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Volume XV
Lenoir, N. C Friday, February 7. 1913
No. 27
RACE PRESERVATION.
The Struggle of All Tune.
Plea for Women Rights.
(Greenaboro New,)
Away back yonder when the
world was young and very large
the cost of living problem canJe
op. The men hunted. After so
long a time, in a given territory
hunting becomes a game of
chance, with the chances against
the sportsman in increasing ratio
The meat supply became preca
rious. The lemale of the spe
cies caught and domesticated
certain kinds, flocks and herds
were created and the men were
put to tending them. Thus the
nomad became a herdsman.
To balance and vary the diet
the female of the species began
to collect certain grasses, plants
that would yield the cereal ele '
nients in the shortest time.
Crops were sown and tilled and
seeds preserved from season to
season. When there was no
longer game to hunt the men
took up the women's avocation
of herding; whenever people be
came too thick for herds to
range, they adopted the women's
work of agriculture.
We have no idea whatever of
advancing an argument of our
own, tout believe we have the
authorities bedind in asserting
that the women have been the
conservators of the race. These
various steps in the evolution to
ward conditions of civilization
were forced steps, and pressure
of circumstance bore first and
hardest on the woman, and she
contrived a way.
First and last it has been the
meat and broad problem, the
thing behind the passing of old
customs and the setting up of
new.
And what is this stir in the
Anglo-Saxon world today?
What means the news from Lon
don? The hike to Albany?
The parade in Washington?
The old meat and bread prob
lem; but grown wearisomely
complex. You may be sure
there is something practical be
hind it. You may be sure it is
the stern voice of the times.
Why should woman wish to vote?
Woman knows what her mission
and her pleasure are, much bet
ter than men who prate about it.
A woman who desires the ballot
per se, is a freak. When she
sets the ingenuity of her terrible
devices at work to get the bal
lot you can make up your iind
she feels she has got to vote.
Two things have come about
in our day. The crisis of dis
honest distribution has been ap
proached. Honest distribution
, has become an actual bread and
meat necessity. We do not say
equitable distribution that is
what the socialists want and
what they will be a precious
time getting. If it ever comes
it will come as a necessity. The
race does not change its ways of
doing things except under com
pulsion.
The other thing is, it has been
learned what great things can
be accomplished in human con
servation by votes. You can
not legislate morality into peo
ple" was a dictum of yesterday.
Inasmuch as morality is a mat
ter of environment, and especi
ally of sanitation, it can be ao
complished by legislation.
Please do not understand us $o
assert such rank unorthodoxy
as that morality Is purely a mat
tor of externals we say, in so
far as It Is. How far that is, is
meat for those who love to ar
gue. -
You have to reflect just how
Rack at DtTMport Cofiega.
The recital to be given on next
Wednesday evening at Daven
port college, promises to be one
of the very best that has ever
been given there. Considering
the noble purpose for which it
is to be given, a very large au
dience ought to greet the per
formers. The Davenport Sun
day School is trying to establish
a scholarship fund, for the pur
pose of educating some poor,
worthy girl, and the proceeds of
this concert are to be devoted to
that purpose.
The program will be an espec-
lally brilliant one. Some very
excellent piano and vocal num
bers will be given, and Mr.
Birmingham will read a beauti
ful and dramatic cutting from
Ben Hur, giving the entire Char
iot Race. He will also give
another fine number, being the
Vagabond Prince, which ranks
very high, and is used on all
good programs.
A sextet consisting of Miss
Beatrice Bulla, Miss Tommie
Baber, Mrs. Hebron, Miss. Bes
sie Palmer. Miss Isabelle Ma
brey, and Miss Olive Hege will
sing, and Miss Baber will also
sing some tine solos.
Recital to begin at H-ID o'clock.
Get Busy With The Road Drag.
There never was a better time
than right now to use the road
drag. Try to get the neighbors
to join you if yon can, but if they
will not, a couple of days spent
improving the road from your
farm to town will pay big when
the bad weather comes on. Of
course, it goes a bit agaiust the
grain to make good roads for
people who are too lazy to help,
but who use them just the same
However, it is better to do that
than to suffer the inconvenience
and loss of good marketing
through bottomless roads.
