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VOL. X
CONCORD N. C. NOV. 19, 1921,
NO. 3
A Reflection.
"With harrowing memories of more than ten million
men who laid down their lives in the awful holocaust
from which we have just emerged; of countless homes
bearing burdens of anguish and suffering; of the desola-
tion and pestilence that have sprung from the war, and
still ravage whole peoples; and most of all, of the after-
math of bitterness, suspicion and hate, which prevade
all lands; let us insist far more vigorously than ever be-
fore, that war is an unmitigated curse to humanity, and
a denial of the Christian gosp'el. Let us declare plainly
that in every war the Son of Man is put to shame anew,
and that every battle-field is a Calvary on which Christ
is Crucified afresh.
Let us not shrink from proclaiming unequivocally that
war is not a necessity; that the pacific settlement of ev-
ery international question is possible; that a warless
world can really be achieved. Let our witness be un-
mistakable that force is not the final arbiter among the
nations, but that justice, reason and good-will can con-
trol the life of nations, as well as the life of individual
men. To continue to point to the mailed fist as our ul-
timate reliance, and to' carry on a program of mutual
distrust and fea.-, is to undermine the very foundation
of our Christian faith,"
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THE PRINTING CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON MANUAL TRAIN
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School.
Type-Setting by the Boys' Printing Class. Subscription Two Dollars the Year in
Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor.
JESSE C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord, N
C, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Recessional
God of our fathers, known of old-
Lord of our far-flung battle line —
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion o'er palm and pine-
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget— lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies —
The Captains and the Kings depart-
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Kipling.
BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS.
You must give if you expect to receive— give happiness, friendship, love,
joy, and you will find them floating back to you. Sometimes you will give
more that you receive. We all do that in some of our relations, but it as
true a pleasure often to give without return as life can afford us. We
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must not make bargains with the heart, as we would with the butcher
for his meat. Our business is to give— what we can get to give. The re-
turn we have nothing to do with. It will all come in due time— in this
world or another. Samuel Bowles.
******
WILKES AND WRIGHT.
The Uplift has received the Annual Report of the Public Schools of
Wilkes county. It is a pamphlet of fifty-two pages, telling the story of all
school activities *in the county during the year ending July, 1921.
No such a report would have occasion to appear in a county other than one
directed by a real, live school man. Though Wilkes county is geographically
nearly twice as large as Cabarrus, mountainous and offering many difficult-
ties not experienced in many other counties, this man C. C. Wright, the
superintendent for years, has made of it one of the most advanced edu-
cationally in the State. With vision, indominatable energy and marked abil-
ity, he has gone about his problems, heroically with the proud result that
foe pushes his work rather than let the work push him.
When the time for the opening of the schools arrives, he's ready. He be-
gins to plan for the next before present schools close. He has his teachers
in line; he keeps in touch with them— he knows them and they know him.
Mr. Wright's Board backs him up in all his enterprising and progressive
efforts. Under the head of "Standard of Excellence" he publishes in his
annual report the 47 schools that met the conditions; the honor-roll for
teachers carries the names of 49 teachers (white) and 7 (colored); pub-
lishes the names of thirty-three children in the county that made a contin-
uous seven years' perfect attendance; and three, who made perfect at-
tendance for eleven years; he also publishes the names of those children
during the past year that made a perfect attendance record— the number
is inspiring; there appear 239 names representing those in the public
schools that did not miss a word in the spelling lessons of the entire school.
In 1900 the per cent of illiteracy was 13— to-day it is just one per cent.
This tells in part the great work Prof. Wright has accomplished with a hard
educational problem, under most adverse conditions. It is an object lesson
for those who are waiting for something to happen,
******
TRUSTEES MEET.
The semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Train-
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ing School was held in Directors' Room, in the school building, at 2:30 on
the afternoon of the 8th. There was in attendence Mesdames Burgwyn,
Bickett, Coble, Cooper and Miss Shaw, and Messrs Coltrane, Blair, Wharton,
Cone, and Cook. Superintendent Boger attending the meeting by invitation.
The biennial election of officers of the Board took place, resulting in the
unanimous re-election of the old officers as following: Mr. J. P. Cook,
chairman; Mrs. W. H. S. Burgywn, Vice-chairman; Mr. J. J. Blair, secre-
tray; and Mr. D. B. Coltrane, Treasurer. The Executive Committee is
composed, by the constitution, of the chairman, treasurer and the superin-
tendent.
Ttie Board expressed its pleasure over the development of the plant
since its last meeting in May. The new Latham Pavilion came in for mark-
ed and complimentary appreciation. The Memorial Bridge and the new
art glass in the windows of the chapel were much admired. All these are
additions, by friends, entailing no cost whatever to the treasury of the
Board.
Superintendent Boger made his report and a few recommendations, a-
mong them the employment of a nurse. The absence of sickness made
the request rather peculiar, but when an exhibit of how many toes became
stumped, fingers scratched, boils developing and other little things that
happen to growing boys, the services of some one is needed nearly every
day. There is, after all, more in prevention than in cure; and since our
enrollment is nearing two hundred and will soon go beyond, it seemed
wise to authorize the taking on of some one who can fill the place of a
nurse.
The Board found occasion to commend the management, expressing
its pleasure of the prosperous condition and appearance of the whole
plant. Adjournment was taken to the second Tuesday in May, 1922, the
regular time for meeting.
******
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EDITOR ASHCRAFT'S LAST WORDS.
Mr. B. Clegg Ashcraft, the editor of the Monroe Enquirer for twenty-
eight years, died on the 10th, after several weeks' illness. Several
years ago he suffered a severe attack of the flue, during which illness his
heart became involved.
Mr. Ashcraft was a man of high integrity; he had positive views about
things, and fearlessly and forcibly stood by them; he was a loyal friend and
wielded a wide influence, personally and through his paper. He was the
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first student to enter the A. &M. College, when its doors were first thrown
open.
From his own paper, The Enquirer, in whose conduct he had the loyal
association of his brother, we quote his last words:
"If this be death tell the people I meet it unafraid."
"Duty! The greatest word in the English language,"
"We have worked together for many years. We have always tried to
do our duty."
******
PLUMMER STEWART.
Plummer Stewart, Esq., of Charlotte, is a lawyer. He is a mixer and a
believer in causes that affect the great common, or so-called middle class.
He does not despise the rich— in fact he is very fond of them and loves to
represent them professionally—but his heart prompts him to serve the
average folks in their struggles for education and material progress.
For quite a period he served as the chairman of the Board of School
Commissioners of Charlotte. In the language of the street, he made good.
But at the last election, it became necessary to retire him to make room
for a lady member. But Stewart did not remain out of the educational
harness very long. Recently they drafted him to fill a vacancy on the
County Board of Education, making him chairman. To that position he
brings a broad experience, faithfulness and wisdom.
Goose Creek township of Union county has been put on the map by
producing such men as Stewart, McCall, Cy Long and others who have
been heard of in no small way in the Queen City.
******
The two buildings, which have been under construction for the past eight
weeks, and which are to house our bakery, laundry, ice plant, cold storage
equipment and a general supply storage, are nearing completion. These
buildings are fire-proof The machinery will be installed at an early day,
and instead of buying much bread we will make it ourselves and train
many boys in the business of baking. And it will be a happy change from
the open at the spring to the laundry. And the Rockingham Cottage
which contractor Query is building, is taking on fine form. It will be un-
der roof before real winter sets in.
******
We are beholden to Mr. H. V. Rose, county Superintedent of Welfare of
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Johnson county, writing from Smithfield:"I regard The Uplift as one of
the very best papers that come into my hands. After reading each issue,
put it on file to hand to the teachers of the county or others who would
appreciate it. It is worthy of a great success and a wide circulation."
The great majority of the county welfare workers are now subscribers to
our paper, and if what Mr. Rose and others say, it is not clear why all of
these important workers should not find it worth-while in their work.
Ours is a kindred work and spirit.
******
Under date of November 10th, Hon. Heriot Clarkson, one of the leading
members of the Charlotte bar, and a conspicuously active and valuable
force in state affairs, writes: "Please find enclosed check for ten dollars.
Send me The Uplift for the coming year. You can send the other copies
to any friends you desire. It is a great pleasure to know of the great
work the school is doing. Kind regards, &c, &c.'' It will be our pleasure
to comply with this order. Next.
******
A prominent Albemarle lady, refusing to accept The Uplift at its adver-
tised subscripton price, which is two dollars, sends her check for five dollars.
These things and these acts seem to make the Linotype produce finer music;
and Master Faucette, our institutional reporter, who is also one of the
printer boys, comments "it is very cheap at five."
******
The number of automobile licenses, including permits for Fords, has
passed 131,000. Secretary of State Grimes has already made the order for
the license tags for the year 1921 — 1922. The tags cost the state seven
and one-eighth cents apiece. 177,000 have been ordered.
******
Governor Morrison has called an extra session of the General Assembly
to meet on December 6th. The chief business occasioning this meeting
are the municipial acts and the cause of education — both badly balled up.
• ***•• *
The Deaf Carolinian, a strictly institutional paper issued by The School
for The North Carolina Deaf, has adopted the weekly appearance rather
than twice-a-month. Throughout its columns it breathes life and hope,)
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"So near, yet so far," was completely realized last week by Hon. W. N.
Everett, of Rockingham. Mr. Everett had been invited to deliver an ad-
dress upon the occasion of the presentation of the Memorial Bridge. He
started in his car through the country, but got swamped in a Cabarrus
County detour road causing him a delay of such length within three miles
of the Jackson Training School that he missed the appointment. There
was keen regret on the part of The King's Daughters and the School that
they were deprived of the presence of thiselegent gentleman and prominent
leader in North Carolina affairs.
THE MISER AND HIS GOLD.
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at
the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and
dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this,
went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser
next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the
empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all of
the neighbors came around him, and he told them how he used to
come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out?" asked
one of them.
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbor; it wiil do
you just as much good."
"WEALTH UNUSED MIGHT AS WELL NOT EXIST."
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There's Place In Life For the Anecdote.
FITZ HUGH LEE: A certain Confederate colonel was making a political
speech in a Virginia court house. "Talk about my war record," he said,
"why, my war record is a part of the State's history. Why, gentlemen,
I carried the last Confederate flag through this very town."
"Yes," replied Fitz Hugh Lee,
"for I was here at the time." ' ' Thank
you for your fortunate recollection,"
gratefully exclaimed the colonel.
"It is pleasant to know that there
still live some men who move aside
envy and testify to the courage of
their fellow beings. As I say, gen
tlemen, my war record is a part of
the State's history, for the gentle-
man here will tell you that I carried
the last Confederate flag through
this town."
"That's a fact," said Fitz Hugh.
"I saw him do it. He carried the
Confederate flag through this town,
but Kilpatrick and Ellsworth were
after him, and he carried it so blame
fast you couldn't have told whether
it was a Confederate flag or a small-
pox warning."
THOMAS H BENTON: He was
charged with great egotism. When
his work, "Tnirty Years in the Unit-
ed States Senate, was ready for press,
the publishers sent a messenger to
ascertain how many copies he desir-
ed. He answered: "Sir, they can
ascertain from the last census how
many persons there are in the Unit-
ed States who can read, sir."
A short time after Calhoun's death,
a friend said to Benton,, "I suppose,
Colonel, you won't persue Calhoun
beyond J;he grave?" to which he re-
plied:
"No, sir. When God
lays his hand upon a man,
mine off, sir."
Almighty
sir, I take
A Formor Citizen Dead.
Older residents of Concord will recall
Mr. Ruply Schseffer, son of Rev. Dr. G.
F. Schasffer, formerly president of North
Carolina College and also of the Semi-
nary, at Mt. Pleasant. Young Mr. Schaef-
fer was in business in Concord for a
period, and removing from here later to
Johnstown. Pennsylvania. While there
he was a victim of the flood, which de-
stroyed so much praperty and so many
lives. Young Schaeffer was caught in
the flood, and suffered from several days
exposure before being rescued.
Later on, seeking a restoration of his
health, he went to Colarado. His life
may have been prolonged by the move,
but finally he fell a victim of the fright-
ful desease. Only one of this prominent
and cultured family remain, this being
Mr. Samuel S. Schaeffer, a resident of
Geongia, who left Concord a mere boy-
but the fact that he had a son across
the seas, fighting for his country, re-
minds Us how rapidly time travels.
Lies often bring on apoplexy, ac-
cording to Dr. H. S. Langford, not-
ed English psychologist, who explains
that exhaustive tests show that the
blood pressure rises when a person
tells an untruth. He says this pe-
culiarity is more marked among wo-
men than men, and it accounts for
their habit of blushing when corner-
ed in a fib.
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MR. JOSEPH H. SEPARK,
Gastonia, N. C.
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Joseph H. Separk.
Industrialist, Churchman, Financier.
(By C. W. Hunt.)
The idea of former editor R. R. Clark, in his story in The Uplift of a
man he calls "Greatheart," appeals to me in that we can do good to the
living instead of memorializing the dead. Throwing flowers (of good words)
at the living that they may know what people think of them, in what esti-
mation they are held. It is not giv-
en for all men to become great, but
opportunity knocks at least once at
every man's door, and at many doors
many times; and on our ability to
recognize opportunity and take hold
hangs the matter of success or fail-
ure in life's work. Often the de-
cision made in a day spells destiny.
But if I were asked what will help
men most in knowing opportunity I
would say education, preparation
for a life work. Note the part edu-
cation played in the almost incredi-
ble advance made by Joseph H. Se-
park, of Gastonia.
Born May 21st 1871, of a good
parentage, in the city of Raleigh,
and grew up in that place as a real
boy. Not the pampered house-plant,
but a real boy. We will not say he
was ever a "rag-a-muffin;" he was
not that. Perhaps "street urchin"
is a better name in that he was "on
to" most things boys find; from
reaching an apple, growing too near
the side walk, to organizing a secret
society for the initiation of other
boys into the realm of wisdom (?)
His father was Jos. H. Separk, his
mother Mary Ingram Separk, both
of whom must have left an imprint.
He had seven years in Raleigh city
schools, then three years as clerk in a
dry goods store. From there he went
under the tutorage of Morson & Den-
son in their academy, and was prepar-
ed for college, entering Trinity at old
Trinity in Randolph, where he spent
his freshman year. Just at this time
that wonderful educator Dr. John
Franklin Crowell was successful in
his fight to move Trinity to Durham,
and this young man spent the next
two years there. At the end of the
junior year he went to Albemarle as
Headmaster of Albemarle Academy,
but returned to Trinity and gradu-
ated with an A. B. degree in June
1896. This made it possible for him
to be trained under both the Cro-
well and the Kilgo regimes, and he
came on the scene of action with
such men as Revs. Plato T. Durham,
Thos A. Smoot, J. A. Baldwin and
others, who have become known.
Both these great educators turned
out men, real men from Trinity, and
there are only three: Pegram, Cran-
ford and Flowers now in the faculty
that were in it when this young
man was graduated.
About one month before commen-
cement, 1896, he was elected Head-
master of Burlington Academy, Bur-
lington, N. C, by Trustees of Trinity
College, Burlington Academy then
being one of the affiliated schools of
Trinity college. The next year he be-
came assistant Superintendent Char-
lotte Military Institute, Charlotte,
N. C. Went to Gastonia in June 1898
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as principal of Oakland High School.
Conducted this school until the close
of the scholastic year June 1901, thus
making three years. Entered bus-
iness, going into the office of Loray
Mills October 1901, remaining with
the Loray Mills until the spring of
1903. In the spring of 1903 there
was organized by the late George A.
Gray, and others, Gray Manufac-
turing Company, Separk being one
of the incorporators; on the organi-
zation was elected secretary of the
corporation. On May 23, 1900,
married Miss May Gray, eldest
daughter of the late George A. Gray.
On the death of George A. Gray,
in 1912 he became secretary and
treasurer of Gray Manufacturing
Company, which position he now
holds with this corporation. In 1915,
with associates, orgaized Parkdale
Mills, Inc., becoming secretary and
treasurer; in 1918 organized Arrow
Mills, Inc,, becoming secretary and
treasurer; in 1918, with associates,
purchased controlling interest in
Arlington Cotton Mills, and became
secretary and treasurer. In the
spring of 1918 became secretary and
treasurer of Flint Manufacturing
Company.
In 1918 organized the Myrtle
Mills, Inc., becoming secretary and
treasurer. In 1908 there was or-
ganized in Gaston County, the Gas-
ton County Textile Manufacturing
Association. On its organization
was elected secretary and treasurer,
which office he now holds. G6ing
to Gastonia in 1898 there were
twenty-two hundred (2200) people.
This population has now grown to
nearly 20,000. During this period
he served four (4) years as member
of City School Board; following this,
four (4) years as member of City
Council. Was one of the incorpor-
ators of the Gastonia Commercial
Club, serving as President one year,
and Director three years. Was one
of the incorporators of the Gastonia
Chamber of commerce, serving as
Director four years and President
one year. At present, President of
Gastonia Rotary Club, Trustee Trin-
ity College and director in the fol-
lowing corporations:
Gray Manufacturing Company;
Parkdale Mills, Inc.; Arrow Mills,
Inc; Flint Manufacturing Coumpany;
Arlington Cotton Mills; Myrtle Mills,
Inc.; Arkray Mills, Inc.; First Nat-
ionalBank; Piedmont & Northern
Railway Lines; Gaston Club, Inc.;
Gastonia Country Club; Gastonia,
Golf Club; and member of the Board
of Governors of the American Cot-
ton Manufacturers Assocation.
For the past fifteen years he has
been a Stewart Main Steet Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, Gastonia,
during which time he served five
years as Chairman of Board; and
superintendent of Sunday School
M. E. Church, South, for the past
fifteen years.
There are seven (7) mills in the
group of mills known as the Gray-
Separk chain of mills and have per-
haps a larger production of fine com-
bed yarns than any other group of
millsin the South. This is interesting
for another reason, namely, that
they are in Gastonia, North Caro-
lina.
If there is another man, fifty /ears
of age that has as much fastened on
to him in the space of 20 years the
writer does not recall that man.
And in spite of it all he still has time
to play. While what follows was in
no way responsible for the rise of
Joseph^H. Separk, it is a co-incident
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that we were at Burlington together,
he lived at my house when in Char-
llotte, and it was on my front porch
that he received the "bid'' to Gas-
tonia that took him there against
my judgment; but it was that very
day that "opportunity knocked at
Joe Separks door" and he answered
the call: answered the call prepared
by education and training: a substan-
tial education. And back, awajr
back of it all was the free street
training, under parental care; the
coming in contact with life as it was
that made him practical from the
start. None of the "greenness" of
the college graduate ever enveloped
Joe Separk. ,
The trouble about a skeleton in a closet is that it does not have enough
sense to stay there.— Charleston Gazette.
"Next Time, By Gunner, You Stick To Yo Text."
BY R. R. CLARK
Should one applaud in a church house? Clap hands, stamp feet, is some-
thing in the proceedings meets approval 1 More strictly speaking, if a service
or a meeting other than the regular church service, and not strictly a religious
service, is in progress in the meeting house and there is something particularly
pleasing and appealing, is it permissible to manifest approval by a demon-
stration 1
I am asking the question, not an-
swering. My understanding is that
applauding even the preacher's ser-
mons, when he niaies a hit, is not un-
common in some sections of the coun-
try; but applause of any character,
any demonstration other than of a
strictly religious nature, or what is
supposed to be that, is so uncommon in
a church building in this territory
that it is a matter for comment.
I attended an Armistice Day ser-
vict in a church. It was not a strictly
religious service. Aside from one
prayer and the National Hymn, which
I believe is in most of the Church
Hymnals, the features would not be
called strictly religious. The service
was in the church probably for conven-
ience. It was beautiful, appropriate,
impressive, touching; and so far as
I could judge there was absolutely
nothing in it that made it in any re-
spect improper for a church. But
after some of the numbers on the
programme there was applause —
hand-clapping.
The applause — and that feature
only — set me to thinking about ap-
plauding in church buildings, the pro-
priety and the possibilities. I may
be far behind, but I can recall but
three occasions when I heard applaud-
ing at any sort of gathering in a
church building. Many years ago a
class of orphans from the Oxford or-
phanage came to town. A church
was the only suitable auditorium and
they gave their concert in the church
building. After the lirst number
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there was a ripple of applause. In-
stantly the pastor was on his feet,
and he said quietly that applause
would not be expected. At the close
of the second number the applause
was more distinct. The pastor re-
peated his statement, with dignity
and composure but in a manner that
could not be misunderstood; and there
was no more applause.
My second experience was only a
few years ago. I dropped in at a
church, as a spectator, during a dis-
turbance about the acceptance or re-
jection of the pastor's resignation.
There was a good deal of feeling (us-
ually there is more hell in a church
row than in any other place outside
the real place,) but the preacher's
crowd was so overwhelmingly in the
majority that the opposition didn't
black the board; and when the vote
was announced there was vigorous
hand-clapping. This was new to me,
and it didn't impress me then and
doesn't yet, as a proper exhibition
of Christian spirit in that particular
case, or one calculated to promote
brotherly love. But it was none of
my business and it is mentioned now
only as pertaining to the subject un-
der consideration.
Of these three instances mentioned,
which constitute my experience with
applause in church buildings, only one
— voting on the pastor's resignation
— could be strictly classed as a church
meeting. The others were separate
affairs but such as, in my opinion,
were entirely proper in church build-
ings. Let me say here that I am not
of those who think it sin for any use
to be made of a church building ex-
cept for regular services or for meet-
ings in behalf of some branch of
church work. There are many ob-
jects not distinctly religious in char-
acter which the church should and
does encourage, for the promotion of
which meetings could, I think, be held
in church buildings with all propriety.
But that is always a matter for indivi-
dual congregations to decide.
My Armistice Day experience set
me to wondering whether meetings
other than of a strictly religious
character would not be held in church
buildings more frequently hereafter;
and if the applause at such meetings
should become a custom as is prob-
able, would it not gradually be-
come a practice to applaud on occa-
sions at regular church services? If
there is a concert or an entertain-
ment of some sort in the churcTi
house and we applaud the musicians,
the readers and the speakers, as we
will by and by if we are not doing it
now; and then at Sunday morning
service there is a vocal number that
is particularly pleasing or the organ-
ist does particularly fine work, why
not give them a ' ' hand ? ' ' And if the
preacher's sermon> is particularly
good, why not cheer him a bit? It
might put more heart into him and en-
courage him to greater effort.
Hold your fire, please. I'm not
suggesting that this be done. I'm
simply asking, in view of the trend,
if it isn't likely to become custom.
We can all see that it could be over-
done and lead to embarrassment at
times. But so could other things, for
that matter. If it became a custom
to applaud the preacher, for instance,
when he was lambasting "Old Jones",
we might be permitted to register dis-
approval if he got on subjects that we
might prefer, for personal and pri-
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yate reasons, be not mentioned.
In the old and sinful days, when the
use of strong water was the rule ra-
ther than the exception, it is related
that a certain citizen of this county
(Iredell) was usually comfortably
full. On one occasion he attended
church services and the preacher,
knowing his habits and surmising
that he probably had a quart under
his shirt right then, proceeded to say
very embarrassing things about those
who looked upon the wine when it was
red, and all drunkards were promised
their part in that place where the
worm dieth not and the fire is not
quenched. The embarrassing part
was that everybody present knew
whom the preacher was talking at,
and nobody knew it better than the
old man himself, for he was by no
means so full that he didn't know
what was going on and what it was
about. At .last the preacher's fire got
too hot for him, and rising to his feet
to get away the old man shot back
at the preacher, "Next time, by gun-
ner, you stick to yo ' text. ' '
Maybe if it becomes the custom to
applaud the preacher we may also
take the privilege of inviting him to
stick to his text if he manifested a
disposition to talk about things we
don't care to hear.
Speaking of applauses in church,
one denomination that I wot of used
to have a regular system of cheering
on the preachers but they didn't call
it applause. If a sentence in a sermon,
a prayer or an exhortation appealed,
anybody was priviledged to break in
with "Amen," "God grant it."
Sometimes in periods of religious ex-
citement the " Aniens" were many
and loud and there was hand-clapping,
too. But that has passed. Not long
ago an old-time Methodist was telling
me that he hadn't heard an "Amen"
during a service in so long that he
thought he would try it out on his
preacher, a young man. And so,
when the preacher made a point he
thought he should be applauded, he
shouted "Amen". The breaking in
so startled the preacher that he almost
lost the thread of his discourse and
the modern congregation elevated its
eyebrows. Altogether the old-timer's
applause was so coolly received that
he subsided and kept his "Aniens" to
himself after that.
Apparently Japan's chief grievance is that Western nations will not
let it wrest peacefully.— Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
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O. Max Gardner's Eloquent Tribute.
On the 10th impressive ceremonies in the laying of the corner-stone of the
tower, which is being erected at the A. & E. College, Raleigh, N. C, were held.
The speaker was ex-Lieutenant Gov. 0. Max Gardner. His address, a tribute
to the soldiers furnished in the great War by this college, was enthusiastically
received. It was in part :
"We are met here today to honor
the men who fought an honorable war
and gained an enduring peace. No
people can have a great future who
forget a great past. For many years
we have been wont to thank God for
fields that have ripened, for the song
of the harvest which has swept across
the continent like an antiponal corns,
state answering to state from sea to
sea. In our ease we have been prone
to thank God for the prosperities of
vine and meadow, for shop and ship,
and for the things which make life soft
and comfortable, rather than for those
divine happenings which make life
difficult and great. With the utmost
effort have we perceived that
we are specially and divinely fortu-
nate, not when our conditions are
easy, but when they evoke the best
that is in us, when they provoke us to
noblen ss and sting us into strength.
This year and the last our fields have
failed us in their prodigal response
to a world's demand; but our harvest
of manhood has become white in the
unseen fields where all that is noblest
in a people's life goes to flower and
fruit.
"The best monuments in mens lives
are often the hardest and most peri-
lous; but when the bugle calls across
the fields, the deadly line of fire that
must be crossed is forgotten in the
responses to the duty which beckons
from the height above. Happy are
them to whom life brings, not ease
and physical comfort, but great
chances of heroism, sacrifice and ser-
vice. The great ages have never been
comfortable ages; they have deman-
ded too much and given too much.
The comfortable ages are those which
neither urge a man to leave his fire-
side, nor offer him great rewards if he
does ; so the great ages are those which
will not let a man rest for the multi-
tudes of chances of work and perils
which they offer hirn. The men
whom we today honor lived in an age
when the whole world was in travail,
and one who truly knows how to be
thankful would burst into a song of
praise for the chance of these boys
and their immortal prototype, Fran-
cis Drake, to die sword in hand, fac-
ing their foes half a world from home;
for Sidney 's opportunity to pass on the
cup to another dying more rapidly
because he had less to assuage his
thirst; for Livingston's noble home-
coming, borne in sorrow and silence
out of the heart of the dark continent
on the shoulders of men who could
not measure his greatness, but who
recovered his spirit.
"We who remained at home feel
something of that insufficiency in
measuring the spirit of our own he-
roes. But today we look briefly back
and thank God that in a great crisis
the children whom this state and this
college nurtured in peace and prosper-
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ity suddenly showed the stuff of he-
roes. They were not afraid to dare
and die. Whenever and wherever du-
ty called thern, they answered with
their lives. Let us all thank God that
this State still breeds and this college
still teaches men who make life great
by service and sacrifice, that time and
work and pleasure and wealth have
not sapped the source of our inward
strength; that our men still know
how to dare all and do all in that hour
•when manhood alone counts and a-
chieves.
Let this shaft rise and point to-
ward the Great God whose will our
soldiers did and in finding whom they
found themselves. Let it look to the
stars which in their courses fought
against the last of the Siseras. And
let it bless the dead whose dying
made life beautiful and great.
"Think of it— Forth Carolina furn-
ished to the army and navy of the na-
tion around fifty thousand white men,
and of these fifty thouosand, State
College contributed more than two
thousand; that is to say, out of every
twenty-five men who offered their
lives for North Carolina, every twenty-
fifth was a product of this college.
This magnificant record of patrotic
service shall forever stand, and shall
forever thrill us with a perpetual
pride for those noble sons of this col-
lege who held aloft the honored tra-
ditions of their native State, and ad-
ded a new luster to its crown of glory.
The most glorious pages of this insti-
tution's history will bear the names
of those great-souled heroes who laid
their lives, rich with promises, and
bright with hope, upon the altar of
civilization."
Methodist salaries have been reduced but the ministers have not set a
date for a strike vote.— Omaha Herald.
THE CHARTER OAK.
Five of the American colonies — Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New York, and Virginia — were settled under charter grants made direct to
the colonist by the king of England. These charters set forth the rights and
liberties of the colonists, and so were worth a great deal to them. Without
theij charters they might be treated unfairly by the English king across the
seas.
In the year 1686 the king appointed
Sir Edmund Andros governor-general
of all the New England colonies. The
new governor-general soon demanded
their charters. The people of Con-
necticut refused. A copy of their
charter was made in June, 1687, but
the original document was carefully
guarded and kept under lock and key
at Hartford.
Since he was unable otherwise to
secure that which he demanded, An-
dros finally decided to go in person to
Hartford and take the charter in de-
fiance of the people's wishes.
A session of the Colonial Assembly
was being held at the time in the meet-
ing house. Andros, with a company
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of soldiers at his back, appeared be-
fore them and commanded them to de-
liver the charter into his hands. For
some time the representatives of the
colony discussed the matter with him.
The meeting was purposely prolonged
until twilight, or as people then said
"early candle light." Candles were
then lighted, and the charter was
brought out. It was placed on a ta-
ble in the center of the room. There
Andros saw it for the first and last
time.
As the governor put out his hand to
sieze the precious document, all the
candles in the meeting-house were
suddenly "snuffed out." Outside many
people were waiting. They began to
shout loudly, and several entered the
room where the meeting was being
held. Among them was Capt. Joseph
Wadsworth, a brave and clever man.
In the darkness and confusion he
picked up the charter unseen, carried
it away, and hid it in the hollow trunk
of an old oak in the out-skirts of the
town.
In the meeting house the candles
were presently lighted again, and all
looked about him. There was no
charter to be seen. He demanded
that it be given up to him at once.
But no one there could, or would, tell
of its hiding place. The angry gov-
ernor was finally obliged to leave
without it.
Long before this, the same oak had
been the Peace Tree of the Suckiaug
Indians. The acorns were the sacred
totem, and under this tree they held
their councils. At the foot of the
tree their war hatchets were buried.
Under its branches they smoked the
pipe of peace.
This giant of the forest was fully
twenty-five feet in circumference.
At the time of the charter incident
the hollow in its great trunk was large
enough to hold a child. From the
summer of 1687 to the spring of 1689
it safely kept the charter of Connecti-
cut. Eight years later the opening
closed completely. The Charter Oak
lived on from year to year, a sturdy
relic of the past, until, on the night of
August twenty-second, 1856, there
came a great storm, during which the
old tree was blown to the ground.
The magazine writer who says a dog fills an empty space in a
man's life must have been referring to a hot dog.— Greenville Piedmont.
A Leader That Earns His Salary And Praises
There is ample excuse for the publication of "Progress in Education in
Wilkes County" in the pamphlet, which Mr. C. C. Wright, the county
superintendent for over twenty years of said county, has issued for the in-
formation and benefit of his people and which, by virtue of the progress
it shows, is an inspiration for greater effort. All other counties that can
show a record of progress for twenty years, or ten years or even three
years, would find the issuing of an annual, printed exhibit of great in-
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fluence in educational matters.
Mr. Wright earns his salary of $2,500,00 and the whole county applauds
him as a faithful and efficient servant. Here is a comparison between
years of 1900 and 1921:
1900 1921
Rural Libraries 0 150
Supplementary Libraries 0 280
Second Original Libraries --0 32
Local Tax Schools 0 35
Value of School Property $6580 $213441
Frame School Houses 64 148
Log School Houses 34 „ 1
Districts with no House 33 0
Painted School Houses 1 95
Houses with Bells 8 121
Houses with Desks 14 .. 143
Teachers Employed 130 300
Schools with Assistant Teachers __3 104
Schools Teaching High School Subjects 4 58
Schools with Three or More Teachers 0^ 30
Monthly Salary of White Teachers $20 $70
Teachers with Normal Training 6 61
Illiteracy 13 percent 1
Enrollment 6233 10181
Attendance 2312 6880
School Census 10054 11397
Members of Teachers Association 30 314
Graduation Class, County Commencem't 0 205
Raised by Local Taxation 0 $14261
Enrollment in Daily Attendance (per cent) .37 68
Certificates of Merit Awarded 0 698
Perfect Spellers for Term ,__ 0 239
Debates 0 278
Entertainments 0 192
Spelling Matches 0 1247
Per cent of School Census Enrolled 62 89
Per cent of Census in Average Attendance_23 60
Library Certificates Awarded ..0 47
Medals for 7 Years Perfect Attendance 0 35
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Teachers on Honor Roll 0 57
Districts Attaining Standard of Excellence ..0 47
Parents' Meetings „ 0 185
Medals for 11 Years Perfect Attendance 0 3
Number of Homes with Telephones 972
Number of Homes Taking Daily Newspaper 363
Number of Homes Taking Agricultural Papers 1045
Number of Homes Taking Religious Papers 473
Number of Homes Taking County Paper 2062
Number of Homes with Running Water 86
Number of Homes with Lights 219
Number of Homes Screened form Flies 887
Number of Families that Raise Own meat and Bread 2581
Number of owning Automobiles 368
Whole Number of Families in County 5334
Population 32000
Church Members 8327
Number of Churches 144
Number of Sunday Schools 117
Numbei of Miles of Improved Roads 295
Number of Districts where Parents Visit School _96
Number of Districts where Committee Visit Schocl 99
Number of Families Engaged in Farming 4961
Number of Families Engaged in Other Vocations 373
The World Neglects the Country Children
(Community Progress)
The following instances of neglected country schools and country child-
ren are taken from a personal letter to the writer and doubtless could have
been multiplied by the author a hundred times. No mention is made as
to the locality from which these examples are taken,but it is safe to as-
sume that they could be duplicated in almost any state in the Union. Cer-
tainly many similar situations exist througout the South and not a few of
them are to be found in North Caro- other state. The best way out of the
lina. According to the statistics cellar of malnutriton is for the state
gathered by the Federal draft board?, to feed its people from a home-made
North Carolina's population is more food supply and the only hope for
poorly nourished than that of any that is to first produce a good crop
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of farmers. That will never be done
so long as such conditions as these
exist.
"The G family has five child-
ren of school age. The parents own
200 acres of good land, a comfort-
able home and stock. Not one of
the children enrolled this year and
have gone very little before that,
though they lived only three-quar-
ter of a mile from the school house.
The mother was absolutely indiffer-
ent, saying: 'My husband don't be-
lieve in school and the teacher don't
learn 'em nothing' nowhow. No not
a soul cum near. Guess nobody car-
ed.' Both parents are illiterate."
"In one county seven schools have
not been in session for seven years
and others for two years, because of
Jack of funds, but that county voted
$70,000 for a soldiers' memorial."
"The teachers of one school said
that they had been able to do noth-
ing about school attendance because
the attendance officer didn't believe
in compulsory education."
"Many schools are a decided men-
ace to children's health. In all the
schools visited in 17 counties, only
two had toilets which could be
classed as sanitary. Indifference to
the first rules of cleanliness is gen-
eral."
"The school epuipment would
make a city teacher's heart ache.
In 52 school there were no maps,
globes, charts, no special equipment
for hand work or for primary work,
no good pictures."
"Considerably less than one-third
of all the teachers had had the equiv-
alent of a high school course. The
trained teachers 'do not get off the
hard roads.' One teacher said he
'attended two terms, or eight
months, of free school in Ole Virginie
over 20 years ago.' He had never
taught before and was getting
$125.00 per month."
"Only half a dozen schools had
even a semblence of playground
equipment — provision for a whole-
some recreation is seldom considered
a function of the rural school."
"Even now I have told you no-
thing about the child labor there.
The rural child lobor problem can-
not be approached directly. It must
be solved through better schools,
better attendance laws— and an a-
wakened consciousness of the needs
of children among farmers them-
selves."
Reinterment Alter A Period Oi 104 Years.
Rev. S. T. Hallman, D. D., formerly pastor of St. James' Church, of Con-
cord, and was the pastor during the erection of the present building, is
now living in Spartanburg, S. C. Dr. Hallman, a veteran of the War'Be-
tween the States, as well as a yeteran in the Christian ministry, furnishes
to the Spartanburg Hearld an ac- Dr. Hallman in his early ministry
count of the reburial of Rev. Fred- was the pastor of the church, which,
erick J. Wallern, after his remains was served by Wallern in the early
had been in the original grave for days. The body was reported in ex-
104 years. cellent condition. But here is Dr.
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Hallman's statement, which appear-
ed in the Spartanburg Hearld:
As far back as 1750 there were a
few German Lutheran churches in
this state, among which was the old
St. John's Lutheran Church in New-
berry County. The land on which
the building stood was held under a
grant from George III, King of Eng-
land.
"These immigrants who had come
here to escape the religious perse-
cutions of the old country found it
very difficult to get a pastor from
their Fatherland. There was then
in the community of St. John's
Church a German school teacher by
the name of Frederich Joseph Wal-
lern--a learned man, but not then
an ordained preacher. This the
writer was told by the very old peo-
ple of the section when, years ago,
he was pastor there.
"The people, in their hunger for
preached word, and for the sacra-
ments of the Church, naturally tur-
ned to their scholarly teacher and
plead with him to fill that sacred of-
fice. He finally consented, and be-
came pastor of that church. History
has not recorded the duration of his
pastoral labors, but he died in 1816,
and had begun his services there
some time in 1787. He was buried
in a wooded section near his home.
There his body reposed for one hun-
dred and four years, a suitable in-
scribed stone markings his place of
rest.
"Then the pastor of St. Paul's
Church nearby (the Rev. S- P. Koon)
and officers and friends, decided to
remove his remains to the church
cemetery, where his grave would be
carefully kept- When his body was
taken up the skeleton of the man
was there in its entirety, the teeth
showing the dental woik of long
ago, and the arm ligaments so firm
that a physician who was present
could not pull the fore-arm from
the elbow; nor were the bones de-
cayed. Parts of the lining of the
walnut coffin remained, with the
tacks which were used.
"A strange fact remains to be
told: The root of a tree had made
its way down on one side of his cof-
fin bed, passed around his feet, and
up on the other side, and
then twining about his head, as
though intended to hold the precious
remains together."
Presentation And Acceptance of Memorial Bridge.
On the 9th, leaving the Chapel where the King's Daughters witnessed
the dedication of the memorial windows, the services being conducted by
Rev. G. A. Martin, of Concord, and Dr. W. A. Barber, of Raleigh, the
assembly passed on the bridge. There the 'presentation and acceptance of
this gift, a memorial to the N. C. Soldiers of the World War, took place.
The following is Mrs. Cooper's Training School: It is a great priv-
presentation speech: ilege to be here on this occasion and
Friends, the King's Daughters and to have the honor of presenting this
Sons, Boys of the Stonewall Jackson beautiful Bridge. It is a gift of love
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from the N. C. Branch of the King's
Daughters and Sons, a memorial to
our own North Carolina men who
gave their lives for their country
and humanity's sake. The first two
who were to lay down their lives
from North Carolina were from this
school: Daniel Poplin and George
Holden, killed in action.
Is it not wonderful to know that
two of your companions who walked
and talked with you were willing to
go to foreign fields to fight and there
gave up their young and strong lives
for you and me? Whenever we cross
this Bridge let us remember them,
feeling they have passed over the
Bridge of human desires and aspira-
tions on the highway of life and en-
tered, we trust and believe, into the
beautiful fields of paradise. Do you
boys know who first suggested to the
King's Daughters taking up this
grand Stonewall Jackson School and
who by her efforts and prayers made
it possible? Mrs. W. H. S. Burgwyn
President of the N. C. Branch of The
King's Daughters and sons. She has
worked and prayed over it for many
years. The King's Daughters built
the first cottage then the Margaret
Burgwyn Chapel and this Bridge,
which links the two. The first condi-
tion of human goodness is something
to love, the second, somefhing to
reverence, so dear boys, love each oth-
er and your teachers, reverence God
and His house.
In presenting this Bridge from the
King's Daughters and Sons to Mr.
Cook for the Stonewall Jackson Train-
ing School, let me add a word of
praise and gratitude to Mr. Cook,
Mr. Coltrane, Mr. Boger and their
associates for the grand and unsel-
fish works they have done and are
doing making useful men for the
good of the State and the world.
God's blessings will surely rest
upon them for He says, "In as much
as ye did it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it
unto Me."
Mr. J. P. Cook, chairman of the
Board, in accepting the Memorial
Bridge said in part:
"As an official of the Board of
Trustees of the Jackson Training
School, it is my proud privilege and
honor to acknowledge this most
splendid gift and to express our
gratitude for the beautiful and sin-
cere words with which you, Mrs.
Cooper, representing The King's
Daughters, find it agreeable and ap-
propriate to employ.
In this act, the like of which have
occurred throughout the ages, since
that awful event in the world's hig-
tory but which gave to a dying
world reasons for hope, is establish-
ed again the truth and accuracy of
that declaration' "Woman first at
the Cross, last at the grave." Well
do I recall the serious time when
our Board was commanded to go
out somewhere in the Common-
wealth and establish the very first
activity on the part of the state in
taking care of the by-products
amongst its citizenship, to give a
helping hand to unfortunate child-
hood, troubled, deseased, abandon-
ed—and to do this with a credit of
just ten thousand dollars and that
spread out through a period of two
years.
The lamented Walter Thompson,
our first superintendent, whose un-
timely death we mourn this very
day, and I counseled and planned.
Growing out of this conference he
was sent to meet with the North
Carolina Branch of The King's
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Daughters, then (1908) in annual
session in the city of Releigh, to
throw ourselves at your feet,
begging aid. Generously and un-
hesitatingly you guaranteed one cot-
tage—yonder it stands in the glory
of the great good it has already ac-
complished, with years and years of
hope ahead. Did that manifest ex-
pression of interest and love wane
through the years?" How could it?
Once a man deeply interested stood
watching a woman, unmindful of his
presence, who was putting into ex-
istance a picture from somewhere
out of her beautiful soul and mak-
ing it visible upon delicate china.
By and by the picture developed.
Spoke the man: 1 have noticed your
intense interest; I have watched
your great care and grace in mani-
pulation of the brush in the proper
paints and I note the time you have
contributed to the creation of that
beautiful painting but. my dear lady,
I can take a finger and with one care-
less, indiffernt stroke blot out all
that you have spent hours in bring-
ing into life." "Ah, yes," replied
the artist, "that is true but another
process follows— it will BE BURN-
ED IN."
The King's Daughters did not
mistake enthusiasm for a deed, nor
did they permit one act to become
the full measure of their endeavor —
their interest and love for the cause
was "BURNED IN," and no care-
less or ruthless hand can mar the
lasting expression of their deeds or
stay its purpose in well doing. Look
yonder— the beautiful chapel, which
Editor Harris calls the "the beauti-
ful chapel on the rock"--that's your
gift to our plant. This is not all.
This structure, the subject of our
present meeting —this Memorial
Bridge— connecting our main cam-
pus with the chapel grounds, across
this National Highway, speaks elo-
quently not only of your devotion
to a cause, but in loving remem-
brance of the heroism of the brave
soldiers North Carolina furnished to
the United States in its contest in
the World War for democracy, and
among them were twenty-eight
Training School boys, two of whom
made the supreme sacrifice.
Beautiful, strong and serviceable,
this Memorial Bridge is. It stands
out the connecting link bstween the
three great forces that enter into
the making of manhood and high
character— the home, you built; pat-
riotism, respecting the State flag
and old glory flung daily to the
breeze, leading in safety and securi-
ty these boys to the highest act of
man, a devout recognition and wor-
ship of the Great Builder in yon
chapel. Home, patriotism and wor-
ship of the Master — these be they
which produce manhood and good
citizenship.
Thirteen years ago these grounds
were an old worn-out cotton farm.
A dilapidated farm-house and an old
barn covered all the conveniences.
On that rock yonder, as a legend has
it since the days of the Indian, was
until recently the big foot-print of
the devil, and over yonder where the
Latham Pavilion is coming into its
beautiful shape is said to have been
another foot-print of his satanic
majesty— he was making long strides,
headed northward (Rev. Dr. Barber,
of Raleigh, interjected "may, he
never return") and these eyesores
forever obliterated,, this magnificent
plant for a glorious and responsible
duty has come into existence. Right
well it is discharging its obligations
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to the unfortunate and bringing
hope into lives otherwise hopeless.
It is all the outcome of a vision,
of strenuous effort, and of love, in
which your organization, Mrs. Coop-
er, played no mean part.
Speaking for our Board, I beg
you to make known to your noble
order our great appreciation of
your generosity and the assurances
of our deep and abiding respect for
the ennobling purposes and aims of
your fine body, which faithfully la-
bors at all times IN HIS NAME."
DR. BARBER'S DEDICATORY PRAYER.
0 Eternal God, whose goodness
reacheth unto the world's end, we
reverently place here this memorial
of thine abundant kindness to us as
a nation and people. Thou didst
give us victory over those who threat-
ened the very foundations of our
Christian civilization.
Accept and bless this bridge as a
memoriol of the valor and patriotism
of our soldiers and fellow-citizens--
those who made the supreme sacri-
fice and those who are still with us
in the flesh.
We pray that it may also be a
memorial of abiding per.ce in our
own land and throughout the world.
And may it be a constant reminder
to all the ejrthly pilgrims who shall
pass over it, of the narrow stream
that separates us from the loved ones
gone before.
Help us ali, we beseech Thee, to
be faithful soldiers of the great Cap-
tain of our salvation unto cur life's
end; that we may come to those
unspeakable joys which Thou hast
prepared for those who unfeignedly
love Thee; through Jesvs Christ our
Lord, Who art with Thee; in the un-
ity of the Holy Ghost, One God,
world without end. Amen.
Ducks In C jina
There are more ducks in China
than in all the rest of the world.
Their voices are a familiar sound in
every town and country spot of the
seacoast. and the interior of the vast
empire. Even jn the large cities
ducks abound. They dodge between
the coolies legs. Ihey flit, squawk-
ing out of the way of horses. Their
indignant quack will not unseldom
drown the roar of urban commerce.
Children herd ducks on every road,
on every pond, on every farm, 'on
every lake, on every river. There
is no back yard without its duck
quarters. All over the land there
are great duck--hatching establish-
ments, many of them of capacity
huge enough to produce fifty thous-
and young ducks every year. Duck
among the Chinese is a staple de-
licacy. It is salted and smoked like
ham or beef. It is served as a delic-
acy prepared in many ways, and a
number of travelers declare only the
Chinese know how to cook and serve
a nice, fat duck.
In royal households, and among the
very wealthy, the duck is served in
a particular style in honor of any
distinguished guest, and those fortu-
nate enough to have eaten say it is
far beyond anything they get else-
where in the way of prepared fowl.
Many ducks are exported from
China, and it promises to be a grow-
ing industry. The climate, as well
as the care of the fowls, is said to
produce the most excellent flesh.
— From the Watchman. d
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"Burial"
R. in N C. Bulletin
The word "burial" is applied to the prevailing method among all civilized
nations of disposing of the dead by hiding them in the earth. The usual
method of mankind has been to bury the dead out of sight of the living;
and various ways have been the methods of accomplishing this purpose.
These methods of burying the dead may be put into three great classifica-
tions.
(1) The closing up of the body in
wood, stone or metal.
(21 The burning of the body and
preserving the ashes by putting them
in a tomb, and
(3) The embalming of the body.
The first of these methods seems to
be the earliest form of which we
have any record and it is the form
most commonly used by the civilized
world to-day. It is the method
referred to in the earliest Scriptures;
and all are familiar with the touch-
ing scene in which Abraham buried
Syrah in the cave of Machpelah in
the land of Canaan which belonged
to Ephron, but was later secured by
Abraham as a place to bury all of
his dead. The first account of get-
ting a burial permit is the permit
given Abraham for burying Sarah
by Ephron the Hittite.
There are frequent allusions in
the Scriptures to embalming the
body. Bury is spoken of eighteen
times in the Bible.
Probably the Egyptians knew
more about the art of embalming
than any people before or since their
day. There are to-day Egyptian
mummies thousands of y^ars old in
numbers of museums throughout the
world. These corpses of Egyptians
are as inoffensive as any article of
wood or stone and are as well pre-
served as they were the day they
were embalmed.
Some of the grandest buildings in
the world have been tombs— such as
the pyramids of Egypt, the Castle
of St. Angelo, the Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus, Westminister Abbey,
and many temples scattered through-
out the world.
Now that the World War is over
innumerable beautiful buildings will
be dedicated to our dead heroes.
Thus the respect paid by the liv-
ing to the dead has preserved and
will preserve for the world many
magnificent fruits of architectural
gems and labor. In 1913 North
Carolina made a great stride for
ward in preserving the memory of_
the dead by enacting the Vital Sta-
tistics Law. This law does not stop
at preserving the memory of the
dead— no matter haw rich or poor,
whether of high or low estate, the
memory of the deceased is preserved,
---and more than this the cause of
death is recorded so that health au-
thorities may be able to know the
number of deaths from certain dis-
eases that are known to be prevent-
able. They are thereby enabled to
concentrate their efforts on certain
diseases in certain localities.
Because this information is so
valuable the law makers 'n their
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wisdom put a severe penalty on
burying the dead without making
out a certificate of death, giving all
particulars of family history over
the signature of some one familiar
with this personal history, and cause
of death over the signature of the
attending physician, and filing same
with local register and obtaining in
exchange a permit to bury the de-
ceased. It is to be hoped no one in
Nort Carolina will be so foolhardy
as to bury a body withont complying
with the present reasonable law.™
F. M. R.
Unsightly Little Town
Greensboro has an ordinance requiring the occupants of lots abutting pav-
ed sidewalks to keep the adjoining grass plots neatly mowed, and to have
snow, ice, and other obstructions removed by 10 o'clock of every day; it also
requires all property owners to keep their sidewalks clean and free from
weeds. This ordinance is strictly enforced, says the city manager. It meets
with very litile opposition and ter— fifty-two times better.
manifestly it contributes to the trim
appearance of the city.
A similar and greatly needed ordi-
nance would require all vacant town-
lot owners to keep such lots clear of
weeds and unsightly trash. This
ordinance is hardly less necessary
than the other. If ordiances of
this sort were faithf uly enforced the
appearance of the 413 little towns
of North Carolina would be improv-
ed a thousands percent almost over-
night.
The weedy, trashy, unkept con-
dition of sidewalks and streetfronts
in Chapel Hill, for instance, never
can be cured by any street force
that the town is likely to be able to
support upon the taxes paid. What
would cost many thousand dollars in
taxes for street cleaning is a very
small matter when every property
owner and the occupant of every
dwelling or business tidies up the
space immediatly around him. The
once-a-year clean-up day is good.
A once-a-week clean-up day is bet-
The street-cleaning force of a lit-
tle town is doing very well to clean
the ditches and cut the weeds and
grass in the street along the side-
walk edges and street fronts once
or twice a year. Property owners or
occupants could attend to tnis mat-
ter of appearance every week or
every few days.
Trashy, weedy, vacant lots and
backyard lots disfigure the appear-
ance of little towns the whole coun-
try over— except perhaps in New
England and the Pacific coast states
where sheer persona! pride in the
look of the home town takes the
place of ordinances and police in-
spection.
A good many towns in Ncrth
Carolina have ordinance requiring
owners and occupants to keep weeds
down on their property or in front
of their property on all lots either
vacant or occupied as for instance
Ashville.
However nothing will take the
place of pride when it comes to
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small town prinking. All the little
towns the country over, could easily
look as lovely to the e37eas the little
college town of Amherst in Massa-
chusetts and the little towns of
Southern California. In this matter
Oxford leads the way in North Caro-
lina. It is charming to the eye and
it has been made so by the civic ac-
tivities of the women of that town.
The women of our little fowns in
North Carolina could work a similar
miracle of transformation, and if
the women do not do it, we venture
to say it will not likely be done in
long years to come. — The News Let-
ter.
Some of this love of cleanliness
and civic righteousness could with
great profit be manifest in appear-
ance along important roads. Especi-
ally along the National Highway.
Thousand and thousands of people
from many sections, pass during a
year, and the advertisement of some
places is not calculated to do justice
to our sense of cleanliness and order-
liness. The presence of a hog-pen
by the road-side is a fearful thing,
yet people who know better often
times adopt the road-side for
such unsightly necessities. The
State Highway Commission ought,
if it has the right under the law, to
order hog-pens removed form along
the highway. Let's have a law
against hog-pens along the roads.
Thirty-Second Annual Meeting.
The Thirty-second Annual Convention of the N. C. Branch of The King's
Daughters was held in the Auditorium of the Jackson Training School on
the 8th and 9th.
At the first meeting, Rev. T. N. Lawrence conducted the religious ser-
vices. Supt. Boger, on behalf of the School, gave a happy address of wel-
were opened with religious services
by Rev. M. A. Barber, of Raleigh.
Following this the various officers
and committees made their reports,
all of which were interesting and
showed a good year's work.
Mrs. T. J. Manning, of Hender-
son, member of the Central Council,
made an interesting report of the
progress and work of the National
order.
The Wednesday afternoon session
was opened by prayer by the devout
and consecrated Mrs. J. B. Cherry,
of Greenville. Following this, the
annual election of officers occured,
all the old officers being re-elected as
come, Mrs. R. M. King gracefully
and cordially extended the greetings
of the local circle. To these words
of welcome. Mrs. M. H. Stacy, of
Chapel Hill, made a brilliant re-
sponse.
Following this came the Annual
Message of the president, Mrs. Bur-
gwyn, a pleasing and profitable fea-
ture of the Convention for nineteen
years.
Hon. E. R. Prestion of Charlotte,
the speaker of the evening deliver-
ed a forceful and edifying address
using this text "Progress of Hu-
manities."
The Wednesday morning exercises
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follows:
Mrs. W. H. S. Burgwyn, Raleigh,
President.
Miss Easdale Shaw, Rockingham,
Vice President.
Mrs. Richard Wiilams, Greenville,
Recording Secretary.
Miss Margie McEachern, Concord,
Treasurer.
Mrs. T. J. Manning, Henderson, mem-
ber of Central Council.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTE
Mrs. J. A. Cannon, Concord.
Mrs. O. Clarke, Greenville.
Mrs. J. H. Rutledge, Kannapolis.
Mrs. M. H. Stacy, Chapel Hill.
Mrs. R. G. Kizer, Salisbury.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
The convention and the student
body meet in the Chapel. Rev. G. A.
Martin conducted the opening ser-
vices, appropiate to the dedication
of the art windows which had been
recently installed in the Margaret
Burgwyn Chapel— nine of the win-
dows are memorials. The dedicatory
was conducted by Rev. Barber.
Concluding the exercise the audi-
ence, led by the boys singing "On-
ward Christian Soldiers," marched
to the Memorial Bridge (account of
this elsewhere.)
CLOSING MEETING.
Wednesday evening the closing
session of the convention was given
over to a evening of story telling,
presided over by Miss Shaw, of
Rockingham, who did brilliantly the,
part of toast-mistress.
Rev. J. Frank Armstrong con-
ducted the religious services. Those
on the progamme, and who delight-
ed the boys and the large audience,
were Mrs. T. W. Bickett, of Raleigh;
Mrs. L. P. Russell, of Rockingham,
Mrs. Kelloway, of Wilimington,
Mrs. L. D, Coltrane, Sr. of Concord,
Master Sam Taylor, of the School,
and Mrs. J. B. Cherry, of Greenville.
The Silver Offering amounted to
over one hundred dollars. All of the
exercises were interspersed by de-
lightful singing in which the boys
joined.
The convention adjourned to
meet next year-with the Greenville
Circle in Pitt County.
ECHOES FROM CONVENTION.
The King's Daughters occupied
one of the new cottages. From all
reports they had a jolly time. Mrs.
A. C. Wolfe, representing the local
circle, acted as house-hostess. She
made it pleasant for them; and they
in turn, making themselves thor-
oughly at home, when off duty —
these serious-minded women — had
all kinds of frolics and sports and
made for themselves a fine picnic
outing. The Uplift, rejoicing in
the pleasure of these folks, in a
measure our guests, can not refrain
from making note of certain echoes
from a house that contained forty
or more lone women from as many
quarters of the state:
A Junior: "My, I did not sleep
much last night." "Oh, I am so
sorry. Why?" asked the house-hos-
tess. "The older women held reg-
ular old-time pillow fights and kept
us juniors awake."
"Oh," said one of the Durham
delegates, much amused, "don't
you kno w Mrs. So and So, of Green-
ville, said very softly in her sleep,
'no, I thank you, I'll not take any
more.' " Only dreams the evening
after Supt. Boger's barbecue.
In a most forlorn way a Salisbury
delegate declared that she just could
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not sleep in so large a room as the
dormitory. The two ladies, who oc-
cupied the "Jug," which is a small
room to which in time past it was
jocularly given such name, gracious-
ly offered to exchange places. The
Salisbury delegate, declining the of-
fer, was later seen, not in an isolat-
ed corner alone, but in the midst of
the crowd engaged in a pillow con-
test with the spirit of a youth.
The lights in the building are con-
trolled by a master switch. This
secret the guest failed to learn. The
lights are up on the overhead ceil-
ing; but one of the braver delegates,
from down East, took a searching
spell and finally found the switch on
the first floor, and then "felt" (the
way they say down east) her way
back to the dormitory. Everthing
was quiet until 5 o'clock next morn-
ing when suddenly the lights came
on. This was excitement — all kinds
of things were about to happen. The
night watchman, on his job, forgot
that the women occupied that cot-
tage and through force of habit flash-
ed the lights on to see "if all was
well."
One delegate asked: "Mrs. Wolfe,
do you have any absorbent cotton,"
"No," replied the hostess, all excit-
ed, "is there any one hurt?" "Oh,
no, only I want to stuff my ears
to-night for some of the women snore
fiercely and I cannot sleep."
There are many other echoes, but
we must refrain. No delegation
ever had a jollier occasion, and ev-
ery member indicated her regret ov-
er its conclusion.
Institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
Roby Moore was the only boy to
receive a visit from home"^ folks
Wednesday.
Two or three car-loads of coal
have been received at the school be-
cause of the fact that our supply is
low.
The friends and relatives of Miss
Latimer will be sorry to hear that
she is now sick in bed. It is thought
that she will soon recover.
Because of some unknown delay
our pavilion was not finished the
date agreed upon, but now all it
lacks is the inside furnishings.
We were pleased to have Profs.
Webb and Williams and also a student
from the Universisy of North Caro-
lina. We hope they will come again.
Rev. T. N. Lawrence, of Concord,,
filled the pulpit Sunday. He didn't
only fiil the pulpit, but filled the
hearts of the listeners with an in-
teresting sermon.
There has been some recent
troubles with the pump necessitating-
boys to watch it. This duty is very
agreeable to the boy who has the
job because he is free to play any
self-amusing games, or he may
catch rabbits.
Because of the fine barbecue they
made possible for us. I, as spokesman
of the boys, desire to say that no
words can express our gratitude to
the King's Daughters. When boys
have such a hearty support from such
good people as these, how can they
go wrong?
Mr. Brown, of Raleigh, Supt. of
Public Welfare, aecompained by
two boys who were admitted to the
school, l.was a visitor at the schooi
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last week. While here, Mr. Brown
looked over our plant and expressed
himself delighted with the work that
is going on at the school.
Last Friday we were surprised,
but it was an ageeable one, to play
the part of host to the Sunderland
Hall School for girls. They invaded
the campus and quite filled the
Printing Office in their eagerness to
see the school and its work. We are
glad to have any one look over the
plant, and especially so in the case
of these girls.
The well digger that the boys mov-
ed from its previous location near
the well, has been placed near where
is being constructed the laundry,
bakery and ice plant. This is a very
desirable place because of course, the
need of water is plain in the case of
the laundry and the ice plant. This
situation is also convenient for the
water boys and also as soon as the
water becomes plentiful with two
pumps in operation the Six and
Seventh cottage will be opened as
this is the only thing that holds them
back.
Just before the arrival of the
King's Daughters the memorial win-
dows were put in place of the plain
ones, so the Daughters of the King
had the pleasure of seeing their lat-
est gift installed. This gift though
small covers a long felt need and the
boys think that their place of wor-
ship Is now, indeed, a real church.
This is just one of the innumerable
gifts of the King's Daughters and
no matter how much we try we can-
not show our appreciation and grati-
tude. Let us enumerate, just to see
how much the King's Daughters
have done for us.
(1) The Chapel. This gift is more
important than any other, because
what should we place more value
upon than a place in which to wor-
ship Him?
(2) The 1st or King's Daughters
Cottage. This is the first cottage
to be erected showing the early be-
lief the Daughters had in this insti-
tution.
(3) Memorial Bridge. This is the
connection between the grounds of
the Chapel on one side of the high-
way and the other grounds.
(4) The Memorial Windows. These
have already been discussed.
(5) The Band Instruments. These
Conn instruments are a necessity as
well as luxury. Who knows of an
institution without a good band.
This by the local circle.
(6) The Kings Daughters also put
the beautiful little cross on our
chapel.
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Ich Dien— I Serve.
Tt/o -men "were 'coming away from a big city chuich,
where the eloquent and famous preacher had delighted
his congregation by an unusually fine sermon. "It doe3
one good to hear a man like that," said the elder man.
**No wonder he 13 such a success. I would go and hear
him overy Sunday if 1 liv^d here." "So would I," said
the younger, "and I would not care what sort of a ser-
monha preached, either. That isn't the be3t of him.
Xliat isn't his real power at all, though it make3 one feel
proud of him." "Why, what do you mean?" asked the
other. "If his eloquence isn't the power, what is?" "I'll
tell you," said the young man. "I never was in his con-
gregation, either here or during his pastorate in our lit-
tle town. But he knew our family and what a time
mother had educating and bringing up us hoys. He had
left our town for this big church five years ago, but
when mother died, last year, the very first letter that
reached me was from him, and it was a letter I'll never
forget. And I have since learned that over and over
again, on the anniversary of a bereavement, a3 well as
just after it, that busy man, rushed with a thousand du-
ties, sends thi3 or that man or woman a letter of remem-
brance and comfort, just as he did to me. And they
don't forget it, any more than I do. His life i3 full of
just such things, and that's why he's such a power
wherever he goes. It isn't just the sermon — it'3 what
lies behind the sermon." — Forward.
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Typc-Seiting by the Boys' Printing Clas3. Subscription Two Dollars the Year in
Advance.
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Entered as second-cla;s matter Dec. 4, 192), at the Post O.Tice at Concord, N
C, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THE NEW YEAR AND DUTY.
"Look not mournfully into the past, it conies not back again,
Wisely improve the present, it is thine;
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear
And with a manly heart."
A CHOICE SPIRIT HAS DEPARTED.
Ex. Gov. Thomas Walter Bickett, beloved by his state, suddenly stricken
on the evening of the 27th with apoplexy, passed away the ■:>'.'-"' vi. no morn-
ing at 9:15. Though just in his 53rd year, he had crow^e r \::' irjihat short
life the deeds and achievements of a statesman and a pL; n ^ ,, Few men,
if any, in the history of Nonh Carolina have wrought as'^ii'ooiy. He has
left an impress upon the public consciousness that can never die. The
whole state mourns his passing.
The Uplift joins the thousands, who know her intimately and appreci-
atively, in sympathy for the widow who is passing- through this greatest of
sorrows. The unassumed and unaffected "devotion of this couple, Mr. and
Mrs. Bickett, was a most' beautiful picture, an inspiration to all.
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HE KNEW HOY/ TO D1SCRIMINAI E.
The late Governor Bickett, who was sometimes criticised for his pardon-
ing record, rejoiced in the possession of a human kindness that office could
not destroy, drone occasion a certain lawyer, defending a youthful
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•client, succeeded in getting the presiding judge co commit the boy to the
Jackson Training School. In less than a month, the very same lawyer invok-
ed his friendly relations with Gov. Bickett, seeking the pardon— a foolish
procedure— of his client. Gov. Bickett, having business in Concord,
visited the Jackson Training School, went through all departments, made a
complete survey of the work, then told of the pressure brought to bear on
him in this one particular case. Summing up his impressions, he looked the
superintendent square in the face and said: "I've never worried the
School with pardoning boys. I know I have the power and right to pardon
a person from punishment, but have I the right to say when a boy's train-
ing shall cease? If I hav? that right, I've never cared to exercise it." He
knew his duty, and fearlessly met it.
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MISS STOCKTON.
Cabarrus county rejoices with Miss May Stockton, our whole-time public
health nurse, in the recovery of her aged mother from a serious attack of
pneumonia, at her home in Greensboro. Miss Stockton was with her mother,
and, while desperately sick, the aged lady thought of the welfare of others
and when the election for a County Sanitorium came on she insisted on ex-
ercising her franchise via the ab;ent-voter-plan.
Miss Stockton has returned to her duties. Finding her desk piled up
"with Calls for service, she philosophically, faithfully and happily said: "Oh,
I like to work --it means so much." This splendid young woman, by her
capability, tness and sincerity, has unconsciously wormed herself in-
to the hear! V.arrus people. She is most valuable. To her, along
.with Miss Wil ■ i, the Home Demonstrator; Mr. Goodman, the County
Farm Demonstrator; and the superintendents of County Welfare, of all the
counties in the state, here's hoping for health, support and sympathy.
These be high callings among progressive and aggressive peoples.
• »*»»»*•.
CELEBRATED HIS 93th BIRTHDAY BY PREACHING.
Down at Elon College there is a member of the faculty that has been
and is yet classed as a most remarkable man. Dr. J. W. Wellons is his
name. He's lived a beautiful life, full of love for his fellow-man, and
thoroughly upright in all his relations of life.
Dr. Wellons was ninety-six years of age on New Year's Day. He wa3
invited to preach in the College Chapel, and, never having learned in his
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long life to side-step a duty and a service, he accepted the invitation. Dr.
Wellons is a native of Eastern Virginia, but coming to the fine climate and
the invigorating environment which North Carolina revels in, the good old
doctor has guaranteed long so-journ in the world, and there is no reason
in the world why he should not preach a birth-day sermon in Elon College
Chapel on New Year's Day of 1926. '1 he correspondent, reporting this
particular service, says:
The morning preaching service in the college chapel was very
beautiful this morning, being conducted by Dr. J. W. Wellons, bet-
ter known as "Uncle Wellons." Today being his 96th birthday, made
it more interesting. He is active considering his age, and. while he
had to give his sermon sitting down, he could be heard e'early, and
his text for the morning was taken from 1st Corinthians, ]5th chapter,
b8th verse: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmove-
able, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye
know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
He dwelt on the great theme of salvation and spoke of his sermon
as being an expository one. His remarks were very touching, beauti-
ful and displayed his wonderful faith and trust. He is perhaps the
oldest minister living, and is the oldest of the Christian denomination
today.
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The editor has received a pleasing letter from Mr. Milton Wicker, chair-
man of the Junior Class of the Greensboro High School. This is what he
writes: "As a Christmas gift to the boys of the Guilford Cottage at the
Jackson Training School the Juniors of the Green=boro High School have
subscribed to two magazines, "The American Boy" and "Popular
Science." They will begin with the January issue and continue for one
year. Hoping that these publications will delight the boys, I remain."
Young Mr. Wicker will please make known to his class that their act is
highly appreciated, and rest assured the Guilford boys will profit by
their thougbtfulness both in the reading of this high class literature and
especially the consciousness of this demonstration of a worthwhile fellow-
ship and interest.
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Our fifty-thousand gallon water-tank is gradually filling up, in face of a
constant use of the supply throughout the cottages and the grounds, from
a recently punched well at a spot pointed out by the "forked peach limb."
Though laughed at by a prominent geologist, who declared that in the pe-
culiar formation of the rock on this ridge, no water could be found, cer-
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tainly not at a depth over 200 feet/' The well is just 300 feet deep and
is giving- up per minute in the neighborhood of twenty gallons and the
water-mark in the well is not lowered after a pumping period of ten hours.
It is a risky thing to poke fun at the forked peach limb and the didoes of;
the signs of the moon. Later: L'he tank is full.
CROWING OUT OF ORDER.
There was nothing else for the special session of the General Assembly
to do than to provide for the school deficit of $710,000. The State does
not repudiate honest obligations, whether they arise from carelessness, in-
competency or miscalculations. The claim that a state officer drove to
cover such able, honest gentleman like Dough ton, Varser, Everette and
others, making them do his bidding is die veriest rot. This deficit grew
out of a fundamentally wrong and unnatural law, which the said State of-
ficer really inspired and engineered through the General Assembly. The
State may well be congratulated if next year's operation of the miserable
school law, now doing business in North Carolina, does not leave a greater
deficit. Thf wisest act of the special session of the General Assembly was
the appointment of a commission to make a business-like educational sur-
vey.
Speaking the appreciation and gratitude of this institution The Up-
lift acknowledges the receipt of a generous check from Mr. W. J. Swink,
of China Grove. Coming on New Year's Day, it gives the machine' y an
easy start-off. Mr. Swink's contribution shall be devoted to a fine purpose, '
a purpose that will figure fir years in the problem which concerns this
institution. Some of these days, a central library must be started; and
this voluntary gift from a fine citizen and a devoted friend will fit in as
a nucleus around which we may build our fond hopes.
In this issue we have an article showing the devious route, by which our
present calender has come down to us. It is an interesting ami instructive,
article. The students of the high schools, along with the students of the
world, can find in this article the ans.ver of questions that no doubt have
exercised them at some time. ! '.
The boys of the' Jackson Training S.'hool hi i fcha biggest aad the fullest :
Christmas in the. history of the School. This was made possible by the gen-
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erosity of good friends, "who contributed to the Christmas fund. The joy
was so great and complete that it made the olilcials just as happy as the
youngsters. *' .. '.';'.' ";■ ';
HURCULES AND THE WAGGONER
lA Waggoner was once driving along a very muddy road. At last
ht! came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into
the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels.
Si the Waggoner threw down his whip, and knelt down and prayed
to! Hercules the Strong. "0 Hercules, help me in this my hour of
distress," quoth he. But Hurcules appeared to him, and said:
"Tut, man, don't sprawl there. Get up and put your shoulder to
the wheel."
"THE GODS HELP THEM THAT HELP THEMSELVES."
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U. LELAND STANFORD.
Etoneville, N. C.
(In our -next i sue will be found the picture of the m. gmiiccnt school building
which he inspired, and which is his living monument.)
THE UPLFIT
U. LELANB STANFORD.
The effort to achieve distinction is one of the motive powers of civilization.
Especially is it a characteristic of American Youth. Here, where the doors
•of opportunity swing wide to merit and worth, here where striving against odds
is constant incentive and almost certain attainment for honest effort. This
is shown by the career of young U. Leland Stanford of Stoneville, North Caro-
lina, and others like him. His life and success are at once an inspiration and a
promise. Hopeful indeed does it ap-
pear to all those who, like him, are
poor but who aspire; hopeful for all
those who do not expect the help of
others, but who must depend on their
own unaided efforts; hopeful for all
those who have only industry, energy,
ambition, and honest purpose to speed
them in the race of life.
Young Stanford was born in Stone-
ville, X. C. July 15, 1892, and a few-
years ago he married Miss Rosa Mae
James of Forsyth County. Today he
is the only lawyer in Rockingham
County that is practicing law in the
town in which he was born. Stanford
accepted life as he found it, and tak-
ing hold of his environments lie made
"the most of every opportunity as pre-
sented, and to him obstacles were but
invitations to greater effort while
"stumbling blocks" were used as
stepping stones as patiently, sincerely,
and determinedly he moved on and
over them steadily upward. Farm
toy, newspaper editor, lawyer — these
Are the steps that mark his progress.
Years ago he plowed the corn and
tilled the soil right where the Stone-
ville High School building, the hand-
somest in the county, now stands in
its imposing beauty. As young Stan-
ford worked day by day the aspira-
tion filled his heart and the high hope
flooded his soul that some day he
might see on that site a modern, up-to-
date, handsome High School building.
As the years went by this young man
made his plans and waited for the time
when the opportunity should arrive
to make his dream a reality. The
hour struck and he put his tireless
energy, unbounded enthusiasm and un-
conquerable will into the High School
movement, and laughing at every ob-
stacle, scorning opposition he con-
quered all hindrances and crowned
effort with victory the 14th day of last
September, when Xorth Carolina ed-
ucators of note went to Stoneville and
dedicated that beautiful temple of
learning to the eternal interest of the
human mind. Young Stanford is the
efficient and active Secretary of the
School Board that erected the build-
ing, and every dollar of the nearly
ninety thousand dollars passed
through his hands and all of his re-
ports rendered to the Board of Educa-
tion have been complete and accurate.
In all movements to uplift and bet-
ter the mental, moral and physical
condition of humanity he takes a deep
and abiding interest, and his recent
speech before the County Commissi-
oners of this County pleading for the
erection of a Rockingham building at
the Jackson Training School, aided in
securing the building while Stanford
gave another example of striving un-
selfishly for the betterment of man-
kind. When we know his strong,
clean, manly character we are im-
pressed with what great good ambiti-
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tious youth may do when lie decimates emphasized and .so docs the career of
his life to progress, honor, truth, and 0. Leland Stanford though scarce be-
service to others. Selfish interest in gun, teach us that common honesty,
this great age must he placed aside. civic pride and tireless energy mark
Serving and helping others must he the pathway to t he goal.
Foolish Utterance: Several gentlemen sitting around the stove in a pub-
lic place, discussing business ami the temper of the times. One man .
remarked, "if I can do half as v/ell throughout the year as I have done to-
day (January 2, 1922.) it will he glorious." Another said: "It looks
very encouraging to me." These were industrious men and active in their
line of business.. .A glassy-eyed loafer, who has never struck a real worth-
while lick at any job that contributes to the betterment of mankind, butted
in: "You men don't know what you are talking about; we are on the verge
of the greatest slump in the history of the world; and by the middle of
February the whole bottom will drop out." This pessimist was unknown
to the gentlemen, and his self-assurance and self-centerism had an effect
on them like a dull thud. This is the way trouble starts — by some insig-
nificent, doless thing. Taking stock of the situation, we dismiss the
whole thing by observing that if every body was as sorry as this pessimist,
the world, including business, commercial, industrial, social and political,
would have to liquidate — and ought to.
HOW DEATH BRINGS IT OUT.
-••"< ' " By Jim Eiddick.
The other night I sat in the House of Representatives Chamber, at Raleigh,
looking, into the faces of representative gentlemen from every quarter of the
State. There had been deaths of prominent men and women of the state re-
ported in the press. Though a Christmas season, when all seemed in joy to be
barkening back more than nineteen hundred years in" a celebrating memory of
the one great birth, which brought peace and hope into the world, not a per-
son iu that audience Of fine men but who felt keenly that- lie was in the
presence of death. •■ -■':■
Ex-Governor Bickett,. the golden- —but he still lived; and he will-live
■ hearted -North Carolinian, Rising from for his preachments, his golden words
a small beginning to a proud position of wisdom and his patriotism, ex-
into the hearts oFiiUm and women of pressed in deeds and acts, for ages to
•North Carolina, 'hacV jiis't died.' In come. Doesn't matter that he did
"loving memory tender' words were not pile up worldly wealth, for he
officially spoken- and a'ia'rge purse for ' didn't,^his fortune" was built in the
a flora] offering 'was_yoluntarily" and -'hearts of living beings, winning for
quicklv assembled. Biekett was dead him a glorious reward in that golden
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ti
land whore fortunes consist alone in
goodness, song, peace, happiness and
an unending glory, none of which lil-
thy lucre can purchase.
There was another event at that
meeting that abides with me. I am
constrained in this presence to ask the
question: "How long will a man
live in the memory of men, who has
rendered a loving service to humanity
and unselfishly aided in building up
agencies looking to the relief and ben-
efit of others.'" I shall answer my
own question — it is, and ought to be,
FOREVER. Rack yonder in Octob-
er, 1920, at a railroad crossing below
Charlotte, Edgar Love, of Lincolnton,
in the twinkling of an eye was dashed
into fragments, in tragic death. He
was not a governor. He had been
a business man, a cotton-mill builder,
a promoter, and the highest he ever
reached in the political life of his
state was mayor of his town and a
.representative of his people in the
lower house of the General Assembly.
In both of these positions he was true
to the common good of all — these po-
sitions were treated as sacred trusts.
There is to be expended in Lincoln-
ton soon $250,000.00 for a modern
and splendidly equipped Sebool Build-
ing. It is to be called the "Edgar
Love School. ' ' I wondered why.
There is usually a good and suf-
ficient reason when the public, which
unerringly takes the measure sooner
or later of every man, decides to per-
petuate in the lives of the rising
generation a loving memorial to the
honor of an individual. The reason
was revealed that night. When a mo-
tion had been offered to select a suc-
cessor of Edgar Love on the Stale
Executive Committee, Will Graham,
a fellow-townsman, arose to second
the motion and asked the privilege
to say out of the fullness of his heart
some things about the late Mr. Love;
When Edgar Love lay a corpse in
Lincolnton, hundreds and hundreds of
his former associates, friends and ac-
quaintances called. It is said that no
less than one hundred strong men,
breaking under their sadness over his
untimely death, audibly remarked:
"He was my best friend;" "he help-
ed me get my home;" "the average,
poor man will miss;" "old Lincolnton
has been hard-hit;" "he has helped
more widows and children than any
man I ever knew;" and other expres-
sions that indicate what Edgar Love
had been in life.
These constitute the estimate of the
man; his living has answered the
question "how long shall a m-vi be
remembered." The kindly deeds Ed-
gar Love did live in the lives and the
bettered conditions of hundreds of
people and, like the ripple started
by a pebble thrown into a lake which
only spent its self when reaching
the other shore, will touch some-
where, somehow, silently but surely,
throughout eternity.
Death brings out the good and the
bad that men do in life. The g.merous
and thoughtful live on; the selfish
perish and are forgotten.
There is one thing hetter than the pursuit of money, or the habit of
•having one's own way— those I take to be the two great errors of life
in our own day— and that is a human home. It is the hest thing there
is in the worlrf.— Elisabeth Stuart Phelps.
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There's Place
in
Life For
The Anecdote.
CYRUS B. WATSON: Few North Carolinians ever told richer stories than
the late Cyrus B. Watson, of Winston-Salem, and the writer is indebted to the
late Judge W. J. Montgomery, of Concord for this one, as it was at his sug-
gestion that Mr. Watson told it to the writer.
It happened while Judge Montgo- son leaned over and said: "if you had
mery was judge of the Superior Court, said you were afraid of 'tumble bugs,'
and the scene was at Yadkinvillc. A
white man, who for a better name
we will call Mose, was indicted for
stealing blockade whiskey, which the
blockaders had hidden in the woods to
keep the revenue officers from finding
it. Mose came into court without
a lawyer, but employed Mr. Watson
to defend him, who took the case with-
out any chance to know its merits.
The State proved that the whiskey
was hauled away on an old ricket wa-
gon making a track resembling a worm
fence; that Mose had such a wagon,
and that Mose and that Mose had run
away from the neighborhood.
Mr. Watson put Mose on the stand,
and he denied any knowledge of the
liquor, and that he went to his uncle's
in Iredell county of his own free will.
Mr. Watson thought he at least had
a fighting chance to this time,' but
Mose was to be cross examined, and
the solicitor drew it out of Mose
that he did not stop at the home of
his uncle on arriving in Iredell coun-
ty, but that he was found in a barn,
two miles away from here at seven
o'clock the next morning, asleep; and
on being asked why he did not go to
his uncles as he was supposed to have
done, said: "there was report of mad
dogs, and I was afraid of mad dogs."
Mr. Watson called Mose ■ from the
stand in disgust, the judge noting Mr.
Watsons discomfiture. Mose took his
seat behind his counsel, when Mr. Wa-
instcad of mad dogs you would have
had some chance, but as it is you are a
'goner;' and submitted the case oa
his honors charge. Mose was found
guilty, and' was sentenced to the pea
for a term of years. Up to this time
the joke was on Mose.
A few days later the sheriff took
Mose, with three negroes on a forty
mile drive to Winston to take the
train for Raleigh, and it was on this
trip down that the second part took
place. One of the negroes who was
satisfied and talkative proposed that
in as "much as we all is dun fer, that
we have a sperienee meetin' and all
of us tell what brought us here."
With that Sam called on Alex who
said: "dey swo lies on him, else he
would now be at his home." John on
being called said "Dey would not low
him a chantz to git eny witnesses,
else I would a cum cler. " Then Sam
said: "I am here cause I am guilty ob
stealing dat man's meat, dats how I
cum here." Mose the white man not
volunteering anything, Sam said:
"Mr. Moses, you'is er white man, but
bein as we all is told how we cum
here, we would like to know how youse
was sent wid us?"
Mose did not so much as lift his
eyes, but drawled out : "It is doad
easy how I come here, I had a fool for
a lawyer."
Mr. Watson had a great store of
personal jokes, but perhaps there was
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none that be enjoyed telling more titan this one. — Contributed.
I was riding down the main street of an important town on Monday
after Christmas. I passed a limousine car, bearing two young women
and two young men. Both girls were deeply concerned about their ap-
pearance. Each were headed for an afternoon dance in a public place.
The girls were using each a lip-stick. I knew the mother of one of the
girls — she takes in sewing for aliving (a perfectly honorable occupation)
and does her own cooking and house-keeping. Has she the faintest idea
what her daughter aspires to?
REWARDED BEFORE HAND.
(Anonymous) ] .
Mr. Balfour was a busy man, too busy to look up any one in need of a kind
deed, but ever ready to help those who asked it, and at times went out of bis
way to do some one a favor. For some time he had been heavily occupied with
work needed to be done, when on a certain Friday evening an old decrept
black mammy living near hobbled up to bis home saying: "Ml". Balfour,
I want to ask a favor of you; I want to ask you to get mo in the county home.
You knowhow I am situated, how my daughter-in-law does not like me, and
makes it unpleasant for me, and they Monday morning came, and dressed
tell me there is a good place at the
county home." He was at once in-
terested.
"Grandma Jane?" said Mr. Bal-
four, "you know I will accommodate
you if I can; I know how you are
situated, and I will go before the
County Commissioners Monday morn-
ing and state the case. I am afraid
I will have trouble getting you in, as
they may ask if your son is not able
/to take care of you, and after telling
them bow old you are and unable to
work, I will have to plead the way
you are being treated, as the excuse
for the request."
"I thank you Mr. Balfour," said
Grandma Jane, "I think the weather
will fall soon, and I want to get where
I will be warm and "comfortable" be-
fore the weather sets in."
in a nice new suit, Mr. Balfour layed
aside his work day clothes, and went
early to the court house. He seldom
went there except on business and
generally in a hurry, but this good
morning, on mercy bent, he was in no
hurry, in fact had to wait some time,
and this morning it seemed that every
one be met was his friend, and each
vied with the other to see which could
be the gladcst to see Mr. Bel four. One
officer called him in to give him a pa-
per he had been keeping for him and
to thank him for a favor done. Anoth-
er friend shook more heartily and
wanted to know why he so seldom
saw Mr. B.J a nicely dressed lady
wanted to be shown the sheriff's of-
fice, and was profuse in her thauks
for kindness done. Another friend
introduced Mr. Belfour to the wife of
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a mutual friend ho had known many with "Grandma Jane" and her son
years, and she was very gracious, say- and before two o'clock in the af tar-
ing: "Mr. Belfour, I am delighted to noon "Grandma Jane" and her be-
kuow you; my husband and his broth- longings were in Mr. Balfour's car
er so often speak of you, I know all and speeding north to the county
you.' relatives in , many home; "Grandma Jane" saying ever
of whom I love as my own folks, and and anon, "I think the weather will
all these years we have never chanced fall soon, ami I want to get to a place
to meet." At every turn he met .1 can keep warm." In half an hour
some one with a glad hand, a kind the good old black mammy was un-
■\70rd. loaded and in a large brick room,
doing into the Commissioners room heated by a stove in keeping with the
Mr. Belfour found a most elegantly size of the room, and seated by this
dressed lady addressing the Board in stove was telling the six old women-
reference to the comfort and prive- of her age and color how glad she was
leges of prisoners in jail. She was to be there, and how good Mr. Balfour
eloquent, pointed, poised, a splendid had always been to her and her son.
speaked, who when she had finished Being assured by the woman in charge
was informed that what she was ask- of these seven old decrepits that they
ing for was already on the way but were and would be well treated, and
that did not lessen the beauty or the that they had "nothing in God's
talk or the aim thai guided her and world to do but eat, sleep, keep warm
her associates, some of whom were Mr. and behave themselves, with even a
Balfour's friends and came forward to man to make the fires." Mr. Balfour
speak to him. looked into the shining face of
Hanging his hat and over-coat on a "Grandma Jane" and saw that look
convenient nail and taking a seat, the of appreciation, and heard her telling
Chairman of the Hoard came forward the others how good he had been to
to speak and ask what he could do, Iter, and saw how happy she was; and
and being told he kindly advanced Mr. took this message to her people:
Balfour above some others waiting, "Tell and that I
and standing before the Commission- am sitting by a big warm stove with
crs lie staled the case of "Grandma plenty to eat and a good place to sleep,
Jane" just, as it was, and without and no one to fuss at me," he felt he
having thought of it before, found was well repaid for that part of the
a champion of his case in one of his day.
friends on the board, and in less time Soon' he was speeding homeward
than it takes to say so, the order was over a paved road in a splendidly
made, the clerk Idled the necessary working automobile, every throb of the
papers, and .Mr. Balfour thanking the motor seemed in unison with the
Board was soon on his way home. kindly feeling in Mr. B.'s heart. And
The Chairman having told him (hat as he recounted the many kindnesses
he would have to carry his charge done, of the responsive chords of syni-
to the home. pathy and good will that seemed to
At home he discussed the matter prevade in all he met on his errand of
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merey; and when all had been accom- just;" sound and sweet; happy at
plished and Mr. Balfour was safely in having taken a day to do a kind deed,
the precincts of his comfortable home, and having been rewarded for the
and the deeds of kindness to him and same by the kindness of his friends,
' those he' had done Were recounted to not one of whom had the least idea
his good wife, he seemed intoxicated of what had brought Mr. Balfour to
in the joys of serving and being kindly the court house, except the County
served by those he had met that day; Board.
and for two hours he lay sleepless on MORAL: There is more real joy
his bed before the relaxation of the in serving than in being served,
nerves invited sleep; the "sleep of the
OLD TRUTHS FOR THE NEW YEAR.
"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou -urn'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's."— Henry VIII
"Above all: to thine ownself be true
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."— Hamlet
"The Successful Man is the one
"Who does what he ought to do,
Whether he wants to do it or not.
-'■'Many happy New Years. Unbroken
Friendships, great accumulations
■■- •■ Of cheerful recollections and affections
On earth and Heaven for us all." — Dickens
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January first, 1922. Sincerely j-our friend, ' • *
Durham - ' ...v,. -■="• - "'••-- *
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THE SWIFT ISLAND BRIDGE. -
By Ben Dixon MacNeill, in News & Observer
They may have been speaking the same language on both sides of the Pte
Dee river down in the hinterland of the Sandhill country, but' they didn't learn
it, these two neighborhoods didn't, from each other. Stanly county was as
far from Montgomery county as Murphy is from Manteo, had about as little
in common as have a Roanoke Island fisherman and a Cherokee lumberman.
The river ran wide and deep between them.
It is no uncommon story. Down move the two cities nearer yet. Xo
no uncommon
on the lower reaches of the Cape
Fear the sluggish waters of that
river, uuhridged anywhere from
Fayetteville to Wilmington, people
have lived for a generation within a
quarter of a mile of one another
without knowing whose chimney
smoke they saw curling up of an even-
ing, or whose calf they heard lowing
across the river. Rivers just don't
make for neighborliness, and this
Pee Dee river that skirts the lower
rim of the foothills is swifter and
sometimes madder than the Cape Fear.
But the Pee Dee has been tamed,
bridged over and made harmless and
gentle. Montgomerians can cross ov-
er it now and visit with their neigh-
bors in. Stanly. They can go to the
same church if they want to, the far-
mers can swap pigs, and the women
folks can take their darning and go
and spend the afternoon with the wo-
men folks over in Stanly and find
out what's been going on over th°re
all these years. And Stanly can come
over to Montgomery and get a "bait,"
as they say down in the .Cape Fear
country, of Montgomery peaches.
The bridge is a great thing, no1,
just for Stanly and Montgomery. By
its building- Charlotte- has been sor: '
of annexed to the State Capital. If
not actually annexed, brought 3G miles
nearer, and may be something will
more going around the Rockingham or
(lie Greensboro elbows to get from
Raleigh to Charlotte, when one just
cut across the country over as go hI a
road as the commonwealth can boast
of and save 30 miles ami two hours'
driving time. It can be done now in
live hours and still give no lurking
speed regulator a joyful thrill.
Swift Island is the name of the
bridge. It is eight miles sjuth of
i'.adin and the greatest aluminum
plant in the world; not "ar from
what used to be the biggest gold
mine in America before the mad days
of '49 and California; eight miles
east of Albemarle, the county seat of
Stanly; 17 miles west of Troy, like
honored in Montgomery; eight miles
north of Mount Gilcad, Montgomery '3
principal town. It is just about half
way from. Tennessee to the Atlantic
ocean", and' connecting roads give on
almost every, highway in the St ate.
It is a picturesque country. Y.rest-
boumF^tralfic gets, its first view of
mountains there. Xqt much moun-
tains, to be sure^ compared with what
they' will begin to see up abo.it Bridge-
water, but.to the easterner, mountains
that appear almost as grand-, as tho
Alps of the picture books. The
Uwharrie mountains, they are called,
and in them was found the first gold
in America. Dotted all over that
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i9
country arc abandoned shafts that
•ceased to be paying mines when gold
got so plentiful in California. They
still find occasional nuggets down
there.
Ba'diri is built where the Pee Dee
cuts through the [Twharrie moun-
tains. Few people in the State have
ever seen that monster power u-jcesop-
ment, the concrete dam 210 feet high,
.and the lake that has SO riiilea of
shore line. The water that 'io\7s
through there develops 120,000 elec-
trical horsepower. It is tha fi'.vst
natural site for a dam in all the Stale.
The Hadin daia is less than l,5lHi feet
long, and juts right up into the rock
precipices in the Uwharrie wherj the
Pee Dee cuts through.
Swift Island bridge is 1,090 feet and
9 inches long. Contract for its con-
struction was let by State Highway
Commissioner Frank Page on October
18, 1920, to Cornell-Young & Co., of
Macon, Ua., for $199,300. Workmen
threw the lirst shovel of dirt sixteen
days later, and the job was turned o\ •
er completed the middle of Decem-
ber, 1921, some time ahead of the
contracted time.
Into the bridge were built 244 ear-
loads of material. In it are 22 car-
loads of cement, ()0 carloads of sand,
.100 carloads of stone and 10 carloads
of structural steel. Timbers and
-other material make up the rest of
the total cars of stuff that went into
it. The bridge weighs .17,772,000
pounds.
Three main spans, each 127 feet
long, make up the bridge proper as
it crosses the actual width of the
river, and 12 approach spans are
used. It is the biggest bridge that
has yet been built by the State
High way Commission. The AVilliani-
ston bridge is somewhat bigger, and
will cost about 50 per cent more.
Federal roads bureau engineers pro-
nounce it one of the finest pieces
of concrete work in the United
States, and the design of the bridge
without better anywhere.
Plans for the bridge were drawn
here in Raleigh by a man that the
city sees on the streets sometimes,
but a man whom few recognizes. He
is William L. Craven, often spoken
of as the best concrete bridge de-
signer iu the L'nited States. He has
offices in the Highway Commission
building, and almost any hour of
the day, and often at night, he can
be found there, drawing away. He
has a passion for bridges.
C. S. Currier, now district en-
gineer for the Highway Commission
in the Seventh District, started out
as resident engineer on the job, and
stayed by until he was promoted.
Looking around for a successor to
him, Commissioner Page picked a
young engineer, W. S. Morrison, who
had been a draftsman in the bridge
department. It was he who trans-
ferred Mr. Craven's design to
blue print, and it was he who Mr.
Page sent out to see the job through.
He lived night and day on the job,
and his brodge is as good as the
best.
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THINGS I LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
BY C. W. HUNT.
Number (V) Dirtdaubers and Wasps.
Dirtdaubers and Wasps are as perservering and patient as any of the insect
family. The former seems to perish with each season, leaving its young in mud
cells to do its work the next year, while the wasp seeks shelter in hollows, in
any warm crevice and lives over the winter to begin again the work of rearing
young. In all the years on the farm as we boys grew to manhood there were
few if any insects that were of more interest. And few things gave the boys
any livelier time than a well stocked wasp nest,
Both these insects belong to the
stinger family, but the dirtdauber nev-
er stings unless handled, saving its en-
ergy in that line for the spiders it
catches by the score. The dirtdauber
family I divided into four sections.
A jet black one, a reddish brown and
two others that do not build mud cells,
but bore holes in the ground, catch a
worm, sting it, put an egg into its
body and cover it tightly in the hole.
There were two of these, one much
larger than any other of the family,
the second about the size of the first
two, with a blue wing. The two first
mentioned are the main ones, and of
which I desire to 1x11 this, mainly.
They come as soon as warm weather
dawns, (from the mud cells) and be-
gin a new set of nests or mud cells,
selecting a place out of the way of
storms; an out house is preferable.
Then a place is found where water and
clay are handy. This they roll into a
ball the size of an ordinary pea, which
they carry in their mouths and paste
into a semi-circle ridge on the board
and hurry for another turn, which is
placed on the first shaping into a tun-
nel, and the work goes on from day
to day; they making a noise like the
contact points of an electric battery,
as they deposite the clay. The black
dauber builds a cell about an inch and
a naif long and about three-eighths
of an inch in diameter inside. This
finished it begins to fill the cell with
spiders, first laying an egg in the lower
end of the cell. When full of spiders
it seals the cell up with mud, and at
once begins work of building another
cell beside and attached to the first.
This is repeated from four to six
times, each time filling with spiders
on the eggs.
The larger or brownish dauber
builds of the same material in the
same protected places, but builds one
long cell sometimes two, as long as six
inches, and about half an inch inside.
This is filled with a larger spider, as a
rule, than the double cells contain,
and the egg deposited the same way.
