THE COMMONWEALTH.
PUBISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
L. MILLS KITCHI, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the postoffice at Scotland
Neck, N. C, as Second-Class Matter.
Thursday, October 22, 1914.
Even at that, Sherman stated it in
a "whisper. '
Halifax County crows having mo
bolized for their annual autumn sor
tie on Spanish peanut stacks, grow
ers of the famous nut had better be
on guard.
It ramains for the half-witted
street preacher to remind us of the
coincidence of the order for the
contract for two new battleships to
be given the same week.
Will the Greensboro News tell us
the name of the "barker" that cri
ed out in the News columns the at
traction of the Central Carolina
Fair a conple of weeks ago.
Would'nt it have been a little
more appropiate for Miss Clark's
"Wear cotton" movement to have
inserted "More" after "wear"?
She was appealing to the tender sex
we believe.
The Price of Cotton In 1906.
The ; Newton Enterprise, taking
note of the absurd and demagogical
attempt of Republican speakers to
charge the price of cotton to a Dem
cratic administration, recalls that in
November, 1906, cotton sold as low
as 6 cents and that a meeting was
held in the court house at Newton
and delegates appointed to attend a
meeting of farmers and manufac
turers in New Orleans, held to form
ulate plans to stem the downward
" price of cotton. Continuing the En
terprise says:
Many of our readers will remem
ber that meeting in the courthouse.
It was a non-partisan meeting. It
was the mid-term election year of
Theodore Roosevelt's second admin
istration. The election was just
over and nobody then or during the
campaign attributed the low price
to. politics. Instead of cryinjr ca
lamity- ir the" campaign that year J
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ouu ujfuig uu mm a misiorcune inh
all alike regretted, to the party in
power at Washington and for the
election of their candidates for coun
ty offices, the Democrats, and the
Enterprise did its full part, counsel
ed patience and concert action in
marketing a crop that was so large
that if thrown on the market hur
riedly would cause much distress.
This was the beginning of organized
co-operation of Southern farmers.
- It won that year, for by spring and
summer the price rose to 8 cents.
If Democrats had gone over the
country that year blaming Roose
velt with the price of cotton and
howling politics, as Republicans are
now doing, they would have made
themselves ridiculous and been guil
to of dishonesty and crime
That year the crop was three or
four million bales less than it is this
year. There was no war anywhere
in the world. The seas were open
and the great mills of England,
France and Germany, Austria and
. Russia were running on full time.
Contrast the conduct of Demo
crats in 1906 with Republicans this
year. Instead of attributing the
present low price of cotton to the
war that has taken the men out of
the mills of all Europe and sent them
to battle, as they know is the case,
and co-operating with and aiding
, the farmers to hold their cotton,
they are playing the role of the
demagogue and the enemy of the
farmers. -
Honor Roil Oak City High School.
Oak City, N. C, Oct. 20. The fol
lowing is the honor roll of the Oak
City high school:
First grade Elaise Ross, Pauline
Davenport, Hazel Piland, Margaret
Hines, Mary Medford, Sarah Long
Johnson, Gladys Everett, Myrtella
Hyman, Lucile House.
Second grade Rudolph Whitley,
Clifton Hyman, Christine Piland.
Third grade Syble Ross, Virginia
Hines.
Fourth grade Elizabeth -Moore,
v Selma Johnson, Annie Hurst, Mary
""Lee Savage, Wheeler Daniels, Her
, man Piland. ' : -.
Fifth grade Edgar Dimmette,
Bertha Piland.
True
The south must take steps to take
care of and protect it3 products
after they have been made, So fat
as agricultural producion is concern
ed it can be easily demonstrated that
the south is wasting from 5 to 50
per cent of its energy and industry. J
Wilmington Star. , I
CURRENT NEWSPAPER GOSSIP,
Sayings of the Press About What is
Taking Place Here and There.
Now that the franchise election is
over in Wilmington, what will they
start for a lively time? Those Wil
mington sports rau-.t have an excite
ment circus nearer home than Eu
rope. Bladen Journal.
"I t 13 understood that Raleigh
will have a warm municipal cam
I aign next spring. Already there is
talk of candidates for the jots as
commissioners, but the spring will
bring out 'many more." Raleigh
Times.
Fewjersons ever go down under
the weight of their own burdens
and responsibilities. It is when
they have to assume too mans of the
burdens and responsibilities of oth
ers that the crash generally comes.
Henderson Gold Leaf.
Perhaps, some folks may feel that
speakers and newspapers are worry
ing them a powerful lot about the
proposed ' Constitutional amend
ment, but they will worry much
more and much longer if the amend
ments are not adopted. Wilming
ton Dispatch.
In deducing by twenty per cent,
his own salary and the salaries of aU
employes receiving -over $2,500 a
year, President Harrison, of the
Southern Railway, sets tn example
of retrenchment beginning at the end
most capable of standing it. Nor
folk Virginian Pilot. '
Just a century ago all Europe was
in war against Napoleon at thirtysix
he had conquered Europe. He had
forced his way from petty, office
rank to command of the continent.
The seeds of the present European
war were shown in his meteoric ca
reer. Greenville Reflecter.
In the present condition of the
cotton market is found an unanswer
able argument why our farmers
shouM grow le?s cotton, raise those
things that will enable them to live
at home and have some corn, oats,
wheat, hay and hog meat to sell.
These last named articles always
bring a good price. Gastbnia Ga
zette. If American industries do not get
the swing during the European war,
then there is no virtue in the re
publican cry of protection. Euro
pean imports, especially from Ger
many, have been entirely cutoff ard
Americans will be compelled to buy
million of dollar. of American made
gocds. The war is in effect a high
protective tariff." Raleigh Times.
A college education may not fit a
young man with special knowledge
for any given business, but four or
live years of mer.tal broadening will
develop h's intelligence and his ca
pacity to learn and to. adapt hirrs If
to the needs .of business That is.
one advantage. Annfhpr is th cul
ture that'education brings, the inter
ests to which it introduces us.
Smithfield Herald.
There is no doubt that there will be
more small grain planted in Robe
son this year than ever before. We
hear of one thirty-two horse farm
in the country that will be sown en
tirely m wheat, oats and rye. The
owners will find that they will real
ize more money for small grain, fol
lowed by peas, lhan they would
from cotton even at a fair price.
Let others do likewise. It wouldn't
be a bad idea to cut out cotton en
tirely for one year.-Lumberton
Tribune.
The report of the corporation com
mission on the condition of the
state banks shows that more is be
ing put in the saveings and time ac
counts by the depositors and less be
ing carried on open accounts.
There may be some ground for crit
icism, which has been going the
rounds, that others besides the
banks were guilty of hoarding, but
then the spirit of saving is a. good
one and should be encouraged.
Kin3ton Free Press.
A Gto3 Business Stroke
It would be a good business stroke
for the farmer to exchange some cot
ton for "blooded stock either hogs or
cattle, and make for. better meats
which always command a high price.
Some of the raisers of fancy cattle
in the state are offering to give ten
and one half cents for cotton in ex
change for cattle. Williamston En
terprise. H017 CHILDREN GROW
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If your children are under-size, under
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Remember the date and
place.
Tuesday,
Oct. 27, 1914.
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