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fiiMsnAxmtm UTOPIA AROUilD THE 10 It Country People Getting a New v wea oT .Tneir Own .Possibilities: . MOVING TO GET MORE -MONEY AND MORE THINGS i . . Building; Good Boadi 111 Over 8t&U tad That Calls For .Othtr Thing!, Including At 't ; Good Schools For Sural Seo ' , tions' Is Towns and Cities Already Hare v i y BION H. BUTLER. Ob day, yean ago, with the Hit of th bunch, of thirty or more of us vrho wer ia , tha lumber camp, we were discussing the important events of the day, ai a crowd of men like that will do. and we had veered around to tha subject ei sanity. One old father, who wnf am oeea gatnerea to the taints, looked a over aad vestured the remark thst probably no maa ia al together sane, or at least, he had sever leea one of that kind. May be there ia ruch a thing aa abaolute sanity. It aeemi to me it most be a tame condition of Ixisteaee, for if there ii such a thing bow eaa wo account lor all the ta lari! of thought that overtake maf Is the anarchist sane I Or is tha maa he opposes him sane Is the maa who crowds ahead of his time saaef Was Henry Ford sane when be put op wage to fiv dollars a dsy ia his ships a few yeara ago, saying that bo maa ought to work for less than that? Are the rest of the fools sane who are bow arguing that aa eight-hour day at Ire or sis dollars a day la little enough, or that a woman should be paid the same as a man for the same sort of work Is a maa aaae who says the school teacher ought to be paid five dollars a day, aad that the job should go on all the yearf If a man ia a rolling mill should get fifteen dollars a day at some of them do, why should a teacher fet less than fifteen dollars a weekt la that just foolishness! What wages should a teacher getf Why should she get any less than any one else! Why should the preacher act get aa much money as a locomotive engineer! Why should a lawyer get a fee of $500 for a ease and a preacher five dollars, if tha maa who gives it to him is liberal f To be truthful, there isn't any why. One Thing Calls for Another. We are atarting to build roads all over North Carolina. That is going to make us clsmor for some otter things. The maa ia the country has already got a bun wagon and the boys nnd girls get out of town and see other folks live. There is the thing that makes trouble. We eaa live down in oar coun try like we have been aeeustomed to until some other fellow lives a differ ent way, and then the exeitemeat be gins. If all the neighbors are con tent with a Ford we can all be happy with Fords, but the minute some in fernal hound comes into the com munity with a Hudson or an Essex or something that costs more money we . have to flax around and mortgage next fall cotton to get one like it. Nowr you think that is foolishness, but is itf Then, listen. When Frnnk Page ,eemea down our way with a new road aad we eaa all get out and see whet the folks are doing elsewhere, wo are going to do that way too. We are go ing to see that ia town the folks have better schools, so we are going to have better schools. We are going to have oar boys aad girls doing like boys and girls elsewhere, and we are going to insist on getting enough monfy from somewhere to pay the bills. We are ' going to see that the teachers whe teach our schools are paid enough thst we get as good teachers as any place gets, and we are going to pay our preacher enough so that the thieving hounds over oa Walaut ridge will not offer him more' money and take him away from us. Ever think it outf It is not acces sary. It worhs itself without much thinking. It may be some time before Henry Ford will see everybody earn ing five dollars a day, but it is not hard to guess that the old time wages of a loaea years will never be seen again by anybody. When it eomes to pay hands on the roads the farmers will see that sevsnty-lv cents a day is tradi tion. It is far enough back into the last to be strictly classical. The farmer ts going to figure oa that high wage business henceforth. His hands have raised the wages and are going to keep them raised. The farmer ia going to pay higher wages, and for himself get Mil CAROLINA MUTT AND JEFF-The Little Fellow Has An Eye on the Future . fMVTT, CM YOU A f BUT WHAT tx VcU A I ' T vu?f. n-Trtert M0 5UMOPA.M.) 1 ttMOW, -(IutA DVT IP X VAJAlT YbvLU WAsoT , ' Cfc. better wages.' Ha Is sot going to boy-so much side meat. He will esU that kind of stuff.. He will 'buy gasolia and phonograph records, and paint ruga and a lighting system. Folks dowa the road are getting those things, so he will have to have mora money so ha eaa get them, aad if ha - does aot get , more money he will go to Pennsylvania aad work ia the mills, or to Ohio and work la tha mines, or over into tha next county and take hia mules along aad work ia tha lumber woods. Or ho will set oat a peach orchard,' or take to raising hogs, or joia ap with a cream route oa a: dairy proposition.! Net Stacking Money Away. The new road tha beginning of uneasiness. That thiag has started alt ever the .United States. It baa set the country people to talking and thinking along lines