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Volume XV
Lenoir. N. C.. Friday, April 25, 1913
No. 49
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LETTER TO EDITOR PRICE.
HOME FOR MASONS.
OOMMISSION GOVERNMENT
NEWS ITEMS OF IN ILKtr.
A-
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(The Dixie Methodist.)
My Dear Brother:
I write you tbis as a commu
nication to your paper, and in
answer to your article "She is
Coming."
Perhaps you do not know it,
but your father is a Woman
Suffragist, also your mother and
your two sisters, and your
brother believes in it. Your
uncle Will is an ardent suffra
gist, and your aunt Hannah is
xa violent one. Your kin folks
andjriends are flocking to the
women's standards, and you
will soon be left alone unless
you come over. I hate to see a
brain as good as yours clinging
to medieval ideas. Come out in
to the broad path and develop
and grow along with your rela
tives. No, you need not say "Good
bye to the sweet, refined, retir
ing woman of the earlier days
of the republic," as you say.
Just walk down some quiet
street to a clean decent place
where you will tind a booth some
day, and you will see her there
with her mother and her sisters,
or at least the same types, and
you can bid her "good morning"
instead of "goodbye."
As to the iurv. women have
served on the jury already with
great credit. So far as lighting
in battles, is concerned, they
have done that only from neces
sity, and not from the blood
thirsty love of war as men have
done from time immemorial. I
am proud to say that women are
the greatest promoters of the
peace movement of today, one
woman having won the Noble
Prize for her book on peace
"Lay Down Your Arms." If
it's left to the women, there'll
be no more wars. However,
when PietCronje's wife fought
side bv side With him in the
trenches running with blood
during the Boer war, do you
suppose he showed her any the
less,, devotion afterwards be
cause of that act: llns is a
cowardly argument and un
worthy of you. How many of
you men are unfit for service in
war, and yet use the ballot with
out compunction? Mary John
son has said; "More women
have died in giving lue since
the Civil War than fell on both
sides in thatgreat struggle.'
If such be the case with men,
we will cheerfully surrender al
claims to what we never had
the deference, the protection
and the worship of poor Man,'
because this is and long has
been a delusion of men's poor
befuddled brain, that women
lean on them. You cannot find
a family where it is so. The
men imagine it, but on the con
trary, the man leans heavily on
the woman, no matter how frai
she be. The men are the de
pendent sex, and always have
been. Take a widow with a lot
of children. She . rubs along
J and rears her family in quite an
inderjendent way. but look at
the pitiful object the man be
. comes left with several helpless
children!
''Let her no longer try to
take advantage of her sex in the
sharp competitions of life
. When has she done soY Every
'. one knows that women have a
vvays been i taken advantage of
in iraae.-
She) receives less pay
iortne same laoor. duo una uw
H sayso about her taxes as to how
they shall be spent. The laws
in regard to women and proper;
Interesting Letter to Rer.
Vance Price on Woman
Suffrage.
must avoid extremes:
(Charlotte Chronicle.)
The press dispatches tell us
of a speech that was made at
the Richmond educational con
ference by Dr. H. L. Whitfield
of Mississippi in which he pro
poses th,e' abolition of the old
lassical system of education,
and the substitution of vocation
al training. We don't altogeth
er approve or sucn doctrines.
We have steadfastly favored
adding vocational education to
that obtained in the country
schools and the ordinary classic
al college, but this addition can
be made without sacrificing any
thing of the old education. An
education altogether vocational
nrl inrliKtrial wnnM hf pven
nd industrial would be even
more lame and halt than a clas
sicai education witnout inese.
Care should be taken also in
endeavoring to forward the
cause of education, nqj to make
it too much a matter of taxes.
Educational leaders seem to be
talking too much about school
taxes these days, and school
teachers lay too much stress up
on salaries. Money is no more
education than it is religion
We don't want to see the voca
tional movement go to extremes
. .
in any phase of the subject. I
An Eastern paper in a head
ine says, nattier 01 waters in
an Angry Mood." We must not
forget that those 5, OCX) barrels
of whiskey that were lost in the
floods of Kentucky have not yet
reached the old mans mouth.
