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"AH tli Vwt TaaVa TH to Print" Reliability the Msla rotors. NO. 28. THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WINSTON-SALEM,' N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922. LITTLE STINGERS. bcked From the Columns of; Don Laws Yellow Jacket. - r int more business in government r. !Ljnent in business. . , the Japanese have gone to the for home industries. 4 u looking for financial suc f tTuncl Sam is not the financial 1 prosed to be. . "TLjHit Harding will take no part ! Congressional elections this fall. OTPorary remarks that the - IMr Slates wriggled off the Genoa .jttter-yet, the United States did erea bite. V;- -;' Hiring repudiated pretty much every j ck, the Russian Soviet would k t dance to repudiate a new bil j,4;3it debt to the United States. doing- jY n Democratic press denounces the -..Winn tariff bill as a "gouge. Yes, Xist the importers, who, would like to d iorrn goods in this country with gptyinf i tax. . -L ' ' t Ac sngles of reduction of ex- ati tad paying it debts, normalcy is back U America. Democrats hoi tor weak places may as well -y off" the "economy sector" of the lroni. - Vi a significant fact that the rank ttriders in Congress" were per A illing to a proposed increase of variif on leaf tobacco. Virginia Dem ons ttwr a 'high-tariff on peanuts d Florida Derns how for a tariff on top. It h all owing to whose ox is being gored. A new triumvirate is endavnrinr shape American tariff, legislation the foreign producer, the importer, and the Democratic leader. The American pro ducer is up against strong combina tion, but jthe outlook, is good for an American victory. By heck, we've beat 'era before. . , Some of the Democratic oarxra Vem howling about how the wealth of the country has shrunk under Republican rule, but- listen, when the Republicans iook cnarge of our government certain bonds were selling at 85 cents on the dollar and today every issue is selling for its full value and more. That means that in 16 months of Republican rule mere Has been an increase of more than two billion dollars in the value of these government securities. Mr. Calamity Howler, please put that in your pipe and taxe a pun. . If the South will get away from the old Democratic idea that it is always best to "buy where you can buy the cheapest," and will learn to encourage its own industries and the industries of the nation, there will be more prosperity in the South and over the entire United States. Sending money away to buy goods that can be produced at home is poor business policy. Even if a slightly higher price is paid for the goods pro duced at home, the purchaser, receives an advantage from the facV 'that the purchase price goes to pay the wages of home people, thus further increasing the demand for home commodities. Bite Boys, Not Negroes. For twenty-five years we have observ id the courts of Catawba county and we art sever been so profoundly, impress ed u wc have this week, over the fact iit io many of the defendants are white icyt and white men, and yery irw negroes.- -.Y r What shall we ; say of our boasted educational advantages, of our great wel fare work, to say nothing of our great church wwt we so fondly refer to when want to show how great we are. We rxngntulate the negoes that they ea it be getting better or at least are sot ahpwing ap so numerous on the rimmtl tide of the docket- ' r Wi want to put some of our-church (note to thinking along this line of our jouni men. How many young men in the ton of Newton an be found who take active part in the church work? We wa joung men who will lead , a re 5ioui meeting. How many in Maiden ? How many in Claremont ? How manv in Dnover yea and even how many in city of Hickory ? How many school teachers in Ca iwba county ever say anything to the iWra about the respect for law and Pt for k-gal authority? How many pwam ever take five minutes of their to to Jay one' word for the respect for bwi ot their State and county ? But many of our parents do not tack their children to have any respect w their own fathers and mothers and tan we expect for such children to w arty respect for anything? Toisted A'tiglo-Saxon race of ours a bad showing in the Cataw- "J Superior Court. Fellow cit " u think on these things. New Afwi Enterprise. (It is true we have Sunday Schools, foisjian Associations and other moral t"t back of it all must come kome training. Liquor at one time a attributed as the source of all crime. not liquor now, but the devil get H in hi. work just the same. There " any causes, such as lack of home Tj' 'ack: of moral instruction in too many fool laws that cause