THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 1926. The Polk Couniy News j PUBLISHEP WEEKLY EY THE NEWS PUBUCi: NG COMPANY LOUIS LEHMAN. Edit . I Entered at the Postofflce at Tr..o:i, N\ ( .. as Sr1 SI.NFSS MAN: j , PREVENTION Prevention is one of the biggest words in modern affairs. It j covers a multitude of errors and wrong results. Prevention of | fires, of illmss. of financil loss, and of accidents are four great ( principles about which everybody is concerned. And they can , all be answered satisfactorily by one word?THINK. If it were not so?that is, if nobody had thought?there would be no education along the lines of prevention- because there would be no I "rules," no constructive propaganda, no adoptive measures for our consideration. Fortunately for the race, for the nation and for the community, many people are thinking prevention. But prevention is not always to be found in a list of "Don'ts". Successful men J DO, but with caution. Prevention of fires and accidents is the result of active precaution while engaging in the work at hand. No one would reason that to prevent a disastrous fire one should i not make a fife in camp or stove. That would be folly; it would j be prevention, but of negative vqlue. Prevention of illness is not staying indoors out of the rain. Constructive prevention in ! ~ 1 ' - * - ? ?' >, 1, n-VnituiMr I health matters is going aneau ai mie s uumih'? mm >> umv. ... sensible measures in dress and diet that meet the accepted requirements of the body. Safety does not consist alone in restraining one's self from adventure, but in making the world safe FOR adventure. Prevention of failure in business is not shutting off necessaryoverhead. It consists in OPENING ONE'S DOORS TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE AREA OF PATRONAGE WHICH THE BUSINESS CAN CLAIM. Many a business has not only been fcade, but saved, by carefully planned advertising, which makes business safe for adventure into newer and greater productivity. It is the man who thinks that prevents, but he (foes it by braving the storms of adversity in a GOOD SHIP, not by remaining on drv land and getting nowhere. There is an element of risk in all progress, but it is only the man who goes forward that ever gets to his (lestnation. It is not mere prevention, * ' ' ' ' 1 ' * * ' ? * - ? i _-i e out constructive prevention, mat uisunguisnes tn eaieri irom the laggard. THE PRICE OF SALVATION A man wrote to a storekeeper as follows: "Dear Sir: Last year I picked up a pair of gloves in your store and did not pay for them. Enclosed find one dollar. I -couldn't let a thing like that stand between men and heaven.'' The storekeeper replied: "Dear Sir: Thanks for the dollar and your confession; but there is still a dollar and a half between you and heaven, as the gloves you describe as having taken were worth $2.50. TEMPERANCE IS THE ISSUE Speaking bofoe the annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance t'nion in Los Angeles, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of Brooklyn, national president of the militant organization, said that altho the wets had made some progress during the past year, their plea for light wines and beer and for other modifications is intended as an entering wedge to the complete repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. But an entering wedge for what? If for real temperance, as a nlniivi i-Vt 1 L/> ' 11 a n rinA r? inn t inw v?/\k 4- a liic wcia ciduu, liicii me jcui|Jtioni,c ui(;aiin.anuii uu^m nou tv? object. But millions of Americans feel that the real or eventual result of modifcation is not temperance but the old-time saloon or a form of drinking institution that will result in general inerbriety. In its final anaylsis, it is the saloon and drunkenness that Prohibition strikes at, not the mere right to drink. But in order to get at the core of things and shut out the real evil, laws have to be passed that strike at personal liberty. In other words, to enforce sobriety it is necessary to enforce abstience. This cuts deeply into the man who can be indulgent and yet temperate, but it is one of the penalties of belonging to human society. RECOGNIZIZNG NEW STANDARDS Recently a speaker declared that fireside devotion to the home is becoming a thing of the past. Well, there are fewer fires to | The Polk County Newa * l i . 