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Entered as second-class mail matter
February 26, 1910, at the posoffice
at Ahoskie, North Carolina, under
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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Friday, Sept. 1,1922
About the time a fellow thinks he's
a "big gun," someone comee along
and fires him.
Ap optimist is a fellow who loans
a guy $10 when said guy already
ewes him $20.
Looks as if a lot of the girls were
actively participating in the "paint
up" campaign.
Maybe the reason the ocean is blue
is because it has so many things
thrown up to it.
When a man is so cheap he wont
buy a pair of glasses he makes a
? spectacle of himself.
The fellow who watches the clock
can hardly expect to be anything but
one of the hands.
A fellow's best girl may not care
much about the future, but it seems
as if she is always ready for the
present.
The skirts won't be much longer
as long as they have good reasons
for wearing 'em short.
Some times a fellow gets pretty
well along in yaers before he realises
that brains were given him not solely
for hair fertiliser.
What has become of the old fash
ioned boy who used to take pride in
telling how many cords of stovewood
he could saw in a week?
The brilliant man without a heart
keeps his brains in cold storage.
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Are yon an educated man?
A?k yourself. You won't be able
to answer, but ask the question any
way. Whether you are college presi
dent or day laborer, minister in a
pulpit, or tiller of the soil, seller of
boots and shoes, or buyer of farm
products, you won't be able to answer
truthfully, because you don't know
just what is meant here by the term
"educated."
Is a man educated who knows
books, and only books? If a profes
sor of Sanskrit tried to make his liv
ing pitching hay, he would be as badly
off as the farm hand who essayed to
teach a dead language. Education
must fit for a paritcular job, or it
isn't education. So the question
must be asked if asked intelligently,
"are you educated for your work?"
The United States as a whole is
passing through a formative period in
education. To the piodleer "book
learning*' represented all that he did
n't know and wanted to know. But
today mere "book learning" does not
mean education in the true sense, un
less for a bookish career.
Education must ftt a man for his
work in life, or H is not real educa
tion.
A college teaching farming edu
cates a man to be a farmer, but
would be poor training for a doctor.
The farmer who tried to learn rota
tion of crops and the ehemistry of fer
tlisers by studying in a medical school
would not receive an education which
was of use to him.
So ft is with too many of out
school?they teach, but what they
teach is not what many of the stu
dents need most to know.
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The Federal Government has noti
fled all the states that unless a neu
emergency arises there will be nc
Federal control of the distribution ol
coal this winter. As about 70 pel
cent of the mines tied up on account
of the strike have commenced opera
tfons again it eras not thought necea
aery for the Federal Government tc
act in the matter insofar as distribu
tion goes. This however, does no*
effect tiie state distribution bodiai
yrkich are expected to function ai
IMMIGRATION PROBLEM
PRESENTS NEW PHASES
Washington, August 31.?(Capital
News Service).?A survey of immi
gration statistics just made in the De
partment of Labor, presents some
puzzling figures for those who have
thought the immigration problem en
tirely one of exclusion of undesirable
aliens from the United States.
Under the 3 per cent quota law the
following countries have sent to the
United States all the immigrants
which could be admitted: Belgium,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg,
Poland, Roumania, Jugoslavia, Pales
tine, Turkey, Syria, the miscellaneous
European and Asiatic countries, Afri
ca, Australia, and New England:
But Germany sent us only 28 per
cent of the possible number which
might have come; Sweden 43 per
cent; Norway, 48 per cent; Nether
lands, 66 per cent; France, 75 per
cent; and England, less than 20 per
cent.
Secretary Davis of the Departmet
of Labor reads from these figures that
the 3 per cent quota suffices to hold
back the horde of immigrants from
the south and east of Europe, while
working no hardships on the count
ries of the north and west of Europe,
since they didn't send us as many as
they could. But he does not explain
why they sent us so few, nor has any
one advanced any good reason why
the countries which used to send us
their thousands now offer us so Jew
desirable immigrants. Fpes of pro
hibition find in the eighteenth amend
ment the reason why the wine and
beer loving people of north and west
ern Europe do not come in greater
numbers; others see a deeper reason
and look to economic conditions and
labor troubles as the explanation. *
Inasmuch as this country wants and
needs the higher type of immigrants
as greatly as it desires to exclude the
poorer and lower class, it seems to
many that an impartial and thorough
investigation of the immigration prob
lem, looked at from all angles, and not
merely from the exclusion angle,
would serve the United States at this
time.
NORTH CAROLINA TUBER.
CULOSIS ASSOCIATION
Aa soon as the schools open this fall
the North Carolina Tuberculosis Asso
ciation will begin an intensive cam
paign in a few selected counties with
the State Board of Health to bring
the malnourished children up to par.
Prom a few surveys that have been
conducted by the Association, and
also by the llnited States Public
Health Service in North Carolina, it
has been found that fully thirty per
cent of the school children are under
weight for their age and height The
percentage of underweightk being a
little larger among the white children
than among the colored.
It has been demonstrated that the
five chief causes of malnutrition nam
ed in order of their importance are:
physical defects and disease, lack of
home control, over-fatigue, improper
diet and faulty health habits. It will
be readily seen from this list of
causes that a campaign that does not
enlist the cooperation of parents and
teachers will be only successful in a
minor degree. The Association is
putting forth a strong appeal to those
with children in their care to lend
their support in the home and school
in order that the program may be car
ried out successfully. Arrangements
will be made to give proper treatment
to those who are handicapped by phy
sical defects and disease. By far the
large majority of these defects are
in connection with tonsils and ade
noids and the State Board of Health is
already diligently at work correcting
these conditions.
