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" y JL'Ju -"-1 y- .- - . hs m mm m-m 4- r ' i ' M ' f I .1 X 1 J ill ISSUED WEEKLY t t , r - PRINCIPLES, NpT MEN $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE! TOLUMXZLYI ,V r''; ' Art stsro. North Carojiaa, Thursday, November . 1921 NUMBER S ! "" 11 1 111 ""' " " 1 ' S- CONGRESS, MAKES SLOW-PROGRESS Senate Fiddles While the People Suffer Tho T .tlo T Hurts More Than it Helps REPUBLICANS KILL SOLDIER BONUS BILL AGAIN Farmers Selling Corn at,l8 Cents a Bushel, Oats at 9 to U Cents Getting the Least For Produce Ever Known (Editorial Correspondence.). plus crops but its igooi" 'effects ar( Washington, D. C, Nov.l, 1921- T.riff bill, which was enacted in Kay A llemocratfc Congress ; eight years iimited to months, and , recentlj ago passed a.taritt pM intnirty qays extended . td February 1st next yes, auo toe umgress heia In continuous other things it prevents Euro- session until its legislative - prograra users of . Xntejiean sumlus pr.v ww cuiupKwiu. aucis irom paying ivr uiem in rjurur in these days by tne changing-conot I- DrodUcts. This bill was follow- tions following the great war. t ed by falling prices df agrknjrtural This ItepuDiican -siacKer wngrcao, promcts. the latter part of August Joined the,r . , taaks of the six million idle unem-i A Hybrid Peace Resolution .. - Vy?yS?Z' Another thhur this administrate a irLr T"'dii to emit a hybrid peace res- ...S2rT ?rr:?" olution. which was m utterly value. session was wtuvu w-uw, .w . PrpMint aftei urffinf demanded, legislation tfr-meet ? peace J?8 tn8t tne rresiaenr alter urgini ccSlNihfwar legislation which jt passage, ipored it by failing to President WUsoh urged the last Con- Pamation therof, but Jha .R-nuhHcaii v secretly negotiated a peace treavy rgrkVg arity7 to x repeal. with Germany. shouta oe repiacea oy new icko," tion better suited to meet, present conditions. "HOME TOWN PAPffR WEEK" TO THE PATRONS OF THE COURIER: November 7th to 12th has been set aside as "Home Town Paper Week. One of theidejw of this is to increase tne .subscription list 01 your town paper in order to pro mote greater interest in the. local community and to let the people "who have moved into distant communities ana states know what the home folks are doing. Our subscri bers can be of great benefit to us If thev will : send us on the following blank the name of one person who has mov ed away from Kandolph county, to whom we may send a sample copy of The Courier : ? GOOD SCHOOLS Dr. Poe Tells How to Get Them Without Parents or Children Leaving Their Home Dr. Clarence Poe-, editor of the ro- One-Teacher or Two-Teacher Scheaii Name . . . PostofRce State . . . . Sent in.by :::;.::::::x:: :::::::::: gressive Farmer, in a June issue of effectto INFORMATION ON if CONSOLIDATION OF . PUBUC SCHOOLS it 'Of gin Prominent iMen : Endorse the Movement SCHOOL IN STITUTE IN ASHEBORO NOYOER 10-11 s October 27, 1921. x When Julian District was consoli dated with Liberty school, and a truck was placed here for the transportation of the children, many people thought that it would not work satisfactorily. They said tho roads were no suffi cient to run a truck over, and that the children would have to stajid m the PmiVm. iwft .rain ana wait lor it. ana mere was v . danger of the truck turning' over and I dropped into the Senate Chamber I injuring and possibly killinz some of The country in almost every line of the day before' the House extended the. children. People hed all sorts of hnainpjiir clamored and as . still de- the Emergency Tariff Act, October 1 fear about it. But since having used manding legislation to relieve intoler-18, and heard some statements hiftle the truck for transportation of the able business and industrial condi- by Republican members of Coneress, children for two .years, I wish to tions. Two narticular classes oi ier-; which is wortn staunjr nere lor ine at islation Congress was expected to en- tention especially of those of my eon- .tvkt are' highly pleased with it, act speedily, certainly without unnec stituents who believe I should havn all the criticism and fears of ti essary delay. The House Makes Botch of It state that the people of Julian Dis- and trans- voted for the Republican, Emergency j porting children have passed away, The House made such !" '"-I "I " i4. ,wl A Senate found after, duly considering' Yy- Sunday .school Workers of Asheboro township will hate rare