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Reliability aUia Fetur. A 1 mm f CAUGHT Oil THE FLY. "Home Sweet Home". For Our Doagtboys Practical Talks. 20 TON METEOR HITS tr DUNLAP RUMINATIONS. EARTH. . BY" "PLOUGHBOY.? 4 'LAUGH AND THE WOULD LAUGHS WITH YOU." ft " j jjitor: Unless some re.e . thnge turns the tide of hu woaCht,the automobile is going ?bMkropt the nation and wreck 1 fiation.1 am aware that is an ( S prfdietion to venture, but pres- Ji&iou portend fearful things ?litt read with much interest ( it Jlr J. W. Bailey has had to ' thou the automobile and its ' !Li iipon humanity, and agree JTiia in the main, but I think f I BailfT is mistaken when he rt ili that, like with the bicycle, ,y automobile will lose its fasci itis? influence overhuroanity. That !m eW her nles9-some swifter Se'V travel takes its place. nTayiJil machine may, to some cx (iapplant it in the distant fu- ?J j gee it, there is but one rem- for the solution of humanity, 3 flat U to somehow, by a prohib it price, by taxation or by some fid eaiis, put the automobile be rtud the Kach of any but the verv Vealtby class of , people, j un boT contending that there iuythiiigof itself wrong with the jKkine. It might be used to great ifrintage by those able to own one if vti intelligently, and only for witimite purposes, but so many ut use it that way, and there vnnltiplied thousands who own Jind re not able to afford the 0 it were not possible to buy an atonobile for less than three ttauand dollars, their effect on hu- atnity would not be bad, but the Jit they were put in- reach of poor (oKi is go'nf? stand on record as tl darkest day, in the history , of limaaity. I appeal to you men of mature fought throughout the country, how but young men, and boys, nearly powa, do you know who even drew of earning money to luy a ftni or a hornet How many can y think of whose highest .purpose ud chief aspiration in life is not to owa as automobile, and enjoy all ftitgoea with it? Till if a nation whose inhabitants dt tot own the homes they live in? Cta nick a nation endure for long? It ivnt has and never will. ifasdreds of thousands of men all orei this .country are tmt joy Tiding this nry minute, who do not own a roof bij enough to shelter the ma chine they are riding in, and other hndreda of thousands who haven't Bough laid by to give his wife a detent burial were she to die to-light,'.- - Men work all the week, pay off their bills Saturday night not all rfthem'do that buy gasoline with hit they have left, and ide it wt on Sunday. I know a man who, fivo years jo lived in his own home, had a podjob.-a-nd owed no man any thing. He bought an automobile udwent into the business of "rid -lit about." Today he has no job l home, and no automobile. "Fucinating," they say, "fnsci- T BROVVH MOUMTAlh LIGHT. Mansfield Saw TwoOne By a Locomotive The Other Will Be Ex ' plained Later. There are two lights on Brown Mountain, N. C. One of them comes iron locomotives pulling Southern ay trains in the Blue. Ridge. Tw other will be explained 'or dis- by George R. Mansfield, ex Pt sent to the State by the United Mates Geological Surrey, in a do tailed report of his visit to the light - region. ,. ' Mr. ManRfiMH Kw days ago, and- is enthusiastic j m his visit to the many attrae places in North Carolina. He handicapped by torrents of rain, j wmade 21 different observations. went to Morganton March 29 tnrned himself ' over to Robert y-iywell, one of the most interest' mountaineers in the south. Mr. ywell made the visit very pleas J 'or Mr." Mansfield.- He says as pot next to the light "as-pestered and mystified peo P1 that section for years. April r, Mansfield came down the moun- He . has been busy oh other J?1'", but will have bis Brown Matain light report ready for the .""tenia a short time. hile in the State Mr. Mansfield 5at two nights ton Brown Mountain, tim r5ed at Loving's hotel for a w ti bghts he saw were quite le, tnd he is satisfied one of w " not mado bT the train- The "at came and went, being visible tme to time. tW al reP01 On Brown Moun Tul be illustrated by a series Wnte.re8tiB? maps. H. E. C. orTat, ln Charlotte Observer. ; Hard Luck. th day. pathetie figures a local storekeeir who, locked toto, ' t-bave nickel to phone , v tiice. buffalo Express. nating to ron a Ford." Well " 1 have learned in" toy old age that it ia a pretty safe plan for foJka t play shy of things that have a fas cinating influence. . ' - ,? Iwas riding with a man in a Ford once and he tendered me tht steering wheel saing, 'try to run lb here in this straight road, yon an do it, it's fascinating to run a Ford.''' I said, "no sir, thank you I ve beep fascinated once or twice in my life and I don't waat to eet t agan.?' 6 The automobile got here a few hundred years too soon. We were not prepared for It. Our brain pow er needed a few more centuries of development. v ; If a wolf