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TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1916
Now that the primary campaign is over, some of our
office seekers who have been out more than in of late
will probably settle down to regular office hours once
snore.
It is announced that the Colonel will pay $900 a duy
in order to get the returns from Chicago by telephone.
Evident v he IIln't remain at home because nf th ex
pense of the trip.
1
The old adage that "a fellow is known by the com
pany he keeps" is exemplified in the case of the Colonel
nd the Wall Street gang which have come out in the
open in his behalf.
Where Is Clark, the erstwhile managing editor of the
Charlotte Observer? We made inquiry for the genial
Jesse Saturday when in the Mecklenburg capital, but
ailed to ascertain his whereabouts.
It la reported that Ool. Bryan is at Chicago taking in
the Republican and Progressive conventions. Is it possi
ble that the Commoner hopes to be the compromise can
didate when the Roosevelt-IIughes-Root aggregation
locks horns.
It it said that-'Prince Von Buelow, former Gorman
Chancellor and peace envoy plenipotentiary, is on his
way to Washington on a special mission from Emperor
William, evidently returning Colonel House's latest visit
to Berlin.
The Carolina Journal of Pharmacy in a recent issue
exhorting the members of the Pharmaceutical Associa
tion to attend the annual gathering at Wrightsville the
latter part of this month, suggests thirteen reasons why
they should go. We wonder if Press Agent tCowan can't
suggest at least one other" good reason and thus remove
the matter from the realm of superstition.
WHEN LOCAL MARKETS
ARE AFFORDED.
We are very glad to note that the News-loo ter, the
splendid weekly publication of the University of North
Carolina, is championing the need for local markets for
home-raised food and feed supplies.
The Free Press has touched upon this very vital sub
ject frequently in .the last few weeks, particularly so
since the splendid illustrated address of Secretary Clark
of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, delivered before
the Municipal Association here, in which the advantages
.lerived from .he establishment of such markets were
so splendidly emphasized.
In commenting upon ,;his important matter, the News
Letter says among other things: "Our farmers will raise
food and forest crops Sn adequate abundance, (1) as per
mitted or encouraged or required to do so by landlords,
supply merchants and bankers as in Texas, and (2) if
they can turn such products into ready cash at a fair
price and profit in the nearby town or city, and not
otherwise." Unquestionably the second point is the one
most esaentiul, for it not only furnishes a motive and
incentive, but tfives assurance to the planter that he can
by properly diversifying his crops very quickly throw
off the yoke of bondane which the one-crop planter has
worn for so many years.
When it is realized, as the News-Letter sets forth, Ithat
$80,000,000 a year is spent by North Carolinians for
staple food supplies for themselves and their stock, and
that much money is actually leaving the hands of our
people, and going iti'o circulation in other communities
to upbuilding that locality, it can be readily understood
that the time for co-operative effort on the art of the
producer and the civil bodies of our various municipali
i ies is at hand.
Wise indeed will be the city which takes the lead in
this important matter and provides for the proper and
safe marketing of every product which can be raised in
its territory with profit.
The resignation of Pastor C. W. Manchard of the First
Baptist chutrch, which was tendered to his congregation
Sunday, will cause regret not only among those of the
Baptist faith in this community, but all who have had
occasion to keep up with the good work that Mr. Blan-
chard has done. His resignation was accepted only be
cause of his insistence that he be relieved of the work,
and his congregation, by resolution, urged him to re
main in charge until the completion of the splendid new
edifice, now in course of construction. Mr. Blanchard's
future plans have not been announced, but it is hoped
that he will not sever all connections in this district.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
A Virginia liquor dealer makes a rather unusual state
ment in an advertisement in a Richmond paper, calling
the attention of his patrons to the fact that it is the
last opportunity to buy Virginia mountain whisky. We
have been under the impression that the liquorites have
maintained always that the mountain variety was more
abundant where prohibition prevailed than otherwise.
The people of the second congressional district evident
ly didn't agree very generally with the critics of Con
gressman Kitchin who have charged him with being dis
loyal to the administration. In spite of the fact that Mr.
Kitchin was accorded an overwhelming vote, The Free.
Press is inclined to believe that the opposition had a ben
eficial effect. It is well enough for every man to be re
minded occasionally of the source of his power and au
thority, and the opposition to Mr. Kitchin has at least
done that. The Free Press believes that it expresses the
centiments of the majority of Congressman Kit-chin's con
stituents when it expresses the hope that he will find
himself in better accord with the policies of President
Wilson in the future.
