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I 1 7 " i J ' . . ? CONSOLIDATED WITH THE CARTHAGE BLADE JANUARY 1 1912. The Blade Established 1875. For theV Upbuilding and Dev elopment of Moore County. The News Established Feb. 13C5. - f VOL, XVI. NO.24. CARTHAGE, tt C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1920. $2.00 A) YEAR IN ADVANCE !,'-' i V 1 ,i I r Jul imliM ' V'X 1 NEWS MAN ," He Sees How Folks Other '(Bion H. Butler) ' , For some Jtime "my ; boy has ,., been "working himself into an uneasiness over the notion that the old man '. ought to get out and brush against - sdme of the world and see how folks do things away , iroin home, and t a ' short time ago ' he insisted that some V business affairs' in 'which he says :we are interested made it wise that we should fare forth into Pennsylvania. - As a man gets up in years the younger v one's boss,, him around more or less, and I know that I might as well pass under the rod, so I submitted. Well, ' nobody cares much" where we Went, but one evening about four . o'clock I was Bitting ori the front porch with Frank": Walker, of Southern Pines, at a house he has rented; at Brockway ville, Pennsylvania, and he .pointed to a car coming down the brick paved street. "Darkies coming home from their work at the mines in their , Winton six," Walker skid. And there they were, half; a dozen of them, with their mine lamps in theif caps and - the grime"of the coal on their faces, iA" number bf cars passed carrying the home coming miners, and it was the , same story. The when the next day . I went out to some of the mines I noticed at every ohe'of them a string of automobiles, parked around the tip ples and the powet housesand were r told that , they were the tU of the " miners who came to work in that way Nothing funny; about it. A coal -miner -is .geti; moneythese .. days, and he rides in his car lustis the rest ht Us do,' only not the same as those! f ' us who still ; find comfort ; in the fliyer, for I found at' the mines every thing under the sun in the way of cars, and when I stopped to talk with a little Italian boy who was asking some questions about the car I was riding in I asked him what sort of a car he had. , He took my breath, lor the an- awer was one of the moderate-priced boaWwhen I rather thought he would tell me his folks had none. . But the operators tellnie.the men are stacking up money. Also on the mine tipples I saw the weigh sheets telling how much coal was to the ' credit of each individual,, and they run from ten to eighteen dollars a day to the man in many cases, On the day , I v?as talking with Walker I was in- ' formed that a man and his two boys Jiving close by had earned $40 the day before. But this is not surprismu when the conditions are known. Men hauling coal 'past us on' wages are ..making three trips a day; carrying iwo tons fat a trip and getting wiree dollars a ton ior moving ww v . That means $18 a day for the man and his team. ; But. what that does' with the farmer is a caution. A farmer on the street told me he had put in 400 inn of hav so fan and had a lot more hay, some eats arid other stuff, to har-j est Eufthat he could not get drivers to run his reaper any mora tharfhe couM fly. The farmers ara in - the mines; And don't. think they ,are ' breaking fheir backa to earn the big thev rei 1 was through some it the modern plants and I taw morel that is propheticn one or two oi these mines than I fould have sus- , pected. I puuea pn,an,uuuy--muH and took a mine lamp and the superintendent told me to get aboard car , in a long string of mine cars - bkk was going in. It was a little af -jfair that holds a couple of tons, and I ' hd to sit snug- to avoid hitting the Whm we were ready the signal was given aW an electric, motor shov . d us about a mile underground, the ,.nt, alonir T about fiftaen - n.SL on a substantial track Electric lights along the route helped . We arrived at a junction ' if k the , oars to walk jitn. alonar the heading, and anui - . . , . a men. starting an, electric machine which was Jutting the coal. The Job they had was to occasionally help in setting a jack, but' a motor drove the machinery, moved the. ma chine, cue the coal, and made it ready - for-a' machine drill to drive a hole in .. i k .W down with' a load