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4 h I J. -.., : MADISON COUNTY RECORD, X TTfl ; t Sr Mediun Through which you reach the RECORD .fistaoiisned June 28, 1901. 1 1 fy FRENCH BROAD NEWS, J Jl IF 11 Urt ' " Established May 16, 1907. v I people of Madison County. Advertising Rates on Application. . Consolidated ': : Nov. 2nd, 1911. j vwvwwwwwwwwwwwww THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XVI MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N, C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th 1914. NO 41 NEWS DIRECTORY. Madison County. Established by the legislature ses- ion 1850-51. Population, 20,132.. County seat, Marshall. ' ' J056 feet above sea level. New and modern court house, cost 33,000.00. Dew and modern jail, cost $15,000 jfew county homo, cost $10,000.00. County Officers. Hon. C. B. Mashburn, Senator, 35th District, Marshall Hon. J. E. Rector, Representative, Hot Springs. N. C, . N. B. . McDevitt, -Clerk Superior Court. Marshall. - W. M. Buckner, Sheriff, Marshall. Z. G. Sprinkle, Register of Deeds, Marshall. C. F. Hunnion, Treasurer, Marshall N. C, R. F. D. No. 4. ft. L. Tweed, Surveyor, White Rock N. O. Dr. J. H. Balrd,:Coroner,MarS Hill N. C. ' John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marshall. Dr. C. N. Sprinkle, County Physi cian, Marshall. . James Haynie. Supt. county home. Marshall; ' Courts as Fallows: . September 1st, 1913 (2) November 10th, J913. (2) ' March'2nd, 1914, (2). T June 1st, 1914 (2). Sept. 7th. 1914, (2). , R. R. Reynolds, Solicitor, Asheville N. C. 1913, Fall TermJudge Frank - Carter, Asheville. ., 1914, Spring Term Judge M. H. Justice, Rutherfordton, N. C. Fall Term Judge E. B. Cline, of Hickory, N. C. County S CommlttlonMii W. C. Sprinkle, chairman. Marshall R. Ki Edwards, member, Marshall, R. " F. D. No. 2. ReubinA. Tweed, mem ber, Big Laurel,- N. C. , ; M ; J. Coleman Ramsey. attJ.,Marshall. Hlffhuay Commlaalon , F. Shelton, President, Marshall. " ' Guy V. Roberts, Geo. W. Wild, S. W. Brown, Joe S. Brown, - A. F. Sprinkle, Big P ne. N. C. Hbt Springs, " Waverly, " MaraHiil, N. C. Board of Education. Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring Creek, N. C. John Robert Sams, mem. Mars Hill, N, C. "W.' R. Sams, mem. Marshall., Prof. R. G. Anders, Superintendent of Schools, Marshall. Board meets first Monday in January. April, Julyi. and October each year. ' School and GollfE Mars Hill College, Prof. R. I Moore, President. Fall Term begins August 17th, 1913, and Spring Term begins January 2nd 1914. . - Spring Creek High. School. Prof. R. G. Edwards, Principal, Spring Creek. : 8 mos school , opens Aug. 1st Madison Seminary High - School, Prof. G. C. Brown, principal. 7 mos. school. ' , ' w- . Bbll Institute,? Margaret E. Grif flth, principal, Walaut, N. O. : ; Marshall Academy, Prof. S. Roland Williams, principal ; 8 mos. school. - Opens August 31,. V Notary Piiblleb. " J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, Term ex ; pires Jauuary 1st,' 1814. , W. O. Connor,' Mars Hill, Term expires Nov. 27th 1914. D, P. Miles, Barnard, Term expires March 14th, 1914. ' J. G, Ramsey, Marshall.' Route 4. 1 Term expires March 16th, 1914. ; ; - J. E. Gregory,-Joe, N.. C. Term ex pires January 7th, 1914. - - " Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek K. o, Term expires September 24th 1914. J H Hunter, Marshall, Route' 3. Term expires April 1st 1915, i -v J W Nelson, Marshall Term ex sires May 14, 1915 ' - T B Ebbs, Hot Springs--Termt ex pires February 7th 1915. ; Craig; Ramsey, Revere Term ex pires March 19, 1915, . - 'v N. W. . Anderson, Paint F ork, ? Term expires May 19,' 1915. C. C. Brown, Bluff, Terra exp ires December 9th, 1914. . W. T. Davis, Hot Springs. Tc ma expires January 22nd 1915. - F0t. . George W.' Gahagan Post, No. 38, G. A. li. T, J. Rice, Commander; M. A." Ch&ndley, Adjutant. Meets at the Court House Saturday before the sec ond Sunday in each manth at 11 ft m Unhealthy Country Children, Which are healthier city children or country children f Can there be more than one answer ? Country children have the pure air, the wholesome food, the exercise, and all the other good things that farm and village life afford. The city is the place of . the tenements and the pitiful slums, of poverty, neglect, and ignorance. Of course, thenK country children are healthier. . ; That has long been the popular belief, but the National Council of Education and the American Medical Association have upset it. Through1 committees that have been studying the subject for two years in all parts of the country, they make the amazing . m 1 report that country scnooi cpu dren are actually