cxnim Mctt
Tttfc MOVttOK iofhAL. TTESBAT. ArGFST lOOrt
FTICTTT PACKS
cSiool Days
WILL SOON BE HERE.
Let Efird's help you get
them ready for school
substantial
at &
saving
Only
IM.Mi:sTir
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yl AI.ITY JltMmli
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IhV
S.V ylAI.ITY F.X;I.!H
t'lOTH. Very smooth ami Mill.
Social 2-V
jjtlc VI AI.ITY CAMHKIt'. tftt-incli
U'Ulf, Sw-ial V
i Hll.liKF.VS I.IM.HAMS ItKIXfX
Vine i unci l' Patterns, tine to Mail
on' vliiol Mill). . yl.!N uiul 2MH
Hll.hlirVS $..IH MIIhY UUKSS.
F.s. Made of real l.onsd.ile Jeans.
. Fine I Uitic' of Colors replied
to J.H
liOMI'l K M I. AD l-ASY li.OTH.
All Odors, tine for the little Fel
low' I'luy Suits i! Waist,
strong and lhiralile.. The Regular
:Vte kind, our Frtce 21k-
:.V IRKSS .I(.HAMS In Pretty
Flaiil uikI Stripe. Special at 2tk-
fct.Ufl ItVNGAI.OW
Colors. Sfierial
APKONS, ;mhI
$1.48
tilltsON ;;HAMS. Not Remnant,
Jlnt In Ijurge Range of PatteritN,
Siecutl 8.V
jw-iihIi noyfi.ty pi.au iat;-
l!AIS jwtly Patterns Siell 2!r
KII( AFRON 4.l(.llMs ISe
:;i!-imli HKF.SS .I(.HMS. really a
;.V kind.. Siet-ial at 2.V
.iU-iiidi Aimwkeag KltMI'KK ( I.OTH.
All Colors.. Sivcial at 44c
50c Yard Wide 1'FKCAI. in l.;li
Light and Park Colors, MiCMird
t!ieks Ftc. . Sie iitl ;5.V
About 23 lhw-e of New t'KKTONNK
for lMapies. :ti-irnli wide. Item
tity your Home. Si htllv 1'iiced
at Xftr. 4H', 5(e ami 7to
IF ANSHIKK In Striies, Mo. Worth
to-day title. Sh tally priced at 44c
NATTKAL COLOR MIKSS l.lK.
Hi for School or Traveling Press.
ew, Ijiundrlc Nicely, Worth eiy
f 1.25. irU at Hc
$1.73 Ul'AIJTY Al.l. SILK POXC.EF.
Fflrd" lTic ftc
lawks- (.i;ham Horse and
FORCH HRKSS, IrtHMl Color, Spe.
$1.08
Efird's Dept. Store
Same Goods Always for Less Money, Monroe, N. C.
WOMAN SPENDS MORE FOE
ClOIHESJHAN SOLOMON
Hie World III tioing pleasure Mail,
AcrordiTiK to .Mr. ItatUI
A. Houston.
I
values but ever be relied upon s ave something for nothing than has ever
UK UMiK RF.Tl'RX TO THK S4HL
of
Hy l A. HOUSTON. President
Columbia r.riti Loan liauk.
H-nry Fat.rt wru! "Htory cel-ebniu-s
the baillt ti-lt iiih:i vl.iih
we i.iet our
MaK of ilie
e thrive It know the na.ms tf
Hints' . Iiiidnn hut cannot te:l
iia the oiii;iii of wheat."
Jty nature c are loath :o arceiit
cr.tuhnuii admonition, s t o i a 1 1 y it
t'.n warn lis apjinsl xos:e ileas
J; ix ir op;.lar to break the
that which is measured originally b
a fandard that is creative in nur-
tiose and origin.
Must IiM-ourage S;cvu!ation.