wejpect for those that possess merit, . at riding at night by both "d girls, and a general tendency roung people to do as they please. " y tlie twig U bent, the tree in- and possibly in the desire to fopta" M seeking the .pleasures of iif . i 1 wc nave Overlooked the winner fnltr. are nd guardianship in cum gjj'pon us of older years.) Local Health. CAUGHT 01! THE FLY. J "LAUGH AXTD THE WOSLD ' ZJkUaHS WITH YOU, Wlut Onr Eheari and . Putt Pot Captured of a Hnmorons Vla ' From Our Exchanf . THE PLURAL. . "Willie ! asked the pretty teacher, what is the plural of man ?" "Men." answered the small pupil. "And the plu ral of child ?w,"Twins., ' SEE THE BIRDIE! . Mother (sternly) Willie.' did vou see brother kiss the cook ? ' ' Willie No, ma ! Honest, I didn't ! Brother gave me a nickel for looking the other way! From Judge. V PERFECT EQUALITY. Father "Why is it that you are al ways at the bottom of the class?" Johnny "It doesn't make any dif ference, daddy ; they teach the same things at both, ends." Wester Chris tian Advocate (Cincinnati). Europe Greets . Former Pres. Tait W 1 1 C5 NO CHANCE FOR HER. . "Mary," said the mistress of the house, sternly, "I saw the milk man kiss you when you took the milk' this morning. Hereafter, I'll take the milk myself." "Tis no use, mum," replied the girl. "He promised me he'd kiss nobuddy but me"! :--V Dr. Sawyer, now a brigadier general and personal physician to President Harding, predicts that future doctors will be paid for keeping people well rather than for curing them when they are sick. That is said to be the Chinese' sys tem. Over there, the doctor is paid so much a day so long as his patient is welL On days 'when he is. sick the doc tors must work but gets no pay. This gives the doctor an incentive to do his health work thoroughly and not over look any sign of approaching disorder. We are afraid, however,, that, the sys tem would not work in this country. We Americans usually stay away from the doctor until we see the undertaker com ing. We confine our attention to curing. The Chinese to preventing. Three-fourths of our sickness is due to what we eat. We do not seem to re member that what is one man's meat is another man's poison. We should find out what foods do not agree with us then never touch them. Exchange. (We teach, in our schools about every thing but to "know thyself." The human body is the most delicate, machine and it is the most abused. II we would study its needs as We do many subjects in our schools, our,' business or some delicate machine, we would become a wiser and stronger people, instead of a wiser and weaker. There is too much artificial in our modern life, and too little of the practical. The lack of out-doors life and physical exercise is exacting its toll. Na ture demands living close to nature to produce health and physical strength. There is no process by which you can produce something from nothing, and it applies to every relation of life. Popula tions of large cities would physkialry perish if it were not for the robust man and womanhood that is constantly flow ing in from the rural sections. This is a live topic for both press and pulpit and one both overlook.) Local Editor. BRAVE BY PROXY. "Yes," said the dentist, "to insure painless extraction, you'll have to take gas, and that's fifty cents extra." "Oh!" said Casey, "I guess the old way' 11 be best; never mind the gas." "You're a brave man," said the dentist. "Ohr said Casey, "it ain't me that's got the tooth ; it s my wife. COQUETTE'S EXPLANATION. A young man recently asked one of the opposite sex why girls so frequent ly became engaged to several fellows at once. "A smoker like you shouldn't have asked that," she replied with a laugh. When you have only one match, doesn't it generally go out?" BostonTranscript Former President Taft made ; no flamboyant announcement of his trip to Europe this summer, still he is being received with enthusiasm and interest at every : center visited. -.I'n London he was' honored at state affairs and dinners in a way befitting his ability. The fact that he is now chief .Justice of the United States impresses Europe. The tour is developing: into triumphal, trip not unlike that tendered other presi dents on visits there. Picture shows t Mr. and. Mrs. Taft arriving in France, It also shows how the former president has lost in weight. A LIVE LIAR. Two Irishmen were working on the roof of a building one day, when one made a mis-step and. fell to the ground. The other leaned over; 'and called: , Are ye dead or aloive, Mike?" "I'm alive," said Mike feebly. "Sure, ye're such i liar Oi don't know whether to believe yea or not. "Hell then. Oi must