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1 rr,4 CIECXTLATIOS f of auy 7 ft S ABEETISnTG MSDHJ2X SZallfaz Comity Newspaper Established 1882. i IN CAEOLUTA ! L. HlLI.fi KITCHGI, liditcr sad Proprietor. SUBSOSIPTIOH $LGO PEE YEAS. VOL. XXXI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 20y 1315. NUMBER 28. lf Hp IT553 jjjj wwai X if 1 ' r.o a it s Cei! 1-7-4 it Pays You 1 t4 li Everything fresh and sanitary if you buy from my store, and the 7 1 is me best mat car be had. Prices as low. as can be made. Cf My customers do not complain, but praise the groceries 1 1 the f ev rom my store. Quick sales keep them fresh and clean Many thanks for your patronage. Doth Telephones 1-7-4 Clee Vaughan Tlit Pocahontas Virginia Beach, Va. Three-story Coitagre, very wide Voivada?, directly oa ocean, fine tab' and grood service. Near 17th S:. Station. Fur terms address Mrs. A. B. Williams. II ancock-IIouse Co., In Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Day or night service anywhere . 1- Williams. Lieer.sed Embalmer .1. E. Woolard Transfer Scotland Neck, North Carolina Cars for lure. Cars repaired. Po lite attention. Quick service. Tel ephones Residence 45. Office 66. Alien Allsbrook House Mover Gotland Neck, North Carolina K you are thinking of having ? -use of anv kind moved see me at ';c -. Price reasonable. Af-;ii;y W. Dunn Attorney at Law -o-land Neck, North Carolina oney to loan on approved secu- Dr. T. jO. Kitcliin Physician and Surpreon Scotland Neck. North Caroiin Office in Postoflice Building: over North End Drugstore. Telephones - 03::e 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in building formerly used by i.r. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. II. 1L. Savage PuckyMount, North Carolina Will be in Scotland Neck on the ' v.rd Wednesday of each month at t :e hotel to treat the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses Br. B. F. Keel Dentist Scotland Neck, North Caralina Successor Dr. A. C Livermon Office up-stsirs in the Whitehead Buiiding. Office hours, from 9 to 1 : id 2. to 5 o'clock. From 7 to 9 p. m. by appointment. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Representing the Metropolitan Life Insurance 0--. VT v'rk CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE THEM PREFERENCE IN APPRO PRIATIONS. By Peter Radford. This nation Is now entering upon an era of marine development. The wreckage of European commerce has drifted to our shores and the world war is making unprecedented de mands for the products of farm and factory. In' transportation facilities on land we lead the world but our port facilities are inadequate, and cur flag is seldom seen in foreign ports. If our government would only divert the energy wo have displayed in conquer ing the railroads to mastering the commerce of the sea, a foreign bot tom would be unknown on the ocean's highways. This article will be confined to a discussion of our ports for the pro ducts of the farm must pass over our wharfs before reaching the water. Wo have in this nation 51 ports, of which 41 are on the Atlantic and 10 are on the Pacific Coast. The Sixty-second Congress appropriated over $-51,000,-0C0 for improving our Rivers and Harbors and private enterprise levies a toll cf approximately $50,000,000 annually in wharfage and charges for which no tangible service is rendered. The latter item should be lifted off the backs of the farmer cf this na tion and this can be done by Congress directing it 3 appropriations to ports that are free where vessels can tie up to a wharf and discharge her cargo freo of any fee cr charge. A free port is progress. It takes out the unnecessary link in the chain of transactions in commerce which has for centuries laid a heavy hand upon commerce. No movement is so heavily" "laden! wltn"' results '"of4"' wfti more widely and equally distribute its benefits as that of a free port and none can be, more easily and ef fectively secured. By Peter Radford. There is no escaping the market problem and the highest development of agriculture will not be attained until it is solved, for a market is as necessary for the producer as land on which to grow his crop. Governmental and educational insti tutions have spent $180,000,000 in the United States daring the past ten years for improving soil production and improving seeds and plants, but very littl-3 attention and less money has been given to the marketing side cf agriculture. The problem is a monumental one and one which will never be solved until it gets within the grasp cf a gigantic organization where m-3ter minds can concgitrate the combined experience and wisdom cf the as upon it. It is a problem which tba farmers, merchants, bankers, editors and statesmen must unite in solving. The Farmers' Union stands for all there is in farming from the meit scientific methods of seed selection to the most systematic and profitable plans