North Carolina Newspapers

THE COURIER Published Every ThuMday fo. C HAMMER, Editor. .Mr. McCRARY MAKES A SUG GESTION. Mr. J. R. McOro.ry, chairman of 'the Republican executive committee of Da;idson, hai written the follow. ing, to the D'sF&tch : Your paper has lately referred to the condition of politics in Davidson county. In my opinion it is the greatest evil in the county today and it is getting worse. For some J ears conditions seemed to impnve, ut now more money is being used at each election. It does not stop at money bat liquor is a' so being used in great quantities. It would Jo no good to discuss which side is the most to blame for this. The point is that conditions are bad and Setting worse. This is the tendency in all closa counties and I wish Da. j - 11 .1.1:- Tiason was euuer xvepuvuuau vi Democratic by a thousand maj irity. "We would then get rid of the strife which divides our people. Now good men say and plan things which in their calmer moment) would be disgusting. Sin is at a premium and religion below par. Friend9 are for gotten and life-'.ong eaemies nre made. Charac.er is degraded, vot ers are debnucied and ciiurch.es in. jred. Thi worst men become prominent in helping to carry the elections and the baser elements of the best men brought out. Some times ela'.ders are told and lies fly thick and fast. It is prfectly dis gusting. I suggest tlat at ihj n-xt election in Davidson county a committee of good representative mc-n J row each party agtoe to divide the offices be tween 'he two patties in an tquiti ble manner and recommend the di vision agreed upon to e.tch of the conventions when held and see if we cannot do away w th the s'rife which divides our people every two years. This would work all right except a3 to the legislative ticket which is a purely polit cal office. Each pirty conld run its own candi date for that office. Some men on both sidej are disgusted with poli tics as it is at present. We might as well have a king. Popular gov ernment is a failure in Davidson county, and largely in the state and nation. J. B. McGriry. February 20,1911. J Mr. MoOrary'a suggestion will .probably not be aocepted, but al most anything is better than the purchase of votes. The purchase of votes can be stopped and should be stopped at any cost, however great it may be. Several years ago the Democrats obtained control of the State of In diana and enacted a law making it indictable for anyone to purohase a vote, and also an act was passed orovidinar for a penalty to the person selling his vote against the purchaser. or ten years this was the law in Indiana and the sale of votas was broken up. When the Democrats went out of power the law was re oeeled. This act of the dominant jjarty was looked upon by the "prao Aical fellows" as meaning that the new order favored winning in any way. Politics became more ana more corrupt until now ' Indiana is the most corrupt political state in the Union. We have the spectacle of Adams connty for instance, where almost a whole county has been convicted of elliner their votes. In the Adams county case the buying and eelii ig was so open and notorious that con viction was not difficult. In most cases where both the seller and purchaser are indictable it is .next to impossible to convict. There is another way to break np vote buying and that is for the good people who oppose vote buying to make continual warfare on this method of corruption in politics. We have in mind a oounty in "North Carolina where twenty years ago the disgraceful habit of vote buying was practiced in almost er- ery township. ; me best people saia j they were going to put a stop to it. The leading men of 1 the connty de. cided they would make vote buying -bo disgraceful that' no decent man would stand for it A peisistent campaign was made ' against the practice from year's end to year's end. Today there is not a vote for sAa in the connty. Few votes would be sold were It not that men of su perior intelligence encourage the Don't forget to do missionary work for good roads wherever you go. The muddy winter roads should remind us that road work should be done in su aimer. Good roads, good schools and a better system of taxation ure the three crying needs of the. hour. No better investment can be made than putting money in good roads, and newbere are thsy needed worse than in this section of the State. Let the business men unite with the farmers and get busy for the good roads proposition. There will be turmoil and confusion at first, but rejoicing will come later. - If you have not tried the split log drag for dirt roads, you should do so. Some splendid roads are being made in many counties. After grad ing the roads they should be drag. ged after ever rain. Nearly three hundred thousand dollars increase in the assessed val uation of property for last year more than the assessed value for the jeur before, is a splendid record for Ran. do pb'a progrtSJ. The most important question be fore the farmers of Randolph now is roads. & is the