1 - i m ? .?-* ?W?'??i?1 H IK ji . -i| I I IHIm^^ > V I tKk 'iiak^SE R?| I- jMSyfi dS^fi- ' * ^ Pfrsr I jJJf a ^. <^T|| bb 1H '' ::,iB' 581 j?^ .:' B A ^^MBMB^^^^HBp|KBHMyMM^HH|| - ?l K :; . *?^B W tg E* j>jg?rara^| M Byfwj:-yy?.^^y^^9%i^f^?flR^B wHB -~A\jBOWH^^B,- >-4L^?j Photo *>y ii nr\ Miller News Picture Service, Inc. William Patton fioland. of Newberry, 8. C., winner of the Southern Ral way Corn Cup In 1925, photographed with President Coolldge and the cu at the White House. c-=? build: we now have electricity and tfas. When a fellow nia< a 1 ii't* in the old days it was such a job that he was vei ^,, Vnliur m HuU'ii (!-4\OtlHl l(> I.IS WDI h ill li'i tin' m l * ?. t, i hi- automobile lias taken people away from the home, bi til ' radio i- bringing them baek. Science has not made cone .ion* any worse:it it has merely changed them. There are cor i.saling factors that give new ambition. If we are thinkir oi present-day conditions in the light of past-cenury conditio] :!nn to us toe home i< wricked, youth is in revolt- and the fi has sun ly gone out. 1 Jut modernism has its advocates, ev< m the pulpit, because standards cahnge. The big problem t day is to see the good in people, lake advantage of today's o poi (Unities and build for the future. Cherished hope backed 1 constructive effort will make the world better. FRANCE AWAKENS i ranee is reducing her great army. She not only fears Gt a:any less since the hitter's entrance into the League, but now endeavoring to mould European opinion to less hostili and io man- bargaining for peace. France's mistake in tl lii'st place vus to supi ose that guaranties of Germany's cor ; dance with the treaty of Versailles would or could be forci b\ anus. No benefit could have resulted by thus foreclosil a mortgage with depleted security. FRICTION In the field of mechanics, perpetual motion probably wou result In in 11ie elimination of friction. The approach to pe jtetiial : rosperiiy would result in any oemmunity by the san f (! nun dial ion. Friction anions |Kjople groups or orgar iza. iur. : is not mean honest difference Of opinion: it meai THAT PEST!.' ( T!YK OPERATION ILLFEELING THAT EI SHROUPA . i> r?E( i.OLT'S THE REAR ISSUES INVOLVE IN ALL MATTERS AFFECTING COMMUNITY WELFARE. Lb inclple.-, not people, should rule, hleals. not selfish intere siould guide. Tip. blanket pioposition concerning all pub! measures is, "What is best for TKYON, in the light of econon and under the sanction of one's best judgement?" To be < the wrong -ide honestly, sineerely and erroneously, is hett than to he on t be right side dishonestly, insincerely and pu posily when there is a private axe to grind. What eauses friction in communities is the policy of unfa tactics and undue advantage. Local government, edueatio business and sor"a: _ 11 ft n|i smoothly when men and worm come out into the open. Friction is caused by distrust, ai distrust enters when laels are distorted or suppressed, and e jiecially wlun the opposite side takes snap judgement witho investigating the facts and learning the truth. Domestic li: ifvimrSi in wiuitk,! i < ihn success that, it is beeau \ 1 I tl I I ^ I . L ?T * V * I 'HI ll> ? ? ' r""' / v"" "" they do not conceal, and because hey are themselves; and < not practise sham. When those factors do not have full sw? there is FRICTION. TRYON can not afford to sow the seeds of distrust. I citizens, in almost unanimous majority, are lawabiding, hart working, God-fearing people. Let us continue to LIVE AN LET LIVE, CONFIDE AND RECEIVE CONFIDENCE, PLAC TRUST AND ACCEPT IT, ASSUME BURDENS AND DI! TRIBUTE THEM, and in the doing of these things we TLIM NATE FRICTION?one of the greatest deterrents to progres and THE think' that wears out fnachines and men. ANOTHER "MISSING LINK Science claims to have found the "missing link" between tt animal and vegetable kingdoms on the one hand and the mil oral kingdom on 'he other. This is not surprising in view < the fact that the human body is composed of i^ut 98 cenl worth of