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4ffi ' , . If. if jSCRIPTION PRICE pB TEAR $1.60 CASH IN ADVANCE. ; pUECnACEB. The North Sute, Deo. 25, R92 .! The Caucasians, May 22, 1913 (. Combined Circulation 15)00 , . vol51 A . t-1 o ... I THE AMERICAN pbf ASQClAnON 1 WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1922. AH the Jffsws TW'i FrhH" "MO 91 ' RUbOUr ' the yia VMtv. xvj txe z. "AyS Y " fry j w n. n - DUNLAP RUMINATIONS. C '(jbY&.&pUNLAP.).; J Editor:--The- mission of a u I see it, is to make pub- jn which the public is, or he. interested,' ' . ' - Z newspaper doin this 'W1-d If the people would pay he S these things and . sharply K7ixn the service they deserve, ri-j Uut are serving special m trying to keep the people sctual facts concerning the dirf events; and would give their Kpport the publications that -ZrTfor honesty and economy in '"Xinistnlion of governmental af Vfiwithe national to the township 1 i leave out 01 consid" $ the time serving, optimistic. ;ta that are afraid to give pub- Ctreu" ."- . . .1 m.,A .. f h. fattrr tn A verw fhfle, that would lessen the weight potiooa that is retarding the prog Sgeneration. is .due to jwkfi, y das of papers that are wholly atd r the advertising .group of our jgar, and who seem to think their 1 Nation is altogether wrapped the advertiser, would soon wake , l their subscription list, should js). top to a point where advertis jaiM conclude that they could not i enough people through them to j, the fate the editor was asking, jilting more and more to be ob W the general newspaper read jt certain editors are using a , aorship of general news "mat- . QUI WI "-- ad that were it not for the fact that z still a few editors left who are 3 is make their papers give the -no that their existence demands that aiouM give, a great many items of .nttat is Ot viiai unporunce 10 inc nl public would never get its head at titer. ' -'- ."v"-' ft ?ere talking with a certain editor t ia (Union) county some days ago, .Jit a speaking of this very situation, mti himself after this manner 1 think it is the duty of the editor of ; jpupiper to tell folks what is going :.I i not propose to dictate to them, -KoiCy, what to ,do about it, .but if ? it sot know what is being carried a low can they do anything? -0 the other, hand, if they are in raits to the fact, and are pleas it.44ie lituation, they can lend their jport ud give speed to any move ,? lie leaders are boosting; and if 7 ire not pltsed,they thus-have; an ,ortur,ity to enter an objection, and J t halt v . . -This biter proviso seems to be exact ! the grountfa for objection of certain nests to too much newspaper pub .ij. They are afraid to let the people ai what they are putting over on a, beause the probability is they aid nSt stand for it, and their pur sawould thus be thwarted Sim the movement started among the !ttr tome months ago to call meetings iixm matters relating to the op nin tax burden, and to enquire into possibihty of devising a means of 4 (here has arisen among our news- "-J8 fraternity a very great enthusiasm e safety of certain pap-suckers, tkey are askinc the auestion: "Who would claim that so and so is tim too much salary for the job he question is altogether out of 4 fact that is not to be consider' m 4 he feast, for who would think Organization Catching. Ai erganization called the', Shift-' ' toi broken out among the fjhar t school children and seems to "' spread like the measles or the Tke Charlotte papers are de Wwg columns to , the new order. f of the iolks sayit Is innocent Maein which the ehildren are "pged; others take it seriously and awn danger in it. It is a secret "WW ind three of the principal fMa read! "To eet all you canr Irt something for nothing; ,to do -s before they do you.y' Dan nms idea for children to imbibe, if intended only for innocent " But the children may be ex fw to imitate their elders and matterof organizations ,.oi r" sort sndjinother the grown-ups "" tfme the limit and over; and was of them have so long practiced "get all you can," get it for - . " J VMU Vb UV Vhvi nrat, that they are experts in , 6ttesville Landmark. , i-t we are about organized t and "Plated to , death, jit would eem si somnch so that eten the chU r are catching' the spirit of the ai Childrea learn much by iml ,4,,a. Are wej setting them a good ,smpl la every re8pect t The "IU large ( every fellow for "elf and the devil take the hind- , this principal plank in u Shif tew" '"original or from "y see all around them in , or hfe! This is something think