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Thursday, December ASHEBORO COURIER THE LITTLE SCHOOL- MARM’S PROBLEMS The Chautauqua Reading Hour •(Dr. Williaifi Byron Forbush, Editor.) The little sehoelmarm is often the topic of affectionate reminiscence at dinner* •f tk# Sons of Vermont and picnio* at Old Hoaia Week. The little 'SchoolaftanK., if eke is present, always smiles plaawuitiy a»4 gratefully. E® y®u k3i®w wkat i* behind the lit tle sekoolmaHM’s quiet smile ? What do w® km*w about the little school- marm aasyway? Her wsTtb is undoniuble. She is good as jf#14. A* Francis B. Pearson says, “Bka u*T«r feittam ” or as Wil liam AJiu* 'Wkita wuuld put it, “Her hala maTW rightly praiss kmr &4slitg. Wse seems to he ever at nmmer sA®^. iSk® patron izes tk® yukli® likiuiry, tk« lecture coui*® amd Ui® C^utauqua. Ouc®- in “her lifetim® sk® »atk«KS up k®r l®ug- tim® Bariu#®, aad ^® •was® across her as a ^•k's t®urist, amidst tib® rapture of Italia* pi®tnr®a aad tk® m®r® mun dane deligkts •i Parisia* skap®. , But iiis is litU® t® kaow. While,year, they have k®®a “•urreyiuc” tit® 8«k«ol8 has anybody ‘'surT®y®d” tk® sckool- teack^r ? Tkear Health A small study ka« juat appeared ®f ■the physical couditiem ef a portion of the teachers in N®iw York state. Ko New York city teacher® wer® in- oluded. The figur®* C9yer 2074 iudi- Tiduals, the large majority women. Thirty-one per cent only report themselves in vigorous health. ^ Twenty-one per cent have health enough “for the day’s work,” but none extra for strain* and exposures. Ten per cent have chronic ill health. 'Thirty per cent have failed in health since they began to teach. pprty-six per cent have had nervous disorders "within "the past five yexrt. To put it in other words, two-thirds of our children ere taught by persons jiot in •vigorous health, one-fifth by persons barely able to maintain their ■tr-sks and one out of ten is taught by a chronic invalid. What Cause® These Illnesses The schoolroom itself _ is the most frequent cause of the ill health of school teachers. Forty per cent, m the words of the Journal of Education, are indisposed directly as the result ■of exposing themselves to the same conditions to which we submit our children. , , Twenty per cent think their maladies ■ 'come from poor boarding places. Twelve per cent believe it is because ■of the character of the supervision- such phrase* occurring as “one-man system,” “fault-finding principal,” “no freedom.” Ten per cent attribute it to inade quate salaries. Th^r Wealtk This brings us to the financial part of thw matter. What munificent wages does '^e state give to these honored servants of the commonweal, thes® foster-mothers of our children, these nation-builder* ? Scott Nearing bluntly says that there is no class of people today upon whom the high cost of living bears so heavily as upon school teachers. j The average salary of farm laborers ■ in this country is $257 a year. Ac cording to the Bureau of Education, the average salarv of rural teachers is “slightly more.” Rural mail car- riers average $1115. , . | Elementary school teachers in places, of 5,000 to 10,000 population receive, the average of $533. The “starvation line” for a family in this country is, estimated at $500. No wonder that the health of one teacher out of ten suffers from lack of money. Their Worries Forty per cent of the teachers 'W’ho made this report have someone de pendent upon them. Of those who have taught 25 years, 62 per cent care for dependents. Twenty-two per cent supplement their incomes by working through “va cation.” , Sixteen per cent have to do addi- i tional work for pay during the school EyEBt STOCKi^lifi SHOilLO S^.l'E El^E LIBS THE VALUE OF II03IE STUDY m Ewe Lambs Selected for Breeding Purposes From Edgecombe Test Farm. R. S. Curtis. Animal Husbanaman. AYii- ma'l Industry Division, West Raleigh. Five per cent distinctly name “home duties, cares and worries” as the cause of their ill health. “Loneliness,” “lack of social life” and “lack of means to attend concerts, etc.” are also nam ed. Uncertain tenure of office must be a constant worry in this the only pro fession in which it is necessary to bo ixposed annually for re-election. They even have charts and “scien tific tests” to measure the efficiency of teachers nowadays. Teachers are expected to grow, while they cannot afford books, time or money to read or study for growth. It is well that one of these charts recognizes “a sense of humor” as one quality in a teacher that