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IIII KSI) . l"lti:. !t lHJ.'i THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINEER I II K HI KM. III lt M SOI "I II. in i in: Slum Id ( halli-HKr nliun. Our i: i Uir;Vs -f MX 'ii.'i .if the Ilic:i:l. - l tl.l-i' e, i 1 j 1 1 jr I he sin Ic.-i ;h;in i n." Tii.. fH'T'M 111. lit .1 f: l; li, a::-l j.HI! t fa:! .If- I- -.'hoKl I. til. imp h.x , pa .U0 thai with irv f ;.. 1 in tile rounliy entv ciiuntic white f.i 1! I 1 inn; h .1 :n the-e eountie.. ' ut - unevenly fvanjrt'li:'.ed. 'opurti.-n ..f the rural popula te huich niemhership ranges exeiiiv a .until-, studied, from .en: : "i7..". per cent. On - - t than nne-teinth of the t" ca I a::criti" n-:M- in. j...:' :.n! ;'M.r.h:: pr.:.;eir xxlu.'l h.;i V.i.,, i ;nl ...n. ''.! -hn.- it ' . -ck lal work- i -h...i!! r'x ..f.r' ;.i ..ut .1' Kronmnir Hiarac:. riM . : n a- 'rinr. "To'lay t h f South 7' p-i . ni . ,. In 'Mi- i.iral an.l deludes nearly ne-t "., .. tf '.a: the total area of the Union. It pro- ... ;!; due, t'.l) p-r cent of the world's cotton, r- I . It stands on the vere of a tremendous ir.in.!. industrial development. The .South's -. I greatest wealth, ho-wexer, is in gn- '! : culture. n 120 the value of her tie ' crops totaled nearly $f.000,00-), ai iron- i-ompared with $l,.r.000,UO0,000 ten '-. er.i year. hefore. Tenancy present- one of the (rravest problems which the rural South faces today. It has stead ily increased from 35 per cent in HUH to approximately 5(1 per cent in l'.l'JD. At least in the seventy count ic.-. or e xvhite farmer out of every three .-. a tenant, and in fifteen of tiiese r-uun-ties one out of :-i-rv two. With the jixe-'year lease which prevails, tpnanrv means a shiftinjr population. More than ore promising co-operivtive oi Xanization jn the South and m:n y niral churches have b.-n laid Ida' by the restlessness of (he tenant farmer. On- of the out-stamlin' charactei ot'.'s p..p,i!at n. in the rural life of th- Sout.'i .-. '.he " xvr on.' ha.l' laryv trade area community. Mei- 1 : i!o-.-, at I chant of the- count-e- studied report n: .;u!i, ai far larger percental., of their tra le fuve: as coming torrn the c.untry-i.iV ;han l,;ur would the county seat merchants in i -any other part of the country, ex.'ept - tM' Pacific I'oaM. On '.lie other hand, the Southern city doe, not iret veiy much of its produce from t ri . neifr'n borinfr countryside. In too mm, in stances the farmers have not yet availed themselves ..f th.- neijrh'eir injr urban markets for hurli irra le vegetables and dairy products." "In the background of all mc;-h1 life t in the South lie two things: th.- more ti inrportant is the aftermath of tiie I Civil War and the othei is illiteracy. . The rate of illiteracy anions ill ma.es a over twenty-one years of ai;e varies i. from 23. C per cent in louisrana to ti.'.l come self-supportimr ami greatly in per cent in .Mary'loi'l- Illitera -y bears irea.ie evangelization n these com a distinct relation to the economic e ." hie. Tenancy breeds illiteracy and illiteracy breeds tenancy. ' i "The Southern community is not o basically economic. The social com- f busine.-s for nait of their income, .so other region has .-. many minister with other occupations as the South." Ko,uipmcnt and l-'inance. "The data on iuipment and fina-i I. etc icor.sented iclate ..nix t.. the '.' co.intn- selecle.l f.o I' . -hu . lie- uni .tie t h. . :i:l.men' except ;.:;...n. and ex.epi a!- .i..' stereo ..n.i a virt : ola po--e- d i.y 1 1 i !".ir. dies." In a stu.lv of H y S.utli.'in .M.'th.i.li-t clmrrhe, ('." '' per cent had but "e i. 'oni. Foui am liv. tint- per cent had two looms, li f I me., apparent that the chief fun.' n th.ll of each of the-e churches is b. ' turni-h auditorium space for an aud, - ence. The program i a preachinif pii.'ram only.' "In the year piecedinjr ten-ix e 1 u.l . . l'mi I. a- any ;.l; ... ca i-.lia! ...I - ,000 the survey the L'TO churches that kept 'financial records raised $ lKC,722..'iO. The forty- .oiiii.ri-e per c-nt t a a I far i operating U'roj;), l Jo.:, on cent of the total sex en town and village churches of farmei- belonjr to church, amonir these accounted for a little t :- churches were to rea.