NEWS FROM ABROAD
(Dr. E. C. Branson, Stuttgart, April
25)
We are quartered in Stuttgart for
ten days or so, the capital of Wur
temberg, a German state that lies
along the Swi-ss border, as Pold and
Rutherford counties in North Caroli
na lie along the foothills of the Blue
Ridge. We are directly south of
Hamburg and fourteen hours dis
tance from it by fast train. Our
route skirts the occupied area all the
way along, and we came as the crow
flies.
Riding on the Rail.
The German trains are fewer of
late but tnere are no signs of disor
dered service. We left Ham,burg on
the minute, changed cars twice on
the minute, no train late by so much
as a minute at any junction point,
and we arrived in Stuttgart on the
minute. It may not be so every day
everywhere in Germany, but in these
notes I am recording exactly what
falls under my eye from day to day.
We found that travel in a second
class car in Germany is less luxur
ious than Pullman car service at
home, but distinctly better than first
" class day coaches on any road 1
know the United States over. Our
compartment companions were Ger
mans and two Hungarians of mani
fest wealth and culture. Nearly all
of them spoke English of a sort,
enough to be pleasantly chatty and |
helpful when we needed to change j
trains. One was a German steel |
manufacturer in the occupied terri
tory, a gentleman of perhaps seven
ty, gentle and genial in face and
manner—a most charming person
ality. He sat quietly reading in his
corner until he discovered our per
plexity about trains at the next junc
tion point, then told us that he too
was bound for Stuttgart, most grac
iously took charge of us, changed
cars with us and escorted us to our
hotel.
German oiuxesj.
We have had nothing but courtes
ies in Germany from everybody ev
ervwhere. if the Germans harbor a
grudge against America we have not
yet discovered it. True, they think
that all Americans are rich. Have
they not the Dollar, they say—Edel
valuta, they call it, perhaps in con
trast with their own fallen mark.
But neither in hotels nor stores do
they charge us excessive prices. But
then, Stuttgart is not a center of
tourist travel and it is not infected
with the tricks of tourist trade.
The effusive greetings and re
sponses, the hat-tipping and the
bowing among acquaintances on the
streets and in the hotels are impres
sive and engaging. It is merely the
immemorial custom of these people
amOUS themselves, and we merely
shareWtheee courtesies with all the
Stuttgartners of high estate and low.
But there is no discoverable trace ot
servility or snobbery. There is no
flunkeyism in hotels, streets, o
Stores., and no attempt m word or
manner to hold up tor
Tips and Hotel Charges.
Along with the natives we are tax
ed thirty percent on hotel rooms
fifteen percent for service, and ten
percent on food checks, but beyond
these charges no gratuities are ex
pected and none are offered by gen
eral custom, except for special per
sonal services. No tipping m
only the law but the habit ot Stutt
aart. There are exceptions, ot
course, but they are fairly rare in.
Wurtemberg. Our bill for twel\e
days in the Marquardt hotel, the best
hotel in South Germany, was ?31.0U
for the three of us; $37.50 was the
room charge alone for one for ten
days in the St. James hotel in New
York. Some difference that.
A Busy People.
The day trip south from Hamburg
gave us a car-window look at west
ern Germany bordering the area oc
cupied by the French. The way
One* Do.»*r Saves Represents Ten
Dollars Earned.
The average man does not save to
exceed ten pei v.ent of his earnings.
He must spend nine do’lars in living
expenses for every dollar saved. That
being the case he cannot bee too
careful about unnecessary expenses.
Very often a few cents properly in
vested, like buying seeds for his gar
den, will save several dollars outlay
later on. It is the same in buying
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea
Remedy. It costf but a few cents,
and a bottle of it in the house often
saves a doctor’s bill of several dol
lars. adv
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| Every Meal j
I Have a packet in yeur |
E pocket for ever-ready |
E refreshment. |
S Aids digestion. |
|| Allays thirst. I
Gj Soothes the throat. ■
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I along the roa£ js thickly settled with
towns and cities. Almost without
exception they are manufacturing
centers, and apparently none are
[idle. But whether the town be large
I or small, industrial or not, the soil
|is cultivated right up to the factory
[walls. Almost every square inch
| shows vegetables, fruits or flowers.
S Always the crops of the open fields
reach the railroad right-of-way, some
times even the right-of-way is itself
under cultivation, and occasionally
the space between the tracks in the
station yards. It is no exaggeration
to say that a single wheelbarrow
would contain all the weeds we saw
in our fourteen hour trip. The grain
fields, orchads, and vineyards are as
trig and trim as Collier Cobb’s front
yard. In the late evening hours aft
er the long work day, the factory
workers with their wives and child
ren are buisy gardening. • Not all of
them, to be sure, but enough of them
to indicate the ingrained habits of
toil in Germany. The signs of in
dustry are on ever hand. Nobody is
idle, everybody works. Nobody is in
a hurry but soldiering on a job is ap
parently a lost art among these wage
earners. What we look upon all day
long is moving specticle of unhasting,
unresting toil. Existence necessi
ties must be satisfied, no matter what
capers the mark may cut.
