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Thursday, Sept. 28, will foe "Dollar Day" in Monroe he Monroe J ournal PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 67. Monroe, N. C, Tuesday, September 23, 1922.- $2.00 Per Year Cash County Cotton Sales Last Week Were Perhaps Unprecedented Monroe Bought Over Two Thou- ' sand Bales From Monday Morning to Saturday MUCH BROUGHT FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTIES ' path Lyceum Bureau's best attrac Union County Cotton at a Premium tjons for Monroe, in order to furnish Because of Its Superior Strength pood wholesome entertainment for the Several Thin. Contribute to -V & county during the fall and This Virtue Early Opening and Ginning, Together With the Splen did Trices, Responsible for Heavy Sales. Two thousand, three hundred and eleven bales 01 cotton were ooui.v. . . . . u u. on me ji rw , 1 7 from Monday morning last week to Saturday night, at an a.cu?e orjT()n) w,s and William Courtney in about 22 cents. The bales wehed lfce ,edi , Md th .m r on an average of between lo'J and , Monroe October 11th. with thp BOO rounds each and brousrht around $110 per bale, making a total of about two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars paid for cotton in Monroe during the past week. Hundreds of bales of th's cotton came from other counties. The price paid by Monroe buyers is the only explanation of this great inrush of cotton from the neighboring coun ties. In many instances it comes in large truck loads. I'nion Cotton at a Premium The reputation of the Monroe mar ket is spreading all over the state, and Union county cotton is at a pre mium among manufacturers, due to strength fibre. This, according to I experts, is due to sev?ral things. In the first place, the soil of the coun- ty possesses dualities that do not ob-, use vnuw uv owKiv .... tain in th? average county. Anothet reason for the stroneer fibre is the fact that nearly all the cotton far- mers of Inion are small land own- ( ers who give their farms their per- J buiu.. tuiTK,,, aim KiHTOjunm, greaier care is taken hi i cultivating J hiiu &nuivi ihk 111c viuy umii ill vuun- ties where the tenant system takes the culture and gathering of the cot tot) out from under the care of com petent persons. Therefore, the Un ion county cotton has less trash in it, is ginned and baled with greater care and is better taken care of af ter it leaves the gin. Early Ginning The early opening and ginning are Mao responsible to some extent for the unsua ly heavy sales. Mr. J. J. iM'.th I anna I uib Inwneh n on fat mith nf T.iinptt Prpolr tnwnsh 'n Bnvi if the crop all over the county has hfpn lnmrpn hv tha iin vt-navil m if mif iu innsfl who are in a nnsicinn ii k liuv. ii niL nniv riir t no prnn ron entirely and the bolls that are ; eft arc opening unusually early be- ause or tne dry weather, and the ' 'rtnil rtr ii-a la antifiinn it unnn (kn Iini M'L Mm IHIIHIIV MM II IN ITlIlHtKT II & INlV WAX Ub UUlAiU IJLM.iibtat shi ne ceremonials. nlelligent Business Men of Today litalize That Honesty nnd Service Are the J rump Cards "We are losing money on that nr- cle at the price advertised for Dol- T". ,, .i i-ra.v, ra.u ii iiiuiniiu niercnani t'sterday, "but my idea of business to irive the people somethin r out : tne orainary wnen we advertise rinllnx Tla ' Tl.nl 1 as telling the truth. You could see in his expression. Dollar Day has on its own name in Monroe and the ues advertised for next Thursday 5?eK ior themselves after the ret here and they are coming. ere is a characteristic of hones- about Union county merchants at didn't exist among all business in the "good old davs" about ihich rome pf us like to think and Rotary and Kiwams clubs and Imilar organizations have been aching for some time that the se- t of success in business is hones- ond service. Intelligent business n have come to realize th s fact, i as a result tne oia time cut oat, take all you can ret merchant about clayed out. The average siness men in this county (and we tint have said practically all of m) will do to trust. You are safe Ieavng your account in their ids, unless they happen to make an test mistake, and when they adver- unusual values, it is safe to state t thejr will be forthcoming. i, . Death of Mrs. Medlin )n last Friday death removed from midst Mri. Martha Jane Medlin, e of John I. Medlin. She leaves ind a husband and a number ol Idren to mourn her passing. Funeral aervicea were conducted urday morning at Grace church her pastor, Rev. T. J. Huggini. n. Aieulin joineu uie vnurvii wncu v young and lived a consistent, Hstian life. She was a good wife an affectionate mother. he was ty-nine years old at the time of iloath. For several years she had n in ill health, but bore her afflic- ig with patience and christian for de. We extend to the bereaved . i t:J .1 . huy our rympamy ana diu mem w k to J.Sas