-h mole than half this sum with their an' funm , a- they now each axeiaxre of $'J,010.80 per cent con(fie- i m ownei. I.oilil families or nation. The average expenditures for. ian lo.ooo new members, would all causes in the country churche , were $4111. o'J per conKre(ration, which is the lowest average for any region in A me rica." Church Program. "Preaching is the overshadowing fealure of the Southern Country out of every ten has slitrht- church program. One-fourth of the lb per cent of its popula- total number do not even have Sunday to. en:..! -.1 m th.- church; in about schools. In the basic counties studied . - f. ;':.ei :i em'.ership i- over there ate only fifty-eight young peo p .en' ..f the population. The pro- organizations other tiuut Sunday m. ti..i: ol total church membership to schools." W. A. Anderson, Associate population m all these counties is :!i..r Professor of Sociology. p.-r cut . nut it) sixteen mountain . - c. .untie- the membership i- only a )H WK I'ATTON TO FACE TK1AI. the list .f village churches one Sunday a .Hint! v chtnvhes ie-hall' of one per rent time n!' a minister per cent have at i ok uohhim; postokhck (fven Preliminary Hearing Before I nited States Commissioner V. I.. (Judger. and lull! I 1 to entv t!le tall ban 111 rx ire on a Sunday." tuirch in the Souti is an eflicient inst Hut ion. counties thrle i.- one i y -1'io men. women and n a number of the rour ne church for every '.".n howexet, it should be number of communities churehe-, especially of .nomination, there i- no xx th adequate educatien. of ex an.-iizalion wol -hip :d s. ix icc could b'- xvorked out unde salent leadership wdiich might be The .' I.'., -ilia "In the i l.ui ch f . h i!d ten t :e- tile: ... fewt-po-- :.!e AsheviUe Dxvaine bing the vein be (itize n, Patton, charged with o..- postollicc at Clyde in No who implicated several otho othe: over but It'. believed to be responsible lor robberies was yesterday bound to Federal Court under bond of at the M.iv dida tr.t that pt-.gi am Shepherds ol the The L'-ll.'i chutche x 'd :.y 1 , t;.'7 mmi-te on - nr n:-ter to everv Flock. studied are -. an average ne an.l thiee- Sl,.".(t(l for ids appearance term. Patton is also under bond of 5 1 .000 to face trial in Superior Court charged with the hurirlai v of a drug store and two filling stations at Black Mountain It was reported yesterday that Pat ton confessed to the postal robbery and imDlicated others when he was seen by W. H. tJarrison, postal inspector and W. H. Thomas, special agent. . f the Southein Railway. Patton is alleged to have :.lsu io'. bed the station at Clyde at the tn-.e of the postal robbery. inunity is apt t church, the scho. borhood store an.' that often is not Cluster around tie or the little neigh-ross-ro-ids senate . en more than a .(U.lile-s elm u-l'.e.-. Of the fown chuiihcs. Pi er cent have the full ic-i.ient minister and an (O.MMANDKKY TO HAVK CIAI, CONCI.AVK SP t :tr.e old'' pj.rt of the ti.ne eac.t lay." "la North Carolina, . -tat. permits every county to :ia . intendetlt of public welfan reality, i- the social service the cjnnty. This is ju-t tuctication- of the risiim t'de "i:!e.'( -t thi oughout the ent . "'What do we do for re. :.ke,l one Southern woman, rl' -urxeyor's ((ue-tioi:. AS! To chur.'1' ' What a . : i ' " . . brirch." IfMigioiiB Situ:ltion in f.eneral "Protestai tism has ;, st omr hoi , the South, The numo- t' :i ii of all non-evangelical f.i 'hs b'e They total only alw i , t , f th. entire church tn.'in roi.ortion of I'rote-'U'.n e law now a super- who. ;ii worker of ue of the .f -octal ' South." era' ton " . epe a.'. n,' .v. we ito e fo' the ot a n .ii.. I IP ie idem, tiures a: t x f I x ; :.i cent the v an.l : the , have a pait illage churches i I iet cent : e .untrv church- There will be a special conclti".- of Wayncsx'ille Commandeiv No. '!1 Knights Tcmplkr. at J P. M., Apr 1 12. All members ai" urged t be present. de I M : n . neg J per er-oip. cnurc'i 10.4 i.te.l .ut of I.Tbl have full-i:n;-tei - Nine per cent .e-i'ietit pa-tor-." .-:.'. of the churches n .i.nti.'- ieixe the two e .. Sunday ; and mi'v ha " - -erx tee each :'!'.. according to the l i: t lie Sou! h," by IV -. tl.ele XX. ie tbi.ollO 111 tile South Oil - so per cent xvei. :! pa !-. and stO p. e on: o.ce a n.ont . ... anx -ixcr. Suodac ' :it .-hurchcs in i tei- I..... i . : a !.:ng. i u. lioth. ar.d ah'Out ha- had some "verage count rx . .:a- :-. l.KTS IIONOK Ol'K CONKF.OKU ATK I1KHOKS. To the Fditor of the Carolina Mouii. taincer. Dear Fditor; Sixty years ago today, April P. ') ', ticn. K. K. I.e.