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, |i fft ...Is i , ,IM.
» ttlincuii urmuinw k,u
of tha UiM IWM In tlM
Mfl I baftatla (Ml tk«
oa, D. C. head<juartera of tha
National
Thia to na tiny to land territory Ilka
of thaaa that fly tho Man omi
i hi mid-Pacific, continued tho
i, bat a country of nearly lli,
Ihat of Now York, Pennaylvania. Now
Jwi, Dolawa«o, and Naryland
btoed; or aaaong tho
than tho thro# largo
of Japan, upon which tho lifo of that
nation centered while it grow to im
perial stature
Thia far-away torritory of tho
llnitod Statea ia inhabltatod by
•##,000 people of
of tho three
nda. Bat tha
tropical Phillppinaa with thair ample
rainfall and laxariant vegetation ara
eapahle, In apite of thair mountainoua
tharactor, of suporting a much larger
papulation than at praaont.
"Narollan. who aailad aim oat ag
round tha world, and whoaa nana haa
boon given to tho famout strait to tha
sooth of Houth America, discovered
tha Phillppinaa, sailing among
aarooa tho Pnetfle to 1611, Ha
hillad shortly aftararard to a i
with tha nativaa. Magallan, though a
Protugueae, waa operating for Spain
hat tha Spanish war* alow in assort
ing thair sovereignity. They captured
tha native city of Nanila to lt?0 and
founded the Spaniah city tha foDow
With only one alight braak, Spain
to control until Dewey da
footed tho Spaniah fleet in Nanila
Bay in 1898, but it waa not . ieace
ful poaaesaion. The Dutch attempted
time and aga^n to capture tho arehi
palago; Chinaaa and Japanese piratea
made raids on the ialand cities; and in
the sixteenth century a Japanaaa
S ho gun actually demandtd that tho
Spanish governor of the islands ac
knowledge the sovereignty of Japan.
The British captured Nanila to 1761
and held it until tha following year,
but their control did not extend out
side the city. In addition tha Spaniah
had to cope with the piratical Noroa
—Mohammedan, Nalays —of tha
southern islands, who were continual
ly raiding tha mora developed lands
to the north. Finally insurrections
broke out; and it waa to the midst of
one of these that the United Statea
took control.
"Since pacifying the islands the
United States haa given the Philip
inos steadily increasing political con
trol of "leir affairs. The appointive
commission which ruled over the ia
lands at first under the American re
gime has now given place to an elec
tive House and Senate, and five of tha
seven members of the cabinet are
Philippinos. The Governor General
and Vice Governor are still appointed
by the President of the United States.
"Education has been the center of
the American policy in the islands.
A very small percentage of the na
tives were literate in 1898. Numer
ous language* and dialects were in
use and only a minority understood
Spaniah: It was determined to make
English the common language and to
open the necessary public schools to
Mack the groat mass of children. By
1917 more than 4000 primary schools
were in operation in charge of 13,377
Philippino and 417 American teachers.
About half the estimated total of tha
children of the islands—600,000—wen
enrolled in that year. By 1920 tha
that year Um co«MmI total of
porta and import* was |9S.d0«.0m; In
1W7 th* total *u fMMMjMO.
Nearly avary Man tat th* world who
uaaa a rope pays tribute te the Philip
pina^ for 'Manila hemp' la on* of tha
boot ropa materials known. It la
harraatad from a aportea of banana
tarn. Keoa-ty UTJMMM worth of
It was ahlppad In 191T. "
Mach of America's batter
to
Is IMf
Aa a producer of
yat bo
Cuba
and Jam, bat Ha peoductton entitle*
tha group to b* elaaaad with Hawaii,
Porto Moo and Formosa amonr tha
Tha FMMpplneo might bo aaid to
bo a Jaggad land both vertically awl
horisonteOy. Thay are
tainooo and their i
dented. Though only
twenty-fifth tha area of tha United
Statea awhatae of Alaaka, tha Phtlip
plnaa hare a coast Hna twice aa great
"Commercially, Manila, on a com
mod'ooa bay and wtth a food harbor,
baa an excellent strategic paaltton. It
la a aort of oriental canter, lee* thai}
a thouaand mllea from Important
Chlneee porta and leaa than 1.S00
mi lea from southern Japan, southern
Korea, Singapore and the porta of the
Dutch Kaat India*. It ia eatimatad that
within a radlua of 1,600 mllea of Mani
la live three-quarters of a billion in
habitants—more than a third of the
total population of the earth."
