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^HUading Club.
la Cherokee County
^ System of County Roads Supple- j
(^Hutting the State Highways.
m^Bre and Better Cattle Raising and 1
j^Hrying. !
H?e Fruit Growing.
^Heientific Poultry Raising.
Rig the Woods
ther Frankenstein
DUNG student of Physiology by the
Riame of Frankenstein, is rrfctde. in
i&ftelley's romance of the same name, to
truct a monster out of the remnants of
church yard and dissecting room and
ea. through the agency of galvanism,
a ort of spectral and convulsive life,
monster, because of its craving for
in sympathy and because of its deformturns
upon its creatarr and destroy#
A policy or a line of action that ts
FBlculated to destroy the one pursuing it.
m to wipe out the supposed benefits ac ruing
from it, has come to be known as a
Frankenstein.
The practice of burning the woods in the
spring under the imprison that it cause*
the grass to grow out earlier and to be
more palatable to cattle wandering on the
free range, may be likened unto a Frankenstein.
It is this very policy that will be
responsible for the abolition of the free
range, if it is continued. To begin with, it
is an erroneous belief to suppose that burning
the range makes it more valuable for
cattle grazing purposes. It is possibly true
that it causes the grass to come out a little
earlier in the spring, hut it greatly diminishes
the amount of gras- that will grow on
the range during one season. So, while
it is possible by burning to turn cattle on
the range a week or two earlier, the sum to
tal of grass that the cattle will be aoie ic
get the year would undoubtedly bi
reduced. If the people who believe in tht
free range could only realize the situation
and quit burning the range they would soor
tee that it would be to their advantage. Mod
better quality feed would come up in th<
the wood? and in a few year* time the cat
tie would be making: every effort to preveni
firee.
If the burning of the range and the wood:
only diminished the sum total of the frar
that the cattle could gat during the one yean
it would not be quite so bad. for in seel
case, it could only damage the cattle rang
era themselves. But the trouble i*. it doe!
thousands of dollars worth of damage to Um
standing forests. Fven though it may no<
actually kill any of the larger trees, ye!
It burns down all smaller trees and under
growth, and therefore, prevents the com
Ing on of the smaller forest growth to re
place the larger trees %ben they are cut
A continuation of this policy' will eventual!;
wipe out the entire forest of the state, w?t)
Sail the attendant evils that this would catr;
with it.. It will also mean that lend alU
fwCt will soon begin to dernanc
that the stcfcklaw be extended all over ttu
ae that the burning of the woods wil
who believe that toe
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THE CHEKO
The Reynolds Foundation
THE chartering: of the Reynolds Foundation
by the Secretary of State on ||
Monday has the possibility of untold Rood
to the State and this whole part of the country.
One who is -! all fasiil-sr with the
Rockefeller Foundation of New York and
its work in ameliorating social and health
conditions not only irf this country but
but throughout the world, know something
of the possibilities the Reynolds Foundation
holds out. While it perhaps cannot operate
on quite so large a scale, yet within its
sphere it can do just as much good. The
I widow of the late R. .1. Reynolds of Winston-Salem.
now Mrs. Katherine S." JohnI
son, is one of the principal incorporators.
I which means that the foundation has means
' behind it.
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Community Loyalty
|F A community is worth living in, it
i should command nil of one's ]?y?lty In
every sense of the word. This not only
means that a member of that community
should always speak well of it. but should
do everything in his power to encourage
its growth in every way. One of the easiest
and simpliest ways to insure the growth
of the home community is to leave all the
business in it that one can.
At regularly recurring seasons great
loads of mail order catalogue4 come into i
North Carolina, many of them to this see-1
tion. to entice business away to the larger
cities. A news story coming out of Ral- J
eigh a few days ago reported that two solid
carloads of these catalogues came into that
city last week for distribution to points m
North Carolina, so as to enjoy the benefit j
of cheapeT postage rates. These catalogues j
are expensive and could not be distributed. |
if the houses distributing them did not get t
much business from this form of advertising!
When one sends out of town or away from
the local stores for things that can bej
bought at home, he is killing the goose that j
lays the golden egg. When one wants a few j
pounds of sugar, a spare part for his auto j
or for some farm machine, or a doctor to ,
visit a sick patient, he does not send away j
to the city. Yet the merchant, the garage-1
man, the doctor, or other? who sell goods
or service cannot exist on rush orders only.
