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A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILl^ OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDU^irm
VOL. V.
BURLINGTOR N. t-. NOV. 6, 1912.
NO. 26
WILSON iO imRSHALL ELECTED
Lstest Repsrts Give Wilson
398, Roosevelt 105, aod
Taft s. This Will be
sligtitly ctiaDged
The election of Governor
son of New Jersey as President
and Governor Marshall, of In-
isna, as Vice-president by a safe
majority of electorial votes was
made certain by incomplete re
turns received from the country
at lar?e up to 10 o'clock. With
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and
other large states represented by
only meager reports, the succeess
of the Democratic ticket in a ma
jority if the heavily populated
states was certain.
The early returns gave Gov.
Wilson the ‘'solid south", and
Connecticut, Deal ware, Ken
tucky, Maine, Maryland, New
York, Massachusetts and ap
parently West Virginia, Indiana
and Missouri.
Roosevelt's victory in Illinois
conceded early in the evening by
the Democratic leaders promised
at 10 o’clock to carry with it a
plurality greater than 100,000.
New Hampshire and Vermont
apparently had given a majority
to Taft, on the basis of fairly
comprehensive returns received
at that time.
The states where results were
reasonably certain at 10 o’clock
gave the following electoral votes:
Wilson, 267; Roosevelt, 29; Taft
8:
New York's Vote for Wilson.
At 12:45 a, m. the Providence,
(R. I.) Journal conceded that
state to Wilson and with the vote
close in New Hamps.hire, it seem
ed probable that New England
with the exception of Vermont
^ had gone over to the Democratic
! column.
I But little definite news from
; states on the Pacific west was
i received except California where
a Wilson victory was indicated.
The taulation of votes in the west
ern states was so slow as to make
predictions impossible.
New
SIX DEHOdiTS WANT
JOB OF mmm mail
York state will cast 45
electorial votes for Gov. Wilson
for President. Congressman Wil-
Jiam Sulzer was elected Governor.
Al 10.10 only about two-thirds
oi the upstate districts and but
half of the city districts had been
counted. Upon these returns
Eepubiican Chairman Barnes
conceded that Governor Wilson
had carried the state by about
100.000, while Democratic State
Chairman Palmer claimed that
Wilson would have a plurality of
250.000.
Governor-elect Sulzer sent tele
grams to Governors Wilson and
Marshall extending best wishes
and sincere congratulasions.
Upstate sent in the first returns
and these quickly indicated that
in Republican strongholds Wilson
was leading, while .the first re
turns from New York city show
ed a big pluarity for him below
the Brox.
Taft’s Vote Dwindles.
Rhode Island also became a
doubtful state on the returns near
midnight and based on the later
votes reported it seemed not whol
ly improbable that its five elect
oral votes would go to Wilson.
The early returns gave an ap-
paie.at victory to Taft in New
Bryan’s Message.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5.—Wil
liam J. Bryan tonight sent the
following telegram to Governor
Wilson.
“I heartily congratulate you
and the country upon yonr elec
tion. Your splendid victory has
borne fruit. I am sure your
administration will prove a bless
ing to the Nation and a source of
strength to our party.”
Roosevelt Concedes.
Oyster Bay, N. Y., Nov. 5.—
Shortly before midnight tonight
Colonel Roosevelt made the fol
lowing statement:
“The American people by a
great plurality have decided in
favor of Mr. Wilson and the
Democratic party. Like all good
citizens I accept the result with
entire good humor and content
ment. As for the Progressive
cause I can only repeat what I
have already so many times said,
the fate of the leader of the time
being is of little consequence,
but the cause itself must in the
end triumph, for its triumph is
essential to the well being of the
American people.
(Signed)
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
About the same time he issued
his statement Colonel- Roose"ok
sent the following telegram to
Governor Wilson:
“The American people by a
great plurality have conferred
upon you the highest honor in
their gift. I congratulate your
thereon."
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Simmons Wins By 25,000.
