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7. : : : , - , " ' . . . - i : , .-. t ' ' ' THE STORJ OFj Thriving Robesogwn is Modern Characterization of the Determination of the Scot and ( UifnfHJfeter in -News and Observer. ) ; $ in a few daysgfSIt not al- n'ith i,- arrived a Dw,9fW'ine ieg , rr askings the trajasew to i Hoke ty from RooepenonH-a- narrow V f Iattd 1he boun-, ' fV between thetut5ls' yns Z r,-a county Red5? Springs and an a riv - I. ; ,. , jtension of rural "country from "Mc- station to! Floral ;; College the reaching practically across the strip end of Hoke county. 'This nar- lower top StnP lias ueeii a.ii aguaicu iiuiu inty was formed, and for ce now w tit matter before, for before Hoke was created an ambition to"'"' f orm Nor.th Boboson county had been very active. luch diplomacy and considerable flank ' ,t and struggling in' the . trenches were necessary before the peaceful sep aration of Hoke was finally arranged 4nd'as in all other human affairs there ras an aftermath. Bed Springs is only a dozen miles rom Raeford and is twice that far from Uimberton, the capital of Robeson, and , lot of Red Springs folks wanted to g0 with Hoke wnen the new bounty !vas formed. But Robeson opposed the !,ew county so vigorously that it could jnlv be set off by taking a limited territory-. The Hoke advocates took what ,Vas in sight and concluded to getij more when they could. Red Springs agreed to stay in itooeson as mey ap parently could not get out .and to make another effort later. The members of the Legislature from the territory em braced by Hoke consented to tafec what they could get, and so the county was made, hands were shaken "over the boundary, the heavens smiled, and Robeson gave Hoke a blessing and they parted. , ! But when the McMillans and the Mc fallums and the ;McLeods and the rest of them from Red Springs go over to Raeford and foregather with the. Mc Laughlins and the Mclvers and the Mc Neills, and t.hen go back home and fig ure that they are of the same fam ily but live in different houses , a homesickness manifests itself and something that looks like "Clanna nan Gaidhael ri Guillibh k chiele, .'and means something like stick -together, and then the Red Springs Scotch want to get into the Scotch county f Hoke. I like to get down and mix up with these old Scotch folks,, for I was a boy in a Scotch j Presbyterian commu nity in Pennsylvania, and When I get among a new bunch .of ; them . there is a continual sense of being at home, and a feeling-that presentlyjL.up Jthe, street may come old "Roderick McDonald, "or Archie McCullough, or Scott McClellan, or some, of the others who . have long ago left for the unknown cduntry. As I recall in our early days, among our old Scots if those persistent fellows wanted anything they generally went after it, and if they had to go more than once, they went but they usually sot j-bef 0TMiZri: Sol "reckon Red Springs -will arrive at the Hoke county ' door one of these nays and knock and say, "We have (ome with the family and the cattle? and the rest of the things and , we have come to stay". But this is merely an incident in the shifting political geography of the State. Back of it is the story and the lesson. Red Springs is a new town. It is a modern characterization of the determination of the Scot to bang to his traditions and the school. Sefore the Queen's Museum had been chartered in Charlotte just previous to the revol ution, Rev. David Caldwell, the young Presbyterian corning down from Prin ceton, had opened in Guilford county "i iioi, nis scnool, which served as i academy, college, theological seminary and better, as the foundation on which to build a growing system of educa tion in the State, and to start a re markable number of young men on the "Parasites," Mother Jones Calls ' ".Mo: Jones, famous woman labor ;'t;uor, who has lived in all the min- r,5 can, us of the west among men who i.ever 'li'amed, of society luxury as it in Xaw Vnrlr -araa i-nvitoJ to '-'olony I r. Club, the millionaire wO of 'New York city," by Mrs. Harriman. the woman mem- tr fiie Industrial Rplatnna f!om- v.hicn had recently ' neard her onclitions. The'OolonX is the i' :,. most gorgeous r women's ii.t Gnited States, perhaps In . Jr" sst $wc s tm less wj-sS5Skwl1 pa RE0 SPRINGS to Hang to HisTi ra the School. road to useful lives in the vai-iou . . w . C3 ' nrn-, icobious ana callings. . . v.. t. . Beginnings of the College ' -Some eighteen years aero the PrAsh'J: terians of the Cape Fear;, country- arriv-" ed t the-place where they thought v.uy.r couia estaoiish a Pre3byterian college v for young m-omen. and .wtK- all of. .that, confidence:, in C their .powers' w 8. wna xney . want 'they selected Red Springs as .the site; of the Insti tution they planned, and ; they com menced work. One of the things that compel the admiration of these peo-1 pie is me satisfied way in which theyl umuh tan; iu carry out wnat tney have set as the objective. J Red Springs College commenced with a little wooden building and a few thousand dollars. . The main thing is that it .