about, talk about and about.) Local Editor. Pdren Smoked 250 Years Ago. V 1 tWft knn..J Jt ma -t.., ; " -uuurca ana nrrv rears choor-.n n. EnKland wet sent to ft. p,P" in thelr aatchels, f fMter called a halt .mmei whue they all amok was getting too much, even if his saujr waa ten umes more than it now is? -t :- : ; .... v - In .tfie first Llace. there k inn man i km twaiiiuna, ana wnep jt is shown by tmen .like- E. H.. Morris, and numer ous others that it takes the earnings of twelve farmers to pay one tax collector,' the question reverses itself, and .takes una lorm. .Are the people able to stand this strain? Not, if you please. Is the tax collector- getting too much, but what is the people who are paying the bill getting? Are they getting anything at all? .-, , The people are the stockholders in this --great corporation-the : American Republic vhile the officials are - the directors. -If the directors are running wild, and are spending more than the entire output of the concern, in salaries and bond interests, have not the stock holders a right to call a meeting and talk matters over, and inform the di rectors of, their findings, and give or ders that certain expense items should, or must be curtailed, and certain others eliminated altogether if necessary? If the, present board of directors cap not run things with less capital,. and insist that they can not, then why cannot the stockholders elect a new board with the distinct understanding that , they must run -tne corporation the - Stati with less,-else the entire plant is going hanltrnnt Any private business concern would take this step, and it would be entirely legitimate to do so. It is claimed, on high authority that the people of this country are now pay ing five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) annually as interest. This five billion dollars of interest is diverted from channels of business activity, according to governor Strong, of the New York City Federal Reserve Bank, and cannot be . used, both to pay interest, and to do business This sum of interest is equal to about $47.60 per capita and goes into the cof fers of the idle rich, and will itself, de mand an interest toll of two hundred and fifty million next year. Where are we going to land in a few more years if we keep up the pace we are traveling? Let s rally to the support of men, and newspapers who are fighting the peoples battles along lines of economy and safe ty and let go the entire group of those who are trying to perpetuate the pres ent regime and plunge us into ruin and destruction - on the .pretense of progress and development :Ji ; 'rm. ' The .newspapers, with -their powerful influence, can change .the current from downward to upward, if they can forget their .bosses the , advertisers long enough to do so. If .they are too short sighted to do this, then the only other alternative is to go the pace, and make all there is to be made out of it, while the making is possible. For just as sure as a remedy for present evils is not ap plied by the people of this generation the expression, "After us the deluge," is as, inevitable as the morning sun rise. The present system has broken down. If we have not the statesmanship to in augurate and set in motion a system that will bridge over the chasm we are cross ing, then we are doomed to fall in, and great will be Jhe .turmoil and anguish, when the fall comes. . . The Union, Republican is doing its part in the matter of warning. Let oth ers take notice, and appoint themselves assistants. r"V - v S. S. DUNLAP. As a Democrat Sees It. One Governor Tccently said fI am ashamed to say that North Carolina is more economical in the of taxes and the things we do collectively, than we are in the things we do as individuals." (May 8, 1922.) . ' . " . ' All thA DTPt nations of the , past Oreece. Rome. EffTPt, Spain, and other9fell because the government demanded more in taxes than the Tuinnl. word a.hlA to TaV. Z? . . . Z 1 .11 tVa Tax ouraens nsve uruw" rmnr, t Annfri at thfl tast. cnaii KICK . w . - . j this be the fate of North Carolina! People who have no tax burdens .vn na no taxes and who have never paid taxes can well afford to parade this stuff. , I, for one, am "ashamed" of tne Governor, of this great State for Making - atatemeni. in B LSV. JA vm- who was defeated comes from a man .... . politically in hi. own borne to trict, ana came w -'L 71 political adventurer, anu v as such. . ' . I am not simply expres.nK y : ...timonta. hnt the sentiments of thousands of other Mecklenburg- ers and North uaronniu ----- and worked for, tms P brains were as small as his voice was big. - He -may Fell be dubbed the 1 nor of North v;aroun, - title on down to his gravr-j-.