When all are filled they proceed to
build another and another until the
season is over. Then they coat all ov-
er with a heavier coat of mud to pro-
tect the young grub from the cold of
winter.
The spiders you find in these cells
are varied in color and you wonder
where they came from, but they are
there. These insects are evidently
provided with a substance like ether,
which is also a preservative. The
spiders keep as if in alcohol, and as
soon as the grub hatches it begins
to feed on these spiders, and by this.
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time of the year they are mostly eaten
and the young grub, that will next
year be a dauber, is inclosed in a
brown chrysalis, and about as long as
the cell. It will from now until spring
be in the transition stage; passing
from a smooth worm into the shape
of a dirt dauber. Later it turns its
natural color and gains strength to
cut out, a full fledged flyer. The
ground family are doing the same
thing, and will come out in spring
ready to make a summer of toil to
propagate its kind. A dauber is sel-
dom killed by a spider, but occasional-
ly it gets tangled in a web and dies.
The wasp family I divide into three
species : the large red, the small brown
and the ground or "guinea" which
is striped with yellow. The first two
build nests identical and up off the
ground in a house or under an cave or
(most generally) in the hedges by the
fields. The ground or "guinea"
builds in a sunken place in the ground
slightly below the level, and attached
to something, and one never sees the
nest until he has stepped on it and is
being chased by the owners, which
are bad stingers. All three build nests
of fibre from decaying timbers, such
as fences and dead trees, which is no
doubt made adhesive from a substance
furnished from the mouth of the
wasp. First it builds a strong stem,
fastened tightly to a limb or board,
if in the house. If in the field they al-
ways set near the ground, and face
downward to shed water. Upon this
stem they begin to enlarge and shape
the fibre cells like the bee makes honey
cells. As soon as a few cells are start-
ed they begin depositing an egg in
each, and as the egg .hatches and be-
gins to grow the cell is built higher
and other cells are coming on all
around this one, so that by the timer
the first grubs get their size there are
other cells in all stages, from those an
inch high to those just starting and
each cell has its grub in all stages of
growth. Some are bringing fibre,
others busy bringing small worms and
other soft insects which are fed hour
by hour to the grubs. As soon as the
grub reaches a certain size it is cap-
ped over with same material and it
begins to transform into the shape of
a wasp. Later it grows legs and
wings and turns brown, and finally
cuts out, a grown wasp. Thus the
work proceeds all summer, and cool
weather always catches them with
some cells started that they never fin-
ish, the little grubs perishing. If you
will find a nest, at this season, and
examine it you will find it as I have
told here, and you can also tell which
of the cells were finished and wasps
hatched from. The stingers are now
in winter quarters.
Properly speaking the wasp and the
dauber are useful insects. The dau-
ber catching poison spiders, the wasp
feeding its young on small worms and
aphides and other sucking insects, that
are injurious to plants; but in spite of
that it is a stinger, a fighter, and the
large nests being so often hidden
where they are not seen until the plow
animal or the man is into the nest and:
being stung, men have always fought
the wasp. Nothing gave the bojs on
the farm a hotter time than the find-
ing and beating down a wasp nest.
When all the stingers were run away
or killed we would get the nest and
spend lots of interesting time feed-
ing the larger grubs in the cells with
the smaller grubs. In fact they seem-
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•cd to eat anything they could swallow, as was mentioned in the story of
All you had to do was to put the end "Worms and Butterflies." In worrn-
•of the small grub in the mouth of the ing the tobacco we would find a hole
larger and down it went little at the in a leaf and the young worm gone;
time. I never filled one. These young and often would see the wasp carrying
grubs made a very high grade of fish it off.
bait for sun-perch and such, it being
ivhite and easily seen in the water.
The wasp would feed the young
*rubs on young "horn-worms," such
white and easily seen in the water. The next number will be about
lie wasp would feed the young Birds and Animals.
We are but organs mute, till a master touches the keys —
Verily, vessels of earth into which God poureth the wine;
Harps are we, silent harps that have hung on the willow trees,
Dumb till our heartstrings swell and break with a pulse divine.
• — Anon.
DR. MIKE HOKE HONORED.
Friends in Raleigh, the city of Dr. Michael Hoke's birth, will be interested
and glad to learn that he has recently been highly honored by the Chamber of
Commerce of Atlanta, Dr. Hoke's present home, by having been awarded a
certificate of distinguished achievement. The award, which was the second
given by the Atlanta chamber, was made to Dr. Hoke on account of his great
.work as an orthopedic surgeon.
The idea of presenting certificates Robert F. fluke of Raleigh, and a
^attesting their beneficial service to the In-other of Mrs. Alex Webb, of this
city, the State and the world at-large city. General Hoke was one of the
upon two Atlantans each year was greatest of the Confederate leaders.
'adopted at the last 1920 session of the It is said (hat General Lee had chosen
board of directors of the Atlanta him to succeed him in command of the
Chamber of Commerce, and the first Confederate forces, should he be
■awards were made last week. The killed.
other recipient was a woman, .Mrs Dr. Hoke was captain of the fa-
Samuel Lumpkin. The certificates to mous football team of 1892 at the
Dr. Hoke and Mrs. Lumpkin were in University of North Carolina. Fol-
the form of citations and the vote for lowing the game in Atlanta when
their presentation was unanimous. the Tar Heels licked the University
Dr. "Mike" Hoke is one of the of Virginia 2(3 to 0, a Confederate
most distinguished of North Caro- veteran stopped Captain Hoke as
lina's sons. His remarkable success he left the field, muddy and bloody
dn the field of orthopedic surgery has from the fray. • ■
given him a nation wide reputation. ■ "What's 'vour name?" asked the
Dr. Hoke is a son of the late General veteran.
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•Hoke" replied the victorious cap-
tain.
"Any kin to General IlokeV"
"Yes, sir; his son.''
"Well, you go back and tell your
pa that I've seen the finest lighting-
today that I've seen since Chati-
cellorsville, " said the veteran!— News
& Observer.
"To work, to help and to be helped, to learn sympathy through suffer-
ing, to learn faith by perplexity, to reach truth through wonder; behold!
this is what it is to prosper, this is what it is to live."
THE STORY OF THE CALENDAR.
By Erfv/in Tarisse.
Measurements of time based on the phenomena of nature were naturally re-
garded as peculiarly sacred by those ancients who worshipped the heavenly
bodies. They venerated even the motion of the stars. This is not surprising*
to the open mind. Partial knowledge made them attentive to conspicuous
rather than to less observed, though more significant phenomena. It was na-
tural that they should be impressed by sudden and brief, but overwhelming,
exhibitions more than by changes that occupied long periods and made slow
progress, requiring extended, systematic observation.
The calendars of the ancient world and the ancients did not even know
were based on the diurnal revolution
of the earth; on the phenomena of
sunrise, noonday and sunset, the peri-
odic phases of the moon, its division
into four quarters; on the four sea-
sons with their wonderful variations
of temperature and storms, thunder
and dew, seed-time and harvest, and
on all the multitudinous phenomena
of the skies.
If we should suppose, however, that
the primitive races were without
knowledge as the results of observa-
tion, or devoid of interest in science,
we should be in error: They may have
been quite as* Scientific' in spirit as
ourselves, though they had fewer in-
struments 'for scientific p"itrsuit. They
were'il'ot'e'qiiippe'd as we'are. The solar
year ' wlis not'1 accurately' 'determined
' unf 11 the sixt'ee'ilth Christian century,
~'y .Jiia-.;'i lilr'r i ',.'s ■•'lO'-.'^'KJ- ■
that the earth had a motion round the
sun; yet the Egyptians of four thou-
sand years ago had fixed the year as
a period of three hundred and sixty-
live days, divided so accurately and
wisely that it was copied by the French
Commune a little over a century ago-
as being the perfection of year di-
visions, and the Chaldeans had a year
of twelve months two thousands years-
before that.
The day was the simplest of all ca-
lendar periods. Some of the most
civilized nations of antiquity had no
hours, but only such divisions as were
understood by the terms, "dawn,"
"forenoon," "afternoon," "twi-
light," "evening," and the foirr
watches'' of the night. The ancient
Greeks' divided the day and the night
each into twelve equal parts, and, a's
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the parts were variable in duration,
.'according to the season of the year,
they were called temporary hours,
summer hours, winter hours, etc. The
Jews had hour divisions for the day,
but many of the ancients had none.
The origin of the week is obscure.
We cannot find any account of its be-
ginning. It was probably, at first,
regarded as a quarter of the moon and
there is little doubt that this was its
origin. Its motions were regarded as
sacred, its phases were observed by
everybody. Naturally, one way of de-
scribing them was by stating what
fraction of the disk was illuminated
or any particular night. They did
not understand the progressive in-
crease and decrease of the moon's
bright face, and had not, like the
moderns, lost their interest in lunar
phenomena.
Many of the ancients had no week
in their calendar. The Greeks, for
instance, had none, nor the Romans,
until after the reign of Theodosius.
In fact, our own forefathers borrowed
the week from the daj-s of the month
backward from Orientals, and gave
its days the names of their own de-
ities. The people of the . . ast num-
bered the days of the week. The Ro-
mans, who had no week, numbered the
•calends, the nones and the ides.
The beginning of the day has va-
ried with different peoples. The Chal-
deans reckoned their day from sunrise,
the Egyptians and Greeks from mid-
night, and we follow the example of
the Greeks in this matter. The be-
ginning of the week has also varied.
'The Egyptian week began with Sat-
urday, the Hebrew week with Sunday.
:Arc -we sure that the Jews in chang-
ing the beginning of the day and the
beginning of the week did not also
change the identity of some of the
days ? Is our first day of the week
in this twentieth century the same
day as was accounted the first of the
week by Hammurabi, King of ancient
Babylon, or by Moses when he kept
the flocks of Jethro on the pastures
of Horeb? Is it the same as the first
day of the Egyptian week known to
Rameses II in Heliopolis and Thebes?
Romulus established a year of ten
months, following, it is said, the an-
cient Alban year. Each of these
months was of the duration of a
moon's age, so that, if we omit the
added days, which were outside the
ten months, the year of Romulus
would be less than three hundred days
in length. Did these added days have
names when the other days of the year
had none? It is not likely. The Ro-
mans had no week and no week days.
There could be no names for days if
there were no months in these added
days of the early Roman calendar.
This seems to be an interesting field
investigation. It is well known that
the Chaldeans (Accadians) had the
week in their system 3800 B. C.J that
the Egyptians had it 2000 B. C. ; that
the Hebrews had it 1300 B. C; yet
the Romans had no week whose days
correspond with the days of the mod-
ern Jewish week. How did it come
about that our first day of the week
is the same as that of the Jews? The
strong probability is that the Jews got
their week from the Babylonians or
the Egyptians, and, no doubt, we got
it in turn from them. The only doubt
arises in the question as to whether
the Hebrews would not purposely
■change the days of their hated cap-
tors and oppressors, as they changed
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25-
the first day of the week from Satur-
day to Sunday, and the beginning of
the day from midnight to sunset.
The year has been a more difficult
problem than any of the periods here-
tofore named. This is because of its
natural division into a fractional
number of days and moon revolutions.
The celestial wheels have no cogs.
The earth travels a little too slowly
for the convenience of the makers of
calendars. If it completed its solar
revolution in 3G1 days instead of in a
little over 3G5 days — apparently an
easy task — we should have a year
consisting of exactly fifty-two seven-
day weeks, and Xew Year's Day would
no longer be a vagrant through the
week, as it is at present.
The Jewish year has always been,
like that of the Babylonians, one of
twelve lunar months and one inter-
calary month added, when necessary,
to keep the year in proper relation
with the seasons. At first the em-
bolisniic year was added once in
about every three years. In later
times seven months were introduced
in the course of every nineteen years.
The ancient Arabian calendar was
purely lunar. Its year consisted of
twelve lunar months, with no interca-
lation to keep them in constant seaso-
nal relation. Their year retrogressed
through the four seasons in about
thirty-two and a half years. Arabian
or Mohammedan years are arranged
in cycles of thirty, ninety-one of which
are common years of three hundred
and fifty-four days each, and eleven
are intercalary years with an ad-
ditional day appended to the last
month. This brings the average du-
ration of the Mohammedan month to
within 2.8 seconds of an astronomical
mean lunation, an error which would!
amount to a day in about 2,400 years.
China, like nearly all the Eastern
nations, has a lunar calendar. The
months are alternately twenty-nine
and thirty-days in duration, and be-
gin when the moon is between the sun
and the earth. The }*ear begins and
ends when these three bodies are in
the same relation. The Chinese add
a thirteenth month to the year after
every thirty lunations. Such a plan
does not keep the year in consonance
with the seasons. Therefore instruc-
tions have to be issued relating to
planting, reaping, fishing, and hunting.
This accounts for the great bulk of
the Chinese almanac, which is said to
have the largest circulation of any
book in the world. • The common
twelve-month year contains necessari-
ly three hundred and fifty-four days.
In ancient times the Chinese years
were named after certain animals.
Even the hours were so named. A
Chinaman will sometimes even yet tell
you he was born in the dragon year or
in the dog year. Clocks are still
running which strike the hours of the
rat or the horse. Expressions such as
"before horse" or "after horse,"
meaning before or after noon, were in
use. Noon was "full horse" in the old
days.
A few words as to our own calendar.
Our day names were derived from the
Scandinavians. The week came to us
from the Jews, the month and the year
from the Romans. Xo institution was
ever more subject to whim and caprice
than the Roman calendar. The ten
months of Romulus became twelve un-
der. Xuma, who added January and
February. The year was now one of
three hundred and lifty-four days,-
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ftaving twelve months of twenty-nine
and thirty days alternately. Then a
•clay was added to make the number
odd because odd numbers were ac-
counted more propitious. A mouth
of "twenty-two and twenty-three days
alternately was intercalated between
the 23d and the 24th of February in
every second year. The average num-
ber of days in the year was now 366%.
Later the intercalary month was omit-
ted in every twenty-four year. The
transaction made the year aver-
age almost solar.
Alter this the priests seem to have
had power to increase or diminish the
days of any year at will under any
plausible pretext. Their plan was
to postpone an event or hasten it with-
out changing its date. They inter-
calated days at will. No one knew
just when a year would begin or end.
This continued until Julius Ciesar
found the year A. U. C. 707 so disor-
dered that it was necessary to add two
months, though it was already a year
of thirteen mouths. He thus made it
a year of fifteen months, being 455
days.
The average year was now fixed at
SGSVi days by giving the odd months
31 days and the even ones 30. The
exceptions to this rule were the com-
mon years when February had only
twenty-nine days. Even now the
priests seemed not to have had enough
intelligence to carry out Caesar's or-
ders, and their mistakes had to be
corrected in the next reign. But Aug-
ustus, wishing to be accounted a pa-
tron of science, imitated Julius Ciesar
by having August named in his honor,
as July had been named after his pre-
decessor.
But August had only thirty days,
and July had thirty-one. AVhy should
file month of August tie briefer than
the month of Julius? This was an
indignity not to be suffered, so another
day was taken from the already long-
suffering February and added to Aug-
ust. Then, that there should not be
three thirty-ono-days in one quarter,
one day of September was pushed on
into October, and the 31st of Novem-
ber was pushed on into December,
and lo,! we had our calendar. It has
always been called the Julian cal-
endar, but if the great Ciesar had
known what anomalies his sueeesor
had introduced, he would have dis-
owned it, and the least the world
should have done was to have restored
the Julian calendar to the state in
which Julius Ciesar intended it to re-
main. This should be done now, some
scientists contend, and without the
least delay. The Julian calendar is
clumsy enough with all the improve-
ments of the Gregorian reforms, with-
out the silly meddlings which have
made it a curio for all time.
The Gregorian amendments to the
calendar are described in a thousand
books, almanacs and encyclopaedias,
and though a worthy and helpful re-
form, need not be explained here.
Just this observation, however may be
made. We speak of the Julian and
Gregorian calendars. Ciesar and Greg-
ory were the instruments by which
these were adopted and . are to be
commended. Perhaps it is well to re-
member, however, that the astronomer
Sosigenes was the author of the Julian
calendar, and that the Italian phy-
sician Aloysius Lilus, devised 'the
Gregorian reform, but died before its
introduction.
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BY S. E. KISER
God may not notice when a king
Ascends a throne or lies in state;
He may not watch when couriers bring
The news that seals a nation's fate,
But he who rules the cloud and wave
And sets the stars in place beholds
Ands sheds His grace upon the brave
Who bears the lost lambs to the folds.
It matters little when the proud
Have reason to forget their pride,
But when the roaring storm is loud
It matters much to turn aside
And lift the fallen and the weak,
To shield the crippled from distress,
To cheer the hungry and to seek
The lost lambs in the wilderness.
The days are brief, the nights are long,
And tearful children ask for bread,
But if the grasp of Greed is strong,
Good Will and Kindness are not dead!
The rich forget a while to care
Too much for power or pride or gold,
And, here and there, have time 'to bear
A lost lamb gently to the fold.
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By Robert Loticman
God toss'd the stars away
Then made another day;
And tiring of the light
He rears another night;
He speeds the untamed comets on
Beyond the purple dusk and dawn,
New orbs he whirls
Like lustrous pearls
Down the byways of the highways of the skyways;
Ever mating and creating;
Content a moment with a firmament,
Then fair and rare, up poised in air,
He makes anew drenched in dew
A fresh and fragrant rose-world,
Ocean girdled, cloud encurled;
He mingles loves and woes and spheres,
Joy, hope and hate, immortal fears;
Ever mating and creating;
So it hath been and so shall be,
Through infinite eternity.
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(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
Mr. D. H. Pitts, formerly an offi-
cer here, came back to spend the
Christmas holidays with us.
Miss Mary H. Latimer, matron,
at third cottage, has returned after
a very much enjoyed short stay wi'h
her friends and relatives in South
Carolina.
The societies have now re-opened
with renewed vigor for the next
year's work. From the present out-
look of things somethihg must be
accomplished within the next twelve
months with all the enthusiasm that
the boys are putting into it.
Every chance we get, the force
goes out to work on the terraces on
our farm. This work has been bad-
ly needed here. We make some each
year and by this means, it will not
be long before our whole farm will
be pretty well terraced.
The New-Year has begun with
much activity in all department. It
seems as though, every one has made
a new resolution to accomplish more
good this year than in any previous
year in the history of the Jackson
Training School. It is hoped that
the spirit may be carried through
the entire year at it has begun.
From the number of boxes of can-
ned goods that have been placed in
the store room, we have nr> fears
of going hungry during the winter.
"With peanuts as a special — white
beans, pork and beans, limas, hominy,
etc., make up the substantials. We
will rest easy during the winter re-
gardless of the weather.
Victor High, George Howard,
Waldo Shinn, William Chalk, Car-
lyle Hardie, Lambert Cavenaugh,
John Edwards, Swift Davis, Clyde
Willard, Jackson McLellf.n, Ernest
Allen, Malcolm Holman, Doyle Jack-
son, Columbus Meade, and Edward
Cleaver, Chas. Mayo, were very
much pleased to receive visits from
home folks Wednesday.
Rev. Mr. Myers, of Concord,
came out and held services for us
Sunday. He preached an excellent
sermon and chose for his text: "For
ye know the grace of our Lord Je-
sus Christ, that, though He was rich,
yet for your sakes He became poor,
that _ve through His poverty might
be rich." The feature of the ser-
vice was the singing of some girls
from Concord. We are always glad
to have anybody come out and help
us in our religious worship.
January is here again. Well, what
of it? It is a joy to those who have
followed the straight and narrow
path. Jarvis Quinn, of Bessemer
City, left a few days ago with an
honorable parole in his pocket.
While at the school, he made a re-
cord that anyone would be proud of;
though, at times he would take a
dislike toward the school and would
leave the campus for a while, but
he would always return. Master
Quinn left the school with the high-
est honors and it is hoped he will
continue to live the life he has start-
ed. He has the best wishes of suc-
cess and happiness from the boys of
the Jackson Training School.
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Christmas at the J. T. S.
By Swift Davis.
Usually upon telling of a Christ-
mas celebration it is best to begin
a few days before that time. I start
at the time when all of the boys
wrote home. Each of the boys ex-
pressed his personal desire in his
letter to his home folks. Some were
for money to use in buying presents;
others were gifts of various practical
use.
A few days after this time boxes
of every description began to arrive.
The vehicle in which the postman
brings our mail fairly groaned with
the weight of different articles. As
days passed, each boy's eager expec-
tancy was gratified. The boys were
told of the arrival of their boxes
and they were asked if they wanted
to open it then or save it until Christ-
mas. Some were opened, somp were
saved, but on Christmas day the boys
were too---yes, "full" is what the
boys say---to open their boxes until
after Christmas.
After much tedious waiting Xmas
Eve finally arrived. On that .night
we had our entertainment and these
boys did themselves so much honor
they deserve to be mentioned; Lon-
nie Walker, Vass Fields, Everett
Goodrich, Dudley Spangle, James
Alexander, Victor High, Carlyle
Bardie and the last being Sam Tay-
lor whose oratorial abilities have
been mucu spoken of before in this
magazine.
Carlyle Hardieone of the smallest
boys at the school made the biggest
"hit" of the night in his speech of
"Is Santa Married?'' He said Santa,
was' married t'o Mary. Mary who?.
Mary (Merry)' Christmas.
The boys each received a bag of
candy and other various sweet meats-
appealing to their palates. There
was a sample tube of Colgate's Dent-
al Cream in the bag and a card re-
questing the signatures and promises,
of the boys to keep their teeth clean,
by washing them daily. I am glad
to say the majority of the boys
signed this pledge and are keeping-
tbeir teeth clean, because this is an-
essential of health. The boys went
to bed that night in a very happy
frame of mind. Why shouldn't they
be?
As most writers say, Xmas dawn-
ed bright and cheerful. So it was
the case this lime. After breakfast
the boys whose boxes still remained
unopened now had the pleasure of
opening theirs. Exclamations of
delight came from every corner of
the room as here and tl ere a useful'
present was disclosed to view. As
this day was Sunday quiet and order-
ruled supreme. After Sunday School
we had dinner. Such a dinner most
boys bad never seen before. Tabels
were laden with all sorts of good
eats, there is no use of naming al! of
the good and delicious edibles for it
wouldgtake up to much room, suffice
to say the boys left the dining room
feeling as though they could eat no
more for a week. Church was on
the program for the evening.
Supt. Boger very generously al-
lowed the boys three holidays in
which thev delighted, 'the Junior
Circle of the King's Daughters paid
us a visit Monday and brought gifts
of candy. Vass Fields one of our
reliable speakers delivered a very
creditable vote of thanks to them
for all tbeir past kindnesses: • t
Tuesday the boys had a big bon-,
fire in an open place in the Woods,
especially selected for this purpose.
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The boys all feel that Christmas
is a fine time not only for the pur-
pose of having good things but be-
cause their Ideal, the most perfect
man ever known or ever will be
known, Jesus Christ, was born on
that day. ~sl
The boys retired Wednesday
night, ready to do their full duty
the following m >rning and so ended
the best time of the year.
HONOR ROLL.
Month ending Dec. 31st, 1921.
There apoears below something
that will make the fathers and
mothers of the boys whose names
appear feel good. The honor roll is
kept and published every month.
The Class "A" are those whose con-
duct has been such that their names
are worthy to be enrolled. The Class
'B" are those who have made just
one slip during the month.
"A"
Henry B. Faucette, Sam A. Taylor,
Swift B. Davis, James W. Gray,
Bertram Hart, Robert Pool, Eldert
Perdue, Victor R. High, William F.
Gregory, James Honeycutt, Jarvis
Quinn, Jack McLeland, Doyle Jack-
son, Muriy Evans. Clyde Willard,
Alley Williams, Edward Cleaver,
Harry Sims, Dudley Pangle, Chas.
Mayo, Floyd Huggins, Arthur Mont-
gomery, Fitzhue Miller, John
Moose, Vass Fields, Herbert Orr,
Ernest Carver, Autry Wilkerson,
Dohme Manning, Jake Willard,
Rufus Wrenn, Everett Goodrich,
Oscar Johnson.
"B"
William Chalk, Magnus Wheeler,
Walter Brockwell, Marion Butler,
Ellis Nance, Malcom Holman, Hoyle
Faulkner, Walter Shepherd, VVeldon
Creasman, Roy Baker, Woodard
Edmunson, John Wright, Fred Blue,
Waido Sliinn, Edward Thomas,
Howard Gilbert, Anderson Hart. Joe
Kennon, Julian Piver, Albert Keever,
Willie Morris, Charlie Bishop, Ralph
Goins, John EJwards, Lonnie Walk-
er, GLrnn Reddick, Marshal Will-
iams, James Suther, Hubert Yar-
boro, Henry Reece, Grover Cook,
Raymond Scott, Joseph Pope, Sid-
ney Cook.
Death >f Mrs. W. D. Anthony.
Mrs. Sallie Miller Anthony, one of
Concord's most estimable aad elder-
ly ladies, died early Tuesday morn-
ing. Had she lived until the 9th of
this month she would have reached
her 77th birthday. She leaves no
brother nor sister, her husband died
years ago and about seven years ago
her only child, Mrs. J. A. Rennet,
passed away.
Mrs. Anthony, a great lover of
flowers, having in her own yards
the largest variety of flowers in this
entire section, a few weeks ago fell
--fell amongst these flowers she
loved so well and tenderly, struck
down by paralysis. This was the be-
gining of the end of a beautiful life
of service, faith and friendship. Her
love for a gojd cause, for a friend---
the intensest loyalty---among her
other many ennobling qualities,
marked her as a superior being.
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NO. 10
I The Still Small Voice
=: A boy four year* old saw a little spotted tortoise sun-
•I ning himself in the shallow water. He lifted I the .tack ,n
> hi. hand to strike at the tortek., Just „ he had seen
I other boys, out of sport, kill squirrels. Bat all at once
jt something checked his little arm, and a vo.ce errand
* distinct within him said, "It is wronj!" Th? boy h, Id
* his uplifted stick in wonder at the n,w emot.on, till the
X tortoise vanished from sight. Then hastening home, he
* told the tale to his mother, and askad waat ,t was that
% made him know it wa, wrong to k 11 the torto.se. The
% mother took him in her arm, and said, aom. cal l.t
* conscience, but I prefer to call it the vo.c, of God .n the
t soul of man. If you listen and obey it, then ,» wrfl speak
$ clearer and clearer, and always gu.de you ar.ght; but f
* you turn a deaf ear or disobey, then ,t wdl fade out lit-
* tie by little, and leave you all in the dark w.thout a gu.de.
% Your life depends on heeding this little vo.ee. -Lyman
% Abbott.
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The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School.
Type-Setting by the Boys' Printing Glass. Subscription Two Dollars the Year in
Advance.
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Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord, N
C, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THEW00DR0W WILSON FOUNDATION.
A campaign is on to raise a million dollar fund in America to be known
as "The Woodrow Wilson Foundation." The income from the million
securely invested will be used annually in awarding a prize or prizes to an
individual or group that has rendered meritorious service to democracy,
public welfare, liberal thought or peace through justice.
The amount expected of North Carolina is §35,000.00, and Mrs. Josephus
Daniels, of Raleigh, has been chosen chairman to direct the campaign in
this state. Already she has received encouraging amounts, and yet the
campaign is set to formally begin on the 16th. This is a most worthy un-
dertaking, recognizing as it does the patriotic services of Woodrow Wilson,
twice president of the United States.
ANOTHER CAMPAIGN
Governor Morrison is credited in the public press as having declared,
"that too many people in North Carolina are still living on white side meat,
poor grade molasses and corn bread." And, accordingly, he announces a
home garden campaign to be conducted in the State by the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture and extension workers. 1 he Governor is eternally right-
there are "John Smiths" in a section quite familiar to us that do not have
in any appreciable quantities the trio— the white side meat is absent nirie-
tenths of the meals. Any kind of molasses and all kinds of corn-bread would
sooner oi later kill a billy-goat. •
Anticipating this garden campaign, Hickory folks are exhibiting a peck-
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size turnip and singing- the praises of the producer, J. W. Starnes. It i.-?
claimed that his turnip, weighing nine pounds less an ounce, fills a peck
measure. Shucks! Within a hundred yards of this print-shop our young-
sters have a patch of turnips where you can find seven or eight turnips
that would fill a peek measure.
If Governor Morrison's campaign results in causing the "John Smiths"
to keep a cow, a hog, a garden and to continuously swat the fly and use
lots of pure, clean water, he will have accomplished a monumental tasK
and rendered an undying service to his state. Ihis can only be accomplish-
ed by giving more substantial support to the Home and Farm Demonstra-
tors and to the unceasing encouragement of All-Time health nurses and
County Welfare Woikers. They are the ones to carry the message and to
fight ignorance and indifference.
The light of truth and knowledge must be made !o shine brightly.
SURROUNDING US.
The Uplift has a cordial invitation from Supt. Reap, of the public schools
of Stanly county, to join him and the patrons on the 16th on occasion of
the opening of Fair View School, located by Millingport on the Concord-
Albemarle road, seven or eight miles beyond Mt. Pleasant. "This is the
first," writes Mr. Reap, "of our consolidated school buildings of the larg-
er type to be completed and we are planning a brief but attractive pro-
gramme. We shall have one large truck and five teachers working in the
school the remainder of the year." All this progress and activity going
on around Cabarrus, makes one feel as if he's missed the train. Give it
to old Stanly---her strides the past ten years are strides, such as live men
make!
POE'S TEN DECLARATIONS.
Clarence Poe, of the Progressive Farmer, issues a statement carrying ten
points of Agricultural and Rural Freedom. Read them, and honestly go
to thinking just how far the rural sections are now removed from the
possibility ot enjoying the benefits of a single one of them.
There are rare exceptions in certain communities where a part of these
blessings touch, but not in such a way as to enhance the desire to remain in
the country. Nearly everything put into the hands of the average school
child emphasizes the beauty and advantages of town living or the worship
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of myths, and he is left to his own ingenuity and skill to find out the
beauties and joys cf rural life. The subject matter of the readers which
he is enforced to use, must give the average country child a queer
feeling, if not confound him. But listen to Poe:
1. The farmer is entitled to just as good wages for his labor as
others get.
2. He isentitled to just as good livhg c mditions for himself and his
family as others enjoy.
3. His children are entitled to just as good educational advantages
as other children have.
5. He is entitled to just as much liberty of action in organizing1
for selling his products and for regulating production to meet market
demands a-r other classes exercise.
6. He is entitled to just as efficient and adaptable service from
the country's banking and financial institutions as other classes get.
7. He is entitled to taxation, tariff:', and transportation policies which
will deal just as fairly with agriculture as with any other business and
occupation.
9. He is entitle to a civilization, culture, educational system, litera-
ture, art, drama, etc., which] will recognize, reflect and utilize the
cultural influences of country life and i^s environment in the same
degree in which present day culture recognizes and reflects the influ-
ences of urban life.
LITTLE SHOP-TALK.
The Uplift goes to quite a number of friends and acquaintances, with
this issue, thoughout the Sh.ate. It is a polite invitation to all, who receive
it, to become a subscriber during the coming year. This support will mean
<mcouragment to the printer boys, tc the institution which it represents,
and master Faucette, who reports the institutional items, insists that The
Uplift going to anyone address every week for a whole year is a bargain
at two dollars and, therefore, a fine in/estment. In this, he has the en-
dorsement of the other printer boys and , oh, well, just send in your
subscription to The Uplift, Concord, N. C.f and try out this statement.
"Where North Carolina sits" is surely at the head of the table. Little
by little the findings of the census ofjl920 are coming out, and in every de-
partment of human endeavor the good old state has passed by others and
gone higher. In her resources she has long been a marvel. Add another to
the long list of her natural resources. Elsewhere in The Uplift is a story
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of the establishment of the fact that there is in the slate tin ore of sur-
passing quality and in seemingly inexhaustible quantities. The Carolina
Tin Company, organized and financed by practical and successful business-
men, has done North Carolina a great service.
* * » »
The Uplift is never happier than when it can present to its readers the
faces and stories of North Carolina fulks, who are playing important parts
in the affairs of the state. We asked Miss Coltrane to give us an Appre-
ciation of Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, Winston-Salem, one of North Carolina's
most superior women, who never loses an opportunity to render wise ser-
vice in solving the many problems that cancern the betterment of the
commonwealth. Miss Coltrane has done The UPLIFT and its readers a very
happy service.
Mr. Rowland F. Beasley, formerly State Welfare Commissioner, and Mr.
R. E. Powell, formerly Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer
and other papers, will at an early day begin the publication of a daily morn-
ing newspaper in Coldsboro. Capable and brilliant men, both of them, un-
derstand the game and will doubtless give Goldsboro and Eastern North
Carolina just what it wants and needs.
The Hon. T. D. Warren, of New Bern, having resigned the important
position of Chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, the
said Committee met in Raleigh, on the evening of the 28th, and elected to
succeed him Mr. J. David Norwood, of Salisbury. Mr. Norwood is a bank-
er, manufacturer, farmer and a very high-class citizen in every respect.
To the city of Concord, congratulations. You have a Board of Aldermen
that openly recognizes a competent and just Recorder; and the city has a
chief of police, seeing his duty, performs it. These are two elementary
forces that spell for law and order.
It would be interesting to know how many real, good folks firmly believe
that the first twelve days in January are prophetic of the seasons in the
twelve months. Sunday was an icey day, and if there be virtue in the fore-
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joing belief, look out for a cold August.
Just imagine what the result would have been had the Department, keep-
ing its nerve, pressing and securing the" enactment of the bill calling for
only A. M. degree men for the position of County Superintendents!
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THE HORSE AND THE ASS.
A Horse and an Ass were traveling together, the Horse pranc-
ing along in its fine trappings, the Ass carrying with difficulty the
heavy weight in its panniers. "I wish I were you,'' sighed the Ass;
"nothing to do and well fed, and all that fine harness upon you."
Next day, however, there was a great battle, and the Horse
wounded to death in the final charge of the day. His friend, the
Ass, happened to pass by shortly afterwards and found him on
the point of death. "I was wrong, said the Ass:
"BETTER HUMBLE SECURITY THAN GILDED DANGER."
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THOMAS McKINDREE SKELTON,
Charlotte, N. C.
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THOMAS MCKINDKEE SHELTON.
Contend -what you may, there is a definite time and place when every man
snakes a decision that shapes his life in the business and social life of tho
■world. There is a certain Gum Tree, about one mile out from the little town
of Conover, Catawba county, where a vital decision was made by Thomas
McKindree Shelton, the guiding genius of the important firm of Ed Mellon
Company, of Charlotte, X. C.
Tom Shelton has that gum tree just
as vividly fixed in his mind as a wit-
ness of a decision as any little punish-
ment that came his way when he de-
served it while yet under the parental
roof. There are men, who remember
the very identical spot where they
used their first "bad word," and these
are the ones that sooner or later re-
member the very time and spot where
they decided that "bad words" ac-
complished nothing and get you no-
where. It is, though, a far cry from
a twenty year-old young man under a
Catawba county gum tree to the proud
position of directing a business that
reaches annually three-quarters of a
million dollars. But that trip was
made in thirty-three years.
Here's how it all came about.
Young Shelton grew tired of the drud-
gery on the farm, as they used to farm
in Catawba county, before they learn-
ed how to make big money on sweet
potatoes and stocked their farms with
pedigreed stock and learned rotation
of crops. Lost his father when young
Shelton was but sixteen years old,
and more and heavier duties fell upon
his young shoulders. He attended
the free schools. When he reached
twenty, he figured by comparison that
he could go to College and prepare
himself for a larger sphere of ser-
vice, so he went to Conover College
in August 1889. In his quiet and de-
liberate manner he begun to figure a
little, and being a country boy he al-
ways, when he wanted to do some real
fancy thinking, broke for the opening
and this is how the Gum Tree and he
became such fast and everlasting
friends. Finally one day, while
sprawling under that Gum Tree, he
made a calculation in this wise: "if I
get to be a doctor, a lawyer or a
preacher, it means four or five years
or more spent in an educational en-
deavor, and I just can't provide the
means for it. I'll go to Charlotte
and try for a job."
So on October 17th, 1S89, just two
days before he reached his twentieth
birthday, he paid proper respects to the
authorities of Conover College and
struck out for Charlotte. A country
boy in those days had more trouble in
securing a city job than is the case
to-day. Merchants always have their
eyes open for a choice country-boy
these days and times, boys that have
not yet learned the art of eternally
watching the clock, looking for pay-
day, frequenting moving picture shows
and constant patrons of the soft-drink
stands, and boys who know how to
use their hands. After considerable
effort young Shelton secured a posi-
tion with the late firm of C. A. Dixon
& Co., on East Trade street, on tenns
entirely agreeable to him. From Oc-
tober 19, 1889 to January 1, 1S90,
young Shelton worked simply for his
board. Fine! That was an oppor-
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tunity to demonstrate his capacity, bis
energy, his good common sense, his
character and his line fibre of which
he is made. The new firm of Leslie
& Rogers took over the business of C.
A. Dixon & Co., and with this new
firm young Shelton remained for live
years, grew into the business and -with
the business, made friends of every
one who met him — and bis star began
to rise.
September 1, 1S9(J, Mr. Shelton and
the late Ed Mellon organized the
clothing firm of Ed Mellon Company,
which has grown into one of the lar-
gest gentlemen and ladies' furnishing
houses in the whole state. They
started with a capitalization quite
small, but the success of the business
has been so phenominal that the cap-
ital today is ^50,000.00, with a surplus
of over .{;200,000.00.
Xov. 14th, 1895, Mr. Shelton mar-
ried Miss Julia Craig, of Gastonia, and
they have been blessed with six child-
ren, four girls and two boys. A de-
lightful family, which enjoys a wide
and deserved popularity throughout
Charlotte.
Mr. Shelton, individually' and per-
sonally, is a most pleasing character.
He has cordial greetings for all; con-
siderate of every one's feelings; faith-
ful to every trust; careful and pains-
taking with every detail of business;
and leads a clean and dignified life
among his fellow men. Enjoying
the confidence of the public, not only
for his moral worth in the community
but also on account of his safe and
judicious business qualification, Ml".
Shelton is president of the Morris
Plan Bank, and director in the Ameri-
can Trust Co., Chamber of Commerce,
and the Merchants' Association; and
no man believes more in the safety and
the benefits of the B. & L. associations,
as town and home builders.
Like the needle true to its course,
this man, Shelton, attributes much of
his successful life to the precept and
example of a Christian mother, who
held up always the necessity of thrift,
economy and the practice of common
sense. Tom Shelton, with an exper-
ience of thirty-odd years in a city
and there respected and honored by
his fellow man, could go back to
Mountain Creek Township, Catawba
county, where on October 19th, 1869,
he first saw the light, and be just as
natural, cordial and delightful in his
splendid manners and demeanor as he
exercises in Charlotte, whether in his
store or in the Eirst Presbyterian
church — he doesn't know how to put
on airs.
Tom Shelton could have deserted
his decision arrived at under the Cum
Tree, near Conover College, and be-
come a professional man, but it is in-
finitely better to be a first-class and
useful business man than a quickly
prepared, ordinary doctor, lawyer or
preacher.
We die hut once and we die without distinction if we are not willing
to die the death of sacrifice. Do you covet honor? You will never get it
by serving yourself. Do you covet distinction? You will get it only
as a servant of mankind. — "Woodrow Wilson.
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A NORTH CAROLINA TIN MINE.
Added to the many natural resources abounding: in North Carolina, it is now
entirely safe to add another and a very important one. When we stop to think
how largely tin enters into the affairs of life, in finishing cutlery, making vessels
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DANTEL E. RHYNE
Lincolnton, N. C.
President, The Carolina Tin Company, and a large cotton mill owner and in-
dustrial developer.
and cups and containers — in fact, one-half of a first-class grocery store is one
kiud of tin receptacle after another. Without tin, the canning business would
have to suspend; and the packing of most things that enter into the furnishing
of pantries must depend upon tin; and titute.
builders would have to resort to a sub- A very common thing, tin; but up to
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this date it lias been found in paying
quantities at but few places. Pure
tin is an elementary metal, as much so
as lead, iron, silver, or gold. The prin-
cipal tin-producing country is Eng-
land. The Phoenicians traded with
England for tin 1,100 years before the
Christian era. There is reason to be-
lieve that they also got tin from
Spain; but England was depended up-
on for nearly all the tin used in Eu-
rope until this ore was discovered in
Germany in 1240. It was discovered
in Northern Africa in Barbary States
in Kill), in India in 1740, in New
Spain in 17S2. Tin was mined in
Mexico before the Spanish conquest,
and used in T shaped pieces for nion-
ey, and in a bronze composition for
sharp tools, the principal mines being
at Tasco. Peru has valuable mines of
this metal, so have Australia and
Malacca in the Malay peninsula. Tin
lias been discovered previously to this
time in several of the American
states, but not in quantities to tempt
capital to engage in mining it except
in Dakota; and now North Carolina
has a proposition in a well-developed
tin deposit that is creating consider-
able interest among capitalists.
For several years mining engineers
having heard of deposits of tin in a
section of Lincoln county, have pros-
pected but capital was wanting to
make a thorough and complete in-
vestigation as to the extent of the
vein and its quality. About twelve
months ago, quietly but determinedly,
a party of gentlemen of affairs, nerve
and hope, joined in the business of
testing out the claims of a tin deposit
in paying quantities and qualities in a
section of Lincoln county near the C.
& X. W. railroad. Options were se-
cured for the property, and practical
work in opening and tracing the vein,
was begun. Recently, since a thorough
survey has been elf eel ed, a company,
with a capital of $300,000.00, has been
organized to bring about an active
operation of the mines and throw the
product on t he market.
General Hoke's Discovery.
Some years ago the late General
Robt. E. Hoke, in taking over what
is known as the Lincoln Lithia Springs
property, and making excavations for
the hotel and the water tank struck
a peculiar formation which he after-
wards learned was tin ore. The vein
is positively marked; and the good
old general much of a miner himself,
was certain tin existed in that section
in large quantities and awaited devel-
opment. From this very point (proper-
ty now owned by Mr D. E. Rhyne, a
most successful and far-visioned capi-
talist of Lincoln county) decided and
positive evidences of the presence of
tin have been traced the entire way to
the chief veins of tin which recent
operations have uncovered. General
Hoke used to say that he had no
doubt that sooner or later tin would
be discovered near the Lincoln Lithia
Springs in such quantities as would
attract capitalists, who would in turn
operate the property on a large scale.
What General Hoke firmly believed,
and with fine reason, has come about.
The Carolina Tin Company, recently
chartered with a capital of three
hundred thousand dollars, with offices
at Cherryville, is officered as follows:
D. E. Rhyne, Lincolnton, President,
M. L. Mauncy, Cherryville, Vice-
President.
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John J. George, Ckerryvillc, Treas-
urer,
■who, •with Jacob Johnston, D. R.
Maimey, and J. H. Rudisill, compose
the Board of Directors. Mr. Johnston,
■who makes his home at the mines,
near Southside on the C. & X. W.
railroad, hard by the South Fork Ca-
tawba river, is a practical mining' en-
gineer with a long and successful ex-
perience in delving into the earth,
following a lead for various- precious
metals. A recent visit to the property
by the writer disclosed what has been
done in a practical and substantial
manner to reveal the true character of
the tin deposits.
Noshing Taken For Granted.
The practical business men, of large
affairs, composing the company, wan-
ted to know, the real facts, the char-
acter of tlie ore, the size of the veins,
the ultimate quantity, and the feasi-
bility of win-king the property as a
commercial proposition. These they
have ascertained; and no sooner than
these facts were established,. the com-
pany began to close its options and to
secure fee-simple deeds for the prop-
erty which is in the neighborhood of
live hundred acres.
The Method Invoked.
To open up the veins was by means
of a hydraulic plant, located on the
South Fork Catawba, which included
three pumps of 1000 gallon capacity,
each per minute, with a discharge of
six inches each, making a volume of
■water equal to 18 inches being played
on the crude s >il, with the result of
leaving the veins of tin exposed. At
convenient distances, necessary in
forming a proper estimate of the size
and character of the ore, these veins
were subjected to cross cuts. There
are nine separate veins, averaging
in width from 50 to ISO feet. A num-
ber of shafts from 25 to 160 feet
have been driven, and at each there is
a cross tunnel. In addition to this
extensive investigation, leaving noth-
ing undone to ascertain the true facts,
at several points on the veins they have
reached with a Keystone drill, one and
half inch in diameter, as deep as 900
feet, and the character of the tin ore
proved even more satisfactory than
that nearer the surface. "With the
hydraulic system in use the company
has been able to remove 2000 tons of
crude stuff per day.
An Inexhaustible Supply.
Is evident, for having made certain
of a depth of 000 feet, and the veins
traced for more than three miles
and a half there is no room for doubt-
ing the quantity. When asked what
the output of tin ore from a ton is, Mr.
Johnston said: "it will average twen-
ty pounds of tin to a ton of crude
dirt." Entirely ignorant of what is
considered as rich or poor tin ore,
and showing some surprise that only
20 pounds may be secured from a ton
of crude dirt, Mr. Johnston remarked:
"At the Cornwall mines in England,
which now furnishes more tin than all
other tin-producing countries, the av-
erage is just one-half pound to the ton,
and the operation is regarded profit-
able. ' '
Various tests have been made and
there is absolutely no_ room Tor. doubt-
ing the richness of the ores of the
Carolina Tin Company. These tests
show that the concentrates carry 71
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per cent ol! metallic tin.
On this property there is an inex-
haustible quantity of kaolin, which
is chiefly used in making crockery.
Mining kaolin in the extreme western
part of North Carolina is carried on
in a large way, and is a very impor-
tant industrial and commercial activ-
ity-
There is Pride.
In the fact that these gentlemen,
none of whom have any special train-
ing in tin mining, though Mr. Johnston
has a long experience in gold mining,
were willing to spend their money to
ascertain the truth of so many be-
liefs and conjectures that the hills
of Southern Lincoln were full of prec-
ious metals and that tin surely existed
in paying quantities. They have ren-
dered a service to the state; and by
faith and enterprise, they have dem-
onstrated that there is one more im-
portant source of natural wealth in
the good old state, already standing
at the head of the list in natural
resources.
This writer understands "that Dr.
Pratt, the Chapel Hill geologist, has
investigated this company's property
and was surprised to find the line
quality of the ore and the apparent
inexhaustible supply. Wouldn't it be
a fine thing for North Carolina if some
practical tin mins operator, with
long experience in the handling of all
the details incident to tin-mining:,
could, get hold of this property and
work it to its fullest capacity, thus
placing North Carolina among the
leaders of tin production ? For years
Lincoln county furnished the State
with all its iron; and were there ne-
cessity for it Lincoln county today
could furnish iron ore in quantities
sufficient to supply the state's needs.
The phenominally successful and in-
tensely wise man who is at the head
of The Carolina Tin Company, Mr.
Rhyne, does not do things for fun or
for gamble. If he and his associates
made up their minds to install suffi-
cient machinery and equipment to
work the undoubtedly rich mine on a
commercial scale and throw its pro-
duct on the market, there seems no
doubt of the result. They move, how-
ever, along another line — their busi-
ness is primarily cotton mill business,
in which they have extensive hold-
ings. But whether they operate the
mines themselves or turn the operation
over to others, these gentlemen have
rendered North Carolina a great ser-
vice in reducing to a CERTAINTY
what for years old General Hoke be-
lieved with his wholeheart that Lin-
coln county at this particular section
was full of tin.
In this issue of THE UPLIFT, on
other pages, there are pictures show-
ing the beginning of the practical in-
vestigation and tests in searching for
the truth, inaugurated by the Carolina
Tin Company.
There is one consolation tie poor man has as his steps begin to falter;
he can take just as much with him to the grave as the other fellow. All
are born with nothing and all leave with nothing. The path of glory
leads also to t..e grave.— Hickory Record.
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THINGS I LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
BY C. W. HUNT.
Number (VI)— Birds.
If tlicre is anything in nature, to a boy or girl, in tlic cities or in the country,
that has more charm than a nesting bird, I cannot recall it now. There is
something that thrills at finding a bird's nest; the more especially if that nest
happens to be low enough to be reached. It was so with me, it is so with my
grandchild. The birds I knew and watched from a child to young manhood
cn my fathers farm as I can name them off hand,, 'were as follows: Sparrows,
two kinds, song and swamp; robin, reddish yellow and the male th-3 deep-
blue bird, red bird a summer migrator est red, so unlike the male oi>3 would
and the tufted cardinal; mocking bird,
tomtit, tee-tat, swamp-robin, wren,
house and woods; cat bird, brown
thrush, dove, quail or partridge, 'wood-
cock, snipe, a summer blue bird, yel-
low throated warbler, snow-bird, lark,
black-bird two varities; jay, lettuce
bird, bee-martin, martin, swallow,
-chimney sweep, kildee or kildeer, king-
fisher, bull-bat, whippoor-will, heron,
crow and six species of woodpeckers.
Birds of pray: Hawks, four vari-
ties; owls three species. To this
should be added the buzzard and the
carrion crow. We never saw i( in
action, but the crow is also a bird
of prey under certain conditions.
The little song sparrow was al-
ways with us, while the swamp spar-
row went to a colder clime in summer,
as did the snow bird, and we never
saw them nest. However the snow
bird nests in the Blueridge moun-
tains of this state. The robin was
very plentiful and made more noise
about its nest and young than all oth-
ers, and the young robins' weakness
was leaving the nest bei'oie it could
fly. Their nests were lined with mud,
as smooth as if stamped w;,l> a halt'
bail of iron. The summer red-bird
was double colored, the female b-.vng
take them for different species. The
cardinal is at home all the year and
very quiet at nesting time. The cat
bird and brown thrush both left- us as
cold came as did the yellow throated
warbler, the lettuce bird, bee-martin,
the martin, the swallow and the chim-
ney-sweep. The cat-bird, thrush,
mocking bird build nests almost iden-
tical, a nest nnlined, as are many
others. Wood-cock, snipe and
quail all lay on the ground. The-
swamp robin makes a nest, as a rul<5,
so low that it can be reached. Tile
jay is a high builder, is fussy, and one
of the few that is accused of robbing
other birds to feed its own' young.
The bee-martin we found the hardest
fighter, fur its nest, of all the birds,
being almost fearless. The swallow
builds in holes in banks of streams,
the chimney sweeps in the chimney,
glueing its nest to a smutty chimney
wall, and sometimes they fall down in
the cool fireplace. The lark and black-
birds are ground builders, preferring
meadow or boggy land. The kingfish-
er lives on fish and it and the heron
we never saw nesting. The first of all
birds to nest is the common blue bird,
which likes a hollow tree best of all,
and a deep hollow. They are called
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"harbingers of Spring," coming and
singing at the first warm days of
February, and if a warm spell of any
length come they would nest in Feb-
ruary. Once I saw their eggs freeze,
and they had to try it again. They
were all killed in this section in 1891),
by freezing and was several years be-
fore they were able to migrate and
raise more. They cannot stand hard
cold, and zero weather fixed them. I
have found a dozen in a hollow log
in a barn on stinging cold nights, as
they crowded in there to keep wine.
JMany of the above built nests chat
man would have been unable to build
Perhaps the yellow throated warbler
makes as ingenious a nest as any, as
it swings down in forks of two limbs,
and is- laced to the limbs with bark
interwoven as though sewed bv the
hand of man, and no kind of a storm
can upset it or toss its young out. No
bird makes a neater or cleaner nest
than the song sparrow, it being lined
with the long tail hairs of the horse
and cow, and always set low in weeds
and briars, as does the summer blue-
bird of a very deep blue color, and
very shy. The mocker, cat, thrush,
swamp robin, cardinal were fine sing-
ers. The robin and blue bird sang
also.
The wood-pecker family I divided
into six sections, and the tomtit ought
to come here, but it is different in
shape but builds in a small hole it
makes itself. There is a wood-pecker
little larger than the tomtit, one a size,
larger then a good sized one, all three
being most identical in color. The'.-,
comes the redhead with white and
black that lives in town and country
and can carry off as many May cher-
ries as a good sized boy, the yellow-
hammer or flicker and the log-eock; as
large as a small duck and very shy>
prefering the deep woods. All of
these dig holes in soft rotten wood
and nest there away from the reach
of most of its enemies. All live off
tree or bark insects.
The birds of prey are harder to
find nesting than the other birds, and
are enemies to all other birds and tbi
small animals. The smallest of the
hawk, tribe is the reddish blue and
brown sparrow hawk that generally
takes the hole of a larger wood-pecker
for its home and raises its young
there. They eat more insects and
lizzards and mice than anything else,
and while about the weight of a fat
robin they can swallow a lizzard
whole. I had a pair of tame ones
once, and fed them on everything that
moved that I or they could catch.
They learned to follow and beg for
food, and when you turned over a
plank or rock they would catch every
bug and carefully eat it. It kept
us busy feeding them. Finally we left
them for a day with no food and not
being able to fly, we found them eat-
ing a small chicken when we came
home. The next two sizes of hawks
are great chicken eaters, and the large
gauze hawk feeds more on rabbits
and rats, things it finds Hying slowly
just above the ground, but it is not
above taking a hen if convenient. The
owl family was the screech owl that
raises boys hair at night by their
wails, the night hawk a size larger
and the great hooting owl that werc-
bad about robbing hen roosts. TheL*
cry of Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! always mado
a boy feel like seeking shelter at
night. We saw many of them killed
in the hen house trying to get a he'll
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in dead hours of the night. All the
owl family neat in hollow trees in the
woods and feed the young on such as
they can pick up. Uniting owls
catch as large animals as rabbits and
the smaller ones get mice and insects.
None of them can see well in day thro,
as the pupils of their eyes are too
large for daylight, hence they can see
by night, which accounts, too, for the
size of the eye. All this owl and hawk
family pass only iluid through then1.
The feathers, bones and such as will
not dissolve are thrown back by the
mouth in balls. This we found by
having tame sparrow hawks.
Once we boys had contracted the
itch at school and the home remedies
they washed us with at night were
rougher than the itch; so to dodge this
bath one autumn night, we decided to
sleep in the pines on a pine straw-bed
rather than take the bath. We fitted
the bed up and went to it soon after
slipper, but had been there less than
half an hour before one of those large
hooting owls lighted right near us and
set up its call to its mate: hoo-hoo-
hoo-ar-00 ? We did not stay to tell
him, deciding very quickly that any
kind of a. bath was preferable to that
owl.
It was intended to make this story
of both birds and animals, but we
Hnd that birds alone have made it long
enough; so animals will have to have
a chapter to themselves.
The next number will be about
Snakes and Lizzards.
There s Place In Life Fcr 1 lie Anerdote.
ANGEL GABRIEL: At those rather infrequent intervals when we feel that
to shuffle off this mortal coil would be more or less of a relief, we are re-
minded of the old negro man who continually expressed himself as being
weary of life. The burden of his conversation was that he was tired of this
vale of tears, as he was "poly" at best and wushed dat de good Lord would
sen' de Angel Gabriel to carry Amos
home to his Ole Marster."
So familiar did this dolorous refrain
become to those who knew the old
fellow, that two of his white acquaint-
ances decided to try out his sincerity.
Wrapped in a sheet and with an old
cavalry sabre clanking as he walked,
one of them advanced through the
night and knocked at the door of the
old man's shack, while, the othe/r
watched developments from the
imshes.
"Who dat?" came in slartled re-
sponse to the knock.
Silence, and then another impres-
sive knocking with the sabre hilt.
"Who dat?" again in a voice be-
traying increasing perturbation.
"I am the Angel Gabriel sent to
carry Amos home to his Old Marster, "
in sepulchral tones.
"Law, Marse Gabriel" cried a
trembling voice, "Ole man Amos done
move 'way from dis heah house two
year ago." — Xell Rattle Lewis.
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and
cowardly can never know what true friendship means. — Kingsley.
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MES. WILLIAM N. REYNOLDS,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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rs. William N. Reynolds.
By MIfs Jenn Winslow Coltrane.
Patriotic and justly proud North Carolinians have many things in which
we excel, many things about which our undaunted pride will not permit us
to remain silent. And although a state is justifiable in praise of her in-
dustrial attainments, her agricultural wealth, her natural beauty and envi-
ronments it takes real men and real women to make a state great. And
truly North Carolina can boast of her products in this respect.
It is only a pity that we as indivi- who suffer are not alone in being
duals do not have the privilege of see- remembered by her, for she revels
in reminding others of her joy in
their joys. When disagreeable things
are repeated to her or slanderous
gossip, she usually says, "We must
be sure not to repeat that." Gen-
erous at all times, but she does not
like to have her generosity herald-
ed, an understanding heart which is
rilled with appreciation; fun loving,
vivacious and most pleasing in her
impersonation of old-time darkey
sayings.
Mrs. Reynolds is a true lover of
home. Those, who know her, know
that her first thoughts always are of
him, who has shared her most inti-
mate life--an example to all women
of.the inspiration cf life a woman has
from the love of the one man, who
to her is greatest. She is often heard
to exclaim '"But to spend one's life
with Mr. Reynolds is such a rare
privilege, his disposition, his ways
of thinking---why, he himself makes
life a real joy." One often- wishes,
after being with her that all women
felt the same way about their hus-
bands.
Although Mrs. Reynolds has no-
children she has reared seven, and
many boys and girls in the state
are obligated to their "unknown
friends" for their education. When
North Carolina undertook to train
ing into the rare natures of all who
are our own. Tn our journey through
life ve can only know a few, even
though we count them as many,
and we count it a rare privilege to
try to give you an interpretation of
one, whom all North Carolinians are
proud to claim. No one can kno .v Mrs.
William N. Reynolds, of Winston-
Salem, without knowing she is from
North Carolina, for it is one of the
first things she tells a stranger. I
say stranger, and yet those who meet
her almost at once become her friend
because of the whole-hearted, gen-
uine welcome all receive who are
fortunate to gain her acquaintance.
One of her most frequent sayings is,
"What would this world be without
our friends; we can never have too
many, and never a one to spare."
Mrs. Kate G. (Bitting) Reynolds
is typical of the real, true, genuine-
type of American womanhood that
is an inspiration to the world. Gen-
tle in manner, tender of heart, fair
in decisions always, a woman who is
even so modest that the praise of
her friends completely ovei comes
her, often bringing tears to her
eyes. Conscious of her obligations,
fulfilling her engagements with the
greatest punctuality, forgetful of
self, thoughtful of others, and those
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her delinquent and misdirected boys
for service to the state, one of the
first chosen for the Governing Board
was Mrs. Reynolds. And she has
been most active in Orphange work.
Her duties have been many, and her
work by no means confined to the
state. She now is Southern Chair-
man of The National Civic Federa-
tion, whose headquarters are in New
York. She is a member of the Col-
ony Club in New York, which is the
most exclusive Club for women in
America.
the Daughters of the American
Revolution in North Carolina and
nationally have been most fortunate
in having Mrs. Reynolds concentrate
much of her efforts on their organ-
ization. She began her D. A. R.
activities in the General Joseph
Winston chapter and from there her
leadership soon placed hei as State
Regent of North Carolina. Realizing
the great worth and sterling qual-
ties of this fine woman, the State
was not willing for her work to end
with the expiration of her term of
office, and even against her protest
the state D. A. R. placed her candi-
dacy for Vice-President General of
theNational Society Daughters of the
American Revolution. Due to her
real worth, and popularity although
she was not tven present at her elec-
tion, she was elected by a decided
majority.
When her term of office as Vice-
President General expired in April
1921, it was with the deepest ex-
pressed regrets that the Daughters
of the American Revolution all over
America saw her go out of office,
and due to the pressure brought to
bear by many of these women she
has consented to aspire for the office
of President General in 1923. Mrs.
Reynolds, a home lover, is will-
ing to enter a public career only to
work for a greater security to our
liberty and welfare. She would
make a truly earnest and worthy
leader of so great a body of women,
because she is absolutely conscious
of the obligations we owe ourselves
and America. Today she is Chair-
man of the International Relations
Committee of the N. S. D. A. R.
She is a charter member of the
National Officers Club of the N. S.
D. A. R. and is a member of the
Executive Commitee of the Club.
She stands as one of the great
women of her day, one who has al-
ways had the highest respect and
deepest esteem of all who know hpr,
a seeker for knowledge--- to ieam to
be guided---one who has faith in God,
that faith that knows God is our
Father. She is a woman who is
never content to give less than her
best, whose blameless life is a contin-
uous record cf patriotism and high
resolve. She is one who can pass
unperturbed out of the strenuous
conflicts that grow out of the ambi-
tions of others, for she strives for a
perfect consistency with herself, and
maintains unswerving and coura-
geous fidelity to her convictions of
the right.
If the Daughter of the American
Revolution honor her, as well as
themselves, by electing her Presi-
dent General they will come to know
the untiring energy of this splendid
woman and her efficiency, because
of her love and devotion for Ameri-
ca, the outgrowth of hei pure Anglo-
Saxon origin and from which noth-
ing but the strongest leadership
springs.-
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OR PEE DEE.
(Stanly News-Herald)
"Just where does the Yadkin eease to be the Yadkin and become the Pee
Dee?" asks The Charlotte Observer. That paper then goes on to say that "the
older people of Stanly hold to the tradition that the point where the Yadkin
and Uwharrio come together marks the cleavage, but the geographers claim
that the Yadkin loses its name at the point where Rocky River flows into it. "
The News-Herald is quite sure that man told of the old town of Heiider-
it has at hand ample authority to set- son, its size, location, etc., and in so
tie this disputed question. Tn the
first place the fact that the older peo-
ple of this section hold to the tradition
that the river becomes the Pee Dee
after the waters of the Uwharrie emp-
ty into it should be given serious con-
sideration. Having in the past taken
some interest in this question the
News-Herald has asked the opinion
'of some of the older residents, and
they invariably have confirmed the
tradition generally adhered to through-
out this section. "We recall when a
boy of having talked with a well-
informed Stanly County citizen who
was at that time about ninety-three
years of age. This Stanly County
man said at that time that he at-
tended his first election when a boy
when William Henry Harrison was
elected President of the United States
at the end of the noted "Log Cabin
and Hard Cider Campaign." The
voting place where he attended this
election he said was at "Old Hender-
son," then the county seat of Mont-
gomery County. (Montgomery then
comprised all of the territory now_
contained in both Stanly and Mont-
gomery.) Old Henderson was located
on the West bank of the Pee Dee at
the junction of the Yadkin and Uw-
harrie Rivers. In telling us of this,
his first election, the old old gentle-
doing announced this bit of history to
the writer. Said he, the Yadkin, the
Uwharrie and the Great Pee Dee Ri-
vers were all named by the Indians
who lived in that section. They
called it the Yadkin down to the point
where the waters of the Uwharrie
flowed into it, and then it was called
by them the Great Pee Dee.
We have further and still more con-
vincing proof than this. Shortly
after the downfall of the Emperor
Napoleon, a very intelligent French
physician by the name of Kron came
to America. Lie rambled up the Sal-
isbury road from the FayetteviPe
section until he reached Henderson,
where was the home of a wealthy
French landlord, Henri De Lamonthe
by name, who lived at that town,
which was then the county seat. Hert
Dr. Kron met and fell in love with a
neiee of this wealthy Frenchman and
married her. t According to his diary,
which is now in the possession of Tba
News-Herald, Dr. Kron was professor
of the chair of French at the Lrni-
versity of North Carolina from 1S24
until January, 1827, when he again
moved to Montgomery County. He
purchased a large tract of land on the
Stanly side of the river about two
miles from the point where the Uw-
harrie empties into the Yadkin, and?
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remained there the balan.ee of his life
time. This brilliant Frenchman was
a keen student of Indian lore, and his
diary reads like one of the old master-
pieces. We now come to the point
of proving1 , conclusively that, cor-
rectly speaking, the Pee Dee commen-
ces where the Uwharrie empties into
the Yadkin. On November 25th,
1835, Dr. Kron wrote in his diary
among other things as follows: "At
the landing (speaking of the Ferry-
boat Landing at Lowder's Ferry) are
the frames of those houses which
twenty years back formed the bulk
of Tindalscille, a town which then
promised itself great things from a
contemplated improvement of the nav-
igation of the Pee Dee River, FOR
THIS IS THE NAME THE YADKIN
ASSUMES AFTER ITS JUNCTION
WITH THE UWHARRIE, and which
it expected would give it an outlet to
the sea. On the East Side the Uw-
•harrie flows in almost at right angles
at the mouth of the tributary stream.
The landing on either side is bad, the
ground being soft and sandy aud rath-
er steep. For ten cents the ferry-
man sets you over and tells you funny
tales on his neighbor. On the East
side of the Pee Dee is another aban-
doned town, Henderson, equally for
once the seat of Montgomery court
house now the sole property of one
MeArthur and my wife's uncle, Henri
De Lamonthe. "
This should settle this question
once and for always. While it is true
that geographers designate the river
as the Yadkin until the Rocky flows
into it, yet this is incorrect. The
Yadkin becomes the Great Pee Dee
after the waters of the Uwharrie
flow into it. That is what the In-
dians said about it, and they named
all three of the rivers, and they
knew.
We may escape from disagreeable companionship without, but we cannot
escape from that which is within. No one can run away from himself. —
Selected.
Is This Your Home?
How would ym like to carry 2,000 tons of water 140 feet from the
pump to the house? i'hat is what a Lawrence county, Ohio, farm woman
has done during the past 50 years. In making that trip from the house
to the well and hack she has walked 5,710 miles. Twenty-five dollars spent
for pipe and a tank in the house would have saved her all that labor.
Very likely we have many women
in Illinois who can beat this Ohio
woman's long-distance water-carry-
ing record. Figure it out for your-
self, on your own farm.
Would you— we're talking to fath-
er now— svalk 5,710 miles with a pail
water in each hand for $25?
Would you carry 2,000 tons of water
from the well to the house for $25?
Mother has only one life to live.
Lee's make it as easy for her as pos-
sible. Let's make it possible for her
to have a little time for reading and
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recreation, for keeping herself
young and up-to-date. Let's make it
possible for her to give more time
to the children. When the children
are growir.g up they need th^ care
and training (hat only a mother can
give— and mother can't give it when
she is worn out doing the job of a
pump and a few feet of iron pipe.
Next time you go to town, bring
home some pipe and a tank, and a
force pump if necessary. You can
put in the ou'fit yourself, and be-
tween you and the boys you can keep-
the tank full. '1 hen mother won't
have to carry any more water at
half a cent a mile. --Prairie Farmer.
Once there was a farmer who believed the place for advertisements was
in newspapers. His pet aversion was signs nailed on and marring the
beauty of his trees along the roadside, or painting on his barns and out-
buildings. One day, however, a patent medicine man came along and
painted on his garden fence of broad upright palings, a two-food; high
letter to each plank, BOSTON PILLS. The farmer came home, and of
course was mad. But a happy thought struck him. He got his hammer
and knocked oil the planks with the letters on them and re-arranged them
so they read, FOST NO BILLS!— Monroe Enquirer.
HOW DID THEY START, ANYWAY?
Nell Battle Lewis, in News & Observer.
We heard of a new superstition on New Year's Day. On the table was a
dish of corn-field peas, which hadn't been expected. The cook explained their
appearance by saying that it was good luck to have them for dinner on New
Year's. We partook of them heartily as an antidote for the rather dismal hor-
oscopes for the year 1922 which appeared in the feature pages of various
Sunday papers.
How a superstition as absurd as
that originated it would be interesting
to trace. A book on the origins of
superstitions ought to make enter-
taining reading. One we have heard
tentatively explained is that of knock-
ing three times on wood after boost-
ing. In earlier times when imagina-
tion peopled the air with evil spirits
which were ever ready to do hurt, it
was supposed that any sign connected
with Christianity would dispel them
and annul their powers. Hence, the
the superstitious touched wood in
symbol of the Cross, and knocked
three times to invoke the three persons
of the Trinity.
The late Hon. Kemp P. Battle of
Chapel Hill had an ingenious ex-
planation oft the superstition of good
luck connected with seeing the new
moon clear. He held that it origina-
ted among the farmers, and that the
industrious, hard-working farmer
svould be coming home from the fields
about the time that the new moon
appeared, and would see it from the
open, clear of obstructing houses or
trees, and the industry which put
him in such a position of advantage
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■would bring him good luck. Where-
as, the lazy husbandman who sat in-
dolently on his front porch with his
feet on the rail, would be move than
apt to catch a glimpse of the new
moon through the trees that surround-
ed his house. And it would be his lazi-
ness that would bring the bad luck.
It is rather interesting to discover
that the famous painter, Leonardo da
Vinci, seemed to believe in ill luck con-
nected with an overturned salt cellar.
Either that, or the superstition start-
ed from his picture of the Last Sup-
per. If you will notice in that well-
known painting, Judas Iscariot has
overturned the salt cellar with his el-
bow. There were also thirteen people
seated around that table. The idea
of Friday as an unlucky day perhaps
may have originated with the Cruci-
fixion.
An explanation of the bad luck
brought by a rabbit crossing one's
path is said to lie in the fact that
in earlier wilder days a rabbit
startled appearance from the bushes
might indicate the approach of ma-
rauders, ready to fall upon the hap-
less wayfarer.
But think of the hundreds of
superstitions that haven't even such
a far-fetched explanation as that.
Why should it be thought unlucky
to give a friend a knife, or for middle-
aged people to move into a new house,
or for a door to be cut? Why should
good fortune be supposed to attach
to the bride who wears "something
old, something new, something bor-
rowed, something blue, and a piece
of silver in the heel of her shoe."
What lively imagination decreed that
the new year would be fortunate if
on its eve a man walked through
the house; and disastrous, if a wo-
man? What is the origin of the
charm that a rabbit's foot will work?
Who made the black eat that "takes
up" at a house a harbinger of hope?
What gave-sthe horse-shoe and the
"wish bone" and the four leaved
clover such significance. And so on,
ad inlinitum.
The truest test of civilization is not the census, not the size of its cities,
nor the crops, but in the kind of men the country turns out. — Emerson.
The Mysterious Boomerang.
"These savages perform feats which science declares impossible."
That is the report which one scientst made after visiting a Maori camp in
Australia, and watching the warriors cast their boomerangs. A boom-
erang is to all appearance simply a thin, flat piece of hardwood, with a
bend in the middle. This bend varies all the way from a right angle to a
slight crescent curve. Captain Rob- can perform with this weapon are
ert Quinton says that this bend is
always a natural crook of the wood.
The average length of a boomerang
is from two to three feet.
The feats which a black fellow
astonishing says Captain Quinton.
One man's very common perform-
ance consisted in hurling the boom-
erang in such a way that the under
side touched the ground lightly a-
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bout forty paces away, rebounded,
and continued its flight at an angle
of forty-five degrees until it reached
a great height, when it suddenly
curved again and came back in a
streigh line to the thrower. I have
seen the same man hurl the same
boomerang in such a way that it rico-
cheted along the ground the way a
flat stone will do on the surface of
the water. It struck the ground
and rebounded three times. The third
time it rose almost streight up in the
air and hailed back to within a few
yards of the man who had thrown,
it, when suddenly it again changed
its course, rose in a curve over his
head, and a landed a few feet in
front of him.
I have seen a native throw his
boomerang in such a way that it
rose streight up into the air to a
great hight, then it suddenly curve-
ed inward, sailing straight over his
head; dropped downward, flew out-
ward, and began to rise again, twice
as high as before, made another loop
rose still higher in the air, and at
lastdecended in a straight line to the
thrower's feet. These astonishing;
stunts are almost endless, and in
spite of all scientific theories and
measurements the Australian boom-
erang remains a fascinating and
mysterious problem.
Nevertheless, the Meoris are
changing with the times, like the
American Indians. The time is soon
coming when the boomerang will
become a curiosity and a tradition,
like the lndianbow and arrows. Ev-
en more so, for no one will know
how to make or cast a boomerang.
-•■J. Mervin Hull in "Young Peo-
ple."
"Howl if you must, but don't whine.
WHO IS THE RICHEST MAN?
By Richard Spillane.
Philadelphia, Jan. 7. — Just before dinner Mr. Ford said to his wife: "Re-
member 17 years ago? Seventeen years ago when you and I tramped the-
streets of Detroit to get a chicken for our Thanksgiving dinner and none of
.the stores would trust us?"
Ford was quiet for a moment and
then said in a semi-undertone: "Sev-
enteen years ago . . . and I paid
Uncle Sam $76,000,000 in taxes last
year."
From Babson's report of his in-
terview with Henry Ford.
It used to be common for people to
refer to John D. Rockfeller as a bil-
lionaire, but not now. Tie may have
had that much mono}' at one time but
it is questionable. At any rate, he has
disposed of so much of his fortune
through various channels that it is
considerably reduced. Nine or ten years
ago there was a dispute, with the
authorities of Cleveland as to his tax
hill. At that time one of the foremost
statisticians of America was employ-
ed to investigate and report as to
Mr. Rockefeller's wealth. His estimate
was .*600,0u0,000. Since that time Mr.
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Rockefeller has given away a very
large amount of money.
In the first year of the war taxa-
tion it was reported semi-olneially
that the largest individual tax paid
that year was somewhat less than
$36,000,000. The supposition at the
time was that it referred to Mr. Rock-
efeller. Possibly it was Henry Ford.
Is Mr. Ford the richest man in
America ? Is it possible that a man
"who couldn't get credit for a chicken
for his Thanksgiving dinner 17 years
ago is today America's one billion-
aire?
A tax expert has figured what that
$76,000,000,000 in taxes paid for 1020
represents and his finding is that Mr.
Ford's income for the year in question
was $103,050,240.10. That would mean
about $282,329 a day, Sunday and
holidays included.
But is Mr. Ford a billionaire? Opin-
ions differ as to what constitutes a
billionaire or a millionaire. A man
with an income of $103,050,240.10 a
year might be considered a billionaire
by some persons but after paying
$76,000,000 out of his income to the
government he would have only $27,-
000,000 left and that it is not con-
sistent with a billionaire income.
Under the present rate of taxation
it doesn't seem possible for a man to
be a billionaire.
Ford struck the right note in his
Thanksgiving day reverie. There was
no suggestion that he grudged the
paying of the $76,000,000 but rather
was humbled by the marvel of man
who 17 years before could not get
credit in his home town for a Thanks-
giving day dinner, having come to
colossal wealth in such a short time.
That 's the great lesson, the lesson of
opportunity. America no doubt of-
fers more of opportunity than any
other land under the sun but it is
present in every land and in every
clime, for those who are fitted to re-
spond to it when it calls.
And there is another great lesson
in Ford's millions. The Niagaras of
dollars that poured in upon him in
the last 17 years have been clean
dollars. They have come from furnish-
ing the multitude something that has
added to human progress and human
betterment. His tremendous wealth re-
futes the libel that no man can be a
millionaire and be honest.
To Henry Ford and not a few other
men of great wealth money does not
mean ease or luxury but rather spurs
them on to higher achievement. Some
of the very rich men work hardier than
day laborers. So far as creataire
comforts are concerned there is no
difference between $1,000,000 and
$1,000,000,000.
If nothing else Henry Ford's story
is a classic in the great tale of
America's self made men, for it is a
tale of opportunity well used and nev-
er abused.
"Woodrow" Wilson was walking with his friend, Joe Kennon once, and
they passed a jewelry store where there were a lot of precious stones in
the'window. "Would you not like to have your pick?" asked Woodrow.
"Not roe pick but me shovel," said Joe.— The Leader.
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Institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
James Sutter was the only boy to*
receive visits Wednesday.
Miss Eve Greenlee, of First Cottage,
lias taken charge of the new school
room that was opened Tuesd'iy a
week. Now we have three rooms
opened.
Rev. T. X Lawrence, of the Episco-
pal Church, of Concord, p reunited an
inspiring sermon at the Auditorium
Sunday afternoon and chose lor his
his text: "And Christ Increased in
Widom and Statue, and in Favor
With God and Man."
When a person knows a good thing
or place, how hard it is to keep away
from it. This must have been the
case of H. Sarvis, of Bessemer City,
who was paroled last August and who
is making good. Mr. Zeb Teeter was
■also avisitor at the School at the same
time. He was formerly an officer of
this School. Of course, they can't
stay away, so we expect them soon
again.
Waldo Shinn has left us for Ills
home, having made a very fine record
while at the school. He is missed by
the boys in the cottage as well as 0:1
the play-ground. His short stay at
the school was only seventeen mouths,
but while he was here he made num-
erous friends among the boys and of-
ficers. He carried the good wishes
of all with him and we believe he will
make his mark in the world some
time in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Cloer, whose arrival
at the School has already been spoken
of, are now making head-way fast.
Mrs. Cloer is matron in Mecklenburg
Cottage, and Mr. Cloer, being a car-
penter, is running the wood-shop. He
and "Red" Harvell have already
put out several good jobs. All the
boys admire and respect Mr. Cloer, he
is not aloof from the boys; he jokes
and plays with them as if they were
his own sons. Mrs. Cloer is also
kind and motherly to the boys.
Cottage Xo. 6, or Guilford Cottage,
is now opened. There were 25 boys
who were proud to feel that their
conduct has been of such merit that
they have been placed n this cottage
as a reward. It is located just below
the new school building. The boys in
this cottage will try to their utmost
to keep it new and clean so that the
confidence in them will not be mis-
placed. Two other cottages are lo-
cated just below this one so of course,
it won't be lonely or out of place.
This event has been looked forward to
by a great many of the boys.
RETURNS ALL IN.
Several weeks before Christmas
came, THE UPLIFT modestly in-
vited any one who felt like it, to aid
us in giving the boys at the Jackson
Training School a Christmas com-
mensurate with their appetites and
desires. The response accomplished
the purpose. If all the boys in the
institution are surfeited as the printer
boys, candy, nuts and such like would
hold no charm for them at this time — -
but how soon youngsters get over
things.
The complete list is as follows:
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Mr. W. E. Parker, Charlotte,. .$10.00 Baptist church, Greensboro:.
Col. F B. MeDuwell, Charlotte. .5.00 Showing their appreciation- every
Mr. J. C. Crowell, Charlotte 5.00 boy at the institution lias written iu-
Mr. E. I?. Grady, Concord 5.00 to "his little book" the names of all
Mr. John R. Query, Concord 5.00 these delightful friends. THE UP-
Col. A. H. Boydeiii, Salisbury "'.DO LIFT rejoices that each one had a
Mr. R. S. Huntingion, Gre^n-.. full Christmas, and wishes for all
vjlle, s. C 3.00 these generous and thoughtful friends
Prof. C'has. L. Coon, Wilson 10.00 a prosperous year.
Mrs. Edna Yorke, Concord 10.00
Mr. J. R..Fairehild, New York.. . 10.00 D h f £ Jq- n A Bamhardt.
Cash Concord 10.00
Mrs. Myrtle Freeland, North.. On the 7th, in No. 5 township, at the
Wilkesboro 5.00 aSe °f 83, Esq. John A. Barnhardt, an
Junior King's Daughters, upright, conscientious and most wor-
Concord 5.00 thy citizen, passed away, lie was elo-
Senoir King's Daughters, Con- quent in attending to his own busi-
eonl 10.00 "ess and perfectly dumb when that
State King's Daughters, 15.00 of others was involved, lie was, in his
T. M. Shelton, Charlotte 10.00 day, one of the most practical and-
Chapel Hill King's Daughters. .10.00 success Oul school-teachers in the whole
Mr. D. H. Pitts, Concord, 10.00 section. When his pupils closed theii
T. J. Fet/.er, Wadesboro, 10.00 three-months school term, the teacher
Mr. G B Caldwell, Monroe, live receiving the munificent salary of
boxes of oranges. twenty-five dollars per month, they
Mr. Morris LeftkowiU, Salisbury, knew all the capitols of the states,
40 ibs. candy. could read intelligently American sto-
Mr. J. A. Fasnacht, Charlotte, one ries about worthwhile things, could
pound candy each for every boy. spell splendidly, knew the mult 'plica-
Concord Steam Bakery, ' 100 lbs. tion tables (up and down), kept their
cake. books tidy and guarded weli their
Mr. J. M. Hendrix, Concord, two thick slates (a luxury of the day), put
boxes apples, two bunches bananas, in never less than six hours at genuine-
two buckets candy. study, became familiar with the ten
Mrs. J. P. Allison, box oranges. commandments, heard the scripture*
Mr. G. L. Patterson, one box oranges read every morning followed by the
and 250 paper bags. Lord's prayer in which they joined.
Albemarle Grocery Company two What have we today ?
boxes of apples. The old man, early in life, had lost
Box of Christmas, Greenville an eye; but with that one eye always
King's Daughters. in action and backed by the courage
Box of Christinas, Durham King's to do his duty, John A. Earnhardt did
Daughters. much valuable service for his fellow
A victrola from Col. F. P. Hobgood, man, and left a fine name for the jo?
Jr's. Sunday School class, First and comfort of a crowd of splendi.l
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■children.
Of A Local Nature.
Concord had a sane and sober
Chrsitmas. * The Concord National
Bank holds its 33rd annual stock-
holders meeting on the 10th.* The
Citizen Bank & Trust Company is
having the? old Dove & Bost Store
room torn down, preparatory for the
rection of a modern banking house.*
Ninety teachers attended the Teach-
ers' meeting on Saturday. * Mr. L\
H. Webb entertained officers of the
local Rotory at a dinner on Monday
evening. * Dr. VV. H. Wadsworth
is taking treatment in a Charlotte
hospital. * Mr. J. F. Goodman, con-
fined to his home for two weeks by
illness, is improving. * Ninety teach-
ers attended the Teachers' meeting
on Saturday. * The total tax of Ca-
barrus county, not including the in-
come tax that goes direct to the
state, is $123,132,82. * Farm Dem-
onstrator Goodman is conducting a
campaign of fruit-tree pruning in
the county. *
Judge Bis Ray is holding Cabarrus
Superior Court. It's a two-weeks
term. Civil eases deferred to another
court in order to give time for the
trial of an unusually heavy criminal
docket. Dan Y7idenhouse had ti'.lcd
up the jail with whiskey folks, and
some of his subjects were out on bond.
Some of these days the lawless will
awake to the idea that the law means
business and fooled with long e-
noMgh may let loose a real sting Mas-
ten the day.
RATES AND FARES CUT.
Atlanta, Ga., January — Removal of
the war taxes of eight percent on pas-
senger and sleeping car fares and of
three percent on freight charges
which became effective at midnight of
December 31st will mean a substan-
tial reduction in- the cost of both
freight and passenger transportation.
A statement issued by the Southern
Railway System calls attention to
the fact that, as these taxes applied
universally, their elimination will re-
sult in a material cut in the bill the
American people have been paying for
transportation.
Under the ruling of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, the railways will
not be permitted to make refunds of
war taxes paid on unused portions of
tickets or mileage books or of such
taxes paid on freight overcharges.
Refunds of taxes will be made only
on direct application to the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, "Wash-
ington, and application must be ac-
companied by certificates from the
railway agents through whom refund
of the railway charges was made.
i
eekh)— Subscription $2.00
RD N. C. JAN. 21, 1922,
NO. 11
letliocl 01 Going.
. man coul ] get to heaven without
h?" asked three good men of a
d."
patted him on the back, and called
u a question, and I want you to
i quickly as I answered you," said
iy do you want to go to heaven that
chless.
l ask me another question?" sug-
ter. "Why don't yov ask me if a
England without going on a boat?**
id, "we will ask you that. Now
r?"
why a man could not get to Eng -
\ on a ship, provided he was a good
me food between his shoulders lo
md strength to buffet all the waves
lot get him. And suppose you did
without a ship, do you think you
much ahead of the man v/ho goes
.*d.
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Trrining and Industrial School.
Type-Setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscription Two Dollars the year in
Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor.
JESSE C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Ollice at Concord, N.
C, under the Act of March 3, 1&79
TELL ME.
If the whole world copied You—
Copied to the letter---
Would it be a nobler world,
All deceit and meaness hurled
From it altogether?
Would selfishness and envy fade,
And in the room their absence made,
Would love come into view?
Tell me, if it followed You—
Would the world be better
—Selected.
LEE AND JACKSON.
Lest we forget. .
Today is the anniversary :>f the birth of Thomas Johnathan Jackson; and
Thursday last was that of Robert Edward Lee. Impartial and correct his-
torians give to these Christian men and gallant soldiers and masterful gen-
erals high places for patriotism, unblemished character, matchless bravery
and brilliant records. There are thos\ however, even among our own,
obsessed with their knowledge of pedagogy and the artfulness of teaching,
with loose-fitting regard for the greatness and sacrifices of the.' past, who
are willing that there be placed into the hands of the children books that
declare Lee and Jackson and their heroic followers were "traitors" and
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the cause for which they most honestly and bravely contended was "re-
bellion."
Because certain teachers and certain officials wear so loosely their sense
of partiotism and gratitude, it is fitting that the Daughters of the Con-
federacy andjthose who honor the memories of the heroes of the GOs should
jealously grasp every opportunity to keep forever alive the spotless names
of Lee and Jackson and the brave men that followed them.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Uplift are to be found articles in re-
ference to each of these beloved men, who tendered their all in defense of
the South. We only honor ourselves and do, a simple duty when in loving
memory we strive to keep alive the patriotism of those, who gave their all
for their cause, our cause.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
The Daughters of the Confederacy throughout the South recognized the
anniversary of the birth of Commodore Matthew F. Maury (Jan. 14, 1806),
the great scientist, who first made charts of the sea and wrote a Physical
Geography of high merit. The activity of the Daughters in insisting that
books in the hands of our children shall do justice to the South and her
heroes has been criticised by some whose toes have been stepped on. In
fact a most reputable newspaper, edited by one of the finest men of the
whole state, actually gave publicity to the slanderous remark that the
Daughters of the Confederacy were influenced by a campaign fund con-
tributed by a rival publishing concern. The very authors of that slan-
derous statement against the patriotism and sincerity of our women, are
past masters at the business. Years ago, for business reasons, they im-
pugned the honor and integrity of Major Finger and John C. Scarboro be-
cause they could not control them.
This is a very fine reason why the Daughters of the Confederacy, hon-
est, clean and patriotic, should tighten their lines and keep themselves on
the watch-tower. Their's is a most important duty and service.
"THE CALL TO KNOW NORTH CAROLINA."
A year or more ago, Major Bruce Craven began what he was pleased to
baptize "Seeing North Carolina" which occasionally runs in the Greensboro
News. Later on'when Mr. J. F. Hurley, of the Salisbury Post, was presi-
dent of the North Carolina Press Association, he eloquently and forcibly
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outlined a programme to the editors, who, if they undertook its execution,
could do a world of good under the slogan, "Know North Carolina."
The Press Association very properly endorsed the fine suggestion of
President Hurley, and a committee, composed of Clarence Poe, L. R. Wilson
and E. C. Branson, was appointed to suggest the subjects and the doctors
to handle each. This committee has performed. From the Chapel Hill
News Letter, we learn that the business this campaign contemplated has
begun. It starts off with an extract from the Inaugural Address of Hon,
T. W. Bickett, when, on Jan. 11, 1917, he took the oath of offlie of Gover-
nor. And this is Bickett's Dream:
"Gentlemen of the gentral assembly, ladies and gentlemen: I have
endeavored to visualize my dream of a fairer and finer state. I have
outlined the means by which I hope to make the dream c<;nie true.
And the means all reach out to a single end— a larger hope, a wider
door for the average man than he has ever known.
"With a six-months school guaranteed to every child; with the
forces of disease routed from their ancient strongholds; with the curse
of rum lifted from every home; with our fields tilled by the men who
own and therefore love them; with our harvests free from the crop
lien's deadly blight; with modern conveniences and wholesome diver-
sions within reach of every country home, our dear old state, released
from her bondage to the blood-kin tyrants of Ignorance, Poverty,
Disease, and Crime, will begin to realize her finest possibilities in
riches and grace; will assume her rightful place in the march of civi-
lization; and from the blue of the mountains to the blue of the sea
there will spring up a hardier, holier race, not unlike the giants that
walked the earth when the sons of God mated with the daughters of
men"
The Movies taking out two million dollars of insurance on the life of Mr.
Will Hayes leads one to believe that they think they have come into the
possession of a ruby.
••••••••
Great is the joy of our boys in the entertainment they are getting out of
one hundred and fifty Victrola records donated by some good people in
Greensboro, at the instance of Miss Nita Gressitt, teacher of mathematics in
the Greensboro High School. Th? Seniors of the Greensboro High School
sent a lot of fifty, and the Business & Professional Women's Club con-
tributed one hundred. Nothing in all the world equals the thought-
fulness of a genuine friend when in action. If Miss Gressitt inspires the
young Seniors and the Business & Professionals Women's Club to make us a
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coveted visit, the boys will &how them how they can play the records, and
how quickly they even have picked up the songs and learned the imper-
sonations. And this generous gift came at Christmas time, too!
I THE FOX WI'I HOUT A TAIL. %
*> It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling *
% to release himself lost all of it but the stump. At first he was asham- •:•
X ed to show h;mself among his fellow foxes. But at last he determined •:«
* . . *
•> to put a bolder face upon his misfortune, and summoned all the foxes ♦
•:* to a general meeting to consider a proposal which he had to place be- *
•:• fore them. When they had assembled together the Fux proposed that ♦
•:• they should all do away with their tails. He pointed how inconven- *
•:• v
* ient a tail was when they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; *
»*♦ ***
* how much it was in the way when they desired to sit down and hold f
••• a friendly conversation with one another. He failed to see any ad- 1*
*> vantage in carrying about such a usehss encumberanee. That is all |
* very well," said one of the older foxes; "but I do not think you would |
* have recommended us to dispense with our chief ornament if you had *
;•* not happened to lose it yourself." 1;
| "DISTRUST INTERESTED ADVICE." $
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Guilford Makes Official Visit.
Wednesday, January 11, was a most delightful day, despite the weather,
at the Jackson Training School. This wag the day set by the County Com-
missioners of Guilford, accompanied by deeply interested others, to visit
the institution, inspect the new Guilford Cottage and officially turn it over
to the institution with, as the meeting proved, their entire satisfaction and
blessings.
Among the representatives of the
Commissioners were Mr. J. A. Ran-
kin, the chairman, Mr. W. C. Jones,
Mr. J. G. Foushe, together with Mr.
W. C. Boren, who was chairman of
said Board when the appropriation
for the building was made, and who
since has become the chairman of
the County Road Commission, and
is a master at the business. Mr.
and Mrs. Mason W. Grant, clerk of
superior court and Juvenile Judge,
were present. Mrs. Blanche Carr
Sterne, the capable and efficient
superintendent ot county welfare
and others were among the visitors
from Guilford.
The visitors, after luncheon in the
Guilford Cottage and a minute in-
spection from basement to garret-
all declaring it perfect—the visitors
adjourned to the chapel, where the
boys had assembled, together with a
number of interested friends from
Concord, Judge Grant presided,
and after scripture reading and pray-
er by Rev. R. Murphy Williams the
editor of The Uplift extend a cor-
dial welcome to the distinguished
visitors and thanking most earnest-
ly the forward-looking county of
Guilford for the material aid con-
tributed to the institution in work-
ing out its plans. Mr. E. D. Broad-
hurst, one of the leading lights cf
the Greensboro Bar, responded,
making ?. timely and forceful address
which impressed the audience, es-
pecially the boys for whom his splen-
did remarks were primarily inten-
ded.' Messrs. Rankin, Jones and
Foushe of the Commissioners made
pleasing remarks, all expressing
pride and happiness over their having
the opportunity extended them as
officials to aid materially in the
great work of the institution. Mr.
Boren, the former chairman, a gen-
uinely sincere and practical busi-
ness man, made a few remarks; and
Mrs. Sterne was radiantly happy
over the fact that she now had a
strong, right arm assistant in her
great work of reclamation. Re\r.
Williams, whom everybody in
Greensboro regards as the big broth-
er, of the average boy was very hap-
py in his timely remarks. Throughout
the interesting exercise the boys
sang a number of songs, which de-
lighted the visitors; and Master
Taylor recited Dr. McGeachy's "A
Man May be Down, But Pie's Never
Out.'' The meeting was closed with
the benedcition by Rev. T.W.Smith,
the institution's unselfish and devot-
ed friend.
At the close of the meeting the
ten boys, from Guilford county, were
invited to come up on the stage and
personally meet the Guilford delega-
tion—that meeting was of the pur-
est and deepest friendship, the boys
seeing that the folks back home have
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a regard and interest in their welfare,
and they were deeply impressed
thereby.
Mr. W. E. Stanley, the County
Welfare Worker of Durham, hap-
pened in on this occasion, having ac-
companied a boy to the insitution.
'I he exercises set him on fire and
said he: "Look here, I'm going to
bring Durham down hereandpull off
a meeting just a little better when
our Cottage is opened." Brother
Stanly may just as 'veil begin to
line up his folks, for in a very few
days the Durham Cottage will be
thrown open.
With reports coming from Paris that this was the "gayest, wettest,
and costliest" Christmas that the French capital has ever experienced
and with the French representatives at the Armament Conference de-
manding that France have a free hand in the construction of submarines,
and other auxiliary crafts of war, isn't it about time for America to de-
mand payment of the interest on that war debt, rather than continue so
much maudlin talk about cancelization of the debt? "We object very
strenuously to America canceling t':e war debt of a people who seem
unduely anxious to prepare for future wars and has money for gayety
and carousal. Let the money spent for champagne go to the payment
of the honest debt to a nation that has written the law of temperance in
her constitution. — Christian Advocate.
REMEMBER THE PATRIOTS.
Robert E. Lee's father, General Henry Lee, who was called Light Horse
Harry, was a famous calvary officer in the Revolutionary War. Lie was often
sent out as a scout to learn of the enemies' plans. TLis troopers were called
the eyes and cars of the army. His work was highly commended both by Con-
gress and General Washington.
After the war he was governor
of Virginia, and later became a mem-
ber of Congress. It was while deliver-
ing Washington's funeral oration
in Congress that he said, "Washing-
ton is first in war, first in peace, first
in the hearts of his countrymen."
Charles Richard Lee, the paternal
great-great-grandfather of Robert,
came from England to Virginia during
the reign of Charles the First. He
was akindhearted man, of good stature
and good sense, and in many ways
was like his descendant who led the
armies of the Confederacy.
Robert's mother was Anne Hill
Carter, from one of Virginia's best
families. Stratford House in which
Robert was born is a fine old mansion,
which stands not far from the banks
of the Potomac River near the birth-
place of Washington.
He had two brothers — Charles and
Sidney — and two sisters — Anne and
Mildred.
Robert was very fond of horses and
dogs, and spent much of his time
around the stables. He enjoyed out-
of-door sports, especially hunting. In
this way he developed that great
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strength which enabled him to endure
the hardships of the campaign.
