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1 - " " i i . i , M , ... T THIS PAPER ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Volume XV Lenoir, N. C. Tuesday, April 15, 1913 No. 46 NSWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. THE CORN CLUB WORK. THE WORLD'S MOVEMENT. TO REORGANIZE SERVICE. J. PIERPONT MORGAN. TARIFF AND THE SOUTH. Uteresting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. Interest in The Work Growing. Caldwell Boys Strong Organization. For Christianity, Morality and Uplift Help The Great Cause Along. Most Radical Plan Ever Pro posed. May Swap Postmasters. Some Interesting Facts About Noted Captialist by Charity and Children. Charlotte Observer Sees Discrim tion Against Soute in Meas ure Before Congress. V Press Ashe- ville on July "23 andlMth. The National Forest Commis sion has authorized the purchase by the Government of 11.5C0 acres of land in the vicinity of M unt Mitchell. W. C. Ervin, was elected may or of Morganton last week un der the new commission form of government recently adopted by that town. Ninety-one blockade distilleries were destroyed in the mountain counties of which Asheville is t ie revenue headquarters, dur ing the month of March. Mrs. Blanche McCall, of Ashe- rille, has brought suit against t.ie street railway company of tli it place for $3,000 damages f ' being put off the cars when a held a transfer from another u.r. Ector Smith, president of the States Trust Company, that has been promoting small banks throughout the state has been arrested in Birmingham, Ala and will be brought to this State to stand trial. John Sawyer, the mate of a s.uill vessel, plying on the wat ers near Elizabeth City, disap- peareJ last week and it is feared hv lias committed suicide, as he has been in bad health and had often spoken of killing himself. Flies are carriers of disease Of course if you want to have sic kness in your homes you wil not clean up your premises. Nor will you use screens or swat the Hy. Be warned in time, for the flies are here. Exchange The advocates of good roads in all parts of the State where they are needed can not be too earnest in tlieir work to secure the adoption of measures to build tiie roads. Keep on ttilf ing tor good roads till there are elections won to build them. Exchange. President Wilson has let it be known that he will be his own guide in naming officials high up in the service of the Govern ment. The endorsement of sen ators and congressman will be given due consideration, but the President will be his own judge in most cases. A Pitt county fanner by the name of Jones disappeared last week after writing his son-in law that he was going to com mit suicide. He had his mus tache shaved off and while he can not be found his friends hope he is just in hiding some where in disguise. To provide improved facilities for properly handling the grow ing movement of live stock to Eastern and Virginia markets from the Southeastern states, the Southern Railway is now completing a modern plant lor resting nd feeding stock on property adjoining the Spencer yards. On Friday 4th, Mr. Young Love, of Bairds Creek, Watau- ga county, and his son got into a difficulty, when the young man struck his father on the head with a rock crushing his .... b-ll AfW Irnrvk nor h s filth er down the young man kissed him and fled. Physicians at tended the wounded man and re in ved several pieces of the Ji autu red bone and at last ao counts he was alive. ' The North Carolina Association will meet in The work of the Boys Corn Club, in the state last year was a revelation to every body who txjknoteof it. This year the work has grown to still larger proportions ana there is every reason to believe that old North Carolina will be prouder of her young sons this year than she was last. On April 1st every county in the state except eight, had Boys Corn Clubs organized. Wilkes county leads the list with a membership of 131 while Meck- enburg comes next with a mem bership of 124. Caldwell falls low in the list but has a club of 14 members composed of the following nam ed bright young fellows: Harvey Abernethy, Owen Bush, Stanley Bush, D. C. Carl ton, Dwigtit Clarke, Bascom P. Cooke, Lawrence Cook, Donald Conley, Quince Craig, Luther Crouch, W. C. Davis, Lonie Drum, Thos. C. Duncan, Robert M. C. Ernest, Wilson W. Evans, Columbus L. Flemming, Lester Flowers, Ross Fox, Marcus L. Greer, Earl Haas. Rufus Hart- ey, Garland Hoover, Roy Kir by, lirooks L.utz, Clyde May, Ralph McRary, Geo. R. Pope, Oliver Pope, Fred W. Roberts, Bert Rutledge, Albert Shuford, Bert