- VARD NIXON, (Democrat y iotte, N. C, in Greensboro Char- ews, i . - . . at a mii Used as LaDor Saver. Men's starched white collars wcra unknown before 1825, when a black- . t i Trnv. . In " smith b .. wiiw " - j t - : washing her husband V shirts, which wi v i.n.t .ttftehed. "as was .al- y. thee the-., decided tOc.ave ;v k naratinz the eol'ar (which got, dirty .sooner .ttaij.;.tM i rrit center ol,tne.o BYIDITOR Lim Democrats Throwing Bou quets 'at Each "Other Tax-Fed Job Holders' I See the Swill Through -; Receding- (Writing to the Monroe, Enquirer,' J. Z. jGJreen, editor of the Marshville Home thus delivers himself along ex isting conditions in the political arena.) Local Editor. 4 . .Report comes from party machine headquarters at Raleigh that "Demo-' crats fear. G. O. P. raid on June pri maries." There isn't anything that dis turbs the "peace of mind" of the great army of tax-consuming, pietea ting ma chine politicians in this State more than' a suspicion .that the group of independ ent voters is gradually increasing in size in North Carolina and in the nation. In the .last .national election' about five million Democrats made a "raid" on the Republican party and caused an un paralleled and staggering -defeat of the Democratic party, if not its elimination as a national political party.-Why should machine .Democrats at Raleigh object to more votes for their party? If inde pendent voters in the Republican party should decide that they 'can make their influence felt more by participating in the Democratic primaries why deny them that privilege?. . The independent voter who has learn ed not to have anv more sense than' to vote as he pleases seems, to cause cold chills to run down the spinal columns of jthe tax-consuming, patronage-fed po- Utical manipulators who are now pav- um nightmares over the thought of a possible .removal front the political swill trough. ? There are perhaps enough superfluous tax-fed job holders in North Carolina, principal and subordinates, to make a convention almost as large as either of the recent State Democratic, or Repub lican conventions -the logical and in evitable result of a long lease of political power, .for which voters and tax-payers are directly responsible. It would, in deed, be interesting to know just what per cent of the recent State Democratic convention, which went through with usual formalities of throwing bouquets at themselves, were office-holders, pros pective office-holders, subordinate office-holders, close-akin to office-holders or ex-office-holders. - The "keynoter" of the roeetin has been comfortably lo cated at the pie counter o long that it seems like the job is a part of his .estate. A convention made up of volunteer of ficial beneficiaries of party ."patronage" trying 4o pose as representatives of the welfare of the tax .payer of the "States passing resolutions heartily endorsing themselves, recommending that they be retained in the same Jobs they now hold, and incidentally making a "slate" for gov ernors for the next eight years would be the greatest joke ever, pulled off in the State, if that bunch of ' political manipulators had taken themselves se riously and insisted that the rank and file of the party should also tare them seriously and swallow the dose with de light and enthusiasm. , The: tax-payer whp thmks.be can con tinue to vote like the patronage ' ma chine politician suggest and refuses to make demands upon the candidate of his choice and find out what he stands for and also whether he can be relied upon to live up to his professions after elec tion, mieht as well be thumping paper balls against a .brick wall as a means of getting relief from the rapidly growing . I 1 ... . imqnjni V) O t .JllO r011 lar "party" vote will do any good. s J. Z. UREEN Are There Too Many The Methodist Conference voted down a proposal to require of . its candidates for the . ministry the equivalent of two years college training. The Methodists are wise enongh to know that the backwoods preachers bring more people into the church than D. D.'s. -Charity and Children. "' (If it is as Editor Johnson says, then for results, it, would seem that the more f backwoods preachers" we have and the less D'. D.;s, the bet ter. .How about it, brethrent) Local Alitor. Calling a Halt. Seeminelv during the war a great many of our civil officers caught the martial spirit ,tp tne