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Boost E. City
For
Good Will Day
July 4th.
VOL. 1
REDFIELD'S WILMINGTON SPEECH
CONTAINS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Address There before National Fisheries Association
Should Be of
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Mr. Chairman and -Ladies and
Gentlemen: I have not coma with
any formally prepared address this
evening. ! would very much rather
talk to you quietly and frankly about
certain things of interest to us all
and of special interest to me because
they affect our work, and things
1 'which it we will give them heed will
i mean that our children will be bet
ter off than we. I take it no man
is so selfish and so foolish as to be
Wind to that argument that his chil
' dren shall be better off than he. In
that lies deep and strong the foun
yf datlon of all we think of doing in
, I conservation and the saving of
waste. .We can anderstand, you and
I, that an animal without a mans
train and without a - man's heart
might so do his work if he had it to
do as to give no thought to those
who were to follow him; but be
cause a man is a man he does, If he
be a man, give thought to those that
'iollow.
The earnings of to-day, the earn
ings of next week, the earnings of
next month, are not all there Is for
you and for me to consider. We
should be lees than worthy the name
of matt if we thought no farther
than nat but because we we men
and be cause we have children whom
we love we expect so to do our work
that there shall be something more
for them than we had when we came.
If we fail to work that way, then we
are depriving our children and turn
ing over to them deliberately
more or less a smaller thing than
we ourselves f oundt I doubt if any
of" us would be willing to admit that
we so worked and so lived. In that
simple statement lies the argument
after all, as I have said, for con
servation in ail its farms.
It is pretty hard for you and me,
I suppose, to think that there are
lands where people are always on
the border of starvation, where the
thing to be dreaded is that there
shall' not be enough to eat. Some
months ago I was in the city of
Wheeling, W. Va., in February, and
a heavy snow was falling. I found
In the minds of all men the question
as to whether there would be with
the opening of the spring the floods
that meant so much of loss and of
terror to them. If you go to India
you will find men, millions of them,
to whom the keeping of anything in
store has been impossible through
many generations and to whom the
shortage of a crop from any one of
a number of causes means the im
mediate presence of starvation.
There may be enough yonder, across
the mountain, for them, . but the
means of transportation may be so
Insufficient and often are such that
men starve within a few score miles
of plenty. If you go to China, in
that thickly settled country you find
frequent recurrences of lack of food
and occasionally the starvation of
men by thousands. But if you will
pass to Japan you no a country
vhere almost the same conditions
xist and yet where care and wise
foresight has so controlled those
conditions that a great aad power
ful people has grown up under very
narrow circumstances. For if you
look at Japan you will And that, I
think I , am correct in saying, but
20 per cent of its entire area can
e cultivated. The larger part of
Japan is inhospitable, with lofty
mountains, and a vast population,
many tens of millions, must live up
on a land of which but one-fifth is
open to cultivation. Under these
circumstances if the Japanese did
not live on food from the sea they
would not live at all. A very large
percentage of their food supply Is
taken from the sea, far more than
we have any idea of in this country,
and that, coupled with a degree of
economy in ling of which we know
almost nothing at all, compared to
'htch the narrow expenditures of
ur poorest, siM'm wasteful that
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1916
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economy of living with that extreme
carp lor the food products of the
sea make Japan in large part the
great and powerful nation that she
lat For she has nothing else upon
fwhieh to depend for her living.
In this country we cultlvlte but
45 per cent of our arable land, and
of that which we do cultivate so
wasteful are our methods that only
12 per cent is cultivated as well as
well as we know how to do it. We
have as yet but scratched the sur
face of our possibilities in agricul
ture. Yet already relatively to our
population our food supply begins
to fall off, not in the total but rel
atively to our population. You have
only to ask your good wives to get
the facts. What is the price of meat
as compared with the price of meat
ten years ago? How many cattle
are there in the country compared
with the population that there were?
There are 20-odd million more peo
ple than there were 20 years ago
and there are 10 or 11 million less
cattle than there were at that time.
There are fewer food animals. There
are many millions more to eat them.
We used to be a great food-exporting
country. In my boyhood I heard
about the plana of the West feeding
Europe. They do not feed Europe
as much as they did and we have
begun to import food. We import
food very, very largely. I do not say,
I do not mean to imply, that we are
so much as approaching even in a
remote degree the condition of In
dia or China or Japan, for that
would not be true, but there has
been a change in your lifetime and
mine in the proportion of our food
supply to our population which we
need all our brains and energy to
overcome, and the evidence of It is
in the price of bread and flour and
eggs and milk and cheese and meat
that you buy every day. There it is
written on the books of every retail
store in the land, plainly to be seen
of all men and only to be overcome
but certainly to be overcome if we
will put our brains and our vision
into it. For just as you and I can
not afford to live without thought
of our children, so we can not af
ford to live in the present with our
eyes closed and fail to see these
things which are going on all about
us To do that is to become truly
mentally blind, and being blind to
wander (in foolishness to our hurt. .
