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bvs - Record. J every Thursday by the ... : ::::n mim m?m, Incorporated) 1 , , .. t , GILDHRTA MORROW Publishers W. C riNLEY, - - EDITOR, On Yr Is month Thra Months 9I.OO .80 ,2S Ftre4 f aemf-cfwi ma matter June ISIh fQ7, ml the fmttafice ml Marthatt. N. C, nmitr tkm Act V (,! rM J Mare J. Jav. FRIDAY, Feb. 14th, 1913 Primary For Postmaster. The senators and ' representa tlvea are finding it difficult to choose between the many persons who are applicants for tho posi tion of postmaster in the various places in their districts. It is impossible for the President to to know all the applicants and V choose between them and at the present time there are many who desire a place under the new administration. Even tha Sena tors are finding It difficult to make the choice as they do not wish tp offend the feelings of any one. As a way to avoid the difficulty we would suggest that a primary be held in the places so as to decide who is the one most desired. Petitions do not mean much and many may sign all the petitions. . To decide here in Marshall why not hold an election and then every one abide by the decision of the electors. Wearesureit would help the Senators when it comes to re commend the man for the place. . . The franchise might be given to all or to Democrats alone. It would help the County organi sation also. ."We .throw out this suggestion not in tho certain hope that it ilt be followed but with the conviction that it would be an easy way to solve the .diffi culty. The Eloquence of Mr. Webb. - The following clipping from the Charlotte News & Observer speaks of Congressman Webb whose bill passed the House last Saturday by -a vote of 240 for to ' 65 against. We become accustomed to think of Representative E. Y. Webb as an able congressman, a consistent advocate of the. right sort of legislation, a man popu lar in his district and out side it because of his personal worth, a public servant responsive to his people! And so he is; he is also an orator. ; Here is a piece of stirring, dignified eloquence from a recent bouse speech of Mr. Webb's, on the measure in whose faaming he had the major part designee to make prohibition States: ' Ten years ago, or a little more, I stood yonder on historic Kings Mountain, and I saw the smoke of 38 government distillers ris ing toward! heaven. I saw no macadamized roads; scarcely a church of any note or dignity in the : entire county; scarcely a schoolbouse where our boys and girls might obtain even tae rudi ments of an education. I saw saloons throughout the . length and breadth of ; Gaston County. There were only two or three factorfes gsving employment to two or three, hundred , people Two years ago I went back, a bout ten years'" after tho people had driven out this curse. I found macadamised roads in al most every part of the county; I Faw magnificient churches of every denomination: I found: ' ' oolboiiscs in every district of '.' -t rour.fy, . wnerc boys and ' t ' ;;;' i an education : f !' ' '.r 1 'y .in any ' ? ; v not the ! r.y, .but : ;: -s rov- Farms For Rural Schools As sn additional means of long er bcliool terms. Tho Asheville Gazette-News suggests the exam plo of 17 Wake County public schools. On uncultivated land near the schools, which was' easi ly, secured, school boys an 1 girls grew crop to' the net . value of $1 .'200. The ploughing was done by the larger boys with tho .as sistance of school patrons. ' By this plan tsix 'weeks were added to the school terms, The Ga-J zette-News notes that jt has also been tried by a Buncombe- Coun ty rural school with entire suc cess. io trouble is encountered by the teachers in getting the' pupils to do the necessary work; decidedintertst is shown, with working bees . liko o'.d fashioned born raisings and corn shuckings us attractive features of the Scheme. And, ' of course,, the boys and girls learn things about farming which are pf the utmost practical value to them. Against the rural schools of the country generally the criti cism has often been made that they educate away from the farm. Either, it is complained, they cause-their .pupils l drift into towns or at least to regard country life as less desirable and as an inevitably unsatisfactory state. .There textbooks, their teaching and their spirit have all conduced this way. Very differ ent is the influence of the school which by precept and example .issumes farm life to be worth while, its aiutuii'3 counts tor even more than the actual ins truction and experience in farm work which the pupils, with the stimulus of social interest and mutual emulation, receive. We believe that tho great majority of ural public schools might with great advantage supplement thus their income irom the various sources of taxation and. also ac