extent wi they forgot they were servants and not masters of the people. We are as much in favor of enforcing ine prohibition law as anyone, but when it comet to holding . up and search ing a eitixen on the public highway, r invading the privacy of his home, ,;tt.nnt inr suthontv wnaiever, n is time to call a halt. ine ireerpcu nlA nf this country may stand for J . . . some abuse of authority on the part of officers, but let none ot us maice the mistake of supposing theywtll allow their traditional liberty to slip beyond reach. aiocssvuie en terprise.' .. i -. i - President Harding Says ''Our great assurance at home lies in a virile, intelligent, resolute peo nk in a land unravaged by war, -t Vnmitv with no teople, envying none, coveting nothing, seeking no i S. ka 1ks1Aai territory, striving . i. An not become a righteous nai tiom This republic cannot, will not fail, if each of us does his part.' warren u. " jBudolph Valentino, a screen actor, was arrested at Los Angeles, Cal, May 20, charged with bigamy. An hricht movie star" seems j to tare gone to the had, - . J3oy Qolf Wontlcr f fa - V Iks. '' - I -ft I1EGR0 BUPillED AT THE - STAKE. ' Confessed to. the Murder and Robbery of a Young White Woman. Davidsboro, Ga., May' 18. Following his confession that he robbed and mur dered ;Mra William Ketchens, 22, ru ral .mail carrier.of this city, Charles At kinson, 15 year old negro boy was burn ed at the stake. at 6 o'clock, tonight. The lynching occurred at the scene of the murder more than- 2.0QQ- persons from several counties witnessing or -tak ing part, ' according to witnesses. i Alter Demg torturea wim 4a sww nre for fifteen minutes, the mob loosened the trace chains that held Atkins- to a pine tree and placed his seared body in the middle of the main highway. He was conscious, crying In pain. The mob demanded to know if there were others connected with the murder. ' Atkins, it was said, named John Hen ry Tarver, another negro boy, whom he said was the only other person connect ed with it. He had previously connect ed his brother with the case. . $. Fire Re-Kindled. Members of the mob raised his body again, fastened it to the pine tree, in an upright position, re-kindled the fire at the base of the tree and then stood off giving those in the crowd opportunity to fire shots into the body. - Undertakers who "obtained the body following the lynching say that more than 200 shots entered the charred body. 4. Immediately- after completing, the lynching the mob set out to find Tarver, determined on lynching him u he could be found. ;.- ! The roads in this section were chok ed with automobiles, more than 300 cars being at the scene of the lynching. Sheriff English, of Washington coun ty, took possession of Gainer Atkins and his wife, father and step-mother ot the lynched negro boy, and carried them to the county jail at bandersvule for sate- keeping.. : . . - The mob made no effort to harm these negroes, however. . j During the afternoon the mob that was determined to catch the negro who did the killing, .whipped the Atkins ne gro .severely several times, demanding the names of those who were implicat ed in the case. He said his brother, Slim, and John Henry Tarver were with him. The negro said he shot Mrs. Ketchens, a bride of a month, with a shotgun, -determined to get possession of the wom an's automobile and make a dream of the night before come true. He shot her as she stopped at a mail box at the roadside. . t The dream, he said, was that he was going to gain possession of a car. Although the negro boy was large for his age, officers of Washington county believe that he had assistance, for the body of Mrs. Ketchens was dragged fifty yards from the scene of the killing. The mail sack was a hundred yards away, the contents having been remov ed. -, '-. ' ' The cash was kept in a cigar box, which the negro boy said he took home. It was found there. . After disposing of the body and the mail sack, Atkins said, he drove straight home. He said he told his father that his dream had come true, and then af ter changing his clothes he invited mem bers 'of his family to ride with him. In the. meantime he had smeared mud over the bloodstains on the automobile. Sid Lewis, a farmer passing the scene of the crime, found the body of Mrs. Ketchen's thirty minutes after she had been shot He heard the shooting, but had difficulty m locating the body. Lewis telephoned this information to Sheriff English, at Sandersville, and posses were quickly on the trail of the slayers. They soon found , the automo bile, Charlie Atkins being at the wheel. 