He has not lived in vain who
finds out before he dies what
fool he has been.
far tuberculosis and its horrible
side partner and their allies had
got. The human race was dy-
imr. and dving ashamed. Now
it is realized infant mortality
can be checked by legislation
workinir through science; that
care and environment can pre
vent the enfeeblement of the
young of the race, so that in a
few generations mankind may
be enabled to make a new start
Now it is necessary for intelli
gent voting with the high mo
tive of the common welfare back
of it, to put these discoveries o
science into effect and that
speedily.
The women are not wishing
to vote; they are protesting that
the men are not accomplishing
by their votes the things that
are necessary. Of course the
more stubbornly the men say
"no: vou shan't vote." the more
determined the women are they
will vote. That is purely psy
etiological. It has little to do
w feel sure, with the main is
sues.
Morality and health can bo
conserved by laws protecting
women and children. Morality
and health, can be conserved by
laws preventing dishonest dis
tribution of food and kindred ne
cessities, and the money that
represents them. Morality and
health can be conserved by laws
providing for useful and ration
al education.'
Morality and health must be
conserved. Hence legislation
must take on a larger function.
Hence, Q. E. D.
SAXON HAS GIRDLED EARTH
Whr th Thin Red LIm Hat Not
' Gone Mai Has Not
Found.
The Saxon ha marked around
this earth, at no other race before
him, the scarlet circle of his power.
This thin, red Saxon line, so thin stroke of paralysis and a few
with his numbers, so red with his months later a second stroke,
blood, &s made, possible onU" by his i which rendered her condition al
heroism and his racial fealty. most hopeless, though she was
Where this line has not gone man ; taken to the hospital with hope
has not found. It has eroded everv j tl)at she might recover she
sea; it has traven every dest-rt; it ; howpver continued to grov
has sought every solitude; it has i , ... . nmu ,
passed through Bwamps where only I
the sacred ibis fishes ; over sands that i
have never been moistened; over
snows that have never melted. There !
has been no storm it has not encoun
tered; no pain it has not endured;
no race it has not fought and no dis
ease it has not contended with. .
This Saxon line has been to the
earth . a girdle heroic and tragic,
binding within itself all the old and
ancient places of the world. It ha
been silent in its dutv, isrnored in
ts achievement and scorned in its
levotion. Yet it has given down to
this now neglectful race a world such
as mankind has never known before ;
an empire over which the sun and
stars shine togetheTand where night
never falls nor day dawns. From
"The Sixon and His Empire," by
Homer Lea.
A STORM DOOR
Johnson I don't see why you call
this front door a "storm door." It
isn't a storm door.
Bronson Just wait a minute, old
man. My wife always meets me
here.
NO GIFTS ON EXHIBITION.
Jimmie had been a naughty boy,
we presume, so that there is a note
of pathos with the humor of the
conversation he conducted with the
little girl next door on the day after
his sixth birthday, says the Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"Show me what you got for your
birthday, Jimmie," begged the little
girl.
"I won't do it," said Jimmie.
"Oh, please. Ain't I nice to you V
"Yep. You're all right."
"Then show me what you got."
"I daresn't honest. Marg'ret, I
dare not !"
Investigation revealed that the
poor kid had received nothing but a
spanking.
DISLIKES TITLE "PROFE880R."
Here is a story of Woodrow Wil
son that should have come to light
earlier. It is well known that Mr.
Wilson always objected to being
called "professor." Once while vis
iting in Washington while still head
of Princeton, he met one of his trus
tees on the street.
"Good morning, professor," called
out the trustee heartily.
"If you must call me professor,"
ronlind Mr Wilson, "snenlr low. for
everv one around here will think that
I am a bootblack.
NOT CALLED FOR.
"Now they are trying to make the
cactus edible."
"I don't think we need a vegotabls
shad."
RETORT MATRIMONIAL
He You spend too much in pnffj
for your hair.
She And you do the same in
ipuffs for your cigarettes.
Mr. Sunt H. Powell DtU
Mrs. S. H. Powell died last
Wednesday afternoon about six
o'clock at the state hospital in
Morgan ton where she had been
for several months for treatment.