b'ggest ques tion before th busiiess msa of Randolph today. It is more impor tant thau the tariff. I: is more iui- pmtu.t than reciprocity with Can ada or any other country. It .is more important than the Panama Cautil. And. in our opinion, it would pat more money in the pock ets of faraiers and town people as well, to have good roads in Ran dolph county chan to have any other one thing. It may take a long educational campaign before there is general road building in Randolph, but the movement is growing all the while. If farmers could . have good roads, such as, they have in Guilford and some other counties, they would never be satisfied with present con ditions. With good roads a farmer could haul as much as he could gat on his wagon and his teams would not wear out half as fast. Let each farmer figure out for himself what it would mean to have good roads to market. Gov. Johnson's. Prouiest Day. Minnesota is to' erect a monument to the late Gov. Johnson. Suitable inscriptions for this pedestal are be ing considered. There is a strong sentiment in fayor of inscribing Johnson's "proudest day". After he had made his great impression at the meeting of the Gridiron Olu'j in Washington, and his name became frtquent in mention at the Demo cratio candidate for President, he was asked on bis return 11 it was not his proudest day. "No. 't was not," he replied. Pressed to tell what it was, after much hesitation, he reluctantly said: "The proudest day of my life was when I went home Saturday night with my first week's wages and giving them to my mother, said: 'Mother, you need never take in washing agaiW Nothing he ever said better mtrked the character of the man. iua le Tiroes. Onr water works and sewerage system is near.ng completion. If you nave not bought a lot in Asbeboro yet, it is time you were doing so. Never will you : again have an opportunity of purchasing a lot for so little money as you can today. " ' ignorant and vicious to sell their great privilege cf suffrage. Let the party workers begin a mis sionary campaign against the prac tice and much can be accomplished. DDC8sriia ' "I have been using Cascarets for In somnia, with which I have been afflicted (or twenty years, and I can say that Cas carets have riven me more relief than any other remedy X have ever tried. I shaft certainly recommend them to my friends IS being all that they are represented. " Thos. Gillard, Elgin, IU. - TlMMnt, PaletaM. Pof ' nt, Tas( Goxt IXOood. NewsiW , e jnitea or Grips. Wo. 2io, 3)c. IJevr oll .0 bnllc t'-'o-m tihi-f f uM ;- C GuA.-jtd to oar or roar mcuvy eacSb M THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS Cow and Hog and. Man. By PRESIDENT TAFT. We have an agricultural de partment, and we are spending $14,000,000 or $15,000,000 a year to tell the farmers by the results of our research bow they ought to treat the toll and bow they ought to treat the hogs and bow they ought to treat the cattle and the horses, with a view to having good bogs and good cat tle and good horses There Is nothing in the constitution espe cially about bogs or cattle' or horses, and if out of the public treasury at Washington we can establish a department for that purpose it docs not seem to be a long step or a stretch of logic to say that we have the power to spend the money in a bureau of research to tell how we can develop good men and good wo men. Some of onr enthusiastic conservators of national re sources hare calculated "bow much the life of each man and each woman in the community is worth to that community. I do not think it necessary to re sort to that financial calculation In order to Justify the saving of human life, such as can be ac complished by the results of re search and advice tbnt will pro ceed from a properly established bureau of health. THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS Concerning Predisposition. Cy PR. LAWRENCE F. FLICK. k Some families undoubtedly nre more prune to tuberculosis than others. This is true not only of families but of races. I'redispo sition is usually divided into three kinds individual, family and racial. The individual pre disposition is often brought about by improper living and by excess In eating und ' drinking. Family predisposition may be clue to inherited tendencies or to environment under which the family lives. Itacial predisposi tion appears to hinge largely upon the length of time to which the race has been exposed to the disease and the resistance which the race has built. up against the disease. THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS Stamping Out th Die. By HOMER FOLKS. ,.. . There is absolute unanimity, too, among our expert author!