ior camiun in ineir bereavement. T. J. H. HIGH CLASS, WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT OFFERED Monroe Chautauqua Company Br'ni in Best Attraction Offered by Redpath Lyceum Bureau The Monroe Chautauqua Company has booked five numbers of the Red- winter months. These are the highest priced attractions the Redpath Ly ceum Bureau offers and it will not be necessary for Monroe people to go to other cifes to see real first class attractions this fall and winter. The first number booked is "Carry Ricks," a great Amur .can comedy with ".ma, a Kit: N y k t t(f exceptional actors. "Cappy K cks" was dramatiz pd am, ,,re .e!.ed on Broadway witl tw -:si 41 H tn ItrntriviV u.ith otn?r expert actors. The second tiumb?r to appear either the latter part of October or first of November is Grosjean Marimba-Xylophone Company, players and singers nnd will portray the musical talents of three gifted sisters, each of whom is a vocalist and instrumentalist, and in add.tion, Miss Floss Grosjean is a thoroughly amusing character inter preter. Henry Jenson, baritone, and Chester Painter, tenor, both alyo be ing instrumentalists, will also be in the company. William Raincy Bennett, one of the greatest dramatic orators of the day, will appear on November 10th. "The Tintt V rt I art" w II m Aauvtt- ,ns,iring. fusillade of facts, fun and fal'cv Th; xational Mrle Quartet under tha j ;.,.inn t ri,,,'., ,. . i tu. great An.,.rnn. ,. n,.n ... n .- : Deoember and January lickets for these attractions w.ll g0 on j,aIe October 2nd. The sale of licktts ha8 bou, p,aced jn t)( hnnda 0l lnt. faculty gn(J students of th Source High 'School and the profl: .e nrofiis derive ! fiom them will be turnei over to the faculty and students to be used as they see fit. Adult season tickets for the five attractions w.ll be S2.00; Children's season tickets, $1.00; sin jrle admission for the first three num. bers will be 73 cents and 50 cents for the last two. Those who have the sale of tickets in hand retiust that neoDle buv thei" t.ckets early, as the attractions will appwir in the aud,torium of the high 8(.hool buldi and no more , t . . " v aoiu tr.an seats can be provided for. BTg Time for Rockingham Mr. Isaac A. London, editor of the Rockingham Post - Dispatch, writej Th3 Journal as follows: "We are to have the formal laying of the cornerstone of our ne-v $200,- 000 courthouse and Rockingham's new $100,000 hifch school building Wcd- ncsday, uct. inn We are to have the Oasis Temp'.e Shrine band of forty pieces. This u a great honor, and we are duly appre ciative of tl.e fact. Seldom indeed "Co.nmanciar James A. Lockhart, of the North Carolina department of the American Legion, will speak and a!o Deputy Gra id Master Hubert Potoat of Wake 1 orest College. The parpde in itst-lf will be a remarkable eight. Every service mnn of your county is ured to attend. The Knight Templars will be the escort of honor for the Grand Lodpe olhcers. Xhe Sir Knij'hts are asked to meet at the Rockingham asylum at 9:30 and the 'Grand Lodge will convene at 10 o'- (Jock. The exercises will begin at 10:30. "After the exercises a big free bar becue will be served, and basket pic nic dinner. This is free to all, and hundreds of pounds of various kinds of meats will be temptingly barbe cued and served from long tables for all who attend. After dinner the Rockingham and Fletcher Memorial school team of McColl will play a football game. ' "It is to be a great occasion, and Rockingham is preparing for it lav ishly. We are expecting no less than 10.000 people and are preparing bar becue tor that number. Mr. Knight and His Molasses Mr. Luther Knight cf Lanes Creek township reports that he has just gathered his sorghum cane and had it manufactured into molasses. He grew the Seeded Ribbon variety and from ore-third of an acre Mr. Knight got 125 gallons of fine moliuses, 3'J1 bun dles of fodder and 15 bushels of seed. The molasses is worth on the market 70 cents per gallon, the fodder $1.50 per hundred and the se.d $1.50 per bushel, according to Mr. Knight, mak ing a total value of products from the one-third acre about $116, or the rate of $348 per acre. Mr. Knight states that the land was not in an unusually fertile state and that less work was required to make and gather the products than would have been re quired to cultivate and gather the same land in cotton. He believes there are great possibilities in the county for growing sorghum cane as a substitute for cotton, if a ready market can be found for the products. Grain seed for fall sowing can be purchased cooperatively at great saving. One county agent recently or dered 200 bushels of rye. INTERESTING COLUMN OF -NEWS AND INTERVIEWS Happy" Wanted the Chief to Smell Sweet and He Was Willing to Furnish the Necessary Fluid THE HAY CROP BREAKS ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS Balloon Might Have Been