THE SANFORD EXPRESS | 4Mb Yew m fmUtatm.-■ A ES CABU8HE© LJf last. I nnauHEK*: . | - r.to.St.CMr .ftLUCWr A#. .SULSigM* rW'<' * SUBSCRIPTION BATES Om few, *«•;-8jc Math*. 7Se Mmtlibif ■-*—_jjpjlintien * ' Entered at the FNt 0*ee in Sanford, V. C, u Mail Matter of the Second IHUttlUf, AUGUST «, ll» SANFORD KNOWS 0OW TO COME BACK. From the Sanford Express we )esrn that the business people of that good little city are down but Hot out They have organized in to a business unit, canvassed the territory and secured subscrip tion* sufficient to make up the capital stock of a local independ ent bank. Breakings and dosings have reduced Sanford to the classification of a no-bank town. That would never do, and will not do, for such an enterprising place. Energetic peorfe of the Lee County capital Will not stand for it. They will take their great losses, bat they will not take the count of down-and-out. Recently a big tobacco ware house burned to the ground. With barely sufficient time for reconstruction, live business men went about the: task, and now it is announced that a new ware house will be ready for the open ing of the «eiling season on Sep tember 19. That’s the way Sanford does things. The keynote of its suc cess is Organization, Business people of Sanford get together when they want to put things over. Fact is, we believe^ they star together, for without com pact organization of people who stick together for the common good there could not be succex for such tremendous undertak es Sanford haf been able tc carry through. Business and industry will Stage a come-back from the nerve-racking stamp of the past five /ear*. The News believes that much-desired condition will not be long delayed. Already thefe are sura signs of a return of prosperity of a definite *ort —not booms, we hope, but good solid and substantial conditions that-will put honest business on around basis. saniora u nelping to bnng the •o untry back. It w not calling on -- — "George” to do the work. It is , up and doing on its own hook. Sanford knows how to come back —it is coming back. , • ' ' The above editorial is taken from the Harnett County News. The Express wishes to express its appreciation of the high opin ion our esteemed contemporary ----- . has of the , business people of ' Sanford and Lee county. The 1 News Is right in saying that the people of Sanford will take their great losses, but they will not take the count of down-and-out. Vou may .think It strange for this paper to make the assertion ■ that this depression is having a good effect on Sanford at this time and the effect will be more marked later. This struggle^n the part of the business people ef Sanford to raise money to build a warehouse and oranixe a b bank at the same time, is not on ly going to be successful; but it means that the people of the town have learned their lesson in the school of hard knocks and «v' ere ready to join hands and co operate in the work of building J up the town as they have never cooperated before. A few weeks ego* many of our citizens were skeptical as to the outcome of . this movement to do the thing thet seemed impossible, especial | ly at this time, They have now V;'.:. about reached the conclusion s . that they can put over anything that they set their heads to do. the man who thinks that be ; cause Sanford has a number of T empty "ton buildings and dwelt Imts thet she U down-and-out, wSU mob have another thought coming to him. When conditions j improve «ui things become nor-; c mil, watch Sanford come io the j front and grows as she has never l, grown In past year*. « -- ■ r — « GOOD BUSINESS THIS 1 FALL?—WHY CERTAINLY. j Taking everything into eonsi- j deration there i« no reason why; j business should not be better in j Sanford this fail than it has been: in several years. There is a good ■, yield oi cotton throughout this t trade territory and it was produc j ed at a «naller cost than any j crop that has been raised in a ] number of years. As the crop is i unusually early the fanners will , probably have it gathered and , marketed before j bad weather ■ Bet• in the latter part of the falL ; The gins in the county have been , overhauled and are now ready to \ gin tiie fleecy staple as fast as t it cornea in. Cotton is now selling . at a much better price than it did . this time last year and it is be- | lieved that it will continue to sell < higher than it did last season. , No doubt plowing up part of the j crop haa helped to stimulate the , As has been stated in these , columns there has been a big to- j bacco crop raised in Lee and ad- ] joining counties. There is a con- , siderable increase in acreage , over last year and the yield per < acre is greater- Planters teU The ! Express that they have cured , some beautiful tobacco and that' j the season for making and cur- , ing it hit lust right. According ) to the prices that have obtained \ on the border markets even the , •and lugs are selling at much , better prices than they did last , season. Planters who have car-,, Tied tobacco to the markets that', are now open say the sorriest i, lugs put on the market bring), about twice the amount they »oki at twelve months ago. It is plan-! ned to have three warehouses'. open here during the season. Ex-j perienced buyers will be on the. market and all the leading to-r bacco companies wifl be repre sented. The new warehouse i* be* ( ing so constructed that thefiv baeeo can be brfeught fa^Aveigh- ' *®d, placed, 'sold " 'and moved out with as little confusion