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EDITORIAL s r 1 1 Joseph Peele, Associate Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On Year $1.00 One Month .10 Published Tuesday Evenings And Friday Mornings "Entered as second class matter, May 19, 1911, at the Post office at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, un der the act of March 3, 1879." Our tenant farmers, courageous, honest, patient and long-suffering, when shall they, see light? . When hall their burdens be lifted? In the Springtime they go forth, and with our brothers in black set their hands to the plow. They bend their backs to the burden, and when the frost fa Is thsy have added $1, OCO,OCO,000 to the wealth of the world. But small, indeed, is their toharo, and meager their recompense Every two years., according to the government census, they move from one place to another. They build no homes, they live In rude huts, no flowers about their dwellings, no trees to shade them from the sun, consumed by tfie summer's heati, and chilled by the winter's cold, no lawns about their houses, no garden fences; and with J the accursed cotton plant crowning the very threshold of their rude dwellings and thrusting Its limbs Into their very windows, their lot la Indeed pitiable. Their sons and daughters come to manhood and womanhood, desert the farms and are lost In some dis tant community. Finally when their pilgrimage " Is over, they are laid to rest In the rude churchyards of the country, others take their places and continue the fight. They have established no permanent homes, their kith and kin are scat tered far and wide, and the places that knew them once know them io more forever. I have no word of criticism for men like these. I know them, I have lived among them, I sprang from them. Who shall undertake to lead these men out of the wil derness of their trouble? Men whom they elevate to high offices In the State and national government kare ever ready to teach them politics but they are not prepared to help them' solve their problems of life! A fearful responsibility rests at this time upon men in authority and men In high offices. Will they meet It? ' Joseph T. Ho'lemnn. Presi dent Southern MortKae Com pany and Director American National Bank of Atlanta. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION 'We urge upon the presiding elders and pastors of rural charges that for, the future wherever prac ticable, In the location of church buildings, they be plnced adjacent to school buildings, and that In the location of parsonages, we join with the school authorities in placing the homes of the 'teacher and preacher , alongside church and school build ings. We recognize that these two Institutions the church and the school should together form the center of community life, and that preacher and teacher should be the natural leaders and moulders of this community life. This quotation is from a report adopted by the Western North Car olina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, appearing in last week's Issue of 'the Univer sity News Letter, It Is In line with the idea which The Advance has put forward time and again, that Is, II. BRANDY &-GO COTTON .OKA IN PlIUM-CL ISLIZAHKTH CITY. N. (i. February 8, 1916. BUYING TO-DAY COTTON Strict Middling H 3 8c. Middling 11 l-2c PEAS Black per bu $120 to 1.26 Soja Ik'uns per bu $1.15 to $1.20 EGGS Hon Kuss per doz'n 23c. SELLING TODAY FLOCK I'atapsco, Lost jatent $G.90 GRAIN Oats per busht'l 58c. Corn. White, per sack $1,05 MIDDLINGS Winter, per Da $l.o0 MEAL AND HULLS Meal, per ton . 38.00 Hulls per ton $15.00 SALT Ground Alum, per bag 65c. that country churches should be served by country preachers preachers who live in the- country and know the needs of the rural people whom they serve.- The preacher and the teacher are he natural leaders in their commu nity, and if either of, them is not equipped for this leadership it is time for the church to get a new preacher and the school a new teacher. But however well equip ed he niny be, it goes without say ing that no man can. lead in a com munity without living in it. When a ..church, ia served by an ? absentee preacher, a preacher whose service to the church is nothing more than a once a month or twice a month sermon, what vital Interest has that preacher in the school which serves the community in which the churcTi is situated. And what prerogatives of leadership can the teacher exer cise who runs home to spend every week end as soon as his school work is finished on Friday after noon? We have preached this sermon be fore and we are likely to preach it again, even at the risk of the subject matter becoming wearisome to our readers. But when we see our country communities building their preacher a home beside " the church and building their teacher a home beside