Then the problem that ronfrontF
ua now it, not to count upon rous
me t!:e last of an Intlaie I dollar sent
abroad on an honest morion in the
hour of a national eisierKency, tut
to Hop one moment an ,1 think utr.
the bed rock eUnient of wealth the
land and discourape this unknow
:nc. ;psnsate and unemiinK bohh!e
of a ffw tissue paper pntiaea!nli'
who are seek!:' to comfort tho::-
ands of mlstM.ided people, who have
death, but corns toi"4"" urcwit from t-.e rural districts,
plowed field whereby!0 'he open and danuiins robbery c
tne needs ot tne farm and larm pre
diction, hy holding out the b.isest
of definition?.. In a most Feriofsl
confronted period of food famine it
otir history. Should we not muz.-,l-the
mouth that proclaims that all
this is iHrmaiieiit. when in fact i'
la-'chttr bv the crv of "lily means the passine of a load k
hn frenzied gaiety dreams ' worthWs rash from ones pocket o
;.ias-ir-. Yh woild has learned i 'he 1:11 of the lard lord or tie
;. love ..- o tiiiiist and to view vri:h ! srocery merchant at the end ot each
vea. i i'ivMe-s scorn, a casual .day or week, with the hope or r.o'h-.iterloi.-
who would date steak ol inp r.ore than a repeated proce f
.hints serious or that partake of the thM ca-i onlv serve to prove the fom
:' r:i;
Wolf
.iiture of caution.
Ye are belna rocked in a cradle
of uc;t ption. while our fOtil takes Its
ase in an tuit-olested drift toward
a hsrbor of national hunger. "The
lichts of London" have lured by their
clow the brawn and ritiew of acri
cultural support, by holuine out the
numerical slrfr.frth of the dollar, be
ing offered by many non-essential
preferred Industries that are daily
catcrinp to the easy n.atle arid freely
spent dollar of newly crowned money
kinps. As a Nation we are pleasure
insane, having long icnored the di-
lof the fact that no wealth ever comes
as the reward cf tnan'pulatives fi
nancins with an impoverished dollar.
YVill llecn-t Ahjimhmlitc Soil.
It is the opinion of the sober
minded, thinking and unselfish many
who who are wise to the fictitious
of the hour that the man who has
laid aside the sure and certain re
turns of the farm to take up tht
temporary gains of non-essential em
ployment, will before the return cr
sprins realize the mistake and h'ii'
himself or herself in the midst of
a tfalizition of bitter disappointment
vine Injunction that in ire saneness In all lines is ran-
of the brow man shall eat bread, i ,il;!ini. ron'rol and business
and forcettitiK that proud rmiMres of i In,-, a1(, ,ethods are demanding
the past have marked their decline JilaJ ar!j ,nirl,0Sp ne unfolded
by the day of retreat from agricul-; , j, ,))e pPd(.d dements of cre-
tural pursuit. la'ivc end necessary employment of
We Must Turn to the Soil. ; capital he convincingly shown and
pn vcti berore casn or cretin exieu
sions are forthcoming. The play
houses of speculative ftnancinc have
"f
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One Thousand
Pair Army Shoes
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''Seconds" M&de New
Priced from gl.50 to 3.50
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Many good bargains in this lot all sizes
worth about $10.00 new. Get that boy
a pair for school. They make good plow
shoes. Come quick They won't last
long at these prices.
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Old Shoes Hade New.
New shoes cost $10 to
$15, Economize by let
ting us make your old
shoes new. We guaran
tee to give you good,
honest work.