'Automobiles filled with excited men who went to the scene of the crime bristled with rifles and shot-guns. ; i i Ay ''fi , ? ' vPrccideat Shy When J -ne Frarier, the five-year-old son of Ji i Frazier, gave an exhibition of his skill at golf on the Sea Vjew, N. J, links, rre dent. Harding took occasion to congratuL'.e the little fellow. Bold in his stro' when- playing, the youngster became i resident shy vhen he grasped the hand cf the nation's head. n IIUVLU IV lUll FROM BRAIN. Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, of Soutbport, N. C; Per formed This Delicate Operation. t Southport, May 18. A tumor has been removed from the brain of -Wins- low Kemble. 19. of Boston, Mass,', since he came here two weeks ago aboard his father's yacht, and the young man sp- pi-jBtly-i3 oq. the road to recovery after 10 yfcars of headaches and at times ex cruciating pain, when it was necessary to use chloroform to alleviate it. bmce the operation last Thursday the young man has felt no such headaches. Some of the stitches were removed yesterday and he was chatting pleasantly and con centrating on a game of auction bridge. It was 19 years ago that VVinslow Kimble was hit on the head with a scantling and almost killed by a play mate. He was then 9 years of age. Since that dav the most eminent bram special ists of Boston, New York, rhUadelpnia, and of practically every important port between Maine and Florida have been consulted. One brain specialist who lives in Boston and who bears an internation al reputation has made x-rays of the vountr man's skull his father, Parker Kemble, a well known sportsman and a member of the Eastern Yacht club, of Boston, explained. These great surgeons of the north knew all about the fracture, twit never seemed to be able to get any thing definite from their x-ray photo- graphs and never favored an operation, Made Correct Diagnosis. It remained for Dr. J. Arthur Dosher, nf Southoort. with only the evidence of headaches to go by and with the verdict of a half dozen specialists whose fame has spread around the world to go against, to make the correct -diagnosis and to have the courage to go ahead and operate. If the young man had been stupid, an epileptic, afflicted with con vulsions, or about to die, his parents wouldn't have considered it so remark able that the North Carolina surgeon made the right diagnosis. But the fact is, it is stated, that the young man was normal in everv resoect except that ne suffered with these severe headaches and could not concentrate on books. For this reason he had his own motor car, his motor boat up in Maine and stay ed in the open as much as possible, or else his parents brought him- South on their yacht on many of their cruises. Theyi have been cruising in Southern waters since last fall. It was while in St. Augustine when young Kemble-was struck with one ot his severe headaches which prved a little more severe and which had him in a semi-conscious staie that they decided to-return here. ? "If you had stayed on in Southport Dr. Dosher would have cured me," he told his parents while suffering intense- They had met Dr. Dosher some months earlier, the young man had been in his care while their yacht was an chored inthe harbor, and he had become very much attached to the surgeon. - V : Played a Lone Hand. .. 1t wai rvrsuse of this attachment and confidence, his father admitted, that II allowed the operation. . - . . "I knew I played a lone nana, i anew if the operation failed I would be sub jected to a good deal of criticism and censure at home by relatives and by sur geons in Boston for coming down here and having my son operated on after several, specialists, had advised against it. I figured on the psychology of Wins low's confidence in Dr. Dosher as much as. anything'.. - v-, ;; J. :i 1; V ' ' ' i Dr. Dosher is an alumnus of Johns Hopkins and is considered by those who know him as one of the best surgeons in the South. The tumor he took from the front part of the brain of young Kemble contained approximately , two teaspoonfula of scrum, ... n em nunc iinno uu CAUGHT Oil THE FLY. .,....:,, . ,. . 