chemicals. Outside the realm of mind or spirit r one thing amounts to miuch Scientists probably will have 1 stick to the theory < f the ancients?that the four ingredienl of the material universe are earth, air- fire and water. SURVIVAL OF THE MOST EFFICIENT Secretary of Agriculture Jardine keeps hammering away i the idea of cooperative marketing for the farmer, not as political theory but as desirable factor in economy. Some pe< pie shy at cooperative marketing because it apparently smacl of Socialism. Economically it does, but politically "it is just th opvosite. It, encourages private enterprise by giving back fair and efficient return for private investment and labor r. operative marketing feeds out of the public or collectiv trough only those who put something into it. ' Coopertive mai keting for the prices of farm products is on a par with collec' ive barganing held scared by the laborers in shop and min< Apparently this is a "collective age," and we don't see wh the farmer can't get into it as well as any other class of wort ers. / TO EVEN THE SCORE National Chariman of the Red Cross, John Barton Payn( hi?Js criticissm at cvertain Florida interests for seeking t minimide the damage done in the recent hurricane. Probabl no ont. consciously did this, but it would have- been justified Some headlines placed the loss of life at 1200? three or fou times more than the actual. Fighting back was natural. : . : _ ' - - - - ' ***" * t ^ .-"r " -" BIG ADVERTISEMENT ' ut v I J y Fum Ashejille Citizen | A ihevllle, Weutern North Carolina I nd the Slate as a whole are about 0.gci the benefits of the most exensive and costly piece of advertising obtainable anywhere in the v-rr'd. I The story of their resources, op or; in h wealth, power, history | . nfj progress , written in forty llluted chapters by the outstanding men and women of North Carolina, lis io I It he globe. It will be sent to more than 500,000 individuals and '.organizations. *- articles In audition to me ->-y? ! vii,i photographs picturing the life land riches, of every section of thtp (commonwealth, there wili.be a prov | fusion of paid display advertisements j covering every phase of its agriculture. industries and commerce. Cities corporations and individuals have s I arranged, and are now arranging, to J tell in this way the stories of their achievements, j On November 6, The Christian j Science Monitor will Issue and carry 'as a part of its regular edition of jth'at day its North Carolina Supplement. The Monitor's regular circulation goes to every country under the sun, but, in addition to this, plans havt? been perfected for an extra ! circulation of over 400,000 copies of I the Supplement where such publicity | will bring the biggest reults. Instances of how this circulation r is to be accomplished afford the (clearest idea of the superb effectively ness of the thing, ' | The First Church of Christ Scienje list of Ashevilie will put out 3,(W0 copies. The State Executive Com? mittee of the North Carolina Sup 'pigment, of which Miss Elizabeth Lit j Earl Jones is chairman, will circuit ! late 5,000. n_ I One city in the State has ordered 16,<>0o copies, of which number 4,000 will be disributed by its Chamber .?f f'onunercco to the yachtsmen of re'the country. 4.000 will be sent out ' by its Kotary Club. an(| 4.000 by Its ? ! municipal officials. i In another city a wealthy man has agreed to pay for as many copies of . the Supplement as can be circulated [by all the civic organizations of the ! town. In London^ Paris, Berlin and the other capital cities of the world, the American Chambers of Commerce 1S 'and individual American citizens will ty I distribute copies in their respective (IC j territories. _ The circulation of the Supplement , will be. in the main, outside of BU " J North Carolina, since it is designat*? ' ed to focus the Interest of the nation and the world upon the grandeur, atractiveness and oportunities of the State. The North Carolian societies in other States have volunteered to act as agents, ie And wherever The Monitor has ll- faci'ities for circulation of its regung lar issues, the State Committee in charge of the Supplement will be j-j | aided in every