hieve beneUts winch would be well worth while even if the same amount of money were expended unon these benefits instead of earned thereby. Charlotte O'os erwr. This-would be an easy way to lengthen the school U rui in every uistnct. I Here is not u single district in the county where some land could not be had and where the boys could work put enough totengthen the school at least two mouths. : , If we 'gtt the six months school term by planting two or three iic res of corn, any district could lengthen the term by what it would sell for. We wish this might be tried in our own county and see if it would not prove a success. School committeemen could very well take the lead now Call a meeting and sco "if some thing cannot be done. We hope that at least some of the districts may try. Besides it will edu cate the child red up to see the utility of farming and a present benefit may lead them to adopt the farm for a livelihood. Recommendations. The most pressing .fundamen tal needs of the public schools are: 1 1. Longer, terms for the country schools .' . , . 2. Better atendance. For the year ending June SO, 1912, the average length of the rural white school term in North, Carolina was 97, G3 days.' Sixty four 'counties had an average rural school term of more than five months; thirty-five counties had an average rural school term of more than six months.'1 Ac cording to an official diagram re cently published by the United States Bureau of Education, has-, ed onthe.StatisMes of 1910, for North Carolina, the school term n the towns and cities of the State for the city boys and girls is up to the average of thp Unit ed States, but the average rural school term of North . Carolina 1 ' oys and girls, ' :-! i U .'. ii'S for -J t i l t!.i! t: :i 1. average lengt'i 1 of our country, schools, and that in. the majority of the counties of the State. : the country boys "and girls ' have a shorter school j'erhii 'and con-, sijuently a poorer chance to pro pare themselves for the constant-1 ly increasing competition with trained minds in an iige ..of uni-i versal education and for the bat tle of life that is growing fleecer and keener every year, than '.the country boys and girls of any other portion of the -United Stat es. About eighty -two per ct'ut of the children of tho Stale ure coutitjy boys- and' girls. , The averuge of intelligence and etli cieney, te power and the gene ral prosperity of tho State "must be determined by the- education and training of the eighty-two per cent dwelling in the country and villages, not of the eighteen percent dwelling in the cities j and to .vns. The' progress, pros purity, and safety of the minority residing in tlie towns ana cities must be, in tho last analysis, dc termined by the strength, virtue intelligence, aial efficency of this large country 'population. If equality of educational op portunity is to be provided for all the children of all tho people thcro must be proportionate de velopmentof all parts of a com plete educational . system. This we have been trying 'to do. If perchance some mistakes have been made in the proportionate development, let us correct the mistakes by-increasing w here the need is greatest, pot by destroy ing or weakening one necessary part to buid up another. Lot it be understood, however, that whatever else is done and before any other appropriation is made for the enlargement or improve ment of any other part of this system an appropriation must first be made for a si&months term in every public school , and enough of the revenues of the State must tirst be set aside for this purpose. At least ninty-five per cent of the children of the State never see the inside of any higher ins litirtion, and are dependent upon tho elementary schools for all the education and all the prepara tion for lifii and citizenship that they receive. Justice demands, the uture progress and develop ment even of our higher institu tions of learning demands; that the needs of , these elementary schools for at least a minimum term of six months shall llrst he met and shall be met , now. The public conscience is aroused, tho day of reckoning is at hand for party or tlie Representatives in the General Assembly that fail to heed the cry of tho country children'and the demand of the people for a 'minimum-: school term- of six months. . - . I recommend the passage, of a conservative compulsory atten dance law, law with, adequate provision for attendance office's to enforce the same. Without the machinery for its enforce ment, such a law will bo ineffec t i v e .' Compulsory attendance seems to tne now-ubsolutely no-' cessary to eliminate illiteracy, to guarantee to every child his in herent, right to make the most of himself through development, of his faculities by education in spite of the