As his father's health was failing,
the family moved into the city of
Alxander when Robert was four years
old. When he was at the age of
eleven his father died. His mother
was not strong and finally became an
invalid, unable to get about at all
noon he hurried home from school to
take her for a ride. He carried her to
the carnage, wrapped her up com-
fortably and did all ho could to
cheer her up while they rode.
Lee attended private schools until
he was eighteen. He then entered
West Point, for he had decided that
he would be a soldier like his father.
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alone. Her oldest son was at college,
her second son, in the navy. The
older daughter was very frail and the
other too young to do much about the
house. Hence to Robert fell most of
the responsibility of overseeing the
housework and caring for his mother.
He was very strong for a boy of his
years and could easily carry her about
in his arms. Every pleasant after-
He had grown to be a handsome,
well-developed young man, five feet
eleven inches tall. He was scrupu-
lously neat in his dress as well as in
everything he did. He was very kind
and courteous to all whom he met and
became a great favorite both with his
instructors and classmates. He was a
devoted Christian" and every one of
felt the influence of the strength and
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mother became very ill. Ho sat at
her bedside day and'night, giving heir
food and medicine with his own hand,
but care and love could not save her,
and he was soon bereft of her to
whom he said he owed everything.
purity of his character. During the
four years he was at West Point he
never had a demerit mark. He grad-
uated in 1820, standing second in a
class of forty-six.
Xct long alter his graduation his
They say that man is mighty
He governs land and sea.
He wields a mighty scepter
O 'er lesser powers that be.
But a mightier power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.— Wm. Ross "Wallace.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
Thomas J. Jackson was born Jan.
21, 1824, in the mountains ot' western
Virginia. The home of his childhood,
near the Ohio river, was not far from
the early homes of Abraham Lincoln
and Jefferson Davis. Jackson's fath-
er was a lawyer, but long after the
birth of the child both the father
and mother died. The blue-eyed boy,
with the hair so long and fair and
voice that was quiet and sweet, went
to live on a farm with his uncle. He
worked hard on the farm; he liked
to ride horses and make them gallop
fast over the hills; and he knew well
how to cut down trees and drag them
out of the great forest to the sawmill.
At West Point.
In 1S42, when young Jackson was
eighteen years old, he presented him-
self at West Point, on the Hudson
river. He wore a suit of coarse stuff
woven on the loom at his home A few
other articles were packed in a pair
of old saddlebags. He was about six
feet two inches in height, his hands
-and feet were large and his way of
walking was awkward. The other
boys at the military school tried to
[day jokes on him, but they soon gave
it ui). He was full of courage and
plenty of common sense. It is true
that he was bashful and had little to
say to any of his comrades, but his
heart was overflowing with kindness.
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When any one of them was in trouble,
Jackson was the first to help him.
He was polite to every one, and al-
ways loved to speak the truth.
Rather Slow at First.
Jackson was slow at first in learn-
ing from books. He had to work hard
to keep up with the other boys. But
he kept at it. After the hour for put-
ting out the lamp in his room, he would
often lie down on the floor and study
his lesson by the light from the burn-
ing coals in the fireplace. "You can
be whatever you resolve to be," he
said. He was terribly in earnest and
meant to win success as a soldier.
Slowly he worked his way up in the
class, and so had nearly reached the
head of it when the four years were
finished.
In the Mexican War.
Then he went to light in Mexico
(1S4G) as an officer of artillery. His
eyes fairly blazed when he took his
cannon into battle. At Cliapultepec,
in front of the city of Mexico, the
roadway which he held was swept by
the enemy's cannon balls. In order
to keep down the excitement among
his men he walked back and forth in
front of them and said very quietly,
"There is no danger. See! I am not
hit."
Jackson's Life as a Teacher.
After the Mexican War Jackson be-
came a teacher in the Virginia Mili-
tary Institute, at Lexington, Va. His
life there was very quiet. Every
morning regularly he arose about six
o'clock; after kneeling in prayer he
took a cold bath, and this was done
even on the iciest mornings in winter.
A brisk walk followed, and then, at
seven, family prayers and breakfast.
Then came his work in teaching, and
after that the study of books. The
Bible was always first in this course
of daily reading, and then history of
the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sun-
day morning found him regularly in
seat at church. Every Sunday after-
noon he managed and taught a Sun-
day school attended by the negro
slaves of the community in which he
lived. He always did what he thought
to be right, no matter what it cost
him. With all his might he hated a
lie. His anger always blazed out
against the man who did wrong to
another. And yet he lived the peace-
able life of the man of God. In his
own home there was always tender-
ness and affection.
The Call to War.
When Virginia left the Union, Jack-
son was ready to defend his native
commonwealth. One Sunday morn-
ing the governor's message came.
Jackson called out the soldier boys
whom he was teaching, had religious
worship conducted in their presence,
and then, at one o'clock the same day,
led them to battle. Jackson himself
was made colonel and was told to hold
Harpers Ferry on the Potomac River.
He still wore the plain uniform of his
school. His worn and faded cadet
cap was always tilted over his eyes.
He went in and out among his men
without noise or bustle. He rode a
quiet old horse, but he kept his men
at work and kept his eyes open for the
coming of the enemy. Jackson talk-
ed very little with anyone, and never
told his plans, not even in his letters
to his wife. He wrote to her about
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the roses that were elinibing over the
house iu which he was staying, and
then sent to her this message from his
heart, "My sweet little sunny face is
what I want to see most of all."
Jackson at Manassas.
Another Sunday morning eame, and
now it was the month of July, 1S61.
Jackson had under his command an
entire brigade made up of live regi-
ments of Virginians. He had four
cannon also. These were directed by
a minister of the Gospel who had be-
come a Confederate soldier. For this
reason the four big guns were named
by the men Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. Jackson still wore his hat pull-
ed down over his eyes. Ears and eyes
were open, as usual, however, on this
beautiful morning, because Jackson
saw a strong Federal army coming
against him. This army had started
southward from Washington to cap-
ture Richmond. The Confederate ar-
my met it near Manassas, south of
the Bull Run in Virginia. The Feder-
al soldiers crossed the Bull Run at a
point above, and came down along the
bank against the end of the Confed-
erate line. Jackson was near that
end, and when Bee, the Carolinian,
said, ' ' They are beating us back, ' ' he
replied," Then, sir, we will give them
the bayonet." This filled Bee with
hope, and he called out to his men,
"Look! there is Jackson standing like
a stone wall. Rally behind the Vir-
ginians.
The First Great Confederate Victory.
From that hour Jackson was called
Stonewall, and the men who fought
under him there were known as the
Stonewall Brigade. While the bullets
were Hying thick, he rode slowly up
and down in front of them, just as he
did Chepultepec, saying in a quiet
way, "Steady, men, steady! all's
well!" When the enemy eame nearer,
he rode to the center of his line and
said, "Reserve your lire till they
come within fifty yards, then (ire and
give them the bayonet; and when you
charge, yell like furies. " The long
gray line of heroes obeyed his order.
Suddenly they leaped from the ground
where they had lain, fired into the
very faces of the foe, and then with
wild yells charged through shot and
shell and battle smoke into the en-
emy's line. That line waved back and
forth and at last gave way. The rest
of the Confederates came to Jackson's
aid, and the Federal army turned
back in a mad rush for Washington.
It was the first great battle of the war
and the first great Confederate vic-
tor y.
The Great Valley Campaign.
Early in the year 1862, Stonewall
held the Valley of Virginia with six-
teen thousand Confederates. Three
different Northern armies, contain-
ing in all about sixty thousand men,
were sent against him. Hidden
ways of marching and sudden rushes
brought him against his foes at
places where they did not expect
him, and one after another he de-
feated the three armies in five well-
planned battles. Then like a thunder-
bolt of war he moved from the Valley
to the James River and fell upon
McClellan's army in front of Rich-
mond. ' ' Stonewall Jackson is here ! "
was the glad cry that ran along Gen-
eral Lee's line of soldiers. Then the
Confederate soldiers all advanced
through the swamps and forests and
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drove MeClellan from Richmond.
Jackson's Last Victory.
In the last half of the year 18G2,
Jackson won the victory of Cedar Run ,
and fought beside Lee on the glorious
fields of Second Manassas, Sliarpsburg
and Fredericksburg. On the 2nd of
May, 18G3, Stonewall's men were
marching in a long column through
(he thick bushes at Chancellorsville.
The commander was in the lead, and
the soldiers were in line spirits. "Tell
old Jack, we're all a-coming. Don't
let him begin the fuss till we get
there," was their frequent call as
they moved forward. At half past
rive o'clock in the afternoon, Jackson
sat in silence on his horse, Little Sor-
rel. His old cap was drawn down ov-
er his eyes his lips were tightly
closed, and his watch was in his
hand. The troops were getting into
[dace in the rear of one end of the
Federal army.
"Are you ready, General Rhodes'?"
said Jackson.
"Yes, sir," replied the brave Ala-
liamian.
"You can go forward, sir," said
Jackson.
Rhodes gave a nod, and the nota
•i bugle rang out. "Boom, boom,"
roared out two large guns in the road-
way. Then the tierce "rebel yell"
came from thousands of throats, and
Jackson's men rushed forward through
the woods into the Federal camp.
The Northern soldiers threw down
their guns and (led. It was the last
victory won for the Confederacy by
Stonewall Jackson.
Death of Jackson.
That night he rode forward in tho
darkness. Through mistake his own .
men (ired, and Jackson fell. For a
week he lingered. "I should have
chosen for the good of the country to
be disabled in your stead," wroto
Lee to tho wounded man. Jackson
said of his last battle, "I feel that
God's hand led me — let us give Him
the glory." When the end was at
hand he said, "Let us cross over the
river, and rest under the shade of the
trees," and the soul of the great
Christian soldier went to be with hi3
God. — (Dr. White's Beginner's His-
tory of the United States.)
STONEWALL JACKSON": When on the plain, he drilled no eagles to
perch on his banners, as the third Napoleon was said to have done. But
one thing he did, he impressed his men with such an intense conviction of
his unselfish and supreme consecration to the cause for which he had
periled all, and so kindled them with his own magnetic fire as to fuse them
into one articulated body — one heart throbbing through all the members, but
spirit animating the entire frame — that heart, that spirit, his own. It wa3
his sublime indifference to personal danger, to personal comfort, and per-
sonal aggrandizement, that gave him such power over the armie3 ho com-
manded, and such place in the hearts of the people of the Confederate
StatC3. Dr. Moses D. Hodge.
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SWORD OF ROBERT LEE -
Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright
Flashed the sword of Lee
Far in the front of the deadly fight,
High o'er the brave, in the cause of right,
Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light,
Led us to victory.
Out of its scabbard, where full long
It slumbered peacefully-
Roused from its rest by the battle-song,
Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong,
Guarding the right, and avenging the wrong—
Gleamed the sword of Lee!
Forth from the scabbard, high in air,
Beneath Virginia's sky, ■ ■
And they who saw it gleaming there,
And knew who bore i ,tknelt to swear
That where that sword led they would dare
To follow and to die.
Out of its scabbard! Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free,
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter land,
Nor brighter land had a cause as grand,
Nor cause a chief like Lee!
Forth from its scabbard! All in vain!
Forth Hashed the sword of Lee!
'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again,
It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain,
Defeated, yet without a stain,
Proudly and peacefully.
— Father J. A. Ryan.
"I know no better way to define the word 'education' than to say it
means being like Robert E. Lee." — Dr. E. C. Branson.
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THIRTEEN SCHOOL TRUCKS USED.
Thirteen specially built school trucks are now in use in six consolidated
schools in Davidson County, and in addition, it is reported, are being supple-
mented by probably as many as four regular automobiles trucks.' About eight
hundred boys and girls from tots to high school seniors are being taken to
school each morning and returned to their homes each afternoon. These arc
all protected from cold and rain and add both to the comfort and health of the
pupils, it is said. Nothing in the history of the public schools of the county has
proven more popular perhaps than the transportation of pupils. In the dis-
tricts where the trucks are operated there are no long distances to school, for
those living two or three miles away are within a few minutes of the school
house doors.
The trucks are being used at Arcadia, Welcome, Reeds, Tyro, Churehland and
' Linwood, all of which were consolidated during the early months of 1921.
Linwood was the last of these districts to be consolidated, now havng a good
four-teacher] school under Principal Fussell and is doing splendid elementary
and high school work. — Lexington Dispatch.
Why are the children of rural Cabarrus and some other counties not enjoy-
ing equal advantages? Are they not just as good and as worthy as the children
of Davidson? There is a reason for this difference in educational advantages,
and somebody is responsible for the inequality.
Washington, Jan. 12. — There is much astonishment being expressed here
at the discovery today that the late Senator Boise Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
had $236,100 in idle cash in a safe deposit box in one of the banks here.
The deputy register of wills of the District of Columbia had been requested
by the executors of the Penrose will to open the safety deposit box and in
it he found 5236,100 in cash, this in five §10,000 notes, the balance in de-
nomination ox 31,000, $500, $100 and $50 bills. How long this big amount
of idle money had been laid away in the deposit box without drawing in-
terest has not been made known and utterly without the power of service
to any causj, whether industrial, commercial, political or religious. Ter-
rible selfishness!
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odera Scliool Building
This is the picture of; a modern
school building, containing twelve
recitation-rooms. This is the out-
growth of a deep educational interest
that was cultivated by certain edu-
cational leaders in Rockingham coun-
ty, chief among them being Mr. U.
Leland Stanford, a young and promi-
nent lawyer, about whom THE UP-
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an appreciation.
The building is in (he small village
of Stoneville with less than 500 inhabi-
tants, but it serves the school-child-
ren of three consolidated districts,
with the probability of two other
districts to join this consolidation. The
building, entirely modern in every
respect, cost with the equipment'
$100,000.00.
In conveying the children to and
from there is in use now one truck.
"When the two other districts are
added, the services of three other
trucks will be employed.
The enrollment of the school is 314;
the school term is eight months; and
Prof. Robert if. Scott is the principal.
This is one of the superb accom-
plishments of the school officials of
Rockingham county, which enjoys the
able, wise and tireless services of
Prof. L. X. Hickerson, as superin-
tendent, backed up by a forward-
thinking and alert Board of Educa-
tion.
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There's Place In Life For 1 lie Anecdote.
THE AMERICAN BEDBUG: It is told that once upon a time there was
an English lord invited as the guest of a wealthy Southern gentl'omiui,_who
hunted, fished, ran foxes, in fact went all along the lino of the all round sport.
He had a butler and all around colored man at his beck and call, who had
plenty of sense and heard a greater part of what went on.
boys, but, my, they are not like tho
English jockeys."
William -saw that his boss was not
going to insult his guest, and felt that
The Englishman took a deep interest
in all the sports, but at the end of the
day would say. "but it is not equal
to such in the old country." William
was quick to see this and was soon
getting on his nerves.
The next day they went deer limit-
ing, killed half a dozen fine deer, but
in the conversation that night the
guest was heard to say. ''but these
deer are not as large as they are in
the old country." They went fish-
ing, caught an unusual string of fish,
but that night William heard the guest
remark that: "These fish are not 'alf
as game as fish in the old country."
And when William was waiting on the
table next morning where these fish
were being served, and the fineness
of the flavor was being remarked on,
the guest was heard to say: "but they
do not compare with the flavor of the
fish in the old country. "
The next day a drive was taken to
another plantation of the host to see
the cattle hogs and sheep. All agreed
that their host had a line lot, but the
Englishman was again heard to say:
"These are fine, but, la! you ought to
see the cattle and sheep in the old
country, they are far ahead of these."
William looked at the guest with utter
disdain, but said nothing. ■
The next day they went to the races,
saw the American jockeys in all their
glory but William heard the English-
man say: "yes, they are pretty clever
the prestago of this country was trail-
ing in the dust. Just by accident one
of the black boys came up with a real
live snapping turtle of medium size;
and William bought it for a dime
and hid it away, saying nothing. That
night, as was his usual round of duty,
he went to the guests room, bringing
water and such, then getting his
turtle, he carefully stowed it under
the cover, right where lie knew the
Englishman 's feet would go when the
light was out, and he got into bed;
William having bid his guest good-
night and gone where he could listen;
and not for long. The guest had not
fairly settled in bed before the turtle
took a thunder hold upon his toe, and
with a yell that wakened the house-
hold, he rolled out of bed and went
hobbling round and round the room,
the turtle holding fast and Hopping
on the floor at everj- jump, while the
Englishman was yelling murder, fire,
help. William was the first to reach
him with a light, throwing the guest
to the floor and taking hold of the
turtle prized it loose from the toe.
When sufficiently recovered to
speak, and between sobs and moans,
from the pain he was suffering, looked
pitifully at William, saying: "Wil-
liam, 0, William, and for the love of
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any country, and what is it, William?" best bow, said: "that, my lord, is an
William rising to his best appear- American bedbug; can you beat it?"
anee, and facing the guest with his — Contributed.
THINGS I LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
Number (VII) — Snakes and Lizards.
BY C. W. HUNT.
If there was ever a farm, in civilization, 'that furnished as many snakes as
-did my father's farm in Franklin county, in my boyhood days, I have yet to see
it (excepting my present home) About ten years ago a car load of Charlotte
people were sidetracked in Monroe, awaiting a connection. It! was late and men
-were quiet. Dr. W. II. Wakefield and I were discussing early farm life, all
clone. I was telling mv friend about going hunting'for snakes on the farm one
summer day, and netted even 40 killed.
I was not aware that any one was lis-
tening until K. Kent Blair, away at
the end of the car, called out: "Hunt,
what brand had you been drinking!"
The whole car roared, to my discomfit.
But there were snakes there. The
streams had fish and snakes too, water
snakes, while the old fields and woods
had upland snakes galore. We had
a dog that was the only wild turkey
dog I ever saw, and he hated snakes as
he did no other thing, and he was a
help in killing them. With the dog
and four boys always looking to kill
every one we saw, yet they seemed to
never grow less.
These we named were : the copper-
head (we called it highland mocca-
sin); Adder, red and black spotted;
garter, green, ground, black, king (it
killed all other snakes) pilot or bull,
■water moccasin, the spotted and
striped, the latter we called mud
moccasin. Of all these the cop-
perhead was considered the most dan-
gerous, though we classed both' the
water snakes as poison, and we knew
the king was dangerously poison; all
talk and natural history to the con-
trary. We saw it bite the dog and he
came as near dieting from that bite
as any it ever had, and it was bitten
by many we never saw. This dog
would bay a snake until you came to
kill it, unless it was bitten first.
The black and the king were ratters,
and lizards were a favorite diet for
the black, but it was some job to catch
a lizard on the fence. The adder fam-
ily we put in about same class for pois-
on as the copperhead; and they liked
toads best of all things. The garter
snake , is striped and never grows
large, but they are poison also. The
ground and green snakes ate worms
and bugs, and they were often eaten
by large hens. Fish were favorite di-
et ifor water snakes. Then the streams
were full of fish, which would make a
pile of gravel on a shoal and lay eggs
on the small stones. A snake would
stretch itself under water, lie still
with head about the fish bed, and catch
an unsuspecting minnow spawning.
Three of the snakes named above
carried their young inside of them
when they were as long as 12 inches.
Supposedly they hatched eggs in the
sun then took them inside. They en-
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tered by the mouth, and were seen
to crawl in when clanger carne. Many
times I have killed the mud moccasin
with young inside, which would crawl
out a hole cut in the mother snake.
These were the moccasin family all
three. We saw the king kill a water
moccasin on a hot day. We found
them fighting in the water and in-
serted a stick in the coil of snakes
and brought them out. The king
would uncoil, take the moccasin by
the jaw, knot itself about it and
squeeze. When satislied it was dead
it dragged it to the shade. We came
back in two hours and found a very
large king snake in a comatose state,
it had swallowed the water snake, but
by evening it was gone. We never
killed the king, except for robbing
bird nests. Most snakes will not
trouble you if let alone. The black
snake will chase you at nesting time.
We found a very large one one day
that showed fight. A boy threw a
rock at it, the snake made a dive for
us; all ran; as I turned it hit me
about the thigh. That was the only
time I ever ran so fast I felt that I
was Hying. A few days later we took
the dog there and soon put it' out of
business.
Lizards.
The lizard family we knew as four
kinds, the common tree or fence lizard,
the male being reddish brown and the
female of a grayish color. The strip-
ed or "sand-skeeter" as we called it,
also known as "sand-swifts." They
have a forked tongue like a snake, and'
I have had them lick out the tongue
as a snake does when it is found.
This lizard was I he swiftest thing
for its size of anything that moved
on the ground. Both these lay eggs
just under the soil, are hatched by the
sun, and take care of themselves from
the beginning. The other two we
called scorpions, but the scorpion of
natural history is a stinging reptile.
There were two of these. A small,
long, sleek, striped with blue and yel-
low, with a blue tail. They liked to
stay about houses. The other was
much larger, short, pinkish red in
color, lived in hollow dead trees.
Have seen them 12 inches long, and
as we thought they were poison and
would bite, we feared them more than
snakes. Wc had to have the advan-
tage to tackle them. Our favorite way
was to shoot them. I doubt now if
they were any more harmful than the
common scaly lizard we handled as
we did bugs. All this tribe lived on
insects, such as they could catch, were
prolific raisers, and were able to
stand all the slaughter they were
subject to, and come back next season
as plentiful as ever. AVe did not kill
them as we did snakes, but they were
a fine thing for a boy to chase.
Both the snake and the lizard hi-
bernate at the first approach of cold,
and generally burrow into such places
as not to be found in winter by man.
Nature provides them with the know-
ledge of how to take care of self.
They lie dormant all winter, coming
out at first warm spring days, appar-
ently none the worse for their long
sleep.
The next number will be about Ani-
mals.
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ROTARY PRINCIPLE A TEXT.
BY R. S. CLARK
Reading a report of a meeting of a Rotary club I noticed that the principal
talk was on the "Eighth principle of the Rotury Code of Ethics," which is;
"To hold that true friends demand nothing of one. another, and that any abuse
of the confidence of friendship for profit is foreign to the spirit of Rotary."
I was especially interested in the first clause: "To hold that true friends
demand nothing of one another." That statement seems a little extreme, but
taken in connection with the latter clause, "abuse of the confidence of friend-
ship for profit," I think it is an ideal definition of real friendship.
There are varying ideas of friend- way and not as an asset for gain,
ship and its obligations; and some "Honesty is the best policy, " runs the
very loose ideas of what constitutes
friendship. With reference to the
Rotary definition it could be said that
true friendship does demand loyalty.
But it does not demand loyalty under
all conditions, if loyalty is meant that
oud friends should stand by us under
all circumstances. That is an exag-
gerated idea that is really foreign to
the meaning of true friendship. It
is encouraged by those who cultivate
friendly relations for profit. I be-
lieve it is a duty, as well as good
policy, for one to show himself friend-
ly; to cultivate a courteous and good
natured attitude toward those with
whom he comes in contact. I mean of
course to adopt this attitude within
reasonable limits. Some folks in
their efforts to be friendly slop over.
They are so gushing that their sin-
cerity is naturally called into question.
Life is made pleasant and sweet-
ened, the rough places are made
smoother, by agreeable manners. I
believe this a duty to one's fellows,
not a matter of policy. It is good
policy, a splendid asset, if it is so evi-
dently sincere that it is not cause for
suspicion. But good manners should
be cultivated as an obligation we owe
to our fellow travelers on life's high-
old adage. But one should be honest
because it is right, not simply as a
matter of policy.
"One who would have friends must
show himself friendly," says the
Good Book; and it is also recorded
in the same that "He that blesseth his
friend with a loud voice, rising early
in the morning, it shall be counted a
curse to him." I have an idea that
the last quotation was intended for
those who overdo the profession of
friendship, seeking gain. Some there
be who are honestly ignorant of the
limitations of friendship. Their idea
of the loyalty of a friend is one who
upholds them, who goes to their
rescue under any and all conditions.
They may have outraged publio
decency and the law, may have
shamed their friends, but he is no>
friend of theirs who does not go his
full length for them no matter what
they have done. It seems not to oc-
cur to such people that one can forfeit
friendship by misconduct; that while
a friend may sympathize with them
and seek to aid them so long as his
own character does not become in-
volved, he is not called on to become
a crook or to have the appearance of
upholding a crook simply because he
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made the mistake of giving his confi-
dence to a crook. One who demands
that sort of sacrifice on the altar of
friendship is to be avoided. His
idea of friendship is profit, and those
w:ho cultivate friendships solely for
profit are not to be trusted. But
many there he. who do just that.
They strive to impose obligations on
piersons whom they think may be use-
ful to them, knowing that when they
call for payment, which is their pur-
pose, the recipient of their favors
•will be embarrassed in refusing; and
-sometimes that very embarrassment
causes one to violate principles, ideals
of honor and integrity, rather than
seem ungrateful.
The other day Gov. Morrison, who
has manifested exalted ideals of the
administration of the law, deemed
it necessary to publicly announce that
applicants for executive clemency
would not profit by attempts to in-
fluence him through personal and po-
litical friends. I do not believe that
any one thing has contributed so much
to the abuse of the administration of
the law as personal and political in-
fluence. Personal friends and per-
sons of standing and influence, politi-
cal supporters, are often sought to
plead with judges to impose light
punishments, and with Governors to
commute sentences and issue pardons.
Sometimes this influence is sold for
money; more than often it is given
to oblige or for a return obligation
that may be of profit. Often those
who exert themselves in such behalf
have no concern as to the merits
of the case. They are using friend-
ship, which should be sacred, for
what is in reality a dishonorable pur-
pose. For unless they concientiously
believe in what they espouse, they
are seeking, through friendship, or ap-
peal to the sense of obligation, to
force a public official to violate the
high trust imposed in him. There
arc of this type not a few. They
cultivate public men to corrupt them;
for while professing to be their
friends their purpose is to establish
a "pull" to get what they may want
regardless of the merits of the case,
or whether it is right or wrong. Gov.
Morrison knows there are folks who
thus prostitute friendship and he has
felt called on to give notice that it
will not avail. Glory to the Governor!
He who attempts to prostitute friend-
ship for profit is a false friend and
the sooner one is quit of him the bet-
ter.
Goldsmith must have had in mind
the kind of friends mentioned in the
foregoing when he was moved to ob-
serve :
"And what is friendship but a name,
A sham that lulls to sleep?
A shade that follows wealth and fame
And leaves the wretch to weep. "
But Robt. Blair had real friendship
in mind when he said; "Friendship!
Mysterious cement of the soul, sweet-
ener of life and solder of society."
' "The condition which high friend-
ship demands is the ability to do with-
out it," Emerson contends.
La Rochefoucauld is somewhat cyni-
cal in his view. He says : ' ' Friend-
ship is only a reciprocal conciliation
of interests and an exchange of good
offices. It is a species of commerce
out of which self-love always expects
to gain something."
But the best of all is from Hovey :
" * * * * friendship is as God,
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Who gives all aiul asks up payment." ship, .set out in the principles of the
Rotary Club.
That is no doubt the idea of friend- ;
Julius Rosenwald, the managing genius behind Sears, Roebuck & Co., •
the big department store of Chicago, though a very rich man and an ideal -
philanthropist, doing great good -with his wealth, has come into a great for- -
tune — a prize was offered by a Chicago newspaper for the best motto, and
Rosenwald won it, which was $5.00. It was a quotation from Robert In-
gersoll as follows:."! WOULD RATHER BE A BEGGAR AND SPEND
MY MONEY LIKE A KING THAN A KING AND SPEND MY MONEY
LIKE A BEGGAR."
How Gypsies Get Married.
The following account of a Gypsy marriage, taking place at Raleigh Fair
Grounds and reported in the News & Observer, gives a vivid picture of the
customs and habits of a peculiar people:
Romance on the Romany Road be-
gun three years ago in New York
culminated yesterday in the pictures-
que wedding festivities of Anna Dor-
cha White and Mike Demetro which
were held in one of the big tents of
the encampment of the three bands
of Gypsies now at the Fair Grounds.
The celebration began early yester-
day morning and continued at full
tilt until sunset to the exhaustion
of the lungs of the promiscuously re-
cruited band, the general hilarry
of the participants and the gaping
interest of a good crowd of town-
folks and college students.
The romance of the occasion may
have been somewhat tempered by
the fact that the oDulent .brother
of the bridegroom, who is chief man
of his band, has paid down a cool
$2,500 to the father of the lady cf
his brother's choise in exchange for
her hand, and had thrown a $500
wedding celebration into the bargin.
MOTLEY CROWD MAKES MERRY
At the gate of the Fair Grounds
the blare of a band Wowing out
sprightly dance music guided spec"
tators to the tent where the party
was being held. Inside, among the
dingy shadows a motley crowd was
making merry. About fifteen
swarthy women, dressed in all the
colors of the rainbow thrown to-
gether with heedless bravado were
the main figures in a lively dance,
in which several greasy, grimy and
less picturesque men ■ joined with
spirit.
In the middle of the tent a little
iron cook stove was red hot in its
efforts to prepare the wedding feast
to whose menu emtpy tomato cans-
and a great tub of chicken feathers-
on one side of the room bore care-
less testimony. About the stove wei e
grouped the women, also in gala at-
tire who were doing the cooking;
the men- folks of. the bands who were- ■
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either less sociable or more rheu-
matic and the crones of the tribe.
Dirty children, some of the wedding'
garment and some in dingy rags,
were underfoot everywhere 'taking
occasion to beg pennies from the as-
sembled spectators.
One old patriarch was superin-
tendending operations. His whiskers
grew free and unstrained to a good
length. He wore scarlet silk skirt
and stock, corduroy trousers and
bright leather comic-opera boots.
He smoked a long curved pipe that
look as if it had been picked up
along the banks of the Rhine.
THE GYPSY BRIDE.
In this wild medley where every
woman present seemed to be wear-
ing all the Sunday-go- to-meetin'
clothes in her wardrobe there was
some difficulty in picking out the
bride. But the veil that hung down
her back from the wreath of artifi-
cial flowers and fruit and gold coins
around her black hair marked her.
-She seemed about eighteen, comely
as her race goes, vivid in a cerise
jacket trimmed with wide white lace
with bells on the flowing sleeves,
with a skirt of red and a satin over-
skirt of dark blue figured with bril-
liant flowers. Around her neck hung
scores of gold coins, and several
strings of colored beads. In her ears
were rings of gold of mammoth pro-
portions, and on her brown bare arms
exquisite bands of chased gold al-
most three inches wide. She trip-
ped the light fantastic in a pair of
high- heeled patent leather shoes.
THE UNSOCIAL BRIDEGROOM
But where was the bridegroom?
Not entering into the dance but
(hovering uneasily on the outskirts
of the crowd according to the most
approved modern form. A dark lit-
tle fellow with an inconsequential
growth of black hair on his upper
lip, 'white glistening- ieoth, a brown
velour hat, natty belted grey tweed
suit, navy knit tie, patent leather
shoes, thin gold watch chain across
his vest and lots and lots of rings.
As he chewed uneasily on the end of
his banded cigar he presented a
striking contrast in bis modern
outfit to his bride her orthodox
Romany regalia. It appeared upon
conversation with the bridegroom
that he scorned the more pictures-
que attire, even the gay silk shirt,
and that he danced only American
dances.
The dance in progress in that tent
was not American. What it was no
one knows You got into it and
grabbed whoever you wanted to
and let your conscience, if you had
one— be your guide. Your feet pro-
ceeded according to instinct, not
rote. Every now and then a woman
with a brilliant yellow shawl and
skirt would brake loose and lead the
crowd around the room in a yelling
snake-dance. The women who had
babies and they seemed in the
majority, didn't let that deter them.
With babies in arms and cigarettes
dangling from their mouths they
stepped as lively as the rest, and it
was all one to- the baby.
WATCH THOSE WOMEN SMOKE.
Modern women with ten inch
holders in which' they daintily stick
a perfumed "Milo Violet" cigarette
should go learn how to smoke from
those Gypsies. The old crones
around the stove, with faces as
wrinkled and as hard as flint, handl-
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ed a cigarette like a soldier or a
civil engineer. They stuck it into
their faces and left it there, exud-
ing lungfuls of smoke. And they
held it with an unconscious non-
chalance of as if it were a tried and
familiar friend, about whose acqu-
aintance there should be no for-
mality. Evidently they acquired
the habit early in life, as the two
foot youngster smoking with the
carelessness of a veteran testified.
'1 he wedding feast was served
about two o'clock on long tables.
Following the feast, the crowd took
up the dance again, and continued
it at intervals until the sun had s;t.
In the evening there were tribal in-
cantations without melody or rhythm
and obviously thickened by too much
liquor.
The Gypsies now at the Fair
ground are of three tribes, the Rus-
sian, Hungarian and Biazilan. Mike
Demtro, the bridegroom is a Hung-
arian, and his bride a Russian.
Their marriage represented an in-
ter-tribal alliance.
It appears that only at this season
of the year can marriage feasts be
celebrated among the Gypsies.
Louis H. Beck is a Georgian w::o is building monuments to his name
while he lives. He has established trust funds to the amount of $75,000
which is to be applied to the education of boys who are not able to pay
their way through college — and in doing so he has set other prospective
philanthropists a brilliant inspiration. — Charlotte Observer.
The War Debt
(Charity rnd Children.)
Our allies in the late war owe us about ten billion dollars. A strong
sentiment has develnpel in certain influential quarters in favor of the can-
cellation of that vast debt and two reason are urged in favor of cancella-
tion. One of them is that Europe
is in such straitened circumstances
that she never will be able to pay
us except in gocds aid if the debts
are paid in goods it will mean the
stagnation and wreckage of Ameri-
can business. The other reason is
that if America does not cancel these
obligations she will never be able
to convince these friendly nations
that she bore her share of the
load in the prosecution of the war.
This argument was recently made
by Justice Clarke of the Supreme
court of the United States. We fail
to see any particular force in either
of the reasons. The manufacturing
business may be somewhat jarred
by the importation of European
goods into this country but the con-
sumer would enjoy the benefit of
the reduction in price that would
inevitably follow: and the consumer
is entitled to some consideration as
well as the manufacturer. The oth-
er reason is about the veriest non-
sense ever submitted to reasonable
beings. T his debt was honestly con-
tracted.' We loaned our neighbors
money,' and sold them material.
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When the time came we sent our
boys across and turned the tide of
battle. Now, we are told, if we do
not make the allies a present of ten
billion dollars, besides the stupen-
dous sacrifice we made in giving our
money and our men to the cause,
these allies will never think so well
of us again. Perhaps not. That is
quite human, 'I he man in debt
never loves the creditor who makes
him pay, but does that justify the
cancellation of the debt? If so, the
debt problem would easily be solved!
The process of collection is not
pleasant, but it goes on every day
just the same. Time should be
given the prostrate nations to be
sure, but they ought to be requir-
ed to meet th 'ir honest obligations
just as individuals are repaired to
do. The sentiment that we should
buy the favor of those who owe us
by wiping out their debts is sillv.
But it will probably be done.
It is the dictate of patriotism to sacrifice yourself if you think that that
is the path of honor and duty. Do not blame others if they do not agree
with you. Do not die with bitterness in your heart because you did not
convince the rest of the world, but die happy because you believe that you
tried to serve your country by not selling your soul. — "Woodrow Wilson.
Public Office Is A Public Trust.
By John C. Calhom.
So long as offices were considered as public trusts, to be conferred on
the honest, the faithful, and capable, for the common good, and not for
the benefit or gain of the incumbent or his party, and so long as it was
the practice of the government to continue in office those who faithfully
performed their duties, its patronage, in point of fact, ,vas limited, and
could, of course, exercise but a moderate influence either over the body of
the community or of the officeholders themselves.
But when this practice was re-
versed—when offices, instead of be-
ing considered as public trusts to be
conferred on the deserving, were re-
garded as the spoils of victory to be
bestowed as rewards for partisan
services, without respect to merit;
when it came to be understood that
all who hold office hold by the ten-
ure of partisan zeal and party ser-
vice—it is easy to see that the cer-
tain, direct, and inevitable tendency
of such a state of things is to con-
vert the entire body of those in of-
fice info corrupt and supple instru-
ments of power, and to raise up a
host of hungry, greedy, and sub-
servient partisans ready for every
service, however base and corrupt.
Were a premium offered for the
best means extending to the utmost
the power of patronage; to destroy
the love of county, and to substitute
a spirit of subserviency and man
worship; to encourage vice and dis-
courage virtue; and, in a word, to
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prepare for the subversion of liberty
and the establishment of despotism,
no scheme more perfect could be
devised; and such must be the ten-
dency of the practice, with what-
ever intention adopted or to what-
ever extent pursued.
Pat was standing on deck one morning pulling up the anchor-rope:
He pulled and pulled and pulled, until he lost patience. Then he yelled
out: "I belave someone has teen down there and cut off the end of the
rope. I cant foind it."
An Alligator's Home.
By Sidney Lanier.
Some twenty miles from the mouth of the Ocklawaha River, at the right-
hand edge of the stream, is the handsomest residence in America. It be-
longs to a certain alligator of my acquaintance, a very honest and worthy
saurian, of good repute. A little
cover of water, dark green under
the overhanging leaves, placid,
curves rounds at the river edge into
the flags and lilies, with a curve just
heart-breaking for the pure beauty
of the flexure of it. This house of my
saurian is divided into apartments---
little bays which are scalloped out
by the lily pads according to the
fantasies of their growth. My sau-
rian, when he desires to sleep, has
but to lie down anywhere: he will
find marvelous mosses for his mat-
tress beneath him; his sheets will be
white HI/ petals; and the green disks
of the lily pads will straightway em-
broider themselves together above
him for his coverlet.
He never quarrels with his cook,
he is not the slave of a kithen, and
his one housemaid--- the stream—for-
ever sweeps his chambers clean. His
conservatories there under the glass
of that water are ever and without
labor filled with the enchantments
of strange underwater growths; his
parks and his pleasure grounds are
bigger than any king's. Upon my
saurian's house the winds have no-
power, the rains are only a new de-
light to him, and the snows he will
never see. Regarding fire, as he
does not employ its slavery, so he
does not fear its tyranny. Thus, all'
the elements are the friends of my
saurian's house.
It is not the whirls and eddies that tell the course of the river, but the
steady flow of its current. It is not the occasional effort that tells what
our lives are, but the trend of the common days. — Forward.
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fil The Land Of Tne Beginning Again H
p m
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HP "I wish that there were some wonderful place ifJJ
|I| Called the Land of Beginning Again, |$j
1^1 "Where all our mistakes, and all our heartaches
JQ-J And all our poor selfish grief pf
P§ Coidd be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door Ul
li4 And never put on again. fe
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pj I wish we could come on it all tinware, jjjj
&«I Like a hunter who finds a lost trail; j&S
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done
gg The greatest injustice of all |.J
OJ Could be at the gates, like an old friend that waits jQj
(§i§ Tor the comrade he's gladdest to hail. §£2
It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudge, and the ones we begrudged
Their moments of victory are here.
Would find in the grasp of our loving hand clasp
More than penitent lips could explain.
So I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
"Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor, selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door
And never put on again." — Selected.
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What Would You Like To Do?
If you Want to know whal you can do Well find what you life to do. A young
woman who announced her intention of studying to he a trained nurse, happened
io he with a camping parly when a young man who was peeling potatoes, cut his
finger. The candidate for the training school caught sight of the hleeding finger
and dropped in a faint. A young Woman with this sensitivenes would hace a seri-
ous handicap in fitting herself to be a trained nurse and it is unlikely that she
would ever really enjoy that profession.
A brilliant young man after graduating from college, was offered a place in a
business firm. His employer had a strong personal interest in him and Was ready
10 adoance him in every way possible. But this young man enjoyed teaching,
while the routine of business life Was to him drudgery. After trying the latter for
a year he gave it up and entered the comparitively ill-paid occupation of teaching.
"I am positive," he said when explaining (his action to his friends, "that I can never
make a real success of work I dislike." And in that he Was absolutely right.
The trouble with some people is thai they do not know what they do like, and
they resemble sailors adrijt without a compass. If you do not know what you like
to do, the chances for doing it satisfactorily are poor indeed. Such young people
need more than any tiling else to make a business of self -discovery. It is a pity
to be an unknown continent to yourself. After you have found out whal you lil(e
to do you have something to go by but up to thai point yon are utterly in the dark-
-—Selected.
Institutional Notes. appetite-
„ _ . Edgar Cope and a friend of his
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.) visited ug Monday_ Cope wag & boy
Boys have been cutting wood for at this school but now he is succed-
the past week. inS m his new life-
A water pipe leading to the barn Frank Thomason went home on a
has been completed. This is a very visit to his home folks and proving
important job. himself worthy of. the confidence
placed in him came back.
Claude Coley and Keith Hunt
proudly escorted their parents a- Lonnie Walker, who took part in
round the school last Wednesday. the Christmas entertainment, has
gone home on an honorable parole
The boys are sausage hungry, to begin his new mode of living,
therefore we had 15G5 lbs. of hog
killed and dressed to gratify this Mr. R. B. Cloer of 5th Cottage
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has offered a prize to three boys in
that cottage who have the best con-
duct from now until July. 1 his is
a fine proposition.
As a result of the opening of 6th
cottage new boys are arriving at
the school. New boys necessitate
more commitments and records.
We are working hard in the print-
ing office to get out these jobs.
Gradually we are teaching more
advanced studies. Resulting from
the opening of the little room, more
room and time for these studies is
available. Civil Government and Be-
ginners Study of Agriculture is now
being taught
Gaston county.because she believes
that the Jackson 'I raining School
was worthy of it, is building a cot-
tage, which is now the 9th cottage.
It makes one feel prond to know
more people are beginning to be-
lieve in the school.
Last Wednesday was a day mem-
orable in the hearts of all Guilford
boys for on this day the Guilford Cot-
tage was dedicated. A service in
the Auditorium was held and the
boys certainly enjoyed the speeches
made. But this is spoken of else-
where in this issue of The Uplift.
For the first time in a good while
Rev. Rawling of Concord spoke to the
boys. As he said, he didut preach,
because his topic, "work," wasn't a
fit subject for a sermon. Just the
same the boys enjoyed this as much
as if he had preached. The boys
hope that he will accept their cordial
invitation of returning soon.
Last Friday brought the hopes of
all boys — snow. Early that morn-
ing it began to snow. Flakes as-
big as a dime came down. It snow-
ed for a half -hour more or less, thea
disappointment reigned. It stopped
altogether. Visions of snow ball-
ing, sleigh riding and skating vanish-
ed with a pop! Now we live in
eager anticipation of another longer
and deeper snow.
Friday afternoon, when the com-
mand "Fall in" was given, Fred Blue
was reported missing. Investigation
revealed tnat he after making a fine
record at this school had returned
to his home on an honorable parole.
He did his full duty at this school
and discharged hi.-- duties to such
degree that he deserved and receive-
eci the admiration and respect of
his companions and teachers. It is
up to him.
After school due to the cold weath-
er, the boys run around the lawn.
Usually in the summer when it is hot
they run around once, now after
school the call is "twice around."
Immediately eighty-some boys are
running to see who wins. Arvel
Absher who is nick-named "Pat"
is always at the end, for to bring in
200 lbs. of weight is no easy job.
But he believes in the smile. You
never see him without the smile on
his face.
An interesting debate took place
in 5th cittage last Friday night.
'1 he society of this cottage is doirig
fine. Soon it hopes to rank abo;e
all other cottages. Creasman, Dav-
is, Butler, Shipp, Hart, Absher and
Willard helped make its program for
that night better than it has ever
been. Judges have been appoint?d
to keep tally on the boys to s;e
who has the best essay, debate or
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declamation and the one who they
decide is best, his name will be
published in this paper.
Car Dairy Bain.
Following the advertisement cal-
ling foi bids for the erection of a
Dairy Barn, the Executive Commit-
tee met on the 18th and took up
the consideration of the matter.
The contract for the erection, in-
cluding the installation of the equip-
ment and two silos, was let to Mr.
John R. Query, a local contractor
who made a very satisfactory propo-
sition.
This building will be the "last
word" in dairy barn construction and
equipment. Its capacity will accomo-
date 40 milkers, having also six ma-
ternity stalls, feed rooms etc.
Work will begin at once.
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True worth is in being, not seeming, &
4* In doing each day that goes by £
*j. Some little good, not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by. ♦
•> For whatever men say in blindness ,♦♦
\ And in spite of the fancies of youth,
There's nothing so kindly as kindness, ♦
■!► And nothing so royal as t.uth ,j»
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
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The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Trrining and Industrial School.
Type-Setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscription Two Dollars the year in
Advance.
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Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord, N.
C, under the Act of March 3, 1879
KNOW NORTH CAROLINA"
Carrying out the expressed purpose of the North Carolina Press Associa-
tion to urge upon the membership to "carry on" for a year or more on
subjects selected by a committee to bring about a study of what the State
has, what she aims at, what she is doing and hopes yet to do, The Uplift
here reproduces the second selection which that committee has chosen.
It's Aycock's message. Aycock is dead, but he still lives, as good, patriot-
ic men, who seek to aid their fellow men, will live in the hearts of men
and on the pages of their history.
AYCOCK'S DREAM: "We have indeed gone far in North Carolina. A
recent writer has declared that the progress of a state may be de-
termined by things which are now done as a matter of course which
used to be the subject of debate. Tested by this stand?rd North Caro- '"'"
Una has advanced rapidly. fin
The right of ev^ry child to a public school education is no longer a
subject of controversy, but is acknowledged by everyone.
The duty and wisdom of adequatd, excellent bublic roads is not
only acknowledged by everybody but has recently been emphasized by
by the mud through which we have slowly dragged ourselves to the
market of the state.
The right of children to be safeguarded in the time of their growth
and development against overwork in factories, is a right which no one
now disputes.
The duty of carying for the afflicted, whether due to age or infir-
mity, has been translated into so beautiful an application and has
been performed with such steadiness as to render one who would now
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deny it contemptible in the sight of all the people.
And no more does anyone, whatever may be his view about the effif-
ciecy of prohibition, ever expect to see again the dominance of
the barroom and whisky still in the civic and political life of this
great State of ours.
We are entering upon a new day— the day of equality of opportu-
nity. EQUAL! That is the word! On that word I plant myself and
my party— the equal right of every child born on earth to have the
opportunity 'to burgeon out all there is within him.'"
WATTS ETERNALLY RIGHT.
Commissioner of Revenue Watts, of the State Tax Department, has ruled
tha! all state officers including the judges are liable for the income tax.
Why not? It occurs to a layman and mosi any man up a tree that it was
an uns' und privilege taken with the law heretofore that the law has not
reached thjse on salary in the service of the state.
We contend for the equality of people before the law. That sounds
good, and is good; but such is not the case when a class may not have to
respond to the requirement if a law that touches others. Watts is right;
and paying his own income for the first one of all of the thousands of peo-
ple subject to the law and who have the qualification of being in such hap-
py environment and condition, Col. Watts has set an example O. K.
• *•***••
THE STATE GENUINELY AMERICAN, ALMOST.
The United States census keeps on revealing matters in which North
Carolina is justified in taking great pride. The total population is 2,599,-
123, of which 1,783,779 are white; of these 1,665,379 or 93.4 percent, are
natives of North Carolina. 6.2 percent of the whites are natives of other
states of the Union and only four-tenths of one percent of the white popu-
lation are of foreign birth. No other state in the whole country can sur-
pass this.
Where North Carolina is, is always at the head of the table.
• ••***»•
PITY THE EFFECT.
For days a conspicuous trial has been going on in which a man's life is
being sought for the taking of the life of another. In all hard-fought
cases, where able and astute people are striving for their sides of the ques-
tion, there is bound, under the pressure and the excitement of examination,
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direct and cross, for statements to be made that are not true or are very
much colored.
But when in the course of the trial things of off color, or suggesting the
sordid things in life and conduct, are about to be touched upon, we can-
not understand why a woman, who is not required by order of court to be
present, should desire to sit in such an atmosphere and environment.
While this feature is hard to understand, it is infinitely more difficult to
reason out why a teacher would head a class of school children in their teens
and carry them into such a setting.
We are drifting, and drifting. Back to your tents!
Pope Benedict, of the Roman Catholic Church, is dead. He was the head
of the church; he stood high among men---beloved by his followers and
esteemed by] the masses. Though occupying the higest ecclesiastical place
within his church he was just a man. There is, however, something pecu-
liarly engaging to follow up the pomp and ceremony attending the death
of this high dignatary of the Roman church, and how man brings about
his successor to the throne. It is already figured out that the successor
will be an Italian, beeause the Italians outnumber in the College whose busi-
ness it is to find another Pope.
Their distinguished predecessors, who forced on the State Board of
Education, by virtue of being in the majority, a set of "obsolete school
books," will, if the recent brilliant findings and recommendations of the
recent Text Book Commission, after a year's incessant and expert investig-
ation, are closely followed, have the satisfactory laugh on the work of
their successors- -that is, if the effects were not so serious. More and
more the child is being forgotten, to play homage to the tyranny of theory
which changes nearly as frequently as the seasons.
A fine insight into the spirit that animates their organization, and into
a knowledge of the quiet and steady accomplishments of the faithful band
of women, known as The King's Daughters, may be gained by the reading
of the President's address and the Secretary's report, at the recent meeting
of the Convention. These interesting papers are to be found elsewhere in
this number of The Uplift.
If the people in>Watauga about Blowing Rock and at various places in
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the "lost provinces" do not, when the time comes (and may that
appropriate time be removed scores of years hence), rear monuments to
the memory of Col. Wade Harris, for the manifestations ( f his abiding in-
terest in and love for their sections, in fine old summer times and even in
the dead winter, thev are not the kind of p oj le we take them to be.
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"Inner Mission - What Is It," reproduced in The Uplift, is a perfect
answer to a life that would dedicate itself alone to its own and its immediate
family connections, It is a challenge to mankind, which happily, as the
years pass, is seeing more clearly the call and is learning how to heed the
call.
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There's Place In Life For The Anecdote.
NATCHITOCHES IN LOUISIANA: This is a State College town, where
Louisiana maintains a school for the education of its young women. It oc-
cupies— the city does — a site along by the banks of the Red River This
river in time, when on a rampage, changed its channel, taking another course
through the loose and made-up or filled in soil of that section. When I saw
this spot, there was a deep, wide and dry channel, with a splendid iron bridge
spanning it. The stream went oft and left the bridge. But thai; bridge ser-
ves a good purpose, connecting the old
part of the city with a newly develop-
ed settlement on the other side of the
deserted Red River channel.
But this channel is not altogether
useless. When during the early
Spring the streams of that very moist
state become swollen from the usual
heavy precipitation, water is backed
up into the old channel. Then it is
that smart man gets busy. He has
cargoes of goods, farm supplies and
other necessities shipped into Natchi-
toches through the old channel then a
raging river with an enormous depth
of water. The city by virtue of this
secures a very low rate of freight.
So much for the city in the centre
of the State of Louisiana. I started
out with another purpose in view.
Though under the head of "Anec-
dote," I want to tell a real story
about a real occurrence. Cleverer
people than the Louisianans never liv-
ed. They have peculiarities, of course,
that belong to them; but this may
have changed since I saw their doings
some fifteen years ago. It was dur-
ing the worst snow storm of the very
few that ever visited that state, when,
one Sunday night, I blew into Natchi-
toches (it took me a day to learn to
pronounce the city's name.) I went
to a hotel, whose first or lobby floor
was on a level with the pavement, at
what I afterwards found was a most
prominent corner. I registered. Just
one room left. It seemed to be a
busy night, and the guest were num-
erous. Having been assigned to my
room, I returned to the office. I tried
to engage the clerk in a conversation,
but his interest seemed- to be rivetted
on a corner of the office where five or
six men, in full view of the passers-by
on the street, with piles of ' ' chips ' '
on a flannel covered table were, as I
afterwards ascertained, continuing a
poker game that had been going on
the entire day.
I asked the clerk to let me have a
cigar. "Can't do it; the law does
not allow us to sell cigars on Sunday,"
the clerk informed me. "What are
those men doing back yonder in the
corner, ' ' I inquired. ' ' They are
playing poker," he innocently and
freely answered. "Why, this is in
public, before people returning from
church and Sunday, too, how's that?"
That clerk looked at me as if I was
from the very heart of ignorance and
replied: "Don't you know the law
does not forbid poker playing in Lou-
isiana?" I didn't.
To tell a free-born man that he dare
not have a cigar, but he may play pok-
er in public, and on Sunday night, was
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very disconcerting:, or words to that
effect.
I saw a talking machine on the show
ease. Aimlessly but possibly fol-
lowing- the cravings of the inner man,
I picked out a record, "Home Sweet
Home. ' ' I dropped in my nickle and
started the thing to grinding, when
suddenly the clerk rushed angrily
towards me, exclaiming: "Don't you
see that, sign? My father (he was the
owner and proprietor of the hotel)
died two weeks ago and mother and I
decided that out of respect to his
memory, we would keep the talking
machine quiet for thirty days. ' '
Beautiful sentiment ! But it never
occurred to that young man and his
mammy that maintaining a gambling
table in the lobby of their hotel was
disrespectful to the memory of a de-
parted father and husband. Queer
folks !
Going down the railroad that leads
from Lake Providence, which is some
steen feet lower than the bed of the
Mississippi River, and headed for a
point to cross over the Mississippi to
Xatches, my seat companion hap-
pened to be a young Deal, formerly of
the Enochville, Rowan county, set-
tlement. I was telling him of what
I saw at Natchitoches, and making
comments predicated on what was re-
garded correct custom and moral be-
havior in North Carolina. An old gray
whiskered gentleman, seated just
across the aisle, seemed to be taking
no little note of the drift of our con-
versation and our open condemnation
of certain practices that we saw in
the great state of Louisiana. When
I remarked, "If I were to go back
to North Carolina and do just, one
time what I see folks do here fre-
quently, I would be ruled out of polite
society. ' ' This was too much for the
old gentleman, and he-broke in. "I beg-
your pardon, but may I join your con-
versation ? 1 heard what you said
about being ruled out of good society
in North Carolina, and I wish to say
that if you lived in Louisiana long-
and did here like folks in North
Carolina are accustomed to do, you
would be ostracised here."
The old man said he was a Judge of
the Court, that he was then enronte
to hold court, that he himself had the
night before been in a social poker
game at his own home, with a neigh-
bor, from whom he had won twenty
dollars. The law does not forbid it,
and the old timers regard it the great
social game. " " By the way, ' ' having
closed the poker subject, the old Judge
asked, "How far are you from Da \ id-
son College?" I told him. Then he
remarked, "I had a son to graduate
there in , with high honors. He
became a doctor, and connected with
the U. S. Health department went to-
the Philippines for a government ser-
vice. I had noticed two weeks ago that
he had died and that his body was
now enroute home." Just then I
saw big, sad tears trickling down the
old Judge's cheeks, and when he left
the train at the next station he bade
me a cordial goodby with an urgent
request to stop over and spend the
night with him on my return. He
wanted to talk about Davidson Col-
lege and Charlotte, which he had
visited and admired.
I didn't get back that way, but I
was impressed with the smallness of
this country. To meet a Rowan boy,
who had read my own paper and
quoted things from it years after-
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■wards, either funny or serious, and re- ters in this section from a personal
mained with him ; and to meet an aged contact, why, it was real fascinating.
Judge, deeply interested in local mat-
"When every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields
and meat from his own pastures, and disturbed by no creditor, and enslav-
ed by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming gardens, and orchards and
vineyards, and daries and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wis-
dom and growing them in independence, making cotton his clean sur-
plus, and selling it in his own time, and in his chosen market, and not at
a master's bidding — getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortg-
age that discharges his debt, but does not restore his freedom — than shall
be the breaking of the fullness of our day. ' ' — Henry W. Grady.
Reciprocal Love And Interest.
'I here were many children in this home— the house was filled to its com-
fortable capacity: hut in the mother's heart there was room for one more.
A little six-year old girl left homeless and motherless had been taken in by
this tender-hearted mother as her own until other arrangements for the
•care of the child could be affected.
This mother, like all well-to-do heav?nward as the stiff winds pres-
rural folks, had her chickens and sed back her brown locks about her
on this occasion she had her time cherub face, cried aloud: "Oh, God,
pretty well taken up in looking aft- p 1-e-a-s-e don't let it rain till my
er a drove of young turkeys. One mama gets her turkeys up " When
hot, sultry afternoon an angry-look- the drove of turkeys was safely
ing cloud formed in the west. Fork- housed and the motherly woman had
ed lightening had already begun to reached her domicile, the downpour
flash across the heavens, and the began, and to this day the old folks
wind was blowing a stiff gale. The speak of the terrific rain that visit-
frugal house-wife thought of her ed that section. The kind-hearted,
turkeys, and in haste she sought to motherly woman stooDed and kissed
get them to safety before the the little orphan and said: "well,
storm broke in all its fury. Annie, I believe your little prayer
The little girl followed her adopt- was heard."
ed mother to the door, and, realiz- There was a period when orphan
ing that there was something out homes did not exist, but there were
of the ordinary and that excitement mothers who did the part of aepart-
prevailed, she put her head out of ed mothers--a beautiful service of
the door i hat stood just ajar and unselfishness and Lo^e.
with her litcle blue eves turned
"Merely being rich doesn't get a man very far in North Carolina these
days. ' ' — Greensboro News.
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B
ermuda
By Mrs. Ada Rogers Gorman.
An ocean voyage of forty-eight hours from New York brings us to this
veritable paradise. Within three miles of Hamilton, the Ocean Liner
transfers her passengers to a Tender, which. beais us through the shallow
water to the dock.
Looking over the boat rail into
the bluest water you ever dreamed
of, one is wont to think of the wing-
ed chariot of the God of Day gives
this wonder blue for night here; and
the ship in casting her anchor has
bumped against the moon. The re-
flection of white sail bespeaks the
poetry of motion; blackened weather
beaten hulls add tragedy and pathos
to the song of the sea.
By the water's edge, nest'ing on
the hillside, and in the valleys are
seen cottage, villa and mansion dot-
ting the green landscape of curving
coasts, cedar groves and palmetto
crowned hilltops. Among the tree
tops chimneys and sloping roofs ap-
pear as if covered with new fallen
snow; and water sheds built of cor-
al on the sides of the hills, look like
a sheet of writing- paper on a green
felt cloth.
There three hundred and fifty-five
islands, divided and broken in the
blue waters of the Atlantic, are
built upon the summit of a subma-
rine mountain.
Bermuda was settled by the Eng-
lish in the early part of the seven-
teenth century, immortalized by
Shakespeare in the "Tempest" and
later by Tomas Moore, the Irish Po-
et, who lived there several years.
During the civil war the harbor
was a busy center. Supplies for
the Southern States were here trans-
ferred to the blockade runners, and
if not captured, a return cargo of
cotton was brought to Bermuda to be
reshipped to England, the most abid-
ing visual impression of Bermuda.
The sweet scented air, delicate tin-
ting of the sky, bewildering shades
and color of water of flowers wel-
come the tourist. Hibiscus, laden
with crimson blossoms Rubber trees
sixty feet high, with wide
spreading branches, fill yon with
wonder; Nasturtiums, Bougain-vil-
led and Geraniums, make terraces
and stone walls a riot of color.
The "Sea Gardens" are visited in
a glass bottom boat. This glimpse
of Nature's wonderland you have is
a fantasy in minature. Coral bran-
ches wave, like grass is a meadow
blown by a zephyr wind; sea fern,
brain and leaf coral from tiny hills
and vales. The waving tendrills ap-
pears so unreal and so alluring, that
the diver at the request of many,
secures the specimen we so eagerly
select. That! a green colored
smelly branch of coral out of its nat-
ural environment, becomes a with-
ered wreath. People- -like coial
away from the environment they love
sicken and die.
1 he captain ox the boat, a native
said, ( s he held a small stone in his
hand) 'They are digging an arte-
sian well on the Island, at six hun-
dred and eighty feet they find this,
it is not silicate, but limestone.
The lime that was thrown up_ by
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volcanic action is so porous that
fresh warter has never been found.
I bcugnt an Italian abandoned ves-
sel once, sunkened on a reef.
Against the judgement of divers, I
decided to go over the boat, fully
accoutred, descended, wandered in
and out of her roon s, when I
found myself a prisoner. By sec-
urely fastening the cord that fur-
nished me air, 1 kept alive five hours
and with signals given by jerks,
help was sent me. I found the up-
per deck had a large hole burned in
her, and could never be raised."
These coast are called the grave-
yard of the iAtlantic. Old ships de-
cay; the tiny torridi worm boring
in the wood, each worm making a
different path, reduce the wood to
a pulp and die; the decay of it and
the insect, are making the coral
reefs.
The tourist, passing fields of As-
cension Lilies, revels in their beauty,
and hears the mighty paen of the
Resurrection Morn their blossoming
ever sings.
Sunny land of contentment, where
fish sport in blue waters and flowers
of every hue that bloom on land,
answer back to the ages that Solo-
mon was not arrayed like one of us.
These expressions of God's love
bring the tourist to Bermuda; wel-
come the overworked and aged with
the living semblance of youth and
strength in the flower festival of the
island, caressed by blue waters, pro-
tected by fir trees, dark and defiant,
kissed by the sun and lulled by the
silver moon in the world of silent
revelry.
So does Nature's God keep open
the gates of her everlasting hospital-
ity to him who visits the island.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they
are gone forever. — Horace Mann.
PATCHED HIS BACK WITH LEG BONE
Running the risk of jarring the sense of professional ethics whose tyranny
•often enslaves and creates embarrassing situations we are taking a story from
the front page of the Monroe Enquirer, of last week, a story about a mar-
velous surgical operation performed on the contributor of that article. He
names the hospital, the chief operator, the doctor that diagnosed his trouble
and sent him to the right place — it's a human interest story and every word
sounds like the genuine truth.
The hospital can not announce the
wonderful accomplishment — it would
be unethical; the surgeon can not
publicly announce his masterful op-
peration — it would be unethical, and
to do so would cause his explusion
from the medical society; the doctor
at Monroe, coming in for much praise
for his judgment and skill, as he clear-
ly deserves, could not go about in
public proclaiming that he discovered
what was ailing this man Hinson —
it would be unethical, and he'd suffer
a charge of unprofessionalism. Oh,
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such tyranny. There may be hun-
dreds of others in the state suffering
and wasting away just like Hinson
was, but they don't know where to go
or what to do. '•Out of the gratitude
he holds for those who brought re-
lief to him, Hinson publicly calls
names out in open meeting, as he
ought to have done.
Speaking of the tyranny of pro-
fessional ethics, a peculiar circum-
stance came to light recently. An
old hysterical and poverty stricken
subject was crying aloud for a doctor.
Charitable folks offered to go to her
rescue; the county health officer was
sought — he ' was away ; then another
physician was called but he declined
even for pay, because the case be-
longed to the county officer; but
under the law, as now written, there
was no obligation even upon the coun-
ty officer. So the suffering case went
unattended, all because of the lame-
ness of the law, on one hand, and the
absurd tyranny of man-made ethics
on the other hand. But just see what
Hinson has to say :
As the operation that I have re-,
cently subjected myself to at the
Presbyterian hospital at Charlotte
seems, to a great many people, one
of the wonders of the age. I feel that
it is my duty to humanity and the
operating surgeons to make a few
statements in regard to my condition
before and since the operation :
For the past five or six years I
have suffered untold agony. Consult-
ed several physicians of acknowledg-
ed skill in diagnosis of human ills.
Took medicine from same as well as
some patent medicines, all to no re-
lief. I dieted myself and tried to get
relief that way, but failed. I had
heart, lung and kidney tests all made
and these organs pronounced in good
shape by supposed medical experts.
My condition all the time grew worse.
Could scarcely get my coat on with-
out help. Almost more than I could
do to turn on bed or get off the bed.
Was not able and could not do man-
ual labor. My body all the time be-
coming more and more stooped and
turned to the left. My appetite re-
mained good all the time.
Laboring all the time under the de-
lusion or belief that it was rheuma-
tism and did not know any better
until the 17th of last November I
went to the office of Dr. Edd J. Wil-
liams, of Monroe, and asked him to
make a thorough physical examina-
tion of my body. He diagnosed my
case, located the trouble and advised
having some X-ray pictures to be
taken. The X-rays were made and
his diagnosis of my condition sustain-
ed. The next and only thing that was
held out to me, with any reasonable
degree of hope of bettering condition
by Dr. Edd J. Williams and Dr. W.
M. Scruggs, of Charlotte, was an op-
eration requiring the most practical
and mechanical skill.
I'll admit that, to me, it was a most
trying dose. It seemed that it was a
choice between an operation and
something worse. I chose the opera-
tion. So on the morning of the 28th
of last November at the Presbyterian
hospital at Charlotte I turned myself
calmly over to the care of Dr. W. M.
Scruggs. I was under the operation,
two hours and a half, during which
time a piece of bone, I judged, three-
eighth of an inch thick, one inch
wide and 12 or 14 inches long from.
the shin of my left leg was taken and
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grafted into niy backbone. The back-
bone being grooved out, one inch in
depth for the graft.
I revived in one hour from the
effects of the eher, and was not sick
from it. I was in bed for thirty-
seven days and was able during all
that time to turn myself from one
side of the bed to the other, could
move my leg at any time from one
place to another without pain, and
was never sick five minutes while in
the hospital. Sit propped up in bed
at pleasure for six or eight days just
before leaving. Began walking around
in my room Thursday evening and
on the following Saturday made the
trip to Monroe on automobile with
Dr. Scruggs. Have been at home just
a little over a week. My general con-
dition is much improvd.
I have written this without solici-
tation on the part of any one. The
object being to give my friends and
the inquiring minded a concise state-
ment of facts in regard to my par-
ticular case.
Where the graft was taken out of
my leg was filled in full and complete
in four weeks.
In closing I feel that I would not
show myself appreciative and fail to
give due credit to Dr. Edd J. Wil-
liams if I did not give him a tip for
his diagnosis of my case. For at that
time I saw- nothing but a miserable
existence for me. It seems to have
been the breaking of a new day for
me. Thanks to and for the skill of
Dr. W. M. Scruggs.
THOS. L. HIXSON.
New York's motion picture commission has sent out 477 scenes during
its first year, 85 as indecent, 54 as crime-inciting, and 61 as immoral. It
is to be hoped that all the other states get the benefit of the activity of the
New York censors. But do they? — News & Observer.
Beware The Nulliiiers 0! The Law
BY R. R. CLARK
Recently one of our Superior Court judges, instructing the grand jury
referred to the agitation for the abolition of capital punishment, and empha-
sized the fact that it was neither the duty of the court nor of the jurors to
discuss the merits of capital punishment, but that it is the duty of courts and
juries, so long as the law is on the statute books, to see that it is enforced
and enforced all the time.
That judge was doing no more thai
his duty, but under the conditions
now prevailing he deserves commen-
dation for emphasizing a fact which
there is an apparent, determined and
well-organized effort to becloud. I re-
fer to the well-organized propaganda
in this State for the abolition of capi-
tal punishment through the nullifica-
tion of the law. I might as well say
here that I favor capital punishment
and believe that it is both just and
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necessary. But I repeat what I have
often said in discussing this matter,
not by way of apology but simply
out of regard for liberty of opinion,
that I have no quarrel with those who
would abolish the death penalty so
long as they would abolish it by
changing the statute, in the regular,
orderly way and not by nullification.
I have little patience with the extre-
mists who have recently discovered
that the death penalty is contrary to
the law of God, and assuming to
speak for the Almighty brand as mur-
derersthose who execute the law and
all who approve its excution. But I
have not come to discuss the death
penalty per se. I am calling attention
to the persistent and insistent at-
tempts to nullify the law and the
dangerous tendency of the proceed-
ing.
The agitators will probably, deny
that their purpose is nullification and
contend that they seek abolition in
the regular way. That is of course
their ultimate purpose, but in the
meantime all newspaper readers
have observed the strenuous and de-
termined efforts to prevent the execu-
tion of the law. Every execution is
written up as a horror and facts are
ignored in the appeal to sentiment
and sympathy. The whole State wit-
nessed the violent and vicious assault
made on the Governor not long since
when he refused to commute a death
sentence. A powerful and determin-
ed effort was made to force the Chief
Executive of the State to set aside
the law, regardless of his conscientious
conviction, and with a weaker man
it would have succeeded. The stand
of the Governor against that fearful
onslaught has given the nullification-
ists pause, and they are not so hope-
ful of success in that direction as they
were. But the judiciary has received
and will receive their attention. Re-
ports that judges on the Supreme
Court and Superior Court judges were
weak on capital punishment or out
and out opponents of the law have
frequently been reported with mani-
festations of great pleasure at the
accession or possible accession of
such influence to the ranks of those
opposing the death penalty, along
with high commendation of the judges
who come out against "murder by the
the State." On one occasion at least,
if not more than one, justices of the
Supreme Court were highly commend-
ed for asking the Governor to com-
mute sentences — to do what the justi-
ces could And no authority in law for
doing.
If the Legislature should abolish the
death penalty, well and good, no mat-
ter how much I may question the
wisdom of such course. Sometimes
I think possibly it might be a good
idea t.o give the matter a trial; and
in saying that I am convinced that
the trial would hardly last longer
than another Legislature could
assemble. What I am protesting here
and now is the apparent and deter-
mined purpose to secure abolition of
capital punishment through the nul-
lification of the law, this to be done
through the judges who are willing
to set aside a law of which they do
not personally approve, and through
the Governor when he can be eon-
trolled. It is hardly necessary to
say to unprejudiced and unbiased peo-
ple that a judge who will make no
effort to execute a law he does not
approve; on the cohtrary uses his po-
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sition to nullify it, is not only unfit for
judicial position, he is unworthy and
is not to be trusted. That will be ad-
mitted, I believe, without serious ar-
gument ; for it must be admitted by
all who think that a judge who would
nullify one law because he did not
approve it would nullify another if it
suited his purpose so to do. If his
conscience does not permit him to im-
pose the death penalty, then if he is
the honorable man he should be he
will get oft' the bench. The use of his
position to set aside law would be
dishonorable and the man who will
do that is not to be trusted.
I am not denying to the judiciary
the privilege of opinion as to the
wisdom of the laws. They not only
have that right, but their opinion,
based on their experience in admin-
istering the law, is valuable. Neither
am I denying the right of the judic-
iary to suggest changes in the law and
to use their influence, within proper
bounds, to have changes made. The
people I am after are those who are
so far gone on this matter of capital
punishment that they feel that any
effort, any means that can be used to
prevent the infliction of the death
penalty, is entirely justified and that
they are doing God 's service in pre-
venting the execution of the law by
any means in their power. I don't
want men who feel that way about any
law on the bench administering the
law; and I don't want one of that
type elected to the bench.
I am aware that it will be said
that our judges or those who may be
elected judges are too honorable to
take an oath with a mental reserva-
tion to observe it only as it fits their
preconceived opinions. That would
be so ordinarily, but we've got to
recognize conditions as they are, not
as they should be. I am warning
against the danger of having on the
bench, or elevating to the bench, men
who may be as extreme in their op-
position to capital punishment, or to
any law, as many of the anti-capital
punishment agitators are. The judge
who feels that the infliction of the
death penalty is a crime, as many of
agitators are teaching it is, would
consider it his duty to save from the
extreme penalty all who came into his
court charged with a capital felony.
To win judicial honors one who holds
such views could easily persuade him-
self'that he was doing God's service if
he practiced deception to get on the
bench so that he could prevent the
execution of a law he abhors.
I don't know of my own knowledge
that any of the judges on the bench
have reached the extreme mentioned.
But in view of the intensity of the
agitation and the extreme views of
the agitators, it is the duty of all
good citizens, no matter what their
views on capital punishment, to use
their influence to put on the bench
men who will not only enforce all laws
but enforce them impartially. That
should be kept in mind when candi-
dates for judge are named this year
and two years hence. Men who are
more just than God are hardly fitted
to administer judgments here below.
Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, happier,
or wiser for it. It recommends no one to society; it is disgusting to re-
fined people and abominable to the good.
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THINGS I LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
BY C. W. HUNT.
Number (VIII) : Animals.
The Animals we 'found on the farm were numerous, and most of them were
interesting to study and follow up to find what they did and why? Those fit
for game and shooting for food were limited to three in number. But the
smaller tribe of rats and such were alwaj's present and plentiful, and in spite
of the annual slaughter on the part of boys, dogs and eats they were still plen-
tiful and always destroying anything they could eat and cut to pieces for beds.
The animals we knew and called A very peculiar specimen was a mouse
by name were : Rabbit, squirrel, o 'pos-
sum, mink, weasel, flying-squirrel, rats,
mice and mole. The rat and mice
family we divided into many sections.
The house rat and house mouse, both
of which sometimes strayed to the
fields and made homes there. The
ground or "sloe" rat, with tail little
longer than a mole, but about the size
of the barn rat, with very short legs
and powerful teeth. Its home was in
banks of elevated earth, and it liked
thick grass, under which it cut paths,
so as to travel on the ground. "When
grass fields were burned Ave found the
paths going in most all directions.
The field mice we knew were of four
distinct species, two of them rare.
One a little different from the house
mouse, but very plentiful : A larger
bluish drab mouse that infested sedge
fields more than elsewhere, making-
nests mostly of straw, but having bur-
rows also. Once 1 plowed up a nest
of young ; the point of the plow killing
one; the other three and the mother
were turned up on the turf and ex-
posed. As I stopped the mother rat
made a peculiar noise, when the three
young ones took hold of her fur with
the mouths and she scuttled away
with the three dangling to her hide.
Did any one ever se,.' such a thing?
we seldom found, but did occasionally
find, was about a size larger than a
house mouse, with a tail twice the
length of its body, a brown back and
yellow belly. It was very swift on
foot, jumping unreasonable distances.
We never saw its young. The fourth
was a mouse between the size of a rat
and a house mouse, rich brown in color
on back and nested in trees, building
on the order of a squirrel, except in
low trees, and always about hedgerows.
It would always come out of the nest
if shaken, but would not come down.
Had large eyes and ears. We never
found the young of this species eith-
er. No other of the rat tribe uses
trees.
Of all the animals we found the first
three named were game animals, and
the white tail rabbit ''molly-cotton-
tail" was the favorite of all. This
we did as boys do now, trapped, hunt-
ed with gun and dogs. They are fine
food and no animal, then or now,
furnished more real life for boys than
this rabbit. At this time all farms
were fenced and cross-fenced with
rail fences, and rabbits, then as now,
traveled in paths across the thickets,
and where they crossed a fence they
gnawed the bottom rail. This told us
where to set the traps, made of hollow
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logs or planks, as ns«r. A hollow log
was the best trap, anil the term ' ' rab-
bit-gum" or "rabbit-hollow" origi-
nated with this kind of a trap (made
from a hollow gum tree.) They were
the most proline of all animals, raising
from five to six litters each season.
The nests were always made in a hole
in the ground lined with their own fur.
The young were placed there and cov-
ered so you could not see except you
stepped on it or plowed it up in the
fields by a stump. There were from
three to live young in a nest, and were
suckled at night only, sleeping all
■day. They grow very fast. Just why
a rabbit will go into a trap is still a
isputed question. Experience taught
me that bait is of little if any value,
and my opinion is there are two rea-
sons why a rabbit seeks a hole, undis-
turbed, the first is: they have enemies
in the fox and the dog, and when
•chased until it gets tired will always
find a hole to save itself, and it is the
seeking for a known hiding place to
go to when in danger, that causes it to
go in traps. The other is : in very bad
■weather a shelter is a protection. I
have found them in holes before be-
ing run. I still trap them.
The common gray squirrel was not
plentiful with us. It is a high tree
animal, and valued as food and for
shooting. It nests in hollows and al-
so builds nests :of twigs outside. It
Taises one or more sets of young each
•season. The o 'possum is a night ani-
mal and we had great sport hunting
them with hounds at night, which
track them until they take to a tree;
then the tree is cut and dogs catch the
o 'possum. They belong to the mar-
supial family, and carry their young
in a pouch from the time they are
smaller than new born mice to suck
time as they are too large. Then they
hold on the long hair of the mother,
and later twine their tails about the
mothers tail and hold fast to hair. We
caught many of them with their young,
but found that they would eat each
other in confinement. Just what age
the mother turns them loose, we nev-
er quite knew, but we caught the
young alone when quite small. They,
when medium size, pretend to be dead
when caught, coiling up and become as
rigid as wood. That is where "play-
ing possum" originated. Old ones
fight.
The mink we trapped for its fur,
and did it with our rabbit traps; set-
ting them on sand bars in the creek
beds, baiting with rabbit heads or a
shot bird. When mad they smell like
a skunk, but we drowned them very
easily under water. The skins were
then worth from one to two and a half
dollars; a lot of money for a strug-
gling farm boy. No animal furnished
more fun than the flying-squirrel; it
having a species of skin-wings from
the fore to hind legs and a flat tail.
These they spread and leaped from a
high tree, gliding to the root of anoth-
er tree; climbing this and repeating.
Our cats learned their habits and
would wait at the root of a tree and
take it in as it lighted. We had tame
ones, which we studied first hand.
They are a night prowler, and nice
pets when small, but as soon as they
came to maturity wanted to sleep all
day and would bite if disturbed. They
would not breed in confinement.
The mole is familiar to most people.
I was never able, then or now, to find
any eyes. They are the strongest of
all animals of their size. Are hard to
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catch on account of their hearing. and often kills a whole flock of hens
Our dog was great to dig them out.
The weasel was the rarest of all the
animals, and never killed our fowls;
thev being a bloodsucking animal,
in a night, sucking the blood only.
The next number will be entitled
"Many Small Things."
Every farmer in the South should be interested in Henry Ford's pur-
pose in developing Muscle Shoals. Henry Ford proposes to take the ni-
trates from the air by means of electric current and make fertilizer
cheaper than anybody else is now making it. The fertilizer manufacturers
say he can't do it, but they are spending thousands of dollars in propaganda
to try and prejudice the country against Ford. If they are telling the
truth, why are they wasting the money?
INSPIRING ADDRESS, ANNUAL REPORT
(At the recent Convention of The King's Daughters, held in the Jackson
Training School Auditorium, there were delivered several addresses most in-
spiring and the Annual Report of the State Secretary is of great interest.
These have just become available. In this issue of THE UPLIFT we are
pleased to give to our readers the "Message of The President," and "The
Report of the State Secretary. ' ')
Many hearts beat happily tonight
that we are in Concord, commemorat-
ing the 32nd Anniversary of the or-
ganization of the Order of the King's
Daughters & Sons in North Carolina.
We are wearing a crown within
whose circuit are joy and thanks-
giving, joy in being here with our
friends and associates in work, and
thanksgiving for the privilege of
staying at the School with the Super-
intendent and his large family and
for having with us friends, busy
men, who are here for the purpose of
helping us. The spirit of thanks-
giving hovering over us in this his-
toric part of the State recalls the
great deeds of our ancestors who laid
for the United States of America
the foundation, moral, political and
social upon which we are building to-
day. They had heights to storm and
lines to break through blinding clouds
of doubt and ignorance, and their mis-
takes as well as their splendid achieve-
ments are valuable lessons for us.
In reading an article sometime ago,
warning against pessimism when con-
demning modern innovations and
drawing a comparison in favor of
modern times, between the vices and
virtues of the past and present, it
seemed to me that the writer lost
sight of the fact that our progressive-
ness, upon which he dwelt, is built up-
on the conservatism of our aneesters.
They were blazing a trail for us and
showing us at crossroads which way
to take.
Being human they committed er-
rors which we now deplore. In like
manner will not our descendants blush
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MRS. M. C. D. BURGWYN,
Of Raleigh, is serving her 20th year as president of The King's Daughters
and Sons.
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at some of the practice and fashions of
which we indulge"?
The thought that, "Through the a-
ges one eternal purpose runs," is a
blessed one, that despite the errors
of each era of time, the men and wo-
men all ages, may, if they will, help
to perfect the divine purpose of crea-
tion. The motto upon the Seal of
North Carolina "Esse Quam Videri, "
to be rather than to seem, teaches
us the lesson of sincerity and truth,
change those words a little, and we
read an equally important lesson,
seem to be what you really are, or
have the courage of your convictions,
and live the truth as well as believe
it.
The touching and familiar story of
the struggles of Christopher Coliun-
bus before various sovereigns in Eu-
rope to obtain the means of vindicat-
ing his theory that the earth was
round and that circumnavigation was
possible, affords us a memorable in-
stance of the benediction to the world
of a man's sincerity and earnestness,
and of the courage to abide by his
convictions of truth.
Queen Isabella of Spain pledged
her jewels to raise money for this
enterprise, which was undertaken for
her own crown of Castile. May not
we, of the royal family of The King
of Kings, lest one jewel be lost from
His crown, pledge ourselves and our
treasures to help our ' ' Brothers Sail-
ing o'er life's solemn main," and
watching anxiously for a sight of the
New World of peace and joy.
Florence Nightingale through great
discouragement taught the world that
in peace as well as in war the minis-
trations of women are necessary. That
idea has borne fruit the world over
and today Cabarrus County rejoices
in an all-time health nurse, a follower
of the great philanthropist nurse of
Crimean war fame, a follower proving
herself thoroughly equipped for high
and important service. Sad to say,
in contrast to such ideals we see in
this day wme of the old laws of the
land altered, because the standard
which they required is too high. In-
stead of uplifting- man and woman the
standard of life is lowered to suit
their wishes. This is not done in
mental or physical contest. Men and
women are prepared and trained for
business as never before, and work
is more strenuous. In physical races
and contest every nerve and muscle
in the body is strained to win the
prize. In the hurdle race the bar is
not lowered to suit the indifferent
horse and rider, but horseman and
horse together practice and labor un-
til made perfect, and the hurdle at
maxiuru height is cleared to the ad-
miration of all beholders.
In the chariot race of old, the
charioteer stands holding in hand the
reins governing four horses. From
top to toe he is tense with exertion
and ambition to reach his goal. His
faithful steeds catching his spirit,
] 'anting and with dilated nostrils
press onward until the race is won.
Are our spiritual muscles the only-
ones which need no strengthening?
Or are the prizes of mastery over
self, or the victory of the super-
natural over the natural, not worth
obtaining? Of one thing, we may be
sure in our own work of Christian
Social Service, great and lasting re-
sults cannot be obtained, without
Truth, Courage, and Labor; courage
to differ from the conventionalities of
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MRS. RICHARD WILLIAMS,
Of Greenville, is serving her 7th term as Secretary of The King's Daughters
and Sons.
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the day and to preserve in public de-
meanor the independence of private
thought.
In a recent address before farmers
and farm women, the assertion was
made that the whole face of the
world will change, when we realize
that it is just as much to be ex-
pected that a girl should make her
living, as that a man should, but the
speaker did not add that it was ori-
ginally intended that they should not
be made in the same manner. Man
was told that he was to earn his living
by the sweat of his brow, women by
looking after her household. That
sometimes bedews her brow, too in
this day. Life has become so com-
plex that now women often have to
earn their living as man does, and all
honor is due to them for following
such a course, but it does not seem
to me that they should be taught that
this is their first aim in life. I think
the best way for a young woman to
■earn her living, is not to catch, but
to be caught by a worthy young man.
This is the best sort of give and take
that I know of. Our social Service
should be characterized by earnestness
and personal contact. The touch
of the hand and the sound of the voice
prepare the way for helping our
brother. Bishop Anderson, of Chicago,
ended an address made some years
ago at a Brotherhood meeting, with
a story containing a lesson about
personal work which may help us.
There was an American traveling in
Switzerland. He wished to ascend
■one of the mountains. An Omnibus
"was ready for travelers and there were
three kinds of tickets — first class —
second class — and third class. The
American, being an American, bought
sl first class ticket. He noticed that
the purchasers of second and third
class tickets got in the omnibus with
himself. He did not like that idea,
asked why a person who got a third
class ticket rides along side of me
who bought a first class ticket. The
driver told him to wait and see. They
came to the foot of a hill. The driver
called out — first class passengers may
keep their seats, second class pas-
sengers can get out and walk, third
class passengers get out and shove.
Fellow travellers, we do not claim
to be first class passengers, but we
do claim to engage all together in a
great work. So, in the words of
Bishop Anderson, For God's sake let
us all get out and shove.
REPORT OF STATE SECRETARY.
By Mrs. Richard Williams.
Madam President, Daughters of the
King and Friends :
In noting the flight of time, I am
brought to realize that another year
has been granted to us, bringing me
to the great privilege of again sub-
mitting my Annual Report. It is with
feelings of genuine pleasure, deep
gratitude and hopeful expectancy that
I attempt to make a record of my
stewardship as your Recording State
Secretary.
In renewing the work of the year,
I And that activities all along the
line have strengthened and advanced,
all the Circles have co-operated in the
great work given us to do and have
faithfully kept in view that "In His
Name,'' there is scarce a limitation
to our accomplishments. I'm sure
we all consider it a wonderful privi-
lege, that our Annual Meeting is being
held at the Stonewall Jackson Train-
ing School. It was indeed thoughtful
of the Stonewall Circle of Concord to
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invite the Convention to Concord
and the Jackson Training School,
around which cluster our dearest love
and strongest hopes. Seeing such
tangible results of our united efforts
cannot fail to be an inspiration to
each one of us for further service. The
dedication of the handsome Stone
Bridge marks an important era in the
history of our progress and will stand
not only, as a memorial to our brave
dead, but serve in promoting the wel-
fare of the many thousand noble boys
who shall cross it to be instructed in
God's word and thereby inspired to
a higher life of usefulness, integrity
and honor. The beautiful windows
portraying the labor of love and
loyalty of our departed Sisters is but
a fitting tribute to the memory of
those who have now passed into the
' ' Great Beyond ' ' and have received
the welcome words of "Well done
thou good and faithful servants."
On our Roll at present we have (26)
twenty-six Circles with a member-
ship of many more than a thousand
(am sorry I cannot give exact num-
ber but several Circles have not yet
returned their Membership Blanks.)
There are still (8) Junior Circles
very active and doing splendid work.
These circles should be a great inspi-
ration to us. The largest Circles in the
State are the Stonewall Jackson,
Concord; 'Sheltering Home, Durham;
Burden Bearers, Chapel Hill; What-
soever, Wilmington; Relief, Salis-
bury; and Whatsoever, Henderson.
The Nora C. Dixon Circle in Gas-
tonia lead by Mrs. B. F . Dixon is at
present quite small, she, being the
only member, but it is soon to be re-
vived and she hopes that the interest
may thereby be increased. She is to
be commended for her loyalty and
earnestness in striving to raise this
Circle to a greater membership and
wider scope of activities. We are all
very proud and grateful for The
King's Sons in the State, all of whom
are true and loyal members of the
Order.
The Whatsoever Circle, Wilming-
ton, has six (6) members on the
Cradle Roll. The usual number of
Executive Committee meetings have
been held, one in Chapel Hill, two in
Greenville and the last in the Audi-
torium of the Sshool, last night,
November 7th. I have sent (26)
twenty-six Convention Calls besides
extra Calls to the State Officers, Mem-
bers of Executive Committee, Branch
Presidents, Silver Cross, New York,
and many warm and interested friends
of the Order. Letters, postals and etc.
written during the year, about Two
Hundred and Twenty-five.
Membership blanks were sent to
each President asking for a list of the
Officers and Members of her Circle,
this has been complied with by the ma-
jority of the Circles. I would kindly
suggest that all the Circles be very
prompt in sending in their Reports as
it greatly aids the Secretary in her
work and making her Report for the
Convention. We deeply regret, that
after much thought and investigation
it was again found "too expensive"
to have a Journal printed, giving a
full account, including the Officers
and Circle's Reports, of the most
splendid Convention held last Septem-
ber in Chapel Hill. So through the
curtesy of ' ' The Silver Cross ' ' the
official organ of the Order, a con-
densed report of last year's Conven-
tion was printed in the January num.-
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ber, about thirty (30) extra copies forts have been so greatly blest in a
of this magazine were distributed material way, let us not forget to
^mong the Circles of the State. I render our heartfelt thanks to the
find from the reports the amount of great Bestower of every good and per-
money disbursed by the Circles. The feet gift. May this scene be an in-
steady increase is most interesting. spiration to us to go forward in the
From 1913 (the year the Secretary's work and service of our King,
book was turned over to me) the In closing, I wish to extend to all
amount disbursed, with the fifty per my co-workers my sincere apprecia-
cent increase which has been the tion of their aid and encouragement
average increase for the past several and that my earnest prayer and hearty
years, makes the amount now. . desire is, that we may all press on-
$116,239. IS ward with renewed energy, untiring
The amount disbursed in 1913 zeal, ardent hope and steadfastness
$7,150.86 of purpose to do even greater things
The amount disbursed in 1917 '"In His Xame," believing that our
$9,480.78 work shall be as a "City set on a
The amount disbursed in 1921 hill, which cannot be hid. ' ' That our
$14,162.98 work, shall be as a shinning light,
This is not the total amount of dis- '"Which shineth more and more unto
bursements, as so many Circles have the perfect day. ' ' That our work
not sent in any Report; neither is the shall be a beacon which shall cast
Silver Offering included in this its radiance over the visits of ages
amount. and throughout the annuals of time,
While this magnificent showing of being expanded, perfected and beauti-
figures is very gratifying that our ef- tied in eternity.
House 01 Dreadful Nonsense.
So long as terrible affliction sta\s away from us or our loved ones, we
are not brought face to face to the needs of tender cire being given to
those who are sadly afflicted. The picture which Miss Battle paints, only
in part, of what she saw and heard on a visit to a North Carolina State in-
stitution, ghen over to the care of the mentally dethroned, touches the
human heart in such a way that not a dollar, which the state spends in
this direction, is begrudged.
This most gloomy picture makes
the thoughtful carefulness of the
moth?r state in what she is doing at
Rileigh and Morganton, under the
wise guidance of Dr. Anderson and
Dr. McCampbell, respectively, stand
•out to the credit and glory of a state
that has learned to carry arojnd its
heart on her sleeve. And this is
Miss Battle's picture:
On the outskirts of Raleigh, where
it does not often c >me to the at-
tention of normal folks, there is a
house of dreadful nonsense. On Dix
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Hill is one of the three most deeply
pitiful communities in the State.
Reason has no rule of order there.
Discord most horrible has usurped
its place. There, the wild hallucin-
ation, the mad frenzy, the distorted
dream inspire only to destroy.
In all the wonder of words that is
Shakespeare's, nothing is finer thin
Ophelia's description of Hamlet's
madness, when she say that she sees
"that noble and most
soveregin reason
Like sweet bells jangled, out of
tune and harsh;
'J hat unmatched from and fea-
ture of blown youth
Blasted with ecbtacy."
On Dix Hill such "bells" in whose
former music trends and loved ones
have delighted, now jangle with dis-
cordancy haish enough to break
the heart. Mure powerful incite-
ment to grateful prayer from the
normal than those wretched ruins at
the Sate Hospital that, ecstasy has
blasted, it would be hard to find.
A girl of twenty-one who changed
the college for the mad-house raves
behind a grated window that looks
out up' n the beautiful park where
free folk pass at will. She is bare-
footed, clothed in a straight, coarse,
canvas gown, with her hair hanging
disordered in thin strands about her
distressing face, across the broken
youth ot which wildness and inanity
chase each other. In her frenzy,
she tears to shreds the bed clothing
and whatever garments yield to her
fierceness.
All of a heap by the wall, a wom-
an crouches crying frantically day
in, day out, against the fire that
she believes to be burning her cruel-
ly. A congenital idiot of a dwarf,
mis-shapen, terrifying, with a beard
on her woman's face like some hor-
ribly grotesque figure in a troubled
dream, paces up and down, up and
down, on deformed and twisted feet
with teirible restlessness. A little old
lady, white haired, with a good and
gentle face, moans unceasingly in
her religious melancholia over her
soul that she thinks lost from God
beyond redemption. A man wrings
his hands without rest because of
imagined torment that will not be
quenched. An elderly fat woman
carries a broom for a gun, and be-
lives herself a soldier, a "member of
the Home Guard" who has no busi-
ness in an asylum. An eager-faced
mother, who must once have had
charm is convinced that she "can
throw her voice Japan," and is more
concerned over the feat than in the
fate of her children left with her
stricken husband.
Snatches of meaningless song
came down the corriders, jabberings,
moan, senseless disputes, and most
heart rendering of all, the weird,
wild laugh of madness.
But perhaps even more pitiable
than the super-active lunatics are
the creatures of imbecile blankness,
with faces as hopelessly expression-
less as wood, eating, digesting,
sleeping often fattening, but seldom
moving, sitting almost motionless
through the monotonous unvarying
hours like great vegetables, no more.
So day after day breaks, waxes,
wanes and dies over Dix Hill. So,
day after day, the girls-maniac tears
her clothes to shreds, the bearded
dwarf paces, paces; the crouching
woman shinks from the fire about
to consume her; the little old lady
laments her soul eternally lost; the
elderly fat woman marches with her
broom-gun; the tormented man
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wrings his miserable hands; the
^ager-faced mother throws he voice
to the Orient.
And, by the grace of God, in a
world of rational beings, you go
ab^ut your business that you have
the sense to transact, and I write
"Incidentally." With all our mental
vagaries, we still have wits enongh
to know that we should not tear
our garments to strips; that earthly
fires do not burn without visible
flames; that unceasing pacing gets
nowhere; that a soul can never be
lost beyond redemption from a God
of everlasting mercy and love; that,
as yet, woman have no place in the
i ome Guards; and that only the
wireless can instautly transmit mes-
sages five thousand n:iles.
It seems to me that always when
my path looks steep, I shall remem-
der that girl in hei witless violence,
jibbering nonsense, rending her
clothes to express the turbulent con-
fusion of her mind, running her use-
less, aimless young hands up and
down those dreadful bars that sep-
arate her from hope. I shall think
of the cruel futility of such a blast-
ed life, and know than Heaven has
been kind to me.— Nell Battle Lewis-
Backlog Studies
By Charles Dudley Warner.
The fire on the hearth hns almost gone out in New England; the hearth
has gone out; the family has lost its center; age ceases to be respected; sex
is only distinguished by the difference between millinery bills and tailors'
bills; there is no more toast-and-
cider; the young are not allowed to
eat mince pie at ten o'clock at night;
half a cheese is no longer set to toast
before the fire; you scarcely ever
see, in front of the coals, a row of
roasting apples, which a bright little
girl, with many a dive and starts
shielding her sunny face from the
fire with one hand, turns from time
to time; scarce are the gray-hair
sires who strops their razors on the
family Bible, and doze in thechimn-
ney corner. A good many things
have gone out with the fire on the
hearth.