Raleigh, Nov. 5.—Returns to
Simmons headquprters here
indicate at 8 o’clock that,
Simmons wins the nomination in
the first primary by25,000 major
ity. Some Simmons majoritys
from counties now are, Iredell
1,^0, Duplin 800, Wilson 104
Cumberland 700, Franklin 32,
Harnett 200, Craven 1,250, New
Hanover 1,000, Pamlico
Johnston 400.
New York Safe
Hi^h Point, Nov. 3.—It is said:^
there are already six Democratic
candidates for the postmaster
ship in the field at High Point
soliciting favor from citizens and
outside politicians, in anticipiation'
of the election of a Democratic
President.
These good citizens evidently
do not believe in letting the grass
grow under their feet when such
a thing as a $2,800 plum is liang-
ing around in that fine, new post
office building which Uncle bam-
has just had erected for the hust
ling manufacturing city.
Gfic League!
There will be a meeting of the
CHvic League on Tuesday night,
!N6v. 12th, 1912. at 8 o’clock in
the old White House, corner of
Davis St. and Lexington Ave.
next to to the Episqopal Church.
It is earnestly hoped that every
one will make an effort to attend.
Paspalnm DOatatnmr
or D^at l We Need anl
l^gerYid^^
Don’t Feed Cottonseed Meal to Pigs.
I have four shoats about three
months old; how much cottonseed
meal ought I to give them with
other feed?"
In brief, our answer is, none
at all. We advise against the
feeding of cottonseed meal to
hogs except for the last three
weeks of the fattening period, or
just before slaughtering or
marketing for slaughter. We
know that others may say it can
be fed safely, but the experience
of the most careful feeders is
positively against the advisability
of feeding cottonseed meal to
hogs, except to the limited ex
tend above stated, and then the
cottonseed meal should not con
stitute more than one-fourth the
grain ration. -Progressive Farm
er.
250,
New York, Nov. 5. -^New York
State will cast 45 electoral votes
i for Governor Woodrow Wilson for
'President. Congressman Will-
’ iam Sulzer was elected Governor.
Hampshire and Vermont, but thel At 10:10 only about two-thirds
Taft pluralities dwindled as raid-, of the upstate districts had been
night approached to over hundred, counted. Upon these returns Re
votes in each state and seemed ■ publican Chairman Bames con-
likely to be wiped out entirely. ' ceded that Governor Wilson had
The vote in jUtah reported up carried the State by about 100,000
to midnight indicated the jstate while Democratic Chairman
might be carried for Taft. The Palmer claimed that Wilson
vote in Pennsylvania was amaz-, would have a plurality of 250,000.
ingly close, the returns from over Governor-elect Sulzer sent tele-
a thousand precincts embracing' grams to Governor Wilson and
over 185, COO votes giving each of j Marshall extending best wishes
the three, leading presidential i and congratulations,
candidates more than 60,000 votes I Up-State sent in the first re-
The New York state assembly | turns and those quickly indicated
seemed to be overwhelmingly! that in Republican strongholds
Democratic. j Wilson was leading while the
In Illinois indication were that first returns from New York
Judge Dunna, the Democratic: City showed a big plurality for
candidate for governor had won. i him below the Bronx.
Former Speaker Cannon seemed}
to have been defeated for re-
election of Congress in Illinois. |
In addition to Roosevelt’s cer- j
tain victory in Illinois the con-
The South the Real Corn Pelt.
If moisture and sunshine and a
long growing season are favor
able to large yields of corn, as
everyone knows they are. then
the South should and will be the
“Corn Belt" of the future. It
is true that in addition to these
climate or natural advantages,
good;, farniing a,nd , a Boil we|l
uppiliecl with organic ^tter
also essential. The good farminjr
is rapidly [coming and the rich
soil is only a question of good
farming in any section where a
money or general field crop and
a restorative legume crop can be
grown the same year. A crop
of oats may be followed the same
season with cowpeas, soy beans,
peanuts or lespedeza, or a corn
crop can be preceded by a crop
of crimson clover, bur clover or
vetch, and then another crop of
legumes—cowpeas—growing in
the corn.
