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.1 The Asheboro Courier PublU ted Every Thursday. Wm. C. HAMMER, Editor. PRICE 0N2 DOLLAR A YEAR The columns of The Courier are own to all egitimat mlvi-ni-in. Rate card will be sent ' ou request or rtit.-s will be furnished upon appli cation at buslm- ortice. All comrauuivdtiouk must bestgucJ by the real name of the writ.T. tSubwTiooM wNhinfc their address changed must giro the address to which the paper has heen going, a well as the new address. Correspondents should mail news letters iu time lor thera t reach this office by Tur.lay moniinif, to iD-ai-e their appearance in the reek's iue. Iniortant hapieniuKs, Much as death, tires, ac' ldcutH, etc., may be 'phoned at The Courier's est peine Albemarle ia to give a lunch to the members of the North Carolina State Press Association on their way as they pass through ou the South bound on January 26. Albemarle does things well, and the editors may expect a good time. An issue which was most effective and would ?:wlon iothe last cam paign was tne bigh cost of living as the direct result of the high cost of living. It is an ohl excuse offered for a high tariff that protection is necessary for "infant" industries. The "infants" are still infants, or at least are er.pying the high pro tection of old and more in most in stances. There is a determined movement all over the State for good roads. It is impiible to make the pub lic school system what it should be, to make the school houses available for all the school subjects without good rnads. A system of good roads with State aid is essential to the proper development of the State. We want good roads and we want State aid in building them. Good roads are needed and it is not simply for convenience of automobile riders if we really knew it. A tariff tax goes into the coffers of the trusts. A road tax would come back to the tax payers in per. manently improved highways. In a road tax there is something . to show for the money. The Kentucky editors met the other day and talked about three things, taxation, geod roads and public education. The defects in the system of taxation was pointed out. The North Carolina Press Association which meets this mouth would do well to discuss these three questions culy, and in such away as to impieas the legislature with the paramount importance of these three issues. The State Press Association that is to meet in Winston-Salem Jan nary 24th and 25, wonld have served the State better by meeting in Ral eigh where the quiet drivers could have impressed the law makers with the importance of legislating for the benefit of good roads as well as for bet ter schools. We should have state aid to thosecounties that will aid them selves. There are three great issues in North Carolina now. They are taxation, education and good roads. These are the three issues which the state now faces with more than passing seriousness. If the mountain counties and the counties in the great Piedmonnt sec tion of the State will bond them .cpivp heavily they will be able to bu lu all the good roads they need, and they will be the richest counties in the State in a few years. Tkeprogressive county of Guil ford is to have an agricultural commissioner and a special health officer. The duty of these two men will be to give the whole of their time in co-ooperation with the county superintendent of public instruction in instilling into the minds of the children the importance of agriculture, Health and sanitation and public education and to carry on demon strations in the various town ships and to have assistants if necessary, to make their work fcxown to every man, woman and child in the county. A WELL DESERVING CHRIST MAS PRESENT. So many good things are done by the members of North Caro lina press that it is out of the question for us to note the do ings of these progressive build ers of a commonwealth. We are a little late in calling atten tion to the deserving compli ment pnd Editor Josephus Dan iels on last Christmas eve, when ex-Governor Aycock, Judge Wal ter Clarke and a number of other distinguished North Carolinians went to the News and Observer building and presented to Mr. Daniels for the democracy of the State for the eminent services rendered the State by Editor Daniels. Governor Aycock made the speech of presentation, in which he commended the invaluable services rendered by Mr. Dan iels as editor. Mr. Daniels has fought con sistently for good government. There have been times when it looked like the battles would be lost and that his race was almost run, but his fearless devotion to duty and zealous support in aid of that which is best for the in terests of the State has made him and his great newspaper a central figure in the political and industrial uplift of the State- Mr. Daniels holds that a paper which renders best service to its party must be Democratic in season and out of season, all the year round, if you please. The paper that blows hot only occasionally and the balance of the time blows cold or blows not at all, does not perform the best service for the State. There is a world of truth in what Mr. Daniels said in his re marks in response to what Gov. Aycock said in presenting the