it Pays To Advertise I Through The Columns of m The Farmvilte Enterprise IT REACHES - THE PEOPLE (flijlBjfli j ii L-!.. -.1 ? ! ?r-rr ? Merchants I Get Wise Let Us Write You an Ad. apd we'U'open your eyes WITH INCREASED BUSINESS 4=^8? Ptl LUl-i'-J ricei.p jg HI' J&J South Carolina ta ?|t? aver aged $13 77, in 1914 $9.<$. '? Eastern North Carolina in W13 vcraged $18.56, in 1914 $12.39. It North Carolina in averaged 117.72, in 1914 Ddt Virginia in 1918 avor in 1914 $9i83. , it the sameauantit: crop, the situation 4bsoluto'y de mands that a decided decrease in the planting for 1915 shall take place. The Old Belt cannot raise any money crop but tobacco, and therefore the crop should be cur tailed in the cotton sections, where the increase has been so pronounced. A conservative planting in the Eastern North Carolina and South Carolina section will give the fanner .an opportunity and an interest to raise full crops for home tuste nance, and as the high price of every article of food is likely to continue, it does seem reason able that every effort on the part of the farmer should be made to rAise food crop*. % so doing and making a decided cut In tEc ucregze of tobaoco, the price ol tobacco will be remun erative and will bring aGout a general condition of prosperity in tho communities on which depends the success of the farm ers for their weifare. finally, it is the firm opinion of those who fiave given the matter thought, that another large crop of tobacco (and a large crop enn only be raised iq Eastern North Carolina and South Carolina) will be a calam ity upon every one connected with the trade, and especially upon the farmer who produces it, and the remedy lies only in a very considerable degree de creasing the planting this year. PUT ON THE SOFT P2DAL /; ^ ? . It is time'for the American lay* man to put on the soft pedal* and let the president do the talking. The is grave concern lest the United States become involved in the European wbr. But it mu& not bo? if mortal man and honorable means can prevent. England seems determined to Aarve out Germany, even to th* depriving of women and children of the necessary food to sustain life. This may be in accordance with the rules of warefare, but it is not in accord with the laws of ,of humanity. Germany, in retaliation, says mcrchnnt ships mu& not en?if English waters, and warns neuf tval countries that their vessels are in danger of being sunk by Teutonic submarines. Germarfy, apparcu'iiy, \ would also Starve England? including its innocent women and children! This, top, may bj considered a justifiable aclofVar, but the ^ment of humanity is lacking?quite dead. ' The United States is a . neutral country, favoring neither side to lands. British merchant ships arc ii* iug the American flag in ac ef fort lo escnpc the hostile craft of the enemy, The kaiser inslruds his subma rine commanders to sink mer chant vessels approaching the English coast, and warns Ameri ca that its ships bf commerce are in danger of being destroyed. y: If either country, in pursuance of its acnouoced policy, dejSirovi An American ship sailing under % Americaa flag, then that arft bev^mes one of war egainA tho L'ntVcd State*. ?r of piracy on the !;i ' V AndthJrein lies the extreme HEver^bofc? Work. Let's everybody go to work! Let's forget about the hard times bugaboo and work ? work? work! Let's bring a stream of gold into this community as 3 result of the next year's work that will chase the wclf away from even ibe humblest door in the township. Let's put gold into the pocket of every individual? by work. * * ' '' Let's feed every stomach with the best in the market ? '>y work. Let's fill our banks with the profits of the labors of the ne*t twelve months ? by work. / Let's write PROSPERITY in capital letters? by work. We can do it? if wc work! Any community can do it? by work! J It only requires confidence, intelligence, an J work plenty of work. "No work to be had" is often a phant'on of the brain. It seldom exists for the man who wants to work. There is work? plenty of it? for people who are looking for work instead of a life of ease, or a soft snap. If work is slack in one line there is always a demand for labor in other lines. Some one is always wanting * men? more men. Farmers ore at their wits ends over the scarcity of help. If the job won't hunt you, go out and hunt the job. DOn't loaf. Whittling sticks ou n street comer never yet has made a man rich or filled an empty stomach. Swapping lies in the shade ot a tree wilt not bripg gold to an empty i>ockct. It requires work? work? plenty of work? and more }* ;%? , *- ? I ? ? When we wait for money to hunt us the other fellow gets it. .! ?? ' ; ? ???.. But the man who works gels the money ? and gener ally keeps it. ~ T)w> output of this community might be increased by half? might even be