North Carolina Newspapers

'THURSDAY, JfOVElIBEK lS, 1913. WESTERN CAROLINA DEMOCRAT XSV FRENCH BROAD nUSTLER. .COST OF 1ITISG INCREASED Tabor Agent Reports Increase By Rea son Of 3Iany Luxuries. The cost of living in the region of Kansas City has increased 59 per cent in ten years, while the wages of skilled workers have been augmented a frac tion more than 26 per. cent, accbrding to conclusions reached by George A. SUPPLEMENT. -ray err agent of the; department "of labor. . . . v.i; v V-: He said final reports on the -result of investigations being made in 40 of the larger cities of the United States would be issued January 1. . , "For the . unskilled laborer,; Mr.' Thayer said, "there has been almost no change in' wage. ; The ; supply , being greater than the demand, wages have not increased. "" ; ; : The common school has proved a factor in increasing the cost of living Dy teaching higher ideals until we can not live as we did several years ago. What was luxury ten years ago now is necessity. In my, own state, Virginia, where4the piano used to be considered a luxury, it now is regarded as neces sary. .';.' ' .;'-;V,:. : .', "The 16-year-old daughter of . a man earning $2.50 a day, if she had average training desires a piano. He must buy. it for her on the installment plan.' "The Effect of the Styl Your and Message Glready Depends Quality of You Stationery-r Upo n You are more often judged by thfc paper you use than by the though ts you express in writing;1 - Pride, good taste, refinement all demand that you use stationery th at is distinctive, styUsh, good. Shown here are two brands ot stationery to be had in a wide varie ty of beautifuL-tints, - modish shapes and correct sizes each so rar ely good that its use will help estah l'sh you as a person of excellent good taste in the minds of those you write to. " . ' ,. - ' ; v 'II 4 Wr iting rape is made exclusively for The. Rexall Stores in a big mill way up in the Massachusetts Hills, from the best and cleanest rag stock. 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It is an advantage to you to buy stationery at ' the Rexall Stores. - T : j i "Stationery Week" begins today at all the REXALL Stoies v This Stationery is sold only - at JUSTUS PHARMACY COUNTRY EDUCATION - ' 1 i .0.0- j? siini U ki A Ik 1L TWO STORED ; '. ; "J - " ""I 1 -., , : ' a i d i : IP F IQ) Cirab Cireefc Stp- Plioinie . 217 r CsM Us E ' W '-:F:v;C' Our; farmers ' are not making - the progress they ought to make. .They are moving forward, but slowly. The landlord may be better off than 'he vv as twenty years ago,' but, how about tie tenants ? Are they ' ori a stand still, or improving? The land and well regulated industry are the great assests of the farmer. .The' best: land in the country, without wise man agement, will pay nothing.; . ; In order that labor may be remun erative, there should - be educated farmers.' We do" not , mean that; they fifiould understand Greek , . and the higher mathematics, but, they should knowjenough to read and understand best books and papers bearing on their special work. VThey should be wise enough to apply the knowledge thus i gained. We do not1 mean bv that in the primary schools, the small children should be taught the prin ciples of agriculture, the analysis of soils and value of fertilizers. What your small children should learn up to the age of fifteen, is how to. read and spell, well, and to express them selves clearly in writing. ; They should learn how to use the dic tionary and maps. Let vocational training alone. There will . be time nouKh foSr that later. Give " them fairy tales, story books, books of trav- e' and even . good novels. That is the sort of education needed by your children. That wilt lay the founda tion for professional life or business of any sort Some of our teachers get the idea of vocational training in their heads and there is no room for any thing else. Your children in the rural homes need the same instructions given to tewn children, and they are generally ready to " receive it. It is better to turn over to the girls some good magazines and story books, than l vise . book on domestic science. . Let the boys read, the Arabian Nights, books of travel and adventure ' ac counts of the great battles of the world. They will be much more in terested and the mind will be better developed than if they were to put in their time studying books on field crops and stock raising. On this subject we quote the following from W. S. Brazeale, of Butger's college: "In this connections we can do no better than study the. question; of rural schools as it has shaped itself in a country that is admittedly a marvel of agricultural and education al efficiency. "There is a striking similarity be tween conditions in Denmark and those in , the south. Both the coun tries had to rehabilitate themselves1 afterva defeat by a greater power. In iS64, victorious Prussia took ' from her little 'opponent j the two . duchi?s of Schleswig and Holstein. It seem ed then, and for some time after, tbajt the loss of their national Identi ty was to be the fate of the beaten people. But a Moses came, in the person of Grundtvig, whose prophetic vision told him that universal educa tion was the salvation. . Indeed the peasents, poor, and illiterate, excited his pity and best efforts. He preacn ed i nseason and out of season that the country youth has an inherent Htrht to all that is best In life. That was advanced ground, but why, we ask ourselves when we think about it, does he not have a trained mind, with the horizon of his