as pos-' sible. As tobacco can be handing with greater dispatch the plant- j ere will not be kept waiting for j the sales till the day is half gone. This wffl give more time for' handling the sales at the other) warehouses. This all means that! .the Sanford market will be pre-j pared to take care of all the to-] bacco that will be marketed here with but little loss of time for the busy farmers. Last year the farmers of Lee j county made a poor crop of corn. .1 Many fanners did not make a1 sufficient amount of coni fordo-' jnestic purposes and had to buy corn before the present crop was made- Their hay and forage crop was also short and many a ton of Western hay was soil in this county since the first of the spring, borne or the farmers in this section will raise this year a sufficient amount of com to do1 them for the next two years and should they succeed in gathering the hay and fodder crops they will have to buy very little rough £»d for their live stock next year. MIGHT EXTEND THE LIST. Dr. Wade Harris handled the defense of the local press in North Carolina—the weekliesi and semi-weeklies—most effect-1 IveTy in his reply to Mencken’*1 in-informed attack. With the list' of live local paper* there is agree' mant here, except that some good' oxMnploi that were overlooked [ come to mind- * ! For instance, there are such' papers as the Cleveland Star} ■ (issued three times a week but1 stiU a county paper in essence) Elkin Tribiihe, Lumber-ton Rob eson! an, , Moore County News, Aaheboro Courier, News-Report-1 er of Whiteville, Laurinburg Ex change, Sanford Express, San ford Herald,' Hertford County News, Mount Airy Times and others whose titles do not come quickly to mind. Indeed it is a simpler task to list the worth while local papers in North Caro line than to try and pick opt those not living up to their op portunities. i ■ The above short editorial is nedited to the Lexington Dis atch, one of the best semi-week r newspapers in the State, and ne that is highly prized on the xchange table of Hie Express, here i* great improvement la he general make-up of the week lr and semi weekly newspapers n North Carolina daring the ast twenty-five years. One who has engaged in the reeldy newspaper business for tearly half century is in m pass ion to appreciate the great im irtrremenU that have been made d the local newspapers from ear to rear. Marked improve nents have been made in both aechanieal department and sub set matter. Back 40 years ago, ind even up to 25 years ago nany of the local newspapers in his State were small patent heets poorly printed. Upon an iverage they carried a column to , coLumn and a half of editorial natter and four or five columns >f local news. The front pages .ere filled up with matter clip ped from the daily press and oe asionally the opinions of corres wndents. The foreign advertis ing was made up of a few patent riedicine notices. There was very ittle jocal advertising as the nerchants and other local con erns had not learned the value f printer’s ink nn«u rural, man ivuus were stablished carrying the daily tapers to every nook and corner f the country, the publishers of he weektgr papers realized tliat he front page of their papers vould have to carry live local tews stuff to take the place of niscellaneous matter in the hape of dead press dispatches >r they would have to quit busi less. Some of the most progres tive weekly paper publishers lave studied the art ofarranging heir reading matter and now lave about as attractive front pages as the daily papers. .4t- ■ WHEN WILL ILLITERACY BE ENTIRELY WIPED OUT? ft*. ... - — —......... •• — . r out in North Carolina? question that should be of vital concern to every man, woman and child in the State to-day. State School Facts in its current issue, calls this a rural problem and says the small decrease in number of illiterates in the State during the past ten years indi cates that something more defi nite should be done about this problem during the present de cade. In 1920 there were 241,603 illiterates; in 1930 there were 236,261. One out of every ten per sens 10 years of age and over is il.iterate. The University News Letter ‘publishes a tabulated statement which shows the per cent of illiterates by counties in the State. Lee ranks 39th in the list and the following figures show the total and per centage of illiterates in the countv: To tal number of illiterates, *1,154; per cent illiterates, 9.1; per cent whites illiterate, 4.6; per cent Negroes illiterate 19A Analyzing the above figures showing the alarming amount of illiteracy in the State one is con vinced of the fact that the late General Assembly made a ser ious mistake in shortening the school term and reducing the salaries of teachers to almost starvation figures. Unless some thing is done to advance the sal aries of qualified teachers there is a possibility of the schools falling into the hands of poorly prepared teachers who will prove poor agencies in wiping out illi teracy in the State. This kind of business Is calculated to foster illiteracy. For a number of years North Carolina has boasted of be ing one of the most progressive states in the Union. Great pro gress was made in her education al system, but the last Legisla ture certainly did give her a black eye by shortening the school term and reducing salar ies of the teachers. Some of the operatives in the Sanford Cotton Mill are now drawing higher wages than the salaries that will be paid some of the teachers in the Lee/county