These are facts, these that I have
mentioned to you, and they must be
dealt with soberly, like men, quietly,
unselfishly, with vision and in the
light of day.
Now let me, if I may, speak to you
of another country wherein some of
these thoughts that we gather un
der the head of conservation have
been worked out, with very extra
ordinary results. Come with me In
fancy, If you please, to the Island
of Java, which I had the pleasure of
visiting only a few years ago. It was
then to me, as I fear it is to many
still, a spot upon the map. I wish
you and I knew more of that spot,
for proud as we are of the produc
tiveness of our own land we have
things to learn from the Javanese
and the men that control that won
derful Island. It Is about the size
of the State of Pennsylvania or the
State of New York, almost exactly
the size of each of those two States.
Its territory is very largely moun
tainous. There are, I think, 60 vol
canoes in Java. A qng range of
mountains runs the entire length of
the Island, which supports a popu
lation of over 30 millions of peo
ple, nearly one-third that of the en
tire United States. And it exports
tond! That has been done because
of the wonderful management of the
Hollander. He believes in conser
vation. If it was not for that there
mould be no Holland. If Holland
was not conserved every day It
would not be there. Much of It
would be salt water And the Hoi
lander has carried his ideas of con
servation into his colonial posses
sions, where he was free to work
them out. Consequently you do not
have to raise the question whether
there is a bad road in Java. Indeed
the Malay farmer knows that the
bad road he can not afford. He ls
only a Malay; he is a Buddhist by
profession of religio'n, but he knows
that about the most expensive thing
for the poor Malay fanner, is a road
over which he can nof haul quickly
and cheaply to the nearest marktt.
So every foot of that land is in
tensively cultivated and extensively
cultivated .as far as it goes. I have
seen a mountain thfre 5,000 feet
high which from its tip Bummit to
its base wa3 wholly one continuous
field of rice. From the top down
in successive small waterfalls flow
ing from terrace to terrace,.. where
there were a few square feet to be
gathered out of the mountainside to
make a little pool in which rice grew
throughout the whole mountain
on ajl Its sides, was one continuous
rice field. And they have achieved
that wonderufl result (in of course
a tropical land where there are no
winters and where things grow all
the year around) of supporting over
30 millions of people on 48,000
square miles of .territory and of ex
porting coffee to the United States
and sugar and tapioca and other ar
ticles bf food to Europe. We may
learn something if we will from the
successful management of the Hol
lander and from the every-day be
havior of the Malay farmer under
his cafe,
So may we talk a little while to
night about wastes and the kind of
things that bring waste and the
cause of them in this, land of ours.
I think U !" to Good Book ,that
said, "Faithful are the wounds of
a friends," and I suppose It was
right. My old partner used to say
to me, "Don't tell me about the
things that are going right about
the shop. I know those things. Tell
me the things that are going wrong,
that I may correct hem." And so
for many a long year I never went
out into the shop without looking
not to see what was good there, not
to see that which I could tell of
with pride, but to find what was
wrong in order that we might make
it right, for in wrongs and weak
nesses corrected rather than in
right things 'existing lies the future
and growth alike of a factory and
of a people.
We suffer first of air from wastes
arising from imperfect organization
in this country. We are not organ
ized so that' the poor man gets al
together the chance he ought to
have. What do I mean by that?
In the city where I live there were
said to be at one time about 30,000'
small tradesmen, men keeping small
stores. Most of them lived above or
behind the store out of which they
made a modest living. For the small
amount of money those men needed
for their business their credit was
ust as good as yours or mine or that
of any large concern anywhere. But
conceive what would have happened
if one of those small tradesmen had
walked into an ordinary commercial
bank and asked for a loan of $10.
I think you know he would not have
been welcoraed I think you know
that there is no established way in
this country whereby the small
tradesman, honest and for the loan
he desires just as good as you and
I are, can get a small business loan
in the same sense and in a similar
way to that available to a large con
cern. We are not organized that
way. We are organized for the man
who wants $600, $1,000, (5,000. He
gets "considerations; but the man
who needs $5 does not find it as
easy to get a loan on honorable
terms, with regard for his own self
respect, as he ought.
Suppose your wife or the wife of
a very poor man in this country Is
minded to give him a good dinner.