Fire J Upon Hy Blind Tiger, But Citizen Thinks I nion County Blind Tigers Are a More Intelligent Citizenship. The court house square has become quite a mecca for colored preachers and singers on Saturdays. It is the opin:on of a good many citizens that they certainly must think Union county folks need a lot of preaching or they must find "pickings" very roo 1 in this part of the moral vine yard. Some rather amusing things often hatir.cn in connection with the operations of these visitors. Chief of Police Spoon tells of an incident that took place a few months agro when the I.ev. Wyatt Montcomery, "Hap. py," ns ha is more generally known around .Monroe, was holding forth in the city about every Saturday. "Hap py" passed po'ice headquarters one Saturday morning wearing white trousers that made him appear very much l;k3 he had emerged from his b?d room that mornintr without put ting on his "britches;" a white vest r.nd a long "Jim swinger" coat. "Hel lo, Fererend, the Xhief said, "you are looking good this morning." "Ya suh, yas suh," said "Happy," ' i'sa s t tome mighty fine c'lone huh wont you hab some: and he pull ed from h:s vest pocket a bottle of Hoyt's liitkle cologne and handed the Chief. But the officer didn't care to smell l"Iie "Hanpy" and he refused to saturate his ofticial su:t. Hay Crop Unusually He'avy "I never aw the like of hay in my li:e." said Mr. D. W. Waters Satur day. Mr. Waters res'des at Cassett, S. C, except through cotton seiliny g'.asor.s, when he makes Monroe his rjad-iuarters and buys cotton. He states that in his home community last year the boll weevil came very near cleaning the cotton farmers up, and this year they planted heavily of other crop',, such as peas, potatoes, ? c, ana the hay crop ,s the bigtrest ever known in that section. ..Mr. Wa ters also states that there are more fat b?ef cattle in his section than he has ever known. However, the wee vil has spent his force in that com niunity, according to Mr. Waters, and a fairly good cotton crop would have wen made this year if the farmers hadn't gotten so badly scared that they failed to buy fertilizer and plant heavily of cotton. Mr. Waters says that last year one bale was made where formerly a yield of about sev en had been the record. This year the crop will average about a half bale to the acre. Mystery Surrounds Balloon Report The report a few days ago that a naval baJloon had been fired upon near Monroe and that it was believed l.lind tigers did it has caused quite a b:t of comment among Union county citizens. The idea seems to prevail that blind timers would use more d's- cretion, as Jeff would say, than to ire upon a balloon. Some be leve that balloons and air ships fly too h'h to be reachal by bullets tired from or dinary Runs, since the kind used in the world war has never been brought into use in this county. One citizen remarked a few days a;jo that he thinks Union county blin) timers are a better class of people than would fire upon a balloon and that they have more sense than that anyway. It is his opinion that the average blind titfer in this section is a rather in telligent person. Others express the opinion that perhaps some fellow might have been rabbit hunting and shot about the time the balloon pass ed over and the occupants of the bal loon heard the noise and that it was natural when their gas bag began leaking for them to think it had been shot. Anyway, the incident is giv ing folks something to think and talk about and the facts in the case will probably never be known. The News of Goose Creek Indian Trail, Route 1, Sept. 23. Messrs. E. P. and Melvin Grass and Curtis Faulk of Kannanolis motored to Goose Creek township last week to visit friends and relatives. Mrs. T. N. Wiley and children are in Wingate attending school. Mifs Eunice Little has gone to Marshville to enter school. Miss Tearl' Hill, who has been ill with malarial fever and throat infec tion for the past three weeks, is slightly improved. Mrs. James W. Roberts and chil dren of Winston-Salem motored to Goose Creek township to visit friends and relatives., Mr. Fynn Price has returned to Goose Creek after spending some time at Lumberton. The Zion Methodist church has re ceived a new coat of paint which adds to its attractiveness. Services will be held at Union Grove Methodist church the first Sunday in October at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Grady Faulk visited in Char lotte last week. ' Your scribe is holding a responsi ble position in the fodder and cotton fields of Unionville, route 1, at pres ent. ' Mr. Sanford Furr and sister. Miss Rens, were at Corinth Sundj-v. Mr. Festus Griffin has pljceJ his saw mill on Crooked Creek near Eb eneter, south of Monroe township. WHEN THOSE GOOD OLD SONGS OF ZION ROLLED The OH Folks Would Pray and Sing ani Shout Until Eleven O'clock at Night ONCE USED THE OLD TIME TALLOW CANDLE