or a bob-eat kills a few lambs and a calf or two, way back in Wyoming, the government be comes alarmed and sends some pet parasite "expert hunter," they call him, equipped and paid at public ex pense, to hunt down the depredating animal and if he succeeds in doinp so. in two or three years, printed sheets are sent all over the countrv telling about what "a Wise Old Wolff has been caught in a steel trap. . The National Council of Safety es timates that there was one person killed every 25 minutes ia auto ae cidents in 1921, and we do not hear a thirfg about the government being a bit concerned about it. It seems, however, that -a few leaders of thought are becoming in terested and keep saying, "there is something going to have to be 3bnje" Whafare you going: to do about it, gentlemen? And when are you going, to begin doing it? Why don't you suggest something? I will mention a few .suggestions, any one of which will at least help some. Allow no man to own an au tomobile who has not first deposited with, the clerk of court a certified bond of $2,000, and hold him or his bondsman strictly responsible for any damage to any person or property done by that particular machine, no matter who is running it at thr time. Or, place patrol officers on every highway and run down and prose cute to the limit every speeder that runs the roads. The speed law is a .dead . letter,, -outside' cities and . Anoth'er suggestion I would make is to allow no machine run on the public highways in North Carolina capable of a' greater speed than fif teen miles an hour. No careful prudent man wants to travel at e greater speed than that, and those who are not prudent and carefu1 have no business running machines on public roads. Fifteen years aero a man owning an automobile couldn't get justice in the courts of North Carolina if the automobile was involved. Today al most the "exart opposite is true. . Alas for public sentiment! And yet it goverps society and rules our actions in most of the affairs of life J. M. JARVIS, Winston-Salem, N. C, B. 1, Box 130. SWEET POTATO SYRUP Fear Expressed That Anti-Saloon League May Shy at Use of Malt in Its Manufacture. North Carolina Congressmen are preparing for the coining of the boll weevil, and will help combat him with substitutes for cotton. Repre sentative Bulwinkle has made a careful study of the sweet potato crop now being developed by the de partment of agriculture and will en courage its manufacture in his dis trict. . II. O. Gore, chemist-in-charge of the fruit and vegetable utilization laboratory, Bureau of chemistry, hnathia tnsavof the new woduet : "In favorable erowine seasons our southern sweet potato crop overgrows . ' . . i . production orten as mucn as w fci cent of its volume of oversize po tatoes. Such stock is now oi very i;ti cnmmcrcml value, as northern markets and also swfet potato can- ners prefer ine stanaara sizes. "A new food use for the sweet potato is highly desirable. The beM ..! ; Bvrnn makini? are obtained by-the use of a small proportion of malt made from barley or wheat. ' The only danger to tne prouui.u" of this sweet potato syrup is the anti-saloon leaeuc, which may shy at the1 use of malt. There is already lust a suspicion in Washington ,tnai 1 i-s- .n.,t).ii nonnle 11 R A too much malt,ot on potatoes, but in other vxays. From the potato, an amber-colorect, slightly turbid, sweet syrup with faint, distinctive navor i y""- t. :.. .nnnirh for mEDV USeS. Samples of this new potato product have been distriDuiea amuug em congressmen. It1 is. very pretty and ha. a very-attractive . taste. Representative jjuiwinie -.;n lioln mil in boll weevil sections, and two or more counties in the ninth aisinci y j 41.0 liftln Mexican pest. H. E. C. Bryant, m Charlotte Ob server. - v 1 Crown Princess Elizabeth, f Greece, is seriously ill. What Out Shears, and Past Pot Captured of. Hoaorous Vela Prom Oor Exchange. AND TO THE ?OINT "Did anyone comment on the way you drive your new cart" "Yes, one man made e brief re mark: 'Twenty dollars and costs.'" : - , . . ... HE HAD SIX Mr. Franklin: "How many senses are there!" Rome: "Six." Mr. Franklin: "How is that! I have only five." Home: tl know it. The other it common sense.' THE SNORER'S RETORT Doetor Smith ia given to snoring. His wife woke him the other 'night and remark e d , complainingly: "John, if you would just try to keep your mouth shut, you would make less, noise.' " " - " "So'd you! " growled "the doctor, as he rolled over and went to sleep again. From JUDGE. -J NONCOMPETITION A young lawyer wrote a prominent practitioner in Dnllan Tpt- oakinrr what chance there was for a man of his stamp in that section. ' "Im a Republican in politics," he wrote, 'and I am aa honest man." The great Texan wrote back, "If you are an honest lawyer you will have no competition here, and as you are a Republican, the game laws will pro tect