-commenced. It had not progressed very fair until it found Dr. Charles G. Vardell, a Davidson man, and Princetonian, and it wp.s a happy find, for Dr. Vardell came to Red Springs with a clear vision, and the proper amount of backbone to take hold a a job that shrdruetaoiSHRDKL hold of a Job that to the average man would, have appeared about as, invit ing as that of old Sisyphus who strug gled day after day with that eternal stone which seemed never could be worked up to the top of the long high hill and there established. ; Without a doubt the people of Red Springs and the people of the Presby terian church and the education of 'the State, and everybody else -who knows anything of the story of Red Springs, have been surprised by the swift 'de velopment of the handsome, commodi ous, and. modern college from the crude little ambition that, marked its begin ning less than a score of years ago. But the development of the college these Presbyterians have created is. not my story. That has already been told and "we have1 all admired the fine per sistence and confidence that has accom plished this vork. The thing that com mands . my attention is the plan th$t this country college at Red Springs has laid out for its work for the fu ture. And now, like the orchestra when it comes to the words "al seg" in the music, we will go back and start again. This college for women is quite the life and motive of Red Springs and in making a move to unite the Red Springs territory with the young coun ty of Hoke it is not only the desire of the Scpteh community of upper Robeson to be made a part of the more extensive Scotch community on the other side of the present county line, but is tne -eagerness of a vigor ous, progressive movement to be allied with other vigorous progress. -Turpentine Yields to Cotton. Fifteen or twenty years ago Red Springs was in the turpentine belt and the production of naVal stores seem ed the chief purpose of life. As the pine tree failed the cotton tree .be gan to demand, recognition. From buying a few bales of cotton a year Red Springs now buys - ten to twelve thousand . bales a year, and fine pro ductive farms stretch away through the' territoryrh? jHrpentineamp were but a short time ago. Handsome homes have been created where the stills, were. Cotton gins have sup planted tar kilns. Cotton gins have planted tar kilns. Clean streets, good country roads, well 'Stockvd stores, an oil mill, prosperous banks and business houses of all sorts are in Red Springs., This section lias been pushing ahead as fast as any other part of the coun ties Just to the northwest and the Red Springs folks have the same rest less atmosphere which prompts to be doing something. That ubiquitous institution, the Sand hills Board .of Trade, which is the next neighbor of Red Springs aiool on the northwest likes to annex to it self all good things that have in them selves the elements of progress. And the editor of the Sandhills Citizen has been laying some stress on the propo sition that the' Presbyterian college is- one of the adjuncts of the sunshine Women Who Frequent The Colony, New York's A GORGEOUS BEST ROOM IN LADY MILMONAUtES' CLUB. the world. Scores of women worth great fortu nes and scores more whose husbands, have , fortunes famous the wprld" over, are members, V : This Is what "Mother" . Jones had to say arbout the club after her visit, and she certainly shocked New York society-women:- ' ' C "I wouldn't live at the Colony Club for a million dollars. - - nmt. ,i.,t, mhn tm there are noth- T.ir but narasitfes. They are a lot of d- -d-cats. "They ' wear-furs and furbelows ahd expensive hate. All they, own is on the belt -and it looks as-'il there'- wbuld be an alliance presently not only . of the college . town with Hoke - county; but with 'the. whole territory : that : the college has been established to j repre sent for .Orange Presbytery is one of the sponsors of the Red Springs school. Orange y Presbytery, on- the map, In eludes the region next above the Fay etteville Presbytery. That is it in cludes; the Presbyterians of that terri tory.. ... , The .-.Sandhills Board of Trade knows no - distinction of religions or anything else'v All people, are pftrt of its bailiwick if they, live within its limits. So the Reverend Doctor Foss, of the Methodist Episcopal church, writes to "the Reverend Doctor "Var dell . of the ; Presbyterian college, that your ' school 'is ours, and there, you are. 1 Wider Field tor College. . . - In the,.