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VOLUMN XXII. : ' - MOCKSVILLE, NORTH C AROUND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2f, 1 92 1. ' ' NUMBER 34.
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The Problem of The Small Town
Under the ' title, "Hobson's
Choice," the University News Let
ter has a most interesting and signi
ficient article on the problem of the
small town in North Carolina today.
If the small town of North Caro
lina, towns with less thao 2,500 in
habitants, want to survive and grow
they must do one are of two things,
according to Roy . M Brown, of
Watauga county, speaking before
the North Carolina, Club, which is
this year studying the state from an
urban and industrial point of view,
says the News Letter. These small
towns, said he must either move
forward into the clas$ of manufac
turing centers, which a few of them
have been able to do; or they must
by community effort become attrac
tive local trade, high school, and
residence centers.
Mr. Brown cited figures showing
that small towns of North Carolina
were not only increasing in popula
tion, but that 93 of them "in the
past decade actually 'dwindled in
size and 40 of them surrended their
charters of incorporation and quiet
ly faded from the map, disappeared,
k.y down and died. -
He thinks .the same fate is com
ing to others unless they do some
thing to prevent it. ; Country peo
ple leaving their farms do not stop
in these liitle towns, he said, un
less they are especially attracted to
them and see an them a chance for
themselves and their children.
They jump over them and go to tl e
larger cities.
Here is the great place for cham
bers of commercttor. other commun
ity bodies,, said Mr. Brown,; accord
ing to the News Letter. Member
ship and activities of such bodies,
should extend throughout therade
area of the town. In predominan
tly rural counties the chambers
should be county-wide,
i This' is a real problem that should
be faced and solved.-
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; Certainly it is not desirable, that
towns of the. class under considera
tion should be swept out of exist
ence. But if they are to exist; and
prosper, they will have to do cer
tain things. y
For one thing, they .will have to
provide modern conveniences to a
greater extent, than in the past to
the end that they may be as'desir-
able as possible as- places of resi
dence. . . -w.;
There are many people who pre
fers to live in a small town, but they
are not willing to undergo hardships
thru the lack, of modern conven
iences in order to do it. , .;
This is a fact that should be care
fully considered by the official
boards and citizens generally of
communities of the type we are
discussing. Twin-City Sentinel.
V SUPPOSE! N
Suppose an aditor should, just
for once, relieve his mind by print
ing all the news that he happened
to know at that minute! Options
would be thro wed up, citizens ar
rested, familes disrupted, fights,
fought on every street corner,
candidates resigning, ministers
leaving for distant parts, lawyers
taking" long vacations, business men
turning things over to their clerks
for a season, hired girls hunting
new jobs and so on down a long list
of casualties and the editor would
lis so mussed up that his corpse
cjouldn' t be identified by his own
family. V A newspaper man "doesn't
know eyery thing, bit his work is
sfach that he hears ajjbt that com
mon decency and and common pru
dence keep out of the paper. Inter-,
Mountain Press and Printer.
It has been a great 'surprise; to
old fashioned men to discover that
since they have' the vote women
still continue to keep hotise.x
A fine farm for sale cheap. D.
K.Ronse. Calahaln, K
'Now Then, Preachers.
I go to "church most every day,
and swallow what the preachers
say, and still I never get enough of
what I call the real stuff. Some
preachers have a little creed a
compact form of all we need and
then they dish a little in, by way
of music from the chin. . And thus,
they shirk the real facts they've
left at home in dusty stacks. Im
agine a guy with a beautiful
' 'theme' i-a Bible text and a "fat
f
meat dream" predestination on
the side "feeding the sheep with
a sense of pride." Some preachers
have a list of homes where every
saint and sinner roams such bunk
as heavenly real estate, with a gol
den key to every gate. When
preachers read the Holy writ and
then can't find out when to quit,
the thing to do is.-turn around and
go back over the same old ground.
As this won't fill the mutton head
with how to recognize the dead
where sinners go, how long they
stay and how they manage to get
away. One daywoman buried a
son, a good-for-nothing-son-of-a-gun,
whose death just saved him
from a rope, he left the world with
out a hope. ;:' The. preacher tried to
run the bluff, and sprang the re
cognition stuff, and here the moth
er "passed the buck " and left the
prea her "out of .luck.". But now
this preacher is glad to preach the
things the Hgly Scriptures teach,
with ample proof within his dome
and eloquence to drive At home.
Such rotten old unsavory lore as
knowing loved ones gone before
does, not repose in the sacxecLW ord ,
to the uu gorged by a , polly - bird.