1 do not mean to say that public
and private morality have vanished
with the hearth. A good degree of
puritv and considerable happiness
are nossible with grates and blowers;
Possible w a^ when we are aH
passing through a fiery furnace,
and very likely we shall be purified
as we are dried up and wasted away.
Of course the family is gone, as an
institution, thought there still are
attempts to bring up a family round
a "register." But you might
just as well try to bring it up by
hand, as without the rallying point
of a hearthstone. Are there any
homestead nowadays? Do people
hesitate to change houses any more
than thev do to change their clothes?
People hire houses as they would a
masquerade costume, liking, some-
times, to appear for a year in a lit-
tle fictions stone-front splendor above
their means. Thus it happens that
so many people live in houses that
do not fit them. I should almost as
soon think of wearing another
person's clothes as his house; unless
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I could let it out and take it in until
it fitted, and somehow expressed my
own character and taste. But we
have fallen into the days of con-
formity. It is no wonder that people
constantly go into their neighbors'
houses by mistake, just as, in spite
of the Maine law, they wear away
each other's hats from an evening
party. It has almost come to this,
that you might as well be anybody
else as yourself.
Am I mistaken in supposing that
this is owing to the discontinuance
of big chimneys, with wide fire-
places in them? How can a person
be attached to a house that has- no
center attraction, no soul in ir, in
the visible form of a glowing fire
and a warm chimney, like the heart
in the body? When you think of
the old homestead, if you ever do,
your thoughts go straight to the
wide chimney and its burning logs.
No wonder that you are ready to
move from one fireplace'ess house
into another. But you have some-
thing just as good, you say. Yes, I
have heard of it. This age, which
imitates everything, even to the vir-
tues of our ancesters, has invented
a fireplace, with artificial, iron, or
composition logs in it, hacked and
painted, in which gas is burned, so
that it has the appearance of a wood
fire. This seems to me blasphemy.
Do you think a cat would lie down
before it? Can you poke it? If you
cannot poke it, it is a fraud. To
poke a wood fire is more solid en-
joyment than almost anything else
in the world. The crowning human
virtue in a man is to let his wife poke
the fire. I do not know how any
virture whatever is possible over an
imitation gas log. What a sense of
insincerity the family must have, if
they indulge in hypocrisy of gather-
ing about it. With th;s center of
untruthfulr.tss, what must the life in
the family be? Perhaps the father
will be living at the rate of ten
thousand a year on a salary of four
thousand; perhaps the mother, more
beautiful and younger than her
beautified daughters, will rouge;
perhaps the young ladies will make
wax work. A cynic, might suggest
fs the motto of modern life this
simple legend, "Just as good as the
real." But I am not a cynic, and I
hope for ihe rekindling of wood
fires, and a return of the beautiful
home light from them. If a wood
fire is a luxury, it is cheaper than
many in which we indulge without
thought, and cheaper than the visits
of a doctor, made necessary by the
want of the ventilation of the
house. Not that I have anything
against doctors; I only wish, after
they have been to see us in a way
that seems so friendly, they had
nothing against us.
"Well, the editor of the Record is a North Carolinian, reared in a
stone's throw of this splendid county of Chatham. He has cast his lot
among some mighty good folks. He is interested in the general welfare
of Chatham county; the precedent has been broken, the unwritten code
violated and, inasmuch as the pie is spoiled, we expect to continue to do
our durndest to eradicate the liquor evil from this section of our native
state. Thanks." — Chatham Record.
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The Inner Mission — What It Is
By Mrs Charles P. Wiles.
One day as a young lad was reading his copy of "Young Folks" he came
across the words. "Inner Mission." "What can that mean?'' he said to
bimself. He had heard his pastor and his Sunday-School teacher talk a good
deal about Home Missions and Foreign Missions and he thought he under-
stood what those terms meant, but Inner Missions was new to him.
Calling his older brother, he asked
lor an explanation. Step by step
the brother led him. Since a mis-
sionary is one who carries a message
a foreign missionary must be one
who carries a message to people in
fortign lands. If we speak of Home
Missions, we mean taking the mes-
sage to the "Heathen" in our own
land. Putting "inner" before the
word "Missions" means carrying a
message, just the same, but primar-
ily, to those within the Church who
may need a Gospel message, or a
message in deeds.
The younger brother was made
see that deeds of mercy to those less
fortunate than ourselves must be
done if one is a real Christian. If
we do not give service such as that
then we are deceiving ourselves and
have not real religion.
Whi'e home mission work means
the gathering in of those in our own
land who are without the Church
and perhaps indifferent to it, looking
also tu the orgrnizing of churches,
inner mission has all forms of charity
work as a leading feature Inner
mission should, and do, carry the
Gospel message, as do home missions.
In the latter the preaching of the
Gospel is foremost, while in inner
missions it is one, but not necessarily
the ontstanding feature.
ITS ORIGIN
We sometimes hear inner mission
work spoken of as if it were a new
idea. It is not a discovery of our
time. The early church is a model
for all time in this line of work.
"The world before Christ came was
a world without love." Christ
taught that the acid test of disciple-
ship was having love for others in
the heart.
Such teaching was foreign to
heathenism. Heathen philosophers
taught such things as this: "He
does the beggar but a bad servics
who gives him meat and drink; for
what he gives is lost, and the life of
the poor is prolonged to their own
misery." VVhile here and there
among heathen writers we find
noble sentiments express, Plato
taught that all beggars should be
driven out; that, sick people should
not receive any consideration,
and that when a workingman be-
came so worn out that he was not
good for any thing any longer and
became ill, he should be used to ex-
periment on.
While the government in those
early days distributed grain to the
poor, yet it. was done in many cases
to prevent uprising among the
people if their sufferings became
unbearable. Is it any wonder that
the heathen were impressed when
they saw how the early Christians
loved each other? The Church, in
that time, was like a big family. If
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any one was in need, be was helped
from a common fund, for "they had
all things in common."
There were no institutions of
mercy in those early days, for none
were needed. Everywhere the hous-
es of Christians stood open for the
care of the needy breathren or for
the entertainment of strangers.
"Destitute orphans were reared
by widows or deaconesses under the
supervision of a bishop. Often child-
ren that had been abandoned by the
the heathen---and there were many
— were received and given a Chris-
tian education."
Then, also, when in times of pes-
tilence the heathens abandoned
their sick, and cast the dead and
dying into the streets, the Chris-
tians cared tenderly for those still
living and buried the dead. ■ Christ
had given them an example that
they should follow in His steps,
for everywhere His preaching and
teaching were accompanied by works
of mercy.
WHAT THE INNER MISSION DOES
1 he work of the Inner Mission is
both varied and far reaching. "Here
we behold asylums in which children
are sheltered from destitution, there,
houses of refuge in which men are
helped out of moral ruin; here
homes in which travellers are pre-
served from temptation; there, in-
stitutions which provide a home for
female servants; here the navvies on
our railroads have the privilege of
hearing the Gospel; there, the emi-
grants are visited that they may take
a message from the Word of God
way with them; here oversight is
given to the prisoners; there, the
sick and wcunded are cared for.
And so the work goes on."
THE FATHER OF THE INNER MISSION
was Johann Heinrich Wichern, born
in Hamburg April 21, 1808. Condi-
tions in Germany during the years
of nis boyhood were deplorable. As
soon as his university life was closed
he associated himself with a Sunday-
school in his native town, the first
school of the kind in Germany.
In his work as a visitor he became
familiar with the life of the poorest
day-laborers, the side of the popu-
lation that is the great feeder of the
criminal class.
He came to know not only the
spiritual and moral wretchedness of
the families from which the children
in his school came, but he saw the
physical wretchedness of the poor as
he had never seen it before. It seem-
ed to him almost idle to attempt to
change conditions. "If only the
children could be rescued," he
thought. The evil influences that
surrounded the child during the
week quite over balanced the in-
struction given on the Sabbath. He
saw that it was almost useless to
try to influence them for good as
long as they were exposed to daily
vice. To train them at the Sunday-
school while they ii v f d in their old
haunts was like rolling a stone up
hill during the day, only to let it roll
back at night. It seemed to hirn
that for any real benefit the child-
ren should be taken out of their
environment and kept entirely away
from former companions.
The need was great. The increase
of juvenile criminals was 70 per cent,
above the increase in population.
There were fifteen thousand boys in
London between the ages of eight
and twelve who lived by theft. Sep-
aration was necessary, and a shelter
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for the children.
The desire to relieve the situation
became his uppermost tl ought.
Accordingly, on October 31, 1833,
he, with his mother and sister, moved
into a small house in a suburb of
Hamburg, and here a child saving
institution was established. It was
not to be an orphanage nor a ragged
school, neither a beggar's asylum
nor a house of correction, but a
Christian household.
Very humble were the beginnings.
It is said that bread, salt and the
Bible were all that the dining table
in the living room had to < ffer. This
institution became the pattern for
manv similar institutions not only in
Germany but in other lar.ds.
The "family system" was charact-
eristic in Wichern's child saving-
work. He would have no more
children together than would make
oni household. They would have a
household head or "housefather"
and household' ways--
Possibly the most important davits
Wichern's life was the clay on which
he made his fervent speech before
the Church Congress, September 22,.
1848
In his fervent speech he called for
the whole church to unite in an ef-
fort to stay the tide of evil. The
time had come for the entire church
to n ake the Inner Mission her works
and show her faith by her works
ff love. The effect of his earnest
plea was instant ar.d resultvd in the
organization Jtnuary 4, 1849 of the
Central Committee fur 'he Inner
Mission nf the German Evangelical
Church. Natuial'y, Wichern was
the If ading spii it.
It.will b seer, then, that the Inner
Mission idea is ly no means new,
that it grew out of the U aching of
Jesus Chiisf, and that it is the con-
tinuation ( f the ministry of Hin*
"who went abcut doing good."
Institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
Dirt is being hauled and leveled in
front of fifth cottage.
Lockwood Pickett, of Durham, has
received an honorable parole as a re-
ward for his fine services and behavior
while at the school.
Wednesday was a peculiar and rare
day in that it brought not a single
visitor from home to see the boys
here.
Mr. J. D. Haney, electrician, of
Charlotte, has been working on the
big motor which runs the machinery
in the shop building.
Rev. T. W. Smith, of Concord^
brought to the boys the Sunday mes-
sage. They all extend cordial invita-
tion for his early return.
The President of the literary so-
ciety of Xo. 5, the Shaw Literary
Society, has written a letter to Miss
Easdale Shaw, of Rockingham, an-
nouncing to her that the 5th cottage
Society was pleased to adopt her name
as theirs. Miss Shaw is a member of
the Board of Trustees of this schooL
Sunday, being a very pretty day,
invited all th-a boys out into the open,
so a few cottages took walks up and
down the highway. This was a flni
day for walking and having just g
small touch of Spring, with its reawak-
ening the boys spirits rose consider-
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ably. Laughter bubbled from every
part of the ra iks. The boys came
back to the school feeling tired, but
nevertheless very happy.
New boys are arriving at the school
night and day, and sometimes two and
three at a time. It seems as though
an officer's prophecy that live hun-
dred boys are to be sent to the school,
is going to be fulfilled. It is to be hop-
ed for the more boys started on the
right path, means a feather in the cap
so to speak of the school. The boys
are happy to see new boys arrive for
each new boy that comes, means a boy
turned to the straight and narrow
path.
Thanks to Mr. J. E. Latham's gen-
erosity, the band instruments, while
not in use, are kept in the rear room
of the pavilion, a living monument to
his name. It is more convenient
more readily accessible, to Bandmas-
ter Lawrence and the boys. The old
place of keeping the instruments was
in a vacant room of the school build-
ign. As Charlotte 's motto is :
"Watch Charlotte grow," so our
motto is: "Watch our Band grow."
A smile on every boys' face last
Friday was very much in evidence.
Why? Usually the boys wear a smile
just for a good habit, but one look at
the eager expectancy on the would-be
musician 's face makes you understand
that something very pleasing to them
is about to happen. Your deduction
is right. The band-master is start-
ing on his new journey to train boys
for the honorable and glorious position
of musicians. The band was revived
after a period of dormancy. When
the school section prepared to go to
school, Mr. Lawrence called out the
names of the lucky new ones. Of
course, there were boys who regretted
that they didn't get in the band, but
all are happy because we have a band.
Boys, sometime in your existence
you will come to a fork in the Road of
of Life. Before you are two roads
in imagination, let us follow the road
to the left. How fine and nicely
paved it seems, as we travel over it,
however, after a few miles, holes
and bumps bgin to appear in it. They
become more frequent. The road nar-
rows considerably. Bumps and jolts
break in our reverier of a "get-rich-
quick ' ' scheme. The road becomes
unbearable. We come to a small
cabin. It contains but one room.
We ask who lives in this place. We
are told that Mr. So and So, the for-
ger, lives here. At the very end of
this road we come to a dilapidated
hovel. Upon asking who lives here
we are. told that Mr. So and So, the
murderer, abides here. So this is the
ending of the fine, appearing road.
But now let us turn to the other
road. The first stretch of it appears
hard to travel, but it is different
with the other road. After a time
it becomes smoother and smoother.
What is it that shines clearer and
clearer just over the hill"? As we
near it glory covers us and we find
that it is Success. Let us hope that
Fred Blue is not deceived by these two
roads in the climb of life.
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| Shuts la And Shuts Out.
% A man was standing in a telephona booth try-
* inS to talk, but could not make o it the message.
* He kept saying, "I can't hear, I can't hoar." The
% other man by-an-by said sharply, "if you'll shut
* the door you can hear." His door was not shut,
* and he could hear not only the man's voice but
* the street and store noises too. Some folks have
% gotten their hearing bally confused because their
* doors have not been shut enough. Man's voice
% and God's voice get mixed in their ears. — S. D.
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton.
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor.
JESSE C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as seeond-cla?s matter Deo. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord, N.
C, under the Act of March 3, K--79
PLANNING FOR NECESSITY.
There have been up to this time sd many things needed to facilitate the
work of the Jackson Training School that we hesitated to avail ourselves
of the usual generosity and responsiveness of the public in the interest of
a certain epuipnicnt, that could be deferred until other things were install-
ed.
Up to this good day, we have had the basis of a small library, together with
magazines and other suitable periodicals, in each of the cottage homes.
Now, that we have suitable Library Space in our new School Building (the
centre of the plant) and a number of friends have indicated their desire to
aid in supplying this room with a collection of books 2nd the gift of mon-
ey to the end that we may collect a Library, which will not only contribute
to the pleasure of the boys but be of genuine aid towards a proper educa-
tion, we have decided to take the public into our confidence.
Mr. VV. J. Swink, a public spirited and successful business man of China
Grove, always a lover of books and who knows their value, has sent in one
hundred dollars as a starter. We confidently expect others, who are in-
terested in carrying to the less fortunate the great benefits of good books,
to aid in this benevolent cau'-e.
We are aware that there are in all homes, where culture has not been ig-
nored, a book or books, which no longer serve a purpose in said homes and
in some instances an object of care to home-keepers, that could be placed in
pur library and become an active agent for goo.l and service. We desire
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reference books, encyclopoedias, atlases, books of travel, history, science,
fiction, philosophy, biography, classics, orations--all kinds of books that
have any value whatsoever, except the Jesse James type of literature, If
out of the goodness of your heart you have a money contribution, or a
book or books, send along1, simply addressing the letter or the package:
LIBRARY, Jackson Training School, Concord. It will find the right place,
will be properly looked after and will be acknowledged.
This is an opportunity within the reach of most every one---the good will
be unending; and will he like "bread cast upon the water,'' returning to
bless you.
as******
GOT A HEAD AND USES IT.
When the great snow of last week covered the state, there was a man
with a head and who uses it to the advantage of the state and to the bene-
fit of her citizenship. This terse telegram, on Friday the 27th, was ser.t
out to three hundred maintenance gangs, whose business it is to look
after the State's public roads:
This snow gives you an opportunity to prove efficiency of your
maintenance organization. Condition of your roads two weeks from
now will prove how good you are, Let's go.
FRANK PAGE,
State Highway Commissioner.
Chairman Page will not have to wait two weeks to see "how good" his
organization is. Saturday morning, taking just one road, typical of others,
it was snow everywhere, the only way of locating the road was by the cuts,
fills and ditches on either side. Saturday afternoon, there was a perfectly
clear track the organization had effected; and Sunday the road presented
as good and dry appearance as it does in Summer.
If you doubt it, Mr. Chairman Page, start your high-powered roadster
on the Raleigh-Albemarle-ConcordCharlotte highway---seeing is believing.
WHITHER AREcWE DRIFTING?
Twice a month there comes cut from the North Carolina College for
Women an eight-page paper, bearing the head-gear of "North Carolina
Community Progress." It is edited by a foreign-born gentleman of brill-
iant attainments and who entertains very original notions about things
heretofore as accepted and established facts.
In the latest number of that paper is an article, "Recreation and Tne
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Sabbath," purporting to be the drift of a discussion carried on by a "small
group" of ministers. Whoever the ministers may have been, they would
have been accomplishing more good for humanity and the cause of which
they are the ordained heralds, by studying the problem of how to stop
idle loitering, how to get some of the little heathen into the Sunday Schools
and many of the big heathen into the habit of attending divine worship.
Instead of these important and necessary acts, the ministers, it is alleged
were debating how to carry on many every-day and wordly sports, base-
ball and other things, during the "leisure" hours on Sundays.
"REMEMER 'I HE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY" seems just as
bounded upon the people of this century as it was when uttered ages ago.
Probably some of these ministers and their sympathisers may question the
authority from which this command comes, and, like some others, look up-
on the Great Book in wh'ch rhe command to "Remember the Sabbath to
keep it holy" is recorded as the work of a brilliant writer and not the in-
spired word. But here is the story of that .meeting from "Community
Progress:"
"Some time ago a small group of ministers gathered for a day's discus,
sion regarding the problem of Sunday leisure time. Those who took part
in the discussion were largely young ministers who were face to face with
one of the vital issues of our day, namt-ly the constructive use of leisure
hours. The secretary of the gathering kept notes on the discussions and
conclusions, and his report follows:
1 The Sunday leisure time problem is unsolved. It challenges the gen-
ius and statesmanship of the leaders of religious life in our communities.
2 The policy of the church has been too largely that of prohibition. A
constructive progrm is essential.
3 The leadership element looms so large in the problem of recreation
that the church must recognize it as incumbent upon the religious leaders
to lead the community recreationally also.
4 Those planning such a program must be governed by the obvious
needs of the community more largely than by the prejudices of some few
persons of good religious standing who might be inclined to introduce tra-
ditional objections.
5 The pastor, by reason of his leadership, is under primary responsi-
bility for such a program. He should if .-possible work behind the scenes,
the nominal leadership being committed to laymen.
Types of Sunday Leisure Time Activity
The following were among the types of purposeful activity suggested as
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valuable for Sunday afternoon when directed by Christian leader.
1 Hikes. Groups for nature study.
Boy Scouts.
Sunday School Classes.
2 Lawn gatherings for young people. Miscellaneous programs..
3 Pageantry.
4 Story hour. For story telling and dramatization,
5 Hand work. For boys and girls.
t> Adequate social life in jut.oir and senoir B. Y. P. U.
7 Baseball. Promoted by and attended by Christian leaders.
8 Auto trips. Planned with a view to making them educationally and
socially valuable.
9 Supervised play en playground or in gy.n.
10 Public library open Sunday afternoon.
11 Neighborhood visitation.
It was suggested thac ministers should poineer in this fLdd to discover
methods that would conserve che values of plrty and recreational life— at
the same time promoting the intrests of the Kingdom."
WORK FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
The late issue of Charity & Children, making note of certain require-
ments demanded of the teachers by the authorities of the Moeksville Public
school, makes this observation:
"In a series of resolutions adopted by the school board of the Moeks-
ville district the 4th article reads as follows: We insist that our teach-
ers, whatever may be their private opinions in regard to Sabbath ob-
servance, card playing, theatre going, dancing, unchaperoned auto-
mobiling riding, especially at night, immodest wearing apparel, etc.,
shall during their stay in Moeksville conform to the teachings of their
respective churches on the subjtct of all questionable amusements.
That is a very sensible deliverance and the request co the teachers em-
ployed to train the children committed to their care is entirely rea-
sonable."
Controlling absolutely the certification of their qualification and the
amount of the salaries, it is passing strange that the educational autocracy
under which we are living in North Carolina has not prescribed a code of
conduct for the teachers, thus relieving the several communities of the task.
Again, this would tend toward a uniformity and a standardization, two
loving twin pets constantly and affectionately nursed.
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THE DOUBLE STANDARD.
There is not a shadow of doubt that woman, herself, is responsible for
the existence, prevalence and toleration of the double standard about which
the moralists write so much The double standard is all wrong, is repre-
hensible and promotes much of the sin-. amongst us.
The other day, a man's wife became involved in a cloud of scandal---
the man put her away, deserted her. Her sin was not condoned for a mo-
ment, and cho had to take her medicine, which included disgrace and ban-
ishment. A little later a woman found her husband in the toils of the law-
there was rife all manner of reports about his conduct, his practices of a
sporty life. The climax came along in due lime. Did the wife desert him,
send him away? She grew closer to him; and the tighter the outraged law
closed in around him, the closer it drew the little wife. And when the
court was appealed to for mercy, the husband gave way to tears, then the
little wife "moved closer to him, and they sat shoulder to shoulder." This
is the way the woman has of doing--a way that the man never practices.
The double standard will cease only when woman decrees it, not before.
Will that time ever arrive?
• •«»»»»»
OUR BOYS
Taking note of the raising of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fun, ex
pressed a desire to make a contribution themselves out of the little bank
account they carry with the institution. Accordingly Messrs. Johnson and
Crooks and Miss Greenlee, our teachers, permitted the boys to have their
way in maidn g this childhood expression of love and esteem. The boys fun
thus raised amounted to six dollars, which will go foward to the State
Chairman, Mrs. Josephus Daniels, by way of the Concord Tribune.
"The President of the United States authorized the writing of a letter to
the editor of the Biblical Recored, explaining that modern dances are not
permitted in the White House and that Mr. Harding has not shaken his
foot but once in twelve years. We fancy that Mrs. Harding dictated that
letter as it is not at all like the good natured President.''— Charity & Chil-
dren. Now, brother Johnson, are we to understand that you think that
the "first lady" of the land is not exactly "good natured?"
The Uplift has arranged a clubbing arrangement with The Progressive
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Farmer, that great farm and home journal, which Dr. Clarence Poe has
made the leading home paper in the country. The subscription price of
The Uplift is two dollars per annum, and The Progressive Farmer is one
dollar per annum, but we have arranged so that both may be had for just
two dollars and fifty cents, cash. The Progressive Farmer is of such a
character that it appeals to all class's of people in search of knowledge,
the professional man and the mechanic, as well as to the farmer.
Though we had gotten used to hearing of the terrible loss of human life
during the world war, the terrible calamity that, overtook the theater
party in the Knickerbocker theater in Washir.gtcn, on Saturday evenir.g,
when the roof collapsed killing more than a hundred men, women and child-
ren, and probably fatally injuring hundreds of others and maiming for
life scores of others, strikes awe to the American heart.
It is proclaimed that the recent snow- storm is the severest within a
period of twenty-three years. It is the first time that the Southern Rail-
way was ever unable to operate a train out of Washington for two days on
account of snow. There were at one time eleven trains tie 1 up between
Washington and Alexandria, Va.
THE HSHER.
A Fisher once took his bagpipe to the bank of a river, and play-
ed upon them with the hope of making the fish rise; but never a
one put his nose out of the water. So he cast his net into the
river and soon drew it forth filled with fish. Then he took his bag-
pipes again, and, as he played, the fish leapt up in the net. "Ah,
you dance now when I play," said he. "Yes" said an old Fish:
"WHEN YOU ARE IN A MAN'S POWER YOU MUST DO AS
HE BIDS YOU."
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RUFUS REIB CLARK.
The subject of our sketch furnishes an exception to the Biblical statement,
which we so often hear, that a prophet is not without honor save iu his own
community. ''Rufe" Clark, as so many of his friends affectionately think
and speak of him, is in reality the architect of his own foiitune, and he
burgeoned it out right among the people who knew him and his folks for gen-
erations. And he came into the business of living at a chaotic period in the
affairs of this country, having been born January 24th, 1864, on a farm in the
candles and had entered into the en-
joyment of the very last word, then,
in the best lighting thing that pro-
gress and civilization afforded. What-
ever may have been the fate of the
Lamp Post, I know that Clark re-
turned to the farm for a year, but his
system had become so charged with
the odor of printer's ink that at the
end of a year he entered the office of
The News, at Darlington, S. C.
Following up the youthful move-
ments of young Clark, we find that a
short period in the commonwealth
just to the south of us convinced our
subject that he could never become
acclimated and make a regulation
South Carolinian, so following his
ta,stcs and judgment he accepted a
position at Statesville, the c-apitol of
his native county, in the office of
The Landmark, then a weekly and
edited and published by the late J. P.
Caldwell. It is here, beginning with
September 1st, 18S3, that Rufus Reid
Clark discovered himself and began
to develop into the useful, capable,
sterling man that he is recognized to
be by hundreds throughout the State
and so held by his neighbors and
fellow citizens.
In the landmark office for nine
years, continuing up to January 1st,
1892, when Mr. Caldwell went to
Charlotte to take charge of the Chron-
southern part of Iredell county, lie
was the youmj. -,t ..*_ a fa. ly of six
children. His parents were tt. PI. and
Sarah Hill Clark.
There is nothing out of the ordinary
in Clark's youth, other than he en-
countered, as hundreds of others did
in those times, a stagnation of oppor-
tunities; the curses of a re-construc-
tion period at the hands of hungry
and unscrupulous foreigners, the
darkest of futures, want, suffering and
doubt. Up to the age of fourteen
young Clark worked on the farm
and attended for a few weeks or
months each year such country schools
as the times afforded. In January,
1870, he entered the office of the
Moorosville Gazette, the first news-
paper published at that place, to
learn the trade of a printer. Two
years afterwards the paper ceased to
exist — no fault of his — (a thing many
papers had a habit of doing in that
period,) and fur six months during
18S1 young Clark did the mechanical
work in the office of the Lamp Post,
a paper published at Marion. I have
a fancy for this unique name tor a
newspaper. The very name carries
volumes of history. In those days
it was an aristocratic and progressive
name, announcing to the world that
Marion had passed beyond the reign
of lights from pine knots and tallow
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RUFUS REID CLARK
Statesville, N. C.
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IX
iclo, which Inter became The Observer
young Clark directed the mechanical
end of making of that paper, the then
ablest and best printed weekly news-
paper in the whole state. During this
period, he gave to Mr. Caldwell valu-
able assistance in news editing, local
writing and proof-reading, in all of
which he became practically a master.
When Mr. Caldwell removed to Char-
lotte, Mr. Clark purchased a half in-
terest in The Landmark; and in a
short time converted The Landmark
into a semi-weekly, and about ten
years later became sole owner of this
most excellent and valuable newspaper
and its equipment.
Digressing just a moment, I am
constrained to remark upon the won-
derful influence of Mr. Caldwell's
method of thinking and analyzing a
subject or a cause upon the many
young men, who served with and und-
er him. It was not many moons be-
fore the public was utterly unable to
locate the author of an editorial in
The Landmark, whether it was Cald-
well or Clark, and the two them-
selves were often puzzled unless the
original copy was produced in evid-
ence— anybody, who has ever seen
"Rufe" Clark's handwrite, would
never pause in at once placing the
credit or the blame, if you please.
The like occurred in the case of
Howard Banks in his editorial work
on The Charlotte Observer. Caldwell's
influence was so strong, and Hanks'
powers so marked, that the principals
had to appeal for the copy at times to
make sure of the daddyship of an
article.
Though physically not robust, Mr.
Clark is endowed with a wonderful
mentality and no writer on news-
papers during a period of thirty years
in North Carolina has proved a more
logical and forceful writer than our
subject. And for his positions on all
questions he had a ready and strong
,„ reason; and having decided his, course
or position on a matter, he had that
courage which wins the admiration of
lovers of the brave and the constant.
His arriving at a conclusion was the
result of an impersonal reasoning
Friendship, personal influence, hope
of gain or reward, were help-
less and useless agencies in shaping
his conclusions — they came from de-
liberate reasoning and the high sense
of justice and right, these alone al-
ways influnced Clark as an editor and
as a man. Feeling that the strain of
directing the fortunes of The Land-
mark was sapping his strength, he
sold his entire interest in The Land-
mark, July 1918, to Mr. P. A. Bryant,
who came into the most valuable
weekly newspaper property in the
state.
Clark's fine judgment and business
qualifications were so recognized,
that his fellow citizens made draft
upon him for his services as a member
of the School Board, 1S95-99; mayor
of Statesville, 1S99-1903; member of
Board of Aldermen of Statesville, 19-
07-1011; appointed by Gov. Kitchin
January, 1011, member of the Board
of Directors of the State Hospital at
Morganton, and Mr. Clark continued
under reappointment in that capacity
being secretary of the board and a
member of the executive committee,
for near ten years, when he resigned.
It was fitting that Mr. Clark was
called to service in behalf of this in-
stitution, to which he gave a most
loyal and capable service, just follow-
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ing up a distinguished service which clientele the inspiration for correct
for years the late Joe Caldwell eon- living, lienor and integrity, through
tributed to the institution. The Landmark, which enjoyed a high
I am aware of a certain fact that place in the esteem of the state And
Mr.Clark, while he has been called yet he, himself, never enjoyed the
often to positions of honor and public benefits of High School or College ad-
trust, lias never been in the remotest vantages. Though lacking these ad-
sense a candidate or an aspirant in vantages, Mr. Clark educated himself
the slightest manner. The positions in the finest school-house in all
sought him, and rejoiced in his faith- chrisliandom (the printing office),
fid discharge of every obligation. Mr. supplemented by careful and studious
Clark made no struggle for the posi- habits and a wide reading of the very
tion of postmaster at Statesville, best literature. Be it far from me to
which he now holds. He simply won minimize the advantages of collegiate
the appointment under a eompeti- instruction, and I would delight to
tive examination, being appointed by see all our colleges strengthened and
President Wilson in February, 1920. more largely patronized by North
He took charge of the office March Carolinians; but I make hold to de-
ist, 1920. dare that any young man or woman,
November 16, 1886, Mr. Clark was with average intellect, an honest pur-
married to Miss Xolie Roseman, of pose, with a sustaining ambition and
Statesville, and this union has been a proper enviromeut, can and will be-
blessed by two daughters, talented come educated. Lives of all, who trod
and attractive young ladies who are this road, have cast a peculiar glory
a joy to their devoted parents and on democracy and proclaimed to the
very popular with a large circle of world the opportunties and possibili-
friends and acquaintances, who re- ties under the benign system of
cogni/.e their sterling worth ami American government,
attainments. Through on this good day an active
I am unwilling to leave my subject servant of Uncle Sam, to whom he
at this point without making an oh- renders an efficient and loyal service,
servation or two. Here is a man, in Mr.Clarke has not succeeded in get-
bis native county, who built up an ting away from the fascination of
agency that contributed very largely newspaper making and the soul of
to the best interest of his state, rend- this choice spirit among us today
ered a valuable service to the cause may be as white as snow, but his
of society, good government, indus- lingers show today and will ever show
rial and commercial development, and how tight printer's ink cling to
which, reflecting a rugged honesty, mortals, when once completely in-
conservative course, marked ability itiated into the newspaper world—
aud tireless energy, carried to a large a world of its own.
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Penitentiary Inmate Has A Heart.
As long as mankind can safely subscribe to the belief that none are
wholly bad, and that none are wholly good, we are safe in believing- that
there are people inside of prison walls no worse than many on the outside
who have gotten by with their devilment. There are times, too, when
stories from the inside get to the public ear and touch one's sense of inter-
est and appreciation.
The News & Observer tells of an am better off than these people,
act by Jack Hall. If his offense "So, for humanity's sake, I here-
against law and order were not too with enclose $5.00, wishing at the
bad, this writer would, if he had the same time that you please place $2.
power, voluntarily issue him a com- 50 of it with Mr. George H. Bellamy
plete pardon by special delivery. A or Hon. Josephus Daniels, to be used
man, in or out of prison, who bar- for the Near East Relief, the rcmain-
bors in his bosom the kindly feelings ing $2.50 to be put to the Jewish
that Jack Hall's letter make tPSti- Relief Fund.
mony to, cannot, be wholly bad and "This money is not commutation
deserves at least a reduction of his money. It is some that I have earn-
sentence. But here is the story, ed since being here. 1 am a musi-
and kind reader, what do you think cian, and, of course, when out on a
of Jack Hall: road camp I made a little money
Jack Hall, seving a term in the playing for visitors. I earned around
State Prison, has sent to Lionel Weil, $15.00 or §50.00 while in Chapel _-. ill.
State chairman of the Jewish Relief N. C. But this will conclude what
organizasion, a check for $500, half I have kept of it, or I would send
of it to go to the Jewish Relief Fund more. However, I hope this will
and the other half to the Near East help a little. Wish you would
Relief. 'phone my wife and tell her that I
The gift of Hall was accompained wrote you. instead of her tonight,
by the following letter: or she will worry about not hearing
"Having read two articles in to- from me. You can reach her ask-
day's News and Observer about the ing the clerk of the court's office
cundition of the Jews and also an- there at the court house. Would
other article of the Near East Relief, greatly appreciate it if you would
although I am of neither nationality, notify her as mentioned above."
I realize that although a prisoner, I
A community is not rich because it contains a few rich men, it is not
healthful because it contains a few strong men, it is not intelligent be-
cause it contains a few men of learning, nor is it of good morals becauso
it contains good women — if the rest of the population ■ also be not
well-to-do or healthful, or intelligent, or of good morals. — Walter H. Page.
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There's Place In Life For The Anecdote.
CYRUS B. WATSON: For quick, cutting repartee, few men ever equalled
the late Cyrus B. Watson, of Winston-Salem. About the year 1S7S or 1880 the
republicans of that senatorial district nominated one Geo. B. Everett, a bril-
liant man, with plenty of brass and gift o'gab; a graduate of Trinity College, ■
great in debate and had become an uncompromising republican. He soon set
a new pace in campaign speeches.
The democrats had nominated Dr.
W. A. Lash, now dead, a wealthy
business man of Walnut Cove, who
had neither taste nor talent for joint
debate. This condition called for
action. Some one must canvass for
Dr. Lash that could "hold a hand-'
with Geo. Everett, ami Cyrus Watson
was assigned the place. Everett pro-
fessed great umbrage at his opponent
refusing to meet him and was making
capital out of that fact, saying "such
pop-guns as Cy 'Watson" taking the
place of Dr. Lash."
A little later in the campaign it
was arranged for a joint debate in
an open grove, in what is now a busy
district of Winston-Salem. There
was a great crowd present. The coun-
ty, then, was always close, and when
the large negro element was marshall-
ed to the republican ranks the county
"went republican. The democrats of
Winston highly resented this negro
element in politics and were fully
alive at this time. Everett and Wat-
son were the main speakers of the
day, Everett had the first speech, mak-
ing a line impression, rubbing it into
Dr. Lash for having "such pop-guns
as Cy Watson" to meet him on the
stump; his crowd giving him an ova-
tion.
Watson came to reply and to dis-
cuss things in genera,!, and Everett's
heelers and leaders in particular. Mr.
Watson waxed warm, goaded on by
the cheering democrats. The day was
hot, ami Mr. Watson had forgotten to
bring a handkerchief with him. His
face dripping with prespiration, he
turned to those behind him on the
platform, saying, "will some one lend
me a handkerchief?"
Everett was quick to his feet, say-
ing: "Have mine, it is somewhat wet,
but it is wet with true republicanism."
Mr. Watson took it, turned to his
audience as he spread it, saying: "I
see it is pretty black." To this mo-
ment it had been republican day, but
those six words, with the laugh that
went up made it democrat day. But
Everett was elected, and was later
appointed collector of the fifth North
Carolina district. — Contributed.
TEACHING THE BIBLE: The only solution of the problem which
would be in keeping with our religious professions would be to adopt a
plan that is being tried with success all over the land. Each church should
arrange to have its young people spend a certain time in the study of the
Bible, under t>e direction of its pastor, and then credit should be allowed
to these puplis in their grading for the regular examination. — Presby-
terian Standard.
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Complaint Of The Much Abused Boy.
[NOTE: The late Mr. Monroe Melchor, who Was
among the very best and most honorable citizens of Cabarrus
County, had a sense for the humorous and the ludicrous.
The plaint of the "Abused Boy" struck his fancy. He
carried it in his pocket and ttas often seen to read it with
great relish and a hearty laugh as no doubt you will.
Though an old bachelor, Mr. Melchor knew for more
than eighty years just what appealed to the average boy.]
I'm going back down to granpa's
I won't come back no mote
To hear the remarks about my feet
A muddyin' up the floor,
They's too much said about my clothes,
The scoldin's never done —
I'm goin' back to granpa's,
Where a boy kin hev some fun.
I dug haf [lis garden
A gitting worms ter bait;
He said he used to like it
When I laid abed so late;
He said that pie was good for boys,
And candy made 'em grow,
Ef I can't go to granpa's
I'll turn pirate first you know.
He let n e take his shotgun,
And loaded it fer me
The cats they hid out in the barn,
The hens flew up a tree.
I had a circus in the yard
With twenty other boys—
I'm goin' back to granpa's
Where they ain't afraid of noise.
He didn't make me comb my hair
But once or twice a week;
He wasn't watchin' out fer words
I didn't orter speak:
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He told me stones 'bout the war
And Injuns shot out west.
Oh, I'm goin' down to granpa's,
For he knows wot boys like best.
He even run a race with me,
But had to stop an' cough;
He road my bicycle and laughed
Because he tumbled off;
He knew the early jpple trees
Around within a mile,
Oh, granpa was a dandy,
An' was in it all the while.
I bet you granpa's lonesome,
I don't care what you say,
I seen him kinder cryin'
When ycu tcck me away.
When you talk to me of heaven,
Where all the good folks go,
I guess I'll go to granpa's;
And we'll have good times, I know
THINGS I LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
BY C. W. HUNT.
Number IX: — Pishes and Eels.
"When I wrote number nine I was supposed to be done with the nature stor-
ies, but a seeond thought brings to mind fishes and eels, and I feel that the
series will not be complete until I tell you something of the linny tribe, that
brought so many half holidays to a hard working farm boy.
In the snake story I mentioned streams with silt aiid muck, there was
that there were three streams run- no end to the small fish in them. With
ning across the farm; one we called what we called "fly" hooks just large
a creek, known as Cedar creek; the ot- enough to bold a very small bit of
her two were what we called branches fish worm, we caught them by the
heading from bold springs in wooded half gallon. Branch minnows, sun
land, and clear and cool. Fifty years perch, occasionally a cat fish or an eel
ago, before the erosion of the soil Then there were raft and holes, and it
(gullies across farms) filled such was in these holes we caught the
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large one occasionally a "horney-
head," a small fish belonging to the
sacker family.
As we gre"\v larger and more fear-
less of snakes we took to the "dip-
net," a net in shape of a butterfly
net, with strong handle. With this we
went into the stream, and dipping in-
to the holes we caught all there was
therein. Often we would go home
with a gallon bucket filled with these
small minnows, which were cleaned,
salted and fried after rolling them in
corn meal, and cooked until they were
so brown there were no bones to
bother you; and they were fit for a
King.
These branch minnows were inter-
esting as well as good for food and
sport. One seldom sees it now, and
many a grown man would not know
what he was looking at if he saw a
minnow's spawning bed, made of
stones. When the weather is well
warmed up these minnows come out
of the holes and roll stones from the
bed of the scream into a pile, in a
shoal like place where the water is
four or five inches deep, and fasten
the eggs to these stones, and take
care of them, so far as other fish were
concerned, until the small ones hatch.
Then it is live or die as best it can.
A freshet would wipe out nil these
fish beds, destroy all the young in the
muddy water if it came at the right
time, but like other things in nature
they went to work to rebuild or make
new nests. That was the branch min-
nows way of propagating its species.
The larger fish stick their eggs to
rocks and stumps and such things as
"they find under water. Several va-
rieties that inhabit ponds make a bed
Jn sand near the bank, where the wa-
ter is warm, lay the eggs there and
stay with them until hatched to keep
the pond minnows from eating them.
The fish we called sun-perch nests this
way, and one can have fine sport fol-
lowing the banks, in May and fishing
in the eddies and secluded spots for
this fish. Always on the lookout
for enemies, you only have to drop a
baited hook near a nest, and the
mother and father fish take it at
once. Not a proper sport, at that
season, for yon kill those that are
making more fish.
On Cedar creek there were two
mill ponds, well stocked with many
kinds of native fish, and it was to
these we went when seeking larger
"fry." Here we caught with hooks
the perch mentioned above, cats, eels,
a mill pond lish called a "shad-
roach," named for its similarity in
shape to the shad on the market in
spring, for which the eoast waters
of North and South Carolina are
noted in the spring of the year. But
with us the fish we prized most was
silver-perch, very much like the sun
perch except it is silver bright, a
game fish that bites live bait. It is
still a favorite in eastern North Caro-
lina. The upper pond on this creek
was the property of the late George
Whitfield, and was our favorite place
to fish in day light. In this pond
were more sun-porch, at one time,
than I ever saw anywhere. Sitting
on the bank with these fly hooks,
when the day was right one caught
them until he was tired of it.
AVhen we wanted something larger
we went to the Norman Long pond,
two miles or more down the creek,
where we caught large cats and eels
with hook after niffht. We built a
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boa-fire on the bank, which made water with sticks. One of the
light to see the cork; here we fished branches headed in a quagmire and:
and played. Then we had. what we swamp covering as much as two acres,
called "trot-lines," a long strong and we found many large eels near
line with a hook fastened to a short this in summer. We supposed they
line about every Tour feet. These we went in that place to spawn. The
baited with cut bait (fish or meat cut eel is too snake-like for many people
up) and fastened each end of the long to eat, but they are as line a fried
line to a strung stake driven into the (isli as one could ask.
mud. About every hour or two we A favorite fishing sport was what .
fished the lines. This we did with a we called "going gigging." In the |
boat, taking off the fish and ells that spring a fi-h from the ponds that would
were buns on the hooks and rebaiting not bite "a hook, that was called a |
them. The fish mostly caught were "mullet,"' ran up the streams either
cats. Father and 1 were fishing these seeking food or breeding [daces, that
lines <me night, when a large Mack we killed with "Gigs," a three prong-
snake that had been run into the ed iron, like rake teeth, which was
water took refuge in <mr boat, but fastened into a stall'. Armed with
the boat was too small for three; we these and a turn of fat-lightwood,"
killed it with the oar. That was not (rich pine) which we burned for a
a very good feeling, in a small boat, torch light, we waded these creeks
in deep water, with a big snake. at night, finding the mullets on shoals,
The eels made lots of fun in fishing, lying still, no doubt placing their
both with the hook and with the ''dip eggs on the stones. They seemed
net" or seine. I caught many that unable to see, and we drove the gig
weighed live pounds, and it took some into them. Some of them were a
work to land one of these strong and pound in weight. Sometimes the eel
slimy fellows. They bit hooks well, happened to be out and it got the
and when they went up the streams same dose. Occasionally we had to
in the summer we found many in the reckon with a water snake, but it had
creeks and killed them in shallow a poor show when a gig was handy.
What Is Muscle Shoals?
Why so much talk about Muscle Shoals? What is it? Where is ic? Ques-
tions of this type are frequently heard, and it is doubtful if many persons
have an accurate conception of the importance of this project
Muscle Shoals is a series of rap- The width between banks var::s
ids or shoals in the Tennessee River from 1000 to 9000 feet. The ctr-
near Florence, Alabama. rent is very rapid, the slope is as
The shoals extend a distance of 37 great as 15 per cent in certain places.
miles, and the fall in thatdistance is The U.S. Government construct'
134 feet. ed a nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals
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during the War. The plant was op- power-house will contain IS gener-
•erated with coal on an experimental ating units. Each unit is directly
ba:;is; it required 1500 tons of coal connected with a turbine. The first
iper day to run the plant. four of these wheels will generate
Wilson Dam was begun with the 30,000 horsepower each, while the
•expectatation of utilizing the water remaining 14 will have a capacity
power instead of coal. The Tennes- of 36,000 h rsepower each giving a
see River is 652 miles long and drains total of 624,000 horsepower.
40,570 square iriles of territory; of In the construction work it was
this area, 30,514 square miles are a- necessary to construct 27 miles of
have the dam. The discharge of railroad track. The rolling stock
water at Florence varies from S200 comprises 23 locomotives, 79 box
to 499,000 cubic feet per second. It cars and 109 flat and dump cars,
was anticipated that the nitrate plant The sand and gravel for construc-
would use only a portion of the pow- tion is dredged from the river nine
er generated and the remainder miles below Florence and brought to
might be used in nearby cities such the dam <n barges. The dredging
as Birmingham, Memphis. Nashville, capacity is 2.000 cubic yards daily.
Chattanooga and numerous smaller Compared with other large dams
cities. of the world, the order would be as
The earth excavation for the locks follows: (1) Wilson Dam; (2) As-
is 344,437 cubic yards. I he rock souan Dam, Egypt; (3) Kensico Dam,
excavation for the locks is 220,000 New York; (4) New Croton Dam,
cubic yards. The locks will require New York; (5) Keokuk Dam, Iowa
80,000 cubic yards of concrete. The Illinois; (6) Olive Bridge, New York;
pool above the dam will cover 14,- (7) lonsa Dam, India; (8) Poons
■987 acres of land, and the depth of Dam, India; (9) Roosevelt Dam, Ari-
tbe water at the dam will be 101 zona; (10) Barrerj Jack Dam, Aus-
feet but the apron extends 59 feet tralia. This order is based upon size
farther down stream thus giving a of masonry,
total base width of 160 feet. The
How Trouble And Fear Affect People.
BY R. R. CLARK
The newspapers have been printing a story coming from Glasgow, Scotland,
to the effect that a religious wave is sweeping over the fishing villages on the
east coast of Scotland, the result of the failure of the herring fishing season.
The failure of the fishing season, a very serious matter to the fisher folk, the
same as a crop failure to the farmers, is believed to be visitation of Divine
displeasure for unrighteous living. Whereupon the fishermen, we are told,
are parading the highways, singing hymns, testifying, and in other ways mani-
festing religious fervor.
The story is probably true, for it is call the Lord when in touble and for-
veiy characteristic of humankind to get Him in days of posterity. The
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small boy expressed it when, being
asked why he said his prayers at
night and omitted them in the morn-
ing, replied that any smart boy could
take care of himself in daylight.
The grown-ups, many of them, pro-
ceed on that theory, although they
are not ascandid about it as the boy,
illustrating the truth "of the adage that
"only fools" and children tell the
truth."
While the Scotch are not different
in this respect from other folks, the
foregoing recalls a story of two Scotch
fishermen who were driven out to sea
in a small boat and finally gave them-
selves up for lost. Then they agreed
it was time to pray, and while one
continued the effort to keep the boat
afloat the other lifted up his voice
in supplication. First he made con-
fession of sin, and after telling the
Lord how wicked he had been he was
beginning to pledge reformation if
only he and his companion were de-
livered from the peril then encompass-
ing them. But before he had well
started in the enumeration of the evil
deeds from which he would refrain if
spared, his companion, who was keep-
ing the lookout, called to him: '•Don't
commit yourself o'er far, Tanimas; I
think I see land."
That illustrates some more. If the
danger is about to pass there is less
desire to make promises that would be
hard to fulfill.
The earthquake that shook up this
part of the country in ISSti produced
much religious fervor for the time.
While the old earth was trembling,
and for some days afterward, while
the feeling of insecurity lasted, there
•was a mighty calling on the Lord for
help and protection. The callers wore
very much in earnest for the time,
but it is probable that many of them
left off praying as soon as the ground
felt firm under their feet. A meeting
was in progress at a church in Iredell
county when the shake came. Special
effort had been made to reach one of
the unconverted in the congregation,
but he had resisted all appeals. But
when the earth trembled, the building
rocking on its foundation, and one of
the preachers called attention to it as
a manifestation of the power of the
Almighty, that hardened sinner made
a rush for the altar with such haste
that thy had to give him clear track.
He needed no urging' when he was
terror-stricken.
I am reminded here of a story the
late Judge Armfield of Statesville used
to tell. Some of the older people
may recall that many years ago a
mountain — Bald Mountain emitted
rumblings that suggested volcanic
eruption. And as in the case of the
earthquake in later years, many of the
residents of the countyside became
alarmed and proceeded to call on the
Lord for help. Judge Armfield said
that an old minister, a good man, who
lived in the vicinity, had a "hound-
boy" (a boy he was rearing) who was
much given to profanity, much to the
good man's distress, and the boy con-
tinued to swear despite all efforts of
the old man to break, him of the habit.
One night the rumblings from Bald
Mountain were particularly loud and
terrifying. Aroused from his sleep
by the noise, and believing that the
end was probably at hand, the boy
rushed from the room where he slept,
screaming infright. Coming into the
presence of the preacher, he found the
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stone as if nothing had happened. going to Him only when we are in
Quaking with terror the boy asked the dire need and ignoring our obligations
old man if he thought the end of the when tilings are going well with us,
Tvorhl had come. Quietly the good can hardly be commended or defended.
man, serene in the faith, answered It. is somewhat like the practice of the;
that lie didn't know, but if it had heathen, who make special effort to
(here was no canse for alarm; noth- propitiate their gods when calamity
ing to be accomplished by getting ex- befalls, on the theory that '.heir
cited. Exasperated by the lack of troubles are a sign that the gods are
comfort he found in the answer the angry. But many there be no doubt
1 boy's ruling habit asserted itself and who regard the Almighty only as a
he cried out: "Yes, blank you, you help in time of trouble and proceed on
know you are prepared to go ami f the theory of the fellow who, im-
ain't." ploring Divine assistance to get out
It's all right to call on the L> rd of a tight place, reminded the Lord
when we are in trouble; we are in- that he hadn't bothered Him niuf-h
;
vited to do that but the practice of recently.
"More than sixty years ago at Tunis on the northern coast of Afrisa
the American consul died and at that place was Turned. He was not great
as a statesman, jurist or warrior — he had never led in council, court or
field. Why was it then, that the bones and dust of John Howard Payne,
that had lain so long on the far off shore of the Mediterranean were
brought back home to rest in his native land?
And why, now, were these honors without parallel in human history
paid his memory? Ah! How well you know the answer! How quickly
your swelling hearts respond! He wrote one song in which he embodied
and embossed the most precious desire and the most undying emotion of
the universal heart of man, woman and child. He wrote "Home, Sweet
Home." There are but fourteen lines to this blessed song including the
chorus, but it will live as long as our blue mountains stand. Home. Home!
Sweet, Sweet, Home ! Its strains have visited all lands and encicled the
globe; they have ravishd the ear in the palaces of royality and wealth, and
in the pleasant's lonely hut, John Howard Payne sang the song of home.
He interpreted the human heart. "There is no place like home", the poet
cries, and the whole world cried in unison "be it ever so humble, there
is no place like home." — From Hon. 0. Max Gardner's Speech before the
N, 0. Society of Philadelphia.
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Cordelia's Adventure With The Burglar
The dull grey mist that had enveloped Mount Tom all day came sweep.;
ing down in sheets of rain through the valley. As the twilight deepened,
the clouds hung oppressively low and night came quickly on. It was that]
swift approaching darkness that roused Cordelia from her story, and made!
her glance apprehensively out of the farmhouse window. For the firs:
time that day she fully realized that she was alone, and the sudden sens,:
of isolation filled her with vague fears.
"Mother and I will be home be- away. Then she lighted the lamp;
fore dark unless some accident de-
tains us," had been her father's last
words as he drove down the road to
Springfield that morning. But the
darkness was falling, and, strain her
ears as she might, Cordelia could
hear no sound of the approaching
wheels that must bring them home.
There was only the steady drip, drip
of the rain from the eaves. The sound
oppressed her. What if there had
been an accident? What if they
should not return until morning?
But they must come. She pressed
her face close against the window
pane, only to draw back, frightened
by the deepening shadows and the
moaning of the wind through the
pines. For one moment, sh ; was
half determined to go to her friend,
Helen Simpson, who lived on the
nearest farm. The next, she shrank
away pith dread from the thought
cf the long mile of lonely road she
must travel in the darkness and
driving rain.
The story she had been reading
only added to her uneasiness. It
was about a young girl made pris-
oner bv a burglar who had passed
himself off as a frbnd in order to
gain entrance to the house. Corde-
lia shivered. Fear was taking tight
hold of her and she must shake it
off. She closed the book and put it
in the living room and the kitchen.
That made things better. She bus-
ied herself with preparations for
supper, and as the occupation re-
stored her courage somewhat, she
sang a little to assure herself that
she was quite at ease. When sup-
per was ready to be placed on the
table, she returned to the living
room and took up her sewing. The
storm was increasing, and the rush
ana drive without only made more
palpable the silence within. She tried
desperately to laugh at the fears
that settled upon her once more.
Hark! There was the sound of
wheels splashing through mud and
water- then a sudden halt. Sne
picked up the la t.p and ran to the
door. A carraige had driven up to
the gate, and a man stepped out.
Cordelia saw at once that it was
not her father. She drew back in-
to thp shadow of the door, intend-
ing to close and bar it. But she was
too late.. The stranger was coming
rapidly toward her. Ashe advanced,
she saw him take a keen survey of
the house aud its surroundings. At
the door, he held out his han't to
her and exclaimed, "Why, how do
you do, cousin? Time does fl\. I
expected to see a little girl, an I I
find a yong lady."
Just then a driving gust of wind
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and rain blew out the light. She
hasd'y knew how it happened, but
the next moment found her and the
stranger in the cheerful living room.
He noticed her agitation, and said
reassuringly, "It's all right. I am
your father's cousin Harry
"from the West. I suppose he has
told you about me and my business
here?"
"No, father never spoke of any
cousin in the West," said Cordelia,
as she mentally contrasted his dark
hair, black piercing eyes, and thin,
wiry form with her very blond fath-
er, who tipped the scales at two
, hundred pounds.
The stranger laughed good-natur-
edly, and falling into talk about his
home and his friends, at last almcst
convinced hei that he was her cou-
sin. Rut she could not keep her
i attention from wandering, and much
that he said was wholly lost upon
her. She wondered if she ought to
offer him the supper fast drying
"n the kitchen stove. She thought
of his horse out there in the storm,
and marveled at his indifference.
What could it mean? Was he hold-
ing it in readiness for flight when--?
Would father and mother never
come? Conversation laggtd, and
the stranger, falling into a deep
study, sat with his head resting on
his hand. Cordelia was faacinated
by the long, slender fingers. Had
they ever---her hand went unbidden
to her throat; the thought was too
horrible to be finished.
A blast of wind came shrieking
around the house. The shutters
banged back and fourth. The rain
fell in a fresh torrent. It was an
awful night.
Suddenly the visitor asked, "May
I look at the heirlooms that I have
come to so far see?"
For a moment Cordelia's heart
stopped beating. The heirloom!
How did this strange man know a-
bout great, grandmother Cordelia's
diamond necklace, hidden in mother's
closet? He had posed as her father's
cousin as a ruse to get into the house.
But how had he found out that she
was alone with the heirloom?
"Oh! we keep them in the village
bank. Father d >esn't consider them
safe in the house." She managed
to reply.
The stranger's eyes narrowed
and he looked curiously at her "Oh!
he knows! he knows! "she moaned
aloud.
"Well, then, cousin," said the
stranger, "1 am very tired, if you
wi 1 show me the way I'll put my
horse up and then I'll retire."
"Cousin, indeed!" thought Cordelia.
What could she do? She dare not
allow this strange man to sleep in
the house; Yet how could it be
avoided? Wishing to retire so
early, too, and without waiting for
father to come home! And that pre-
tense of looking after his hoase! It
w as all an excuse to throw her off the
scent and to begin bis predatory
search.
She took the light, and going with
him to the door, pointed the way to
the stable in the rear. As he dis-
appeared with his horse around the
corner of the house she closed the
door softly, shot the bolt, and turn-
ed the key in the lock. 'Ihen she
stood with her back against the wall,
panting, trembling. She was rid
of him at last. But not for long. He
would return in a few minutes. Per-
haps he would breakdown the door.
He might get in at the window.
But he should not find what he-
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sought.
Swiftly she fled up the stairs.
Her heart was in her mouth, but
she was determined to find a hiding
place for the precious old necklace.
From the closet in her mother's
room see took the jewel case, and
standing breathless looked about her
for some place of great security.
The rain beat against the pains
faster and faster, as the wind
whistled down the chimney. Yet
how quiet the house was! And how
the minutes dragged! The sol-
emn tick-tock of the ancient clock on
the stairs seemed to be marking
time for eternity.
"It must be nearly midnight,"
thought she. Hark! The clock was
striking, she counted the strokes---
only eight O'clock.
If the stranger should return and
try to enter the house just then,
Cordelia knew that she shculd shriek.
Listen! was she dreaming? No, that
was the sound of wheels coming to
a halt. Tnere was the sound of
voices-- her father's voice; yes, and
Mr. Simpon's, their nearest neigh-
bor. They were speaking loudly
that they might hear each other
above the storm. With a mad rush
Cordelia dashed down the stairs,
threw open the door, and tan out of
the housp.
Past her mother she darted, and
reaching her father, thrust the box
into his hand. "He's there," she
cried, pointing toward the stable.
"After it; after great grandmother's
diamond necklace!"
A hurried explanation followed
and her father vehemently declared,
"I'll shoot him!"
"Father, father," protested his
wife, "be careful."
"Father, let Mr. Simpson go with
you," cried CordJia frantically, as
her father started in pursuit of the
burglar. -
The neighbor was already on the
ground, prepared to lend his aid. As
the two men went toward the stable,
the stranger came harmlessly enough
around the corner of the house.
Face to face with the two men
with their heavy sticks, he exclaim-
ed, "Why, what's all this row? I
came halfway across the continent to
buy two family heirlooms, a Sherat-
ton sideboard and a chippendale table
from mv cousin. What does this
treatmeut mean."
"Your excuse won't keep you
from jail, although it did fool my
daughter," exclamed the irate farm-
er. "You're no cousin of mine,
you rascal."
A burse of hearty laughter from
Mr. Simpson interrupted the host-
ilities. "Why, it's my cousin Har-
ry from Omaha!" he exclaimed.
"You landed at the wrong place,
Harry; I live a mile further on."
---Selected.
A man rushed clown the platform just as a train was a puling out. Ee
frantically waved cne of his twenty-five-pound grips in his effort to in-
duce the brakeman on the rear of the train to signal the engineer to slow
down. For a hundred yards he sprinted, only to give up the race. A
sympathetic hystander drawled out to the limp, exhausted figure, "Were
you trying catch the train?" "Oh, no," grasper the traveler. "I was
just chasing it out of the yard."
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Chicls
ens
By Gail Hamilton
Mary A. Docile, better \nowh as "Gail Hamilton," was born in Hamilton,
Mass., about 1 838. She was a eery popular. Writer. Among her works are
"Woman's IVorlh and Woman's IVorthlessness," "Battle of the Books," "Ser-
mons to the Clergy," "Qala Days," and 'Country Lioing and Country Think-
ing." The following sketch will give a good idea of her style. She Was a eery
bright and piquant Writer.
A chicken is beautiful and round
and full of cunning ways, but he has
no resources for an emergency, lie
will lose his reckoning and be quite
out at sea, though only ten steps
from home. lit never knows enough
to torn a corner. All his intelligence
is like light, moving only in straight
lines. He is impetuous and timid,
and has not the smallest presence of
mind or sagacity to discern between
friend and foe. He has no confi lence
in any earthly power that does not
reside in an old hen. Her cluck will
be followed to the last ditch, and to
nothing else will he give heed.
1 am afraid that the Interpreter
was putting almost too fine a point
upon it, when he had Christiana
and her children "into another
room, where was a hen and chickens,
and bid them to observe awhile. So
one of the chickens went to the
trough to drink, and every time she
drank she lifted up her head and her
her eyes toward heaven. 'See,'
said he, 'what this little chick
doth, and learn of her to acknow-
ledge whence your mercies come,
by receiving them with looking up.' :'
Doubtless the chick lift her eyes
toward heaven, but a close acquain-
tance with the race would put any-
thing but acknowledgment in
the act. A gratitude that thanks
heaven for favors received, and
thens runs into a hole to prevent
any other person from sharing the
benefit of those favors, is a very
questionable kind of gratitude, and
certainly should be confined to the
bipeds that wear feathers.
Yet if you take selfishness from a
chicken's moral make-up, and fat-
uity from his intellectual, you have
a very charming little creature left.
For, apart from their excessive
greed, chickens seem to be affection-
ate. '1 hey have sweet, social ways.
1 hey huddi • together with fond,
caressing crater, and chirp soft
lullabies, i'heir toilet performances
are full of interest. I hey trim each
other' i bills with great thoroughness
and dexterity, much better, indeed,
than they dress their own heads, for
their bungling, awkward little claws
make sad work of it.
It is as much as they can do to
stand on two feet, and they natur-
ally make several revolutions when
they attempt to stand on one. No-
thing can be more ludicrous than
their early efforts to walk. They
do not rea'ly walk. They sight their
object, wave, balance, decide, and
then tumble foward, stopping all in
a heap as soon as the original im-
petus is lost---generally some way
ahead of the place to which they
wished to go.
It is delightful to watch them as
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drowsiness films their round, bright, silence.
black eyes, and the dear old mother And as I sit by the hour, watch-,",
croons them under her ample wings, ing their winning- ways, and see alke;
and they nestle in perfect harmony. the steps of .this sleepy subsidence, '„!
How they manage to bestow them- 1 can but remember that outbust of F j
selves with such limited accommo- love and sorrow from the lips of Him |',e
dations. or how they manage to who, though he came to earth from a r|
breathe in a room so close, itisdiffi- dwelling place of ineffable glory, call- |e
cult to imagine They certainly deal ed nothing unclean because it wa
i
a staggering blow to our pivconceiv- common, rounu no nomeiy uetau coon
ed notions of the necessity of oxygen homely or too trivial to illustrate the^'?
and ventilation, but they make it Father's love; but from the birds off
easy to see whence the Germans de- the air, the'fish of the sea, the lilies of
rived their fashion of sleeping under the field, the stones in the street,
feather beds. Rut breath and bestow the foxes in their holes, the patch or
themselves they do. The deepmoth- the coat, the oxen in the furrow, the
er heart and the broad mother sheep in the pit, the camel under
wings take them all in. his burden, drew lessons of divine
They penetrate her feathers, and pitv and patience, of heavenly duty
open for themselves unseen little and delight.
doors into * he mysterious, brood- Standing in the presence of the ,.
ing, beckoning darkness. But it is great congregation, seeing, as never ' :
long before they can arrange them- man saw, the hypocrisy and the in-
selves satisfactorily. They chirp, iquity gathered before him- -seeing
and stir, and snuggle, trying to find too, alas, the calamities and the woe
the softest and warmest nook. Now that awaited this doomed people, a
an uneasy head is thrust out, and godlike pity overbears his righteous
now a whole tiny body; but it soon indignation, and cries out in passion-
reenters in another quarter, and at ate appeal' "0 Jerusalem, Jerusa-
length the stir and chirp grow still. lem, thou that killest the prophets,
You see only a collection of little and stonest them which are sent
legs, as if the hen were a banyan unto thee, how often would I have
tree, and presently even they disap- gathered thy children together, even
pear. She settles down comfortably, as a hen gathered her chickens un-
and all are wrapped in a slumberous der her wings, and ye would not!
I
AN ABIDING INFLUENCE. *
In making a long journey, for pleasure or otherwise, we usually pass many
mile posts before we begin to grow retrospective and think over the tlrngs f
seen and the miles traveled and the time taken to make the trip.
Of course, you have observed that tie journey of life may have been all '
old people after passing many mile pleasure, without an incident to sha- '
posts in the journey of life begin to dow it; or it may have been inter- e
live and think in the past. This lit- rupted and annoyed with jolts and
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trembles; but let that be as it may, birthday, remarked, ''do you know
there is one outstanding thing in every my father always made me look him
life that in a subconscious manner be- squarely in the face when addressing'
comes a part of ns and is carried him for he said, 'a liar or dishonest
through life and, at times least ex- fellow would drop his eyes' " Thi3
peeted, lias its influence. man is obsessed with this belief of his
Despite the fact there are disap- now sainted father,
pointinents for us all we endeavor to A woman of mature years, with a.
choose the road of least insistence varied experience in the activities of
and the one that pleases the most. life, in a retrospective mood said, "as-
Can you, gentle reader, who have a young lady out in the world making
passed many mile post's in life's my own way 1 never received gentle-
journey recall one impressive incident men callers in the evening that I did
while under parental training that not hear, as 1 did when at home,
served you well when far removed the voice of mother say, '10:30,
from the home fireside and protection daughter.' " 'Yes, 10:30, daughter'
and guidance of parental love .' Sure- was the still small voice of a loving
Iv so, for I believe all children, girls and tender mother, and this mother
or lioys, let the home be as it may, left her imprint and continued to
will reflect the character of the home, wield an influence over her girl several
A man. then passed his fiftieth hundred miles away."
About The Raven
By Harriett Wilbur.
"Raven' dreamy flake of night.
Drifting in the :ye of day."
— William Morris.
They say that when a French modiste has created what she calls a "work
of art" she always adds a finishing touch of black to "make it perfect."
Nature has done the same thing, and a bright sunny landscape, whether
in simmer green or winter white, touched it up wonderfully with the intro-
duction of a raven perched conspicuously in the foreground, or winging his
way slowly accross midway between the blue above and the earth beneath.
The raven seems to be the same ties pass for geographic races,
bird wherever he is found; this was This glossy black member of the
the opinion of Audubon, and though crow family is a native of northern
son, e bird-students have t>'ipd to find Europe, Asia and America, though
enough differences between the Old it is now practically exterminated in
World and the New World birds to the eastern slates.
class them as separate species, Probably many observers do not
modern naturalists agree with Aud- distinguish between the raven and "a
ubon, and let the slight dissimilari- large crow." Raven is about two
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feet long and similar in build to the
-crow; the plumage is compact, glossy
black, with viclet and greenish re-
flections, the feathers of the chin
and thoats in particular are unique
to the species, being long, stiff, nar-
row, even bristly, and with very dis-
tinct outlines. '1 he female is slightly
smaller than the male, hut in other
respects is his double.
Once found over the entire conti-
nent of North America, from Labra-
dor to the Gulf of Mexico, the raven
is now seen but occasionally in many
of its former haunts. In the Rocky
Mountains, where men are scarce, it
is holding its own fairly well, but
from the more accessible and move
thickly populated regions it is slowly
passing away. The same story is true
in Europe; it has almost entirely dis-
appeared from the British Island.
One wriier comments on this loss as
follows:
"The American Raven probably
will be safe in his Rocky Mountain
haunts for years to come, but he is
so far removed from man's habita-
tions that his picturesquenes, his
oddieties, his gravities and his croak-
ings virtually are lost to the world.
It is a hard state of affairs when in-
dividuality in animal l;fe brings per-
secution and death."
The individuality of the raven is
by no means abhorrent. The bird
is generally seen singly, or in pairs,
except perhaps in small family flocks
after the breeding season Though
naturally aloof and lonely it is easily
domesticated by kindness, and be-
comes much attached to its master,
following him like a dog; it can be
taught to imitate the human voice
and to pronounce a few words with
great distinctness. In short, it is a
very sagacious, courageous and
.:
powerful bird, yet though wary and
distrustful by nature, it is docile
and affectionate when domesticated.
"'J he bird is not altogether bad,"
runs one comment. "It does rob the
nests of other birds, and it is this trait
of character which has lost it life
and caste in England. The game-
keeper there shoots it on sight, and
in recent years, because of the "ro-
wing scarcity, the museum collec-
tors have been hunting the raven in
all places where it is reported to
have dared to show its head. The
probabilities are that the raven does
more good than it does harm. It
kills thousands of young rodents
that would grow up to become
pests fjf the field; voracious to the
point of eating anything and
everything that can be called food,
it is particularly fond of carrion,
whether of flesh, fish or fowl, dead
from disease or from accident, so
it is also valuable as a scavenger. It
will ev'en attack an animal the size
of a sheep that is helpless or dying"
The habit is referred to by the
poet:
"And vast confusion waits,
As doeth a raven on a sick-fallen
beast."
---King John
"And there between me and the
sun,
I saw the expecting raven fly.
Who scarce would wait 'till both
should die,
Ere his repast begun;
He flew, and perch 'd, then flew
once more,
And each time nearer than before;
I saw his wing through twilight flit,
And once so near me he alit
I could have smote, butlack'd the
strength."
—Lord Byron.
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800 Skeletons.
Bristol, Va.-Tenn., Jan. 25. ---Discovery of approximately 800 human
skeletons in a cave in the mountains about 15 miles from Bristol was made
today by Professor Henry Woodman of this city, who made an inspection
of the cave at the invitation of mountaineers.
An opening which runs 40 feet earth. '! he bones were partly" cov-
stn.ight down in the earth was
found several days ago by people liv-
ing in that section. I pon making
investigation they found several hu-
man skulls. The skulls, were brought
to Bristol and newspapapermen and
college professors were asked to en-
ter and inspect the interior of the
Aliening.
Upon descending the tunnel by
means of a rope Professor Woodman
found a heap of human bones 30 feet
high and about SO feet wide. Indian
hatchets and beads were also found
found, 'i he cave has several tunnels
reaching off on the sides and is in
the shape cf a huge crevice in the
Institutional No
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
tes.
Johny Wright received a visit
from his home folks last Wednesday.
The boys, whose business it was
tc bottom chairs, have had an idle-
period. Now, they are resuming
their work.
Rev. Mr. Osborn, of Concord, who
preached for us Sunday filled the
boys with admiration and nice resol-
utions by his fine seimon on the trial
of Christ.
The total of 200 boys has at last
been reached, This is the result of
ered over by earth which is thought
to have fallen in from the opening
above. The peak of the heap is
directly under the entrance and this
leads t( the belief that the Indians
thew their dead into the cavity.
The heap is cone shaped and con-
tains an assortment of every bone in
the human body. Professor Wood-
man declares experiments show that
some of the bones have been in the
cave for about 1,000 years. A num-
ber of experts and archalologists are
planning to spend a night in the cave
to continue the investigation. The
cave is located in a spot in the moun-
tains almost inaccessible.
the opening of sixth Cottage. Soon
we hope the seventh Cottage's doors
will be thrown open.
Because of some possibly overlook-
ed precaution, the pipes of cottage
No. 3 froze Friday night and
bursted. The result of this was to
flood the boys sitting room. Every-
thing is now all O. K.
In a combat of physical prowress,
the printers overcame the shop boys
in a short but hot contested match
of strength. Mr, Goer's offer to
give kindling to start fires was the
great incentive in the contest.
Saturday, a day which all the boys
look forward to is the day of all
matches, such as spelling, buzz and
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multiplication matches etc. In the
big room, as this is the name the
boys have given it, not because of
its size but for its most advanced
books, had a spelling and buzz match
to take up the 2 hours of school
time.
Mr. Cloer, of No. 5, is making
book cases for the new school room
presided ov<:r by Miss Greenlee,
and for Cottages No, 5 and 6. The
boys are grateful for this because
book shelves have been a much need
ed convenience. Thanks are ex-
tended the Mr. Cloer.
In talking of a debate they heard
in No. 5, Miss Teague and several
other matrons requested that this
question be debated, Resolved: that
women should have the right to
enter into all political business. They
will attend this debate when it comes
off next Friday, and will doubtless
be highly entertained.
Well, folks, it's arrived at last.
Doubtless you know that of which
I am speaking of—snow, ''It never
rains, but what it pours," is a faith-
ful and true saying. This snow
wasn't hard enough, consequently
the toys, although they snowballed
to a great extent, did not have a
holiday.
When a position of importance is
vacant, usually it has to be filled sat-
isfactorily and quickly. The other
night, due to sickness, Mr. D. A.
Corizine was off his duty as night-
watchman. Some one had to take
his place, no officers was available
at this time, therefore it was dicid-
ed to use a boy at the school. Rich-
ard Johnson was chosen. He filled
this responsible position creditably
to himself and
institution.
satisfactorily to the
The boys of the Guilford Cottage
organized a Literary Society some
weeks ago, and when searching for
a name they decided to name it af-
ter some great friend and benefac-
tor of the school; so they named it
in honor of Mr. E. P. Wharton, of
Greensboro. This fine man is a
member of the Board of Trustees,
and they "could nsme their society
after no better man. The boys of
this cottage are proud of their so-
ciety.
InevitaLla.
"Re sure your sin will find you
out." the Buffalo Evening Times
says:
A policeman was standing on a
corner in New Orleans. Up stepped
a man and asked why the street car
didn't stop when he signaled them.
He didn't get the kind of answer he
expected, for the policeman recog-
nized him as "one of the cleverest
passers of bad checks ever known,
wanted in many cities." The law
gets nearly all of them, in the long
run. Master minds, among crimi-
nals, exist only in detective-story fic-
tion.
We hear much eiiticism of the
agents of justice, for failure to :.p-
prehend criminals. Yet instances
are numerous :>f men committing
crimes and indefinitely escaping pi n-
ishment. One would have thought
that Matthew Bullock, wanted in
Warren on the charge of inciting to
riot, was tolerably safe in Cana'.a.
Rut not so. A letter to his relati es
in Warren couuty revealed to watch-
ful Warren officers his whereabouts
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and when tne Canadian officials rea- the chariots of fire never appear.
lizd that they cannot refuse to turn The golden lands that l.e at the
over to North Carolina authorities a end of the rainbow are never reach-
person charged with crime in this ed. Acres, their firmament the
State, he will bo sent on here to meteors of great success never flash,
stand his trial. It's the steady grind day after
Men need not commit crime think- day in th 2 face of ups and downs
inc.' that they can get away with it that makes a fellow's dreams coma
easily. true. Constant application, persisten-
— ly and dogged determination are the
Tne Steady Grind qualities that win at last.
The fellow who knows how to grind Shaking dice with fate is a fool's
gets there in the end. ^ame. History records the victories
Some people are always looking ?f no man who was not a day laborer
for sky rockets. They believe human
in life's harvest field.
Good luck is the rarest flower
TherbeiieVin7santaClauS that blooms and it blossoms mostly
for adults. They expect to wake up ln *he gardens of imagination.
some morning and find themselves , 1/ your rival is a steady grinder,
wealthy, famous and powerful. But look out for hira.-Selected.
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NO. 14
"Bottom Rail Gets On Top."
Some one tells of coming back to the place she had
lived as a child. Passing a fina big house she read a
name on the brass plate upon the door.
"Who is Dr. Joseph Walker?" she asked
"Why, don't you remember? He lived in a little house
close to yours."
What! Joe Walker who used to pick berries for us in
the summer?"
"Do you remember anything about him?"
"No, except that my father said the berries Joe picked
never had to be gone over a second time, and he never
wasted a moment."
"Well, that's just what they say about him now. That's
how he has got on. " — The Evangelical.
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
Tha Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Eoy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor,
J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
X. C. under Ast of March 3, 1879.
SOUNDING THE BOYS.
Col. Al Fairbrotber, of Greensboro, has always been deeply inter-
ested in the growth and development of the Jackson Training School.
More than that he has always manifested a brotherly love and concern
for the "under dog'." He has always fought for consistency, for a chance
and an opportunity for all men, who are struggling for existence, life, hap-
piness and an equal chance.
Quoting from a letter of Feb. 4th Col. P'airbrother has this to say:
'"I have just finished reading copy of THE Uplift bearing this date,
and the same mail brought me a copy of 'North Carolina's Child Wel-
fare Programme'—issued by the State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare. In this pamphlet is a picture concerning the wealth of North
Carolina in a bunch of bright boys at the Stonewall Jackson Train-
ing School.
"This thought has occurred to me: each one of those boys must be
doing some thinking—must be wondering about the great big world
svhich is before him when quitting your institution. Wonder what he
tbinks about? Is his mind in the right channel? Is he seeing ideals
worthwhile— or is he just moving on?
"I want to give a little inspiration to the boys, and want to offer
$5.00 for the best,
4.00 for the second best,
3.00 for the third best,
2.00 for the fourth best, and
1.00 for the fifth best
Three or four hundred word story on the subject, "WHAT I'D
LIKE TO DO, and WHY I'D LIKE TO DO IT, When I Finish At The
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Jackson Training School."
"Of course, I take it that you would print the letters in The Uplift.
The judges of the merit of the letters would be selected by you, and
each one submitted should receive attention and to those who didn't
get into either one of the above classes it should be pointed out WHY."
Col. Fairbrother will please accept this as an answer to his letter and
an acceptance of his appreciated proposition. He may re^t assured that
the boys will go about this little-business, search their hearts and their minds,
in an enthusiastic and honest spirit. The policy of the management and
the inclination of all the otficers have all the while been one of the Big
Brother manner of dealing with the youngsters. It is rare that a day pas-
ses that a bulk of the boys are not confronted with a suggestion of a study
of themselves, what they aspire to and why. But we have not gone so far
as to ask them to submit their aspirations and the reasons for such as-
pirtiuns to black and white. The idea of Col. Fairbrother is most capital,
and we send word to him by these presents that the word has been sent
down throughout the cjttage homes to 200 boys, telling them what a
friend, though absent in person but always with them in spirit, desires of
them.
And thisis the way CjI. Fairbrother had of getting into The Uplift
some real good and choice reading matter. We know his game.
• •••»•»•
STRIVING FOU CONSISTENCY.
A grand jury in a certain county of Georgia, manifesting just as good a
spirit as a rattlesnake, has served official notice on the ladies of the county
that games cf chance shall stop, that playing for prizes is just as much
gambling as the negro's sport in shooting dice, and must stop or else an
indictment will be forthwith against them.
It is a strain of the idea of consistency to deny a crowd of idle men the
privilege of sitting around a covered table and play for "chips," which
represent a money value, and then applaud and publish in the Society Col-
umn of the Sunday paper that Mrs. So and So gave a swell whist party
(ever so many tables) and that the beautiful, charming Miss Sallie Jones
received the capital prize, which was a pair of fine silk "pick-a-boo" hose,
and that Miss Virginia Snobbins received the consolation prize, which was
a "lip-stick." In this case the stockings and the lip-stick represent noth-
ing in the world but the "chips" and "chips" represent money.
We are not so extreme as to believe that such practices will lead to per-
dition, disgrace or cause one to become a social outcast; but the very char-
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attpr and reputation of the women, who pull off these prize contests, give
to a game of chance a certain dignity that the average youth is easily per.
suaded that there is no harm whatever in it. And yet there is, and here is
where the women are setting a bad example to the young.
Gambling, and all games of chance are gambling, is just as much harm
in the parlors of an elegant home, brilliant with the presence of finely dress-
ed women and gaudy decorations, as urchins sprawling on the ground "shoot-
ing craps," and even worse because of the publicity and the high standing
of the participants.
When our friends come to see us, there is one feature they must not
overlook seeing. In full blast is our new modern Bakery. Clean as a pin,
orderly as a clock, and turning out some of the most splendid bread in all
creation. The pies that come from that charming little bakery as Mr.
Hilton and the boys direct and manage it, would make most any one feel
somewhat pious. Stop for a thought. The business of a community bak-
ery has become a live one. Nearly every town of any size needs and
wants a bakery, but the question of securing an expert to manage it has
been a most difficult proposition. In our case we are serving a fine pur-
pose, making bread for ourselves, and training boys into a live, worth-
while business.
Can't "Know North Carolina" this week. The committee, which was
going to lead the campaign and keep ahead, week by week, through the
Chapel Hill News Letter, comes up missing the third week. At any rate
nothing has come this way to indicate any activity on the part of this hon-
ored committee. We started with a toast by the late Gov. Bickett, and
followed it with a prophecy by the late Gov. Aycock, and there it hangs..
» » » •
The record of Mr. Taylor, whose picture we carry in another part of this
issue, is an object lesson. When a mar. with his uneven chance, from a
natural lacking, can accomplish what he does, issue weekly a live, credi-
table paper for his county, get out an industrial issue of fifty-six pages,
splendidly illustrated, keep his family going and his head above the water
—why, that's a man.
Governor Morrison is insistent on his campaign for better and more gar-
dens, pig and cow. He is eternlly right. We have come in possession of
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wo pigs, one cow and have a place for the garden— but who, in this ficklo
world, is going to make that place look like a garden?
BELLING THE CAT.
Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what meas-
ures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some
said this, and some said that; hut at last a young mouse got up
and said he tad a proposal to make, which he thought would meet
the case. "You will all agree," said he, ''that our chief danger
consist in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy ap-
proach us. Now, if we conceive some signal of her approach, we
could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose
that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the
neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when
she was about and could easily retire while she was in the neigh-
borhood."
This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got
up and said: "that is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?"
The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Ihe old mouse
said:
"IT IS EASY TO PROPOSE IMPOSSIBLE REMEDIES."
THIi UPLIFT
""ROBERT S. TAYLOR
There is no end of examples where men and women, inheriting some physi-
cal misfortune, or, in the course of time, becoming the victim of an accident
leaving' them somewhat maimed, have made such achievements in the affairs
of life as to merit the praise and applause of the public.
f recall a friend of my youth, re-
hiring from a faithful service in the
Wav Between the States, having lost
one leg. The limb was shot off just
as close to his body as was possible
tii do. He carried around with him a
bright and cheerful spirit at what-
ever he was called to do. Return-
ing after the surrender, with nothing
in the wide world except his honor
and his indomitable will, he went
about the business of cheating star-
vation. To cut a long story short,
this one-legged Confederate veteran
married himself a wife, reared tine
children, owned his own home, stood
high in his community, lived an honor-
able and correct life, dying a few
years ago with not a single enemy on
earth but with the esteem and res-
pect of all who knew him. This in
itself is not so remarkable, for hund-
reds and thousands, maimed equally
as bad, made good and successful
lights but this Confederate hero to
whom we refer had a brother-in-law.
That kinsman never fought for his
country, rendered no service whatever,
hail perfect limbs, a tireless tongue,
a busy-bodied nature, and couldn't
or didn't make a living, trusted by
none — he was simply a nobody.
But the other day there came to my
desk a Special Edition of the Duplin
and the ambitions of the people of
Duplin county. A little further on
we discovered the reason for this
really brilliant piece of work. At the
head of that paper is a man, whom
nature started off in life under a
handicap, a very serious and a life-
time disadvantage. But while nature
does some peculiar stunts in the dis-
tribution of powers among her child-
ren, she makes compensation in a
majority of cases in abundantly hand-
ing out blessings in another way.
Mr. Robert S. T;;ylor, the subject
of this sketch and the editor and publ-
isher of the Duplin Record since Nov-
ember, 1915, was denied from birth
the faculty of hearing. Is this handi-
cap? To most men it would be; but
not to Taylor. Evening up this mis-
fortune, there was given an unusual
intellect, a fine vision, a superb will
and a tota,l ignorance of what lazi-
ness is. Mr. Taylor was born in Dup-
lin county. He is a B. A. graduate
of Gallaudet College, the National
College for the deaf, at Washington,
D. C, and is also honored by that in-
stitution with the degree M. A., in
recognition of certain post-graduate
work and achievements. He has been
at different times president and secre-
tary of the North Carolina Associa-
tion of the Deaf, and member of the
Record, published in the small town executive committee of the National
of Warsaw. It contained 56 pages well Association of the Deaf. It is said
prepared reading matter that told in that his activity and enthusiasm for
a fine way of the accomplishments the advancement of the educational
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ROBERT S. TAYLOR
Warsaw, N. 0.
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interests of the Deaf has given him
an acquaintance and high standing
throughout the country.
It is pleasing to the craft, it goes
without saying, that Mr. Taylor's suc-
cess in a difficult field of activity, such
as liewspnperdom offers, is regarded
no small achievement; and a,ll will re-
joice in knowing that this admirably
supported Special Edition of The Rec-
ord gives unmistakable evidence that
his neighbors, his fellow citizens
throughout the good county of Dup-
lin, hold him in high esteem and liber-
ally sustain him in his splendid efforts
to weekly sing the praises of Old
Duplin.
How do the aimless amd the bunch
that are looking for "something to
turn up" feel in the presence of the
records made all around them by
such line spirits as our old one-legged
Confederate soldier and this man,
Robert S. Taylor, and their innumer-
able class ?
Abraham Lincoln
To-morrow is the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, who was
born February 12, 1S09 in a log cabin of the rudest sort in Kentucky. He
had the elements of so much greatness, overcome so many obstacles that
would have defeated the average youth, rose to such eminence, and placed
his name so high in American annals, that it is worth our while, annually
to review the lite and course of Lincoln.
LINCOLN IN CONGRESS
\\ bile the Mexican War was go-
ing on a tall, lean awkward man
was offering himself to the voters
of the Springfield district in Illinois
as a candidate for Congress. Just
as the war closed, he took his seat
in the House of Representives at
Washington. Day after day he sat
in the House, and had little to say,
but his voting always showed that
he was not pleased with the war
against the Mexicans. His name
was Abraham Lincoln, and this was
the only term that he ever spent in
■Congress. During this same period
Jefferson Davis, who was afterwards
opposed to Lincoln in war, sat in the
United States Senate, nursing the
wound which he bad received in
the hills of Mexico.
THt BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN
When Lincnln was seven years old
his father moved- to Indiana and
male a rough "camp" in the woods
for his family to live in. This home
was a mere shed of poles open to one
side, and covered with leaves and
branches. A year later a new log:
cabin was built with four sides and
a door and windows. A floor
made of split loss kept the family
off the ground. Abe slept in the loft
on a bed of leaves.
aue's schooling
Young Lincoln went to a log school
in the woods just long enough to
learn a little reading, writing and
ciphering. He managed to get a few
fighting his country's battles among books, however, such as "Robinson
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Crusoe," and "Aesop's Fables," and office of president of the United
these he read over and over again. States. It was a great step upward
At night he sat in front of the tire, for the railsplitter and flatboat man.
and by the light from the blazing His triumph over the difficulties of
logs he worked out sums in arith- early life was one of the most mar-
metic on the Hat wooden fire-shovel. velous accomplishments of all ages.
His pencil was a piece of char-coal. It shows ihat he had great strength
When the shovel was covered with of mind and wonderful knowledge
figures, he would take a knife and of men.
shave it off clean, and begin his Many stories have been told about
ciphering again. him and his family; and no end of
LINCOLN SPLITS RAILS. anecdotes and feats have been cred-
T. , ited to this wonderful man, but
When Lincoln grew up to be a ^ Linco,n bab, never
man, he was six feet tour .nches in m. (lreamed of How he
height, and as strong in his arms as fu]] rf ,. and ^^
a giant. On his first journey away ™ became friendg jg a samp]e [t
from home, he helped to take a b,R . probably manufactured, but it
flatboat down the Mississ.ppi River J have been trufi &nd fitg tfce
to New Orleans When he returned , ,, , . .
.... ., c ., . . character so well that we here re-
ins father put the family into an ox- .
wagon and took them to Illinois A ^ESte showing goods to two or
new log cabin was built thereon the en }n Qffut,g ^ Qm
Sangamon river Abe helped to ^ ^ b tQ
split rails for building a fence around J an * maM us{
a large cornfield. After that he profanitVi and evidently wish-
worked in a store; then he was chos- K ,-' . T . .„
t . . ' f l j- ing to provoke a quarrel. Lincoln
en captain of a companv of soldiers , , ,, t j i, „j
, ' , , t A , f , ,- „ eaned over the counter and begged
who marched away to fight Indians , . ... . °Z .
. ., t>, , tt , -n, i . him, as ladies wee present, not to
in the Black Hawk War, but, as . ' . . ' T, .' ,,
r ;„„.,!„ „„i^ fi,„„ AiA „„♦ fi„,i 1„„. indulge in such talk. The bully re-
Lincoln said, they d>d not find-any-
torted that the opportunity had come
thing to light except mosquitoes. „ ' , - , , , , , ■ t „ A . „
- for which he had long sought, and he
AN ILLINOIS LAWYER. WQu]d ,jke tQ s?e the man who cou!d
Lincoln read a number of law hindt r him from saying ai yvhing he
books at home, and at last he became might choose to say. Lincoln, still
a lawyer. He told a great many cool, told him that if he would wait
stories that made people laugh, and until the ladies retired he would hear
everybody liked him. Four times what he had to say, and give bim
he was sent to the legislature of II- any satisfaction he desired,
linois. lhen he went to the town As soon as the women were gone,
of Springfield, arid the people of that the man became furious. Line in
district elected him to Congress. heard his boasts and his abuse
For more than ten years after for a time, and finding that he was
his term as a lawmaker at Washing- not to be put off without a fig; t,
ton, Lincoln kept at his work as a said: "Well if you must be whipped,
lawyer in Springfield. Then in the I suppose I may as well whip you as
year 1860 he was elected to the high any man." This was just what the
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bully had been seeking, lie said, so
out of doors they went, and Lincoln
made short work with him. He
threw him upon the ground, held
him as if he had been a child, and
gathering some "smart weed'' which
grew upon the spot, rubbed it into
his face and eyes, until the fellow
bellowed with pain. Lincoln did all
this without a particle of danger, and
when the job was finished, went im-
mediately for water, washed his
victim's face, and did everything he
could to alleviate his distress. The
upshot of the matter was that the
man hecame his fast and life-long
friend, and was a better man from
that day. It was impossible then,
and it always remained for Lincoln
to cherish resentment or revenge.
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon
opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost
of possible achievement — these are the martial virtues which must com-
mand success. — Austin Phelps.
Living Under Christian, Not Mosaic Dispensation.
BY C. W. HUNT.
(Writer's Note — For fear that some one will say that I am criticising the
Governor, let me say here before you read a line, that not a word is to be so
construed, and he is mentioned here solely for the purpose of getting my facts
in shape.)
My friend Mr. R. E. Clark, dis-
cussing the matter of an effort
being made to do away with capital
punishment and the nullification of
the law through influence or the
Governor of the state is a timely
matter. AVe need to read such timely
topics, and without crossliring Mr.
Clark in any way, I want to discuss
tins matter from the standpoint of
one who occupies a middle ground, if
such can he.
Little, if anything was doing to-
ward abolishment of capital punish-
ment, in the open, as I saw it, until
the matter of J. T. Harris' life or
depth was brought to the public view,
as it was by ex-Judge Frank Carter of
Asheville; a bright man whose weak-
est point is going to an extreme. I do
not quite know if I am utterly op-
posed to capital punishment; for there
conies up ever and anon cases that
are not entitled to even a trial, when
we consider the grade of the crime,
wrong though such a thought is: I
thought I read unprejudiced and
fairly all that passed in those days
before Harris was executed, and all
the leading papers of the state to the
contrary, I never saw or felt, that the
Governor had been unduly "assault-
ed," and to call the hundreds and
hundreds of good people who went to
the trouble and expense to write the
Governor a "Mob," was, I thought,
unfair. I was not one of them, but
would have been hqfd I had made any
move at all. This is what I understood
made ex-Judge Carter appeal to the
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people; he thought Governor, Morri- us a rule than any others, saying so
son had made up his mind before he many of them had killed a follow man
heard Carters ease. -My appeal to the in passion,, prior to which time they
Governor, had it been made, would were respected citizens, still possess-
liave been based on just two things; in;,', many of them, the instincts of
insanity in Harris' family, and the gentlemen. Does any one claim that
division in the supreme court, where carrying out the old .Mosaic law and
two wise and good men as the three slaying these men would have mad.;
sa.id Harris had not had a fair (rial. the world or society any better?
I believe in trying cases on the ev- The question that would weigh most
idence as brought out, and not on with me. in making a decision as to
sentiment; and there being two causes whether Tarn ready to repeal the law
for doubt would have made me ask is: has there been an increase in
leniency from the Governor: further murderers in states that have done
I feel sure that 75 per cent of those away with the death penalty? If
who asked leniency were actuated by
what I have stated here. I am in no
there has not it is more than North
Carolina can sav.
wav trying to excuse Harris, but dis- Unfortunately have not the figures
cussing a case that provoked a state 1)eforc me at t,ILS time- l have llot
vide discussion. Harris is dead, s:"d h"lf thele ls to be sa,d here' but
right or wrong. And, to.), I do not tllIS ls lonS already,
feel that the men and women who ^U> ,u'° llvm= under the Christian
asked leniency here represent those dispensation, not under the old
who may be working hard to do away M°.a"'' rtnd Chri.s.' did. not ^ach
with legal killing; nor do I see what
they could possibly gain by trying to
elevate to the judgeship a man opposed
to legal execution, especially while
the law , as it is. stands.
taking of human life by law or other-
wise.
I may be a long way oft' the right
line of thought, but the very fact that
a lawyer appealing to the people to
use influence to save the life of one
What is punishment for? To deter wno shot down a valuable man, when
men from violating law, of course. Ile Was nothing to them, save a weak
But a very large majority of the kill- human being, shows one of two things;
ings are done in passion, a time when these people thought this man needed
there is no time to contemplate further attention' before electrocuting
punishment and its consequences. This him or the feeling that none should be
reminds me of a conversation I killed, by law, has grown beyond the
had many years ago with the late knowledge of the general public.
Augustus Leazer, on a train from Several years ago there was :> man
Charlotte to Greensboro, when he was shot on the streets of Charlotte,
snperintendnt of the peniten- The jury found the man who did it
tiary at Raleigh. I asked the question, was insane at the time, and he eseap-
as to how amd what cdass of prisoners ed death, 1 often see that man, and
were those there for killing? And have talked with him about this, and
was told that they gave less trouble 1 find that be is striving harder than
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any one I ever saw to live exactly to atone and get forgiveness for
right. To use his own wordsj what I have done." None will say
practically: "I have committed such lie is not an exemplary citizen; yet
a horrible crime, I feel that I must do even the newspapers cried aloud for
all the good, in living, I can, so as his life.
"When the farmer can't buy, the manufacturer can't sell and if the
manufacturer can't sell, labor can't find employment, and if the fanner
can't buy the manufacturer can't sell, the railroads can't make much
hauling nothing both wajys!" — William Jennings Bryan.
DISCUSSING WEATHER SIGNS.