be, dead," said Mike, "For ye would never dare to call me a liar if Oi was aloive." Employes' Safety Magazine. CORRECT VIEW. Mrs. M. had arrived at the little sta tion in Vermont on a cold, stormy even ing, and had hired an old man to drive her to her friend's farm among the hills. The roads were in poor condition from the storm, and the ride was altogether a very uncomfortable one. "How much do I owe you?" she asked on arriving at her destination. "Well, ma'am," said the old man, "my reg'lar price is a dol lar, but seein . as its such a bad night, and the goin' so terrible, I'll' call it seventy-five cents." Gan Bluebeard Ends 1 Life. - Cmiany noto'Ku Bluebeard, Karl til lEr?"' - Emitted uicide in his beWk ngmg J"1 5th lialf hour al ? 10 token to the crimi for TJ .re he WM undergoing trial ther J,e had adn"tted his guilt Uni , of fur women, but was sus murdering twenty, who either nousiy disappeared, or were found GrtsZ mut,Iated. Alienistt described UP"0 one of the strangest patho oTi, known to criminol en v hi v'ctims were lone worn auhTr" n the woods in the h,u.l0,.Bfrlln and dragged to his 1T"- whw he maltreated them, uiy s.-The little two-cvlinder. HenrTT'" ol1 motor truck in which (a ry Undru, the "Bluebeard of Gam- FfhLl who was executed last 'etjnar- took lit. ... ..:: Ca Vk1"" nd httt kaukd coal in to b 7" f, bodies, was sold at auction ' "authorities today to a Paris plura- fift. iue Myer ran the pake up from wtaJ?!?' to francs, because he urecar as a souvenir. nt Wives Rule Men. Hck2!8'Uie PaMntry of Spanish Ga Inta women work hard aU their i na Ire USUallv murk tmr.. mnA v; ,i?ek!ped sthan their husbands, Some Family in the villane of Rockingham, Ver mont, near the meeting house erected in 1787, stands a slate headstone with the following inscription: - "In Memory of Mr. Josiah White, Who Died September 1, 1806 in the 96th Year of His Age. "The descendants of Josiah White at his death: Children, IS; grand children,, 160; great grand- rhi'Mron 221 " v Investigation shows that up to 1907, the direct descendants oi mis m K.r 2.eViA. TK orieinal dwelling of this man still standsnot far from where his grave TT waa a farmer. From our farmers have come, ana arc nA .minir thf bone and sinew - ot nun America. Good For President Hard ing. t.Mn' Hardins sooke true, patri otic words when he said to the miners and their leaders of the sinners: Labor has the ng&t, capuai the righv and above all else, the American public has the right to be freed from these recurring anxieties (strikes.) no matter what the causes are. That freedom must be estao- lished. A YOUNG KNIGHT. : Little Walter, 6 years old, took the church collection very seriously. As the usher approached the boy noticed that guest in the family pew was not duly prepared. Sliding along the 'seat, he ti iri wnispereu, ucrc jum mi..ci i , I didn t brine one, replied the woman. r - Time was short and the matter was urgent, but Walter came to a decision with' great promptitude. Thrusting his nickel into the woman s hand, he whis pered: "Here, take mine, n il pay ior you. and TH get under the seat. Boston Transcript. WITHIN AN INCH. Pat was the man who did all the odd jobs about the place, andowing to pet ty thieving, his employer insirucicu uuu to get a good yard dog. Pat was out all day ana m ine even ing landed home with a dachshund. What on earth have you brought alon. Pat 7" queried his employer. "Well, sir," said Pat, "he's the near est I could get to a yard; he's two feet elivin inches long." Minneapolis Trib une. " Every true American cituen of every Juical creed should shout a hearty approval of these Wt tree i ..u.finalv true. That lree- dom must be. established. ve a : trJ-Anm for labor and Amerr , is. tnr caDttal. ewion can iitcuv. Newr Enterprise, i t . . " 1 " i 1 - 2,000,000 Mine CoaL . tA million miners are re- Vigorous Old Age. AFTER HEARS. - Ex-Senator, 99, Visits New York and. Sees the Sights Wine Not An Enemy to Old. . Former United States Senator Cor nelius Cole, who will be. 100 years old September. 