privilege of having two Sunday school specialists to help m the fouf session institute on Mevembcttiu and ll-at the Asheboro R Church, Sovov. The opening session Kill be Thursday night, No vember' at 7:80 o'clock. ' ' ' MrtvDl W. Sims, general superin- tendenti land Miss flora Davis, assist 8nt superintendent of the. North Car olina Sunday School Association, will be the principal speakers. Both these workers were in the Randolph Coun ty Sunday School Convention held at Liberty 4 few weeks ago, and request was mode at that time xor their serv ices in a (meeting in Asheboro during the fall.'' Mr. Mr D. W. Sims is rec ognized one of the leading Sunday School werkers m the South. He not only kiidws the .organized Sunday School werk but also the -,vork of the local school, having been for a num ber of years, teacher and then super intendent in a large bundav School in His addresses which Always Inefficient his paper wrote a ''Success Talk For, ' following on consolidating schools: ,duction for our boys and ttirla. T An int tvmwI tA remind vmi that features. Some people who har tb- no matter what other seeming success on;te?r .8ch?'8 you- may achieve, your lite will not h " r"""-""'' fmmm be truly successful unless the boys exaggeration to say that they achiev- and girls you leave behind you become f " w- men and women of character and 8611001 rather than because mt trained intelligence. It is better to give a child a good You can take pencil and paper aal education and good moral training figure the time required for - recita than to leave him any amount of tions in readinc. writimr. anelline. property and in fact, if you leave arithmetic, etc, for four or ftve property to cnuaren wno are wiinou? grades, together with some gaogra education and character, the property iphy history, grammar, etc,' and ytm v. will do them little good, or the world! either. will see that even with three or four grades a teacher . is "over-cropped. She can only "hurry through the mo tions" of teaching. She cannot give the individual pupil the personal help, Tariff bill, which became law May 27. an it ia working entirely asatisfacto- 1921. as a panacea. Mr. Pordnev a.; ry. Julian school was a one-teacher ps-vm.--i v. a botch of Mr. Longworth, in the House debates, school, and seven grades were being are very practical are also said to be that the pictured in glowing terms me pros- kiukiu, py one wawnur, iuiu uie Bc..wilVe) humorous and delivered in an its enact- was . omy .x annua long aim naw!urijue way Mtea Flora DavI assigt. vitn transportation iacuiues we are a,,t-Rmwrsnfpn,w . hBH . e4anWtc wa, said a. copieu !Lii Thir visions were bo by me from the Congressional KecorU getting eight months school, U perien , in the . Sunday School work grades'. I wish . mm&-Siil and1?errarVs8(lsre ladtoBtf ve dorse the consolidation of schools by helnfnl transportation. G. L. WHITAKER, School Committeeman, Juliar. October 27, 1921. helpful. The Sunday School workers of Ashe- Iboro are urging that the workers of tne tov.Tisnip attend r.s many sessions as possible. Mr. L. V. Ross, vice president of the County Sunday l visn to stauj tnat tne iranspors-lSchool Association, nnd Mr. F. M. lion ot cnuaren Dy trocn in neat-, Wright, superintendent of the adult more District has proved to be an en- division of the County Sunav School ahockinWOiat' tbok the breath oftthe next , '. thelolis When the light of publicity Senator McKmley, Republican, rep wasirowTi upon them, and both bills thegreat airncultural jUw had to bTrewritten throughout. Both J"'"0'80" gg oor cl u"; measures were so severely criticised ( Senate on October 17, 1921: by Republicans in the House and Sen- Corn Not Bringing Enough to Pay ate and by the Republican press, and( Freight of Shipment the business men of the country, tiiat XtepUOIlCan tcaucro were BU ixi " o t i am.iiwc v. u.o .1 vi-iiivii ui 1.11c vajuiii. cum ay OCIH that thev betfan a systematic effort t- found that the price of new coin , to , tire success and every patron m the Association, are assisting the tov. smooth matters out, many of the Re- the farmers was 28 cents, and might 'district is pleased witn it, ani ship officers, Mr. J. M. Trogdon, pres puMican members prepared the moEt go to 25 cents, although the corn cost will not go back to the one teacher jdent, and Miss Ri'.l?. Spoon, sccreta plausible excuses possible in explan- him 58 cents to raise. I myself tnmit school, if there is any way to prevent ry, jn jetting the meeting well r iter ation of what certainly is the . most that 2 cents or 3 cents or 5 cents of it. The truck is safe, comfortable, tised. Other officers of the Randolph foolish and illtimed legislative pro- the price reduction has resulted irom and carries the children to and from County Sunday School Association of gram ever attempted by any political the so-called 'farmer legislation school quicker than they can walk which the Asheboro Township is an party (Emergency Tariff Act) we passed when they were going to the one integral part, are president, W. L.