mental and spirit ual '.vision enlarged; as well as the son of the lawyer, ; -merchant, or any one else? Should not his intelligence bQ. made. as' keen, his sympathies as alert, his general, equipment as com plete as those of the city youth? , "Let us follow a little the idea of GundtvlgV as it began to be realiz J in Denmark. Rural high schools he ve been established to the number cf eighty. In these not a- thing is taught of agriculture. There- are. Indeed, agricultural schools, number Ids nineteen in the whole kingdom, where a' boy may go after he has arrived at a proper age and has de cided to be fajrmerv but they are distinct. "Of the population who are of the proper age. to be in a high school, 27 ner cenL are in attendance. This c - , does not take into account children between six and fourteen years ot age all i of whom are in elementary schools. Such a large proportion in the high school is most f emarkabie, and what should be brought out here U . the high efficiency of the Danish farmer and' the fact that he has kept vocational educational" out Of his regu lar schools. , v: '.. :--: ; , "A- little country, of less than half the area of South Carolina,- for ex ample, supporting a population of two and a. half millions principally by agriculture, ; should be an object lesson to the farmers of this country ' "It is not vocational training that ;s the fundamental need of the country Vou th. 'r It is well that fact be em phasized just now when so many seem tc have lost their balance, and are not giving due consideration to the estimation of values in life. What : TIIOUGHTS IMPBOYE HEALTH Strong Positive Thoughts, of Cheerful, fulness Conducive to Good Health. In the November; .Woman's Home Companion, ; Ralph Waldo ine, writes a most suggestive article enti tled "Thought as a Force in Daily Living." Following is an extract: The type of thought we "entertain has its effect upon our energies and'to a great' extent upon pur bodily con ditions and states. Strong, clear-cut. positive,' hopeful thought has a stima-lating-and life-giving effect upon one'a ou tlook, energies, and activities ; and upon all bodily functions and powers. A falling state of the mind induces a ckronically gloomy outlook and pro duces inevitably a falling condition of the body. The mind grows, moreover, into the likeness of the thoughts ona most habitually entertains and lives with. Every thought reproduces of Its kind. ' ' . .; '. ;- -"Says an authoritative writer in dealing more particularly with the effects of certain types of thoughts and emotions upon bodily conditions: 'Out of our own experience we know that anger, fear, worry, hate, revenge, avarice, grief, in fact all negative and low emotions Droduce weakness mi disturbance not only in the mind but in the Tjody as .well.- ,It has been prov ed that they actually generate poisons in the body, they depress , the circula tion; they change "the quality, of the blood, making it less vital; they affect the great nerve centers and thus par tially paralyze the very seat of the bodily activities. On the other hand. faith, hope, love fogiveness, joy and peace,-all such emotions are positive and up-lifting, and so act on the body as to restore and maintain harmony and actually to stimulate the circula tion and nutrition.' ; j "The one who does not allow him self to be influenced or controlled by fears or forebodings is the one who ordinarily does not yield to discour agements. He it is who is using the positive, success-bringing ' types of that are continually working for him for the accomplishment of his ends. The things that he sees in the ideal, hir. strong, positive and therefore crea DOES IIOUXTAIXS INJUSTICE. ITacon County Publication Reflects czK , Aorth Carolina History. . - ovuie uue uas syuc us a copy OI UL3 Mountain School Herald; published bri the Co wee Mountain School at Leath erman; Macon, county, but bearing aa -imprint that shows that It is printed la Berrien Springs; Mich says the Newa and ;.Obcefver, x Being printed in an 5 other State and probably edited by an individual who has never visited North. Carolina and who . is ignorant of its history, the magazine is like most others of its class in failing to reflect condiuons in this State faithfully. In Its original articles as well as the se lections which it publishes and . evi dently approves the Mountain School Herald is as unjust to this : State as might be expected of it in view of th . circumstances under which it is pub lished and in fact is much more so than would ordinarily be supposed possible. ; . ' : . . - .. . ,s Here is a specimen paragraph from an article by George Fitch in the Jack son Patriot, of Jackson, Mich., and quoted without comment in the Leath-erman-Berrien periodical : JNorth Carolina was settled 250 years u ago and has remained calm and placid ever since, not even getting Into the -Civil War to any extent. It took prominent part in the production; of eraly patriots ; turning out Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk. ; Its only; feat in the last 100; years, however, has been the produc tion of Uncle Joe Cannon. 