you." Exchange. NEW MEMORY SYSTEM "How is it you have such a good memory, Norahf "' her mistress in quired, w "Well mum, I'll tell ye. Since me childhood never a lie have" I told, and when ye don't have to be taxin' yer memory to be rememberin ' what ye told this one or that, or how ye explained this or that, shure ye don't overwork it an' it lasts ye, good as now, till ye die. NOT UP ON THE NEWS A traveling manque night found himself obliged to remain in a small town on account of a washout on the railroad, caused by the heavy rain, wtticn was still coming down In tor rents. The traveling man turned to the waitress with: "This certainly looks like the flood." "The whatt" , "The flood. You've read about the flood, and the Ark landing on Mount Ararat, Burelyt" "Bay, mister," she returned, "I ain't seen a paper for three days!" LIBERAL WITH TIME. An African was on trial in a South ern court for an offense against thr dignity of the commonwealth. The jury filed in. His Honor asked for the verdict. We find the defen dant guilty," the foreman replied and fix his punishment at thirty-five years in the penitentiary." You could hear a pin drop as the prisoner was asked: "Have you anything to say!" And as he rose to his feet: "Yo' honor, I has only dis much to say. You white Gemmeens sure is mighty liberal wif someone else's time." PAT'S PUN. 1 A clergyman who was not averse to an occasional dram employed- an Irishman to clear out his cellar. The Irishman began his work, and brought forth a lot of empty whis key bottles. Before Pat loaded each bottle on to a barrow, he held it up and looked through it. The preacher saw him and said; "They are all dead ones, Pat." "They are soor," said Pat; "but there i wan thing in their favor." "What is that!" inquired the clerevman. "Well, sorr," replied Pat, "they all had the' minister with them when they were dying." A GE3ETLEMAN TEST At Southern railway stations it is the custom of darkies to sell chicken patties and other delicacies to pas sengers. A passenger who had en joyed a patty and was leaning eut of the window to buy another, asked of the dusky salesman: "Where do you get your cuick ent" The darkev rolled his eyes. . " You- 11 f'om de No'th, ain't you, saht" he queried. ' Yes, "was the reply. "But why do you ask that!" - "Case, par. No gem 'I'm !n f'om de South eber asks a nigger whar he gits his chicken." ANOTHER SMART YOUNGSTER Mr. and Mrs. Jones had been in vited to a friend's home for tea, and the time had arrived lor preparing for the visit. "Come along, dearie," sTCid Mrs Jones to her three-year-old son, " and have your face washed." "Don 't want to be washed," came the reply. 1 - "But," said the mother, you don't want to be a dirty little boy, do you! I want my little boy to have a nice Clean face for the ladies to kiss." Upon this persuasion he gave . way and was washed. A few minutes later he stood watching his father washing. "Ha, ha, daddy!" he cried. "I imn why vou are washing! Pitts burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.- 4 , i ? : i' 'V . I i y - - V 'fcii..1x:. 1 American troops step lively on the long miles of German roads as they leave Coblenz on their way back to the land of liberty. Soon they will be back with tbeir folks who. maybe, won't be glad to see them. ' WOfilAN RUNNING FOR Always "Too Busy to Think About Getting , Married." "I've always been too busy to think about getting married, and I am certainly too much occupied to give a thought now, for I am going to be the first woman governor of South Dakota and the first woman governor in the United States.'! This is the way Alice- Loraine Daily, pretty school teacher and Non-Partisan league candidate for governor, looks on marriage and gives a fair insight into her attitude toward mem She does not call them "the poor dears," but always as "my good friends," and she points with pride to the fact that she was unanimously nominated in convention in which there were hun dreds of men and only four women "What do I think of woman suf frage t Well, I hardly- know. Yotr see I am not a suffrage candidate. Suffrage, did not enter into it. "But just the same, man might as well realize that he is going to have to share his political honors with women. The average business man know-s little or nothing about poli tics, except in bo far as his busines is concerned. He is looking after every bit of legislation that has to do with human welfare, mother hood, the children and the guard ianship of those who now get so lit tle consideration at the hands of the government. "Woman must take her politics with common sense. She must rea lize that she can't be elected to of' fice just because of her good look or her social standing. She must have brains. She must be the supe rjor of her male opponent. She must convince, tone must understand antt play the game and play it fair." Miss Daily was asked if