THE MEBANE LEADER
AND RIGHT THE DAY MUST WIN. TO DOUBT WOULD BE DISLOYALTY, TO FALTER WOULD BE SsIN.»
Vol 3
MFBANF, N. Cm IHU^SOAY. JANUARY 9 1913
PERSONALS AND lOGAl
PEOPLE WHO COME
AND GO.
OF INTKREST GATHERED BY
RKl’ORTER.
OUR
Nelson
Com-
:\!is. H. B. Slack is visiting her fath-
: t Charlotte.
Mr .June Andrews is spending a
ni-;iith in Durham.
Mr, Will Bason of Thomasville spent
in Mebane.
!\lr. Kitrell of Norfolk, Va. spent a
Unv (lays in town with friends.
Mr. Clarence Ray of Hillsboro spent
Su d -v in Mebane with friends.
Miss Olffa and her father Mr. A. P.
1 'are visiting in Person County.
Mr. anil Mr.s, Wiley Janes visited
Mr.^. l^urton near Ridgeville last week.
Air. Earl Hester and bride were
at Mr. A. P. Longs last week.
returned to Meb-
sometime in Con-
Dry Goods
pany.
The firm of Nelson Dry Goods Com
pany are open and ready for business.
They have been receiving goods for
about ten days, but have not their
stock in entire yet. Mr. P. Nelson the
manager was manager of the Mebane
' citore Co., diirit^ their lone term of
business of fifteen years and we are
sure Mr. Nelson will make good. The
firm is occupying the store so long
kept by Mr. J. H. Lashly retired.
The store has been repainted, altered
and otherwise improved, and to day is
one among the most attractive stores.
It 13 the purpose of the company to
keep a nice up to date line of dry goo is
notions, shoes, gents furnishings, etc.
The int6rest of the companys customers
will be given the most careful conside
ration. Mr. Nelson is well and widely
known in connection with the dry
goods business of Mebane and reason
ably anticepates a large and lucrative
trade.
.Mr. Miller White
after spending
.r.i.
Nir. J. V\\ Hudson has returned
fr. iii lii'x hospital, Raleigh, very much
it'. : roved.
Miss Fannie Ferguson ( f Danville
\ ; , is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. W.
Uuilsi»n.
Mrs. VV. D. Fogleman and Miss
j. iinie ^Vhite went to the country
' iuirday on a visit.
\\r. Tom McCauley of Hillsboro
,"j nt a few days with his father, H.
t . McCauley last week.
The Mebane W'arehouses opened
M - day for the sale of tobacco, and
■ u: il much offerings since.
.Mr. J. W. Lee returned to Mebane
Monday, after suending two weeks
with his father in Danville, Va.
Liltlo Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs
V\. S. Crawford who has been quite
k for the past week, we are glad to
1 iini is much better.
Miss Lena Foy returned to Mebane
Iharsdav evening after spending sev-
ral months with her brother, W. L.
I , at Ashland, Va.
Air. W. L. Buhman returned from
(ireenFboro Wednesday morning where
ho had gone to look after matters
rdaiive to his new Diug Store.
The members of the book club enter- {
tallied their husbarda at the home of
Mrs T. M. Crutchfield on New Years
::i,L’^ht. It was a very pleasant affair.
Don’t fail to see change of ad for
'M. Gladstein, Mr. Gladstein
MEBANE eaiDEDSCKOJL
Honor Roll For Decen:ber«
A Fine Sermon
Rev. Mr.W.E. Swain, the pastor of
the M. P. Church of Mebane preached
a sermon in his church Sunday night
that was much out of the usual. It
was upon the creation, and had ref-
ference to the mornings Sunday school
lesson. Mr. Swa’n handled his subject
with marked ability. It was quite
evident that he had been a close stud
ent of geologv, and yet he wove into
his discourse some splendid, and pro
found biole tiuths, showing the wis
dom and beneficence of God in pro
viding a world so well adapted for a
habitation for his creatures. One
might think it a peculuar subject, but
his description of the Archean the
Solurian, the Devoneain, Carboniferon,
Reptilian, Mammalian and the Quar-
ternary Ages showing how each in its
changes was a prepration for the final
uses to which the world would be put,
and yet in it all there was manifested
the profound love and gtKxiness of God.
