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Saturday, UzTd (17) counties of the state insuring in commerciil ccm "piiiiesliave been paying $120 per $1C1" In fact, l-r YorkvUlc Enquirer tells us that 1 - V 3 ."The Fanners' Mutual Fire Ins urance Cc n pany oi York County has been carrying qzliz a r considerable amount of tnsorsscs'at-a cost cf ; only 35 cents per $100, as against L23 per ICD ; r . for the stock companies. ' tv" V.-;.- : Every county in the South should have a farm- EDucjiomoom (1) Edocatioa to perdop Power. C) Coopmtkm to Multiply It, mad 0) Legation and Good Corenaea ' to Promote CquU niiht sad ILaa IYore.-Pkia Talk About Men. Ileum tnd Moreatat LirclrU : 4 - . : B CLAREKCZfQS - - -;CBppiagS9 VJKmYCnCtlOn Cnd.dOmment . -self-help which distinguish these Japanese--socie-"p R. S :P. Brooks.rcah didate Tor United States' ties Within the last .few months the ideaLhas I I Senator from Texas, Sets a good example; for aoV notable progress "v the South; enlisting the otner poiiucianS uyvuigtnc eopie a, -aenn- interest ot extension Workers in Texas, while m ws mutual fire insurance association and if vcur where he stands ana wny is always to be preferred . . cue icia in starting tne movement. to the man who spends his time abusing his oppoa- - .ve qptoera farmer should f ead Prof. Camp's . ent. : 3 ' : article "in this issue explaining how credit unions - operate, while all readers who have copies of "How Why not you? Advocates, of the state :,wareh6use bill in Geor- Fanners Cooperate and Double Profits" should -gia are sureth? : plan will Jjcome 1 at the sum- r TwQ Ifish RuraJ mer ses&iv vi wv;-v6w v. r- , The Virginia Leslature jut aoourried; adopted a more thorough-going inheritance tax, Now let the farmers of Alabama, Florida, .Mississippi and South Carolina (they' ixt the ' only states . left cx- -cept Rhode Island and New Mexico without inher-" itance tax laws) ee that , their next Legislatures relieve them from, this disgrace We dont know that a constitutional amtndmtiwoTild be reuired in ny other; state ut Alabama, bnt if so, let it cornel W'0S0:i ties and How They Work." . .u -s . Boycott tire Usurers The Menace of Forest Fifes : I r - Oinea us in penaing nau an nour m puumg it out. But we are afraid the incident is father un usuaL A stand of timber is so valuable, and the J N ALABAMA friend writing -us suggests this v htimus in the . leaves nd litter is so valuable, that a lan of dealing with the usury evih ; ' comparatively small' fores fire may quickly do as , - "Why, nit Ittfamera aud their friends re- V harm as the .burning oi an ordinary barn or fuse toeposit money in any bank that charges residence. And yet people who. would be all ex more than the legal rate of interest?" . citement at the sight of a burning. barn, and vali--This, of course, is mot a panacea; but neither is aatly stop everything to" put out the firewill pass 'antrriii'iM lrnt-Ji hipn nmnnc nA i ?c iincojicerriedlv bv a forest fire ten times as dan- Ifyour school term istftas tongas itoughttobe, a8 R A5 nilp f. , . Tti serous. - ' ' . v . ' school farm, sending- five cenis : to- the United' tMs.ay fermcn who have money to deposit can ' , In nearly everystate now the jaw prescribes fine r. ...t t i?j..x,,!- niT,U':4. r in c cc?ct tlmco mVus'liriirA Kn AmxA UnA....'.. - ' nr imnrisnnmtit Tor rarplfrssl' starting nr cansirny. We hope localUnions, indrvidnal farmers, etc., a forest fire. Let these laws be enforced.'". Every, wai take iip this idea, find out which banks deal farmer' should help indict the guilty and when on fairly and which unfairly, and then give patronage juries help convict them. - ,'; States Bureau of EduCatloiWashingtonj for a copy of its bulletm on thubject? This biiUetin describ es mainly the work in Wake - County,' N. C but the idea is spreading. The. county superin tendent of Macon County; "Ala.,-reports, that he has started 28 school farms there ; Certainly if you are a school committeeman, you ought to investigate this subject ' : J'- , ' . 