1 1 is a peaceful hook-wormy State whose ' only diversion is to send 'a Republicam to Congress every now , and then and v watch Cornelius Vanderbilt try to : farm his little patch of ground at Bilt more with a gold-mounted plow and imported horseflies." . : v ; The curious thing to us is that the : Northern people who interest , them selves in the .people whom they choose to designate "the -mountain whites' , should feel so plainly disposed to re flect on the people of the State gener ally. It would be a breach' of good manners if they were to say the dls- agreeable things about the State that the tre (that there are some of these al! candid Carolinians will . adrnft. tive type of thought are continually ! ; . . ... . , . .. . . .! But that these self-constituted men- neiping to actualize, m me reaim oi the real.' PUFF COMPANY PROSPERS. Asheville Firm Shows Progress Stockholders Annual Meeting. at At the meeting of the stockholders of the Talcum Puff company the re ports of the different officers showed that the year just closed has "been by far the most prosperous one in the history of the company.' The following directors were elect ed by, the stockholders to serve dur-, ing the current year; Dr. S. Westray Battle, L. M., Bourne, Dr. C. S. Jordan and M. V. Moore of Asheville, Jacob Friedman. B. D. Jacobs and P. 13 Page, of New York. V - Immediately after the adjournment of the stockholders meeting the direc tors met and elected the following officers: Dr. Westray Battle, presir dent, M, V. Moore, vice-president and treasurer, L. M. Bourne, secretary, all of Asheville, C. S. Humphrey, assist ant manager, both of New York. An extra dividend of .20 per cent, in addition to the regular quarterly divi dend!, of two per cent, was declared payable at once to stockholders on re cord. - .:' -: ' : . The Talcum Puff Company is a North Carolina corporation and was located, for a , number -of years at Asheville in the . manufacture of tal cum powder, soap' and other toilet articles, the majority of stock is still owned by Asheville parties. " ;. - ' tors of the State should . write and speak out of malice and ignorance is Their ignorant and insolent comment reveals the existence of narrow, and . shrivelled souls such as we of the South are not accustomed to encoun ter and the existence of which we should find it hard to credit did we not ccme across the unmistakable evi dence as found in such articles as those we have "quoted from the Jack son (Mich.) Patriot " by way of the Mountain School Herald. . . -.w'v ':-'--'' " :rlr r TYPHOID VACCINE FREE. I Keady for liellTery From state .Labor . atory to Those Who Apply. . Typhoid vaccine can C now . be . hai fiee upon application to the State Boar dof Health, it is announced5 by . Dr. W. S. Rankin, . secretary of the board. The vaccine is now ready at the State Labratory of Hygiene In Raleigh. The board requests, how ever, that only those persons who, will use it apply for the vaccine, and hopes that all who will use it will "apply: t ; . "Vaccination against typhoid fever has passed all the tests of science and . practice," says the board, "and has won as prominent a place among san itariams as vaccination against small pox." y) -TOO MUCH SOCIETY." duced to machines, performing theii functions perfectly if you wish, and if that is all ? Where does the hu man, I should say man, come in? Where are his faculities for discrimi nating for enjoying, his ability for as sociating' with his fellows and his power of influence for good? ; What has been done towards refining hia tastes, towards emphasizing these ele mental things out of which he will evoke ''his' ideals, and that will deter mine his aspirations in fact, will give a noble aim to his life ? Meet ing these questions squarely Is " of tocrre importance man teaching a . boy td" raise corn or cotton. They are al3o much more difficult, and, call for the greatest energy, perseverance, and ex penditure of money ? but like all good things the dividends to be realized dn the trouble and expense will amply justify the investment.' We- all vvlsh paterial prosperity, but it' . must be conditional on an intelligent; moral and. altruistic , citizenship: 't There is no reason under the sun - why the southern people can'; flotliave both if they are wise."- Little Denmark has ! John Sullivan Talks About Modera , Women and Race Suicide "The modern women' John L. Sul- : livan's left . fist crashed down on his knee with a force that made the little blonde woman who sat looking at him in awestruck, wonder, jump "I'm against 'em dead against 'em." "Too much society," the ex-prize fighter, growled. "Too much thinkin about what other men think about her looks, and not enough about what her husband thinks of her character. Half the time they-haven't got any husbands at that. Bachelor girls, huh, my idea of nothin' to be. i ' "Get me on this too, we're- oin': ta have race suicide, sure as a black man loves corn bread and fat meat. : Know vhy we're going to have it? ' 'Cause the ladies want to keep a stylish figure It's gettin so that if a man wants a family he's got to guarantee Ms wifd , he'll buy her a plaster of paris cast, so she don't lose her. shape. ) "Naw," he' continued, "gimme th old-fashioned eirt like I used to know- when I was a youngster. I ain't say In anythmg about morals, mind you. I'm just talkin' about, the way they . look at things at life. . ; "But the voun men ain't much bet- v ter at that Too f much , education,, broze, and VbeinV good fellows. You. Vr.nw nfrafM' n arto"fpd "?n upon. . rav farm near Boston. He's ten yeai-i ; old. T .as talkfn' to him not long aco. fc - 'arm fl V9 i: Tf vou want to ma i ' good in :th'is world let the home fid" nlnno nntt I vnil ISCi arrived" and" under r adverse circum- j vou want to get married work hf ? i iinn't cor Tnp 1 that vAW ot td college and Jn' vonr head ftrnrs of the : sontli. - she oueht' to d l ' H,n l.: .? : , 1 ( gi od will it do if a population i sre- even better Keep cat of politic;