- enthusiasm and eagerness to make an attractive proposition to pre sent . to -the, possible newcomers the Board of Trade sees just one th'ng, -and that -is ; that , just , across the line is a Colleger forewomen and that it is a col lege; which-is making a name for itself along some' new, 'lines. A good college for- women . in -- a good climate in a halthfOkl location,- which is doing good work, is a; valuable,! asset. So a wel come; is ; given . to Red : Springs aver a wider leld -than simply Hoke county. Red Springs wjll be introduced to the visitors from the North arid New Eng land, who will be shown that they can bring their girls to North. Carolina and put "them in school cheaper than they -can leave the gjp-ls at home, and that the school ; will, be one in xfiich they can feel, a constant confidence and pride, and to which they can go in an hour's journey dver three or four; of the best roads in the-State, picking tfie route with each different journey. . The college at Red Springs is. start ing out on two lines that are interest ing and commendable. . One of these is training the country girl to believe in the country, girl and to .help make the country girl a girl fitted for her country career and one who can help herself and the country ' Jy her train ing. Life in North Carolina is prac tically country life. Only one out of seven people of North Carolina lives in a place as big as the town of 2,500 people. The other six live in the coun try or in smaller villages. Half a dozen not very big cities constitute this State's entire, city exhibit. Wherefore it is apparent that North Carolina is a State: in the country. The townvof three or four thousand people is a coun try town. The girls of North Carolina are country girls, and so far as can be predicted North Carolina will continue to .be in the country. Sizing Up the Problem .Correetly. The general principles of all things are the same in the country or in the city. Yet the city habit of life is superficial and in no way is ir adapt ed for life in the country. This condi tion the Red Sprjngs institution rec ognizes, and it is the purpo.se of the trustees and the faculty to impress upon the girls that the big problems of life in North s Carolina are to be country problems, and that the training of the country girl who comes 'to Red Springs can not be satisfying if it is an imitation of the training of the girl who attends- the city- college with its city ideals of the superficial things. The college at Red Springs is a country college because when it was estab- lished there were few cities in the State, and no city but Wilmington in the territory of the Presbyteries which established the institution. The col lege is a country institution now . be cause of its location, but also of the determination that it shall be a coun try college for the purpose of, lifting work for country girls that shall give them an understanding of country, life and the ideals of country life. Quite closely affiliated with this in stitution is the other of giving to do mestic art and science the broadest possible opportunity. The education of women has been: a haphazard thing. In the early days education 'was for men. It was to fit them. for., profes sional work. When women, steadily forcing recognition for themselves and for their rights to a fair chance with men. finally were granted the right to go to school it was a problem what women might .be taught that would benefit them. To play the harpsichord and- work ,a sample, was about as harmless as anything. . That server. Anything is good ', ift it is a; begin ning. Once women were accorded the right to any kind of an education, if only to learn to count up to ten, the rest was certain to follow. Presently the girl was allowed to go to the training school to become a Millionaire Women's Club Outside of their'heads; there is -noth ing inside. ' "Never again. ' . "When I'went in, a great big flunky in a gorgeous uniform ' opened the door for me and set me in the reception room. : I felt like a fool. .' "Tliere were a" 'lot .of women around and . I just sat and ' looked at E them. I never saw the equal in my-life. "There they; sat. and 'talked of clu and theatres and cl)thes and mone Beautiful hats they.;lfad on their head' but that was all. The .insides we emntv. I could have i told'em about club that would - be belter for them." teacher. Yet to .merely teach girls how to teach others to, teach otherh, did -not fulfill the purpose of having girls in school. So something more, had to cOme and something more has come, and keep cominguntil schools for wo men and for men "get far," beyond' where they are. Recognizing the New Education. At Red Springs this was recognized, and one of the mos