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Thursday August <5, 1925 HE I as second class mail matter postoffice at Asheboro, N. C. The quality and flavor of the fa nous peaches from the Sandhills of North Carolina have found more favor than usual on the northern and east ern markets this season. They surpass the California peaches in size and flavor and rival the Georgia peaches. The entire peach industry in North Carolina is taking on a finer tone and the immediate reward to the Ciwers and the Sandhill section i* re money. Asheboro is a good shopping cen ter. It is getting better in this respect' every day. One has but to take a look around town in the business district to see how Asheboro merchants are prepared to take care of the needs of the shopper no matter how fastidious le or she may be. Stores are clean and the stocks of merchandise, latest in model, style and pattern, are well kept and attractively displayed. Our merchants are always making im provements in their stores and stocks •f merchandise. It is a pleasure to tear witness to the progressive spirit which dominates our merchants. Frank R. Kent, writing in the Bal ithnore Sun, laments that the death of Bryan cuts the last string between the old days of political oratory and the present day press agents. He is pessimistic because it leaves the field •pen to the press agent. The News and Observer, however, is not so pessimistic, for it says that while things may seem to be going to the devil just now, “an unheralded leader will arise to catch the imagination of the people and lead them to new heights. It was so with Roosevelt. It was so with Wilson.” The real danger, according to the News and Observer, is a press and a radio controlled by special interests. is the fear of monopoly in these lines today that las put ar damper on enthusiasm,” ac-* cording to the Raleigh newspaper. The Troy Montgomerian sounds a *ote of optimism in comparing the results of education today and yester day. It used to be the idea, says the Montgomerian, that education made loys and girls worthless around the &nn and home. This idea prevailed not that the boys and girls were lazy lot because “the course of study was such aS ' to take the student’s mind entirely away from practical every dby things.” This sort of education did not help the boys and girls much in making their living with the tools at hand. Now the course of study generally has been changed so that the boys learn agriculture and the girls “how to become better cooks, more efficient seamstresses, and more ideal housekeepers.” It is true that we have advahced a long way and the course is ever upward in North Carolina. Larger and better schools bring with them courses in vocation al agriculture and home economics. Rev. Doctor Jason Noble Pierce, intimate friend and pastor of Presi dent Coolidge. in a sermon last Sun day in his church in Washington, lined up with science and evolution and accused the fundamentalists of “being disrespectful of the Bible.” Doctor Pierce startled his congrega tion with the statement that the Bible is full of errors and proceeded to tell them that the Old Testament con flicts with the New and that the tables of chronology fail to square themselves. Persons of all classes, according to news reports, attended the service expecting to hear evolu tion condemned. They got up and left the church hurriedly when Doctor Pierce defended science and‘gathered in angry groups outside the church. BRYAN’S UNDELIVERED SPEECH On pages two and three of this Moe will be found the undelivered peech of the late William Jennings tryan. This speech was prepared by |M great commoner for the Scopes dad in Dayton, Tenn., but was not J on account of the early term of the case. The Courier asks ^ every subscriber of the paper read the speech from beginning to ^ It Is well worth the time. Afte* read it should be cut - out and _C. C. Cranford, of Asheboro, the splendid suggestion that ; out and pasted in the Bible. ALL IN A PAY’S WORK The Learington Dispatch recounts Hw announcement of big undertakings to be launched in North Carolina. It is ft fist such that if it were announced In many other States it would be said, fliAperhaps truly, that a big boom was on. But, according to the Dis*; ,up through the Piedmont section of the State to Winston-Salem. No wonder it looks like boom stuff to any man who doesn^ know North Carolina, but in this State it is just a matter of course. THE NEW MAIL ROUTE The announcement made by the Postoffice Department of the estab lishment of a star route mail service between Asheboro and High Point by way of Spero, Randleman, Sophia and Trinity will be pleasing to the people of this county, who have been handi . capped in the way of mail service since two trains were taken off the Southern from High Point to Ashe boro some