handsome silver service, and we quote in part the fine sentiment contained in the following true and telling words : "Independent journalism was given an impetus because of the decadence of the party organ. From the robustness and true independence of such party pa pers as the National Intelli gencer, the New York Tribune and the Richmond Examiner the party degenerated into personal organs. Instead of existing to uphold the creed of the party too many party leaders used the party organs to further their per sonal ambitions. For years Thur low Weed, Horace Greely and Henry J. Raymond, the Big Three Whig editors in New York, through their tapers, were the masters of their party. A party organ that is in itself a political machine, is edited by a man who uses the power gained to put himself or his personal friends in office, or to get money for himself, is a cancer on the com munity. The disappearance of such party papers was ordained by the law that a trustee for the public cannot retain popular con fidence when he abuses his trust. But the party journals are not the only ones that have lost sight of the public duty. Are we not in danger today, under the loud boast of independence, of sup porting too many public service corporations, trusts and selfish interests, under the honoramle name of "independent newspa pers ?" The country needs the truly independent newspaper and has many such, but it needs more honest and able journals devoted to preaching party prin ciples in which the editor be lieves with all his mind and heart Whence comes the in difference to party creeds, the jelly fish party man, the igno rance of voters as to the wide distinction between the Demo cratic and Republican doctrines? It can be largely traced to the lack of strong and fearless jour nals that are sound in the funda mentals and preach the truth as seriously and as earnestly as any preacher expounds the gospel in his pulpit. The chicken industry has be come the greatest of all indus tries. In Kansas alone the rev enue derived in one year from the American hen was $10,000, 000- The returns from chicken raising are sure and quick. There is no get-rich-quick scheme but there is a good profit when care and good business methods are used in the management. WORK OF THE GENERAL AS SEMBLY. Some of the Measures Presented in the General Assembly the First Week. Mr. Stubbs, of Martin county, has introduced a bill providing a consti tutional convention for North Caro lina, to change the constitution which is, the bill declares, ''in many particulars unsuited to the wants and condition of our people." The bill provides for a vote in the gen eral election of 1912 aud if ''con vention" is voted it shall convene in Raleigh on the fit St Monday in May, 1913. Mr. Koonce, of Onslow, introduc ed a joint resolution to provide for a court of inquiry to consist of three from the House aud two from the Senate with all the powers of a court to investigate the conduct of fire insurance companies in North Carolina, i bis is along in line of the recommendation of Governor Kitch ln as to tire insurance legislation. The House adopted a resolution to meet on Mondays at 12 o'clock. Au important bill by Mr. Battle, of Wake, reduces the peremptory chal lenges allowed the defendant in cap ital cases from 23 to 9, gives the State 7 challenges and empowers judges to summon jurors from ad joining counties when deemed ex peuient. Ihe House passes unanimously the resolution requesting members of Congress and Senators to vote for New Orleans as tire exposition city for the celebration of the Pana ma canal opening Among the important bills intro duced was one to increase the salary of the Governor to $6,000 per year; co mike it discretionary with the trial judge as to whether the chal. lenges of jurors on the ground that they are not free-holders shall be sustained or denied; to make the legal time of INorth Carolina that wnich we get from Washington, in stead of that popularly known as sun time which is legal nnder the existing law; requiring the Southern railway to operate two additional passenger trains between Greeusboro and Raleigh; to ratify the Federal income tax amendment. In the Senate a bill has been in troduced to create the county of Hoke from parts of Robeson and Cumberland, with Raeford as the county seat. Dr. Mcrnaull, of Robeson, intro duced a bill to prohibit the sale or giving away of cigarettes, cigarette paper, etc. Other bills introduced: To allow 8 per cent interest to be charged by contract; to require fac tories to keep medical supplies on hand to render hrst aid to injured; to make it a misdemeanor to reqeire employes not to join labor organiza tion; to proiibit paying poll tax to influence voters (by Judge Ewart, Kepuohcin of Henderson county.) Representative Ewart, Republi can, of Henderson county, intro duced a bill thanking Governor Potbier in nis action in the Rhode Island bond proposition and de nouncing Marion Butler and calling his actions "pernicious and perfidi ous." Ewart also offered bills to amend State Constitution in order to have three additional Supreme Court Justices, and three additional Superior Court Judges. Still an other bill that would reduce railroad fares to 2 cents per