that ar liable to affect the United State more than any arguments started by the I. W..W. will, for the farmers think logically, aad there are so many of. them. The farmer is not stacking away, money like some folks seem to think. He is just beginning to get enough to poll bis head above water aad keep it there la reasonable safety, sad having seen what it ia like to. get it there he is going to keep it there. If I should ever get to the legislators aad aot forget about it the first thing I would do would be to introduce a bill to male the minimum salary, for a teacher of the lowest grade not leu thaa seventy-lve dollars a month. Yes, I have heard that old cry about not being able to do certain thinga, but I have also heard that if you make a fellow pump or drown he will pump. If we should decide to psy the teachers not lees than - seventy-five dollars a month the whole State would 'have a succession of various kinds of fits, and then would recover, and profit, because when we were finding out that wo can do tha things wo have to do we would also find that we can ' also do other things we do not have to do, and we would bo pumping more than the occa sion required. ' ' 'Bo with the good roads ia coming some wisdom Wo can't sell cotton any more for the old prices, for wo mast have money to buy tires aad georgette crepe waists and ice eream cones when we go to town, aad movy tickets. Eggs fifty cents and batter seventy-five, taker -it or leave it, for it ia no Wjngernes sary to sell it to buy wheat ijjfawheat (a aa4a aa ,ha i1aja ASnn rmm van take it, for what are you going to do without itt That ia what yon got your wagea raised for, so you could buy these things. I have been looking over the school scheme proposed by the Federation of Labor and have a notion that some of those things aro going to be grafted on our school system. Here are some of them: Complete systems of modern physical education ander competent in structors. Ample plsyground facilities as a part of the school system. Con tinued medical and dental inspection. Better enforcement of the compulsory laws np to sixteen yeara of age. Free text books. Drastic reduction in the sise of the classes. Revision upwards of the salaries of teachers, and liberal increase of school revenues. Tenure of position of teacher if efficient. Illiteracy Mast Co. What do you think of them! The American Federation of Labor is a rather influential orgaaitatioa. and. be cause H is big and these SVngs are right they stand a right good chance to be put through. The Federation says that illiteracy is wrong, being un just to the illiterate and nnjust to so ciety because the illiterate ie not so useful as he conld be if he had been taught. Society must search out the illiterate aad make of him a better edu cated individual, for ignorance is in competency and society cannot afford anything of that kind that can be reme died. Some ycare ago George Westinghouse set up in Pittsburg sn interesting little shop that has since grown until the Westinghouse electrical worke are the outcome. The maa undertook to util ize the alternating current, and he was i ""ffi ikalaaj AN lNVITATieJ BS a a i i j nin opposed by "the advocates f the direct current which had . made soma little headway. Luckily Westinghouse paid ao attention, and the alternstisg cur rest mads the electrical industry. Whea he found that thiag aad that it would work Bothlag could atop it. Nothing eaa stop any aew idea that aay maa points out if that idea It a good one. When Elias Hows mad his first sewing ma chine that would work the tailors were going to mob hia because they said it would destroy their ' eeeupetion. But nothing could stop the machine, for it had shown' that it would work. ' So whea the good roads bring the folks ia contset with the things that are going oa elsewhere the thing that are seen elsewhere are going to' be adopted ia the country and it ia ia the country where wages have been low. Then ths country people are going to have high wages. The maa and the woman who work oa the farm will have more of aa income. The boys and girla are going to school more, aad.vthe income of the farmer ia to be increased by proper prices so the boys and girls can put in their time at school instead of ia the field at twenty-five cents a day ar for just nothing at all. The eouatry folks will insist that they shall have the soma thinga ths town folks have, aad will get the earns thinga be cause they have that ether people eaa get those things, and the more people go to school the more they understand that the advantages of life are not en tirely for a certain restricted class depending en where yon live. - We are heading toward it' topis. I like the looks of thst statement be cause it is so thoroughly rediculed thst the mere assertion of it is a new idea. Think of five million horse power of water energy running down the rivers constantly in North Carolina with noth ing to do, aad people using muscle force to. do physical work. That is the most absurd thing on earth. Think of wa ter running at the top floor of the highest building ia the eity, and folks in the