time ago. The investiga tion of the merits of the proposed star route was made by the Postoffice De partment after vigorous appeals had been made by the people of Asheboro and the patrons of the offices along the proposed route, supplemented by a petition signed by hundreds of in terested patrons. After the investiga tion was made there -was no delay in granting of the route, for it-, was easily seen that the mail service under which the county has been laboring was inadequate and unfair to the county. With the establishment of this route and with the star route from Greens boro to Ramseur by way of Asheboro and Randleman already in operation the county is now fairly well served by the Postoffice Department. At least, it will be possible to receive the j bulk of mail to the county from the main line trains on something like proper time and to send out mail with the same readiness. THE PEACH INDUSTRY It is estimated that the total re turns from the Sandhill peach crop this year will run in the neighborhood of two million dollars. This large amount of money coming into the Sandhill section of North Carolina means something in the way of pros perity to all the people of that com- - munity. As the Vass Pilot points out, it does not mean that the peach growers will roll in wealth, for there is a distribution of the money in such a manner that it affects the entire community. A large force of people has to be employed to take care of the crop. Even before the jjeach orchards begin bearing there is a heavy ex pense and this expense continues in somewhat lesser amounts when the trees begin bearing. After the re turns from the crop come in the mon ey has to be paid here and there for expenses before the peach growers themselves can get their dividends. However, the peach industry is gen erally profitable to both the growers and the community in general and it reflects itself in the continued growth of the Sandhill section of North Caro lina. • Governor McLean is anxious to make North Carolina first in the peach industry. He will have the support of all forward looking’ North Caro linians in this endeavor. North Car olina can be made (first by developing the industry in the Sandhills and it can be helped along by the growing of peaches elsewhere in North Carolina. The bigness of the industry in the great peach belt of Richmond and Moore counties sometimes tends to ob scure the industry in other parts of the State. Scotland county, for ins tance, has the largest peach orchard in the State. In the communities around Wagram and Gibson the peach industry is moving forward rapidly. Thousands of acres in Scotland coun ty are being made ready for setting out trees. The same thing is being done in Montgomery county. Peaches ought to be grown in Ran dolph county. The Greensboro peach, excellent in flavor and large in size, can be grown successfully in this county. The soil in many parts of the county, especially in Trinity, New Market and Pleasant Grove town ships, is adapted for growing the va rieties of peaches now grown so suc cessfully in the Sandhill section. The soil of this county is especially suited to the Georgia Belle. The development of the peach in dustry in Randolph would not only ! be a step toward making North Caro lina first in the Union in the peach industry, but would bring prosperity of a most substantial nature to the people of the county. CRITICIZES THE AGNOSTIC A writer in the Washing Daily News asks some poir tions of a gentleman who i is an agnostic and uses 1 us that the Bible is not translates in his owl passages in an effort statement. . . “Now I am not eu er or not this self-stj ever written a bette _j,ys the Daflip “but if he has havfnever »;.-— ~—-vrp SAYS THEY WORKED FOR BRYAN R. R. Clark, writing for the Greens boro News, says that all the way through Ihe evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn., in which a school teacher was convicted of violating the State law ' forbidding the teaching of evolution in the schools, the defense counsel played into Bryan’s hands so arrogant and insulting was their attitude to 1 wards the court and the Taw. Their open contempt for the court aroused ' a feeling of resentment even ampng those who had small patience with Mr. Bryan and the anti-evolution !statute. j Mr. Clark says further: With the possibles, exception of Dudley Field Malone, who seemed to have some regard for the proprie ties, the lawyers from New York and Chicago, who voluntarily injected themselves into the Tennessee pro ceeding, seemed to go out of_the way to manifest contempt for the Tennes see statute not only, but for the court and citizenship generally. Maybe they didn’t know any better—so far as knowledge of the proprieties is con cerned; or possibly they thought the Tennesseeans wouldn’t know any better. But in any event