- ties (as there was not a decade ' ago)" as to Just what we need to do la order to prevent tuberculo-. sis. Wa must have general pub-. lie education as to the nature and symptoms of the disease, and wo have it We must nave reporting of cases by physicians, and we are getting it We must have free dispensaries in every city and considerable village at which any person can secure an expert and thorough diagnosis of his condition and adequate In structions as to what be must do, and we are getting dispensa ries. . We must have visiting nurses to visit the patients in their homes and Instruct them, not once, but many times, In the protection of their households. We are getting visiting nurses. We need, above all, hospitals in the larger cities and a connty hospital in every county, and we are getting hospitals. -o THE END OF TUBERCULOSIS The Business, of Sitting Out. By LOUIS H AMMAN. M. D. ' You must address yourself to Mb,-task '-of sitting outdoors day (after day most faithfully. Ton '..must make It your constant oc cupation and stick to it as though you were paid money for it If you do "hot get the idea of continuous rest firmly set In your mind you will not succeed. -By rest I mean lying down in a . bed or chair in the fresh air. You are not to spend any time in a closed ' room except when bathing or dressing or eating. ' Rest all the time. Take no exer cise or work until your doctor tells you no walking, no stand ing, no -rambling, no riding, no driving, no housework, no office work, no chorea, no trips, no vis its, no knocking about, no odd jobs, no exertion of any- kind. Put yourself at rest In the open air after breakfast and stay there. , Do not be forever jump--ing np and doing little things , about the bouse or fetching and tarrying. Every morning tsit ! out; every afternoon sit . out; every evening after supper sit ont or lie In 'your outdoor bed. How to Grow Corn Successfully Mr. B. W. Jordan tells in this issue how he and bis little son grew 83 bushels and 32 pounds of sound corn on one aire of poor land. This article is worth 'reading, Mr. Jor dau would make a good farm demon strator.and those in authority would flud him usefnl to go into the sand hill counties and teach the farmers, how to grow corn successfully. How a Large Crop of Cora Was Crewe on Poor Land. . I write at the rtqaest of teveral people how my son raistd 83 bush els and 32 pounds of gooo,' sound white corn on one acre land, run iff by the well known surveyor, Mr. J. W. Ellison, assisted by Mr. J. M. Allred. " About four yeais ago I met up with a practical ecru grower. I bad at that time made tOtne im provement in my seed corn. As I had only been improving my seed corn for three years, I bought one bushel of E. S. Milisaps, of States ville, paying t im two dollars and a bal: for the bushel, and forty cents freight. Mr. Mill Baps had been im proving his corn, for six year.'. I nude seventy-four dollars clear on this acre of land, I had given my cntue attention to com and wheat growing for four years. , This acre of land was so poor that j two years ago I went over the acre of laud gathering the bushels of corn I raised on it in a basket. 1 put 200 lbs. of 8 2-2 fertilizer on it that 3 tar. I planted improved seed, cultivated it deep with sharp plows, stirring the ground four times. I tm ashamed of that potr kind of farming, but I was only following up ahubitof so many, and it is hard it quit. Af er that ciop I put the ground in wheat. he day I cut the wheat I turned the Laid, or ruh?r eJgi-u i up to be ttioj e concctjeift'itiiicrieH deep, roiled ud . then . Larrowed it with uiso harr w, afterwards drill ing in one bushel of pease with 200 pounds of 40.4 goods. In September I mowed the vines, unuii g the machine high.' Then I tinned or edged the laud up 10, inches deep,.runuing a bull tongue n each furrow behind the big plow, going 3 inches deeper. Then I log ged it down well, then dragged it with a tooth narrow. After that 1 waited for the rain to Kettle the ground. So when the land was Bat tled I could prepare a seed bed with disc harrow, Then I sowed it the first of October with three pecks of rye and six pounds of, crimson clover. The first of jreoruary following-1 broadcast four large loads of , good manure an ov r in iana. xne first of May I hired from . a neigh bor, Mr. J. M. Allred, two large, heavy mules, the beet I could find. and then turned the clover and rye under and all of sight, using a chain on the plow to be certain that every red top and green blade was covered up. . 1 turned the land ten inches deepasd followe in each furrow with a bull tongue plow about eight inches deep. I estimate that I got ont of that clover and rye fully forty dollars' worth of fertilizer. . 