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U. — ' - NEW LAW BANS ROAD SIGNS. Law Relating U* PosGug of Ad vertising Aioag Higbwaya Became ERective October 23. Realizing that the provisions of the law are not generdliy known, and de siring that merchants and others be informed so that they wii! not violat? it through ignorance, J. Paul Leon ard. executive secretary of the North Carolina Merchants Association, is asking that the press give publicity to the fact that the new law regulat ing the posting of advertising on highways passed by the special ses sion of the General Assembly,^ be came effective October 23. and is new in force. Mr. Leonard says he has observed signs placed on the highway within the past few weeks which now come under the ban tf the law. In one instance, he says, he saw a poster advertising a sale tacked on the back of one of the State highway signal boards—a flag rant violation. With a view to in forming members of his organization with reference to the law, Mr. Leon ard published it in full with comment in the last issue of the Carolina Re tailer, of which he is editor. The law reads as follows: "Section I. Any person who in any manner paints, prints, places or af fixes or causes to be painted, printed placed or affixed, any business or commercial advertisement on or to any stone, tree, fence, stump, pole, automobile building, or other object, which is the property of another witiout first obtaining written con sent of such owner thereof, or who in any manner paints, prints, places puts or affixes, or causes to be paint ed, printed, or affixed, such adver tisement on or to any stone, tree, fence stump, pole, mile-board, mile stonej daiiger-sign, danger signal, < guide-signal, guide-post, automobile building, or other object within tne j limits oi a public highway, shall be guilty of a miadomeanor and shall bo fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not exceeding thirty t30) days. "Section 2. This act shall be in force sixty (60) days from and after its ratification. "In the Genera! Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of August, 1924." Commenting on the new !aw in The Carolina Retailer, official publi cation of the North Carolina Mer chants Association, Mr. Leonard says: "The new law will not seriously affect the highway advertising of merchants who have erected high grade signs, because most of these have been placed on private property after permission had been secured. But it will do away with much av vertising of a temporary nature which tends to mar the beauty of scenery along the highways. The majority of merchants have not, and will not, therefore, raise objection to the operation of the law. "Evidence that the organized mer chants of the state were either in sympathy with the measure or had no inclination to oppose its passage, is the fact that not a single member of the North Carolina Merchants Association took the matter up with ofHciers of the Association at the time the bill was under consideration by the Genera! Assembly, notwith standing it was given publicity. The only merchant who has so far com plained to the Association about its failure to oppose the law is not a member of the Association. This merchant declared in his letter that the law was taking away liberties to which the merchant was entitled and contended that merchants should not be required to get permission before posting advertising. The State sec retary cf the Association, in answer ing the complaining merchant, took the position that the rights of far mer3 and others owning property along the highways are just as sacred and shcaid be respected just as much as the rights of the merchants and other city dweiiers. The merchant has no more right to tack or paint a sign on the fence, bam or tree of a farmer out in the country without the farmer's consent, than has the farmer to come into town and thek or paint a sign on the store of the merchant without securing his per mission. The iaw is, therefore, a just cue. And no one can deny the right of the state to prohibit the use of its public property for private purposes." SCHOOLING—EDUCATION. The Lincoln Times. Prof. Dallas L. Sharp, of Boston University, says that most Americans get their schooling between the ages of 6 end 16. That is true. But most of us do not begin to get our real education until we leave school. What we have learned in the sdhool days better fits us for it, but experience remains the greatest teacher, and we suspect will on to the end of the days. When a school graduate strikes out in the world for himself one of the first things he has to do is to unlearn much of what he has been taught. The delusion that takes most time to get out of head is youth's in flated conception of the possibilities of success. However, all the "schooling" we may be able to acquire so much better fits us for the educating which is to follow and for the experiences which are to come after it that we should make all effort to get as much schooling as may be possible. Knowledge without action is like a sail without wind. Subscribe for the M. & 1. YOU PAY NINE PROFITS WHEN YOU BUY WESTERN GRAIN, MEAT, AND HAY. When the Southern farmer buys com. meat, or hay from the West he pays eight protits, as follows: 1. The price received by the West ern farmer for the product. 