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ANCIER AND A FEW OF ITS CITIZENS :ggp*T0E38J£s*r— *,■ -<*■*!*«.; I am contemplating giving Harnett county a big write-up in a future number. But two or three hours spent the other day in Angier was so enjoyable that I wish to say a few words hefe about this good Harnett county town and a few of its citizens I had an opportunity to chat with. Unfortunately passers on the highway cannot gauge the importance of Angier. Though the two or three blocks of good brick business build ings are within little more than a hundred yards of the highway, the big saw mill and other less attractive buildings cut off the transient’s view. You will be surprised if you arive in and see that Angier is a real town. In a Great Tolbacco Area. Angier is in the heart of one of, the best to bacco areas in the State. Upper Harnett pro duces great .quantities of’the leaf and that of high grade. Dr. Young is one of the largest growers in the State. His acreage has reached as high as four hundred per season. Mr. Currin a short distance south of the town is also a large tobacco grower. He is one of the Granville Currins. if you should take r 11 the Granville people out of Harnett the population would be greatly dimin ished. Getting an E location Against Odds. I particularly enmyed talking with Mr. F. T. Dupree and Mr. W M. Crawford whom 1 caught together in Mr. Dupree’s office. It was gratifying to get from Mr. Dupree con firmation of my statement in one of the school articles that two years is enough for any one to. learn arithmetic thoroughly or as well as he will ever learn it, provided the study is not begun till the student has reached somewhat of maturity. When Mr. Dup~ee, now a scholarly attorney, was 21 years old he had been to school one month. He then started to school and when he had been to school 22 -months he had completed two arithmetics, including the highest taught in Harnett county, had waded through an algebra or two, had completed the elementary "Latin grammar and read four books of Caesar, and had made similar prograss in English, history, geog raphy, etc. He then attended the University law school 18 months and began the practice of law.4 His schooling, accordingly, sums op to 41 months, or approximately the equivalent of five eight-month terms. . .. Imagine how rftu seating it should be to a man who ;ha’s thus got a real education to hear all the bosh about penalising present-day children by ndt providing funds in such abundance, as was the practice a few shert years ago! However, he didn’t express an opinion on that matter. Ana then hear Mr. Crawford’s story. He is 66 years old and therefore rime tip when educational ad vantages were fevwr than in Mr. Dupree s young manhood. Mr. Craw-ford Was reared in Ala mance county ana the school .was so far awa^ wheft he was little that he couldn’t navigate thfe long mudclv wayi in -mid-winter. When he got larger, his feffier told him fife cdtfld then go to school’ bidyWter \ of going. b& worked.ift the day and with, his father's assistance mastered the fundamental subjects‘of the school at home, keeping up his night study till within a short period of his marriage. He held one of the most responsible, posi tions ifi the Erwin mill plant for years and now has a good business at Angier. It takes only a minute to size Mr. Crawford up as a man of •calibre and understanding. Here, then, were two of the most intelligent citizens of the county whose whole schooling, measured in months at the school houses,, amounted to that of a sixth- , •grade pupil of the present day. As Mr. Craw ford remarked, the fellow! that wants to know can find'opportunity to learn and the other fellow will not team much at the best. Yet the nekt generation would be utterly mined if they have any less than an ’eight-month term each year, and is liable to flat failure if the term is not increased to nine months! Alas, what a tragedy has threatened these hard .years! Here is another -interesting "gentleman—Mr. 