* V t THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. The Polk County News PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY I LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor Entered at the Postoffic e at Tryon, N. C.t as Second-Class Mail M;*ter Under Act of Congress. -? ? ?- ? - A TERMS OF SUBSCRIPT iun On* Yoar 2.00 j Six Months 1.2S Thrse Months l.OO DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATE Forty Cents Per Column Inch, Flat Legal Advertising, One cent Per Word, Cash In Advarc?> III MaMlB III "HE LIKED TO WALK DOWN TOWN" He was a Civil War veteran who passed away. He wa- past 80 years. It doesn't make any difference about his name. Thousands have answered the call. A tribute to one is a tribute to all. The writer of his life's story said, "he liked to walk down town and talk with the men on the street." In this statement I one can see a beautiful picture. It is a picture of peace and quiet, of law-abiding citizenship, / of confidence in fellow-men and love of copanionship. The man who likes to walk down town and talk with the men in the street?especially one of our aged citizens who has served his country in war and his community in peace?is prettv sure to be a good man and worthy citizen. In this age of spttd and sophistication the great wonder is whether with the passing of such as he will pass also the time when men" like to walk down town and talk with the men on the street." If it ever comes to that the world will house a sorry lot of people. The old generation passeth; the new comes on. But as long as friendship and goodwill are expressed thru the quiet avenue of neighborliness and human sympathy we will have no need for concern about the future. Brother, while the opportunity lasts, seek out and grasp the hand of the man who "likes to walk down town and talk with the men on the street." You have seen him often. You know his type. You can see the drooping shoulders. You can hear the hand-carved cane tapping on the pavement. You can enjoy the smile that comes from the old man's countenance. If j you are possessed of thoughtfulness you can see the ambition 11 - Uo?r ctriiinQ nf ;i of youth that onve was ins. mu tun m-?i -- wedding march of long ago. Then the call to arms, and the cannon's roar. You-can see the mightly Lincoln, and the bia\e and peerless Lee, Struggles and privation stalk in the foreground. Then you can see the swords lain aside?peace, and a united nation! All this in the man who "likes to walk down town and talk with the men in the street. mi - ? - - -- 1 4 ,4 nvo ~ X its ideal is too sublime for the rhytmic art of human touch; its plot too long for condensed treatment; its climax too intense for generality of phrase. The future may have in store its marvelous achievements, its eminent men and women, and its developments to cope with an advanced civilization. But the past and present has laid a solid foundation by having produced the kind of man who "likes to walk down town and talk with the men on the street. BOOSi1 TRYON The family that gets along without the home paper gets a long way from its friends. Taxation is like law. It is justified only when measured by the rule of the greatest good to the greatest number. \ That nation is in no danger of decay whose citizens are loyal to the institutions of their respective communities. The loyal citizen's greatest test of courage is to keep from swelling up when somebody puts a sting in his boosting. Every successful business is in lartnership with the public. The business renders service and the public contributes patronage. Neither can withdraw from their common obligations without injury to the firm and to the community. COOPERATIVE MARKETING FOR THE FARMER Cooperative marketing of farm products is nothing* more or less than the methods employed by big business. It eliminates the two great deterrents to progress?lost motion and friction. When the farmer must not only till his soil and raise his crops, but take a hap-hazard chance on selling them at a price not defnnrniMA/1 Ktr OAiYmntititrn Vvi/lc? anrl fVin ooinnfl^in Koaio onnrvl\r tuiiiuiicu kjj v/umjjci-in* v uivio ?m? i>nu ov-iciu/ijiiv/ uaoio ui ouppij and demand, he finds that his otherwise needless energy has been the cause of his failing profits. It will not be long until the farmers of this country awaken to the benefits of cooperative marketing on a nation-wide scale. And not only the farmers, but the consumers as well, will learn that a part of the wasted energy of the producers in trying to be both agriculturalists and individual markerters is paid for by them (the consumers) in the cost of food. Cooperative marketing has proven successful wherever it has been tried, except in those cases of poor management which did not disprove its fundamental values. One central agency attends to the selling and distribution, leaving the producer free from marketing worries, and enabling him to produce bet' ter crops at better prices, but in the end at cheaper prices to t 1 hp rnnonmpr How can this be clone? Elimination of chance selling and efficient methods of distribution is the answer. No government price-fixing will ever bring home the bacon to the farmer. It L will only glut the market, leave the mortgage unpaid, with the world still crying for bread because of lack of business principles applied to'agriculture. The idea of cooperative marketing has not been "sold" to many people because, like many movements looking toward the pooling of resources and