complete courses in domestic arts and sciences was .in troduced. When these lines were first proposed at Red Springs the world fig ured that education meant a certain polish for the girl, and an unlettered negro in the kitchen to attend to the physical requirements of the family, so unimportant a thing as preparing food being too undignified for an edu cated woman to deal with. Red Springs has set the standard of edu cation . for women far ahead of the field., This college. will come up with that standard some day, but it has yet a struggle with the old habit of con servatism. An interesting incident is disclosed by the possession of a farm a short distance from town which Dr. Vardell bought with the hope of es tablishing on the farm a feature of the college training. He had hoped to teach there some of the things that come up in farm life experience that the girl who comes from the farm might go back to the farm with a more intelligent and scientific under standing of what may be done to ad-J vance rarm nie ii. me ueaire to ad vance is invevidence. Dr. Vardell, like every other pio neer, is a little ahead of his time. But that' he will be overtaken seems en tirely likely When the progress! the college has made is remembered. Here are now fine brick buildings, all modern comforts and conveniences, that make life physically agreeable, and for the moment everything seems available that is to be desired. Of course the school tomorrow will have' outgrown the school facilities of to day, .and that is why the new things will be overtaken before anybody, is aware of what progress is in the air. Domestic Science Exemplified. Oh, no, domestic science does not mean going into the kitchen and washing dishes. The first thing that will strike the practical man who drops Into the domestic science de partment at Red Springs is the big collection of chemical devices and im plements. There he will begin to be interested. The girl at Red Springs learns to take a handful of flour and put it Aider the microscope and see that it has too large a percentage of middlings in it, or whatever may get into flour. She has a jar" or- two that she puts a little syrup in, rnd she applies a few innocent looking things from a bottle and says, "Corn syrup," not up to standard. She 'dips a spoon ful of jelly from a glass and tells you that the strawberry flavor in .it never saw a strawberry, but was made from coal tar. Your pure cider vinegar is acetic acid made in a wood alcohol factory in the Adirondack mountains. By the time she has gone over a few things of this kind and shown you what you are getting and what you think you are eating, you begin to have a sort of reverence for the knowledge this girl possesses. You see another girl cooking some thing on a stove that, is suitable for the work she is doing, and she is using equipment that is suitable, and what is better, she is. making some thing that will be suitable for eating when she is through. I don't for a minute believe that an unlettered ne gro woman who hrs gained her edu cation peeling potatoes, chopping cot ton,' baking hoe cake on a board, and in such classes as that can make any thing "like the wholesome and palata ble food that one of. these young wo men can who have studied the theory of food construction and the chemis try of nutrition and the growth of the body. The thought occurred to me there in the domestic science de partment that if every farm home in this big State of North Carolina had one girl who had put in one .season at Red Springs domestic science labora tory the reputation of our dining rooms would go from one ocean to the other in six months time. Bless your souls, you put an intelligent white girl, one who is of your own household, right here in the training school, and let her get an intelligent idea of what is taught the girls here, and as a State we can defy all thy various ailments that afflict mankind, for a properly fed and nourished household does not have much call for the doctor. Same way in the other departments that train girls for practical lines. The girls who are making dresses here are not simply learning to sew. They begin with the wool and the cotton and the flax, i They learn materials, and the value of materials. The girl who stays a year at Red Springs will huv suDolies for her family with an entirely different idea of things than the girl who does not know shoddy from wool or mercerized damask from linen. She will "know when her clothes are cut and fitted properly if she does not make them herself. She will know why two colors are select ed! to go with each other, why one thing is better in a dress or coat, and why another is objectionable. She will know that she is not a fright when she arraj-s herself in a new gown, for she