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THE SUN, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1919 KINDS OF LIARS Uncle Tobey's Lecture On Liars With the windows all raised to the highest notch and the cool breeze blowing in, from the green fields, your Uncle Tobey feels that it is good for us all to be here this beau tiful Sunday morning. Hereafter, while the nights are so short, your Uncle Tobey will measure out his lectures to an expectant public on Sunday morning, beginning; prompt ly at 9 o'clock, so as to get through and give the audience time to catch its breath in time for Sunday school. Your Uncle Tobey will talk to you this morning about liars. The liar is a land animal, but he has been known to lie under water for a long time after he was dead. He is usually a coward, and when truth comes limping in at the front door with a stonebruise on its heel and a mansard roof over one eye, the liar will jump through the back window if he can't get out of the house any other way. One day there was a liar came a long and told your Uncle Tobey that he could live without work that is the liar could. So he lounged around the saloons and street corners until he had spent all the money he had. He then sponged off his neighbors and relations until he wore out his welcome and his old clothes, and they wouldn't have anything more to do with him. He then took a with drawal card from the Sons of Rest and joined the Weary Willies and became a third-class tramp. Between hunger on the inside and bulldogs on the outside, his chosen profession kept him- on the move, and he long ed to be a boy again, pulling a bell cord over a little brown mule's back, while he acted as chief enginer to a double-shovel plow. One day a liar told a pretty young girl that she could reform a young man who wanted to marry her, but who got drunk, was vulgar, and mean to his mother and sisters. One night while the whippoorwills were calling to their mates and the cows were quietly chewing their cuds, this girl stole away from home and mar ried him, and their children have been stealing ever since they were big enough to reach what was in sight. Yes, he changed after she married him. He got worse, and soon went over the river by the jim jam route. The young wife took in washing to support herself and children, and died one day from sick ness contracted from being turned out of doors in midwinter because she was unable to pay the rent for living in a dog-house. One day a liar told a friend of your Uncle Tobey that it was his Christian duty to drop his chopping ax, throw down his grubbing hoe, unhitch his plow team, drive his mower in the fence corner and let the day lie in the windrow, while he ran thirteen miles in the hot sun to take a hand in a quarrel that did not concern him. He did as he was told, and the doctor charged him $50 for picking the shot out of him, and a heavy rain set in and ruined eigh teen tons of hay in the field. Once a liar told another friend of Uncle Tobey that he could get rich quicker and easier by buying futures than any other way and run no risk of getting in jail. So our friend sold a large farm, all but forty acres, his stock and everything, and went up to St. Louis to get rich quick. Six months after that he was back without a dollar. He had, however, gobbled up an immense a mount of experience and stowed away large gobs of wisdom. He went back on the forty acres he had not sold, bought a mouse-colored mule on credit and is now raising cotton for the speculators to steal. A liar once told a boy that if he would learn to chew, smoke, drink, wear and cheat he would be a man right now. The boy tried it, al though his father and mother did everything they could to keep him from doing so. He is now in jail for obtaining goods under false pre tenses. At another time a liar told a young man that if he would tell vulgar stories about young ladies that condescended to go with him he would become very popular among the other young men, and the young ladies would break their regular gait in their efforts to be first in his fa vor. He tried it, and when the girl's father got through with him he look ed like a wet dishrag just out of a Kansas cyclone. Your Uncle Tobey once heard a two-by-four politician with an eight-by-ten mouth tell a lot of farmers that he loved them all like brothers, and that if they would vote for him he would see that the Legislature would pass a law compelling the rail road companies to pay them full value for stock killed by their trains, without having to resort to long and tedious law suits, which usually cost the farmers more than the stock was worth. Some of the farmers be lieved him, and the last your Uncle Tobey heard of them the moss was seventeen inches long on their backs, and still growing. One time up in Missouri a lot of liars told a prominent official that policy and spoils were better apple dumplings than honesty and man hood. The aforesaid prominent of ficial refused to take their advice, and the case was submitted to the people. The way the people swatt ed those liars would jar your grand mother's preserves. They made them look like whipped hounds with a bad case of distemper. The aforesaid prominent official was elected main guy, but the liars are still lying. One time your Uncle Tobey saw a lot of business men in town listen ing to a liar who was telling them that a local paper wasn't much pump kins anyhow, and that they would better spend their money in a red blaze write-up which he would give them in a paper published 200 miles from the town. They believed him and each gave him the required a mount 5f shekels. Each received so many papers to distribute according "to his deeds" done to the aforesaid liar. But nobody about town or in the country wanted the papers, and they finally were thrown in the back Ulley where several old farmers found them and took them home to wrap around their fruit trees to pro tect them from the rabbits. The lo cal paper was neglected. The eid tor's wife starved to death trying to live on a diet of bed slats and wild onions, and the editor shortly follow ed her to heaven, where he was giv en a harp and a witness summons to appear against the business men of that town and his delinquent sub scribers on he Day of Judgment. The town is now wrapped in sleepy silence and dogfennel. The business men are lazily awaiting the blast of Gabriel's horn, knowing full well that they have got to meet that edi tor. This isn't all I know about liars, but it's enough for one dose. Home and Farm. Public Health Nursing At the request of the National Or ganization for Public Health Nurses and the North Carolina State Board of Health, the University Library has become the distributor in North Carolina of literature on public health nursing. It has collected a large number of books, pamphlets, and magazine articles on various phases