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La Follette’s Manager |>\'JTOCA.STE.Rj Shs^gressman John H. Nelson of Wisconsin, who will manage the Presidential campaign of Sen. Robt. B. LaFclIette on the Independent’s tkiet. HIS LAST WORDS (Asheville Citizen) The scene is the death chamber of Locke Craig. The time is three kours before his death. The former Governor of North Car olina dismisses those who have kept long watch at his bedside and directs tkac his youngest son, Locke, Jr., be seas to him. The boy comes to his side. “Locke,” the dying man begins, his mice hardly above a whisper, “your »ld daddy is almost gone. Kneel %»re beside my bed.” The boy kneels. There is a pause. "“Son,” the Governor begins again, "itere, with my hand upon upon y»trr head I want you to promise me aoe thing. Promise me to be good to •werybody as long as you live.” *5te good to everybody as long as jvor five.” Those were the last con acrkms words of Locke Craig, one of the greatest orators and best loved men this State ever produced. They are words which every North Canoli jean should remember, not only be cause they were a great mans su jrreme counsel to his beloved son, but sTso because the one who spake ihem had proved them, through his »im career, the open sesame of suc cess. ■CELERY PLANTS FOR SALE 50c per hundred; fine roots. J. C. Karner. Itx V. W. Taylor | NOTARY PUBLIC 1 ' ^' at Granville Motor Co. Getting Good Tires andTubes eveiytime is easy when you know HOWE OXFORD TIRE COMPANY • 25 Main St. y. NOTICE We are installing new ma chinery that will double our a&pacity from 25 bales to 50 bales. WILL BE READY WHEN YOUR CROP IS READY FOR THE GIN. LYNWOOD S. BRYAN This Week iWHEA IS GOING UP. EUGENE MYER JR. IN CHARGE. BEER AND SHIPS. {MORE THAN AIR MAIL SERVICE. } ’--—~ The Department of Agriculture says farmers all lost money on their wheat last year. It cost $1.24 a 1 bushel to grow it. The average price I was 99 cents. Unless all signs fail, jfarmers will get all the wheat costs .{this year and a good deal more. Many sections of the country pro ducing fewer than 15 bushels of wheat to the acre, with labor and fertilizer costing what tie do, it is hard to see how wheat can pay, even at $1.24. The Republican plan is to force the price to $1.50. How many votes would that be worth? If farmers have any wheat un sold from the last crop—they usually have none when the price goes up— let them hang on to it. And if they are wise they will hold for high prices the wheat now being threshed. When the really big people want wheat to go up, as they do now, it goes up. They have the power to make it go. It is not like one in dividual, professional wheat gam bler, or little pool, trying to fight the wolves of the “short side.” Other grains, corn especially, and cotton and stocks, will travel upward with the wheat. What Republican victory, BIG VICTORY, demands is a prosperity boom. You’ll have it. Readers may remember that this writer, when cotton was below 25, announced that it would travel up to 35. It did, moving steadily and higher than 35. What the big fel lows want really happens. Eugene Myer, Jr., able young citi- i zen of many millions, is in charge of the plan to put up the prices of i wheat and of other farm products to I make farmers happy, and enable the Government to lend them more money. DON’T GAMBLE, HOWEVER' It 1 is virtuous to pray that farmers ; may have better times and better prices. It’s foolish to gamble on it. No little man is smart enough or quick enough to survive in that game. « If you happen to come in contact with Eugene Myer, Jr., who is now traveling through the) West, you might get valuable information. It is said he intends to put the average value of cattle up $10 a head. That would help some. A time is coming when lack of American-owned ships will cost us more billions than that same lack i cost in the last war. The various brands of beer, reli- ! gion, foreign entanglements, etc., all have their importance. But none is as important as the safety of the country. And that de pends on ships. ON the water for carrying goods and troops, ABOVE the water and UNDER the water for fighting. A little while ago we were beg ging England to make room for our soldiers in her ships, and paying English shipping companies first cabin rates for less than steerage ! accommodation for American sol diers sent over to help England and 1 ranee. But all that seems to be forgotten. Dr. E. Lyman Fisk, scientific authority, says “Alcohol is a liabil 1 y. Tests prove that “moderate drinkers do not live longer than total abstainers.” That’s interesting and important. However, those on the other side of the fence say “Mere LENGTH of lire is not the important thing. It doesn t matter so much how LONG live ”iVe’ aS h°W EFFICientLY you ,1n^heu/°1Vnger Pitt- for instance, undoubtedly drank himself to death. Gut while he lived he kept Napoleon Bonaparte out of England. And that was more important to English men than having him live to be one undred and fifty would have been. XT m1!’ it inay be said that if he HAD drunk only water, he might have been twice as good a Prime Minister in addition to living to be a hundred. 6 About these things we, as yet, know nothing. While you are sleeping, fliers for tne post office are crossing the con ment, guided by “light patches” blazing with lights of many million fu11!11?