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fl KSDAY. JUNK 2. H>2m~
The attendanrr at the < hau
lauqua this week will determine
what class anti kind of entertain
ment you have a taste for.
A lady was driving a New
York visitor around the city of
Durham a few days.ago and as
they passed along and would see
a new building the New Yorker
would inquire, “What .church is
that ?" He was enlightened as to
each one and they saw many; As
they came to Trinity’s new struc
ture, he inquired as to that. He
ing told what church it was, he
remarked. “They are building
churches in North Carolina to
boat H—”, The. lady very gra
ciously informed him that that
was what the churches are for.
11)1,K CONVICTS.
There are about .‘too able bod
ied convicts at the State prison
in Raleigh, and Governor Mc
Lean, true to his policy of econ
omy, suggests that thev be put
to work building roads in North
Carolina. Contractors refuse to
hire convict labor on the ground
that it is less desirable t han free
labor, but if thev refuse we his
lieve Governor McLean will de
vise some means to put them in
to product ive channels. Not long
ago a certain organizat ion of
farmers in North Carolina pro
1 t'st(“d against I'lie4 state convicts
being employed on the state
farm, producing cotton in com
petition v it h them, Init on sec
ond thought it was discovered
that it cost more to maintain
them in idleness than the com
pel ii Jon hi the price of state
j.-rown Cotton amounted to.
About ’.on idle, able bodied con
victs means that the slate is run
ning behind *25.000 to $:{5,000
per month and something must
he done about it. It isn’t good for
able-bodied convicts to remain [
idle and it certainly isn’t
for tin tax-payers to have
support them in idleness.
good j
NO IMM.DE IN IT.
Tin■ f <• i ; no pride to 1 jo gained
Fi< m 1 hi' fai l 1 hat Inst year a
lun of hay was imported for
ever, la' ill we have in Cleveland
count v. Rat her it is a source of
criticism on the agricultural in
d its try .<)!' Cleveland which boasts
of its 10,000 bale cotton crop* its
supremacy in dairy products, its
leadership in rural light lines,
etc. With the mild winter we
have had, it behooves every farm
or to raisi enough food-st nil’s at
home because we are not immune
from bell weevil damage. We
have invested over a million
dollars in fort ilizer and are
straining every effort for anoth
er record cotton erop, but re
gardless of weather renditions
We can and should produce at
home :M I more car loads of hay
than we produced last year if
Cleveland is to prosper as a farm
ing county.
R. K. Lawrence suggests that
we raise two tens of feedstuff
for every cow and horse, as this
is the minimum feed ration re
quired. Unless we do this otir
boasted cotton crop is a sham
and a slam oil tile business intel
ligence c f our farmers.
“CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.”
When this sort (d‘ heading was
placed over an article appearing
in The Star last week, a gentle
man asked us if it did net mean
black children. Yes, it means
black children - youngsters
whose future is as dismal and
[ dark as midnight because they
are being reared in ignorance,
poverty and disease. Miss Row
man, the school nurse, cited
cases right here in Shelby where j
children are doomed to die pre
maturely or grow up to become]
objects of charity because they
have diseases which could be cor-1
reeled now if their parents only t
had the funds. Ears are growing ;
deaf, eyes are growing blind,!
minds are undeveloped and lit
tle bodies are becoming emaciat
ed because of physical defects'
which could be corrected if it
were not for ignorance of the
serious consequences and actual
poverty of parents. The poor we'
will always have with us, but it
would do out souls good to help
these children of the night which
Miss llowfnan has pointed out
as under-privileged ones.
Too many of us are prone to
make our contributions to char
ity through some such organi
zation as the Salvation Army or
Welfare Workers. Such organi
zations have their own workers
to support and too little gets to
the real places of need. It would
do our hearts good to carry alms i
ourselves and get first-hand in
formation as to the manner in
which some folks are forced to
live..
TO THE GRADUATES.
At this season of the year
when commencement exercises
are on in high schools and col
leges, the graduates are listening
to practically the same advice
from the older heads who sneak
words of encouragement to them.
Some listen and heed, others
turn a deaf ear. The boys and
girls coming out of these insti
tutions now need the words of
encouragement and advice, not
that they arc any worse than the
graduates of by-gone days, but
the temptations are more tempt
ing and the pitfalls more porous
than they were on yesterday.
If you fail to make good, part
of the cause for your failure
rests upon you. You must be am
bitious, honest and energetic to
win and when you hear this ad
vice from*the grown-ups who de
liver the commencement ora
tions, don't play the part of a
coward and say you can’t succeed
because the competition is tco
keen. It takes hardships and dis
appointments to bring out the
best in us. As Mrs. Clyde Hocy
so truthfully put it at the Kiwan
is club the other night, “you are
entering upon the highway of
life and this highway is rough
at times, smooth at times, up
hill and down hill but remember
you are to fill the places of hon
or and influence in the future
and guide the destinies of reli
gion, business, politics and ex
pected to do it better than they
are guided by the men and wo
men of today if society continues
on the up-grade.”
i. i-aney willing in hk
Monroo Journal gives a recipe
which is so (rue and coincides
with our ideas so well, we wish
to pass it along:
The boy who starts out in life with
nothing- for his capital slock but
brains and energy, and then if he will
add honesty he will he equipped to
succeed no matter what the oppo
sition. The hoy who inherits nothing
but the gqod traits of an Honest daddy
will succeed in spite of the powers
that oppose, provided he pursues the
route of energy and saves his accumu
lations.
For while living the life of poverty
he learns the lessons most needed to
help paddle the old boat to the shore
of safety, and right on up the stream
to the station of success, lie learns
to skimp and save both time and
money, and time i money. Time is
a gift of God and we have got to ren
der an account of that portion of i
that we squander in idV" - .
The boy who has th nun .. .
to win, will. The boy who fights
life’s battles and conquers will be the
successful bus nr: s man. Did you ever
work on a farm and in the beginning
of the week set a task to do? And
you invariably finished th- task be
fore the week was out. Hut the man
who has no task, the man who has no
object in view, who has set no goal
to reach is a helpless dwarf in the
business and social world.
Great men who bad their origin in
the huts end. hovels and grew into
prominence fighting every step of
the way and finally obtained the
.-oveted success were men who had
honor and energy and an ever burn
ing desire to he great. And we be
lieve the man who fails ifi life is the j
man who has failed to do his part. I
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