BY E. E. CLAEK
I
The 2d of February continues to attract notice as Ground Hog Day, al-
though it is probable that very few people really believe that the character or!
the weather on that day is a forecast for the next 40 days. Even if the sign
was dependable we are often at a loss to classify the day — whether foul or
fair — for the reason that the weather is so often a mixture of sunshine and
shadow on that day as on other days, and as nobody can say positively as to tho
time of the ground hog's appearing we may not know whether he saw his
shadow or not.
The 2d of February, as most people when the child Jesus was presented in
know, is Candlemas Day in the Church the Temple. When Simeon, whose lifo
calendar. Originally it is ascribed to was spared until he had "seen the
heathen origin. The Romans, it is said. Lord's Christ/' took the child in his
were in the habit of burning candles arms and blessed Him, he announced
on that day to the goddess Februa. his readiness to depart, "For mine
the mother of Mars. The lighted eyes have seen thy salvation, which
candles were supposed to have the ef- thou hast prepared before the lace of
feet of frightening the devil and all all thy people; a light t> lighten the
all evil spirits away from those who Gentiles, and the glory of thy people*
carried them and from the houses in Israel." "A light to lighten the
which they were burned. Pope Ser- Gentiles" is believed to have given
gins, so the story runs, feeling (hit it rise to the Church festival, which is
would be impossible to break up a celebrated in the Roman Catholic
practice of such long standing, 1 nriied Church with many lighted candles,
to the use of the Church by enjoining which are blessed for the service,
a similar offering of cand'es to the [n Scotland Candlemas dnv is one o£
virgin Mary. Therefore in the Church four term days appointed fo>* the pay-
calendar Candlemas Day is th • feast merit of interest, taxes, etc., the other
of the purification of the Virgin Msirv, three term days being Whitsunday,
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Lammas and Martinmas. There is a
tradition in most parts of Europe to
the effect that the weather on Candle-
mas day forecasts the weather for the
ensuing forty days. In Scotland the
prognostication is expressed this way:
"If Candlemas is fair and clear,
There'll be two winters in the
year. ' '
Which means that winter will con-
tinue for a season. Another couplet
has it that if Candlemas day be foul
half the winter is gone at Yule; which
means that the winter was half done
at Christmas and the other half being
finished at Candlemas, there will lie
but one winter instead of two sup-
posed to be forecast by a fair Candle-
mas day.
Just where and when the ground
hog, or woodehuek, got so mixed in
with the Candlemas day weather fore-
cast as to effectually obliterate the
origin of theday, its purpose and even
its name, Idon't know, but the ground
hog sign is peculiar to some sections of
the United States only. In Europe,
where the observance of Candlemas
day runs far back, they wouldn't
know what meant by the ground hog
sign and would probably resent it as
irreverence toward sacred things.
The theory of the groundhog sign is
that the animal, having spent the
winter in his den, comes out on this
particular day, February 2nd, to see
if the winter has passed; and that
animal instinct tells him by the con-
dition of the weather if the winter is
or is not ended. If he sees his shadow
in the sunshine he returns to his den
and remains six weeks; if he doesn't
see his shadow he stays out in the
open, which signifies an early spring.
Authorities say the groundhog hiber-
nates, passing the winter in its bur-
row in a lethargic state; "going to
its hibernation in late September and
often coming out in March, before the
cold and snow have ceased, when
many starve or freeze to death." If
that authority is correct it destroys
the ground hog's reputation as a
weather forecaster. It is noticed that
he is said to come out in March in-
stead ot'February 2, as popularly sup-
posed, and that if he gets out before
the cold weather passes he may freeze
enough to go back to his winter home
and stay until warm weather comes.
Ground hogs are common in the
North Carolina mountain region and
there be those familiar with their hab-
its who say that they do not hiber-
nate at all but come out frequently
during the winter, especially on pleas-
ant days. And as Mr. Dooley would
say, ''There ye are." I do not under-
take to settle the dispute, but I make
bold to suggest that the ground hog's
habits may be governed by the cli-
mate in which he lives and moves.
In the colder climates he may hiber-
nate from late September until March;
in the milder climates he may come out
frequently during the winter.
But however that may be, there is
nothing, so far as I know, to sustain
the theory that he comes out on the
2nd of February and stays out or re-
turns to his home as the condition of
the weather may indicate. The ground
hog sign, therefore, can't be recom-
mended as a reliable weather forec; st;
but the idea that the weather on Can-
dlemas day indicates whether winter is
or is not over is probably as depen-
dable as many other weather signs,
which are not dependable at all in all
seasons, for "all signs fail in dry
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weather," you know. It can be said, lish it abroad, than many of the signs
however, that the wild creatures, or of the weather prophets. But some-
niany of them, know by instinct, in times the wild creatures may miss it
many eases at least, as to the veath- and in our urban settlements, where
ei' and prepare for it accordingly. The we can't observe their habits, it is
instinct of the wild creature would safest to depend on weather bureau
lie more dependable, if he could pub- forecasts.
There are few people who 'would have attained a higher greatness imder
the handicaps which Lincoln experienced. He did not complain of his lot.
LEARNED WHEN A FARM BOY.
BY C. W. HUNT.
Number X — Many Small Things.
Having finished the subjects I promised to write about there has appeared,
as I wrote, a number of interesting small things; not large enough for a chap-
ter, yet, many of them, as interesting as anything that has been mentioned.
Such being true, I am about to write a number composed of a great variety,
making almost, if not quite as interesting a. chapter as any that have gono
before.
RED-AXTS: — On the sunny pas- bug down the hole, which would soon
tare bill side we located a- Red-Ant come back dragging all the ants that
hill, that was not for a year, but for could get hold. But if unable to drag
many years, in mid summer,, an inter- them out it stayed in. It was hard
esting place, as we watched these red on the frog, but we often held a toad
ants bring all manner of insects they on the ant hill until covered with bit-
had captured far from the ant hole. ing ants; then free it, and with about
Sometimes singly, sometimes as many two swipes of its hind legs there would
as six pulling and tugging at the same not be an ant on it. If we caught a tor-
worm or bug they had found, and all rapin and wanted to save its pretty
went the same way, down that hole. shell we only had. to kill it and placo
We wanted mighty bad to see inside, it by the ant hill, and in a few days
but had gumption enough to know wo then1 would not be a particle of the
would not be able to restore the house meat there, the shell clean and white
as they had made, had we dug in. For inside.
hours at a time we have searched for COW-KILLER: — This belongs to
bags of all kinds, grass-hoppers and the stinging ant family, in fact in an
such, which we placed in reach of ant almost 8|S large as a cricket, as
the ant bill and saw the ants tackle bard as soft wood; grows to an inch
anything from a toad down. If too in length, is red ami brown and has a
str< ug for them, then we turned the stinger as long as it is, in fact a three
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pronged stinger. What named it "cow-
killer'' we never knew, we got the
name from tradition. We had a de-
sire to make them sting something
to see if the thing lived, but we never
"were able to get a subject when we
had the cow-killer. We were told its
sting would kill a cow, and while Ave
took chances on being stung, handling
it with sticks and such, we never al-
lowed one to escape.
TICKS:— As far back as I can re-
member there were ticks to bite every-
thing that walked the earth. All cat-
tle ran on the "commons," that is
you had to fence your fields and ev-
ery body's cow went where they de-
sired, even breaking down your fen-
ces. And it was a common thing to
find cattle running at large covered
with ticks so you could take a( knife
and scrape them off by the thousand ?
They stunted young cows and made
old ones poor. As they tilled with
blood and become the size of a grain
of corn, they fell off and from them
came the "seed-tick", an infantisnml
tick, the,t crawled up on the grass and
got on to any thing it could. Nothing
"was more, irritating to the flesh than
a lot of seed ticks; and if you got
one you would likely get fifty. They
Were worse than chiggers.
KING-HORNET :— There was a
stinging insect we called the king-hor-
net, though it was as large r,s ten hor-
nets; propagated itself on the order
of the ground dirt-dauber by catch-
ing the "jar-fly", killing it by the
sting then leaving it alone. No doubt
it put the egg in at time it stung the
fly. We handled a few of them, a,nd
they had a sting about equal to the
"cow-killer".
HORNETS:— The hornet furnished
many lively tilts with the boys.
Most of my readers know a hornet's
nest, built somewhat in shape of an a,
corn, and in size up to a foot in di-
ameter, made from wood fibre like
the wasp and yellow jacket use. They
are useful in catching house flies, but
'sill ^Iways sting if troubled at the
nest or if they happen to hit you about
the face when chasing flies. We al-
ways broke them up if we had to barn
them at night.
YELLOW-JACKET :— is in same
class as the hornet, builds in the
ground, makes a, nest like the wasp
for rearing the young, and are the
worst of all the small stingers; ami
fight till all are killed. We so often
found them where we wanted to plow.
They would sting the horses, making
them umnauagable. As small boys
we have fought a large yellow-jack-
et nest a whole summer. They were
fond of fruit and would come to a cid-
er mill from all directions. Not sat-
isfied with one sting, they keep ou
stinging as long as in contact.
BUMBLE-BEE:— Most boys who
read this will need no introduction to
this insect ; for most of them are al-
ready acquainted with it. They were
as mean a thing as we ever came up-
on in a nest; and they, too, we always
found where work had to be. done,
and could not be done until we killed
them. After all at home were fixed,
then we had to fight those away from
home as they returned, and found us
about the place we had robbed them
of. They lay up a little honey for
winter.
TADPOLES:— They are an embryo
frog. They are an amusing thing.
The small black tadpoles are the off-
spring of the toad which, while a dry
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land reptile cannot raise its young ex-
cept in water, and they hatch into
small black tadpoles by the thousands,
in stagnant water, preferably, and will
turn to a small frog the first season.
A single heavy rain will destroy all
the hatch by washing them away as
trash. The large gray tadpole of
running water is the offspring of the
bull-frog of the mill ponds and
swamps. We never quite knew how
long they are in the transformation,
but they get quite large and have
both four legs and ;% tail; but some-
time they drop the tail and learn to
swim with legs instead of tail as does
the fish, and then to jump.
SXAPPIXG-TURTLE :— This was
a water reptile that was prized In-
most old people as food, r,nd is said to
have flesh like pork, beef, chicken.
They grew to 12 inches across the shell
and were found in ponds and creeks.
They come on land to lay eggs, making
a small hole in the ground with a
hind foot then tunneling a large open-
ing slightly under the small hole
where the foot is inserted a,nd the dirt
scraped out. In this they lay an egg
without shell, in number according to
size of the layer, placing theui in a
circle or circles until the nest is full.
This is covered and the sun does the
rest. Once I found a nest that had
hatched, and tracked the young ones
in the sand to where they went into
the water, and found a number about
the size of a man's thumb nail. Later
I found one in the act of making a
nest a,iid laying.
TERRAPINS:— These are both
land and water reptiles. The water
terrapin resembles the snapping tur-
tle, but will not tight like the turtle,
which is dangerous. They have hab-
its like the turtle, and raise the same
way. The highland terrapin is strict-
ly a dry land reptile and like its half
brothers the turtle and the water ter-
rapin lays eggs and hatches them in
the sun. They are one of the few
things that has a shell that opens and
closes so no ordinary enemy can hurt
it. They are everywhere, and have
been known to live lifty years, by
marking them. I once saw one dig-
ging a hole for a nest with a hind
leg, but quit on being discovered.
Tilings don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. — G3ff-
iield. }
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" • IN MICA PRODUCTION - .
(B. G. Leiper in the Asheville Citizen)
Whether yon operate your automobile or your electric iron, stove or heater
play your phonograph or stoke your parlor stove, decorate your Christmas tree
with imitation snow or put down a composition roof upon your home, you arr>
using things in the making of which some form of mica was likely used.
And when it is realized that in
the mining of mica throughout the
Uuited States, North Carolina has
long taken the lead, producing in
the western section foui'-lifths of
the entire domestic output, one be-
gins to realize how important a
home industry is that which collects
from upward of 500 scattered mines
this vajueble, glittering mineral.
The story of the mica industry
in this territory, while it begins
principally in the counties of Avery,
Mitchell, Yancey, Haywood, Jackson
and Macon, is linked especially to
Asheville because of the loeetion in
this section of the Asheville Mica
Company, handling such a large por-
tion of the valuable mica crop of
Appalachia. There are also manu-
facturing plants of smaller size in
Avery and Mitchell counties. While
mica deposits are said to lie fairly
deep in Buncombe and are there-
fore commercially less favorable,
there are now mining operations get-
ting out mica near Candler and
Swannanoa.
Vast Mica Desposits in Mountains.
The mica deposits of this section
extend in a belt 75 miles wide, ap-
proximately, and 150 miles long.
Sheet mica of commercial value is
found only in certain dike rocks,
known technically lis pegmatites.
The predominating commercial va-
riety of western North Carolina, and
of the entire United States in fact,
is museovite, obtained only from
the quartz-feldspar pegmatite dikes.
And while mica is one of the com-
monest minerals, there are only a
few regions where the earth's crust
seems to have been specially stable,
geologists point out, so as to with-
stand the folding and faulting earth
movements for long periods of geo-
logic time. Among the few places
where such resisting formations oc-
curred in the American piedmont,
abutting against the Appalachian
mountains.
Since money talks, a definite idea
of what the vast mica desposits mean
to the mountains dwellers of Ap-
palachia may be gained when it is
learned that productions grew from a
value of !?256,549 in 1912 to ft 73,-
3S0 in 1918, at which time the nearest
competitor, the State of New Hamp-
shire, produced mica valued at *113,-
240, or less than one-fourth the
North Carolina output.
Notable Increase in Production
Of the Old North State output he
latest compiled U. S. geological re-
port asserts: "North Carolina pro-
duced in lfllS the largest quantity
of sheet mica since 1913. Altho <gh
the quantity was 40 per cent greater
than in 1017, its value was somewhat
less owing in part to the large qi; in-
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tity of punch mica mined in 101S.
The increase in production for the
Shite is a notable one." The same
report shows in that year a falling
off for New Hampshire, but a de-
cided gain for Georgia. Other States
producing commercial mica are listed
in order of output as Virginia, South
Dakota ami Alabama, all other
States of the Union combined pro-
ducing "out G per cent of the do-
mestic output.
Although the 1920 report of the
geological bureau has not yet been
compiled, local authorities upon the
mica industry estimate the total
western North Carolina output for
that year at 540 tons of sheet, valued
at $410,000, and 3.000 ions of scrap,
valued at sOO.000, or a total value of
$500,000, which is a decided gain
even over the 1918 totals. This is
regarded with particular favor, since
the 1018 figures take into consider-
ation the abnormal demand for mica
products brought about by the war
industries for various types.
Foreign Competition Is Enormous.
The total production of the United
States for 10'J0 is estimated as worth
$(14 000, against the foreign pro-
duction of #3,574,000 imported with-
in that year, giviug a, total consump-
tion in Ibis country of mica valued
at over $4,000,000, of which domestic
niir.es supplied but 1G.1 per cent.
But while a preference was for-
merly expressed by the trade for'
much of the foregin mica, by rea-
son of the extra trimming given it
at the hands of cheap labor, it is
interesting to note how mure and
more the fact is coming to be reeog-
aki'd that the North Carolina mica,
as ell is some produced in other
States of the Union, is of similar
high quality.
While 75 per cent of the sheet
-mica produced here is of relatively
small sizes, it is equally true that
75 per cent of the consumption runs
that way and that the same per-
centage in small sizes holds true of
production the world over. India
and Smith America are the great pro-
ducers of mica, being able to put
their produce upon the American
market in a large assortment of
classifications and grades, carefully
knife-trimmed, by reason of the
cheap labor obtained in those coun-
tries.
Principal Use For Insulation.
The uses to which mica is put in
the sheet form are many and varied,
but the principal demand for sheet
mi'.-a comes from the makers of elec-
trical supplies in which insulation
is required. This accounts for fully
S6 per cent of the entire output
of the world, and since no satis-
factory substitutes have ever been
found for such insulation, and since
high voltage equipment is being in-
stalled with ever increasing demand
for such insulation, the geological
survey of the nation holds the belief
that no producer of sheet mica need
fear a lessening in the market for
his wares.
The history of the uses of mica
runs well back into antiquity. The
name comes from the Latin word
for "particle" or "crumb," pro-
ably influenced also by the verb
"micare," meaning to gleam or
shimmer, a property for which mica
is well known, as all who walk upon
the face of Appalachia can testify.
The Romans used sheets of mica
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for mirrors. The Indians have long ing of mementoes upon silk, orna-
used it for decorative purposes and mented with fancy 2ieedlework about
for a fancied medicinal property. the edges.
The mound builders in Ohio have left In a comparison of properties, the
behind in their unusual works sain- Xovth Carolina green mica, as it is
pies of mica used for decorations. often called, is considered the hard-
Throughout the mountains, too, est produced in (lie world, while the
mica has had various local uses, ambler or phologopite mica of Can-
ranging from window lights in days ada takes rank as the softest found,
when the commercial value was not Hence, the manufacturer of stove
so well known to the adonnent of ''isinglass,'' as many term it, finds
picture frames with rounded scallops the local variety particularly adapted
in dust-catching patterns and cover- to this commercial use.
I feel about a nation as we feel about a man; let him not say anything
he cannot make good, and having said it, let him make it good. — Teddy
Roosevelt.
WHAT IS YOUR INVESTMENT?
(Contributed)
<:Save, save, save," sometime becomes a family slogan, and at times the
word and its every synonym are overworked, because the idea of economy
is studied and practiced until the victims become penurious and reach that
frame of mind that wherein a, dollar is saved to the detriment of a human souL
This is a ra,ther hard theme because it is difficult to maintain a happy medium,
and to understand the essential expenditures as well as the necessity of teach-
ing frugality.
Recently I was in a country church ■ eloquent in his earnestness and siu-
— in a community where first-class cerity, and if I had been in a Metli-
schools for generations had been en- odist church possibly I would have
joyed — and the preacher's theme on heard numerous "a,mens" for the
that special occasion was "Educa- congregation was deeply interested
tion". In his own peculiar and rather It is true that the best manner of in-
pleasing nasal tone, he earnestly ex- vestment of God's talents given us is
claimed, "brethern and sisters, don't to spend them for the training of those
hold your dollars until they become made in His image— for the duties
rusty with age but use them ingiving and privileges of this life and for the
your children the best .yl vantages; glory of the hereafter,
and if you have no child of your own, Xol withstanding the outstanding
help some worthy boy or girl, who is educational advantages enjoyed by
hungering and craving for an educa- this community, there were some who
tion." This preacher was most refused the blessing. I have heard of
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one family in particular, a family
that had a good birth behind it, with
good property and a fair income; but
(iii'v say there was something lopsided
in the management of the home. The
boys, fine specimen physically, were
made to work like beasts with the
hope of gaining more, leaving no time
forself and mental improvements and
thought that lead on to the inspira-
tion for purer and better lives. These
boys, now men, have become (to use
us gentle language as possilbe in a
description) a brazen offense to
decent society, and, instea,d of occupy-
ing the social position their blood
would warrant, they are classified
with lawless element and are indeed
social outcasts. This is a sin and a
crime against humanity — perverting
the human soul for gain rather than
for the glory of Him in whose image
creation was made.
I know of a ease that is out of the
ordinary. It is an oasis in the des-
ert of ignorance and stinginess — it is
the overcoming of a handicap and in
spite of it. There was a young girl
with an ambition to dedicate her life
to a service of mankind. She had
finished with credit to herself the
local schools and simply made appeal
for assistance for just one year in
college. Her wish was denied for the-
money on hand to be used for "busi-
tion in this instance was sacrificed
ness," and thus the most vital ques-
for business aggrandizement. The
goal of this young woman's ambition
was for a finished education, perfer-
able to the flippant finery. Th aid
could have been given,, for a small
estate remains today in tact and so far
no one has been the beneficiary of a
single return. But it is pleasing to
know that this girl, undaunted in her
heroic purposes, went boldly to her
mission to blaze her own way — in the
wake of her travels and her efforts
she has given inspiration, a hope and
an ideal to many a blighted youth.
Economy for the sake of saying
"I OWN"' is the very worst form of
penurinousness — it is hoarding — it is
sin — it is crime. If you yourself can-
not make up your mind to give a life
of service, then give of your worldly
goods so that someone can be your
PROXY.
Live and feel that you may assist some one with their troubles; hope
and believe you can and you wilL
NIGGER AND NEGRO
Heywood Broun, literary critic of the New York World, in his daily column
of that recently had the following paragraphs:
Carl Sandburg expressed himself about something yesterday which we had
been turning over in our mind. He thinks that one of the necessary steps in t he-
progress of the American negro is for him to accept the word "nigger" and
tiake it his own.
To be sure, the word had its origin would serve to rob "nigger" of all
m contempt, but acceptance itself sting. Some such process has gone
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on in connection with "Yankee" and panic "negro." According to Web-
no Confederate soldier minded being ster, it is the English adaptation]
called a "Rob" after he himself had of the French "negro" (with a grave
began to use it. accent over the first "e",) which
From the standpoint of language itself came from the Spanish-Pov-
there is much to be said for" nigger." tuguese "negro," which in turn,
"Colored man" is hoplessly ornate was derived from the Latin "niger."
and "negro" is tainted with ethnol- Thus while "nigger" has been taken
ogy. More than that, it is a literary into English embodied in English
word. "Nigger" is a live word. There by having its spelling and pronun-
is a ring to it like that of a true ciation changed to conform to Eng-
coin upon a payment. Nor are all lish rules, "negro" is still no more
the connotations of the word shame- than a loan-word from the Spanish,
ful tn the negro race. Something of Incidentally, it is much closer to tin?
the terrific contribution of physical original Latin "niger" than is the
energy which the negro has made to Spnnish "negro."
America is inherent in the word "nig- English writers of the best class
ger. " To our mind it brings up a used the word long before they bud
vision of a man wrestling with great. ever heard of "negro;" and l'jig-
burclerns and conquering them. Blood lish' writers use it to this day much
and sweat and tears have all com- more frequently than Americans. In
bined to make "nigger" stark and, this country the violent prejudice
.simple. Among namby-pamby words of the blocks against the word has
it looms like a great rock. It is basic relegated it to the category of it-rms
but not base. of contempt; but it is their balrc-d
Mr. Broun errs in one important of it — an ill-founded hatred, it bi-i'ins
particular. The word "nigger" did to us — that has made it contempt-
not have its origin in contempt'. On ible. It was not so in the beginning.
the contrary, it is perfectly good — Greensboro Xews.
English, much better than the His-
Life At Central Hospital
Fred A. Old, in The Friend
The writer has had quite an intimate accpusintance with the Central
Hospital for insane and Epileptics for the past 50 years. When a young-
ster he used to go there with legislative committees and perhaps knows
the institution better than any other outsider. It. has grown wonderfully.
It was built for 300 patience, and now has over 1,400. It was for many
years after its completion in 1856 the "North Carolina Insane Asylum."
It is now beirg enlarged so it can leptics. It receives the latter from
accommodate many more patients, all over the state; the ir.sane from
There are 1,150 insane and 200 epi- the eastern half of the state.
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Many stories have been written
about its farm, industrial plants,
gardens, arts and crafts department,
and various other features, but this
one is to be about its church and
Sunday school. Church ssrvices are
regularly conducted every Sunday
morning, in the assembly hall. Many
people express surprise when they
here of church services at such a hos-
pital, but a fourth of the 1,150 insane
patients are quite normal at times.
These are the ones who attend the
services. They manifest much in-
trest, sing well and enjoy the music
and take an active and alert part in
the services. Many of the patients
are very familiar with the Bible and
have memorized hymns-
It is interesting to know that men
and women of all the walks in life
among the patients attend these
church services, which are con-
ducted by the chaplin, or preacher
in charge. Rev. Philip Schwartz,
who is a young man of attractive
personality and well read. He was
until a few month ago assitant pas-
tor of the First Methodist Episcopal
church of Canton Ohio, and before
that time was connected with the
Methodist church in Western North
Carolina in the Centenary movement.
He has had even four year's ex-
perience in Epworth League work in
the western part of this state and is
now the secretary of the Raleigh
district of the Epworth League,
being a memqer of Eder.ton Street
church, Raleigh.
Many of the physicans, nurses
and attendants are at these services;
the&e of course being of greac value
in the work. Mrs. Kate Hays
Fleming directs the music and the
regular choir is composed of nurses.
Mrs. Fleming is an accomplished!
pianist and conductor and the pa-
tients are very fond of her. The sing-
ing is hearty and among the patients
there ate some good voices. Among
the patients who regularly attend
these services are a former Metho-
dist presiding elder and ex-captain of
the United States Army. It is really
a splendid congregation and demands
the best thought and expression a
preacher can give.
Every Sunday afternoon there is
Sunday school for the inmates. This
is not only attended by the patients
but by a number of nurses and at-
tendants. It :s conducted by Dr.
Thomas M. Jordan, of the hospital
staff, who is now in charge of the
epileptic colonies. Dr. Jordan makes
the Sunday school work very inter-
esting and gives a concise exposi-
tion of the leading features of the
lesson for the day. The singing is
a feature aiso. The service does not
differ from that in the ordinary Sun-
day school. Neither at this or at the
church services is there anything to
dflierentiate the audier.es firm those
in the ordinary world. Excellent
manners, close attendance an par-
ticipation in the work are all illus-
trated.
On a recent Sur.day afieinconDr
Jordan invited the Sunday school to
march to the front of the main build-
ing, near the great portico of the
entrance, and there the members
were photographed on a terrace.
One of the inmates, a Confederate
veteran, widely known and pcpular,
who has been in this hospital over
c.0 years, is in the group thus pictur-
ed. He is found of the Sunday school
and has a perfect score in point of
attendance.
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The Boy Who Couldn't Help It
By Emma Mauritz Larson
He was an American lad, born in New Orleans this Johnny Audubon
though his father was from France and took his son to that country earls
in his life. Father Audubon had made his fortune in America, but became in
France a naval man, and he had a fine idea in his head for his son. "Johnny
must study hard at Mathematics and such studies and be a soldier or sailor.
Perhaps his name may even become famous," he said.
So when he returned home from drawing on his sheet was as likely
a voyage and asked Johnny what he as not to turn ont a bird instead,
had been at, he wasn't much pleased
that the boy had been wandering a-
round the country, collecting eggs
and nests of every sort of bird and
filling the house with plants and
mosses and stones. "It is rather a
good collection for a hoy," he had
to admit, "but we shall see---."
"I'm afraid Johnnv conldn't help
it," said his stepmother. "It seems
just born in him."
But the old seaman carried his son
away from home the next dayt tak-
ing him to Nantes, where he had his
own headquarters, a four days'
journey, arid during all that time he
said hardly a word to Johnny.
When they reached the town he
turned the boy over to strict masters,
and he had a hard year indeed at
difficult military subjects. But
somehow or other, Johnny Audubon
escaped for a few minutes each day
to the woods or fields and found his
friends the birds as thick as they
had been around his home town. He
began to draw their pictures, and
before long he had two hundred
drawings made. He couldn't seem
to help it. He thought of birds by
■day, and dreamed of them by night,
and when his drawing master set
plaster ~cats for him to copy the
When his father appeared again,
he said, "you seem to be hopeless
for a soldier. You will never make
our name famous. Perhaps you can
manage my farm and mi 1 in Amer-
ica." So the young man came to
Pennsylvania and found Mill Grove
a "blessed spot," where he could
hunt and fish and draw beasts and
birds all day long. I he place yield-
ed enough for him to live on and
there seemed no reason why he
shouldn't be happy with so much
leisure for the things he couldn't
help doing. He filled this country
house with a collection of wild life,
and though he was so new to Amer-
ica he got a great idea in his head.
"I will be the first great naturalist
of America, and draw and paint all
the birds of America."
It was a big idea, and he had a
real start when he came to know
his nearest neighbors and to love
their daughter. He was living sim-
ply as to diet, as he tells us in his
diary, on fruit and vegetables and
fish, and though he loved handsome
clothes his income was enough for
him to get what he needed. But
when he wanted to marry I.ucy
Bakewell her father suggested that
a business-man son-in-law would suit
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25.
him butter than one who just stud-
ied and drew birds.
So John Au iubon tried again to
he like other lads and went to New
York to work in a counting house.
In bis extra time he couldn't help
hunting in this new state for bird
life and his room was filled with
bird skins drying for his stuffing.
The neighbors objected to the odor
and sent a pliceman in to complain.
So John Audubon left his irksome
job at the counting house, and went
hack to Mill Grove, where "a man
could do simple natural things like
stuffing a hundred birds without
the neighbors objecting."
"He couldn't help it," l"yal Lucy
Bakewell said, and persuaded her
father to let her marry the young
naturalist. In return for her faith
in him John Audubon sold Will
Grove farm and invested all the
money in goods, moving west to the
new country of Kentucky. "I will
be a storekeeeer and make plenty
of money for my family-- and once
in a while 1 will go hunting birds
and draw them and paint them," he
said.
They travelled down the Ohio in a
flat-bottomed boat that they called
an ark. It moved so slowly that ic
took twelve cay; to get to Louisville,
but they were wonderful days for
the young man. The boat travlled
slowly enough to let him see bright-
colored birds on the shore, and he
was eager to draw each new one.
In the city of Louisville too, he was
very hnppy, for he could sometimes
leave his store with a partner and
go far and wide on hunting and fish-
ing trips.
One day an odd thing happened.
The naturalist Wilson came into the
shop trying to sell a copy of his own
book of bird drawings. When he-
h^d showed the to Audubon that
young man mentioned that he had
done a thing or two along that line
himself and the older bird man was
greatly astonished at the drawings
the young man from France had
made. It came as a surprise too to
Audubon that his great idea of draw-
ing all the biids of America was
shared by another man.
But he decided that there was
room for two bird-lovers and paint-
ers in the big country of Ameiica,
and his wife encouraged him con-
stantly. When the business went
badly on account of war she offered
to go back to her father's for a year
with her baby son and leave
Audubon free to find a better loca-
tion to sell his goods and to go on
with his bird work.
Strange times followed, nu.ney
losses, hard journeys through all
spasi.ns to the edge of the wilderness,
but Audubon met every new hard-
ship with zest and interest because
it gave him a new chance to know
the out of-doors. He camped with
the Indians, and traveled by canoe
or foot up and down the Mississippi,
alwav with his notebook in his pock-
et of his rough clothes and a scrap
of paper to draw birds on.
His shoes wore out, and taking a
mate whose boots were almost gone
too. he found the shoemaker of a
little town. "I will draw a portrait
of you if you will make boots for
my friend and me,'' he offered and
the shoemaker accepted the offer.
The old drawing master in France
had done something for the boy
Johnny in teaching him to draw well.
After that there were many times
when hi got his next meal through
drawing of faces. In New Orleans
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Vie really set up as apoitrain painter
and made something of a success of
it, so that he was able to bring his
wife back to the south to live.
She helped valiantly, through
many hard years, when Audubon
tried to go on with his great work
cf drawing American birds, by teach-
ing and tutoring.
The old father in France died, and
even though his son had not followed
his wish and there seemed little
chance that the name of Audubon
should ever be famous, he left John
§17,000. But he arranged that his
son must collect it personally from
a merchant in Virginia, proving his
identity first. The word travelled
so slowly out to John in his wilder-
ness travels that a year had elapsed
before he knew of it and could start
east. And just before he reached
the merchant's town to claim his in-
heritance that gentleman died and
bis business partners claimed to have
no knowledge of the sevnteen thous-
and dollars that would have enabled
the young naturalist to go on with
his work and be sure that his wife
and two sons would not suffer want.
It was a piece of bad luck indeed,
but Mr. and Mrs. Audubon turned
back with the same old courage to
their western home and travelled
around on rude iittle arks gathern
more information and drawings of
Kentucky birds and coming to
know all the other wild beasts like
neighbors. Audubon drew them too,
otters and racoons and deer, and
later when he was in London trying
to get his bird drawing published
he drew many natural life picture
of the wild animals of America and
sold them to pay his way along.
He met Daniel Boone, the studry
woodsman, saw him drive nailes in
with bullet shots and snuff candles
in the same way. And the bird
artist proved to be no mean second
to most of the shooters. If Mrs.
Aubudon had little money to man-
age with she could always be sure
that John would bring home a wild
turkey :>r a duck or even a bear for
their table. So the years of strnggle
went on until the Audubons had
gatherd enough money to take John
to England. Here his onthusiam
over his book was so great that he
made friends who could help hirn
raise the one hunderd thousand
dollars necessary to pulish it.
The Royal Society recognized his
work and before long "Birds of
America" had made Johnny Audu-
bon known over all the world. It
wasn't in the way his father had
dreamed of, but no military fame
could be more enduring and no tash
could be more worthwhile than this
one of recording with drawing and
biography the story of American
bird life. He came back to America
to wander from Main to Florida,
up and down the whole land, finding
in the woods the wild life too shy for
most men to see, and putting it dov, n
on paper for all to see. And America
is proud of the boy who "couldn't
help doing it," who didn't abandon
his big idea of drawing all the biids
of America through years of opposi-
tion and learn years of little income.
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High Sounding Words.
Mistakes in using words are often ludicrous. No misuse of them is so-
dangerous as that arising from a knowledge of the form r.f the word with-
out a realization of its moaning. In the play called The Ricals, Sheridan
has created a character whom he names Mrs. Malaprop. Here is one of
her speeches;
Observe me, Sir Anthony. I Then, sir, she should have a super-
would by no means wish a daughter cilious knowledge in accounts:-- and
of mine to become a progeny of learn- as she grew up, [ would have her
ing; I don't think so much learning instructed in geometry, that she
become: a young woman; for in- might know something of the con-
stance, I would never let. her meddle tagious countries; --but above all,
with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra. Sir Anthony, *he should be mistress
or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes of orthodoxy, that she might not
01 such inflammatory branches of misspell, and mispronounce words
learning— neither would it be neces- so shamefully as girls usually do;
sary for her to handle any of your and likewise that she might repre-
mathematical, astronomical, diaboli- hend the true meaning of what she
c-al instruments. ---But, Sir Antho- is saying. This, Sir Anthony, is
ny, I would send her, at nine years what I would have a woman know;
old, to a boarding school, in order to ---and I don't think there is a super-
learn a little ingenuity and artifice, stitious article in it.
Measuring Time
The sun-dial was doubtless the earliest device for keeping time. The-
clepsydra was afterward employed. This consisted of a vessel containing
water, which slowly f scaped into a dish below, in which was a float that by-
its height indicated the lapse of time. King Alfred used candles of' a uuf-
form size, six of which lasted a day. The first clock erected in England,
about 1288, was considered of such importance that a high official vas ap-
pointed to take charge of it. The clocks of the middle ages were extreme.
ly elaborate. They indicated the motion of the heavenly bodies; birds
came out and sang songs, cocks crowed, and trumpeters blew their horns;
chimes of bells were sonuded, and processions of dignitaries and military
officers, in fantastic dress, marched in front of the dial and gravely announ-
ced the time of day. Watches were made in Nuremburg in the fifteenth
century. They were styled Nuremburg eggs. Many were as small as the
watches of the present day, while others were as large as a dessert plate.
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They had no minute or second hand, and required winding- twice per
day. How different they were from the present-day luxuriant time
keeper!
THE OTHER FELLOW
By "William Hawley Smith.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in every one of us there are two per-
sons. First, there is yourself, and then there is the Other Fellow! Now,
one of tlise is all the time doing thing's, and the other sits inside and tells what
he thinks about the performance. Thus, I do so-and-so; but the Other Fellow
sits in judgment on mc all the time.
I may tell a lie, and do it so clever-
ly that the people may think that I
have dune or said a great or good
thing; and they may shout my praises
far and wide. " But the Other Fellow
sits inside, and says, " You lie! you
lie! you're a sneak, and you know it !"
I tell him to shut up, to hear what the
people say ahout me; but he only con-
tinues to repeat over and over again'
■"You lie! you lie! You're a sneak, and
you know it ! ''
Or, again, I may do a really noble
deed, but perhaps be misunderstood by
the public, who may persecute me and
say all manner of evil against me,
falsely; but the Other Fellow will sit
inside and say, ''Never mind, old boy I
It's all right! stand by!"
Ami I would rather hear the "well
done" of the Other Fellow than the
shouts of praise of the whole world;
while T would a thousand times rather
that the people should shout and hiss
themselves hoarse with rage and envy,
than that the Other Fellow should
sit inside and sav, "You lie! you lie!
You're a s
neali
and vou know it ! "
Institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
Instead of going to school, Mr.
-Johnson's room cleaned and oiled up
the floors, woodwork etc., of the
school last Saturday.
The boys are glad to see new boys
arrive at the school fast, as they are
now. It means more boys to the
right path transformed.
Mr. Fisher is planning to have a
printers ^apron made for each of
the biys so as to keep their clothes
clean of the ink, dirt etc.
Every Wednesday, parents and
relatives visit the boys. Wednes'lay
brought visits to the following boys:
Marion Butler, Hubert Orr and
Thomas Moore.
After several weeks suspension of
work on the well, Mr. J. T. Ankers
has returned from a visit home .ind
has resumed work en the well. The
depth of 232 feet has been reached.
This is a fine report.
Rev. Mr. Myers, keeping his
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promise of bringing: a message to the
boys every first Sunday, came out
Sunday and preached an inspiring
sermon, which ihe boys enjoyed very
much.
A long felt med in the Printing
Office has materialized—a file cab-
inet. All The Uplifts that are left
are stored away in this cabinet
over. When an UPLIFT is wanted,
all of them won't have to be torn up.
This cabinet will be a convenience
to the Printing Office.
The Uplift Printers are now get-
ting out two jobs --one for Mr. W.
J. Swink, of China Grove and the
other is the rules and regulations
for the Jackson Training School. Mr.
Swinks job is "The Much Abused
Boy," which was in the last week's
issue of The Uplift. The boys at
the school derived much pleasure
from reading this selection.
Monday night when the seventh
cottage was opened, the bakery was
also opened. On this day it baked
one thousand rolls. These were dis-
tributed to the various cottages.
Visitors at this school remark upon
the beauty and the magnificent view
of the school. Such meals as these
make the bulk of Arvil Absher
and when they see him the;r re-
marks are changed to: "What a
healthy place this must be."
Supt. Boger was hailed Monday
with a happy cheer by the boys
when marching to the tree---A place
where the lines meet and change
sections. They knew on this day
that the 7th cottage doors would be
thrown open, and that thirty more
boys would change their way of liv-
ing. Four boys were taken out of
each cottage, making the total of 24.
They are taken there to show the
new boys how to act, live and pros-
per.
It seems as if prosperity is hard to
be kept away from the Training
School. Not as if we wanted it a-
way from the school, but if we didn't
desire it, it would be hard to keep
down. We have opened seven cot-
tages (the seventh having been open-
ed this week) and have a backery in
operation, it having been opened this
week, also. As a celebration of its
opening it baked one thousand rolls,
an I each boy received five of them
at supper Monday night.
HONOR ROLL.
"A"
Harry Ward, James Honey futt,
Henry Faucett, Fred Blue. John
Moose, Vass Fields, Lonnie Walker,
Frvin Cumbo, Jake Willard. Syl-
vester Sims, James Watts, Harry
Reece, Jack Frazier, Thomas Ogles-
by. Luther Grant, Murphy Jones,
Walter Taylor, Raymond Scott,
Carlton H agger, Paul Kimmery,
Thomas Moore, Jack O'Neil, Alvin
Cook, Lee Bradley, Moses Fasnacht,
Crawford Poplin, Nomie Williams,
Chester Shepherd, Robert Holland,
E. Carlton, Eunice Byers, Walter
Mills, Ernest Carver, Charlie Stone,
George McMahan GroverCook, Aw*
try Wilkerson, Dick Johnson, Johnie
Branch, Charlie Jackson, Clebourne
Hale, N. McNeil, Avery Roberts, Roy
Cudill,
"B"
Sam Dixon, John Hill, Sanford
Hedrick, Connie Loman, William
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Wilson, Elvvard Clever, Robert Tlie secular press ''s full of question-
Watson, John Hughs, Malcolm able stories and of sensational ae-
Hollman, Bertram Hart, Floyd counts of divorces and domestic
Huggins, Swift Davis, Doyle Jack- scandals. The youth of this age are
son, VVilliam Evans, Allie Williams. thus led to look slightingly on the
William Gregory, John Wright, sacreclness of the marriage vow and
Anderson Hart, Ernest Jordan. Ru- to assume an indifferent altitude to-
fus Wrenn, Charlie Bishop, Dohme ward ihe daily evidences of loose
Manning, and Steve Mercer. moralsand the growth of social vices.
Thtre is reason for all, especially
„ , , . . , .. the young, to watch and prav lest
Guard Aga.nst Impurity they entt?r int„ temptation. The
It these days when a large per- spirit is willing:, but the flesh is
centage of the moving pictures are weak. Avoid evil company, obscene
suggestive of immorality and even books, pass the door of the moving
make heroes and heroines of those picture show which makes a moek-
who lack in virture, we need to lay ery of marriage and encourage the
much emphasis on the instruction the moral lpxness of the age.— Se-
concerning purity of tody and soul. lected.
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NO. 15
Get the Good Habit
Knocking is a habit, and it 13 one so easily ac-
quired. 1 believe with a determination to think
good things about your neighbors and acquain-
tances and friends, you will find yourself saying
clever things — "for of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh." When you find yourself
searching out for defects in your friends and cc-
quaintances simply "presto change" and look for
some outstanding good charactsristic orvirtueand
comment about those. You will feel better, for
there is some good in the worst of us, and some
bad in the best of us and it does not behoove any
of us to talk about the rest of us.
-PUBLISHED BY-
*H3 PSn-TTHIG CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON MANUAL
TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
Tlie Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dee. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
X. C. under Ast of March ?,, 1879.
Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the
general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a gov-
ernment gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion
should be enlightened. — George Washington, Sept. 17, 1796.
WHAT THINK YOU?
The boys of the Printing: Class join the management and the editor in
the belief that this nu.v.ber of 'Ihe Uplift will prove of unusual interest
to our readers, who are gratifyingly increasing every week. No little care
and effort are exercised in the planning of each number, ta ihe end that
choice literature, pieces pointing to a moral, and others calculated to in-
spire hope and aspiration, ever eschewing that which smacks of immoral
deeds, the back alleys and murder, may fill its columns.
This number is almost entirely George Wrshington, the anniversary of
whose birth will be observed on the 22ond by all, in their own individual
ways. If anything is eternally fixed in history--that which is mortal— it
is the fact that Geoige Washington is the truly outstanding figure in Amer-
ican annals. We are proud, therefore, to have in addition to our own mat-
ter, including the pictorial part, contributions from well-posted and patriot-
ic individuals, who give pleasing touches to the local history concerning
Washington.
After all, the history of a town, a section, a state and a nation—that
which we best remember and find most engaging— is the history, personal
and collective, of men and women, who accomplish things, establish a
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truth, render worthwile service and make the world better by having lived
in it. If this be so, the more we hold up the example of brave, coura-
geous men and women with light ideals, the greater will be the incentive
to right action and right living.
It is hoped that our readers will enjoy this number in that measure that
characterized its making. Fortunate is that people that have so many
subjects to whom it may point with pride, and keep green their memories
and their worthy deeds.
INTELLIGENCE IN SPOTS.
The acceptance by Mrs. T. W. Bickett of the position of Head of the
Educational Section of the New Maternity Bureau, made possible by the
passage of the Sheppard-Towner bill will carry delight to the hearts of
North Carolinians. The selection cf Mrs. Bickett, a godly and unselfish wo-
man, of superb ability and engaging personality, is a most happy one.
Ten thousand babies died last year in North Carolina before they were a
year old, because of lack of intelligent care of the mothers before they
were born, and to neglect at the time of birth. Special effort will be made
to teach that class of mothers who pass through the twilight zone without
medical advice. It is largely in this class of mothers that the infant mor-
tality rates in North Carolina mount to such staggering totals.
The battle against this ignorance has been going on in a number of coun-
ties with splendid results. In Cabarrus a fine field and a most capable ar.d
efficient nurse have met. Arrangements for the continuance of this noble
work in the county are making. 'J he broad-minded forward-looking county
commissioners have appropriated five hundred, and the equally progressive
Board of Aldermen of Concord have appropriated five hundred dollars to
the fund; and the County Board of Education whose schools today and in the
future will largely profit by the wise influence and intelligent services of
the county nurse, have been requested to make a similar appropriation.
What will this board do? Their treatment of the cause will decide its fate.
They have the broad powers to do so, and a moral obligation makes it a
duty. No law specifically authorizes the purchase of stamps, little oifice
appliances, and personal services by name, yet these be necessary; and wise
men always exercise their rights in such matters without hesitation. Then,
why expect a law already flexible enough for wise and progressive act-, to
specifically mention this particular cause, which must prove as service tble
to the cause of education today and in the future as any one individual act.
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Will the Board of Education, exercising a prerogative that certainly lies
-with it, give the people a stone when it is crying for bread? This, in the
light that is breaking all about us, is no time for any "passing of the buck."
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"PASSING THE BUCK."
House on fire--no sensible man will stand back for orders before he
throws a bucket of water; a person is drowning in a mill pond---refuse ef-
fort of rescue until the permission of the owner of the mill-pond is had to
enter on the premises; death and ignorance stalking all about, and even
weaving a coil around those yet unborn---an organized authority with
ample power and unquestionable reasons to lend a helping hand, even if
unmindful of a reciprocal service, "passes the buck" to a stranger and
an outsider, who is lacking in every qualification to see the local setting.
But life is made up of just such akward kinks, shadows and indecisions.
The Washington Conference is over. One has to be obsessed with an a-
bundance of optimism to see any permanent good growing out of it. It puts
out of business thousands of workman in the navy yards, stops construction
on war vessels. But when the war-like nations that go about with a chip on
the shoulder have had time to catch their breath, the accomplishments of
the Washington Conference will not amount to a last year's bird nest in
preventing war. What is to prevent the scores of other nations not in this
conference from a little secret conference of their own? Some of these
days the necessity of the League of Nations will appeal even to the doubt-
ing Thomases.
Dr. Henry A. Cotton, a former North Carolinian, now superintendent of
the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane, made an address at Dix H>11, in
Raleigh, in which he declares that "surgery is a cure for most insane.''
Dr. Cotton startled the physicians present with the statement that the rec-
ord in his institution showed a cure of ninety out of a hundred during the
first year after the introduction of his methods. Insanity, he claims, is not
hereditary, but due to some physical defect at some point in the body,
must often in the teeth, less often in the tonsils and sometimes in the in-
testines. We have just begun to find out things.
Recently several prominent and reputable physicians have been hailed in-
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to the Federal Court for an alleged violation of the narcotic law. The
testirmny against them was so miserably (liirisy, that the presiding judge
took the occasion to say some very pointed things to the officers who com-
passed the arrests. There is enough to do in running down the old gray
rats that are making a foot- pad of the prohibition law and those who are
ignoring out-and-out the narcotic law. without offering insults to reputable
men and upright physicians. Judge Connor's remarks may tame the wild
asses.
News came out from Raleigh last week that State Treasurer Ben Lacy
was critically '11. It disturbed the people. Happily fur the great rervice
he is performing for the state and for bis friends, Mr. Lacy rallied and
is recovering. There is possibly no greater sufferer, and yet always stren-
uously engaged, than the earnest little man that tills this important office.
"Half the human race is without physicians ami rotting with disease.
There are 3,000,000 people ill all the time in the United States, half of whom
don't need to be." This is the comment of the Commissioner of Labor
and Industry of Pennsylvania, and he's a phyiscian. The old villian, ig-
norance, collects annually a fearful toll.
1 HE OLD MAN AND DEATH
An old laborer, bent double with age and toil, was gathering
sticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he
threw d )wn the bundle of sticks, and cried out: "I cannot bear
this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take
me."
As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to him:
"What wouldest thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me." "Please
sir," replied the woodcutter, "would you kindly help me to lift
this faggot of sticks on to my shoulder?''
'WE WOULD OFTEN BE SORRY IF OUR WISHES WERE
GRATIFIED."
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Tlieres Place In Life For The Anecdote.
. JOE IT. FREELAND: For thirty or forty years prior to 1005 or 1907, Joe
Freehand was a well known and respected citizen of Charlotte, lie was a
native of Alamance county, and wont through four years of the war of secess-
ion with barely a scratch. With him, as mess mates, were G. W. Anthony arid
ex-sheriff J. li. Hamilton of Burlington and the late Armstrong Tate of Gra-
ham, who always said they belonged to "Jackson's foot calvary.'
These four were baon ompan- would allow, even to a mud and stick
ions. The writer has heard all of them chimney, a little higher than a man's
talk separately and together of tilings head. Erceland we,s at many places
that happened in those terrible days. he was never supposed to be, and
Frceland developed the nack For get- knew full well many of the habits of
tin.; something to eat it' anything was the captain. On a bitter cold winter
''going-' that resembled eatables, and night, soon after being robbed of the
no doubt his mates depended upon his ham, Frceland decided that it would
resourcefulness when rations were be a good time to "even up" with the
slow, ajid that was often in the Con- captain. After all was still in the
federate army. Aside from the afore camp, the men doing as best they could
mentioned ability to provide, Frceland to keep warm, Frceland crept forth
was full of jokes, practical jokes, great to the ca.ptain's house-tent: peering
on a tussle and playing pranks. in, he saw the captain in bed, his feet
This being so he early won the di.s- from under the cover, toasting them
like of his captain, who developed the by a bright tire, burning low. Like
habit of charging Joe with any devil- a cat after its prey, Freehold got him
meat that might be done in the camp, a stone about the size of a man's head
Once it leaked out and reached the syad carefully dropped it down the
captain's ears that Freeland and his chimney on the bed of coals, which
pals were living high on a country (lew all over the captain's naked feet
ham that had by some crook found its and was gone like a flash,
way into the tent of this quartet. To He had barely time to get into his
make sure that it was well hidden, bunk and cover up before the captain
they had kept it buried in the ground was there, calling for Joe Frceland,
of the tent, and felt sure that if a who by this time was fast asleep ( ?)
search was made it would not be and proved by all three of his mates
found. that lie had not left the tent that
But when the captain came he was night (?) He had a great store of
prepared for most anything, and soon tales of those four years, but this was
dug up the remains of the ham and perhaps as .often told as any other
carried it into his own tent, which had story of his long and useful life.— C.
been made as comfortable a-s material \Y. H.
_ The D. A. R's will find a very engaging story, in which their organiza-
tion plays a part, in "The Jumel House" appearing elsewhere in this num-
ber, Much history radiates from this house.
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GEORGE WASHINTGON
One hundred and ninety years ago, on next Wednesday, occurred the
birth of George Washington, whose life and services in the affairs of this
■continent make of him the greatest outstanding figure in American history.
It is fitting that each recurring
anniversary of the "Father of his
country" should be appropriately ob
served that the children of men, who
are striving for wealth, social posi-
tion and ascendancy, l.iay know
the true reasons why George Wash-
ington became ihe man he was, the
leader he was, the statesman he be-
came, and why he yet, ages after-
ward, is revered.
WASHINGTON CHRONOLOGY:
Bom in Virginia February 22.
1732; on first surveying expedi-
tion March 17 IS; commissioned
adjutant-general, with rank of major
1751; sails fo» the West Indies with
his brother Lawrerce Sept. 1751;
commissioned 'ieutenant - colonel
1754; appointed aid de-camp to
General Bradduck 1755; Braddoek's
defeat July 9, 1755; elected to the
House of Burgesses 1758; marries
Mrs Martha CusMs January
6, 1759; member of the first Con-
tinental Congress 1774; member of
the second Continental Congress
1775; appointed commander in-chief
cf the American armies June i5. 17-
75; takes command at Cambridge,
•July 3, 1775; Declaration of Independ-
ence July 4, 1776; battle of Long
Island August 22. 1776; battle of
Trenton Nov. 16. 1776; Flag adopt-
ed by Congress June. 14. 1777; bat-
tle - f Brandy wine Sept. 10, 1777; bat-
tle of Germantown Oct. 4, 1777; Rat-
ification of Treaty with France May
2, 1 77S; battle of Monmouth Court
House June 28, 1778; arrival of
French fleet July 1778; Cornwallis'
surrender at Yorktown October 19,
1781; takes leave of army Nov. 2,
17S3; resigns his commission Dec. 23,
1783; presides at the Constitutional
Convention 1787; Chosen first presi-
dent of the United States 178a, in-
augurated April 30, 1789; chosen
for second term 1793; issues Fare-
well Address to the people of the
United States Sept. 15, 1796; retires
from presidency March 4, 1797; nom-
inated Commander-in-Chief of the
armies of the United States July 2,
1798, Dies Dec. 18, 1799.
MOUNT Vr.RNON.
It is memorable as the residence
and the burial place of George
Wa=hington. It is on the right
bark of the Potomac river, in Vir-
ginia, fifteen miles below Washing-
ton, and reached by boat or trolley.
In 1858 the mansion and the sur-
rounding-property were saved from
the auctioneer's hammer, and se-
cured as a national possession. It
is a beautiful spot, and perfectly
kept.
A visit to Mt. Vernon, while an
evidence of one's patriotic regard,
provides in fact a great history in a
nut-shell. 'I here are many things
there that Washington used and are
preserved as he fixed them to suit
his ideals of living in his day.
Ihe tomb is guarded, l'he ebony
black negro, whom we met there as
the guard, lacks the politeness and
the affability one is accustomed to
find in the old-time negro. The
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way he orders folks to
take off their hats as
they approach the
tomb of Washington
--•a very proper thing
to do~-smacks of the
authority of a mon-
arch anil makes the
old negro appear rath-
er contemptible, jar-
ring the solemnity of
the occasion.
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CAPITAL BUILDING
Began to take shape
during Washington's
first term as president.
The design of this most
magnificent building is said to have
been the suggestion of John Quiney
Adams. The corner stone was laid
1793 during Washington's second
term as president.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Notwithstanding the fact that
the plan of a monument to General
Washington was approved by Con
Mount Vernon.
The
npilal.
gre?s in tiie latter part of Decem-
ber. 1799, nothing was done in the
matter until 1833. when an associa-
tion of prominent persons undertook
the raising or the needed funds by
subscription, and '>n July 4th. 1S-1S,
had s> far succeeded in their under-
taking that the corner stone of a
monument was laid, and during th?
succeeding eight years the shaft was
carried to the height
. of 156 feet.
Work at this period
ceased, because of the
W a r Between t h e
Staies an i for other
reasons. In 1876 Con-
gress undertook the
completion of the mon-
ument. It was com-
pleted Augusc 9. ItS-J.
The time consumed in
cam ing out this I re-
ject of a memora' to
the first president of
the United States cov-
ered a period more
than a long life.
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The shaft is 555 feet high;
including: the fouudation it is
592 feet, and at the base is 55
feet, 112 inches square. The
monument was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies on Feb-
ruary 22, 1SS5, just eighty-six
years after the project was au-
thorized. Its cost was about
$1,500,000. Adminstrations go
and administrations come, but
this monument remains an
eternal testimony of love and
gratefulness of a great people
to the "Father of his country."
Built of white marble, and
standing in the cluster of
a beautifuly kept- park, this
monument is an object of won-
der and delight to the thou-
sands, who annually visit it and
go up to it's supremest height,
either by the stairway or the
elevators
Approaching Washington
this monument is the first of
this giand city to greet the eye.
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When one thinks of the unsullied career of George Washington as a sol-
dier, a statesman, a patriot; when one reflects upon the antique virtues
of the man, causing him to fall easily, as of right, into the company of
the Alfreds and Godfreys and Leonidases, one is more inclined to cling
to the ancient faith of an overruling Providence guiding the affairs of na-
tions.—Dr.. E. A. Alderman.
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THE HOME OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
GUSSIE PACKARD DuBOIS
The home life of George Washington is one of the most pleasant aspects of
this great man's career. When lie married Mrs. Mnrth^ Custis, hev little sun
and daughter went with her to live at Mount Vernon. Washington was like
a father to them, loving them dearly, sharing their (roubles and joys, their
study and play.
John Custis was six years old, and
Washington soon taught him to love
outdoor life. They rode' miles to-
gether on horseback over theVirginia
hills. The little boy learned to sit his
horse well, for his stepfather was a
splendid horseman. There were long
canters or gallops, when they rode
away to attend to some important
business. Then there were the duties
of a soldier to lie learned, how to rida
in line, wheel his horse and keep in
place, ride erect, and halt or advance
instantly at a word, as if horse and
rider were one.
All this John enjoyed, but he liked
best the long hunting trips, when the
stately General was as good company
as another boy would have been.
General Washington taught his young
companion how to set traps and
snares, how to come up to the game
softly that he might not frighten it
away, and many other things [hat
are of real interest to a boy.
In his pictures, the Farther of our
Country always seems to us ery
grand and solemn; and so we love to
think of him enjoying the company of
this little buy. \Ve feel better ac-
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quaint oil villi hiin than we do when sboe-bui'kles ami a colored coat, and
1,0 road only of his groat deeds as hi* hair was tied with a ribbon. On
General or as President. Sundays when they went to church,
Wasshington ifhvays kept a dairy, as*- they always did, they rode in a
and one day ho wrote in it: "Went a chaise. In those old days the sexton
hunting with Jaokcy Curtis, and showed people to their scats, and
catehed a fox after three hours, chase, locked them in, for there were doors
Found it in the creek*'. to the pews. During the services he
Martha Curtis was only four years walked up and down the aisle to see
old wliea her mother married General that the children s-nt quietly and that
Washington. She was a very quiet, their elders kept awake,
ladylike child, dressed like a 'irtle Martha died when she was sixteen,
wo; an. her hair done up in rolls and. and not only her family mourned for
trimmed with ornaments and loath- her, but all the. servants on the
ers or ribbons. At that time, all the plantation used to . weep when they
nnc clothes had to be brought from spoke of her, for she was loved by all.
F.i rlar.d, and in a long list which John was sent to Annapolis to be
General Washington ordered for educated, and afterwards to King's
V rtha when site was six years old. College — now Columbia. He reiaain-
ive find frocks of lawn and of tine ed in college 01:'; thr< • itn tilhs, Ihen
brie, satin shoes, silver shoe-buck- he came home and was married. He
lis, and a coat made of fashionable still spent much time at Mount
silk. We are glad to know that in the Vernon with his wife end the little
same list are two dolls, and a b x ..£ children who came to them. lie be-
gingerbread, toys and sugar images, came of great use to Washington as
In those days little girls were not aid-de-eamp, and died of a lever just
given much education; so "Martha as the news of the victory of York-
never went to school, but studied with town was being carried through the
her mother, worked on her sampler, country. His step father was heart-
and practiced on the harpsichord. broken at his loss, and when he saw
Mount Vernon was a grand old his ''dear Jackey" breathe his last,
plantation. There were wide grounds he threw himself on a couch and
like great parks, planted with fruit wept like •< child.
trees and flowers. The house was Mount Vernon was very lonely now,
filled with tine furniture and euriosi- and General Washington begged Mrs.
ties new to the ehildren/Phere was a John Custis for two of her four
long gallery to play in on rainy days, children to bring up as his own.
and a high hill running down to the She finally consented, and two more
river, where they could race and run, children, a girl and a boy, came to
or play in the water. Mount Vernon to live. Those were
WLen the Washington family Eleanor Parke Custis and George
traveled, they went in a huge chariot Washington Parke Custis. Tho
drawn by four horses, and with posti- latter was familiarly called Washing-
lio::s in livery. Little Martha was ton.
dr' ed 5n satins, and John wore silver Eleanor was two and a half years
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old, and not at all like the quite little
girl Martha had been. She did not
like to have her hair dressed with
ribbons a,nd feathers. She did not like
to sew or practice, though her grand-
farther, as she called him, bought
her a new harpsichord, costing, a
thousand dollars. She was General
Washington's favorite companion and
loved to go with him on long rides and
walks. Little Washington came in for
his share of lessons, but his grand-
mother tried to make them as light
as possible. And so between study
iynd play, these two children whom
Washington loved grew up strong and
happy and each lived to be more than
three score and ten.
We often read of the first President
of the United States as the busy
planter, looking after his plantation,
as the grave general, the wise states-
man, or the man of society; but we
love sometimes to remember what a
kind, loving father lie was to those
four children who knew no other
father, and how he loved them, and
cared for them, sharing their troubles
and their joys.
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The Call in Washington's Time.
This is a picture of probably the t-enth century was The Minuet, and
last dance Washington engaged in. the music was martial, smooth and
The court dance of the Colonial the time was marked by the -jre-
period and extending into the nine- cision of a metronome. It required no
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ordinary grace on the part of men these graceful and orderly gather-
ami women of that day to tip-toe to ings if one of the modern-day
the minuet and make the courtesies couples of jazz dancers would have
in perfect unison to the music. appeared, coatless and the young
Dancing in those days was an ac- dame with her short skirt, and pull-
cnmplishment in grace and demean- ed oil" the "bunny-hug,'' "turkey-
or in those days and the music ap- trot," and a few other modern
pealed to the finer impulses---rythm, stunts that had their origin-
courtly bearing, grace and precision. WHERE?
Imagine the consternation in one of
On the 30th of April, 1780, in the little balcony of Federal Hall, over-
looking the present Wall Street, in New York, Washington took the oath of
office, becoming the first President of the United States. All of the streets
as far as the eye could reach were packed with spectators. Waclungton
was a fine-looking man as he stood there erect, more than six feet in
height. He was dressed in a suit of brown cloth, with metajl buttons that
had an eagle on them. He wore white stockings and silver knee and shoe
buckles, his hair was gathered behind in a large silk bag, and a sword
hung at his side.
Washington s Visits In 1791
Some years ago the writer was at Gatesville. at the United States Ho-
tel, and was very gravely assured that George Washington had spent a
night there, in the tour of the State he made in 1791; in fact "Washing-
ton's Room'' was shown, on the second floor; at the moment occupied by
the county superintendent of public instruction. At three or four other
places the writer has been shown places "where Washington had slept,"
some "where he ate" and at least two "chairs he sat in," writes Ccl. Fred
A. Olds.* £?ff- .:
Now where did Washington stop Shrin's hotel; on the 23rd dined
on that journey from his home, Mt. at Foy's hotel and slept at Sages ho-
Vernon, near Alexandria, Virginia, tel; on the 24th arived at Wilming-
to Georgia? At Halifax, where he ton at 2 o'clock and remaining there
spent Saturday night. April 16 the until] the morning of ihe 26th,
following day and night; on the breakfasting at Ben Smith's hotel
18th dined at Slaughter's hotel, and and spending the night at Russ' ho-
spent at Tarboro; on the 19ih dined tel; on the 27th breakfasted at Wil-
at Greenville and slept at Allen's; on Ham Cause's hotel, and crossed the
the 20th breakfasted at Col. Allen's line into South Carolina at 12:30
and dined at New Bern; there he o'clock.
stayed until the 22nd; on the 22nd General Washington went to South
dined at 'Jrenton and slept at Carolina and came ba:k into North
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Carolina in the piedmont region, his
trip southward being through the
costal plain. May 2Sth he reached
Charlotte at 3 o'clock, dined there
and spent the night; on the 29th he
dined at Col. Smith's inn and slept
at Maj. Phifer's inn; on the 30th
reached Salisbury for breakfast,
dined and slept there; on the olst
breakfasted at Young's hotel on the
Yadkin and at 3 o'clock reached
Salem, where he remained until
June 2nd, when he and Gov. Martin
went to Guilford Court House battle-
field and dined there; on the 3rd of
June breakfasted at Troublesome
Iron Works and slept at Gatewood's
hotel, on the Dan river; on the 4th
crossed the line into Virginia.
The great Washington was an ear-
ly riser, a thorough farmer, in fact
the best one in the United States
and by far the most advanced. So
he often on this notable journey was
up and away as early as 4 o'clock in
the morning. "Early to bed and
early to rise" certainly made that
greatest of Americans "healthy and
wealthy and uise."
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
When leaving Georgetown, 3 C,
on his Southern trip in 1791, Wash-
ington's heavy coach was drawn by
four horses. The roadway led him
through the rice fields of the Santee
county. On and on at a rapi 1 pace
he dashed, crossing the three branch-
es of the Santee. At il o'clock in
the morning he came to a handsome
county house whose portoeo was up-
lifted on tall pillars. Beneath the
portoeo stood Mrs. Pieknty, mother
of Charles Cotesworth Mekney. By
her side was her daughter, the wi-
dow of Daniel Horry, one of Marion's
brave men. Around these two were
assembled other fair women to wel-
come the President. Their sashes
had Washington's portrait painted
upon them.
The President came down from
the great carriage and met the greet-
ings of his friends with a stately
bow: The entire party entered the
large room which was called the
ballroom and took their seats at a
bn.i> table. A little army of colored
waiters came trooping in from the
kitchen with heavy covered dishes.
A long time was spent by the Pres-
ident at the breakfast table. Then
he bowed farewell to his hostess, the
driver cracked his whip, and the
great carriage rolled away towards
Charleston.
WASHINGTON IN CHARLOTTE.
BY WADE II. HARRIS
George Washington got into '"the
trifling town of Charlotte" at 3
o'clock on the afternoon of May 2Sth,
1791. He was on the homeward leg
of a journey on which he had set
forth from Philadelphia in March of
that year, and which led through
Newbern to Wilmington, into lower
Georgia and back through South
Carolina by way of Columbia and
Camden. He spent but one da\ at
Charlotte, and found nothing to make
note of except a dining wit li "General
Thomas Folk ami a small party in-
vited by him, at a table prepared for
the purpose," and of "a school (rail-
ed a college) in it at which, at times,
there has been 50 or CO boys." Leav-
ing Charlotte for Salisbury, he "oined
at Colonel Smith's 15 miles off, and
lodged at Major Phifer's, 7 miles far-
ther." This .Major Phifer was a son
of John Phifer, one of the lending
patriots of Mecklenburg County,
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whose body rests at "Red Hills."
This is the old Revolutionary grave-
yard on the road hill near Dodson's
mill, on the land of Mr. John P. Alli-
son, and not far from the scene of the
blowing up of the British powder
wagons by the celebrated Cabarrus
Blade Boys. This information about
John Phifer is added by the writer
to the notes from Washington's
journal of his visit, that given in
quotations being all he had to say
about this locality.
But in the library of the late Gene-
ral Rufus Barringer is a biography of
CharlesCatdwell, M. !>., in which there
are given a few personal reminis-
cences. Doctor Caldwell was one of
the party that went out to meet
Washington as he was coming to
Charlotte. lie notes that the General
rode "a milk white charger, a pres-
ent to him by Frederick of Prussia
near the close of the Revolutionary
war," and the stepping of the horse
was '"measured and proud, as if the
noble animal was conscious of the
character and standing of his rider."
Doctor Caldwell "posted'' Washing-
ton as to what to expect in "a small
town through which we shall pass,
where Lord Cornwallis lay encamped
when he swore that lie had never be-
fore been in such a d n d nest
of Whigs, for he could get neither
chicken nor bread for his table nor
oats for his horse." "Pray, what is
the name of that town?" asked the
General.
"Charlotte, sir," replied Doctor
Caldwell "the county seat of Meck-
lenburg and the place where Inde-
pendence was declared about a year
before its declaration by Congress."
Doctor Caldwell proceeded with the
further information that Washington
might bo prepared for a great re-
ception there, as large numbers were
already assembled "and the crowd
was increasing rapidly." The people
had come "in large, well-covered farm
wagons, for their bed chambers, and
enough of substantial food already
cooked to last a week. Others had put
up tents in the midst of a beautiful
and celebrated grove, where a victory
had been won by a company of militia
over a party of Tarleton's dragoons."
Washington expressed a desire to
meet at Charlotte some of the signers
of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence, but Doctor Caldwell in-
formed him that his father, one of the
signers was dead, that Doctor Bre-
vard, the author of the Declaration
\va,s also dead, that of the members
of the convention still living he knew
personally only two — John McKnitt
Alexander, who was the president
of the body, ami Adam Alexander, his
brother, who had been its secretary.
These two, he told Washington, "are
far advanced in life r,nd lived some
distance from Charlotte," but Doe-
tor Caldwell assured the president
that "their evergreen spirit of patrio-
tism, united to their strong desire to
see him, would bring them there,
should they be able to travel." It
is not related whether the desire of
Washington to meet these signers
was realized.
It was between Charlotte and Salis-
bury that Washington made note of
the best land he had yet seen, "very
fine, of reddish cast and well-timber-
ed, with but little underwood" and the
first meadows he had seen since start-
ing out from Virginia. He had pass-
ed through what is now known as the
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sandhills of North Carolina, and found who blacked themselves to conceal
it "the most barren country I ever bo- their identity, thus Riving- them
held, no other than a bed of white the name of "Black Boys," and with
sand." He believed if "the ideas a determination to destroy this wag.
of poverty conld be separated from on train journeying from Charles-
the sand,' the appearance of -it is ton, S. C, to Hillsboro, loaded with
agreeable." Wonder what "Washing- powder, for the purpose of killing
ton would exclaim now if he could "traitors." The most daring and
once more traverse the sandhills and patriotic deed is too well known at
take in the sights around I'inehurst this day to be repeated here,
and Southern Pines, with the great CoL Martin Phifer who lived at
tobacco fields and peach orchards Red Hill Farm atihis time, had wrv.
,, , .. i • i, • ed in the Continental army, under
covering the sand trom whieh. m- -,„,,. , f .
, , ., ,., „ . ,, , ben. Washington, and saw hard ser-
deed, the "ideas ot poverty" have . -,, , • \ ■ ,, ■ tU
vice with him, and especially in the
been effectively separated!
Valley Force campaign,' recorded as
WASHINGTON IN CABARRUS, 1791. the severest in th*> seven years' war
of the Revolution. Col. Phifer was
By J. P. Allison promoted to Colonel toward the end
General Washington's trip of the war,. but he was Known by
through this section, in 1791, was his friends and neighbors as Major
before the county of Cabarrus was Phifer, as he served longer as Major
taken from Mecklsnburg, two years than Colonel, but the latter is his
later. At that period, there was no official title in the war records,
town, or even village, in what is now The anticipated visit of Gen.
Cabarrus county. It was a wooded Washington to one of his esteemed
country, with clearings here and fellow soldiers. Maj. Phifer, was a
there, called farms. great event to the latter. There is
One of the best of these was call- no record, however, of how the great
ed "Red Hill Farm," (Around it general was entertained, but it is
centres much interesting history sufficient to say that he fared
of the affairs of upper Meek- sumptiously, as the Major had
lenburg and particularly of some large possessions and was proverbial
notable early settlers, who con- far and wide for being a "bountiful
tributed of their patrotism and provider"— his a private home not-
valor to the cause of American free- ed throughout the whole section for
dom. Of this The Uplift hopes at its hospitality.
an early day to have a full account. The coming of this distinguished
-Editor) three miles west of Con- visitor was heralded by bis best,
cord, and was owned by the Phifers. throughout the country, inviting the
On this farm .vas a general muster- people to come to the muster- ground
ground, and the famous "Black to meet the great soldier general;
Boys" spring. This spring was a but it was a tremendous disappoint-
popular camping ground for travel- ment to them, as they gathered in
ers; and it was at this place that the great numbers, at the muster-
British powder was blown up by a ground, expecting to give him an
number of patriotic men, in 1771, ovation, to learn that Gen. Washing-
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ton was gone. He announced on his
arrival that his'time was so limited
it would be l impossible-' to remain
longer than the', night. (Here we
-vividly •see the lack of facilities of
communication of that period. Such
an occurrence could not happen in
this day, for the whole countryside
could be informed in. few minutes,
and they would swarm about
Major Phifer's premises in the night-
time rather than miss such a pleasure
and privilege. -■•Editor). He was
scheduled to breakfast in Salisbury,
twenty miles away.
On his way, May 30th, to Rowan's
capitol, she topped at a farm-house
about two miles above China Grove,
and was met at the door by a little
girl who informed him that none of
the family was at home excepting
herself---that they had all gone to
Salisbury to see General Wash-
ington. He asked her if she did not
want to see him, too. She replied
that she did, e\er so much, but
there was not room for her, so she
was left with the servants. The
General told her he was hungry
and if she would give him a glass
of milk and a piece of corn-bread,
she should see General Washington
first; and she soon brought the de-
sired refreshment, whereupon he
said. "I am Gen. Washington."
The name of the little girl was
Betsy Brandon. The old house still
stands in the most dilapidated condi-
tion, and will soon be a pile of debris
unless sentiment and patriotism as-
sert themselves towards it rescue.
This house was the home for
many years of the late Montford
McKenzie.
Washington In- Salem.
T'JE Uplift requested of Dr.
Howard E. Rondthaler, president of
Salem Academy and College, at Win-
ston's Salem, N. C, to briefly teil of
Washington's stay and entertain-
ment in Salem. Dr. Rondthaler's in-
ter esting story follows:
George Washington's visit to Old
Salem has always been cherished as
one of the most interesting events
in the history of this ancient town.
For many years verbal tradition
retained a lively interest in his visit,
and recently the tavern at which he
was entertained has been perman-
ently memoralized with a handsome
bronze tablet. President Washing-
ton was entertained at the old Salem
Hotel, still standing and occupied,
and the room which he made his
headquarters is still designated as
the Washington room and has un-
dergone but little change since his
visit.
He was met by the offeers of the
Church and Town and in a carefully
prepared address which is still pre-
served in the Archives, hewaswel-
ed most heartily to the Communi-
ty. He responded formally in a
written address, the original being
preserved also in the Archives where
it is held amongst the most'cherished
papers.
While here he visited with great
care the busy and thriving Com-
munity which then numbered more
than a thousand people and he ex-
pressed his amazement and delight
at the substantial character of the
Community, commenting on its large
practical buildings which surpassed
anything in vVestern Carolina at
that time, and being particularly
impressed with the fact that the
Town, though not a generation old
was supplied with water in all parts,
this being carried in conduits under-
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ground constructed in part of terra which was already in its 20th year,
cotta and in part of logs bored having been founded in 1771.
through. During the later hour in the even-
Mr. Washington attended divine ing he was further enertained at
service in the Moravian Church and the Hotel by a musical program in-
expressed his pleasure and edifica- eluding piano music on a harpsi-
tion. In the evening he was serenad- chord which is likewise preserved
ed by the Church Band and the mu- in the historical collection of the
sic prepared for this occasion is >till Salem Museum. Mr. Washington
preserved in the Historical Museum was deeply impressed throughout
at Salem. With great heartiness, his visit and gave frequent expres-
aceompanied by the- Band, the eiti- 'sion to his delight in the Community
zens sang, "God Save Good Wash- life here and to his interest adn eon-
ington" to the tune "America." fidenee in the future of Salem.
He visited the Salem Academy
When President Washington went out of his house he rode in a largo
cream-colcred carriage, drawn by four horses and sometimes by si:c. Every
Tuesday afternoon lie held a reception called a levee. At three o'clock
the doors were opened and the guest entered. There stood the President iu
front of the fireplace. He was dressed in black velvet, had yellow gloves
on his hands, and was holding a three-cornered hat under his left arm.
The hilt of a sword was sticking out from beneath his coat. With his
right hand behind his back he made a bow to the company in a dignified
but rather stiff way. Then he walked around the room and said something
to each visitor. He did not shake any one's hand.
Ths Famous Jumel Mansion
By JulL W. Wolfe.
Every young person coming tn New York City should visit the Jumel
Mansion.
This old house was purchased by the city of New York in 1903 for §235,-
000 and is now maintained as a museum of relics of the Revolutionary pe-
riod by the Daughters of American Revolution and this house is the sule
survivor of the many historic ones and river and the varied Wincb-3-
that once graced Manhattan Island. tor plains. It vas built for Miss
It stands at 160th street and Edge- Mary Phillipse by her father, Fred-
combe Avenue, near High Bridge, erick Phillipse, lord of the manor
at the northern limit of Manhat- of Phillipseburg— now Yonkers—
tan Island, in the midst of the scan- who gave it to her, together with
ty rerrains of a once fine park of 500 acres of land on Manhattan as
130 odd acres, overlooking the city her dowry.
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Mary Philiipse was a much cour-
ted belle of New York society of
1756. It has even been asserted
that George Washington, who had
met her at the home of his friend
Sevarly Robison during one of his
freqr.ent visits to New York, was so
taken with her charm that, he became
a suitor for her h?nd. He had a rival
marriage soon followed.
At the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion the two former rivals found
themselves in opposing armies, Rog-
er Morris, being a Colonei with the
British forces and George Washing-
ton commander-in chief of the col-
onists. Mrs. Morris occupied her
home until the British attaet on
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The Famous Jumel House.
in the person of Ruger Morris, a
Captain in the British Army, which,
was then garrisoning New York
and Washington was soon call-
ed to the frontier by the Indian
Wars. Some months later a friend
wrote him "Morris is laying siege
• to Miss Philiipse," and that if he
had any interest in that quarter
he had best visit New York at once,
ad.ice wriich Washington did not
accept. Not long afterward the be
trothal of Captain Morris to Miss-
Phillipse was announced and their
the city in August 1776, when she
hastily left it, never again to re-
turn, and found a refuge with the
Tory people among the highlands.
A few days later General Washing-
ton arrived and made the house his
headquarters during his operation
on the island. His occupation last-
ed only a short time, however, and
during the summer of 1777 Lieut.-
Gcneral Sir Henry Clintor used it as
the British Headquarters. In the
summer of 1773 Lieut. -Gen. Baron
von Puyphausen and his German.
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staff occupied the manor, and in the
5ast year of the Revolution Lieut-
Gen, von Losberg lived in it.
At the close of the war Mrs. Mor-
ris's estates, together with those of
other Tories, were confiscated, and
she went with her husband to Eng-
land.
In July, 1790, Washington, who
was then President, visited the house
for a second time. He writes of the
visit: "Having formed a party con-
sisting of the Vice-President, his
lady, son and Miss Smith, the Secre-
taries of State, Navy and War and
the ladies of the two latter, with all
the gentlemen of my family, Mrs.
Lear and the two children, we visit-
ed the old position of Fort Washing-
ton and afterward dined at the
house lately Col. Roger Morris's, but
•confiscated and now in the posses-
sion of a common farmer."
Captain Mariner, incidentally, was
a noted character of the Revolution,
in the course of which he had en-
gaged in "whale-boat warfare,"
which consisted chiefly in making
night descents en the enemy's coast
and making prisoners of such prom-
inent persons as came in their way.
At the conclusion of the war he be-
came a famous caterer, and it was
in this capacity that he prepared the
dinner to which Washington alludes.
The housp was much too fine to
continue long in the possession of a
"common farmer," and in 1803 it
came onto the market. Among the
most famous of prospective pur-
chasers was Col. Aaron Burr, who
was then living in the splendid way
he affected at Richmond Hill, on
Long Island. A letter from his
daughter Theodosia in regard to his
possible acquisition of the house is of
interest both as shedding light upon
Burr and his ambitions and as show,
ing what one of the "most charming
and accomplished women of her day"
thought of the home, she writes:
"The exchange has employed my
thoughts ever since. Richmond
Hill will for a few years to come be
more valuable than Morris's and to
you, who are so fond of town, a
place so far from it would be useless;
so much, for my reasons on one side
and now for the other. Richmond
Hill has lost, many of its beauties
and is daily losing more. If you
mean it. for a residence, what avails
its intrinsic value? If you sell part
you deprive it of every beauty save
the mere view. Morris's has the
most commanding view on the
island; it is reported to be indiscir
bably beautiful. The grounds, too,
are pretty. How many delightful
walks can be made on the hundred
and thirty acres; how much of your
good taste displayed! In ten or
twenty years hence one hundred and
and thirty acres of New York Island
will be a principality, and there is to
me something stylish, elegant, res-
pectable and suitable to your having
a handsome country seat. So that
on the whole, I vole for Morris's."
Nevertheless, Col. Burr did not
buy the property at the time, though
he subsequently-married the owner
of it and lived th?re, meeting a class
of law students in the room formerly
occupied by Washington as his bed
room.
Stephen Jumel bought the place in
1810, and left it for a time in 1815
to go to France, with the purpose
of pursuading Napoleon to come to
America. After Jumel's death, in
1832, Mme. Jumel married Aaron
Burr, but the union was of short
dutation. Among the distinguished
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visitors during the Juinel reign were fifty years after her death.
Louis, Jerome and Joseph Boneparte, The home is filled with relies, of"
Mine, Jumel died in 1S65. Revolutionary days and is an , in teres-
A niece of hers by the name of ting place to visit.
Chase lived in the mansion nearly
One clay when the French and Indian War was over "Washington was
riding towards Williamsburg. Near the Pamunkey Elver he stopped at
noon to dine in the house of a friend. He hade Bishop, his servant, have
the horses ready for the afternoon ride, because his business at Williams-
burg was pressing. When Washington entered the house he met another
guest, Mrs. Custis, a young widow. After dinner he lingered by her side,
for she had won the young soldier's heart. Bishop led the horses to the
gate and made them walk back and forth in front of the house until sun-
set. Then Washington arose to go, but his friend, the master of the house,
declared that no guest should leave at an hour so late, so he spent the night
with his friend. Very early next morning Bishop led the horses to the
gate, but several hours parsed away bfore Washington set forth again on
the journey to Williamsburg to look after "pressing business." Just a
few months afterwards a large company was assembled in an old country
church named St. Peter's. George Washington and Martha Dandridge
Custis entered the church and stood together in front of the chancel.
There they were pronounced man and wife by the Episcopal minister in
that parish. The bride and her attendants then entered a large, hand-
some coach, and six beautiful horses drew them homeward. Washington
and his friends rode beside the carriage on horseback. They went to live
at Mount Vernon on the Potomac, which became his property after the
death of his brother Lawrence.
LET THERE BE PUBLICITY
BY P.. E. CLARK
A "Tax Inquiry Meeting" was held in Charlotte a few days ago, at which
certain Mecklenburg citizens, disturbed by the size of their tax bills, made in-
quiry ^s to "how come" taxes so high. Fortunately for those who desired
light., Mecklenburg has a county auditor, who was on hand with the facts and
figures. The auditor could tell them to a cent the amount of the county's in-
debtedness, what the bonds were issued for, the interest rate and about the
otfc-?r affairs of the county which re- official who could furnish the exact
quire money, and a big buneh of it, facts from the books as to the coun-
to carry on. This information doubt- ty's standing financially. In the
It'' .!:<] not satisfy all the inquirers, great majority of the counties, so-
but it was fortunate for them and the loosely is the county's business eon-
eounfy government that there was one ducted, it is doubtful if any official
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could be foil nil who, on short notice,
could give a .statement of the county's
financial condition. In many cases it
"would take days lo get the facts and
figures together and then there would
be no assurance that they were cor-
rect. This isn't mere assertion; re-
cent official examination in many
counties has disclosed that state oC
facts.
But this isn't to be a discussion of
county government. It is simply to
call attention to the complaints about
high taxes which are becoming vocal,
•of which more is due to be heard
when the orators get on the stump
next summer and tell the sovereigns
just how down-trodden and oppressed
they are. The meet of the "Son of the
Signers'' in Mecklenburg, which did
not announce a new declaration of
independence, was a symptom, or a
symbol, whichever you may call it.
The average sovereign (and by that
term I mean voter and taxpayer) in
this land of the free and home of the
brave, is a rather curious mixture. He
gives little or no thought or study to
public affairs. "When public im-
provements are proposed, if he is in-
clined to be progressive he is for 'em;
or he has doubts about the cost and
the ability to pay he will usually be
carried along with the tide of pop-
ular enthusiasm, fomented by the ul-
tra-progressives, who convince them-
selves and all others who listen to
them without stopping to think, that
we can have what we want without
its costing anybody anything to speak
of, so long as we cr,n borrow the mon-
ey by issuing bonds. So long as mon-
ey can be borrowed, something bought
■on credit, an astonishingly large num-
ber of the sovereigns will cheerfully go
the limit and put the thought of pay
day behind them. That, they think,
is a matter for others to worry about.
But presently a large amout of debt
is accumulated and the interest eharg-
es require a large sum of money annu-
ally. There is but one place to got
the money for the interest and for all
other public purposes and that is out
of the pocket of the sovereign. Then
when the tax bill comes in there is a
yell that is heard from Ban to Beer-
sheba. The sovereigns are sure they
are being robbed and they denounce
without limit the high taxes and
those who impose them (calmly ig-
noring the fact that they advocated,
demanded, or assented to the things
that made the high taxes necessary).
They can't understand, they say, win-
taxes are so high and they want to
know about it. They are very much
like not a few people who will buy
everything in sight so long as it is sold
to them on credit and go cheerily on
until payment is demanded; then they
declare' that the bill is too big; that
they didn't get the stutT, or that it
wasn't as represented; in fact make
themselves believe that they have been
badly imposed on and that they will
be justified in repudiating the aecount
if that can be done
Tt is my private opinion, publicly
expressed, that some blame attachesa
to all concerned in this matter of
complaints of taxes. Some of the
complaints are unworthey of no; ice,
for many there be who will complain
at any taxes at all. What they want
is to get everything and pay for
nothing. But while the mass of the
people generally are to blame for not
studying public affairs, keeping j ost-
ed and exercising a directing iaftu-
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enee, public authorities are more to
blame for not keeping the people
fullv advised as to their affairs.
The people are frequently misled by
not being told the whole truth: and
then when the facts dawn on them
through the size of their tax bills they
ore ready to declare they have been
deceived. As a matter of fact there
has been, as a rule, no deception.
They didn't take the pains to get the
facts, which they might have had for
the asking. The point I am making
is, that to avoid this recurrent dis-
satisfaction, to prevent any possibility
of misunderstanding, the people should
be told the whole truth at all times.
When a bond issue is proposed for
streets, or roads or schools or any
public improvement, instead of making
pretense that the cost to the tax-
payer will he negligible, the public
o!lieials,on whom the people depend
for leadership and guidance, should
make a clear statement of the exact
facts; the people should be told what
they owe, the cost of operating the
government and what the additional
expenditure will add to their taxes —
told so plainly that the wayfaring man
can understand and none may find ex-
cuse to say they were misled; and not
only should statement be issued when
additional expenditure is proposed,
but be kept on hand at all times, fully
up to date, so that even- taxpayer can
have, by request, the exact informa-
tion as to what the tax is levied for
and how it is expended. There is
and always has been too much dis-
position to avoid publicity in the
transaction of public business. Public
officials proceed on the theory that it
isn't best to let the people know
everything; that if they are told all
about matters there would be a lot
of unwarranted objection. Xot only
do the taxpayers have a right to-
know all that is done and all about itr
but I contend that it is good policy
to tell them. Publicity allays suspic-
ion. If there is something they
haven't heard about the people
naturally think something is being
put over on them.
I contend then that the people are
first to blame in not informing them-
selves and demanding that they be in-
formed; and their public servants
are more blameworthy in not seeing
to it that all the people are told all
about their affairs, in form and lan-
guage easily comprehended. The aver-
age statement issued by public officials,
when one is issued, tells little; it does
not explain to the masses. I am
aware that if the people always
clearly understood what the cost would
be to them many measures for public
improvements that have been put
over would have been defeated for the
time. But better that than a dissatis-
fied citizenship feeling that they have
been deceived and are unduly burden-
ed. There are potentialities in such
dissatisfaction to which it is high
time somebody should give thought.
To keep the record straight, let it be
said that I have supported about
every bond issue proposed. But along
with that support I hqve not only in-
sisted on publicity as to all the facts
but I have insisted that the time has
come to stop the issue of bonds that
do not carry with their issue a pro-
vision for their retirement. Anybody
who knows enough to shut the door
must know that to go on issuing bonds
with no provision for retirement,
with the expectation of renewing the
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2iote will nut only mean paying the charges so heavy that n revolt of tax-
principal over and over in interest, payers will be inevitable.
but will soon accumulate interest
To these modern ages George Washington has become, in all lands, the
apostle of noble character preaching in his life and his grave utterances
the high doctrine that Immortal fame and immeasurable service may be
rendered more enduringly by integrity, honor, and the quiet virtues, than
by eloquence, or logic, or superhuman gifts. — Alderman.
OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY
By Milton Bronner
LONDON', Feb. 0. — Five hundred thousand dollars runs into many millions
of marks at present rates of exchange.
But an offer of that amount by American movie producers has been spurned
by the God-fearing villagers of Oberammergau, Bavaria, though they are all
but ruined by the war, the revolution and post-war economic troubles.
The
American movie producers
wanted exclusive rights to film the
famous Oberammergau Passion Play.
The villagers thought acceptance of
the offer would' be commercializing
their holy drama.
The Passion Play will be enacted
•on the huge stage at Oberammergau
next May, just as it has been per-
formed every 10 years since 1863.
This information comes to me di-
rect from Oberammergau and should
set a rest the wild rumors that have
been current to the effect that no
Passion Play would be given.
These rumors were based on the
supposition that the villagers feared
a boycott of the play by nationals of
the countries formerly at ivar with
Germany and that the old players
could not perform.
It is true that if spectators remain-
ed' away from the Passion Play, it
would spell ruin for almost every
family in Oberammergau. For the
savings of the whole villages are
thrown into the production.
But there's no danger of such mis-
fortune this year. Already more
than 00,000 applications for seats
have been received from Americans
and Englishmen.
Lc Cri de Paris, a flippant French
anti-German weekly, recently said:
"The 'Holy Virgin' has married;
the 'Christ' married far from Ober-
ammergau; 'Judas,' q private sol-
dier, fell before Verdun, and 'Joseph'
a fervent communist, was killed at.
Rosenheim by the white guards.
There's only one element of truth
in all that.
Ottilit Zwink, who played Mary in
1010, was married the following year.
Hence she's ineligible for that part
this year.
But "Judas" — Johann Zwink— was
not killed in the war. And Anton
Lang, Christ of 1910 and 1000, will
play in the same role again this year.
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Here is the cast, as is officially Mary Magdalene Paula Rendi
announced. . Geoi'ge Lang, a scul])tor, will act
Christ \nton Lang as director. Nearly 700 will take part.
Potcu' Andreas Lang One hundred and twenty-two will have
Judas Guido Mayr speaking parts. There will ho 58-
Annas Sebastian Lang musicians, 41 singers, 25 scene shift-
Herod Gregor Brcitsamter ers, 60 ushers and 50 carpenters.
John Melehoir lW'eitsaruter Most of the players in everyday
Caiaphas Hugo Rtitz life are farmers or woodcarvers. An-
Pilate Hans Mayr ton Lang impersonator of Christ, is
Hary Martha Veit a potter.
One cannot read the Farewell Address (of Washington), for instance,
in a thoughtful mood, without genuine and lofty emotion. The words of
this writer are the words of the creator of a new nation now grown into
the colossal Republic of the West. We do not discern in it the classic
simplicity of Caesar, or the fiery eloquence of Napoleon, or the meditative
philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. His style, like his character, is high,
serious, balanced, purposeful; but back of the style always is the man. —
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman.
PENNILESS GJRL STARTS A HOME
From a penniless little country girl to the owner, at thirty years of age, of a
home for elderly ladies in the largest city in North Carolina is the story of
Miss Gladys Posey, who has done all this without financial aid from anyone,
says the Winston-Salem Journal.
At the regular monthly meeting a home for ladies of culture and re-
of the Woman's Club this week Miss finement, and the four ladies who>
Posey presented her work for the now board there seem to be exceed-
first time publicly, not asking for ingly happy. The residence can ac-
finaneial aid which she decidedly commodate 25 people and Miss Po-
does not desire as long as she is in sey is anxious that it be full, so>
good health, but she appealed to she appealed to the club yesterday
the ladies that they help spread to spread abroad the news of her
abroad the news of her home. She home which is under a Xorth Caro-
ls sole owner, manager, housekeep- lina charter.
Born in Pfafftown
er, ana nurse at the "Invalids'
Homo," formerly the residence of
•\- ''. Holton in Waughtown. This Miss Posey was born in Pfaff-
is a home for elderly ladies — a home town and is a daughter of the late-
which breathes forth the very at- Charles Posey and Mrs. Mary Po-
mospheie of the word "home" and a sey. She lived with her parents and
place where elderly ladies can board five little brothers and five sisters
for life if they so desire. It is until she was thirteen years old.
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■then she found friends; in this city
who took her into their home, let-
tiny her help with housework after
school hours. There she stayed for
live years when she returned to her
home full of the desire of becom-
ing a trained nurse.
The idea of entering the hospital
for training met with the bitterest
opposition from her parents. Re-
maining for a year at home she
was unable to gain their consent
so she came to this oily and re-
mained for a few weeks with a
friend who helped her (not finan-
cially) to get ready and enter the
hospital at the first vacancy that
arose. She remained there until the
death of her farther then gave up
her training and retimed home for
a while.
A e~!l ea"ne to nurse a dear little
old lady who was then in her de-
clining years. Miss Posey could
not refuse to nurse this lady of cul-
ture and friendly understanding so
she accepted the case. Her patient
was a great inspiration to her and
it was while they were together in
the Tennesse? mountains- one sum-
mer that she discussed freely with
her patient her plans of a home for
elderly ladies. And the" remarkable
thing about it was that she did not
want and would not accept any
financial aid from iv'nyone.
AYith the money Miss Pos?y saved
that summer from nursing in Ten-
nessee, she purchased a place in
Pfafftown. She bought this little
house and grounds from a second
cousin thereby securing same at a
smaller price than she would other-
wise have had to pay. Xo furni-
ture, no curtains, no money to do
over the inside of the house she
realized the impossibilty of makiii"
elderly ladies comfortable so Miss
Pos.'y decided to lake children . Mi.->
Annie Grogan, head of the Asso-
ciated Charities, was consulted, and
was happy to find a place for some
of the little youngsters of tin1 city
who needed just such a home. Those
were the days before the law had
been passed that a child could not
!>•■ si'c.a.'aied f.'oin its mother in less
than two weeks, so Miss Posey took
one child as young as nine days old,
and another at live weeks doing
everything for them. Her home
continued to grow and at one time
she had forty-live children there
ranging in age from the above men-
tioned weeks to eight years old. She
took entire charge of these children,
doing all tli e nursing, cooking, house-
work and with no assistance from
anyone.
Miss Posey kept up the home fur
the children until the opportunity
came that she could purchase the
Holton residence. She then sold her
country place paying the money on
this new home and opened the pres-
ent "Invajid's Home." She brought
with her two of the children — the
ones she took at nine days and five
weeks old, respectively and will
keep them as long as she is finan-
cially able. Today she has four
boarders and does all the work her-
self with the assistance of one col-
ored girl. Miss Posey is business
manager, housekeeper, companion,
trained nurse, and is able to meet
every payment on the home when
due. Her heart and home are both
open to other ladies who wish to join
the happy home circle.
