( i A 1 r : n vv'---- '' y .; n r SPECIALS! . 24-lb Bag Best Flour 12-lbBag Best .Flour ..r. 2541) Bag Sugir .... .. 3 Packages Grits ' 3 Packages, Mother's Oats . 3 Packages Buckwheat x: - 3 Packages Post Toasties ..... ; 5 tba.r Graham Flour . ' 25c Bottles ketchup . Heinz's Mustard Dressing r Dnrkee's Salad Dressing .'. ; 50c Bottle Pure Oliye Oil ' 15c, Bottle Stuffed Oiives . ' 25d Bottle Stuffed Olives ' 25c Bottle Plain Olives 25c Bottle Royal Scarlet Maple Syrup 25c Bottle Boyal Scarlet Maple Syrup 20c Bottle Robin Hood Maple Syrup .. . .40 1 .. 1.60 .. 3& - 2Z 3& .. 25 .. .18 .. ,.20 .15 .15 .. .35 .. .10 .18 .. M8 J 50 .. 20 .. .15 .08 55 SPECIALS! v . . - . " ' '. ' ; - ' ' .' ' 10c Bottle Vegetable Chow Chow ..--.$ .08 30b Can Royal Scarlet' Asparagus . 55 25c Can obin Hood Asparagus .......... 53 25c Can Royal Scarlet Asparagus Tips 53 10c Jar , Vinegar -rt- . 3 Cans Campbell's Soup 3 Cans Regular 25c Sliced Pineapple 50 3 Cans Pie Grated Pineapple .: 55" Mince Meat, per pound 12 3 Cans Brownie Peaches 3 Cans Pie Peaches 1..... 3 Cans Tomatoes L . .25 Tom' thumb Peas, per can .7 .15 2 Cans E. J. Peas 55 15c size Robin Hood Corn .10 Corn and Tomatoes, per can 08 10c Day and Night Corn, per can 08 Salmon, per can. 10 SPECIALS! .50 55 Gillies Coffee, per pound . Arbuckle's Coffee, per "pound Hotel Astor Coffee, 3 pounds for 3 Lbs. Dried Apples i 3 Lbs.' Dried "Peaches Prunes, per pound . ... 8 Bottles 0,'K. Baking Pdwjler ..... 6$ottles Romford Baking Powder 6 Boxes Rough Rider Baking Powder ....... 6 Boxes Parrot and Monkey Baking Powder 3 Boxes Royal Scarlet Salj . - Grated Cocoanut, per pound Sugar Cured Hams, per pound Morgan and Gray Shoulders Pork Plates 3 Cans Table Syrup . ... $ 50 . i8 . 1.00 . '55 ' 55 . M0 . M .; .55 . '54 . 55 . 55 . .15 ! .) t . .18 . .12 - 55 V U; ft : We have a cbmolete stock of candies, raisins, figs, dafes, nuts, apples and oranges SPECIAL ON ORANGES 20, 25, 30 and 35 cents per dozen. We have a few Dinner Sets also wjiich we will: uiveopecxarr rices uiirauuu nice uuc ui uuggy uuuco. H A hi- I' these Prices Will'be Good Until Friday Night, December 24th -Store Open PHONE: 514- - Every Night This Week Until Christmas ' PHOilE 57 i .J Pasquotank Today and ;. -. Tomorrow (Continued From Pag Four) room for 560 new farm families, al lowing them 75 1 acres each after retaining 50,000 acres for wood-lot purposes. . An increase of fifty per .'cent In farm population and a afebr. balanced farm system by small , nomerownlng, anners wjould mean better' country churches, bet ter 1 schools, better roads, greater prosperity, better business for the trade centers' and mora of social life and spirit. ' Such are some of the problems that challenge solution In Pasquo tank ; They grow out of condi tions' that affect every business and very-body in the countyfarmers, merchants, bankers, schools and churches, la town and country alike. . ' Co-operative Solution Of . ; ' i County Problems - Not one of these problems can be solved by the farmers alone, nor the merchants alone, nor the bankers lone, nor the teachers alone, nor the preachers alone. The larger In terest of all these lies in collusion Hot In collision? In co-operation, not in contest. '1 If so be they are an selfless servants of the common good, there can le no strife and truggle. ( Every good thing is possible in a f community in which community, welfare and , wejl-belng. loom larger In the publlo mind than tho unconcern : (the. greed of in dividuals or classes. Famers, manufacturers, trans porters," traders, and bankers .are closely knit Into an Intricate whole of business dependence. They are 1 members Of one body; and when one suffers all suffer. ' The farmer alone Is not likely to bridge the gulf between , pro ducers, and "consumers of farm pro ducts. He needs the .help of the boards of trade an J the transporta tion companies., Nor can he alone olve the problems of rural credit He must have the- help, of the sup- j ply merchants and bankers. t And . the tenant farmer with the generous ficlp of his landlord ' easily, . rises into farm and 'home ownership: ti(1 bard'y so