Darrow and Hayes played into Bfryan’s hands not only, but they made a spectacle of themselves as defenders of “intellec tual freedom.” Their wanton assaults on all opinions contrary to their own is evidence that they wouldn’t recog nize intellectual freedom if they met it in the road. Mr. Bryan will have the time of his life pointing to Dar row et al. as exhibits that confirm his charge that evolution is a conspiracy against Christianity; that its champ ions are infidels. While it is believed that his success can be but temporary, that precious bunch of city provincials | did their best to help him on. OPPORTUNITIES HERE ‘“Tis distance that lends enchant ment to view,” is the way in which L. L. Cranford, in Cranford’s Column in the Montgomery Herald, sums up the lure of the real estate boom in Florida. Not many days since a num ber of Montgomery county citizens took a trip to the land of oranges and grapefruit at the expense of a real j estate company. They returned loud in their praises of Florida, and justly so. But Cranford reminds us that pos- j sibilities are in North Carolina also, ^ something that would be well to bear in mind. | North Carolina is not experiencing a real estate boom like the one now on in Florida, nor or people flocking to North Carolina by the thousands expecting to get rich quick, but North Carolina real estate is steadily ad vancing in price and if we take advan tage of the opportunities in our own State we will be on the road to a bet ter prosperity. Here is the good advice that Mr. Cranford gives us: “North Carolina right now offers as good, if not better opportunities to her citizens than does Florida, Cali fornia, or any of the other States of the union. We venture the assertion that if our State were as widely ad vertised, if we made the most of our natural resources and advantages, and were to spend as much money in press-agenting and propaganda as do these other states, that we would now be experiencing the same boom times as they are. “Call it optimism, pride of State, wilful blindness, or what you wish, it is our firm belief that our State, at the present time, has far better pos sibilities for the man who desires to get ahead in life than any other in the entire 48. The same energy, the same hard work and interest -"that will bring success in these other States, will bring an equal measure of suc cess. Th^ biggest trouble with North Carolina today is that her citizens are too prone to look for prosperity in other fields, when right at their doors the gates to success are wide open. It is the same old stoiWDist ance lends enchantment ^o tire view. The lesson we need t6 learn, and the one we will learn eventually, is that we must stick to our bush if we desire to wfh the most that life holds in store for us.” IS IT OUT? President Coolidge says prohibition enforcement is out of politics, so does General Andrews. The Washington Daily News asks if it is really in or is it out Senator Jim Watson says prohibition enforcement is in politics. Bascom Slemp, Republican boss of Virginia and former private secretary to President Coolidge, evidently thinks it is still in politics. Andrews wanted to fink West Virginia in a district with and Mu-hijrim siemp wanted it with Virginia. Slemp won. nii.A'. goeg with and Mich MILLIONS lost $50,006,000 last at the convei land capable of com to th the land do this, Ifprth Carolina with its immense production of tobacco falls 160 pounds ah acre below the average for the country. Our average yield of oats per acre is just half the United States average. If the State hid been up to the United, States average the worth of the crop last year would have been $50,000,000 more than it was. This is just so much lost to the State. The way to make the crops of North Carolina to ^atae up to the average and above it is to increase the fertility of the soil. This doesn’t mean that the farmers have to lay out a large sum in eomniileVcial fertilisers. Crop rotation and intelligent use of cover crops will go a long way to wards placing the average yields iq any county in North Carolina up to and even above the average for the country. Figure out how much you lost last year and resolve not to be caught with the little end in the future. MORE ABOUT MEETING OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS (Continued from page 1) trip, he being Mr. T. H. Homaday, ac companied by L. V. Edwards as con sulting engineer. This order being generally understood as fair notice to ! all parties concerned that the decision ; of this inspection would be final and binding, it was adopted and approved j by the board of commissioners. This order together with the report of the inspection trip was ordered to be placed on record. Following is the report of the committee: To The Board of Co. Commissioners, Randolph County, pr