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ubbard TeDs To Keep Boys And Girls On Farm hni Home And Farming Attractive, And Veteran Doctor Tells Bow. To The Editor: To keep the farm boys on the font, to keep the land built up and ptedming well, to keep the life on the Ham healthy and wholesome has bean the dream and desire of many a Tor a little more than twenty-one years I have practiced medicine in this splendid farming section, and have given this problem of holding the beys to the farm some careful study, and have come to the following con clusions: First, That the farm home must be made the most attractive place on earth to the boys and girls. I do not mean that expensive and unsuitable furniture should be used, but that most farm homes can, with little ex pense, be made much more attractive than they usually are. Playthings, books, games, and gen eral recreation for the whole family, with the parents showing a real in terest in the recreation of the chil dren will go far toward making life on the farm more liveable. One of the happiest homes I have ever known is unsightly on the out side, and not well arranged or ex pensively furnished on the inside, but it has a wholesome family spirit man ifested there that is delightful to see. The farm boy should have a place that he can call his own, where his boyish treasures can be stored, and where he can take a chum for boyish confidences. Many a boy is driven from home because no place is pro vided for him there. Electric lights and electric labor saving machinery are possible in many farm homes, and would be a good investment for any farmer who wishes to hold his boys loyal to the farm and its interests. Second, farming itself must be made more attractive from a business point of view. To accomplish this better methods of farming must be adopted, and the boys of today have opportunities of learning these better methods that their fathers did not have. County demonstration agents and teachers of vocational agriculture bring to them the results of years of experimenting with soil improvement, crop rotation, stock breeding, co-op erative marketing, and a score of other things of vital interest to all farmers. Mr. Millsaps is giving in his weekly articles in the county pa pers, and in his visits to the farms of the county invaluable service to the farmers. Mr. S. A. Cooper is giving to the boys of his classes in Farmer school splendid teaching along the lines men tioned above, and helping them to put into practice on the farms what they learn. In addition to this he is try ing to create and nurture a love of country life, to promote thrift in the management of the farm, to strength en the confidence of the farm boy in himself and his work, and to develop rural leadership. To the fathers and mothers on the farms I would make the following suggestions: Lead the young folks into the habit of reading farm literature. No bet ter farm paper can be found than the Progressive Farmer, and it should be in every farm home. Take your boys into partnership, give them a chance to try the new ways, and let them have the profits from their experiments. If they fail, remember that you sometimes fail, too, and do not let the loss fall too heavily on them. Be a comrade,—a pal,—with your boy. Take an interest in his play as well as his work. It will not hurt you to play with him sometimes. Magnify the profession of farming instead of belittling it. Teach your son that he is working together with God in making the land produce its fruits, its grain, its flowers. Make your home as attractive as your means will allow, beautify it within and without, and make each child feel that it is his home as well as yours. Look for beauty in the common things around you; take time to enjoy it and teach your children to appre ciate it. When you have taught them to see the magic tints of the sunset, the exquisite charm of the wild flow ers, the beauty and grace of the trees and shrubs, as well as that of the young animals in the farmyard, you will have welded another link to hold them to the life of the farm. —C. C. HUBBARD, May 17, 1929 Farmer, N. C. Foot People Miraculously Escape Death In Accident In a wreck occurring three miles west of Asheboro Sunday afternoon four people miraculously escaped death. The Ford coupe in which Clarence Welborn, Robt Snider and two Bryant girls, at Hatmeroville, Da vidson county, were riding, turned seer three times on a sharp curve near the Bedding lake. According to the young folks, the car turned over when a front tire blew tot The four occupants at the car were taken to Great Artist's Pipe* Prized as Art Relics One does not often hear of smoker’s pipes being ranked high among art rel ics. The date of the Introduction of tobacco precludes them from boasting at remote antiquity of origin, though your smoker vho makes the coloring of a pipe a solemn ritual may have very pronounced views on Its artistic claims. Nor Is his point of view Ig nored by the flne arts authorities, for, adjacent to a rich collection of snuff boxes, there may be seen at the/muse um of decorative arts. In the Louvre, a number of well-seasoned pipes, most of which must have belonged to hearty smokers. Perhaps the most noteworthy are a couple of briars which betonged to the painter Corot. It is said that he smoked these pipes while painting several of his greatest works, and If so. they have a legiti mate claim to distinction. Pipes at tributed to illustrious men are not un commonly met with elsewhere In Par is, usually in cafes which were fre quented by the great, but they are sometimes of doubtful authenticity. Verlaine, for instance, would appear to have left a pipe In almost every cafe he frequented, and these r»re many.