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Friday, September 16, 1927
More Schools and Better Schools
- We hear much about the progress'the slaving demanded in the carry
being made today and about the a.-1 ing on o| the big affairs U|>on which
bundance of our prosperity. A por- our society is biillt are divided into
tion of the things that /we prize as two classes: A very small fierrentage |
our marks of prosperity are i*rma- are volunteers, ijfcepting the bur- \
nentrrrOße jajL-tfenf, the good roads, dens of their ftwn free will; but most
the storms but rise and fall as quickly rof them are in the class which has!
Most of them, however, can not stand to accept these burdens because they |
as the shifting tides. know nothing else lo do.
The single thing that we can bank The reforms we craveTTtfe equali
on as the only thing that will help > zation of burdens so they may be
Us the year arwunjj and life through ! borne by all alike, can only be ac
is the public school. When we see 1 quired by an educated |*ople. For j
in our own midst the development that reason, every child, regardless of I
of the public free schools and read who he is or what he or she expects!
of the same interest in all other com- to do, should be educated to think j
munities, we can visualize a genera !on equal terms and. equal in
tion to take our places that will be j telligence with the man with whom j
better prepared to cope with big bus- he has to deal, It is only the fool |
iness and have a l>etter system of Who thinks the mafi who makes the |
meeting trade relations than wr of plow shoufd know more than the man |
this day. — r who uses it
It would i>erha|)s l>e too much uh a
1 ' Ihe parent who thinks Ins child!
strain-on this generation to educate , ,
. , „ , lias no need timse any of his |*)wers
up to the neoessarv standard all the ■ . , , .
; except his muscles has a very low;
children who will lie calleq on to , ~,,, .
u ii n ~u a ■ , u i. | conception of his. child s rights,
handle all of the affairs of church,
state, commerce, and Industry in J ..More schools and better schools
their day. . should be our slogan every day in
The people today who are doing | the year.
Captain J. J. Laughinghouse
In the sath of Captain JL- J. and always rejoiced in the service he
Laughinghouse this week, Pitt Coun- rendered.. •
t/ and Fastern Carolina has lost one served his county in the State
, , , , . legislature several times *and held
of their most loyal Democrats and | , . ...
' , . .. | other important offices,
uncompromising (onfederates. ' . -j- . . , , _
K | Perhaps the greatest service he ren
He had been an active worker a- dered the State was during his term
mong his fellow men from thef day | as superintendent of the State peni
he took his boyhood leave tentiary. His-efficiency produced a
farm home near Grimesland to shoul- large profit for the State. v
der his gun in the Southern cause Captain I.aughinghouse's ty|>e is
He never became fully reanuiled to • fast becoming extinct ;
losing the fight. .Following the war,; men are not filling the places of the
when a gang of irresponsible marau- old-time Southerners, whose ideals
ders from the North came down and could not be shaken by prosperity,
attempted to overrun the South, he |>estilence, nor war, and who were so
was one of the first to join the Ku full of Southern chivalry that they
Klux KJan for the common defense would die to defend them.
The Next President js
Perhaps at no time since the Civil since Washington, to refuse fo per-
War has there been so little grounds mit his name to go on the Ixiard as
for an intelligent guess as to who a candidate fur president. This I
will be president to follow Mr. Cool- will lie one of the high-water marks |
idge as at the present. in the Coolidge administration; and!
Mr. Coolidge is the second man, it will so strengthen the two-term
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limitation tradition that it will not er taxes; and, of course, that is a
come up for discussion again in a joyful nabe these days. Yet They
long time, only mean to reduce big taxes, which
The spirit of democracy has been they have done, to some extent, and
pushed to the back lines by the hands at the same time they, have raised
of plutocracy. For that reason neith- little taxes.
er party will be able to supply a can- . These fellows who select presi
didate except one who is willing to" dents foster wars. The fellows who
take the dictation of the big bosses, know nothing about choosing preai-
A man of the people, such as Roose- dents generally do most of the ftght
velt, can not win the Republican ing when wars do come; and after
nomination; nor can a Woodrow they are gone, they are the fellows
Wilson win in the Democratic con- who pay the cost of wars.
vention. I Show us a man who makes a mijrj
EvenLif |>anics prevail up to the lion dolors a year, and we will showj
conversions, the democratic spirits you a man who helps to select pres
can not put men representing their idents and a man whose taxes are
ideals in. because the country is still reduced. Show us-a man who makes
under the range of the guns of the, a thousand dollars a year, and we
big bosses, and the people can not will show you a man whose taxes are
be heard. ' • not reduced and who has little in-
Hig interests are demanding low-• deed to do in selecting presidents.
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What Makes and What Breaks a Man These Days ;
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What will break and what will iwe call property and as our
make a man these days? jown.. What do we find in land to.
Since everybody seems to lie in- draw the attention of investors, and
clined to make money or make an j what promises does it hold out toj
easy living, we naturally expect to. the young men and women tacastj
see the eyes of man looking for the their lot in the hardships required to
best'work or th? best investment to produce a fair living without over-!
produce these things that we call; wyrk? Land has not increased ill i
wealth and ease. value, so it is in no demand for in-!
Going over the [.ages of the last vestment and i| little demand for,
five years' history, we are faced homes. ;.
with some startling facts. The automobile is altogether dif-
We would naturally look at the ierent. Everybody seems II) bfe anx
land as the most stable article that ious to stake their last cent in auto-
What Doctors Say
About Smoking and
Throat Protection
An wJmllifmwl bated on the opinion o f 11,105* physicians
Charming
f. American Actreaa,
wriMn
"My work on the
VM*jikJblG i ««'?•' may appear
" Wocl.itl.WTy.inrn.
then ] indulge in it
\f/K^^KEKmW§JiMaU^'
ation and pleasure.
