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VOLUMN XXII. . : r MOCKSVIIXE, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1921. NUMBER 35.
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Lincoln and the Good Roads Move
ment,
At first thought, : it may seem a
far cry from Abraham Lincoln to
good roads but it should not be dif
ficult to demonstrate that no more
appropriate tribute could be paid to
trie memory of that great American
and the principles for which he
stood than the construction of good
roads.' y
Abraham Lincoln stood for nat
ional unity and national develop
ment as against sectionalism with
its fears, prejudices and passions.
He stood for public good as against
selfish interests, for mutual under
standings and , forbearance as a
gainst class and sectional antagon
isms and intolerance. ,
More honor is done the memory
of Lincoln by the practice of his
ideals than by their preachment.
Whatever brings communities clos
er together, whatever stimulates
friendly intercourse and interchange
of ideas among, people of. different
states and sections having varied
interests, whateves encourages the
study and discussion of problems
from a public and national view
point rather than a selfish and pro
vincial viewpoint must help bind
the nation together, emphasize in
terests that are common, subordi
nate those which are local, promote
national development and breed a
spirit of national unity.
The individual community, state
or section which is isolated becomes
self-centered, selfish, suspicious and
usually antagonistic to the common
good. Lines of "traffic and travel
which provide for interchange of
ideas as well as of . goods, . which
bring all kinds and conditions of
people into daily common' touch,
break down this isolation, ' 'destroy
this provincialism an( prevent seo
tionalism. This is so axiomatic that
the development of civilization and
the destiny of nations have been de
termined by lines to travel.
Nothing has contributed more to
the drift from farm to town , than
the inability of the farmer and his
family, particulary his. children
to go to town when they should, or
to go only under most uncomfortable
circumstances. Bad roads mean
difficult transportation, during some
seasons of the year they, mean prac
tically no transportation. So long
as a man is a social animal, so long
will ' he rebel against conditions
which make difficult communica
tion with his fellow man. So long
as he strives for. his mental and
spiritual betterment, so long will ie
rebel against. conditions which ren
der it difficult for him to . attend
places of worship and send his chil
dren to school. So. long as he strives
to get ahead financially, so. long -.will
he rebel against conditions which
handicap his marketing; facilities
and cut down, if not wipe out, his
profit. Hence it is that bad roads
drive people to the city and 'depre
ciate tie value of land. The com
munity of bad roads is also the com
munity of poor schools poor church
es, poor farmels and abondoned
farms. " i-
These facts have been brought
home to the farmer wjth greater
force since the introduction of the
automobile and truck1 into rural
lite. , The Beraau of Farm Manage
ment and Economics has just issued
a bulletin upon V Experience of
Eartern Farmers with , Motor
Trucks," an analysis of the exper
ience of 753 farmers of the New
England states. New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryiaud, who use motor trucks
on their own farms. The. farms
studied were of all sizes and types
truck farms, ' dairy farms, fruit
farmscrop farms (raising no stock)
find general f armfc,1 whichroduce
aii Kings 01 crpps ana raise livestocks.
There ' were more
general faims
truck farms second, dairy farms
third and fruit forth. The; farms
ranged in size from the truck farm
of a few acres to the general; farm
of several hundred acres. . The
average size of all farms studied was
173 acres. Only 18 per cent of the
farms were five miles or less from
market, While 25 per cant were 20
miles or more from market.
Ninety-five per cent of the farm
ers said their f rucks had proved a
profitable investment; the trucks
ranged in size from one half ton to
five tons. As compared with horses
and wagons, the farmers reported
the trucks saved from ono-half to
two-thirds of the time required for
hauling. Four-fifths of the farm
ers reported their trucks enabled
them to save on hired help. On the
average this saving amounted to
$324 a year. Avery great number
reported that since they had . pur
chased ; trucks they had changed
their market going farther but to
a larger market and thereby get ing
better prices.
But without any. exception it
was reported that good roads are
economical use of trucks, and other
motor vehicles. Sixty per cent-of
the complaints against motor trucks
were on account of bad roads. The
significance of this may be readily
seen when the official figures of
1920 show that - sixty per cent of
the output of motor cars and trucks
for 1920 were sold to . agricultural
districts; and over 2,500,000 motor
cars and trucks registered in 1920
were owned by farmers; v
The highway is the; farmer's
transportation system for both his
passenger and and freight traffic.