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MUSIC CHARMS THE COWS
Kinston. Feb. 8. ---"Don't curse the cow." This was the advice given
here by Dr. C. Banks McNairy, superintendent of the Caswell Training
School, who today planned to introduce a phonograph in the school's dairy
building at milking time to see what the effect of music would be upon the
herd there.
Dr. McNairy is expected to make
exhaustive experiments in connection
with "music and milk." He told a
gathering of professional dairymen
and officials here last Saturday that
a cow, being a naturally sensitive
creature, could not give good results
when cuffed, kicked, sworn at and
otherwise abused. Dr. McNairy,
who is the State's best known eugen-
ist as well as a skilled dairyman, be-
lieves "Just Break the News to Moth-
er," "Last Ruse of Summer" and
"Hark. Hark, the Lark!" and other
soothing or gently stiring tunes will
increase the supply from the scores
of handsume HoLteins at the Caswell
school. At any rate, he's going to
try it.
(Note: If Dr. McNairy is not pleas-
ed with the results obtained by the
institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
The ground is being leveled, pre-
paratory to the cementing the floor
of the new pump room.
Mr. Riser and Mr. Hayden Talbert
are aiding the boys to bring our
silo material from town.
Because tidyriess is an essential
here, Mr. Boger authorized the giv-
ing of three boxes of brushes to each
cottage.
performance of the victrola on his
cows, something with more volume
might bring the desired results. If
he is determined to fuliy test out his
theory and, finding the victrola is too
feeblp, we will gladly lend, upon free
transportation, the services of our
band. If music has any charms on
milk cows, we entertain no doubt
that Bandroast°r Lawrence can take
his bunch of young musicians down
to the Caswell School and make every
milk-can in the institution overflow.
This prophecy is predicated on the
abundance of milk enjoyed at this
institution, and when the daily band
practices are going on it is noted that
the herd slowly but surely approaches
just as close to the music centre as
the enclosure will permit.)
New boys are arriving at the
school on nearly every train' The
latest arrival is Paul Green from
Rocky Mount.
Samuel Burnett, of Charlotte, paid
us a visit last Friday week. His
purpose in coming back was to get
a statement from Mr. Boger, to be
used in joining the army.
Because of warm spring weather
the boys play ball after school.
They are practicing for a good team
this year. They will meet all comers
who would like a good hot match.
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Because of the muddy walk down
to the 6th and 7th Cottages, the boys
have b;en digging gravel to make
clean sidewalks for the matrons and
officers to traverse.
The boys who bottom chairs are
paid for their work. Two cents on
every chair bottom goes to them.
Those who have no money in the
treasury can thus earn a little"
The signing of the contract to
build the dairy, has been noted in a
recent issue of THE UPLIFT. Work
has now begun. Soon butter and
cheese will daily supplement the fare
of the boy's menu.
The new school room opposite Mr.
Johi. son's is still unoccupied. Band-
master Lawrence, when he teaches
the whole band, uses this room, be-
cause of the blackboards where he
can illustrate his meaning.
Not wanting to disappoint the
boys, Mr. Boger opened the 7th
cottage on Monday as it had been
rumored. Nevertheless the spigots
in 7th Cottage still remained to be
placed therein. They were put in
Saturday.
The boys of No. 5 are raising
money to buy a Victrola, one of
which all the other cottages own.
Many donations to the school have
been recorded, and they would ap-
preciate any other donation toward
the buying of this machine.
Another fine trade which is being
taught here is that of the barber.
These three boys cut, and cut very
creditably, the hair of our 200 boys
at the school: Burtram Hart, Will-
iam Chalk and Harry Lamb. The
boys are proud of them.
New ball goods are in our carrying
apparatus to withstand the bufTlets,
of the oncoming season.
Macolm Holmtn, Claude Coley
and Keenon all were made happy by
pleasant visits fiom their parents.
last Wednesday week. Always be-
cause of the fact that The Uplift
is made up on Wednesday, the no-
tice of the boys who received visits
from parents and reatives is a week
behind.
Mr. R. B. Cloer is making kitchen
tables for cottages No. 2 and 3 and
for the new cottages No. t> and 7.
His services at this school are in-
valuable. In the past, when the
school needed axe handles, they had
to be purchased from town. Now,
he taves that expense his chief as-
sistance, as the assistant claims, is
Mr. Joseph Kennon.
There is one thing which has long
been reglected to mention. This is
the behavior in the school-room. Mr.
Johnson who is endeavering to learn
to play cornet, frequently leaves his
room to practise on his horn. When
he thus leaves the room unattended^
there is no boxing, throwing of chalk
or other forms of rowdyism. On
the contrary, quiet and order rules
supreme.
Usually, the new boys who arrive
at the school, are "green," so to-
speak, in military drilling. Because
of this fact, Mr. Johnson, who drills
the boys before going to school in
the morning, and after school in the
afternoon, has formed a new con-
pany of boys, comprising mostly of
new boys. They are quick to learn,,
and soon leave the "awkward squa<;,"
but other new boys arrive to take
their places.
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Saturbay and Sunday! Thest1 the rapid growth of this School. Its
•days will remain fresh in the hearts fame is being spread not only over
of the boys. Why? Though not all North Carolina but over the
late enough, still it is the first of * whole United States. Once our plant
spring in weather. How the neededonly one nightwatchman; now
cidm weather of Spring inspires we have on duty every night two
boys to make new resolutions! Soon watchmen. If the growth of the
time to hear the warbles of beauti- school keeps its present pace before
ful birds which abound here! We long we will need three or more de-
try to kill out all of the pests— pendablc nightwatchmen. The boys
sparrows. Soon trees will be green are really interested and pleased by
again and oh, how comfortable it is the school's growth and when they
to be under the shade of a tree— and leave they wish it all sorts of suc-
thiiik! To direct your thoughts sky- cess. Some, who work in the Print-
ward! Spring is in the.boy's hearts, ing Office, predict that this will be
blood, flesh and soul. Soon it will the most important factor in the
be with us. Why does spring make school's life. Some predict high suc-
your blood tingle and give you thrill cess for the sewing-room, carpenter
over just the thought of it? building, bakery, laundry, barn and
... . ,. . , ... all other special working forces.
It is almost increditable to believe
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NO. 16
Lead— Don't Drive
The deepest pain is a parent's sorrow when the full
fruition of his hopes is not realized in the plans and po-
sitions selected for the child. It is said that there is a
destiny that shapes our onds, and it could hardly be
expected that we can change all that nature has out-
lined. Inheritance and environment must be reckoned
with. You too will be more patient and charitable if
you stop and ask yourself the simple question, "Did I
ever disappoint my parents?"
There is great danger of wrecking a young life by en-
deavoring to force the child into a channel and a course,
for which nature long ago made no provisions, mentally,
physically and in taste. Lead— don't drive, whatever
you do.
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The Double Tracked Trunh Una D^tw^n Atlanta, Ca. and Washington, D. C-
Tho Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JA^IES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dee. -1, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
X. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
VITAL MATTERS.
That a people may reap the greatest benefits of a growing civilization
there are three outstanding fields of endeavor into which they must throw
their greatest effort and with a consent concern. These agencies are, in
the order of their effect upon the welfare and happiness of any people,
religious training, care of the public health and the education of the masses.
In our own state less than fifty per cent of the population is churched,
and less than fifty-five per cent is making any effortjto get into touch with
anv kind of religious training; but even with this condition there is an in-
spiring awakening to the necessity of larger efforts towards a more gener-
al religious training of the people. This is encouraging.
In the cause of the education of the masses, speaking entirely of the ru-
ral section, the condition is no better than that of twenty years ago, ex.
cepting a few spots in a few counties. This situation confronts the state
even after an enormous enlargement of the school fund. There seems no
necessity for going far for a reason. The overhead has been scrambled
with too many expert doctors, each having a spool of red tape to unwind in
the diverting of the funds towards handsome salaries and the confusing
and the confounding of the men and women down in the sticks. This situa-
tion was clearly recognized by the recent General Assembly, which very
wisely appointed a commission to diagnose the malady that afflicts the
operations of the schools and to suggest a remedy. Let it be hoped that
that commission, whatever it may do, will discover as the people, who bear
the burdens, have already discovered that one remedy is to wipe out the au-
tocratic centralization that has practically paralyzed all local initiative, effort
and local enthusiasm. The centralization has gone so far that a prominent
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gentlman, the chairman of the Board of a very important City Graded
School, observes that, "the only thing left to our discretion and wisdom
is the selection of the negro janitor of the school building."
The state, however, may well feel proud over what has been accomplished
along health lines. Recent published statistics war; ant a feeling of enthusi-
asm and hopes for larger results in the near future. Having no other
close competitor North Carolina in 1921 had to be satisfied in simply run-
ning against and beating its own record of 1920. The total birth registra-
tion for the past year in North Carolina reached the handsome figure of
89,623, the largest birth rate of all the states in the union, against which
was a total death number of 2^,96-1, which is lowering th? death rate in
North Carolina over the year 1920.
The net increase in the total population of the state for the past year,
that is the excess of births over deaths, is 59,059, or a rate of increase of
2.3 per cent. If these proportions continue, the population of North Caro-
lina at the next decennial census will have passed far beyond the three
•miilion mark.
The foregoing showing does not just happen so. It is the direct answer
to a sound and sane organization of the Health Department of the State,
that takes the general public into its confidence, that treats the public as j .
a part of the game, wins its respect, its interest and its sympathetic co-
operation. Dr. Rankin is a genius, a leader and above all is not stuck up I [j
and does not consider himself as possessed of infallible powers.
The great work of health activity should go hand-in-hand with the busi- j
ness of education. It would be tp the advantage and glory of the the child-
ren of the public schools if the controlling powers would extend a 'naif- :
way welcome and sympathetic support to health activities. The death of
ten thousand children under the the age of one year in North Carolina
is inexcusable; the defective physical condition of many now in the schools
is the result of criminal unconcern, and the sin of it all will lie at the
doors of all who make no effort to remedy or prevent the annual recur-
rence of such handicaps and suffering.
But the light is breaking around us. May old grannyism and old conceit j
supinely satisfied with a fat salary and ease and comfort, catch a glimpse of
this light of hope, a sane, serious interest in advantages for childhood.
A PR1DEFUL RECORD.
Coming out from the office of Mr. Henry W. Miller, Vice President of the
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Southern Railway, in charge of operation, is a very interesting announce-
ment. During the year 1921, the Southern Railway System operated
179,835 passenger trains, many ot them being through trains, operated in
connection with other lines and covering distances of from 1,000 to 1,500
miles. (
Of this large number of trains 172,182, or mjre than 05 per cent, ran on
schedule or made up time while on the Southern tracks; and 166,277, or
more than 92 per cent, reached final terminal on time.
This is a proud record in railrnaJing. It speaks volumes not only for the
Southern's maintenance of its trackage and rolling equipment, but for the
genius of the management and the operating crews. The Southern is
exceeded by the great Pennsylvania only in milage and number of trains;
and the service lacks lots of surpassing that which the Southern hands out
to its customers. The people of the South have just reasons in being proud
of this Southern institution, and North Carolinians are, of course, very proud
of the astute, tireless and capable Henry W. Miller, a i'ar Heel
product.
ISSUED A CORDIAL INVITATION.
Prof. C. C. Wright, county suberintendent of Wilkes county, issues
monthly a fou'- column, four page paper, under the title of "Wilkes County
School News." The little paper is full of instructive articles that will lead
the people to an enlarged thought, for the schools, think along health lines
and encourage a co-operation.
In the February number is one article in particular that is most attrac-
tive. It indicates so much life and interest that we reproduce it:
"Have you as a school committeeman or teacher thought seriously
of the matter of consolidation and consequent transportation of pupils?
If so it will be well for you to attend some monthly meeting of the
Board of E lucation and let us talk over the situation in your commun-
ity. Oar board contemplates putting on a campaign for consolidation
in the spring and summer. Only a limited number can be taken care
of each year, and it is best not to delay action in the matter.
Consolidation, transportation, better buildings and better equipment
are the order of the day and we can not afford to lag behind in the
procession. Let us hear from yon if you are interested in this work."
It would be a gay old time were it permissable to say to our good friends,
the veteran newspaper men, Messrs Clark and Hunt, "go to it." Mr. Hunt
took mild issue with Mr, Clark in his position as to checkmating those who
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would "nullify" the law. carrying the death penalty. Mr. Clark makes re
ply in this issue. Both are sincere, and inasmuch as The Uplift, knowing
the high character and powers and courageousness of each, is aware that
neither could convert the other, it might not be well to carry the discuss-
ion further.
Prof. B. B. Dougherty, the head of the Appelachian Training School,
which has done s") much for the people of the "Lost Provinces" by the
splendid work of his institution, and destined to do vastly more, tells on
Col. Wade Harris in this issue. Blowing Rock is the only important spot in
all of North Carolina this writer has never had the pleasure of visiting,
though several starts up the mountain have been made years ago, but if
they set a day for that threatened banquet, hitch Harris up to a subject
for a speech, this writer, with or without an invitation, intends to be on
hand, if the trip has to be made on foot.
The admirers of Judge B. F. Long, beneficiary of the confidences and
the honors of a sovereign people for twenty years, regret exceedingly that \
he has gone about ihe small business of getting out from under the oper-
ation of the income law. The People abhor the idea of privileged classes.
Here's hoping that Revenue Commissioner Watts will defeat and route :'
his fellow townsman in this cause before the Supreme Court of North Caro-
lina.
'
Up to date seven theaters in Washington have been ordered by the author- ;
ities closed because of faulty construction. This order grows out of a
detailed examination occasioned by the frightful accident at the Knicker- [
bocker. A wag will say, "Locked the door after the horse is stolen." j
Not so; it is wisdom. It shows an interested concern on the part of the
officials, who have the nerve and the courage to do their duty.
The State Board of Education has finally made the adoption of textbooks
for the public schools for the next five years. It reveals a clean sweep.
The announcement is accompained by a defensive statement by the State
Superintendent that the cost upon the people will be negligible. If this
prophecy proves true, it will also prove to be a miracle.
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It was not to be expected that Governor Morrison would lightly pass
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over the declination of the Canadian authorities to surrender Matthew Bul-
lock, in order to bring: him back to North Carolina to answer a criminal
charge. The Governor doesn't turn loose so easily. He has put the mat-
ter up to the officials, good and strong, at Washington.
Irrespective of one's political leanings or views, there is a choice pleas-
ure for him in the reading of the most splendid article, "The Man They
Cannot Forget," taken from Collier's and appearing in this number of The
Uplift.
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* clusters of luscious grapes. In his eagerness, he jumped up to bite 1>
* off the bunches of grapes, but failed to reach them. He began to »>
£ jump and jump again, but all in vain, for he could not reach the %
>•. delicious prize. After all his greatest efforts had failed, he walked >:•
* away and said, "Those grapes are sour, I would not eat them, even •:•
| if I had them." %
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ARCH TIUNEYCUTT
Over in Western Stanly, near the little village of Stanfield on what he
loves to call "Lick Skillet Farm" dwells in total seclusion one of the
Old North State's sweetest singers, Arch Honeycutt. This "mysterious
poet" of the backwoods is a writer who is not only getting out some fine
poetry which will live, but he is a poet in the true sense in that he
writes for the very love'cf writing. He loves nature and the finer things
of life, but hates shams with all his
soul and almost frantically avoids
publicity or any effort to get him
out from his native lair. He was
once a teacher and a minister, but
on account of his delicate makeup,
both from a standpoint of body, soul
and sensibilities he seems to havi
made up his mind that he has seen
enough of the world and to have re-
tired to the life of an absolute re-
cluse to the extent that many who
live within a mile or two of him
have not seen him in years. He is
not >et an old man, either---just a
little over forty, but dame fortune
lias apparently dealt him many hard
Wows, for all the troubles which
have ever come th? way of a pcet
have already passed over hiir. crush-
ln£ out all egotism, self-pride and
worldly ambitions. With his delic-
ate sensitiveness, the repeated
crushings and humiliation.! have ap-
parently made him sing the sweeter.
He writes without eff :rt, frequently
slinging off a number of his best
productions within a few hours.
After he has written his best he is
already paid, he gets his pay out of
the writing itself, and generally cares
little whether his poems are ever
published or even read by any one
else. He doesn't write for money,
he doesn't write for glory but simply
becaus" he loves to wiite. It makes
very little difference with him whet-
her others admire his productions or
not. Upon reading the news of the
signing of the armistice his heart
went out to the Gold Star Mother
whose boy lay buried in Flander's
fields and within ten minutes he
dashed off the following heart senti-
ment, entitled "A Mother's Heart:"
"He sleeps beneath the shell-torn fields
Some where in France,
What though the awful war god yields
His bloody lance
To smiling peace, to my sad heart
There is no peace, the burning dart
Still pierces through with fiery sting.
No time, nor age, nor peace can bring
My hope back from the lonely grave
On shell-torn field where poppies wave
Some where in France.
Time may deface the rugged scar3
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And years advance
Eliminating all that mars,
Age may enhance
And sanctify my awful grief;
Bat only death can bring relief:
What though in pride I r?alize
The glory of the sacrifice;
He was my all-— who went to brave
The shell, the gas, and find a grave
Some where in France.
Who would repay a mother's loss ,
With empty praise?
That but reflects a moulded cross
There in the haze
Of mental vision where he lies
Asleep beneath the foriegn skies,
On fields where I can never go
And teach the golden-rod to grow
O'er his lone conch, his humble grave,
On shell-torn field where popp;es wave,
Somewhere in Fiance.
Oh offer not a mock relief
Leave all alone;
Mock not a mother's bitter grief
A bleaching bone
i\l ay quicker take on life again
Than praise relieve the racking pain
That must be mine; . I gave him up,
Mock not the near too bitter cup
Of one who wavered not, but gave
Her only child to find a grave
Somewhere in France.
But his writings are not all confin- will see from his "Down South"
ed to gloom. He writes at times iike which portrays the secret soul of
the love-sick swain as our readers the love mad vouth as follows:
Down South
Down South where the bluebird is singing
His love to the blossoms of Spring,
My heart sends a love-message winging
Away where the dream---carols ring,
Where silvery moonbeams are stealing
A kiss from the gold of her hair
While here in my heart throbs a feeling
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Of tenderness but to be there.
She's waiting I know
Where wild roses grow
Profuse by the meadow land fair,
And dreaming of me
While I long be
The moon light that's kissing her hair
Oh heaven of bliss
Summed up in such kiss,
'Twere heaven to only be there.
Down South where the Rocky is flowing
And flooding the night with it's rune,
Down South where the peach bloom is blowing
She waits in the light of the moon,
Oh had I the wings of a swallow
To soar on the dew-laden air
The flight of my vision I'd follow
.Twere heaven to only be there.
Mr. Huneycutt can also portray
the real sonthorn negro as vividly
as could Joel Chandler Harris or John
Charles McNeil, and many of his
productions show almost perfect
negro dialect.
This strange personage who re-
fuses to touch elbows with the great
outside world was born in Stanly
County in September, 1S81. From
his early boyhood he showed traits of
character unlike other boys with
whom he associated. The flight of
the birds, the fleecy clouds as they
float overhead, the thunder storm
and all nature with its myriads of
wonders and attractions were his
daily sources of attention and inter-
est. This trait of character has re-
mained with him until this day, hence
his reputation as "The nature poet."
He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Huneycutt, of Stanfield Route l.and
coKes from a family of people phys-
ically and mentally sound and strong.
He is the second of a family of sev-
en brothers, one of these being an
attorney and newspaper man of Al-
bemarle, two others being promising
young Presbyterian preachers, one a
minister of the Missionary Baptist
denomination while the others are
teachers and farmers. He is posses-
sed of an extraordinarily keen mind
and is possibly one of the best read
men in his section of the state. He
can quote from memory page af-
ter page from Shakespear, rJyron,
Burns, Longfellow and other mas-
ters. Burns being his favorite. He
thinks James Whitcomb Riley de-
cidedly the greatest of America's po-
ets. He believes that any one can do
whatever he believes he can do and
wants to do.
Will Mr. Huneycutt be able to
keep himself perminently secluded
from the reach of the outside world,
and can he continue to turn out such
excellent productions and still avoid
publicity? I'o The uplift that seems
an impossibility.
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HE STANDS BY HIS GUNS.
BY B. R. CLARK
I have "hunch" that the editor of The Uplift does not eare to have a joint
discussion staged in the pages of this publication, which can be devoted to a
more useful purpose. But I am tempted to risk a few observations on the article
of my good friend, Mr. C. W. Hunt, appearing in the issue of the 11th. in which
I was given a few gentle1 taps on the wrist, notwithstanding it was stated at
the outset that there was no such purpose.
Mr. Hunt cannot see any ''assault" mutation, simply by pressure of force
on the Governor in the efforts made of numbers. If that doesn't constitute
to save the life of Harris, the Ridge- assault then I confess inability to rec-
crest murderer. I am filing now an ognize the meaning of the word. I
objection to Mr. Hunt as referee in have said that with a weaker man
ease I should lie attacked. I am afraid the pressure — the assault — would have
he would allow me to be killed before succeeded. Not so long ago a Gov-
he could he convinced that an assault ernor refused to commute a death
was really being committed. Gov. sentence and later yielded. In an-
Morrison's motives were impugned, nouncing the commutation he distinct-
He was charged with allowing a man ly stated that he had not changed his
to go to his death for personal gain, mind but that lie was forced to yield
Moreover he was bombarded witli let- to pressure because he was allowed
ters, telegrams and petitions from no peace day or night. Maybe that
numerous people who had no actual isn't assault, but I call it that. In
knowledge of the facts in the case — the case of Governor Morrison the de-
not all of them at least; but who were terniined assault provoked more de-
induced to appeal to the Governor eith- terniined resistance and failed,
er by lodge brethren of the condemned [ do not recall that I applied the
man, who desired to save him solely word ''mob" to those who were so j
because he was a member of their persistent in their determination to
lodge; or by those personally inter- force the Governor to yield to their
ested, friends, kindred and attorneys will. But I don't mind saying here
(these are excused so long as they that the desperate. attempt to force the
keep within reasonable grounds, for Governor was essentilly the same spir-
their effort was natural and a duty;) it that results in overriding the law—
and the greatest force of all was the to work one's will at all hazards.
opposition to capital punishment, There is no essential difference in ov-
which promoted most of the bombard- erriding the law and refusing the ac-
ment of the Governor. The assault cused a trial, and in attempting to
was in the personal attack on the prevent the execution of the law by ev-
Governor, the impugning of his mo- ery means short of physical violence,
fives, and in. the very apparent de- The spirit is the same. The Governor,
termination to force him to yield his being a mere man, is not infallible arid
convictions, after he had refused com- may make errors in deciding these
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cases. But his is the responsibility
ami any attempt to force him from his
honest judgment by undue pressure
of any character is as reprehensible as
would be an attempt to compel him to
put to death one whom he had decided
should be spared. The attitude of the
populace is not a safe guide, for not
infrequently the clamor of the multi-
tude is due to sentiment, passion or
prejudice, or is promoted by well di-
rected propaganda. One judge al-
lowed the populace to make the de-
cision for him and his memory has
been execrated for near 2,000 years.
Mr. Hunt can see no danger in ele-
vating to the bench one who opposes
capital punishment so long as the law-
is on the statute book. There would
be no danger if the occupant of the
bench had the proper conception of
his duty — that it was his business to
execute the law as be found it, regard-
less of his personal opinion. The class
I warned against — and I know some of
them — are those who hold that legal
executions are murder, that the taking
of human life, even though the law-
directs it, is forbidden by God. Think
you that i man who held those views
would allow- a conviction for first
degree murder in his court if lie could
help it ? And any well informed lawyer
will tell you that the presiding judge
can have cases go pretty much as he
wills if he is amind — not in every
case but in most. One who felt that
way about capital punishment would
feel that he was called of God to pre-
vent executions — put on the bench
for that purpose; and if hard headed
jury went against him the judge's re-
quest to the Governor for commuta-
tion would have great weight. Mr.
Hunt may not know such folks, may
not believe it possible for what I have
described to come to pass. I know
such folks and 1 not only believe it
possible but probable.
If the opponents of capital pun-
ishment can muster the strength in tho
Legislature to repeal the law, so be it.
I have nO quarrel with them for op-
posing the death penalty, notwith-
standing I do not agree with them.
My objection and my protest is
against that holier-than-thou spirit
which proclaims itself the mouth-
piece of God and brands all as
murderers who do not accept the spe-
cial revelation they claim to have of
the will of the Almighty; and I have
no more patience with that spirit
which would nullify the law while it is
yet on the statute books than I have
for the mob which seizes and kills
the helpless victim without giving
him an opportunity to be heard. The
spirit is the same. One is as lawless
;vs the other. The former is more
dangerous because it proceeds in the
open and claims to be directed by the
Most High.
'He's lost all his money, but he's just as good as ever!" was said of a
man whose riches were in God. Another nia,n in the same town, losing
his fortune, killed himself, for he had nothing but his money. Who wants
to be as poor as that? — Young People.
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There's Place In Life For The Anecdote.
THE COLONEL LIKED MUTTON: A story is told of a certain colonel
in the Federal army in the GO's, who had in one of the companies of his regi-
ment one Silas Green, who early in the days of camp life developed a fond-
ness for foraging. Either by stealth or connivance he had little trouble getting
through the lines, and bringing in something fresh from the Michigan farms.
Ilis ease had been before the colonel several times, but he was a diplomat and
Silas had a way of worming out with "What have you got there now,
little punishment. One day it was Green?" said the colonel advanc-
reportcd that Silas was absent without ing;" been killing some ones sheep
leave, and the colonel laid for him, again, eh.' 'Well, I'll just take it,
knowing pretty well which direc- and you can go to the guardhouse
tion Silas would come in. lie was again for your trouble." "Colonel,"
soon rewarded, for Green heaved in said Green, please do not take this;
sight with a nice quarter of mutton 1 jest felt like I wanted a little fresh
stowed away in his haversack. meat, let me have it for the mess?"
•'What have you in that sa^k, "None of your talk, move on, I
Green?" said 'the colonel. "Nothing will teach you that you must stay
much, just some fruit I picked up," in the camp," the colonel said,
saiil Green. Green moved on to his mess and
"Let me see," said the colonel, and reported that the colonel had taken
opening the haversack pulled out the his meat again. When his time was
mutton, and sent Green cm to his out, in prison, Green sauntered up
captain for punishment in the guard- toward the colonel's tent, wearing a
house. broad grin, and was greeted with:
Green said he would not have mind- "What are you looking for now Si-
ed the loss of the mutton so much, had las?" "Well nothing in perticler,
he not known the colonel would eat colonel," said Silas, "I wus just a go-
it himself. However lie took his ing to ask how you enjoyed that dog
punishment good naturedly, and meat you took away from me last
waited some days after being freed week?"
before going out again. The next Grabbing a rifle with bayonet fixed,
time he went he did not seek for the colonel made a drive for Silas,
sheep, but rather for a dog, which who was making tracks toward his
he found, a good fat one, killed and tent, roaring with laughter,
'dressed it, put a nice hind quarter It was said that Silas killed all the
in his haversack, and walked into sheep he wanted ijfter that and was
camp, going right by the colonel's never punished or robbed by his col-
tent, on purpose. onel.— C. W. If.
"It takes both grace and grit to get along pleasantly with who 'never
make mistakes.' "
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HOW MOUNTAINEERS CAN LOVE
By B. B. Dougherty
We Lave read with rmicli pleasure your comments as to Watauga building a
monument to Wade Harris, the distinguished editor of the Charlotte Observer.
That very thing has been discussed here, but our people are more interested
just now about the health, happiness and long life of Mr. Harris. However,
the monument will be built in due time. On it will be these words:
'Wade Harris.
(Editor)
"The Friend of the Mountaineers"
His memory will rnrry the everlasting gratitude
of a thoughtful and appreciative people.
We may have been derelict in ex- surpassed. On the left is the modern
pressing our appreciation of our dis- church, with beauties all around, built
tinguished friend. Doubtless we have for the town in memory of his he-
talked it more among ourselves, how- loved wife, by Mr. W. W. String-
ever, than the public generally know, fellow of Anderson, Alabama. On tho
but Mr. Harris is fully conscious of opposite side of the street, is the road,
the fact that he is held in high esteem at right angles, with 30 per cent grade
by the Wataugans. leading far down into the Globe
Suppose yon are at Blowing Hock, Valley, from whence came so many
sight-seeing. Likely you would have distinguished men. The automobile
this experience: You are coming in- is stopped. The guide says: ''Do
to town on the Yonnolossee; you are you see that cottage .' Wade Harris
opposite the Cone Estate, the finest, lives there. See the table in tho
except one, in all of North Carolina, front room, many of his brilliant
the mansion, the lake, the or- editorials have been written on
chords, the roads, the lawns, and the that table. Especially is he gifted in
ornamental trees*"**. This is the description when writing at that very
home of Dr. Vance, the great preach- table the stories about Blowing Rock,
er, of national reputation. That is her traditions, and her futher develop-
■Juilge Cage's place, the former chief ments. Tile people here love that
justice of South Carolina. Here is man. He is a Str,te and Nation-
the studio of Dangertiehl, the great al figure We till feel better and safer
Xew York artist. Now you detour by when he is around."
Holt's, — "A thing of beauty and joy Had you been in Boone, last sum-
forever". On the way through town, mer, you would have seen on the bul-
J'On observe the old Baptist church, letin board of the Commercial Club,
the stores, the local bank, the garage, this notice: "Big Banquet next Wed-
fom Coffey's Hotel, and now you nesday Night, in Honor of Governor
pass the entrance to Mayview Park, Morrison and Hon. Wr.de Harris",
with her many elegant cottages, her The men are all talking; the house-
beiuitifully graded roads through zig- wives are all astir, and the child-
zag windings of mountain scenery un- ren on the streets are saying did you.
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loiow Governor Morrison and Mr.
Harris are coming to Booine? One boy
says: "My Papa, thinks a lot of Mr.
Harris because he writes so many
good things about Watauga". Anoth-
er: ".Mine does too, and he wants me
to make a big editor like him." But
think of the keen disappointment,
when a telegram reads: "Can't
come. Letter follows." Though some-
what, depressed, but accepting the
fates, the managers announce that
the meeting is postpone until LO'22,
when bigger preparations will ha
made.
The toast master had already given
the local paper his speeches of iutro-
duction. Here they are:1 "Ladies
and Gentlemen I take pleasure in
presenting our distinguished and pro-
gressive Governor Morrison " " *
And it affords me genuine pleasure
td introduce to you the man that made
Camei'on Morrison Governor of our
great stale, — Wade Harris.
The hoy as he is today will be the young man of the next decade; the
young man of the present will be the mature man of the next decade.
There are none other to make the young men and the mature men of than
the boys with us now. That being true in every sense, the future
citizenship of this world depends upon what kind of boys we are raising
now. That is a fact that even a small boy can see and understand, and
every boy wants to be a man, and if he is a good citizen, when a man, he
needs to be a boy with an aim in life. — C. W. H.
"AND WHIN I SAW YER FACE."
By. C. W. Hunt
The announcement , in the daily papers that Judge Oliver II. Allen would re-
tire at the end of his present term, made me think reminiseently. I had known
the man in general as a judge, for some years hut I think it was in the winter
of 1905 that I met him at Albemarle, where he was holding court. I was for
a few weeks, looking after the interest, of the Charlotte Observer, and we and
several others, brought there on business, were around a family like fire at the
hotel. At this time there was a small amount of feeling existing between the ul-
tras, following Josephus Daniels and enough to interest the listeners. Some
the News and Observer at Raleigh, of these were surprised at the extreme
and The Charlotte Observer, under view the Judge expressed that r.ight,
the late J. P. Caldwe
I never knew why, but for some
reason, Judge Allen tackled the Char-
lotte Observer's policy in politics.
and I must confess that I was a little
nettled. When the argument ended,
the Judge, all the while enjoying his
faithful pipe, turned the conversation
knowing I represented it there, and I to other things, showing a much finer
naturally had to defend it, which I did spirit than many of us had thought
with no appologies; and for quite was in him. I met him the next night
awhile, that night, we had it warm at the same place, and at one or more
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other courts, and easily learned to
love tlio man. He was liberal in all
liis dealings with offenders against
the law, and companionable.
He told me this incident that came
into his court at Greensboro, perhaps
the year before. The officers, at Greens-
boro, had a way of pulling every fel-
low they found heating the railroads
out of a ride, and quite a number had
been placed on the roads, as 'convicts,
for no worse offense than heating a
ride. They were brought before the
Judge, to be tried for beating a train,
a young man, a pure Irishman, who
had been in jail some days. When
the case was called, Judge Allen ask-
ed what he was being tried for, and
being told for beating a ride, ordered
that he be turned loose, aaid gave
the authorities a sound lecture for
treating decent men in such a manner.
TJie young Irishman was delighted of
course, and made it convenient to
reach the Judge and thank him; which
Judge Allen received cordially, when
the young man remarked:
"Ycr honor, r.nd whin I saw yer
face, I said he will send me to the
gang, but yer didn't, and I thank yer
honor."
MORAL: A soft and tender heart
may he hiding behind a stern face.
You cannot always tell.
Scientist, glancing toward the sky — Meteorological observations, I infer
from those aggregations of eumulus, betoken precipitation!
"Does you mean, boss, it's going to rain?" — Farm and Home.
EULOGY OF THE DOG.
George Graham Vest, who was born in Kentucky December 20, 1S30, and
died August 9, 1904, was once a United States Senator, representing the state of
Missouri. No more eloquent orator ever occupied a seat in that distinguished
body.
His eulogy on the dog, one of the finest classics in our literature, is recalled
by another contribution on the traits and loyalty of the dog, recently appearing
in the One-Minute Column of the faith. The money that a man may
Charlotte Observer. We here repro-
duce it, because of its fine understand-
ing of that devoted animal which man
is pruned to think his very-most loyal
friend:
"The best friend a main may have
in the world is a dog. The world
may turn against him and become
his enemy, the son or daughter that
he has raised with all loving who are
nearest and dearest, those whom we
trust our good name and happiness
with, may become traitors to their
have, he may lose, it flys a^vay from.
him when he needs it most. A man's
reputation may be sacrificed in a mo-
ment by ill-considered action — the peo-
ple who are prone to fall on their
knees, to do honor be the first to throw
the stone of malice when failure set-
tles its clouds on our heads. The one
absolutely unselfish friend that man
can have in this selfish world — the one
that never proves ungrateful or
treacherous is his dog. A man's dog
stands by him in prosperity and in
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poverty, in health and in sickness. He east in the world the dog asks no
will sleep on the cold ground when higher privilege thtiu that of accoiu-
the wintery winds blow and the snow pauying him to guard him against
drives fiercely in his face — if only he danger, and if need he light against
can be by his master's side. He will his enemies, and when the last call
liek the wounds the master may have comes and death takes the master in
encountered with the ugliness of the his embrace ajid his body is laid away
world. He guards the sleep of his in the cold ground, no matter it' all
master as if he were a king, or even a the friends pass carelessly by on their
pauper. When all oilier friends de- way there, by the master's graveside
sort, he remains. When riches take the noble dog will be found, his head
wines and tly or reputation falls, the between his paws, eyes sad, but open
dog is as constant in his love as the in alert watchfulness, faithful and
sun in its journey through the heavens. true even unto death."
If fortune drives the master an out-
"You can't tell 'bout a display of authority," said Uncle Ebcn. "Many
a man thinks he's doin' a fine job o'mule drivin' v/hen de mule is jes'
hurry in' to get homo on his own account."
Unmentioned In Law But Mighty Wise.
The spirit of the age is to give every child the opportunity and the priv-
ilege of an education. All will not take it, to the same degree but that
excuses no power for not making available the opportunity, Some woods
will take a polish, others will rot; so it is with some children.
There have arisen in a number ing outside of the limits of a specially
cases difficulties in providing for chartered school but attending school
suitable advantages to some child- within the district for a period of
ren peculiarly located. This trouble six months in each school term, and
has been a live on? for twenty-five for the remainder of term, the par-
years. And now Supt. Brooks, of ent of such children shall pay tuition
the Educational Department, with- on the same basis,
out the specific warrant of law. but Such is the rule announced by the
with the consciousness of unlimited State Board of Education yesterday,
power vested in his department, ris- bringing to an end a source of tric-
es to thr> demand of the occasion tion that has existed between city
and makes a very wise and sensible school authorities and county school
solution of a trouble that has been authorities for years past. The mat-
very perplexing Dr. Brooks deliv- ter has been discussed privately with
eis himself as follows: the State Superintendent, brought
tuition calculated on a basis of per on to the floor in assemblies of teach-
capitacostof instruction shall be ers and school authorities, and has
paid by the county for children liv- given rise at times to serious disa-
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greeuient.
In almost every county in the State
there are one or more specially char-
tered schools, having eight or nine
months school term, with the terri-
tory of their districts fixed by law.
On the fringe of such districts are
families with children who live too
far from country schools to attend
them. City schools have contended
that they ought to pay tuition when
Ihey attend the city school.
Under the regulation established,
the county will pay to the city school
tuition charges for the constitutional
six months term. For the remaind-
er of the term the parents of such
children will pay tuition in like
amount into the treasury of the spec-
ially chartered school. The text of
the regulations issued yesterday fol-
lows:
"1. That the county board of edu-
cation and the boards of trustees of
the special chartered schools should
co-operate in providing a six months
school term for all the children, as
required by the Constitution.
"2. That the boards of trustees of
the special chartered schools should
admit pupils living outside the bound-
aries of their districts only upon
written order from the county board
of education.
"3. That the county boards of
education should give an order for
the admission to the city schools of
children from rural territory only in
cases where the children affected
live nearer a school within the city
district than any school outside the
city district offering instrution in
the required grade, or where, on ac-
count of the location of roads or
natural barriers, it is clear that the
conveniences of such children would
be served thereby.
"4. That the parents of children
who are admitted to the city schools,
as provided in the foregoing rec-
ommendations, no tuition charge
shall be made by the city school
-board for six months school term
but that the county board of edu-
cation shall pay to the board of
trustees of the special chartered
school tuition for such children for
the six months term. The amount
of such tuiiion shall be determined
in the following manner: The per
capita cr.st of maintaining the city
schools for the previous year shall
be ascertained by dividing the sum
of the amount spent for salaries and
all operating expenses and the pro-
ceeds from bond taxes for building
and equipment, by the average
daily attendance of pupds as shown
on the official reports of the treas-
urer and superintendent of the spe-
cial charted school. On the basis of
this per capita cost for the year
shall be determined the per capita
for the six months school term.
From the six months per capita cost
thus derived, shall be subtracted
the per capita county apportioment
for teachers' salaries, building and
incidentals. The remainder shall be
the tuition charge which the county
board of education shall be required
to pay to the city school on or be-
fore March 1st of the current year.
This per capita may be calculated
for the elementary and high school
departments separately.
"5. That the boards of trustees of
the special chartered schools shall
charge the parents of children ad-
mitted to the city schools, upon or-
der of the couuty board of educa-
tion, tuition for the time such chil-
dren attend beyond the constitu-
tional six months term. Such tuition
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shall be payable in advance. The
amount of such tuition per month
L uuldbe appoximately the month-
1 / per capita cost of maintaining the
city schools. Provided nothing- in
this section shall prevent compli-
ance with Section 5177 of the School
Law.
"(5. That children admitted to the
city schools frcm rural territory
shall be subject to the same rules
and regulations which govern chil-
dren living within the special char-
tered district. "---News & Observer.
"There is a story in this paper of a woman that used a telephone for
the first time in eighty-three years." She must be on a party line."
THE FUNERAL SERMON
By Morrison Caldwell, in Presbyterian Standard
This article has been suggested by attendance upon funeral services in
recent years, and by the fact that the sermons whicli most deeply affected
my life were the old-fashioned funeral sermons of my boyhood. J am
profoundly convinced that our ministers are missing a golden opportnity
and making a fatal mistake when they so universally use the regulation
furneal service which is practically Far be it from me to urge a re-
the same for an infant or an elder turn to the tedious biographie=, the
in Israel, for a saint or a criminal.
We see the coffin and hear never a
word to tell us as to age, sex, identity
or character of the deceased. This
may be "good form" in some con-
gregations, but I am persuaded that
there is a better way, because I have
seen it tried by one of our Presby-
terian ministers. He was called
from camp to the grave of one of
his elders. The man was only a car-
penter, but he builded better than
he knew in the lives of hundreds
of his fellows who stood about his
grave while the minister talked to
them about "Uncle Jimmie." I saw
strong men weep who were not
church-goers. His message called
upon them to be ready to meet death,
even should it come suddenly, it
was the best sermon I have heard
him preach in that he reached his
hearers at the right moment.
fulsome eulogies of the past. Jly
appeal is to avoid the formal scrip-
tural service exclusively, as at pre-
sent, and to stress that the only
thing that counts is our attitude
toward God. If we believe that
our chief end is to glorify God or to-
tnjoy Him forever, surely we should
not neglect to sow the seed of truth
when we have such a favorable op-
portunity. Men come to funerals
who never darken church doors; why
should they not be warned in the
presence of death to prepare to
meet their God?" Never will hard
hearts be so willing to hear the
truth, as when they are face to face
with the reality that life is uncertain
but death awaits them'. If thii little
article shall cause some of our
ministers to appreciate the respon-
sibilty of seizing their opportunities
I shall be gratified.
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WOMEN AND HUMOR
(Christian Advocate)
The editor of the Advocate a little while ago let the following apparant-
ly harmless little sentences slip into an editorial: "Women do not appreciate
humor to the same extent that men do. Frequently politeness prompts the
female of the specie to laugh at what is really a good joke."
A good friend of the Advocate Dr. Burton explains this fact by say-
and of its editor seems to think that
such an assertion should be taken
with a grain of salt. She writes the
editor and refers him to what Dr.
Burton, president of the University
of Michigan, says in a recent article
of his about women and their sense
of humor. Dr. Burton writes:
"In the course of my work I have
had to address scoies of audiences.
Many of them were mixed audiences;
but some were composed entirely of
women, and some when made
np exclusively of men. I have
found the women are as quick in re-
sponding to anything humorous; in
fact, they are sometimes too quick!
I have to be on my guard, or they
will catch the point before I want
them to.
"It is perfectly true that men
will laugh uproarousiy at some thing,
which wont get a smile from womens
But it is generally because the joke
offends the woman's sense of the
fitness of things."
It will be noted that the learned
president of a great university ad-
mits the very thing the Advocate
had asserted, namely, that women
will not laugh at some things
that to men are uproarousiy funny.
ing "the joke olt'onds the woman's
sense of the fitness of things."
If inclined to argue the question,
we should contend that an unexpect-
ed jolt to the fitness of things is one
of the prime -elements of humor and
that the explanation nfFered by Dr.
Bruton is really a begging of the
question. But we are not going to
debate the question, or contend for
the accuracy of any statement that
has been made upon the subject of
woman's relative capacity for humor.
We have at all times admitted that
woman is more beautiful than man,
that her intuitions are quicker and
more accurate than man's reason,
that she has greater intellectual capa-
city than man, that sheis more refin-
ed in her sensibilities, has a greater
capacity to endure suffering and
without bit or bridle can turn man
whithersoever she will. And now,
since to her has been committed the
ballot, which ought to have been
done long ago, and since all state
and county officers and members of
congress are to be elected next fall,
we politely and as graceful as possi-
ble withdraw any and every intima-
tion that woman cannot appreciate a.
joke just as much as a man does.
A country is not made great by the number of square miles it contains,,
but by the number of square people it contains.— Selected.
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THE MOVIES UNDER FIRE.
One of the severest and most pointed analyses of the influence and mot-
tives of the average movie genius is thus made by a Methodist minister, of
California, where recently the public conscience of even the Californians
has been aroused. This is the way the preacher, in a recent sermon, talk-
ed about the matter:
The attitude of the movie lumina-
ries toward the marriage relation;
their continuous "souse" in divorce
and scandal; their quarter of a cen-
tury of screened sex appeal, itself a
diagnosis of the condition back of
the film; their attitude to those of
their number who, like "Fatty''
Arbuckle, have insulted and outrag-
ed every decent sentiment of virt-
uous idealism, their insistent demand
that they be left unrestricted by the
American public to practice their
"personal liberty"doctrine in depot- 1
ment as well as in the product of
their art; the evident looseness that
has sprung up among them; their
booze parties; their cigarette-smok-
ing beauties; their behavior as re-
ported by scores who live neighbor
to their studios; their refusal to
brand such men as Arbuckle and
kick them out; their disposition to
pass over without criticism such a
crime as the San Francisco crime;
especially their willingness to defend
the criminal with their money— ail
has forced me against my will and
over my protest to believe that a
majority of the movie crovvd are of
the same stripe as this comedian and
that they see the necessity of saving
his hide in order to save their own,
The loaf of bread is censored.
The bottle of milk is censored. The
factory must face a commission for
the protection of public interests.
The bank must account to a like
commission. We elect a board of
education---a censor in our schools.
The movie business stands alone to-
day with the unbridled privilege of
exploiting for the receipts. The
reason is, all they threaten is charac-
ter, idealism, manhood, womanhood,
and here there is no cash value.
Money has talked in the censoiship
light. Money is talking in the Ar-
buckle trial. Unfortnnaitely, the
movie industry is run on strictly
commercial basis. It has no charac-
ter. It has only a purse.
THINKING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING.
The Concord Tribune, noting the presence in the city of Prof. Blair,
for more than twenty years the successful superintendent of the Wilming-
ton Public Schools, now connected with the State Educational Department
in the Bureau of Improvement of School Houses and Grounds, makes pub-
lication of some very decidedly welcome news as follows:
"Mr. J. J. Blair, of the State Ed- Tuesday here with Prof. J.B. Rob-
ucational Department, who spent ertson making an inspection of =ever-
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a| of the county schools with the
view of making improvements at the
schools, left Tuesday night for Salis-
bury. Mr. Blair specializes in school
buildings and grounds, and is an ex-
port in this work. Several schools
in the county will be changed and
improved in all probability. Prof.
Robertson stated but no announce-
ment relative to this work will be
made at this time."
"The men who have made world records have done it Toy breaking their
own records,"
HOW TO FIND EASTER
Even the youngest knows by this ti
the same day of the month year after
for finding when it will come:
"Thirty days hath September,"
Ecery person can remember;
iFjid to l(now when Easlers come,
Puzzles even scholars some.
When March the twenty-first is past,
Just watch the silvery moon',
And when you sec it full and round,
Easter will be here soon.
me that Easter does not come on
year, like Christmas. Here is a rule
After the moon has reached its full,
Then Easier will be here,
The very Sabbath after,
In each and ever}; \;ear.
And if it hap on Sabbath
The moon should reach its
The Sabbath following this event
Will he the Easier bright.
height,
The Man They Cannot Forget
(Collier's.)
One of the permanent, posessions of a human heart is the memory of its
great enthusiasms. You may have come to disdain and even despise them,
but they are never uprooted. Then you reached your highest—and you
know it.
When a noble ideal kindness such
enthusiasms, that ideal becomes one
of those things that without warn-
ing, at rare intervals, flare up. And
you sit in the light of the flare and
ponder. Why did it fail? Not be-
cause it was not beautiful— right-
desirable. Was it because you were
not fit for beauty, righteousness,
desirability?
Peoples are like men. They may
lay aside their great hopes, but to
the end there are hours when they
sit with them and ponder.
Perhaps that is the explanation of
the persistent, mysterious, uncon-
scious way in which men today
dra.v together around Woodrow
Wilson. It requires explanation.
Why, in Washington for months
now, has the sightseeing wagon
followed his car? Why do the chat-
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tering tourists inside grow silent as
they pass it? Ihey don't peer. They
lift their hats and sigh, and it some-
times takes minutes and striking
sights to break the mood the fleet-
ing glimpse of that drawn, long
white face has stirred.
Why is it that on Sundays and
holidays men and women and child-
ren—most of them busy through
the week- --walk to his house and
stand there in groups, speak to-
gether in hushed tones as if some-
thing solemn and ennobling moved
in them? Curiosity? Men chatter
anil gibe and jostle in curiosity.
These people are silent, gentle and
orderly. You will see their, before
the theatre on nights when it is
known that Mr. Wilson is within,
quietly ua'.tingfor him to eorne out.
There will be fifty, a hundred, even
sometimes a thousand.
They cheer him as he passes, and
there are often chokes in the cheers,
and always tenderness, Why do
they do it? Nothing more instinc-
tive more uplanned, goes on in
Washington. Let it be known that
he is in his seat in a theatre, and
the whole house will rise in homage.
Let his face be thrown on the
screene and it will dray a greeting
that the face of no other living
American receives. And that is not
true in Washington alone.
Why should the vast throng that
packed Pennsylvania avenue from
end to end on Armistice Day have
stood reverently, with heads bared
in silence as the bier of the Unknown
Soldier passed, attended by all the
official greatness of the moment-—
the President, his Cabinet, the Sup-
reme Court, the House, the Senate,
the Diplomatic Corps, Pershing, Foch
- — why should this great crowd
have watched in silence until, quite
unexpectly, a carraige far down the
line came into view? Why should
this crowd, unconscious of what
it was doing, have broken into a low
outburst.
Woodrow Wilson means some-
thing to the people of the United
States: something piofound, some-
thing they cannot forget. People
think of him now as the man who
was behind the inspiration of their
great moment.-; who stirred Ihem
to afresh understanding of the mean-
ing of words that had become mere
patter of many tongues--- "demo-
cracy," nuion." He made them re-
alities, personal, deep---showed them
as the reason of all that is good in
our present, all that is hopeful in
onr future, the working basis on
cry of sympathy and grief: "There's
Wilson!'' The cry flew down the
longavenue.
They saw him as the man who
had called into service the boy
they honored, who had put the won-
derful light in his eye, that light of
which a great French surgeon said:
"The American soldier is different
from all others. I don't know what it
is, whether it is God, the Monroe
Doctrine, or President Wilson; but
he, has something in his eye." Yes,
Wilson's place was by the dead sol-
dier, and the people knew it and
told him so by their unconscious
which men may strive to liberty of
soul and peaceful achievement. He
made them literally thiugs to die for,
lifting all of our plain, humble thous-
ands who never knew applause or
wealth or the honor of office into the
ranks of those who are willing to die
for an ibeal— the highest plane that
humans reach.
People are thinking, also, of his
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woi'k in that after-war period when
the hate, revenge and bitterness
that war has loosed have none of the
restraints that war compels, and we
mnst, by reason and good will and
patience, restore our controls---that
terrible period we speak of as re-
construction. There too he kindled
enthusiasms. "Now," he said, "let
us do what men have long dreamed
•••give to each people its chance, cut
clown the foolish barriers of trade,
limit our armaments, enter into a
union of all nations pledged to co-
operation and peace."
The people of the earth rallied to
his plan, pledged themselves. And
then the loosed passions began their
war on him. 'I hose who wanted
peace and believed it easy; those who
hated peace and believed it impossi-
ble; those who envied his place, dif-
fered with his judgments, failed of
his favor--these and many more
joined in an attack such as few men
have ever faced in the history of
this earth. He fought to a finish,
that he might secure the pledge of
the nations to th>> ideal of world co-
operation.
He \\on---won with the peoples of
the world, if not with all of their
governments. They look to him as
the man who drove that ideal so deep
into the soul of the nations that no
man or men can ever destroy it. It
has become an asset of tormented
humanity, a possible way out of
slaughter and hate. Through all the
future mc-n will be building upon it,
adapting, expanding, as men have
built on Washington's wotk, on Lin-
win's work, knowing that their ef-
forts rest on' something essentially
sound arid secure.
They are simple people, remember,
those thousands whose hearts he had
enkindled. They are the people who
do the work of the world, and their
minds are easily bewildered. "Ha
has deceived you," they were told.
'He has given you dreams. Dreams
are not for men. You live by real-
ities, not ideals. Out with him!
Down with him! As a great nation,
you have strength, you have gold,
keep them. Stand alone. Do not
forget that you do not live by ideals."
And the people withdrew--be
wildered. But the shouting over,
they remembered th^lr long days of
exaltation, of sacrafice. of freedom
and boldness, of worthwhileness.
Was it only a deception? Was all
they had felt a mere magic of words
on their untrained minds, the stir of
a fleeting passion in theii lives?
Was there no sense, no reality, in it
all?
That is what thousands upon thous-
ands have been asked in these past
days. And slowly they are turning
to him who led them. His suffering
face and palsied side are a symbol
of thei>- cripple hopes. "How is it
with him," they ask, "a living sac-
rifice to that faith and that vision?
Does he still believe? Has he lost
faith as well as strength?"
And so they seek him. He m^ans
something to them; they don't quite
know what. He is a living link with
their noblest phase. Those who de-
stroyed that phase are giving them
nothing in its place. What does it
all mean? And so they follow his
carriage, gather before his house,
stand in rain and snow and cold be-
fora the theatre to get even the
most fleeting' glimpse, something
that will bid them live again as they
did in those great moments.
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to
for
Looking Like a Million Dollars
By Beth Bernard
For the last hour Miss Mason had been interviewing1 girls who had come
to the office to applv for an excellent stenographic position that was open.
As girl after girl proved to be unsatisfactory for the position, the look ot
gloom on her face deepened. I listened and watched as the girls passed in
review.
out lunch for weeks, to help pay
for it, and [ doubt if it is entirely
paid fornow. The cost of the coat ap-
parently has been such a drain on her
pocket book that she cannot afford
suitable clothes to wear with it.
Di^ you notice her dress and shoes!
Well, I did. They were positively-
unsuitable to wear with such a
coat." Miss Mason banged adrawer
in impatience.
"And the worst of it is, there are
hundreds of girls in town who are
just as foolish. They try to look like
a million dollars and end by making
themsel ves ridiculous. Take that last
girl for instance. If she had saved
her money for a few months, being
content to remain more or less shab-
by for that length of time, she
would have had cash to pay for her
clothes. Then, if she had been sensi-
ble, she would have watched from
day to day for sales at the stores and
would have bought her outfit a piece
at a time, for cash. For the price of
that coat she should have been able to
purchase splendid shoes, good stock-
ings and gloves, a hat, and a tailor-
ed suit of good material, all of which
would have given her a well-groom-
ed appearance. As it is, she has shab-
by shoes, no gloves, a shoddy dnss,
and —a fur coat!"
As we descended in the elevator,
I thought over what my friend had
said. It was all true. But she had
I heard one girl respond
question in this manner:
"I haven't had no position
several weeks."
Another girl could not enunciate
plainly because of the big piece of
chewing gum which she had in her
mouth.
A third girl spoke clearly and
-correctly; but, oh, her appearance!
I was almost ashamed that I belong-
ed to the same sex. Her hair was all
frowzy and her hands were not
clean. And yet she expected to handle
expensive stationery!
In the group of eight or ten girls
who applied for the position, Miss
Mason did not find one who proved
qualified for the opening. When she
regretfully dismissed the last appli-
cant, she turned to me with a mourn-
ful look.
"What's the trouble?" I inquired.
"Oh, gracious! Don't ask me. I'm
utterly discouraged.
After a little urging she unbur-
dened her mind. "I'll tell you what,"
she said, "for you maybe a girl who
intends to seek an office position at
some time in the future."
"Did you notice the last girl?"
inquired Miss Mason as she put her
desk in order for the night. I nod-
ded.
"That coat must have cost close to
one hundred and fifty dollars. I'll
wage that she has been going with-
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not finished.
"Girls like nice clothes," continu-
ed Miss Mason when we reached the
street. "I don't blame them. I like
flouncy garments, filmy lace, and
pretty ribbons as well as the rest of
them. But they should remember
that such things are not for office
wear. Why, if I should send some
of those girls you saw, into Mr,
Thayer's office, he'd — he'd simply
throw a lit! He'd ask me where
I picked up1 the movie queen."
We laughed at the remark, but
we both realized the seriousness of
the matter.
"Girls go to the movies and see
the actresses dressed in the height
of fashion; then they come out and
on their meagre salaries try to dress
in the same way. They do not stop
to think how impossible it is for
them to even approximate the ap-
pearance of the screen stars. Yet
they try! If only they would be
satisfied with good clothes of a con-
servative cut instead of an extreme
style in a pcor material. Oh, dear!
I'm going to shut up."
She did remain quiet for a minute
or two; and then she broke out
again.
"Just look at that foolish girl
ahead of us."
I obeyed. The girl had on low
cut shoes with the highest heels I
had ever seen, and stockings as thin
as air, almost. And she wore a fur
coat bundled up around her neck to
keep out the damp chill of the win-
ter evening.
"She has seen a picture of some
millionairess who was dressed in that
manner, I suppose," said Miss Mason.
And she has wanted to look like a
million dollars, like the rest of
them. She did not stop to think
that Miss Millionairess probably
never walked .farther than across-
the sidewalk in such an outfit, but
always rode around in a warm lim-
ousine?"
'''Leaving the question of clothes
aside," 1 said, "what other things do
you object to in the girls seeking
positions'.' Or, rather, what things
would help them in securing good
positions?"
"Wei I," said Miss Mason thought-
fully, "the dress is a great obstacle
in our particular orginization, al-
though in some offices it dots not
seem to make any difference. But
in all offices there is one great draw-
back to the success of the modern-
girl. She doesn't seem to care wheth-
er she maKes good or not. She does
not take pains to help the man she
works for and with. The girl who
was just dismissed from Mr. Thayer's
office is a good---or rather, poor —
example. If her letters looked nice,
she didn't care whether they were
right or not. It was too much
trouble for her to refer to the
dictionary for correct spelling of un-
usual words; and if she ever had
any knowledge of punctuation and
grammatical construction, she had
forgotten it. Nearly every letter
she wrote had to be rewritten be-
fore it could be sent out. Spelling
and punctuation seem like little
things, perhaps; but in a business
organization, they are important.
Then, there is. shorthand. Ninety
per cent, of the girls who leave the
business colleges are not ready for
positions. Possibly they can secure
and hold jobs, but not positions that
pay real salaries. It would profit
any girl to spend several more
months in the class, room, fitting
herself to take rapid dictation accu-
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vately, for by doing that she could as an extra. She was not an extra
take up secretarial work instead of very long. Now, she is private sec-
being shunted off into a corner to rotary 10 the president. And it
write form letters." would hive ended exactly the same
"But really, now, are there secre- if she had prepared herself for any
tarial positions for girls." ether business. Men are anxious
"Are there? There's .Mrs. Hurl- to get stenographers who can work
hurt, in the president's office. She with them and realize the trials and
knew what she wanted when she romances of business, and you may
entered the business college a few believe me, it pays the stenographers
years ago, and she deliberately fitted well."
herself fur it. She knew that our We had reached our destination,
r. usiness was a growing one, liked the Miss Mason stopped on the threshold
thoughts of engaging in it and had for a moment.
a vision of what she might do in our "1 have unburdened myself quite
offices. When she began on short- freely, haven't I?" She laughed,
band shv. was thorough She did net "However, I feel better. Now, if
pass a lesson until she knew it. In you can remember what I have said,
her spare time she read over our just write it out for one of those I
catalogs and other literature to fam- Sunday School publications yon like
ilia rizo herself with our vocabulary. to write for, and tell its girl readers.
She madeit a point to get acquaint- Tell 'em that when they are ready,
ed with some of our people and to enter the commercial field as full-
learned about our foreign trade. fledged business women, they should
When she was through at college, remember to dress as a business wo-
she came to me and told me what man should and not try to dazzle
she had done and asked me for a their prospective employers by try-
chance in our force. I told the man- ing to look like a million dollars."
ager, and he took her into his office
SIX MONTHS IN JAII
"I didn't even know (he still was in there until one day my wife asked
me about the noise down the branch," declares Ervin Hardin, about C"2 years
old, who has completed the large part of a six months prison sentence for
adlowing a still to be operated on his land. He was convicted by the Federal
court sitting at Salisbury, and was sent to the Iredell jail to serve his sen-
tence, says the Statesville Sentinel, when a newspapr man asked him
His home is in Wilkes county near about that he laughed heartily, and
the forks of the Hunting creek, Sum- said, "Let's let that pass."
mer's township. Mr. Harding is typical of the
Friends of the old man say that Brushy mountain foothill native. He
he is serving the sentence rather is stocky, muscular as a wrestler,
than "squeal" on his friends whom and has a wildcat gleam in his eye?,
he knew were operating the still, but He has iron grey hair, glossy as a
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Ubruuin, rmd a face as clear of
liarili'iiod lines as a Salvation army
leader.
'■Yon didn't even know the still
was [here until it hud been there
several days?" lie was asked.
"Nut a word," the old man said.
"One day I eajne in from the fields,
and the old woman asked me what
thai noise down the branch was
about. 1 told her 1 didn't know, but
I'd i;o down, and see. When 1 went
I found out what was being done.
The still had been there i^bout three
or four days,' ' lie said.
" Did you know the men ?"
"I ain't telling that, lie replied.
"Were they your hoys?" he was
asked.
"I ain't atelling that either," he
said.
"Well, how did they connect you
with the still?"
"Well, the officers found it on my
land, it was within :i< few hundred
yards of my home, and they found
some whiskey-making stuff at my
barn. They concluded that I must
be the guilty one, arrested me, and
here I am in jail."
The old man did not know how old
he was, but remembered how old he
was when he was married, and how
long it had been since he wa.s married;
so placing the two together, it was
found that he was about G2 years old.
"I can't read a word or write a
word," he explained. "That's why I
don't know exactly how old I am.
We have a record, which is kept by
my daughter, in the family Bible at
home.
"There were no such things as
schools when I was growing up," he
.said using words almost as well
chosen as (he ones the writer has
chosen for him. ''1 never saw inside
a school house, never learned a
single one of the letters of the al-
phabet, and never learned to write a
word. "
This old man has not l;Tid down his
life for a friend but he certainly has
laid out six months of it for a group
of friends, those who know him say,
"Yes, we know it is a violation of
the law to make whiskey," he said,
"but you know a, feller gets in the
habit of doing a thing and he doesn't
like to be pestered about it. I'm
through with this business of making
whiskey, though," he declared, "and
when I get out of this I'm going
home to the old woman, and we are
going to dig a living out of that lit-
tle farm, and we are going to be hap-
py, and the next time we hear
'noises down the branch' we are going
to send the dogs after them, and if
they don't move, Uncle Sam has a
pack that will make them skee-
daddle. ' '— Statesville Sentinel.
Institutional notes
(Henry B. Faucelte, Reporter.)
Mr. R. C. Shaw, of Troy, has ac-
cepted a position here in the print-
ing office. He is stationed at no. 7.
Doyle Jackson, Harvey Wren and
Harry Lamb composed the "happy
squad" Wednesday.
The interior beaver board work
of cottage No. 3 has been painted.
This makes a big improvement.
The Administration Building is
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being repainted on the inside. This Sunday afternoon, being such a
will not only give a brighter ap- nice, pretty day, the boys tin's a
pea ranee but will be a pleasure to stroll down to the rock quarry.
those who occupy it. They sat on the rocks and talked
and were pleased to have the sun
Last Summer, scarcely enough shine atter tnP absence of six days
water could be had to supply the ancl rajny weather,
needs of the school. Now, we keep
a tank full and enough is in the wells Mr. J. D. Haney, expert electric- j
to last for a lone,- while. ian of Charlott?, came over Monday
to test the transformers and switch- I
Mr. John Russel, officer at No. 3 es at the school. Mr. Haney has
and twirling ace of the local base- been nore before looking over the
ball team, is preparing to have a lines and switches to see if they were
strong team and win many games ;n g00j sr,ape.
in the coming season.
The barn force is now getting
Friday at noon, when the boys as- (lmvn t„ work Under the super-
sembled at the tree, every boy at vision of Mr. J. Lee White, they are
the school was weighed. Those who getting ready for planting. Extra
had been at the school over tnree land wi|] be cultivated. Almost
months had gained several pounds. evcrv vear more |an(i js a(]dt?(j to
From a recent visit to the wel
cultivation. Not only is the school
digger, this reporter found that the growing larger with boys, but the
depth of 290 ft. had been reached. farm ,s growing larger.
This is a fine report. Here's hoping B]ue ^^ .g b]ue ;ndeed Rt fc
Mr. Ankers w.ll soon stnke water. School> but thg b,ueness wi„ all di,
On account of so much tramping appear when the laundry is opened.
in and out of the school rooms, Prof. Since more cottages have been open-
Johnson and Crooks had the floors ed and the school growing larger,
oiled. It is more pleasant now, it Monday, Tuesday and sometimes
isn't dusty, the boys can study at part of Wednesday are the blue day's
ease. for the boys on that force. After
The boys are organizing a basket- these davs> everv bov wear:5 a s™le
ball team. Several boys already and is cheery; they are looking for
krow how to play the game. Other ward to the day when the laundry is
boys are eager to learn. They opened.
are putting all of the enthusiasm t-u n i \ ■ i j .•
, .. .. - ■,. Ihe Band, which is composed ot
and practice they can in it. ,, , .
1 mostly new boys, is progressing rap-
Work on the Sth and 9th cottages idly. It was reorganized the first
is being carried on rapidly. These of February and in such a short time,
cottages are being built by Rocking- they play remarkably well. vSome
ham and Gaston counties. The way say it is because the boys are easy
the counties are building up this to catch on, but I say it is because
school shows that they appreciate Bandmaster Lawrence is such a good
the work being done here. teacher. He explains everything dis-
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tinotly and thoroughly, so as to let
the "Little Musicians" get every
little detail.
[iev. Mr. Carson, of Charlotte,
was the chosen one to bring a mes-
sage from God to us Sunday. He is
an excellent talker, and the boys like
Co hear a preacher like him talk.
He spoke from the subject: "A
friend sticks closer than a brother."
He and his wife sang a solo which
was enjoyed very much by the boys.
He also announced that a minister
from Charlotte will preach to us
every third Sunday. The boys are
looking forward to their n;xt return.
T7 »3?
TTHI F7~^3
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Issued Weekly-Subscription $2.00
CONCORD, N. C, MARCH 4, 1922
NO. 17
[ave Forgotten the Glory
i French naturalist writes: "I saw the other day
ime eagle in a butcher's shop. Growing fat,
cares no longer for the plains of heaven. His
s, no longer fixed on the sun, watch the fire
the hearth. The golden plumes, once streach-
above the clouds are dragged in the ashes,
it royal bird in the shambles, forgetful of sun,
and sky, is a close image of thousands of men
o, debauched by the grosser pleasures of the
rer life, have forgotten the glory of the upper
verse. They content themselves with picking
iily morsels out of the ashes.
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CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON MANUAL
GAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
The Uralift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED" BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
X. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
GREAT FUNCTION.
Labor is a man's great function. He is nothing:, he can be nothing', he
can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing-, without labor. ---Dewey.
"THE BRIDE AND GROOM."
In a two column space The Charlotte Observer on its front page prints
a picture of a woman and man, which it names "The Brid? and Groom."
Under the same picture we note this: Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles."
This has reference to the marriage of the daughter of the King of England
to Mr. Lascelles, charged with being the groom in the case. Miss Nell
Battle Lewis, the editress of "Incidentally" of the Raleigh News and Ob-
server, declares that a "groom is a man that tends horses," but if this be
true there is no reason in the world why the Viscount could not become a
bridegroom with some assistance.
Taking the picture in the Observer as our only means of acquaintance
with the "groom" we cannot understand why such a looking fellow could
make a hit with such an attractive looking princess. Little Edward, the
youthful linotype operator in this shop, seriously thinks "that Mr. Lascelles
should have wiped his upper lip before he had his picture taken for The
Observer."
It i> claimed that Mary's wedding has already "given business a boost in
London." This justifies the infallibility of the claim that advertising pays,
for in a number of the London papers tons suitable for a presence at that
marriage were numerous, and it would be interesting- in this period "of
democracy" for which England put up such a stitY contest, aided and
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abetted by numerous sympathizers, to know just how many of those in at-
tendance at this royal snobbery wore their own clothes or hired ones.
But one thing connected with this marriage that has set society, the
worldaround, on its ears, that, brings a ray of pleasure to these parts, is
the fact that King George before the nuptials actually took place appointed
the "groom"-to-be a "knight of the Order of the Gaiter." It appears that
in England they use large quantities of cotton in I he manufacture of gar-
ters, and this act of the King of England seems to have helped the South's
King, fin- in the past day the pi ice of that staple went up one- fourth of a
cent. Let us hope that the Knight of the Garter will double the capacity of
his garter factories.
UNACCOUNTABLE TASTE.
In n iting the shameless character of a show that was permitted to go on
unmolested in the municipal theater, at Greensboro, when the women
scarcely dressed entertained an enraptured audience with their performance,
The Greensboro News follows up wich a reference to another show that
was going on in the county court house in this language:
'It grossly outaged the stage proprieties of half a dozen years ago;
but anybody could see half a dozen years ago that the proprieties
were in process of evolution.
The successive steps of that evolution lind numbers of people, who
freely confess to old-fashioned ideas about decency, unprepared for
their reception. At present, however, our town finds itself under the
necessity of making comparisons. Right in the midst of it there lias
been in progress amthar dramatic event, which has been for many
people a magnet of strong attraction, and it is a rotten show. Little
aboutit could by any stretch of imagination be called beautiful. And
it is hard to imagine how any person, youth or adult, can derive m«ny
lessons of profit from it. while the possibility of immensa evil influ-
ence is plainly discerned. It is a free spectacle, conducted on the prem-
ises of the county, by the legal authorities."
Without saying so, it is known that women and youths attended tins sor-
did exhibit that was pulled off by the court authorities of the state, in the
name of justice, order and the preservation of peace. Five years ago the
average woman would have regarded it a calamity were her attendance at the
sitting of a criminal court made necessary. Not so today. Real nice, el-
:gant ladies, forgetting the high aloolfness of the glorious past, rush i «to the
very midst of scenes of unhappiness, sordiness and viciousness. Recently
when a trial was going on near our doors, in which the suggestiveness of
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immorality oozed out at every turn, splendid women spent the day in the
midst of that court, and, to make secure of their seats, some even carried
their lunch.
Something has happened in the heart dt society that permits our women,
many of them, to stand forthin.es that just a few years ago would not be
toleiated. What is that something?
BETTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
A general revision of county government in North Carolina is contem-
plated in steps which Governor Can:e."on Morrison is now taking with the
approval of the Council of State, for the preparation of legislation to be
submitted to the 1923 General Assembly. Governor Morrison is in process
of appointing a commission of a score or more of distinguished men in the
state to undertake the drafting of a reform measure which will be submit-
ted to the Legislature as a basis for its consideration.
The governor is satisfied that great improvement can be made in the
county governments in North Carolina. The present law under which the
counties of the state are governed, savs the Governor, is out of date, It
has been handed down, in its main principles, from the first county govern-
ment act adopted after the War Between the States.
The only thing in the world that insures good and efficient government
in the counties of the state is the men who are elected to fill the offices,
said the Governor yesterday. The law as it now stands, the Governor went
on, is submerged in a mass of amendments and special legislation to the
extent that even the lawyers in many cases are puzzled. A complete
reorganization of the county government and the accounting systems in
operation in them is the Governor's aim.
While Governor Morrison was not yet ready to make any announcement
of definite plans yesterday, he stated that he was selecting a commission for
the purpose of taking the whole matter into consideration and of aiding him
in the drafting of a new law for submission to the next General Assebling-
—Editorial in News and Observer.
COLONEL LAMB.
Col. Wilson G. Lamb, of Martin county, whose life with its high dignity
and full of faithful service has enriched the generation in which he moved,
tas passed away. His death occurred in a hospital in Rocky Mount. Col.
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Lamb belonged to the old school, the old type gentleman— who knows what
that is, who can describe it? Can't be done; they must be just pointed
out. Look at Col Penn Wood, of Ashboro; Col. Boyd'en, of Salisbury;
Col. Frank Robbins, of Lexington; Mr. J. P. Alllison, of Concord; Col.
Brevard Me Dowell, of Charlotte; Major Franklin McNeill, of Raleigh;
Judge H. C. Connor, of Wilson; Hon. Rur'us Daughton, of All gbany;— in
fact, every county of the good old state may boast of the presence in num-
bers of the old-time gentleman, and what a blessing and a legacy from the
past are these fine men, who seem to grow stronger and more numerous
in this fine atmosphere which ;s distinctively North Carolina.
Col. Lamb was a brave and courageous Confederate soldier; he was a
successful business man; he numbered his friends by his acquaintances; he
aspired to no office, but he took a lively interest in matters political; he
was, however, chairman for years of the State Board of Elections. Noth-
ing more or higher in office ever interested him. He leaves an untarnish-
ed name and a service in life worthy of being cherished as an incentive to
noble living and doing.
Using the wild story started about the condition of the airship Roma,
which went to the bad costing the lives of thirty-four men, as a subject,
Mr. Clark in this number contributes a very sensible article about the right
function of a newspaper and news-writers. He observes, as many others
have, that many writers believe to make their stories readable they must
weave into them the sensational spirit, even at the expense of accuracy or
the truth. There is no story ever written that outshines oris more inter-
esting than that story of events, deeds and occurrences which takes into ar
count the truthful human side involved— a farfetched embelishment, a
yellowish treatment, always leaves in the mind of the reader a ? mark.
When actively in the newspaper harness, no man ever lived up to his
preachments more faithfully than did Clark in h's work on The Landnirak.
It is announced from the oliice of General Passenger Agent Cary.of the
Southern Railway that the Southern will put in round-trip touris' rates
to mountain and seashore resorts for the coming summer season at SO per
cent of the double one-way fares. This is a substantial reduction from
the rates that prevailed last year. For example, vhere one-way fare is
$10.00, the round-trip rate this coming summer will be $16.00. L ;t year
the round-trip rate was $18.00 plus Si. 44 war tax, making the trip cost
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$19.44. This reduction of rates is calculated to fill the mountains and the
seacoast to overflowing.
A vicious woman of High Po:.nt, res-mting the persuasive call of Mrs.
Care, the Guilford Cmnty Welfare officer, urging her to send her children
to school as the law requires, made an ugly physical attack. The gentle,
kindly Mrs. Carr, regretting the angry and mean outbreak of this ignor-
ant woman, was disposed to let the matter drop [here; but the judge of
the Juvenile Court insisted that the woman be prosecuted. The Judge is
right. Who. in the wide world, c mid expect children with such maternal
viciousness, appalling ignoranc anJ criminal neglect, directing their course
to reach a respectable citizenship without the state in some form or other
stepping in and taking charge?
The p.ist Tuesday, February 28th, was "Shrove Tuesday." This special-
ly named day occurs just before Asn Wednesday, and its significance lies
in the fact that it was formerly customary in England, on this day, for
the people to confess their sins to the priest, and afterwards to dine on
pancakes and make merry. The customs of eating pancakes and ringing a
boll are still kept up in parts of England. The day is sometimes referred
to as "Pancake Bell" or "Pancake Day." It is a legal holiday through-
out the state of Louisiana, and in the cities of Mobile, Montgomery and
Selma, in the state of Alabama.
To the very uttermost corners of the state went the disturbing news that
General Julian S. Carr was critically ill at his home in Durham. Anxious-
ly they awaited the news from bis bed-side. The latest is that Gen. Carr
is improving, and there is lively hope that the State wiil continue to enjoy
and profit by the presence and activity of this genial gentleman, patriotic
citizen and captain of industry.
The Uplift rather appreciates and enjoys the sharp comment of Gover-
nor Morrison in his resentment of the request a little 2 x 4 magistrate, who
sits over a court in the land of Canada, makes pending the disposition of a
fleeing criminal that is nestling in the bosom of the Canadian authorities.
Seeing the accounts of daily accidents and deaths, we are convinced of
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the wisdom of this which the Baltimore Sun hands out: -'Horsepower has
been sufficiently developed in the motor. What we need now is the devel-
opment of a little horse-ser.se in the driver."
Elsewhere in this issue The Uiu.n-'T is publishing an intensely interesting
story about ancient old Hillsboro in this state. It is a story prepared by
Mr. Fred Olds for the Oxford Friend.
THE FOX AND THE LION
When first the Fox saw the Lion he was terribly frightened, and
ran away and hid himself in the woods. Next time however he
came near the King of Eeasts he stopped at a safe distance and
watched him pass by. The third time they came near one another
the Fox went straight up to the Lion and passed the time of day
with him. asking him how his family were, and when he should
have the pleasure of seeing him again; then turning bis tail, he
parted from the Lion without much ceremony.
"FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT."
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There s Place In Life For Trie Anecdote
REV. B. R. HALL: The North Carolina Methodist conference once had
two Halls, Ben and John, brothers, both "able preachers and hard workers.
Ben was once pastor of the Haw River circuit, ^charge in Chatham county.
At this time Rev. W. M. Moore, (both men now gone to their reward )was
presiding elder of the district. It was generally acknowledged that Moore
■was as great a preacher of a true gospel as Xorth Carolina ever had. Travel
then was by horse and buggy, and it
took good horses to stand what was
required of them. Brother Moore
had a very spirited animal, that when
once out of the stall was bent on play,
and hard to get back. On a certain
Sunday evening sometime before this
incident , this animal escaped, got in-
to acorn field, and work and coax all
lie would brother Moore was unable
to get it back, and the more he work-
ed the more corn the animal tore
down. Finally the good man lost his
temper, got his shot gun and pulled
down on the horse, stinging it
severly with bird shot, but landed it
in the stall.
While Ben Hall was pastor as above
lie had a wild unruly animal, that was
a fool about being hitched. On this
Sunday, after service, the mare re-
fused to come under the shafts, and
after several attempts, Hall lost hi.,
head and frailed the horse unmerci-
fully, right before the onlooking con-
gregation. So incensed were some at
his conduct, it was reported to the
presiding elder. A short time there-
after Hall and Moore happened to
meet in the road, brother Moore hav-
ing stopped to water his horse at a
branch, and Hall was slowing down
for the same purpose. After passing
the "time o' day," brother Moore
,-aid: "Well, brother Ben, I am
mighty sorry tq hear that you lost
your temper and whipped your horse
as you did at Bynum's a few Sundays
ago " Rail knowing a
lecture was coining and not being in
any good mood for such, shot back:
"Yes, Doctor Moore, I did lose my
temper, but the mare was so unruly; I
think if I had had my shot gun I
would have shot her."
"Get up — go long Charlie, go long
— golong"s;*id Dr. Moore, as he pull-
ed the lines, while Hall was doing the
sam thing, both going a different
direction without another word.
— C. W. H.
Love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure and a
ma|dneps of desire — oh, no — love is not that! It is goodness and honor,
and peace and pure living — yes, love is that, and is the best thing in the
^orld, and the thing that lives longest.— Van Dyke.
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Charlotte, N. C.
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CHARLES WESTBROOK HUNT
Charles Westbrook Hunt was born September 26th, 1S39, four miles
west of Greensboro, near "West-Green" tbe then famous home of the late
Samuel Westbrook. His father, the late Rev. Moses J. Hunt then being
pastor of the Guilford circuit; that is how he came to be born there, and
was named for a son of Mr. Westbrook, the late Rev. C. W. Westbrook.
From the time he was one year old he was on his father's farms in Gran-
ville and later Franklin county, where he spent 17 years, and where he
imbibed the matter that makes the interesting- nature stories, which The
Uplift has just concluded.
To get to a school for the family
of children, his father moved to
Kernersville where he had two years
at Kernersville Academy under the
tutorship of the late Rev. S. R.
Traywick; his earlier education be-
ing in the "old-field" and subscrip-
tion schools of the neighborhood.
At the end of two years he refused
a college education at Trinity Col-
lege for the reason that he did not
fed that his father could afford it.
with nine other younger children;
and he took a place with Beard, Rob-
erts & Co., learning the Tobacco
business. He always had liked news-
papers, Cnis father took many) and
it was here, with Jas H. Lindsay
and T. A. Lyon that he had his first
taste of the work, writing locals as
an amusement. It was not long be-
fore he was getting out the paper
when editors wanted to be away.
Just about this time, Dec. 18. 1S-
83, he married Miss Mina C. Kern-
er, youngest daughter of the late
Israel Kerner. Five years later he
suffered a complete physical break-
down, having to give up the work
he wai doing, or anyother physical
effort. His like and talent for news-
Papers s..vpd him a good turn, and
with less than $100 borrowed money
he secured the Burlington News.
Here he spent eight years; all the
while a semi- physical wreck, but
made a paper worth while, and never
missed an issue. Feeling that it was
unsafe to longer tax the mind and
body with the "grind," he sold the
plant, at a sacrifice, and in January
1S97, moved to Charlotte. A year
later he took a place with The South-
ern Newspaper Union, as a travel-
ing man, and for two years went
into five states in the interest of
that plant. This work he did so
well the manager tried often to
get him at it again.
Resigning this job, and all news-
paper connection, he has ever and
anon contributed to the press of his
writings. The old saying that:
"You can get a man out of the
country, but you cannot get the
country out of the man," has been
strongly proven in the case before us.
He always dreamed of a place in the
country, where he could associate
with such things as were written
about in the series of articles which
he furnished The Uplift. The very
first line he had a chance to go back,
he bought his present home,
"Swastika Farm" (Egyptian, means:
rest, peace, contentment) and stock-
ed it with white leghorn hens. Here
he has found health, after 20 years
a semi-invalidism. He has often
been heard to say that he has the
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appetite of a ten year old buy; and ty, his experince with men and ser-
the food tastes as Rood as it did ious things of this life, that he could
when wading the creeks or roaming play the city man quite easily, but
the woods ami Melds of Franklin he does'nt want to.
County. He and his wife, to whom Upon the request of the editor of
he owes, he freely admits a greater The I'ri.iiT, Mr Hunt has just finish-
part of what success has come to him, ed a series of nature studies which
live alone. They have three grand- he kindly consented to write for the
children and an only daughter, Mrs. pleasure and information of our
Frank F. Jones, in Charlotte. beys. They have richly enjoyed
There are men, and I among them; in fact, we have had assur-
them, who wonder why one so tab ancv.s from many sources that they
ented in writing engaging stories, have been keenly read by many of
who sees so much gcod in his fellow- our subscribers with entertainment
men and tries to be blind to their and profit. Early after beginning
faults, would not rig up a news- the publication of the stories, the
paper plant and start himself again request came to us from various
in the active set vice of running a sources to preserve them in order
paper. But unlike the cither men. and issue them in a booklet. This
who have noted Mr. Hunt's clever- is being done in our office, and they
ness with the pen, I happen to know will go out to every county, to schools
that he likes something far better and to all public libraries. All this
an la normal man usually follows labor by Mr. Hunt was one of love,
his choice. Hunt is essentia'Iv a and a deep interest in the great work
countryman, loves to com. mine with in which the Jackson Training School
nature, to study the ways and hab- is engaged.
its of living things that abound in This man Hunt is a choice spirit
the rural section, and this love can- among us, is living a life of unself-
not be gratified when tied up to ishoess and of great service, alive
the fortunes of a newspaper. I said wire, straight and upright, and a
our subject is a countryman. I am loyal, sincere friend without guile
aware that through his native abili- ---in this day, that is much of a man.
Much of the meanness that men do is the result of impulse, haste, im-
mature deliberation. If they had waited a little, those things that brought
hurt and untold regrets would never have been done at all. Proci-istina-
tion is at times a virtue. Do not strive to do today everything that can
possibly be done, but r.qther content yourself with those things that you
are fully persuaded in your mind and conscience ought to be done. Leave
all the rest over as unfinished business. Time has a way of settling most of
the problems of life. It is always wise to allow the old Father with the
hour-glass a chance to give one the benefit of his widsoni. — Methodist
Advocate.
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An Echo Ci The Past.
In my school days, forty-five years ago., this copy, "Procrastination is the
thief of time," was often set up as a copy for the whole school. I admired
immensely the symmetry of the penmanship, also the deliberation of the
old maid school teacher as she, with measured step, took her position before
the blackboard that cov< red one end of the school-room and wrote the copy-
so it might be seen by every pupil.
I had no idea in the world what up to the standard, there was an
"Procrastination" meant. I didn't adjustmant of matters after school
know whether it was something to hours, no questions were in order.
eat or to wear: but I knew that it Now, that the light is broken and
was a mighty high-sounding word, we have come to fully understand
but never thought it would play the gravity and greatness of that
any part in my life; but, "believe copy that graced every school-room
me," I lest no time in trying to re- of the years past, we know that
produce the copy just as written Procrastination is a habit arid a bad
with precision and neatness in the one; and a person who indulges
period set aside for that work. will find life so crowded with odds.
Little did I then realize that I was, and ends of unfinished work until a
by this activity and deep interest in mental pandemonium reigns and a
following the copy avoiding the starting-point seems impossible to
penalty of the very meaning of the find. For instance, take the black-
word, board in a busy school-room. Don't
This teach .>r, as I remember her you erase all writing and figuring at
appearance now, I'm sure wore the end of the day's work and start
hoop-skirts for there' was a certain out anew the next morning? Order
smooth whirl to her skirts as she mid system in the school-room, and
walked that gave her dignity and why not mentally be in the same
made her appear very wise. In fact shape. How refreshing!
she must have been a twin sister, or You- not only lose time by pro-
close kin, of "Iluck's" teacher, for crastination, but it sometimes makes
as I recall, the resemblance was you lose your temper by being over-
marked. She also kept a rule on her crowded with unfinished or put-on?
desk that warranted a profound re- work. Moral: DON'T PUT OFF UN-
specr, punctuality, perfect recita- TIL lO-.MORROW WHAT YOU"
tions, and, if in either you were not CAN DO TODAY. •— M. N. C.
The teacher had told her pupils to write a short essr.y about Lincoln,,
and ore boy handed in the following:
"Abraham Lincoln was born on a bright summer day, the twelfth of
February, 1809. He was horn in a log cabin he had helped his father
to build."— Republic Item.
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A Good North Carolina Girl In Texas
By Jim Riddick
She grew up in a North Carolina home, where tragedy held sway over
the parents and their fortunes for too many years now to account for.
Nearly every sadness known to mankind seemed gleefully to in\ade that
home to do mischief— all leaving an imprint that stuck closer than a hro- i
ther.
The little girl, attractive, of fine
spirit and unusual poise, one of the
only two of a large family of child-
ren that escaped the baneful influ-
ence of that most mysterious tragedy
that cruelly followed in the wake of
that family. She was the friend of
everbody, and everybody was her
friend. If there were a kindly word
to be said, or a graceous act to be
done, or a relief to be rendered, the
opportunity was immediately gras-
ped by this charming little miss.
And this is how she grew up, gain-
ing strength of purpose and will
and habit as the days went by.
In all her set. in which she was
thoroughly at home, none was more
eagerly sought. Wealth did not
blind her; immediate advantage of
a situation concerned her not. She
cooly considered everything from a
sense of right and justice; she
thought liKe a man- -temporarily ad-
vantageous results weighed nothing
with her. She was looking towards
the future. It is no wonder that
such a girl, even in those blessed
days of other years, was sought for.
Suitor after suitor played a losing
court. Something higher, deeper
and more enduring controlled the
heart of this wonderful girl. "Oh,"
said she, "it must be glorious to fig-
ure as the sweet and attractive bride
inabrilliant maniage, but," and she
continued, "I must be conscious of
the presence of a sterling character,
a manly cleanliness and a depend-
able love, before I take a step that
mars or makes a life forever." She
had seen the evil effects where these
virtues were lacking, and she lived
up to her ideals that promise for life
the joys, the happiness and the suc-
cesses of a sensible and well-guard-
ed matrimonial alliancp.
Our little North Carolina girl and
the man that fitted her ideals met;
they plighted and were married in
a simple, matter-of-fact marriage
ceremony. And off to Texas, tak-
ing up their abode in one of the larg-
est cities of the Lone Star state.
Without much wordly goods, with-
out substantial and influenetial
friends, they began life together,
far removed from their families or
former friends. Big business, this
beginning without appreciable capi-
tal, to lay the foundation for a suc-
cessful career in a bustling city,
where every avenue seemed well-
nijrh filled. But this is a story of
will and a\ termination, of fa!;h and
energy, but above all with brains
and a high sense of intergrity. And,
too, this is a story of a judicous and
sensible advertising scheme. To
make the story complete I will just
say that it was a grocery business
these young people started up, hut
it wasn't. I'd tell just whatitwas,
but I do not care to furnish anyevi-
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13
dence that would lead to the identity
of this interesting1, prominent and
very successful family, who stand
high in their community and want
for nothing— they have whipped the
fight
A st ire-room, small but sufficiently
large, was selected in a certain
neighborhood of this large city
where no other store existed that
handle the same class of wares. The
little woman "did all her house-
work" and whatever else needed im-
mediate attention. Finishing her
home duties, this North Carolina
girl-wife started out on the street, to
purchase such things as she was
compelled to have. That's nothing
out of the ordinary, for hundreds of
women, who are not ashamed of
their rearing and are net too proud
to work when the call c«mes, go out
to marketing. But here is where
genius asserted itself, where North
Carolina initiative performed in high
gear. She needed some gingham---
the little woman made the order,
requested the package sent to her
husband's store with the bill. Seven
or eight blocks away she went to
place an order for some vegetables
—the package and the bill were to
be carried to her husband. Now the
little woman, recalling that a win-
dow curtain was needed--she went
to another part of the city to make
the purchase---and the same order
about delivery and payment follow-
ed. The next day, she dropped into
another section of the business hous-
es.
For months this smart North Caro-
lina woman kept np this method of
supplying her needs until she had
just about given a small patronage
to nearly every worthy store in the
city. When her purchase and the ac-
companying bill arrived at her hus-
band's place of business, he politely
and courteously completed the piece
of business. In a short time these
two people ceased to be strangers in
that big city; and finding the new
comer a very agreeabl? gentlemen,
his place nicely kept and bis methods
of doing business entirely on the
square, folks from. every part of the
city began to drop into his place and
make purchases. Month after month
this recipiocity was kept, up until
this man with a smart North Caro-
lina wife, whom everybody admired
and loved during her childhood, be-
came well known, won a place for
himself and his business in the city
---and to-day he is rich in worldly
goods and says it is all due to his
wife, herself to-dav a consoicious
social figure and active in welfare
and church affairs. It takes a man
to make such an ackowledgement in
the presence of his wife.
Trust not thy secret to a confidant, for he, too, will have his associates
and friends; and it will spread aboard through the whole city, and men ■
will call thee weak-headed. — Firdausi. i
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ACCURACY AND TRUTH IN WRITING
(By R. R. Clark.)
Following; the dreadful disaster to the airship Roma a few day ago, in which
34 lives were lost, came a story from Chicago in which it was stated without
reservation that Lieut. Sniythc, one of the victims, had following the flight of
the Roma to Washington some time previous, written his father in Chicago
that the airship was dangerous and that it would lie criminal negligence to
fly the machine again until the defects were remedied. The Chicago story
gave such detail of the alleged letter that on its face there were indications of
truth; and many people who read that were not paragons of virture in all re-
statement began to berate the officials spects. They had their faults and
in charge of the Roma as guilty of failings, their short-comings. But the
criminal negligence. Lieut Smythe's modern craving for excitement, for
army associates questioned the truth sensation, has created a lot of news-
of the story , saying that the dead paper men who seem to feel that they
officer was not the kind of man to must satisfy the demand for sensa-
tvrite a serious charge like that with- tion even if it be necessary to sacri-
out making some report of his suspi- fiee accuracy.
cions to his superior officers, as it I am not discussing of course the
would have been his duty to do. errors that can't be guarded against
Now comes the father of Lieut. with the best effort that can be made.
Smythe, to whom the letter was al- As the newsgathercr must nearly al-
leged to have been written, and says ways take his information second
the story is absolutely fylse, without hand and work under pressure, there
any foundation in fact. It had its are always errors enough which in the
origin only in the fertile brain of nature of things can't be avoided.But
some newspaper writer who wanted [ am talking about newgatherers who
to make a sensation; one of the sort will not take the pains to verify re-
who make up a story out of a mini- ports, who do not use their common
mum of truth and a, maximum of sense to analyze a story told them
imagination; or who make the ami use their judgment in deterrain-
whole story without a scintilla of fact ing its truth; but who on the contrary
on which to found it. are glad to have it in exaggerated
I don't know whether this sort of form if the simple truth eliminates
newspaper writing- is on the increase, the sensational features; and w ho are
but sometimes I am inclined to think not averse to dressing it up so that it
that it is. The newspapers have made will be readable, if not sensational,
wonderful advances in some respects without special regard for accuracy of
in the last 25 years, but I sometimes in- statement. Some of the speciul writ-
cline to the belief that the zeal for ac- ers make a specialty of rumors and
curacy hasn't kept pa,ce with some of speculation. One can make up a very
the other advances in newspaperdom. interesting story from rumors aud
This may be more apparent thiui real; suggestions as to certain possibilities
I hope it is. The old-time editors under certain conditions. But pres-
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■ entlv it falls out that there was no
truth whatever in the rumor, and that
speculations founded on the rumor
annoyed if not positively harmed
somebody or some cause. There are
harmless rumors and harmless specu-
lation; but this sort of thing-, when
handled, should be sent out for what
it is distinctly, and if there is any-
thing in connection with it that will
do anybody injustice, leave it alone.
I know all about the consuming desire
to print something that will attract
attention; that will astonish the read-
er; and how difficult it is to leave
rumor alone through fear that it may
prove to lie fact and the other fellow
will get it first. But better far to go
without the sensations and better far
let the other fellow have a scoop
occasionally than undergo the humilia-
tion of finding you have circulated a
fake and may be one that will annoy
or injure innocent people. Better far
print the ordinary news of the day
(and there is now no lack of sensa-
tion in the ordinary news) and have a
reputation for accuracy, for printing
reliable information, only that which
can be depended upon, than to print
a paper that has a sensation in every
issue but which nobody trusts.
I have met some newspaper writers
in my time who considered it a part
of the profession to dress up a story,
make it interesting and readable if
not sensational, without being parti-
cular as to accuracy. Somehow they
hail the idea of fiction stories mixed
with real news writing. This sort
brul a poor conception of their duty
to the public and very poor training
in the profession. Every individual
who engages in newspaper work should
get the idea firmlv fixed that accu-
racy is the first consideration; that
a newspaper's character is just like
an individual's character. If you
have an acquaintance who constantly
exaggerates, who is always loaded
with gossip, sensationad rumors which
he takes pleasure in circulating with-
out regard to their truth or the harm
to innocent people, you may or may
not cut his acquaintance altogether — •
sometimes there are very entertain-
ing liars — but you will lose respect for
him and will discount anything he
says; and even when he tells you the
truth you won't believe him unless the
story is verified from some other
source. And that is just exactly the
way with the unreliable newspaper
or the newspaper writer who handles
the truth carefully or uses it sparing-
ly; who get the reputation of being
unreliable.