- The tariff bill was so desiirned to last summer, but the price of the crop teacher school I wish to state furth Ward, Worthville; secretary, Miss Do h iiiSnn Sly 8 xd. by the surplus we have t , er that consolidation by transporta-'ra Redding; superintendent children's 1 sell. In normal times Europe bouitiit i tion is the only way to operate, a division, Mrs. A. 0. Adams; supertn- C,Jf ZrZ hod todre our surplus. Today Europe is undei- o. I hope to see the day tendent young people's division, Mrs. of incongruities and Don't Stop Children at the Education al -Crawling Stage." - Tha fitt thinir 1 heliftva w nml ta attention?, encouragement, or corree- remember abou an education is that twn that be needs. , All she can Ao j it is something more than just teach- he" Jessona without having time tm ing a child to read and write a little; "ke thev lessons interesting, to i Teaching a child just to read an4 BPir ambition, stimulate the back write, simple words is like teaching ward, ftr help mold character. Tfce best thina that can be said of a child do anything more than crawl, he will.ta a acho4l is that he has beem miss most of life's pleasures. Before I exPsed an education and w he can really enjoy life he must learn most es the exposure is .so slight to walk and run and work powerful th th,ere is no of catching muscles, pulsing blood, and eager! b malady. nerves'. And an effective education a teacher who is trying to handle lhust carry one far beyond the mere five or six irradea in one school (ami ability to read and write a little !ly cannot teach high school subjects, just as far beyond it as vigorous man-1 As a matter of fact, in the average hood is beyond the crawling stage -of one-teacher school most of the child- the infant. As Henry D. Jhoreau ren are practically stalled in the first said a long time ago: .1 three or four grades,, and never eve "I confess I do not make any broa get prepared' for high school subjects, distinction between the illiterateness On this point it mav be well to eiue of my townsmen who cannot read at again the figuies I obtained last yer all and the illiterateness of him who showing the enrollment by grades ia has learned to read only what Is ror a one-teacher school with n tight of children and feeble intellects." jmy farm. Here :ua the ;ivv.s; GRADE rirsi unuiD . Second. Grade Third Grade in.vitnf,. fed and needs our grain, but Europe whn every.dBt.rt J.n " county wi l D. S. Coltrane, and superintendent t .has neither ciedit-nor money, so they consolidated into central nign administraUve division, Mr - - . f 1 a aonAAie um. hedge so any credit in , my correspondence arye while we burn our corn for ru pubtlshed in The Courier immediately ? ' - .'; ' after its passage in the House, that "As to the price in Iowa I have a u l.j k. c.-.t. i report from a man in the town where would ffslee the death that knowa no hve.who owna 600 acres of land UnVtm" Hum Mniltrh if TiinhUr vwa www ovmwa wm wwmw nvv ebnsideration by this Conrreas- has y him to husk and ship hs eor." T. J. FINCH, Ex-Sheriff Randolph County. Huge for the four sessions been finally abandoned; TheTat Bill FsUr m Bad as the Tar . ia Bin v Only five Cents a EuhBcI to Pay Fur , Producing a Bushel Senator Kenyon, a Senator from an- ?Thi tax bUL which.: the'''Seaat a.pther great agricultural Ute, Iowa, now considering and furthe.