from 10 to Z0 percent, less healthy than city school children. The conclusion will astonish us less if we stop to think how times have changed. It is no longer merely a case of city life against country life, but a case of city oversight and care against rural indifference and .neglect. Foui hundred of our. cities look care fully after the health of their school children. They furnish medical inspection, school nurses! medical and dental clinics, and buildings designed- with proper regard lor ngnting, ventilation and seating. On the other hand, not one state in five provides even the simplest medical inspection for children in the country schools. What is the result ? A study of twenty-five typical cities and of hundreds of rural districts, chosen at random in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Virginia, and Idaho, shows these percent ages: curvature or tne spine,-- owing largely to school seats, .13 in the cities, 3.5 in the coun- tryi ear trouble, 1 in the cities, 5 in the country, eye defects, 5 1 in the cities, 21.08 in the country; adenoids, 8.5 in the cities, 21.6 in the country; enlarged tonsils, 8.8 in the city, 80 in the country. In one city, for example, 69 per cent, of the school children have some physical defect : serious enough to warrant medical atten tion; but in 1,831 rural districts in the same state the percentage is 75. In the crowded v city of New York, less than 1 per cent. of the sohool children have any affection of the lungs; ; in the rural schools of a Virginia coun ty, the percentage is 3.7. Heart trouble is twice as prevalent amoncr country school children as among those in city schools; and although '23.3 per cent, of the city .school chilaren suffer from poorly nourished bodies, iu the country schools the percent age is 31.2. The : investigation shows i.. definite terms, the "progress that the cities are making ana the vetnrna that ihev net from their investment in medical supervis ion for the schools.' : What the" cities are doing for their own children, the .states, as far as conditions permit, should o for the chilaren in rural dis tricts. Some states have already made a'good beginning, but most of them have done little - or norhino-r The rural districts can not unaided do the "work thor oughly, although many could easily accomplish much more thadthey,3o now. Above all, a responsibility too often unrecog nized rests on the individual country home, panion. " Youths Com- Breathing Spells! There is an old adage that says "when angry, , count a hundred, then talk.'' A great deal has been said of the peace treaties of Secretary Bryan and men have said that they were not worth much. . But they are but carry ing out the old saying that is a very good one. If whenever we are angry and in a dispute with any one we --should take time to count a hundred we would miss most of "the disputes and quest ions that . are our lot and the electric chair and the chain gang and the jails would have manyl less to fill them for we would take a breathing spell before we went into the fight. '"V The treaties that our Secretary of State has signed with so many of the nations is but applying this same policy to the conduct of nations and is to let the first burst of anger pass before we go into the melee. u If such a policy had been fpl lowed in the present war ther would not have been any war because Austria might have les sened her demands on Servia and the heat of the fancied Insult would have passed. If we read of the swiftness of the ruling3 and the notes that went back and forth. .between the, nations, we wjll see that there was no time to think at all and that there were no explanations that could be ac ceDted and before the different countries knew it they had de clared war. So we think it a very wise pol icy that of Mr. Bryan and one that will keep peace better than almost anything else. Nations and individuals should take a breathing spell before every violent action so that nothing hasty may be done and in order that we may live always live in peace. Otherwise we will be at war most of the time. And individuals may well copy the ex ample herein set and when in daDger of a ruption with any one, take time to think and we are sure that the- trouble will pass without trouble. , Two Million For 19 U. Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Superin tendent of the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, has accepted the office of Executive Secretary of the State1 Red Cross Seal Com mittee and will organize the cam paign for the .sale of Red Cross Seals in" North Carolina for this year. . ' - More than a million seals were sold in this state last Christmas. It is the plan of Dr. McBrayer and the Red Cross Seal Com mittee to sell at least two million this year. A!! Ll.i? money de rived from the sale of Red Cross Seals in' North Carolina is spent in the fight against tuberculosis in this state. . , i The members of , the Red Cross Seal - Committee are as follows: '' . Mrs. C. C. Hook, Chairman, Cbarlotte, N- CJ Mr.. Hamilton C Jones, Treas C. urer, uuanotte, in, Dr. W. R. Kirk, Henderson- villc, N. C. Mrs.' W. N.' Hutt, Raleigh-, N. c. Dr. Otho Ross, Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. G. Minger, Charlotte, I jj (j . Col. J. L. Ludlow, Winston )3alem, N. C. Dr. W. L. Dunn, Asheville, N. O. .' f : Mrs. T. D. Jones, Durham, N. C. ' Mrs. Cothbert Martin, Wil mington, N. C. Wanamaker's Keynote. When it comes to making an impression on the public it is pretty nearly always in the man who talks. A few days ago John Wanamaker made a decidedly op timistic utterance before the Business Men's Association In Philadelphia and his speech is be ing more widely quoted than auy recent ntterance on the situation, not excepting that by the Presi dent himself. Wanamaker's dec laration that "we can make the best of the present and win out if we resolve to do so," seems to be regarded as tho' kevnote. and indeed it is the whole situation summed in a few words. Gath enng cheer from Wanamaker's Cue, The New York Sun finds as justification that today "we have our own hundred million of peo ple to house, feed anc clothe. We are a great market unto our selves. Tne current or our National life flows on not pro roundly disturbed. We nave plenty to sell to onr neighbors, aud by no means all our old fields of gain are closed while uewvones are opening to us If we reso lutely look for the best in the present we will find the worst comparatively unimportant and the future will very soon begin to come our way." Observer. Precept upon Precept We have often heard it stated that was not worth while tq teach the children certaian things i n school and that the modem method of trying to teach laws of hygiene and sanitation was time wasted. But It is not time wast ed, and if we go at it we will find that this line upon line, precept upon precept,fis the way to bring better things into every-day life of the people and if the children will do the great good of telling their parents what they learn they may accomplish a revolution or at least they will come to be leive it so firmly that they Will practice it themselves.? The fol lowing incident illustrates: I n one of our famlies where some such teaching is practised a n d where the gay festive' fly is a rare visitor one morning a soli tary fly dared to; intrude his pres-ihee in the dining room where the family was breakfast ing. He was so. daring that be lit upon the milk of the fair young daughter of 5 years and she ; immediately resented the daring of his diseased laden body. The mother said but it makes no difference, daughter, o n e fly. don't hurt, and the young lady ship replied but mamma I cant drink germs, .they will make me sick and she would not drink the milk! Were wo all so careful as this young miss there woald be less . typhoid and tuberculosis. So let us continue line upon line and- precept upon precept and some time we will bo, free from disease and epidemics. James E. Rector of Asheville was down Monday in the inter est of the road for Hot Springs, Virginia's Yictory O n the 22nd o f September there was an election in Virginia to decide whether the state ehould have state-wide prohibi tion or should have local option. By a large majority the state de cided that from the first of JaD. 1916 there should be no liquor sold in the state. One by one the states are joining the column I of the drys. It is indeed a sign of the times, when s o many o f the states are deciding, that they are better on u tney nave no liquor. Twenty years ago it was thought impossible that any state, except perhaps Maine q r Kansas, should have such a thing, and the papers were fall of articles against the forcing of men to not drink. However, today we see so many of the states by law are saying just that thing; and many more are going to vote on these questions in a short time, We are glad that our neighbor ing state has decided in this way, and we are sure that her her ex ample will be followed by many more soon. Ohio, Illinois, and others are going to try it out soon. God grant that their answer may be as loud and clear as was Virginia's. How far Can We Believe What People Say of :,: Themselves ? . There are two kinds of people in this world, those who think very much of themselves and have a very much