- P°wer- Eyer.tually, of course, that lighting will be cheap. It is only a question of power, of bor rowing from the sun in the daytime enough energy to duplicate sunlight feebly at night. Postmaster General New is to be congratulated on his excellent work in developing the aerial mail deliv ery. What he does for a greater mail deliveryt while most important, is of far less value than his admirable work m developing the American njing machine and American fliers. WINDOWS, DOORS, FLOORING, Ceiling, Sideing, Columns, mould ing, frames stair and porch balis ters and every thing to build your house with at prices it will pay you to come and see about. SAMUEL DAVIS, Clarksville, Va. Why Shun The Vice Presidency? | , (New York World) No man refuses to be president of ’ the United States. Many men have j refused the nomination for the vice ! president; often in cases where elec-! tion seemed crtain, half a dozen times as in Mr. Lowden’s case, after a nomination had actually been made.1 Yet the vice presidency is nominally j the office of second importance in : the republic. To sit in a place too high for doz ing and listen to senatorial speeches which senators themselves do not1 hear is a tedious job, but that is not the reason why many shun the vice presidency. The fact is that its in cumbent unless elevated to the presi-' dncy by th dath of is chief—a chance no man likes to contemplate—enters the open door to oblivion. I Who remembers the name of Wil-! liam R. King? Or of D. D. Tomp kins, except in Tompkinsville, S. I. ’ The names of Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun are known, but not be- , cause they were vice president. Ev- ’ en Adlai Stevenson is far better re membered for his ax-work as an As-1 sistant Postmaster General than as vice president. A senator like Hughes, a mayor like Gaynor is a far , bigger figure before the public than! the vice president of his day. The vice presidency is a high title ! without power. The submerged j statesman who holds it may be in vited by a good-natured Harding to sit with the cabinet, but he does not belong there. The only chance he has to express himself or affect pub lic decisions is in a vote on a tie, and that almost never happens. The Con stitution as adopted was strangely ! defective in providing for the presi dential succession and in failing to assign the vice president a task com mensurate to the reasonable ambi tions of a man big enough to be con sidered for the post. The vice pres ident of the United States is a high dignitary who has nothing in the _ BARR WIRE,. HOG WIRE, STOCK j fence, at prices lower than you can j order elsewhere. SAMUEL DA-! VIS, Clarksville, Va. world to do that is worth while and who is fated to be forgotten even be fore his return of office begins. THE 1920 PANIC (Baltimore Sun) There have been since 1870 four nation-wide epochs of depression. In each of these the farmer suffered first, most and longest. Speaking before the Political Study Club, in Washington, Senator Ladd, of North Dakota, thus de scribed the panic of 1920: “On May 18, 1920, without a word of warning or notice, the bal loon credit structure was punctured, discounts were raised, loans were withdrawn, cut down, refused and the entire fabric of American com merce, exchange, manufacture, trans portation, plunged into chaos, threw 6,000,000 workers on the streets by the most heartless, vicious, cruel, and unconscionable stroke of avaricious depravity known in the business his tory of the civilized world. “The Federal Reserve Act was're presented as being intended to sta bilize prices, to make panics impos sible, to give a flexible, adjustable ^ ilrfr 1 * ^ IMrilsI ' dard^em* ^ edy for Chills, Fever and Ague, Dengue and other fevers has been Wintersrii-th’s Chill Tonic. Taken at the hrst sign of these troubles, it wards them off. Fine to taka after almost any illness; its tonic effect is always good. At your drug store; popular size, 60c; mammoth size big value, $1.00. I Wintersmith Chemical Co., Inc, y Louisville, Kentucky UJintersmith’s You Want the Highest Purity Drugs the most skilled druggist and a legitimate price when the Doctor gives you a prescrip tion. We give you all these and the best possible service. We want your business and give you the best we have to prove our appreciation. J. G. Hall Druggist. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. OFFERS Attractive Summer Rates Special Excursion Fares to Niagara Falls and Atlantic City Sold only on certain dates during June, July, Au gust and September, with final limit, 18 days. Fares from Raleigh to Niagara Falls and return, $2^.70; to Atlantic City and return, $16.85. SUMMER EXCURSION FARES from Raleigh to San Fran cisco and Los Angeles, California and return, going via one route and returning another, $129.22. To Norfolk-Ports inouth and return, $10.10; to Virginia Beach, $10.90, and return. WEEK-END Fares. Raleigh to Norfolk-Portsmouth $7.60* to Virginia Beach, 8.15, and return. CORRESPONDINGLY LOW FARES in effect from other sta tions in North Carolina to the above points. For detailed in formation as to rates, dates of sale, limit of tickets, apply to nearest Ticket Agent or to JOHN T. WEST v ,, Division Passenger Agent RALEIGH, N. C. monetary device that would assure security to business ventures. Yet it was deliberately used to rip over $60,000,000,000 from the possessors of property and commodities and hand it over to the interests which secured the enactment of the law.” DAVIS HE PAYS THE FREIGHT. ECZEMA? «HUNr?^RiauT'"i“ i: SKIN DISEASE bvJIIEEi> Jtt (Hunfs SalvtandS® p) fa,vS /*^ in« «kindiseaM90xhrerltch- iKl treatment at our risk. ^ 1 ^ J> G’ HAr^- Dru£s,st --—— Eyesight And Its Care is a matter of great importance, asvC' pKdrern u for au y°ur ,ab- 3 ‘iVe are Specialist in the examination of the eyes and fitting glasses, 2 many years of experience J. W. KNIGHT WHITE S VULCANIZING & RADIATOR -yip Oxford. K. C. G. M. White, Manage,.. “ W Ask The Man who has had his auto radia tor repaired by ns what he think? our work. He will tell you that our repair work made his radiator as Rood as a new one, and he has had no trouble on his car since. Let our e\pert work on yours. Saunders Motor Co. 131 Hillsboro Street. JACK L. SAUNDERS —and— CLAUD L. SAUNDERS Experienced aut© mechanics and were with E. H. Crenshaw for several years. Repair work on all kinds of cars. Ac cesories in stock. GIVE US A TRIAL Fine Words Don’t Make Good Service It’s what’s back of the claims, that makes a good bond or a good service. Service here is on all makes of batteries without discrimination —in the interest of longer bat tery life and greatest possible battery reliability. Come in, and let us show you what we mean by Willard Stan dards of Service. Oxford Battery Co. 8 HOUR BATTERY CHARGING Representing %llaid Batteries (THREADED RUBBER INSULATION) and % Batteries (WOOD SEPARATORS) ^
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