—From the Continental Edition of the London Dally Mail. Pleasure and Profit in Scorpion Hunting One of the most peculiar hunting ex peditions on record Is that which takes place at more or less regular inter vals In the town of Mardlne. in Asia Minor. The town is surrounded by an cient walls built to protect it from in vaders, and hidden in various places in these walls are hordes of scorpi ons which often become a menace to the population. In order to keep down the number of these pests, said to be death-dealing, a bonus is offered by the municipality and regular hunts are organized. The hunts take place at night when the hunters, armed with lanterns, poke around the walls and dislodge the scorpions. The next day they carry them to the town#officials and collect the money due them as a reward. It frequently happens that they must wait upon the pleasure of that official, when they while away the time by making their ferocious cap tives engage in combat. Bets are made on the results, and it often happens that members of the waiting party have lost their money before they re ceive it. On the Road to Truth A11 opinions, properly so called, are stages on the road to truth. It does not follow that a man will travel any further; but if he has really considered the world and drawn a conclusion, he has traveled as far. This does not apply to formulae got by rote, which are stages on the road to nowhere but second childhood and the grave. To have a catchword in your niouth Is not the same thing as to hold an opinion; still less Is it the same thing as to have made one for yourself. There are too many of these catch words in the world for people to rap out upon you like an oath and by way of argument They have a cur rency as intellectual counters; and many respectable people pay their way with nothing else.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Algerian Grasshopper* Some Algerian grasshoppers, Just arrived at the London zoo, have be|t en all records for the genius of leap ing. They se^jh to have sacrificed ev erything for this as. though the body is barely an inch long, the nind legs are fully three inches. The newcomers are confined In a glass case, two feet high, yet, when first put in, their horny heads were continually tapping on the roof. Unlike other grasshoppers, they are carnivorous, feeding on raw meat and dead insects; and instead of living amongst grass they haunt damp caves. This species has never before been seen at the menagerie. Keep Ideals High A famous artist strictly resolved not to look at silly or funny pictures, sim ply because, when he himself wished to paint, all these funny pictures crossed his thoughts, and consequent ly they were interwoven in his work. Hence he made it a rule to look only at great masterpieces. By doing this he ever kept his mind full of great conceptions, and thus he found it much easier to paint great pictures himself. If people would only make it a rule to observe only that which is great and good, they would find It much easier to live a great and pure life. Fouil Iwy Mammoth Ivory, sometimes called fossil Ivory, comes from Siberia.. The tasks, longer and more curved than those of the elephant, are found In the frozen mnd of the “tundras’* or frozen marshes of the northeastern Siberian wastes. One mammoth task found In Siberia was 18 feet 7 laches long and weighed 185 pounds. Ordinary fossil ivory real izes from 875 to 8108 per hundred weight. ...—.- tl>ll ■■ ■! Agricultural Notes Of Farmer Section (By S. A. Cooper, Farmer, N. C.) If Sam Pickett’s other buildings are as good to look at his barn when -fee finishes his building on No. 62 he will have an attractive place. L. R. Bane has a field of oats and barley part of which' is top dressed with calcium nitrate. 11118 part is fully twice as good as the part not top dressed. He has sweet clover growing under a walnut tree in the shade fully three feet high and it has not bloomed yet. John Bane, his son, is going to top dress his com at knee high with calcium nitrate or a similar fertiliser. Van Lanier with his father’s and brother’s help has laid off and ter raced the field west of his home. He did this in less than a day. He built these with a reversible home-made drag made the day the. terraces were built and pulled this drag with a Ford son tractor. W. M. Bingham has a wonderful field of vetch and oats west of his house. He is intending to cut this and save the seed. Mrs. Bingham is having good luck with her two brood ers of Tom Barron white leghorn chicks. Norman Lewis left a bee