4' f K'.'f TIIE RALEIGH TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1912. TOE RALEIGH HUES Established 1878. 'Every Afternoon 'Except Sunday. fDOBS PUBLISHING COMPANY John A. Park, President. J. B. Clark. ..i... ..Editor. John A. Park, Bnalaeaa Manager. ; r SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (By Mall): 1 year 6 Mo.. S Mo. $4.00 IS.00.; $1.00 i (By Carrier): 1 Tr. 6 Mo. 3 Mo. 1 Mo. 1 Wk. $6.00 $2.60 $1.25 . $ .45 $ .10 All Subscriptions Musi Be Paid In ; .Advance. ' Pnbllcatlon Office: IHI TIMES BUILDING ' 12-14 East Hargett Street. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS. Entered at the Postofflce at Raleigh, N. C, as Second-class Matter. f TRADES iHabcM COUNCIL RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON', SEPTEMBER 4, 1012. COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW. ! . With the beginning of the next school year next week Raleigh town ship schools will be under a com pulsory attendance system. This city is among the first in the state to adopt the compulsory system. We believe there are one or two other towns that have it. We should not be surprised, however, to see the state as a whole adopt the compulsory law before a great while. We need It to reach those people who will not send their children to school and it seems that nothing else will reach them all. The Hickory Democrat, edited by a scholarly, thoughtful man, with a passion for the better ment of his fellowmen gives the fol lowing instance as one of the reas ons why he is ready to endorse a compulsory attendance law: "The Democrat has a subscriber in the person of a young farmer who laments the lack of a good educa tion when he was a boy. His par ents needed him to work, they thought. 'My wife is a good schol ar,' he said, 'but it bothers me to read, as I have to spell my way along in the book or paper.' Yet this young farmer has an exception ally bright mind. He can figure an arithmetical problem in his head easily. He made a bale of cotton - to the acre on five acres last year, and has elegant corn this year. Ed ucation would have made life 100 per cent more valuable and enjoy able to him. There are entire fami lies not ten miles from Hickory who cannot read or write, The Demo crat's editor has run across them while canvassing. Therefore we are prepared to endorse the following from the Progressive Farmer: "'Do we believe in compulsory Bchool laws?' We certainly do. The old argument that the child belongs to the parents and that they have the sole right to say what shall be done with It, is based on a false idea. The state has rights in the child as sure ly as have the parents, and one of these rights Is to see that the child is given an opportunity to grow up into the best and most useful citi zen. The child has rights, too, as well as the parents and one of the rights Is the chance to develop to the extent of his natural capacities. ' That he cannot do if he is denied an education. The child is the man of the future and it is the duty of the state to see that he has a chance to secure at least the rudiments of an education.' " V The Vermonl vote shows a great falling off in the regular republican vote- Their candidate for governor failed to receive a majority and the selection of the- governor will be thrown into the legislature. The legislature, however, Is almost sol idly republican. It la the first time the' republicans have failed to have a majority of the vote in a presi dential year In the history of the state. The democrats made great gains, but the majority of the d!s: affected republican vote went to the bull moose party! As a barometer the vote Indicates a sweeping demo cratic -itatory' In the nation In .Nc yember," " , ' LAW NON-ENFORCEMENT. We are glad to give space in this issue to the article by Dr. George W. Lay on "Failure to Enforce Laws." We do not think there is any difference in the position the doctor takes in this matter and in the position of The Times. Of course he understands that The Times did not mean by "Common consent" that anybody goes around to the people and gets them to agree that so far as they are concerned certain laws need not be enforced. We meant that the people do not seem to care whether certain ordinances are en forced or not and when the people do not care ordinances are not going to be enforced as our city govern ment, and it is the same with most city governments, is at present con stituted. The muzzling ordinance itself