His sermon [evidenced much thought
and study.
•‘Schools Days”
School days, a very humorous and
interesting play, was presented at tho
Academy of Music, Durham, last Sat
urday evening and night. There was
a good house present and the play was
amusing, and of much interest. Mana
ger Borrough all ways give to the
Durham people the best that can be
gotten, and is deserving of a liberal
patronag e.
At The White House
a large stock, and just at this time is
; utting prices to the quick. Its a good
place to trade.
The Mebane Graded School resumed
iis regular work Monday Jan, 6 with a
very Satisfactory attendance. Prof.
Cooper is making a good principal and
^Mving excelent service.
The Mebane Supply Company ifc
rfceiying stock, ai^d hopes to be able
to get opened by the 15th. There was
three car loads of goods side tracked
for them the first of this week.
Uawls of Durham a leading dry goods
dealer turns his attention to hosiery
ai'.d sox in this issue of the Leader.
They carry and immense supply and
can surely please you. Don’t fail to
sve them when in Durham.
Messrs. J. A. Whitemire, Howard
Ozmtr.j, Willie Surddeth, Charlie Ow
ens, J S, Parker, W, Parish, James
carries I Love, E. Hariis, Willie Young, H,
A number of the members of the
.^■'tate Legislature are going to Raleigh
on each train. They &re wearing an
expression much like the sophmores in
('olIeg‘^ that, they are carrying the
worlds vital concerns in their pistol
pockets.
Jones. John Jones, and
Smith, Rickard, Wooten.
Winecoff,
Holiday ministrel shows for the
convicts at San Quentin, cabaret shows
for the prisoners at the ^Atlanta peni
tentiary, together wi.h baseball in the
summer time in numerous prisons, all
evidence a humanitarianism in punitive
reform which must be robbing prison
life of some of its old terrors.
Eggs shipped by parcel post in a fire-
less cooker reached their destination as
chicks, and the shipment is siid to
have "presented a new puzzle for
postal officials to solve." The postal
officials are new at the game. Any
member of the Tariff Classification
Board could solve a “puzzle" like that
offhand.
ATTENDANCE
First Grade: Liddy Bobbitt, Julia
Long, Mary Allen Morgan, Robert
Dick, James Dick, Paul Fowler,
Vernon Walker, Glen Miles, B'ranklin
Lambeth, Homer Fitch, Harry ParreU,
Grace Cheek, Hallie Hunt, £valand
Oakley, Murray Nicholson and James
Long.
Second Grade; Jeter Burton, Ruth
Craw ford, Claude Bobbitt, Vernelle
lambert. Jack Long, , Edgar Farrell,
Robert Wilkinson, Murray Vincent.
Third Grade; Alma Fearrlngton,
Hughes Wilkinson, Alfred Mebane.
Fourth Grade; Bernice Fitch, Curtis
Jobe, Farlee Jobe, Lewis Nicholson,
Theron Wilkerson, Russell Walker,
Corinna Jobe, Grace Long and Sallie
Thornton.
SCHOLARSHIP.
Fifth Grade; Lottie Long, Gladys
Amick and Rachel Ham.
Sixth Grade; Sibyl Walker.
Seventh Grade; Mary Rimmer ard
Lottie Satterfield.
Eight Grade; Haywood Jobe,
Leonora Jobe and Bannie Svkes.
FRUIT TOTAL LOSS
Over 150,000 Acras of Oranif'^s
and L2mons Have B^n Frozen.
“From San Bernardino to Los
Angels Cal., eveiy acre of oranges
and lemons has been frozen."
This waa the statement that came
from Pomona, center of one of the
heaviest producing sections of the
citrus fruit belt. Only a fifth of the
brop may be saved, it was asserted. If
this be true the total loss on 150,000
acres of fruit will amount close to ^40,-
000.000.