Asheboro, N. C. Gentlemen: On the basis of its being impractic- i al at this time for the County to build a thirty-foot top soil road on suitable grades; that is, grades not exceeding six per cent from what is known as ; Five Points on the Asheboro-Cole-! ride road to Coleridge, it seems to the j undersigned that, the most feasible i and practical thing to do is as follows: It Improve the road that is now commonly used f^pm Five Points to j Coleridge using the present location : as far as feasible. This improvement should consist of widening, ditching, laying drain pipes and placing top. soil where needed, so as to place the | road is a serviceable condition. The width of the road when completed should be approximately twenty-four feet. This is to be known as the Cole ridge Road. 2. Improve the road from Five Points to the Bell Cox place by fol lowing the present location of old I road as early as practical, widen; ! same to a width of approximately | I twenty-four feet, lay, the necessary j pipe culverts and top soil where nec ; essary, using sufficient amount of top soil to put the road in a serviceable | condition. j The above recommendations are based on spending'a small amount of 1 money and doing as small amount of ! grading as is absolutely necessary to provide satisfactory side ditches and 'sufficient covering for'pipe culverts. £. V. EDWARDS, Engineer. T. H. HORNADY, Member of Board of County Commissioners. The county tax rate fqr this year’s levy was fixed at $1.00 on the $100 valuation, the same as the old rate, di vided as follows: For school purposes, 45; General purposes, 15;- Roads and bridges, 25; Interest on bonds 10; | Sinking fund for bonds, 5. Special school tax levies were made according to the recommendations made by the county board of education and published in The Courier last month. The commissioners then adjourned to meet again in call session on the 20th. Series of Meetings At John Wesley Stand A series of meetings began at John Wesley Stand last Saturday with Rev. David Hodgin, of Michigan, as sisting. The p%Btor, Rev. J. F. Birk head, has served the pastorate for twenty-two years, except for two years. The meetings are held uyder a brush arbor and lr —-J attending. "Unde” one of Die old time there and providing pastors and choir. T furnishing food in from reports the dry affected the crops in her has not vicinity. AO. IN .THE DATS WORK THE EDITOR Good worming-,mister jones — l HAVE A UTTUT NEWS ITEM HERE THAT I1M QUITE SURE YOU WILL BE EL AO TO PRINT— IT'* SHORT NOT OVER. A COLUMN AN' A HALF AMI HAS AN ELECTRO TO GO WITH IT — ITS A PIPPIN AMD yOUft REAPERS WILL EAT IT «*H its all About -me east portico of the WHITE HOUSE AND we WERE GOING to hamb THE 'PRESIDENT POSE FOR US, BUT HE HAP JUST LEFT FOR SwAMPSCOTT, SO WE HAD OWE OF OUR MEN SUBSTITUTE FOR HIM TO DEMONSTRATE Ouft NEW,REVERSIBLE. SELF-CLEANING DOOR-MAJS * ybu'LL Giye IT GOOD Position, wont you *? HAMS A Cl OAR PLANS MADE FOR RANDOLPH FAIR Will Be Held Sept. 22 to 26. In clusive—Educational and Agricultural Exhibits. Randolph county’s fair and home coming week will be held this year from September 22 to 26, inclusive, five days and nights. This fair, ac cording to the secretary, will be noted for its strong educational and agri cultural exhibits. It will vividly por tray the agricultural and industrial progress and resources of ;the county. Preparations are being made for a large attendance, larger than ever before in- the history of the Randolph county fair. Exhibits may be en-! tered, in addition to exhibits from this county, by persons living in Montgomery, Chatham and Davidson; counties. The fifth annual bench show will be held on Thursday, September 24th.j Saturday, September 26th, will be school day for all white school chil dren. The hearty co-operation of the people of the county is expected in making the fair d big event. A$ the new fair grounds just south of the corporate limits of Asheboro on Route 70 preparations are being made for taking care of the exhibits with new and commodious buildings. There will be more room than former ly at the county fair this year for the display of the various Exhibits. The new fair grounds comprises 37 acres of land all of which has been wired in. Parking space inside of the wire has been prepared with po lice protection for the cars. A small charge will be made to cover cost of the service.. Excellent highways run in to Ashe boro from various parts of the county thereby giving easy access to the fair. It is expected that the railroad companies will make special rates for i the occasion. The attendance . this year should be much larger thaii ever | before. I _ NEWS IN BRIEF G. C. COX, OF RAMSEUR, BUYS HAMILTON’S GROCERY STORE Mr. G. C. Cox, of Ramseur, has purchased E. J. Hamilton’s Grocer^ and will operate the firm under