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'HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN ,-OLUMN XIV. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1912: NUMBER 11 Uncle Tobey's Lecture on the Sum mer Picnic. Home and Farm. The summer picnic is a very old invention; no one knows how old. 'If there was ever any patent taken out on it. there is no record left of it. It is one of the things that has been handed down to us just as it was thousands of years ago. There has been no improvement on it. It is the same old thing; no better or no worse. I said there was no improvement. Perhaps that statement is a little too rash. There has been some changes in the way of amusements. In the old times there were not so many fakirs as there are now, nor so many kinds of amusements. But the change has been more in quantity than in quality. The picnic is still a social gather ing. We go there to enjoy ourselves. We let go of the serious things of life, jump in the "shoot the chute" boat and yell, "Let 'er go, Galla gher!" We derive a great deal of pleasure in thinking about the pic nic before the day comes for it. thinking of the good time we will have when the time does come. Sometimes we get more pleasure out of it in this way than we do at the picnic. The young people go to the picnic to have a good time, and the older ones try to convince them selves that they go to rest. Why they think this about it 1 can't tell, as there is not a case on record where anybody ever rested at a picnic. It is harder work to go to a picnic and sit and stand around all day than it is to plow new ground with a raw team of oxen. But it makes no dif ference how tired we get we are ready to go to another in a week. In selecting the grounds for a picnic, the committee should see that it is ocated wnhin at least 100 yards of a yellowjacket's nest. No picnic was ever a complete suc cess unless it was within convenient distance of one of these rests. The committee should also see to it that those who sell lemonade, pain ed candies, rubber balls, balloons, canes and other worthless trinkets should be sufficiently taxed for the privilege of swindling the innocents who have more dimes and nickels than gump tion. You can buy more of nothing at a summer picnic than any other place except, at a bargain store. The committee is perfectlv justifiable in robbing the fakirs who seek for pri vileges to thus impose upon the in nocent public. Such useful amuse ments as the merry go-round and the game of throwing three balls at a "nigger's" head for a nickle should be taxed reasonably. Innocent amusements should be encouraged, for they promote mar- riages and marriages perpetuate the race Picnics afford splendid oppor tunities for courtship. That is why they are so popular with the young People. The speaking at a picnic is a very interesting feature when you don't have to listen to it. For those who do prefer to listen to the speech es, soft boards should be supplied for them to sit on. A speakers' stand warranted to falf down some time during the program, should also be erected. These can be paid for out of the moyey extorted from the fakirs. If there is no spring nr creek nearby, great care should be taken that the water supply gives out about noon. This helps the fellows who are sell mg so called lemonade. The speaking should be conducted ln an orderly manner and not allow ed to intefere with the other amuse ments. The poorest speakers should be allowed to speak first while the audience is fresh. If at any time he audience seems to be growing tlred. the speaking should be stopped and the brass band ordered to play. If there is no brass band, then the audience should adjourn and go over fi dcinS floor and listen to the e.. All cpeakers should be given fullest opportunity to exhibit Qej crankiness even if it is a little bard on the audience. II the picnic is held on the Fourth 1 July, the Declaration of Indepen fnce should be read by the young )an who is studying law and who JfS his hair Partd in the middle anJ a bud necktie. and its spirit has fled to the "moun tains of Hepsidam." but it ought to be read for old times sake. Before reading, however it should be care fully explained to the audience that it is not a political platform. This year the candidates are trying to break up the picnics by perpetrat ing tariff speeches upon the helpless people. There ought to be a law prohibiting the making of tariff speeches at a summer picnic. A man who will deliberately, premediated ly and maliciously persist in making a tariff speech at a summer picnic ought to be arrested and imprisoned for disturbing the peace. No man who shows symptoms of tariff mania should be permitted to run at large. . To make a picnic a howling success there should be a good drenching rain at seventeen minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. This gives plenty of time for everybody to get full of chicken, pies and cakes, with the shortening, in the long way, of doughnuts, dumplings, cold biscuits, poison candy, rotton peanuts and pink lemonade. Each person will have by this time accumulated his or her share of ticks and chiggers, which are usually an adjunct to a summer picnic. A rain at this time a!sD helps to head off the chronic spouter who persists in bor ing the audinnce with his blather and who has, up to this time, been held back by main force until the other speakers have exploded their eloquence. A rain just at dinner time is very inopportune. I think the meanest trick I ever knew the weather man to be guilty of was to let it rain on a dinner just as ic had been placed on a long table which had been prepared for that purpose. It was when I was a boy, and there was an immense crowd at the picnic I don't think I ever saw so much heroism at one time. Nearly everybody stuck to the dinner.