gum on his back porch and a swarm of bees came in and made its home there. Norman has moved the hive out with the other stands. Norman’s Tom Barron white leghorn chicks are do ing fine. The people of Farmer will be sorry to hear that Wayne Bingham lost his Tom Barron white leghorn chicks in in a fire along with his brooder and about ten dollars worth of feed. Mr. H. C. Nance and I are getting up a subscription to help replace the boy’s loss. He lost fully $30.00 not count ing the house and brooder. We will be glad to have your subscription. Mr. W. P. Thornburg limed an acre of ground last year and planted sweet clover on it. He got very little sweet clover but has a wonderful stand of white dutch clover that has come up voluntarily where the lime was spread. Clark Thornburg has planted an acre of Southern Beauty corn. This acre was planted from the com grown from a pint of seed that I gave Holton and Clark last year. He is intending to top dress at knee high with nitrate of soda. He has a good stand of for ward com. Buren Cranford has a good look ing litter of six-weeks-old chetter; white pigs. He is considering build ing a hog feeder and getting them ready for the fall market. Coney Elliott’s Tom Barron white leghorn chicks are doing well. He is WILL BAILEY MAKE RACE AGAINST SENIOR SENATOR Will J. W. Bailey, Raleigh attorney, enter the Democratic primaries June of next year against F. M. Simmons for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate ? A lengthy ar ticle in the Greensboro News last Sunday had it that rumors are Bailey is contemplating the race. Bat there was no word from Mr. Bailey him self that he had any such intentions. Mr. Bailey was candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor against A. W. McLean and received SO,000 votes. He supported Governor Alfred E. Smith in the past general election, which the senior North Caro lina Senator refused to do—but whether he will make the race for the Senate is another matter. denouncement Nothing preventing, there will be a memorial service at the High Pine i Wesleyan Methodist church Sunday at, 11:00 a. m. Service will also be held | in the afternoon at 2:30 and at 7:45 at night. Bring your baskets full of j dinner, as lunch will be eaten on the, grounds. Let us make this a good day. The public is cordially invited— E. D. Packer, Pastor. Automobile accidents caused the deaths of 73 persons in North Caro lina during April, as compared with 44 in April a year ago. Total of deaths in the State so far this year caused by automobiles has reached 196, with 369 others injured. planting two acres of Jarvis Golden Prolific corn. / Sam Arnold has an excellent stand of Korean lespedeza in the wheat op posite Bob Johnston’s store. He has planted two acres of Jarvis Golden Prolific seed com. J. R. Wham figures that he has been fully paid for seeding an acre of alfalfa with the first clipping that he mowed about the first part of this month. He got a “whopping” load which he feels is worth $30.00. This alfalfa should last about six years and with the proper top dressings should give several cuttings each year. No re-seeding will be necessary. Elmer Byrd’s purebred Guernsey cow led the other cows here this month in the advanced registry tests with a milk production of 33 lbs. and a fat production of 1.5651 lbs. for the day on test. The cows name is Perrill of Handsome John Raider. A. J. Ma con’s young cow came next with a milk production of 25.3 lbs. and a fat production of 1.3052 lbs. of butter fat for the day on test. People generally are well pleased with the growth made by vetch, sweet clover and Australian winter peas. STATEMENT CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD, CONN. Condition December SI, 1928, as Shown by Statement Filed Amount of Ledger Assets December 31st of previous year . .f 14o,283,719.72 Premium Income, $26,874,915.04; Total.■• • • •• •• •• Disbursements—To Policyholders, $16,316,637.24; Total^.... 28,857,287.9* Business written during year—Number of policies a»76; 122g27877()0 Business in force at end of year—Number of Policies 24 7,210; ^ ^ 4gg ^ ASSETS Value of Real Estate (less amount of encumbrances).$ 2,960,662.79 Mortgage Loans on Real Estate. 48, <53,948.94 made to Policyholders on this Company’s Policies as signed as collateral .. Premium notes on Policies in force. ^ , Net Value of Bonds and Stocks. 83’5&M10.61 Cash...; .. 653,270.29 Interest and Rents due and accrued .. Premiums uncollected and deferred.. 4,010,728.22 All other Assets, as detailed in statement.. • 8,146,396.00 ... 172,857441.63 Less Assets not admitted .. 64,703.61 Total admitted Assets ... ...$172,792,438.02 LIABILITIES Net Reserve, including Disability Provision.$135,840,929.00 Present value of amounts not yet due on Supplementary Contracts, etc..... • • • • ... • • Policy Claims..... Dividends left with Company at interest.. Premiums paid in advance ...* Unearned Interest and Rent paid in advance. Commissions due to Agents... Estimated Amount payable for Federal, State, and other taxes Dividends due Policyholders 817,044.36 6,798367.16 411,601.94 150,530,48 28366.86 675,000.00 58932931 Amount set apart for future dividends .. 