ignorance, indiffer ence, selfishness or thriftlessness of bis parents, and to guarantee to every taxpayer the protection for which he pays in his ,'scliool tax against the ignorance of every child in'his school district, the danger to life, liberty prop erty, and to ali that men uolcl dearest and best, known to ac company ignorance. The statistics of this biennial report show that in 1912 only 72.52 per cent of the whiie child ren and only 61.1 per cent of the negro children of school age in the State were even enrolled in the public schools, and only 4.1 per cent of the white school po pulation and CCS per cent of the nn-frrt urOiriA l rv n T '. i i in Wi ;v i:l d ii!y attendance. Only by cuui-jj i i.Ujry attonJ.inre rin t l-.r- : ti-e of iiSi.- i.ii-y b.' hu-;;. ly dance aV. ; , 1 appeal .o the . parents, of those country' boys and girls, to all brondminded tfnd - far-sighted citizens of tho towns and cities, to every cltizon of North ' Caro' lina that, loves his State and his people that believes in tho right of every child in ft democracy to have an equal chance, with every other child to make the most of himself through eqiialityjjf edn cational fiiportunity, to join in an insistent and ; prcsistent de mand upon the members of the General , Assembly "of ,1013 to milk adequate provision for at least a six-months school toi'm for every country boy ' and; girl, and to )rovide by au effective compnksory attendance' law for every child to enjoy his inherent right to attend the schools ' for which the people are paying, at least between the ages of eight and twelve, in, spite of the indif feretu-e, thriftlossr.ess', or sel fishness of any pai'ent. ' Cor.qnering Typhoid. .Tvnhoid fever is losing its terror. Within recent years a means of antityphoid vaccination has been discovered, and some remarkable results are - being obtained. While the immunity against typhoid after being vac cinated is probably not quite so irood and docs not last quite so long as in, the case of smallpox, yet it is a most excellent means of protection. Here are some fi gures that show the value of anti typhoid vaccination in the army Out of a total of 55,080 soldiers in the United States Array, in 1911, only 3,000 were unvaccinat ed. During tlyit year a total of 45 cases of typhoid were report ed. Of t hese 45 cases, 43 cases were among the 3,000 unvaccina ted and only two cases oecu red among the ' 52,080' vaccinated soldiers. - , ' , -' .. ','. "During the recent mobilisation of our troops on the Mexican border, only , two cases , of typ hoid occured in the army of 20, 000 men, " This record stands in striking contest with the record of 2,tWi! cases of typhoid and 218 deaths, in '-,181)8, when 10,000 troop- were encamped at Jack sonville, Florida. A-t that time we knew nothing about antityp hoid vaccination.: Such is the progress of sanitary science and preventive medicine. After thus abolishing many of the terrors of war, let us hope that someday soon wti shall have advanced sufficiently far that we will aboli.-ih itself. That looks like one of the new steps. ' .Kothert Caa Safely Buy Dr. King's New Discovery nud give It lo the little ont-9 when ailing and suffering with colds, coujIjh, throat or lung trouble, tastes nice, hurmlws, once used, always used. Mrs, Hruce Oawforrt, Niiigra.Mo., writes: "Dr. King's New Discovery thanged-our boy from a pale weak sick boy to the iiolure ot tioaitn." Always noips. Liny it at Tripplett & Hector. !flJ!'j2ncs cf a Good Example. A farmer lived beside a bad road, in a region where all roads were bad. With a shovel he worked from time to time to let the water off the road. Passing neighbors scoffed. . Then he built a road drag and began . to drag the part of the road that adjoin ed his farm. In time the'scogers turned converts. , This man had made a bit of passable road. Gradually the work spread; each man doing the , bit that lay in front of his own farm. ; Like the ripple of a pebble thrown in a millpond, the circle widened. It is estimated that in 1912 more tbon 10,000 miles of country roads were .dragged in the .corn belt alone. : All this came about because D. Waud King hated a mudhole and was not afraid to do 'more 'than his share for his community- The Breeder's Ga zette Feb, 5. 1013. S0.00 jj v j '--""l . V REPORT OF THE CONDITIONS OF j ti tit ti, '' iI At tHo 6loso Resources: ; ' Hoans and Discounts $137,722.97 ; I'ankifijj-honse and Fixtnres Cihcr Real Estalc Slocks and Bonds ; A VU3U iillU VU9 1IU21I $3,000.00 Dividends paid from profits jan. 20f 1913 V'' '". X' r ' ., .';.V-;" Increase in Deposits from last published statement Banking Done on Safe Banking Principles. I . No Need to Stop Work , When the doctor orders you to stop work it stagers jou. I can't, you say. iou Know you are wcuk, run down and failing in health day by day but you must work Hslonjf us you can stand., What you need Is Klectrlc Bittrr to give tone, strength and vi- or to your system, to prevent break down and build you up. , Don't be Uvejik, sickly or uillng when Klectrlc flutters will benefit you from the ffrst dose. Thousands bless thenv for their glorious health and strength, Try them. Every bottle Is guaranteed to tutisfy. Only 50c. at Trlpplett & Rec tor. . .