affords a good example of this. In the winter season rabies Is not so prevalent and, due to the weather, perhaps, there are not so many dogs, stray and otherwise on the streets. The people apprehend no danger from the canines and do not care whether the law is enforced or not. But with the advent of summer they have heretofore become aroused on the on the Biibject and demanded its enforcement and until this sum mer at least a feeble attempt has been made to enforce it. This sum mer the people have not urged its enforcement. By "common consent" as it were, they have made no pro test at its non-enforcement and as a consequence it has not been enforced. It ought not to take a mass-meet ing to get a law enforced, but it does take it, or at least it takes con stant and persistent urging on the part of the public towards the city officials. If this urging ceases the enforcement of the law becomes lax. That is our observation and we be lieve it will be borne out by the ob servation of others. We would like to see all the ordinances of the city enforced all the time and if there are any that should not be enforced and, there probably are, they should be repealed. SCHOOL FARMING. ro prove that farming the right kind of farmings-pays, is one of tho tasks which the rural school has emphatically set itself. It is par ticularly essential to make the school children realize the money value of agriculture, not as a theory, but as a practical fact, and one of the best ways for demonstrating it has been shown to be to let the children act ually farm a bit of ground and col lect the proceeds. Recently the United States commissioner of edu cation, Dr. P. P. Claxton, had occa sion to welcome a party of southern boys and girls who were on a sight seeing tour of Washington with money earned in their own farming. "Real farming did it," said Dr. Claxton, in describing the experi ment. "The money earned from their individual garden patches in connection with the study of up-to- date farming paid the expenses of those 22 Virginia school children. The children came from the second congressional district agricultural school at Driver, near Norfolk. The party was in charge of Mr. J. B. L. De Jarnette, the principal of the school, and he was a busy man in deed during the three days spent in seeing the sights tot the nation's capital. "Tomatoes and other produce paid the full cost of the trip which was just $13.78 for each pupil, by the way. This amount was only a com paratively small part of their total earnings for the year. The children come from one of the best garden ing regions In the south, and their school has a unique place in that particular community. The school has an instructor in agriculture, who teaches three days a week and Bpends the other three days in farm demonstration work, applying on the actual farms of the district the the ory he imparts In school." Further inquiry showed that this Is not the first time the children have learned that Intelligent farm ing brings in a cash return. Each student makes regularly 'a profit of from $25 to $100 on the individual garden patch he cultivates. In ad dition, the children help In working a school farm, which after paying all .expenses, Including tie wages of a man who serves both as a farra- nana ana scnooi janitor, snows a profit of about $200. Mr. De Jar nette Is confident that with a 75 acre farm, which be hopes to have soon, his boys will be able to earn their own living entirely while at tending school. The - state of Virginia Is among the rapidly increasing number of states that are beginning to realize the importance of adequate agricul tural education, and money has been appropriated to aid the school. There have also been private benefactions. A new $25,000 building is to be dedicated in September, and Dr. Claxton has promised to be present at the ceremonies. The experiment at Driver is only one of many indications of what the American rural school can and should do. All over the country ef forts arc being made to bring home to the country districts the signifi cance and value of agriculture. The rural school is the essential link in the chain, and the United States bureau of education is endeavoring to drive this fact home so deep it will never be forgotten, for the bu reau maintains that the rural school must provide the kind of training that will not only fit boys and girls for rural life, but will serve to inter pret life in the country so attract ively that