Nearly a year ago she suffered a
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buned here toda in airneld
tne fun(?ral being conducted at
t e home at 2 p. m. Mrs. Pow
ell was a daughter of the late Mr.
W. A. Ballew of this county and
is survived by a husband and
seven children, Messrs.
Lawrence, Hill and W. J. Powell
and Misses Cora, Agnes,
Claribel and Mable. She was
about ")" years of age and a
member of the baptist church.
The College Boys.
The Combined Musical Clubs
of the Universily of North Car
olina, advertised as the best or
ganization of its kind in the
South, certainly upheld this en
viable reputation in their con
cert in Lenoir Tuesday night.
This entertainment had the larg
est attendance of any lyceum
course that has been given here
this season. The varied pro
irram was pleasing to all and
each number called for an enthu
siastic encore.
Every number on the program
was excellent, but the solos of
Messrs. Meeks, Sneath and Mc
Corkle were especially fine
while the rollicking medleys of
the Mandolin Club brought forth
peals of laughter.
The bovs were entertained in
the various homes of the town.
Tuesday afternoon they were re
ceived at Davenport College.
After the concert a general re
ception was given to the Univer
sity boys. It was an all around
success both for the boys and
the Lenoir people, and we are
looking forward to their return
next . year.
Trustees Meeting.
The Trustees of Davenpor
College met last Tuesday even
ing at the college and re-elected
Rev. J. B. Craven, President
and also re-elected the present
faculty for the ensuing year. In
addition to the regular routine
business of the body two new
trustees to nil the vacancies
caused bv the death of Dr. W
P. Ivey and Mr. J. K. Ervin
were elected, "these being Dr
Byrd of Greeneboro and Rev
E. L. Bain of Winston.
A Statesville man who was
clerk to a legislative committee
in Raleigh during two sessions
of the Legislature, tells The
Landmark that the Newton
News has assigned too much la
bor to the "laborers" employed
at the capitol during the sitting
of the Legislature. The labor
ers, the. Statesville man says
do no cleaning outside of th
halls. . The stairways and th
rotunda are looked after by the
regular janitor, who has extr;
assistance during the session of
the Legislature. The average
committee clerk, furtliermor
asserts the Statesville man - who
has been a clerk himself has
practically nothing to do and
few of the committees need a
clerk. Landmark. '
Good roads make good citizen
and good communities.
TW Pi Cooater ia Raletgk.
(Taylorsfille Scout.)
A short time ago we spent a
few days in Raleigh and from
what we saw and heard we came
to the conclusion that the State
pie counter is entirely too large.
Around the capitol we saw quite
number of persons eating from
$3 to i worth of pie each day
who ao not earn oU cents. Une
man told us he had a good fat
job. Said he got good pay and
nothing to do. Another said he
id not average one hour s work
day. It takes a little regiment
of sweepers, dusters, doorkeep
rs, sergeant-at arms, pages,
lerks, stenographers, etc, to
pretend to do the work that half I
dozen persons could do if they
WOrk.
With all this pie eating going
on how can our.State hope to
get out of debt? Ifour'Legis-
ature will cut out all the unnec
essary positions around the pub
ic buildings we will have mon
ey enough to give the rural dis
tricts six months school terms.
There are men in Raleigh to
day who never do a lick ot work
or earn a uonar ai nome, uruw-
ng big pay from the State treas-
ury just because they can influ-
ence a few votes around home.
s this right and is it justice to
take the money, which should
go to paying the State debt to
pay men to do nothing but sit
around and smoke tine cigars.-'
Yes, and some of them do their
ull share of booze drinking,
To Preserve The Roads.
(Charlotte Chronicle.)
Several years ago there was
considerable agitation in the
State for a law requiring all
wagons to have broad tires, and
fixing a tax upon those with nar-
row tires. This agitation has
been resumed recently, this be-
inir due to the realization not
only by good roads experts but
by the people generally, that as
great a problem as tne Duuoing
of good highways is the problem
01 ineir preservauou. .viuueiu
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translation necessities have
required better and better roads
and the increasing cost of labor
and material has also tended to
increase the cost of building
highways. The demand for bet
ter highways and the greater
cost of any kind make the prob
lem of road preservation all the
more important.