she was ever bothered by hecklers during campaigns. She snapped "her. jaws squarely and her gray eyes looked a? cool as steel. "Oh, yes. Very often, but I do not jolly them back, because I do not think that frets you anvwhere I just fight them back and I know how to fight. "I moved into South Dakota just seven years ago, as a school teacher. When I saw tho conditions I resolv ed then I would chance them if no one else would. I rtfcanie a progres sive and I would rather be called that than a suffragist. I jumped into the fight with both feet and I have been in it since. ' Two years ago I was the candidate of the Ntm-Partisan league for supervisor of State Edu cation. I lost that, but I was not discouraged and this yeat my nomi nation was unanimous. , The people ksow that they are not getting a so'iare doal from the present admin- lalTfc.tlm and thev Relieve thev mini only gt one through the Non-Par- tisan league." (Let iis hope that this desire of women for political honors and of fice, will not become too general. In the professional and business world already women are taking a promi nent part and in many other ways their time, talent and interest being taken away from the homef which, after all, is - woman's realm and where alone, she can reign as queen. And a woman, naturally inclines that way, unless her mind becomes de stracted by business and profession al pursuits, and the home life and duties become secondary. Already in this day and time many women marry and continue in business, which show the trend, and no home can be a perfect home to husband and children, unless the wife ant1 mother remains in it to guide and shape its destiny. What is home without a motherf, who is away en gaging in political or professional pursuits. A boarding house is even preferable to such a home.) Local Editor. v GOVERNOR m 1 1 1 :" -: v" out T . 1 V 1 DER AFTER 20 YEARS. A Wilkesboro. N. C. disnatch savs: Keeping a secret for twenty-nine years tne alleged occurrence of a gruesome murder, John Shepherd, of annoy , postolhce, Wilkes countv, re cently informed officers that Vass Wingler, who resides in his commu nity, killed his wife with a mat tockj and Wincler was arrested at hra breakfast table by Deputy Sher iff Charlie Dancy, of Union town Ship, and was placed in jail in W llkesboro. f A few months ago John Shepherd professed religion at a revival held in the Vannoy section, and following hi conversion he told of going to Wingler 's home late one afternoon, and upon his arrival finding - Mrs Wingler in the room dead in a pool of blood. ' He states that he was attracted to the Wingler home by the screams of "Wingler 's mother, -ho is now dead. Wingler told him that his wife had fallen from the loft of her home and had received fetal -in juries. Shepherd further states that Wingler threatened to kill him if he ever told of the oc eurrence. This together with the fact that he has never been asked to tell anything about the alleged murder, has been the reason he has not given evidence to the officers before. For sometime Wingler had been suspicioned as the perpetrator of the crime. The fact that one month after the death of his wife he was married ajrain and that since Shep herd has turned him up to the of ficers, he has been dodging, makes some believe that he is guilty. On the other haml Wingler declares that ho is not guilty of the alleged crime, that his wife was accidentally killed. The evidence in the case is circumstantial but is said to be strong. The date of the preliminary hearing has not been set, but when the case is tried it will attract un usual attention. The outcome of the majter is uncertain. Mrs. Vass Wingler, who, it is al leged, her husband murdered, was a sister of Jesse Miller of Wilkes boro, and A. R. Miller, of Vannoy postoffice. Wingler was denied bail and is now in jail. Public Welfare Progress. During tho past eleven months about 8,000 children have been handled by the juvenile courts in this state. This estimate is made from reports sent in by superinten dents of public welfare in fifty-five counties where 4,613 children have been handled. The disposition of the cases that came before the court was as follows: 482 dismissed; 1,241 returned home on probation; 450 placed in temporary homes; 355 sent to institutions; 38 adopted; 60 dis posed of otherwise. In i1919 a state wide Juvenile Court law was passed establishing a juvepilo eourt in every county n the state with the clerk of the court as judge. Dependent, neglected and delinquent children up to sixteen years of age come under the super vision of the judge of the juvenile court and the superintendent of pub lic welfare. Careful and intelligent consideration of each case is nec essary if the welfare of the child is to be safeguarded. Most of the clerks of the court are realizing their responsibility and are doing excellent work. Some of them