17th, breezed into New York a few days ago. The visitor took a ride down to the Battery and up Riverside Drive, inspect ing the skyscrapers, the subway, the flappers, the moving picture palaces and lots of other things that were not here at the time of his last visit forty years ago. "On the whole, I found the East is keeping up pretty well with California.1 he chuckled when the tour was finished and he was back in his suite at the Ho tel Ambassador. Mr. Cole is a ruddy-faced, twinkling- eyed old gentleman, in a Senatorial vest such as they still sometimes wear at Washington. He does not look. his year and his hearing and sight are those of a man forty years his junior. He has had a hand in most of the ifn portant political affairs' of this country since 1851, when he first took his seat in Congress. - Next to the abolition of slavery Mr. Cole regards his work for the transcon tinental raiload as the most important of his career. - "When I first went to Congress," he said, "we had to travel on land by way of the Isthmus of Panama. I have cross ed the Isthmus many times on horse back. The first movement for a railroad from coast to coast was made in 1861 when . a group of prominent cit izens of California, including Hunting ton, Hopkins, Crocker and some others, whom your humble servant was one, formed a company for the purpose of building a railroad across the Sierra Ne vada Mountains, and continuing it across the continent, to the East. I was a member of the House of Representa tives when the Pacific Railroad was agi tated and was the California member of the special committee." Mr Cole has just come from a visit to the scenes of these stirring events in the national capital. In company with "Uncle Joe Cannon and other old-time acquaintances he went again to his old seat in the Senate and listened a while to the debate on the tariff, but he de clined to comment on that familiar sound. "Do you wish you were, back there now?" he was asked. "No, it's too warm," he said. On the two great questions of 1922, prohibition and feminine politics, he has decided views, however. Woman suffrage he doesn't think much of. "Couldn't expect me to take much stock in that," he said. "I wasn't brought up to it in my time. But I do believe that the head f a family male or female, should have a vote." As for prohibition, Senator Cole straightened his ninety-nine-year-old shoulders and said, with a laugh: "Well, we used to make pretty good wine out in California, and I can't see that it did me any harm. "I favor restriction of . the sale of strong drinks, but I cannot see any harm in mild drinking. Our California wines were harmless, I'm sure." THER FOOL LAW. THE PRESIDENT AT III.! 1HJ Writers have- always sung the virtues of hale and hearty old age. What a subject for poeta would be the picture of the old gentleman near ML- Olive sitting on his porch enjoying nis ivo years! , ' George W. Sherman, 83 years old, cut out for himself the interesting job of walking 614 miles in 31 days, to join his old comrades at the reunion in Rich mond, Va. Pictures of this white-bearded patrt rrh look as if. in a pinch, he might have covered the distance m two weexs. Do you think you will be able to walk 20 miles a. day for 31 successive days when you are 83? ; ! , " fniiiri vou do it nowr . or veneration is a lot weaker, phy .V.llv. than the ione betore us. ine schedule points to a race oi wcasimss a half century hence, unless we get into some universal plan of physical sports to take. the place of the old outdoor life that is gone.- ' ! 1- -V About Right. . We are not related by blood or mar riage to any of the present or-past pro nMi hut we oroenosticate that the rail road strike wilt ena wun ine siximcis unnd state worse ' than " the first. Reidsvillc Review. Y v Which, Causes President Harding to Save Life of a Dog. Harrisburg; Pa.. July 5. The Presi dent and Mrs. Harding and Gov. Sproul, of -Pennsylvania, k became known today interceded for the life of a dog that was supposed to have been1 condemned to , death, at Lansdale, Pa., because it was owned by an alien, contrary to Pennsylvania law. The dog's life had been saved and the alien, Jacob Silver man, a farmer, fined $25 before the presidential appeal readied Justice of the Peace Howard Boorsee. The alien has taken an appeal from the fine, and "Dick" Silverman, part St. Bernard and part mastiff is in the care of the Society for, the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani toaSu i Tke President in his appeal said: " "I. think you will have to count this letter a personal One, rather than an vi es communkat k. I i write - it - at - the suggestion of Mrs. Harding ' though I am happy to do so because of the appeal which has greatly stirred her and touch es me no less forcibly. "I enclose you the anonymous letter and the newspaper clipping which come to Mrs. Harding. If the story is correct: a Russian immigrant has a faithful dog which he loves and because his posses sion of the dog. in some way conflicts with the State law and the dwltd ani mal has been sentenced to death. "I have tried to put myself, loving a good dog as I do, in the position of this poor immigrant and I know the perur bation that fills his soul. I once had to have a dog killed that I greatly loved and I recall it to this day as the wicst trial of my life. "I am not familiar with the law in voked. According to the newspaper an alien is not permitted to own i t'og. Surely there mut be some xvny to com ply with the spirit of the hw : id a. lew this poor foreigner to retain his treas ured animal friend. 