1 hk Lucky Strikes,
UJ / /inJ iKcv
only protect my
voice but afford me
WHAT is the quality that iheifT««wii«ino«nc
Mary Garden, David Belas- » °' «n/oy
cp, Nazimova, Fislse O'Harri, Alice »nen ■
Brady, and other -famous sing- {1 O ' ■ / f\. _ «
, ers, actors, broadcasters and pub- ■ J ~~
lie speakers have found that
makes LUCKY STRIKES delight-
ful and of no possible injury to
For the answer \vy turned to
medical men and ask/d th>»m this
Do you ihmkfrom ycur expert
rnce w/f/i LUCKY STRIKE r//[ii/*lrV\H
cigarettes that they ira /ess ir- //1 "§ I
ritatirtfi tn sensitive or tender II I fiß/I
throats than other cigarettes, BaV .
whatever the reason?
1.1,105 doctors answered tliisquea-
These figures represent the opin
ion and experienced doctors, those 7 J'
whose business it is to kiio w * w. b n i/ cr/z/y »a« ••
tinned csrd» confirming thm
** T jM mbow afiffintiif.
it S toasted "?4Stjar
tt No T3»~! Irritation -No Coufc
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mobiles. While the land does not live-stock business and turns away ice companies has made big gains;
depreciate in quality and production from it. -C nearly things owned
value, the automobile starts depreci- The fellows who make the automo- by the blg rich ave Up '
ating the very minute the buyer biles make gorgeous fortunes; the * he own y- I c poor_ **
signs the mortgage for the purchase, fellows who invest in the farmers' during the same per
and very quickly is fit for nothing products, the cotton, the tobacco, the Umc ' .
except the junk pile. wheat, and other things, make gor- For a young man, the privilege of
The live-stock man finds it so geous wealth; the railroad investors browsing in a large and varied li
hard that he turns it loose as soon increased their wealth five brary is the best introduction to a
as possible, because he can make no . times in eight years. The stock In general education. — Sir H illiam
money and but a poor living in the | electric equipment and public-serv- Osier.
The Safety and Soundness of
Cooperative Cotton Marketing
r
Depositing cotton in the Cooperative Association is very similar to depositing money in a
bank, therefore it is very desirable to know something of the soundness of the Cooperative Asso
ciation and its methods of operation.
The governing body of the Association is its Board of Directors, ten of whom are elected an
nually by its members, and one appointed by the Governor to represent the- public. v
Our Board otvJ)irectors is composed of very able, sound business men and farmers, all of
whom are sincerely interested in the welfare of their fellow farmers. None of them are on the pay
roll. All members of the present Board have seen several years' service with the exception of two.
Most of our execu'ive officers and department heads and quite a number of the employees have
been with the organization since its beginning. ' •«
Each employee of the Asftxriation is under bond, ranging from dne thousand to fifty thousand
dollars each.
Kvefy bale of cotton is stored in warehouses licenses and bonded under both State and Federal
Governments. There is no possibility of a loss of a bale of cotton by fire or theft.«-
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Kvery receipt is issued and sent direct to (fie trustee bank in Raleigh which holds
tliese for the lending banks and the membership.
064,469 bales of cotton have been handled during our fivVyear period, and every bale has been
accounted for.
Over seventy-three million dollars volume of business has passed through our hands during the
five-year*period. All of this has been handled through a very large number of banks throughout the
country and not a single dollar has beeniost through any bank failure.
-
$572,075.30 has,been accumulated as a reserve fund by deducting one per cent (1 per cent)
of the sales. This reserve fund has been very safely and jealously guarded.
Six per cent (6 fir cent) has lieen paid annually, to our members on thisreserve fund.
The first year's Reserve was returned last year to our members dollar for "dollar. The second,
third, and fourth yean' reserves are being returned now; and the fifth and last year's reserve will
be returned not later than March 1 of next year.
An annual audit inade by some well-known firm of auditors, employed by the Board of Direc
tors, is made annualK' and published for the benefit of our members and for the public generally.
Our Nejv Contract and Its Important
{Changes
The draWers~oT ourtoew contract had in mind rendering the uiost economical and efficient serv
ice possible to our memlx\s with just as little inconvenience to the members as possible.
It was recognized thatathe old contract with one seasonal pool did not meet the financial con
dition of all (lasses of meirabent; therefore, in addition to the seasonal pool, such as we have had
heretofore, the member is gstf£the right of optional pools, daily or monthly, in which pools he
may select the times when I* wants his cotton sold. Under this pool, the member will exercise his
own discretion and judgment|ks to sales. Under the seasonal pool the cotton will be sold as here
tofore, in the best judgmentlof the Board of Directors.
All cotton under the newlcontract will be settled for on basis of middling prices. That is, the
man who has a good grade ofVotton or staple will always receive the which he is en
titled, regardless of date of salt. Low grades will be penalized accordingly. ;
The third important change\is the future of the withdrawal clause. Every member has the priv
ilege of withdrawing after delivering one year's crop. By this provision in the contract, it will be
seen that the Association exacts to win by merit and to hold the membership intact by rendering
a service and not by depending jpon the inflexibility of the contract.
North Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association
Raleigh, N. C.
Friday. September 16, 1927