With these conditions, good
farming means that the South
will be in the Corn Belt at all
times. The boys of the Corn
Clubs have shown the possibilities
When the possibilities are shown
to be above 200 bushels per acre,
who can be found bold enough
to state that che South does not
offer opportunities for corn grow
ing not equaled anywhere in the
so-called Corn Belt.—Progressive
Farmer.
POKER AND SMOKINGi
DRINKING AND OANCINO
NOT COLLEQE SUBJECTS
Urbana, 111., Oct 19.—Follow
ing is the warning that has been
given the freshman class by
President Edward J. James of
the University of Illinois.
“Many failures (in the college
work of the firat two years can
be directly traced to alcohol and
tobacco. The only safe tilings
for college students in such mat
ters is taste not, Jtouch not,
handle not. Seniors and juniora
might build up a most excellent
college tradition if they would
prohibit freshmen and sophomo
res from tsmoking and drinking,
on the ground that they are still
infants, at least in the academic
sense."
“College students,” he said,
‘ ‘should follow the simiple, econo
mic principle of doing at college
the thing which is of most ad
vantage to them Jat that time
and that other place, leaving for
other times and other ^places the
acquiring of habits an^J doing of
things for ,:.which other places
offer better or at least as good
opportunities.
“You can learn to dance at
home as well as here, I believe
indeed, there are better dancing
masters in Chicago, or even in
Bloomington, Decatur or Spring
field, than in Urbana-Camoaign.
If you wish to excel in this art,
therefore, it would bet better to
select some iother place of resi
dence. You can learn to drink
and smoke at any small town in
in thft fefeate of Illiiids^ the
electmehts of poker may be learn
ed even at any crossroads.
“The one thing you can do-
better here than at home is to
develop your intellectural powers.
“Dawdling along over your
books or your problems or your
1 aboratory work and thinking
chiefly of social or athletic mat
ters will *not bring to you the
specific advantage which univer
sity residence ought to bring.
“Every citizen of the state, no
matter how poor, contributes to
some extend to the support of
this university. If he lives in a
houSe at all, ^wears clothes and
eats food he contributes indirect
ly at least, to the support of this
institution. The miner in his
gloomy pit, the weary washer
woman over the steaming tub,
the tired mechanic at the Iplan—
one and all are doing their share
to help provide you with these
opportunities and facilities,
placed so freely at your disposal. ”
Will you describe the -piiB-
palum’ grass. Is it good for both
open and wooded pastures? On
what kind of sraVdoes it do best ?”
There are iiiahy “paspalum,
grasses, but we supptj^ that
Paspalum dilatatum, pibpularly
called paspalum, or Dallas jgr^s,
is the one referred to.
Dallas grass is valuable in open
pastures, but we have not seen
it growing much jb wooded pas
tures. In fact, when thie treeis
are sufficiently thick to sh^e the
gix>und much, we know of no
pasture grasses that do much
good in the South. Bliiegifais;
do65 well under trees, but it is
not of much general value in the
South. V
Dallas grass grows on a variety
of soils, and will stand more
moisture than most of our useful
pasture grasses. The stems
grew 2 1-2 to three feet high, but
have few leaves and consequent
ly it is not a good hay plant It
is ‘‘bunchy" in its . habit of
growth, but eachlclunlp produces
a large number of leaves which
afford good rgrazing. As a pas
ture grass, it is chiefly valuable
because it resists drouth weU and’
yet grows on wet soils and c6ihes
early and stay is late. In the fall
when Beimuda isldry and dead
after frosts haVe come, the Dal
las grass still remains green. In
lawns or pastures where the con
ditions are favorable or it is not
mowed or grazed' down, it may
even kill out Bermuda grass by
shading it.—The Progressive
Farmer.
Meddlesome Matilda.