Men of Mark
Men of mark have been prodigious
workers. George Stephenson spent
fifteen years in perfecting the loco
motive. Watt worked thirty years on
the con3enainr engine. Good/ear
a pent ten years of atudy, poverty and
ridicule, while perfecting the proceaa
of making hard rabbed. Michel An
gelo slept in his clothe* when engagod
•n his immortal works, and food was
kept within hia reach. Mendelssohn
Handel, and Beethoven were all 01
them prodigious workers. Macnula'y
was a hard worker. When he was
toiling at his history, he would rise
at daybreak and alt at hia deak for
twelve hours at a stretch. Edison
was once asked If some of Ma grant
inventions wore not born of inspira
tion. 'No,' he replied, "thay are tha
product of pera pi ration." An En
irllahman once aaid to Mr. Lincoln,
"Men of character do not blacken
their own boota in my country." Mr.
Lincoln at once replied, "Whose boots
do they blacken?"
God never entrusted a big task to a
drone or to a laxy loafer. His call
came to the man who knew how to
work, and when the call came, the one
• ailed was generally employed at the
time.
When Moses wsa called he was
busy with hi* flocks at Mount Horeh.
When Saul was called, he was busy
searching for hia father's lost beaut*.
David was tending his father's sheep.
Nchemiah waa employed as cup
bearer to the king; Amos was an In
dustrious herdsman Peter and Andrew
were fishermen, and were casting the
net when Jesus called them; James
and John, when called, were occupied
in mending their nets, and Matthew
was employed as a tax-gatherer. All
were busy at their tasks. This is
true of all times. Loafers and stack
ers never won battles; they never
built bridges; they never built em
pires; they never built churches; they
never won world conquests for
Christ.—Z ion's Herald.
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SESSION
• faSatia
i m Dak for ,
Uahn.
Raleigh, No*. t.—Governor Chmt-'
on Morrison yesterday formally ut
«d Dm flu ml Assembly of North
Carolina to convene in special moo ton
Mm at eleven o'clock December I to
mako provision for a deficit of 1700,.'
000 in the school funds of Uw
and to eornwt aa oner la ths
clpal Finance Act by reason of whiah
It was dsclarsd unconstitutional by
ths North Carollaa Supreme Court,
handicapping virtually all tha cMaa
of tha State hi thatr financial |
In June Governor Morrison a»-|
nouncsd that*hs would call tha i
session together, after tha municipal*. I
tics had urgently presented thairj
causa and aftar Dr. B. 0. Brooks
parlntandsnt of Schools, had laid ba*a
tha situation la tha public school fund
by rsaaon of tha Inadequacy of tha It
cant property tax for school purpoaaa
la 1*30.
Elections will be held in a
of counties in tha State on November
16 to fill Vacancies in th • General As
sembly by reason of resignations
since the 1OT1 session. In some, as in
tha caae of Wake County, It la likely
that the vacancies will not he filled.
It appears to be the sense of those
most interested In Wake Cotinty that
the county will be sufficiently repre
sented with two members of the lower
House and one Senator.
The call for the special session
opens the way for a more general dis
cussion and presentation of legisla
tion that will be proposed foe tha
twenty day event. It Is uniVrstood,
however, that efforts will be mads to
hold the legislation down as nearly as
possible to the two matter1 referred
to by the Governor in his call for a
special session.
The CompoMT of the Song
That Mad* a Rhrar Fiiw
. Theman who immortalised the Su
wanee River in a song which for three
generations ha* spread the fame «f
Florida to every corner of the wcrrW
waa Stephen Collins Foster, a native
of mtsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Everybody knows "Way Down Up
on the 8awanee River," but few of the
many thousands who have sung it
know anything of the mad who com-!
poeed this familiar melody.
Foster never saw the Suwanee
River and had never heard of it until
after he had written the song. Be
lived in the ante-bellum period before
the railroads had opened up the won
| ders of Florida and made it the meoea
'or hundreds of thousands of tourista.1
TV story of how Stephen Collins,
Foster came to immortalise the 8u
wane< River is told by Morrison Foa-|
ter lr his biograhpy of his brother.1
Stephen Poster wns in search of a
•wo syllable name or a Southern river
' for use in a song which he had plan
j ^ed t>» call* Way Down Upon de Old
I ''tn' t ition." He railed on his brother
j 'dorr-son Foster for a suggestion.'
Morrison Foster took down an atlas
and turned to a map of the United
States. After a biief search they lo
cated the nam>> "Suwanee."
"That's It, that's it exactly!" ex
laim <1 Stephen Foster.
Foster wrote the words and musk
for more than a hundred well known
songs, but "Way Down Upon the
Suwaaee River" is his chief claim to
remembrance, according to Harold
Vincent Milligan, the author, who taya
in his biography of Foster:
"This is probably the most widely
l^nown and loved song ever written.
It ha:, been translated into every Eu-1
>pesi language and into many As inn
and African tongues. It has been
sung by milliona the world over and
has long since passed out of the realm
of written song to be incorporated in
to the body of folk-music paaaed oral
ly from generation to generation,
1 reathing the very soul of the people.
The magic of this wonderful melody
defies analysis. In aonme subtle and
instinctive way is expresses the home
lick yearning over the past and the
far-away which is the common emo
tional heritage of the wSole human
race.''