It -is absolutely as essential to- him
as the street car lines'' are to the re-
sidcnt of the great cities and the
steam : railroads are to the' great
manufacturing industries. It is as
deadly to agriculture to have the
highways crippled part- of the year
or unfit for traffic at irregular inter
vals as-it would be to industry to
have no railroad transportation for
weeks at a time or to a great city
to have its street' car transportation
out of business for days or weeks
at a time. National Republican.
" Gold Bricks
There is. a campaign among the
builders supply concerns in the cit
ies to encourage home-building,
that again in the land may be heard
the music of the hammer and the
saw. I'nce, iney say, areuuw
down, ir fact there is a danger that
they are so low they may go higher..
Plumbers will now work for $18.00
per day (of 8 hours), and carpen
ters are Willing to smoke cirgarel
tes on j'ou at 95 ceiit and hour. So
tariffic has been deflation, so level
ing has been kdjustiment so distress
ful are times,- Build now while
things are easy' and material is low,
and; labor unctuous. Paint costs
only $3:59 per gallon, think of it.
Lumber, first-class pine flooring and
ceiling has fallen to $1500 a hund
red. Two millions of skilled labor
ers are walking the ; streets and
some of them are so much in need
of a job, they'd like to have a chance
to job you. Build now. Danbury
Reporter. ' :
First Woman State Senator.
Mrs. Annie Lee Worley, of
NashvilleTenn., has the distinc
tion of being the first woman in the
history of the state of Tennessee to
be elected state senator and the first
woman to sit in a legislature south
of the. Mason-Dixon line. .Mrs
Worley succeeher husband, wSo
recently died. . ; ' ";
Yqu may have the appearance of
a cadaver and look older than a 1908
Ford, but any old school friend that
you have not seen for twenty years
will tell you he never saw you lool -
iJg so well and that jou havn't
. Davie County in 17th District? 3
RALEIGH, March 1. A joint
democratic caucus open to every
body, tonight endorsed legislation
to protect pollholders, to slightly a
mend the primary law and to transr
fer Davie county from the fifteenth
to the seventeenth judicial district
so both will be safely B democratic j
hereafter. . j
Col. Als Watts was on hand for ;
the conference, which was sancj
wiched in between the debate on the
Southern power bill, and sat close to
the throrle' where reigned former
Speaker -Pete Murphy. Tlie bill
to revise the senatorial districts was
the only thing deferred and this
was sent to a joint hearing of the
election laws committee tomorrow.'
The caucus recommended Repre
sentative JVill Neal's bill to protect
election - officers ; assults made on
these dignitaries in the future.will
be punishable only with a prison
sentence and it may range any
where from four month to 10 years.
Speaker Grier suggested to the
cancuas, and it was approved, a
change in the election laws so as to
abolish the 3 o'clock limitation on
counting absentee ballots. Chair
many Murphy secured unanimous
endorsement of a new registration
in time for the 1922 primary elec7
tions and f or :an amendment to laws
striking out all sex references. '
Easterners object to the present
draft of the Neal bill to revise the
senatorial districts and they pro
tested tonight to be bound by" a
caucus until after a full committee
looks at the bill again.
There was some little objection
to the Cox bill takingtwq nit-mbers
of the house of representatives frpm
Iredell and Union and giving them
to New Efanover and Foysyth, but.
Colonel Watts pulled figures on the
objectors and the meeting closed.
Governor Doughton had the cau
cus bind the. democrats to support
the bill to take Davie out of the fif
teenth and put it in the seventeenth
j udicial district. A republican solic
itor was elected in the last trial be
tween the parties. -
Hugging in Public.
Last week a gentleman, of Cov
ington Ky. , not supposed to be "a
mong. those present," interrupted a
meny dance long enough to fire two
shots into the body of his wife, fatal
ly woUndering her. We do not ap
prove of this method of dealing with
re'factory wives; it's quithe too
rough, but if he had gone in the
' ' mids' ' and seized, wife (not too
tenderly, mind you) and- trotted
her home and administered a good
orthodox spanking, we should have
approved without reservation. If
a man wishes to hug his own wife
privately or publicly, let im; there's
no special harm done; but when it
comes to indiscriminate and "widely
diversefied hugging, well we don't
practice it ourselves and we' don't
care about it being practiced on
"ourn." Just as long as there are
girls and women who prefer ball
room music to the music of a cook
stove and broom there will be crack
ing of pistols and terrible tragedy.
Harriman Record. V
Smile, Don't Frown.