doubled? if everybody worked? \vorkcd hard? and kkpt on working. It will be a great year for some one, for much gold 'is coming to this country from abroad. Who's out for a big slice of that wealth? Everybody speak at once! THEN GO TO WORK! % gravity of the situation. President Wilson and bis ad visers are draining every ncrVn in on effort to'avoid tho danger of a clasb, and' the people of this country can best assist them by refraining from partisan discus sions of war, and by re tutting their native coolness and Volm neis in the face of danger. Hot denunciations and vitriolic dis cussions will only serve to ag gravate an 'already delicate situ ation. ,*? ' "? . ??' Let Europe fight its own bat ties. Our business is to attend ^Irictly to our own affairs? and to furnish food for the starving millions when the inevitable time is at hand. he president it speaking soft ly1? but to the point? and he should not be embarrassed by the flames of racial Slrifo. Put on the soft pedal, brother ?the soft, soft pedal. Old King Cotton is making a desperate elfort to retain his time honored crown. :p f.> v Mission Study Class Organized. The Mission Study Class of the M. E. Church, held their first meeting at the home of Mn. Joe Parker, Monday afternoon. The class, wftich is quite a large one, was cs! draft upon agriculture for the amount, which the farmer la compelled tp ? honor wlUraut protest This check drawn upon agriculture may travel to and fro ov'or the highways of com- . raerce ; may build cities; girdle the globe with bands of ateel; may search hidden treasures In the earth or Uavetse the skies, but In the end It will reat upon the soil. No dollar will remain suspended in midair: it Is as curtain to seek the earth's surface as an apple that falls from a tree. When a farmer buys a plow he paya the man who , mined .the metal, tha woodman who foiled ' tho tree, the manufacturer who assembled tho raw material and shaped It Into an ar ticle of usefulness, the railroad that transported it and. the dealer who ?old him tho goods. "He pays the wages of labor and capital employed th the transaction as well as pays for the tools, machinery, buildings, eto.. Uicd In the construction of the commodity and the same applies to ail articles of use and. die i of him self and those engaged In the sub sidiary lines of Industry. There Is no 'payroll In civilization that does not rest upon the back of the farmer. Mo must pay the bllla ? all of them. The total Talue of the nation's annual agricultural products Is around $11,000,000,000, and it is safe to esti mate that 95 cents on every dollar goea to meeting the expenses of sub sidiary Industries. The farmer do'eiv not work more than thirty minutes per day for himself; the remaining thirteen hours of the day's toll he devotes to meeting the payroll of thc> hired hands of agriculture, such ss the manufacturer, railroad, commer cial and other servants. The Farmer's Payroll and How Ha Meets It. The annual payroll of agriculture approximate* (11,000,000, 000. A por tion ot the aipount Is shifted to for eign countries In exports, but the total payroll ot industries working for the farmer divides substantially as follows: Railroads, ' 1 1,1 5 J, 000. 000; m.' jufacturers, $4,365,000,006; mining, $6^5,000.000; banks. (200,000,000; mercantile $3,500,000,000, and a hoary miscellaneous payroll constitute* thj remainder. , It takes the corn, crop, the most valuable In agriculture, which sold last year for $1,692,040,000. to pay off the employes of the railroads; the money derived from our annual sales of livestock of approximately $2,000, 000,000, the yearly cotton crop, valued at $420,000,000; the wheat crop, which . Is worth M10.000.000, and- the oat crop, that is 'worth $440,000,000. are i pay good farm hands on an averagt- of $1.50 per day of thirteen hours when they board themselves; work usually runs about nine moptbs ot the year and the three months dead time, tbey can do the chores tor their board. It tbey prefer to farm on their own accehat, there aro more than 14,000,000,000 acres of Idle land on the earth's sur face awaiting the magic touch of the plow. The compensation Is easily ob tainable from Federal Agricultural Department statistics. Tho total average snnual ssIm of a farm In the continental United States amounts to $51ti.OO;' the cost ot operation ta $340.00; leaving tho -farmer $17$ per annum to live eft tad educate bis family. There is no, occasion for the legis latures Baking a position foh surplus employes of industry, let them come "bac* to the soil" and share with us ?the prosperity ot the fans. When honesty 1* merely a good policy It 1* a poor vlrtuo. ' Laxy farmers are Just aa useless as dead ones and take up more toom. When tin soul communes with the spirit ot nature the back to (He farm woven eat ?>*?!!. Cere* ta 4 to 14 Days