-"' It was one of these gully -washing rains and lasted for a half hour. Everybody was soaked to the skin. Their clothes stuck to them "closer than a brother." I never knew till then how many funny-shaped people there are in the world. I learned more about the anatomy of the hu man body than I ever knew before. But everybody enjoyed it, and eve rybody laughed at ' everybody else. Even ehe dogs got soaking wet and looked lank and lean and hungry, al though they had just enjoyed the greatest feast of their lives, for most of the soaked victuals that was left was thrown away. Endless Chain For Taft. Dollar contributions from seven ty five thousand American women by 'endless chain" letter system for the Taft campaign fund is a new plan now launched to help el ect Taft president. Miss Board man. national direc tor of the American Red Cross and a close friend of Mr. Taft is to man age the "endless chain" letter scheme as an individual and not a s a Red Cross official. Miss Boardman recently refused to ap actively as a Taft booster, because of her connection with the Bed Cross. She stated that she did not wish to compromise that society by taking an active part in partisan politics. While claims and counter claims are in the air, it is just as well to remember that it takes 266 electo ral vote to elect a president this year. The most sanguine Demo crat finds himself puzzled when be tries to figure exactly where Gov. Wilson is to pick up that many votes. Take a list of the states and look- them over. Ex. "Wotf d See. cr,av School Teacher Don't you want to go to heaven, Mamie? Mamie (the advertisers uauguy Maybe, 1 11 send for their free il lustrated booklet first before I do anything. . CASTOR I A !?,. Tnfants and Children. The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of What Hurts Davie. Six days out of every seven there are between 50 aud 200 loads of lum ber hauled into Mocksville and un loaded. Most of this lumber is ship ped out of town, instead, of being worked up here. This lumber is sold for about $1 per hundred, and in a few months we buy it back at about $50 per hundred after it has been worked up into tables, bed steads, cabinets, desks, wagons and buggies and various other articles too tedious to mention. Davie f ur nishes.the lumber which makes oth er towns and counties rich. So long as we continue this practice, just so long will we lag behind and amount to but very little. What we need is factories to work up our raw ma terial, and thus put a stop to this heavy drain on our county. The matter rests with our monied men. They can do much toward building up our town and their own interests at the same time. Every load of raw lumber that leaves our town means a loss of between one and five hundred dollars to the town and her citizens. More factories means a larger town, more people, more homes, more money, more business houses, higher land and lower taxes. More factories can be secured if the business men would get together, and with one accord pull for them. What are we going to do about this matter. Why not get together and pull for a safe and table factory. It could be started with a small capi tal and increased as the business prospered Think over this matter, gentlemen, and let's get busy and help Mocksville grow. Why Should Farmers Vote For Wilson? The Raleigh News and Observer; in a leading editorial, headed "Far mers Should Support Wilson," says: "The farmers o f this country should feel a special concern in the success of Democracy, for it is to Democracy that they must look for legislation, which will treat them feirly and justly, and relieve them of the exactions under whicn tney lahnr hep.ause of antagonistic Re publican legislation, a fact which is being recognized by the iarmers throughout the country." Now Mr. Farmer, after you have read the above from the Democratic organ, we suggest that you turn and rpad Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance and see what he proposes if he is elected, to do for the farm ers and wealth-producers. Lrovernor Wilsnn in disrussinc the hicrh cost f C7 of living, proposed as a remedy that such legislation should be enacted as would cause the dollar to buy more than it will buy now. Every millionaire and coupon clip in the United States is in favor of that policy. The class of people who do not create wealth, but who have a great deal of money, desire to make each dollar buy as mucn as nossible of the products of the labor er and the farmer. In order that there may be no understanding- about Governor Wil son's position, we quote his exact words. "It is not as easy for us to live as it used to be. Our money will not buy as much. Higher wages, even when we get them, yield us no great comfort. We used to be better off with less, because the dollar could buy so much more." There you have Prof. Wilson's re medy in a nutshell. No, if you want the dollar to buy more of your labor and products, then vote for Prof. Wilson and let us have another Democratic admins tration. Our people will remember that that was exactly condition we had under the Grover Cleveland ad minstration. At that time, one dollar would buv twenty five pounds of cotton, which made cotton sell, when it sold at all, at four cents a pound. Everything was cheap then, but nobody except the rich could buy even the necessa ries of life, no matter how cheap they were. The Democratic program txro Viorl if under Grover Gleveland and as squarely declared for by Prof. Wilson, lsfora dear aoiiar ami a cheap man. -Thnsp who want that condition should vote the Democratic Tickei . Caucasian. ; Train Klaw Record. The Twentieth Century limited on the New York Central hung up a new record Tuesday. The run from Clinton -at, Bcffalo, fo E. 105th st, Cleveland. 