- surrendered at Appo mattox, to (ien, I'. S. Cra.it. Since that time the South has tak. n an active art in two wars, the Spanish-America and the Weill War. Our South) m soldiers showed their xahir on .r.any battle field in these two xva.s. Th- South has shown to the N'o.'h an I to the world that they are p tiiotic and fighters. The South has -caled bv hei bioo.! shed in the la-t txxo wars that she has been called n by the U. S. A. to bear arms in he ptoctocal signed by (Ien. K. F. 1 e and (Ien. L' S. (Irant. The South and the North both naxe .-edit .1 x ..e, but - e x h e -. a iolil t .-a'-.. Ha i el y i.'jirme t w:th 1 put a p. o .! air re.i'ix to m.". three churches e'.uinel their ministers t'V.'l t. n ot t lie Ml I college -emii.a.y I ' per cent have had ..n.. out r" evct - fix e ...lleg. xv.ok. The n. -ter in the South become prospetous since the gicit sixteen years of ard'i- conflict between the states. Tii th:- period represents South fought for what she thought pas- was right. This great conflict i d ltd eight different has he become ac- an ts evis are over. We aie pr his congregation and 0f the record our fathers made as into effect when he ii soldiers in the great struggle between elsewhere. More than the states. We are glad it is o-cr and out of every four have never to be spain We have nothinH only three to apologize for. We fought a go nl . eai.t oi oss, ar.d over half have had fight; and since I.ee's surrender have in average pastorate- of two years or kept the faith imposed upon us by c ur 'The following a-ie- paid: Saiarv received "ay Minister table indicates sal. The n.-mb is in the total ponnla'.ion, -.: e. lit. ;.- the highest in th- V M , I,, the South, ti:.- c'.ur - u virtually the only agency, . than the school, that n-aclM-s e .onimunity and nnist of the a lul .very community.' "What is the church ilo;ng with its i.pportumty ? The South has been Haptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian. No ofher bo)ly has made a very Jeep Impression upon the Southern people." Then' are in the seventy counties sur veyed one church to every :S19 person. "For every seven active churches in these counties (six counties) therx is ore which is abandoned or inactive." "Ten and two-tont'os per cent of the t Ui number of churches covered in the survey of the Southern Methodist denomination were found to ie aban deneei." "Throughout the poorer sections of the South and among the less secure.y No Salary . . domiciled elembnta of the population, iviOO or lesa various: sects stresainjj the ecentnc $301 to 760 . and highly emotional have multiplied f 751 to $1,000 ih great raniditv. The forces of re- $1,001 to $1,250 litrion are face to face with a social SI 2.rl to $1,500 interest, newly born and till thriv. ing; one which has stirred Uie imagi nnti m of Southern congreffatior.s." ,$2,001 to $2,500 Church Membership. ! Over $2,500 12 (TV., seventy counties uiwn wh en "These figures include $250 added Confederate heroes, dead and living, thi- study is ba ed has nc.-.-ry '.fSrt.OOO to the ca.sh salary as the estimated in the public square at Waynesville, church members. "The ret active rented value of the parsonage when-;N. C. We have waited sixty years mimihershin is hut two-thirds af the ever it has beer, furnished to the min- seems to me that is long eno3gh. total or 143.S84. The mo-mershtp is Uter." R. A. L. Hyatt, a son of a aoldier Tather strongly femin:ne. Only M9 par "Forty-eight and one-tenth per cent who Rave hi life for the Confedertite cent of the total are male. One-third of the ministers in the seventy coun- States of America. are under twenty-one years of age.' ities depend on farming:, teaching, or Waynesville, N. C, April 9, 1925. fathers. We have prospered and are pi) - pering. But something we people of Serving Two Haywood County, N. C. have not done, Serving or More 'and it is a burning shame that it has not been done, but it is not too late, is to erect a suitable monument to our Confederate soldiers. As Confeder ate soldiers and sons of Confederate soldiers we cannot neglect this duty to our Confederate heroes any longer. If we do neglect this duty any longer I we ought to be branded as slackers land cowards, not worthy of the name !of our fathers. 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