-Honor Farmers Tells About His Struggles For Success On Farm "Sam La than Describes Three De cades Upon Tar Heel Farm. farm and Fireside. Thirty-four years ago Sam Lathan of Monroe, N. C , then a sturdy young man of 26, took his ax into the woods cleared six acres and tween Christmas ahd March built i ft one-room log cabin. With $20 he j got for his cow and $50 he borr need | he bought a cook stove, a few simp's ' furnishings, a supply of staple gr > i ceries, and settled down with h's | young bride of three months. In 1926 Sam Lathan, nearing OC. j and owning 400 acres of good land I was made an "Honor Farmer" the j only man of the 269.000 farmers 'a I North Carolina to be so designed 1 ‘ that year by Hie state college of I agriculture. What happened between the tin e \ Lathan first went into the woods I and his recognition by state authori ties is an outstanding example of the grinding struggle and proud achievement of thousands of Amer ica's farm men and farm women Lathan at 60 is content to take life a bit easier. He spends part of his time in town, where he and hi: brother own a general store patro nized mainly by farmers. But It seems out of place behind a counter For his interest are still mostly in farming, not in salt pork and print goods. This is indicated by the only sign in the display window of the j store, it rcaas: i-arm to mate money and you’ll fail; farm to make ! a living and vou^l make money.” Exactly Lathan's experience. Like his grandfather and father befoic I him, he has always raised meet. I bread and feed; and he has always I grown soil-building crops to retire | the fertility taken from the ground i by crops sold off the place. Now the whole South is coming I around to this plan after years of j cash- crop farming. Started 30 Years Ago Latvian started it more than 30 ; years ago and as a result he lias a ! comfortable share of worldly good.; ■ for himself and he has been able to give each of his two sons a 100-acre farm when they started for them selves. A younger boy, who is still at home, will probably share the re maining 400 acres. Being an "Honor Framer” hasn't swelled Lathan’s head, in fact all through our interview he stressed the help his wife gave him. If it wasn't for her, be said, the only daughter of a wealthy farmer, he would have quit several times when , -the going was hard. ‘ I don’t know why the college awarded me the Certificate af IVJcrit i he told me. "If l had known it be- ; forehand I would have suggested that it be awarded my wife, If if hadn't been for her advice, help and willingness to suffer discomforts and privations such as she wasn’t used to I would have pulled up stakes. "There were 165 acres in the place Father gave me for helping him, but not a foot of It was cleared. Why I even had to cut a path from the road to the place we started clearing I had no money except the $20 I got for my cow and $50 I borrowed. Our one-room cabin, about a mile from nowhere, was cheerless and cold Often it seemed we’d freeze to death if we so much as put a pot of beans on to take heat front the stove. "The virgin land made good cot- : ton but the market went below 5c a pound. The first year we didn't make expenses.I was afraid of cebi but I had to have a little money to keep us alive. About that time my father-in-law offered us his planta tion of 250 acres of good tillable SATURDAY MORNING 10 O’CLOCK i ! We will put on sale 1000 yards of yard wide brown sheeting at 5c j PER YARD Only 10 yards to a cus tomer. THURSDAY We will put on sale 100 regular .$10.00 Congoleum Rugs at ' ' / $4.95 EACH We are offering many such values all over our store. Come to this sale every lay—it will pay you. THE PARAGONS | CLOSING OUT j SALE. land if we'd come and live with him He was lonesome ior my wife.nn only child. Wanted To tip "I was all tor going. Anything to get out of debt and the miserable way we were living. I didn’J, mind so much myself but it was pretty hard bn my wife. But she turned the pro position down. At first I was disap pointed but when I thought it over and realized that her refusal was an indication of her willingness to do more than her sh&re. T buckled in and worked a little harder. “The second year I rented 20 acres to grow cotton. It made a little money and I paid off my notes. I hired a negro and we cleared 16 acres that winter. He was such a good worker that I bought another mule and in addition to my own cleared land rented 40 acres. “Prices were a little better the next fall, so we timbered more