Along the banks of the Nile, the;
earth once brought forth in abund
ance and supplied food for a proud
Egypt, her tuercnant neighbors and
her Kameses, but city gaiety and ur-
, bun glow- lured aa a blinded moth
the hearty yeomanry into the candle';
! flame the plow trench was aban
doned the thorn and thistle grew
in the place of the golden grain, and
ere long fallow dust lay impotent
and refused again to bring forth ah
abundant harvest because nature
seemed to offer a stern rebuke to the
gtose ingratitude of man. For all
theee year we have boasted of the
greatest agricultural production in
the world; we have stepped up from
a strucging band of colonies to the
I highest recognized plnacle of farm
production and to the most admired
standard of governmental civilization
on the earth, but back of all this
stood the creative powers of agricul
tural, which is the bed rock or all
permanent wealth and lasting civili
zation. The land Is the only source
of wealth in its origin; abandon it
and forget its power and the hum
of the spindle will cease. Speak of
muteriat reconstruction, there can be
none, save that which man must eek
among the secrets of nature. We
must return to the clay and from it
oxtract the only real wealth by the
honfst employment of hrain, the ap
plication of brawn nnd muscle, auu
uientcd by the will of a beneficent
Creaier. U it to the sane man a
sound thouuht that by a process of
iit.'.i -- transformation he
recently received an unwelcoined
shock and many easy streets are
closed, then before long it is safe
to predict that there will be a nec
essary exodus to the fields of real
production. The high cost of mak
ing the crop of 1920 Is a real guar
antee that food will awing to an
other zenith house rent, food, cloth
ing and shoes, wood, and coal must
rise to meet the highly expensive de
mands of farm and field production
The man who has stuck to the land
will and ought to come into his
own; he alone has made the real
sacrifice, and with the members I
his good household, who have joined
him in bearing the burden in the
heat of the day. have the right to
expect and will reap, in fact, a highly
compensatory reward.
It requires no wisdom, no mathe
matical comparison of a wizard or
sacrifice of time to judge the drift
of prices; necessaries of life, at the
producing end are being gradually
lopped off, with the consequent
higher and higher swing of farm
commodities, and there can be no
hope Tor any average permanent de
cline until the pinch of hunger
prompts a free cxndus of labor from
non-essential production back to the
farm. For three year the law of
supply nnd demand in farm produc
tion iiiis been suspnuled and specu
lative combination has controlled n
, ,nH situation which in ihe demoralization
hief he times illicit he ffectiv. !y
add liiH "'whit t. our indus.rU or i concealed, hut l the or of i:a
n,,e,,leaahbyrreu,nt mat, rial . -
" - ' xc : V o "h i el --v-five per cent of our nom, la.!-
Vnlfco: J, ;. - ,:; only i N now residing '.hin fJ.
-i -in:,-, ,f nature. V : innoted towns and rites atrtf'
in the iurr.,-.! rattle . iiho-H a flfy-ono per cent 1 !
he shepherds' floeks on a ihou-j Farmer .t M;!!e (iood l iulit.
hiiJ... 1' s-''ai:is iis n iitet;- The pat l nt, sturdy, deterniir.-".'
n h'ishe's and hales that lie In ; fi.fiaer has f.iticht a good fu-ht ninld.--!
. .u.mv.s a:,d v.-.tP-h-Mtse.-t of oei iiiousaml hati'licaps and discount??
, ".".-ai'iiig ih';i- Jul n to si-:ve 1 ;,.,.,,(.; h,. h sten his farm belt-
elo'hi'it: ami to cem-'it . .ivive his wotk stock back to the
the !'-'.'.!';iii'iis "t a happy -liid "',-1 bam. lav down the shovel and l.i
tent li populaiion. Sr.cco? sfiil agii-j . ,,d abandon hlt.i in 'he h"!
culture; farm coi.ifort; happy, wh ih - ,,f ),is greatest agricult ural need. H
MM!
ti :i
i nn !
food
Expert Workmanship.
We have an expert shoe
repairer. Let us do your
next job. We can make
your old shoes practically
as good as new. Give
our expert a trial.
a
a
M.r.io r..riii svrroi.n tines nave ii- -.ii
Vc:i t,. h:v r.ii'u' (ilare of a bol?h-vi-i
gi-i-tn. i'-. t on the rrntrary is the
real antidote to moments of sncia!-it-tlo
discontent. Oh! es. we ate n
slrmiL' and robi's! nation full of
vo.iil rul teilie::ce cud Itady re
bound. V.t are we not too rapidly
dissifatim: ihtse natural gifts while
ptitsuiiig :!:" phantoms of a "good
tii.it ." Have we not p!dn tracked the
real had; ! . and producing sinews
of oar iihir.iiv fr the too heavily
has
ai;
10
des'
witnessed his pride or years
niie.a. hU productive fields, lef:
the ravages of weed posts and
rnrtivc erosion, unable to fl.hi
a winning buttle nlnne. wliile or
lmlid labor sought an easy ('ollar
and frequent anutsenu nts of tl.i
cHi. He has Flood by the hiuhvny
a-'d watched Ihe per diani plutotcat
speed his way to centers of raietv
H has seen discrimination and f--'
th" sti'u:, vvh'te non-esential !ndt:--ttv
worked niuht and day to np;eis"
w Ironed non-essentials? Is It not i the demand of the restless rich, w!