deserves promotion. For she needs it under the circumstances. America’s Meanness I hav® been reading some of the well-meant manuals for teachers late ly. One writer tells her that teaching should be “a passion.” Another de mand* of her “prophetic conduct.” A third insist* that she think of her profession as “a cacred guild into which no traffickers be allowed to come.” And all this for from $9 to $15 week! America expects to get her passionate, priestly prophets cheap. Our country’s best patriots'are our school teachers. In these days of pa triotic feeling let us try to help give them their deserts. Stomach Trouble and Constipation Those who are afflicted with stom ach trouble and constipation should read the following: “I have never found anything so good for stomach trouble and constipation as Chamber lain’s Tablets. I have used them off and on now for the past two years. They not only regulate the action of th-e bowels but stimulate the liver and keep one’s body in a healthy condi tion,” writes Mrs. Benjamin Hooper, Auburn, N. Y. Valuable Real Estate For Sale Pursuant to a decree of the Superior Court of Randolph county, North Caro lina, made in the case of Greensboro lioan & Trust Company, as executor of the last will and testament of 0. R. Cox, deceased, vs. Sarah E. Cox and others, the undersigned will sell the lands hereinafter described on the ^ates hereinafter mentioned. The sale of these lands will be by public auction to the last and highest bidder, on the ' terms of one-fourth cas^^ one-fourth six months after date" of sale, one. fourth twelve months after date of sale and the balance eighteen months after date of sale, deferred payments to bear interest from date of sale till paid at the rate of six per centum per an- 'num, title to be retained as security for deferred payments. This sale is made for partition between the heirs of 0. R. Cox, deceased: Randolph County Lands The first three tracts hereinafter de- THIRD TRACT:—“Ninth Tract” in original advertisement.) This tract lies in the village of Cedar Falls, on Deep River, Randolph county, and known as “The Meadow Lot”, and adjoins the lands of the old Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad Company and others, and contains about one (1) acre, being part of the land described in a deed recorded in book 38, page 728, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Ran dolph county, N. C. At the same time and place, the un dersigned will sell, for cash, to the last and highest bidder, ten shares of stock of the Asheboro Wheelbarrow Manu- factuing Company, of the par value of fifty dollars ($50) each. Lands in Guilford County These lands are to be sold on the premises, in High Point, N. C., on the 18th day of December, 1917, eommecn- ing at ten o’clock a. m. What is kno'wn as “the 0. R. Cox lands”, bounded on the north by Lee There has doubtless been a time in the history of the world when the sheep industry of the United States was In such a deplorable condition, and never a time when the production of wool and mutton were as impor tant. There is today a world shortage of 53,000,000 sheep, and this condition has arisen during one of the most critical stages in the history of this country. Before the declaration of war there was a material shortage in meat pfoducts and the emergency which has arisen makes the condition the more critical. We will not only need all of the meat products which can be pro duced from lamb and mutton, but the needs of the government in supplying the soldiers with clothing is going to make unusual inroads into the supply of wool at hand. Wool at the present time is selling as high as 80 cents per pound in the grease, and the chances are favorable that it will go still high er. Under present conditions this means that the wool clip from an av erage breed sheep is worth around $5. There is no other farm animal which produces such a by-product and still leaves the animal for reproductive purposes to replenish the breeding stock. The census taken of livestock In North Carolina in 1900 showed that we had 300.000 sheep, and the census taken in 1910 showed a sheep popula tion of only 200,000 or a decrease of 33 1-3 per cent. Such a condition is critical, as it not only means that we are helping to deplete the supply of meat and wool, but we are taking from the farms an animal which, when properly handled, will return the largest percentage on the money in vested of any farm animal. The slogan, of every stockman should be to save the ewe