'If it came within my executive au thority I would gladly grant a pardon to the convicted animal. I suppose there is a good and ample reason for a statute which makes this dog an unlawful pos session, 'tut I have an abiding faith that the man who loves his dog to the exteiU that he will grieve for him. has in him qualities which will make him a loyal citizen. "Mrs. Harding and I both are pleas ed to plead for some, form of clemency in this case and hope this note not too late to add our appeal in behalf of both Silverman and his dog." Governor Sproul immediately wired the justice of peace also telegraphed the President assuring him that "Dick" would be reprieved. (The above is another of the many fool laws. What difference does it make if a dog is owned by ah alien or native or naturalized citizen? And there are members of legislatures in every State that, ar constantly filling the statute books with legislation about as non-essential .as the above.) Local Editor. ... II Spends July 4th At His Home--Visits the Star : Office and Writes His Speech. President Harding spent July 4th at his former home at Marion, Ohio; where the 100th anniversary of the settlement of that place was duly celebrated. The President delivered the address. He wrote it in his former newspaper office, the Marion Star. Speaking of his visit to his old print shop the reports say. , After breakfast the President, almost eluding his secret service escort, strolled down to ."The Star" office to write his speech. Ordinarily the three-story brick plant is idle on Independence Day, but with the editor home, doubling in the role of President, and that with Marion celebrating its centennial, it was deem ed essential that a paper be issued. Therefore the newspaper organization that Mr. Harding developed from 100 pounds of type was functioning in all departments. The boss found George Van Fleet, his general manager; on the job. Then he stepped into the compos ing room and put an arm about the shoulders of spectacled, white-bearded old Martin Luther Miller, the veteran compositor. In. the early days of the newspaper the editor and owner was sometimes known to pay Martin Luther MiHer on Saturday night and borrow the money back on Monday. When the old printer looked up and saw. that he was being embraced by the President of the United States, his eyes filled with tears and then, either to put Martin Luther Miller at his case, or be cause he wanted it, the editor on tem porary leave borrowed his plug of to bacco. Mr. yfrdmg visited all depart ments of the newspaper and then settled himself at the desk, in a room on the editorial floor that now serves his father, the doctor, as an office. There he wrote his speech "on copy paper with pencil and when he had finished it was set up and proofs distributed to the repre sentatives of other newspapers. A scoop" on the President's speech would be something, worth bragging about, but The Star' was taking no such advan tage. Baxter Shemwell Writes Lawyer Avery. " 3hP DUNLAP RUMINATIONS. (BY S. S. DUNLAP.) Baxter Shemwell, of Lexington, who is wanted in Davidson county to serve a 30-months chain-gang sentence, has added a new chapter to his daring rec ord. According to information received re cently, A. C. Avery, an attorney of Mor ganton, who recently appeared in case in United States court against Shem welt a few days ago received a letter of warning from Shemwell in Washing ton, D. C. The letter reads : "Washington, D. C, "National Hotel, Mr. A. C. Avery, Morgan ton, N. C, Sir: "This is to notify you that any fur ther meddling or interfering with my affairs in any capacity will be consid ered personal.- lours respectfully, BAXTER SHEMWELL." 