Exchange.
ty are all made in favor Of the
man against the woman. Here
in Tennessee a married woman
does not own her clothes. Her
children can be willed away
from her. The wages of her
child belong neither to her nor
her child who has earned them,
but to the husband and father.
f she works and receives wag
es the husband can use them a-
gainst her will. The law pro
tects him.
"This nightmare of our mod
ern restlessness" which you so
much deplore, and hope will
pass, is just an evidence that
the world is in process of prog
ressthe wave oi relorin is
breaking over this old earth and
stirring the hearts of men and
women to greater struggles up
ward and onward into the light.
It is God's law that nothing
shall stand still. The earth is
in constant process of change,
the sea moves to and fro, neith-
er resting by day nor night, the
stars and the planets are in con-
stant and rapid motion, and
shall man stand still?
As to woman's sphere, she
never naa one all to nerseir,
but in it tfere men and children,
And the halo with which you
think her adorned is all a myth,
It is just as well for some senti-
mentalists to know this, that
women in many respects are
better than men, but they are
after all just human beings with
human frailties, and that no act
of the Legislature can change
the sex of either man or woman,
because it was not the ballot
that made man rougher and dif-
ferentinform and face. Such
men as you and George Stuart
will some day be like the man
of whom Mary Johnson said:
Let him sleep; some day he
will wake up in mid-ocean."
Tennyson says: -
The woman's cause is man's:
they rise or sink Together, cordially invited to call and in
dwarfed or godlike, bond or si)ect the building and grounds,
free." ' Mr. J. Van Lindley and his.son,
Your sister,
Hannah J. Price,
Morrlstown, Tenn.
Splendid Institution Just Erected
by Masonic Fraternity
at Greensboro.
This Home has been erected by
the Masons and Eastern Stars
of North Carolina for their old
and indigent Members.
The Building has been coin
pleted by funds as follows:
By Masonic Lodges
and Easter Star
Chapter of N. Greens
boro, N. C. $0,000,00.
By Masonic Ixxlges
and Eastern Star.
Chapters through out
North Carolina
By Bond Issue
7.1XI0.0O.
10.000.00.
sttUXXJ.OO.
campaign for
A State-wide
Funds to furnish the Home is
being made and the following
donations for this Home are an
nounced from March Kith to
date:
Ceasar Cone, president
Proximity and White
Oak Cotton Mills,
complete outfit fordin
ing room estimated
value S500.1X)
L, ,-. ,tf .
Ceasar Cone, outfit for
x, , -r 1W4
$575.00
By Masonic bodies of
Bryson City. N. C,
for furnishing room
No. 2
j. 00
Greensboro Chapter No.
1 4. Order Eastern Star
for furnishing room
No. :i
.00
J. B. Stroud, North
Carolina representa
tive for Craddock
Terry Co., for furnish
ing room No. 4
GENERAL. FUND.
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Grand Chapter Order
Eastern Star.
$100.00
Charlotte Consistory No
1, Scottish Rite Ma
sons 300.00
Pigeon River Lodge No.
30 A. P. & A. M.
Mrs. Cora Ransier, Hen
dersonville, N. C.
1.00
Durham Commandery
Knight Templars.
No. 3
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Caswell Chapter No. 3s
Royal Arch Masons
V).O0
Odell Hardware Co.,
Greensboro, N. C.
C. Pierce Printing
Co., Greensboro, N. C.
25.00
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$l.iWt. (.1
liberal do-
These prompt and
nations will enable the Home to
be opened at an early date.
There is no question about the
practical need of this Home
Fraternalism will never survive
the onward rush of modern ac-
tivities unless it takes advan
tage of the passing opportuni-
ties to do practical good. The
old and indigent Masons of
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North Carolina are here and
many of them destitute and help
less by reason ot misiortune and
possibility of neglect. They
look to us who have been more
fortunate for that help which
we are under obligations to give.
It is a well known fact that ma
ny old veterans of the war are
Masons, and many of them are
today objects of charity. We
owe them both a patriotic and
fraternal debt. It should be
our pleasure to have these old
patriots together, where we can
give them comfort and pleasure.