the name of Cox Grocery. Mr. Cox has been connected with the Ramseur Hardware Company for the past seven years. Mr. W. R. Hughes, who has had mercantile experience for many years, will be associated with Mr. Cox. Asheboro is fortunate in adding thede two substantial business men to her citizenship. They expect to move ■their families to Asheboro within the next few weeks. Seven negroes ate in the hospital at Shelby as the result of a grade crossing accident west of that town Saturday evening. A Southern rail way train struck a Dodge touring car in which nine negroes were riding, completely wrecking the car. Elect officers for holly SPRINGS COMMUNITY FAIR On Thursday night, July 30th, a meeting was held at Holly Springs to reorganize the community fair, and to elect officers. Officers were elect ed as follows: President, J. B. Gamer; V. President, C. E. Macon; Secretary, W. J. Macon. Department heads were elected as follows: Farm Crops, E. W. Brown; Truck and Vegetables, R. F. Brown; Fruits, C. H. Craven; Dairy Cattle, E. C. Allen; Hogs, J. M. Ellis; Poultry, John H. Hodges; Horses and mules, Vester Graven; Pantry Dept., Mrs. J. H. Hodges and Mrs. A. V. .Phillips; Fancy Work, Mrs. T. L. Htxlges and Mrs. E. C. Byrd; Cureo and Art, C. C. Hinshaw and wife; Hunting dog, J. L. Bray. In addition to the above list of of ficers a committee was named from different parts of the district to work with the officers, and work up inter est in the fair in their immediate community. Bethel, Mrs. W. J. Lowe; Parks Cross Roads, J. C. Cox, Jr.; Shiloh, B. S. Moffitt; Pleasant Ridge, Mrs. S. F. Pell; Coleridge, Cland Caveness; E. Ramseur, Mrs. J. O. Forrester. Jt is hoped that everyone in the eastern part of the county will con sider this their fair and cooperate with it to the fullest. W. J. MACON, Sec’y. FACTS ABOUT THE BONDED DEBT OF NORTH CAROLINA i ' *_. v , The fact that the bonded debt of North Carolina is $105,84T,600, which ranks the State fourth among J the i commonwealths of the country is nothing about which there should be any great cause for excitement when the details of the indebtedness are 3HE CAPITOL AT 'WASHINGTON Do Yon Want A Free Trip To Washington? The Courier some time before Christmas will make it possible for a number of people in Randolph and ad joining counties to mage a trip to Washington, the nation's capital, and return free of charge. On this trip all bills wifl be paid, including hotel bills, railroad fare, cost of sightseeing trips, and in fact everything. ’ Yon will want to go on this with the Courier party, the opportunity of a Hr' known. The larger part of Unbonded -in debtedness, $66,552,600 of it to be ex act, is for highways. Gasoline and li cense taxes are taking care of both the interest and principal of this amount of bonds. For welfare insti tutions the bonded indebtedness is $18,092,500; for public buildings, $V0, 250,000; miscellaneous, including schools and educational and charitable institutions, $6,142,500; funding oper ations $3,980,000. Not one cent of direct tax is col lected from the people to pay off these bonds or the interest thereon, except the gasoline tax and this tax touches only those who operate cars and get the benefits of the roads. The man who drives a team along the good roads of the State isn’t paying a cent for the roads and rightly so. Ip fact, no direct property tax is collected in the State Of North Carolina for the support of the State government. However, as is usually the case, the man who doesn’t pay a cent of tax for the support of the state govern ment is the man who kicks the most about th^ State’s indebtedness. That North Carolina is able to build its great system of highways, stand in the forefront in matters of public welfare, and progress as ho State has ever done in the way of educational advantages for its people without levying one cent of property tax di rectly on the people who benefit most is one of ilia outstanding achievements of State government in the country. This could nevef have been accom plished had it not been for an unbrok en line of safe; constructive and sound State administrations m the hands of men with foresight and vision. For every dollar invested in poul try in North Carolina there is a return of $2.25, says V. W. Lewis, livestock marketing specialist. yond the imagination. Its surround ings are historical and full of every thing pertaining to the administra tion ofv government and of public affairs. The journey to Washington ■ and bach will take the visitor through country that tell* every mile some new event in the development of this great nation. The towns along the line ore of prominence in many things in which toe travelers will be con cerned, and that a&i)e would the worker for all the SUUgrt&t is one of The ~
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