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mm .-. THIS PAPER ISSUED 'TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Volume XV Lenoir, N. C, Friday, May 30, 1913 No 59 NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. . Three stores have been brok en into and the safes blown op en by robbers within the last few days in Yadkin county. Forrest Lee, a young man of New Bern was thrown from a motorcycle Monday afternoon, while speeding at the rate of 60 miles per hour and instantly killed. Robert Duncan, an alleged de serter from the army, was cap tured in Hickory Monday by the chief of police, and returned to the proper authorities in Atlan ta, Ga. Three cases of smallpox have developed among the Universi ty students at Chapel Hill. A mong the number having con tracted the disease is James Sto ry of Blowing Rock. Charlie Moore, of Fayetteville, after pleading guilty to larceny in the Superior Court, walked quietly down stairs and'disap peared, during the confusion in cident to the adjournment oi the court at noon. Officers raided a still near Carthage Monday and captured John Cheek, who was operating it. Cheek opened tire on the men with a Winchester rifle and refused to run or surrender. He was shot through the thigh and forced to surrender. Fines aggregating :jWl,o00 were imposed Tuesday in the United States District Court by Judge John R. Haze of Buffalo, New York in the cases of 11 in dividuals and six corporations in the Government's action a gainst the "coaster brake trust. The town of Honea Path, S. C. was visited by a severe cy clone on Tuesday afternoon, and much damage was done. A mong the buildings wrecked were the Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches, the school building and several stores. As a result of a demand to be sold a package of cigarettes on Sunday, W. B. Stevens, com missary clerk of the Norfolk Southern railway, engaged in a quarrel with G. S. Smith, chief of the construction force of the same road, and the latter was fatally wounded by a pistol shot. W. M. Arnheim and Mrs. Ed na Morris were killed and Mrs. Arnheim injured in an automo bile accident near Tarboro Sun day afternbon. Mr. Arnheim was driving the machine, and it is supposed that he intended to apply the brakes, when his foot struck the accelerator, caus ing the car to plunge forward at a terrtffic speed and it was over turned in a ditch filled with wa ter. Bondt Ara Voted. (Daily News.) Wilmington, May 27. New Hanover county today by a small majority voted for $175, 000 of bonds for schools and $100,000 of bonds for good roads. Few votes, were actually cast against the measure, but the ad vocates had to secure a majority of the registered vote which they did the majority for schools being somewhat larger than for roads. The money will be used in build ing new school houses and to extend the good roads By stem. This Is the largest amount ever voted for school purposes In any county in the state. BROKE UP MEETING. (The Observer.) Raeford, May 26. Some of the big hunters up in the Pied mont section of the State would have been glad had they been down in Hoke County late yes terday evening and early this morning. A big black bear was nosing around Antioch Church yesterday morning and being seen by some of the congrega tion fled away. Some of the men anxious for a chase gath ered up their guns, put dogs on its trail ai d ran it all night. The crowd increased to about a hundred or more and tne chase began. Running through woods, cot ton and corn fields, across gul lies, branches, creeks and the worst of swamps seemed to be easy for that bear. Finally the crowd got so numerous the bear concluded the ground was no pluce for it and hid up in a large oak ree near the farm of Mr. VV. T. Covington, who was a- mong the number of men chas ing it. Mr. Lonnie Currie was the first one to get close enough to the tree to shoot it and uk;i the second shot it fell to the ground, jumping up and running olT. Several shots were tired which killed the big bear, which was taken to Antioch this morn ing by J. A. Hodgin and others. Show Tent It Blown Down: One Man killed. U)aily News.) Henderson, May 27. Just as Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East combin ed shows were opening for the afternoon performance here to day a terifhc wind storm, accom panied by an almost torrential downpour of rain, broke upon the city and the show grounds. A portion of the large tent was blown down upon the assembled spectators. Robert Davis, a well known farmer of the county was struck by one of the falling poles of the big tent and so bad ly injured that he died in the local hospital an hour or so lat er. A lady was seriously injured and several others were hurt. A general panic ensued and people fled in every direction in the heaviest downpour of rain that has been seen here in a long time. Mr. John M. Connelly Dead. Many readers of The News will learn with regret that Mr. John M. Connelly died at Dr. Long's Sanatorium inStatesville last Tuesday morning. He had been a sufferer from Brights disease and other complications for some time and his death was not a surprise. He was the eld est son of the late James B. Connelly of States ville and has numerous relatives in this coun ty. He was for a number of years a Pullman conductor on the railroads of the south and Utterly held a responsible posi tion with the Drummond Tobac co Company in Dallas Texas, where he resided when his health became impaired. He was about 40 years old, never married and is survived by his mother, one brother and two sisters. A lot of people who pray would be surprised if their prayers were answered. The right hand will know what the left doeth so long as they belong to the same indi vidual. STANDARDS The True and The False J. F. Deal in Sermon Delivered to Graduating Class of Lenoir Graded School. (Continued from last issue.) But this Machiavellian formu la affects more than our indus trial life today. It