tne co - . f dvnamite. It was shoveiea up u. just-wnav . v-.. ----VIhe mlnTcars by hand.mn out to the ja couple of men,-and turp.ng his back OUT Are Doing Things In Places , . tipple, dumped by pulling a switch on a motor, and the railroad cars puJM away by , a big locomotive. : , . These men are not miners. They are electricians; '- machinists, , operatives, and skilled in most all .instances. What I saw showed me that we, have as a nation arrived at a new era. The mud lark and the, navvy are disappearing, and the machine is coming to work, ana the man who looks after the ma chine is a skilled and intelligent man who earns the wages and ' .actually earns big money because he is look ing after machines that do 'a great deal more than could be done in the old style of hand work. . Right there I saw clearly that the old day has passed away. Hand labor is. of the past, and while we have not come to it yet on the farms we are coming. All the way up through Maryland and : Pennsylvania' we 'saw farmers at work If harvesting oats. Three or four horses, or. possibly a tractor,- pulled a harvesting machine that, left the grain in bundles ready to be set in the shocks. Men were mak Trig hay, but with big horses and heavy machinery, . We went into a - shop that makes heavy oil well tools. Steam hammers pounded the steel which was carred to the hammer front the fur naces by gigantic craned r The heavy work of pulling levers and pushing a button was the big task there arid the hammer man got 18 a day. He gets it for knowing how, not for work as we used to figure work. 7 Hn a big brick nd; tUe . works, girls were lenaing macninea inni were cut- ting roofing and flooring tile from a big machine that had pressed the stuff into shape.' It was light work that takes quick eye and fingers.' In the evening I was walking with the man ager of the factory and we, met some girls in holiday apparel, arrayed like the prosperous families of the Easy street neighborhood, ana was torn tna the girls were the same I had seen in the factory in khaki outfit sorting the tile at the machines. They make lots bf. money, can buy expensive clothes, do what they want to with the money, and they did. .Ohe day in a car driven by a daughter of the household I rode up to a station to get some gasoline. The car was one of the . expensive types and the man who filled 'it in formed the girl that this was better, foy in the morning we had been on the street in a Ford that she was driv. ing. The shop man tow her ne did not like to see her father's daughter driving, a Ford when he knew they had a reaf automobile. -v a '.':. ..; : Coalr is gold, and it is easy to con vert. : Men who seven years ago re garded a ten dollar' bill as big money are classing such,stuff now with the labels on -a peach crate. Some who never earned ten dollars in, a day be fore .find themselves pulling in a thou sand dollars a day irom coai tney are mininar and selling maybe from the old farm, or from a farm ' they . have k,,lit. to mine coal fromU haw never seen anything to compare with this wild revel since the days of the earlv oil country and the old days in tWmining country of Nevada and the West. - t was In a village -where a1 few years a'ffb' I knew the banker , and he had one asSisUnt to-help him.witn nis work. This time I counted six as sistants he had the excavation for a hew banking house along side and notorial on the STound. and a new banking company Jias been chartered in the last few days for another ban in the same village. Through. these valleys new tsU roads are building that are coitir f 50,000 a mile, nd they areii.as. .They are;, surf a,ce4 with brick laid in concrete and of as nhalt and of concrete. if; 1 But . in spite of the machines ' the labor situation is terrific. A shop man said to me that he didn't attempt to run his shop. His men came' when the wanted to. worked as many hours as they liked, went home when they were ready, and all he had to do was pay the bills. Another man who used to run one of the most highly special ized shops in the oil country, is doing on anything else.' And the shortage of cars has been interesting.. 