Some of the other songs composed
by Foster include: My Old Kentucky
Home, Old Black Joe, Maaaa's in the
Cold, Cold Ground, Oh! Susanna, Old
Dog Tray, Old Uncle Ned, Louisiana
Belle, Come Where My Love Lie*
Dreaming.
Foster was born on Jul/ 4, 1886,
tnd died on January IS, ISM, at the
uge of 38. While born in Pennsylva
nia n **r Pittsburgh, he was of South
ern a ascent, his father being a Vir
irinian, and his mother having been
'■orn hi Maryland. A simple tablet
mark-1 his grave in the Alleghany
Cemetery at Pittsburgh.
FARMS FOR 8ALE and rent, locat
ed *n Lee, Moore and HaiDett coun
ties. This ia fast becoming the lead
ing st«tion of the state in the produc
tion if con, cotton, tobacco, paMfcM,
berries, etc. Write or call on M. C.
Reeves. Sanford, N. C.
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HARRISON'S
Christian and HmUmd
Greensboro News.
A line in the Associated Press story
concerning the assassination of Pre
mier Hara refers to the Japanese peo
ple "96 per cent of whom are able to
read and write." That is a heathen
country, a militaristic country, and
most of us believe, compared with the
United States of America, a backward
country. Yet only M per cent of the
American people are able to read and
write. Only 87 per cent of the people
of North Carolina are able to read
and write. Leave out the North
Carolina negroes altogether, and still
only 91.6 per cent of the white popu
lation of North Carolina are able to
read and write. #
In other words, the militaristic, im
perial, heathen government of Japan
takes better care of its children, edu
cationally, than the pacifist, demo
cratic and supposedly Christian gov
ernment of North Carolina. More
than that, the government of North
Carolina has, per capita, several times
as much money as the government of'
Japan.
The Founder of the religion that is
supposed to be North Carolina's reli
gion made one of the most frightful'
» I
rvmarka of HUnearthly career about
people who offend against children'
and if leaving him is the darkneaa of
Ignorance when ha might be educated
iant an offenae against a child what
imaginable thing could be? In thia
particular the Japaneae an better
Christiana than the North Carolinian*.
Yet we have the nerve to tend mis
sionaries to them, and ling hymns
about "the heathen" in his blindness."
We'd better be singing about the Tar
Heel blindness; and the Japaneae
might well be sending missionaries to
us, to persuade us to give our children
a decant chanre in life.
The greatest single and unbroken i
telegraph circuit ever operated was
that which transmitted the play-by
play story of the world series base
ball news instantaneously over 84,
000 utiles of telegraph wire. A single
operator sent the report, traveling at i
the rate of 186,000 miles a second, toj
Seattle, Bangor, Galveston, Ottawa
and Havana. Thousands watching the
bulletin boards received the reports
within a second of the actual play on'
the field.
1 I ... - ■— . 1 J. J
TAX NOTICE
I will mwt the tax payers on tha
following dates and at places named
below for the purpose of collecting the
1921 taxes:
Westfield township, at WestfieM,
Monday Nov. 21, 1921.
Pilot township, at J. W. Redman
41 Son's store, Tuesday Nov. 22, 1921.
lone Hill township, at Ararat,
Wednesday Nov. 23, 1921.
Shoals township, at B. F. Scott's
store, Thursday Nov. 24, 1921.
Siloam township, at SMoam, Friday
Nov. 25, 1921.
Eldora township, at Ashe HUl,
Saturday Nov. 26, 1931.
Rookford township, at Stony Knoll,
Monday Nov. 28, 1921.
Marsh townnhip, at Burch station,
Tuesday Nov. 29, 1921.
Elkin township, at Elk in. Wednes
day Nov. 80, 1921.
Bryan township, at Park Mountain,
Thursday Dee. 1, 1921.
Franklin township, at Low Gap,
Friday Dec. 2, 1921.
Stewart* Creek township, at Pin*
Ridge, Saturday Dec. 8, 1921.
Dobson township, at Dobson, Mon
day Dec. 5, 1921. <
Mount Airy township, at Mount
Airy, Dec. 6, 7, and ft, 1921.
1 per cent discount on all taxes
paid in the month of November.
A. L. Ash burn.
Sheriff of Surry County
—33-—a—==-7— 1 —a
Marshall Heights
Part of the Rmtw Farm on the State Highway to Dobson
Will be Sold at Public Auction
T27d- Nov. 24
Subdivided into building lots—One lpt will be given away FREE!
Other prizes.
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Easy Terms Band Concert
26 stacks of hay, fodder and shucks and a large quantity of corn and
feed stuff will be sold, also a lot of pigs, shoats and cattle. Terms or cash.
PIEDMONT LAND EXCHANGE AND AUCTION COMPi