mile. Baute, of Wake, offers bill to en able any town to have commission form of government that wants it. The usual number of bills are be ing offered in both houses, many of which are of a local nature. Representative Cox has been ap pointed on sereral committees, the most important of which is the Fi nance Committee. Mr. Charles Ross, now of Harnett, is also a mem ber of this committee. Mr. Arm strong has been appointed a commit tee on counties, cities and towns. FUjTY-SEVEN LYNCHINGS. No lynchings have been in North Carolina since the night of August 6, 1906, when three negroes were lynched at Salisbury for killing the Lyerly family. There was a convic tion of the ring leader of that lynch ing and he is row serving a fifteen year sentence for the offense. Not withstanding the fact that -there have been no lynchings in the State since then the lynching statistics for 1910 credit North Carolina with one lynching, and quite a number of State papers are publishing that there was a lynching in the State during last year. A similar statement went the rounds two years ago. Jt is to be hoped that there will be no more lynchings in this State or elsewhere. The prophets of evil who said there would be disruption in the democracy of Ohio are disap pointed. The democratic mem bers of that State got together and in two hours t made a wise and proper, selection in the per son of Lieutenant Governor Pomerene. THE THREE B'S Better roads, better schools, and better system of taxation are the three important questions para mount to all others and should oc cupy the earnest attention of the general assembly now in session. Would it not be far better to have an increased assessment of taxes and have bettt r roads to carry the pro. ducts of vhe farmers to market than it is to pay the present taxes with out the opportunity to get to mar ket? Department of Labor and Printing Issues Report Other Changes. The twenty.fo'urth annual rport of the Department of Labor and Printing has just been issued. Commissioner Shipman and As sistant Commissioner Justice have shown in this work a degree of care and a breadth of scope entirely in keeping with their intention to ele vate North Carolina's work along this line to a plane second to no other State. Attention is called to the fact that insteid of issuing the' report two or three months after the close of the year in which it is dated, it is was issued, for the first time n the history of the department, promptly at the close of the year. It is gratifying to note that the report just issued shows a marked increase aloug all lines of industrial development : The chapter on farms and farm labor shows an increase in average high wages over last year of $1 per month. Cost of raising different products is given as follows : Cotton, ppr 500 pound bale, $33.27; wheat, per bushel, 72 cents ; corn, 52 cents ; oats, 35 cents ; tobacco, per 100 pounds, $7.40. The chapter on trades shows wages in the different lines ot woik, hours and general conditions of em. ployment. There has been added this year a list of labor organizitions in the State. The number of local organizations in the State is given as 110. Only 47 of these, however, report. Membership of 47 locals, 1,730 ; average daily wages of mem bers, $2,883.' Chapter V, miscellaneous facto ries, shows the employment by 561 establishments, of $50,925,399 actual capital, with an estimated plant value of $20,458,731 ; there are em ployed in these lactones 34,107 per sons. Ihia chapter includes the factories not classified under specific heads. Chapter VI. cotton, ' woolen and silk mills, shows 325 mills, with a capital of $53,097,454; 3,348,022 spindles, 56,516 looms, 550 braiders, 7,762 cards, employing 135,354 horse power. Total number of em ployes, 53,440. Knitting mills re ported, 77. Fifty-seven of which report capical of $3,619,000. Spin dles. 109,680; knitting machines, 8,206; s?wing machines, 699 ; em . ploying 7,199 persons and using 6,210 horse power. Chapter VII, furniture factories, shows 106 factories, 103 of which report capital stock of $3,451,140; 6,842 employes, and much other in formation in detail. Chapter VIII, newspapers shows an increase of ten in the number of publications over last year, and an increase in circulation of 156,822 copies. Total number of publica tions, 324 ; total circulation, 1,247,278. AUCTION SALE Dwelling House and Building Lots R A TVTDT ,F,M A "NT Saturday, On the above date aence ana aujoimng real estate oi tne - Now owned TERMS : One-fourth cash, one-fourth eighteen months. . J. W. Long, FIGHTING TYPHOID. ' While diphtheria is no longer to be dreaded as of old, and even con sumption can be conquered and often cured y fresh air and sun Bhme and wholesome food. Surgery has almost eliminated cancer when taken in time. The hookworm dis ease can be cured by any good phy sician. Pellagra is more stubborn but not necessarily fatal when treated by specialists. Yet little progress has been made in fighting pneumonia and typhoid fever in thousands of jears. But light is dawning, and there is hope for Prof. H. O. Carel, of the University of Minnesota, has in Benetol a disinfectant that will not only prevent the spread of typhoid fever but will break up