a fact tii.it we are slill rtlyiti:; in ii j i-,;,V;u'ii dfsienatd for his pressing rv-fal'-1
fi'ith thai another and again vlotilt in al nerds. Ho has seen the
nn othT "i'.'iiini of the garments" palatial jassengor train and statn-:idi!'-.
t : cloth. Are we not pli?hi-khi'i loaded to dnt-.cr capacity, hf.
ing our faith and fixing oar hopes rvui- ncrost the continent and ever
too hieih nron following llie l-.'.e of ,vp ,,R in make an outlet for the
th" r'ianv, still sck'titt th "I1" I restless lolncincs of devotees to a I
of gold" only to find when it U !( i ..rnrt (jlnP" What else? W'lvlei
been known. There are mote non-
producers and loafers and ease tak
en lining the side walks and streets
of our cities, towns and hamUtg to
day on short hour production, if for
sooth at work at all, than were nec
essary to man the Auurican army
hi France during the late world
struggle with the kairer. There are
more able bodied men and boys now
attached to the easy positions of
sitting down in the capacity of
chauffeur and pleasure car drivers
than were employed in any year pre
vious in farm pursuits or agricul
tural production. There are now
more professional "good time" seek
ers in the little cities of our nation
than there were persons present on
the day of the great "Sermon on the
Mount." As a consequence of an
ever growing and unnatural de
pendency of the greater part of our
population upon the few in field nnd
farm production, to provide the
enormous re-.juirements of food stuffs
and the ninny other basic essentials
to sustain life, it lakes more cash
for one month to meet the "good
time" retjiiirer.icnts of the youth, fif
teen years old. either male or fe
male, than it took !n the days of
our fathers to pay their part of the.
pastoi's salary and then be classed
not only as a most devout Christian
gentleman, but with the added local
honor and distinction of being termed
a plutocrat.
Women's Ilrevx (wt More Tlmn
Solomon's.
It requires a bigger draft, on the
already strained average bank ac
count, to gown In regular season
changes, the individual woman of to
day, than It took to supply the ward
robe of Solomon for one year, in tho
very zeniih of his vain gloty.
It takes more filthy lucre to pur
chase a yard and three-quarters of
cloth, the maximum linear require
ment in a standard coat suit to-day,
than it required under past reason
able demands of the feminine pride
to L-Riiuily attire a fifty-fifty house
hold blessed with a maximum de
feasance of the Hooseveltian theory
of race suicide. It robs the'' pur
chaser's flanks of more coin to oc
cupy two Invisible pork chops to-day
than It cost not long ago to get a
fee simple title to a pure-hred pig.
It takes more cash to purchase two
eggs, of doubtful age, in a modern
cafe, whither served "half moon,"
"scrambled" or "on one side" than
most of our modern gentry contri
bute to the support, education or
charity during the unnatural period
of their existence. It requires more
cash to lift a bill of lading for four
car loads of humble spuds than many
State statutes demand for the paid in
minimum capital of a state bank. It
is a matter of portentious record, that
based upon five hundred dollars per
car, that there Is more money In
rested or tinder contract to be paid
for pleasure cars In several of our
ostensibly wealthy states in the
South, than there is combined capi
tal and surplus In all their banks,
showing a most unwholesome deflec
tion of their stupendous, staggering
sum, which will be dreadfully mis. ed
from the channels of necessary con
structive busines. to the wasteful
patronage of the worthless scrap
heap.
Throttling the Parasites.