178 miles, was made in 2 houri? and 23 minutes. This is the fastest this distance was ever run by a railroad train. Tho- J mas Sankey drove the engine. - I ' ; ' " Particularly Pointed. And they have Woodrow Wil son explaining already. Those who like soup can vote for Governor Wilson, but for our part we want something more substan tial. What say yoa, Uncle Sam! Simmons and Kitchin are run niug the big show. Its true Judge Clark and Locke Craig are trying to run a little side show of their own, lree of charge, but it seems that they can't get the people to go in and take a peep. No, sir. we don't believe that the American people will ever allow the Democratic party to get in con trol of this governmentagain. They remember too well what it did for the country the last time it went to the bat. If that little New Jersey school , teacher should happen to be elect ed President of the United States, he will teach the country another school of experience. But you have often heard of the kind people who will learn in no other. Yes, it will be like the one taught by Grover in the days of Cleveland; it will be sad aud soupy. Of course the trusts prospered more during Col. Roosevelt's ad minstration than they did during that of Cleveland. So did every individual. Times were so good that they could not help prospering But during Cleveland's adminstra tion almost everything went bust ed" except the trusts, and thit soup house panic came pretty near, getting them. The Democrat party is opposed to the "high cost of living", which is the only thing that cau es the farmers to get good prices for what they have to sell. So of course the farmers will vote for Wilson, and reduce the price of their corn, cot ton, peas, potatoes, meat, chickens and eggs. For our Democratic fiiends say the high cost of liviug must be required. Clinton News Dispatch. A Warmed-Over Corpse. Apropos of the recent resolution of the Bible Students' Convention iu Washington, repudiating the tloctriue of a literal "hell fire," Dr. Philip Hale Curtin, of Wheeling, said to a reporter: "Hell fire is rarely mentioned any more except in jest except, for example, as in the body snatch ing story. "A doctor according to this story saw, late one night, a fine automo bile halted outside a cemetery. He hid behind a tree, for he suspected that body snatchers were at work; and sure enough, in a few minutes he saw two body snatchers stagger from tLe cemetery carrying a body. They placed it upright iu the auto mobile, as though it were alive, propping it securely in the back seat, and then they hurried back to the cemetery to fill the violated grave again. "The doctor in their .absence, lifted the body out of the automo bile, hid it under a hedge, and took its place himself. "Soon the scoundrels returned. One seated himself at the wheel and the other seated himself in the back sea beside the body, so as to support it. Then in the darkness they glided off. "After a while the man in the rar seat said in a rather awed tone: 41 'This body seems mighty warm for a corpse.' "The chauffer reached back his hand and touched it. "Don't it though!" he muttered between perplexity and fear. "Theu the corpse, in deep, se pulchral tones, exclaimed: "Warm? Of course I'm warmlj And if you had been where I've been for the last two days you'd be warm too!" With loud yells of horrcr the body snatchers leaped from the au tomobile and fied The dc ctor seized the wheel and drove it home He has it, they sayjstill." 3- WE'VE H ' ooococccccco When you are buying your Patent Medi-1 5 5 cines, Drugs, Toilet j chances, but buy it 5 best. VI f It KSVII I GEO. F. TYSON, MANAGER. The Bull Moose Movement. Roosevelt, in glancing over his lieutenants must realize that he is not equipped with the best of tools with which to bewilder the Ame rican people into giving him their votes, but he is probably confident that he is perfectly capable of re medying any deficiency his bench men may display. He will rely mainly on the spirit of unrest that he has been principally responsible for creating; and in his campaign he will promise relief to the ima ginary weary and heavily laden of all parties. . Bnt history will re peat itself, and the great Moose, or Progressive, party will soou oc cupy another grave in the great burying -ground of uuattained hopes and ambitions. Exchange. THE BEST YET! YOU'VE GOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. COMING HERE BY SPECIAL TRAIN ONE BIG DAY Afternoon and Night. on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AT MOCKSVILLE. In Rainy or Fair Weather, Without any Curtailment SUN BROTHERS' WORLD'S PROGRESSIVE SHOWS GREAT TRANS-PACIFIC WILD BEAST EXHIBIT. BLUE RIB BONED HORSE FAIR. LATTEK DAY VAUDEVILE JUBI LEE. COLOSSAL CARNIVAL OF NOVELT1E3 AND EUROPEAN TRAINED ANIMAL EXPOSITION. For nearly a Quarter of a Century a Tented Exhibition, the favori te of all the officials, clergy, press and the whole amusement going public. Be cause of its newness, at all times. Its great purity, cleanliness and the able and honorable manner of its management. 2 Big Performances Daily, at 2 and 8 p. m. Doors open one hour earlier. Prof. John Shelly's Musical Majesties (21 soloists) will appear pre " ceding the regular performance, renderimr a high class musical festival. FREE! FREE!! FREE!!! On the Show'Grounds. every day at 12:30 p. m., will be ofTered a reries of extraordinary free exhibitions. Absolutely the greatest free displays ever presented to the public. Don't fail to gee them. Be there in ample time. , KEEP POSTED AS TO THE EXACT DAY AND DATE. COMING SURE. GOT IT. fi II II H II H L Articles, don't take where you get the & K )K 1 5 Advice With a String to It. Two young men, of short acquain tance, were talking together, when , George, the older of the two, became suddenly very confidential. "I am much bothered." he said. "I can marry a. wealthy whom I dont love or a poor girl that I do love in tensely. What shall I do?" "Listen to your heart," advised his companion, ''and marry the one you love." "You are right, my friend. I shall marry the girl." "Then can you give me the widow's add ress? ' ' J ud ge. September's Promise. Walt Mason. Old Summer, with its brazen skies, is failing now and dwindling noon man may cease to swat the Hies, aud lay iu coal and kindliog. Aud soou agaiu we'll dream our dreams before the grate and ember while frost upon the pumpkin gleam9 You promise this, September! Ale old document is out of. ' date
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