any germ scourge anywhere. The United States government is making an effort to buy the secret of the formula cf this new discov ery, so that humanity may have the advantage of such an important dis covery. Better Horses for Randolph. Mr. J. R. Purkfi, f or many years a citizen of Randolph, but no of Chatham, has been in town for sev eral days exhibifng a very fine horae which he has sold to parties in western Randolph. The animal is the product of the Maywood Stjck Farm, of Iodutnopolis, Ind., and will be used to promote a better grade of horses throughout the county. Mr. Parks while a resident of this county, resided in the vicinity of Buffalo Ford and always embraced any movement that tended toward the advancement of the interests of his fellowmen, he being the first to introduce modern machinery in his section of the county. The need of better horses in Randolph is the motive which prompts Mr. Parks to bring to us the valuable animal. A Present That Means Something. There is one especially good thing about making a present of a sub scription to The Youth's Compan ion. It shows that the giver thought enough of you o give you some thing worth while. It is easy to choose something coit ing a great deal more which is ab solutely useless, but to choose a pre sent costing only $1.75 that will pro vide a long year's entertainment, and the uplifting companionship of the wise and great, is ancther matter. There is one present, however, which does just that The Youth's Com panion. If you want to know whether it is appropriate or welcome, just visit the home of some Companion sub scriber on Companion day. Do not choose any present until you have examined The Companion. We will send you free sample copies and the beautiful Prospectus for 1911, telling something of how The Companion has recently been enlarg ed and improved. The one to whom you give the subscribtion will receive free The Companion's Art Calendar for 1911: lithographed in twelve ' colors and gold, and you, too, as giver of the subscription, will receive a copy of the Calendar. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 144 Berkeley St, Boston, Mass. January SALE BEGINS AT 10 O'CLOCK we willsell at public auction the resi- John H. Ferree by his widow, Mrs. M. A. Ferree. b. VV. Swaim, Trustees. I it n APTT HOME " w rQ all the school teachers in this section of the State to get the names and addresses of all former residents of the state, who now live , in other states aud where such former residents are dead, then we would like to have the names and addresses of the children. Wo mnf this information m order that? we may interest tbeni in returning to Kanaoipn io mc. , desire to send them literature ap- prising them of the opportunities that are offered in this section. Please let us have ' the information . promptly. The Heme Coming week next fall will be aD attraction that might in duce many to come dbck. . . J Let every teacher ask each pupil to get tneir parents to unug school a list of every one of the ,m scattered abroad. This kindness Will uc oirtintout Send your list to The Courier, Asheboro, N. C. Good Health Resolutions "Resolution Number One: I will try to become more intelligent con cerning my body," sys Doctor Jean Williams ia woman a tionie com panion for January, "looking with greater respect upon my physical resources and trying to realize more fully that upon them the force and success of mv liu largely depend. "Resolution NumberTwo: I will arrange, if possible, to supply sufti- nof niiru uti" fnr pvprc hrpar.h T t.bf IUUU uenei iu uuuluou cycij ouuii of disease that might attack me, to improve my chance for long life and to increase aiy elliciency. "Resolution Number Three: I will be kinder to my digestive organs, avoiding all excess aud not asking them to struggle with food for which they have repeatedly shown an tagonism. "Resolution Number four: 1 will treat my brain and nervous Bys- tern with greater consideration, and fif tv-six hours of ea3h week shall be uevoieu to sieep. "Resolution Number Five: I will LIJT bU UU ILL CJgUl) UUUIB OO UIRUU hard work as I should do in one day. "Resolution Number Six: I will devote at least two of the twenty four hours to such exercise as I find most beneficial. ''Resolution Number Seven: I will sive mv mortal suDDort to everv effort, public or private, in behalf of the betterment of health condi tions, so becoming a small factor iu i the great movement ' for moral physical uplift." ' Are You a Woman? Baltimore, Md. Mrs. W. H. Ison, at 1419 East .Madison Street, writes, "For several yearo, I suffer ed, off and on, from female troubles, until finally 1 was taken down ana could do nothing. The pains I ex perienced, I shall never forget. I lost weight till I was only skin and bones. I believe I would have been in my grave, if I had not tried Car dui. I shall praise it as long as I live." Many women, like Mrs. Ison are weak and discouraged, on ac count of some painful ailment. Are you one of these sufferers? Cardui will help you. Tjy it today. Any druggist. The Wilson Cotton Mills at Wil son, N. C., have gone into the hands of the receivers. M P 21, 1911 late in six, twelve and M. D.
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