1. . At big glass factories' saw a man f. taking bottles from a machine , and setting them in an annealing furnace to be tempered. The bottles came - from a machine that took a bit .off melted glass froi a tank, Mowed the,f'w- vvu l uxuj glass into a perfect milk bottle, deliv-,l; c mme- " eany, morning ered it to the man who moved 'themn. tomobiles are driving past in five at a time into the annealing tar-i1 string. They are carrying nace, and turned out eight or ten com-ihers going to work. That i tjtpi pleted bottles'a minute, v The output l of the whole industrial, North. lof the machine ' is enormous. ,v The labor it saves is- great, and, it never ?1Pf ne, worx. numan energy u s.ui toiis to talk, nor fool awav anv time. 'P1? holding the'wheel, and changing It runs from' the minute it is started until it stops at the close of the' day, and where it runs night 'and 'day' it stops only for repairs. sThe men, whV tend these machines get big money. The fact is that, the labor cost is not any more the big factor it used to be. A few men with machines 'turn out much' more., than many, men used tb Without machines and ;with their big wages they are producing. - There is ho shortage of coal because of condi tions at the mines. . The whole call is for cars to load it in. . The mines of the United Stages 'can ' load great quantities of coal if the cars will come after it, but the railroads are tied lip r - It is hard w see how they are to improve any, for J the more cars the more coal is needed to haul them, and the more cars that UNION MEE Will Hold A Two Days Urged to Send Delegations, The next AJnion, meeungvjov ,,mm;i Sand v CreekA AssociatloH will be hiMm45JPJM.-Dcvotional MeetiflgSr rRevl. with the Bethlehem Baptist; church", five miles west of Carthage.-Saturday Arid Sunday August 28, 29. Every . .... I . 1 . 1 1 J A- church m tne Association is urgeu w send a delegation. Those going by train should notify Rev. J. E. Ascue, Carthage, so that conveyance, may be provided to the church. Questions of vital interest wil be discussed.,' A large attendance is expected. : r 1 The following, is the tentative pro gram: , . i ,'. f ; . ; Saturday, Aug. Z8th. . 10:30 A.M. Devotional Meeting. Rev. v C. Lee, Sanford. , 5 " i 10:45 A.M. Organization., 11:00 A.M Church - Disdjnline. C. C. Jones, Cameron; Rev. J, L. Pow ers, Gulf; Wi M. Gilmore, Sanford. 11:45 VA.M. How Attain an Al Sun day School? H P. Seawell, Car thage;' Victor Johrison, Pittsboro; Rev. N. J. Todd, Wake Forest. J. f.USS GEEIEVA SEAWELL OF ; CARTHAGE . - tChas. .'Wx Picquet) v '.- By a great spurt. Miss Seawell's friends put her to thm front by a Bar row margin of forty votes. The largest gain of th week was made by Helen Ruggles of Southern Pines who received 540 votes which puces her decidedly in the tunning for fit honors, . ' ' i y. f'" :' Cameron comes up with a substan tial gain for Miss Arnold;-while Aber deen, after starting.. Miss Welsh off last week, seems to have forgotten about her this week; , . . .. Th total vote cast this week is 1485 which is the largest since the con test started. ; :' , ' 'v'v Somebody is going to get busy, next week. fA..;. , ; j: : ; "" - ' xdliill ;;' ::f :f . THESE FIVE VOTES ARE CAST , for - ' of V --rf ------ to represent America in the Parade of all Nations at the ' Sandhill Fair, Thursday, November 18th, 1920. ' ' , Fill out the, above ballot for your favorite candidate arid ' mail it to Chas. W. Picquet, Secretary, Tinehurst, N. C. r , are built the, more coal to provide f uel of the shops. " ' . " s a curious and interesting prO- ie. ui re is ramer aiverung w get into he world occasionally and see hat Is going on. . ' fl1 cloM thi? "rticle 1 am 8,lttin .yaaojint, Bieam ana eiecincuy are ao- the gears.. - j .CARTHAGE ROUTE TWO f iliss Fannie Cagle of Route Four spent the week end with her brother, Mr, John agle. 't (Mr. John Parker and family called 04' friends on this route Sunday. . t? A . number( of our, good people at-, tended the. services at the Methodist cmirch Sunday morning. - Messrs. Edgar Duggins and Percy Gann of Madison were the week end guests of Miss Carrie Martin. . Miss Marion Shields is making an .extended visit at her grandfather's, Mr. J, ,W, Cole's on Star Route, .Everybody is busy curing tobacco and some of our people boast that tley have already cured twelve. barns. TINGS AT BETHLEHEM Session, Churches Are i,t uy it W;. A. Crabtree, Wells.i,.r, 2:00 P.M. Reports from the churches as tb Spiritual Conditions and Achievements. 