of marketing, but does not be lieve in promoting one to the neglect of the other. We consider the work of farm demonstrators valuable and we ask that governmental and com mercial agencies seeking to help us, continue to give us their assistance and advice, but we believe that their influence should be extended to the marketing side ot our farm problems also. We cannot hope to develop manu facturing by over-production of the factory; we cannot build up mercan tile enterprises by the merchants load ing their shelves with surplus goods and no more can we develop agricul ture by glutting the market with a surplus of products. DARIUS The neigh of a horse made Dariu3 King of Persia, the six contending powers for the throne aif-eeing among themselves that the one whose horse should neigh first should possess the kingdom. This ancient method of settling disputes among politicians could be' revived with profit today. If our partisan factions and petty pol iticians could only settle their dis putes by the neigh of a horse, the bark of a dog or the bray of a donkey, it would be a great blessing and would give our citizens a better opportunity to pursue the vocations of industry free from political strife. Let those who pick political plum3 by raisins rows and who flash sword3 dripping in the blood of industry un derstand that they cannot turn tho public forum into a political arena and by a clash of personal aspirations still the hammer and stop the plow and that their quarrels must be settled in the hack allays civilizatiou. THE MAL PROBLEM OF II 18 111 RESTLESS? C EST! NY UPON OF NATIONS DEPENDS CONTENTED HOMES. 7, -: By W. D. Lewis. 5 " ; President Texas Farmers' Union. Why is -woman dissatisfied? Why does she grow restless under tn9 , crown of womanhood? Why is she weary of tho God-given jewel of moth erhood? Is it not a sufficient political achievement for woman that future rulers nurse at her breast, laugh in her arms and kneel at her feet? Can ambition leap to more glorious heights than to sing lullabies to the world'3 greatest genuises, chant melodies to master minds and rock the cradle of human destiny? God pity our country when the hand shake of the politician is more grati fying to woman's heart than the pat ter of children's feet. Woman Is Ruler Over A!J. Why dees woman chafe under re straint of sex? Why revile the hand of nature? Why discard the skirts that civilization has clung to sinco the beginning cf time? Yvhy lay aside this hallowed garment that has wiped the tears of sorrow from the face of childhood? In its sacred embrace every generation has hidden its face in shame; cMnging to its motherly folds, tottering children have learned to play hide and seek and from it youth learned to reverence and re spect womanhood. Can man think of his mother without this consecrated garment? Why this inordinate thirst for pow er? Is not woman all powerful? Man cannot enter this world without her consent; he cannot remain in peaco without her biessing and unless sho sheds tears of regret over his depar ture, he has lived in vaia. Yvhy this longing for civic power when God hag made her ruler over all? Why crave authority when man bows down a?id worships her? Man has given woman his heart, his name and hi3 money. Can man find it In his heart to IcoS with pride upon the statement that his honorable mother-in-law was one of the most powerful political bosses i:i the. country, that his distinguished grandmother was one cf the ablest filibusters in the Cenato cr that his mother was a noted warrior and he? name a terror to the enemy? Whither are we drifting and where will wo land? God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked Nation. j I follow the plow for a living ar.3 j my views may have in them the sme;3 of the soil; my hair is turning whito under the frost of many winters and perhaps I am a little old-fashioned, but I believe thcrs is more moral in fluence 'in the dress of woman than )n all the statute books of the land. As an agency for morality, I wouldn give mv good old mother's home made gowns for all the suffragette's constitutions and by-laws in the worl-JI, As a power for purifying society, I wouldn't give one prayer of my saintly mother for all the women's votes in Christendom. As an agency tor good government, I wouldn't give the plea of a mothers heart for righteousness for all the oaths cS office in the land. There is more power in the smilo of woman than in an act of congress. There are greater possibilities for good government in her family cf. laughing children than in the cab inet of the president of the United States. The destiny cf this nation lies in the home and not in the legislative halls. The hearthstone and the fam ily Bible will ever remain the scarce of cur inspiration and the Acta cf tho Apostles will ever shine brighter than the acts of Congress. This country is law-mad. Why add to a statute