Smith, Ervin Smith, Tal- mage Smith, Hamilton Steele Jr., Henry Steele, Clarence Tol bert, Ray Tolbert; Floyd West, Rex Williams, Albert Parlier, Truman Sherrill. Fred Brook shire, William Sharpe. These boys will strive for the prizes and no doubt many ot them will win them. In addition to the Boys Corn Club, County Demonstrator Goforth, has on his list about 300 names of men who will cultivate one or more acres in accordance with instruc tions by the department of Ag ricunure. vv un all tnese men and boys working together un der the direction of the best sci entitle instruction, to be obtain ed from all the experience of the past, will roll up a corn yieia in me cou.ity tins year that should make every body proud of their efforts. The work of improving the methods of farming is growing rapidly all over the South and Caldwel has caught the spirit with the rest of the state and we expect big things from the efforts. The adoption of the amend ment which provides for the di rect election of United States Senators by the people is an other blow at the domination of selfish special interests whic have done business with the Legislatures of many States The people are after these inllu ences and have a big stick of their own to use. The slogan j of .ghall the People Ruie?" is gettmg an amrmative answer straight along in these days Exchange. The Southern Railway com panyis.to be congratulated on its decision to furnish its passen gers with free individual drink ing cups. It is now unlawful fnr !in mtar&t.nt.a roil van trliuur coinmou or public drinking cups, and while this la in the interest of public health, it has caused , much public discomfort as many t Trrlf nmrltittiif J f y trti-utt1 if - "' w provide themselves with cups. An order for half a million cups has been placed for distribution from Spencer and the public will appreciate this move on the - partol the Southern, iboro News. Greens- To The Editor Do not Chris tian people too often skip the rex)its of their treasurers, and shrink from their import? Alas, too true! Is it because the treasurer or they do not discern the jewel in the casket? It is an irksome, forbidding task, un der which good men are made to groan, who "carry the bag" for the disciples of the Lord. To a tit man, a man of quality, to a soul with visions of the real things, as the Holy Spirit mir rors them to "holy and humble men of heart," any treasurer ship lies heavily enough. When one so trusted and load d himself divines the real treasure and its glorious pur K)se, and has the grace of frank ness to open out his sensitive soul to us on whom he must lean, we might easily find for our selves the spirit of comradeship with him, and fashion in our bosoms a kindlier feeling towards him, whether he speak out so or not; and whether, withall, he be the treasurer of our own local congregation, or charged with the weightier mat ters of a world wide sphere. This is to preface what I am now asking you to print, if you please; the spiritual basis of the report from one of our general treasurers He often, in his re ports, breaks away from- the sordid account of dollars and cents, and instinctively tries to show us "the iearl of great price"; a burdened brother's view of it, and our own moral and spiritual relations, and op portunities in regard to it. The following, eloquent with sinceretv and truth, if you can find space for it, ought surely to bring us inspiration. E. N. .1. "All round and round the world there seems to be pulsations of a new expectancy. The dark places have been explored; mod ern invention is making one peo pie of us, and men are feeling their human kinship as never before. History is now making Nations that have been children all these centuries are just grow ing up to man's estate. It seems a critical time - perhaps the most critical time of all the years since Christ's first coming. ; The world is to be won. People ev cry where are deeply stirred and it is very dangerous to let slip such a time of deep feeling and moving of the depths. If our Churchmen realized the World Movement in which the Church is engaged, appeals for men and money would be less frequent and better answered What are armies and dynastie compared to the weapon far more forceful than steel V for it disarms brute force and turns fighting armies into praying hosts. While the Church is working for the consummation of Ik ideals she may take to heart one ineffable comfort - God is work f u. io K;! ngtoo. He is going to bring ii to pass, out, line jonn me Baptist, she must prepare the way. His work lies where love