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Newton VOL. XXXVII NEWTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1915. NO. 26 ( UAWBIU COUNTY IN POE'S BOOK. (jyrur in New Farm Volume on the stress of the Catawba Farmers. (Continued from Friday's Issue.) ( ; ;der for example, the new . : : nors' Building and LoanAsso , , jrhaps the first thing of , ;, , :;a in the south. When Mr. s;..;;'.ird called a meeting of men i i ;;eb organize it, he had pre s . ;;-,? president of the First ;. i, r.al Bank, the mayor, the sv ; a. er of the Piedmont Wagon ( : :!', and other leading men v, ;; , would not have had any ; :i in the business ability of 1; ; nv. rs rive years ago. At this i-veting the following plan for the association was adopted: f li? purpose of the Associa tion i to combine the payments ':.- members into a fund for r:ni: loans to each other, and ioy ;i c purpose of buying and -ing lands, buildings and , A'iiaso of implements, machin ; ami stock, and for bettering -iitions on the farm. ' i he organization to be made uvA'-v the building and loan law v: X 'th Carolina, and to be .! by a board of directors, wh , with a president, vice-pres-i-lor.t and secretary and treasu shall have sole charge of the usshess, subject to such by laws and regulations as the ti .i-k holders shall adopt. "Ail money received shall be Pa od in a general fund, from which all loans shall be made on ap'i''ve;l real estate securiety, or on paid-in value of their s wck. installments and interests t'lhomade monthly. The stock sh;i;i i-e issued with a par value of ' 1 1 payable in proportionate insiallments, either monthly, q.uirtely or semi-annually' Sinner or later a co-operative sww will doubtless be establish ed also; and as as I have intima mafed. plans are now being de-j rd whereby patrons who anything to sell will be! rht into touch with any who to buy. For, if one farmer ?s. to buy four or five pigs or ushels of peas, he will be ten put into communication with a farrnor who has these to sell. And instead of sending north i:r hreakfast strip and having 0 ;r townspeople pay 35 cents a '' and for it," said ManagerShu- i, "we are going to arrange ' keep this money at home in the near future by doing meat ( ring of the finer sort." Another instance of the pro 'a ressive spirit of Catawba peo ple and of their new faith in themselves is found in theorgan 'iR iization of a sweet patato marketing association to ship and k-'' Catawba's annual 300,000 b.wiel crop. "We sent out a notice the other day." said Mr. Shu ford, "and promptly got sixty-live farmers to the meeting. A few years ago not half a dozen vo.id have come." This or ganization will not only under take the marketing of the sweet 1 ota to crop, but an effort will be ma le to get all the farmers to KiOvv just the type of potatoes demanded by the northern mar kets In other words, it will st'f-k not only to save the middle man's profits, but also to get ex tra rofits through standarization and improved methods of grad ing. The Catawba folks are also rowing a determined effort to hive their farm school train for fai in life. The fact of the busi r f is that if anything is found am where in Catawba county ko w that "hadn't ought to . be" a wholesale war is immediately dHared against it, no matter 'v ancient its ito title. More than this, the Catawba folks are 11 foing out of their way to find out whether any bad condi-j-1" exist that they haven't kr"wn about. They are now preparing to have a "rural sur V( y" of the county and have al , ( ady made a survey of one or two school districts-finding out su n things as how -many farm fclin the district read no pa- " , how many children are not . to school, how manv neoole 1,1 the district are not church members, how many children in the district are attending college or high school, etc. Of course, a wide-awake peo ple are not going to be satisfied with bad roads, and there is now great enthusiasm over the sand clr.y reads that are being built and which are better in many i c wpcets than the macadam roads ti.T t cost three or four times as m..ch per mile. The county's country school are not kept open as long as they should be, but here again the leaders are keeping up a cam paign of "agitation, irritation and education" for better things. In short, the Catawba folks hav been waked up by co-operation, they have just been inspir ed by an ideal of just what a farming country may be, and as Mr. Foster, the county demon station agent, said to me, "We are not going to let anything stop us. it I met a lot of interesting men on my latest trip to Catawba men who are carrying on this creamery work and poultry work, marketing work, etc., but the two most interesting persons I met there were women :prophetic and significant persons - they were. These were Mrs. JohnW. Robinson and Mrs. Gordon Wil fong, leaders in the two new clubs of "United Farm