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WHITE SLAVE" IS NOW BEST HIRED HIND ON THE F1HEOUCES LABOR k Electricity To Revolutionize Farm Life f If you creat" valu • to th<“ extent bf ten cents an hour, your time is Worth ten cents an hour, and no more. If you create 100 cents' worth in an hour, you are worth $1 an hour. If you want to receive S2 an hour, you will have to learn to produce two dol lars’ worth of value in an hour. Arti ficial regulations sometimes altar this situation temporarily—-but only tem porarily. In the long run, time is worth what you make it, and only what you make it. For many years the city worker has had a helper that has made his time worth more than it would have been without that helper, because lie can accomplish so-much more in an tour. That helper is mechanical pow er. Tomorrow it will be altogether electric power. The city worker has taken advantage of this power, and employed this slave to help him pro duce. Tiie farmer has, until recently, kept on working largely with his bare hands. The fact that he could hardly do otherwise does not change the fact, lie has pitted his man-pow er against the city’s man-power plus mechanical power. It is no wonder that the farmer has lost out. A man with his bare hands is no match for j another man backed by the power of a Niagara. In the age thnt is just nhead, I think the farmer is going to alter all this. Ho is going to demand a fair deal. He is going to have bis share of power. He is going to put himself! on a par with the city man by get- ; ting possession of the same slave electricity. Whpn he does, his income will increase, ho will be far less of a drudge and far more of a creative Worker, and his standard of life will t'se much higher. The white slave, electricity, is destined to bring untold hanniness to the neonle on the farms. Electricity For Women Folks. In a home where kerosene lamps •re used, much time is taken for fill ing, trimming, arid dealing them. If the housewife spends 15 minutes a day, her total yearly expenditure of time is about 91 hours. That makes almost eleven and a half days of eight hours each. The modern woman with electric lights, therefore has the advantage of her sister to the extent of eleven days each year. What is Monday like in your house? Most likely the washer-woman spends an hour or two toiling over a foaming tub. The kitchen is offensive with the steam from boiled clothes. Dinner ia poor and scanty. The modern woman with an electric washer is relieved of nearly all that drudgery, and her family is spared the unpleasant fea tures that accompany wash-day. The housewife now goes cheerfully about her work, while her white slave, elec tricity, cleans the clothes. She saves perhaps another hundred hours a year. Another of the tasks that make women old is the pumping and carry Jhg of water. Town dwellers long ago fwt rid of those tasks, hut too many farm women still have them to do. On my own farm we obtain water from elevated springs by gravity. A few1 of our neighbors have installed electric plants, which pump their wa ter. But on farms all about us Wo hien are still lugging water. Where homes have proper water systems, n turn of the faucet gives the house wife all the wuiter she needs, upstairs or down, cold or hot. Mx Weeks A rear Lost. I suspect a hundred hours a year carrying water is too small an esti mate. But suppose we say that in these three operations, washing, pro viding light, and getting water, a wo man saves 300 hours a year, through the use of electricity. That means C7 1-2 days of eight hours each, or more than six weeks of six days each. A woman’s time is worth just as much as a man’s. So we see what women have been contributing to the wel fare of the home in jobs that pass al most unnoticed. When we reach the point where we use electricity generally, the drudg ery and the jobs that formerly aged men and women prematurely will he saddled on the white slave- electric ity. There will always be work enough for every man and woman to do; but men and women will have more time to do the things they Want to do. It won’t be necessary to put so much time into the mere mechanics of liv ing. The farmer can milk his cows quicker and more easily. Instead of laboriously turning a cream separa tor handle minute after minute he will press a button and go about some other job until the cream is separat ed. This is the sort of work electric ity can do better than a man. It is necessary work, but it is drudgery, and had better be done by mechani cal power. Life is too precious to spend it turning a crank. We have hardly yet grasped the true conception of the part electric ity is to play in human betterment. Electric lighting lias long been com monplace. Electric suction cleaners are now well established. Electric irons are comnwn. Electric sewing machines are no longer rnritics. The percolator, the toaster, the washer, all electrified, arc now in wide use. The electric pump is one of the great est blessings imaginable for farm dwellers. A dairyman friend of mine sup plies cream to ice-cream makers. Ori ginally he separated this by hand, then with a steam engine, and next with a gasoline engine. All these methods annoyed him, took his time. Now he has electric power. He does not have to bother with fire or gaso line. He touches a button and