'A. Hockaday, one of Angier’s leading merchants. He had better educational opportunities in his youth than -either Mr. Dupree Or Mr. Crawford. He graduated at Buie’s Creek before the ■college davs. In 1897 -graduation at Buie’s Creek, though, its course was nothing like the high school course of to-day, meant a good education—and it was that very thing. I doubt if a college course would have better qualifigji Mr. Hockaday to serve his county several years as county commissioner, as he did, and now as a member of the county board of education, and for 25 years as ft mem ber of the Angier school committee. Among the present posts of distinction he holds is that of di rector of the East Carolina Chamber of Com merce. He is a prosperous and intelligent citi zen. , Dr. Young Was -sick, Dodter Byrd off to see a patient, and my young friend Dr. Glenn \yilson, who recently resigned as health officer of Samp son county to associate himself with Dr. YOung, was aboUt Worn down with the heavy tv<9rk faff ing upon him during Dr. Yo wig's illness. Mr. W. M. Morgan, a bfrOthdr 'Of ‘the Well known •Perry Morgan -of thje -N. -C. ’Baptist Sunday "school force, was A^ay- I v/fts not feeling like work and therefore cut my visit down to about two lfWra. When bSarrfettt) turn 'f,0r 'ft big write up in tydice cOmeft, i llnrfiatterhpt to ‘intro duce ^uitfc* nttmberof -Anger’S ‘finerit&ehs to otTr ’constantly increasing teiufnber of tfeadeTS, al ready spread from mountains to the ‘sba. But J W&hted So Modtfofe these three 'or fctftr fine fellows to Vctn now, and I might include Mr. Du preO’s fine young f&W p'amer—H. C. ‘Strfciaamk a bright young attorney anti gtVifig pfofhfce ert ’‘‘Cutting ‘considerable -Ic*?’ fn Harheft affairs as 'fat yeaTs pass, Bur \ 'shah have mdre to say when die Special ffWndtt edition *0f Thfc Poke apspo&rfe. t thitSc Of th&kifig ft doublfe-si^e so that Harnett S«liy tfe thoroughly represented before the eyes df dur thousands of readers scattered over *dOU5itiieS ‘Of State._ STATIC POPULATION FIGURES IN ECONOMICS tff THE The following a*rticle from the hand of Charles F. 'Stewart Washington City correspon dent of a nUfrber of papers, ha's 'been guitewefl broadcast; vet its reviefv of Prof. Baker's discus sion of the effect, of the increasing ratio c* workers to the wh'ue population, 'due to *the tend ency -of th,e latter to become static, is important enough to justify the emphasis of republication. Perhaps you haven’t read it, but even rf you have, review it. , - This period has been subjected to a number ot transition influences which make it ail the more difficult to adjust <he economic machinery. K was as late as the last, issue of this papdr thht the effect, -of great!* increased totals ,of insurance premiums paid in proportion to the redistri u tidn of insurance fends was cited as one ot influences having a serious effect upon the o a of consumption. Put even if the Uneconomic scheme of life insurance, which fiffntshes an ex ample of ..the ‘ saving of what isn’t recently discussed, should ccntinue to prevail, the IcVe collections from toe people and the ^e utw . funds, though not of counterbalancing upon ‘consurrr^n, v/111 find the same approxi mate level. But consider herfe the one matter oi the bearing of . the decreased birthrate and the prolongation of life, which throw the ratio the number of adult Workers seriously ou proportion with the number of consumers* MR. STEWARTS REVIEW. .Washington, Feb. -8.—President Roosevelts l&ria frfkn ^tafctes Into •corfsidOraTron an /vmeiicaH population ‘tendency tor which few Scientists have mado the sRghteft allowance in their search for *- *cah^e of tbfe'ddpriygioh of ‘the task Wey&i'rs. Yet *k looks as it it WCre h mighty important consideration. increase r6f -pOptf&tiOn is Slowing flown. There still «fe Sbiift increase .but, With ‘each suc ceeding year-, there is & shrinkage ?ft the annual percentage -of increase. Professor OKver E. EakCr of -the agriculture -department’s bureau Of economics, the CoUntry-s foremost authority on ’the subject, 'estimates that; by I960, or only 25 years hende AMericag popu Nation Will Arrive at a Constant of about 139 mri^ lions; thOnCe-fOrWard !the death rate will "fequal the birth rate. ...... -Readjustment Necessary. _ This Will 'be all 'right, Wys Professor Baker, tf 'Americans have .readjusted their •economics to suit changed conditions. . . , . -China, for example has u -stationary popula tion ’of *a hv no means satisfactory sort. It re stationary -because -it has reached its subsistence limit it still Strives to increase itseJ, but it can't accomplish it? surplus babiis 'immethately * Aiherica's population, it it stops increasing in •I960, will have remaining resources sufficient •for twice as many more inhabitants. But, points out Processor Baker, teres the danger. - 1 m LIQUOR AND SOCIALISM (Conthmefl Tram Palge ’t’wo) why not into banking? That Ifnohey is‘the root of