"WHAT'S THE NEWS?"
Charlotte Observer: "The Smithfield Herald, falling
into a reflective mood by reason of the fact that almost
every day it has been hearing the question asked. 'Wha.t's
the news?' and the usual answer, 'Oh, nothing of any
importance." hands out to its readers a few things worth
thinking over. The Herald is of the opinion that 'unless
the morning paper contains some sensational news, some
account of an awful murder, a terrible railroad wreck, a
sweeping tornado, a Mexican raid over the border, a
sickening divorce suit, or the sinking of a great ship,
the news is not regarded as of any importance.' This,
The Horald argues, shows the state of the American
mind. 'We are always on the lookout for something
startling, the harrowing or the astounding,' it says. 'We
are looking for the wonderful, the uncommon, the sensa
tional things of die day. These are the things we call
the important news. But are those the important things?
The Herald picks up its copy of The Charlotte Observer
to prove that they are not that they are far from it.
The Herald proceeds to give a column review of the
things it finds in .that issue of The Observer that it calls
"worth while things." One of these is the suggested re
union of the blue and the gray in Washington, as show
ing the friendly spirit of the South toward the North.
Representative Hill's plan to tax the munitions plants as
a method of assisting in raising the needed revenues for
the Government without making it burdensome on the
general taxpayer is another thing worth while. Secre
tary McAdoo's Raleigh speech is pointed out as a con
spicuous example of something worth the consideration of
the reader. The story of Davidson College commence
ment is another instance. The account of the Christian
Endeavor plans for its meeting in Charlotte is not neg
lected by the critical editor. Thes and many other
things constitute the news of the day and news of the
better class of benefit and profit to
all who read it. Of far more value
is news of this kind than that which
merely panders to the morbid and
sensational. "The chronicles of the
day's events," says The Herald, "ia
the news. The value and the worth
whilenesa of it depends not so much
on what the news is as on the atti
tude of the person's mind who is con
sidering it. With some i he most im
portant news would be the items that
some others would regard as of leasv
importance." All these things go to
make up the news. But, at er all, as
our Smithfield contemporary wisely
contends, "the things most worth
while are the things that tell of the
building up in a permanent way of
:he life and society about us."
IMPRESSION JUSTIFIED.
Raleigh Times: "No doubt that
Berlin report that the main British
fleet was engaged reflects an honest
impression of the German navy that
it had run against all the sea-fighting
forces in the world."
LENOIR COUNTY ECONOMIC
AND AGRICULTURAL
(Continued from Page One)
U. S., $994; Iowa, $3,380. Per cap
ita taxable wealth, all property in
1913, was $340. White per capita
taxable wealth, 1910, was $378. Ne
gro per capita taxable wealth, 1910,
was $23.4. Three years Inter ithe
per capita negro wealth was $40.
98th in negro farm owners; per
cent, of all negro farmers, 7. State
average, 33 per cent. Negro farm
owners in Lenoir are 54. White farm
owners in Lenoir are 47 per cent, of
all white farmers. In N. C, 06 per
cent.
60th in tax rate, State and county,
on the $100 in 1913, .98 2-3. 40 coun
ties have a higher Tate. Yancey
county highest, $1,68 2-3. In 1914
the State and county tax rate was
lowered to 89 2-3c on it-he $100.
89th in tax value of farm land;
compared with census value, 1910,
per cent., 26. State average, 38 per
cent.
27th in income taxes paid, 1913,
$3(!8.85. 33 counties paid no in
come tax in 1913; and 32 paid none
in 1914. Income taxes in Lenoir in
1914 were $337.
21st in professional iiaxes paid, in
1913, $225. 45 lawyers, doctors,
dentists, photographers, architects,
etc., in Lenoir. Only 10 in Cumber
land, none at all in Harnett, Duplin,
Caswell, and Avery in 191 3,' on the
tax list.
9(V.h in white farm mortgages, per
cent., 32. State average for whites.
17 per cent.
50th in improved roads in 1915,
per cent., 13. Number of miles of
improved roads, 65.
20th in automobiles (June 30,
1915), one for every family, 21. To
tal number in county, 215.
HI. Facts About Farm Conditions.