book, already groaninc; under -its own weight, the hysterical cry of woman? If we never had a chance to vote again in a lifetime and did not pass another law in twenty five years, we could survive the or deal, but without home, civilizatic.3 would wither and die. God save these United States from becoming a hen-pecked nation; help us keep sicsies out cf Congress and forbid that women become step fathers to government, is the prayer of the farmers of this country. A DIVINE COVEr,'A?T. God Almighty gave Eve to Aaara with the pledge that she would be his helpmeet and with this order of com panionship, civilization has towered to its greatest heights. In this rela tionship, Gcd has blessed woman and man has honored her and after four thousand years of progress, she now proposes to provoke God to decoy man by asking for suffrage, thereby by amending an agreement to which she was not a party. Woman, remember that the Israelite scorned a divine covenant, and as a result wandered forty years in tho wilderness without God. Likewise man should remember that it is - a dangerous thing to debase woman by law. Rome tried lowering 'woman's standard and an outraged . civilization tore the clothes off the backs of the human race and turned them out to roam in the world naked and un ashamed. : OUR PUBLIC PORUM v 1 Introductory Through' the Press Service of Agri-' culture and Commerce, the master minds of this nation will be invited to the public forum and asked to de liver a message to civilization. Men " who achieve seldom talk, . and men ,who talk seldom achieve. There is o such thing as a noisy thinker, and brevity is always a close companion to truth. "- " . It will be a great privilege to stand by tha side of men who Jean roil in pla.ee the cornerstone of, Industry; to associate with, men wl;$ ' can look at the world and see to 'tho bottom of it; to commune with inca who can hear the rear of civilization - a fev centuries away. Too cftcti wo listen to the rabble element cf our day , that, cries cut against every man who,, achieves, "Crucify him." Mankind never - has and probably never will produce a generation that appreciates the genius of its day. There neve? will be a crown without a cress, progress with out sacrifice or an. achievement with out a challenge. This is an age of service, and that man is greatest who serves the larg est number. The present generation has dene more to improve the con dition of mankind than any civiliza tion since- human motives-' began their upward flight. The Greeks gave human life inspiration but while' her orators were speaking with, the' tongues' of angels, her farmers were plowing with forked sticks; while her phil csophers were emancipating human thought from bondage, her traSo OUR PUBLIC FORUM . , ry L. E. Johnson On Two-Cent Passenger Rates The farmers of ' this nation aro vitilly interested in railroad rates and . equity be tween passenger raid freight rates is ' eecially . im portant to. tho man who ' follows tho plow for the farmer travels very little but he is a heavy con tributor tO tho freight revenues. Spine of the states have a two cent passenger rate and whatever loss is incurred is recov ered through freight revenue. The Rus tics of such a procedure was recently passed UT.cn by the . Supreme Court cf West Virginia and the decision is so far-reaching that we have askod L. E. Johnscn, president cf the Nor folk and Western Railway whoso road contested the ease to briefly review the suit. Mr. Johnson said in part: 'Toms ten years ago, passenger fares were 3xcd by the legislatures of a h-.rge number of states at two cents a mile. As a basis for such economic legislation, no examination was Eiac'o cf the cost of doing the business so regulated, nor was any attention given to the fact whether such a rate would yield to the rail way companies an adequate or any net ratrn upon the capital invested in conducting this class of business. "Such a law was passed in West Virginia in 1007. The Norfolk and Western Railway Company put the rate into effect and 'maintained it for two yer.r. Its accounting during these two years shewed that two cents a mils per passenger barely paid the out-of-pocket cost and noth ing was left to pay any return on capital invested. It sought relief from Jill OUR 'PUBLIC FORUM ' -- 'ISM ill Julius Kruttschnitt On Financing Railroads The farmers of j this nation need 1 to become better acquainted with the railroad men and their prob lems. It is only those who know that can give us information and . the farmers cf America should listen attentively to what the men who manage rail road property have to say. Mr. Kruttschniit, exec utive head of the Southern Pacific, has written an article dealing with tho financing of railroads. He said in part: . "The financing of a railroad is a function which the people, through their servants, the Railroad Commis sioners ' and the