'T. S. I suggest that you file this letter for future reference. B. S. Mr. Avery, undaunted by the warning, sent the following reply back at Shem well: Morganton, N. C. Mr. Baxter Shemwell, 626 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C, Sir: "Your insolent and amusing htter of the 23rd inst. just received. So long as I am employed to do so, you may count on me to 'meddle' in your affairs, as you term it "Please get one certain and absolute fact in your head: that your past reputa tion and your present bluster does not intimidate me in the least. Don t waste your time trying to work off your bluff and bluster on me. "You also file this letter for future reference. A. C. AVERY Local Editor: For some time I have been reading a little sheet sent ouf by one of our leading institutions of learn ing, and have, on occasions, been made to feel like there was some effort being put forth by the editors of said sheet to impart certain useful and valuable in formation to its readers, looking toward the betterment of the masses of the peo ple of the State. j During the past few months, how ever, this little sheet has been hammer ing on the problem of home ownership, and has been viewing with alarm, the increase in farm tenancy in the country. The editors are very positive in their belief that the present rate of increase in farm tenancy, and the consequent depreciation of the agricultural indus try is a very great drawback to the gen eral progress and healthy development of the State and the nation and that un less some remedy is applied which will heal the wounds ' of the present evil tenancy, we are in a fair way to com mence to progress backwards, right soon. They argue and well they may that the community occupied wholly, or' almost so, by tenants, is deteriorating, in general community spirit. That schools, churches, and good roads do not, as a rule, appeal to the tenant who is here this year and somewhere else next year, and whose children may be; de nied the happy childhood privilege of forming permanent and lasting friend ships, and having instilled into their pliant and receptive minds, memories of die sentiment so beautifully expressed by the poet in these words "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my child hood." These citations by the editors of the little paper in question are all very well, and very forceably used to convince the readers that home ownership is much to be desired, as against tenancy, and that a good, safe and sane policy, look ing to the restitution of the lands to the users thereof is of sufficient importance to demand our earnest consideration. This discovery ( ?) by certain ones of the elite, and the kid-gloved gentry, is no new thought. It was recognized some four thousand years ago, and ample provision made iri the law given through Moses, to in sure the ' perpetuity of landed aecurity to the users of . land while the priest and the rulers were given no such se curity, their support being provided for by the tithes and offerings of those whose security were vouchsafe them by the orderly government thus main tained among them, and for their pro tection. In reading the suggested remedies of fered bv our modern statesmen and guardians, as a cure for the . affliction acknowledged by them to be eating out the verv vitals of our civilization, we are made to wonder if we have not reached the period foretold in Holy writ where 1 he wisdom ot our wise men have perished." j After all the pictured disaster that they say is sure to follow the; policy of alien, or absentee landlordism and tenancy if we persist in maintaining it, and refuse, or neglect, to begin jin ear nest to advocate a policy looking to the restoring of the lands of the country to the people who live on and use Them. 6,000,000 Tin Lizzies. Ford motor No. 6,000,000 was lifted from the assembly line in the Highland Park Ford plant at 9:14 A. M May 18th. Just S 1-3 seconds later No. 6,- 000,001 w finished. " The unusually heavy demand for Ford cars and trucks at the present time has necessitated the building of 5,400 daily. These are shipped in car lots to the various rord assembling plants throughout the "United States. The hrst model i rord motor was completed on October 1, 1908 ; No. 1, 000,000 left the assembly line December 10, 1915; No. 5,000,000 came through May 28, 1921. . Although the Ford Motor company turned out a number of different models prior: to 1908,. the present - numbering system began with the first model "T. Woman Has 700 Pitchers. Mrs. EIk;M..WeIlman,,of Augusta, Me., whose hobby is collecting pitchers, has at present 700 different kinds in her home. ' . ' ' v. i ' - ,.c . .' . - R. B. Xeinster, a 1 well known- citizen of Badin, -died In' a 'Statesville' hospital; tke past week. His age was 53 years,"" Hickory Chips. It has been ' truthfully said, Ameri can people love to be humbugged. When will the end be reached, and what will the cost of the gas be? , It is' nearer truth to say the world will end next year, than 100 years hence. There are three classes Jews, Gen tiles and Christians. To which do you belong? Jews don't believe in Christ s first coming, nor we in his second coming. Free; speech, .free press and a free labor is what makes a free country. ,. No honest person can expect a living even,; without earning it. The law