energies, it has suffered lack of leadership and poor management, and in some cases even undergone the smooth slickery of the swindler. But in our most prosK'v ET'. m' A ' tuE POLK COUNTY NEW) THE BRIDGE OF PROGRESS < iKii-i communities cooperative marketing of farm produce is I, set I ling down to an established fact and as something taken for,< granted in the important indusry of feeding the world. ! j< I I t ^ TK-TI1MONY WITH A "KICK" i1 Judge Jones, of Seattle, in announcing his plans for conduct- j ng a murder trial, said that when the evidence got "smeary" I he \vi uld order all spectators from the court room. It h:.s always l>een more or less of a wonder why people loil-j uiuiiiy me minus ot nationals, to a state of continued friendliness will prove itself as the processes of international relationships go on. But the indirect method of putting an end to international strife will, in the future, , plav an important part. i Nations are like individuals: we had better say, thei* are large groups of individuals. Agencies and activities whose par- i liripants will never mention war or peace or diarament will in- i directly cause enmity and hatred to dissolve before common in- 1 lent ions and eooperaitve efforts at destroying economic audi' social order thruout the worR And this without any nation sac-!| 1 if icing its autonomy or independence. Mainfestly it will aid the cause of freedom,'for domestic security is the first requisite of national development. There are too many world problems awaiting solution to admit of nations warring with one another. The Occident and Orient are now only as far apart as wave lengths reach or as the plane may travel by air. Short routes over the top of the earth make us neighborly distant with the other side of the globe. Vet differences exist; and getting down to their adjustmment will act as a power!ul solvent. For examples, here are a few of the problems that ought to keep th nations busy for the next hundred years wihout ever pointing a bayonet or exploding a bombshell; 1. Revision of the calendar into 13 months of 28 rs of the church should take active land in the contests for political ofiee. President yesterday at a citizendiip conference in Round Lake, Rishop ^Leonard took occasion t)o ambast both Governor Smith and Senator Wadsworth. As to the Governor, the Bishop introduced the appeal to religious prejudice: "No Governor can kiss the papal ring ind get within gunshot of the White IIouse and no nullification Governor) will ever become the leader of a jonstitution-loving people." Certainly bishops should have the ight to stir up the people in be? p,,,i to preach in If or iruuiuiuuu ?? -igainst the domination of politics by iny chruch. But how much farther n this derection can the Northern Methodist Church go without making the same fatal error in this country that the Roman Catholic, Church made in Mexico? The Mixican Government charges, ivith much * evidence to support it, thai the Catholic clergy has Interfered in Mexican politics. President Calles asserts that the present struggle between the Government and the J church is to end forever this clerical domination of the state. That ! is the issue, regardless of the exreine measures which the Mexican Government has adopted to carry mt its purpose. But there is no argument to be To ;nd in Mexico to justify the Pro- I teslant clergy of the United States > for preaching a religious war on i (Ionian, Catholics in our politics. For j :Jjat matter, Prescient Calles must I lave behind him the strongest ele- | aienis of (lie Roman Catholic Church j >ecause it is difficult to see how I otherwise he could make his policy | prevail against a communion which j numbers two-thirds of the Mexican j population. If, then, in backward | Mexico, the Roman Catholic major- ; ly assents to the Government's pro- ! tram for the separation of church ' ind state. Rishop Leonard need not j osp sleep about the political infiu- i nee of thp Romanists in this land. I 1'liere is no justification for a reli iious conflict in the United States. Concerning Senator Wadsworth ind his wet views. Bishop I>eonard declares that no Methodist, "unless lie values lightly the vows of his rliurch, can remain loyal to the church and support Wadsworth at the same time.' * There will be loyal Methodists in New \ ork State who will dissent from that proposition, just as Methodists of other days dissented from one or another slavery, argument or i>ro or cvu ur me Fugitive slave law. Tilings political In Mexico are In a bad pass. The United States, with its educated electorate and a century and a half of demoncratlc government behind it apparently does not fear that it is in any danger from itolerance and religious bigotry. But Kshop Leonard and many who liold with him in other denominations are sowing the seeds of reli;ious intolerance and religious welfare. "A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever" II I I I >t ?