If the matter were carried to its logical conclusion.
it would mean that the smaller
town* would cease to glow, and perhaps
retrograde. If this happened, property values
would decline, the greatest source of
support for the churches, the school, and
other social institutions would be destroyed.
No one would want to live in a town like
that. Yet that is the sort of a town one is
tending to make when he constantly sends
away from home to buy what he could buy
Hi uuiiir uns -nuuiu vunsiarr u nil or ncr
duty to buy at home, even though it may
cost a little more, for one obtains his living
in the community and every dollar he spends
at home comes back to him in some form.
Most buying away from home is through
thoughtlessness. The mail order houses j
hare made it easy by putting well illustrated
catalogues into the borne. Many orders
no doubt iepve this section because the people
are not constantly reminded that they
can be had at home. A little advertising on
the part of the merchants and a little more
* wWW>n on the part of the buyer before
f he sends off that next order for >or.-.c:h:ng
, ths* can be bought right here at home, will
l make this a much more prosperous com
, munity. Let's be loyal in buying as well as
j with words of prai?e about our town.
Co-operation
t A Kl-al 1 R1 J
? nauunai nccu
CO-OPERATION on a aelf-help basis sueceeda.
in Denmark and the principle
pasted entirely beyond debate a quarter
century ago in tbia little country.
And it must be made to succeed or allowed
to succeed in America. We need the
co-operative virtue in every phase of our
national life. Civilization cannot forever
exist as a tooth-and-claw. beak-and-talon
contest for aorvival and supremacy among
r-ten and nations. Europe is today an arresting
Illustration of this fundamental fact.
Collusion ia better than collision, co-operation
is better than competition, and the
sooner the human race learns this fund*
Mental lesson the better. Somehow or other
the world must find a place for the Seriw
the Mount and the Golden Role in
business, in social fellowships, and m civic
institutions. The race has tried the Rule of
t Gold long enoufh to have learned that it Is
f mot n final wny of life.?E. C. Branson.
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KEE SCOUT, MUWHT, NORTH CAROUN,
TARHEEL TATTLE
By Carl William Bailey
The Vacant Lot.
Just around behind the stores.
Along ati t-ttMword rtreet.
There's an open vacant lot ^
Where village urchins meet;
Where they gather after school
To the clan's plaintive call,
"Choose-up sides" and count off c
And have a game of ball. r
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'Tis here they mingle freely ?
The good, the bad?and all? ^
Arising dispute* arc settled
To the umpire's yell: "Play ball!"
They tangle and they tumble.
And sometimes get profane. i
But differences are forgotten v
As each one wins the game. ^
I watch them in the evening.
As i iruuxe " * horr.c-zrd -rs;\
And live my boyhood over again
With each and every play.
There's teamwork in the making.
?Tho' some shun evening chores.)
On that open vacant lot
Around behind the stores.
No! Even the "Devil."
The Carolina Mountaineer announced
lhat it wa? a day late last week on account
of the snow hr. aking the electric wires and
then make* this pointed request: "We can
blame no one. so don't blame the paper." j
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A LiT More Cider, Please!
H. H. Mason, of Stonewall. Ga., our friend)
and former fellow-scribe, writes that he Is
still "a-makin* cider" and sings thuslv:
"The working man has to work mighty hard
To provide his wife with some meat and lard
And, incidentally, a little piece o' bread.
And also a hat for to wear on his head;
(The hat has r.o roses and no ribbons, too.)
It's a mighty hard job for him to pull thru "
Boy, P?|f Doc. Cook!
The Paragrapher of the Asheville Timea
shivers and says: "The more we see of winI
tor, tne less respect we have for tne sanity
of arctic explorers."
The Lane Will Turn.
Honey, don't worry 'bout de mud
What's on de highway.
The sun'U soon be shinin' i*
An' dry it all away.