of public health, and it offers this service to any citizen of the State who may be interested in the subject. The material may be bor rowed for a period of two weeks, the borrower paying postage charges from and to Chapel Hill. In most instances this charge will be six cents each way. Package libraries and material can be secured on the fol lowing subjects: Blindness Cancer Cereal Foods Child Health Common Colds Diptheria Disinfectants Flies Hay Fever Insects Keeping Fit, or Right Living Malaria Measles Mosquitoes Pellagra Public Health Public Health Administration Public Health Nurses Pure Water Safe Milk Safety First Sanitation Scarlet Fever School Hygiene Sewerage Spanish Influenza Trachoma Tuberculosis Typhoid Fever Venereal Diseases Welfare Work The Library also has files of the Journal of Public Health, The Pub lic Health Nurse, American Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Out door Life, copies of which will be loaned upon request. University News Letter. Governor Appoints Members RALEIGH, July 5. Governor Bickett has appointed Dr. Richard H. Lewis of Raleigh and Dr. E. J. Tuck er of Roxboro as members of the State Board of Health to fill vacan cies occurring in June. Both ap pointments are for terms of six years. Dr. Lewis succeeds himself and Dr. Tucker succeeds Dr. E. J. Wood of Wilmington, who retires at his own request after a number of years of valuable service. Lest You Forget 1. Crimson clover should be sow ed last of August. 2. Alfalfa should be sowed first of September. 3. Red and Alsike clovers should be sown first of September or March preferably the middle of March. 4. Grass mixtures should be sown first of September or March. WAY TO BUILD ROADS Building Highways On Prin ciples Under the above caption Mr. J. E. Pennybacker, Director of Roads A. A. A., presented, through the Amer ican Motorist, ten anxions to guide in the construction of the Nation's system of roads. His presentation of them is as follows: (1) That all who share in the benefits of road improvement should share proportionately in the bur dens. (2) That the degree of improve ment should be proportionate to the traffic importance of the road im proved. (3) That the rate of payment or the rate of accumulation of the sink ing fund on any public debt con tracted for road improvement should approximately equal the deteriora tion of the improvement. (4) That road building and main tenance comprise work requiring special qualifications on the part of those who direct it. (5) That responsibilities should be definite as to persons. (6) That continuous employment is more conducive to efficient service than intermittent and temporary em ployment. (7) That the specialists who di rect road work should be appointed instead of elected; and that they should hold office during efficiency instead of for a fixed term. (8) That no road is wholly per manent and that it requires continu ous upkeep from the outset, for which financial and supervisory pro visions must be made. (9) That cash is a much more satisfactory form of tax than is la bor. (10) That all agencies at the disposal of the State, capable of use in works of public improvement, should be so used, rather than in such commercial production as would conflict with private enter prises. Applying these principles would mean classifying roads according to their use into national, State and county systems; apportioning the cost burden so that cities and coun try, motor vehicles, railroads and in dustries should help according to the benefits they receive. It would mean building roads ac cording to the weight and volume of traffic they must sustain and measur ing cost by traffic units instead of squares of road surface. It would mean avoiding long-term bonds for temporary roads and us ing methods of payment that will re tire the debt at a pace equal to the road depreciation. For example, a $100,000 twenty year 5 per cent bond will cost on the sinking fund plan with sinking fund yielding 3 1-2 per cent $170,722 while on the serial plan it will cost $152,500 sav ing $18,222. It would require the placing of road work in the hands of trained specialists thus recognizing the in tricate and difficult nature of high way construction and upkeep under modern conditions. It would do away with conflicting and multitudinous officialdom and make each public official definitely responsible for definite duties. It woud do away with putting men in positions to do highway work at odd times when their private business in terests permitted. Better a few men steadily than many occasion ally. Highway engineers and road supervisors would be taken out of the field of politics by making them employees appointed to do certain things and receive stipulated pay. If road builders must trust to the whims of political fortune their ef ficiency as road builders must suf fer. The eager rush to build with bond issues paid for by motor vehicle fees which ordinarily comprise mainten ance funds would be analyzed more closely and full provision made to take care of every mile of road from the day it is completed. Maybe these highway principles seem too self evident to require re statement but on all sides is the evi dence that our practice doesn't square with them. Southern Good Roads. Talk Good Roads Good roads mean good markets to the farmer. They mean increased trade between the farm and the city home. They mean higher profit to the farmer; they mean farm-to-home sales for eggs, poultry, pork pro ducts, vegetables and all farm pro duce. Mr. Farmer, Mr. City Man, let's all talk good roads, roads that will be as good in December as in June, talk so much and so loud that every one will join in and we will fettain such a momentum that there will not be any stopping until we get just what we want. J. C. Wheeler in Anniston (Ala.) Star. 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It is particularly valu able as a soil improver for corn and cotton, sowing it at the last working-, turning it under the following: May, and growing; in creased crops each year. BE SURE TO SOW WOOD'S SEEDS They are carefully selected and tested for germination and free from impurities and objection able weed seeds. SEED POTATOES for Fall Crop Potato growers are getting won derful prices just now. Plant a liberal acreage in June and July. Potatoes may sell high again next winter. Write for "Wood's Crop Spe cial" giving timely information and prices. Mailed free. T.W.WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Ta. Yovi Wanted Boys and girls to learn typewriting at home in spare time. Particulars free. BOX NO. 210 ASHEVILLE, N. C. Market Quotations Corrected Weekly By Yelton Milling Co. Sound Wheat $2.50 Corn $1.95 These are the prices we are pay ing at the mill door this week. If you have any of the above to offer, wire, phone or write us. 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