his sep arator begins to turn. He saves hours of time and is relieved of bother and worry. The other day I visited a neighboring dairy where they were milking 100 Holstcins. Two or three men were doing the job and doing it quickly. To m'lk one of those cows by ♦mnd would probably require five or ten minutes. If we allow six min utes. though it probably took more time, one man could milk by hand ten cows in an hour, or the entire herd in ten hours. Ten men would be need ed to milk them in an hour. The use of electricity made all the difference for the da ryman between profit and erd no profit or a probable loss. He was getting the equivalent of several men's work at a trifling cost for elec tricity. Things That Are Coining. These are all tilings of the present. Any farm with connections to a pow er line ran have them right away. But that is not. in all probability, anything like the possible use of power that he will sec before many years. Electric heating will not be one of the first, for it competes with cheap coal and cheaper wood. But electric heaters will come eventually. Where current can be had cheaply, they are already popular. Think of the drudg ery they will save—the cutting of trees, the hauling of logs, the sawing and splitting of wood, or the hauling of coal and the handling of the ashes. Electricity certainly is a drudgery chaser. There will he important changes in the barn—bright lights every where, water pumped for the animals, elec tro curriers and clippers to clean and clip the horses, electric heists j lift the hay into the mows, and electric curing implements to cure the hay in the mows, as is now being don' in England. The farmer will save much time by raking up his grass the mo ment it Is cut, and piling it at once hi the mow, where electricity will not only cure it, hut at the same time make it more nutritious hay. Show ers will mean nothing at haying time. Power For All Purposes. When we want to shred fodder at our own farm, we have to haul on* gasoline e.nglne from the shed to the bam door and level it. Then we have lo get it to run. On a cold winter morning it may take an hour to start it. We will have an electric shredder. And there will be the electric silo filler and silage cutter. and the throshing-machine run by electricity. Threshing in our part of the country always means n trip or two to town in preparation, no matter how had I he roads arc or how pressed one is for time. For the threshermen must have either coal or oil for fuel and the famer must supply it. If you do not supply it, you get no threshing done. In the future, the threshman may come when he will. He will plug his feed wire into an outlet and be gin to thresh. That is all there will be to it. Again the farmer will have sav ed hours. l ho tool house, in those electric days to come, will ho real machine shops. The grindstone, the drill, the soldering iron, the welder, all will be operated by electricity. The circular saw will turn, the corn will be shell ed, the feed ground by the same power. The hen-house will be lighted, too, to increase winter egg produc tion. Probably the eggs will be hatch ed and the chicks hroodered by elec tric current. Rven Klectrical Farming, Perhaps Implements for tilling the fields will be devised that will run by elec tricity. Klcctricity now moves rail way trains, trolley-cars, and the pon derous machinery in great mills. It can turn or operate any implement on the farm. It can move the tractor that will pull plow and harrow' and seeding drill and harvester. It may do oven more. The other day an elec-1 trical eng neer was telling me about1 his idea for an electric plow that should plow a field by itself. I ask ed him how such a plow could turn the corners. He said there wouldn’t be any corners! that the plow would run in an ever-widening circle. Maybe such a plow couldn’t be made. Maybe it wouldn’t be practi cable if it could he made. But hard headed men are thinking about such things. We once laughed at the idea of talking through a wire, or flying through the air, or journeying under the sea, but the telephone and the airplane and the submarine are all practicable realities today, to say nothing of the greater marvel, the radio. We probably do not begin to have all the implements far farming that we shall some day have. We do not yet begin to have as many elec 'nenl devices for farming as haye been p-rfocted for use in other lines I of work. But we shall have them, i They merely await the electrification | of the farms, the coming of the ntse essary power. And that is coming in the very near future.—Lewis Edwin The;ss in November Farm Journal. i TRY STAR WANT ADS. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic ' Purifies the Blood and makes the cheeks rosy.Goe Raw, Sore Throat Ease* Quickly When You Apply Musterole And Musterole won’t blister like the old fashioned mustard plaster. Just spread it on with your fingers. It pene trates! Right to the sore spot with a gentle tingle — loosening congestion drawing out the pain. Musterole is a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard, cleverly com billed with menthol and other helpful ingredients. Nothing like Musterole for croupy children. Comes in jars or t ubes, 35 and 65 cents, full strength for adults; for babes and children under si:;, ask for the mild form — Children’s Mus tcrole. Better than a mustard plaster ALARMING! The kidneys I should filter | the blood, I and when £ they are out 1 of fix, the * blood stream t is jusi nneu wmi poisonous uric acia. Carried to all parts of the body, this poison causes backaches, headaches, rheumatic pains, heaviness, drowsiness, dizziness, irritability or depression and distressing bladder troubles. But that isn’t the worst of it. In chronic neglected cases, the excess uric acid is apt to ■form into gravel or Sid ney stones, and to cause gout, sciatica, dropsy and even Bright’s disease. Let the first pain in the back he your warning. Get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's new An-uric tablets (anti-uric-acid). Your druggist can tell you about this new discovery for bad kidneys. Or, send 10c for a trial package to Dr. Pierce, Pres., Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. AN OPERATION RECOMMENDED Avoided by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Los Angeles, Cal.--“I cannot give too much praise to Lydia E. Pinkham's Veer etable Compound ior what it has done for me. My mother gave it to me when I was | a girl 14 years old, and since then 1 have taken it when 1 feel run down or tired. I took it for three months before my two babies were born for I Buffered 1 with my back and had spells as if my Heart was attected, and it helped me a lot. The doctors told me at one time I that I would have to have an operation. I thought I would try ‘Pinkham’s,’ as I call it, first. In two months I was all right and had no operation. I firmly believe ‘Pinkham V cured me. Every one who saw me after that remarked that I looked so well. I only have to take medicine occasionally, not but I always keep a couple of bottles by me. I recommend it to women who speak to me about their health. I have also used your Sanative Wash and like it very much.” — Mrs. E. Gould, 4000 East Side Boulevard. Los Angeles, Cal. Many letters have been received from women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound after operations nave been advised. NOTICE OF SI MMONS. North Carolina--Cleveland county. Noticp of service of summons by publication. Action for divorce. In the Superior court of Cleveland county. March term, 1925. James E. Spencer, Victora Spencer. The defendant above named will take notice that a summons in the above entitled action was issued against the defendant, on the 5th day of December, 1921, out of the office of the clerk of the Superior court of Cleveland county, North Carolina, and made returnable on the 22nd day of December 1924. Twenty days thereaft er, this action is for a divorce and will be called for trial at the March term of the Superior court for Cleveland county, spring term 1925. ^e defendant will also take notice she failed to appear before th tkiVsi elqrk on on or before the 20th day February 1925 answer or demur thi cjomplaint that is now filed in this of fice within the time required by lav the relief demanded will be granted. This the 20th day of January, 1925 GEO. P. WEBB, Clerk of the Su perior Court. C. L. Whitener, Atty. for plaintiff. PROMINENT BANKER AND CREAMERY HEAD ENDORSES “PULL TOGETHER” PLAN AND TELLS OF CREAMERY (By William Lineberger, Score- i tary-Treasurer of Shelby Creamery Company.) I have been asked to write an nr-; tide on co-operative marketing and i naturally the question arises as to J whether I endorse it or not. Unques tionably I do because I believe it’s one j of the strings that holds the farmers | to salvation. It is useless for me to j argue why it is good. It went through the experimental stage in California with the fruit and citrus growers and is now an established success. The -V I Wm. LINEBERGER i : nine thinj; is true with the raisin in- j (Justry, the wheat and corn farmers i and for the past few years I have! watched its operation among the cot-; ton and tobacco farmers of the South and have seen its wonderful power and strength and' how it lias meant ! class of farmers. The stronger these organizations grow, the more effective j will be their work. The systematic \ marketing of cotton as against the old system of dumping it during the har vest season and glutting the market lias kept prices up and accrued not only to the advantage of the grow ers but to the manufacturers—all of whom are better pleased with the new system than they were with the old dumping method. Co-operative in Cleveland. Having been secretary-treasurer of the Shelby Creamery for the past ten years I am more familiar with co-oper at ion in this industry than any other. The two co-operative creameries in Cleveland, the one at Mooresboro and the one at Shelby were both started the same year and while they went through their trials as all new under iekings must go, they have been suc cesses from every standpoint. Those wuo financed them have been reward ed with acceptable dividends while Lhe patrons have found a ready market jnd top-notch prices were paid. Ten years ago the Shelby ..Creamery pro duced 93,000 pounds of butter and paid its patrons $23,000 that year for but ter fat. The past year the Shelby rweamer made 201,000 pounds of Gilt Edge butter and paid the patrons around $100,000 for butterfat. In the ten years I have managed the Shelby Creamery it has paid its patrons the enormous sum of $600,000. But