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( ; V i ? 1 : ; -u UTITIAI PIlPniT CVCTCHIP rtr. 'U T . !.! . o a x mo auKurAN NATIONS Page 7 ; rirm And Horn- W.1clv fn The Carolinas,Virginia..Georgia. and Florida. -A - a . FOUNDED 1886, HALEIGH, N, C. Vol. XXX. No.' 19. SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. 3 $1 a Year; 5c. a Copy Where Brain Work Begins , There Pnm Begins SAYS Prof. Eugene C. Branson, in a sentence full of warning for our Southern farmers: "A people with lower living standards will always prevail against a people with undefended high living standards." In other words, wherever two men are doing the same work, the man who can live on fifty-cents a day will always crowd to the wall the man whose higher ; civili zation and higher -iiving standards - require, . say, ; a dollar or more a day to maintain unless that high ; er civilization and higher living standard are prop-, erly defended. A case in point is the recent history of California, where the competition of Chinese a nd Japanese has forced the . white people to take steps "' to safeguard their higher living standards. Another illustration is given by the Columbia State in its re mark that the Negro who is thrifty and industrious, -"li ving at half the cost of his neighbor of the same indus trial condition, can acquire land in, say, half the time ; that the white man can." A peculiarly important problem in t h e . South , therefore, is this: How can the white farmer's higher living standards oe defended? cotton, but almost the next minute he . was telling us of an up-to-date young farmer neighbor who by diversified methods grew 27 bales last year on 16 acres almost two bales to the acre, whereas the South's aver age under our general poor-farming methods is little over one-third of a bale an acre. And there is just the point as to what Intelligence, with diversification, rotation, brain-plus-brawn methods will do. It will mm m. ftllli 5: - . 4 w ;I 11 jH V) f u . - - u ' 8,-. n . ft? 1 "-'Xs "j 1 . ti Q Z2 1 3 El J WHY NOT DO IT TH.S WAY? SCENE ON FARM OF T. B. BLAIR, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS. And the answer is: By having the white man do a better type of 1 arming than the Nem-n . w work that the Negro does, he is predestined to failure and defeat. If J7 "urCJ 11Ke trie Negro does, he must sooner or later live like Jhe egro does as soon as he uses up whatever capital he has. --v, lucu is me warning- wnicn all oast nistorv sounds to tne race Wgher living Standards in tliA QrMitli Thv must rWpnrl thpir h'u of Standards in ihc .Qrwitli TIiav mnt dpfpnd thpir hiorh - dnuaras by doing a better sort of farming .man the race of lower living standards can do.' i mrteen years ago the writer sought to make ..ciear these fundamental principles, and on page -w? ar6reprintinff an article we then prepared, ' gins ; work Begins, There Profit Be- The most ignorant Negro can follow the f.r:crop" system of farming, buyrall his soil ruuty, and nearly all his meat and feed. Brains r U httle exercise in that sort of work, and cof the white man sets out to do "all his ?n .farming he deliberately puts Wmself and surii mt0 hoPeless competition with just ucn ignorant, muscle-only labor-the sort that that there was 1 ttle chancfortBri dInDltlOUS hnvfA KL- - - - j uca i ignorant la Dor growing DON'T FAIL TO READ Be a Producer of Oualitv Goods . 8 Cheaper Crop Cultivation V . . Farmers Should Organize Coopera tive Credit Unions . . . . How to Avoid Expensive Hoeing of the Crop Make a Partner of That Boy of Yours , . Spacing Cotton to Get the Biggest Yields y , . .. Swapping Peanuts for Corn to Feed Hogs ... . ... . . Where BfainvWqrfe -B 1 :PrpfittBegiris "make the farm feed itself' and then raise as a surplus crop as much cotton as Ignorance will produce on the same farm under the "all-cot ton" soil-exhausting plan. - There is just one point which the writer briefly mentioned thirteen years ago but to which we would now give double emphasis. This is the importance of cooperation. And cooperation, as all European expert ence shows, can develop properly in homogeneous communities- communities in which the people are practically of one race and have the spirit of brotherhood. By building up white communities in the South with the tbnic atmosphere of equality, democ racy, comradeship and a higher intellectual life, we shall be able to develop a more highly organ ized and scientific agriculture. Then through more scientific farming, through cooperative ownership of . improved machinery, cooperative breeding of better livestock, cooperation in crop production, crop marketing, and in all forms of farm business, our farmers will indeed be able to do a sort of work an inferior race cannot do, defend their higher living standards, and work at all times upon the basis of the fundamental principle -' .'K -y- , 1 .: 5: Where ttW- arid intelligence oegtn, there profit begins. 5 is 6 13 12 10 13 i t i 1 . . ' i i' i il it it : f i,! i I...' m I. : r.'.i f A P. ifii ! ,T 17 ' i f .f. il , i .1 'it hi i i ' t 5 J' i.i , : J
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