country carrying water, from the spring ia backets. Carrying water is folly. It ia the folly ignorance. Every human creature can have run ning water, and eleetrie lights, and electric irons and fans, and electricity to do three-fourths of the work. George Westinghouse found thst out with his alternating current, aad gradually ewery-body is learning it. At the little factory town of High Falls, away from any railroad or town, a live man saw that he could provide electric facili ties and water and a good school and things of that kind for the people of the village and he provided them. It ean be done' for every other rural com munity as soon as a live maa realises the possibilities and the uses of mov ing into Utopia. Good leads Mahe Vision Better. The children are going to school more now. Good roads will make it easier for the old folks to aee aeross the borders of Utopia. People riding down tha road in the big expensive super-sixes aad eights and twelves will help to show the way. The county commissioners will appropriate more money and the tax payere will kick, for that is .what a-tax payer is for, just to kick, and incidentally dig up more money. But the schools snd the roads will get the money and the tax payer will save ia one week's hauling mors than he will pay in a year, and hia growl never hurts anything any way. This infernal good roada folly is worse thaa the seventeen year locusts. Ton get a good road into the township and every blame fool wanta another one to run from it out to his neighbor hood. Oh, yes, he is willing to psy tsxes if the road goes his way. So tbey never quit until they get roads all over the township, and that leads to more high taxes, for one extravag ance always suggests another, and that calls for new schools all over the town ship, and what the taxes are going to do with us all the seven wise men nlone can tell. A fool truck will hsul more cotton to town in nn hour thaa a mta and team of mulee would haul ia a day. You notice them coming everywhere! T. KA6 -KIN t CO TO CSSOCWb OUTIH4 that r r--- Y-i'- V" .JBL . bO PA. IN U 1)1'"" I ' a J-a ' s. I -- alk . A ) W 1 I . : ' - : ?" The flying machine bat moved Europe over half way across ; tha oeeaa to America. " Gasoline engine will eat more wood-in a day thaa all the hands on ths place-conld cut la a week a few yeara agolj 'Hand power ia -too1 stow and too-unproductive aad therefor to costly. Ia Utopia we will touch a but toa andlet the machine do th work, and the amount of "work .will be so much Ibstss the machine . does not have'toibuy;aa automobile the man who touches the button can be paid what the machine earns, and he can buy two -automobiles, a knock-about for himself, for week days aad a lim ousine for, his wife and the girls aad for Sunday,' and if he needs it-he can buy one for. the boys to go to picnics f The ICmd You Have Always Bought " jl3 is the caution applied to the public announcement of Castoria that has o'been manufactoired under the supervision of ChasiH. Fletcher for over 30 years the . genuine Castoria, We respectfully call the attention of fathers and motners when purchasing Castoria to see that the wrapper hears his signature in black. ; When the wrapper is removed the same signature appears in red on both sides of the bottle. Parents who have used Castoria for their little ones in the past years need no warning against counterfeits and imitations, but our present duty is to call the attention of the vounger generation to the great danger or Intro ducing1 spurious medicines into their families. It is to be regretted that there are people who are now engaged in the nefarious business of putting up and selling all sorts of substitutes, or what should more properly be termed counterfeits, for medicinal preparations not only for adults, but worse yet, for children's medicines. It therefore devolves on the mother to Scrutinize closely what she gives her child. Adults can do that for themselves but the child has to rely on the mother's watchfulness. I Tonsil K 'iVnnnf.-l PER GEsTL 1 auUMbrVMaratiaBJbrJs L!;;rawbMh- rJcnOpliaMorpnuK-- MtofjaLKoTlAJiOOT aJL. S J ill - 1 i.atfallDjnedyta jicSaaliMn! Exact Copy of Wrapper. BRINGING VEIL- ru TYSMK T f ovtn: t ITLU RtfiHT BBeanW without taking the family earl. ' Ever hear no much. nonsense! Well, think it over. Yon will so that it is aot half so foolish as working th way w have been doing when the running water would do the -work if wo- had seat the boys and ' girla to school enough to learn how to fix' the button so the water could be controlled.