is, to an a larming degree, the working for mula of our political parties. It has reduced at least one great sport to a degredation which is a national scandal. It crops out in every art and profession, It has invaded the field whose teachings are most fundamental ly antagonistic to it - the field of the Christian religion. What are the scandals of our political life but the gross application of the great Italian's We buy votes that may succeed. It is is corrupt. But tin the party which wc is a higher law. to . must sacrifice our . common creed of morals. We stuff ballot boxes, run in repeat-1 ers, juggle the returns, all for ; the glory of the party. We take j the funds of corporations whose only object we know to be to ' provide a future favor and pro-! tection for themselves, we do it , though in many places it is con trary to law, and everywhere moth enterprises of ours, extend contrary to sound morals. We j ing around the earth, till us with tolerate, even support, in their exultant pride. We are ana aspirations, unspeakable poli jehieving people, we say. We ticians like Addicks of Delaware. : recall, too, that these material Depew of New York. Quay of Pennsylvania. The good of the party requires it. If by any chance scandals occur, bribery is too flagrant, the alliance be tween the Campaign Committee and the corporations too obvi ous, the activities of the politi cians too pernicious, we do our best not to force out the truth that we mayjeorrect the wrongs; we cover them with plausible explanations, condone them with Scriptural quotations on the sin of judging our fellow man as if the whole basis of government by the people was not a judging of him protect them by the pious challenge, "let him who is without sin cast the first stone," silence all critics by a bluster of righteous indignation as to the impossibil ity of people whose aims and words are so noble doing these vile things. It is the Machia vellian game of affirming that you are virtuous, whatever your practices. It is a great game, and well played, it works a long time. But it is impossible in a na tion where business and politics are the two absorbing interests that the dominating creed of those interests should not influ ence all departments of life. It is inevitable that our life, art and literature should not es cape the Machiavellian hand which rules us. We see it in the overweening respect we have for the "best sellers" among books, the big prices of the ar tists. Quantity and price, not the integrity, sincerety, fresh ness of the product, are the un questionable, powerful motives in artistic life today. Most deplorable of all is the influence these doctrines have on the Church. In a poem pub lished not long ago in a leading religious journal this line is found, "The Union right or wrong, still this will be my song." It is nothing but a new version of the Middle Age the ory that for the glory of a coun try a man should be willing to sell his soul. And could any thing be more brutally Machia- OF SUCCESS Ably Delineated by Rev. vellian than the brought to bear on captain of industry arguments one great by those who were trying to induce him to contribute to foreign mis sions, that quite apart from the persons converted, the mere commercial result of missionary effort to our land is worth a thousand fold every year of what is spent on missions! It is this threatening satura tion of all eur activeties with commercial Machiavellianism which is the most alarming phase of American life today. principles? Unless it is checked it means a our party general demoralization of the illegal. It sense of fair play, a general low success of eringof our intellectual honesty. Our indifference to it up to this loint has, perhaps, been natural enough. The nation, as a whole has been dazzled by its materi al success. There is us with blood in his no one oi veins, with love of games and great tights in his heart, that is not stirred by the sight of growth, of ex pansion, of the piling up of wealth and over. These mam- successes mean other things. They mean endowments for our colleges, buildings and equip ment for our hospitals, fresh funds for our missions, parks in our cities, pictures in our muse ums. It is, perhaps, natural that in our pride at the magnificence of our results we should overlook the integrity of the means by which they are achieved, should fail to ask ourselves whether clear thinking, honest living, aspiring ideals, unselfish devo tion to unselfish ends were grow ing as fast as endowments and buildings. It is certainly easy enough for .any one to persuade himself, for a time at least, that material growth is its own just itication, particularly when that success contributes to one's pet enterprises. At ' all events, warnings against corruption in herent in our immortal and ille gal business practices have been received by the majority of those to whom our public mor als are entrusted with silence or apology. This is no advocate of hasty condemnation. To ac cuse without proof is a crime, but to excuse when you have proof is likewise a crime. Why was Machiavelli repudiated by Itally as soon as The Prince was published? Why has his name remained in all nations to this day an adjective of re proach? Because he set forth uncondemned a system which demands that men sell their souls for worldly glory. And never in any age, blind and hard and temporizing as men may have been, have they been willing to admit aloud that pays to buy wealth or power or glory at the cost of the soul And thus we see that this hard-headed, business, material success worshipping age is giv ing an answer to the question of the Saviour, that there is no profit: that it does not pay to purchase success at the expense of the soul. In the searching of souls' that is being caused by the a wakening to a realization of the conditions set forth above, let us not forget to go to the root of the matter, and discover the causes that have led