BIGGEST CHEESE EVFR.
DURHAM IS PROS'
PSRING.
Vast Amouiit of Buildinj^:
Completed in 1912 and
/Vlucb Under Construction
%
The ye»r of 1912 has been a parti
cularly good one for Durham, so far
as material progress is concerned. At
least half a million dollars has been
expended in the erection of new bui’d
ings in the city, some of which have
been completed, but at least a quarter
of a million dollars worth of buildimjfs
are now underway. The completion
of the new dormitaiy at Tiinity col
lege cost something like $50,000 and
has just been coinpleted. A like
amount has been expended in remode
ling the old Arcade hotel It is goirg'
to take more than $100,«*)0 to complete
the new Melbourne hotel, a five story
store building which is being erected
by M. Shevil will cost about $30,000.
The Berkley apartments, which aie
given to the Watts hospital by
George W. Watts as additional en-
downment will cost $60,0C0 and this
building is just about ready for oc
cupancy. In addition to these there
are a number of other sm Her store
buildings and hundreds of residences
in the city, which have either been
built or remodeled.
Protest
creased
Against
Salen’es.
Mebane Rfd 2
Everybody seemed to enjoy Christ
mas nicely.
Mebane, N. C., Jan. 6th, 1913.
Mr Editor:—
I have just learned that our County
officials a»-e going to petition the legis
lature to increase their salaries. Of
course, we all know that our County
officers w’ent on a salary basis Decem
ber 1st, 1912. These salaries were
fixed by the last session of the legis
lature and our present County officers
knew the sala’ ies that were named in
this bill, and, of course, these salaries
were satisfactory to these County
officers or they would not have stood
for re-nomviation and re-2lection.
I want to say that this is not a
personal maLter at all, but simply a
matter of business. I am very inter-
sted as a citizen and as a tax payer,
and further, because of the fact that I
waT the fir"jt one to agitate salaries
for our C*>unty officers as I believe it
is the best thing to do, and I believe
now that the present salaries, which I
think are fair and liberal, will mean a
saving to the tax payers of from four
to five thousand dollars annually I
believe that I have voiced the senti
ment of the majority of the people of
the County in saying that they are
opposed to any advance, at least I think
that this matter ought to be discussed
fully before such a measure is put
through the legislature.
I am advised by one of the County
Commissioners that Alamance County
went in debt the past year about $16,-
000, and of course, if we increase the
Sin^cle Specimen Weighing
1.405 Pounds on Display
in Local Window
The largest single cheese ever
brought to Charlotte is now occupying :
one show window of the Miller-VanNess I
store on North Tryon street. It weighs
1.405 pounds and is one oi the well-
known Sprague-Warner Company
cheese of the fineit grade.
It is more than 300 pounds heavier
than the same grade of cheese brought
to Charlotte last year, which in turn
was the largest ever seen here. It is
an uncolored, all cream cheese and will
be cut January 21.
The experts declare that the larger
the cheese, the better the grade. Ap
plying this rule, the cheese now on
e.'chibition should be a splendid one.—
Charlotte ^Observer.
salaries of our County officers it will
Mrs. A. L. McCauley spent last week mean this additional expense. I want
in Burlington. | suggest to the County Commissioners
Mr. George Shamblev and bride re- ^ that before they endorse this increase
turned back to Zeblan Sunday where salailes that they call a mass
they will make their future nome. , meeting of the tax payers of the
Mr. James Sbambley and Miss Lillie 9^
Ezell spent Sunday afternoon an Mr.|"’'P®’ vnth the
W G Smith majority, but under present conditions,
I for one am unalterably opposed to
Mr. J. A. Wilkins oi Cedar Grove j any increaee, and as stated above, I
called at Mr. S. M. S’nambleys Friday balieve the salaries as m ade pre liberal,
** ght. j and I do not thirk it is exaggerating
Mr. Walter Ray and Miss Maggie i
Shambley spent the day Sunday at 1f
Mr W. G- Smith. serve the County at the present
i -lai ies.