possible . way in obtaining advantageous distribution, i Similar supplements have been isi i I sued fnr some of the other States . I>y The Monitor, and in every- in1C stance the history of the State conl.V cerned and the story of its resources >n an,] achievements has been So exer haustive and superb that the public - school s have giveh copies to the pupils and the public libraries have had them bound as permanent recir | <>rds of the State. n North Carolina Supplement are many ' North Carolia nSupplement are many BT1 | jof the most prominent and useful ia linen and women in Tarheel educa-S-.tion. agriculture, commerce and inut'dustry, In the Iistf for example, are fg Dr. Chase, President of the Univer? 'sitv of North Carolina: Hon. Josese ; , Iphus Daniels: Senators Simmons io * jand Overman; Mr. Hubh McRae; Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, and Mr. 0. Max Gardner, It is by such authorities in their ^ : chosen fields that the special articles j-j j are written dealing, in the mass, g j with every conceivable phase of the 3 J State's life and occupations. The j j Executive Committee of the Sup! plement has held before it the ideal ' ] of a piece of publicity distinguished ias high-class literature, and, with (his in view, the large volume of paid advertisements now in hand has j been written with singular force jand beauty. I The City of Asheville has contracted for half a page of paid advertis^ ^ ) ing. In anothe city the Chamber of 10 j Commerce has taken half a page and the municipal government the other half, giving that town a full page. Although the date of publication is about seven weeks ahead, letters 1 have already come to the Executive Q I , Committee asking how copies of the I Supplement can be obtained for dislS 1 trihution. This can be done bv l writing Mrs. S. T. Henry of Spruce a I Pine, Chairman of Circulation. The Supplement will sell for 5 cents for r? single copies and for 3 cents a copy r- . - ? in ouik?"in bulk" being anything over a dozen copies^ ' To aid in this circulation Is to y serve every city and section of North ' Carolina. This North Carolina Supplement is publicity raised to the Nth power/ " farmers of Henderson County sold ? over $14,000 worth of produce on ^ the curb market at Hendersonvllle. r READ THE POLK CO. NEWS ? . " "*,t jL. /-' . r V. ... - * ' ? I OUR CHANGING BELIEFS ? ri . From Asheville Citizen I' One by one our cherished belief.--1 lMj " -f. I J fade and fall away. There was j i, , !| u, p'*''" lime, the poet teiis us, when a girl--, .1;^ tect beneath her petticoat like little mice stole 1 and out, and those ?rno^hoH VP3TJ Of ill . .,. US WHO nave ? _ . cr ion .can . remember when the | >),. k sight of a feminine ankle was soni ; . thing to discuss behind closed dour ; t0 .. Only the pr :ient-minded would as : sert the doubtful theory that worn !i |, . had legs at all, and a stomachacli. . in a lady wes generally ascribed to . ,i delicate nervous system in the all t,'""v, out universal belief that no properly ). l brough-up young woman would la ^ ! guilty of the coarse practice of acta ioim :: fc??' I, i ally eating food. A little clear soup u ' 'shui.. * and perhaps the leaf of a lettuce , t;,., ' M> ,*j was about the limit of what a self |.j. ' : respecting virgin was expected to !,r Mr u^'^B get away with in the presence ot Mi ' any man not a member of the im-; ' fen*,?[^B mediate family, and all prospective . husbands were encouraged to believ - . ? '""*1 to that the maidens offered for their wit; . inspection w? re and could be sus-' pr, ' >,"rns tge^H ceptible of no carnal appetite what- i?,a #'katj,/^B soever. We know better now, but it ;r " has taken us a long time to finr! it ^ a out, although by some of the wot lib if. . " ll'"t ly-wise it used to be suspected, an 5 >him.J r"r woman once but little lower than v- hr>gB ^ > ,-.