1 -. t - , ultjqh'and thb'wosld ' LAT7QHS fTVm TOU.i' What Our heax and Past' Ppt Captured of a Humorous Vela From Out Fixchange. ' . - ." JUST SO. ' -. "Why were you exceeding the speed limit?" : v i- . - "Judge, I was taking a visiting friend to the station." ' i "Guess I can't fine you, then. We are told to speed the parting guest." ONLY HIS HAND, ! He had never been to' sea before. "Can "you keep anything on your stomach i the ship's doctor ' asked. "No sir," he returned feebly, "noth ing but my han6Vf - ;j ; ' WHAT SAM DID. "Does you wife take in washing, Sam?" "No, sah." "But I ' understand she did take in washing, Sam?" "No, sah, you's wrong I takes in de washin', and I takes de washin out.' All m wife does is t' stfy home and do it, sah." . ; KNOWS NOTHING AT ALL. Topsy-iDo you know, daddy, I don't think mummy understands anything about children, really ! Daddy What do you mean, Topsy ? Topsy WelL you see, she wants me to go to bed when I am wide awake and to get up when I'm awfully sleepy. USE BOTH HANDS. Pat (to the carpenter, who is vig orously sucking his ' thumb) "Don't you know how to drive a nail yit, with out smashing yer finger ! . Carpenter No, you blamed fooL neither do you." ' Pat Sure I do. Hold the hammer in both hands." . HOW HE KNEW" HIM. Two men were, talking in the smoking car. Finally one of them remarked that he was from Wichita. Do you know Charlie Smith out there?" the other asked. , "Know him ! I should say I do. We have slept in adjoining-pews at church for the last .twenty years. IN THE NEXT BOOTH. 'Lo, Central. ' . ' I 'Lo, Central : . , !LoCentraLJ.,: . - 'LoThia Central ? Then get off the wire! -r Thatchu, Central? Wassat? Line's busy ? j HOwmell can it be busy when I haven't given you no number yet? HE KNEW. What little boy can tell me the dif ference between the "Quick" and the "Dead?" asked the .Sunday School teacher. Willie waved his hand fran tically. "Well, Willie." "Please, ma'am, the 'Quick' are the ones that get out of the way of automo biles; the ones that don t are the 'Dead"' EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT NOWt Mandy and Bastus had become en gaged, butMandy still has misgivings. "Big boy," she murmured one ev ening, " Ah knows yo' loves me. but hueeum you comes roun' want in ' to marry me so soon after yo' losses yo' jobt" "Sho, Mandy,'r he replied reas suringly, ' what 'a de difference does ah quit work and marry you,' or marry yo and quit workf" Amer ican Legion Weekly. GOING UP. . "Yes," said the old man to his visitor, "I am proud of my girls and would like to see them comfortably married, and as I have made a little money they will not go penniless to their husbands. There is Mary, 25 years old, and a'really good crirl I shall m've her one thousand dol- lars wnen sne marries, xnen comes rei who won't see 35 again. .1 shall give her three thousand dollars, and the man who takes E jiza, who. is 40, will have five thousand dollars with her.n' The young man reflected a moment and then asked, "You haven't one about fifty, have you?" Glasgow Herald. . . . M HISTORY MADE 'EASY. The family was Seated at dinner and the Conversation turned to school les sons, much to the consternation and dis gust of little Cynthia.! " ."What period in -English history are you doing?" asker her father. .'The Stuarts," said Cynthia curtly. There was a long ; pause as father thought out a' question to put to his daughter. He was a little hazy . about facts, but at last he propounded his poser..;". :''"'' - What was the first thing James I did when he came to the throne ? asked father' solemnly, i ; j '' ' "Sat on it, I suppose, .replied Cyn thia with calm conviction. Our Little J)og Says ' Don 't try to ) tram ' irp your f children the Way they should go, un Jess yon are going that way .your self." Yadkin Ripple. , , . ,r. Minister Uses Airplane. The Rev. Frank S. Hollett, of Lis bon. N. D.. is the first Methodist' eir euit'rider, So fa as is known, to cover his territory -by airplane. , - - ..... ... , A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF. SALEM FEMALE ACADEMY. f (By E. A. (Miss Emma Lehman was for 50 suc cessive years a teacher m tne aaiera Academy and College and has commenc ed a series of historical sketches of the time-honored institution.. To the thou sands of alumnae and their descendants these articles will be read with excep tional interest as well as the general public. ' From" 1772 to 1922 is a long period of time for any institution to continue uninterruptedly, but such is the record of Salem Academy and Col lege. In the family of the Local Editor, four generations have been educated there and a fifth will in due time enter. We therefore .take pleasure in reproduc ing the .articles written by Miss Leh man,. the first of which appeared in the last issue of the Alumnae Record, jjist issued. Local Editor. ' . (By E. A. Lehman) This famous - old school . which eel