have gone to other states to study the work of well established courts in order to do their own, work better Approval of such service as thir should be expressed by the voter in the June primaries and county con ventions for the nomination of such officers. Candidates for this office should be considered not only on their qualification to do the clerical work of the county court, but on their personality, character and ability to handle children. Many interesting stories could be told of the unselfish service the Judges of the Juvenile Court have given. Mebane joins the bond procession with a $75,000 issue for school pur CHARGED WITH IR Shock Felt for 60 Miles- Brilliant Blumination and Trees Set on Fire. - - . '.' Norfolk, May 12. The shock -of a 20-ton meteor whicht crashed to the ground in an isolated spot in Notto way county, 12 miles southwest of Blackstone, late last night, was felt for' a radius of 50 miles while the brilliant glare of the incandescent body ' illumined " the heavens over Southern Virginia and sections of .Worth Carolina. Tho trail of light as the meteor fell in a .slow curve from the zenith at an angle of about 45 degrees, was visible in this city, liicnmona ana at points along the James river, creating general ex citement and even consternation on the part of negroes. The meteor, composed of a metallic substance, crashed into' a grove of oak -trees with an explosive roar, some distance from any house, mak ing a hole with an area of 500 square feet and burying several trees with it. Flames which immediately shot up were visible for many miles, while trees caught fire. A party of scientists and news paper men immediately left Rich mond and this city for the scene, which is 120 miles west of Norfolk, but the results of their investigation are not known yet. The shock of the fall was felt at Lawrenceville, Petersburg, Chase City and other points. At Law renceville, 100 miles west of here; windows were rattled and houses shaken, while at Chase City similar effects were noted. Automobilists on the roadways in Mecklenburg county said it seemed as though their cars had caught on fire, o great was the illumination. In Norfolk the meteor appeared to be about half the diameter of the full moon and much like a Street arc light. Its tail, of orange brilliance, with a sharp blue flame fading out at the extreme end, apparently was about ten or twelve times as long and fully as broad as the body. In Richmond a streak of light was noticed before the ball of fire was seen swirling through spaco to be followed by the reverberations of an explosion. The entire southeastern skies were illuminated as if by a flash of ' lightning- and a burst of flame. ' . Warned to Leave State. the Dr. E.C. Lindeman, professor of social economics at the North Caro lina College for Women at Greens boro, has resigned, according to his answer to a query made by a local newspaper man, effective at the end of the present academic year, Sep tember 1. Questioned further, he stated that he had been warned to leave the city several weeks ago. He said that he supposed the warning came from the local Ku Klux Klan. Several weeks ago it was rumored here that a negro woman, cook for the Lindeman family, was the Tion oree at a party given at the Linde man home. It was denied from the Lindeman home that such was the case? it being stated that the cook had a birthday and invited several of her women friends to a part' but that the party was not given in the Lindeman home proper, but in the basement and that only negroes at tended. Because of the stout denial of the rumor the affair never found its way into the newspapers in Greensboro, or elsewhere, and it was thought the matter was ended, but in a few days, came other rumors to the effect tnat some persons hail addressed criti cisms to Dr. Lindeman of certain al leged acts and that the college had been asked to discharge him. Dr. Lindeman stated the "warn ing" is not the chief reason for hil severing his connection with the college, although he said that it is one factor entering into the decis ion to leave. He came to Greensboro several years ago from . Illinois. He hold? several degrees, is the author of sev eral books on socialogical subjetsand has traveled extensively in Europe, studying at the centers of learning there, including Vienna. He is Scan dinavian in origin. He is about thirty years old and married. Country Heeds Honest Men. As an Exchange says, the time has. come when this country needs good, sober, honest, reliable men men whom the thoughts of office will not kill; men who have opinions of their own, and men who cannot be driven or co-erced into doing what a few tenth-rate would-be bosses want them to do. Men who can say: "Get thee behind me Satan." Hickory Times-Mercury. Canada and the Soldiers. Canada has settled 27,000 Cana dian ex-sOldien on farm land and has