FOR LIGHT Years Ago Rock Mounds Were Uaed at Pleasant Grove for Piling -Stones Upon to Light Up the Grounds Appeals to People to Rebuild. I always liked to read Bill Arp's corner, he was so humerous. He was taking care of his grandchildren while his wifj and daughter went shonoincr Und when thus engaged he was always ruminating over things. So, like Bill Arp, today I was ruminating over the old campground at Pleasant Grove. They certainly gave it the right name. , When that arbor was built 92 years ago in that vast body of woods there was not many churches in the coun tiy, and they only had preaching once a month, and sometimes not that of ten. Imagine the people were hungry for the preaching of the word. Then this Pleasant Grove was an ideal pluci to build that beautiful arbor and tenls that surround it And those two large springs of pure water. Just sat under that old arbor at the camp meeting that is still fresh in our m nils, and looked at the "framework of that arbor which was all done so beautifully by hand. The timbers were all hewn out with the broad axe and adz. There were no saw mills in the country at that time, and I just won dered if the men of today would go out in the woods and cut trees and hew them into shape and mortise and pin them together without machinery, lhose pcopL' had the old time religion. They were not afraid to shout, either. My father owned a tent there and we tended every year until the campmeet ing was abandoned, and oh, the good meetin s we would have! Goo j preach ing and good old time singing! Uncle Wesley Irby would always lead the singing. There were no organs then and he ued the tuning fork to get the right key, and oh, how the good old songs of Zion rolled. I can almost hear now the shouts of the old people. Uncle Joe Adams, Goodman Laney and hia -Aother, Aunt Polly Laney, as Ve (dfted her, and Uncle Billie Krauss and Aunt Jane Richardson, and dozens of others that let the hal lelujahs roll. I have seen the old altar full of pentitents and the row of seats around the altar. When the altar call was given the good people went to work as well as praying, and they would pray and sing and talk and shout, sometimes until eleven o'clock at ninht, and a lot of times go to their tents shouting the praises of God. Why can't we have that kind of meet ngs now. I think I can ex plain why. The love for God and ser vice have waxed cold in the hearts of the people. They do not hold the faith once delivered to the saints. Grown cold through pride, they have the form of Godliness but deny the power ther'e-of. Loves the Old Camp Ground I love that old camnground and ar bor, for 'twas there I found the Sa vior precious to my soul. Twas there my fathe,r nnd mother joined the church in early childhood. Also my brother and sister joined there. Now they are all gone on to glory, where I evpect to meet them in the sweet by mill by. When I was just a little tot, I just can i'i member, when there were no la in) .s to light the church and arbor, they used tallow candles, and I see there are signs of the tallow cmrllei on the post of the old arbor yet. And they had a large chandelier that held a number of candles that hung in the center of the arbor. I wonder what has become if it. Surely some one would keen it for old times sake. Also there were four rock mounds built up about three feet high on the four sides between the arbor and the tents. The men would haul pine knots to those rock mounds to light up the campground during the meetings at night. They let their light shine in those days. But when the old people began to die out, for some reason the younger ones began to let the campmeetings go down, perhaps for the reason above mentioned. Anyway the tents began to fall one by one, just like the old people. I married and went away. I did not see the old place for eight years. When I came back to visit friends and kinfolks, I also visited the old campground. It almost broke my heart to see such a sad picture tents rotted down, campmecting abandoned. Twas 'then I wrote the poem about the campground ithat many of you read. Let's Rebuild the Templa Well, .now, the good Lord put it ih the hearts of the people to build up the old campground again. Let's put our shoulders to the wheel and push with all our might. We had a Eood campnteeting there this year, et's try to make it better next year. I was glad to see so many new tents this year and I hope to see the first row completed next year. If the rood Lord lets me live until nex rsmpmeet ing, I will be there in my new tent and all the good people who come and have no tent that could not build one will be welcomed to my tent as long as there is room. Now all lovers of the old camp -ground, for there a, many in Union and other counties round about, let's join in and get that g'orious old place lighted up be fore the next campmeeting. It was a little