lard and X bought a few head of sheep to clean up the brush, a cow and a sow The livestock, supplying cur milk and butter, cut our food hill almost to nothing as I had a paten of wheat and a garden. Our surplus of these products paid for what wt had to buy. "As X cleared more land and put it in crop I devoted more and mere of it to feed and fertilizing crops. Soybeans Helped. Soybeans especially did much to keep up the land and provide feed for the increased stock. This is the way Grandfather and Father farmed before me, and the plan was as good for me as it was for them. "They call it living at home* now and cotton farmers are gradually coming to it after all these years of ruining their land by trying to make money with cash crops alone. It’s mighty hard to make a profit on only one crop, especially when you do little or nothing to keep u{i the life of the soil. “When we got a little money ahead I started to build a new house. The cabin became entirely too small and uncomfortable after our boys began to arrive. After our new house was built and paid for l in vested our surplus cash in land. At one time I had 700 acres. We didn t need the land but I thought it ar. good investment as I could find. Be sides, I was thinking of the boys when they got older and went cn their own. My dad helped me and I wanted to do the same for our sons. ‘‘I later sold some of the land; but when the two boys got married I gave each a 100-acre farm as a start. Later on they will get part of the 400 acres remaining In the plan tation" Helping Bo.vs But giving the boys a farm tsnt all Lathan did for them. When they left home they had a pretty good idea of how to farm profitably. Both of them are making good now using their father's methods, taught by letting results prove the value ot his plans. About ten years ago. for instance he was planting soybeans in the corn. The boys didn't think much of the idea. Said you couldn't make good yields when two crops were planted together. Lathan didn't ht pute them at the time, but during harvest when the boys were slow in bringing up the grain he asked "What's the matter with you fel lows? Seems like it's taking you a long time to get in a few acres of corn.” "Finest crop we ever raised. Dad," they replied. And they never opposed soys in the corn after that. They grew partial to the combin . tion of vetch, oats and lespedeza In practically the same manner. The boys used to plow stubble from June to August, a pretty hot season in the fall with small grains, eliminat ed stubble plowing because it was ] still growing at harvest time. "We should have known of it years ago,” one son said after '.lie first demonstration. Brats Drought. Lathan gets good yields even in the driest years. County Agent Torn Broom told me that while Lathans soil is not the best in the commu nity it plays second fiddle t<) none when it comes to actual production His 50 bushels of corn and 50 bush els of oats to the acre are more than double the county average. Lathan cultivates only 200 acres now, with another 100 acres in pas ture for rotation. Grasses and leg umes not only help the land but 5.1 so return considerable cash in the shape of mutton, pork and dairy products. The cultivated crops are corn, wheat, oats and cotton. They fit into his scheme of management, which calls for banking the returns'] from 20 to 25 bales of cotton and paying all expeases with the rest of lus income. "* His Livestock. ■For the most part his livestock is butchered and sold in carcass form Breeding sheep and hogs are sold locally, the lambs bringing $10 to $25 a head and pigs 8 to 10 week.', old going at $10 each. He keeps 75 Shropshire ewes, J purebred sows and about as good a herd of Jerseys as you'll find in the state. His wife makes butter and he supplies milkers for neighboring farmers. Although Lathan has been kept pretty busy with his farm he has found time to do good work on the Assignee’s Sale On account of having made an assign ment the following property of the Litton Motor Company is being offered for sale at the old stand on West Warren Street next f the city's most respected e..Invert citizens. He was a musician by pro fession. His mother Jeifliie Earl ai d brothers accompanied the remains to Shelby. Large Fa.nilics, y Handheld, Out.