Women" organized in Catawba. No sort of movement for rural co-operation or for the develop ment of a greater rural civiliza tion can win large success unless it recognizes and makes room for the country woman; and it is also that the men will never organize the women. Our farm women must themselves develop leaders for their own work.The inspiring fact is that this is just what is happening in Catawba county. I don't know when I have ever felt a keener joy in having some hand in this organization of country life than I felt as I talk ed with a young farmer's wife who has caught a vision of the possibilities of organizing the country women, and, as Mr.Fos ter would say, "is not going to let anything stop her" until the result is achieved. "We have pretty good condi tions in our neighborhood," 'she told me, "but I never can be sat isfied simple have the best social conditions in my immediate com munity and the best schools for my children, if I know that other districts in the county are yet wholly untouched by the new spirit. I want to reach the stay-at-home woman who feels that nobody wants her at a meeting. And the only way I know to do this is to have a county meeting and get the women in each school district who are interested ta come and then put on them the responsibility of reaching these other women." Finally, Mr. Farmer, Catawba is only a good illustration of what your county might be if you would only get it waked up. Why not wake it up? Catawba's Co-Operative Example. Co-operative enterprise in Ca tawba has passed beyond the stage of experiment and doubt into that of tried and proven suc cess. The creamery is five years old. Last year it put into circulation among the farmers some $200,000. The disbursements for the month of March were $18,000. The county has now gone with equal success into co-operative egg collecting, fire insurance, potato marketing, and a farmers, building and loan association. Western North Carolina has entered upon a new chapter in agricultural development. Crop growing is being topped-ort witn live stock production and farm industries. Marketing farm wealth on four legs instead of four wheels is a great step forward. No farm community ever yet grew rich selling crops alone at any price whatsoever. The next quarter century in our grain-growing, hay and. for age counties will show great REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS Wide Survey of General News Given in Paragraphs for Quick Reading. Syd Jones, a negro hanged in Birmingham Friday for killing another negro, left a note con fessing to 13 murders, two of whom were white men. A head-on collision right on a high bridge between two passen ger trains near Gettysburg, Pa., resulted in the death of eight and injury of a dozen others. The English government has decided to use prisoners of war in harvesting crops near deten tion camps. Germany is using hundreds of thousands of prison ers in all sorts of labor. Terrific earthquake shockes in California have destroyed hun dreds of thousands of property and killed numerous people, The city of Calexico is near the center of the disturbance. A wine house at Fresno, Cal., one of the largest in the world, was burned Friday, and 700,000 gallons of wine destroyed. It made a blazing lake. The stuff was worth half a million dollars. Because neutral mail has been opened in England arrangements are being made for the trans mission of such mail by direct boats, eliminating handling it in England. The United States mail has been opened several times. The Turkish sultan has been gravely ill and at a conference of the princes of the empire it was desired to make the oldest son of Abdul, ex-sultan, the sultan, but this was opposed and a deadlock resulted. Meanwhile a German surgeon has operated on the sultan for gall stones. The Tages Zeitung, a news paper in Berlin, was suspended last week because of an article published relating to affairs be tween Germany and the United States. It said the president had closed the Panama canal and was doing other absurd things to help the allies, Later, the govern ment allowed it to print again. Germany Will Agree to President's Demands There are good prospects that the forthcoming German note to the United States will go a long way toward meeting the Ameri can government's wishes regard ing Germany's conduct of sub marine warfare and making pas senger traffic on the high seas safe. While it is stated that sub marine action against hostile merchantmen will not and can not be abandoned entirely, it is increasingly probable that the German note will embody some proposals to exempt ships em ployed wholly or principally in passenger traffic from submarine attack. Such ships, it is said, of course, would be subject to stoppage and examination by submarines in accordance with the practice in vogue prior to the present war and to capture if carrying contra band, but the