There is no doubt but that the
present business depression is due
more to talk of hard times and the
wearingjnsr faces than any oth
er one agency. Try a smile and loos
en up in your; business transactions
and see if you can't tell a difference
for the better.. To wear a frown and
to complain only gives the other fel
low an exeuse to withhold paying a
bill, making a purchase, or putting
his money in circulation. These con
ditions can be offset easily if each in
dividual will go his limit towards re
storing business conditions, which he
can do b letting: an example for the
other fellow, and riot waiting for the
otheielfow to act first. Louisburg
The Old-Fashioned Girl.
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What has become of the old-fashioned
sweetheart, who used to give
you the family album to hold jjyhile
she helped mother with the dishes?
Huntington Herald Dispatch.
Echo answers where! Gone along
with the old Virginia reel, the fra
grant mint julip and the, old time
apple dumplin; gone but not . for
gotten. Bluefield, Times. .
Yes, gone with the spelling bee
and the husking bee; with the good
old grapeviue swing and the soft
serenade in the moonlit southern
night. Charleston Gazett.
Yes, gone with the old-fashioned
churn, the wash pi ace beside the
tream, homespun cloth j'arn stock
ings the hoop skirt, the log fireplace
with dried pumpkins hanging in the
chimney corner, camp tea, the old
mill," the log rollings and the rail
splitters. Fairmont West Virgin
ian. .
She disapeared, when the school
board came .in, when the piano
make its appearance, when the auto
debut, and the school exibhion
went out of date, and theatre and
swimming pool parties took their
place. Reidsville Review.
Read and Meditate.
(Nashville Banner)
Some fashion authority says that
the well-dressed man requires an an
nual expenditure of $2,000 for his
clothing, not including night gar
ments, neckties and a few other min
or incidentals. That is all right for
the man with nothing to do, but a
man who is, worth a durn to the home
town wouldn't have time to use half
that amount of raiment radience.
An Alabamemule kicked a man on
e head arid broke its leg.. The man
was unhurt. He was probable one
of these fellows who see the early
retirement of prohibition.
Some thousands of automobiles
have collided with railroad trains at
the, crossings, and thus tir the rail
rpad trains have always won the de
cision, but persistency is generally
rewarded and there may come a day
when an automobile will triumph.
Jusi, keep it up.
Some one has declared the nickle
cigar will never come back. It has
never gone, as a matter of fact. We
have merely been paying a dime for
it. , ' '
The rooster is the best dressed bird
in the poultry yard, does nothing and
crows about it all day long; yet but
for him the world would starve.
A girl generally considers mar
riage her cheif aim in life and even
when her aim is poor and she brings
down something she didn't shoot
at, she still is likely to regard her
self as a pretty fail' marksman.
WOT 1 C; El
AUCTION SALE !
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Having qualified as "Admin
istrator of the estate of H..AJ
Thompson, dee'd, I will offer
for sale at public auction for
cash, to the highest bidder,
at the old home place, three
miles from Fork Church, on
Monday, Mar. 28, 1921,
the following personal prop
erlyr One horse, one 2-horsc
wagon and harness, one disc
harrow, mowing machine and
rake, hay baler, two-horse
cultivator and various other
farming tools. Sale starts at
10 o'clock, a. m.
H. C. THOMPSON,
Admr. of H. A. Thompson, DecM.
This liar. 7, 1921.
Efird'
s Dep
Winston-Salem, N. C.
NATIONAL
Easter Silks at
$2.00 Taffetas, all $J
Spring Messalines d1
in all shades Vl.lU dllli X CuJ
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$2.50 40in. Crepe de Chine in Black, t 1 AO
White and all the new
$3 00 Silk Crepe in Black,
and all colors ' .
40in. Pure Silk Georgette
. White and all colors
Prompt attention given all mail
orders.
It only costs $8
to enter the United States
So why ahouH any A
citizen pay $10 for a Spring hat
with a foreign label.
Bosh we make them better
here at home to say nothing
of the saving.
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The only trouble is that some
hatters haven found it out yet
-r-but as long as you know the
truth who cares?
New Greens and Grays Jp make
you glad. Warm Taups. and
Browns the best weVe ever
had. Any color any band.
The greatest dollar for dollar
hat value in the land.
FINE SOFT HATS - $7.00
BIG LOT, SPECIAL AT $4.95
CAPS - '- $1.00 to $3.50
Boyles Brothers Compt
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Trade St., Winston-Salem, N. C.
't. Store
SILK WEEK.
Special Prices.
39 $ J 39
1 Q J 1 OQ
Easter colors P A
White
$2.18
in Black,
$1.29
students than any j&Jier type, with j aged a day.