when the children grow to manhood and womanhood they will be glad to remain on tho farm. A splendid meeting of citizens, called together by the chamber of commerce, was held at the court house last night. There was no mistaking the sentiment of the meet ing as regards the water question and it may be taken that the senti ment expressed was fully represen tative of the sentiment of the people of the city as a whole. The people believe that the water company has forfeited its rights and furthermore they believe that the city should own the water plant. The people are be hind the board of aldermen in their efforts. MEETING OF SCIENTISTS. British Association Will Hold Meet ing Sept. 4-11. Lotion, England, Sept. A. Scien tists Irom France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Russia, attracted by the interesting scientific program made public and cabled abroad today by those In charge of the eighty-second annual meeting of the British Asso ciation at Dundee. September 4 to 11,! have wired to Professor E. A. Schafer, of Eddlnburg University, president of the physiological sec tion of the meeting, their acceptance of the association's invitation to be i present. The visiting party, it is expected, will number about fifty European savants. The chief attraction is a dictiRsion of the origin of life the biggest, problem in which science is concerned. Professor Schafer will devote his cn're presidential ad dress to this vital subject, and It Is expected that. It will prove the most Tcmarkable delivered in many years. Beside this feature of the congress mathematics and physics, chemistry, geology, zoology, geography, eco nomic science and statistics, engi neering, anthropology, botany and educational science and agriculture will be discussed. The aim of the British association Is primarily for the advancement of science, consequently some of the papers and discussions are extreme ly technical. The full list, however, shows in each section one or more discussions or papers likely to deal with subjects of popular as well as technical Interest. Professor J. A. Floming, of Uni versity College, London, for instance opens a discussion on the scientific theory and outstanding problems of wireless telegraphy. There is also to be a joint meeting between the meteorological department and the agriculture department on the con nection between meteorology and crop production. Dr. W. N. Shaw, of the meetcorologlcal office, Lon don, will read a paper on this ques tion... Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, the secre tary of the Ixindon zoo, gives the presidential address in the zoological section, and a Joint discussion with the botany section will follow on tjio origin of life. This discussion which Professor E. A. Mlnchen will open, Is likely to be of very gre.at interest. The subject will also bo dealt with by Professor Schafer In his address to the whole association In the neogranh leal section Sir Clements Markham's paper on "An tarctic Discovery," and Dr. W. b, Bruce's ton "The Antarctic Conti nent." are likely to lead to a general discussion on this subject. Sir Charles M" .Watson; who presides over this section, will deal in niB address with "The Soudan." Sir Charles served with General Gordon In the Soudan in 1874- 5. Two discussions will figure prom lnentlv in the economic science sec tion one. on "Labor Disputes," in which Professor S. J. Chapman. Sir Charles Macara and Mr, J. Ramsay Macdonald will take part; and the other, on "The Great Illusion," . In which Mr. Norman Aneell and Arch deacon Cunningham will both speak The engineering 'section promises several very Interesting papers: Professor J. H. Biles on "The Rolling of Shins." Professor Chatlev on "The Coa trol of Aeroplanes! Professor A. H. Gibson on "The Suction Between Passing Ships." Mr. Alex. Welm on "Life Boats on Ocean-going Ships and Their Manlp ulation. Professor J. B. Henderson on "Problems In Propulsion Through Air and Water." Sir J. A. Macdonald on ''The Road Problem." N . , The anthropological lection SIDEWALK SKETCHES By Howard L. Rann. GASOLINE. Gasoline is a pale, harmless-locking fluid which throws off untimely deaths and the subtle odor of the Standard Oil Company. It. looks like water, but Is never used as a beverage, more than once. There are sev eral grades of gasoline, nearly" ail of which are good for a fun eral when used to start a fire In the kitchen stove. The better grades are not over 65 per cent