ebrates its Sesquicentenial in 1922, was begun with a very tiny seed. The rest of the world atjhat early day, thought wom an was fitted only to sew, to wash, cook and bake, to keep house, and be a domestic drudge. Our fathers, many of them, menj of finest European and Christian cuture, thought very differently; they had a wider vision, they saw in woman !the real ' homcmaker, ' the trainer of 'little children, the centre of an -influence that is wide-reaching and tremendous in its. possibilities and they planned and act ed accordingly. When the village of Salem was only six years old, and had about ten houses, they gathered the little handful of yery little girls together, and began to have them trained and taught. On April. 30, 1772, three little girls, all there were available at the time, were put under the charge of Elizabeth Osterlein, a member of the first Sisters' Choir in Salem, ! and were taught reading, writing, sewing and knitting. Later arithmetic was add ed and the teacher was paid for these services an English Shilling, twenty-five cents a week. As early as we know, 'they were kept in a room of the Congregation House. The names of these three little ' girls were, Anna Elizabeth Bagge, aged 3 1-2 years: Alaria Magdalena Myer, 4 years; Maria Magdalena Schmidt, 8 years. As the school grew;- with increasing hum bers of little girls, they were expected to go to school till they were 14 years of agf. anri-thfn., wrrr. as aimattex- oi course, to go into the Sisters' House for a course of industrial training, toj earn' their own living, in any way that seemed to suit their talent Nor was a further education stopped, for the Pflegerin, or Lady Superior of the Sisters House, always a cultured woman, kept classes for them, mostly at night There Was a fine large map and geography of the Heavens kept for many years, and used in teaching them practical Astronomy. It was used in the Academy classes for years later. Botany too, was a favorite study, then fine embroidery, not to for get homlier branches, such as washing, ironing, sewing, spinning, weaving, glove making, and domestic service of any kind. If any young woman spent a couple of years in the Sisters' House she was well fitted to marry, and become an efficient homemaker. People from other sections, i other States, saw the superior advantages of the Salem girls, and began to ask why A Davidson County Boy Makes Good. Charles H. Workman died at San Francisco, Cal., April 26, aged 55 years. He left his old home at Cid when he was eighteen years old and went to San Francisco where he went to work on a street car line for nine dollars a week. He worked there ten years and when he gave up his job to enter business for him self he was getting fourteen dollars per week. However, he had saved scrupulously out of his earnings and bad accumulated about thirteen hundred dollars. He first began packing elams, but was unable to compete with big factories in the East. Then he turned to an old Spanish dish, tamale, and made them popular: His fortune then be gan and his business grew and pros pered. He was a great believer in advertising and spent thousands of dollars to make his products by words in homes throughout the country. ' Of the original investment he put $200 into a factory- and $1,100 into advertising. When in the disaster of 1906. hi plant was a .pile of smouldering ruins, with characteristic courage he planned a new and better ifaetory, and in 1911, he organized the Work man Packing Company, with a cap italization of $500,000. Today, I. A. u. Canned Tamales and other Workman products ' are known all over the world.! Where the products are known so too are memories of the man. For the fig ure of v. 11. workman was an out standing one keen yet kindly, suc cessful yet sympathetic. He has made the world a better place for having lived in it. j . He leaves a -widow, Mrs. . Isa belle Workman; a son, Henry L. Workman, and nine brothers and sis ters, Noah, Delia, Ivey, Chaney and Jones Workman, Mrs. M. H. Lassi ter, Mrs. II. P. May, Mrs. U L. Pea cock and Mrs. B. M. Gallimore, sev eral oi whom live in this county and others being , connected with the Workmanplants at San Francisco. Lexmgton Dispatch.' , 1 Lehman) their daughters might not be admitted to the school This was long refused, but 'the call came so insistently that the fathers began to look upon it as a di vine call to do a good work. The lot responded favorably, and so prepara- , lions were made to build what is now South Hall and on May 16, 1805, the first boarding