-'...:. -, XOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR Havloir qualiliiid n administrator of tlia estate of Wade H. Honderson, deceased, late of Madison County. Nortli Carolina, this is 10 noiiry nil pe.rsons havlnir claims affainrt the es tate of said dfCtiasud to exhibit them to the undtrsJ)fned on or- before the tith dav of February 1914, or this no- ice will bo pieaUed la oar or ineir re COVtT.V. ' All pt-rson mucbtea to saia cstai will pluuse make immediate payment. Tills Bth, day of February. M3. t -LICK UENDjenSOtf. Adin'r. of ) ' W, H. HENDERSON; 6 1. pa. . Another Jolt Given Faiihful Democrats. . v It is Announced President WiJson WiU Retain All of the White House Employes. TUMULTY BREAKS NEWS. (BY PARKER B. ANDERSON.) Washington, Feb. 8. J 0 I t: number one for Democratic can didatre for office under the Wil , son ndininistrntion i.s the annohn-1 cament made here, today ..by Joseph Tumulty, the newly ap pointed private secretary to the incoming Democratic president that the present staff of While House employes will be retained in their present places : alter March 4. - - Rudolph "Forster,"' -executive clerk to President Tuft, the pre sent assistant private secretary, rhoinas T.'Hrahaney, and prac tically '-he entire executive, force will be retained, at least during the early pat of the Wilson ad min isteation, and the 'intimation is plain, following the . visit of Governor Wilson's secretary to the White House, that Mr. Fors ter will be retained indefinitely. Forster was first appointed by President Cleveland and has been in constant seevie at ' the White House for nearly 17 years. Forster probably 'knows' more about how the wheels go round, s'nnll and large, than any other man in the government service. Greensboro News. . . AFI'LICA x ION FO (j':, 1'ai:don tit b" - V i ft fe of Business, February -4tH 1Q!3 Capital Stock Profits, Net A DEPOSITS Total 5,C53.y - 4,287.5f i,ec3,co 42,412.83 $191,023.31 Great loriern :";.Ff jr&&-' Lecture ILLUSTRATED BY STEREOPTICON 200 BEAUTIFULLY COLORED PICTURES . An Illustrated Demonstration of the Great Opportunities in tlie States of MINNESOTA, WASHINGTON nnd OHEGON- . "y SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE - FKEE GOVERNMENT HOMESTEAD LANDS IN MONTANA AND' OREGON, where you can get 820 Acre by Living On it 21 months during threp years. rr . " , ' v " ' REMEMBER THIS: Wo have no Land., to Sell. We are' Simply Advertising this GREAT COUNTRY OF OPPORTUNI TIES. ' - ' IECTUKE BEQHiS PHSMPTLY AT 8 O'CLOCK P. M 1M THE COURT HOUSE, Saturday, February 15th. raosT PROOF. s, CABBAGE and LETTUCE PLANTS. Groun In the Open Air, We arfe rt urepn red to Ship from now SOUT CMKNT of CABBAGE PLANTS tied In bunches of ilfty (50), cor- rectlv coimted, with iin Kxtra Hundred Plants b'RKK to each Thousand purchased. These Plants.ara raised from FROST PROOF SEEDS which . are (frown especially for os on hong Island; N. Y. Our Plants are spray eci with LIMK ahd made free from Germs. ,'Onr ptjees are $1.60 per Thoiutand liolivured, count gukranteod and prompt imipments. , . v. ,: - We tefere you (o Peoples National Bank, Charleston, S. 0.,-as to our reliability, also to Post Master and Express Agents, Megg-ettsS. C,: OUR LETTCCK PLANTS ARE FROST PROOF also, and we' put on at the snine flsfures. We want Agent- to iianilo our Plants at each HUU ioii! Commission deducted from price pf plants at 10 per cent, "Write and secure Agoncy. THE ENTERPRISE PLANT CO. .. The Lorpest Potato Plant and Cabhage Farm In the South, Fifty, acres. dovotod In South Carolina and HoruJIa to Plants alone. : ... . . C3CD FOB It Is worth SOc Jri Palnt with ev ery $33OC Purchase. RPHPHRPF) K you-buy $5.00 wcrth cf Doers, .ICiUCillDCU. windows, Brick, Lime, Cer.:cnt. Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Roofing, ' Piumbing Goods ' or Paint and return this ad, it is good for 0 cents in any kind of Paint in our store. We have 100 gallons of House Paint that ve sell for 01.2O a ealjon for the next CO C 1 - ' I !". "wwh n. L -i V'e ti a . ; T . , I.J VbiMW w THE -NEWS-RECORD AND THE ASIIEV1LLE XZEEHLY CFTIEE1J K, - U a -.'t24 WFIZP Liabilities: , . 17,559.22 148323X9 1 $191,023.31 ody" Railway's , NORTH DAKOTA. MONTANA. : . ' '. '. until April 1st. . the F1NKST AS- MEGCETTS, S. C. JSlXTy OAYS- will
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