»l.
j Mayor VYade, of the Town of Dunn;
I'ueo.-.d, the Holine-x folk; thi d,
'Crockett, the postmaster candidate;
fourth, Nobles, the telephone guy;
fifth R’Hdla Ik, Ck..k-, -f
Commerce; sixth, tho school board;
seventh. Rinsed, of the no-power
plant; eighth, the county commission
ers, and ninth, the world in ge n * * SI.
—
Publicity is the thing they arc
growling about. His Honor wanls to
pisen the slave of the typewriter be
cause he hat mentioned that Dunn
rauet build some sort of an electric
plant. Old Dia has the same com
plaint. They admit that nothing un
Itruthfol has been chronicled, but they
.have had to hi.-e a raft of new stenog
raphers and things to reply to the ad
ditional correspondence brought a
bout by letting the world know that
there U work to be done here.
The school board and the commis
sioners and Riddle mil have the same
;trouble; the achool board and com
missioners being pestered by folk who
Iwant to biul.i school buildings and
I roads Riddle complains that by let
I ting the world know about his Cali
Iforr.la poultry ranchers the prru has
jmado it necessary' for him to rcplv
to some hundftds of inquirers who
are av'dty trying to take (hem away
from him. Crockett was given too
much publicity.
The Holiness folk have been tha
i moat blood-lhinty. however. Veiling
the slave all tho moan things he al
ready know about himself. On* good
brother has gone so far as to adver
tise his goodness in the Newt and
Observer at the i
who trusts i
after he
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IN DISPATCH, rta. I. 1(11.
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«• hu» woa-dcd, tho f.-iil:ng« o 1 ov
'i hi* frend* of the Holiness faith
Ho vote a story about the thef: o.
■u- eh '•Vera In the i good lit l
ov of Falcon. Th:* story arou e**
h» 're Of m*ry bro»h r. tr'io.n
lend* They have beer. \.-o*'a nt '
;hc eordemnution. hut rune hcv J
led tlirt the chickens were stolen
Vch afi.nr ail. wa< tha m l*i p*i; •
of ths story.
** (!• Holla d. p.inclpal of the
■*>l'pe*r School* at Falcon, write* i
follows:
"The article is your last itauc re
tra'ding happening* at Falcon, wjlh
‘.he r.ccorapanylng rather 'aathaSt
embellishments, aecm to have proves
ed more than local comment. atuWtyW
Ing been a refident of for
five years, connected with nHcJIhi
Unett School all this time^f mlcHp
not be out of place to max* f*fesM
cmarks in regard to raid article? i
■ ' — • «
“Ila-dly ony ono In Falcon know
anything about the affair until they
-cad it In the papers, aad of course
1 !t was immediately recognised a* a
1 h ghly colored report. There was no
*'mar- meeting,’* either of the people
of the town of the “elder*” of the
Holiness Church. No chureh as such
ha* any control over Falcon, but It
haa its charter of incorporation from
ihc legislature of North Carolina,
just as Dunn or any other town, ex
cept that thero seas a restriction pla
yed upon the sale of tobacco In any
form, this being chiefly for the pro
tection of Falron Holiness School,
which will not accept pupils which
o«e tobreco, no matter how much arc
may respect the parent* or guardians
of such children
“Wr* as* anrrv of anvtfiinip vrmnr
that occur* in our midst, but not all
who reside in Falcon, or ever have
redded here, are in full sympathy
with this stand we take, but we are
doing our best to provide a good edo
' cation for those who wish it, under
the best Christian influences we can
throw around them.
“We nre not, however ashamed of
Iho name of the School, nor of the
Holiness Church, and many of the
merchants and people of Dunn know
that their business relations have
been very pleasant with many of
our peonte, no mstier how much th *y
may differ with ut from a reign’
standpoint.
“The evceedinglv incorrect report
mentioned enures one to wonder if
ell that we see in the papers rno
i* as far from the tmth as this, in
which case we might almost be tempt
ed to bar the ordinary paoer from
our rend'ne 1 istnadsd flvc-ln*-ETAO
oar »e*dl"e Hat end adopt in its stead
“ft-imm’s Fa'rv Talcs" or the travels
of Baron Munchausen.
IN ME MORI AM
Thomas Watts Harrington was horn
ip Cumberland County, (now Har
nett) Seotsenber 6th. 1849, died in
'he citv of Raleigh. January 12. 1821
He died at hit post of duty as First
Assistant Engrossing Clerk of House
of Representatives. He was str*eVe*
with paralysis of the brain and lived
pnly about aa hour, never regaining
tone and three daughter*^®.