abounds and where the spirit of charity is, there dwells the Masters of the World. It is our . . . task to till the world with faith and love and charity and hope, This is the atmosphere in which God works miracles, in which men do not differ, and in which they are determined to under stand. What a vision it is! The By Parker K. Anderson.) Washington, April 10. -Postmaster-General I urieson has determined to effect the most radical re-organizat.on of the postal service ever proposed in the history of the civil reform of this country. The plan upon which he is at work is distingu ished by these features; all ot masters shall be placed under le civil service and required to pass an examination for ad mis sion, retention and promotion. Postmasters shall be appointed and transferred without regard to locality so that, for example, resident of New York ct Id be made postmaster at Greensboro nd a resident of Greenstjoro ou Id be made postmaster at San Francisco. The postmaster general has reached the conclusion that ix)li tics is a blight on the postal ser vice; that postmasters are ap pointed as a reward for ik1 itical services and not lor their ntness to discharge the duties of the office. WON'T SI'UlNi; PLAN AT ONCE. Mr. Burleson, however, does not expect to spring this com prehensive plan on Congress all at once. He will begin in a modest way to give a demonstra tion of his ideas. He will begin lis radical change by holding examinations for the 3t,000 postm asters which were placed under the civil service by Presi dent Taft. Those who pass the examination will be retained and those who do will be removed. This examination will be oten to outsiders also and an eligible list of fourth class potmasters will be established and vacancies will be tilled from this list. It is Mr. Burleson's intention in the appointment ot tourtli class postmasters to experiment with the proposition ol ignoring geographical considerations. Wherever a vacancy occurs tht top of the eligible list will b appointed regardless of the fact that he does not reside in tin community affected. If thi scheme works well Mr. Burle son will ask Congress to enact legislation placing first, second and third class posmasters under similar regulations and subject to assignment without regard to locality. Babies vi. Poodlei. (Greensboro News.) That was a severe indictment Mrs. Charlotte Smith, a socia worker, brought against cultur ed Boston this week when, de daring that there was an ac tive traffic in babies," she charged that the idol of the home in the Back Bay is the Ioodle dogs ; that they run from $100 to $1,000, while babies are being sold at from $"2 to $10 depending upon whether they are blondes or brunettes." Is it possible that some women of, Massachusetts have so far for got their mother love as to place a poodle above an inno- batey i;,.,.n.Mll.., N.w The pearl may stand for puri- ty, but it is obtained through the agency of a dive. I , whole world merged in one un- conquerable host. "On to the bounds of the Wftste' On, on to the City of God!" Very Truly Yovrs, TuKASUiiER. (Chanty and Children.; The mot powerful captain of Industry of his time was J. Pier ont Morgan who died last week in Rome. He was one of the few men in the world's history who began life with great wealth, and yet succeeded in a wonderful way. His father was worth ten million dollars, and the son had every opportunity that exierienee and money could provide. At first he did not promise well. He was silent and retiring in his disjxjsition. and it is said his father hail small hope that young Pierjxmt would make much headway in the worid. But the young man was absorbing knowledge all the time. He was called the "Sphinx of Wall Street." All through his business career he kept his own counsel, tie nev er boasted but he knew how to do business. The South owes a great deal to Mr. Morgan. He took the Southern Railway ! when it was in wreck and ruins and made it one of the finest systems of the country. He was a pastmaster in the art of reorganization. He was a seer, and could see further into the future than anybody. He fore saw the industrial tide turning this way, and took hold of Southern investments at exact ly the right time. He was not as rich as some ol me oiner money Kings like uockeieuer and Carnegie but he controlled more capital than all of them put together. He was literally a Napoleon of finance and like the great Frenchman he could marshall all the forces of the financial field and make them tin it ike so diers lor hun. tie had a massive brain and em ployed his tremendous