lambs suit able for breeding purposes. It is a crime to allow them to go to the shambles. This is so fully realized that prominent livestock and kindred organizations are making every effort possible to divert the female breeding stock to the farms. For example, the Philadelphia Wool and Textile Asso ciation is transporting large numbers of western sheep into the east for the purpose of re-establishing the sheep industry on the eastern farms, where at one time this industry flourished. If one-half of the farms in North Carolina maintained twenty head of breeding sheep this would mean a ^ sheep population of four million head, i personal adviser of both these gO(| approximately twelve times the | women, and you feel like telling ' The Chautauqua Reading Hour Dr. William Byron Forbush, EditoJ “Whenever I think of the motherfl who pursue Child Study it is to laugh.T And thereupon my friend Brown pro! ceeded to laugh. “Take Mrs. Russell. She has evevj book G. Stanley Hall ever wrote, ' from the press.' She biings her cl dren up by physiological charts, i she has them mentally measured everl thirty days. But you know her secon| boy—Nobody home. “Take Mrs. Meredith. She has daily written record of everything hd three children have said and dc| since birth and she uses none scientific plaything, and! she outde^ Montessoris Montessori herself, week they discovered that her lil girl has a nervous affection, and has had* to take her out into the cou^ try.” “Sense” v. Science “You have said it?” I calmly rejoi^ ed, as I saw he “was running out breath. “I take this in the spirii which it is given—as a personal slar| I have, as you know, been a sort scribed lie in Randolph county, and will i street or Chippendale Road, and on the Le sold in front of the county court ]jy Orlando Avenue, and on the Louse door, at Asheboro, N. C., on the 17th day of December, 1917, commenc ing at 11 o’clock a. m. FIRST TRACT:—An undivided half interest in the following described lot: Beginning at an iron stake in the north side of Depot Street at the line of the High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern Railroad Company, and run ning thence east along Depot Street 29 1-6 feet to J. S. and W. P. Le-ws’ comer, being the center or dividing wall between the bank building and 'the hardware building; thence north along the center of the side vr^l 50 feet tb‘ J. S. and W. P. Lewis’ comer in said wall; thence west along eanlwrtof wall between bank and hardware building 22 feet end four inches to an iron stake in the North Street, J. S. and W. P. Lewis’ comer; thwace north along North Street 68 feet to Finch and Cav- iness building; thence along the wall of the Finch and Caviness building about 65 feet to an iron stake inter secting with the said lines of the High Point, Randleman, Asheboro zmd Sou thern Railroad Company; thence along said line 100 feet to the beginning, con taining 4,267 square feet, more or less. SECOND TRACT:—(In former ad vertisement “Third Tract”) Lying and being in Asheboro, North Carolina, and adjacent to and fronting on Fisher Avenue, two hundred four and one-half (204^) feet, and extending back four hundred and twenty-eight (428) feet to Hoover Street, and bounded on the west by the lands of Arthur Ross, and on the east by thd lands of Hold er. On this lot is a- good large dwelling house. This lot will be first offered in four parcels, the boundaries of which will be ma^e-known on the day of sale, and then as a whole, and the manner in which it .shall bring the greatest price will be reported to the court. number which we now have. It is a conservative estimate to state that there is sufficient waste- land on half of the farms of this State to carry this number of sheep. The amount of feed which it would require to keep this number of sheep would scarcely be appreciable. On the Iredell test farm in this State twenty head of sheep have been maintained for sev eral years. The wool from these twenty breeding ewes has just been sold for $5.00 per head, which is more than sufficient to pay for the cost of keep, leaving the lambs clear profit. When the good pasture is available the wool will pay for the cost of that permanent pastures can not be*, provided in all sections of the States is not an obstacle to sheep production since temporary pastures are- very much better and there is no section of the State where such cannot be grown. The chief reason for using temporary pastures is to retard the development of stomach worms which is one