lent $85,000,000 to these men. The full purchase price of the land and up to $3,000 for buildings, equip ment and stock has been advanced to eack. Only seven per cent of the men thus aided have abandoned their property and last year's crops from soldier lands were valued at $15, 000,000. Pearbora Independent, (BY S. S. jDUNLAP.) Local Editor: We are in receipt of a personal letter from the Hon. E. H. Morris, of Mocksville, N. C?., criticising the stand we took in an article , in the Union Republican of May 4th, regarding the higher Or lower property valuations, or the higher or lower rates of assessments having no effect on the State 's bur den of taxation so long as the large burdensome sum is made necessary by too many and too high salaried officials on the State's payrolL Brother Morris takes the farmers' side of the question arid shows very clearly that the farmers' tax -has been greatly increased because of the higher valuation placed on his farm, while the owner of stocks, bonds and money has his 'tax reducied because of the lower rate he gets on the fixed value of his holdings. That is, he shows us that one thou sand dollars ' worth of stocks is still one thousand dollars, and one thou sand dollars' worth of bonds or cash is still one thousand, while the far mers' one thousand dollar home has been made to become a two, three, or probably a five thousand dollar home. Of course, Brother Morrisj i absolutely correct on this point, and we shall not attempt to take issue with him, but what we were at tempting to show in our argumient of May 4th was that shifting rates or changing valuations had no ef fect on the tax payers of the State AS A WHOLE, so long as the sum total to be collected was the same; That the farmer is paying more than his proportional part of ;the is'um is too well known to need to be Largued. He has always done this, and from present indications will -continue to do it for some timoj to come. In fact there' is not any where to get tax or anvthing else EXCEPT OUT OF PRODUCTION, and since the farmer is the only pro ducer of the so-called raw materials of wealth, he must, so long as jour present system of taxation exist. furnish the materials out of which himself and all others pay taxes. Our system is one of "shunting" to the other fellow, and the farmer being at the end of the chain, must necessarily shoulder the whole j pro cess, when it gets to him, and (foot the bill for the item of taxes, added by each handler in the line ofj dis tribution all the way through, and then dig up his own tax out of whatever he has left. j I am somewhat puzzled over the situation just now, anyway. I do' not see how we are going to lbcate our trouble on this tax probleni, be cause we seem to be able to invent so many theories, and get up so Jnauy complicated suggestions about it. We seem to ho wholly un;bl,e to take the simple statement of fact, THAT HIGH TAKES IS 'JUST HIGH TAXES. It means that the State is expecting too great sum of the total of production fot its running expenses, it we couia snirt the entire burden from farmer to business man it would not alter this fact. If we do shift the entirje bur den from business man to farifier, it does not alter it. As we intiniated above, our system is built oiji the iplan to admit and in fact encourages shifting, and the only reason w:hy we have tolerated burdensome tajxes as long, as we have is because vfe are Hiving in hope of finding a why to make the OTHER FELLOW pay. What we will eventually have; to do is to see the injustice of the (whole procedure and adopt a system of just taxntion, that will compel each citizen to pay his rightful shfirc, no more, and no less. When we do this, and realize that each will carry his own burden, based on the tenefits he enjoys from society, and this burden being un- shuntable, by any, then we . will Prominent Men Are In Trouble. .Raleigh, May 10. Ten prominent and well known citizens of Wendell including a former deputy under Sheriff Harrison, will face trial in Superior court next week on a charge of gambling. The case numbers one of the most interesting of the 73 now on the docket for disposition. (This is an item of news not often seen. It is not uncommon to! see the names of men not so "high up," and negroes, arrested for gambling or playing "craps," while thi's privi leged class gamble, bet on baseball, cotton futures, &c, in about every community, as the result of wjhich the goddess of justice has occasion to shut her eyes.) Local Editor. Death. World's champion sleep pr, .Jim Esanger, is reported dying Smith, Ark. He has been steadily since the summer at Fort sleeping of 1914, with the exception of one awakening in July, 1921. Eslinger is one of the world 's greatest mysteries. Spirj itualist? seeking to unveil the mysteries of death, might start with jits twin brother and equally great jraystery, sleep. 