talent m the most effective way. Mr. Morgan was not wholly a money machine. He was a lover ol art and gathered a great collec tion. He was also a zealous churchman and gave millions to toe Ep s o,al denomination. Mr. Morgan was not so liberal in his gilts to religeous work as Mr. John D. Rockefeller, but he was not so wealthy, and his religeon was of a different type. We hope he was ready for the call when it came. He did a great deal for the race, and in his business dealings he was al ways straight and honest. No taint of fraud or graft attaches to his name. Morganton township voted last week to issue $50,000 in bonds to make good roads throughout the township. The Watauga Democrat says that the dwelling of Mr. J. C. Krider, near South Fork, was destroyed by fire last Saturday evening. Fortunately for Mr. Krider, he had only a short time before the fire been paid $700 by the Virginia-Carolina Railway ... company tor the privilege ol Uioving the house off the right , of way of the company At the regular annual meeting of the directors of the State Hospital last week Capt. Sawyer of Asheville and A. A. Shutord InfH.eknrv A H T do Hio-b Point .... , . n . qualified as new members. Capt. Kawver was really an old mem- I ,,. i fh ' ber having served on the board! a number of yoaw aRO, while Mr. Shuford was elected in place Q, nisfather, the late Able i t Shulord, who was director ior many years. Chariot!!" Observer. As an ultimate result, tarfffs have usually benefited the North and injured the South. This is no complaint against ti e North, but the purpose is to say that if we have free wool, free sugar and nearly free cotton good-., the tariff now being worked uKn in Washington is going to be again a tariff which benefits the North and injures the South. It does the North no particular harm to have steel rails put on the free list. The steel interest of Amer ica is competitive wi'h that of Europe without any tariff at all, but it will be enormously to the injury of Ixniisiana and Porto Rico if sugar is put on the free list. The theory of free trade has always done the South in jury. It was a part of the in stitution of slavery and helped to bring on the Civil War. The South being free trade and not self-supporting in a manufactur- ing way, we lost the Civil war. . i i We agree that there ought to be reasonable reductions in the tariff. We have a tariff made by the standpatters, and it is as unfair to the average American citizen as free trade would be; but there is no use of the whole American population jumping from the standpat frying pan in to the free trade fire and then back again. At least HO per cent of the American people stand about half way between ttiese two heresies and this great bulk of the people divide and go with one or the other of the militant extremists when there ought to be a fair middle course. We hope the tariff on wool and t.n sugar will not be cut ov er "Jo per cent and that the tariff on coarse cotton goods will not oe cut at all. There may be some room for its reduction on liner grades, but the present tariff on coarse goods is a fair one. This is proved by the fact tnat there is a reasonable amount of these goods coming in all the time. There is no call of con sequence by the people for eith er a prohibitory tariff or a free- trade tariff. There is a middle ground which at the same time raises revenue and utilizes the revenue tax to promote Ameri can industry. This reasonable middle tariff is the one that is wanted by the people of this country, and the Democrats should heed this fact. Clean-Up Day. "Clean-ups" are the absolute ly essential first steps for civic improvement. The Civic Com mittee has set aside next Satur day as the time for this town. As the town is but our larger home, we should insist that the ; home shall be the type of town life. Cleanliness and order must come first, as beauty 'cannot be successfully gratified upon dirt and disorder. The m. ..;.., t n, ri:..: r i. vimumnuui wi w-iviu i.aii,- men urges that wo make Clean- iU(j iajr iiiiu iiiusi, suixessi ui ,ycu 'in the history of our town. ., . TV... I-U., . l ....., I . . If you want your boy to be a preacher don't luck him up in a room to learn verses of Scrip turo while there is a irame of bU,u ""-'- 1B oi baseba11 Koing on in the corner ,,!lot A man in a boarding house is justified in finding fault with the meals when there isn't much I more to find. r i i if i i I'? IS- 1:5 i. S T' 1 M .4 "i n i a ' 'i H 1 In ( '1 - 5 m ' 1 ' ' - -,; '.- '' '. ' '."':t 'A
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