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'♦♦♦♦<♦« ea»aaM»4ee«»eaeat»e
still living.
Mr. Harrington was u great advo
cate of education, lie received his
education in the common school of
his day. I have often heard him say
“hit he intended to do ail in b'.s power
*o give Harnett County a good school
lystem. Ho wa* Identified with the
educational interests or the county
for fo.ty your* and was a member
of the Board of Education st the time
of hie death. No man’s good adr'ce
and knowledge of educational affairs
will be more missed than thin.: Ho
represented his county in tha legisla
ture in the years or 1R87 and 1003,
an4 In the'Senaiy f><*7 and was on
IflMl representAivc»\Iks J*’ mack of
respect and «st4* (#. h ho was
held by therpieggbt. Ipencral Aascm
a joinWfeaedgtioir of sympathy
t|#lat(to to hie death was
liefeaa of Represcnla
r«tplo' cor\eurrirur. and n
-5- Whs appointed from the
'Senate and House to attend the fu
neral, which was htdd «t Ml! Hisysb
Prcsbjrlorian church orf th* Hth. and
his body laid to rest in the church
cemetery. He was groatly beloved hv
every member In tne Engrossing I)o
pailmeot and a beautiful design was
sent as a token of respect nnd loro
from this department.
As a ciliccn Mr. Harrington was
interested ami engaged in every en
terprise that was calculated to ele
vate hit community. Good roads, pub
lic schools, sober cic;zcn*hip and kin
dred matters found in him n real
champion. As a social factor, justice
and consideration are to bo number
ed among the chief element*. All
classes rich and pout, white and
black, knew that they had u real
friend in him. He stood ready to ad
■ WW. »v upme, »v «MVVHI<4(C *• UU
needed such advice. Mount Pisgah
Presbyterian church never bad a bet
ter member. He was good frnm thr
beginning. There was no harvest of
barren regrets to torture his sensitive
conscience. While young he was elect
ed an older in Mount Pisguh church
which official position he held until
his death. He was positively obsessed
with an unmeasurable degree of hon
or, be always kept Sir records
straight. He had clean hands and a
pure heart, he walked in thr way of
the andefiled whh strict regularity.
Though s very modest man. shunning
publicity whenever possible. every
cause of .righteousness found tn him
a true exponent and advocate. What
a legacy bequeathed to hi* devoted
family; a life Of honor, a character
unsullied, the record of a Christian
gentleman. And now the inspiration
to mure diligently fulluw him op the
shining way as he followed Christ.
No language of ours can overstate
hi* moral worth and spiritual excel
lence. and no language can adequate
ly portray our sorrow al his going.
Rut for what he was and for what
be achieved in this world wo can txu
ly aay: “Father, I thank Thee.”
Mr. Harrington wrote many splen
did poems—I have often hoard him
quote Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”
and I believe It wa» hie favorite, so
in closing this brief sketch It would
not be amiss to close with this beau
tiful poem:
“Sunset and evening star, *
And one clear call for me!
:re be no moaning of the
to sea.
; moving room- a
MWHHIIMmHMHMHM
unn min a irony mi imtmuumi infttat
-i-—-JJJB-g:
Too fall for sound or foam.
When that which drew from out the
houndlhas deep i
Turns again' home.
Twilight and evening bell.
And after that the dark!
And may that* ba no sadness of fare
well.
When I embark.
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For though from out our bourne of
Time and Place
The flood may hear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot faca to itev
When I have crossed the bar."
OTIS P. SHELL.
JOHN A. CATES DIES
(New* and Ob«crrar.)
Mr. John A. Cates, of 614 South
Harrington street, died yesterday
morning from a osvalytic stroke
which he suffered daring the night,
surviving about seven hour* after the
stroke. U« is survived by hit widow
and fife children--Mr. Ben G. Cats*,
Mr. A. J. Cater, Jr., Mr. F. Cates,
Mrs. G. W. Apgar, of New York, and
Mrs. W. H. Sawyer, of this city.
He was sixty ono yeais of age at
the time of his death. Born in Har
nett county lie came to ftalolgb in
hii young manhood and was, for a
number uf years, a member of the
police forrr of the city of Ralrlgh at
a time when Itib enforcement of the
law in this city required weight and
brown as well as train'n; and charac
ter. Hr seined the city well arid faith
fully until shout fifteen years ago he
resigned from the force to associate
himself with the Metiopolitan Life
Insurance Company, for whom he
served us local agent until about two
years ngo when hr purchased a More
which he narrated until he suffered
a stroke of paralysis snout five
months ago. Ho was an invalid from
that time until thn oecond stroke Sat
urday night ended hit bis life.