I wynt to say further that we have
as clever pn accommodating set of
Mr. John
Mr. Ralph Vincent our popular
\V'arehouse man at the Planters, is
rebui'ding his mill that was burned
some time the past year. Mr.
is putting up a yery much better
building than the one burned. He
v/ili put in the best of machinery.
The Chill Tonic man, Mr. Groves
who it is alleged is building the finest
resort hotel in the world in Asheville
is having all of his construction work
done with the aid of men without the
help of machinery. This is done be
cause in tliisj way he can give employ
ment to more men. The White Fur
niture Co., of Mebane is the one
factory that was able to furnish a high
(lass of furniture that was entirely
satisfactory to Mr. Groves.
The law whose summons William
Rockefeller is dodging is the same by
which his millions of property holdings
in protection; and the Congress whose
I call he refuses to obey is the body
under whose legislation he and his
family have become rich beyond the
dreams of avarice. Thup is the govern
ment flouted in its time of need by
those its senseless bounty has fed.
Vincent This is not intended aa a quotation; it
is altered to square with the naked
truth.—Va. Pilot.
The Builders.
The world’s work must go on. The
human race would soon perish of star
vation and cold and disease if labor
were to cease. It would perish far
quicker if the existing product of labor
were destroyed.
Constructive effort is the only effort
that aids men. In eveiy Ipnd the task
of political thought is how to secure
to every citizen the utmost of leisure,
culture, enjoyment and opportunity
without hampering ambition, starving
intellect or depriving enterprise of an
incentive. Men may differ as to pol
icy; serious men can hardly differ as
to the problem.
Meanwhile, in honor and good faith,
the world's work must somehow be
done.—New Yorr World.
Works Both Ways.
(From The Durham Herald.)
If we are to keep the children out of
mills by law there would seem to be
no >?ood reason why we should not put
them in school by law.
Mr. T. A. Gill called at
McAdams Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Johnie McAdams and family
spent Saturday at Mr G. L. McAdan a
I will ring off with best wishes lo
The Leader.
Country Girl.
Decisive Triumph of The
Law.
The way in which the press of the
country views the conviction of the
dynamiters at Indianapolis, where
thirty-eight were found guilty in the
United States federal court, is grati
fying to fair-minded, conservative peo
ple for the consensus of opinion is that |
the result of the trial was a triumph
of the law over Clime, and that it in
no way affects honest union labor.
It is agreed that the conviction
County officers as any Count/ that I
know of, and they are all friendd of
mine I believe, and I do not criticise
these officxjrs for wanting more money,
however, as a tax payer and with the
present financial condition of the
County I am opposed to the increase
and I believe that thf* majority of the
tax payers of the County will take the
same view that I have taken in the
matter.
Yours very truly,
W. E. White.
punishment of men engaged in a con
spiracy of crime under the pretext of
advancing the cause of labor will help
to promote the best plans and pur
poses of organized labor, as it will
tend to drive outlessness and violence
from the unions and encourage intelli
gent and peaceful operations in the
conflicts for what laboring people con
ceive to be their rights.—Nashville
Tennessean.
SIGNS OF CONSUMPTION
How to Detect it Early.
Be on the lookout for consumption.
Four out of five early cases can be
and I cu^'ed, bat only about_one out of five
Though not the tallest, the new
uitable Life building in New York
Eq-
late cases survive. The mortality from
consumption would be reduced im
mensely if the disease were easily re
cognized in its early stages. Unfortu
nately, many consumptives go to their
graves without knowing that they have
the disease until it was too late to
make much of a fight.
There are a number of signs of con
sumption, but none ot them are infal
lible. One of the earliest signs is an
unwarranted tired feeling Tiling
easily is always suggestive of con-
city , sumption, but it may also be an indica-
i3 to be the biggest office building in
the world. Forty-six public elevators
and a private elevator for any concern
using two floors of its
It's to be a young city.