the school, we will de sist. THE OPPORTUNITY THE CITY OF It was Professor Branson who. In his address here on Community Service Day, called our attention to the fact that Pasquotank has 93, 000 idle wilderness acres within its bounds that three-fifths of the county's total area is a total waste It was The Advance which, fol lowing Professor Branson's address and commenting on it, pointed out that these lands were waste not on account of lack of fertility but on account of lack of drainage. By incorporating these waste lands JiT" drainage districts and digging canals to take off the surface wa ter, not only would the area of tillable land in the county to be dou bled but the productivity of much cultivated land which now in ,wet years is water soaked would be vastly increased, It was The Advance, too, which called public attention to the fact that though drainage districts- have been formed and wilderness acres reclaimed in other counties in this section, in Pasquotank not a single community has formed Biich a district. We are glad to hear that there is now talk of forming such a dis trict in Newland township. We hope sincerely that the matter will not rest at talk. We urge the bu siness men of Elizabeth City to show themselves interested In this movement; we urge the banks to lend their Influence to foster It. Incidentally, it ia said, that the formation of the proposed drainage (lis rl( t will pave the way, or lather ditch tho way. for the open ing of a direct road from Tadmore to Gates county. Here Is some thing aliout which people have been talking for a eti'Tation, and we do not know how much longer. Here is a project which would uni'e farming lands only a few miles .apart' as the crow flies; but whkh, under present conditions; are as far apart commercially .as if they were in different sta'es. Elizabeth City is interested in both these propositions. We want more farmers and better farmers and bigger crops in Pasquotank county. We want closer and quicker communication with Gates county. ' The opportunity of the city lies in the country.' ' A BETTER OPPORTUNITY Some time ago an announcement appeared to the effect that the early opening of a new banking house in Elizabeth City was probable. Hav ing heard nothing further of the movement, we infer that it has come to nothing. A citizen of the city in whose bu siness judgement this paper and the people genera ly have great confi dence remarked to the editor, after noticing the news item, that a uetter proposition in Elizabeth City would be the establishment of a building and loan association. Com ing from any one, the suggestion would probably have impressed us favorably; but from a man already in the business .of building houses tor other people it appealed to us wT.h peculiar force Would not the organization of some such company here tend to In crease the percentage ofrhome own ers among us? Would it not tend to Improve the appearance of the vity, 8 residence streets? Wouldv it not afford an out et for capital now comparatively idle? And could not an organization of this kind be 3peedily effected in Elizabeth City? The Advance will be glad to put my person genuinely Interested in this proposition in touch with the man from whom this paper got the Idea. MORE WORKERS AND FEWER TALKERS THE NEED The annual rumor 4 jthat th,e Y. M. C. A. will cmen in the - Spring has repeated its annual debut and the matter ia being mildly agitated on the street corners, in the drug stores and ho le, lobbies and wherever young men are in the habit of assembling. As usual there is no announce ment of any definite plan of action unless it is expected that a "Young Men's Christian Association can be talked into life. That has seem ed to be the idea of Borne of those who have continually urged this paper to boont the Y. M. C. A. without giving .us any data from which to take a text. Continual ta k, unless it is followed by some sort of action usually . does more harm than good. It ia conceivably possible to talk a live man to death; but it is inconceivable to think of talking a dead one into life. And frequently when popu ar interest in a public movement has waned, the continual effort to talk, it up makes the people the more weary of it and less favorably disposed toward it. Better to say nothing. "what ever about the-Y.. M C. A. unless what is proposed can definitely and decisively and vig orously and promptly undertaken. This year there is one hopeful sign, however, in the talk of the movement to raise the needed funds. It is Btated that the young men will undertake the canvass for funds. The Advance believes that if the young men will enlist them selves for active service in this movement that something definite will be accomplished. The .young men realize, more e'early -.than any one else their need of what a Y. M. C A. would