Legislators, have never attempted, but it is a most' im portant - problem, especially to sec tions cf a Slate where new railroads are needed. The placing of securities has been left entirely with the pro moter and owner of railroads. "The immediate determination of what earnings the railroad shall be permitted to receive and what, bur dens it shall have put on it is in the UiUids of other servants of the public ! ' moved on two-wheeled carts driven, and cfttimcs drawn, by slaves; whiie- he'r artists were painting divine dreams cn canvas, the streets cl proud Athens waro lighted by fire-: brands dipped in tallow. The genius cf past ages sought to; arouse the intellect raid stir the soul. but the master minds of today are- j seeking to serve. Civilisation has as signed to America tha greatest t?-sk ot the greatest cge, and the greatest men that ever trod the greatest planet are solving it. Their achievements have astounded the whole world and we challenge every ago and nation to name men or products that can approach in creative genius cr mas terful skill in organization, tho mar velous achievements cf the tremend ous men cf the present day. Edison can press a button and turn a light cn multiplied millions cf homes; Vail can take down tho receiver and talk with fifty millions of people; '"Mc cormick's reaper can harvest tho world's crop, and Fulton's steam en gine moves the cornmerco of land, and sea. Tho greatest thing a human being can do is to serve his fellow men; Christ did it; Kings decree it, and wise men teach it. It is the glory of this practical age that Edison could find no higher calling. than to become. the janitor to civilization; Vail the messenger to mankind; McCormick the hired hand to agriculture, and Fulton tho teamster to industry, and blessed is the age that has such ir.asterc for itp servants. . . . both the State and the Railway Com pany testified that the claims of tho railroad were sustained' by the facts Two cents did not pay the cost c2 carrying a passenger p. mile. Tho State, however, contended tliat tho railroad was earning" encuh surplus on its state freight business in- cive a fair return upon tho capital used in its pacsengcr as well as its freight business. lor tho purposes of tho ease, the railroad did not deny this, but held to its contention that tho State cculd not segregate its pas senger business for., rate lining with out allowing a rate that would bo ru3cic::t to pay the cost' of doit??? business and enough to give somo return upon the capital invested in coirs the "easiness regulated. This was the izcue presented to the Su preme Court. Its decision responds 1o the garment cf the fair-minded sentiment of the country. The Su preme Court says that, even though a railroad earns a surplus on a par ticular commodity by charging rea sonable rates, that avcrd.3 no reason for compelling it to haul another's person cr property for less than cost. The surplus from, a reasonable rate properly belongs to the railway com pany. If the surplus is earned from an unreasonable rate then that rate should be reduced. Tho State may not even up by requiring the railroad to carry other trahTc for nothing or for less than cost. The decision is a wholesome on 3 and demerptratc-s that the ordinary rules of fair dealing apply to railway companies. The fact that one makes a surplus on his wheat crop would never he. urged as a. reason for com pelliag him to sell his cotton at leas than cost. It would not satisfy tho man who wanted bread to be- told that its high price enabled the cotton manufacturer to gzt his raw product for -less than cost. In this care tho court rer.nirmed the ncncly maxim that each tub must , stand upon ita tho Legislators and the Commie- sionern. "Managing a railroad is quite differ ent from managing a government where the money i? raised by taxa tion. When the expenditures, for good reasons cr otherwise, increase, taxes can be equally increased. Th railroads, while servants of tho pub lic, cannot raise money with such ease and facility. The railroads mut keep their expenditures within their inccir.es because while they have some control over their expenditures they have almost no control over their incomes, their rates being, fixed by public authorities. "There is not a railway manager in the country today who is not fearful that utider the prer. c-f Increasing de mands the transportation systems of tho country will, in a few yeafs, break down, unless the railroads are allowed to earn larger funds wherewith to build it tip. There are vast sections of the country, especially in the West, whero rnoro rifilroads are needed and they cannot be built unless the rail ways raise new capital. "People . invest money in order to make money, and they are skeptical as to whether they can make money by investing in concerns that are desit with stringently and uLf airly. Kail road securities -must be made' more