If I were giving advice to the young-
er generation of editors and news-
writer (which I am not; I am simply
making these observations for what-
ever they may be worth), I would
stress accuracy all the time. Verify
the facts as nearly as possible, make
prompt correction of material errors
(never correct anything unless a libel
suit threatens seems to be the motto
of some of the modern newspaper-
makers), strive above all to make a
reputation for reliability so that your
readers can depend on what you tell
them. Telling the facts as they are,
naught extenuate and naught set
down in mah'ce, isn't inconsistent
with writing an entertaining story or
making the story readable. Often the
truth is more entertianing than an
exaggeraton. Aside from the desire
to be accurate for truth's sake is
the matter of injustice. A story can
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be so colored that it will do a great tunity olfers. He who isn't big
injustice and leave the wronged with- enough to rise above prejudices, bh
out an adequate remedy without tell- personal feelings and be fair, is unfit
ing a downright falsehood. Many for newspaper work and should be ox-
news paper-writers do great injustice eluded from the profesion which he
to folks they don't like by putting dishonors,
them in a false light whenever oppor-
The job ahead of us may be like a bitter pill in the mouth; the longer we
put it off, the harder it becomes to swallow. — Kings' Treasuries.
HILLSBORO RICH IN HISTORY
By Fred A. Olds
There are plenty of bigger towns in Xorth Carolina than old Hillsboro, and
there are older ones, like Bath, Edenton and Hertford, for example, not to
speak of others, but certainly Hillsboro has made a remarkable record because
of the fact that it has turned out so mapy noted men, exercising in many cases
not only a state-wide but a national influence. What other town or really
village, for it has only 1,180 people, ever furnished two United States Senators
and that for a number of years, at the have all their pristine charm.
The Occoneechee Mountain
same time .' Hillsboro did this, in
the persons of William A. Graham
and Willie P. Mangum, men who cer- Hillsboro used to be, "before the
tainly made their mark. w:lr> sir>" a mountain resort, for
-..—.... „ look you, it has a trinity of lnotin-
Old Hillsboro Town t • ' ,, ,-, , ' , ■ ,
tains, the Occoneechee, which rise
Hillsboro is only 40 miles from . 900 feet above sea level and 3011 feet
Raleigh, and the casual traveler by above the level of the little Eiio riv-
train only gets a view of a little er, which makes its muddy way at
of it, including the pretty tower of their feet; that stream in v/hicb
the court house, the old mill and Eno Will, the Tndian guide who
the ungainly yard around the sta- showed John La.wson the way through
tion, the latter giving about as mi- Xorth Carolina to the coa.it, no doubt
prepossessing an entrance to the fished many a lime, his tribe living
place as well can be conceived. Now in that vicinity for some time after
that the a.utomobile has come into the early white settlers came on the
being such delightful old towns ought scene. It was in 1708 that Eno Will
to be places of pilgrimage. The auto acted as pilot and his route led only
has made rural England and rural a few miles north of Raleu/h. In
Europe. In England many charm- those days there was no Wake coun-
ing places not touched by railways ty or Raleigh, except Old Fori Ral-
were forgotten after the stage coach eigh on Roanoke Island, which T,aw-
days until recent years, but the au- son visited and where there remained
tomobile has revived them and they plenty of relics of the "Lost Colon"
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of 1537 when he saw ib.
Memories of Royal Days
la Hillsboro the main street
bears the name of Cburton and thei-e
an; Tryon and Wake streets, for this
was one of the places which Gov.
Trvon greatly liked and he made it
a point to go there often. He eame
to this state expecting to be governor
immediately, hut the then governor
held on several months and Mr. and
Mrs. Tryon and their daughter Mar-
garet, (and shall we say the beauti-
ful Esther Wake too) made a horse-
bark journey from the eoast to Hills-
boro. For Margaret, one of the
quaint lanes is named and to this
hour it is "Margaret's Lane," per-
haps 20 feet wide, running east and
west directly in front of the quaint
old Nash mansion and by one end
of the stately avenue of cedars which
extends at its other end to Tryon
street, which leads by the front of
the courthouse. This letter end is
close to the Corbinton Inn, not nam-
ed for "Ffrancis" Corbin, who built
the beautiful "House with the Cupo-
la" at F.denton, (which yet stands, as
the home of his bride) in 1758. Xo,
the hotel is named for Mr. Corbin of
the Orange county section and not
for the fascinating "Ffrancis," as it
"was spelled.
A Lottery-Built Church
There are plenty of odd things at
Hillsboro and the writer made it
a point to attend a service in the lit-
tle Presbyterian church, in one re-
spect easily the most curious in this
state, for it was built by the town
and for everybody, and by the pro-
ceeds of a lottery. The 'legislature
authorized the commissioners of the
town, then a borough which elected
its own members of the legislature,
to have a lottery to raise funds to
the amount of $5,000 with which to
pay for this church. The lottery was
conducted in the style of those days,
the money raised, the church built
and so it stands to this good hour.
A block .south of it is a two-story
brick building which is the home of
Fagle Lodge of Masons. This was
built in 1820, also out of the pro-
ceeds of a lottery which the state
authorized to be heid. It raised, $3,-
000 and Capt. John Berry erected the
lodge building.
In this connection it mr^y be said
of this Capt. Berry that be was truly
a remarkable man, for so well did he
do his work on the present court-
house, which he had contracted to
build for $10,000, that the county
court in accepting it, formally thank-
ed him and actually gave him a bonus
of $500. The courthouse is small
but beautiful in its simplicity and
graceful lines and in its belfry,
equally graceful, are the clock and
the hell given by His Majesty King
George the Second to the "trusty and
well-beloved" people of his goodly
town of Hillsboro, named for the Earl
of Hillsborough the county seat of
his equally trusty and well-beloved
county of Orange, named for King
TVilliap of Orange, the head of the
then reigning house.
Graves Of The Great
The little church, which will ac-
commodate perhaps 150 people,
stands on a lot with its rear towards
and quite a distance from Cburton
street. The graveyard is a. fea-
ture of the place. It is not a Pres-
byterian church-yard, for it was the
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town burial-place, It carries out the
old English idea, but lacks the Eng-
lish tidiness. Directly in front of
the entrance of the church is the
monument erected 20 years ago by
Judge Aiken of Danville Y.i., in
memory of his ancestor, A'.Thihald
DeBow Murphey, who was born in
1779 and died in IS3'2, and who had
the honor of being the lather of pub-
lic education in North Carolina. In
his honor one of tlie most promi-
nent of Raleigh's puolic schools is
mvmed and the pe-.)p'e ol Cherokee
county intended to inline their trou i-
ty seat after him also, Iiik fell I mn
on the proposition because they !rft
out the "e" in lb.; name and never
had the nerve to set matters straight.
A Noted North Carolinian
A few feet away from this tall
shaft over Murphey 's grave is one
over that of William A. Graham. This
monument carries the roll of his pub-
lie services and tells that he was
Speaker of the North Carolina House
of Commons, Senator of the United
States, Governor of North Carolina,
Secretary of the United States Navy,
member of the State Convention of
1861, Senator of the Confederate
States, arbitrator of the dividing line
between Maryland and Virginia. He
was born in 1804 and died in August,
1S75, his body lying in state at Ral-
eigh and being given a national and
State burial.
This cemetery was laid off in 1754.
On its west side there are private
burial places, some with stone fences
like the one around the church-yard,
but only two or three of these private
plots are well kept. In one is a flat
slab over the grave of James Hogg,
who went to Hillsboro in 1774, beside
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him lying is his wife, Mrs. McDowell
Hogg, who was a cousin of the fam-
ous Scotch poet Hogg, commonly
known as the "Ettrick Shepherd."
Hooper The Signer
Another !la.t slab, with its in-
scription almost obliterated by time
ami neglect is that of William Hoop-
er, erne of the three North Carolina
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence at Philadelphia, July 4,
177ii. The inscription sets out that
the grave is thai of William Hooper,
eldest sun of Rev. Willi;ym Hooper
late rector of Trinity Church, Bos-
ton, New England; born June 28,
1742; educated at Cambridge College;
died October 16th, 171)0, in the 49th
year of his age. The latter part of
the inscription is these words, "Sign-
er of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence,'' this part having been deeply
cut in recent years, so thr,t it alone
stands out clearly.
Saving A Grave-Stone
There is quite a bit of a story
about this Hooper grave. Some thir-
ty-five years ago the late Judge
Schenck, the developer of the move-
ment to preserve and mark the bat-
tlefield of Guilford Courthouse, ob-
tained permission to remove rhe re-
mains from this churchyard to the
battle-ground. The slab was moved
aside the grave opened and a small
box full of remains secured a/id tak-
en to the battle-ground. The slab
was hauled to the depot, but the
wrath of Josiah Turner of Hillsboro
was aroused and he went to the de-
pot, got the slali and hauled it back
to the graveyard, so there it :■- today.
Noble Cypresses
A number of visitors to Hillsboro i
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would probably term it a "runny old
dead town in the poor county of Or-
ange," but tlicre are good tilings in
I lu' place, and in the county, too, it:
one knows first how to look for them,
ami secondly, appreciate them. At
the Ronlhae home are a p.,-,ir of lofty
ami large cypress trees, which were
taken there much over one hundred
years ago from Edenton, and seem
quite out of place in that high re-
gion, for Raleigh is past the west-
ern limit of this tree. Two other
tine cypresses are at Hillsbpro, on the
Paul Cameron estate, where there are
in all 158 kinds of trees and the
larger shrubs.
A Convention Church
At the southeast corner of this
churchyard is a little wooden build-
ing which is the public library, and
it is to be replaced by one of the
rich-colored stone found there, set in
cement. On this site stood St. Mat-
thew's church, in which the state
conventions of 1775 and 17S8 were
held. It was the latter convention
was declined to ratify the constitu-
tion of the United States. Ratifica-
tion was effected at Fayetteville the
next year.
The Stately Cedars
Certainly one of the finest things
Hillsboro has to offer is the avenue
from Tryon street to the old Xash
mansion, known as ''Cedar Lane." It
was in 1817 that Mrs. Nash planted
these cedars, which are now sixty feet
high ami have lived over one hun-
dred years, though live are gone, one
but lately. The Nash mansion has a
sidewalk laid in Revolutionary days
of slab, of Various sizes of the slate-
like ro!k peculiar to Hillsboro, laid
here and there and giving a speckled
effect. Governor Tryon spent a cou-
ple of months in this house in 1768.
From the place is a fine view of the-
courthouse, under the branches of the
biggest osage or mock orange tree in.
the state.
The Nash House
This Xash house itself is in two
parts, the older one Inning Hush
weatherboarding 18 inches wide, all
the nails having been made in a.
blacksmith shop, and the keys turn-
ing twice to lock and unlock the mas-
sive locks. The sills, of great size
were hewed in the forest and hauled
there. Little or no changes have been
made in the house, the two parts off
which are joined without a break or
division, except in floor levels. The
interior, with its dining-room some
30 by 18 feet in dimension, is cer-
tainly worth seeing. This particular
room was the study room of the once
noted girls'' school of the Misses Nash
and Kolloek.
The Dark Walk
Under the shades of the tall cedars
is a smart little club house, which
Mr. Xash built some years ago, and-
is quite up-to-date. The town spent
$30,000 and spent it well in macad-
amizing its leading streets and put-
ting down concrete sidewalks in all
directions. There are some effective
street views, notably on Cburton
street. One end of this street is-
at the bridge across the Eno river.
At this and is what has for 175 years
been known as the "Dark Walk."
This is a delightful walkway along-
tbe river bank, with a cliff on the
other hand and- with original forest
trees forming a gigantic umbrella ov-
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•erhca.d. It belongs to Gen. Julian S.
Carr, having been always a part of
the Norwood estate and so bought
by him, and is as picturesque and as
charming as when Governor Tryon
and Miss Margaret promenaded there
and when Lord Cornwallis enjoyed
its attractions, while his head was
busy with schemes to overcome His
Majesty's most rebellious subjects.
Around The Court House
The court house yard is charming.
To the eastward is an ungaily flour-
ing mill only a few yards away, and
this is built of brick which came from
the once noted Caldwell Institute, in
the northwest corner of the town.
Near this mill is aj little stuccoed
building, one-story high, a liny af-
fair with of columned portico in the
style of a Greek temme. This w-is
the law office in Hillsboro 's great days
of John W. Norwood.
The Old Academies
In the century before the last
Hillsboro got authority from the leg-
islature to build two academics, one
for each sex. The on" for females
was torn down and the materials
put in a dwelling now standing. 'I he
imVe academy building, of brick, yet
stands a little west if the Cameron
estate, which now owns i', and in it
negroes live.
An Ancient Court House
The first court house was built in
1755. It was burned in 1790. but as
stated, the king's bell and clock
were saved. In 1791 the second
court house was constructed and this
was moved in order to be replaced
by the present one in 184.3. The
building thus removed was lirst a
carriage shop, next the white Bap-
tist church and now is the negro
Methodist church. It is only two
blocks from the present court house.
A "Worthy Monument
Instead of a monument to the Con-
federate and the World War dead
the people of Hillsboro have wisely
decide to build their new public
library of stone, as already stated,
and they will earn the thanks of a
good many people for this innova-
tion, some of the Confederate mon-
uments iu North Carolina being quite
the reverse of artistic and well cal-
culated to make a veteran run wiieu
he looks at them.
A Church Romance
The Episcopal church stands in the
most commanding position in the
town, and in its churchyard one can
see majiy a monument over the graves
of great men. The location of this
church and its admirably kept church-
yard is due to a romance. Judge
Thomas Ruflin on one occasion walked
from the little town with the beautiful
Miss Anne Kirkland, to escort her to
her home, Ayriuount, which is in full
sight to the eastward. In those days
the way between her home ami the
town was by a foot path, which surely
must have been delightful. Be-ide it
was a fallen tree on which the two sat
down, then and there he said words
to which she, responsive, listened ami
which brought about a wedding by and
bye. As a memorial of that delight-
ful incident he gave the land .or the
church and churchyard.
Memorials Of Dead
In this churchyard are moi: merits,
worth seeing, over the graves of mem-
bers of the families of Nash, Eoulhac,
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Webb, Cameron, Collins, Ruff in, Jones the loaders of the "Regulators" were
and others. Only a brick wall sepa- hanged after having been sentenced
v;ites this cemetery from the once in court. From a point near this
beautiful grounds of t he Cameron es- church there is perhaps the finest view
tate, now unkempt though charming of the little town except that from the
in their decay. Xot many yards away mountains which lie across the riv-
is a marble slab placed there by Mr. er. The town is set in a sort of
Cameron to mark the spot where the basin and is dominated by Kills all
.'allows stood on which in 1771 six of around.
"The closer we keep to people ■who are really doing the worth while
things of life the more quickly do we begin doing them ourselves."
The Orign Of Roast Pig
Charles Lamb
(Charles Lamh Was born in London 1 775. He Was a nercous, timid bov and
had an impediment in his speech. He devoted his life to an older sister, who dnr~
ing temporary insanity filled lier mother. He Was both poet and essayist, but
noted chief ly for his prose writing. Among the more noted of his essays are.
"Dream Children," and "Roast Pig." He died in 1834.)
Mankind, says a Chinese nianu- tage in the care of his eldest son,,
script, which my friend M. was Bo'oo a great lubberly boy, who
obliging enough to read and ex- being fond of playing with fire, as
plain to me, for the first seventy youngsers of his age commonly are,
thousand ages ate their meat raw, let some sparks escape into a bun-
clawing or biting it from the ani- die of straw, which kindling quick-
mal, just as they do in Abyssinia to ly, spread the conflagration over
this day. This period is not ob- every part of their poor mansion,
scurely hinted at by their great till it was reduced to ashes. To-
Confucius in the second chapter of gether with a cottage (a sorry an-
his Mundane Mutations, where he tediluvian makeshift of a building,
designates a kind of golden age by you may think it,) which was of
the term Cho-fang, literally the much more importance, a fine lit-
Cook's Holiday. The manuscript ter of newborn pigs, no less than
goes on to say that the art of roast- nine in number perished. China
hig, or rather broiling (which I take pigs have been esteemed a luxury
to be the elder brother,) was ac- all over the East, from the remotest
cidentaily discovered in the manner period that we read of. Ro-bo was.
following. The swineherd, Ho ti, in the utmost consternation, as you
having gone out into the woods one may think, not so much for the sake-
morning, as his manner was, to col- of the tenement, which his father
lect mast for his hogs, left his cot- and he could easily build up again.
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with a few dry branches, and the
labor of an hour or two, at any
time, as for the loss of the pigs.
While he was thinking what he
should say to his father and wring-
ing his hands over the smoking
remnants of one of those untimely
sufferers, an odor assailed his nos-
trils, unlike any scent which he had
before experienced. What could it
proceed from? —Not from the burn-
ed cottage — he had smelt that smell
before; indeed, this was by no
means the first accident of the. kind
which had occured through the neg-
ligence of this unlucky young fire-
brand. Much less did it resemble
that of any known herb, weed or
flower. A premonitory moistening
at the same time overflowed his
nether lip. He knew not what to
think. He next stooped down to
feel the pig, if there were any signs
of life in it. He burned his fingers,
and to cool them he applied them in
his booby fashion to his mouth.
Some of the crumbs of the scorched
skin had come away with his fingers,
and for the first time in his life (in
the world's life, indeed, for before
him no man had known it) he tast-
ed—cracklings. Again he felt and
fumbled at the pig. It did not burn
him so much now; still he licked his
fingers from a sort of habit, The
truth at length broke into his slow
understanding that it was the pig
that smelled so, and the pig that
tasted so delicious; and surrender-
ing • himself up to the newborn
pleasure, he fell to tearing up whole
handfuls of the scorched skin with
the flesh next it, and was cramming
it down his throat in his beastly
fashion, when his sire entered amid
the smoking rafters, armed with re-
tributory cudgel, and finding how
affairs stood, began to rain bbwa
upon the young rogue's shoulders,
as thick as hailstones, wheh Bo-bo
heeded not any more than if they
had been flies. The tickling pleas-
ure which he experienced in his low-
er regions had icnderd him quite
callous to any incoveniences he might
feel in those remote quarters. His
father might lay on, but he could
not beat him from his pig, till he had
fairly made an end of it, when, bec-
oming a little sensible of his situa-
tion, something like following dia-
logue ensued.
"'You graceless whelp, what have
you got there devouring? Is it not
enough that you have houses with
your dog's tricks, and be hanged to
you! but you must be eating fire,
and I know not what---what have you
gat there, I say?"
"0 father, the pig, the pig! Do
come and see how nice the burned
pig eats.
The ears of Ho-ti tingled whith
horror. He cursed his son, and he
cursed himself that ever hp should
beget a son that should eat burned
Pig-
Bo-bo, whose scent was wonder-
fully sharpen^ since morning, soon
raked out another pig, and fairly
rending it asunder; tirust the lesser
half by main force into the fist of
Ho-ti, still shouting out, "Eat, eat,
eat, the burned pig father, only
taste— 0 Lord?"— with such like bar-
barous ejaculations, cramming all
the while as if he would choke.
Ho-ti trembled in every joint while
he grasped the abominable thing, wa-
vering whether he shonld put h<sson
to death' for an unnatural .. oting
monster, when the crackling scorch-
ing his fingers, as it had done his
son's, and applying the same remedy
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to them, he in his turn tasted some
of its flavor, which, make what sour
mouths he would for pretense,
proved not altogether displeasing to
him. In conclusion (for the manu-
script here is a little tedious) both
father and son fairly sat down to the
mess, and never left off till they had
dispatched all that remained of the
litter.
Bo-bo was strictly enjoined not to
let the secret escape, for the neigh-
bors would certainly have stoned
them for a couple of abominable
wretches, who could think of im-
proving upon the good meat which
God had sent them. Nevertheless,
strange stories got about. It was
observed that Ho-ti's cottage was
burned down more frequently than
ever. Nothing but fires from this
time foward. Some would break
out in broad day, others in the
nighttime. So often as the sow had
young pigs, so sure was the house
of Ho-ti to be in a blaze; Ho-ti him-
self, which was the more remark-
able, instead of chastising his son,
seemed to grow more indulgent to
him than ever. At length they
were watched, the terrible mystery
discovered, and the father and son
summoned to take their trial at
Pekin, then an inconsiderable as-
size town. Evidence was given, the
obnoxious food itself produced in
court, and verdict about to be pro-
nounced, when the foreman of the
jury begged that some of the burn-
ed pig, of which the culprit stood
accused, might be handed into the
box. He handled it, and they all
handled it; and burning their fin-
gers as Eo bo and his father had
done before them, and nature
prompting to each of them the same
remedy, against.the face of all the
facts, and the clearest charge which
judge had ever given,--- to the sur-
prise of the whole court, townsfolk,
strangers, reporters, and all pres-
ent,--without leavmg the bcx, or
any manner of consultation what-
ever, they brought in a simulta-
neous verdict, of Not Guilty.
The judge, who was a shrewd fel-
low winked at the manifest iniqui-
ty of the decision; and when the court
was dismissed, went privily, and
bought up all the pigs that could be
had for love or money. In a few
days his lordship's town house
was observed to be on fire. The
thing took wing, and now there was
nothing to be seen but fires in every
direction. Fuel and pigs grew
enormously dear all over the
district. The insurence offices one
and all shut up shop. People built
slighter and slighter every day, un-
til it was feared that the very science
of architecture would in no long time
b? lost to the world. Thus this
custom of firing houses continued,
till in process of time, says my
manuscript, a sage arose, like, our
lock who made a discovery, that the
flesh of swine, or indeed of any other
animal, might be cooked (burned, as
they call it) without the necessity
of consuming a whole house to
dress it. Then first began the rude
form of gridiron. Roasting by the
string or spit came in a century or
two later, I forget in whose dynas-
ty. By such slow degrees, concludes
the manuscript, do the most useful
and seemingly the most obvious arts
make their way among mankind.
Without placing too implict faith
in the account above given, it must
be agreed, that if a worthy pretext
for so dangerons an experiment as
setting houses on fire (especially
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in these days) could be assigned in
favor of any culinary object, that
pretext an excuse might be found
in Roast Pig.
Before you start after something you want to find out whether it is
greed or need that is sending you after it.— Exchange.
Backlog Studies
By Gins. Dudley V/arner
I should like to know what heroism a boy in an old New England farm-
house—rough—nursed by nature, and fed on the traditions of the old wars
—did not aspire to. "John," says the mother, "you'll burn your head to
a crisp in that heat." But John does nut hear; he is storming the Plains
of Abraham just now. "Johnny, dear, bring in a stick of wood." How
can Johnny bring in wood when he
is in that defile with Braddock, and
the Indians are popping at him from
behind every tree? There is some-
thing about a boy that I like, after
all.
The fire rests upon the broad
hearth; the hearth rests upon a great
substruction of stone, and the sub-
struction rests upon the cellar. What
supports the cellar I never knew, but
the cellar supports the family. The
cellar is the foundation of domestic
comfort. Into its dark, cavernous
recesses the child's imagination fear-
fully goes. Bogies guard the bins
of choicest apples I know not what
comical spirites sit astride the cider
barrels ranged along the walls. The
feeble flicker of the tallow candle
does not at all dispel, but creates
illusions and magnifies all the rich
possibilities of this underground
treasure house. When the cellar
door is open, and the boy begins to
descend into the darkness, it is always
with a heart beat as of one started
upon some adventure. Who can
forget the smell that comes hrough
the open door,— a mingling tof fresh
earth, fruit, exhaling delicious
aroma, kitchen vegetables, the moldy
odor of barrel, a sort of ancestral
air, ---as if a door had been opened
into an old romance.
It is a temptation to a temperate
man to become a sot, to hear what
talent, what versatility, what genius
is almost always attributed to a
moderately bright man who !s habit-
ully drunk. Such a mechanic, such
a mathematician, such a poet, he
would be if he were only sober; and
then he is sure to be the most
generous, magnanimous, friendly
soul, conscientiously honorable, if
he were not so conscientiously drunk.
I suppose it is now notorious that the
most brilliant and promising men
have been lost to the world in this
way. It is sometimes almost pain-
ful to think what a surplus "f talent
and genius there would be in the
world if the habit of intoxication
should suddenly cease; and what a
slim chance there would be for the
plodding people who have always
had tolerably good habits. The fear
is only mitigated by the observation
that the reputation of a person for
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great talent sometimes ceases with
his reformation.
It is believed by some that the
maidens who would make the best
wives never marry, but remain free
to bless the world with their impartial
sweetness, and make it generally
habitable. This is one of the mys-
teries of Providence and New Eng-
land life. It seems a pitv, at first
sight, that all those who become
poor wives have the matrimonial
chance, ami that they are deprived
of the reputation of those who
would be good wives were they not
set apart for the high and perpet-
ual oifice of priestesses of society.
There is no beauty like that which-
was spoiled by an accident, no ac- .
complishments and graces are so to
be envied asthose that circumstances-
rudely hindered the developement
of. All of which shows what a
charitable and good tempered world
it is, notwithstanding its reputation
for cynicism and detraction.
The Turpentine Orchard
When we think of an orchard, it is usually as an orchard of fruit trees;:
or, if in the forest, as a grove of sugar maples producing =>ap and sugar.
The turpentine orchard is just as much of an orchard, though of a very
different kind. The turpentine orchard is an orchard of Southern pines;
and "turpentining" is an industry of much importance in South Carolina,
Both these surfaces combined are a
Georgia, Florida, and some of the
Gulf States farther west. The pro-
duets of this orchard are what is
known as "naval stores"---tar, pitch,
rosin, and turpentine
There are many methods of get-
ting these valuable stores from the
long-leaf pines which are the trees
most used. One of the best methods
now in use in the turpentine orchard
is the "cup and gutter" system.
In common with other methods,
this is carried on in January and
February.
Two men, one right-banded, the
other left-handed, go into the or-
chard. They carry with them tvvo
cornering axes, and together cut
the bark on the tree. A few
inches above the ground two
flat surfaces are cut. The right-
handed man cuts one, his partner
the other, and the two men cut sev-
eral hundred such surfaces in a day.
little more than a foat wide.
The next workman has a broadax
for his tool. With it he makes two
slanting cuts, one in each surface on
the tree. One cut is a little lower
than the other, and he places a gut-
ter in each of them. The gutter is-
of sheet iron, two inenes wide and
nearly a foot in length. It is bent
into the proper shape, two of them
forming a spout, below which an
earthenware cup is hung.
Beginning in March, the surfaces
over each cup are chipped once a
week with a sharp tool called a
"hack'' to keep up a good How of
resin. The hack is drawn across the
two surfaces in a slanting direction,
cutting one V-shaped groove above
another in the wood of the tree.
From time to time the cups are emp-
tied of their "dip." In the early
autumn the resin which has harden-
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ed on the tree is also scraped off soon cooled by flowing water, and
and collected. becomes a liquid. When these spi-
The next season the cup and gut- rits of turpentine have been distil-
ters are moved to the upper end of led, the malted rosin is run through
last year's cut, and above it new a trough, then turned into barrels,
surfaces are made. When the third where it quickly cools and hardens.
or fourth season is reached, the gut- An acre of orchard, in three years'
ters are removed from the cupped bleeding, will yield as much as eight
trees. I hey are placed on new trees, hundred pounds of rosin and twen-
-or perhaps the old tree maybe "'bled' ty-fivo gallons of turpentine,
■again on another side. This goes on The pitch and tar produced by
until tnere-is very little bark left on this industry found early use in the
the lower part of the trunk. From Southern Colonies, and to-day these
the tree, the crude product is taken naval stores are still of much imrjor-
to the 'turpentine "still." Here tance. The rosin is used in making
the crude rosin is boiled with water, soap, paper, oilcloth, printing ink,
and the turpentine leaves it as a va- and medicines; the turpentine, for
por. The vapor is caught in a coil paints and varnishes,
•of tubes, or "worm" where it is
ison Answers Questions On His Biitnday
On February 11 Thomas Alva Edison celebrated the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of his birthday by working in sh ip, by reading messages of con-
gratulations from such men as President Harding, Charles M. Schwab, Sir
Thomas Lipton, Henry Ford and other notables, and by answering a series
of questions propounded in interview by certain newspaper reporters.
Some of these answers are of un- beer and light wines and the placing
usual popular interest. In answer upon these a tax to pay the bonus,
to the question, Who is the greatest Edison with emphasis replied,
man in the world? Mr. Edison re- "Every man with brains ought to
plied: "I haven't met many men -- take a pledge to vote to make
I don'c go to dinners and things I liquor impossiple.''
am always in the laboratory. I Ih the field of science Mr. Edison
never saw him but once in my lite, says that the greatest developments
but I liked L'eddy Roosevelt." within the last twelve months have
When asked about Henry Ford, taken place in connection with radio-
the great wizard answered: "He is activitv---especially the wireless
a remarkable man in one sense and phone.
in another he is not. I would not "The radio amplifier will continue
vote for him for President, but as a to develope until we will be able to
director of manufacturing or indus- hear ants talk, if they really do talk,
trial enterprises I would vote for There is no limit to the possibili-
him— twice." ties," he said.
When asked about the return of "Great steps forward are being
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taken in the field of color photo-
graphy. The time will come when
the piate will be developed with the
natural colors intact without the
tinting, as is clone now," is a pro-
phecy of Mr. Edison.
Among the wireless messages
received was one from the Westing-
house plant which among other
things contained the following sup-
erb tribute to the great genius:
"You have lighted our path in
life; you have made it possible for
us to communicate orally with our
distant friends intantly; you have
Institutional Notes.
(Henry B. Faucette, Reporter.)
Miss Z ill Fitzgerald, the daughter
of Airs. Fitzgerald, house-keeper at
No. 7, is spending a few days here.
Messrs. W. M. Crooks f,nd G. H.
Lawrence, accompainied by Henry
Faucette, motored to Charlotte Sat-
urday night to hear Sousa'sBand.
The pumps have been running
eantinnously for the past few days.
On account of so much water being
used, it is hard to kn.>p a tank full,
although there is enough in ■ the
wells.
From a recent Visit to the well-
digger, th's reporter found that the
depth ef 325 feet had been reached
and some water had been struck.
This is a line report.
The new pump room, which is
near the wash place, is now in a
better condition. The concrete floor
has been laid, the windows and doors
are ready t> be put in and then it
will be finished.
put beautiful music in permissible
form to soothe us in our troubles
and cheer us in our joys; you have
created the p^or man's theatre,
which has afforded instruction,
pleasure and enjoyment to untold
millions of young and old; your in-
ventions have helped to lighten the
burdens of women in the drudgery
of housework. Your work and in-
ventions have brought incalculable
comfort and happiness to mankind,
and it is not too much to say that
you are a benefactor to the human
race."--- Advocate.
Capt. Grier is organizing a base-
hall team. A first and second nine
have been organized. Last season
our team made a fine showing. It is
hope that they will break all of their
previous records.
The following boys received visits
from home folks Wednesday: Homer
Covington, Arthur Montgomery,
James Suther and William Hatch.
All were glad to see home foiks and
talk with them; they enjoyed the
day very much.
Mr. R. B. Goer, foreman in the
workshop, has been making flour and
meal cabinets for cottages G and 7.
Already one has been delivered to
7th cottage. Malcolm Holman and
Marion Butler are working on the
cabinet that goes to 6th cottage.
The printiug 00101- is gettmg out
a job for the Y. M. C. A. of Con-
cord. A little pamphlet to let the
people know what the "Y" is doing.
The printers have to hustle to get
it out and The Uplift too, but the
job won't have to be printed every
week and that will give them time
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to catch up. Rev. J. F. Armstrong, of the
Forest Hill Methodist Church of
The morning school section is now Concord cnme out out and hd(1 ser
too big to be drilled under one per- vice f,,r us Sunday afternoon. Be-
son. Owing to this fact, Mr. John- fore announcing his text, he told
son had the boys assemble according the bnvs of thp condltjon of t)lL> h[
to their school rooms and out a boy east_ They Ww that they
from each of these rooms in charge. jn nw<j. but not as much as Mr
When you see these boys drill it Armstrong told tht,ni. Eeve,y b '
does you good. In step, every foot at the schoo] wisnes to contribute
is carried to the front at the same somethingi no matts?r how small, to
tlme- these Suffering little on^s. After
Ever body connected with the insti- a short talk of the far east he spoke
tution is rejoiced over the fact that from the subject: "And he rose up,
Mr. D. B. Coltrane. a member of the left all and followed Him." Every
governing board and the treasurer body enjoyed the sermon.
has come out from a very painful, ■ ■ ■--
if. not serious operation, both sue- HONOR ROLL.
cesstully and in fine shape. At one
time the reports from his bedside "^"
were very alarming, but he'll soon
be himself again. Victor Hio-h, Robert Pool, Chas.
Mavo, James Honeycutt, Bertram
. The Seventh Cottage, which was Hartl Floyd Huggins, James Shipo
opened several weeks ago, has orga- Jack MeLclland, Swift Davis, Frank
nized a literary society. The mem- Xhomason, Fitzhugh Miller, Doyle
hers of this society decided to name jacksorii Hovle Faulkner, Murray
it in honor of Supt. Bog»r, for his Evans> Allie Williams, Roy Baker,
goodness and service to the Jackson William Gregory. John Wright,
Training School. They have started yVilliam Cook, William Hancock,
out to make ever boy in that cottage Marshal] Williams, Steve Mercer,
a speaker. Success is wished by all L(?e RogcrSi Hazen Ward, James
the other Literary Societies of the Ford, Millard Gilbert, George Ever
SchooL heart, Alvin Cook, Roy Caudill, Cle-
The lawn in front of 1st, 2nd and burn Hale, Raymond Scott and Paul
3rd were being worn down by the Green, Carlye Hardy,
boys plajing foot ball, basket ball ,,R„
and such games. Therefore Mr.
Boger had announced at the tree Magnus Wheeler, John Hughs,
that the cottage lines preparatory Claude Coley, David Unrierwoud,
to going into the cottages would be Walter Brockwell, Robt. F- rgnson,
formed in front of the school build- Ralph Freeland, Lambert Cave-
ing. It is a more central part of naugh, Albert Hill Arvel Absher,
the school grounds. The lines in Elbert Perdue Marion But! r, Dud-
going out to get in their proper ley Pangle, Vass Fields, Homer Co?-
sections, however, still go to the ington, Aubiey Weaver, Loyd Win-
tree, ner, Henry Reece, James Watts,
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Chas. Bishop, Sylvester Sims, Gar- pendents. He reasoned that the
land Banks, Albert Keever, Jake people had looked unmoved while the
Willatd, Dohme Manning, John Hill, kmg, the nobles and the priest had
Thomas Oglesby, Forrest Byers, teen led to the guillotine, and they
Murphy Jones, John Morrison. John were not likely to object if cats and
Kemp, Herbert Orr, Joseph Pope, dog were included in the general
Edger Sperling, Jack O'neil, Craw- slaughter.
ford Poplin, Robert Holland, John But he had guessed wrong. Their
Branch.jGharlie Jackson, waiter Mc- affection was deep and warm for the
Neil, G. Mercer. Avery Roberts, animals who had shared their rnea-
Herbert Apple, Connie Lowman, ger fare and who had repaid them
Charlie Lisk, Walter Taylor, Chas. with faithful atFection. A murmur
Rothrock.and Rufus Wivnn. of resentment at Santerre's edict
sweep like a wave over the land,
gathering force as it went. The
They Stayed people were in an ugly mood. The
jj7[n the troubled days that followed newspapers took up their cause and
che French Revolution, M. Santerre heaped scorching ridicule upon the
was Commandant cf the National commandant. Santerre found him-
Guard. He was a cold, stern man, self beaten; he withdrew the obnox-
and looked on all household pets ious decree, and the French peasant
with positive aversion. He felt that was left in undisturbed possession of
the time had come to rid the country the cat or dog that looked to him for
of these useless and expensive de- its supoorc— Exchange.
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The Congregationalist gives the following inci-
dent: "One day last winter (1907) a wealthy wo-
man spent forty thousand dollars on a dinner in
one of the swell hotels up town. While the do-
ings were going on inside, a policeman outside
was approached by a thinly clad woman with a
baby in her arms, who asked him for help. The
big cop looked at her baby and said in his gruff
voice: 'Why, your baby is dead.' With a shriek
the woman collapsed. The policeman sent her and
her dead baby to the station house in the patrol
wagon. The baby had starved to death." The
selfish and extravagant use of money is causing
that picture to be repeated in many places. Men
and women spend their money extravagantly for
pleasuse while, not far from them, are families in
destitute circumstances. Plenty of money for auto-
mobiles, fine clothing, travel, and pleasure; but
only a pitlance for those great general causes that
seek to relieve suffering and starvation; for the
advancement of agencies for the betterment of
conditions and manking; and for making the world
really better by having lived in it.
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le Upllf
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as sccond-elass matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1870.
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GOVERNOR MORRISON'S NEW CAMPAIGN.
Here and therein different quarters uf the state fun, and even criticism,
has been offered for Govenor Morrison's new campaign in which he seeks
to arouse the farmers to a greater production of food stuffs, by way of
more gardening, keeping cows and hogs. It is claimed that this is not a
new idea, that it has been exploited more than fifty years ago.
I,et us be sensible about this matter. All these claims may be true, and
are true; but the fact unquestionably exists that the people are not doing
as much of this home-providing as they should and would find reasonably
profitable. This writer is not commissioned to lefend Gov. Morrison, but
it does recognize in him a man of great ability and one with a courage to
tackle any job in which he believes and by which he feels that he can ac-
complish something. Tint we have had a Board of Agriculture arid local
and county organizations whose efforts have been devoted to this very thing,
is no reason why Governor Morrison, recognizing the need for a great im-
provement and increased licks, should not throw his power and that of his
great office behind this campaign.
In charge of this campaign he has placed John Paul Lucas, an expert
advertising man. Strength and success to him.
Fifty years ago this writer saw coming into a village daily, in the midst
of what may have been regarded a thrifty neighborhood, with good lands
and a good citizenship, on the average one big box of western side-meat.
Nearly every countryman, in coming from a store, had a strip of that aw-
ful stuff the West was cramming down the throats of our people. About
this time the Grange began to advocate keeping the corn-crib and the
"smo'.ehouse" at home; and in less than four years the people were rais-
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ing- their own corn and meat, and had some of each to "spare; and they are
■doing that very thing to this very day. Tnat was the direct result of agi-
tation, propaganda, reason. And those people came into their own; and
to-day precious little of this highly impregnated chemically seasoned stuff
finds its way into that section. Glory be!
Go to it, Governor Morrison, you are on the right track. And if you can
devise some means by which the management of the public schools may he
restored to the people at home, the rural folks will rise U|j to bless you.
in
ENCOURAGEMENTS.
The UPLIFT is beholden to Airs. 1). A. Garrison, of Gastonia, Cols.
Wood, of Asheboro, and Boyden, of Salisbury, and a sccre of others for
very encouraging endorsements during the past week. Out of these many
fine expressions of appreciation of the make-up and contents of THE Uplift,
there was just one slight discordant note and that 'came from a delightful
gentleman, who felt that his chief is misunderstood. Oh, no; when great
causes that affect very vita'ly the interests of the people are being unwisely
handled or not handled at all, the great thing itself and not the vanity of
or pride of opinion of the individual is the object and subject of the con-
sideration. There are some folks so self-centered that their purpose is to
magnify themselves rather than their jobs --but it has always been thus,
-and will continue so as long as man is human.
DR. C. H. WILEY IN 1855
Dr. C. H. Wiley, the first superintendent of the Common Schools of this
state, said in, 1855, what has been said w;th more or less truth every de-
•cade since, that "the progress of general education in North Carolina, for
■the last few years, every thing considered, has been very remarkable, and
almost without a parallel."
This is taken from the "preliminary remarks" in the Third North Caro-
lina Reader. And it continues: According to the Census of 1840, there
were then in the state 2 colleges, 141 accademies and grammar-schools, and
■632 primary schools of all kinds. There were at school in colleges, 158
.scholars; in academies 4,398; in primary schools, 14,937; in all 19,493
.scholars."
Making reference to the statistics of a period fifteen years later Dr.
A\iley says: "About this time the common-schools ystem went into opera-
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lion liiicl now, while the population has increased but little, our education-
al statistics are as follows: We have five colleges", and one other in progress;
7 female colleges, and several others in progress; at least 200 academies
and grammer-schools, and about 3,000 primary scho >ls." This in itself,
is a wonderful growth at a period when the so-called average citizen
was nor a friend of public education, feeling that this thin? we call educa-
tion belongs to a special and favored class.
From the same source, Dr. Wiley, in 1855, writes "the common schools
are becoming more an 1 m ire effi :i vat --the c >urse of stu lies in them is be-
coming more thorough, and the standard (if teachers is- being elevated,
while the public are learning more and more to respect and appreciate
this great system." That was written sixty-seven yeais ago, an 1 sounds very
much like whac we lead in a private litter.a fe.v days ago'in speaking of
the present day schools.
THEGORGAS MEMORIAL
The North Carolina schools are reciuested by State Supt. Brooks to ob-
serve March 17th as the Gorgas Memorial Day. Dr. Gorgas is remember-
ed as "Physician to the World," for through him and his superb direction
yellow fever and malaria were eliminated in Panama and Cuba. At Tus-
caloosa, Alabama, there is to be fostered a school as a memorial to Dr.
Gorgas and specially for the training of sanitary engineers and public
nurses to assist county health organizations. Dr. Brooks in his statement
recognizes the importance of the county health organizations and their
work, and he very easily and wisely could have advised his county boards
to lend financial aid to heroic efforts of maintaining the all-time Health
nurses, as is being done in Wake and other counties in accordance with his
printed instructions in the School-law of 1919, page 117, paragraph 11.
In his requests to the school supcrintendts to honor the memory of the
late General William Crawford Gorgas, Dr. Brooks further says:
"A program consisting of articles by students of the schools on Gen-
eral Gorgas' work in eliminating yellow fever and malaria in Cuba and
Panama, the growth of preventive medicine, health and sanitation in
the State of North Carolina, emphasising the great saving in lives ef-
fected by the State Health Depertment; the plan of the Gorgas memori-
al institute, both in the field of research at Panama and the School of
Sanitation at Tuscaloosa, and the benefits which will accrue by train-
ing men and women to become health officers, sanitary engineers and
inspectors, and public health nurses for tne county health organiza-
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tions. This will be the particular function of the Gorgas School of
Sanitation— will be presented on Gorgas Memorial Day.
The contest which Dr. Campbell, of Norwood, made against Congress,
man Dough ton for his seat in Congress, has been decided unanimously by
the committee in favor of Mr. Doughton. Thus ends a little excitement in
which the people of the 8th district did not take on their usually interest I
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The exhibition of a leadership that brings about such educational results'
as that coming out from a rural section of Person County, told of on
another pnge, ought to be an inspiration to other to make a move, a trial-
it should be at least somewhat awakening.
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That's mighty interesting and instructive reading that Mr. Clark places!
before us this week under the title, "Fitness for jury service."
THE DOG AND 1 HE SHADOW.
It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carry-
ing it home in his mouth to eat in peace. Now on his way home
he had to cross a plank lving across a running brook. As he cross-
ed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water
beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat,
he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the
shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat
fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen more.
"BEWARE LUST YOU LOOSE THE SUBSTANCE BY GRASPING
AT THE SHADOW."
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Losing Self In Service
It is a good sign when we become so absorbed in what we are trying to
do to help others that we forget all about our own petty desires. A rich bank-
er discovered that other men were getting a lot of pleasure out of giving real
money to help people less fortunate than themselves. He could not fathom
the mystery of it for he had always he was giving his money to assise
looked on keeping money and watch- where there was real need, his own
ingitgrow as the highest type of joy- wealth was not decreasing. Besides
getting. But, as the others persisted there came to him a rich discovery
and thrived under their generous that after all the real pleasures for
giving, he decided to put it to the life are not in the abundance of the
test. He helped a struggling mission things which he possessed, but in the
pay off its mortgage and then he ar- lives he had touched with brightness
ranged to have a -crippled newsboy and uplift. In losing his life for the
sent to a specialist to be cured. The service of others he was truly finding
banker forgot about his selfish de- it, and when he realized the richness
signson making money when he sunk of his find he saw that what his old
himself into the service of a needy life had hugged as a source of corn-
church and a needy boy. That fort could not be compared with the
was losing self in the right way. happinessof his new life of service.
While he was doing for others his To lose self in service is not a hard-
own work was not neglected. While ship; it is a privilege.— Selected
"The friends we gain by currying favor we have to hold by the same
uethod."
Unmeasured Compensations
(Forward)
A young man who, upon graduating from the university, had taken a
professorship in a small Christian college, was twitted by his brother, a
prosperous business man, upon the meager salary he was receiving.
"It is a shame, Jim," he declared, "here you are with your university
and poastgraduate degrees, working life values in dollars and cents. But
at a starvation salary, hardly able to I know that there are some that
make ends meet, while I, who have can't be measured that way." Then
nothing but a highschool education he added enthusiasically: "I would
and a course in a business college, not give up my job for all the bank
could buy and sell you a dozen accounts in the world! You know
times over. It dosen't look right." how devoted I have bean to astron-
"It doesn't, Charley," affirmed omy ever since we were boys in high
the professor, "if you measure all school together. Now, when I sit
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with my eye to the telescope, as I
do hour af cer hour, and look into
the awful sky gulfs that yawn ab ut
me, or catch a silver fragment of
some far-off planet within its field,
I really live. I couldn't be happy
anywhere else. There are compen-
sations in the work 1 care for that
no money could buy."
The world is so accustomed to
measuring values by monetary
standards or in terms of dollar? and
cents that it finds itself incapable of
arriving at a proper conception of
values in any other way.
But there are values of this kind.
The scientific man, busy in h's labor-
atory, watching with bated breath
the outcome of his latest experiment,
knows it. The artist, working with
feverish enthusiam at the picture
before him till his whole soul is car-
ried away with the beauty of the
dream he sees dawning upon the
canvas, knows it. There are men in
every community who have learned
to appraise life values in some other
way than in terms of dollars and
cents. Moreover, they enrich their
communities in their own way, quite
as match as does he whose standard
is purely monetary.
There are Christians who need to
take this lesson to heart. What if
some of us have sacrificed our liopj
of more material gain for some.
thin.tr less material, and therefore
something considered by the world
less practical? We know better!
We know that he who lives to teach
others how to live is not throwing
his own life away. We know
that luve and truth and gen-
erosity and sympathy anil for-
giveness are real things, just as real
as are bank accounts and stocks and
bonds and fine houses and rich ap-
parel. Indeed, they will endure
after bank accounts and line homes
have crumbled and disappeared for-
ever.
It must have been these peculiar
rewards and compensations that (he
apostle Paul had in mind when he
wrote of "Things eye saw nor, ar.d
ear heard not.
And which entered not into the
heart of man.
Whatsoever things God prepared
for them that love him."
He was not speaking of the re-
wards of Heaven, as many imagine,
when he said this; he was speaking
of the blessings that may be found
right here and now by all who will
take Christ at His word and enter
fully and deeply into that life He
offers to us.
The teacher was talking of Niagara Falls. "The falls are slowly wear-
ing back toward Buffalo, and in the course of some two hundred thousand
years they will wash away Erie."
One of the girls in the classroom began to cry and the teacher askei
what the trouble was.
"Oh," wa.iled the girl, "my sister lives in Erie!"
'
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Losing Self In Service
It is a good sign when we become so absorbed in what we are trying to
do to help others that we forget all about uur own petty desires. A rich bank-
er discovered that other men were getting a lot of pleasure out of giving real
money to help people less fortunate than themselves. He could not fathom
the mystery of it for he had always he was giving his money to assist
looked on keeping money and watch- where there was real need, his own
ing it grow as the highest type of joy- wealth was not decreasing. Besides
getting. But, as the others persisted there came to him a rich discovery
and thrived und^r their generous that after all the real pleasures for
giving, he decided to put it to the life are not in the abundance of the
test. He helped a struggling mission things which he possessed, but in the
pay off its mortgage and then he ar- lives he had touched with brightness
ranged to have a crippled newsboy and uplift. In losing his life for the
sent to a specialist to be cured. The service of others he was truly finding
banker forgot about his selfish de- it. and when he realized the richness
signson making money when he sunk of his find he saw that what his old
himself into the service of a needy life had hugged as a source of com-
church and a needy boy. That fort could not be compared with the
was losing self in the right way. happinessof hisnewlife of service.
While he was doing for others his To lose self in service is not a hard-
own work was not neglected. While ship; it is a privilege.— Selected
"The friends we gain by currying favor we have to hold by the same
method."
Unmeasured Compensations
(Forward)
A. young man who, upon graduating from the university, had taken a
professorship in a small Christian college, was twitted by his brother, a
prosperous business man, upon the meager salary he was receiving.
"It is a shame, Jim," he declared, "here you are with your university
and poastgraduate degrees, working life values in dollars and cents. But
at a starvation salary, hardly able to I know that there are some that
make ends meet, while I, who have can't be measured that way." Then
nothing but a highschool education he added enthusiasically: "I would
and a course in a business college, not give up my job for all the bank
could buy and sell you a dozen accounts in the world! You know
times over. It dosen't look right." how devoted I have bean to astron-
'It doesn't, Charley," affirmed omy ever since we were boys in high
the professor, "if you measure all school together. Now, when I sit
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with my eye to the telescope, as I some of us have sacrificed our hope
do hour after hour, and look into of more material gain for some.
the awful sky gulfs that yawn abjut thing less material, and therefore |
me, or catch a silver fragment of something considered by the world
some far-off planet within its field, less practical? We know better! |
I really live. I couldn't be happy We know that he who lives to teach
anywhere else. There are compen- others how to live is not throwing
sations in the work 1 care for that his own life away. We know
no money could buy." that love and truth ami gen-
The world is so accustomed to erosity and sympathy and for.
measuring values by monetary giveness are real things, just as real
standards or in terms of dollar? and as are bank accounts and stocks and
cents ttiat ir finds itself incapable of bonds and tine houses and rich an-
arriving at a proper conception of pare). Indeed, they will endure
values in any other way. after bank accounts and fine homes
But there are values of this kind, have crumbled and disappeared for-
The scientific man, husy in h's labor- ever.
atory, watching with bated breath It must have been these peculiar
the outcome of his latest experiment, rewards and compensations that the
knows it. The artist, working with apostle Paul had in mind when he
feverish enthusiam at the picture wrote of "Things eye saw nor, and
before him till his whole soul is car- ear heard not.
ried away with the beauty of the And which entered not into the I
dream he sees dawning upon the heart of man.
canvas, knows it. There are men in Whatsoever things God prepared '
every community who have learned for them that love him."
to appraise life values in some other He was not speaking of the re-
way than in terms of dollars and wards of Heaven, as many imagine,
cents. Moreover, they enrich their when he said this; he was speaking
communities in their own vray, quite of the blessings that may be four.d
as irwuch as does he whose standard right here and now by all who will
is purely monetary. take Christ at His word and enter
There are Christians who need to fully and deeply into that life He
take this lesson to heart. What if offers to us.
t i
The teacher was talking of Niagara Falls. "The falls are slowly wear-
ing hack toward Buffalo, and in the course of some two hundred thousand
years they will wash away Erie."
One of the girls in the classroom hegan to cry and the teacher asked
what the trouble was.
"Oh," wailed the girl, "my sister lives in Erie!"
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North Carolina History And Romance.
Recently an hour was spent in glancing through the old North Carolina
Header, III, prepared by Dr. Wiley, the father of the Common Schools in
North Carolina, the said readers having been issued in 1851. A copy of
this must interesting reader was handed us by Mr. Watt Barringer, a
unique and at the same time a most
excellent citizen of Cabarrus county.
That was a delightful hour, and the
belief could not be overcome that
were our children given more read-
ing matter pitched on subjects which
this North Carolina Reader re-
cognizes and honors they would be-
come not only better citizens but
decitlely mure patriotic North Caro-
linians.
Our readers will recall that Will-
iam Dtummond was the first Gover-
nor of North Carolina, or to be ex-
act "the governor of the county of
Albemarle in th2 provience of Caro-
lina." If we read aright the little
that is known of Governor Drum-
nrjnd, he had much of the spirit of
Patrick Henry and as such could
not long fellowship with Sir Will-
iam Berkely, who appointed him
governor in April 1G63.
Gov. Drummond's life had a
tragic closing. He had much to do
with what is termed in history as
"Bacon's Rebellion." After the
close of that rebellion, Gov. Drum-
mond was apprehended and brought'
before Berkely, "who, in the lan-
guage of lacerated pride, insultingly
bade him weicome death." Dium-
mond proudly avowed the part he
Played in that rebellion; and he was
tried at one o'clock on the twentieth
of May, 1679 (one hundred and four
years prior to that other important
-Qth) and hang at four o'clock on
the same day. "J'hus, this brave
Rnd extraordinary man breathed his
last in mid-air suspended."
But his name is perpetuated by a
beautiful lake in the Dismal Swamp,
Its wild beauty makts it a place of
intense interest, this Drummond
Lake. There is no more exciting
trip to be taken than through this
Lake in the springtime. It is said
that tc pass through this lake one
must be ever on the alert to dodge
limbs encircled with all kinds of
snakes, which, relied up and wound
about in coils, in affection or in dead-
ly combat, often drop down into a
passing boat. 'I he lake used to be
a great courting resort but since
the snakes and other man despising
creatures have so largely increased
the courting couples have changed
t:> other resorts and to other means.
But Lake Drummond remains, for
all time, the reminder of the first
governor of Carolina.
Quoting from this old North Caro-
lina Reader, "it is the same roman-
tic lakelet which forms the theme
of one of Moore's most chaste and
affecting poems, which we subjoin.
The subject of the poem is as follow-
ers: 1 hoy tell of a young man who
lost his mind on the death of a girl
he loved, and who, suddenly disap-
pearing from his friends, was never
heard of afterwards. As he had
frequently said, in his ravings, that
she was not dead, but going to the
Dismal Swamp, it is supposed he
had wandered into that dreary wil-
derness, and had died of hunger,1 or
been lost in seme of its dreadful
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morasses. . "Oh! when shall I see the dusky,.
They marie her a grave too cold and AJ ^ wh;tu canoe Qf my ^^ r,
damp o ' i
For a soul so warm and true; He saw the lake, a meteor bright r
And she's gone to the Lake of the Quick over its surface play 'd- -,.
Dismal Swamp, "Welcome/' he said, "my dear one's s
Where all night long, by a fire-fly light!" pj
1 ain p, ^-t,c' the dim shore echoed, for many |
She paddled her white canoe. a night,
The name of the death- cold maid! '•
And her fire- fly lamp I soon sha
see,
Till he hollowe'd a boat of the birch-
And her paddle I soon shall hear; en-bark.
Long and loving our life shall be, Which carried him off from shore;
And I'll hide the maid in a cypress- For he followed the meteor spark:
tree, The wind was high and the cloud.;
When the footstep of death is were darn,
near. And the boat return'd no more.
Away to the Dismal Swamp he But oft, from the Indian hunter's
speeds— camp.
His path was rugged and sore, This lover and maid so true
Through tangled juniper, beds of Are seen, at the hour of midnight
reeds, damp
Through many a fen, where the scr- To cross the 'ake with a fire-fly lamp,
pent feeds, And paddle their white canoe!
And man never trod before.
, . , , , , , Continuing, this interesting o!d
And when on the earth he sank to Raadpr records ^ ■•Ce]ebratedai
,, , p; ,. ,.,-, is this clear lake by this heart-affect-
If slumber his eyelids knew, . association, it is soubly so in re-
He lay where the deadly vine doth {aining {he honor(?d nam? rf ^
,. v ,-ii Carolina's first governor. A polished
Its venomous tear, and night v steep ■ ... •,, ,, , .;„ f„_.
rr, a . ... ... . . , mirror, it will ever reflect his fame
the flesh with blistering dew. • , • , . .. , , ,„„„,
fe in rays as bright as the dew-drops
And neai him the she-walf stirr'd that weep on its own crystal bosom;
the brake, and long after, quarto and folio shall
And the copper-snake breated in have been cankered by the consura-
his ear, ing woim, will that still water mur-
Till he starting cried, from his dream mur gentle cadence in echo to the
awake, association of the past."
Take care that the face which looks out from your mirror in the morning
is a pleasant face. You may not see it again all day, hut others will.'— Fire-
light.
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11
Technically Trained vs Nondescript.
BY C. W. HtJNT
Jfondcseript means a, thing that no name quite describes. We find nonde-
script fruit, vegetables, grain and many other things, and in each easo it means
it is away below the standard. This definition we finally apply it to men,
and occasionally to boys — nondescripts able to do several things, but do
none very well, and excel nowhere. These conditions come about, in the human
family, most generally, from two main causes, namely: lack of ability of par-
ents to provide an occupation for a boy, either by carelessness or by making
the ability to specify and know why;
and be able to tell why this or that
piece of timber must be of a given
size to hold a given load. , How much
a given structure will hold up. The
ability to take down and put up a
machine and tell what each part is
for, how it acts and why. And what
applies to the mechanical world ap-
him a " Jaek-at-all-trades, good-at—
none." A few boys are bom delin-
quents, sorry by nature, but they are
rare, and most of them can be made
men if properly treated, and made in-
terested in something real. In fact
most boys of sound mind at some time,
want an occupation. Boys dream as
veil as men, and if allowed to choose
what they like to do, with proper help plies to the natural. If a boy expects
and encouragement will become pro-
ficient.
The writer recalls two boys that
have come near to maturity that are
full second class nondescripts. They
do nothing well, but can work some at
many things; and I would lay this
to the lack of care and interest on the
part of father and mother. They have
been allowed to quit any work 'under-
taken at will, and one of their happi-
est times is when tied up with a
"Wild Bill" novel. Nondescripts—
we find them all too often.
Aside from character that can
stand the pitfalls that are gaping
wide for every boy who reaches his
teens, there is nothing equal to
technical training to cause him to
stand up strong. Do you understand
the real meaning of that term ? Tech-
nical training means the ability to
draw a plan of r* house, a mill, a
bridge and build one by that drawing;
to till the soil it is equally important
that he have the ability to know soil
and what makes it produce. The
action of moisture and heat, ami
many other important technical things
if lie would he proficient and come
to the front.
Many and many a man has failed
to score distinction for the lack of
technical training. He is a good
fellow, he knows much, but he never
puts all his power in any one thing,
hence he lacks something and never
makes what the world calls a success.
The time at which we should take
up the work of a life depends upon
just two tilings: If we are able to
get a college education, the selection
can safely he deferred. It is educa-
tion that makes leaders. One can
select his life work as he goes
through college and study to it, or he
may wait; for education broadens
ones scope so much that an early
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selection might seem small to the that is they went to ashop or a h,:.
ambition that comes with knowledge. tory to learn that work- for his keep,
If on the other hand we know that and for a term of years. Most of
we cannot have the college training them made men. When this writer
(1 wish all boys could) as a founda- first knew Salem, the twin of Wins-
tion, then the sooner, in reason, we ton, which was settled by what was
select our vocation the better. called Dutch, most of the boys were
Fortuntely those who know have apprentices or sons of apprentices,
written books, from which we may and a finer citizenship few towns
know much of whr.t the college man ever had. These boys were happy;
gets, ami one may, at least, become their surroundings were pure, and they j
highly proficient in his work without studied as well as worked. In short
the training that he would get at made men, real men whom the cheap
college, and be a reivl expert in his "passing show'' did not appeal to. j
line. If I had to select just one thin;;, and
There is little reason for a boy's not only one thing I could do for Mic few
having a trained vocation it he will years yet allotted me here, for lb
only try. In fact the boy who wants good of humanity, I feel that I would
it bad enough can work his way put in the balance my time lielpicgj
through college, and be all the better boys to get an education; and placing
for it . Many leaders of the nation them in possessor! of an occupation
have done that. The world will bow to that would support them in good
ability in all places. citizenship, and teaeh them that the
For hundreds of years before our man who works is happy, is content,
modern times, all the middle class and that "contenment is a pearl of
boys, not rural, were apprenticed, that great price.''
A teacher in the fourth grade recently asked the class in geography,
"It'hat is the use of the sun?" A little hoy whose mother was a washer-
woman impatiently waved his little arm. The teacher, noting his anxiety
to answer, said, "George, what is it?" "To dry clothes," was the reply.
How Two North Carolina Boys Prospered in Texas,
Except for the tine authority behind this story, how two Person county hoys
went west fifteen years ago and established 'hemsclvcs it would be askir?tM
much of a fellow from Missouri to nut credence in it
This stoi-y that comes out from Temple, a Texas town with less than one t lion-
sand inhabitants, concerns two brothers Bob and Otho Mooney, who were bora
and reared in Person c unity, North of Roxborb , passes the interesting
Carolina. It is a story of pluck, en- story along, manifesting a commend-
ergy, faith in themselves and faith in able pride in the stuff they used is
the possibilities that the world offers his "diggins" in making successfal
to industry and honesty. Mr. Xoell, men.
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13
]!ul rend what conies out from tee
present home-place of the Jfoonev
hoys :
"Yon can buy a spool of thread, ;>
suit of clothes, lumber to build a
house — or a carload of jackrabbits —
at the biggest small town store in
America. The store is the B. & 0.
Casb Store, owned by Bob and Otlio
Jlooney of Temple, who took in over
their counters here' in 1021 the neat
sum of $1,500,000.00.
And this week, to celebrate the cli-
max of one of tlie most believable
merchandising romances in the his-
tory of the southwest, the. Jlooney
brothers are to open as up-to-date
store as any to be found in Oklahoma
City, Dallas, Kansas City or other
large city.
New Building Large.
The new building' has a frontage of
ll(j feet. It is constructed of rein-
forced concrete, and is furnished with
specially-built showcases a,nd equip-
ment. It also boasts of a pneumatic
cash-carrying system, which the manu-
facturer declares is equal to any sys-
tem to be found in the United States.
The building and fixtures cost ap-
proximately $250,000.
The latest addition to the B. & O.
store makes the establishment now
the occupant of an entire city block.
It is said to cover more ground than
any other mercantile establishment in
the southwest.
There is inspiration a plenty in the
story how the two Jlooney brothers
have built this huge establishment in
the short space of fifteen years. It
was in 1007 that the Jlooney brothers
came to Temple, looking for an op-
portunity to go into business. They
became acquainted with the owner of a
small grocery store, who offered to 'sell
to them. The brothers, however, had
no money, but eventually they per-
suaded the owner to sell to them on
credit. The former owner go; his-
money out of the business by adopting;
the simple expedient of taking the con-
tents of the cash register every night
until he had received the purchase
price of $1,300. Then he disappeared.
Business is Varied.
At this time Temple had only about
500 inhabitants. Today it has slightly
less than 1,000, yet from the humble
start of fifteen years ago, the Jlooneys
have developed a business which ha3
brought them nation-wide advertising.
And 75 percent of this business is
drawn from a radius of less than 100>
miles. The remaining 25 percent rep-
resents mail orders for the B. & O.
Cash store has regular customers in
almost every state in the Union and
in Alaska, Cuba ami other far-away
lands as well.
To give an idea of the scope of
the institution, it may be cited that
the B. & O. store had sold complete
furnishings for more tha.n 100 hotels
in the last year — beds, rugs, china,
cutlery, linen furniture and every-
thing. One of the largest hotels in'
Oklahoma City bought its entire equip-
ment in Temple.
Jackrabbits Ordered.
Only a short time ago an order was
received from Pennsylvania for a car-
load of jackrabbits. The order speci-
fied that each rr«bbit must be shot
neatly through the head, frozen and
placed in a refrigerator car. The next
day saw hunters armed with rifles
out on the prairies near Temple on
the lookout for "lack." The B. & 0.
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stores, like the Royal Northwest item of its purchases from neighbor-
Mounted Police, "always makes ing farmers. Tt buys and has ware-
' good." houses to store produce, hides, wool
NTot only dues the store sell sup- and fur, as well as other kinds of
plies in immense quantities, but it is a farm products. And it has sold as
large buyer as well. During the last many as four carloads of furniture in
year the Moouey brothers bought lit- one week,
teen carloads of pecans as one small
Mark Twain, whose real name, as you all know, was Samuel Clemens,
<, when a hoy went to school in Hannibal, Mo. "The schoolmaster once set
the class to writing a. composition on 'The result of laziness.' At the end
of the hour young Clemens handed in as his composition a blank slate."
m-
con-
"It's easy enough to go running smooth, but a smile in the time of
trouble is hke sunshine after rain: always welcome and helpful."
GOVERNOR BEGINS HIS CAMPAIGN
A definite start is being made this week in the work of putting over Gover-
nor Cameron Morrison's "Live at Home" campaign, John Paul Lucas of Char-
lotte, who has been secured to organize and direct the Campaign, has opened
an office in the State Department Annex, and the preliminary work is already
under way. The work in prospect is not new to Mr. Lucas, who had active
direction of the Food Production and Conservation Campaign in Xorth Caro-
lina during the war, first with the year supply of pork will be advocated.
State Food Commission, and later The new movement has the whole
with the United States Fund Adminis- hearted hacking not only of the de-
tration, e,nd who is "loaned" to' the partment of Agriculture and the State
state for this particular work by the College of Agriculture and Engineer-
Southern Public Utilities Company for ing, but also of the Department of
which lie is advertising and publicity Education, the State Hoard of Health
manager. an,l other agencies of the state govern-
Duriiig (lie Campaign emphasis will . ment.
be laid not upon the production of The campaign which is beii
food supplies for the market, but auguratod will lie intensively
upon the production by every fa.mily dinted and will cover a period of
of food and feed supplies sufficient eight to ten weeks. The organiza-
to supply its own establishment, tion to be built up will reach into
More and better gardens, more pool- every township of every count', in the
try, one or more cows for each family, state,
and sufficient hogs to furnish an all
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Nol Satisfied With Simply Drawing Salary And Breath
B/ way of brother Noel! and his valuable paper, The Roxboro Courier,
there comes to The Uplift the story of real leadership by a man, appreci-
ating' the great task of giving a square deal to the rural people who most
need it, and who sincerely desires to be worthy of his salary and the con-
fidence of those ivho employ him, is not satisfied, after securing the posi-
tion of honor, trust and far-reaching importance, to merely draw his sal-
ary and his breath. Beam has done, is that it acts like a
Way up in the Northern part of seed-corn. It multiplies. By and
the state, out in the county of Ber- by other sections will awaken to
son, far away from the countv-seat, their possibilities and abilities and
Roxboro, comes a glorious story proceed to accept the challenge,
where a wide-awake man and an im- But this requires a leader, a man of
portant job met and accomplished earnest conviction who holds a posi-
something worthwhile for the pres- tion clad with some authority. That
ent generation and many yet un- puts pep in it.
born. Rev. J. A. Beam, the county Some weeks ago meeting a man of
superintendent, having refused to be authority, lounging on a street cor-
hobbled by an unnatural, crazy-kind ner and. recognizing that he headed
of concoction of a school-law that a school system of a county that had
has been saddled upon the state (and made absolutely no progress in eight
for which a commission by the late years and which had made -no con-
Gen2ral Assembly has been appointed certed action to attempt improve-
to investigate and propose a re- ment, but just simply mechanically
lief and a remedy) having declined and clerically to function, what ho
to sit practically idly by the schools thought of the great work Brof.
that were not functioning as they Coon had done in Wilson county in
should, started out to do something reducing more than fifty districts to
inspite of the hanriicaps. sixteen, had built attractive and sub-
What the Rev. Beam accomplish- stantiai buildings with modern con-
ed in a rural seetbn of Benson coun- veniences, each school provided with
ty can be accomplished in a section from five to ten teachers to suit the
or two in every county of North grades, conveyed the children to and
Carolina if men, charged with the fro, had increased the average at-
sacred duties of providing adequate tendance until the smallest possible
educational facilities for the children, number was absent from school, and
have a heart and a real desire to go had put hope into the hearts of the
to it. The cry that there "is no rural folks. This is the answer of
money'- is a frazzled excuse and has that high school official: "I haven't
teen not only overworked but is yet made up my mind as to the
oftentimes used as an explanation practicability of that programme?-'
for a failure to attempt to do any- In thii day when people are cry-
thing because of the lack of a vital ing for an equal chance, for a square
interest in and knowledge of the deal, for leadership, for justice, for
cause. The beauty about what Supt. their rights, the high official charged
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with leadership and paid a salary
and perquisites reaching beyond
three thousand dollars, when eight
years ago. his superior without as-
sistance, did twice as much work and
did it promptly and efficiently tot-
half of the present salary and never
"went to sleep" on his job, to confess
that he "had not made up his mind"
as to the practicability of a pro-
gramme that contemplated and as-
sured a great stride in the educa-
tional cause of a county (hat is
horribly behind similar counties in
area, population and wealth, was not
only stunning but fully explained
the do-nothing and wastful admini-
stration of the most vital agency in
behalf of any rural people--- the
means of adequate educational ad-
vantages.
But Superintendent Beam, of Per-
son county, "had made up his mind."
Out there from Roxboro was a ter-
ritory of sixty square miles without
sufficient and adequate educational
facilities, being inflicted with little
make-shifts of one-room houses,
directed by "certified" teachers us-
ing them as a stepping stone for
some-thing else or marrying. The
condition was intolerable. The
leadership of this wide-awake super-
intendent went among the people,
mapped out a programme, worked
up the interest of local influences
and the endorsement of his ambiti-
ous plans. Here is the story of that
beautiful school building shown in
this issue, which answers to the name
of "Bethel Hill Graded School," lo-
cated in Person county, considerable
distance from Roxboro and some
distance fron a small village: "Mr.
Moses S. Jones, now gone to his re-
ward, was the largest contributor,
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giving about $18,000 and the other wisely, but Editor Noel writing1, says:
citizens contributing fifteen thous- "Our efficient County Superinten-
and dollars. They borrowed $17,000, dent, Rev. J. A. Bean, was hugely
note endorsed by the citizens. The instrumental in securing the build-
building cost $50,000. The land inir, for it was largely due to his un-
was given." A friend writes tint tiring efforts and influence over the
"the building is stucco, and is one late Moses S. Jones, that the build-
of the best high school buildings I ing has its existence.-' And every
know of situated in the country. It county that has a broad-minded,
has all modern conveniences --water, alert and active superintendent like
light and sanitary closets." Person, is making substantial pro-
Prof. A. C. Gentry is principal, gress educationally, in spite of the
and is assisted by six other teachers handicaps, real and imaginary,
in the conduct of the school. The And Bethel Hill is not the only
Building Committee vas composed school problem solved to the pleasure
of C. T. Hall, C. A. Hall and Dr. and happiness of a rural beople, in
J. H. Merrit. The trustees are: R. in Person county, but in the very
D. Baily, S P. Gentry and C. T. same county other sensible solutions
Hall. All these men have builded are going on.
"What do you think! Dey got cherries an* strawberries an' all kinds of
fruit covered wicl candy. What kind shall I get, Rastus?"
"G-et me a chocolate-coated watennellon. " — Ladies' Home JournaL
Romance Lives Again
(Greensboro News)
It dosen't matter that their names are not John Smith and his young wife,
Mary Smith. You wouldn't want to know their names. The only thing
that matters is that they are together again and that out of the wreck of
their married life there now rises the promise of a new structure.
The story belongs to Adjutant The beginning was different. It
Henderson, of the Salvation army, was in Baltimore. Maybe he was at
and to Mrs. Henderson, because the fault. Maybe it was she. It is pos-
gods of romance, looking over all sible that both were to blame
the world, picked these two on whom (there's no blame left in either now),
to shower the golden prize. Many They were young; they had not been
things come to a Salvation srmy married more than five months.
adjutant and his wife, and the things There was some financial difficulty,
that lies behind their patient eyes 'limes were hard and work was
would sometimes make other p;o- scarce and the pay was none to
pie's eyes almost pop out of their good. It uas a difficult situation
heads. and it led naturally to discontent.
"It happened right in our home." Mary Smith, bride of five months,
the adjutant said. "I'm glad of thought she could solve it by goin?
that." to work heiself. John entered no
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19
■abjection. So she went to work,
made a little money, felt the confi-
dence of earned money in her pock-
et, grew more sure- -and then one
day John came home to find her
gone— cleared out, left, deserted, the
home a blank, the whole world a
blank.
What he went through it is not
necessary here to record. It was
not pleasant. He searched Balti-
more, Washington, Philadelphia, and
New York. He went through it all
for weeks; and he ended, where
many things end and many more be-
gin, at the Salvation army.
Neither is it necessary to dig into
the record of her wanderings, nor to
question too closely. If it was hard
for him, it was hard for her. Life
jumped up and grabbed her and
shock her. But life didn't shake
anything essential out of her, it was
too deeply rooted.
Through this and that, through
many things, she came at last to
Greensboro, a far cry from Haiti-
more, a far cry from New York,
where she had been. To Mrs. Hen-
derson she came at the Salvation
army headquarters, and here at last
a tie was knit between Mary Smith,
wife, and John Snith, husband.
Alary was with the Salvation army
in Greensboro; John with the Salva-
tion army in New York
'What I want is away to make
$20 quick," she told Mrs. Henderson.
Why'.' Because I want railroad fare
t^ get back to my husband and to
get. to him quick. I'm through with
being away from him."
it's a long way from Greensboro
to New York, but the eyes of the
Salvation army laugh at miles. The
Missing Persons' department listen-
ed to John Smith in New York, and
presently the word was dancing back
and forth that if John Smith came
to Greensboro he might find his wife
again.
If he would come! He came with
a rush, he shot down out of the
north as fast as trains could carry
him, and Tuesday afternoon when
Southern train No. 35 reached
Greensbcro, John Sm<th jumped off
and asked the nearest man how to
get to the Salvation army.
Adjutant and Mrs. Henderson and
Mary Smith were eating supper.
The doorbell rang and the adjutant
went to answer it. "I'm looking
for Mrs. Mary Smith," said the
young man. "Is she here?"
The adjutant took him by the
arm, led him into a room, talked to
him quietly for a while, and left him
there. Walking back into the din-
ing room, he said to Mrs. Mary
Smith:
"There's a young man in the other
room. It's— it's your husband."
Mary Smith almost knocked over
the supper table getting out of her
chair- She raced out of the room,
down the hall, into the other room,
and swept up to her husband with
her love written all over her fa^a
triumphant once more.
"I saw them get together and then
I left," the adjutant said. "That's
the story. Think you can write
something about it?
"And you might say something
about this, too, because I think it's
interesting. John Smith was con-
verted in New York last Sunday at
a Salvation army meeting, and that
same day in Greensboro at another
Salvation army meeting his wife was
converted too. It looks as though
Somebody was running things,
dosen't it?"
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Miss Wallace on "Decoration."
Yesterday morning at the court bouse, says the Greensboro News the
home economics department of the Women's club had the rare privilege u{
listening to Miss Maud Wallace, assistant home demonstration agent, give
a most interesting and instructive talk on "Interior Decoiation.
Miss Wallace began by saying that warned the women against the high.
the ideal home is a background for ly decorated wall papers and rugs,
culture, a refinement and education, advising them to g^t the high lights
and that there are three things that in the room by the use of draperies,
must be taken into consideration at bright lamp shades, pillows, vases,
the outset. Mrst, physical comfort; etc.
second, cleanliness and sanitation; Above everything, she urged that
and, third expense. The home should, cheap imitations be avoided. "If
after these tilings have b?en observ- you can't buy a real Wilton velvet
ed, express the personality of the rug, then get a rag or fibre rug."
owner. Dr. Parsons, an anthority Miss Wallace insisted, the same prin-
on interior decoration. say» that ciple applying throughout the house.
"a room or house more impressive One of the principles of interior
than the hostess is impertinent," and decoration most often abused is in
Miss Wallace urged that the entire keeping a room balanced and .Miss
house should subservient to the home Wallace mad it very clear to her
maker, and should be treated 'as a listeners that there is a difference in
unit, not each room separately. real balance and hidden balance, but
She then took up the ideal house, that both serve their, purpose in the
room by room, telling the funda- fitting out of a room. She showed
mental uses of the rooms, and the pictures illustrating her meaning,
manner in which they should be fur- She closed h^r talk with the state-
nished. For instance, the living room ment that there are just as many
being the place where the most time expensive things that are in bad
is spent, should above everything be taste as theie are cheap things, and
comfortable, with ea-y chairs and just as many cheap things in good
shaded lights for reading. taste as expensive ones, and urged
In taking up walls, she told of the that much care and thought be giv-
various effects of colors, and stated en to the furnishing of the home, for
that when a large area is to be treat- it is ther? that the fu'ure citizenship
ed the neutral tints are best. She of the world is molded.
"There is this about the tax burdens: a man can go staggering through
life now without being accused of being drunk." — Asheville Citizen.
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FITNESS FOR JURY SERVICE
BY R. R. CLARK
Everybody -who has ever witnessed the selection of a jury for a inurcler trial
or other important trial in our Superior courts has noticed that in questioning-
prospective jurors to determine their fitness they are sometimes asked: "Are
you a freeholder ?" which being interpreted means, Do you own hind? "Have
you served on a jury within the past two years?"' Have you paid your taxes
fur the past year.'"' Those who are
accustomed to hear these questions
probably give them lit le thought; only
a few may wonder why the ownership
of land, or having served on a jury
within he past two years, or having
paid taxes for the past year, could
have reasonable bearing on one's
fitness to sit on a jury, hear the evid-
ence and render a verdict accordingly
Recently one of our Superior Court
judges remarked that he always re-
sented hearing the first two questions
asked. The second question, with ref-
erence to former jury service, is
designed to keep the professional
juror out of the box. While many
men avoid jury service (which is
wrong because jury service is a most
important and necessary public service
which all good citizens should rend-
er when called, there are those who
like to sit on juries and who make
it convenient to be present when
jurors are to be called into the box,
in tlie hope that the sheriff's eye will
fall on them. The board and lodging,
the per diem, listening to the pro-
ceedings and the importance attach-
ed to the service all appeal to this
class. But the professional juror is
nut in high favor and while he is
called into service when available
jurors are scarce and allowed to serve
if nobody objects, the provision ex-
cluding, in certain eases, those who
have served on a jury within two
years is designed to exclude those
persons too anxious to serve and
should be retained.
But what has land-holding got to
do with jury service .' Xothing. It is
one of the provisions of an ancient
time, which the fathers thought desir-
able, and nobody has taken the pains
to make an issue of it and have it
changed. It should lie explained
here that the objections mentioned do-
not necessarily exclude one from jury
service. They do not apply to jurors
"drawn from the box'' — to the regu-
lar jurors drawn for service in the re-
gular way. They apply only to what
are called tales jurors (tales is pro-
nounced as if spelled tal-is, with the
accent on the first syllable, and is.
applied to those jurors summoned
from the bystanders, called in by the
sheriff, as in the summoning of a
special venire from which to select
jurors if the regular panel is ex-
hausted). Selecting jurors from tales-
men, especially for an important and
hard-fought trail, is very important
to those concerned and all the ques-
tions permitted are sometimes asked to
exclude one who is objectionable to
one side or the other. One con-
sidered desirable may be passed re-
gardless of whether he ever owned a
foot of hind, paid a cent of tax and
even if he served on the jury at the
previous term. But if he is consid-
ered undesirable for service in that
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,iou oq auki ot[ luaSijppii avoi{ .tojjiuu
•OU 'pD'JSMOJUI 3SOIJ4 Aq 3SB0 .Ii:[lli 1 4.1 U' 1
how high his standing, lie is stood
aside it' lie is unable to answer the
questions mentioned, and others, sat-
isfactrily; and he can he stood aside
even then if the challenges haven't
been exhausted.
Back in the dim distant past land-
holding' was considered essential to
good citizenship in this part id' the
■country. The idea of course had its
origin in the customs of the "Moth-
er Country'* (England), ami the man
who didn't own land wasn't consid-
ered lit to exercise certain preroga-
tives. In North Carolina, for inst-
ance, one couldn't he a member of the
State Senate and couldn't vote for a
State Senator unless he owned land.
The non-land-holder could vote for a
member of the House of Commons, as
a Representative in the Legislative
was called in that day, but the idea
■WTqS to have an upper house that
would be a check on the common herd,
and so the State Senate was elected
by the land-holders. It is a matter*' of
history that a young lawyer in States-
ville, member of a prominent family,
whose father was a land lioidet' but
who owned no land in his own right,
was desired as a candidate for the
State Senate. To make him eligible
friends ami admirers deeded him a
few acres of land in the northern part
of the county (land was plentiful and
the tract donated was small value
then.)- The young man was elected to
the Senate and later to Congress. Hut
this land-holding qualifications was
too aristocratic for plain North Caro-
lina citizenship and its unpopularity
grew with the years until it became a
burning political issue. David S.
Beid of Rockingham county espoused
the cause of free suffrage and was
elected Governor, and with his elec-
tion the land-holding qualification for
voters passed. But the restrictions lias
not been removed from jury service
and the tales juror who is not a free-
holder may be excluded from the box
if the point is made. That restriction
is out of date and should be removed.
In fact our jury system could be re-
vised in several particulars in the in-
terest of justice and common sense-
but the legal fraternity are great
sticklers for precedents. It any-
thing has been done a certain way
it should continue to be done that
way simply because it has been done
that way, no matter how contrary to
common sense and how far out of line
with present day conditions the
practice may be.
But while land-holding as a suff-
rage qualification was repealed more
than half "century ago and should be
repealed as it applies to jury services,
it must be admitted that the" idea of
the fathers that one who owned land
was ;x more solid and stable citizen,
generally speaking, than the non-
land-holder, is not without some
foundation in fact. It is generally
admitted in this day that home owner-
ship tends to good citizenship; that
the man who owns his home, owns a
piece of ground, who lias a stake in the
community, is a stockholder in the
enterprise, is more concerned in good
government, is more conservative
citizen and is less likely to break out
as a radical revolutionist then one
who doesn't own a home and has loss
at stake in the community. In other
words, the home owner, the property
owner, realizes that he is vitally con-
cerned in matters of public welfare;
one wdio owns little or nothing 'ias
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little or nothing to lose and some hope exclusion from jury service of those
of 'T;;in in an upheaval. The owner- who fail to pay taxes due. One who-
ship of land confined to a few is ivilfully and negligently fails and re-
dangerous to the stability of public in- fuses to pay taxes should be denied
stitntions. It lias 'been a fruitful rile privilege of voting. If he re-
cause of trouble in the old country. fuses to bear his share of the cost of
P. S, I neglected to say at the pro- government he should have no voice
per phue that I am in accord with the in public affairs.
A VISION OF SONG SERVICE
BY JEANNETTE ELLIOTT BIGGS
So many persons fail to recognize the peculiar and arduous responsibili-
ties facing them as they labor in the teaching force for >oung peopie.
Doubtless each teacher that puts forth strenuous efforts from day to day
to train the young lives, given into their care for several hours of each day,,
is sincere in proclaiming to the listening world that they are bearing the
greater load of the burden, in form- mother went on with her work, pre-
ing the character of those young paratory to fixing lunch for the
lives. After being permitted to be- children. As I passed far down the
hold the wonderful revelation which the street, those humbly uttered but
has come to me, I am honest in con- triumphantly happy notes resounded
fessing that for seventeen years 1 in my ears. Suddenly the vision
labored under the same mistaken came to me: the daily toil and effort
idea. This little vision I want to to get her little folks ready for school
give to you, hoping it may reach and yet, the happy armosphere in
your heart and in some way influence which they began the day's work,
your attitude to your God-given and the possibility of a day spent at
calling, that of helping parents di- school under direction of a teacher
rect the precious little souls in char- who would not radiate the same hap-
acter building. piness in her work. So seldom does-
One hot summer morning, just as a little face of sadness greet you in
the school bells were summoning the the early morning---instead each
little folks to work, I had occasion countenance fairly beams with ex-
to go into the home of a fami'y pectant happiness; to me a reflection
where six children had just been of the mother's smila as the goodbye
sent off to school. 1 was met at the kiss was given. How many teachers
doer by the smiling mother, dripping send those little folks home ashappy
with perspiration, making apologies as they were when they left home
for her neglected toilet, who cheer- that morning? How long will it tak-i-
fully gave me the information for that tired mother to wipe out the
which I had come. Ere I had passed discouragments unconsciously re-
out of the yard, the strains of the ceived from you? Possibly her little-
old familiar hymn, "Children of the boy did not have as brilliantly pre-
Heavenly King, As We Journey pared lessons as you had wished for.
Sweet Sing," were heard as this or her little daughter had nelected
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-some task you had exacted. Still
could not you have guided and
•directed that work with more tact
and cheerful reproof? Why was
that mother singing? Doubtless the
passed-down pants with many a
patch or the faded piece of hair
ribbon often caused a tear to dim
those eyes; yet there was a song of
sincere gratitude that came uncon-
sciously to those lips, praise and
prayer to God that she might meet
the opportunities bravely, trusting
you to help her. And you teachers
•can sing, too, applying the lesson
found in His word "Teaching and
admonishing one another in psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, sing-
ing with grace in your hearts to the
Lord." Mow many teachers have
the privilege of having under their
care some little child whose mother
is in heaven? Had you been per-
mitted to catch the strains in my
vision, of that earthly song which
was but an echo of the happy songs
of the angel-mothers, never again
would any service rendered that
child be hut a labor of love.
Your service is arduous, the most
arduous of any assumed vocation in
life, but it should only supplement
the beauty and brightness of the
home life. Where there is little
brightness in the home, you could
create such an atmosphere of love
and brightness in your class room
that its beauty would radiate into
the home and overlap the loss there
Many, many teachers who are
reaping happy results with their
pupils helping to form characters
worthy of the parents' fondest am-
bitions, have in some form or other
caught this vision; had I the artist's
touch or the musican's gift, I would
put on canvas this vision or I would
sing to each of you the strains, that
the echoes of that mother's song
with faith in God and trust in you
might inspire you teachers who have
not been touched by it to nobler
ideas of service. Never will you be
so near the presence of the great
Teacher as when you are striving
in joyful, happy service to join this
"choir invisible," composed of the
mothers in heaven, the mothers on
earth and the little people of God,
all blending one triumphant song of
service with the great throng of
the white-robed angels around the
throne of God. — News And Obser-
ver.
MY NICKNAME
By W. E. Hutchinson
"Say Bulger," said .John Marsden, to his brother Will, •'loan me your
knife, mine's o,s dull as a hoe."
"Bulger," said Will, in a most eontemptious tone, "if you don't stop call-
ing me by that name I'll not loan you anything, hut give you a sound thrash-
ing instead; I'm sick and tired of being called Bulger."
Grandpa Marsden, who was listen- worse names than Bulgar, and it docs
ing to the hoys sparring, said, "Now not mean anything anyway. I never
boys, you are making a, good deal of hear John call you Bulger that I don't
fuss over a nickname; there are lots think of the nickname the boys save
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25-
me when I was .^ youngster, and they
had good reason to do it too. In-
stead of Bulger, how would you like
to be called Tubby? Xot a very nice
name is it .' But that's what the boys
called me."
"It' you could have seen me when
I was your age, you would have won-
dered why 1 received that inappro-
priate title, for [ was just the opposite
of a tub, and a more spindling, awk-
ward, bean-pole of a boy it would be
hard to find."
"Why, grandpa!" exclaimed both
bovs, "To think that you ever had a
nickname; how did you come by it,
and who gave it to you? Please tell
us about it."
"Well," said Grandpa, "It hap-
pened some many years ago that [ had
almost forgotten it, but now to look
back it seems but yesterday. Dear
me, how the time (lies; the years come
and go and leave only memories in
passing; an old man like me is simply
a boy grown old, and trivial things
that happened when I was a youngster
stand out prominently in my memory.
I suppose it is a sure sign that I am
in my dotage when an old codger like
me lets his mind run back sixty years
to such a silly thing as a nickname.
'"My father and mother came from
Xew York in the early forties,- and
settled in what was then the wilder-
ness of Indiana. Our house of two
rooms was built of logs in the clear-
ing with woods all around us; the
trees close at hand were felled in or-
der to secure the logs for its erection,
and many of the stumps were left
standing until such time as they
could be grubbed out anil thus give
more land for cultivation.
'Our nearest neighbor, the Stan-
ley's lived about two miles from us,,
and most of the way to the home lay
through a thick forest of beech and
■maple. Between our place and the-
Stanleys, father had marked out a
trail by blazing the trees, that is,
ou'tini a e •■ out of each one along
the way; and while there was no road.
to speak of, this blazed trail answer-
ed every purpose as a thorough-fare,
for we seldom visited each other ex-
cept on foot.
"At one pla.ee a brook crossed the
trail which in the Spring and early
Fall became quite a sizeable stream;
so much that father used to paddle
for some distance up or down stream
in a dug-out canoe that he fashioned
by hollowing out an elm log by the
use of an ax and hatchet aided by
building a tire along the trunk and
burning away the wood. Then shap-
ing the ends in an upward curve. As
the creek ran within two or three
rods of our house and spread out in-
to a swamp farther on, the wild grass
in this damp spot grew in abundance,
and by putting a platform on the ca-
noe father was able to gather quite a
crop without much trouble. In the
summer the water was rather low, so
much so, that by rolling up my trous-
ers I had no trouble in wading across,
and many a pickeral have I taken
from the stream.
"Deer were plentiful and bear
were quite often met with in the for-
est, in fact, almost all our supply of
meat consisted of vension brought
down by father's old flint lock rifle;
but an occasional partridge or quail
that I caught in my twitchups and
snares, made an agreeable change
from jerked vension. Occasionally
Mr, Stanley brought us a piece of'
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bear went that he had shot, for he
was more of a hunter of big gaine
than father, and quite often spent a
•day in hunting for the love of the
sport, when he might have been bet-
ter employed about his clearing.
"Everything was primitive in the
•extreme, for it was a new country,
and the nearest settlement was some
ten miles away; but 1 loved it, not
only because it was home, but for the
wild free life that appeals to all boys.
''I can look hack over all those
years and see myself a, red-headed,
freckled-faced boy. with but one sus-
pender to hold up my dilapidated
trousers; a hickory shirt on my back,
and with my head covered with a coon
skin cap with the tail dangling over
my shoulder.
"Those were happy days; I was too
young to realize what a vast amount
of work father and mother had to do
in clearing the wild land and raising
a scanty crop, but with no cares ex-
cept the few chores allotted to me, I
was as free as the birds, and found
my greatest pleasure when permitted
to visit the Stanleys' by way of the
blazed trail, and spend a couple of
hours playing with Peter Stanley and
bis sister Kate.
"Peter was sixteen years of age,
three years my senior, and Kate was
about my own age. Peter was my
ideal; large for his age, and an adept
at setting trails, and many a musk-
rat, coon and mink were taken there-
in; and once to the joy of both of us,
a wild cat was added to the score, and
the money derived from their pelts
sold in the settlement helped out his
scanty purse.
"All our clothing was of homespun
made by mother's deft fingers, and
the. sound of the spinning wheel, ami
thump of the loom were common
sounds. Dyeing was a matter of some
moment; father's clothing as well as
my own were of little matter, and were
invariably of butternut brown; but
with mother the case was different;
she longed for bright colors, and poke
berries were therefore resorted to in
order to supply her feminine taste fur
variety.
"The process of dyeing was dune
in a small tub known as Keeler till),
about one half the size of an ordinary
wash tul), one stave on each side pro-
jected above the rim with holes bored
through therein to act as handles;
the only tub of this kind in our locali-
ty outside of the settlement was own-
ed by the Stanleys, which we as well
as the other neighbors borrowed as
occasion required.
"One morning mother started me
bright and early to Mrs. Stanley's to
borrow the tub, and cautioned me not
to linger, but hurry back as she want-
ed to dye the goods already prepared,
but I begged so hard so hard to be
be allowed to remain a little while
and play with Peter, that she relent-
ed, and said I might stay just one
hour and then hurry home.
"Away I trudged as happy as a
lark to think I could lie with my chum
even for so short a time. I suppose!
did not hurry as I might, for there
was so much to attract my attention
along the trail, squirrels barked at me
from the trees, bluejays scolded, cat-
birds mewed from the thicket, ami
cotton-tails darted across the road in
front of me, and boy-like I must stop
to investigate, and who could blame
me for loitering by the way with so
much to interest me on every band;
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27
ore it was nearly noon when I loot
then
arrived.
''After playing with Peter for an
hour, anil yon may be sure I made the
most of it, Istarted for home with the
Keeler tub turned bottom up on my
head, and a small wooden bucket in
either hand that mother bad loaned
Mrs. Stanley.
"I was two thirds of the way home
ami had just crossed the creek when
I saw a little black bear cub playing
in the trail ahead. I had long want-
ed a cub for a playfellow, and here
was my chance to secure a prize.
doing closer I whistled, and it at once
sat up on its haunches swinging its
head from side to side in a most
comical manner, and I thought it
the cutest animal I had ever seen It
made no effort to come at my call, al-
though I used all the arts known to a
hoy to entice him to my side by pat-
ting ray leg and calling him nice
cubby, and good little bear, much the
same as one calls a, dog, but all to no
impose. It did not seem to fear me,
hut ga/.ed at me with its round little
eyes as if I were a curiosity. Finally
I picked it up and tucking it under
my arm started on much pleased
with my good luck; but he wiggled
and twisted so much, and ma.de such
queer little squeals and grunts, en-
tirely different from what I had sup-
posed a bear to make, that I was sure
I had come into possession of a pecu-
liar breed.
"I had proceeded this way for some
rods and was geeting rather tired with
my heavy burden and stopped for a
few minutes for a rest putting the tub
on tlie ground and sitting down to
gloat over my prize, when I heard a
snapping of twigs behind me, and
ooKnig over my shoulder I saw as-
large black bear coining towards me,,
and growling at every step.
"I was frightened nearly out of my
sehses, but slinging the tub on my
head, I thrust the cub into one of the
buckets, and started on the run for
home, his little black nose peeped over'
the edge of the bucket, but he made
no outcry, and finally settled down
and seemed to enjoy the ride.
"When the old bear came too close?
I faced around and rattled the buckets
in her face which served to stop her
for a minute, and then hurried on.
This I did a number of times until I
came in sight of the house, then I let
out a yell for mother which brought
her to the door. When she saw me
ajul what I carried in the bucket, she
called out, 'Drop that cub you ninny,
or the old bear will eat you up.'