2. Charges for handling, hauling, and shipping from farm to freight cars where the product was raised. 3. A protit to the local buyer at the Western point. 4. A profit to the Western whole saler. 5. Expense of hauiing by railroad to the South plus a profit to the rail road company. 6. A profit to the Southern whole saler handling the product. 7. A profit to the Southern local dealer or merchant selling to the Southern farmer-buyer. 8. The time and expense of hand ling and hauling the product from the local store to the farm of the South ern consumer. Just to see how this works out, let's take the last monthly issue of Crops and Markets; issued by the United States Department of Agri culture. This shows for each state in the Union the average price paid to farmers producing that crop in that state on June 15,1924. Now let's compare prices of corn ,wheat, oats, and hay in the West and in the South. Here are the figures: Wheat—Wheat in Iowa and Kan sas was 92 cents, 87 cents in Nebras ka, and 82 cents in Colorado, against $1.19 in Tennessee, $1.30 in North and South Carolina, and $1.40 in Georgia. Com—The farm price of com was 58 cents in North Dakota, 60 cents in South Dakota. 62 cents in Colorado, 65 cents in Nebraska, and 68 cents in Iowa, against $1.25 in Georgia, $1.15 in Mississippi and Alabama, and 1.05 in Texas—the Georgia price being double the Dakota price. Oats—The farm price of oats was 36 cents in North Dakota, 37 cents in South Dakota, and 40 cents in Minnesota, while the Alabama price was 75 cents, and the Georgia price 80 cents—more than double the price in the Dakotas. May—On June 15th, hay was oniy $7 a ton in South Dakota, while the price in Texas was $16, in Alabama $18, Tennessee $20.50, South Caro lina $20, Georgia $22, North Caro iina $22. and Virginia $23.50—Texas prices being more than double the South Dakota price, while Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina prices were more than three times the price in South Dakota. Nor do these figures tell the whole story. Two additional facts need to be emphasized: 1. " The price of these products as given for the Southern'states is the farm price. The man who buys from a merchant necessarily must pay a dealer's profit in addition, even when he buys for cash. 2. The truth is, however, that the Southern farmer who buys com, meat, of hay from the West is seldom able to pay cash. Consequently, in addition to the eight profits already enumerated, the man who buys corn, meat, or hay from the West must nearly always pay still another profit as follows: 9. A big egtra profit to the local merchant for carrying him as a "time price" risk. In an investigation made by The Progressive Farmer several years ago, the average cost of "time price" credit on such articles in the South ern states was found to be more than 23 per cent. It is easy to see, therefore, that when a. farmer buys Western corn, meat, or hay, he does not pay simply the cost of producing these articles and a single profit to the Western farmer who produced them, but he muat really pay nine profits, as we have enumerated.—The Progressive? Farmer s BIRTH CONTROL. And now we have the proposal to license parenthood just as plumbers and barbers must be licensed to pro tect the public against the improper performance of duty. The idea comes from Dr. Hornell Hart. Professor of Social Economy at Bryn Mawr Col lege. Dr. Hart says that such a method of obtaining "skilled par ents" must soon be adopted. "The race," he said, "is fast going down hill, end the deterioration cannot be checked until scientific methods of reproducing the race are resorted to." The professor says that as mat ters stand persons least able intel lectually and materially to provide for children are having "rafts of them" and persons qualified to sur round their children with the proper environment are having very few. It is difficult to imagine more sublime balderdash obzing from the brain of a college professor. For the most part they have less knowl edge of human forces, except along specialized educational lines, than a bootblack. Under the Hart plan w& would never have a Lincoln. Rather we would spend our time producing such specimens as Leopold and Loeb, whose parents would be able to sur round them with "the proper en vironment." 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