water. Gasoline i s used for all kinds of domestic pur poses except flavoring the soup. It will restore the blush of youth to a pair of aged and decrepit pants and enable a man to go about looking like Nat C. Goodwin just prior to his next marriage. If it were not for gasoline, many a husband would be going around in Knotted trousers and a depressed look. Gasoline is a volatile liquid and evaporates at the rate of a mile in usutlly one of the most jKipular as many people are interested in some form of archaeology, Professor R. Anthony reads a paper on "The Rraln of Anthropoid Apes and Man." Dr. George Bryce will give an ac count of the establishment and first year and a half's work of the An thropological division of the geolog ical survey of Canada. This work was undertaken as the outcome of a recommendation made by the asso ciation when It held its meeting at Winnipeg in 1909. Sir Thomas Clouston, Dr. .1. S. Ilaldane (the Lord Chancellor's brother,) and Professor Latta are amongst those who will discuss "The Relation of the Mind to the Body," which forms a feature of the physi ological section. Dr. .1. li. Mclntyre will read a paper on "Hole of Mem ory in Animal Behaviour, and Dr. R. R. Rent.oul on- "The Prevention of Mental Degeneracy." The social side of the association's meeting is also a full one. The last occasion on which Dundee entertain ed the mombers was in 1867, and the 1912 program is an earnest of the city s appreciation of the com pliment paid to it. Nineteen Miles a Second without a jar, shottk or disturbance, is the awful speed of our earth through space. We wonder at such ease of nature's movement, and so do those who takej Dr. King's New Life Pills. No griping, no distress, just thorough work that brings good health and fine feelings. 25c at King- Crowell Drug Co. Failure- to Enforce LawK, To tho Edilor of The Times: In your Issue of yesterday you state editorially that the enforcement of the dog law was in abeyance "by common consent" during the winter months. As the license is obtained for a whole year, I fail to Bee how tho license law can fail to be enforced for half the ;ar.y if It is actually enforced during the other half. I also object to the phrase "by common consent How was this consent given, and by whom was It given? I hereby protest that. I never gave mine. I am sure that many other citizens have given no consent. To tell the truth you have here struck a fundamental difficulty In law enforcement. Many people pre sume that, If a law Is not enforced, somehow It ceases, to be law In the absence of distinct and tumultuous public protest. Laws that are not to be enforced hould be repealed. It ( ' fa flTUyfy 7n-tt J . i EXPLANATORY NOTES. OhMmotloiM tnkfin tt S . m.. wiTcntr-flftli me ridian time. Air prmaur reduced to tra Iwiuh (continuous lines) put through poiui of quil lr prnnura. Imitbm (dotuxl JIdm) pus through point of etiiml tmnparmture; town ODlr for wro, froeiinf . VP, and iur. O '! ira eloadrl O elondn B rain: now; report mlstint. Arrant fir with th wind First flfnrM, lowea temperature put 12 hours: aeoond. precipitation oi .tn mrn or more for out ooura; tnuu, ui- WUBWUidTlociV, " ' .. Raleigh, N. C Sept. 4, 1013 Forecast. For Raleigh and vicinity: Unsettled weather tonight and Thursday. For North Carolina: Overcast weather, probably rain on the coast tonight or Thursday; mod erate to brisk northeast and north winds. ' Weather Conditions: Scattered showers have occurred In Virginia and along the middle Atlantic coast, and cloudy weather prevails from New England to North Carolina in connoctlon with a disturbance central off the coast souta of Hatteras. Showers are also reported In parts f the phl)v4lly,LaM feglou and the extreme northwest. Elsewhere th weather has been fair with high temperature In the coUoa belt, especially In" Georgia and South Carolina, ' - ' -v- .;' 58 seconds. People who buy It in five-gallon lots notice that It evap orates faster between the hardware store and the house than anywhere else. The price of gasoline is regulated by supply and demand, just as is the price of steel rails and beef on the hoof. Whenever the demand for college gymnasiums exceeds the sup ply on hand, the price of gasoline ascends in a vcij precise and irri tating manner. It' you own an auto mobile, this price also depends upon how far you are from home and the. elastic conscience of the garage pro prietor. Gasoline is made by a suave and pure trust which lias recently