dangerous out there this year at night, with so many cars. (Continued on page eight) Influence of the Tin Lizzie On Development ot the State CHILD KNOCKED DOWN iTh Whirl- nf ik- i i BY AN AUTOMOBILE! The,;!hl? 0 Ahe 1 sop e Ha3 j -Wade Road Construction Serious Results Averted Only By the Sure and Safe Presence of Mind Many j Personal Items ! . i STIR ABOUT SOME AND Marshville, Sept. 25. There came! SFP WHAT nipprva near being a serious affair here Sat-1 "llAI MAl 1 urday afternoon at the Marshville. Motor Company entrance when the little 'three or four year old child of Mr. Worley Griffin of the Faulks community was knocked down by a car operated by the son of Mr. Ellis Williams The latter turnd from the street intending to run his car into the ga rage end did not see the tot, who had jroiten in the entrance, until he was r'ght at it, and then by quick action and presence of mind stopped! tne car in time to prevent any serious injuiy. .Mr. C. Pi Moore, who lives here, left Monday night to go with his brother to Boston where the latter w 11 undergo an operation, or be treat - ea ior tumor on tne brain. Mrs. Irene Marsh entertained the teachers of the Marshville school last Saturday afternoon from four to six. Progressive conversation on sever al subjects was carried on for some time. A memory contest was given. Then music, interspersed with quips and puns by the guests, added to the amusement of the informal occasion. A salad course with mints was serv ed, i Mr. Jas. P. Marsh and famiiy spent Sunday at Unionville. Miss Nell Hasty, who has been vis iting her brother in Virginia, has re turned home. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Hallman spent Friday in Charlotte visitinif Mrs. Hallman's mother, Mrs. Lillie Price, who is in the hospital there. Mrs. W. B. Love of Monroe and Mr. O. S. Hamilton of Charlotte spent last Wednesday here with their sis ter, Mrs. James P. Marsh. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Williams of Wingate visited Mrs. Irene Marsh Sunday. Mrs. Ethel Garrison of Unionville and little son are visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Marsh. Mrs. Lillie Price, who has been quite sick at a hospital in Charlotte, is reported as improving. Mr. Seborn Blair, Mr. Hal Marsh nnd Miss Mallie Smith left Monday for Chapel Hill to enter the Univer sity. Mr. W. O. Harrell left Saturday for Lou'sville, Ky., on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Newsom spent last week here visit ng the former's rarents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. New som. i . . . KIWANIANS TO SECURE FUNDS FOR HOSPITAL The Board of Directors and the Su perintendent Met W ith the Club Last Friday Evening Upon invitation the board of diree - tors of the Ellen Fitzgerald hospital, Messrs. J. H. Lee, F. G. Henderson. and J. W. Laney, and Miss Elliott, superintendent of the institution, met with the Kiwanins at the weekly luncheon in the Hotel Joffre Friday evening to d'scuss ways and mean3 of providing certain equipment that the hospital is very much in need of. Mr. J. II. Lee made an interesting talk in wh'ch he stated tint an ele vntor and x-ray machine are two of t ie most badly needed things. Mr. I.enderson emphasized Mr. Lee's re marks ami stated that the institution also needs the moral support of the people of the county. Us stated that the hospital is very much in need of a competent surgeon. Mr. Henderson took occasion to say that the institu tion has in Miss Elliott and her as sistants as capable and as jood corps of nurses as any hospital in the South. Miss Elliott made a most impres sive and common sense talk in which she made the assertion that the mor al support of the people of the coun ty means a great deal to the institu tion and declared that when this is given as it should be, there will be no trouble about the patronage of the institution. Dr. J. E. Ashcraft declared that a surgeon is the greatest need of the institution and expressed himself as being in favor f securing one as ear ly as possible. The club went on record as favoring the launching of a movement to se cure the necessary funds to provide the needed equipment and pledged itself to make a strenuous effort to raise $3,000 for the institution with in the next twelve months. It was announced at the meetin? that Miss Wilma Green has been se lected as the young lady to be sent as sponsor for tne Monroe Kiwanis club 111 bllV UIBtllll IIIITCblllK Ol lilts Vyrou - nas which w.ll convene in Ashevdle October 16th and 17th. A number of the members of the club are also ex pected to attend this meeting. Arrangements are being made for the ciub to attend the Made-in Caro lines exposition in Charlotte next Tuesday, Kiwanis day, in a body, and they will meet at the Joffre at two oVlork p. m. Luncheon will be serv :i .n Charlotte and this meeting will take the place of the meeting next Friday