of God requires everybody that is able to work for his living. School teaching has become too much a financial profession, mounded for the dollars , in it, instead of a calling , and the love of iL . . ' ' ' ' Education should prepare one" to do more and better work farming, laying brick or building houses and not to get a living and, money with less or no worn as many are doing. - " ' . ;. At the present rate that men,; women, boy and girls are leaving the farms and eoinz to towns "where Jhey can get more money, in 30 year the whole world will be W'staivaltoh. Hickc'Times- Mexcury..' J . . . Adams Likes . Bramham. Chairman Adams, of the Republican National Committee, expressed entire satisfaction recently with the progress which Chairman Bramham, of the State Republican Committee is making in North Carolina. Mr. Adams said he had lone "visit with Bramham last week and that he' was immensely impressed with the plans which Bramham outlined to him for-a larger and better party in the State. "The best thing that could happen for the South," said Mr. Adams, "would be for that great section of the coun try to have a substantial Republican party. It would force the dominant Democratic party to put better men up for office. But more than that it would mean that millions of dollars" of capital now going to other sections of the coun try would go to the South, lhis espec ially applies to North Carolina because I consider that State the best section of the entire South. "With a strong Republican party south of the Potomac river capital would hesitate less in going to that sec tion.! do not mean that the big bus iness interest distrusts ' the Democratic party. But where there is only one po litical party capital naturally hesitates. It is so everywhere. - , The U. S. Supreme Court, Now then, we are coming to that PsH of the argument that proposes the xim edy, and this is where the ridiculous ness of the supposed wise men shows itself so clearly. In the first place they want to insti tute a measure and incorporate it into law, providing for the establishment of a chain of banks, somewhat on the Fed eral loan plan. These banks to be em powered to issue crcd.t to tenants whereby they may be enabled to buy land and make themselves homes upon it and thus become landowning and ub stantial community assets. They are very perplexed to know how in the world the present s;tuat.om came about. Tbey are as innocent as a sheep, as to the why fore-nes? of all this thusness, ar.d are very sure that if the farmer could just get "cred't" he would be a home owner in less than than "no time," and all the ilU and all the annoyances of absentee landlordism and aliea own ership would disappear ih a twinkling. Now why can't these men see that it's not credit the farmer needs. He got that back in the early nineties, when the panic was so severe that he had to mort gage his home to bridge over, and that mortgage upon which he got credit, and its accumulated interest is what eat up his heme. The reason why it eat up his home was because he could not realize cost, plus a reasonable profit on the products his labor brought into being and he did business at a loss until the loss became sufficient to. "clean him up." The farmer is a producer of wealth. He therefore, is entitled, to receive for his produce a sum sufficient to enable him to contfhue in the business of pro duction, and to provide for his comfort in old age. If fie receives this contidera- tion, he docs not need credit. If he does net receive ttt he can not pay debts. So what is the use to extend him credit? The whole matter is just simply this. The Farmer does not need credit. He needs pay for his own, and Mis chil dren's labors, as represented in the products he offers the market, and when he gats this, he will be a creditor him self, and will be able to obey the scrip tural injunction, "owe no man any thing." v , - -Y ' These wise men ( ?) may figure until doomsday, and may institute a chain of banks reaching around th earth, fit up each one with a printing press, aad issue credit to farmers until money becomes so plentiful that a dollar will buy only five cents worth, and unless the farmer is given the consideration that his contri bution to the world's wealth demands, he will continue to loose his home; be come a tenant, loose interest in prog ress, fail to properly support his church, his school, and every other institution that demands his devotion. He will be driven to this because of the poverty enforced upon him, for no man can give something for nothing, and hold up at it for a longer period "than the surplus he started out with will make up for. We repeat