been divided into fifty-seven different' vari eties under one benign and benevo lent head. These various branches all compete with one another with so much bitterness that as soon as one raises the price the others add a couple of cents in order to cover depreciation and overhead expense, Gasoline is verv fast on its feet, and should never be disturbed when in the act of exploding. It is bet ter to lose a new gasoline stove than have one's physique filled full of dark brown crevices. is dangerous to have people think that no laws are to be enforced all the time, and that some laws arc to bo crforccd none of the time. It is dangerous for us to believe that it requires a mass meeting to enforce a law. Tho phrase "common consent" re ally amounts to this: When the city government makes a necessary law, they bear a great deal of objection from those who were Inconvenienced by such law, and they get very little help from those who approve of it. The number who object to a law usually runs from one to ten per cent of the population. They are the ones who are hit; they are the ones who talk loud and expostulate. The other ninety to ninety-nine per cent, believing that a lav, since It Is a law, is to be enforced, are pleased but they say little or noth ing. When a law is not being en forced at a time when there are no serious consequences, nobody gets hit. nobody expostulates, and every thing is lovely. All laws on the statute books should be enforced. If they can not be wo should find out tho rea son why. If they ought not to be en forced., they should be repealed at once. Yours trulv, GEORGE W. LAY. Raleigh, Sept. 3. An Expensive Drop. Mr. Hiram Jones had just return ed from a personally conducted tour of Europe. "I suppose," commented a friend, "that when you were in England you did as the English do and dropped your H's." "No," moodily responded the re turned traveler; "I didn't. I did as the Americans do. I dropped my V's and X's." Then he slowly meandered down to the bank to see If ho couldn't get the mortgage extended. September Llppincott's. What a girl likeB about being se- cretely engaged Is that everybody will soon get next. CASTOR I A For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tne Signature U ELeparlmehfof WEATHER BUREAU J WUU8 1MOOR0& WS3 ! o !- EXTRA!!! BY WIRELESS. From Rizo. Mt. Arrarat Sept. 4, 1912. Dear Times: Tell the folks I'm homesick an to look for me back home in a few davs. ' mamcf I hadnt rather drink muddy Walnut creek or polluted Capital water an be in Raleigh than to nuaff these cristal drops away from home. Yknow I wanto hava nexcursion over hero some day fo long an bring everybody in Raleigh Folks don't half appreshiate their town until they get away from it- why I drather be a sore-eyed kitten in Raleigh than to he mayor of any other place that what! When I get back to civilization Im gonna turn my gatlin loose on the rats an help Raleigh folks, ex terminate the varmints. Im gonna mnke the Raleigh cops enforce the citv ordinances or dog the life outnem tryin. You neednt be sur prised to see nie most any time. (Major General Barry.) NEW HEAD OF EASTERN ARMY, Major General Thomas H. llai-r y, V. S. A., HiiKrintdcnt of West Point Military Academy, lias been aliened to the command of the eastern division of the army, with lieailtiiuti tors in New York, KiiccOed' init the late General FrediTlck Dent (runt. General Barry saw service In the Indian wars of the west, was a-llve In the Philippine campaign and was coniniH'idcr-in-cliicf of tile army of Pacification. Get a 45 piece Flow Blue, Gold Decorated Dining Service for $3,711 from The Time. Pcle always find fault with the things they got for nothing. Agriculture -i n -ix- 078- Yet 76.0 , y S1 I L V.D. STRONACH, Engineer and Draughtsman. , Land Surveys aad Draughting Specialties. RALEIGH, N. X SALE OP VALUABLE PROPERTY., On Monday. SeDtember 23, 1912, at 12 o'clock M., at the court house door in the city of Raleigh, N. U.. tho undersigned executors and trus tees under the will of Job P. Wyatt, deceased, will offer for sale to the highest bidder or bidders for casn, the following described property- to wit: : ' Farm Property. First parcel: A tract of land in St. Matthews township, Wake county. North Carolina, containing about 50 acres, more or less, bounded-on the north by lands of Fletcher Lock- ' hart; on the east by the lands ot Fletcher Lockhart and Job P. Wyatt; on the southeast and south by tho lands of S. J. Betts; on