'A ireneral automobile tax to
be added to trie otaie gooci roaas
fund has very generally been
advocated. The Greensboro
News suggests that a tax on nar
row tires should also be a State
tax, the proceeds being added to
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the general road fund. How
ever, the idea 01 a lax on nar
row tires is an excellent one
Experts declare that wider tires
give a lighter draft, so that such
a tax would serve several pur
poses: help the cause of good
roads, protect good roads by re-
ducing the number 01 narrow
tires and help the farmer and
the draft horse by making the
draft lighter.
Rowan Commissioners Employ Farm
Expert.
Salisbury, Feb. 4. The Row
an County commissioners held a
special session this morning for
the purpose of considering mak
inir an appropriation for farm
demonstration work in thiscoun
ty. The board made the appro.
priation of $7(0 to which the
United States Department of
Agriculture will add $500 and
the best man that $1,200 will em
nlov will be secured and put to
work at once. The connty will
also pay incidental expenses.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
Items From Our Regular Corres
pondents and Neighboring
County Papers. '
Hl'DSOX.
Miss Helen Grist, of Lenrvr.
spent several days list wet-k
wjtn Mrs. J. L. Querry.
Mrs. Maggie Wilson, of Le
noir. visited at Mr. B. B. Haea
it Thursday.
Miss Mary Dysart. of Rhod-
hiss, spent the week -end with
friendsip Hudson.
Mr. and Mrs. Atlas Mull's
went to Morganton Monday to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Pet
jullis Cloninger. who died thera
eariy Monday morning, tlie 3rd
inst. She hail been ill fop snmA
time but hopes for her recovery
were entertained until Thursday
before she died. The young
husband and other relatives and
friends have our deepest sym
pathy. Misses Lonuie and Mary Jen
nings, of Lenoir, sient several
days last week with their Aunt,
Mrs. C. H. Throneburg.
it js expected that the new
Lhool house will be ready for
occupancy next we'ek.
Mr J R Barber and familv
went Whitnel Saturday to
visit frjends, returning Sunday.
Miss Leila King spent several
days at Hildebran last week.
Some new books have been
added to the Hudson Public Li-
hrarv amoni? them are: Lost
Heir of Linlithgow, Southworth;
Gvnsv's Pronhecv. Southworth;
Stepping Heavenward, Prentiss;
Children of the Abbey, Roche;
Called Back, Conway; Dark
Days, Conway; Girl of the Lim-
berlost, Porter.
We heartily agree with W
about the necessity of so nething
beiner done for the protectioJ of
our "dumb friends. T.
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Homicide Near Patterson.
Last Tuesday morning Will
L Jackson who lives a faW
mi. c frnm pat.tiiri0n nM, ,ift
T ik d ki.,eJ hl!iU.
in-law William Thomas wita a
stick. Jackson sent telephone
message to sheriff Icard, wjj
went there to investigate and
found the dead m m lying oa
the floor with a shot gun loaded
near by, also a sourwood stick
with which Jackson says he did
the deed. Jackson's story of
the affair is that Thomas and
his wife had been quarreling and
he went to the room door to try
to make peace when Thomas,
says I will shoot you and got his
gun, then Jackson used the stick
kim Thomas by crushing his
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skull over the left eye; Jack-
son says he used the stick in self
defense and does not know
whether he struck more than
one blow or not. As the killing
was admitted, an inquest was
not considered necessary so
there WM nQ furthep inveiga.
tion. Jackson surrendered and
was-placed in jail where he will
remain until court. The sheriff
had the body of Thomas buried
in a neighborhood grave yard.
No member of the Jackson fam
ily it seems, was an eye witness
to the affair as they say tuey be
came frightened and ran out ot
sight. Thomas came to thaf
part of the country a few mouths
ago and claimed to be a nuoer
and married Jackson's daughter
only a few weeks ago. He claim
ed to be from California and has
no relatives as far as is known
litre Ho Vas a man about ."0
- vpars Girt Df medium size, it is
said that he and his wife had not
gotten along well and h d
J son a omer aimcui-
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