will know what are the rules that gov ern presentable arrangements. She will know how to clothe her family in a way that gets the best results for the money. Taking the Broad View. The girls at Red Springs are facing a broad view or me. w e neara mem play the big pipe organ, the piano, and as dainty a thing as you will hear in a mdnth of the Sundays was a trifle in which one of the young women show ed remarkable, control of a violin, muted down to a low tone to give ex pression to skill in the higher posi tions and with the harmonious. ' They are broadening in all directions, and where you see some in wash drawing and in oils you see some in flour and some in Latin, and some m English, poetry, and some untying the hard knots of logarithms . Like Sisyphus Dr. Vardell is rolling the stone up the hill, and it is a task. But fortunately this particular hill will have a slighter grade as the day3 go by, and. the John the Baptist who is proclaiming new- truths in the wilderness is bound to have his warn ings heard. Red Springs is pressing the cause of the women of North Carolina, and because the women of North Carolina are the home-makers and the homes are the makers of the State, Red Springs is slowly, but most persistently leavening a. vast lump with a powerful leaven that will short ly show its effects.. There is an old question of how- to keep the young people on the , farms. My idea of the answer is to pay a visit to Red . Springs and look in on the work the girls are doing at the Sduthern Presbyterian College.. These girls are going away from here, to make a lot of farms, more attractive. The boys of North ' Carolina are learning at their colleges to make the farms more profitable. The girls here are learning how to make the farms more attractive. - Put. a Red Springs domestic science girl on every farm in the State and Instead of the young fplks leaving the farms you cannot dog them away, and young folks, and old folks will be turn ing to the, farms ffom everywhere m droves. . . ' j NO CONTAGIOUS DISEASES " ARE FOUND IN KINSTON City Health Officer Reports , Unusual Condition Dr, Jennings Returned. . (Special Star Correspondence.) Kinston, N. C, Feb. 14. Dr. Geo. E. Kornegay, city physician, says there is not a single case of contagious dis ease in Kinston. This condition is un usual, even in Kinston, with its unus ually low death rate. Although there has been no great amount of contagious sickness here since the smallpox e)iT demic of a couple of winters ago, it is seldom that there is a time in any com munity of 13,000 souls when there can not be located a "catchable" case of some kind or another. Dr. J. A. Jennings, agent of the bu reau of animal husbandry of the Unit ed State Department of Agriculture, who recently returned to his station here from Western Pennsylvania, where he . was sent to assist in the eradication of the hoof and mouth dis ease, talks interestingly of the ! epide mic which swept through the stock yards, dairies and herds of the Middle West And parts of the East and North, late in 191. "Up to January 1 the outbreak had cost the government in excess of $2, 000,000," Dr. Jennings said. "More than $1,800,000 was spent. in slaughtering the affected animals and. The reimbursing government their owners, and the indi WE CAN IF Its Carl F. Strunck & Co. 128 to 130 South Front Street. Phone 800-J :: THE FAMOUS WHITE :: PLEASURE CARS AND TRUCKS Everybody knows what they are. We take pleasure In announcing w are Agents for -he Celebrated White Motor Cars both pleasure vehi cles and trucks. Made by the White Motor Car Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Let us talk to you about -hem. . 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Six teen other states were affected. Ener getic measurers are now being used Which will soon stamp out the pesti lence in the few localities where the germ has not been isolated, principally in Illinois and Pennsylvania." Dr. Jennings, who Is engaged in the cattle tick eradication work in Lenoir county, had his headquarters with 21 other experts who had charge' of the situation, in Allegheny county, Pa., in Pittsburg. Although when he left the situation there was well In' hand", the germ had not been isolated, and the county was not entirely free from infection. That a note of warning was sent by the United States to the leading na tion on each side of the great war on the same day is a pretty good indica tion that 'American neutrality is offi cially sure enough neutrality. This isn't an American war, and it is well for the' belligerents and some Ameri cans, too, to keep that fact clearly in mind. Savannah News. SUIT YOU in: Surrey and Church Streets 1915 Pharmacy SUGAR 5Jc. 12 lbs. 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