It ain't no use to fret and pine
When in de mud you fall; i
Why. gittin' soiled wid a little mud I
Ain't no scan'al u-toll! i
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Da lane'll soon be turnin' t
But don't you worry none: s
Den we'll all be a-roastin' 1
In de hot summer sun. \
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Weyaide Pebble*.
les' 'bout de time you gits settle an' j
"steddy in de boat." sum'uns gotta wiggle ,
an* rock it. ,
So, suh! Ain't a bit supperstishus. but
AH jrs' natchally can't stan* de singin' er ,
de screech owl. ,
When it rains it pours, but de good Lawd :
I nebber let it flood but onct.
j Ths Pl?wnmi
Across the field the plowman goes
And turns the brown earth up in rows.
And then he pulls the horses 'round
And sticks the plowpoint in the ground.
He yells "Giddapy and jerks th? rein
And plows across the fields again.
So that the little birds can feed
And gobble all the worms they need.
A Great People
IN A free republic a great government is
^ the* product of a great people. They
will look to themselves rather thaw government
for success. The destiny, the greatness,
of America lies around the hearthstone.
If thrift and industry are taught
there, and the example of self sacrifice oft
appears, if honor abides there, and high
ideals, if there the building of fortune be
subordinate to the building of character.
America will live in security, rejoicing in
aq abundant prosperity and good government
at home, and in peace, confidence, and
.c-pcct zbrnn^ If there virtues be absent
there is no power that can supply these
blessings. Look well then to the hearthstone,
therein all hope for America lies.?*
Calvin Coolidge.
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L'Y 7HEN John London Macadam, in 1810.
began to experiment with broken
tone for building roads, he met with much
pposition from the "stand-pat" road buildre.
who contended that the expense would
>o prohibitive and thai anyway. broken
tone in courses of assorted sizes wa* no,
tetter than broken stone of one size in ore J
ourse.
Time proved the merit of Macadam's
den, although the century and nine years
whic h have elased since his first practical I
xperiment was tried at Bristol, England. |
n 1815, have greatly altered the practice of
macadamized road building.
Up to tne advent of tU automobile, Mnc.1
dam's nrincinles were emnloved in their en-I
irrtv. thr broken stone being bonded with
ook dust and water, the former replaced
y the impact of iron shod vehicles and
loofs. the latter by rain.
When the automobile, with its rapid nv>v^nent
and brood rubber tires, sucked the
ock dust from between the stones in spite
if the gentle bonding effort of the water.
I whs realised that something was lacking
n the roads used for fast, soft-shod traf
ie, which lack was lot felt under the steel-1
hod traffic. That "something" was a bet-!
or bond than water. It was found in oil" ;
ind Lars and bituminous compounds. Luckly
for the millions of dollars invented In i
Macadamized roads, an oil. tar. or bituro-i
noun binder could, and was. applied with j
uccess to existing roads, thus saving to th*,
axpayer miles of highways which were otherwise
doomed.
Today, all macadamized roads are built
eith the bituminous oil or tar binder ap>lied
during the building, but the basic prlniple
of larger foundation and smaller upper
ourse, topped by a wearing surface of fin??
riivhr/t rncl nn.l ilnat Knnnd in nla.-.t ht>
something. ?* still employed. Macadam's
rreatest monument is the dropping of the
apital letter in his name and making it the
ahel for all roads built of crushed rock
aid in courses of different aires.
Sobered By Responsibility
(Asheville Times.)
David Lloyd George believes that power
a having a very salutary effect on the im>etuons
members of the Labor party, fie
.? not alarmed over the situation. In fact
ie favors leaving the Laborites "for some
,ime between the plow handles. They will
icon have aching backs and weary dearts,
t>ut very mtrch wiser heads, and in the
future they will realize you can not plow
from the clouds."
It is undoutedly true that the Labor
tatismer. are being sobered by resjMwatbility.
Authority is cooling their ardor and
softening their radicalism.
A* ktng as the Laborites were only an
opposition minority, they could preach their
extreme doctrines. Then they were under
no obligation to measure their words or to
weigh their sentiments. In fact, the more
immoderate they were, the mere attention
they excited.
Conditions are now changed and the roles
re reversed. The Labcrite- ?* ? in power
nd charged with the weighty responsibility
of governing Great Britain. Their lease on
office is very precarious They are at the
mercy of the Liberals who will turn upon
them tear them to pieces at the first
major provocation. Moreover, they m\w*t
account to public opinion for the proper
functioning of a great governmental machine
which has been entrusted to them.