- We are going to spend aa awful lot of money to emancipate folks i North Carolina in th next twenty years. And then Utopia is just around jhe coraer. PEICE8 Or SUPPLIES TO BE RELEASED FIXED. Washington, July 1,1. Prices at which surplus supplies of cured aad Children Your Friend, the Physician.' The history of all medicines carries with ft the story of battles against popular beliefs : lights against prejudice : area differs aces of opinion among scientists and men devoting their lives to research trork; laboring always for the betterment of mankind. This information is at the hand of all phyiicians. He is with you at a moments call be the trouble trifling or great. He is your friend, your household counselor. Be Is the one to whom yon can always look for advice even though It might not be a case of aktaets. Be Is sot Just a doctor. He Is a student to his last and final call. Bis patients are hia family and to lose one Is little less than taring one of bis own flesh and blood. Believe him when he tells you as he wtU that Fletcher's Castoria has never harmed the littlest babe, and that It ia a good thing to keep In the house. He knows. 0TMUI SHOULD HAD THI S00KUT THAT rl ABOUND tVOV tOTTU Of FUTCHtri CAITOItA GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the UP FATHER M ALL THfH? WERE TOO TaO CONSIDERATE. TO AjK aO PA. IN ABVANCEi ) Bears the Signature of tMt sisT.ua seMssirv, aseveie etw. canned held by th War Department will be sold to municipalities were an Bouaeed today as fellows t ' ' Cora beef from 13.60 per joxea eana to t&i, depending upon sixes aad grade. - Boast beet from $3.48 per doses eaaa of on pound each to $20.10 for six pound eaaa. ' Corned beef hash $2.76 per doxea tans of one pound each and $4.0 for two pound eaaa. . Becoa ia crates, 3e a pound ; ia twelve pound tina 36c a pound. These priees are about 20 per eent less thaa tha cost to the government. Proposals must be for a fcinimum of one carload. Cry For Signature VELL-tTHOlXHT IF TOO ME UP TOR MKN' TO eE WELL IH TIME TO J'!- WWW LTU CoprrlK ltlft. by & 0. gMwr. Trade Mirk Kts- U. B. Fat Of. LADIES CAN WEAR 211012 On she smaller an ssms hstf knsv aftf wtaa Allni'a faaS-CaM, the ntiaaatt ewa.a far the (art. Bkekas. kit th itxm nn ortnkM fa, the feet-sata, Alton's FmO-Eom auk) tlcht.wSMW ifcos fa ?(' ti tntUnt idfcf M asm 4 bun tana, mat! Blirtra, Callmi' u4 Bora Spa. . if, th srsatart comfort ihemrr at the a. Iff st tetsr. , Bole enrwhr-(Aav.) . w PAVED HIGHWAYS . , , V .-' Bnnfrt.C,JtCV;.v' '.v. . , Srsled proposals nilr b-received V the Beaufort County Eoad Commissies at the City Ball in Washington, K. C, until S p. m., August 12th, 'Wl, V paving highwave. . , . The work will consist of about i . ,-' 270,000 sq, 'yds. tf asphalt, bitulithio, . concrete', brielc, or other pavement. - i. : 130,000 tu. yds. of grading and dich . ing. '-,,, 3,000 lineal feet of pip drains. 1,500 lineal' ieet of bos eulverls, t V 20 ru. yds. of bridge eoaerete. . 1 . 130,000 pound reinforcing bars. ' . Proposals must be marked, Tropo. als for Paved Roads." , k All bids must bs upon blank iom provided la the proposal and contrast sad speeineatioas. . -;- ...-. ,. Each bid must be aeeompaaied by B certified check for 110,000 aa sridene of good faith. ' , '- Flans and specifications will be-. a file at the engiaeer'e offlc ia Washing- - ton, and at the 'office of the Engineer in Durham, X. C aad , copiea :f tha " specifications, form of proposals, .etc J -will be mailed upon applieatloa t th Enjrlneer nt Durham, N. C. ' A The right ia reserved to reject Shy or all bids. ... F. C. KUGLEB, Chairman... , J, D. BULMJCK, Secretary-. Engineer: GILBERT C. WHITE, ' ' Durham, Ns C. r NOTICE OF SALE Of PROPERTY OP ROANOKE RIVER RAILWAY COMPANY.' In the United States District Court fol the Eastern District of North Car linn At Raleigh. . , Virginia Trust Company and Americas , Natioaal Bank, Complainants,. , . vs. Roanoke River Railway Company, Defendant.; , Pursuant to an order entered ia the above entitled cause, J. H. Brldgars, Receiver of the Roanok River Railway Company, sad Commissioner, appointed by the Court, will, on July 20, 1919, at 12:00 o'clock M., at ths Court Hons door ia the town of Henderson, North Carolina, offer. for sale to th highest bidder, subject to confirmation by the Court, the line of railroad of th Rea ' oka River Railway Company xtead : ing from Manson, Warren County, N. ' C, to Townsville, Vane County, N. (X, . together with all lands acquired aad used by said railroad aad all th rights of way, easements, roadbeds, tracks, bridges, culverts, switches, Bids tracks, station houses, warehouses aad erec tions and fixtures of every kind and all such real and personal property, righto of way, easements and appurtenance as may be germane to or necessary ta ' tha construction, operation or aula tenanc of said railroad, also all a giaea, ears, rolling atoeh of every kiad, tools, machinery of every kind, rails, spikes, joint fatenings, timbers, ties, superstructure, and material of every kind now owned nnd possessed by said railroad company, also all furniture, safes, books, accounts, maps, surveys, charts aad office equipment belonging to aaid railroad company, also all materials and Supplies of every ehar . acter owaed by aaid railroad company together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments aad appur tenances thereto belonging or la any wise appurtaining and also all th rights and powers, privileges and fraa ehisea of or belonging to said railroad company. J. H. BRTDGER8, Receiver of Roanoke River Railway. Company and Commissioner. fcEAV 0 - I D 0 ; By BUD FISHER
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