the west by the lands known as the E. L. Rlggan lands, the same being the second tract described in a deed to Job P. Wyatt from J. V. Nordan, recorded in book 248, page 61, in the office of the register of deeds of Wake coun ty, and in said deed more particu larly described. Farm and Gin. Second parcel: A tract of land containing about 24 acres, more or less, adjoining tho lands of Exum Dunn, the late Henry Mitchell, Hen derson Ray, John Locklear and Rufus Young, and being the first parcel of land mentioned in the deed from J. D. Nordan and wife to Job P. Wyatt, recorded in book 248, page 61, in said register's office, and therein" more fully described; to gether with the cotton gin and fix tures, cotton press and fixtures. steam engine, boiler, wagon scales, belting and shafting located upon the same. There is a good dwelling house on this place, also barn and out houses. City Property. Third parcel: A lot of land lying on the east side of North McDowell street, Raleigh, N. C, having a irontage of 37 feet and a 'depth of 133 feer; bounded on the north by formerly the Julius Lewis and . Company property and on the south by the Katherine Stinson property. This is the northern portion of the lot conveyed to Job P. Wyatt by Molilo C. Cawthorn and husband by deed, recorded in book 124, page 99, said register's office; upon which is located a good two-story, six-room dwelling house, which is numbered 112 North McDowell street. Fourth parcel: A lot of land lying on the eastern side of North Mc Dowell street, Raleigh, N. C, having a frontage of about 70 feet and a depth of about 210 feet, boing the . lot described in a deed to Job P.' Wyatt from L. R. Wyatt. executor of Elizabeth A. Wyatt, and recorded In the office of said register of deeds In book 248, page 390; upon which Is located an eight-room, two-story dwelling house, which Is numbered 218 North McDowell street. Fifth parcel: A lot of land on the southern side of the Smithfleld or Hollcman road. In or near Raleigh, N. C, bounded by a lino beginning at a stone on; the southern side of said road at B. C. Mangum's corner; runs tnence south with said Man- gum's lince 95 feet ' to a stake, George Savage's .corner; thence north 80 degrees, west 147 feet to a stake, Lizzie Sugg's line; thence norm with said Lizzie Sugg's line 207 feet to a stone on the south' ern side of said road, said Sugg's corner; thence south 49 degrees, east 193 feet with the line of said road to the beginning. See deed to Job P. Wyatt from Artemus Hunnl cutt and wife, recorded In. book 259, page 59, said register s office. Upon this lot is located a small dwelling house. Sixth parcel: A lot of land lying on the west side of South Blount street, Raleigh, N. C., Just south of tne w. A. Myatt store building, hav ing a frontage of 105 feet and a depth of 150 feet; upon which Is now located a dwelling house; this being the eastern end of tho proper ty described In a deed to Job P. Wyatt from Cary K. Durfey, execu tor of F. P. Tucker, recorded In book s-ou, page 325. in the office of said register of deeds. Personal Property. One horse, one nnn-hnrnn enrrlnira. ono buggy, one set of carriago har ness, one promissory note of J. N. Holding, four shares of common slock in the Raleigh Tolophone Company, ono share of nreferred stock in tho Raiolgh Telonhouo Company. ' Rut tho full right Is reserved to make prior sale of anv or all of said properly In any manner, and to withhold any or all or such property fl'Om such rjiIo . n ml rn wlnpl snv and all bids, all In the discretion of tho undersigned. This August 16, 1912. WILLIAM L WYATT, ROBERT J. WYATT and ROBERT N. SIMMS, Executors and Trustees under the i will of job P. Wyatt, deceased. nj.w.s. to 9-21. ' HALE OF ACCOUNTS Notice . Is noreby giveh that1 the undersigned, William L. Wyatt, sur viving partner of the firm of Job. P. Wyatt and Son, will on Monday the 16th day of Semptomber,. 1912, at 12 o'clock M. at the court house door In the city of Kallgh, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, a lot of book accounts owing to said firm by sundry persons, a list of which may be seen at any time by calling at the office of the undersigned. No. 827 South Wilmington street, Raleigh, N. C, and also one Masonic Temple bond ot the par value of 150.00. The right Is reserved to reject any and all bids. :Thlr August 11, 1911. ' - -, ' WILLIAMJ l: WYATT, BurvlvlnV partner ot Job. P. Wyatt ft- Bon. . '' " . 1 . 8-lJ-nj. w. t. to Sept. 14,