2:45 P.M.--How can our .churches meet the present challenge of the World at Home and Abroad? Rev. ', O; A. Keller, Aberdeen; L. R. Dixon, MC Vernon. Springs ; Rev. J. E, As cue, Carthage, , 3:30 P.M. Miscellaneous Business. Adjournment. : 1 Sunday, August 29th, 10:00' A.M. Sunday School .Mass 't Meeting. - Leader to be selected. 11:00 A.M. Sermon. Preacher to be selected. 2:00 P.M. Addresses. Speakers to be selected. Walter M.-Gilmore, W. B. Woff, , O. A. Keller,. ' , - Committee ROUTE OnE LEADS Watch for the result and don't for get' to add to it with your ballot which you' can' get from both the, Moore CotnAy News and the Sandhill Citizen. Here's the result: i Geneva Seawell Bertha Profitt 1060 1020 840 215 Helen Ruggles Kate ,AVnold Alice Page ' , Vivian Welsh ' : ' ' 85 '65 40 Rosa Medlin Esther Tufts LenaLudwlck Clemence Addor 20 -15 10 Total VotsT Votes cast this week I4SS. 8360 V Fair J. McN. JOHNSON IN Writes to Mrs. J. McK. Harrington About , 1 The Sights He Has Seen The following Utter has "been re ceived by Mrs. Janie"Harrington, our Cameron correspondent, from Mr. J. McN. Johnson, who is touring Eng- and Scotland: v - London, England, July 16, 1920. Mrs. Janie McK, Harrington,, Cameron,' N. C. . Dear Cousin: Justin from seeing the sights in Westminster Abbey. It is just stunning. None but a Wash ington Irving should attempt to de scribe it, much less your humble ser vant. . : . ' ' ' We were greatly pleased to find near Trafalgar Square a very fine statue of Edith Cavelle, the nurse the Germans . murdered in Belguim. : , I would, myself, be happy to die for my country, in as cruel a manner as she j did, if I had any idea I Would be canan-! ized in this way; but our country hasj been more to "canize the ' astute i politician than the martyr, and this , it. thought gives us pause .When we landed, in Southampton three days ago I began -to look about me for return passage for our party, and happened to the good fortune of getting passage on the steamer New York, and American ship that sails on the 28tK of August. I then felt free to allow my curiosity free rein. The first thing that attracted my atten tion was the stream of dock hands go ing to work'. , (The street leading to the dock was, like an army passing. H thought j never saw so many; men all going in one direction; thousands of the idea 01 the vast numners. ( I saw one lone -Irishman standing o a street corner trying to dissiade the men front going to work. I en gaged him in conversation after the ereater stream of men had past, and soon learned that fre was a sin-fiener, and a pro-German. My decided feel ing was that he ought to be shot, but needless to say I did not tell him so. I was gratified to see evidences of the contempt he wa held in by the work- After he had slouched away, 1 remarked to the merchant' by whose door We had been standng how sur prised I was the officers of law allow ed this interference, but the merchant hrupired his shoulders and,, said: Did you notice any particular sue cess crowning his efforts?" j We spent only a day and a night at Southampton and went to Winchester where is located the finest, cathedrel in England, not excluding Westminis r and St. Panthes Cathedrel. At Winchester we saw the house William the Conqueror lived in, and ,we took breakfast in the "God Begot House" that was a gift to the town by .Queen Emma, then the wife of Canute, the Dane. ' We also saw the place where wives who were suspected of infidelity were' forced to endure the "ordeal of fire," that is, they were obliged, to walk bare foot over nine red hot plow shares; and the supposition was that if innocent God Would not let ,the fire burn their feet v ' V "We saw the encoffined body-dust of William Rufus, tha Red King, who was shot in the New Forest-in 1099 We were told about a month after his dead body had been placed in the Abbey, the roof fell in' and crushed the stone coffin, and that the universal cry ... UmtmmA him Wat" ' V ' . , I will not trouble you with more his Wry and reminiscence1 this time ut as a straw showing : which way sne wind is now blowing, .J jcopietf a few flaming ads from the bill boards that now surround the Vacant lota near our hotel, made vacant' by the German bombs; Heris is orieV-' , ; "Alcohol and Poverty. "IMJie saloon is the cause of pover ty,' the Vnited' States, ; Great Britian and France should be the poorest coun tries in the world and Persia, and Tur key the richest. .'All the world knows that exactfeontrary exists; the Probi bition agents are here. Look out for them.'