attractive to invite investments, and In order-that they may bo made more attractive, the roads must he allowed earnings , that will e.mhlp them- to meet the increased capital rharges." THE ' BMTLE OF jAgricultural end Commercial Tress Service! It is interesting to watch the forces of civilization battling for supremacy. The struggle now going on between the rubber and the iron tire promises to be tho liveliest contest of the Twen tieth Century. The struggle is a silent one and there are no war correspondents to write vivid descriptions of the con flict but the results are more far reaching to present and future gen erations than the war of Europe. The rubber tire has been maneuver ing for point of attack for several years and has captured a. few unim i;ortant positions in traffic, but ft has now pitched a decisive b?.ttlo with its iron competitor Uy hurling a mil lion "jitneys" at the street railways and the battle is raging from ocean to ocean. Upon the result of the struggle depends the future cf the rubber tire. If it is compelled to re treat, its doom is sealed, but if it wins the battle it will revolutionize the transportation methods of this nation. I? the rubber tire conquers the street traSc its next struggle is with the railroads of the country, and then the greatest battle between economic forces ever fought out oa the face of this earth is err, for iron is the un disputed master in transportation, and i3 fortified behind billions of dollars, and millions of men. Stephenson applied the steel tiro to an iron rail in 1S.14, but it was ISti'J before the golden spike was driven at Promontory Point, which bound tho country together with bands of steel. It took the iron tiro fifty-live years to creep from ocean to ocean, butjthe rubber tire while warm from the creative mind cf the inventive genius sped across tho continent like an arrow shot from the bow of Ulys ses. The roadbed was already pre pared and therein lies the power of the rubber tire over that of iron, for government builds and maintains the public highway. But iron is a stubborn metal and it has masfered every wheel that turns; has fought battles with every element above and beneath the earth c-iid haj ue.'r- tastci- Ike- worswicd ;-,! cr defeat, and when rubber hurls its full force against this monarch of the Mineral Kingdom, it may rebound to tho factory stunned beyond recov ery. The rubber tire first made its ap pearance on the bicycle, but it proved a frivolous servant and was dismissed for incompetency. It has always been too much inclined to revel in luxury to bo taken seriously as a utility ma chine and. its reputation is not one to inspire confidence in heavy traffic pcrfcrfctance. But to those who care to waft into dreamland, it is enchanting to note that there will bo a marvelous differ ence between a rubber and an iron age. Tho rubber tire will scatter the cities throughout the valleys for with transportation at every man's door, why a city? It will traverse the con tinent with a net work of Macadam highways as beautiful as the boule vard built by Napoleon. It will par alyze the law making bodies of this nation for how could the legislatures run without the railroads to operate on? FEI1L IBOSTfiL 111! Uy Peter Radford. The recent investigation of the United Slates Commission of Indus trial Relations brought together the extremes of' society and has given the public au opportunity to view the rep resentatives of distinct classes, side by side, and to study their views in parallel columns. Capital and labor have always been glaring at each other over gulfs of misunderstanding and if the Federal Industrial Commission attempts to bridge the chasm, it will render tho public a distinct service. The farmer has been sitting cn the fence watching Capital and labor fight for many yearn and incidentally furn ishing tho sinews cf war and it is quite gratifying to find them talking with, instead of. about, each oth When honest men smilo and lock iut each other's sculs, it always makes LOS the world better and far more satis factory to the. farmer, who in the end. "Cars the burden of conflict, than resolutions, speeches or pamphlets containing charges and counter charges. The love for justice makes the whole world kin. Understanding is an s arbiter far more powerful than the ! mandates of government, for there is no authority quite co commanding as an honest conscience; there is no de cree quite so binding as. that -of tho Supreme Court of Common Sense and , no sheiufT can keep the peaco quito so perfect as Understanding. ' We suppose tho time will never come when capital and labor will not be occasionally blinded by the light ning flashes 'of ava-iee cr frightened1 by the thunder peals of discontent. But Lnderctandmg is a iJr:nco of Peace that ever holds out tho olive branch to men who - want to do riht. 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