otherwise. On the oilier hand our city civil ization is dependent' on our farm regions. This year for Instance, the farmers of the United States have, contributed to the necessities of the world six billion dollars worth of newly made farm wealth. WaU street he d its breath till the last crop report came In and then a riot of business confidence set In. I'oor crops of poor crop -prices in the fall 'mean sad times in. our counting houses and sorry balance sheets in bur' churches. We depend pri marily upon the farmer's field and forest for food, clothing and shelter that Jrintty of Inescapable necessities in this work-a-day world. The demand for these on the one hand and the farmers supply of raw materials for them on the other furnishes for manufacturers, railroads and merchants their business and their business opportunities and the bulk of their fortunes. We cannot blink the fundamental Importance of our country civilisa tion. The cities are dependent upon the country-side for population, tor the renewal of population, for business and. business genius, for civic and social conscience, and for spiritual guidance. If the cities were not re-inforced from the fields, said Mr. Emerson, they would nave rotted, exploded,' and disappeared long ago. Three-fourths . of the Wen in authority . in our city churches were born, bred and ."but tered in -the country; and the tame is nearly true of our successful. In fluential men of affairs, the mer chants and manufacturers, the bank ers and lawyers of our cities. Five sixths of the college professors' and sS-sevenths of the ministers of all denominations in '' America were born and reared in the country, says Ashenhurst. Undoubtedly the city is. the final challenge to Chris tianity, but the country church is the recruiting station for the war fare, . It country 'churches . fall into decay the 'spiritual well springs of the nation have dried up. , A countryside that is efficient prosperous, attractive, and & whole some is therefore fundamentally important so in Pasquotank, and so in the . Nation . Some seventy cities in this country 'believe and are acting upon the. belief that the best -way to bniid up a city 'is -to promote prosperity In, the surround ing trade territory. A growing city ought not to be like a .standing army destructive to the region up on which it subsists. Every city ought to be the center of a well de veloped food "producing territory and soon every city (board of trade, in sheer self defense, must nelp the nearby farmer solve the local markef problems of home raised rood and teed supplies. Our farm ers will raise such supplies in abun dance whenever they cab turn' them Into Instant ready .cash at a fair price and profit; and not otherwise. It is well to remember that no city can safely grow fat in a lean coun try side. Chambers o Commerce no longer oonflrfe their activities within city limits; to Increases of population, trad and real estate values; to more factories a"nd larger pay rolls. The new keynote of auto booster parties was sounded the other day in Walworth County, Wisconsin. The business men of Wentworth stood up in their machines and said to their country cousins everywhere in the surrounding trade territory: We are not' asking; you to come and buy from us, but to come and sell to us. We offer for for ybur products the best markets and fair est prices to be found 'in our end of Wisconsin. "Our library and high school ad vantages are freely yours. We have no ordinances against the peddling of farm products. Our open market spaces are free. Our - hitching grounds and camping Sheds are ample and comfortable. They are yours without charge, fiaily mar ket information can be bad af our city headquarters over your tele phone lines. No 'membership fee is necessary. Our rest rooms are equipped with books and lounges, tables and" chairs, toilet and lavatory facilities. Ton and your wives will find the latch string on the outside.". ' 't'-'l . But also country school facili ties ought to be as ample and effi cient .as the cities afford . But V cannot be so without generous. co-operation on the part of