? Thia and other flaming posters seem to be gotten out to fight PussTtfoot Johnson. , Truth Is I hard ly feel safe in telling my name. And I see from the Londoh papers we have a Third Party in America! I look for us to have trouble with ENGLAND the anarchists parading as socalista, that are behind this third party move- , t ment, and maybe the sooner it comes ' the better. The danger at present is that the unheard of prosperity among our farmers wll turn their heads to -the extent of a suicidal rush to em brace the specious demigogery now". . rampart. The I .W. W, the socialists, the Bin-feiners, the anarchists, haver . joined hand in hand and have baited their poison ; hooks with1 the taking names of "Farmer" and "Working- ' man," and they will probably deceive some men. that ought to have more sense. " We remain in London a week, and, ," will then go to Stratford-on-Avon to see my old friend, William Shakespere, the man that so much ffavors" your boss, Mr. Bion H. Butler; then we will go to Scotland, . Received the first letter from home today, and I was shocking glad to get Your cousin, J. McN. JOHNSON. EDUCATIONAL MATTERS (Angus B. Cameron) We , would again call attention to the Governor Williams Memorial Day, September the sixth. The program ' ' has not yet been completed, but will ' be; arranged in due time ; The .main point is for everybody to plan to bo i here on that day. .We want a full re ' presentation from all schools. It m ay caimfor iJittlis )aacrifl.talc;th) day off and 'b1ciid1tor- ' thage, but it will b.e well worth the time and trouble it takes.' 'r " T We find a number of people who do not seem to realize or to understand that the school children are expected ; to be here. There are. also, a mreat ' many people who seem not to hive learned that a prize of ten dollars in gold has been offered by General Carr for the best essay on the life of Gov ernor Williams, and that a second prize of five dollars in gold has been . offered by Mr. T. B. Tyson tor the second best on the 'same subject. ' These essays are to consist of .from five mund red to one thousand words. ' The 'Writer may . get all the help he can and information from any source, but the composition work must be original.' We hope that, a number of 4. ' the boys and girls 'throughout the County will show their appreciation of this generous offer and an interest . in the life of this great manr whose record of 'splendid service reflects such honor upon Moore county, , We shall be glad to have one or more es says from every school in the county. The contest, is open to any school boy or girlwithout age limit, . ; Wewiope also that the schools of the different communities will not for get that there- is a prize offered to the school that makes the largest contri- . bution per capita to the Governor Wil liama ; Memorial fund. This '! gives every school in the county an equal chance to be a leader in this worthy 1 undertaking. ? We hope that the older beoplei in the different communities wifitake the matter, in Jiand, encourage the children, and help to secure a liberal contribution t this fund. It is the desire of General fCftrr and the others who are promoting this work that every child, 'boy and girl, man and woman, in' Mooro 'county - may ha ve a part in this Memorial to Gover-' nor Williamsi jlf .the, contribution is only a nickel or. a aime, ft wul help swell the fund and will give the con tributor a sense of "pride in his' Coun- . try and will strtngtheh the patronage . $ n our citlsenk.' ! ,c - , : ,..Lt tne people take this matter up and W6rk'actively in it,! The time is short and the work must.be completed within a comparatuelyjfew days.; , , ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. J.i R. Page of Aber deen announce the ' engagement of their daughter, Miss Alice Pf-ra to Mr. Frank sD. Shamburger of 1 a. The wedding' will take place i.i t' i Page Blemorial church in Abe f , October 5.
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