all evil sterns to be the very definite opinion of many people, as the profit motive seems to be the thought behind die bill proposing to put the State into liquor selling. If Mr. Hill’s bill is presented. idr a discussion and vote of the people, "there will tfd dffflbt be many tornmumsts and. socialists yflho wih impress upon the people that Mr. Hill believes a system of distribution in aCCdrcl with their plans the most perfect. They wili ask if liquor can be handled letter this way, Why ficfc baftKs, 'CoTfoh Chills, fer tiKfcer factories and tcfoadco factories? why not distribute milk this why? It is to laugh to think of SptUnt fiill %s a so-1 ci&hst leader and promoter. liiqUOr Will dbinahy; things and curious things, btft tfever had f ex pected to see it make this mah the rc&diflig %xpo -nent of a law to establish a %6ciahSVfc theory of business operation in North Catohna. PAUt j, ' •Sanford , N. _ ■.a n Si i I “America, throughout its history, has Hared itself more and more strenuously- in an economic sense, to support a rapidly growing popefetion. At times population’s growth has been *® rapid that production has had to exert .itself to keep pace with the growth. . . v;... , Then, just after the war, wun pruuut-i»tm ; an all-time maximum affd still gaitring velocity, | the Wakes were .put cm the growth Of «poptila*> | tion.” , . | Immigration virtually was shut off.. .. The birth rate fell. Folk were gaining »phis- | tication’ for one thing; .they Wanted fewer chil- .y 'dren. There was a gravitation from the $&rms | where children are 'helpful as soon as they have ? passed infancy into the cities, where they dre a | liability until they reach near-matUrity. Besides, «o new foreigners were ^arriving—and they .were | the class which, previously, had produced Jpe -large families. . .V j Professor Baker is too scfcmd -an econocSfet | admit sttch 'a thing as over-predOction mankind’s -, wants beroglim'ittess, but hfe -reeognkSss the^xist cnoe of mated juStftfents. , . - - TfWsttrati^y, althdi^ ^grioedtufe «s «eyer* | tiised -as having %ebn overdue, thdbe SHfe tnany farmers, he aays, who tSErn’t make Sfdegtsaite hr- ; imgs because they haven’t enough fertile 4aaft, • .: “Asstftne the case,” he "onoe cemarktSi hs me, “of -a person of thibe Or four gthetOtidn^ agfp, ; who batted on a tradt as large «s *he -eOtrid -cle^ | •arid cultivate, -and sufficient to Oopport hfe dfc®uy ife the KMtinky or T^fcftfestee highlands. ; Ms deaths it wa!s divided -among his «uhwre»; when they died, among '^Sr bMMrittiv Today , there isn’t a patch *0n which <a fam% ein grub J %«t hettfcr than term-starvation, Or marble %nere bhsnt been k complete division. Perfefifh, uow : %nd then, an heir Mis Waded himself **i» debt, | to pay off his fellow heira, bird poSsibly 4teh kepi | the whole ancestral arei intact. In ^t^ent, >he placed ?oad of obli^tions makes it u.ipt'ont- | Professor Baker submits that fhfe £ jkrtfe situatioi*, in d emffctoy which he fWsees, | will Arrive «t a ^tationlwy ..pepttla%tcfe m 1960, ^ with three times tfffe thsomteds deeded to *up-1| ^ Bidding the couhtrySide'of these SntnmMgtnal | holdings, on Which <no Oectqpadt can mrise * ■ cent living, -no blatter how hard Hfe trieis* ft the purpose ’of %he presidential tprOgrifn, tevoWW y the land planning comfidttee of the 'twrteoild re* | sdureds hoard. . J A Eviction isn’t 'contemplated; the idea ts.*to trans- | fer the tiller 6f <a hopdiessly unprofitable fftftcht# a profitable -one—and to sre-conmrit the «a?trofit- | able one to nature; trees or pftstfcrkgfe tnr What* ever it s Tmea im. , j And, after all, agricttltune w the foundation of : the industries. If it fwosp^rs, they proipifr. The Scheme is somewhat too hasic to %*ve £ ^ spectacular appeal. ^ ’ Nevertheless, it rhakes teensfe, fully <tfy*yzea. , As ProfesSOf Baker puts it, a 'country with three tunes the nesdtirce it requires, to ^upjfort fts , habitants, -ceftairfly should he able ^wpport , ; them. , ,, Hie solution sefemiugly isn’t tnefery fernporary •either. .. j, . , ; , If the experts ate right, .“population t& .-4 sources approximately have found Hi&t rdspec-^ five permanent levels. Not an issue of The Voice passes In -WhkSh we j might not mention the death of several frtends. ,^| This time among those gone is the veteran loco- | ■motive engineer, Captain Alston 'of Pfttsboro, j who for more than forty years ran the l*Wfcurer ^ Pittsbofotrain. |
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