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EIGHT PAGES THE MOTROE JOtHAt. FRHVIV. JFXE I. 1920. FIGHT PAGKi i "Monroe Special Vehicles" BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR US BY THE Emerson-Brantingham Co. The E. B. Carnage Works produces the highest grade of horse drawn vehicles on the market. Snappy styles indi vidual features, built of best material obtainable, backed by the Emerson-Brantingham Company's 65 years experi ence and the E. B. guarantee of quality, insure vehicles that one may be proud to own. We feel in offering you this line of vehicles that we are giving you the best buggy on the market. Monroe Hardware Co, RETAIL DEPARTMENT. H'trt.009.000; Lumber and Planing Mill products. $150,000,000; Total. fl.97.OU0.V0d. This total is conservatively figured out of the reports of the Federal cen se of manufacturers, the internal reeai;e service, and the bureau of cri.p estimates, and we dare to say that it underestimates rather than -overestimates the amaxing total of primary wealth created in North Car olina In a tingle year the year 1919. Which is to say, in one year in ' North Carolina we create a greater volume of wealth than we- have been w.lling to put on our tax books in 250 ' years more by a half billion dollars. In 1912 the census bureau estimated ! the true wealth of North Carolina at two billion dollars. Oh. yes, we are rich In North Car olina, as riches are counted in this and ether sJouthfrn States. For in stance, we have 166 million dollars Invested In Liberty bonds and war stai.ii, und the Interest money that co::i.'s into North Carolina year by ytar out of the federal treasury is nearly ctjual to the total cost of our Staie government a' present. We have one hundred miliums of dollar? in hank accc'.n.t saving In; banks of all sorts; wliich is nearly a five fold increa.-e i.! four years. Within the b.Jt ten y..us we have invested 1"0 million dollars i automobiles, and we are now buying motors cars at the rate or il 10,000 a days, includ ing Sundays. Our wealth in autonio- , biles is three times the amount we have been willing to invest in church ; properties in two and half centuries, i It is nearly four times the value of all school properties of every sort in ! North Carolina. In 191? we were rich enough to pay 101 million dollars in Federal taxes alone and this in a siiiKle year. Be It Remembered. The hen laying one egg is not feeding ibe whole world, but she IS laying ONE gg. And she is la entitled to cackle triumphantly when she Is through. . We are not selling all the gooJs sold in Monroe, but we are rery thankful that we are having as good trade as we are. And are entitled to tell you what kind of merchandise we dispose of. We do not handle any second grade goods. We handle odijt flrst qual.tr. It may seem high in the beginning but the price paid for anything that's good always saves in the end. CROWELL'S VARIETY STORE, I r HAS MADE ITS WAY BY THK WAY ITS MADE. Lrilony. j v 1.K 'Hi t 1 u a A .2.s . m AfM -m . a rf- Let's Talk It Over The demand for furniture of the better grades is increasing every day, and for the past few months we have noticed a greater demand than ever for the higher grades. Here's the reason: Economy does not necessarily apply to the first cost. Many a family have purchased cheap furniture because they wanted ! Fewer than 4.000 corporations paid to econiomize, but the furniture went to pieces quickly, and It took but a more taxes nto tne reaerai treasury . In 1917 than all the taxes paid by all ;8hort tlme t0 convince them that cheap furniture was not economy. taxpayers hi North Carolina for nmn- coii'i b in ed A bare handful of our ha,re lare P'8 f hKn rade furniture selling at reasonable prices. W SOUTH CAROIVA CiETTIXfl IHSY WITH SOCIAL I'UOBI.KMS Tli Is i a Billionaire State In the Wealth Annually Created IflO Million Dollars are Invested in Lib city Bonds ami W. S. S. After two and a half centuries. North Carolina Is getting busy with her problems of social well-being. Within the last four years we have enacted 35 public welfare laws, cov er's a wide range of social concerns. We have made greater progress In legislation of this sort than any 6ther State In the South. In a particular or two we lead the Union, for instance 14 ''our State-wide system of manda tory county Juvenile courts and wel fare boards, and In our free dental clinics for school children. Nor have we stopped with mere legislation. We have been erecting public welfare machinery. State and county, and our newly created public welfare officials already number more than 600. They are county welfare superintendents. county welfare board members. Juvenile court Judges, Juve nile court attaches, county public health boards, county school super visors, town and county public health officers and public health nurses j child labor inspectors, and so and so j Already they are discovering mul tiform social needs of urgent sort. We need to keep wayward boys and girls out of our Jails. We need to take the children, the epileptics and