The children who are below par
from other than physical defects will
be enrolled in the nutrition crusade
which will be conducted under the
direction of capable doctors and nur
ses. The children will be weighed
regularly once each week and theii
progress charted on prepared forms.
Children who are not making satis
. factory improvement will be given
; special instruction in the presence ol
parents.
ad enorx will de made to estabiist
. a rest period of twenty to thirty min
utes at midday for all undernourishec
i children. The Association has als<
authorised the use of funds derive*
' from the sale of Tuberculosis Christ
' mas Seals for the purchase of mill
. to be served during the rest period.
Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Director of th<
Bureau of Maternity and Infant Hy
- giene will inaugurate the nutritior
r crusade in Harnett-county as soon ai
> the schools open. Dr. L. B. McBray
' er, Managing Director of the Nortl
? Carolina Tuberculosis Association
t will direct the work in Buncomb<
- county. Work in other counties wil
? be instituted as rapidly as possible.
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ROADS STAND BY
LOYALEMPLOYEES
TeR President Harding Old and
New Meo Must Be Protected
in Strike Settlement
NOT A MATTER OF CHOICE
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Faithful kmployeee Hava Bath Legal
and Moral Rlflhta 4a Sanlorlty
and Othar Benefits.
Now Tort?The keynote of the re
ply made by railway executive# repre
senting .mora thaa 180 Class I Rail
roads of the Ualtad States to the prop
osition of President Harding, that "all
strikers be isluiaal to their work and
their former piiMUiiiis with seniority
and ether rights unimpaired," lies la
the last paragraph from their reply
te the President as follows:
"It la subsMttaa mat tha atrix
lai former employee# cannot be given
preference to eaeploreea at preaent la
the servloe without doing violence to
every principle ot right and luetic#
Involved Id thia natter, and without
the groeseet breach of faith on the
part of the railroad# to the wen at
preaent la their eervtoe.
"Under thaee etrcumstaneea. It be
eeaeeo apparent that the rallroede
cannot ooaalder any aettlemant of the
preaent atrike which dqpa not pro
vide protection in their preaent em
ployment both to the loyal employ era
who remained la the aervice and to
the new empioyeea entering It"
The executives had accepted the
first two conditions proposed by the
President, namely, that both employ
ers and employees accept the decisions
of the Labor Board, and that all law
suits growing out of the strike be
withdrawn; and in relation to the
third condition spoke not only as
quoted above, bnt also as follows:
Agree With the President
"The railroad executives and man
agers agree entirely with the Presi
dent's statement in hit letter that 'It is
wholly unthinkable that the Ballread
Labor Board can be made a useful
agency of the Government in maintain
ing Industrial peace in the railway
aervice unless employers and workers
are both prompt and unquestioning la
(hair acceptance of Its decisions.'
"Many men In the aervice refused to 1
Join the strike and In ae doing were
assured of the seniority rights accru
ing to them and of the permanence
of their positions. On some Important
lines 50 per cent or more refused to
Join the strike. To these old loyal em
ployees have been added thousands
of new men who were employed and
could be secured only upon a deflnltn
promise that their services would be
raarfned regardless of the settlement
of the atrike, with all the rights ap
pertaining to such employment, I Delud
ing that of seniority under the working
rules and regulations previously ap
proved by the Ballread LaHbr Board.
"Just tha Opposite Effect"
"We especially point oat that a re
fusal to the old men who remained in
the service and to tha now men who
accepted service of the rights of senior
ity Incident to their employment would
have Just the opposite effect to that de>
sired by the President, and would moat
seriously discredit the Labor Board.
"The board Itself prescribed the
rules of seniority under which the men
referred to hare Secured their senior
ity rights, and the railroad companies
hare neither the legal nor moral right
to deprive these men of those rights.
By public utterances rince the strike
began the board has recognised and
emphasised these rights, and to deny
them now would. Instead of upholding
the authority of the Labor Board, over
throw Its rules and discredit Its au
thority.
The Chairman 01 the L?nor Boaro
?t the time the strike wn* called made
the following public etatemeut:
"Upea one question the striking ani
ployeee should not he deceive*. Their
leader has said that the striken
are as longer employees of the rail
ways, and they hare thus nutematle
ally abandoned all the rights 'they
possess under their agreements and
under the dedaloas of the board. In
cluding their sealertty. This la net
the beard's action. It Is their ova.
"Many carriers are giving their for
mer employees the epportunity to re
enter the sendee within n limited
Mane. It must he understood now
that maa who reaselaiil la the aarv
lee and those who are now entering
It will have rights of sealertty that
the hoard could not Ignore."
What the Proposed Plan Means
"It must ha undentoed that any pro
petal that empleyeee now on etriki
, eh ail ha permitted to return to the
service, without Impairment to theli
seniority. Is merely another way el
i suggesting that those men who took
. employment in this crisis in good faith,
I relying on the promises of the rail
, Mads to protect them in their peel
tlona, these promises being justified bj
the authoritative utterances of th?
- Labor Board, and thus have made pea
i slble the eontlatpd operation of tb?
railroads, shall now he sacrificed is
( favor of men now on strike, whs not
. only bought about ths crisis, btft, bj
their earn action and declaration, an
no laager employee* of the railway*
' under the Juriadlctten of the United
State* Railroad Labor Board, or tub
t Ject to the appliestlon of the Trass
, portatlon act
t "In addition to the necessity of up
I holding the Labor Board, and main
talnlng the pledgee made by the rail
road* to the men now at work, then
la the practical effect on the super
vleery officer* of a violation of th
> pledgea they worn authorized to mnkt
Their discouragement and demoralise
i tion would be far meg* Itaaaiugg thai
L or any other strike."
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