THE ONE BEST BET
Green »boro News.
It is related that at a certain pe
riod of the past a certain man trad
ed a certain grey mule for a curtain
parcrl of real estate, situate, lying
and being in a certain city of the
south- Now, contrary tu « certain
tradition that grvy mules do nut dm,
the time ut which this transaction
took place U sufficiently removes!
from the present to warrant tho pre
sumption that the aforesaid certain
grey mule is now no more. Thcro is
no presumption at all about the real
estate. Today It is p- uducing an an
nual revenue of $32,000. The city in
which it is situated has grown some;
there have been improvements. l)th
erwhc it U the same "dirt.” All of
which is just a stiiking reminder
Ihnl grey mules come and go; busi
nomes rile and fall; prnerullons live
end die; but real estate is virtually
the name today it was when geologist s
first diacovcied it.
There is just one outstanding dif
ference; as a ruie it is far more val
uable now than it was then. Which
is the particular feature that attraeti
the attention of tho investor.
Perhaps that rhymester, who ran
more to truth than to poetry, summed
it all up in those Immortal linos:
“Since .tho l.ord quit making soil.
Six thousand years of sweat and toll
have passed; but don’t forget
Tbat Hr is making people yet."
Supply and demand, if you please.
And that U on* sf the point* tW
the nation’s ’'realtors"—of whom
Crernsboro has a very wide-awake
portion — desire to “get acrom" to
tho public mind. The siren tong of
the “wildcatter" ha* lately been
drowning out to an extent the “Sym
phony of tho Soil,'’ aa it ware. And
the realtors are pursuing a eery sin
cere purpose; a purpose to safeguard
t^e public Interest along with their
own. Stuck* that give promise of
at'on ms of golden treasure today
may make good; and, again, tomor
row they may maka paitably good
wallpaper. Which the investor baa
no sure way of knowing. And that
uncertainty introduces the element
of speculation that in recent month*
hat cost North Carolina millions hf
dollars.
Any business enterprise la a specu
lation for that matter; the element of
chance is reduced in proportion to
the capability behind It, along with
fortuitous circumstance* attending its
conduct. It Is speculation that Is re
duced by specialisation; all right for
the man who know* the game, but
exceeding dangerous for those who
do uot. ror the latter, taken by and
largo, the investment that la safest
ami surest of return is real estate.
All that is reeded !* a modicum of
judgment and some export advica.
The realtor* can supply the latter;
and their creed imposes upon evety
member the obligation that the ad
vice dull be both expert and honest.
Thu* do they expect to re-establish—
rather, to establish—real estate In
its proper place of leadership aa the
univeisal investment medium of tho
great army of the moderately well-to
do; tho>c who might own homes of
their own if they would, and would
if they realised all the advantages
of such ownership.
The man who Invests in commodl
lie! of fruiiu it lilhvirwp tksi taamo with
or against the laws of production;
with or again:t prevailing conditions;
h« Is gambling on hla particular line
of business and backing the garao
with his ability. The man who invests
In real estate is gambling primarily
on his town, hi* city, hTs section.
With growth and progress he wins,
and in direct proportion to that pro
gress; with stagnation he takes an
even break; only in retrogression is
he on actual loser. And the rise and
fall of cities has not been popular
to a great extent since the gnat
Roman rtnrco. It Isn't being dona now.
Civilisation, aftor all, 1* the under
living foundation upon which real cu
rate values are grounded, so that the
real estate Investor, on final anoints,
is gambling on the success or failure
of his civilization.
Real * state isn’t trafficked in as
commodities nf trade. It isn't m good
t.v-te one season nnd bad another;
the rupply ian’t shoiv one year and
long another. No business can be
conducted without it; no home ear.
be made without It; in the everyday
businrirr of living and dying it is,
materfolly, the beginning and the
ending of thing;. Wherefore it Is
likely to remain in rather lively de
mand whnro life on this planet is vig
orous and progressive.
Harnett county he* been one of the
heaviest suffers in the slump of farm
products, but ai has been previously
mentioned,, they arc a-mind down
there to forget it as soon as poasible.
They are talking about a bond issue
of *1.‘.0,0(111 for rosdr, expecting to
need no more at pre*Mit. since the
ytate highway system wilt Insliade two
main toad* across the county._
Oreensboro Dally News.
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