The busing opportonties of
any section or commanity ara
d^iident upon the ntimbers imd
emciency of the prodaoers of that
sectioti. The business opportani-
ties of the^Sottth ^ dewndent
upon the numbers and emciency
of our farmers. If not over one-
fo»Jtrth or one^third of ^ur
ctural lands £^e p^ueing, them
the business opportunitieis of the
South are lessened j list in the
same proportion. Any businest
ihan who would use only one-
fourth of his capital and keep
the balance of it locked up, ea^>'
ing nothing while he paid taxes
on it, would not be i^g^rded
as a man of business wii9dMn.
This is what the South is ddng,
Owing to our sparse agricultuwd
population and large area of idle
lands. On the other hand, se
long as our ave:i^ge yield of cot
ton is from 175 to 200 pounds; of
from 17 to 20 bushels, and of
corn, from 15 to 18 bushels per
acre, our business opportuntiea
and our consequent pi^gress is
lessened to th# extent that
these yields fail belqw those which
these acras should produce.
Can we reasonably expect thaife
progiess and develojpment which
should be ours, so long We use
only one-foufth our lands, and
those used yield only half what
they should and could easily be
made to j yield?
Anyone who will study but
crop yields for ithe past 45 or Si
years, records of which are>vaiK
able, and consider tinese in the
light of the »del velopment during
that time of the Use of comtner-
cial fertilizers to a present annual
expenditure of ^100,000,000, caa
not fail to be imprcissed with the
Oh, how one ugly trick may spoil
J jifact that, whatever our increiised
M^ilda, though a pleasant child .production in the ^aggregate, we
wru trick possessed, have not inade a brifliaiit succesa
Which, like a cloud before the, ^)yith a,grictural during thiiB period.
skies.
Hid all her better qualities.
I Now^ she would lift the teapot lid,
■ ■. -To.
Or lilt the kettle, if you aiid
But turn your back fora niinute.
To justify this statement it is
not necessary to^ deny the fact
that, as a whole, we have made
wonderful material progress dor*
xv/x {yields have been small, but they
In vain you told her hot to touch ! made a sn^H coot to
Her trick of meddling grew s6\ the land-ownera ^and the white
much* I population. The men who have
{made these small yields have
Her grahdmama went out 0ne day
And by mistake she laid
Her spectacles and shufibox gay
Too near the little niaid.
“Ah well" thought sihe, ‘‘I’ll try
them on
received |too small a proporti»!:
of them, land the general pros
perity of the white people whii
own the land, has only bee#
possible because the Negro hae
been able to live on less and ba«
As soon as grandmama is gone. ”, received less than any other farm
laborer could or would accept.
The land'OwneirsJof the South
who do pot live on the farms have
not generally mads |much money
out the crops produced on their
fid ent claims of the Roosevelt
managers that Iowa, Michigan
and Kansas would fall into the
Roosevelt column seemed verified
by the partially complete ireturns
at an early hour this morning,
C. E. Cole: Reprsentative of the
Callahan Sales Co of New' York
City and Atlanta is now here pre
paring to open a'Big Special Sale
at the corner store for S. A.
Thomy. Beginning Friday, Nov.
8 at 9 p. a. The Callahan Co
is known as the King of Price
makers and merchandise norrest
and the Stock isaUnew, and up
Colored Teachers to Meet
The colored Teachers Associa
tion of Alamance will meet in
the Court House in Graham Sat
urday Nov, 16th. 1912, at 11
o'clock A,M.
Every teacher is asked to be
present if possible. It is im
possible to do the work in our
school rooms without these meet
ings.
The subject, "How'to secure
and Hold Attention," will be
discussed by members of the
Association, led by Prof J.F.
Gunn. All come prepared to
take part in the disscussion.
Other topics will also be
discussed. ..
Prof. J. B. Robertson will be
present and give a talk.
Fools burn leaves, leaving for
for themselves a pinch of poor
ash, but sending back into the
air what Jwas taken from it by
the process of growth.—E. P
Powell.
Forthwith she placed upon her
nose
The glasses round and wide;
And looking round, as I suppose.
The snuffbox, too, she spied.
“Oh, what a pretty box is this!