—The 180 families in the town of Bondfield average ten children to a family. The larg est family has 22 members. His Life Threatened resident Carlos Ibanez of Chile, _ho was shot at by an assassin *.nce shots were fired but all went ido of their mark. A youth who ;ave his name as Luis Ramirez was arrested by police. Child Evangelist Trying To Redeem Wicked Chicago lldine It ley Appears To Be More Spell-Binding Than Ever As Tears Advance. Chicago. In the "world of furnltX ed rooms” between Chicago’s gold coast and its slums, 17-year-old Uldlne Utley, the girl evangelist, Is conducting a campaign to save the city from wickedness. She has grown up considerably since the days when she was hailed throughout the country’ as the child evangelist,’ but her hair is still blonde and she has the same full red Ups that have added so much to her many pulpit appearances. The most remarkable change Is In her manner. Uldlne Is sure of herself nowadays. She walks with a more confluent bearing and has mastered the dramatic gestures end entrances that hold an audience's attention and interest. Draws Huge Crowds . From all over the "world of furnished rooms" people come night ly to the La Salle Avenue Baptist Church to watch Uldlne and to listen to her sermons. Twenty-five thousands persons live in the fur nlshcd rooms of this district and each night as many as can neck themselves into tho church for the Uldine Utley revival, Uldlne's sermons here are largely reviews of the misfortunes that have visited Chicago*which she in terprets as warnings from Heaven that the city must reform. Many of Uldlne's followers are young people, recruited from the furnished rooms which line the \trcets of the district. Views On Marriage Uldine says that she hopes to be married some time but that she will not allow marriage to Interfere with preaching. She is opposed to com panionate marriage and « believes women who smoke and dance are sinners. During the last week she has seised upon the destruction by tur bulent waters of Lake Michigan of numerous beaches and shore dives as a lesson to Chicago’s sinners. "The waves," Uldine says, “are Gods warning to the city to cease its life of vice and bootlegging. When the wind blows against your door with such force It. Is God's way of visiting destructing upon you for your sins.” Uldine doubts that Chicago wii! heed the warning, but she is de termined to go her part toward making the warning heard by the city's sinners. Prove Anything Or Nothing By Bible, Says One Minister Pueblo, Coloj—Religious cir cles suffered ft shock when ft jury of which Ret. Haber C. Benjamin, rector of the Ascen sion Protestant Episcopal church was foreman, returned an ac quittal for Samuel Do Salto, charged with bootlegging. And this in the face of the fact that Deputy District Attorney Roy A. Payton, himself a Bible scholar of no little ability and reputation in Colorado, quoted from Holy Scripture to support his contention that civilized people have opposed intoxicants since Biblical days. Payton referred to the passage which reads. “Look not upon wine when it is red,” in his arfument for conviction. 1 “But you can prove anything or nothing from the Scriptures," said Rev. Benjamin, when the verdict was returned. He cited Psalm 104:15, which reads, “Wine, that makath glad the heart of man,” and Psalm 104:11, which states, “Water, where wild asses quench their thirst,” as procf of conflicting proverbs. “Now. you can take your choice,” the minister smiled. THE PARAGON’S CLOSING OUT SALE Is Now In Full Blast We Are Positively Going Out Of Business Prices Have Been Cut To The Bone In Order To Move This Mammoth Stock By Christmas DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, READY TO WEAR, SHOES, MILLINERY, MENS CLOTHING, BOYS CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS, FURNITURE — HOME FURNISHINGS THE MOST WONDERFUL LINE OF MERCHANDISE EVER OFFERED IN CLEVELAND COUNTY, AT SUCH LOW PRICES COME THIS WEEK AND BUY YOUR WINTER NEEDS 100 CONGOLEUM RUGS Size 9x12 For $4.95 Each Regular $10.00 Values SATURDAY MORNING AT 10 O’CLOCK We will offer 1000 yard* of Brown Sheeting Yard Wide at. 5c PER YARD Limit 10 Yard* to a Customer. s~\ 36 INCH HEAVY V ) OUTING 14c Per Yard Regular 25c Value GENUINE E-Z UNION SUITS FOR CHILDREN 75c —REGULAR 95c VALUE. PARAGON’S ENTIRE STOCK OF SWEATERS FOR MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN i TO 50% OFF. 1000 BLANKETS, ALL SIZES AND KINDS.$1.49 TO $2.98 EACH MEN’S AND BOY’S CLOTHING i to l OFF. - SHOES. 25 to 50% OFF THESE ARE JUST A FEW PRICES. EVERY ITEM IS CUT TO THE BONE. EVERYTHING MUST GO — COME THIS WEEK. — TO THE Paragon Department Store’s Closing Out Sale YES, GO TO OUR FURNITURE DEPARTMENT TOO - YEAR’S MOST WONDERFUL BARGAINS.