city property ! owners "and . ' tax -payers!. Just as very board of trade ought to be county . wide i in. Its concent and activities, so' ought public ed ucation to be a county-wide affair; , and every dollar of wealth any where 'in a county ought to be be hind the . school In the poorest country community as well 'as in the wealthiest city ward. County wide school systems in this sense, have the sanction of law in every county of Florida. Every dollar of school taxes paid , in Jacksonville is shared with the county schoo.s of Duval County. We have in North Carolina one such county-wide school system. I speak of New Hanover Schools. No law as In Florida lays tribute upon Wilmington wealth to support the country -schools of the county. City support of country schools Is uncompelled and freely generous. It gives an eighth month term to every country district; it .shelters the children in comfortable houses,' many of them handsomely ''built of brick. (It gives them well paid teachers and ample school equip ments. The people of no city in the world have ever set a nobler example in. the whole history of publlo education. County-wide Icffbol systems, on a tax basis of this sort are being proclaimed far and wide by Dr. P. P. Clax- ton, our Federal Commissioner of Education, as the hope of our country civilisation everywhere Again the bankers of Elizabeth City can do more In a single year to promote a bread-and-meat live at home farm system in Pasquotank than our gospel of diversified farm ing is likely .to effect In a lifetime; " Tenants and small farmers in volved In a supply-merchant time credit system of farming are power less. They raise cotton anr to bacco because it is nominated in the bond; they lack the Impulse or opportunity to raise tny-thlng else in adequate abundance. They fell short of it in Pasquotank In 1910 by more than a million-, dollars. And its loss makes everybody in the - county so much . the poorer year by year tenants, landlords, tradespeople, and bankers alike.: If it could be held down in the count: ty, the total wealth of PasquW tank county would be doubled . In live years: ' . T. .' : 1 ; And the .Texas , bankers afe 'do ing exactly the thing I have, in mind. They 1 are forcing ihe' supply-merchants to force the farm-,, era into a ha f and naif system; of tanning naif the acreage In food and feed crops ' and half in money crops. They are refusing to dis count a merchants paper! when it is protected by crop Hens based on a cotton acreage alone. It changes the character of the supply mer chant's business;' but It Increases its volume and bases it on principles of safety instead of . principles of hazardous risk. It Is good business policy. It hods down in Texas the $155,000, 000 that heretofore has gone out of the State to swell the : purses of the bread and meat farmers of the middle west. The same pol icy would work effectively In Pas quotank. But 1 must not punish an indul gent audience further. What I am trying to say your own thinking will supplement and complete and apply far better than I could do it at any length whatsoever. In closing I might confess my belief that democracy as Saint Paul had it In mind Is the demo cracy we, need; democracy of the membershlp-ln-one-body sort; or ganic democracy that is more con cerned with duties than with rights, "democracy that thinks more of ser-' vice to ones fellow kind, than about doctrines - of equality; .christian democracy that solves - by the law , of ' love perplexing problems . that . never can be solved by ,the law Ot the land. No mathematician will ever figure out 'the' ; producer, righteous share of the J wealth", he produces. No legislature and no court will ever untangle the myster ies of economic Justice. It , is a problem far beyond legislation, but it is within easy reach v of every man who Uvea close to the Carpen ter's Son. - The high.ca'llng whereunto we are called is the making of ' men not the making of money; and we are worthy of our, calling if we be sons of men and not servants of mammon. j FOR SALE: Double seated trap. 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