6360,000.00 New Building Account...... 200,000.00 Contingency Reserve .....».. ... 7331,019.67 All other Liabilities, as detailed in statement .. 1326303.52 Total amount of all Liabilities, except Capital .$165,054,714.36 Capital paid up in Cash.. * • • • • None Unassigned funds (surplus)-...• - $7,737,728.66 $ 7,737,723.66 Total Liabilities.$172,792*438.02 BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1928 Ordinary No. Amount Policies on the lives of citizens of said State in force December 31st of previous year . .28$| '# 6,799,602 Policies on the lives of citizens of said State issued during the year ........ Total ..r..3289 8481,449 Deduct ceased to be in force during the year,. 272 876,414 Policies in force December Slat ........2907 7,888486 and Claims incurred during Tear. 18 42402 •'***? adlw ' --- i »■— Total.....yi/l .. .. If aud Claims settled during (the year, ia full, 4240* m Wi , 8227460,68; Total .$ ; Secretary, Jacob H. ., 41<nwi, mwr L B. Rice. . Office, Hartford Com. Attorney for Service: DAN C. BONEY, 4*402 227460 88 Be Careful What You Smoke In Home City Of “Camels” Here’s a good one from the "Views and Observation” column in a recent ' issue of the Raleigh News ft Observ er: The latest story of Winston-Salem’s 1 self consciousness, or maybe its self esteem, is being told by Dr. Charles O’H. Laugh inhouse, State Health Of ficer. Tim doctor was having lunch with several Winston-Salem women when he took from his pocket a pack of cigarettes which were not Camels. "What do you mean smoking those cigarettes in Winston," stormed one of the women who took them from his hand and threw them across the hotel dining room. "Waiter, bring a package of cigarettes,” she ordered and the waiter, well trained brought Camels. With great dignity Dr. Laughing house rose and removed his coat, his vest, his collar and his tie. He was unbuttoning his shirt when one of 6 6 6 is > Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known. For 55 Years COD-LIVER OIL Scott's Emulsion Badly -Down the women gasped, “What In the name of heaven are you doing.” “I'm sorry to admit it but I have on a suit of B. V. D/a made in- Char lotte,” he apologised. “Would you mind sending the waiter after some Hanes underwear.” ’Bill! Montgomery county will lose two tool superintendents this year, tag W. E. Powell, superin of the high school at Star, E. Williams, superintendent or, both of whom have an they will not serve next _ 2344 ese special features mean greater convenience every day 1 f i Only Frigidaire will give 4 Patented se^-sealing ice trajK jou all these features: 5 Sarphssjuwr...wMch keeps 1 The Frigidaire Cold Control,.: thr Tr'liirfirT ^ which speeds the freexin* of ice cubes. 6 Qniet iteration... you don’t iBaaatMnl cahhuts.:. with sU h«« i« «««. stop, or run. mechsnismcompletelyconcealed. 7 New low prices. 3 Food shelves at convenient height. 8 Liberal General Motors terms. Inspect the Frigidaires now on display FRIGIDAIRE THl Q,ui«t AUTOMATIC 1IFIIGI1ATOR. Fox Furn. Co. Asheboro, N. C. PRICES AS IOW AS COMPLETELY INSTALLED Going to Build or Repair? If so, it will pay yon to see our materials and get prices Framing, Sheathing, Siding, Kiln Dried Flooring, Ceiling, Finish, Mouldings, Etc. Windows, Doors, Frames and Mantels BIRDS’ ROOFING Asphalt Shingles, Roll Roofing, Building Paper, Different Kind* and Prices. Now’s the time to Re-Roof. Delivered AnywherePrompt Service & .«* ' See Us Before Baying Asheboro Wheelbarrow Company Asheboro, N. C. Dairyman Makes Profits^. by Cutting Delivery Costs V Puritan Dairy Changes Brand of Motor Oil and Makes Big Savings In Truck Operation Test run shows 42.2% In crease in Gasoline Mileage Whenever owners of motor cars get together and start claiming mileage records, the only way to prove or disprove any statement is to make a supervised test. Such tests are diffi cult to arrange and supervise. Few motorists have the time to spare. But the Puritan Dairy of Red Bank, New Jersey, wished to use the best oil on the market for their delivery trucks. No use to waste hard-earned profits on poorly lubri cated equipment. No reason for keeping trucks needed to make their appointed rounds in the repair shop because of worn-out bear ings. So a practical test, to be made while one of the trucks performed its regular work, was arranged by company officials. Details o! Test The crank case of a sturdy 6. M. C. truck SHLSguahed and refilled with "Z” s all told. The gaso ‘Standard” Gasoline. Truck operated by L* McGuire in which the test wot made No motor oil was added after the first-day. Yet 8 quarts of “Standard’* Motor (XI re mained in the crank case. Tested in a laboratory, brand “Z” showed extreme dilution. “Standard” Motor Oil, however, was comparatively fresh—-still a “good lubricant.” Car “Handled” Earner “And the car,” said Lee McGuire, the dnvagj. “was easier to start and worked better all along with 'Standard* Motor CHI. Everywhere, this oilier oi7-;“Standard” is pleasing millions of motorists as well as truck operators who appreciate how a richer
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