She must needs If she wants chick
en, and can afford chicken in these
days, buy a whole one. It is not so
necessarily in other countries. I
could take you to great civilized
countries when" she could buy a leg
of a chicken or a slice of chicken or
a wlnj? of a chicken. May I illus
trate this lank In our organization
by telilng yoj of an actual experi
ence.' When t was living In France
in in year 1 30 0 we found that the
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FOUR LIVES
WAS THE TOLL
Whon the Eight Escare
Gr.s Bont Marion Sinks
In The Pamlico River
(By KuMein l'resw)
Washington, N. C, June 16
Four passengers were drowned and
sevMal others had a narrow escape
from drowning when the gas boat
Mari'M. Captain Lawrence Tate,
bound from Hath to Washington,
sank Thursday morning at nine o'
clock a short distance from the
ruoutli of Bath Creek.
The dead are Maud Mason, age
14, daughter of W. W. Mason;
Ruth Brooks, age 14, daughter of
C. J. Brooks; Katie Brooks, age 1 8,
daughter of C. i. Brooks and J. S.
Woolord, age 6U.
Those who were saved wer Edgar
Campbell, Will Arnold, Sam Brooks
Surry Bowen, Hilton Bowen and
Captain...Tate '1.
The Marlon left Bath early In the
morning with a large load of pota
toes. The boat had just rounded
the point, of J. B. ArchbeH's farm,
when she turned over . The acci
dent occurred about 500 yards from
the shore and In 20 feet of water.
The screams pf the passengers
brought Mr. Archbell and others to
the waterfront.' Four small boats
were immediately secured and res
curers hurriedly rowed out to lend
Assistance. The surytyoj-a of the tra
gedy were hanging to the aides of
the craft, which had not sunk, but
was floating almost .bottom side up.
Captain Tate, Sam Brooks, J. S.
Woolard, Surry Bowen and the 3
girls were in the pilot house when
the accident pecured. As the Mar
ion went over, Captain Tate, Mr.
Brooks and Mr. Bowen managed to
crawl out through the windows.
The girls and Mr. Woolard were pen
ned in, however, and were unable
to get out.
Hwell Caused Iia.str
Clarence Mayo, captain of the Pun
go, has arrived in the city and stated
that his boat was coming out of
Bayside when they noticed the over
turned Marion. The survivors were
standing on the bottom of the craft,
she having completely turned over.
Mr. Mayo headed the Pungo over to
the craft and when he arrived there,
attempted to right her by the use
of a line, fastened from boat to
boat. His efforts were unsuccess
ful, however.
Mr. Mayo states that he talked
with Captain Tate and that the lat
ter a iimted having loaded the ccft
rather heavily. Captain Tate sala
that vhfp she came out of the craek
into the river, the swail washed over
her and she became waterlogged.
FJR.ST METHODIST CHURCH
The pastor will occupy the pulpit
at both morning and evening hour.
In the evening he will preach the
fourth sermon in the series on "The
Making of a Man". The subject will
be "The Spiritual Man' or "The
Development of the Religious Life"
A cordial Invitation is extended to
all.
FIR8T BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. B. C. Henning returned Fri
day from Richmond where he attend
ed a meeting of the Foreign Mission
Board, and will occupy his pulpit
Sunday morning, preaching from the
subject "The Happy Dead."
, At the evening service Dr. Hen
ning will preach from the subject
"Living in Error." The public are
cordially invited to be present.
BLACKWKLL MEMORIAL CHURCH
On Sunday morning at eleven o'
clock Rev. I. N. Loft In will preach
from the subject "Grieving the Spir
it." ij
At the Sunday evening service
Mr. Loftin's subject will be "Pray
er, the Release of God's rossibili
tis. A cordial Invitation to at
tend thong services Ib extended the
public.
THE MIKADO
IS THECLIMAX
Of Seven Joyous Das
Under The Big Cautau
qua Tent
Chautauqua's Seven Joyous Days
came to a close last night with the
excellent rendering of the Gilbert
and Sullivan-classic, "The Mikado",
which proved, as was anticipated,
to be the brilliant climax of the
week's entertainment.
In the afternoon ..Junior Chautau
qua opened the program, with its
delightful "Junior Town."
"We want something to uo," plead
ed the boys Vnd girls, and we will
be more useful when we grow up,
If you will give us something to do."
Uncle Sara and Mother Earth were
visited by Mother Earth's Children,
the Indians and the early settler's
descendants. Dances, drills and the
well-known song since last Chautau
qua. "My Town," were a part of the
demonstration made by the children
for Uncle Sam. The Commission
ers of Junior Town were introduced
and prizes were awarded by Uncle
Sam for excellence in canning, gar
dening, and other industries. Pyra
mid building, fancy tumbling, build
ing a human bridge, relay race, and
the Chautauqua march followed in
succession, and the Junior Town play
closed with the chorus, "Depend on
the Boys and Girls."
-A- few numbers from the orches
tra and other members of "The Mi
kado" company followed, at the
dose of" which a violent thunder
storm threatened to cut off the af
ternoon's program. Prof. Raus
chenbusch, to whose address the
most thoughtful people of the city
had looked forward, more than to
any other number during the week,
was obliged to wait some time before
delivering his lecture on Christian
ity and the "Social Crisis."