A Letter
We feel like puDlicly expressing our'
appreciation of the kindness and con
sideration of cur fi lends who have
helped to make this the most piosper-
ous year of our business. At the
same time we pledge ourselves to ex
ert every effort to furnish the best
'iaiir.-? the coming year and at the
lowest possible price for quality.
To those who haye favrred us in the
I)ast we offtr a broad invitation. We
want your trade and can, we believe
niake it to your interest to Five us a
trial.
Youi s truly,
J. H. Fowler and Co.
The Supreme Question,
(From Charity and Children.)
Our Legislators who are soon to
assemble in Raleigh have a tremen
dous responsibility resting on their
! shoulders. There are many matters
of great importance they must settle
but towering above them all is the
supreme question of Improving our
public school system.
Just A Little
Of course, useful presents are the
best, but the man who gave his wife a
washMib for Christmas overdid it a lit
tle.—Woman’s Home Comppnior,
Ah, me, we wound where we never
intended to strike; we create anger
where we never mepnt harm; and
these thoughts pre the thorns in our
cushion. —Thackeray.
Ismay Resigns
The long expected resignation of J.
Brube Ismay from his position as
chairman and managing director of the
White Star Steam Ship line was
announced last week to take effect
June 30. Harold A. Sanderson, first
vice president of the International
Mercantile Marine Company and a
director of the White Star line, will
succeed Mr. Ismay.
Ismay was one of the men it was
thought ought to have went down with
the Titanic^
Road Tax For 1913 Due.
Notice—The special road poll tax for
the year 1913 is now due, and payable
until the first day of April.
Under the old law the treasurer was
paid a small commission for collecting
and handling this fund. And heretofore
I haye given that commission to those
who looked after it in the different
Townships. But now under the Salary
law there is no provission made for eny
one to be paid any thing out of this
fund. Therefore, unless some one will
volunteer to collect without charge, in
the townships, I cannot put the bocks
out as has been my custom. According
by instruction from the County Com-
mers., the books will be at my office
in the court house In Graham, and ail
persons desiring to pay will pay to me
unless they find some one else with
the books.
Albert J. Thompson. Treasurer,
This Jan. 7, 1913 Alamance County.
For Sale.
I will sell at public auction on Satur
day the first day of February at my
home my life interest in 164 acres of
land, and my farm material and
utenci-s, and all household furniture
and cooking utencils.
T. B. Tate.
tion of many other things. It may
suggest hookworms, and we know that
some people are “marked for rest."
thirty-seven. [ If one is very susceptible to colds and
I has difficulty in “throwing them off,"
jor catches “one cold on top of another,"
he should be on his guard.
A Personal Question
At Denver a few weeks ago a cc -
ored woman presented herself at a re
gistration booth with the intention of
enrolling and casting her first vote in
the ensuing election, says the
City Star.
She g«ve her name, her address and
her pge; then the clerk of registration
asked this question;
“What party do you affiliate with?”
The woman's eyes popped out.
“Doo3 I have to answer dat ques
tion?" she demanded.
“That is the law," he told her.
“Den you jes' scratch ray name of-
fen dem books," she said, “Ef 1 got
to tell his name I don’t want to vote,
Why, he ain’t got his divorce yit!’
And she stalked out.
Whenever suspicion is aroused the
body temperature should be noted five
or six times a day, and if the morning
temperature is as low as 98 and the
afternoon temperature as high as 100,
consult a doctor at once for a more
thorough examination. While the
temperature sign is not conclusive, it
is more reliable than the easily tired
symptom.
When the germs of consumption are
for id in the sputum, no further evi
dence of the presence of the disease
is necessary. The only trouble is that
this is net a very early sign. The Im
portant thing is to recognize the dis-
Kansas J ease early, so that we may lock the
stable before the horse is stolen.
For Keeps
16—1 want some winter imderclothes.
Clerk—How long?