Wind Storm Insurance. The largest insurers of the country are paying JUST A SMALL AMOUNT MORE and adding the WIND STORM or TORNADO INSURANCE to their Fire Policies. We will be glad to add this feature to any property insured through our office. A Post Card or Phone Call will bring you full information. GORDON i1MCN? CO. Monroe, N. C. ! the Insane out our county homes. We need Juvenile detention homes In every county. We need greatly In creased facilities for the 7,500 feeble- ntliwleH itMMron nt lha Sfnta The Jackson Training School needs to be : greatly enlarged. We need at least ! three more reform schools for way jward boys and girls, one for negro children, and two more Tor white children. We need to plan for the I Tiny Tims of the State far beyond 'the capacity of the Babington Home , in Gaston county. We need county or i county group hospitals, dispensaries land clinics, and they need to be built, equipped and staffed for service with iln the next few years. We need 10U -'not 23 county health depart ments. We need public health nurses at least one to start with in each county, and more as rapidly as tney can be found and salaried. We need to develop our child-placing agencies. Our Jails and chain-gang camps need to be emptied of convicted mlsde-j meanants, and a State farm estab lished for them upon the Indiana plan. We need organized communl-j ty life In our county regions. Wej need wholesome social recreation ev ervwhere, and these needs call for community organizers and Red CrosH home service secretaries. We need to Inventory our social nessltles com prehensively and accurately and to set ourselves definitely to the tasks of prevention as well as palliation. We need trained social workers In North Carolina. We need them In multiplied hundreds. They need to have a comprehensive grasp of social subjects and competent skill in hand line social situations. We need pub lic health courses in schools of every grade and sort, and such instruction ought to be mandatory In all schools receiving State aid. We need a great social science school at the University, and a great summer term devoted to public welfare Instruction for our public welfare workers. So much for a hasty sketch of our social needs along which social prog ress in North Carolina needs to move forward. Onr sons and daughters have prophesied, our young men have seen visions, and our old men have dreamed dreams of more abundant commonwealth life, and now it Is per tinent to inquire whether or not North Carolina is rich enough to sup port these various welfare enterprises and activities. As a matter of fact, Is our wealth equal to the necessities of social well, being In North Carolina? The answer Is yes. and it Is the on ly answer. North Carolina Is not a poverty-stricken state, as we have long been accustomed to think, but a millionaire State, as we have sud denly discovered almost overnight a billionaire State, not merely in the wealth we have accumulated, but a billionaire State in the wealth we annually create. Look at the volume of primary wealth produced in North Carolina in 1919: Crop wealth. $683,000,000; Live stock and products, (estimated!. $100,000,000; Cotton seed. $30,000. 000; Firewood cut. $25,000,000: Mines and Quarries. $6,000,000: Fisheries, $3,000,000: Manufactured products, added values, (estimated), ! people in 1917 Just twenty-three tlicisand of our two and a half milli on people pr.H more money into our Federal treasury as taxes on personal Incomes and excess profits alone than all the taxpayers of the Slate paid in- j to our State treasury in taxes on real I ami personal property. If 23 thousand people and 4.000 corporations in North Carolina are able to pay 23 million dollars Into the Federal treasury alone, how much could the rest of our two and a half i million people pay Into our State 'treasury for fdiools and roads and; public health purposes that is to. say. If only we were minded to oo n. If only we really believed in educa tion, health and highways? Dr. E. C. llranson. University of North Caro lina. I A Shrewd Kstinmte. I "kimla utieer thing happened In 'Squire Kamhottom's court day before .yesterday, related the landlord or Hie Petunia tavern, 'Constable Slarkput tr prrested a feller for disorderly conduct and drug him before His Hon or. And when lie had related the 'charge and was giving the particulars the prisoner up und cnlled him a 'double-deed liar. j " 'I don't take that off'n no man!' roared the constable, drawing his billy and making a Jump at the pris oner. But he was mistaken about it. for the scoundrel Jerked the billy away from him and knocked him down with It and then cracked the squire over the head when he tried to stop him, and run out of the room and made his escape. Still. 1 think prob'ly Slack was telling the truth, for It looks a if a gent who would cut a caper like that in a court of Justice would be likely to Indulge In disorderly conduct if he had sufficient provocation." Come and see us. T. P. 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