> m W I dig ta M M C Ml 3 In order for a nation to get a ti ermanent seat In the League It Is e rat necessary to take a permanent land. lc There are lessons to be found In c ews items if one looks for them, "hen a Missouri blacksnake refuses ) fight with a Texas rattler it's k me that civilized nations also thus b joperate to save the human species, tl .. ... . . (By Harlan Eugene Readi ?.n-, ,. are many employed by the government 10 pin j ^ 'I here are several national us- ' sociations for the prevention of j I crime, the officers, and chief mem- j . |.... bers of which are famous crimiu- J> mi-hr p .." ""* ologists, capabl0 lawyers, noted aoc l.r,. i '7\ ;? iai workers. . . ,] ," "' The main Idea of all these indi-j*" -i' .i i!. viduals and associations seem to lu-|s,i"' '- ; " that crime flourishes because it is j' . not punished. Second to this in j * '"mH poularity is the idea that crime can | ?: lie prevented by living conditions' [ r-m '-aH that make good citizens. ijob According to others neither 1 ' these ideas touch the core of the!1'1' matter, which they say lies in the I ,f --v is x, r'fl selection of the persons upon whom i1' falls the duty of seizing and sen- l !>. , . .dicing criminals. mat.: Offenders come before judges who in An,. ,, ' III fa. are an Important part of a political Frum ; . < ., machine. They are arrested and 'llsh-.i .1. ; v : prosecuted by officials who are a j San i : k ' part of this political machine. Kid- lik.j 1,, , glove criminals who desire fran- ; I'ittsli,.:. v j.jj H chises from city councils ally them- by all r,?, . selves with these judges, sheriffs b-tw.. n and state's attorneys whose official niu.-t. I..- i , j ( j1* conduct makes crime easy and pro- tni.i ji. fitable. When we as a people recoynize IV< ria j. . the fact that special privilege ia a t ? ans.*. -!:l;ij_. crime, and treat it as such, we will , <>n,. 1,1 have some chance to cope with the'<>n,'> {.< hi., -rvii, 1,^1 lesser crimes like bottlegging, burg- the nd. .mt:,-,. ,f lary, and automobile brigandage. j it thai i>a..iar- n.?t t- J Those who commit what we call a; tli, i;m.- Xj. crimes are under the protection of who on, - -j... public officials who owe their jobs ,tile other. a to politically-minded contractors, ar- Iguaraute a.w i-hitects, school-book men, church ! low. r in' ill- it.-:;. ,;J property tax relief associations, and {worth than w.-l.k, ; -^B A SOUTHERN LESSON I GOLDEN OPPORT.fB IN TOLERANCE (Ib-nJ.-rsoiicllf i, I (From Asheville Times) Henderson i iimtv :;-/B Most that is written by historians, probably male a* ~-.^B and Southern historians at that, within fi\. y,.,r< leaves he reder unprepared for the vious twenty fir a:; story of James Lewis Pettigrew of en attempt t,, u Charleston, S. C., (In South Caro- sibilitie- upon n Una it is spelled Pettigru). We have realized, w> mm. lien ;t 11 e:.,: ri; made the Southerner sensitive, in- thing worth w.risrctiH tolerant, circumscribed in his social of production, and political thnking. In the August Today wr tike Atlantic Monthly Langdon Mitchell Duplin county is asa: retells the story of Pettigrew and rolina. Listen : ?ta fe? his defiance of secessionist sentl- News and observe: In" S ment, before and during the Civil vegetable shipn.-rWar. The record f r tit' When the movement for separa- season shows the frlitmH ton from the Union was at its shipments of height, Pettigrew attended a ses- ties from I'nplin > outty: sionist dinner in Charleston. Asked to propose a toast , he responded: Snap Reans "Certainly. To oSuth Carolina; may Lima Reans she recover her senses." Cantaloupes Pettigrew was in a hopeless mi- Oret n corn nority and, more than that, he was Cucumbers outspoken, dealing the blows oh his Lettuce wit and sarcasm upon thosP whom Mixed \etabb-s . lie neiievea to ?e leaaing uis Biaie Seallions Kirm-n i" "' into folly and disaster. Knglish peas But he was not persecuted. He white potatoes suffered no ostracism. Charleston- pepper ians respected and honored the man Squash who called them to their faces crazy, strawberries When he died in 1863, multitudes Huckleberries attended his funeral and Mr. Mitch- Watermelons ell says: "The dead leader of a militant minority against secession Total ears shipP"'was eulogized by supporters of ae- Eliminating ,hl' cession?his enemies expressed their wherein is an i>'m admiration and their grief." This in- wheii llemi>:s"n scription was placed on his tomb- score well by proper J stone: (.?rt, marke: for n f"'' Unawed By Opinion onstration ...fl Unsecured By Flattery No, ue don't except Undismayed By Disaster, , an,i cantaloupe The! He Confronted Life With Antinne rei, .....nni . ns de-pa" Courage, . contrary, and :'l > And Death With Christian Hope too. ,.;k< :l In. The Great Civil War Henderson ,1,nn,y He Withstood His People For His terms of 1' 1 ? . 111" ' . I Country: producer. ?m ' ..c But His People Did Homage To The are when " Man car lords sluiT"' Who Held His Conscience Higher Duplin 'l Than Henderson ' '"'j thf ?# Their Praise: they had folic" ;:ijM | i; j And His Country when their ^ Heaped Her Honors On The last year and i'1, ^ Grave Of The Patriot, ed down a f"'? To Whom, Living, that gold r?-li "lis Own Righteous Self-Respect compared to w1'' iJv ''B Suffered (hey to enter "" Alike For Motive And Reward. duction a"1' The South even of slavery and se- Henderson co ^fl esston has some lessons In toler- an era of I" nee for the South and for the oth- them to " min ,::0 r sections of this day. tempt ui'"" :lM> 1 !je;d ''M to stake off a It's a woder the Drys haven't we plod a'0"1' ' ,,in'tpap<'( eln/1 *?* **- - *? - rica?"tora7Bl02ti2me 01 ^ ,Am" I P,a'nli? tnac __ _ J.h? ro?' of the w>.i. I A majority i* the " s. but that is the i8 HoUse /controlled bv .1 l'';",er ,i!,' jH ^ 8lnce Cal *Zt??y '?* re.(the minority ,h, .??*" why la lt tr?? n' 8e,ves ?eP paying f?r l0D^6r has to 0"e would ibout ? ? WjJ* 8bt article the easier ^ftaJment" /"P by a bandit witli"u'3';JH 6 te 8? ler ^ey call |as robbed it. , ,.iui.i.'f?il der the guise of iegab'tf