16—You boob! I don’t want to rent
’em; I want to buy em!.—Princeton Ti
ger.
Honor Roll
The following is a list of subscribers
who have paid for the Leader since our
last published list.
A. H. Mebane
H. Goodman
David Wilson
John Dollar
Rev. F. M. Hawley
Mrs. J. A. Mitchel
S. C. Modlin
W. M. McAdams
John Ross
R. W. Bright
E, C. Turner
G. W. Harner
Mrs, T. Frank Holt
J. V, Jones
North Carolina Giving its
Country Children Poorest
Chance in America-Except
New Mexico,
(From The Progressive Fam»er.)
The country boys pnd girls of North
Carolina today have a poorer chance
for an education than children anywhere
else in the United States except New
Mexico. That is the fact—the startling
alarming fact—brought to light by an
official diagram just published by the
United States Government. Our city
boys and girls in North Carolina, are
about up to the American average;
but for our county hoys and grifls, as
this startling official table shows, the
average s'*hool term in North Carolina
is yet the lowest in the American
Union with the single exception of
wild and wooly New Mexico. Only
New Mexico, the land of Indians and
Mexican “greasers,’’ saves us from
being at the foot of the whole list.
* * •
And there is no excuse for such a
condition—absolutely no excuse.
“Oh, well," some one may say, “of
course. North Carolina is giving its
country boys and girls a school term of
only 93 days, while some other States
are giving 170 and 180 days; but the
explanation is that the other States
are so thickly populated. We haven't
so many people per square mile, and
besides we have to support schools for
two races."
But this explanation will not do,
brethren; it will not hokJ water.
New Mexico with less than 3 people
per square mile, furnishes practically
as long a s'chool term as we furnish
with 45 people per square mile.
Of the fifteen States in the Union
providing the longest school term of
all for their county boys and girls, 157
days or more~nine are States which
have a smaller population per square
mile than ninety-three-day North
Carolina. Both California and Nebraska
with an average population per square
mile of onlv 15, less than ono-third that
of North Carolina, are giving their
country boys and girls over 170-days
school term, while North Carolina,
with an average population per square
mile three times as great, and a white
population over twice as great, is
j giving only ninety-three days school
j term.
* Or there is Washington with leis
than holf as many people per square
mile as either North or South Carolina,
which nevertheless furnishes her
country children 164 days against our
' ninety-three days.
Moreover, Utah, with only one-fifth
as many people per square mile as
there are white people alone per
square mile in the Carolinas, has a 157-
j day rural term against our ninetv-thee
days—and yet we think ourselves so
much better and so much better civi
lized than those “heathen" Mormons!
* * *
No, Friends, there is no excuse for
us. There is nothing to do except first
to confess that we have sinned against
our own flesh and blood, and then pro
ceed to bring forth fruits meet for
repentance.
We have increased our average school
term a month and more since 1900, but
we are still the foot of the list—along
with half-breed New Mexico.
A six months school term, even if it
muflt come through a five-cent increase
in the State levy to be paid out through
the State Treasury (as already
advocated by the Farmers' Union and
the Teachers’ Assembly, is imperative.
It is no time for straddlers. There
are a lot of people who will tell you
they are in favor of six-months school
term for all country boys and girls
“if" so-and-so. The only man who
wi»l really count in this fight is the
man who is absolutely and unqualifiedly
for the six-monUis term, no matter
what else happens, without any “ifs"
and “ands," and without any strings
whatsoever tied to the proposition.
There are other needed reforms, but
we must let them stand on their merits
Other Interests haye had their way
long enough in North Carolina, regard
less of what happened to the country
boys and girls, and the farmers pro
pose now t •* demand that the country
boys and girls shall haye their way
regardless of what happens to the
other t hings.
We must all join t(^ether in deman
ding that the Legislature of North
Carolina shall not adjourn next spring
until it has made absolute end unquali
fied provision to furnish at least a six-
months’ school term for every farm
boy and girl in our State, no matter
what else happens or doesn’t happen.