31st in land under cultivation; per
cent, of total acres, 39.2. State ave
rage. 29 per cent. Land under cul
tivation, 99,382 acres. Idle, wilder
ness acres, 154.598, or 60.8 per cent,
of the total area. Reserving 50,000
acres for wood-lot uses and allowing
75 acres to each family, there is
room for 1,390 new families.
48th in number of farms. 2,423.
Average cultivated acres per farm.
41. Size of cultivated farms larger
in 18 counties. 1,332 farms are less
than 50 acires in size, and 1,091 over
50 acres in size, both cultivated and
uncultivated areas considered. There
is room for a 40 per cent, increase in
size of farms.
94:h in poultry decrease, 1900-'10.
per cent, 7.4. 54,933 fowls of all
kinds in Lenoir in 1910. Rank in
number of fowls on hand, 86th.
72nd in cattle per 1.000 acres.
State averagi, 23; U. S. average 61.
48th in cattle increase, 1900-1910,
per cent.. 15. Caldwell increased 2
per cent. State average increase, 12
per cent. In IS'10 Lenoir had 6,737
cattle, in 1910, 3,934.
7th in swine per 1,000 acres, 84.
State average, 39; U. S. average,
60; Iowa, 203.
2"th in swine increase, 1900-1910,
per cent., 4; 09 counties decreased, on
ly 28 increased. Hyde increased 61
per cent., and Greene 22 por cent.
In 1860 Lenoir had 25,192 swine, in
1910, 21,138.
33rd in sheep losses, 1900-1910,
per cent., 22. Total number lost,
198, worth $714.80. In 1860 Lenoir
had 3,206 sheep; in 1910, 698.
77th in investment in farm imple
ments per aore, $1.52. State aver
age, $2.10; U. S. average $2.52.
7Gth in horse power; one work an
imal for an average of acres, 31.01.
State average, 25.85 acres; U. S.
average, 19.21 acres.
94th in farm tenancy, per cent.,
05.8. State average, 42.3 per cent.
Increase in farm tenancy in Lenoir,
1900-1910, was 2 per cent. 47 coun
ties decreased in farm tonancy.
White owners in Lenoir, 750; negro
ownsrs. 54. The landless, homeless
white tenants and their families
number 3,780 souls. Tenants raise
eot!on and tobacco mainly and neg
lect their feed crops.
IV. Facta About Farm Practices.
21st in cotton production, total in
1914, bi'Jlej, 15,715. Robeson, lstl,
with 74,108 bales. The 1915 crop was
11,091, which was a decrease of 26
per cent.
9th in tobacco production in 1910,
pounds, 0,588,205. Per acre produc
tion, 790 pounds; rank 9th. State
average 625 pounds per acre.
80th in non-food crops produced,
tobacco, etc., $1,245,245. Tobacco
and other non-food crops produce an
nually 66 per cent, of the total crop
wealth. Food and feed crops pro
duce 34 per cent, of the total crop
values. State average of non-food
crops, 53 per cent.
26th in annual farm wealth pro
duced, $2,143,247. This covers both
crops and animal products.
26th in crop-yielding power per
aore, $19.03. State average, $20.18;
compares, well with Missouri,, $13.96;
Minnesota, $13.19; N. Dakota, $11.10;
S. Dakota, $10.79 in 1914.
5:h in annual production of farm
wealth per person, $135.8. State av
erage, $85; average of French farm
erg, $126.
80th in food and feed production
per person, $35. Needed, $84 per
person; deficit, $49 par person; to
tal deficit, $547,380.
81st in food and feed crops; per
cent, of total crop values, 34. Alle
ghany, 89 per cent.; State average,
47 per cent.; Alleghany is the richest
county in per capita country wealth.
Lenoir ranks 8th in this particular.
V. Facts About Food and Feed
Production.
32nd in corn production, total crop,
bushels, 402,525; Robeson ranked 1st
with 1,142,000 bushels. Ten-year de
crease in corn production, 1900-1910,
was 20,585 bushels; the per cent, de
crease was 5. In 1800 Lenoir pro
duced 372,174 bushels.
31t in corn production per per
son, bushels, 18. Needed per per
son, 31 bushels; deficit per person, 13
bushels; total deficit, in 1910, 295.-
997 bushels. State average, 15 bush
els per person in 1910.
53rd in wheat production per per
son, bushels, .40. Needed, 4 bushels
per person; deficit per person, 2.54;
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