A greater per capital wage, shorter
work hours, and a consequent low
ering of production the disease of
pleasure the quest of a "good time"
the lure of the licht the curiosity
and depravity of man have all lav
ishly contributed their part to a
condition that nriM sooner or Inter
suffer a rebound iu individual want
.nl national hniiKrr. That action
rml reaction nre cqui 1 ami In op
posite directions is a law of experi
ence that has been well tested j nil
has plaited itseif into th.' lib re of
wisdom. Then if percha-ve tho
thoughts presented here sha'l have
h"t n looked upon hy you v. i'ti nirli
favor as that they In pics i- on you
some of the many dissillushininenn
that have popularly conspired to
bring about a condition that will
soon amount to a real distress or tne
l'lar.v. I shall feel that von nr think
ing thonchts with me that will lend
to the discouragement of taso, the
encouragement of the saner view of
more work, longer hours, g-cnter
prelection and less lo'iiiriin
In a national san rehok" cf semi
idleness and stern dlscoura cement of
profitless ideasnre directed to chan
nels of thrift we throttle ra'fsil
of production and open th" onlv r-ve-nne
to nature's plan of co-cerative
abundance.
,'nM 1'meding the Storm.
Mr. Trown 1 had a queer dream
last night, my dear. 1 thouuht I saw
another man running off with you.
Mrs. Brown And what did you
say to Mm?
Mr. IC-own I asked him what he
wa:i running lor.
Prices Shoe Fixery
Old Kendall Building, Opposite Old Court House
M
1 li
late, that :t was only a Jar o lanti'rn
or foN fire that constr.ntly evades
and mrrcilcly deceives its victim?
Have we not too seduliii'ly sought
slid Impatiently vtr"ven to make the
way of 'light heartedness liphtrr and
branded with a damning dlgus1, a
principle that would Impede a licht
nieg p-oriss? Have we not per
mitted oumdves to pin our faith tr
ill dream of a pseudo wealth tflit j
is expected to result from a trading i
among ourselves? Is there not n br !
in our bonnets or an insidious hie. 1
terla In our hodles that is dally con-!
JoullnE us Into Ihe comforting be-,
lief that this high tide of inflation
means more Individual or material I
wealth, when In fact It is only a
deceptive boost, accounted for by a
difference only In bills pavable and
bills receivable, locally held, and can
never be said to be profit realized
until the whole transaction shall have
slrod the test of deflation, and the
purchasing rower of the dollar
swings back to the column of sane
exchance. which ha never ben
reached except through creative pro
duction and sale of the bounties of
nature, as tbey fail without the
realms . of a man made and uar
blinked law ot supply and demand
and ccs pete with tne luxurv upan
the sane markets of the world.
From the realm of farm prodi'e-
tlon. In excess abuiMUuicc, cornea the
unions demanded a gren'er wage mi,
refused to man the common carrier
in the day of his harvesting. Ms'
grain has laid by the wnyrhle. In I
wanton destruction of his wealth,
while he plead a causo of t lcliteonr t
demands to no avail nnd while con-:
timers of his product s becged for,
bread. The clippings of his flock" ,
sre denied a or:ce in the world mar
kets. while n mere rugger t Ion of
wool In a garment to-dav Is lirfiise
to the nrofitenr to unmercifully pluck
the plumage of the oroud prince who
dares to pav the price.
Must lYoduce to Reduce Trices.
Now. those of us who yet retain
a trifle of common sense, who are
blessed with the precious endown
ment of mother's wit, who are sat
isfied to pursue with some faith the
teachings of history, precedent and
analogy cannot lean to the thought
with defensible credence, that there
will come the expected decline in
farm commodities in one, two. three
or five years or really ever, unless
there is a snmmer-saiilt in the prac
Uces that now obtain and a great
equal izaiion of our population be
tween the fictltous needs of pleasure
and iW vital, basic demands rf-.pTO-duction.
"Soft Knap" Reefcee lite MiecU.
There Is the greatest effort to-day
oa the part of the many to out run
balanee of tndc and bo stability of i work, capture aa easy dvllar, aixl get
GORDON INSURANCE
nod
INVESTMENT CO.
INSURANCE EXPERTS
rhone209.
Farmers A Merchants flank
llulldlng.
We Hnve SO
Head Fresh
Mules from
900 to 1200
pounds, well
broke ready
for work.
ALSO KOMB FINE BROOD
MAIUiH.
Give na a look.
FOWLER & LEE.