1 1st the land settle for a few days, then 1 rolled it gocd and heavy. After the clover and rye were veil rolled I ran off the acre in rows, five feet apart, running the plow five times in a row, making tbe last furrow nearly twenty inches deep. Then 1 drilled in 400 pounds ol 10 per cent, aoid, using a wheat drill. Af. ter the land was well settled 1 bar rowed with a disc barrow ; then ran eff rows again and put 100 pounds of 8 2.2 fertilizer in rows; then waited tv 0 days for the fertilizer to get into the soil, then planted four inches apart with drill in rows nve feet apart. When the corn was up, or just before, 1 harrowed it with disc bar row, straddling the rows. This was on or near May 25 th. Next I bar. rowed with a tooth narrow across the rows as soon as the corn was fnlly up. When three inches high I plowed around it with a long har row bull tongue deep as I could two times in a place. - After that I plowed with a five foot cultivator, last as shallow as I could vtUh dull plows, trying not to go over half an inch deep, plow intr leveral times this wav the sum. mtr through, until the shuck began to turn yellow. When a bunch of grass did get a atirt to. grow, my son, who is credited with making this fine vield of corn, and 'who re ally did do much of the work,would null the erase, roots and all. It will not do to dIow it deeD enouzh to plow it up, for you would plow np the corn roots ana that would create the law of nature and decrease the vield of corn no telling how much I thinned my corn to twenty inches in drill. ; ' ; Remember it does not pay to put irnano with seed when planting The foregoing is a brief outline of how I think, and my experience is the way to grow- corn, even on poor land.' My son won a beautiful prizs fnr this acre of ' corn. I was sorrv he was not well enough to be al Asbeboro on January Siu, the day 'ROCK HILL" BUGGIES The lightest running and longest wearing buggy ever made No other buggy is so well known throughout the South There are more "Rock Hill" buggies running- in the South era States than any other make ROGK HILL BUGGY CO., ROCK HILL, S C. McCrary-Redding Hardware I! . (i I ' Company Agents . i If you need HORSES AND MULES be sure 1 to see the r EW CAR LOAD which has JUST I ARRIVED. They, are the good kind, the same I kind we have been selling for the past fifteen years; I they always stand the heaviest hauling and still look I good and get better. We sell them cheap.- Come I and look them over. Aiso hajrd made harness,: bug-' x I gies, hay and grain. Try Corno horse and mule feed. I McDOWELL LIVE STOCK COMPANY ' I I Asheboro, N. C. I Asheboro Route 1 News Reveral attended tie vohool breaking at Bethel Saturday. All. report a nice time. Ezra Cox ia building a new residence on hit farm on court house road. Ifr. Lee Boath and tilde daogbter, EUie, pent a few day laet week vieiting hereon, 0car Booth, of Humble'a Mill. Miet Zada Smith, who ia ''teabt(ig achool at LaQflberrr,- apeat Saturday an' Sunday with her brother, K. L. Smith, and returned Sanday evening. . . T.. . Mr. Hubert Cox and children, of Aihe- ville, spent part of laat week with lira; A. . Lynch. . . ' ' Jno. MoPheraoa spent last Sanday in BandlemM. Bora to Mr. and Mr. W. B. Brown, a F0LEYSKIDIJIYPI1LS torn Bwmiiic KhwiBuwm the beantifal pria were given by the big hearted, magnanimous and generous spirited citizens ot Asheboro.- No wonder Asheboro grows fend that everybody who goes there learns to lore the pnblio-spirited citizena. The prizes so liberally awarded to encourage corn growing ha" done much to aid grown np peo ple as well as th boys. We were ail treated kindly by tne people of Ashe oro, many of whom I had never seen beftre. I want es pecially to thank for myself and son, Robert, the kind-hearted gentle men in charge of Cranford Brothers store, and the Southern Chair Com pany for the useful and beautiful presents won for the corn grown on ton acre or land. . 1 was glad tc meet my old friend, M. F. Underwood, who is a good citizen as well as a first-class farmer. I served on the grand jury with him one term of court and found him to be an honest man and clever gentle maj. 1 was glad his son won the first priza. llespecifully, R. W. Jor 'an, ,- . - Franslinville, N. 0. Ad OLD AD ACE SAYS -v A light purse is a heavy curae" Sickness makes a light purse. The LIVER U the seat of nine tenths of all disease. go to the root of the whole mat ter, thoroughly, quickly safely and restore the action of the ' LIVER to normal condition. ' Z- Give tone to tho system and solid ilcsh to the body. Teke No Substitute. "CATCH ON H V w i : i 4 'I TolliellonieTrade Don't drop it . When you've got it, Either. " 1 '. Keep Your. Trade by; ADVERTISING In The Courier TOWNSPEOPLE INTERESTED. Concarnad In Canrfitian of Rn.Ha aa - Much 11 Ftrtniri. Not a few people mnke the mistake of supposing that the boo1 roads ques tion is one for farmers mainly. 'The people wbo HveMn towns," deolared the Illinois state engineer recently in a foods road speech at Peoria, "are con cerned in the general .condition of the roads as much as tbe people wbo live oat of tbe towns ea tbe high ways." "This la ?ery true. While tbe farmers reap directly the most benefit, pleasure and convenience from good roads, tbe conditioner tbe roads affects the towns vitally. Tbe average community finds business t x tremely dull when tbe rural popa'a tlon la bottled op by mud.- ., There are times lu the United States In. this dawning1 twentieth century when conditions obtain that existed In r.DKlaud 500 years ago; wben produce needed In town for food rota a few mile ont in the country because tbe farmer can't haul It. v