-amend-' whom; thi adnnitrtion, . recently Ing for ithe benefit of, the very rich'desM to remove from the legislative xnay preperfy be called a bill X unUx halhi ff appointing him to a Fetierai tlie very rich, including the very big Judgship for life, where his activities corporations, and to overtax .the com- would not be so, embarrassing to the including .the ..arnaller Pty ef great moral y ideaa, whojc rporauW,rhe desfgrr 'aiidady eghiatioi ia first, Urt wd jlktte fixed purpose of this admlnlstraUon m not ia the interest of the eoo te carry out tho promise and agree- mon man, but for big lntrests,id tnent with big bu.lness .tov transfer ma speech to the Senate: from tho taxation Imposed Jon 1 those f hM1Jrj!,?Jr9m l most able to. pay to the backs of trVf I which ho yvBKh poorest an tho well U do but ia no the lttl crop of eors have junt Svent upon theso who . control and ff fblie.f It islS. eenU a domlnaU legislation when the Repub bushel at Ue local - The Mean party i. in power. ; . f w?t--W Help Railroads Bet Neftort Other, "Out of lg eeaU n' bushel buskin Things " costs i cents a bushel, shelling S tenia, . , ... . delivery f cents, " leaving about' 5 (vrWhat is called the th rd ; relief nnU bu(lhe f.Tproducing a busW measure ox tne amwation is-; w e u eocU jfc tbef i1'"". " Middle went rrom wu'w coats a railroads wnicn owe wo government wu.rf tn nnviIM ft - . Ret Local Tax Petition, Township: , It has been called to our attention that through error it has been pub lished that the rate asked for ia (75c) seventy-five cents on tho one hundred dolta.s valuation, whereas only (25e) twenty-five cents levy has been peti tioned for. If tho election carries for the local tax the rat will not exceed twenty- (Continued' on page five.) Parks. The program is as follows: I First session, Thursday Providence November 10: . 3:00 Devotional led by Gibbs, pastor Asheboro Church. 8:10 Lesson Preparation D. W. Sims. 3:40 Record of Attendance. '3:45 Story Telling, ty Miss Flora Davis. ; 4:15 Problem Solving Period. 4:30 Adjourn. (Continued on page five.) afternoon, Rev. A. C. Methodist by Mr. v. ice Day Program Processional Battle Hymn of the Republic which owe tho government Ku.nili nnv,M ft about' eieht hundred millions;- The . V President bating urged this in spee Another' Soator Told of tho PrWe of ial appeal, but urzod the giving of not a dollar bonus . to the sokliert, whom we pyomised to deal with lib- Oats St t to 11 Oats Btwhcl sod 'Wheat CormpoaoXagty Low. The complete answer to thoM'who rail. -A .Iim.M Mna thnt A th h BO C .r,.A, .wrifir- whirl. thv mails, criticlao me f or my vote en the Ewer. While conditions of the country msy rency Tariff, which, waa urged by It bo such that financial conditions-msv WMnU," f Meffor present ins, not be fsvorable for such legislation, hUj " .r"i.I? jet Congress appropriated almost . a on,r t tibu.t round billion dollari to the army and ,ntrr,V' tZl1?) navy, and with n lavish hand Increas- "j Ration. t the price of farm d salaries and created new. offices products. y V , for party heelers at unnnwedentedly Nw Mwk jp.lj EipecUlions l(n iii'', put tt" m uyiiar iw inrtv muciiui . Invocation Greetings' from $tate Supt Our Dead Overseas In Flanders Fields America's Answer ; . North Carolina' Record in the World War Tho'fllfS' Mrtrtr Srnta K t V VO VOl SlVtfSf MMSV ,. Audience .....Rev. J. W. Rose ..Mr.,D. W. Maddox ... Miss Nan Lewis .... Miss Mabel Cox Miss Alberta Ingram V an. ruuui uwinw 1 A nrliAnn.) Welfare Work at Home and Abroad .OjT - 'XI- Miss Margaret Moffitt The Story of The President Lincoln" ' 'w . ; Mr. William Hammond The Long; Long Trail. .1 , . .'Audience Blue Stars and Gold Stars Miss Mary Bulla OurDcad Miss Mabel Wright Marseillaise ;...... '..V; Audience Address .............. . . ; iDr. E. L. Moffitt Fourth Grade . Fifth Grade . . . Sixth Grade . . . Seventh Grade Eighth Grade . . Number of Pupils in Each Grade - M16-I91T 1D1W9I8 1919-19M 19 17 20 20 1 6 2 7 ....... 4 5 1 7 7 0 4 7 0 0 J 0 6 3 8 S 2 0 Notice what a large proportion of more insDirinar instruction riven in a the pupils are found year after year consolidated school where there is a in the first three grades and how larger group of eager boys and giite small a proportion even get within in each class and where teacher aiA pupils feel the influence of this situa tion. Would You Like to Have a Neighbts hood Like Thi? All over the South now one ran fiaw men and women Baying: "Well, our neighborhood used to be only half- alive while we struggled jMusic ...... ...'