what other results have been accomplished besides the money paid iut? In the first place our farmers learned the lesson of co-operation Each one feels and knows that he has an interest in the creamery and is anxious to se it succeed. It was the beginning of better business methods an the farm and I am now convinced thta our farmers keep more accurate farm records and know better the ru diments of business than ever before. Furthermore they have a monthly in come and abank account all the year round leaving their cotton crop as the real big money crop of the year. In the next place the creamery pat rons have built ur> their land from their herd of cattle. In 12 months a well fed 800 pound cow will void off in the manure around 124 pounds of nitrogen, 24 pounds of potash will acid and 100 pounds of potash which at the value of 20 cents per pound for nitrogen and 5 cents per pound each for potash and phosphoic acid, amounts to $31.20. This does not give any credit for the organic matter or bulky part of the manure which is very valuable as a basterial carrier. Our cream patrons have found that manure from their dairy herd also conserves moisture, tends to check soil washing and the vegetable matter contained in the manure is about as valuable as the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash which it carries. Therefore cream patrons arc usually the ones who make the largest yields per acre because they get a byproduct from their dairy cattle that builds up the land and saves large commercial fartilizer bills. Then again I would say that the co operative creameries have done more than any other one thing to adver tise the county to the outside world for our buter goes to the leading col leges ami hotels and most exclusi'"’ homes in the east where it is consul ered a delicacy. We always strive to maintain out standard of quality and as a consequence, with the aid of our patrns in furnishing pure cream free from weed taste, the two crameries in Cleveland have orders for more but ter than they can supply. Our cus tomers know our butter and because of ‘its quality, nothing bu t a most favor | able impression is gained of the farm | ers and housewives. I personally want to see co-opera tive marketing in cotton take a firm er hold for it is but the creamery bu 1 siness on a larger scale. I am proud j to see our farmers undertaking the rural lighting system on a co-opera tive basis. I am happy to know that our rural telephone system is a co operative institution and operated at a minimum cost, but it nerds improve ment. I am glad to know that we have 800 farmers who sell their cotton through the cotton growers associa tion and hope to see this campaign bring in new members so that farmers may receive a fuller reward for their labors and the county prosper more j abundantly. ! County Commissioner Strong for Coops (By W. W. Washburn, County Com missioner and Farmer.) There is only one way for people to live and that is by the golden rule of “do unto others as you would have them do u nto you"—this in one word is “Co-operation.’ In Cleveland county before the war there was not so much attention paid to cotton but tl >• high prices of the war period stimulat'd cotton produc tion. Sirce that time I have paid par ticular attention to the price and have been convinced that the association has had a powerful influence on the pi ice. Because if all the cotton handled by the association had been rushed on the market at the time when the peo ple on the outside wore dumping their I cotton the price would have been much lower. It docs not take a Solomon to see that by pro; — handling through co-operation tie farmers can save thousands ef dollars for themselves. Realizing that the association was helping me whet • was on the out side. I could .not afford to stay on the outside, and • others put the asso ciation over without me doing my part. Do as l have done come on and help through <•' -opr rat ion to raise and 'stabilize the err:- of our cotton. The Co-ops. C—-a'led to pr‘.her, this our purpose, C—ailing for rrganbnti.oii C—-an you find ; better method? C—an you heat co-operation ? 0—rganiz to pull together 0—ut of chaos, sorry plight. O—rganize to hi g our methods O—ut of wrong p: ths into right. O—nly let us stand unshaken O—n the. plank which we control; O—nly let us wait in patience 0—n the tale time will unfold. P—-overly will go forever, P—offer will com- , will conic to stay. P—Ians of unity will bring P—rosneritv to you and me. —IRMA WALLACE. Men who try to copy and follow others to reap the benefit of what the originator invents or produces are usually barred from reaching the goal by the natural law that the follower can never be the leader; That he who is contented to tread in the ^ leader’s footsteps can never by chance overtake W him. The public, sitting in impartial judgment, is |f not deceived by unsupported claims, and does not J accent them as a substitute for performance, Kel- I ly’s carry the best leading makes of Clothing. | KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHES The famous Kunpenheimer clothes for Men and Yeung Men. Nothing l etter made. PAJAMAS and NIGHT SHIRTS A lovely line of Pajamas and night shirts for men. $1.25 to $:).50. ' MALLORY $5.00 HATS Mallory $5.00 Hats. 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