schools this fall The mill operatives probably earn every cent they get. but how much money did they spend on their education? The teach ers not only spent money for their education, but it was years of toil with them in preparing and equipping themselves for their work. ^ . The Express is glad to Know that the Commissioners of this county have made an appropria tion to the library that was est ablished in Sanford some 25 /'ears ago. The town has also riven assistance to the strug tUng library. • 1 ' ^ 1TiiUitk»aatt«*«ttkiwaab the public schools at Lea county will •pea to Wfia vat of iiwHiit year. Thau, to paraphrase a pkna, f«o4 in aaa af Sebqkoe'i plays wham ha speaks af the seven aces of, Men, the nail hoys with their satch els and shining morning faces will be creeping like snails unwillingly to, school Creeping She snails? These words are not applicable today for boys ride to school at the expense of their fathers who are nnahle to pay their taxes Unwillingly to school? that will do, tor Jboys are just) as re luctant to attend school today as they were when Shakespbere Was a hoy and skipped school to lead the gang, to the old swimming hole on the Aron or write fanny rhymes aboitf bis neigh bom and posh them up in the village tor every one who .read them to. laugh. at. Troth is, boys never have liked the confinement of the school room and that is why so frpr men are trained and educate! today. ) icaconv in our consouaatea scnoois with their modeqn equipment and well appointed recitation rooms are in a position to (he their pupils a better, start than were the teachers who started the fathers and mothers of. these pupils thirty hr thirty-five years ago in the one-teacher schools and yet the teachers in these small schools were able to lay the foundation for the thorough education which their. pupils in some instances acquired later at higher institutions of learning. The state_ which is today trying to educate all of its children finds it more eco-! nominal to train them in inrger groups in consolidated schools. Hence, the abolition of the «q»H schools. j Men and wumerewho attended the small schools in days gone by remem- j ter quite well the programs which were put on once a month on Friday afternoon when books were laid aside. These programs consisted at declama tions, recitations and compositions. - Sometimes a debate or a play wzc pat on by the students. The compositions were supposed to be original but sometimes they were written in such good English chat they were known to be appropriated. The declamations were usually extracts from speeches of American statesmen and orators ' eodb as Patrick Henry, Henry day, Daniel Wehster, Jiobert Toombs, Jef fetsfc. Davis, AftaMm Lincoln, Zebu ion B. Vance, Henry Grady and others. The recitations usually included among others one or two such poems as “Paul Severe’s Bide,” “Marion's Men," “Charge of the light Brigade," “The Sword of Lee," “The Men at Alamance,” “The Conquered Banner,” and the “Star Spangle Banner." “In Flanders Field" and "The Spires of Oxford" were not then in existence or these would have been included. On one occasion when one of these programs was being rendered a hoy. who was called on for a speech advanc ed to the front and recited this amus ing bit of doggerel: “1 had a little dog, his name was fox, I sent him over the river after my box, He got my box, he spilt my snuff, . 1 think my speech is long enough.” A* I recall, my first recitation or speech in the little school house con sisted of the following lines: “I am going to my own hearthstone, Embosomed in yon green hills alone, A secret nook in a 'pleasant land Whose groves the frolic fairies • planned. Where arches green the live long day, Echo the black bird’s roundelay. ] And when I’m safe in my sylvan home I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome, * | And when I stretch beneath the pines Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, ' At the-sophist school and the leant- j ed clan, • I ’For what are they in their high conceit When man in the bush with' God may meet?” J Now, how came I to get these high * sounding lines by heart?. Well, as they were read aloud by some one 1 thought they sounded pretty and then they were easy to mamorise because of the wey they rhymed. Today as I racalt these lines I grould substitute the word beautiful for jtwtty in des- j eribing them. Of course I didn’t know, what they meant any mote than I knew what the Shorter Catechism meant, and I can’t say now that I know exactly what Emerson was driv- i tng at when he wrote the poem of ( which these lines are a part, but what matters it? Although the sage of con- j Sord must have been in one of his my santhropfc moods when, he wrote'this1 poem the reading of the poem lifts you for the moment fnto si higher at-; mosphere than that in which you larej accustomed to live and the poet'beau-! tifles and spiritualizes your environ- j ment. Is not that what poet-^vre for? ■ Today some of our best t\eakers and debaters in Congress and else where will tell you that they first -learned to speak and debate thirty five or forty yean ago In the little - 'V ‘ .'