of the two chief troubles in lamb production. The other obstacle, or at least what is commonly supposed to be an obsta cle, is the dog. This can be controlled by the use of corrals where sheep are kept at night. There is really more in the fear of the dog than the actual damage which is sustained. The writer is of the opinion th^t if farmers in terested in sheep wait until adequate dog laws are passed that the sheep In dustry will lag hopelessly. Before a dog law can be passed it will be nec essary to have a large number of in terested stockmen bring pressure to bear on their legislators. If an at tempt is made to pass a dog law there is really no argument at the present time, since there are not enough sheep owned by a sufficiently large number of stockmen to back up the issue. Even though we had a law at the present time sheep should be corralled at night, since there will always be some dogs which may prey on the un protected flock. Conservation of the breeding animals is the one point which needs prompt attention, and the dog and intestinal worm problems should not stand out as barriers when an industry is facing extinction. POOB GliEBIES CAUSE N. G. FABIBS GBEAT LOSS south by Liberty Street, and on the east by the J. M. Sechrest Division, have been divided into forty-seven (47) lots as shown on map recorded in book of maps No. 4, page 62, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Guilford county, N. C., 'which see. Of these forty-seven (47) lots, Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14,15, 16,17 and 18 have been here tofore sold, leaving the others running consecutively from 1 to 47, both inclu sive, exclusive of the ten lots herein before mentioned as having been sold, to be sold. In addition to the foregoing, there will be sold at the same time, lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9 and IQ in Block E, all fronting on Brockett Avenue on the west; Lot No. 7, in Block B, ard- joining Tats AVi^ue on the east, and fronting on I^ice Street; Lota Nos. 6 and 7, in Block C. fronting on Lee St., or Chippendale Eoad; No. 7 ia adjacent to Tate Avenue, and No. 6 is gust east of and adjacent to No. 7; Lots Nos. 13 and 14, in Block A, fronting on Price Street; No. 14 is bounded by Tate Ave nue on 'the west, and No. IS is just east of and adjacent to No. 14. All these lots are 60 by about 150 feet. See J. M. Sechrest Division, Plot Book No. 2, page 63, in the office of the Register of Deed's for Guilford county, N. C. Maps or plots .of these lots can be seen at the office of J. L. Parrish, Esquire, High Point, N. C. Information may be had concerning the foregoing property on application to W. C. Hammer, attorney, Asheboro, N. C.; J. A. Spence, attorney, Ashe- boro’,*N. C.; and King Kimball, attor neys, Greensboro, N. C., or the under signed. This November 14, .1917. GREENSBORO LOAN & TRUST CO., By J. W. Fry, Commissioner and Exec utor. A Modern Two-Battery Ginnery Containing Eight 80-Saw Gins. Car Load of McClormick Binders, Mowers, and Bindar Twine just received. Have an attractive price on these items. Call to see us. Mef RKJiDING HARDWARE COMPANY North Carolina had a total of 2,874 ginneries in 1916; of this number 2,514 were operated and 360 idle. The aver age number of bales ginned by each of these active establishments was 293 bales, which ia less than half the num ber of bales ginned by the average active ginnery in most other states. I The large number of so-called gin neries In North Carolina are relics of ante-bellum times. A goodly number of them are truly relics and worthless. These relics have been handed down ifrom the old self-contained large plan- .tatlons of years ago. The use of these ■old, out-of-date outfits at the present :tlme Is as uneconomic as picking the .lint off by hand was when these old iostablishments were installed. The improper ginning of cotton is -the sources of a great loss to our farmers and I feel sure that they do not appreciate the gains that would be theirs should they have their cot- ‘ton ginned at a modern gin. A misconception among farmers that Is partly responsible for this con- 'dition is the fact that they feel that 'the lowered grade is more than offset by the increased weight. They fool themselves. The buyers make allow ance for the loss that is sure to occur In weights by paying less for the cot ton. The buyer who handles many bales from many farmers is In better position to judge how much green cot ton will lose than the farmer who only raises a