They give the Bible an awful twist,
explaining things that don't exist,
and make, an extra "shatterrang"
and spread it over the whole she
bang. .They get a stultified Amen!
the guy is in his glory then he's
given birth to something new, by
tacking on a thing or two. The
best of "good old sermon paints"
isr recognition of the saints., to wring
a tear from mother'seye, and sof
ten the heart of wayward guyv, but
this don't make for mother's joy,
when she gets "up there" to miss
her boy. Now preacher, here's the
useful 4 'dope' ' your panacea your
only hope, throw 'way your bunk
and tommyrot the things you
should have long forgot- get down
to facts and preach what is, and
work this method in your biz.
Blanche Shepard, in Greensboro
Daily News. ' ;'
Can We Dooht It?
We heard a story the other day a
bout an editor having to be carried
home on a stretcher a the result of
haying received a kind word over
something he had printed The
shock simply unnerved him. But
just as he reach his home some one
gave him a good cussing about a
nbther article he had printed, and
he got up and went to work. Jef
ferson County Republican.
The Fountain Inn Tribune, a
weekly v newspaper published at
Eountain Inn, S. C, has been sus
pended because it' is "without re
venue' its owner announces.- Its
owner is Robert Ouillen, who writes
the Small-Town Stuff for the Sat
urday Evening Post. Mr. Quillen
evidently is not a f ullfledged week
ly publish'er-or he would not have
taken being "without revenue" so
seriously. If the publisher of a
weekly paper were to quit every
time he went broke he wouldn't
come out often enough to retain second-class
mail privilieges, - at least
this would be true of some of them.
- -Statesville Daily. ,
Doubt is felt if John Barley-corn
is really dead, but anyway he has
been put as far under ground as the
cellar. Exchange. .
The Record 52 weeks for $1. 00.
Which Aopeals To You? - .
When you open your mouth what
kind of a noise do you make?
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Every time you speak a good
word for this town you speak two
for yourself, for the home booster
is always respected by home lovers:
It's an easy thing to make a nasty
remark about your home town, but.
it is difficult to stop that remark,
from tralving after it lias once been
uttered. ' ;
The monkey in the jungle swings
from limb to limb and from tree to
tree at remarkable spend, but the
monkey is a snail compared to the
caustic comments of a chronic pes
simist. The monkey does not berate ei
ther the limbs or the trees, for they
are his home they mean safety and
comfort to him. " , '
The pessimest, however, is not
as considerate. ;
. His happiest moments are when
he is slamming his home town. ?
Nothing is right. . . ;
None of its numerous citizens
possess the ability to perform civic
duties in the proper manner. A
Other people are unable to see
the glaring defects that are so plain
to him.
He' lives in the darkness and ra?
diates gloom. ;
'. He is simply a pessimist, and the
work of the pessimist is too often
destructive.
, But why is he a pessimist? Why
not be an optimist instead?
Pessimism is worse than rheuma?
tism. Then one puts a few joints
out of proper working orde:, but
the other is a drag, tathe-miudib&J
body and he, soul.'
Station vourseif on a street cor
ner and watch the people go by for
an hour. Ninety-nine out of a
hundred will be happy, and cheer
ful, and contented, and will give
you a cheerful greeting. The rays
of the noonday sun are not the
brighter or warmer than the smiles
upon their lips or the humanity in
their hearts. .
The hundredth man may be dif
ferent. He may be the odd sheep
in the flock, the cloud that dims
the brightness of the community
light. , He is a pessimist, and he
knows it. His .soul is shrouded in
gloom from which he never seek to
escape. He is a bore even to him
self. ... " ; v
The pessimist is never happy
the "optimist is seldom sad.' -
It is possible to be either, -but
never both. ;
"Which appeals - to you?Ex
change. . ' - "' r "
AH For a Nickle.
Had you thought of it? ; A nickle
will really buy somethnig now!
Rockwood Times.
What? Livirijrston Erifterprise.
, Yessir: By golly, you can really
buy a 'whole bottle of Coca Gola in
Rockwood for a nickle and the bot
tler pays the war tax. Then ' occa
sionally the restaurant keeper gets
good and will serve two thin slices of
bread and a piece of ham about as
thick as a newspaper for one measly
little nickel. Am tit a sight how we
are becoming reconstructed? And
say,-Friend Gray, Bill Montgomery
states thatfeven the bootleggers in
Sevier county are coming down off
their righ perches and that a quart
of the genuine stuff can now be pur
chased for $3, whereas a short time
ago it was going at $7 .First thing we
know a highball and a lunch will be
possible at the, old price. . Then who
cares how, the wind blows? Rock
wood Times. ' U
Paper; producers can't afford to
reduce" prices. Just what sugar
dealers said when they were getting
25 a pound. Exchange.
Poise is valuable but it isn't ev
erything. A pair of scales and a
cow both have poise but they hav
en't any personality. -
t What is Done With The Liquor.
