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THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
HICKORY, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1909.
What,Do You Offer.
The Hickory Democrat has
started the movement for a West
ern North Carolina Fair. Go right
ahead brother you are on the
right track and Marion will offer
greater inducements for this Fair
to be held here than any other
town in this section.—McDowell
Democrat.
Yes, this started it, and
we are glad to see that all the
papers and correspondents that
have mentioned it have agreed
with us as to Hickory's being the
most accessible point except it be
the McDowell Democrat.
We have said that we have the
railroad facilities, the water,
lights and a first-class fair of our
own to begin with. We have
the best Dairy county in the
State. We have the best horses
and mules; apd our hogs are as
good as any in the State. We
grow more potatoes than any
Western county. Our poultry
industries are the best. Then
we are close to the Watauga cat
tle, fruit and cabbage. What
are your inducements, brother?
Business or Booze?
With each succeeding year the
question is presented to the young
men with increasing emphasis,
which he will serve, booze or
business. With business is link
ed honor, bread and butter, with
booze, rags, starvation and dis
grace. The latest striking and
concrete evidence that the busi
ness element of the country is
giving the booze artist the go by,
is the recent proclamation of
Mayor Mahool, of the city of Bal
timore, pointing to the fact that
two city officials recently detect
ed in embezzlement from the
ipun&ipality, came to grief
through the excessive use of al
coholic liquors, made so bold as
to assert in said proclamation
that henceforth, no one addicted
to the use of spiritous drinks
would be employed by the city
in any position that carried with
it the handling of the finances of
the city.
We mean no reflection on the
sumptuary prohibition law of the
state, but we are forced to the
conclusion that the corporations
of the country have done more
toward the stamping out the
drink habit than all of the prohi
bition legislation that has been
enacted. The railroad corpora
tions first set the pace by refus
ing to employ anyone who used
alcoholic drinks. They were
closely followed by other corpora
tions until it is now a well known
fact that anyone who indulges in
taking his "mornings morning"
is not wanted in places of public
trust where a clear heaJ is need
ed to prosecute the work of the
employee. So when a decision
has to be made between butter
and bread and the bottle, bread
and butter will always win.—
Burlington Dispatch.
Bloodshed la Campaign.
Jackson, Ky., Nov. 2.—Predic
tions made on the streets early
today that only a "man or two
would be killed" during the vot
ing in Breathitt county were jus
tified at noon in the Spring Ford
precinct and in a dramatic man
ner. • Tilden Blanton, with a left
hand, shot and instantly killed
Demosthenes Noble after Noble
had crippled Blanton's right arm
with a bullet.
Noble was a mem be j of a pow
erful feudal family, a former
employee of Judge James Harris,
and complications are expected.
Blanton, whose father was Dem
ocratic candidate for county at
torney, was acting as challenge.
The shots vcere fired while Blan
ton was leaning from the win
dow *of the voting place. He
was carried into Jackson to the
home of his father and there
tacitly arrested.—State Democrat
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The Watkins Case.
This was tried.in Ashville las*
week. It was conducted by able
lawyers and an impartial Judge.
It was the policeman at Black
mountain going into where two
men were, and killing one and
shooting the other. They had
been drinking and the landlord
and some bf his guests got exci
ted, and sent for the police and
excited him. The men did not
seem to realize that the folks
were excited, and that they need
ed to be Hence, they
rather, more than anything, act
ed in a way to increase the ex
citement just in the wrong way,
and just at the wrong time.
The jury could not agree and
a mistrial was ruled. It will be
to try over. The defendant was
released under bond, lhe Judge
required only half the bond he
was under before. This is rath
er in tl>e defendant's favor, if
anything. The people who claim
they kept up with the trial, seem
to be divided in their opinion.
None say he should be hanged
for it. But some sa> he ought
to be sent to the pen for it. Oth
ers say he ought to be acquitted.
They say he may have acted too
hastily, but say he alone was hot
to blame for it. •
How it will go next time, no
one can say. All .will be done
that can be done on both sides
one to convict, the other to ac
quit.
Moral By Law.
(Communicated.)
In Charity and Children last
week, is an able article on the
subject: "You can't make men
moral by law." The writer
proves that you can, and that it
is the duty of every community
to enact moral laws and have
them enforced for and against
all men, all classes, all races
alike. You must do this if you
would have the laws respected,
and get any good results from
them.