regular rules of the prize law, particularly regarding the safety of passengers and crews, would be observed. It is hoped here that such a solution will satisfy the require ments of President Wilson's note. It is hoped and expected here among those who are working for a friendly settlement of the situation between Germany and the United States that the Uni ted States would see that such passenger ships were not used to transport ammunition and guns nor lend themselves to attacks upon submarines. gains in good roads, good schools and churches, diversified crops, more and better farm animals, accumulated farm wealth, home comforts, conveniences and luxu ries A certain, steady, weekly in come the whole year round means economic freedom in the farm regions. It means a self-supporting self-financing, self-directing democratic civilization. Univer sity News Letter. NEWS OF THE COUNTY Catawba Items. Mrs. M. S. Winecoff and little daughter, Margaret, of Elmwood are the guests of Mrs. Winecoff 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Har well, near town. Mrs. J. W. Lowrance left last week for Richmond to visit her daughter, Mrs. Claude Moore. Before returning home Mrs. Lowrance will visit in Greens boro and Sadelia. Miss Marion Long of Newton was the guest of relatives in town last week. Miss Winona Leonard has re turned from a two weeks visit in Mt. Ulla and Statesville. Mrs. Charlie Witherspoon- of Hickory is spending a few days with Mrs. R. R. Boggs. Miss Katie Coulter is spending this week in Bridgewater with Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Coulter. From Bridgewater she will go to visit Miss Grace Arney at Old Fort. Mr. C. A. Reid Jr., of" Ashe ville was among the visitors in town last week. Miss Zula Sherrill has for her house guests this week Miss Rea Davidson and Mr. Tom Boyd of Statesville and Mr. HughMcCaul ey of Charlotte. Mrs. B. C. Floyd of Orange, Va., who has been visiting her parents, tMr. and Mr. J. F. Har man, is spending this week in Newton the guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert Deal. Mr. Carrie Neill and children, Mr. Buren and Miss Flo Neill of Statesville, were guests of Mr. and Mrf. T. F.Shuford last week. Mrs. Neill and children left Mon day for Malcom and Tama, Iowa, to vist relatives. Mrs. Neill is a sister of Mr. Shuford. Messrs Claude Sigmon, Fred Lowrance and Ed Smith and Misses Bess Smith, Mabel Gillle land and Ilia Moore formed a motor party from here to Ruth erford College Sunday to visit Rev. and Mrs. Beverly Wilson and Miss Willie Cherry. Master J. M. Davis of States ville is spending this week here the guest of his sister, Mrs. F. Y. Long. Mr. Chouves Leonard spent a few days last week with his friend, Mr. Schley Wilson, in Rutherford College. Capt. J. H. Sherrill has been confined to his home the past few days on account of illness. The store buildings of Messrs. A. H. McNeill and J. F. Herman have been completed and they are now putting in a complete stock of goods. A pleasant party of the week was the one given by Mr. Charlie and Miss Ha Moore Tuesday night. The out of tewn guests were Miss Rae Davidson, Messrs CharlieSherrill and Paul Ward of Statesville. Southern's Fine Train Record. During the month of May, Southern railway operated 13,803 regular passenger trains of which 12,532 or 91 per cent made sched ule time. The number leaving and arriving all points on time was 12,103 or 88 per cent. Especially good time was made in handling the 11,695 local trains run during the month, 10,824 or 93 per cent having made schedule time and 10,467 or 89 per cent being on time at all stations. Of the 2,108 limited trains, nearly all of which are long dis tance trains with one or both termini beyond the rails of Southern railway, 1,798 or 85 per cent made schedule time while on the Southern railway and 1, 638 or 78 per cent were on time at all stations. Following the suppression of whiskey in Russia, .soaks took to drinking varnish and anything else that had alcohol in it and the result is many deaths and life long ailments. A hospital report shows nearly 3,000 victims of methylated spirits. Partial blind ness is caused by drinking this when it dosen't kill. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS EVENTS Brief Items Showing at a Glance What is Transpiring Throughout the State. Charles E. Trull of Charlotte, condemned to die, has been re spited by the governor till August 6. E. C. White, a workman whose back was broken when a piece of scaffolding fell upon him while engaged on a warehouse in Dur ham, has sued the Farmers Ware house Co. there for $20,000 alleg ed damages. j Col. L. S. Williams of Char lotte Thursday morning, aged 90 years. He was the oldest Mason in the state and was the only living citizen at the time of the late appearance of Halley's comet comet who had seen that comet once before. It is thought tne population of the state increased 8,000 during May, about that many births having been recorded. The deaths reached about half that number. The new vital statistics law isn't yet working smoothly, and not all births and deaths are recorded, but the law is being enforced rigidlv and people are being indicted for not obeying it Early Friday morning robbers cracked the safe in the Moeks ville postoffice, and fled in an automobile. Citizens, aroused by the explosion, fought a run ning battle, but the thieves got away. Later Winston officers in searching, came on a man fixing a machine, and he ran. The machine bore a false number. Stamps worth $15 were recover ed. A Lexington movie show offer ed tickets for old tin cans lying around, in order to aid in the elimination of the mosquito, and over 31,000 cans were gathered by the boys and girls. Incident ally it revealed the old, old North Carolina sin of buying canned food from other states all winter while vegetables and fruits go to waste all summer for lack of market. Catawba's Corn Deficit Nearly Half Million Bushels An ideal corn country, Cataw ba county lacks just 416, 603 bush els of producing enough for her own needs or did lack it when the 1910 census was made. In stead of growing enough com, we grow cotton to buy nearly half a million bushels of corn from the west! Catawba ranks 50th among the counties of the state in corn pro duction. WTio'd have thought It? We talk so much about our county, and we have done such wonderful things in dairying, that we just naturally get the idea that we are IT agricultural lyuntil we collide with facts, and it leaves us breathless. The per capita corn consump tion in this country is 31 bushels, according to the University News Letter. Catawba has a per capi ta production of 16 bushels a deficit of 15 bushels for every person in the county. Only two counties in the state raised suffi cient corn, according to the 13th census Hyde with 42 bushels and Clay with 32 bushels per capita. Robeson led in amount of production 1,042,060 bushels, but Robeson ranks 22nd, raising only 20 bushels per capita, and j needing 11 more. New Hanover j ranks last, 98th, with a per capi- j ta production of one bushel. Yadkin beats Catawba with 25 bushels; Burke beats us with j 19, Cleveland with 19, Lincoln j with 18, Caldwell. McDowell and Rutherford with 17 bushels per; capita, and Iredell with 18. Mecklenburg produces only seven j bushels per capita. j In 1914 the deficit in corn pro-j duction for the entire state was 23,389,000 bushels. In 1850 we ' produced 34 bushels per capita; now only two counties produce enough for their home needs. Yet we can grow more corn at less cost per acre than the corn states of the west where we buy our supply. 1 TALK OF GRANDFATHER CLAUSE Effort Was Made in 1907 to Extend Pro visionsWisdom of Not Doing So. Raleigh correspondence Greens boro Daily News: North Carolina's wisdom eight years ago has been many times recalled today when additional excuse f orjndulging hope for this state's constitutional amendment was being sought. The northern papers, particu larly the Democratic and inde pendent ones, have been perhaps most jubilant over the defeat of the perpetual grandfather clauses in other constitutions. The New York World's "Republic at Last" leaves the locals to think that the World assumes North Carolina's overthrow, creeps out But new evidence while these metro- politan papers jubilate and the state's hopes are heightened. Today representatives of the olden days recalled that when the amendment was adopted and being put to vote, Representative Fuller a negro of Warrenton, arose to explain his vote. He declared that the spirit in which the majority had passed the amendment was such that he was uncertain as to the way he should vote. He did vote "no" but he said he doubted its being the best for his race. In 1907 quite a large element of both Democratic and Republican parties favored an extension of the grandfather clause. Senator Butler has been included amonsr the many Republicans who be lieved in that extension. In a caucus during- the 1907 general assembly strong Democrats plead ed for the larger opportunity to the white illiterate. Perhaps the strongest opponent was Attorney General Bickett. Mr. Bickett declared that such an extension would convince the courts, if the amendment ever came to their review, that North Carolina was trifling with the law and not sincere in the amend ment that it did pass. He prophe sied that if the state passed such an amendment to an amendment the law would have no standing in the highest courts. He told a story, too, illustrating the danger of holding no incentive to the dominant whites to become liter ate voters. "People advance as they are driven," Mr. Bickett said, and rel ted the narative of the frogs in the hole unable to jump out. One day they all came out. A black snake was under them. Thereupon one