'The only difference bet wleen sleep and death is a beating of the heart. What makes it beat T Thjat's the mvstprv of lifp " i - figure on expenditures and make our garment according to the cloth, in stead of making the garment we want regardless1 of the cloth, and calling on the people for morecleth, when w-e find there is not enough to make what we had started. . I was in a mass-meeting of citizens ' the other day. They wete very in dignant in some expressions, and their attitude toward the present . situation is anything but hopefuL The aver&ge man, however, does not seem to have a very clear under standing of what's the matter, or of how to get to it. You can see from his attitude that he is thoroughly dis- , gusted. He knows tnat his home has been mortgaged to the money lenders, bond buyers, and he is sore and scared. He believes his prop erty will bo taken from his children, if not . from himself, when these money-lenders de;and settlement, and "that his offspring will be re duced to surfdom. There is ample grounds for his belief, but whea he comes face to face with the pro posal to point out tho man, or men, responsible, he can't do it. The leaders, who are in sympathy with what is going on, say the trou ble is not here. The county officials' are all high toned christian gentle men, there can be no charge of mal fiasance against them, all of which i an absolute fact, at least, so far as Union county is concerned. But, Governor Morrison said only a few weeks ago, the trouble is not with the State administration, we can't do anything for you at Raleigh. You must demand relief at home. Go to your county administration and talk the matter over with your county commissioners. They are the men who handle your county's finances. Now if there can be no relief gotten through the State administration, and if our county officials are all pure and blameless, and there is no evidence of graft or corruption either there or here, what ' the matter? Where is tho trouble? and how arc we going to get to it? I predict that wo will discover some of these times, that our old way of doing things has become ob solete. It seems we have used up all the cash and are rapidly using iin all iha rrttdit.. When we have finished using all the credit, what will we do nextt The cashier of a bnnk in Union county told me. some time ago that Governor Morrison said we would be so rich" by the time the bonds we were now issuing became due, that we would not. have to pay 'em. We could just issue inore on the increas ed wealth of thf State, and they would be in such demand that nc cash . would equal them,, and non would be called for. That is certainly a new way t get rich. If giving mortgages on a1! we possess, and paying interest to the mortgage holder makes State rich, then all the farmers in the cot ton belt ought to be millionaires. Is there any hope for a people who are. being governed by men of the above mentioned 'caliber? -Will we turn away from this fool ishness, -and try to reconstruct eur- selves on sound, sensible principles of truth and justice? I do not believe we are going to. At least, until we have made com plete shipwrecks. Then we will have to start on the bottom, at tho yerj- lowest point of the bottom, too, and build all over again the things we might have had long ago, if we had only used discretion ami judg ment. Has anything constructive ever been handed down from the top? If so, when, and where, and-., by whom? S. S. DUNLAP, Waxhaw, N. C. Nonagenarian's Longevity Advice. Dr. Stephen Smith, 1)8 years old and still going strong, give some rules for longevity. "Work and keep out of the way of the easy chair," is his main recipe. Others are: "Don't eat too much meat. Drink lots of milk; milk never dis agreed with anybody unless they drank too little. If milk doesn't agree w ith you, drink some . more. Got plenty of sleep. .Since I was 85 I've slept 10 hours a night, with a 10 or lij-minute nap after laeals, preferably out of doors." Dr. Smith is a well-kaown New York physician. He was of frail constitution up to the time he was 60. Some doctors claim too much milk upsets the liver but to this Dr. Smith says "bosh." He comes of a long lived family. His sister attain ed her 100th birthday. Some of his rules are contrary to similar ideas propounded by Thomas Edison, vet eran inve'ntor. The latter contends that too much sleep is harmful. We must remember the fact that "what's one man's meat is another man's poison;" There is no possi ble regimen or set of rules that wMJ apjdy alike to all individuals. Our Little Dog Says "Time was when little girls put on long skirts to play w-omen; now women, put on short skirts and play girls." Yadkin Ripple,
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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May 18, 1922, edition 1
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