WANTED
To buy cattle, hogs, sheep and goats,
also good saddle horse.
Murray Hill Farm, Mebane, N. C.
3 t. Jan. 9.
Advertise
NO 49
AiOUfi FERTILIZER
PLANT NEARLY DONE
Will B r i n Several
Thousand Dollars to
City-Work of Cham
ber of Commerce.
Commenting on the new fertilizer
plant of the Armour people now near
ing completion Field Secretary A. W.
McKeand said that if the chamber of
commerce had nothing more to its
credit than this one plant it should de
serve the hearty co operation of every
citizen of Greensboro in the work that
is now under way for placing the
ctiamber on a better working basis.
The Armour plant is a tremendous es
tablishment one mile south of the city
on the Wilmington branch of the South
ern railway.
The plant represents an investment
of over $125,000. It will employ 250
men and during its working season the
pay roll will amount to over $4,000 per
week. It will bring at once six ne*v
high-class families, families of the
men who have charge of the salesmen
and factory end of the work, to Greens
boro “Many western cities and some
southern cities would have willingly
paid a bonus in spot cash of from $10,-
000 to $25,000 for an institution of this
charactor," said Mr. McKeand. For
two packing plants employing 3,000
people Oklahoma City paid $800,000 as
a bonus and yet this Armour plant was
secured without cost to the citizens of
Greensboro, excepting the small sum
of money paid as dues to the chamber
of commerce, just a little over $3,000
per year
“Now let’s figure what this plant
means to the city," he continued,
“six new families who must each
either own or rent their homes, who
must buy food, clothing and other
necessities. They are additions to
your schools, churches, social and club
life. The common labor that is em
ployed will earn $4,000 per week. This
will be expended with the merchants
and business interests of the city of
Greensboro, and mind you that it is
$4,00 of money, money that has never
been in Greensboro before. Again they
must pay taxes, and on the basis of
values in Guilford county their tax on
plant and equipment would amount
to over $4,000 per year, and yet it was
secured by an organization whose in
come WdS only a little over $3,000 per
year. Pretty good interest on the in
vestment, is it not?
“In addition to the interest on invest
ment mentioned above in shape of pay
rolls and new people, taxes etc., they
will produce 25,000 tons of fertilizer
per year. This means about 1,000 cars
of freight to be moved in and 1,000
to be moved out of Greensboro.—
Greensboro News.
Our friend and fellow citizen Mr.
Will Murray who is one of the best
traveling salesman of the Armour
people waa also a very active factor
in securing the location of this plant at
Greensboro.
Our Stupendous Philan
thropies.
The list of Ameiic«n benefactions in
sums of $10,0C9 and upward amounts
this year to $327,000,000. The sum is
stupendous when compared with that
in any European countiy, but not ab
normal in our own. The largest con
tribution comes from J. Pierpont Mor
gan instead of from Carnegie or Rock
efeller, as for many years past, and is
made up almost wholly of art treasures
presented to the Metropolitan Museum.
This probably means that when the
Carnegie Corporation and the Rocke
feller Foundation have been completely
endowed we shall have no more such
huge donations from single individuals.
The determination of the people to
prevent any further accumulations of
such wealth through monopoly and
privilege virtually assures the end of
that regime. The passing of Mr. Mor
gan to the head of the list may mean
the beginning of a new era in our phil
anthropies.
There will be no regret over the
change. This country needs many
things much more than it needs or
ever needed the philanthropy of mil
lions, It will be better when we do
some things for ourselves instead of
waiting for such splendid alms.—New
York World.
If you have th** goods to offer, and
are will'ng to sell at a live and let live
price, then it will pay you to advertise.
Great Astronomer Dead.
Dr, Lewis Switt Passes
Away at His Home in New
York state.
Dr. Lewis Swift, America’s great
E3tronomer, died early Sunday at hla
home in Marathon, N. Y., never
recovering consciousness following a
stroke of paralysis sustained New
Year’s day. The funeral was held
Tuesday. ,