to this low moral and ethical standard. When we examine some of the characteristics of our people, es pecially during the past gener ation and at present, are we not constrained to confess that one of the most prominent, yes, the predominant one, is the intense desire for riches, a desire which our Lord no doubt had in mind when He spoke the words of the text':' "The love of money, is in deed, a root of all kinds of ev il," and this love explains many of the evils which afflict our country. Children already hear the praises of money, and are taught that money means almost everything. To get money is the chief concern, for if you have money, plenty of it, every door is open, friends, enjoyment, promotion, influence, and still greater success and distinction are within reach. There is an eager pursuit of wealth, a greedy race for riches, and contentment is almost out of the question, for the desire grows, and men strive for still greater riches. This shows itself particularly in the largest centers of popu lation and activity, which are constantly attracting ambitious i nu enterprising young men from the smaller communities, who believe that they stand as good a chance as others to make a fortune, where so many have been made. In this race and struggle, in this tierce comix? tition. men are very mucli in danger of "falling into a temp tacion and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition." How many, reach ing after riches, "have been led astray from the fajth, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows?" Have we not heard of startling ex amples within these recent years? An article in The Outlook not ong ago, entitled l he fc.tnics of Money," is very apropos lere. "It was remarked by Mr. Gladstone that a man's men tal and moral character is large ly revealed by the way he deals with money. Most people think of money simply as a means of trettinir themselves served with whatever they desire. Every body knows that he cannot, ex cept by robbery, get the covet ed money -order for service, without some giving of service, more or less, real or ticttious But to care more for getting the money than for giving its full equivalent in service is to have started on the down grade to robbery in a predatory state of mind. That money when not a gift of affection is held by no moral right, except as earned bv a proportionate amount of service, is an elementary mora truth. Lowell remarked that there is dynamite enough in the New Testament to shatter our social system, if not carefully handled. Jesus' saying, The Son of Man came not to be serv ed but to serve," is true of ev ery son of man. 'He that is creat among you shall be your servant" is a fundamental law of the republic of God. Essen tial to social stability as, well as to personal integrity is an ethi cal valuation of money as the measure of service in equal re ciprocity between man and man "All reputable economists a gree that the present problem in their science is a more equitajble distribution of wealth. In plain words, our economic system is (Continued on 2nd page.) LOOSE SMUT IN WHEAT. An Instructive and Interesting Article by Mr. G. M. Goforth. As this is the time loose smut or black heads in wheat are no ticed, I desirej to write a few lines about it, as but few farm ers know much about it, except they see the black beads as wheat is heading. Loose smut as well as all oth er smut is preventable, and should not be raised. I have been observing smut bends closely as I ride over tne coun ty. Some fields have as high as "j per cent and others have comparatively none. An aver age for the county would prob ably be about 1 percent. Loose smut, unlike the covered smut, does not injure the ram except the total loss of the stalks that have "the black heaus. The loose smut is blown by the wind into the heads of tne wheat when the bloom is on, and gets into the grain of the good wueat, and if sown will produce more black heads next year. While there are several ways to prevent stinking or covered smut, there are only one or two known to prevent loose smut, and that is by the modified hot water treatment, boak the seed wheat in cold water lor five hours, then remove imme diately, drain and pub in hot water at a temperature of 1l9 degrees for ten minutes. If less than 124 degrees it will not kill the smut; if the water is 160 de grees the time should be only tive minutes. Temperature must not get over 131 degrees or the seed will be injured. Ti.e wheat should be put in a basket and first dipped in a tuo ol wa ter at 120 degrees, and then dip ped in a tub at 129 degrees, as near as possible; if nol as nigh as 129 degrees, let it stay ia onger than ten minutes. As this is a very particular job, it is advised thayou only treat e nough for a seed paicii. Tne above will also kill slinking smut. There is a good opportunity for some farmer to r.nse seed wheat for sale, and have bis seed perfectly clean, clear of all kinds of smut. I will write lat er on corn smut and the stink ing smut of wheat and oats. G. M. GOFOKTH. P. S. Since writing the a- bove I have studied out a rem edy for black head in wheat. If the loose smut blows off of the black heads and gets in the good heads at the time of bloom- ng only, it will be destroyed if the black heads are cut off and burned or burned as soon as they come ,out. This would be very easy done for a seed patch. This is my own remedy and is original with me. G. M. G. Many readers of the News will be pained to learn of the death of John Sterling Moody, son of the Rev. J. S. Moody, who was at one time rector of St. James parish Lenoir. The young man was a victim of tu berculosis and died at the home of his parents in Fayetteville on the 20th. Marie I wonder how old you are? Julia I just told you my age. Marie Yes; that's what set me to wondering. Cleveland Leader. Not until some men are broke do they prove themselves a bud egg.
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