I’ll open it," said little miss.
The returns from California were a date so. The public [can expect.
meager but left the state in doubt
between Wilson and Roosevelt,
fe The uncertainly regarding Veir-
mont was settled by the annouce-
ment of the complete vote which
gave Taft a majority of 924 votes.
rare values at the Grand Bargain
Carnaval.
New York’s Lieut. Becker is
kicking bemuse he has been
handed speedy justice.
The story about the distribu
tion of millet and red pepper to
the numerous soldiery by the
Turks, and fiery intentions on
the part of the Bulgarians show
that the london wsur correspon
dents are faithful to their posts.
The County Teachers Meet.
The Alamance Teachers’ Asso
ciation met in Graham on Satur
day, Nov. 2. gixty-five members
were enrolled. The program was
full of interest and help. The
first was a round-table discussion
“How to Secure and Hold At
tendance," and many valuable
suggestions were given.
Then followed a splendid talk
by Dr. Amick, on “How to Teach
the Lesson.”
The union dinner in the town
hall was a pleasant feature of
the day, as it always is. The
ladies of the Graham School
faculty served as hostesses, and
Supt. Robertson had provided
coffee, lemonade and fruit.
In the afternoon, plans for the
year’s work were outlined and
the following officers were elect
ed.
President Supt. Lindsey.
Vice-president Supt Robert
son. '«»
Secretary-Treasurer Miss Bes
sie Howard.
Executive Committee J. E.
Stroud and Miss Ella And
rews.
“I know what grandmamma
would say,
‘Doiv’t meddle with it, dear.’
But then she’s far enough away,
And no one else is near;
Besides, what can there be ahiiss
In opening such a box as this?”
Both thumb and finger went to
work
To move the stubborn lid.
And presently a mighty jerk
The mighty mischief did.
For all at once, ah! woeful case,
The snuff came puffing in her
face.
Poor eyes and nose, and mouth
and chin.
A dismal sight presented*
And as the snuff got further in
Sincerely she repented.
In vain she ran about for ease.
She could do nothing else
sneeze.
She dashed the spectacles away
To wipe her tingling eyes.
And as in twenty bits they lay
Her grandmamma she spies.
“Hey day! and what’s the mat
ter now?”
Cried grandmamma with lifted
brow,
Matilda, sn^artini^ with the pain,
And tingling still, and sore.
Made many a promise to refrain
From meddling evermore;
And tis a fact as I have heard.
She ever since has kept her word.
So many foreigners went back
home to take part in their var
ious war that politicans this year
decided to make a few overtures
to the nati ve American vote.
On# thing to be thankful for
is that the Residential election
was out of the way before the
more important football giuxieB
to take place.
1
1
-m
lands. Greater profits hg^ve come
to theni froih the general increase
in the value of farm lands, an€
even the small returns from the
products of Itheir farms have
come, Sottiy because the Nejgsbt
who grew them could and dii
take a smaller share than is sufil-
cient to maintain white farmers.
The hope of the South, in view
of these facts, must, therefore,
lie in more fanners who can cul
tivate a larger ishare; of mt
lands, and more efficient farmer«
who will make our ciilivated acres
yield more Lfor both the laborer
and the landowner.
intelligent white men in the
South have not shown a disposi
tion to live on and manage their
lands to the {extent n^ssary t«
obtain 'the highest production.
Our needs are, 'a larger propor
tion of our acres put to work and
a larger yielci from the acres cul
tivated.
We have ample proof that in
telligent mana£^ment will make
Southern soils yield two and three
times what the average soil now
yields but the numbers of our
progressive famaers are too
small.
We need more real f^mert.
Let us make it known tojlthe
world that we will sell Ian^to
and welconie intellijsent white
facers who will come to the
South, become resident faim^
and do farming;—P^gressiwE
Farmer.
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After having given $41^,^
toward an effort to elect Jute
Alton B. Parker in
Ryan should have begun is
to suspect that while he may be«
gr^t financier, he it no poU'
^