night Simplicity in character, manners, in style, in all things, the supreme ex cellence is simplicity. H. W, Long' fellow. The Cottcn Fields Are White and Roadsides Are Lined With Sheets and Bag of the Fleece, With Not an Old Time Basket in Sight; "What in the Nme of God Will These People Do When the We?vil Gets the Cotton:" For One Thing They Wi:l Continue to Burn Gas or Move Away. By It." F. Beasley Newr was there so much travel in North Carolina as there has been this summer. It was not inteiferred with hy the ra;lnmd strike. All the pas- ! scer trains might have been taken off without having kept many people at hoine. Highway travel is now all the go an 1 :: is 'just starting good. The highway b the way to see" North Carolina, i: jou v.ant to see it and not merely v,-.i 1 1 through the country. George V.'. Hargrove, the Sampson county man ivhj turned up home the other day c: : a little jaunt around the earth wi:ieh embraced fifty-two years, is qui e cnxious to see North Carol. na with a view of observing what progress the boll weevil has made. He chased the boll weevil from Mexico to Florida on foot and beat them there. From there he hit for North Carolina, rested a couple of weeks, and then circulated around a few counties in this section. I would have given my last shirt if he had come through Anson county a few years earlier before Judge Bennett died. It would have been worth a yiar's grov:h to have hoard Judge Bennett quiz him about his travels. The Jude would have sat for days drinking in his stories and quest'on inz him about the common place doings i'i "furrin' parts." Th? Judge loved to look at the country. He was once importuned by a friend to take a trip with him to En.-rland, a country that h verv much admired. "Well," he rep! e l, ' I have always wanted to go to Eng'anJ, and if you will atjree io waik with me so that we can see the country. I'll go along." The Three-Legged Men Frank Page's three legged men have been go ng about all over the state squinting through their telescopes and marking out new grades for the roads and you can scarcely go twenty miles anywhere without com'ng across one of these "detower" signs that turn you fron a sood stretch of highway to "God-knows where," until you break back into another (rood piece of roaJ. Better gji. in your tin I'zzie if you can't do any better and get around a little, else you will wait up in a year or two in an entirely new ' state that you don't know anvthinz ! about. Tha threerlegged men. the construction men, the bridge build ers and the section draggers are do'ng a lob that you ran have no conception of unless you ride about over a good ' deal of the territory. The wonderful part about it is its extensiveness. It's everywhere. Everybody's do;njr it and everybody's clamoring for it There are those who say the work must stop when present funds from bond sales give out and that the earning legislature will make no further pro vision for bond issues. Don't loosa money betting on thai. It is not going to stop. It was all-fired hard to get it started but nothing can stop it. If it goes on 1 ke it is going now it w.m't be lor.g till the people who do not have good roads will mortgage their hopes of heaven to jret them. The Tin Lizzie Did It And mark this, fellow citizens: It is not the gentleman who rides behind a chaffeur in a Cadillac who has done it. It is the boys with the tin lizzies. Mr. Ford's protest against the ,cnal profiteers wasn't worth a hanir. His peace ship was a scream, his ideas on finance are nonulistic Nirvannahs, his international conspiracy is a daddy long legs, hut as a road builder his tin lizz e dslivers the goods. When one remembers that a Ford can do anything from climb a tree to swim a river, he may ask what need hath a Ford for a road anyhow. You who have n?vcr tried it may never know it, but the boys who run the rattlers know that they run better on good roads than on no roads at all, and they 1 ke the ?i?a''-n. They go about and now tni h?n hit a stretch of asDhalt And gosh! thm never knew before the old rirl civil r-n so smooth. Let's go! No uss fi tall; about it, we gotta have mor J these good stretches, in fact gotta tie them together where necessary, and where they are not 1 . , . . -, , e?tWrI th? hVrt V"1 i Al'n,l8"r-f?c.e .,1li0' Pi Jf!- stand this, you town fellows who ride on good streets, we gotta have roads' we can get about on. The cost? Hang the cost, money's going to be spent anyhow, just as well get some good outer it. And There You Are Stop road work? Not till we stop eating. Now and then there are going to be some croaks about taxes but a picture of the old time mud will con jure away anthing like that. Never made any progress in road building till the folks that Ben Tillman loved to describe as the one gallus fellows (Continued on page eight)
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