If any man or body of men go
into a thing, or chose any busi
ness or means of pleasure, that
is not moral in its nature, or
may have a tendency to lead one
astray, the community should
rise up in its might, and for its
rights and say: *'lt must stop."
Certain games, certain amuse
ments, certains plays, and cer
tain places of amusements —inno-
cent though they may seem
yet, if by them, anyone may be
led off into immoral acts, they
ought not to be allowed to exist,
much less be encouraged, be
cause they are popular with a
certain class, or licensed because
they put money in the treasury.
CITIZEN.
How Is Tbis?
Tne New York Sun which is
noted fcr sajing bright and bit
ter things, remarks that one of
the candidates for mayor of New
York is a gentleman but not a
politician; another is a politician
but not a gentleman, while the
third is neither a politician nor a
gentleman. The Sun is suppos
ed to refer to the candidates in
the order named: Bannard, Re
publican; Gavnor, Democrat;
Heart, Independent.
Land Titles.
The Progressive Farmer re
ports that "North Carolina is
pushing right ahead in the mat
ter of investigating land titles.
The committee appointed by the
last Legislature held its first ses
sion last week, and the matter
will doubtless be prominently
before the public when members
of the next Legislature are chos
en." It would be a good idea to
commit, all candidates for the
Legislature to the support of a
law similar to the Torrens sys
tem. An improved, system of
registering land deeds is a neces
sity in this State.—The State
Democrat.
"Sanitary Sabbath."
Thomasville, N. C.— 4 'Sanitary
Sunday" is announced by the
tuberculosis and health authori
ties for Sunday November 28th.
Dr. Clharles A. Julian, assistant
secretary for tuberculosis for the
State Board of Health, has issued
the following open letter to the
churches and church people of
North Carolina:
There is now being conducted
a campaign of education for the
study and prevention of tubercu
losis in this State. Scientists now
believe' that the disease can be
checked, and not only checked,
but obliterated and effaced from
the earthy if a well organized at
tempt is made in the direction of
assistance, and with keen sight
ed educational measure and su
pervision. But the fact remains
that this battle against disease
must be perpetuated by the peo
ple. Its success depends upon
the organization of a fighting
force in every community devot
ed to its object and* inspired to a
constant and unabated activity.
Tuberculosis is a preventable
disease and must be prevented.
Tuberculosis kills more people
ana costs more money than all
other communicable diseases com
bined. But it will take a com
bined effort on the part of the
entire people to prevent it. This
campaign on tuberculosis is clear
ing up the whole local health sit
uation. We cannot get control
of tuberculosis without making
it practically impossible for any
of the filth or needless diseases
to exist. In getting rid of this
disease we will raise the whole
standard of living for the aver
age people. The prevention of
the disease rather than its cure,
the removal of the causes and
conditions conductive ts diseases
is a primary object of this effort.
We would like this information
to be brought to the attention of
the ministers of North Carolina
in view of a request to make
Sunday, November 28th a sani
tary Sabbath. On that day we
hope that every minister in ~ the
State will preach a special health
sermon, explain the little Red
Cross Christmas stamp and its
mission, explain the fight against
diseases, explain the warfare
against consumption and appeal
to the people to save themselves.
We desire the service of the min
ister for our first "sanitary Sab
bath,"'
To The Editor.
The Trustees of the
East Carolina Teachers' Training School
request the honor of your presence
at the Inauguration of
President Robert H. Wright
on Friday morning, November twelfth
nineteen hundred and nine
at ten o'clock
Greenville, North Carolina
How to Heat a Home.
A big modern office building
could no more be heated by a
common hot-air furnace than
could the state of Maine. Even
if it were possible to keep all the
rooms and halls comfortably
warm in cold weather it would
entail a scandalous waste of coal.
Hot-air heating in a private
house is relatively just as extrav
agant. The extravagance is less
easily discovered, because the
whole coal consumption is on a
smaller scale, but the waste is
just as great in proportion to the
amount of coal which is used.
A chimney draft strong enough
to make a fire burn brightly will
draw most of the heat up the
chimney and out doors, unless
some very quick and effective
means be employed to get the
heat out of the combustion gases
before they escape., The Model
Heating embodies a scheme of
of interaldraft and internal draft
and internal water circulation by
which the heat is communicated
to the water almost instantly.
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THE DU PONT POWDER COMPANY
will give a DEMONSTRATION of
Stump Blasting
at HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA,
on the farm of Mr. Robert Hanby,
who has kindly granted permissicfn to make this
demonstration on his property.
Every Farmer
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