The Home is convenient to
this city and the citizens are
Paul Lindley, have put the Ma-
sons of North Carolina under
many obligations for the dona-
Every Community Will Eventu
ally Adopt This Modern
Government.
(The Merchants Journal i
Eventually every municipali
ty is going to be governed by
business principles At first,
the old office-holder may be ab
le to retain his teat on the pub
lie udder; thfc shrewd ward heel
er w ill manipulate his right of
graft on the placing of contracts,
but eventually municipalities
and public offices will be ad
ministered by business men on
business principles. The steady
increase in taxes, the.inequah
ties of the imposition, the lac k
of public improvements and the
exceedingly high cost of ioor
and mediocre work called im
provements will eventually be
corrected. The strength of the
)ohtical ring is bound to yield
to the intelligent growth of com
munit.v spirit. Where people
work together the greatest
progress exists. Men are rapid
ly learning individual weakness
and community strength. The
community whose citizens pull
together expands, develops, at
tracts, grows, and is most do
veloped; the community that
acks civic pride stands still,
contracts and grows smaller.
Capital and real men are at
tracted to the former, the con
tented and the pessimist to the
atter. The great resources of
the South compel alertness by
the red blooded, well bred and
educated young men of the
South. They will not stand for
stagnation. They are fast
reaching a stage where they
realize that conservation of
public funds pays private divi
dends. They will eventually
ask, demand and secure both
commission government and
qualified commissioners busi
ness men on business principles.
The old idea, every man for him
self and the devil take the hind
ermost, is being rapidly dis
placed by a newer idea: Every
man for his community, and the
devil take the loafer, the knock
er and the parasite.
tion of this magnificent site.
l nis site consists oi -'o acres
on the suburbs of Greensboro
near Pomona. The building
stands on a commanding height
in the center of the projierty and
is easily seen from the Pomona
trolley line and the Winston
branch of the Southern Railway
The importance of this insti
tution to the city of Greensboro
may be realized when it is known
that the ruoiing expenses of the
Home, when opened, will be a
bout $500 a month.
Mr. M. W. White, the super
intendent, will welcome visitors
at all times.
The Home is a State-wide en
terprise. Every Masonic body
in North Carolina has the privi
lege of sending its indigent
members here. Hence the 22,
(XX) Masons from the mountains
to tlie sea are asked to co-ope r
ate with the management in the
effort 'to fully equip and open
this Home. A joint committee
of representatives from the Or
dor Eastern Star and Blue Lod
ges have met and arranged the
following equipment necessary
before the Home will be com
plete: 28 living rooms, to fur
nish each $7"). 00
1 dining room 200.00
1 kitchen 200.00
1 office 200.00
1 parlor 40000
2 reception halls, each 200.00
PLOUGHING AT NIGHT.
(Charlotte Observer.)
The rather unusual sight of
an immense tlO-horsepower trac
tor, dragging 12 2-inch disc
plows and cutting a swath 12
feet wide and 12 inches deep at
tracted much comment last
night out on the Beattie's Ford
road. The machine belonged to
Mr. G. V. Kellar, one of the
most aggressive and uptodate
farmers in the county and he
was using it in breaking up the
level land on his place north
west of the city, which is a
portion of the old Barringer
farm. The tractor cuts two acres
an hour and ;Mr. I Kellar has
been running it day and night,
thus covering 4M acres in the 24
hours. He figures that it costs
him about 00 cents an hour to
ojierate the outfit. There are
only two men required to look
after it. It does the work of a
bout 40 horses. After going
over the land once. Mr. Kellar
goes over it a second time, us
ing two disc tiarrows. with 40
20-inch discs, thus cutting up
the soil so that it will retain its
moisture all summer.
Mr. Kellar is a great believer
in the utilization of modern
methods and modern implements
n l arming, lie has another
tractor at work in Virginia. In
addition to the greater efficien
cy secured, the tractor is much
cheaer considering the acreage
covered and besides it is a great
saver of time. Many of the far
mers nave not been aoie to get
much ploughing done on ac
count of the weather. 1 his
trouble has been greatly reduc
ed by means of the tractor for it
can cover 48 acres in 24 hours.
A number of farmers went out
to the Kellar farm yesterday to
see the big machine work. It
uses kerosene oil.