1 ; ' ; -!X v-;- - Few forms Of cooperation are more profitable than cooperative purchase of fertilizers. If your Local Union hasn't placed its order yet, better look after the matter at once. , Our neighbor, the St Louis Mirror;, gets consid. erably excited about the overwhelming vote there to keep Negroes from' moving into white blocks or neighborhoods in future. The, proposal," it says, "carried by. a disgraceful, un-American, inhuman ohlyTfo those that obey the law, boycotting the usurers.'- ' t '....'. - - . We should also 'like f to have for' use, without printing any names or addresses, instances-of us ury practiced on our readers. Write us? Here are some cases that hae come to our attention within the bit week: (1) Last year a workingman went to blic wcifare He would have the orations deal with the qualifications, work and worth of each County Commencement Pkns T EV. T. S. Coble sucreests that on the mcht.be- jfY fore each county school commencement ank oratorical contest should be held for the dis- cussion of practical local problems affecting the a loan shark in the writer's town td borrow $20. - 'AU Tightsaid the shark, "give me your note for '. fifteen days for $24 " At the end of the' fifteen ;: days the 'borro-wrer: didnft have the $24 buf had $4, v a so he reduced the debt to $20 again.'agaih gave his. majority of 34,000. And whether the'Mirror likes : fifteen-day note for $24, and did this twice a month it or not it will find1 people voting about the same for a yearpaying in this time $95 interest on a rW.he2fVTr' hCf v"Te-n """ ':20 debt, and still owed the $20. .Thenm despera- north as St. Louis. The New York 5urvy, which , v - r - T - is opposed to the plan, admits that half the 17jD0Q "J" he went to a bank and got . the money at votes against segregation .were cast s by egro- legal interest (2) "Another man I know," said our voters. It will be seen thereforer that the.actual friCnd, "-has paid a loan shark $20 a month interest white vote was divided as' follows: ' t ' ' " on a $150 loan." (3) A farmer went to a lawyer Against segregation 500 and gave a $lj000 nott ior a $900 loan.' ' ' ' tor Segregation .,...000; ' . u -u high dmg conscience of Mtiojl lne white vote was thus 6 to 1 tn favor of segre-. V " ;'iu it,;: ot,0ioee kkor, f gationnd St: Jishas a:Repuhlicanmajorityr f. too! - , i - v: v . ; v. , , . God's poor. ; We must boycott usurers and we must . ' " tj 2;; : " ,K '".v' : . -drah laws " that will reach them. : -:y '' Look next week for a isoissi on of taxation and the farmer. -'r Organizing lanners ; Uutol Saric Bs WHEN the writer was traveling in Japan and India i5ve years ago we found that even in those so-called seathen countries" farm ers were coming ' together and organizing'."nutual savings and loan associations" or cr edit unions'. As we wrote from Tokyo in "There are also in most ccmamunities, ! learn. cooperatiTe -credit . societies corresponding r; JIutual Fire Insurance . ' NE of the great obstacles in the way of cotton warehousing heretofore has been the high in surance, rates charged, and when States Ware- 'house rCommissTOtier McLaurin of South Carolina "last year got thef rates in his State reduced from $3.50 -on the $100 to $1.58, he did about the biggest . i- , r f , r . 