.t..,.k Ramseur, Quartette l"nSr , ; : Misses Carson, Mabel Ingram auwrta mado for Urn . SDorooria-' Prllent'a Cabinet. Senator Burwnlf T ' . V ' ttnfJ llCnnClta UnderWOOd ' 'r - (RP was 105, one half the major-. Tr Cf-Rnirr1 Porm ' ' ' ' ' AiiSon o it ior IlaHIng in New U" "' . ...................... . The only relief bill enacted so far the Agricultural bill to finance aor- (Corttlnue J on pgr Ive.) Benediction Re v. A, C Gibbs sight of high school grades. Five Farts That Cannot Be Disputed Let us face the facts as they are: (1) There is no hope for us to give the farm boys and girls of the South really effective education un less they have high school advantages. (2) There is no hope of giving oui along with a one-teacher school. Aati boys and girls . high school advan- we were mighty, mighty slow to he tages in one-teacher and two-teacher come convinced- that consolidatioa ws schools. a wise thing for us. But finally we (3) While wo must have severul took the plunge. teachers in any school in order really "Now the neighborhood is a whotyy to inspire and educate boys and girls, different sort of place. Nobody km one little district by itself cannot af- to leave the eommuntiy to educate has ford to employ several teachers. children, or have them leave iairtfer (4) Consequently, the only way to to be educated. They can he jirjfpa Insure really effective education for ed for college right at home. tho boys and girls of the farm is "But what we didnt expect brtlSa through consolidation of districts. tho change has helped tho old foaks (5) ' Finally, while ten 6r twenty almost as much as the young jam. years ago such consolidation was Parents as well ss children now m practical to only a limited extent, (be- to the consolidated school for Wtsre, cause children could not walk far and addresses, plays, musical fast suss, horses and mules could not travel far moving pictures, ball games, f before school opened), the coming of agricultural demonstrations, meeting tho automobile and "school truck" of tho farmers' clubs and farm sas hes brought a veritable revolution in men's clubs: and whenever there fa wis respect, u is prooaoiy not too any need for betterinr . the much to say that with the automobile ,schoolsHheailh, country life, etc- st i and school truck we can now give tne easy to get something started, -'la farm boys and rlris such educational act, tho principal of tho consoUdsJasf opportanitics as they would not eth- school is a sort of communHwlea4or erwiae hsvo had for 60 years to come, to help along all these things; s4 Ono-Teacber Schools Biader Progress agricultural teacher anr oa ob of Both CbUdrea sad CoMenity onomies teacher not only - giro ?bo , . ' . , children new interest In thee ss- !?,r lt.J J "J.0' rrt but are right on tho spot to Ma. irvww m. r, , 7, " i isrmera and farmers' wives with wis cviuracuan. . t ma is iom isci uuii the ono-teacbsr school or two-teacher school not only holds back the prog ress of tho children but also tho prog ress of. the community. Men and women as a rule are ac customed to limit their active ac quaintanceship and their local Inter eU to tho area : of the school and church; district in which they live, This to them la "the neighborhood.' Now in ft little school district which employs only one or two teachers, the neighborhood Is not Urge enough to support many of the agencies of com munity life. There are not enough people living In the district to support farmers' and farm women's organisa tions, young people's clubs, musical features, library, lectures, recreation, etc . ( Evan if a teacher In ft one or' two teacher school Is persuaded td teecr. high school subjects to three or four boys and girt. thev classes are so small that there is little inter rn the work. Tho teaching seems "dead" to tho pupils as compared with U ery sort of problem that "In a one-teacher school dWrtst we could never get enough people to gether to make a success of aay meeting, movement or orgaaisaUaav. We either dklnt have them at all aw they just dragged along. Now ikes meetings and movements have lite and 'snap' and go m them.'aad all sf us enjoy life more. "And what ia equally important, wo have loomed to know and enjoy ym many more people just as a result mt , meeting them at the ehoolhaaaBS. Where your treasure is, there erUl your heart be also, and all of us loans to love the place where our boys Best girls attend school. It becomes savt of 'community home', bringing aw ftl into a larger and richer, fellowship) snd eofnrsoefihip si result.'', . ' Which of these two neigh borm4e is yours likethe one "Dfors Ukiaar or "After - taking"? "Ewmtsallr Why Not Now I" asks wall bnra advertisement. Eventually ye or going to hsvo ft good school Why oojt ,sow T . T4 v . .
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