'" A most excellent woman called up
ye editor and asked him what become
of all the liquor the officers took a
way from moonshiners and others.
This writer said in reply in a jocu
lar way that we supposed the officers
drink the liqor they capture in Ca
tawbe caunty. , .
But seriously, the citizens have a
right to know what the officers do
with the liquor thiey seize.
In the town where the quanity is
small it is alright to keep the liquor
to use as evidence in court, but after
the trial is over the liquor should be
destroyed publicly so that the peo
ple know that it is destroyed and not
carried into the policemen's offices
or to the jail where itIeaves a sus
picion that the officers drink the stuff
or sell it to others. . .
This writer asked Mr. H. H Sig
mon what had been done with all the
liquor that hand been seized by the
sheriff and his deputies and' he
replied "that it was taken to the jail
by Mr. Gilbert and destroyed or was
supposed to be destroyed.
There has been .. some suspicion not
only ofthe liquor, but there has been
a suspicion that soma of the old stills
have been carried back and put in
use after captured in some counties.
It is the purpose of the law enfor
cement people to have the law so
plain on these subjects that he who
runs may read. That when a still is
captured it shall be destroyed in the
presence of the witnesses and affida
vits made and filed with the clerk of
court stating when and where des
troyed. Also something similar must be
done with reference to the liquor
it must be made plain that it shall
be destroyed and record of the fact
made as well as of stills.
This writer has not seen anyliquor
destroyed in Catawba county in four
years and has not seen any one else
who saw liquor destroyed. Newton
Enterprise. . .
MONEY.
Money talks louder than anything
else. Those of us who haven't it want
it, and those who have it want more
Every boy and girl, every young man.
young woman everybody studies
day and night how to be happy, not
how to be useful and intelligent and
accomplished but how to make mon
ey.
It is for money that men and worn
en sell their soul?. It is for money
bandits rob banks and voters sell
the'r votes. ..
Money is necessary. It is the me
dium of exchange. In the true sense
money represents a man's business
ability. Yet if a man has money he
is a "crook" and if he has not he is
a failure. When a man is accumula
ting money he is usually ambitious,
industrious and worth much to his
community. When he gets plenty of
money he stagnates and lives for self
alone. If .Soloman were living today
he probably would say. "In all thy
getting get rich," instead of "under
standing." Money is the cheif topic of conver
sation. One can't attend a social, re
ligius or otherwise, but what some
how, somewhere "money" gets in.
Strangers are received not according
to their accomplishments but accord
ing to their pocketbooks. Girls are
no longer taught td,-marry for love
and to choose a man with brains, out
are encouraged to "marry rich.".
Mohey may be the root' of all evil
but if a man expects to get anywhere
these days he'd better have a "voice"
and money talks when all other voic
es are silent. The J ellico Carry On.
Ail He Got Out of Life.
Senator Kletcher of Florida tells
this stoiy in illustrating the difficul
ties of some people in . meeting the
problems due to the high cost of
living. "A w6e-begone creature,"
said the Senator, "wailed that for
forty years he had worked hard and
that he had got nothing out of life
except his clothes and food."
"And," according to the Senator,
the dissatisfied citizen claimed "his
food never agreed, with him, and
his clothes never fiit."
ATwant ad brings results.
The Leading Dept. Store
,- Winston-Salem, N. (Z.
New 4,000 Yd Shipment
Sea Island Sheeting
25c. Plaid Dress
Ginghams
50c 220 Blue Overall
' Denims
Mercerized Cotton Crepe
in all colors
Men's $1.00 all Silk 4 - m -
Ass't Color Spring
Men's Silk Collars Striped
Solid Colors, Asst d
Men's $1 50 Dress Shirts
all sfzes
Children's Knox Knit Cordovan White and O C
Black 50c mercerized hose, sizes 7 to 10 Ca3
The Worm Has Turned
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"the days of war-time prices
have made fiieir farewell kiss
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and every price ticket in this
store has been turned upside C
down siip oyi." - '.'
Yes, people, the -worm .has -C
turned -the prodigal son is back' -and
it's your inning.
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No longer need you kneel to
head waiter prices for a seat
near the orchestra and it's a
. wise man who saved his money
when the dollar was only worth
40c. FOR NOW AND HERE
HE COMES INTO HIS OWN
WITH FLYING COLORS. .
This is the news that .r greets
you today from .your favorite
clothing store. r
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Davie county people, always
given a hearty welcome. V f
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Boyles Brothers Compt
Trade St., ; Winston-Salem, NC
10c.
12 l-2c.
29c.
29c.
hand
69c.
Ties
and
15 & 25c.
79 c.
25c.
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