1 t '11' fit. ot tne toiiowmg lactors tor ine upouuaing oi me county: " , . f 1. " The county superintendent of education;"" 2. The county demonstrator; 3. The county health officer; i 4. The county board of education ; . -a. ine couniy commissioner or supervisor; 6. The country teacher; 7. The country preacher; 8. The local Farmers' Union. , His suggestion is a food one and we should like The rapid spread of the county commencement, idea is very gratifying as well as its development Into ah occasion for promoting not only educa tmnal nroo-rpss hut all other worthv lorai move ments Pender Connty N. C, for example, held a' corn, cattle, pig and poultry show in connection with its county commencement last week, ' tht prizes also covering declamations j recitations, aad spelling contests ; jspecia! priies for, the best ex hibits from oneteacher, two-teacher and three teacher schools ;"prires for the winneri in the ath letic contest and handsome prizes lor the boys Sng he could possibly hav warehousing amon'g his people, - v ; ; V ? 'fint this wasn't all that his action did. 'Like a fire- acr J;w6 cooperatrre -credit : sodetiesVV coiresondmg -.l - x - . Ia.a o'larm 'r'9i?n n the" -'"iprbgrew; like charity, hens at home.' somewhat to the mutual building and Joan so- ; at tight it sounded an alarm, wakmg up the. K ... , .... , . . ? a . '-..C' L- it.. s.iinMc tii-iiffttnr nr a citron Jw- ' ' cieties in American towns) ' by means of which the farmers escape-the clutches of the. Shy lock money-lenders who-have heretoforecharged as " high as 20, to 30per cent. for' advances. - The: Japanese Armors : 'invest thtar. surplus, funds in " these cooperative credit sorietaes gust as they, would in savings banks, except that'ta thtir case their sitrinrs -re used isolelr f or heloTnTr - v niiiacoaiic neignoors anancjgnDarnuuus leople to the extortions, heretofore practiced by the insurance trust a trust which operates unre .strained and. unchallenged in" more than one state AtThouht for lie Week in the. South. The result was that 'the 'Legislature-;. , wflSOnf.- none"are;stronger ;or. more hea'utiful passed ah act providing. that' insurance companies: than the' .foEiowits: '"True friendship pt entering into combinations to fix rates should be royal itneage.-; tt is of the'same kith and deeding peUed from the state. And the. further result is j.vir ,pciicu vm u w, , rnm ceeds wpon higlier principle even than they. For ust nozjDe; iht choice ex AboM Md.neiirhborhoOQS. V : t. ! . Tor-" ,y"u y "iu A judidoos rnmnritte ises aoon each -small ' ntRxl? ". f 3 , ; ?y"y be bDiid and 'Zneadship 'fnnst loan, and tvbih. fl, ttt MtrRm;t s'- -n devottcm. aay saenhee principles of ryi "in to us, we have to remember tverywhere here commands hlghei than am A i.';- . - .. ... . 1. Af j ,frf Hf-. TAm t mnrtitVi f toca mutual aay- n,? ..--xw- . . ,cn.BOt to Wiil X Bryan, i am .wt more interested m tUese xoopera- . . nre5ae. Through, such' companies, he j,ffflmni1.-.' 4 ' - - tive credit.$ocieties because 'they seem .to. me ;,w f--u: SI - r.nrnn tin fl3mone' ' " ' --:: v. ' t eiabracc features which our American farm- : ' ' ' wviuu.u wcil to aaopt. . ion;j,ewDcxry, ,wwwvv, !.,-..fir r-.----, .Byn.mewjg jrMi.cast- that money - This of course, is embarrassing temporarily, hut .which friendship Trrost saarl with an excellent and iterhrteirstK it wiU do good . if it leadsto the ornization of - watchfurcare. iimst act In yourjoend's n v w, MMC- ; cret whether it please ham w.aot; Ihijfivecl of TJ .c Vi-:- v r u,, and nirlifurton ate now Retting insuT- . ia;n c Lir can. -'vx i. ia-5x, .-we are gtaa to see, itTmers m cuv 77" - - - - n&htehtid; airlstiirncrica areninWputv ance on .elr; dwellings and tenant houses ss-yv bt practice";the m?.iJinciplei of -cooperati ; tlan 53 cent La J.R th irtaoe yoa can. ' t . Xt All th Uinu ytta cjuo. . ;. TC all tie ptepJe vxn, - , v at wr fcver you c6. Wtsley'i RuK
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