\V I Ryan TiBmaa who im his day to «nc «t the beet ijofan ia the United Stain Senate Mi is ir rpaerfb which he Made ia Sanford mm yens age an the ran question that he probably had senator had he not leaned hear to talk when a hoy to a little school hones ia the bade weeds of Sooth Chndtaa. Today public opoalriag is being1 redue ed to a fine art. Everywhere—through the radio, on the screen, at the her, ia the pulpit, nt legislative halls and on the hostings—public speakers oust he prief and to the point, aad the mar who cannot think quick and talk Carl an his foot has to taka a hack seat aad listen to some one who can talk. The public has no time to lutes to a mar who stumbles and fumbles for wordt and ideas and who oounds like a dog acrambling through a shuck pile. No doubt every school boy and girl to lac county would like to be able to get up pefore the public and talk, and the place to loam Iso is the rostrum of the public school. The aiz large consolidated schools which will open in Lee county next month have absorbed thirty small one aad two teacher schools which child ren of school age attended a few years ago. These schools ate graded ami have high school departments in which boys and gills are prepared for col lege. Lee county’s first graded school was opened in Sanford thirty-two years age in a brick building located at the corner of Cartilage and Steele streets. This budding was tom down several yean ago and a larger build ing constructed on the coiner of Steele and Weathersgoon streets. The ear* building was constructed about the tome time. Professor D. L. Ellis was the first principal of these schools and the first board of trustees was ai follows: '0. E. Mclver, chairman; Dr. W. A. Monroe, W. S. Weatherspoon, T. L. Chisholm, G. W. Temple, J. B King, J. K. Perry, E. a Moffitt and B. Cole. Mr. Cole is the antji one ol these men now alive. In recent years as people have mov ed from the rural districts of Norti Carolina to the cities and towns tc lire an important! man has disappear ed from the country-side along wit! the little schools, country poet office* country stores, and in many instance* country churches with its pastor. Thii individual is the old time country doc tor. People in the country continue t< get sick as do people in town but whe: the farmer needs a physician for hint self or same member of his family h< finds when he sends to town for i physician that about all of the doc tors have become specialists. There t be brought into use. Then there is tha nerve special/,t, the specialist foi nose;, ears and throat, the eye special ist and last but not least the dentist. If then is a general practitionei in town and he goes out to see tin patient he often finds, after diagnos ing the case that he needs to be sen) to a hospital and pat under the can of a specialist. This is done and tin patient', after, recovering from hif illness, find* a number of bills against himself. There is the doctor bill, th< drug bill, hospital till, a;id in case o1 a special nurse tlje nurses bill. Not one of three bills may be tee high bul all of them taken together oftei amount to a sum that the patient ii unable to pay and he leaves the hos pital worried that-he is unable to pa) the people who have taken care of hin in his illness. In the past twenty-fiv years medical science has made won derful progress in the treatment ol disease but the treatment is costing patients too much and all the parties concerned need to get together anc work out some plan of relief for them selves. .Referring again to the old trap country doctor, be waa an institution within himself. This paragraphs] knows of ten country doctors ' who once lived in this section and travell ed over a wide range of territory in the practice of their profession. They were: Or. J. L. Sheppard, Dr. Chilli Budd, Dr. John Mclver, Dr. George C. Newby, Dr. William Arnold, Dr. Hec tor Turner, Dr. Alex McDonald, Dr. Richard Street, and the elder Dr. Pal mer. Dr. W. A. Monroe, who lived in Sanford and who practiced at a latei period may be classed with these men Dr. Monroe had a practice that ex tended to Buckhom on the east and Governor’s Creek on the west and he was often on the road day and night and getting little sleep for weeks st s time. Not a bigger hearted or more upselfiah physician has ever practiced medicine. These doctors had their own drug stores on their premises and in their saddle pockets they carried me dicines which ihey, compounded and rolled at the bed side of their patients. In the summer they had to wrestle with typhoid fever which sometimes mounted to an epidemic and in whiter they contended With pneumonia and many other diseases. In their day the pufelie roads were Tittle better than ttmd holes and gullies and in their (ravels they underwent all sorts of hardships and privations. There were no hospitals to which they could send their patients and no trained nurses with whom they could leave medicines and give instructions for the care of patients. These were big men, big of body and big of heart and they were made of iron. They had to be else they never could have undergone the physical and mental strain to which they were subjected in the war they ... made on disease. Today the apaa oi human life u beinr slowly but aural) lengthened by medical science- Thi doctors an attacking diaeaae at ever) angle of approach. Hence, the a pec [al lot. We honor the trained, capabla aparialiat who ie conscientious in the performance of hia work aa a physi can, aad we honor and revere tha memory of the old-time country doc tor w^e was faithful to the utmost in Ha performance of hia duty to hli patients. LIBRARY RULES ate a. eta,. 2:30 to 6:00 P. M. 2 old books 1 new book to each person Issued for 3 weeks, with one renewal. Penalty, 1 cent per day for overdue. 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