Perhaps the term "a Christian
Scholar" most accurately describes
Prof. Rauschenbusch, for his ad
dress left no doubt of the serious
study which he has made of the sub
ject discussed by htm, and his atti
tude throughout was that of the
man who loves his fellowmen.
Prof. Rauschenbusch began by
saying, "We use this word 'social'
frequently, and sometimes without
realizing what it means." He illus-
strated the meaning of the word by
animal life and later by the human
family. "When God said, 'It is not
good for man to live alone' He cre
ated a social being, creating at the
time for us greater power, greater
pleasure, and greater possibilities,
but also, greater responsibilities and
dangers. For while our greatest joy
is found in our dearest friends and
loved ones, these are also they who
cause us most anxiety. It has been
said that a man's wife is his dear
est enemy and that a woman's hus
band is her most tantalizing friend.
I knew a little girl once in the New
York slums who when her father
found her doing something naughty
one day spanked her, ran crying to
her mother and said 'Mama, that
man that sleeps here on Sundays
slapped me', That was the child's
impression of her father and his ha
bits. "There is more or less antagonism
in human society, even in marriage.
Society becomes complicated for a
man as soon as his wife's relatives
come to his life, and his problems
become more difficult. There is al
ways in society the possibility of hos
tility. When our children come,
life is yet more complex. The family
evolves, then the community. The
commulty enlarges and becomes a
great tenter of human life."
The Christian ideal Is each for all
and all for each. This Is the great
possibility. ' .
"Hut as. we look about, us we see
a great division, extreme wealth and
poverty. A few have taken the
choice places and by owning them
have control over the whole land. It
Is as though a mothrr left the cup
board key with one child to glvn
food to the oi hers and the selfish
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HYDROPLANE
Generous Subscriptions
Secured Last Indicate
Success In Undertrking
Following the Chautauqua pro
gram last night, Mr. Pugh, In be
half of the Chambem of Commerce,
called a meeting of citizens to nut
j before them the question of wheth-
riiaueui uity wtu have a hydro
plane here on Ub Fourth of July,
Good Will Day.
It will cost Elizabeth City $600
to get this machine here in a dem
onstration flight on that day, but
Mr. Pugh Is very'optimistic and be
lieves that the money will be forth
coming. A fairly good beginning
was made last 'night Dr. L. 8.
Blades led off with a subscription
of 125 and O. F. Gilbert followed
with a like amount. There were
quite a number of ten and flve-dot
lar subscriptions, especially eonsid
ertng ttie fact that the purpose ot
Vie meeting was not understood
aud many business men" did not re
main for It.
Mr. Pugh announced that with
committee of. helpers he would see
the business men personally within
the next few days and that by Tues
day of next week he would be ready
with a definite announcement. By
that time It will be certainly known
whether there will be a hydroplane
fir for the Fourth. ,
It looks like the movement will
go through.
CAW MEMORIAL CHURCH
Dr. Hugh W. White, who is at
home on his furlough from Yen-
cheng, China, at which place he la
stationed as a missionary from the
Presbyterian Church, will occupy the
pulpit at Cann Memorial " Church
both Sunday morning and evening.
Dr, White is well known here and
will be welcomed by many friends
who remember with pleasure his six
months stay here , during which he
preached regularly at Cann Memor
ial church.
The public are cordially invited
to hear Dr. White at the Sunday
services.
child for the food extorts from the
other children their choicest play-
things.
"The question is, shall this ten
dency go on and intensify itself or
can we reverse It and create a
more even social life?
"This question is a religious one.
Our churches are dependent upon the
social life of our community. If
that life is uneven in the way in
which I have mentioned it Is diffi
cult for both the rich and the poor
to develop religiously as they should.
Investigation has shown that religion
among the well to do flourishes
though it Is somewhat superficial;
among those who have little plea
sure or time for pleasure It be
comes meagre and austere. In the
dregs religion disappears. There are
no ideals and religion is blotted out.
r
"Religion thrives best in a popu
lation 'where conditions are most
even and wher there are few differ
ences among the people.
"The real test of Christianity ia
this; that we serve our fellowmen,
that we meet this wrong tendency
and reverse it so that humanity shall
be lifted up. Not solely in church
membership, nor In donations for
missions Is our religion expressed.
We must meet this wrong tendency
with a driving force that will make
Its Imprint on the future. We must
do It even If it involves the sacrifice
of some of our dearest personal
pleasures.
"We must do it in order that the
'Kingdom may come,' for which
Christ taught us to pray,"
The people who use Gas prefer It
to any other fuel. They say Is it
cheaper and less trouble than any
other ful.
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