. Farm Villages
I note from the car window that
farm villages—what the Germans call
dorfer—are set thick in the land
scape a mile or two apart in all direc
tions. They are groups of substan
tial farm buildings with terra cotta
tile roofs. The gleaming red of the
house-tops gives them the fresh ap
p^arence of new construction, al
though they may be four or five cen
turies old, as many of them are.
They look at a distance like little
towns of from fifty to five hundred
homes. Commonly they are off the
railroads. They are self-sustaining i
and nearly self-sufficing little farm j
communities. Everybody in these!
little villages is a farmer, and the vill
age farm of from ton to twenty acres
lie in small patches in various direc
tions in the immediate vicinity. In
the early morning and evening hours
the men, women, and children can he
seen tramfping out to their fields and
back again—long processions of farm
workers, as 1 see them from the car
window.
Country Life Contrasts
I shall be making special studies of
these farm communities during the
next six weeks. In South and Cen
tral Germany there are 1,200,000 of
these small home-owning farmers,
dwelling in compact social groups,
not in solitary farmsteads a few to
the square mile in the vast open
spaces as in North Carolina, in the
United States everywhere, and in the
Western World in general. It is
lonsomeness alone that accounts for
much of the cityward drift of coun
try people in America. It is the so
cial life of home-owning farmers in
farm villages that will save the coun
try life of Europe from falling into
decay that threatens America. The
country civilization of North Carolina j
and the Nation is slated for destruc- j
tion in the next generation or two un- |
i
£1 Cures Malaria, Chills j
V V v and Fever, Dengue or '
Bilious Fever. !
unless farm life in comjnrunities or'
colonies can, begin a rapid develop
ment.
Helpful Friends
During the next month or so we
shall be guests of Baron von Der
Lippe, in the Schlossgut Engelburg,
j which crowns an eminence overlook
ing the little farm village of Winter
bach, twenty miles east of Stuttgart.
A companion guest is the charming
w.ife. of Professor Herman Staab, a
distinguished member of the faculty
of Romance Languages at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Their
names are an open sesame to.every
thing in Wurtemberg, Baden, and
South Germany in General.
—County agents employed by the
j State College and Department of Ag
j riculture are holding their annual
! summer conference during July.
Groupu meetings are being held at
Monroe, Beaufort and New lands.
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COMMUNITY LIFE
(Wilmington Star)
A community is ideal just in the
degree that, its citizens as indivi
duals are self-respecting, consider
ate, loyal and sympathetic; and its
business interests intelligent, co-op
erative and energetic. There is noth
ing mysterious about the progressive
and forward-looking community for
these terms are convertible with hu
man nature at its best. When busi
ness rivalries beget harsh, unjust and
malicious antagonism, not only in
community progress arrested, but so
cial standards are made to suffer and
personal attributes lose their virtue.
To enter fully into the spirit of these
verities, it is only necessary to recol
lect that the com unity is but the in
dividual amplified.
A community is what its average
citizens MakTuT^r^r^
do nothing more than leave !?** ^
and the standard is low (r l- *K
in the degree that the lumn i h ^
tive and capable of rising. ^
A Splendid Medicine for^hTT^
and Liver.
“Chamberlain’s Tablets f
stomach and liver are snlerSL tb{
never tire of telling my I
neighbors of their qualitv ^
Mrs. William Vollmer, Eastw^
Y. When bilious, eonst^'*'
troubled with indigestion 51!*. «t
a trial. They will do you L®/**
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Cuts-sores'
Cleanse thoroughly,.
without rubbing, annlv “**
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Over 17Million
DURING FRUIT SEASON
> you will need
JARS, TOPS AND RUBBERS.
\ We have the Mason and Ideal in half gal
; Ions, quarts and pints. Extra tops to fit
any can, also rubbers.
Prices Reasonable.
H. J. COUNCIL
College Street.
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Most of your neighbors drive motor cars. They can go where and when they
choose. Their cars play a large part in their daily life, furnishing them with
quick and convenient transportation for both business and pleasure.
Realizing what the automobile means to the average family in bringing them
greater enjoyment of life, we have arranged to extend our facilities to those
who desire to become owners of Ford cars through the new Ford Weekly
purchase Plan.
Under this plan you can begin an initial deposit as low as $5.00. Then se
lect the type of Ford car you want—Touring Car, Runabout, Coupe, Sedan*
etc.—and arrange to make weekly deposits on which will be computed at our »
regular savings rate of 6 per cent.
•
Come in and let us further explain the Ford Weekly Purchase Plan to you.
Start today, and before you realize it you will be driving your own car.
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