They do not dare attempt any serious
changes m the mechanism of this government.
They very wisely preferred to carry
on with what they have inherited.
fr,The consequence is that the Labor ministry
is not vastly different from the other
ministries. Liberal and Conservative, which
preceded it. It has removed its heads from
the clouds and is now knitting its browi
over very earthly problems that mast b?
solved by common sense rather than by fan
fetched theories.
A club member of Jone* County made
85 bushels of corn on one acre at a cost
of $35. Re is investing hia proika im )hu?
bred Duroc hogs and next year will be
both a corn club and pig club member, report*
County Agent E. F. Fletcher.
TrUv, M.re> T. IM4
i FAT MAN'S CORNER
The Janitor was called "Midnight" by
his white friends, for he was very dark. But
he did not like colored friends tc thl*
nickname. One of them passed _
land called out:
| "Hullo, Midnight/* V
i ".Shut yo mouf up, boy, youse 'boirt a .
! quarter to twelve yo'se'f."
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Slow thinkers liv^ longer, says *
psychologist. Not if they cross a street.
?Judge.
"I have only one request to make/*
groaned the college man, who had come to
participate in the harvest,
j "What is that, Mr. Smart?" returned the
farmer.
i "Please let me stay in bed long enough
for the lamp chimney to cool off."?Country
Gentleman.
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Mrs Brown (buying a railroad ticket):
What became of the clerk who used to be
here?
Ticket Clerk: He's in the lnnatic asylum.
Mrs B.: You don't say so. What is the
reason?
A shock.
Shock, eh?
Yes, ? woman came to his window, bought
a ticket, and went away without asking a
string of questions.?Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Ludcnberg ard wife were looking for
i a site for their home. After n while they
came to a place, and Mrs. Ludenberg exclaimed:
Oh. Adolph, this view strikes nie dumb!"
Well, dear. I think we will select this."
?Harper.
She was deceived in him. poor girl."
"Deceived in Jack?"
"Dreadfully. She thought that love made
him pale. But it was only that he went
without food to buy her presents."?Boster
Transcript.
Waiter?Pardon me, sir, but you need
not dust off your plate when you eat her#.
This is a clean restaurant.
Customer?My mistake; force of habit.
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Minister to Flapper?Would you care to
j join us in the new missionary movement?
Flapper?I'm crazy to try it. Is it any*
thinjr like the fox trot??Ex.
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"Deacon White," said Parson Jackson.
I "will you lead us in prayer?"
There was no answer.
"Dei on White," this time in a little liuder
voice, "will you lead?"
Still no response. Evidenly the deacen j
' was slumbering:. Portion Jackson made the
J third app< al and raised hia voire to a high
j pitch that succeeded in arnu'ing the drowsy j
man. "Deacon White, will you lead?"
The deacon, in bewilderment, rubbed Ma
heavy eyes and blurted: "Lead yourself?I
just dealt!"?Pipe Stories.
An Armistice Day meeting vu being held/
in a one horse town and tha chief speakew
v.-a- waxisj: ?h??nri*a! than veraeiouf
concerning the exploits of the local hero.
**I#ct us never forget the valor of yon j
("Marenee McEffery," he roared. "It /
he who !ed the successful attack upon
raine! It was he who took Nancy by kz ;
prise! It waa " *
"The brute!" ejaculated an old lady an 3
left the hall.?Pipe Stories.
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Advertiser* are teaching tessons w? j,
nations might take to heart. If they wen) i-'M
advertise to each other We would have I zM
more war.?Lord LrrrrhBlM. fl
"Neglect taxes" are the taxes pwd ^
' not keeping the farm equipment and -**
tags aad in repair.
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Work with tobacco wao ? new fcatw* ^
1 crton.ioo ictlritj by asri'oKural
1 of th* Stat* Colics* loct year. *MC 81
36 demaaotratroaa ia ^awliiSb*
hocco were IbfiJ by Om tobacco
worm* with tkr r.uty asentc. i'?|
Tom Tarbool mn bo doWt W *** JH
' b. ,, , .j,; * - ?"*- -i~* a*. waaaMf ^
csriroltarml yopar. Oae bria**
' bafore bla ayaa. tba atfcn help* S" jjBfl
take kia yart ia it. _ .
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