the question above asked: Are we living in that period in which "the wisdom of our wise men hav pgr-, ished? Waxhaw, N. C. Pussyfoot Johnson pudiated. Re- Where Shall We Look for Better Men? London, July 4. Eleven bishops of the church of England cheered the state ment of the bishop of London at a lun cheon launching the church temperancce drive, repudiating "Pussyfoot' John- soil, as inspired and denying that the American dry advocate had any connec tion with the English movement. That Mr. Johnson's methods have been the cause Of embarrassment to the: English had been known before but never so plainly. "We are pot 'pussyfoots' nor 'pussy cats,' " said the bishop of London. "Wc are just working for four things-Sun- day closing, no sale of liquor to minors, the corftrol of clubs and local option. And even stronger embargo on Mr. ! Johnson's activities was placed by the Rev. Henry Carter, secretary of the Eng lish movement, who denied that the campaign was inspired from America or had anything to do with 'Pussyfoot' Johnson.' " "The English churches, he said, "have the friendliest feeling toward their kinsmen across the Atlantic," but added thus campaign, "is our own." ; The leading figure in the movement is Viscount Astor and both he and Lady Astor are actively invested in putting it through. (The truth of the whole matter Is that our British cousins consider themselves sane and safe enough to manage their own affairs without dictation from men like Tussyfoot Johnson. A good many people in this country are tired of be ing told what to eat and what to drink and with legislative guardianship in about everything they do, by such fa natics as Pussyfoot Johnson who make their living travelling around, telling people what. to do.) Local Editor. Good For Saint and Sin ner, Alike. Appearances lead us sometimes to think that the habit of smoking is al most universal. When we consider that the American Tobacco Company leads in Cnief Tustice, Wm. H. Taft : '' Asso- newspaper advertising, spending $!. ciate JUstkes, Joseph MKerina, Oliver ' 500100 annually, it is not so surpris W. Holmes, William R Day, .WVan "ing. Perhaps. after all the suggestion that Devanter, Mahlon Pitney,' James CMc- churches do more advertising is not Reynolds, 'Louis' D." Brandies, and John " amiss 4't nifgbt really' help' the chmrchea. JJ. Clarke. - ','. 1 -, ':' :"' .'' ' -Charity and Children, , "Where shall we look for the leader ship toward the better world in which we must believe? Who shall go before to show us the way? Is it not in business to go ahead and lead us the way ? Man cannot live by bread alone, and certain ly he cannot advance by a larger sup pry of bread. Neither can science, in vention nor discovery bring us to the bet-: ter day we need. "The only way to a better world is through better men, and the only way to people the world with better men is to make them b( tt-r one by one. The only way to make men better is to set the ideal of nobler manhood in their souls and 11 them with zeal and holy passion to realize a nobler earth. It is only with eyes to the front that we can go forward, and eyes to the front is an attitude of faith, and faith is the gift of God, the qual'ty of soul born when man believes tint there is life and movement in this mighty universe, move ment toward justice and truth and beau ty, that his is God's world and that one day Hi will shall be done in it in righteousness and love. It is only in re ligion that we shall- find the incentives necessary to rouse us from content ment with th'rigs as they are and fix us in resolution to make things what they ought to be." President Thomas, Pennsylvania state College. The Weather. The weather is the most fickle "fhmir in life. That is why it is the basis of so much conversation. Once in a while some one grudging ly admits that. "It's a fine day." But mostly the weather is a subject of dis content. As a rhymster once put it: As a rule, man s a fooL When it's hot,, he wants it coal. When it's cool, he wants it hot Always wants it what ' it's mot. Man's a fool. Incidentally, scientists find that .peo ple are most efficient do their best work in a temperature of 60 to 65 degrees. Happy Phrase. I remember an old woodsman in the Adirondack forest who used to say that he wanted to go to the top of a certain mountain as often as possible, because' i. : . u z i t mi ii sure jiuii iuui & iniuis vj nesven up-histedness -That is an uncouth, humble, eloquent phrase to describe the function of .a great" nterature.---Henjy an lyke, .. ' . - - " . wu wey rule.
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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