higher opin ion of themselves than others have and then there are those who have a very low opinion of themselves. Can we accept their opinion of themselves and be right. We read of a man who, thot he could do nothing and he said so, and a bully who thol he could run the world and whip almost every one, met this man and pro ceeded , to bullyrag the humble man until he had him stirred up and then when our humble friend had done with his bullyship there was little left of him. This fact is true of countries also. There is a great deal of muck rakeing and belittling of the nation at times or the city or the town and people accept us at our own estimate. We caricature Our . officers and leaders until others take 'them at our fancied estimate of them and so do not give them their dues. ; , - It is said that before this war that the papers said that Ireland was torn up with internal trouble over Home Rule, that England was disrupted and that India was ready to revolt. The papers of France said that the army was in a bad way not armed, that the guns and artillery was antiquated and that 'all was rotten. How ever notwithstanding all that the papers said, Irtland is united, England is ready for war, the Preneh army is doing, better than in the Franco -Prussian war and some one might have been mis taken. It is not best to always believe all that people say as to calamity or misfortune or the little fort une they . have. Better count the Cost, find out the truth' and then go ahead. You cannot believe what muck rakers say always nor when some scandal is walking about can you believe that the white wash is the whiteness of natural purity. Spring Creek Items. Spring Creek High School is doing fine work this year. We have four excellent teachers, Prof. Pleasants is principal; Miss Lefler, first asssistant; Miss Hodges, second assistant; Miss Bryan, primary teacher. There are between 150 and 160 students enrolled and more are going to start next week. The students and teachers are going to orga nize a literary society and give the first program Friday after noon. Misses Minnie Ebbs and Ollie Guffey visited Mi. J. N. Ebbs' home last Saturday and Sunday. They reported having seen a corn stalk twenty (20) feet long. This stalk grew on Mr. Ebbs' farm. A meeting is being held at the Flats now. They have had sev eral professions. Quarterly meeting will be at the Gap next Saturday and Sunday. Uncle John McKinne.v. who has been sick' all summer, is now able to go around some. (Best wishes to the News-Record SHRINTH AND SOOK. The Teachers Duty, The opening of the school year is an appropriate time to recall two notable prounecments that was made at the last annual con vention of the National Educa tion Association in July on the duties of teachers one by Dr. Joseph Swain, president of the Swarthmore College and presi dent of the association, and the other by President Wilson. Dr. Swain said; "Given a cultivated trained teacher of-'sound mind & body, who goes to work at peace with God and man, the school xill be the best place in the world for the growth of the child in practical righteousness and in American citizenship. Not much instruction either secular or re ligius can be given without a well equipped teacher, whose personality, learning, moral and religious life appeal to those un der her care. The teacher can not teach what she does not know and cannot give to others the re ligious life which she does not possess." President Wilson's message, in form of a telegram, reaTl, in part: "Thoughtful peo ple all over the county follow the deliberations of the National Ed ucation Association with genuine interest. . The problems of edu cation are really-problems affect ing the national development and -.national ideas. I think that no one long associated , with the profession of teaching can have failed to catch the inspiration of o r to see how great a power may be exercised through the classroom in directing the think ing and the ambitions of the gen erations coming on, or can have failed to realize that nothing less than a comprehension of the na tional life is necessary, for . a teacher for the great task of prep aration and adaptation to the fu ture that education attempts." Step those Early Bronchial Coughs They hang on all winter if not checked, and pave the way for seri ous throat and lung diseases. Get a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, and take it freely. Stops coughs and colds, heals raw inflamed throat, loosens the phlegm and is mildly laxative. Best5 for children add grown-persons. No opiates. Dr. I, E. Burnett, Mars Hill, N. C.
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