Buy Cattle and Stop Payment.
Last Monday Messrs Powell
Brothers shipped a car load of
fine cattle from here to a man
giving his name of Levine. The
man came here and made the
deal, giving Mr. Powell a check
for about $1200, showing letters
from iwrsons whom he had dealt
with, among them a Mr. J. E.
Jones of Hickory who died last
week. The cattle were duly
shipped and Wednesday the
First National Bank here,
through which Mr. Powell
handled the check, was notified
that payment of the check had
been stopied. Mr. Powell took
his lawyer, Mr. W. J. Whisnant,
and followed the cattle to Bris
tol from which point a telegram
was Ireceived yesterday saying
to return the check and the bank
in Knoxville would pay it, so it
is presumed the matter has been
adjusted.
Mr. J. A. Kelley, was up from
Cornelius on business this week
Water system 2.000.00
Septic tank system t. 500. 00
Up to this writing four living
rooms have been provided for
and the dining room.
The committee figured the
dining room at $200.00 to fur
nish in plain furniture, but Mr.
Cone, hearing of the plan, has
expressed his desire to furnish
the dining hall in solid oak, es
ti mated to cost $500,00.
Any one wishing to take part
in this effort to enable the Home
to open at an early date may ad
dress the secretary and treasur
er, John J. Phoenix. All dona
tions will be acknowledged
through the North Carolina pa
pers and Orphans' Friend, the
Masonic organ, published at
Oxford.
Interesting Reading Matter of
Local and National Affairs
in Condensed Form.
Mrs. L. H. Clement, thp wife
of a prominent lawyer of Salis
bury died last Monday at her
home in that place.
The recent cold weather is
said to have done much datrage
to early truck and berry cri ps
in the eastern part of the state.
Madison county has recently
voted a bond issue of $o((,(0
for good Roads and Vance coun
ty a bond issue of $LtC,ll0 lor
the same purpose.
Capt. E. F. Lovill, of Boone,
has been endorsed by Senator
Overman and Congressman
Doughton for Assistant Com
missioner of Patents.
The Southern Express Com
pany is said to be considering
the advisablity or oiening a
pecial office in Nevv Bern
for the handling the liquor
hipments that come into that
town.
A man by the name of Liver
tt a prominent farmer of Hen
derson county i years old had
a dispute with his son 48 years
old and shot his son with a shot
gun inflicting a dangerous
wound. He then got another
gun and killed himself.
It is announced that ex-Judge
W. B. Councill, of Hickory, will
enter the contest for Collector
of Internal Revenue, for the
Western District of North Caro-
ina. This will make five ap
plicants for the place, the others
being A. D. Watts, of States-
ville; S. L. Rogers, of Franklin;
H. Boyden, of Salisbury; and
W. D. Dowd, of Charlotte.
R. S. Sigman, the oldest en
gineer in the service oi tne
Southern Railway has been re
tired on a pension for life. He
s 76 years old and has been aa
engineer for nearly sixty years.
Never in all his long service had
a serious accident or killed any
one and was never discharged
or given a demerit. lie has
raised a large family, most of
lis sons being railroad men.
Miss Annie King, a young
lady of Charlotte was killed by
an automobile in that place Wed
nesday. She alighted from a
street car and was hit by the
automobile which was pass ng
at a rapid rate. The driver who
was an employee of the Obser
ver wTas arrested. The young
lady was badly mangled and
died in about an hour without
regaining conciousness.
Prbytery.
The session of Concord Pres
bytery, which closed here last '
night after a meeting of three
days, was well attended nearly
every church in the bounds of
the Presbytery, which embraces
nine counties, being . represent
ed. The sessions were interest
ing and helpful and the reports,
presented, show that the church
in this Presbytery is growing
and is making commendable
progress along all lines of work.
Some interesting addresses and
sermons have been delivered
and all those who have attended
the meetings have been edified
and interested. The members
of the Presbytery were given a
reception at Davenport College
Thursday afternoon, which was
enjoyed by all who participated.
The delegates are loud in Uieir
praises of the hospitality shown
them by the members of the
Presbyterian congregation of
Lenoir and others.
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