pupils from abroad came on horseback, with carpet bags swung to saddlebow. The names of these first pupils from abroad were Elizabeth Strudwkk, Ann and Elizabeth Kirkland and Mary Phil lips from Hillsborough, N. C; Ann Steirs of Fayetteville; Ann and Felicia Norfleet from Halifax, N. C; Rebecca Carter (Mrs. Willis HalTs relative) were the next to arrive. Two girls from town were added to these, Anna Pauline Shober and Mary Steiner (Mrs. Denke). The first Principal, Rev. Sam'l Kramsch (Miss A. Van Vleck's grand- -father) lived in the new house with his family and the ' boarders for several years, but later a separate Principal's house was erected. A number of daughters of people in our Church service were admitted grad ually, as boarders and termed "Daugh ters of the Congregation." In 1805, An na Paulina Shober, . later, Mrs. Bishop Herman. In 1806, Mary Kushge, in 1807 Mary Steiner (Mrs. Denke) daughter of the 2nd Principal..' In 1808, Sarah Lash, daughter of Jno. Chr. Lash of Bethania and later Mrs L. Tranaou. In 1810, Christina Caritas Schneider (Mrs. Benzien). Others were Henrietta Kluge, Eliza Bagge, Dorothy Elizabeth Pfohl, Eliza beth Ruede, Caroline Sophia Pfohl, So phia Dorothea Ruede Vogler (Miss S. Vogler'a mother, Fredrika , Chariot ta Pfohl, etc. ' In 1807 one class removed to the schoor building, and so the school grew and prospered under the blessing of God and the faithful service of men and No thought of gain ever entered their minds; it was faithful service in their day and time, to the age in which they lived and to the God of their fathers. The school was called Salem Female Academy and gradually as its grades in creased, a so-called Select Class was be gun by the Rev. Charles Bleck, the Principal, and taught by him. Later it fell into the hands of Mrs. Denke, wko kept it faithfully till her health failed. Then Miss Brietz and Miss Reichel taught what had grown into the 1st and 2nd Select Classes, until they died and E. A. Lehman had charge of it, till a . Senior, a "graduating class was evolved and in 1878 the 1st Regular Graduates were sent out, fully equipped with Di-' plomas. The School was first incorporated as a college (on account of taxes) Feb. 3, 1866, 100 years to the menth from the first founding of Salem in Feb. 1766. It was in the last term of Rev. R. de Schweinitz's Principalship that it was -thus incorporated by: Act of the North Carolina Legislature. This day . is -celebrated by our Alumnae as "Salem Day," all over the land- Rev. J. T. Zorn was the principal un der whom the 1st Senior Class graduated in 1878. A picture of this first Class is extant containing photos of Florence Moore of South Carolina, Lucy Sims of Texas, Cynthia Swann of Tennessee, Maggie McDowell of North Carolina, Bettie Coppedge of North Carolina, Ida Rogers of Georgia and Anne Pittman of North Carolina with three teachers. Rev, J. T. Zorn, Rev. L. Wurreschke and E. A. 'Lehman. "What Is Life To You?" By REV. W. E. GOODE. To the preacher life's a sermon, To the joker life's a jest, To the miser life is money, To the loafer life is rest. To the soldier life's a battle, To the teacher life 's a school, Life 's a grand thing to the wise man Life's a failure to the fool. To the man npon the engine, Life's a long and heavy grade; Life's a gamble to the gambler, To the merchant life's a trade. Life is but a long vacation To the man who loves to work; Life's an everlasting effort To shun duty to the shirk. In its heaven-blessed romance, Life's a story ever new; Life is what we try to make it", Brother, what is life to youf Ran Because He wanted To. Over in Person county there is a candidate who has got the right stuff in him. He says: - "I have never held an office and I've always wanted one, therefore I hereby announce myself a candidate' for coroner subject to the Republi can primary. If nominated I wlil run my best; and if elected I believe mat l will make good. I ara sure I , Twuivft uuw a ucau xiufta wnen This statement is equal to the eae Bob Glenn made when he was run ning for the ekptaincy of the For syth Rifles. A friend went to 'him and said: " Why, Bob, here you aTe, a smart young lawyer, just starting out in the profession and need to be studying and rising in it," what in the devil do yon want to be captain of military company fort To which the embroyonie governor re plied, "Well, I ain't never been captain, have I! ' 'Monroe Jour nal, : " n iir-making industry.
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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