comparatively few bales. You can rest assured that the buyer will protect himself. As an example: Mills are at present paying about Ic a pound, or $5.00 per bale, more for old cotton than new. The ginning of cotton at old style ginneries that fall to get out all the leaf and dirt possible has always been uneconomic and unprofitable. *nie farmer who has felt that he was sell ing dirt and leaf for the price of cot ton has fooled himself only. Ha has been pitting his necessarily limited knowledge against that of the spinner who was and is able to tell to the ounce how much waste a bale of cot ton contained. O. J. McCONlvrBLL, Cotton Grading, Raleigh, N. C that my hobby is useless.” He put up his hand in good-natur< defense. “Your logic amounts to just th: that it is better to know nothing th; to know everything. Or, as you w< put it, horse sense is more practic| than scientific accuracy. Prevention is Something “Let me tell you something. T1 fair "way to measure any wisdom is the trouble it keeps us out of as mu( as by the positive results it brinj The soul of a child is slightly r complicated than an automobile even a motorcycle. It has, let us s: fully as many parts. It is quite easy to get out of order. There 1 only one way in which it is simple: You can occasionally, by careful € amination, prophesy where trouble going to break out next, and prepa: for it.” What has all this to do with o\ two charming neighbors?” Lifted lo the Average ■Just this. Mrs. Russell’s seco; son was no doubt congenitally defe| tive. He was something better thi a moron—a word you never heard before. In an ordinary home brought up by ordinary school met] ods that child would have been rank as a “borderlander” and would pro! ably have rounded up Sooner or latl in an institution for the feeble-mindr' It was the child’s lack tliat made mother a student, and as the result her studies and practice the boy w enter school next fMl not more th; two years retarded beyond the avi age. If he responds, as she has r( son to expect, to her care of his boi he will soon not be noticeably diff* ent from others. In fact, she has t: en, the hobbles off his mind. Nob< knows the possibilities she has ope: up for hioa. Sick, Not Wicked “I know the ease of Mr*. Meredal little girl very well, because I saw child several weeks before she taken ill, and she appeared then be in every way normal. It was, course, the specialist, who pointed the nervous contraction on one s: of her face, but he told Mrs. Me] dith that these ‘daily records’_ _ laugh at were invaluable to him making a prognosis. He also told . that in an ordinary household a ch in this condition would simply been spaked as an incorrigible, would in a short time have been curable. It was Mrs. Meredith’s sci| tific attitude of mind that led her understand that what the child nej ed was the doctor and not the slippi Diseases of High Speed “But don’t you acknowledge tl their children get' these new-fang] nervous disorders by heredity fr| these high-strung ‘scientific’ mother; “I doubt it. I think it more lik| that they get them by contagion _' the high-speed life we are all livi; whether we are ‘scientilc’ or Whatever the cause, I for one thankful that we are seeing a scl of mothers rising who know how| anticipate and cope with twenth centuryitis in childhood, by can well-directed observation and sti If we can’t slow down, we shi praise those who know how to pre- ‘hot boxes.’ ” The Daily Inheritance A child does not get his heritj all of a sudden. It does not reach just after the will has been read bequeaths him a fortune. It is bestowed in a few great moments, it is not given at the needed timi is not easily enlarged later. It comes day by day. Your child got his during the idle days' this last summer. It came from picnic and the excursion just as mi as from the Sunday school. It getr him, when you are not looking. H not taught, but caught. Work With Teacher Now that the fall term is well gi,iTi, and the teacher and the mot) have both had time to draw a Ic breath, it is good for the mother pay the teacher a visit. She eho go humbly. “You have come to kn my child,” she should say. ’‘You hs found' out what I have failed to g him that he needs for a fair start life. What can I do more ? W may I give him even now that it not too late for him to receive?” 'There are a lot of useless folks the world, including the man v spends half his time wondering h he is going to spend the other half
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