of the most errorless of the untetrified spoke up: "Mr. Chairman," he said, "I hope I would never live to hear the great sovereign Democ racy of North Carolina likened unto a bunch of toads in a hole," and sat down. But the enterprise failed. The majority were against the ex tension which meant perpetual discrimination against the black. The Raleigh Democrats believe it will avail much. r w D.f r H) J lumuiuiee uu uciuiiu ui tuuiiiimcuiuc Slakes Plans. The committee on reform in court proceduce met Monday morning, in the supreme court building, mapped out the course of the matter committed to it and divided it by topics among the members of the committee. Each will make a report on his specially assigned part and sub mit it to the committee at the next meeting. Then a full report will be drafted and submitted to citizens of the state for criticism or suggestion before it is turned over to the governor. The committee expects to se cure information from leading men in the state and literature from other states where the matter has been under considera tion for a longer time. At the present, a letter will be prepared to be mailed to the leading citi zens of the state, asking their views on the matter and sugges tions as to proper reform. After the report is formulated, the same citizens will receive copies with requests for further criti cism and amendments . Among the subject discussed ENGLISH NOTE ON CARGOES. British Take Position That America Has No Just Complaint to Make. Great Britain, in a memoran dum transmitted to the United States recites at length its efforts to minimize inconvenience to neutral commerce resulting from the order in council against trade with Germany, Austria and Tur key, and asserts that American citizens have no just grounds for complaint on account of the treatment accorded their car goes. No attempt is made to answer the principals asserted in the American note of March 1 pro testing against the order-in-coun-cil and insisting upon the right of neutrals to carry on legitimate commerce with each other and , to trade in non-contraband with civilians in belligerent countries. In trans mitting the memorandum Ambassador Page said it was "merely an explanation of con crete cases and the regulations under which they are dealth with." Another note to Great Britain is now in course of preparation at the state department and is ex pected to be dispatched as soon as the negotiations with Ger many over submarine warfare have been cleared up. While this communication probably will make reference to the latest memorandum, it is understood that the manner of enforcing the order-m-council will not be treated as relevant to the ques tion at issue whether there is any warrant in international law for the powers that Great Bri tain and her allies have assumed to exercise ovrr the commerce of the world. In its memorandum the foreign office emphasizes the "various special concessions made in favor of United States citizens" in set ting forth all British officials have acted in every case "with the utmost dispatch consistent with the object in viewand of show ing in every case such consider ation for neutrals as might be compatible with the object name ly, to prevent vessels from carr y ing goods for, or coming from the enemy's territory." Arrangements for buying American cotton detained and for permitting the passage of goods bought in Germany by Americans before the date of or-der-in-council are outlined, and the promise made that considera tion will be given to special cases of this kind in the future. According to a summary of shins dpfiiinpfl thprA nrp nnw 97 vessels which cleared from the United States now held m ports of the United Kinndom. Of these eight are said to be un loading cotton which Great Brit ain has agreed to purchase, seven will be allowed to depart as soon as items of their cargo placed in a prize court nave Deen dis charged, and the other 12 three of them American ships are the subject of investigations not yet cumpicLcu. j The government has bought the Boone boundary, teaming at Blowing Rock and covering 36,- 386 acres in Caldwell and Avery counties, for the federal park re serve. The price is $1.90 an acre. Other smaller tracts were pur chased in the mountains last week. In trying to get her rights many a woman goes at it in the wrong way. Appearances indicate that the average man doesn't get much beauty sleep. were those of abolition of rota ting system of judges; uniform ity of juiisd.cdon of recorder's courts, with a limit as to the number of such courts; verdict by nine jurors in civil actions af ter a certain time of disagree ment, and a verdict by eleven jurors in misdemeanors, retain ing the unanimous verdict only in capital case; and the rule ob taining in many States of the fixing of sentences by the jurors rather than the judge.
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