give them. An appeal from a' young man, when he can overcome his natural timi dity so far as to make one with his whole heart, is the most irris tlible nppea' in tin.' w rid else surely the majority of the world's women would remain unmarried. Then, as those who would be most benefitted by an acMve Y. M. C. A. in the town, it behooves the young men to show their interest in the movement by their works. it they wil g.ve their time and their talent and the r enthusiasm to raising moniy for a Y. M. C. A. ihey will .show their interest and their need tun thousand Lines more forcibly upon the heart of the city than they ever will by making a great lamentation to the effect that Elizabeth City does nothing for its young men. In connection with the sugges tion of mapping out a definite plan of campaign, an idea has. ocrurreC to us that we pass on for the young mens consideration. One of E Iz abeth City's c.tizens who is not so very old made us his confessor in a moment of confidence and acknovv lodged that the two desires of his heart were to see the opening of Elizabeth City's Y. M. C. A. and the reorganization of Elizabe'th City s chamber cf Commerce. Now wou.d not the reorganization of a chamber of commerce be the one best first step toward the opening of a Y. M. C. A.? Could not a chamber be organized with the un derstanding that its first step would be a campaign to open a Y.. M. C. A. In Elizabeth City? Would not a chamber of Commerce organized on this baisis be sure of enrol ng young men as its members a con summation long devoutly desired" by some of us? In order to plan a successful campaign for a Y. M. C. A. fund the youn men must have organi zation. . What better organization for this purpose than a Chamber of Commerce? Then when the Y M. C. A. bad been made an active force in the city's life, the cham ber of Commerce could find other worlds to conquer, MRS. C. N. HOBBS DEAD Mrs. Charles Norman Hobbs died Monday morning at the Eliz abeth City Hospital at twenty three minutes to five o'clock from blood poisoning. Mrs. Hobbs home was at Durants Neck and she entered the hospital here last Wednesday after a ten days 11 ness The funeral will be conducted at two o clock this afternoon by Re J. Y. Old at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Banks on Main Street Mrs. Hobbs was about thirty years of age and is survived by her husband and three small child ren . Before her marriage she was Miss Lizzie Relf, and a broth er,. Nathan Re f. of Perquimans; a sister, Mrs. Walter Newbern of Powells Point; and an aunt, Mrs. B. L. Banks of this city, also sur vive her. FUNERAL ELBERT GREGORY The funeral of Elbert Gregory was conducted from the home Sun day afternoon at four o'clock by Rev. I. X. Loftin. The Odd Fel lows of the city of which order he was a member attended in a body. Mr. Gregory died Saturday even ing shortly after six o'clock at his home on North Road street, having been a victim of tubercu losis for a number of months and confined to his room for the past two weeks. He was twenty-eight years of age and a painter by trade, the son of Mr. M; D. Gregory of this city. Besides his father he Is survived by four' brothers; Hen ry, Edward, Frank, and Richard; and by two sisters: Miss Bessie Gregory and Mrs. M. G. Wright. . WEAK, AILING CHILD Hade Strong By Delicious Vinol Lakeport, N. H.-"Our little girl 8 yeuri of age waa in a debilitated, run down condition and had a stubborn cough so she was weak and ailing all the time. Nothing helped her until we tried Vinol. Then her apptite increased and ahe ia ctrong and well, and I wish other parents of weak, delicate children would try Vinol." Geo. A. Collins. This is because Vinol contains the tissue building, strengthening cod liver elements and tne tonic iron which a weak and run-down system needs. Standard Drug Company, Elizabeth City, N. C. A. L. Pendleton Prop. 'vw . -r f Who Uses Crisco? FRISCO untried shortening. It has been on the market for nearly four years. It is used in thousands of homes, ho tels and hospitals throughout the country It is taking the place of but ter, lard and other cooking fats because it is better and purer and more economical. Each year the amount of Crisco that is used is .greatly in excess of that used the year before. That shows what women think of it. lSeprcan Low Round Norfolk GREENSBORO, N. C. February 9-13 account. North Carolina Convention Laymen's Missionary Movement Tickets on sale 8-10, bearing final return lim it February 14th. For additional f nf ormation consult Norfolk Southern Ticket Agents or address the under signed. H. S. LEARD. G. P. A. Norfolk, Va. oooooooo ooooooo ITorfolk Pouthern lailroad llEW vJhort 111 Freight If you value quick transportation; route your shipments via Norfolk Southern Railroad. 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