|i. ,. the angels, has been at last disclov U(i as tile mere female of man. I'iiz* i , '' fighters were once no better than .! i. . .j' I|l brutes, but now they can hoof it i ... ' ,5t* at a dance with the best of us, they jib .... "tJ subscribe to their Literary 'Digest t . ; -*>?! ind iiave long since passed the stage j J when they can tell hawk from a ||t. handsaw Kings, emperors and ' au'! keag'es are found to be but common u:,,. . clay, and even an editor is now per-1 n initted to make unscathed causal ref- p.,^ " " 'IK '*5tt | -ornece to the theory of evolution ; l :t ,, ^ M which would once have brough him |i?. , , to the stake. Lrti ' ... Perhaps these and similar other dv. notable changes in our ways of Ton! ... hi! thought are a sign of our increasing happy wisdom, but now comes the Bishop iumi : " of Liverpool to tell us that we must j wav> ,i..give up our belief in hell. We sup-1gem.p. . , pose we can do it, although it's go-lspec-i lK('B ~ * 1 * ~ Af 11 a lilrn hut flip If,* IIIl() IllII l rtUiWU \Ji ?a?*v, v. ? v? ,,,, ,,, ... simile isno lonKer applicable. Where hit,i I. ; |,y y, r the virtuous wil lask shall we now on,. f, ... B j ' ' c sLi; | consign our enemies? But man la bv ih. .. nothing If not adaptable and we may bor it..: , >,. B in time get used to the i'b.a of i I sh i|ring heaven with our neighbor. I | "*^B It [will come hard, we admitr but if i 1 we can wax and grow fat under a j Republican administration there | B would seem to be no sufficient rea- B son why we cannot make up our I B mind'- to see even the hell of our j WM B grandfaters go the way of many an j other illusion. \t| B TO SAVE THEMSELVES Ynpl From Asheville Citizen B "Thus far," says The Washington j fl^B Post editorially, "no suggestion has i been heard that the Federal Government must supply the wrerewithal j with whchi to fintance the cotton OFTF.S growers, which is where the farmers . ** rx: thnle onllnutnios I I / / I1. f* f\ //j;\ OI L/lAie UlllCI ?11U ll"3H vvnv UAU ? - ' * - ' in thf wheat and corn growing HA A A OF m States. Such a suggestion wlil not be heard. The cotton growers and the business men of the South realize a|j0Ve js an tffl that they have got to provide their remark from OUT ft own salvation^ and that the Mid- qu1 uv a(j(j you 8 Wesfc-ern talk of the Government lai'lTO list of satisft' saving the farmer is the wildest of tonHTS. Come iE Ml dreams. It is for these reasons that the Cotton Conference will meet at Memphis tomorrow to discuss and devise ways and means to counter- 4 Vjl act the destructive low cotton prices Jiiil of the Present. ~ nr So far, no better plan has been C/i suggested than that put forward by 4 T T T H the bankers of Wayne County in this W /\ |j, State. This, as we have already described it, consists of the bankers f/)J \C helping the grower to keep his cot-{ &ALLUA, < ton off the market until better j prices prevail in return for his prom- j ^ ise to go in for diversified farming. : "? a "live at home" system of running *v*"1"'"' his farm, and a reduction of his cot- ? . ton acreage next season. j* Xt'W IloiieV'In This self-preservation this co-op j .. j ? & ! f )r ? \ racct'u ** operation between the different ele- * VM i AP V, ? Ii.. i -I* C I 'l/.HC LotS 0* uicuw \jl iut uuoiucua i:uuiinuuuy, J the spirit that is bound to win. For ] + ... - . .. Gallon. ; V ?t * 1 ten years the publicists of the South * , have pheached the doctrine of co- I ? PnxiiiV'tl I'.xclu^'-T operative between the bankers and j * business men on the one hand and ? ^ '(lU the farmers on the other, and the J ji;\- Guaranty"ahppy result is now at least within ; | l reach. For the South to prosper \\h<;iifi and grow without costly setbacks, ? {Jrat'U'i! i> "3 H her agricultdre must be protected r and enriched. T ^1<'t 1 From A8heville Citizen .j. The ^uS-; ^ I A head that sticks up above the ):* flctCHER " common level of the crowd makes * .M a good target for anyone who can * ^ # t . . ,...... sling a club. Envy, like death) *v'' ' . . . loves a shining mark, and the man who gets h^s name on the front page .j. to0 often lnust expect to have ffe" 5* \ I quent attention called to his mis- * 1 takes of commlslson and oramission. < Who, we ask, Is this great man thai the fence? We know that he Is no T Qua l > better than he should be and we 4 ./^B comfort ourselves for our apparent X . iiiylC inferiority by talklnk a him as oc- l jflflLL'"'" cosion offers. ? Phon: 32 JM Even Mr. Henry Ford is not safe y from the slings and arrows of the imH**