'• I won't said i, 'it's my bear and
I rattled the buckets in the old bear's
face. Mother was thoroughly fright-
end, anil fully expected to sec me torn
in pieces, and redoubled her cries for
me to drop the cub, which I flatly re-
fused to do.
"By this time I had reached the
house and hurried through the door
with my cub, the old bear close at
my heels, ami determind to follow me
into the room, but mother had been
making corn meal mush and the kettle
full of tlie yellow meal was bubbling
on the crane in the fireplace, and
grabbing this off the hook she set it in
the doorway, and with a wooden
paddle used in stirring tlie meal, she
ladeled the hot mush on the old bear's
nose. Time after time she slapped
it on, tlie bear pawing her face and
nose, and howling with pain, but her
severe treatment kept the bear at bay,
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«,nd between each ladleful she sent
out a cry Cor father.
" Fortunately, he was chopping
"wood nearby, and came on the run,
and, watching his chance with a
stroke of his sharp ax, finished the
bear.
"I received a severe scolding, and
but for tlie fact of my escaping with
a whole skin, would in all probability
have received a sound thrasing.
"Why the old bear did not attack
me has always been mystery; but an
old hunter who stopped with us over
night said :
'"You can't tell uothin' erbout
bars; they're queer critters; at an-
other time she might have torn ye in
pieces, or if you had abused the cub.
an't it had given a cry of distress,
there wouldn't have been nothin' left
but your jacket.' This was in all
probability the (rue solution, but 1
as well as my parents were glc.d that
I escaped with my life.
"I kept that cub for two years,
and it became as tame as a dog,
following me ajl about the place, dint
it became a boisterous playfellow and
as father had purchased two little
pigs, and one of them disppeared one
night, and the theft w:^s traced to
the bear, father took him to the
settlement, and sold him; but for
years afterward in our neighborhood
I was nicknamed Tubby; and when
the boys in the settlement wished to
be especially mean thev called me,
Tubbv the Bear."
T/herein There Is To Be No Extinction.
The Uplift makes reference to
the death of Col. Wilson G. Lamb
as that of a representative of "the
man," definition of which it admits
is difficult of undertaking. This
old school," of the "old type gentle-
type must'be of personal assizement,
and The Uplift submits in example,
"Col. Penn Wood, of Aaheboro; Col.
Baldy Boyden, of Salisbury; Col,'
Frank Robbins, of Lexington; Mr.
J. P. Allison, of Concord; Col.
Brevard McDowell, of Charlotte;
Major Franklin McNeill, of Raleigh;
Judge H. G. Connor, of Wilson;
Hon. Rufus Doughton, ot Alle-
ghany." The Uplift advisedly adds
the saving clauses that "in fact,
every county of the good old State
may boast the presence in numbeis
of the old-time gentleman." To be
sure, while this type of citizen is
progressively disappearing it is
never to become extinct in North
Carolina, for they raise sons like
themselves— sons who regard it the
highest honor in life to be able to
"till their shoes." This circumstance
has ^notable demonstration in Wil-
mington whose history establishes
colonization of the largest number
of the "old type gentleman" with-
in the bounds of the State, and while
the personnel there has changed,
the conditions remain the same. The
men of the present generation are
the true copies of 'the men who have
gone before them. They are actu-
ated by the same lofty ideals, the
same sense of honor and they lay
claim to chivalry as one of the
greatest virtues.
The "old type" will always exist
in North Carolina. It's in the blood;
it's an inheritance—it is the State's
proudest asset in heredity. We
mourn the old fellows as they pass
away, but there are living all around
us men who, attaining equality in
age, will likewise attain the finest
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characteristics and virtues of the
forefathers.
i
COMMENT ON MISS MARY'S
WEDDING.
Princess Mary, the only daughter of
llio king and queen of England, wed-
ded Viscount Lascelles amid cere-
monials that measured up to the best
traditions of royalty. Eight queens
according to newspaper reports at-
tended the marriage.
"The world is tired of kings," rang
from one end of the earth to the other
during the world war. Thai may be
true. But the queens are still able
to males a very creditable showing,
with eight at an English wedding.
The nations of the earth spent sev-
eral hundred billion dollars "to make
tin' world safe for democracy," to
useWoodrow Wilson's famous phrase.
But there does not seem to be quite
so much democracy abroad in the
world as one might have supposed.
The wide interest in the functions of
royalty indicate that England lacks a
great deal of being a republic, The
Englishman \\ ill not allow his king any
])0\ver, but deep down in his heart is
on abiding reverence for royalty. Vet-
he should not be censored too severely
fur it. This conservatism and loyalty
to the ancient landmarks have served
him well through the long trouble-
some centuries of his history.
With the archbishop of Canterbury
assisted by the bishop of London, of-
ficiating at the marriage of the king's
daughter, -omuls good to the ears of
an Englishman and even better to an
English woman.— Greensboro Advo-
cate.
Sec by tile papers that a noisy wed-
ding took place in old London town
Tuesday when Miss Mary of Windsor
became the bride of a man whose
naine was mentioned as among' those
present, part of the joy over the event
being due to the fact that Miss Mary
picked out a British gentleman instead
of a foreign prince. From all ac-
counts Miss Mary had the dress-
makers visit her before the glad event
and she was goriously arrayed for the
occasion, with an extra frock or two
for another day. She and the groom,
said to be the most bejeweled man in
England, looked line — they looked like
a horse and buggy. Which one couldn't
say more. They heal a wedding 'cake
which weighed live thousand pounds;
so no doubt they had some cake left
over to start house-keeping on. — The
Robesohian.
"HARBXNGEES OP SPRING."
I had a bunch of most pleasant vis-
itors one day last week, a Hock of per-
haps ;ts many as 150 red breast robins.
When 1 came home from the city a
little after noon I found them in my
woods; having scratched it all over,
digging small holes with the bills, evi-
dently fishing out a choice worm.
Later in the day they joined a, drove of
Held larks in the front of the house,
and all the afternoon the lawn was
dotted with red breasts and larks
digging worms out of the grass. At
nightfall the robins Hew back into the
pines to roost.
These visitors were doubly welcome,
as they were mates of my boyhood,
when they followed the plow in spring,
getting the grubs I turned up. Then
they stayed with us all the year, ate
all the cherries they could, raised their
voung, and made lots of noise doing
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it. The young were a venturesome
small set, prone to try their wings all
too soon, falling the easy prey of a eat.
I do not know why they refuse to
nest with me now unless there are too
many other birds on the place to di-
vide a living with. — C. W. H.
Institutional Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
Supt. Boger has been in Raleigh
for a few days on a business trip.
We are happy to report that Mr.
T. V. Talbert's mother, of Concord,
is very much improved.
Saturday was a day of unusual
enjoyment to the boys. Games of
all sorts were on the programme.
From Sunday, our weather has
bpen very favorable toward base ball.
The team intends to make a record
worth recording this season.
Mrs. Steavens, of Newborn, came
to the school Sunday, and brought
with her a new arrival for the school.
He is doing fine, from last reports.
Mr. Dickey of Chapel Hill, brought
a new arrival Monday. He has been
assigned to seventh cottage, and al-
so Mr. Taylor, of Fayetteville,
brought a boy in the person of
James Fisher.
The Printing Office has ordered
some new type. This will greatly
improve the appearance of ') he
Uplift as the worn type in use
was greatly in need of changing.
Sunday, while on pump duty,
Vass Fields was the recepient of
some very heartily welcomed visitors.
These were: Messrs. C. I. Miller,"
Ralph Andrews, Palmer and Har-
waid.
The pavilion being the plae? for
congregating, the boys must have
some means of rest for the officers
in charge. Realizing this, the wort
shop made a long and large com-
modious bench for them.
Once more, the boys shoes are hs-
ing mended. This work is being
done by Mr. Horton. This may be
the last- mending to be done for
seven or eight months now, as
spring weather is with as and the
boys will soon discard their shoes.
Last Tuesday evening Band'
master Lawrence was industriously
training his band for its first public
appearance to be held in the Aud-
itorium that night. The band was
to play in honor of Mr. Whitehead
Klutz, of Salisbury, who was the
speaker for the night. He was in.
troduced by Mr. Charlie Ritc-he. His
very eloquent speech was enjoyed kj
the boys as wa? evidenced by Iheir
prolonged applause.
Fifth Cottage's Society, the Shain
Literary Society elected it's officers'
last Friday. It held it's weekly de- !
bate on that date also. Some time!
previous the President wrote a letter |
to Miss Easdale Shaw, of Rocking- i
ham, for whom it was named. She •
stated that she had been away from
home for a long time and that was:
the cause of her delay in answering!
the lettei;she states that ifjthe Soci-
ety names it's date, she will be aj
visitor at that time.
Rev. Mr. Myers, of Concord,
spoke from the Auditorium plaforra j
Sunday. His subject was the Bible |
"Be's." He took our black board j
and first drew a bee hive. Then he
placed the bees in it. All hives must \
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31
have a queen bee. The queen Bee
was "Be Born Again," Others were:
Be Thankful, Kind, Cheerful, Dili-
gent, Strong and Honest. An in-
stance of bis Be Thankful was: Once
a painter who had been a sinner was
conveited. Soon after his conver-
sion, he acquired the habit of saying,
"Thank the Lord for that,'' on any
and every occasion. A day came
when he was called to work three
stories high on a bank building-. Due
to some unknown decission of Fate,
he fell the height of the three stories
and broke his arm. A friend of his
came to his bedside and said "Well,
I don't guess you'll say thank the
Lord for thac? But the painter
answered, "Yes, thank the Lord it
wasn't my neck."
What Church Is That?
Did you ever hear such a question?
Did anyone ever ask it of you? Did
you ever in traveling along a strange
road, pass a church, and want to
know its local name and denomina-
tional connection? Of course you
have---all of us have had such as ex-
perience.
The cross roads store is marked-
owner's name and what line is car-
ried. Postoffice* are marked, rail-
road station, manufacturing plants,
hotels, theaters and so on. But the
little church is silent. She tells no
stranger who she is, what she is,
when built, when and how often ser-
vices held, or who is her pastor. She
does not talk. Strange, isn't it?
Many, city churches are marked,
but few, if any, rural churches are
marked. Would it be worth while?
The tourist would possibly take pride
in knowing that "the church by the
side of the road" is of his denomina-
tion. One church might be the means
of carrying the name and work of its
denomintaion thousands of miles.
Now, we do not mean a flashy sign,
a regular billboard, but a simple
marker in the form of a shield, say,
or something of that kind.
Is it worth while? Study about it
the next church you pass and do not
know its name.— Christian Sun.
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THE PIT WITH NO
BOTTOM.
Without God man is merely a machine. He
has a body which can do certain physical work
for society; hut a man's body is as useless as
a brute's body except when under intelligent
direction Man can be more destructive than
a brute if he hc;s no conscience to restrain him.
The mind can direct the body so that its
energies will be employed along useful ones,
provided the mind itself is under spiritual con-
trol, and that brings us back to faith in God.
Upon belief in God rest all the uplifting in-
fluences in life — consciousness of responsi-
bility; comfort in the assurance of God's
presence; prayer, through which the heart is
opened to divine suggestions; and the future
life with its rewards and punishments. When
man's hold upon God is loosened he falls, and
there is no bottom to the pit into which he
plunges. — Bryan.
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WHY NOT?
Dr. Brocks, of the North Carolina E lucational Department, lias very wise-
ly taken the bit in his mouth and rule! that children living in the outlying
territory surrounding a town or city school may attend the central school
for the public school term, provided the Board of Education appropriates
what funds may be due for that period and the patron agrees and does pay
for the additir.al term of school extending beyond the usual free-term.
The School Board of Concord is asking for a bond issue of three hundred
thousand dollars for the enlargement of school facilities. If th? money is
wisely spent— the public getting a dollar's worth for every dollar appro-
priated—it is a fine, progessive step for the community. But the thing on
which the city and the county boards should get to-gethcr, and this is the
occassion for this' suggestion, is the business of caring for the several hun-
dred children living outside and surrounding Concord, who have practically
no educational advantages. An imaginary line, separating town from
country, is no excuse for children on one side of said line getting fine pri-
vileges and the children on the other side getting the sorriest kind of adv-
antages. No chain is stronger than the weakest link, applies to the cause
of schools if we ate to believe all that is said about the refining and elevat-
ing influences of education upon a community and section.
Concord has her troubles and is not expected to invite others, but from
a selfish stand-point, if not on larger and mere patriotic grounds, the town
of Concord profits much by the advancement and contentment of the rural
people of the entire county. There is a rojm for a brotherhood business
in this thing. Some of these days, a merchant will want a clerk who does
not always watch the clock--he sometimes turns to the country to find him.
4 THE UPLIFT
It is to the interest of both that the country fellow has had favorable ed-
ucational advantages. The mills send out inducements for rural families
to take employment. Would they mt welcome the fact that that family
had had good educational advantages and had not grown up in ignorance?
If tnese things are not true, then education does not do what is claimed
for it, and business men and manufacturing corporations prefer to use and
work those who have been strangers to the refining and hopeful influences
of adequate educational advantages.
"We haven't our exhibit ready, in fact the seed are not yet in the ground
but it is announced that the State Fair will be held at Raleigh on October
1G, 17, IS, 19 and 20. Tha management is busy. New letter-heads have |
been put in use. They are printed in blue and red, or to be exact the whole
thing is engraved. They have a manager, a typical Westerner, who is an -
expert, to direct the publicity. He announces to the North Carolina public,
not as an advertisement but as a chance to make ten dollars— just as easy.
If you will semi in to the "Manager of the State Fair, Raleigh, N. C.."a
suitable SLOGAN by the 25th of March, and it is accepted, you are sure to
•receive ten dollars. It must not be over six words, short somewhat iike |
this: "Let's go."
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The legislative committee appointed to investigate the educational busi-
ness of the state, diagnose the troubles in school law and propose a remedy
for the thing, held its initial meeting in Raleigh on Thursday of last week.
This commission is composed of lions. H. G. Connor, Jr., of Wilson, W. C.
Dowd, of Charlotte, D. F. Giles, of Marion, and T. D. Warren, of New
Bern. Their work is not only important but vital.
Our readers do not want to miss reading and thinking about Iredell's
community and betterment programme, which a live and industrious wo-
man has prepared for the advancement of the whole county in all lines. It i
will be worth a trip to merely hear the singing, a thing that is a rarity in
many of our public schools largely because the teacher herself has no music
in her soul.
Hon. C. A. Reynolds, the State Chairman of the Republican organization,
having reached the age of 74, indicates that he will retire from the head
THE UPLIFT 5
of the party at the coming' convention, in order that a younger man may
tike the resp ^risibilities. Mr. Reynolds for many years has been active in
political matters, is a man of wonderful powers, and was for four years
Lieutenant Governor of the state.
That was a beautiful tribute paid to the maimry of Col. Wilson Lamb,
by the Democratic Executive Committee in Raleigh last week. Indeed, were
the words of Governor Morrison on that occasion most tender, sincere and
touching. Death has but little sting if such a record may be left behind".
Congressman Edward Pou, one of the most brilliant men of the state,
has been selected by Chairman J. D. Norwood, to deliver the key-note
speech at the State Democratic convention, which meets in Raleigh on
April 20th.
THE LION AND THE S I'M UE
A Man and a Lion were discussing the relative strength of men
and lions in general. The Man contended that he and his fellows
were stronger than lions by reason of their greater intelligence.
"Come now with me," he cried, " and I will prove that I am
right." So he took him into the public gardens and showed him a
statue, of Hercules evercoming the Lion and tearing his mouth
in two.
"That is all very well," said the Lion, "but proves nothing, for it
was a man who made the statue."
"WE CAN EASILY REPRESENT THINGS AS WE WISH THEM
TO BE.
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MISS CATHERINE WILSON
Home Demonstrator of Cabarrus County
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A Worthwhile Agency
On another page The Uplift carries the picture of Miss Catherine Wilson,
the Cabarrus county Home Demonstrator, who has been in the midst of our
people for little more than a year. As a text for this article the writer
merely wants to say, aside from a few pers >nal remarks with reference to
this very superior woman and her identi location with the important work
that engages her time and best thought, that Miss Wilson has made good.
I know that is the very highest
compliment that one could pay to
the work and accomplishment of any
officer. There are occasions when
such a statement would be not only
ridiculous but real comedy. The
fact that men and women of tine
parts sometimes make blunders and
failures, may not be the result of
carelessness or indifference but are
occasioned by lack of adaptability,
by unfitness for the work and often-
times by the absence of vision. Fail-
ures have occurred just this way
among home demonstrators, teach-
ers, school superintendents and, in
fact, in every walk of life.
It has been my fortune, privilege
and very great pleasure to mingle
pretty freely with the rural people
of the county. I have come to
know very intimately the hardships
and the drawbacks, real and imagi-
nary (together with the unalloyed
joys of the country) that can be in
a large measure, if not wholly, wip-
ed out by the creation of a commu-
nity spirit, by co-operation and by
the development and activity of
those agencies which forward think-
ing legislators have made possible.
The rural schools could be made,
with a broad policy in vogue and
directed by an unselfish man that is
not so obsessed with his superior
knowledge and could be aroused
from a blinding laziness, to serve a
mighty purpose; but wherever this is
lacking, that agency that inspires a
coummunity spirit and encourages
the hope and ambition of self-help
will, in time, force the coming of
the improvements so much needed
and hasten the day when rural folks
may come into their own.
Miss Wilson, whose presence in
our midst is the main occasion for
the foregoing observations, is a na-
tive of Chester county, South Caro-
lina, a typical representative of a
fine family that has rendered a fine
service in the Palmetto state. Edu-
cated at elrskin and Winlhrop col-
leges, she took a special training
for the work to which she is devot-
ing her talents and energies at a
Baltimore institution. Added to her
natural abilities, her educational at-
tainments and her tact and love for
her work, is a successful experience
in teaching in rural schools. No
wonder a lady with these accomplish-
ments, these experiences and this
consuming pas;ion and energy to
make her work a go, has won the
confidence and the esteem of those
who have seen the direct benefits of
her efforts.
Though only in the county for a
period of a year, she has made a
choice acquaintance that covers the
county. She knows the county to-
day and understands the people and
their tastes better than many men.
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who have been born and reared in
the county. She has organized six
Coommunity Clubs, now strong and
vigorous agencies for good in their
several sections. In co-operation
with the Farm Demonstrator in this
community work she has encourag-
ed the culture of flowers, tree-plant-
ing, made inspirational talks on bet-
ter schools, importance of telephone
connection and the reading of choice
literature and magazines that deal
with the problems of rural life.
In the Girl's Clubs, which she has
organized, she treats on those sub-
jects that please the tastes and con-
cerns the affairs of the y jung people.
Some.prefer gardening, others poul-
try raising; but great stress is placed
on the mission of the sewing clubs,
such as making hats and dresses.
And what could be more serviceable
and valuable to the average country
girl, as well as to the town girl, than
a proficient knowledge of needle-
craft, thus becoming independent
of impossible prices and the learning
how to take left-overs and convert
them into something that appears
new and is as serviceable and often-
times more attractive than some-
thing bought anew. The power of
making much out of the little, is an
accomplishment well within possi-
bility and is the first lesson in suc-
cessful home making and house-
keeping.
In the Women's Clubs different
phases of the home are discussed,
such as interior decoration, canning,
the economical solution of problems
that confront every house-keeper
and the possibilities of making the
kitchen and dining room function to
the best advantage under varying
conditions.: Nine of these clubs have
been formed: ■ . ; .'
Among the big things Miss
Wilson hopes to stress throughout
the coming year is the Year-round
garden, better quality of poultry,
better breed of pigs and a greater
care of the family cow— in this she
has anticipateil Gov. Morrison's
campaign. She hopes to see, also, the
time soon come when the various
clubs in the several sections of the
county may federate to the end
of making the entire county a unit
in sympathy and ambition to bring
rural life in Cabarrus to the highest
possible development. This is a
noble purpose, in which, much valu-
able material now going to waste or
missing much of the advantages of
country life may be turned to a larg-
er and better service by encourage-
ment and direction.
That's a very fine slogan Miss
Wilson carries with her wherever she
goes in her faithful old Ford, which
she drives like a past-master,
"MAKE THE BEST BETTER."
What a glorious accomplishment
would follow if all men and all wo-
men, in all the activities of this life,
should live up to the ambition of
that slogan! It's a happy combina-
tion— Miss Wilson likes the Cabar-
rus people and the Cabarrus people
like Miss Wilson; and may the frood
work continue to grow and prosper.
Just what th's splendid woman is
doing, is being: duplicated in other
counties of the state where wise se-
lections have been made. Ths value
of the work, in the aggregate, is in-
estimable. Early in the life of this
work there were some misgivings,
fearing that the people would not
take kindly to the innovation. But
these misgivings soon vanished; and
now every observing citizen gives it
a hearty endorsement.
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THERE WILL BE NO "MIRACLE"
F The recent adoption of text-books for the public schools of the state was
made under the provisions of a law, the bill for which was prepared by the
State Superintendent of Education. It gave enormous latitude and power
to the Text-Book Commission. It is said that this Commission prepared an
outline of study before ever considering books. Probably there is not a doz-
en intelligent people in North Carolina who could not pick the real author
of the allege I "course of study.'' Practically a elesn s\veep of the books
now in the hands of the public school children of North Carolina was ordered
by the Commission, which, in a great degree, tied the hands of the state Board
of Education. On the ISth of February Dr. Brooks, in making the announce-
ment of the final result, accompanied it with a defensive statement.
This prophecy of the results was so unusual and so unlike what had oc-
curred thiough other and former adoptions, school men and school officers,
who have been long in the service, felt that a "miracle'' had been performed.
Dr. Brooks Said Feb. 18: "In
completing this adoption, therefore,
the State Board of Education has had
due regard first, for the needs of the
children, and second, for the cost of
hooks to the puplis. And in provid-
ing for the needs the Board has made
it possible for the schools to meet the
needs of the chlidren in a large way
without placing r,ny financial burden
upon the patrons."
Admissions on March 8 in the
Raleigh News & Observer in an in-
terview with the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, point out that
the new adoption made on the basis of
the recommendation and the work of
the Text-Book Commission will cost
the children of the public schools a
net increase over the former adoption
of the sum of $085,194.00. Dr. Brooks
does not think that this will prove a
"financial burden upon the patrons."
Closing the interview, Dr. Brooks is quoted assaying: "By delaying
adoption of books until February we have been able to secure better con-
tracts. States that adopted a year ago have been paying from ten to twen-
ty-five per cent higher for the same text bouks than we are required to
pay,"
All this is probably correct, but Dr. Brooks will probably find, upon a
careful reading of the contract he signed for books for the public school
children which will cost their parents nearly a three-quarters of a million
increase, that there is also a clause pledging that should the prices of these
books be lowered to any other state or authority during the life of this
contract that North Carolina should have the benefit of such reduction. It
goes without saying that if North Carolina today is getting a certain book
at a lower price, that similar reduction in price will obtain in other states for
said bock under the very same identical contract clause. What benefits in
prices, if any, have come by a delay is due entirely to the decreased cost
of material and production and not to any foresight or special wisdom dis-
10 THE UPLIFT
played by the North Carolina authorities.
Impractical theories that have crept into the public school law, by the
persistency of the Educational Department, within the past twelvemonths
cost the state 8710,000.00, and now followed by another, due entirely to
another half-baked theory, adds$6S5, 194.00, or a grand total of one million,
three hundred ninety-five thousand, one hundred ninety-four dollars. And
the benefits received by the rural children are no more enhanced, if as good
except in spots where a large degree of independence existed, than before
these various theories were imported from Massachusetts.
"Yes, my son's pretty handy about the house. He mended our cuckoo
clock the other day. It's fine now, except that it says 'Oo' afore it
'Clicks.' "
I NORTH CAROLINA IN I
I THE WORLD WAR !
•> •:•
!> Based (1) on Defects Found in Drafted Men, reported by Surgeon- %
% General M. W. Ireland, to the 00th Congress, 1st session — Senate Com- *
* mittee Print, 1910; and (2) on the Associated Press item, The Victory *
*> Memorial Building, Feb. 10, 1022. ' f
*:• North Carolinaians serving, 02,510 or 10 in the 1,000 of all who served •>
',(, in the army and navy; North Carolinaians who lost their lives in service, ''•,
* 2,01.3 or 20 in the 1,000 of the national war death roll.
*> Department Rural Social Economics, University of North Carolina *
*** " *»*
* Rank Unfit to Serve Rate per 1,000 *
♦*♦ •>
*:* 19th Defective in bod}- or mind or both 546 £
* 30th Rejected as unfit 213 ♦
•:• 37th Tuberculosis victims 30 ••.
£ 37th Venereal diseases 70 £
*•* 39th Apoplexy, paralysis, etc 3 *
•:• 42nd Epilepsy 7 *
-:• 40th Instable nerves, neurasthenia, neuroses, hysteria, etc. 1 *
*:* 45th Mental deficiency 22 %
f 45th Mentally diseased 24 *
*> 24th Heart disease, organic ," 27 *
* 35th Joint diseases 11 *
£ 29th Defective physical development 33 j
* 15th Mechanical physical defects 104 *
•> 47th Malnutrition — under-nourished or badly nourished *
* disordered disgestion, assimilation,- etc - 1 $
Till': UPLIFT 11
iat Our Loys Are Doing
No 1 By Robert Willard
Lawrence Worth Match
(One of our former buys, who worked in the printing office, developed a
taste for writing-. He has voluntarily offered to get a line on various boys,
who have gone out from the institution and taken their positions in orderly
society and are contributing to the affairs of the times. This young man,
himself holding a responsible job in Washington, for reasons of modesty
alone is writing under an assumed name. We publish to-day his first, and
it is about the first boy to enroll at the school when it threw open its doors
January 12th, ly09.— Editor's Note).
The subject of this short article the way of right living and taught
was the first boy to enter the Jack- the truths of life he was better
son Training School, arriving at the equipped to go forward than when
institution the 12th day of January, he entered the school.
1909. This young man saw thre? year3
Born in Burlington, North Caro- service in the army after leaving
Una, twenty-five years ago this com- the school, serving on the Mexican
ing October, the early life of Worth, border with the North Carolina
as he was known at the school, was guardsmen and in France with the
similar to that of hundreds of other 120th Infantry of the 30th Division,
North Carolina boys who have drift- receiving a shrapnel wound on the
ed away from paths they had been morning that this division success-
told to follow. It was just one piece fully assaulted the Hindenburg line,
of devilment after another until he Now seiving as an electrician in
was sent to the school. the naval torpedo station at Alexan-
Worth remained at. the Jackson dria, Va., Worth looks forward with
Training School a little over three great confidence in the future,
years and, when in March, 1912, he The first boy to enter the Jackson
again set out on the pathway of life, Training School is making good,
he was a different boy. Trained in
When Spartan mothers could say, "Son come home with your shield,
or come home on it," the breasts of Spartan men were the wall of defense
for that country. When Roman matrons were like Caesar's wife, above sus-
picion. Rome ruled the world. But when virtue and chastity became exiles
from Roman households, the Barbarian not only thundered at the gates but
marched in triumph through the streets of the imperial city. The char-
acter of woman has at all times and will ever continue to determine the
character of civilization. — Christian Advocate.
12 THE UPLIFT
I FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO |
I ALL MY GREATNESS I
* *
% WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE *
*:* f
*•* ':*
* Farewell! A long farewell, to all my greatness! *
•:• *
*;* Tins is the state of man: to-day he puts forth ?,
* t
•:• The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms, y
*•* ***
.;• •:•
•:• And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; *
£ The third day conies a frost, a killing frost, *
1* t
*:* And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely £
* His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, *
♦> •
: And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, *
* *»*
* Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
•> This many summers in a sea of glory,
£ But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
*:* At length broke under me, and now has left me,
* Weary and old with service, to the mercy
♦> Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me.
•> . Vain pomp and glory of this world I hste ye!
♦
x I feel my heart new open'd. 0, how wretched
* Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
♦> There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
X That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
*
* More pangs njnd fears than wars or women have,
•>
* And when he falls, he faUs like Lucifer,
»:♦ Never to hope again.
THE UPLIFT
13
North
Car
olina Under the Draft Act
By J. Will Bailey
of the articles under the scheme of>"Knowing North Carolina" is by
iam Bailev, of Raleigh, and the late holder of the office of Collector
He writes about "What the Draft
It is always the truth that hurts and
On
J. Wi
in the United States Revenue service.
Act Showed About North Carolina."
at the same time makes us free.
This clearly written review of the
statistics as revealed by the officers
of the government gives one em-
phatic reasons for pausing and seri-
ous consideration. One can not read
this article without down in his heart
feeling and knowing that every
agency that looks to the enlightment,
the education, the care of the body
and familiarity of preventive meas-
ures among our people, should not
only be heartily encouraged but that
effort along these lines should be
doubled, to the end that the coming
generation may avoid the handicaps
of the past. Mr. Bailey's contribu-
tion is as follows:
Undor the Draft Act all the young
men from eighteen to thirty years
of age ir. the United States were
subject to military services in the
Woild War. Of those called, two
million, or about four-fifths of the
total, were physically examined at
the mobilization camps. The results
cf these examinations have teen pub-
lished by the War Department in a
volume entitled Defects Found in
Diafted Men. 'I he classification was
by states; but unfortunately the data
do not disclose the relation of defects
to color, nativity, or occupatknin
the different states.
With respect to rejections for al-
coholism, North Carolina made a
roost gratifying showing, her number
Per thousand being nine, while the
national average was more than three
times as high, or thirty-one. We
made erjually as good a record with
respect to drug addiction.
With respect to tuberculosis, we
made a bad showing; our number of
rejections per thousand being 30.47
against the national average of 24.6
-•-an excess of nearly six young men
per thousand. We made a much
worse record than some other states
having a large negro populations, as
for example, Georgia, 24.46, Missis-
sippi 24.12, Louisiana 27.61. As a
matter of fact only three Southern
states made as bad a showing as did
North Carolina. So our excess is
not due to the negroes.
For defective physical develop-
ment we had 33 41 rejections as com-
pared with a national average of 32.
93. In total menial disorders we
rank near the bottom with 24.48
per thousand against a national ave-
rage of 15.08. In respect of mental
deficiency our record is bad, the
state having had 21.06. Who can
account for this, and how?
There are a great many defects
in respect of which North Carolina
made comparatively a pleasing
showing, as for example, the condi-
tion of teeth and eyes. We do not
show up so well in respect of noses
and ears. And as a rule the ratio
of defectives in North Carolina is
upon an average with that of the
14 THE UPLIFT
United States, our rejection being I ([into agree that there is nothing
213 per thousand, as compared with the matter with North Carolina—
a national average of 212. Less that is, that there is no reason why
than four out of each five young' within our bounds there should not
men were found fit for war duty. dwell the happiest people on (ho
What should concern us is this: globe. But Heaven helps those who
To find and eradicate the causes of help themselves. Our Common-
our excess of tuberculosis, low phy- wealth must be what we make of it.
sical development, excess of mental And it becomes each of us to stand
disorders, and excess of mental in his lot and do his best to serve
deficiency. For these aspects of the his day and generation. This is
matter are of the greatest impor- citizenship; this is patriotism; this is
tance. true service of humanity.
Pennsylvania's sixty-third county lias employed a farm agent. It is a
mighty poor farm agent who is not worth to his county several times Ms
salary.
ACTUAL EXPERIENCE A MIGHTY FORCE
(BY E. R CLARK)
A distinguished editor, talking before the students of the School of Journal-
ism in one of our educational institutions, expressed the opinion that young
men preparing for newspaper work should take at least a year in law school.
His idea was that an editor should have some knowledge of law and should
prepare himself by giving at least one year to the study of law. That set me
to thinking about how many things there are of which the well rounded editor
should have some knowledge, and the are many other things of which he
conclusion was that if a young man should have a working knowledge. Xot
training for newspaper work should only should he know how to write
give_a year's study to all the things about court cases without exposing
he should know about he would he too his ignorance of common legal term-
old for active duty before he was inology, and a clear conception of
ready to begin. what does and what does not ronsti-
Be it understood here that I am tute libel but he should know some-
not controverting the statement of the thing about the different religious
editor with a view to starting some- denominations and their forms of
thing. It is important that any news- government, so that he would not
paper writer, certuinly a managing make himself ridiculous and offend
editor or an editorial writer, should the adherents of the different faiths
have some knowledge of la,w. It is by talking about Presbyterian stew-
highly important, if he is to keep out ards, .Methodist deacons," Bap ;>t con-
of trouble, that he have a clear con- ferences, etc., and to be sure he
ception of the law of libel. But there couldn't give a year to this study.
THE UPLIFT 15
If his paper circulates in an ngricnl- or, it is highly important that he
tnral community lie should know should know something about them,
something about farming so as to This General Information to which I
write about it intelligently, and he have, reference isn't found in any
nii<*ht not care to spend a year in farm particular- course. Tt isn't taught in the
work. Bat come to think of it, most colleges, while it is important especial-
editors know more about farming than ly in this enlightened aye, for the news-
the farmers who spend their lives on paper man to have a college education,
the job — or they at least assume to give that isn't absolutely essential nor is it
them advice — so the farm knowledge alone equipment for newspaper work,
mav be assumed, whether the editor While I have little knowledge of the
knows corn from cotton. It is im- practical work of Schools of Jour-
portant, too, to know something about nalism I think well of them provided
disease and sanitation and health they are taught by experienced news-
measures, but it would be imprai tic- paper men and not by theorists. For-
cible to study medicine for a season, merly it was thought that the man
Then there is knowledge of the laws who had not come up through the
and customs of commerce, of manu- mechanical end of a printing office —
factoring industry, of transportation, slept on newspapers and eaten ink, as
of the science of government, of taxa- Horace Greely expressed it — wasn't
tion, of music, art, and all the other fit to be an editor, just as we used to
things that the newspaper writer think that all trades and professions
must discuss at times. and business must be learned by
Sly experience and observation have actual experience rather than by going
convinced me, us experience con- to school. "We have gotten ahead of
vinces all newspaper men, that the that. It is true that experience is yet
supreme need is General Information and always will be the perfecting
on all sorts of subjects. The news- school in anything. The young man
paper man who has worked on a farm, who finishes at aeollege and goes
sold goods, worked in a mill, practiced through a School of Journalism is well
law or who has bed experience in any equipped to enter newspaper work,
of the lilies of human activity, will if be doesn't make the mistake of
find that experience of value in a thinking that he knows the job at the
newspapeer career. Rut as it isniani- start. Nothing but actual experience
festly impossible to have practical can teach him the job, but the train-
experience in many lines, or even to ing of the schools gives him a good
take special courses in .many, it all start if he lias the capacity to apply
comes back to gathering and absorbing his knowledge.
General Information, so as to be able But to come back to General Infor-
to write intelligently about many motion. 1 hope the schools that are
things. training men for newspaper work em-
it is impossible for any one man pbasize that. I know of no means of
to know all about a large number of acquiring this General Information
things, but if he is to write about except by reading— reading news-
them, even in the capacity of a report- papers of all kinds constantly and
knowledge of tilings they could learn Alexander county man, "vastly
simply by reading the newspaper, ignorant.
Once he said to me, discussing this
"Manners are only a kind of varnish, of course; yet who want:; even
a durable chair or table that isn't properly finished?"
16 THE UPLIFT
closely; reading the magazines and matter: "Idon't believe they read a >"
periodicals of the better class, and newspaper; I know they don't read
reading books. Chas. A. Dana, one of the Observer." One illustration Trill "'
the ablest and most scholarly of the suffice. One of his young men, a col- '
editors of an older day, addressing a lege man, graduate of a law school ,
group of newspaper men on one occa- and one who produced literature that
sion, urged them to study the Bible, will live, was sent to report a meetiu",
not as a religious book but as litera- On the programme was a musical
ture — for history, poetry, for literary number by Dudley Buck, the noted
style. The King James version, de- musical composer. The reporter
clared Mr. Dana, is awell of English glanced at the programme and saw
undefiled; and for style of narrative, the name of Dudley Buck, lie didn't
for examples in reporting that are know anything about Dudley Buck and
models for newspaper work in all the as the master of ceremonies at the
ages, some of the Biblical writers were event was a stranger to him he
unsurpassed. It is absolutely essen- assumed that he was Dudley Buck,
tial for a newspaper man — if he is to lie wrote his story accordingly, featur-
make a success that counts — to be ing Dudley Buck as the presiding
well posted, to have his mind well officer at a meeting in Charlotte; and
stored with General Information; and the story got by and appeared in the
I have never heard of any place he Observer next day. When the Old
can get that except by reading about Man, as the boys on the Observer
all sorts of things. Seasoned news- called Mr. Caldwell, read it next day
paper men have seen young men come he was humiliated and said things;
out of college and begin newspaper and the brilliant and well beloved
work who exhibited the most astound- young ma,n who wrote the story was
ing ignorance of everyday affairs in of course humiliated. He suffered for
some particulars and who lacked com- lack of General Information that is
mon information that they could have gained only by wide and varied read-
gained by reading the newspapers. ing.
The late I. P. Caldwell, the greatest Let me say in conclusion that I am
newspaper man the State has pro- not attempting to instruct as a
dueed, who gathered about him on the graduate in the course of General
Charlotte Observer some of the Information or any other. In an
brighest young men in the State, men active newspaper experience of more
whom he loved and admired, com- than 25 years it was constantly borne
plained sometimes of their lack of in on me that I was, to quote the
I <
THE UPLIFT
17
IREDELL COUNTY ACTIVITY
Elsewhere in this number of The Uplift will be found reproduced in its en-
tirety a circular issued by Miss Celeste Henkel, giving details about the
contests, exhibits and contributions that are to figure in the County Public
School Commencement. The preparation, the work involved in said prepara-
tion and the generous responses of the people, speak volumes for the power
and influence of Miss Henkel.
It covers the whole scope of what
the rural people most need, by way
of acquisition and knowledge, in mak-
ingcountry life most agreeable and in
furnishing inspiring opportunities to
the young. Can any one think of an-
other thing which could be added to
make the interest and benefit of this
sure-to-be-well executed programme
larger and better?
The only reason — and there needs
to be no apology for doing so — The
Uplift is bodily inserting this pro-
gramme with all the details, is the hope
of rendering a worthwhile service to
other counties, whose chief school
officers, seeing this great effort
making in Iredell county to aid the
rural folks to come into their own,
may find some inspiration and help-
ful points in working out a similar
campaign in the several counties.
This peculiar and novel campaign,
which must result in inestimable good
in Iredell county, is the conception of
Miss Henkel and she has fixed the
22ml, day of April as the date of
the event.
County-Wide Debate
"Query, resolved that, with Ade-
quate School Facilities, Country Life
can be made as Attractive as City-
life." A gold medal offered by Mr.
£. W. Bosliamer will be given to the
iest debater in the final debating
contest.
County-Wide Singing Contest
To be conducted in all schools of
the county — A prize of •'?10 will be
given by The Merchants and Farmers
Bank to the school in the county
having the best chorus.
Community Lirprovements
To the community that makes the
most improvements in their schools
homes and grounds — $100 — Johnston
Belk Co.
To the community that installs the
most electrical appliances — Hand-
some picture — Covington Electric
Service Co. and Mills Electric & Bat-
tery Service Co.
To the community having the larg-
est number of farms named and
marked and having the most attrac-
tive names— $10— W. A. Bristol.
To the community painting the
greatest number of homes and barns
since May 1, 1921 — Set of maps —
Carolina School Supply Co., Char-
lotte, X. C.
To the community club doing the
most constructive work — -Large Uni-
versal school dictionary Globe Book
Co. Morristown Term.
To the community securing the
most traveling libraries — Set of
books, — Miss Celeste Henkel.
To the community subscribing to
the most magazines — Canning out-
tit — Thomas Hardware Co.
13 THE UPLIFT
School Improvements greatest number of patrons to read!
For the most improvements in a
■'Better Rural Schools," signed
i 1,1 Q,.f ,,f cnnnlo statement to bo brought in bvtlus™..
one-teacher school — bet ot supple- » ■ , 1Jt
i ir- ,-. .i , ., , ii,.„ trons — Porcelain kitchen sink m\
mentarv readers — Anss Celeste ilea- . _ _ , , ■ t
, . * equivalent m cash — Covington Etcc-i
, ■ o ■ ,-.
For file most improvement in a eric ou\ ice uo.
, , ,, rn„.„ , ■„i,,,0„ lo the teacher holding an e emeu.
two-teacher school--! wo p'-cuiies o u-
Crawford Bunch Furniture Co. ^ary cert>ticate_ doing the most con-
For the most improvement in a struetive work m her school and com.
,, , , . o t n? 1,,-,,,1-c munitv and sending in a written re-
three-teacher school — bet ot books — -' , -,■ , ,■
Lend a Hand Book Mission, Boston. P«f °t how . she dld, «f w«k-
For the most improvement in Scholarship of six weeks to summer
high school-One 12 in. globe and school,^ valued-Board of Educa-
two S inch globes — Southern Desk Co.
Hickory, X. C.
To the school having the largest flcate other than elementary, do,
number of children under 18 years of thf most constructive work in her
i i •„ i;„; i„„i K„„ir „„ school and community and sending in
age who have an individual bank ae- . • ,.,°,
t c!„* ,-p inn --,,•„* ],nn!-a R a written report ot how she did the
count — Set ot 101) song books — i'-. »
work — -?2o — Chamber ot Commerce,
Statesville.
To the teacher who carries out the
best program on "Better Schools for
tion of Iredell County.
To the teacher bidding any certi-
m i
G. Gaither.
To the school having the best
equipped playground — $5 — F. L.
Johnson. ,
To the best school correspondent I™dell County Day and send:
to the Statesville Sentinel. Letters written report of hov she accomp ah,
will be judged on these points. 1 ed^his work-Set of Pyrex Cootang
Regularity of arrival that is, they Ware-Corning Glass Works, Cora-
should come once a week and. to fol- ln"> " ' •
, v . , f. i,i , Home Improvements
low immediately after news takes
place. 2. Legibility of pennanship, For the most attractive bed room
composition and comprehensiveness — using old furniture — 1st prize — Ha-
One year's subscription to The States- hogany table — Johnson Furniture
ville Sentinel. Co. '2nd prize — Merchandise— Polk
To the best school correspondent to Gray Drug Co.
the Statesville Landmark. The same For the most convenient kitchen —
points will be used in judging these 1st prize, $25 in cash — Commercial
letters that are used in judging the National Bank — 2nd prize, Linoleum ]
letters to the Sentinel. — One years Drugget — Tharpes 5 & 10 cent store. !|
subscription to The Statesville Daily. For the most comfortable and at- |
To the primary teacher having the tractive living room — $25 in mer-
most modern equipment for teaching chandise, Ramsey-Bowl es-Morrison |
reading and phonics and seatwork Co.
material — Silver mesh bag — States- For the most attractive dining
ville Drug Co. room— Set of English china— States-
To the teacher influencing the ville Housefurnishing Co.
THE UPLIFT
19
-Domestic Science Fireless
-Lazenbv-Montogoinerv Hdw.
For the liume allowing the most im-
provement in beautifying the homo
grounds-
Cooker-
Co.
To the girl in the county 12 to'2'2
years of age, arranging the most at-
tractive bed room — Rocking Chair —
Cooper Furniture Co. Also a second
prize will be offered.
To the home making the most all-
round improvement — Mahogany clock
-R, F. Henry & Son.
To the housekeeper reporting the
greatest number of inexpensive labor
saving devices for her home, instal-
led since May, 1921 — Aluminum ket-
tle—J. B. Fraley.
To the home installing the most
modern Fairbanks-Morse Water and
Lighting System. Equipment to be
bought from W. E. Munday— Solid
brass round oak stove — W. E. Munday
Compositions and Essays
To the high school pupil in the
county writing the best essay on
"How could Iredell County have the
best system of schools in North Caro-
lina." Electric iron or its equiva-
lent in cash: — Mills Electric & Bat-
tery Service Co.
To the sixth or seventh grade pu-
pil in the county writing the best
composition on "The Most Interest-
ing Book I have read this year and
what it meant to me." Silver Ever-
sharp pencil— Statesville Printing Co.
To the man or woman in the county
writing the best essay on "One of
Iredell county's Distinguished Men."
$25 in cash: name of donor withheld.
This to include men who were born in
Iredell county or men who have done
'heir life work in Iredell county.
To the high school boy or girl in the
county writing the best essay on "One
of Iredell County's Distinguished
Men." $10 in cash— Mayor L. B.
Bristol, R. F. Rives.
To the man or woman in Statesville
or Mooresville writing the best es-
say on "One of Iredell County's Dis-
tinguished Men." $25 in cash. Name
of donor withheld.
To the high school pupil writing
the best essay on "A History of Ire-
dell County." Gold medal given by
the D. A. K.'s.
To the high school pupil writing the
best essay on the life of Robert E.
Lee, $5 given by the U. D. C's.
To the man or woman in the county
who writes the best composition on
"Can Rural Education in General
Equal Town or City Education?" If
not, explain the final effect on the
farming industry — Pair of blankets
— Wallace Bros.
To the man or woman in the county
who writes the best essay on "What
can be done by the average farm fami-
ly to improve the home grounds?" —
$5 in cash, Statesville Oil Co.
To the man or woman in the county
sending in the best detailed plan and
instructions for an all-year-round
garden possible for the average farm
family in Iredell county — -flO in cash
—Sheriff M. P. Alexander, J. A.
Brady.
To the man or woman in the county
writing the best composition on,
"What the Campaign has meant to
my Community" — 7:50 in merchan-
dise— Joe Harrison Clothing Co.
To the man or woman in the county
writing the best composition on
"What the campaign has meant to
me" — Merchandise — Stimson China
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Store. vite the patrons of the schools. Tln>
To the woman in the county writing club women and school committee,
tlie best composition on "How I im- men arc especially urged to assist in
proved my home at a Minimum Ex- making this day a success. If de-
pense" — Prize. sired, speakers can be secured from
All compositions must be written town,
with pen and ink, with subject, name Directions
and address on each paper. Further
directions will be given at teacehrs Teachers competing for the most
meetings and by circular letters. All impovements in schools and com-
essavs and compositions must be sent munities please send in reports of
in to Miss Celeste Henkcl not later work done not later than April 12. All
than April 14. schools and homes competing will
please notify me at an early date.
Certificates U1 jTOp0veinents should be made by
Certificates of merit will be given the first of April as judges will be
to those schools raising a.s much as out judging later.
$10 for pictures or books. In each home where improvements
Cert ilieates of merit will be given are being made, a. written report
to every child ill the county reading should be sent to the teacher of the
six books from the school library improvements made, and the teacher
or other source selected by the teach- will send in reports to me.
er and giving satisfactory proof to All improvements made in Iiome3
the teacher that the work has been or communities to date from May 1,
done. 1921.
Certificates of merit will be given
to every pupil in the county who has
a. perfect attendance record
Rules for Singing Contest
The following rules will be ubserv-
Certificates of merit will be given ed in the county singing contest to be
to the pupil in each school making conducted in all schools of the county.
th» highest average scholarship. *• Each school in the county shall
be entitled to representation in the
Special Days contest. The number of pupils in. the
Friday, March 17, has been ap- chorus from each school shall he de-
pointed as "Clean up Day" in the termined by the teacher but shall not
schools. This day may be observed exceed 15.
before or after but it is expected that 2. Two songs will be used, to lie se-
each teacher will make this "Clean up lected from the following: "Star
Day" in his or her school. It is hop- Spangled Banner," "Juanita," "Old
ed many teachers will make this Folks at Home." "Auld Lang Syne."
"Clean up Day" for each community. The songs will be sung without boots
Friday, March 24, will be observed and only two verses in each song.
as "Better Schools for Iredell county 3. The first contest for elimina-
Day." It is expected that each teach- tioM will be held at the following
er will arrange a program on "Better group centers on March 31, and will
Schools for Iredell County" and in- be conducted by the principal of the
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chool. Each school in the township
5fjll go to the township center.
Barriuger township, Pino Valley
school. Miss Madge Deaton; Bethany
township. Duffy school, J. I.. Holmes;
Cliiiuibershurg township W'avside
school. L. 0. White; Coddle Crock
township, Oak Ridge school, Paul C.
ikiirv; Concord township, Scotts
Iligll school, W. E. McDonald; Cool
Springs township, Cool Springs high
school. G. II. Ellmore ; Davidson town-
ship. Jit. Monrne school, if. M. Long;
E;l"le Mills township, Joyner school,
J. K. Critz; Fallstown township
Troutman High school. J. 0. Rogers;
Xew Hope township, Taylor Springs
school, T. B. Lankford; Olin township
Olin school, C. C. Holmes; Shrpes-
biivg township, Central school, C. B.
Briran; Shiloh township, Bethlehem
school, E. E. Harrington; Statesville
township, Oak Grove school, Mrs. A.
L. Lowrance; Turneshurg township,
Harmony high school, R. II. Lank-
ford, Union Grove township, Hender-
son school, H. P. Vanlloy.
4. Judges for the township con-
tests shall be chosen, one representa-
tive from each district. This repre-
sentative to be chosen, by the principal
of the school in each district.
5. The winners of the township con-
tests will be grouped for a second
elimination contest.
6 The winners in the second elim-
uitioii contest will participate in
the singing contest to be held in
Statesville,' April 22, 1922. In this
final contest the schools will sing
Star Spangled Banner and Auld Lang
Syne.
Rules for County-Wide
Debate
The following rules will be observ-
ed in the county-wide debate to he-
conducted in all schools of the county.
This debate will be in charge of Mr.
S. II. Stevenson and Miss Edna
Sherrill.
1. Query "Resolved that with ade
quate school facilities country life
can be made as attractive as city
life."
2. Each school in the county shall
be entitled to representation in the
contest.
3. Each scliool entering the contest
shall furnish four debaters; two on
the negative and two on the affirma-
tive side.
4. Schools entering the contest shall
be arranged in groups of three
schools each. The affirmative of
each group shall debate at home
while the negative shall debate
against the affirmative of another
school.
5. In arranging the groups, the
standard of the school and continuity
of territory shall be taken into consid-
eration so that schools of similar
standards in thesame section of the
county shall be grouped together.
G. Any school winning both the af-
firmative and negative shall be count-
ed winner for its group.
7. The following schools may he
grouped for other contests and a pro-
cess of elimination kept up until the
school having the best negative and
the school having the best affirma-
tive shall be thrown in final competi-
tion for the debaters medal at county
commencement.
S. The final contests shall be held
on Friday afternoon March 24, at 2
o'clock and contest for further elim-
nation on such dates as the debating
committee shall decide.
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9. The schools in the various groups shall not bar the teachers from iu;l'K, .
shall decide where each negative shall ins; suggestions as to structure aa.)*
go for the debate, select the judges, phraseology.
and make such other local regula- 13. Each speaker shall have ],;m
tions as they may see fit. minutes at his disposal. Twelve i.,:::-
10. The judges for the final con- his first speech and three for his re- K
test at county commencement shall be joinder.
selected by the debating committee. 14. If, in the preliminary contest I
It shall be theor duty to select the the same school should win out both Is
winning team and the best debaters, on the affirmative and the negative f
11. Schools desiring to enter the the school having the best affirmative
contest shall notify Miss Edna fiber- and the. school having the second best
rill at once. negative will be chosen for the final
12. It shall be legitimate for de- debate.
baters to get information and sug- Bulletins and information on the
gestions from any available source, debate may be had by applying to
but the composition of the debate in the County Superintendent's office,
each case must be the debater's. This
One Officer That's Not Asleep
It is so refreshing to find an officer and a job that get married to each
other. So often after the ceremony of connection with a job, the principal !
in it thinks, or acts that way, that the highest duty is simply drawing the I
salary and a sorry and do-nothing record follows to the disgust of law- j
abiding psople, who crave progress and the betterment of conditions.
There is a wiry, active and en- made since September 21st, 1921,
thusiatic man in North Carolina, one of the most efficient and
having connection with a hard job thorough officers in the enforce-
that comes in contact wiih lawless- ment of the Prohibition law. In the |
ness, meaness, if not degeneration, administration of his office he has
that takes his duties seriously; and no friends and no enemies---anybody
this fellow is winning by his activity that monkeys with whiskey, or so-
the applause of the good people of called whiskey, is the constant pas'
the communities in which he has sion of his life. Since he began
operated. This efficient officer, to operations, the boldness of the law-
which we make reference and whose less element has greatly diminished
picture is here printed, is none —they have moved "farther back
other than Daniel Franklin Wid- from the road," as read the famous
enhouse, who first saw the light of message sent out by the late Dr-
this world near Georgeville, Cabar- Blacknall, of Raleigh. One of the
rus county, on the 22nd of June, most notorious violators of nearly
1874. every law. that gets in his way, has
"Dan" Widenhouse, as he is fa- moved off the road; but ;:< sure as
vorably and familiarly known, has time lasts Dan Widenhouse will get j
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| him and the public and those who
; an? offended by his indecency will re-
••DAN" WIDENHOUSE
jolce without ending:. Mr. Widen-
house has put so many of the lawless
out of business, destroyed their dirty
business and caused others to move
back among- the sticks, and he has
won so much fame that the wouid-be
poets are wiitihg poetry about him
and his accomplishments.
Officer Widenhouse operates in five
counties and during his short period
of service he has made 71 seizures,
captured 30 complete stills, destroy-
ed 8,000 gallons of beer and captur-
ed 103 gallons of real whiskey,
which at the prevailing prices rep-
resents a value of $4,400,00.
If every five counties in the state
had such an earnest and active of-
ficer, who would respect his oath
and grasp the significance of his im-
portant job as does Officer Widen-
house, the ditty business of moon-
shining and illicit sale of intoxicants
would beccme quickly a lost art.
Dan Widenhouse is a regulation
Republican, stands with the leaders,
but with him in his sturdy honesty
and courageous manhood a Republi-
can bootlegger and moonshiner are
just as mean and as sorry as a Dem-
ocratic violator of the law- -and
here's where Dan Widenhouse com-
mands the respect and confidence of
the law abiding element in every
community where he operates.
WHAT IS A MINORITY?
JOHN B. GOUGH
John B. Gough was born in Kent, England, in 1S17. He came to Ameri-
ca in 1829, and while learning the trade of bookbinder in New York formed
intemperate habits, and sank to the lowest depths of poverty and wretched-
ness. About 1S40 he was induced to sign the pledge. He became greatly-
interested in temperance reform, and soon distinguished himself as the
most eloquent advocate of the cause. He was the most popular lecturer of
his time. He spoke nearly one hundred times on temperance in Exter Hall,
London. He died in 1886"
What is a minority? The chosen been in the minority. There is net
heroes of this earth have a socia', political, or religious privi-
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lege that you enjoy to-day that was the lives of her friends were in I:'
not bought for you by the blood and hands. "Let me aro!" she said. '.
tears and patient sufferings of the am going to my father's house. &
minority. It is the minority that elder brother is dead and he has lei,'
have vindicated humanity in every a will, and I am in it; and it is tot.
struggle. It is the minority that read to day." "Go, my girl," sai;
have come out as iconoclasts to beat he; "and I hope you will have son;;!
down the Dagons their fathers have thing handsome." These were th;
worshiped,— the old abuses ofsoci- minority that, through blood ac:
ety. It is the minority that have tears and scourgings,— dyeing flu
stood in the van of every moral waters with their blood, and stainta
conflict, and achieved all that is the heather with their gore,— fought
noble in the history of the world, the glorious battle of religious free-
You will find that each generation dom.
has been always busy in gathering Minority! If s man stand up for
up the scattered ashes of the marty- the right, though the right be on the
red heroes of the past, to deposit scaffold, while the wrong sits in Ik
them in the golden urn of a nation's seat of goverment; if he stands for
history. the right, though he eat, with the
Look at Scotland, where they are right and truth, a wretched crust; it'
erecting monuments---to whom? To he walk with obloquy and scorn in
the Covenanters. Ah, they were the by-lanes and streets, while"falst- 1
in a minority! Read their history, hood and wrong ruffle it in silken |
if you can, without the blood ting- attire, ---let him remember tta:
ling in the tips of your fingers! wherever the right and truth are,
Look at that girl, of whose inno- there are always "troops of beauu-
cent stratagem the legend has come ful, tall angels" gathering aroud
■down to us. and see how persecu- him, and God himself stands within
tion sharpens the intellect as well the dim future, and keeps watch over
as gives power to faith! She was his own. If a man stands for the
going to the conventicle. She knew right and the truth, though evert
the penalty of that d:ed was death, man's finger be pointed at hin,
She met a company of troopers, though every woman's lips be curlei
"My girl, where are you going?" at him in scorn, he stands in a Dfr
She could not tell them a lie; she jority; for God and good angles are
must tell the truth. It was death with him, and'greater are they tha:
to go to that conventicle. To tell are for him than all they that be
that she was going there was to re- against him!
veal its place to these soldiers, and
There s Place In Life For Trie Anecdote
CYRUS B WATSON: Able lawyer and fine citizen, practiced law in For- ;
sythe, Davie, Davidson, Yadkin, Sarry and Stokes, and was the pear ofay
man that appeared at any of these courts. It was at Danbury. in Stakes
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fcounty, that he was retained to defend a man indicted for stealing blockade
liquor from the men vho made it, hiding it in a tree-lap near bv. The
' owners making a search, found it, and instead of taking it away, watched
' ;;) £ee who came for it.
The evidence was that a man came Mr. Watson said: "Bill, they have
for it, they were sure it was Bill, got yo-j, unless you can show a clean
• j[r, Watson's client; when halted he back. If there aie no shot-marks
,sn and was fired on with a load of on your back I propose to remove
small bird shot, at pretty close your shirt and show your back to
! range; that at the crack of the gun the jury, in which case you will be
;he man fell "like a beef." but re- acquitted; that is your only hope;
gained his footing and escaped; that off with your clothes.''
Bill laid up sick for a long time and Bill rising and removing his coat,
it was not known what ailed him. looked at Mr. Watson, with a guilty,
And the witnesses were sure the sickly grin, and said: "I always did
man they shot carried a load in his have a bumpy beick." Removing
back. Mr. Watson was unable to his shirt Mr. Watson said Bill car-
break down the evidence by cross ried the whole load just under the
examination, and court recessed for hide, and you could not lay a finger
dinner. down without feeling a shot under
Mr. Watson called the Sheriff, the skin. When court opened after
telling him to bring his client to his, dinner Mr. Watson refused to put
Watson's, office before the reconven- Bill on the stand and he was duly
ir.g of court for consultation, which convicted as charged in the bill,
wasdone. When they were alone, (Contributed).
WHAT DR. WILEY SAW IN 1851
(NORTH CAROLINA READER III)
Spending another hour with the North Carolina Reader, which Dr. C. H.
Wiley, then State Superintendent of the Common Schools, prepared for
use by North Carolina children, the chapter under the title of "The Yad-
kin River" affords much interest. It was for those days a fine description
of the country and the people, but it displayed no little prophetic power,
which in a measure has in later years come true. It is:
We have crossed two rivers since and we observe that] it has some
we left Goldsboro; and now we have characteristics different from anyvre
arrived at a third, and the Ion- have passed.
gestof the three. The Yadkin is a It has a clear, rapid current; and
fame of Indian origin; and the it Is evident that it rolls along a vast
stream which bears it rises in the volume of water. From it s-ouree,
mountains. This is the first river near the Blue Ridge, it receives, on
we have yet seen, in our journey, both sides, a great number of creeks;
that rises In a region so elevated, and thus on its banks for a consider-
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able distance is one of the best water-
ed countries in the world. 'J lie
whole region is fertile; indeed, only
those who have seen it, and have
traveled over other countries, can
properly estimate its advantages.
Towards the South Carolina line,
cotton grows luxuriantly; and as we
go higher up, corn, wheat, tobacco,
grass, and fruits of the finest quali-
ties, can be produced in the great-
est abundance.
The water power is immense,
both on the Yadkin and its numerous
tributaries; and it is impossible to
estimate the amount of wealth and
•energy and happiness that will be
some day seated through this coun-
try.
(this item from the story will be
of special interest to those of us that
-did not live near those days) It is
in contemplation to make the Yadkin
navigable; and there is every pros-
pect that the object will be accom-
plished, and that at no distant day.
(Dr. Wiley's prophecy as to the
development of the water-power
has com-? true and in years to follow
will be much larger; but making the
"Yadkin navigable is an unrealized
dream; and Commissioner Frank
Page with a great concrete bridge
and the developed water powers
have made this part of the dreamer's
prophetic statement an impossibility
for ail time to come. - Editor's,
note)
The enterprising population \v h i ch
will fill this favored section, must
and will have an outlet for the vast
and- valuable surplus productions
of its labour; and the construction of 1
the Central Railroad (the Old North
Carolina railroad) will but increase
the necessky of making the river
also a highway for commerce. It is
said that it can be rendered navigable
as high' as Wilkesboro, in the county
of Wilkes; and when that is done and
the road finished, our Eastern friends
can make very delightful summer
excursions to the mountains. The
cars will bring them to the ri yer;
and there they will enter a tine steam-
boat, and pass up through banks
that become steeper and higher,
till the occasional cliff and pro-
monotory are merged in a compact
series of stupendous hills and craggy
precipices.
Lower down it is contemplated to
connect the Yadkin with 'he deep
river improvement, by means of
what is called a portage railroad; that
is, a road ever which thi freight
boats taken from one river will be
transported to the other. These
improvements are sure to be made
in the course of time; and just glance
your eye over the country, and s^e
what a land of promise it is!
If we camp beside our money bags, unmoved by the distress we easily
could help to relieve, there will descend upon us the accumulated hate of
generations.
*fc
S'ilf
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! THE WORLD FOR SALE
RALPH HOYT
Ralph Hoyt, an Episcopal clergyman, was born in New York in 1810.
He has written a few poems, the following being most frequently met
■vith. He died in 1878.
HE World for sale!---Hang out the sign;
C all every traveler here to me;
Who'll buy this brave estate of wine.
And set me from earth's bondage free?
'Tis going! ---Yes, I mean to fling
The hauble from mv soul away;
I'll sell it, whatsoe'er it bring;
7 he world at auction here ic-day!
It ts a glorious thing to see,- —
Ah, it has cheated me sore!
It is not what it seems to be:
For sale! It shall be mine no more.
Come, turn it o'er and view it Well;
I would not have you purchase dear;
'Tis going! ---Going! I must sell!
Who bids? Who'll buy this splendid tear?
Here's Wealth in glittering heaps oj gold:- —
Who bids?---But lei me tell you j air,
A baser lot was never sold;
Who'll buy the heavy heaps of care?
A nd here, spread out in hroad domain,
A goodly landscape all may trace;
Hall, cottage, tree, field, hill, and, plain;—
Who'll buy himself a burial place?
Here's Love, the dreary potent spell
That beauty fling around the heart;
I \now its power, alas, too well!
'Tis going!--Love and I must part!
Must part!— What can I more with love?
All over (he enchanter's reign;
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Who'll buy the plumeless, dying dove,---
An hour of bliss, —an age of pain?
And Friendship,-- -rarest gem of earth,
(Whoe'er hath found the jcrvel his?)
Frail, fickle, false, and little Worth,—
Who bids for friendship -as it is?
'lis going! Qoing!---Hear the call:
One, t.cice, and thrice!--- lis very loul!
'Tu'as once my hope, my stay, my all,—
But now the broken staff must go!
Fame! Hold the brilliant meteor high;
I low dazzling every gilded name!
Ye millions, now's the time to huy!
How much for fame? How much for fame?
Hear how it thunders! ■■■ Would you stand
On high Olympus far renowned?---
Now purchase, and a world command!
And be with a world's curses crowned!
Sweet star of hi ope! With ray to shine
In every sad foreboding breast,
Save this desponding one of mine,---
Who bids for man s last friend and best?
Ah! Were'nol mine_a bankrupt life,
This treasure Would my son! sustain;
■ ITjut hope and I are now at strife,
Nor^ever may unite again.
And Song! For sale my tuneless lute;
Sweet solace, mine no more to held;
The chords that charmed my,soul are mule;
I cannot Waf^e the notes of old!
Or e'en Were mine a wizard shell,
Could chain a World in rapture high;
Yet now a sad farewell, farewell,
Must on its last faint echoes die.
Ambition, Fashion, Show, and Pride, ■■•
I part from all forever now;
Grief, in an overwhelming tide,
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Has taught my liaugJiiy heart to bow.
Poor heart! Distracted, ah, so long,---
And still its aching throh to hear;---
Hoitf broken, that Was once so- slorng!
How heavy, once so free from rare/
No more for me life's fitful dream;---
Bright vision vanishing aw a])!
My harfc requires a deeper stream;
My sinking soul a surer slay.
By Death, stern sheriff, all bereft!
I Weep, yet humbly l^iss the rod;
The best of all I still have left,—
My Faith, my ffible, and my God.
Institutional Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
Mr. J. Lee White, barn force
manager, is getting ready to plant
the Spring and Summer crops. The
boys have already planted a little.
Weather b°.ing so favorable. Mr.
Johnson, during the time the boys
play ball, places up his net and has
a very pleasant game of tennis with
his boy-opponents, Victor High and
Willie'Cook.
Avery Roberts, Murray Evans,
and Loxely Sanders were visited by
"home-folks" last Wednesday. All
of the participants were very much
pleased and made happy by the fami-
ly reunions.
Mrs. Talbert, of Concord, who
has been sick for some time, but is
now quite well, has arrived at the
home of her son, Mr. T. V. Talbert,
who has a farm down the highway
just below the school.
Mr. Cloor's new assistant in the
shop building is Arvel Absher. This
statement is only made by that of the
assistant and is not guaranteed.
Other assurances must be had by
confronting Mr. Cloer.
Again the time for cutting hair
has arrived. After a month or so of
free growing, this work makes a de-
cided improvement in appearance.
If they have no better trade when
they leave hero, Lamb, Huggins and
Bertram Hart will make very excel-
lent barbers.
Rev. Mr. Lawrence, of Concord,
delivered afar-reaching sermon to
the boys Sunday. He spoke from
the topic "Persistence" and took
for his text the verse: "Re not weary
in well doing, for in due season we
shall reap if we faint not," which
suggested to him the topic "Persis-
tence."
One day last week, to be exact,
Tuesday, Howard Gilbert, who is in
the fifth cottage, received a crate of
oranges from his brother, Mr. Mack
Gilbert, of Florida. Very generous-
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ly indeed, he divided a portion of his
oranges among the boys of his cot-
tage. The boys take this means of
thanking him.
Last Saturday, Sanford Hedrick
left our midst to obey a court sum-
mons in Lexington. His duty was
that of a witness. Wednesday, he
came back, accompanied by his fath-
er, Mr. T. L. Hedrick, of Lexington.
Mr. Hedrick was shown over the
school, and was very pleased and
satisfied by his survey.
Because of the fact that the new
boys who arrive here are not
able to get the exercises in drill cor-
rectly so soon, several boys in each
cottage are detailed to teach the
regular exercises to the "new 'ens"
in the cottage basement. As a re-
sult of this previous practice, the
.squad which is drilling takes on
a more uniform movement and it is,
indeed, a pleasure to see the perhaps
future soldiers going through their
exercise so perfect.
Quite a few of the boys went for a
walk Sunday afternoon in a response
t,o its call to the awakening of
spring. The twenty-first of this
month is the date for the true ar-
rival of Spring and for that day and
many afterward, eyes are eagerly
watching. Spring means birds; birds
mean song ang music; music means
and brings charm to the soul; charm
means happiness; happiness means
joy in the belief of Christ and Christ
means every-thing, all.
Not being satisfied with the eight
or ten hymns sung in Sunday School
and Church, Sunday, the boys want-
ed to sing that night. So, per-
mission being granted by the officers,
they sang a few songs such as Near-
er My G< d to Thee, Jesus Savior
Pilot Me, Let The Lower Lights Be
Burning, Softly and Tenderly, Bles-
ed Assurance. 'I hese and a few
others are their favorites and they
are sung with u'reat ethusiasni
fervor, spirit and feelings.
Originality of the boys expresses
itself in quite frequent outbursts at
the school. Water wheels, wind
mills, kites, weighing machines, pic-
ture machines, cash registois-
though whence the cash I know not
--•and air gliders. Many more eon-
prise the stock but space does not
permit of naming them. Having
named the inventions, I will name
some of their inventors: William
Wilson. Jerome Bruton, Jo. Kennon
Alvin Cook and many others. Though
these have already been invented ly
men, they are home made and de-
serve credit and mention.
Frequently, something worthy of
notice happens in the "big" room—
the one of highest grades. For their
programme on Saturday afternoon,
the boys had to memorize the twelfth
chapter of Romans. Even reading
this chapter, improves a person
mentally, and morally, and, if wego
to extremes, we may say physically.
But knowing the chapter "off by
heart" aids one more than just mere-
ly reading it. Who knowsbut what
in the throes of some future pussible
temptation, one of these boys may re-
member a clause in this chapter and
by this substantial aid fight it off?
In the big room a picture was be-
ing placed. Mr. Johnson, using his
judgment, placed it on :» south
wall, a side wall. Mr. Fisher hap-
pening along at this time, said ia
his opinion it should, be placed on.
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the rear wall. Quite a friendly ar-
gument issued thereby. Mr. Fisher
(knowing women) said he would
leave it to Miss Greenlee, who also
teaches a room. Therefore Miss
Greenlee was appealed to. She
came and when she saw "how the
land lay," she verified Mr. Fisher's
judgment. Then, capping- the cli-
max, she stated that both pictures
should be placed on the rear wall.
Mr. Johnson does not know what to
do.
Saturday evenings are always
eagerly awaited by the boys, for on
this day they are the recipients of a
half holiday, A half-holiday mears
atrip to the ball-grounds where all
sorts of games to arouse the boy's
interest await them. Wrestling,
foot-ball, marbles and many others
constitute their program. But there
is one in which they take especial
pride, base-ball. Saturday, in the
summer, is the usual day for our
games with other visitors. Soon as
the b:-"se-ball season sets fairly in,
we expect and desire to have many
rivals. As they do well in most
things, so the boys do well in base-
ball. Watch how the short-stop
scoups up a hot-liner and shoots it to
first, the sensational successful long
tun catch made by the fielder, the
adroit work of the baseman as they
pull off double and triple plays these
are all remarkable for a juvenile
team, but the teamwork which ex-
ists between the pitcher and catcher
is what wins the game. A real and
unusual record is hereby predicted
by the writer.
missioners held at noon today J. P.
Cook, founder of the Stonewall Jack-
son Training school for delinquent
boys, returned to that body a large
sum of money appropriated to con-
struct a Durham cottage at the
school. The sum appropriated was
$24,000, with several thousand being
returned to the county.
This is made possible through the
fact that the amount appropriated
was more than enough to build the
cottage. --Durham Sun 10th.
NORTH CAROLINA'S GREATEST
NEED.
If one hundred persons were se-
lected from each of the one hundred
counties in North Carolina and each
one asked to give what he or she
regarded as the greatest reed of the
State---perhaps there would be a
variety of answers.
But after observation of years and
after seeing all of North Carolina as
we have seen it, we are of the opin-
ion that the jrreatest need of this
State is fathers and mothers who
will take charge of their children,
control and govern them until they
are 12 or 15 years of age at least.
Only a few weeks ago a great big
strong father told this writer that
he could not control bis boy who is
just in the ''teens."
In the name of common sense
ought not such a man to go home
and put on a dress, quit calling him-
self a man, and turn his houshold
over to the management of his wife
— Catawba News Enterprize.
Building Funds Returned.
At a meeting of the county com-
THE Uplift desires a representa-
tive in every locality to solicit sub-
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Write for information.
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CONCORD, N. C, MARCH 25, 1922
NO. 20
'ARE ALL THE
CHILDREN IN?"
Mother Church is most holy when she is
most a mother. An old lady lay dying. Her
youngest child had been dead twenty years.
She aroused from a long stupor and asked, "Is
it night?" "Yes," was the answer, "it is mid-
night." "Are all the children in?" was the
next anxious query. Then she closed her eyes
and died. When on, the verge of eternity she
drifted back to the days when her children
were young and her mother instinct asserted
itself in the only question she cared to ask.
When that solicitude was satisfied she was
ready to bid farewell to e.lrth. There is no
question more urgent upon the church to-day
than this: Are all our children in? — Parents
ought to lose more sleep over this question than
many of them do. When we see so many boys
and girls on the streets at night, and in the
c^eap shows, ^nd hurrying to dance halls and
all sorts of dangerous places, we feel like cry-
ing out for the quickening of the mother in-
stinct and the father instinct everywhere. —
Selected.
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Suhscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1020, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1870.
BE HOPEFUL.
Be hopeful, friend, when clouds are dark
And days are gloomy, dreary;
Be hopeful even when (he heart
Is sick and sad and weary.
Be hopeful when it seems your plans
Are all opposed and thwarted;
Go not. upon life's battlefield
Despondent and faint-hearted.
And, friend, be hopeful of yourself.
Do by-gone follies haunt you?
Forget them and begin afresh,
And let no interest daunt you.
Though unimportant your career
May seem as you begin it,
Press on, for victory's ahead;
Be hopeful, friend, and win it.
' ; -•• Exchange.
ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING
The astronomical reporter of the Charlotte Observer, in Monday's issue,
introduces Spring with a rain, lightening and thunder btorm, callinginasa
reinforcement the favorite Latin of the geometrician. . It is a iolly wel-
come to Spring, for which we are all looking and standing ready to meet.
But during the course of explanation as to how the seasons have a way of
coming and going, the said astronomical reporter makes this statement:
This is a spring month, but tomorrow, it is recorded, is equinox
when the sun, after spending approximately six months in northern
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skies, is so far returned toward the south as to be at the middle point
of its journey, after which it continues on its southerly march until the
long and hot days of summer are reached.
This jars one of our youngsters, Master Edwin, the smallest, and young-
est linotype operator in the whole state, if not in the United States. Ed-
win is siime authority on what geography teaches about the moving: stunts
of the sun and the earth, the latter interesting him considerably more than
the former. He thinks the Obsever's astronomer is all wrong, having git-
ten the sun headed the wrong way at this period. Edwin declares that if
the "sun keeps on going as the reporter claims, we will have winter for an-
other six months; and this will break all weather records of the ages and
put the ground hog out of commission."
This same youngster draws what Maury's geography ( a truly line work
on geography that suited the needs of the public schools and was kicked
out of them by a crowd of theory doctors for one that did not give even
a dozen words about North Carolina) has to say about the doings of this
season business: "In passing northward, the sun crosses the equator. This
bappens on the 21st of March every year. On that day the sun sets at the
south pole and rises at the north pole. At all others places it rises and
setsat 6 o'clock; consequently the day and night are then equal: this is the
Vernal or Spring Equinox. Six months afterward—on the 22ond of Sep-
tember—as the sun returns from the northern skies, he again crosses the
equator," and Autumn is supposed to begin.
Master Edwin, holding fast to his geographical knowledge, proceeded to
add, "when the sun in its northern course reaches the end of his course it
is Jtine 21st, the longest day, and this is called the Summer Solstice; and
on the 22ond day of December when the sun has reached the furtherest
point south, it is the shortest day and is called the Winter Solstice."
Edwin insists that he is right and that the Observer had the sun travel-
ing m the wrong direction. At any rate, both agree that "the sun do move."
JULIAN SHAKESPEARE CARR, JR.
,Mr. Julian S. Carr, Jr., of Durham, who died at the Pennsylvania hotel,
New York, Friday morning, was one of the outstanding captains of indus-
try among the young men of North Carolina. His energies and develop-
ing powers were directed along the establishment of Hosiery Mills,
Clean of life, with high and ennobling impulses, superb executive ability,
firm as a rock for equal justice among men, and a stranger to arrogance,
!
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are life things that helped to make young: Carr a choice spirit in the state.
Side by side with him through his married life followed the fine spirit and
helpfulness of a noble little woman, of attractive personality and a pleas-
ing and unaffected manner. She in her. maiden name was Miss Margaret
Cannon, of Concord, and when her husband come to cross over the river
this devuted wife and splendid little mother followed him to the very brink.
Young Julian Carr, as his numerous friends fondly spoke of him, dis-
tinguishing between him and his honored father, General Julian S. Carr,
was among the first, if not the very first, of North Carolina's industrial
leaders that inaugurated what we are pleased to term "an industrial de-
mocracy.'' It started off well; it was succeeding admirably; and, expect
for the effects of the war which has upset nearly every phase of industrial
activity, to-day would have been satisfactorily demonstrated and firmly es-
tablished. Young Carr practiced, even to his hurt at times, what he believed
in and preached— insincerity for gain or for notoriety had no acquaintance
with him.
This sudden and untimely death of a most useful and forwardlooking
citizen is a severe loss to the state; but coming when it did. caused deep
anxiety throughout the state, for his own father, General Carr, one of the
state's most beloved, was struggling to survive the attack of serious illness
and it was feared that this shock would prove too much for the brave sol-
dier that he is. The latest is. to the joy of the state, that Gereral Carr
resigned to the will of the Lord bravely stood the terrible shock.
"THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS."
Dr. Clarence Poe, on his page in the Progressive Farmer, makes vig-
orous reference to the ignorance and carelessness that prevail in the proper
course to pursue with infants. He says:
"First of all, lam glad that Mrs. Hutt laid so much emphasis on
health subjects, especially in the care of children. The death tate
among infants in America is a disgrace to our civilization. Fittingly
has it been called "The Slaught=r of the Innocents." And a very large
proportion of the deaths among children is due to the lack of informa-
tion. The mothers are willing to do the right thing if they only knew
what that right thing is. But so many of them do not know.
Not long ago I was at the funeral of a tenant farmer's child not yet
a year old who had been fed such things as cabbage, pork, bananas, and
sweet potatoes— and probably coffee! The child had seemed to flourish
on these things for awhile, and a more careful mother had exclaimed.
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"Well, it looks like that child that just eats anything- is just as healthy
as mine are, after all the care I give them!" But the change came—
and I heard the weeping of the less careful mother as she followed the
little white casket to the graveyard."
Taking- an accurate stock of the actual results, it is far more important
to see that the infant is properly cared for, to avoid death or an aggravating
annoyance throughout life, than to teach that child its letters. That agency
that treats how to avoid death, or illness, or maimness, or suffering- and
sorrowjn'motherhood, is the very highest type of promoting education.
Such things ought to and do appeal to all Boards that function aright in
getting- most out of the maintenance of their' agencies for the common
welfare of the people. .
THE BONUS
There seems no doubt that a majority of the people of the United States
oppose the idea of paying the soldiers of the World War the proposed
bonus;'at"any rate, at this time, because of the burden of taxation and the
unsettled condition of all businesses. There are many, who oppose most
vehemently the paying of a bonus to that part of the war equipment that
did not^see service beyoud the seas.
'lhe fact remains, however, that just because some or even a great part
of theipeople think little of the bonus payment, does not make a refusal
to grant it the right thing to do. Mr. Clark elsewhere in this number
feasons most soundly and clearly the proposition. He regrets that it has
been asked; but since the demand has been made and a feeling is certainly
manifest that the soldiers feel that they have not been handed a square
deal in comparison with the stay-at-homes the proper thing to do is, to jump
in and pay it by direct taxes.
Very wisely Mr. Clark suggests "keeping in mind the eternal principle
that should govern all tax levies— that all should pay in accordance with
what they have.''
A PICTURE OF THE PAST.
In the communication of Lawyer Caldwell there is evidence of an abiding
joy in the remembrance of scenes and experiences in those days when log-
houses constituted the average seat of learning. Many of our readers, wh»
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graduated at these mighty educational agencies, and who since constitute
the large majority of the worthwhile men and women in the affairs of the
times, will enjoy the fine description of how they endeavored to lead pupils
to think, and how they entertained theniselves in working off an overabun"
dance of ; outhful physical energy.
A vast improvement in the physical equipment of the schools has been
made, children enjoying certain comforts that did not obtain in the clays
of which Mr. Caldwell so entertaingly writes. But one thing is equally
Certain-- -and those of us who can touch both periods too well know---the
drill master of those days, the practical teachers, born to the art, and not
hand-made by an autocratic ruling, are not as numerous to-day. The tea-
chers of those days earned their reputations as school mpsters in the school
of experience and by successful accomplishments- they had never heard of
the "units" that play such a high roll with the teacher factories of the
present: times---and they did their work so effectively and secured such
practical results that their services were sought far and wide.
By an arbitrary, hand-made rule in vogue to-day, when a certain course
is completed in certain designated schools that pass muster with the theory
doctors on the point of "units" they are s'arted off as teachers at hand-
some salaries, even though they had not enjoyed a day's experience, lack a
teacher's temperament and have but little vision except that secured in a
six-weeks summer school loaded down with theory upon theory, many of
which change year after year with a change of faculty, or when the theory
becomes frazzled.
Teachers, real teachers that lead pupils to think for themselves and to
know thoroughly what they know, are born, not made; and no man-made
device or thecry or mechanical arrangement can change this law.
Hon. Josephus Daniels some days ago delivered in Pitt county, N. C. an
address of wonderful force and good sense. The occasion was the opening
of the "live-at-home campaign." which Governor Morrison has fathered.
Instead of confining himself to telling the farmers what to do, Mr. Daniels
analyzed most clearly the causes that have led up to the predicament and
condition in which the average farmer now finds himself. The reasoning
of that address can not be overcome, and it would mean much to the in-
telligence and benefit of the state if Mr. Daniels could be induced to deliver
that very strong address in every county of North Carolina. In view of the
impracticability of doing that in a reasonable time, it should be printed in
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pamphlet form and freely circulated throughout the state.
o o n a o
Besides the inestimable benefits direct to the children through the opera-
tion and talks of health officers, the important subject of the care of the
body and its healthful condition is dignified and is made a worthwhile con-
cern of the children. It is a known fact that oftentimes school children,
becoming interested in the subjects pertaining to the care of the body
through these visiting health officers, become real missionaries in their
own homes. It has been demonstrated time and time again during the past
year that where a schiol child has been lead to care for its teeth, the object
lesson has induced the parents to feel a keener interest in the condition of
their own mouths.
"It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks." That is true also in the
the realm of the kingdom of higher animals. '1 he missionary has but lit-
tle chance with the adult heathen--he seeks the child the child, becomes the
man-- the child leads the world. Many a father and mother, steeped in ap-
palling ignorance, have been brought to see the light through their child,
who chanced to fall under the influence of an agent teaching the proper care
of the body and the irr portance of the observance of the primary laws
governing health. This is practical education, that counts, even in ages
to come. Let such agencies be not thwarted.
Down in Pitt County the Prohibition officers are in action. Five stills
were destroyed in one week, 10,000 gallons of beer poured out, one preach-
er and a constable were arrested. This sounds like "Dan" Widenhouse's
doings, though in his rounding-up he has never encountered a preacher
presiding over a still. The foolish scoffers will in their, wicked souls charge
this preacher's unworthy and despicable conduct against the church. The
church, however, is decidedly the gainer to have the hypocrite jugged.
• • •
Sister Ellen D. Davis, a great grand-daughter of Benjamin Franklin, has
announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the
Second Pennsylvania district. Mrs. Davis had first decided to offer for the
United States Senate, but brother Davis, her hubby, thought a state-wiite
canvass would tax her physical strength too much. Such a considerate hus-
tup: uplift
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band and such an obedient wife! Such things as these convinc-2 us that the
world is pretty good in spots.
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THE HART IN THE OX-STALL
A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an ox-
stall, and buried itself in a truss of hay, leaving nothing to be
seen but the tips of his horns. Soon after the Hunters came up
and asked if any one had seen the Hart. The stable boys, who
had been resting after their dinner, looked round, but could see
nothing, and the Hunters went away. Shortly afterwards the
master came in, and looking round, saw sometning unusual had
taken place. Pie pointed to the truss of hay and said: "What
are those curious things sticking out of the hay?" And when the
stable boys came to look they discovered the Hart, and soon made
an end of him. He thus learned that
"NOTHING ESCAPES THE MASTER'S EYE."
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EDWARD PAYSON WHARTON
Greensboro, N. C.
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EDWARD
PA.^
WHARTON
Edward Payson Wharton', of Greensboro, is a cotmtry-born and country-
reared gentleman, having- been born two and one-half miles north-east of
Greensboro, July 18, 1859, on what was regarded a poor farm. There are
hundreds and thousands of good people of whom the foregoing can be truth-
fully said; but all these thousands of good people have not tackled similar
propositions, have not waged pro- self that the finest solution was by
longed and successful battles and
have not set in motion and in action
the great agencies, which belong to
the record of our subject.
The record and the accomplish-
ments of this man Wharton, at
whatever angle you view them, are
little short of marvelous and all but
romantic. Born in the country, con-
fronted by country difficulties and
handicaps, having access to only the
average rural school facilities, ex-
cepting a short period in the school
conducted in Greensboro by Dr.
Alexander Mclver, at an early age
it fell to his lot to direct the opera-
tions of the farm. Here is where
our subject discovered himself. He
used his head, and energy and am-
bition were greatly in evidence.
He set up for himself an ideal and
worked towards it. Anybody, he
knew, could work an average farm
and by industry and economy make
a bare living, but this did not
satisfy the ambitious youth. Taking
charge of the farm at the age of
thirteen, he reasoned out that the
finest method for making the farm
pay was by improving its fertility
and at the same time earn a divi-
dend; so he started a dairy, and he
it was that started the first milk
delivery in the city of Greensboro.
Though just nineteen years of age.
he tackled the proposition of how
best and most economically to meet
the feed proposition with his herd
°l cows. Soon he convinced him-
using silage, and forthwith he pro-
ceeded to erect for his own use a silo
--this was the first silo erected in
Guilford county, and probably the
first in North Carolina. This oc-
curred way back in 1879. From this
beginning and this showing of the
way, the use of silos has covered the
state.
That his mother might enjoy
more comfortable surroundings and
take life easier, and to give his
energies a wider field and larger op-
portunities, he moved to Greensboro
January, 1887. Here under the firm
name of Wharton, Hunt & Co., he
started a lumber business. The log3
were shipped from Moore county,
using the old C. V. & Y.V. railroad;
but when they changed the freight
rates to the prohibitive point, he
immediately moved a saw-mill to the
woofs and prepared his stock on the
ground. This Company finally grew
into what is now known as the
Guilford Lumber Co., in 1888, in
which he is now largely interested.
The first Fire Insurance Company
organized in Greensboro (1895) was
the product of his brain and vision;
and since that day a number of com-
panies have engaged in fire insurance
business at Greensboro until the
companies of that city to-day have
the distincion of writing more fire
insurance than any place South of
Philadelphia.
Having stai ted a real estate in-
surance business, in 1888, under the
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firm name of E. P. Wharton & Co., holders and a director. This com-
his father being the silent partner, pan.v does an immense business in
the business prospered and was re- more than twenty states. _ I incident-
organized as the Wharton Real Estate ally asked a mutual friend how many
& Investment Company, of which companies and corporations he sup-
Mr Wharton was the first secretary posed Mr. Wharton was financially
& treasurer and afterwards its presi- interested in and had much to do
dent This company later became with their direction. He answered,
the Southern Life and Trust Com- "the Lord, only, knows; but 1 know
pany its $25 000 capital becoming that there are but few industrial
later'a million dollars, all earned, corporations in which he is not vit-
and the stock to-day is marketable ally interested; he has been a most
at $200.00 per share. Of this com- successful promoter and made things
pany Mr. Wharton was president un- move."
til 1912 A short time after this I myself know of many other
Mr Warton organized the American businesses in which our subject is
Exchange Bank, now the American financially concerned, but the fore-
Exchange National Bank, which going brief outline suffices to identi-
owns Greensboro's first sky-scraper, fy him as a real captain of industry,
and which is one of the strongest and clearly reveals what seems a
banks in Piedmont North Carolina, tireless energy and shows a fine
For several vears he was the presi" vision. It mu't not be thought that
dent of the bank, and is now a direc- Mr. Wharton is only interestsd in
tor that proposition which leads up to
Five years ago the subject of our and grasps the almighty dollar. Ha
sketch became the president of the is public spirited; he is right much
Greensboro National Bank, which of a joiner of the organizations and
materially grew under his direction associations that have in view alone
and considerably widened its service, the betterment of community life
Jnst a month ago, Mr. Wharton.de- and increasing the growth of his
spiring to get released from some of favorite city. He is chairman of
his strenuous duties and availing the Board of Trustees of the Greens-
himself of the joys of outside life, boro Public Library, member of
effected a favorable consolidation of the Manufacturers Club, the Rotary
the Greensboro National Bank with Club, a director of the Y. M. C. A.,
the American Exchange National president of the Board of Trustees
Bank, in which he is interested in a of the Palmer Memorial Industrial
large way and of which he is a di- Institute for colored people, trustee
rector. of the Jackson Training School and
Mr. Wharton was also one of the the State Hospital at Morgranton,
organizers of the Carolina Steel in all of which positions he showsat
Bridge & Construction Company, at all times a deep interest, as if he
Burlington, ami was its first presi- had a personal return for the noble
dent. This business has been con- and ennobling service he most cheer-
solidated with the Virginia Bridge & fully and faithfully renders.
Iron Company, of Roanoke, Va., in In 1889 Mr. Wharton married
which he is one of the largest stock- Miss Ida M. Murray, a native ot
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Greensboro, a most excellent woman
and a member of one of Guilford's
most esteemed and worthy families.
By this union there were born two
daughters, who are now Mrs M. F.
Douglas and Mrs. Walter F. Cole.
There are five grand children. In
1915, Mrs. Wharton, being knocked
down by a passing street car, was so
terribly injured that she survived
the accident just six hours. In May
1920, Mr. Wharton was married to
Jlrs. C. N. Wharton, of Kentucky.
In this man there is not only a
native sense of justice and a desire to
do the right thing, but he strives to
avoid any attitude or position that
would even suggest taking an ad-
vantage. I happen to know of just
one deed that lies at the door of
Mr. Wharton that shows the manner
of man he is, and how far he would
go to see that suffering could be
avoided. One might gather from
the foregoing that Mr. Wharton had
only to touch a thing and it turned
into money. A friend asked him
one day, "Ed, have you never been
a stockholder in a concern that fail-
ed to make good?" He is reported
to have acknowledged that he was
taken in once by a company that "hit
the ceiling" and he not only lost his
own investment, but had to pay con-
siderable security money. This fail-
ure was not due to his management
and he was in no wise responsible
for the collapse. But following this
failure, and this I knew of my own
knowledge, Mr. Wharton did a deed
that not over one in ten thousand
would even consider doing. In that
company were a large number of
women stockholders, who could ill af-
ford the loss, and while he was in no
way responsible for thvir loss, moral-
ly or legally, he personally kept every
woman stockholder inviolate from a
single cent ot loss. Heaven had
been good to him, and in this manner
he grasped the privilege and oppor-
tunity of showing his gratitude.
If you would tell the average
Greensboro citizen, who knows this
man most intimately, his unblemish-
ed life, hisstrenuous devotion to bus-
iness, his activity and liberality in
church and civic matters, that Ed-
ward Pay son Wharton "is a high
flyer," you would invite a contro-
versy on the spot. That's just what
he is— only in an orderly and justified
manner. Loaded down with bus-
iness and business engagements, and
prompt in every duty and obligation,
he has several times flown to Roan-
oke, Virginia. A pressing engage-
ment called him to Roanoke recently,
and the schedules of the trains made
a negotiation of the trip in time im-
possible, so he chartered a flying
machine, bade his wife good-by
when she manifested an abiding love
for Greensboro atmosphere, and re-
ached Roanoke in ample time for his
engagement, and, bking aeriel, high-
flying so well, he returned by the
same method. Thar, has been the
record of this man of energy and
laudable ambition during all his
year;, and, as he approaches his
sixty-third birthday, there is no out-
ward evidence that, that tireless en-
ergy has abated one jot.
The life and success of Mr. Whar-
ton emphasizes two well established
facts: (1) in a large measure a man
is the architect of his own fortune,
can overcame obstacles and handi-
caps and, not ha.ing opportunities
thrust upon him, he can go out and
make thorn; and (2) regular atten-
dance upon the privileges and duties
of courch activities and contributing
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a faithful and liberal service to a a milk seller, a dairy farmer, then a
common pood are not inconsistent' captain of industry and a financier,
with making a handsome and honest now comfortable fixed, looks the
fortune. world square in the face— and during
Edward Payson Wharton not long- all these experiences and strenuous
ago was a bare-footed country boy, activities he has not forgotten God.
SPRING
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the spring! — The great annual miracle
of the blossoming of Aaron's rod, repeated on myriads and myriads of bran-
ches ! — The gentle progression and growth of herbs, flowers and trees, — gentle,
and yet irrepressible, — which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love,
that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power. If spring
came but once a century, instead of once a year, or a burst forth with the
sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder rind expectation would
there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men,
only the cessation of the miracle, would be miraculous, and the perpetual ex-
ercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second hand
of the clock, not by the hour hand.
The Wizard 01 The Alphabet
Did you ever think what a strange letter "S" is? It is a serpent in dis-
guise. Listen— you can hear it hiss, it is the wizard' of the alphabet.
If gives possession and multiplies indefinitely by its touch. It changes a pear
nto a spear, a word into a sword, laughter into slaughter. Farmers have to
watch it ciosely. It will make scorn of his corn, and reduce every peck to a
speck. Sometimes he finds it useful, before his horses, the team will turn
If he needs more room for his scock into steam. If ever you get hurt,
it will change a table into a stable call the serpent to your aid. Initan-
for him; and if he is short of hay he tly your pain will he in Spain. Be
can get a row of tacks and it will sure to take it with you the next
turn them into stacks. He must be time you climb the mountain, if you
careful, however, not to let his nails desire to witness a marvel; it will
lie loose, for the serpent's breath will make the peak speak. But do cot
turn them into snails. If he wishes let it come near you while you are
to see an engine about his farm, reading now, it will make the tale
he need not have ar.ycoalor water stale.-- Selected,
to work it; let the serpent glide
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PITCH IN AND PAY IT?
BY R. E. CLASK
Talking with a Confederate veteran recently (only a few of them are left),
he was recalling a number of acquaintances, now dead, who left good estates;
and he incidentally mentioned three or four who, he said, laid the foundation of
their wealth during the war of the COs. They were not in the army, and being
at home could take advantage of opportunities. They saved some cotton out of
the war, he said and as cotton was best service of which they were cap-
very valuable at the end of the conflict able for the support of the army and
they got a start. There was no crit-
icism of these men; no intimation
that they had dodged army service or
were given a special privilege in ex-
emption, or had taken undue advan-
tage of the opportunities that came
their way. Some body had to be left
at home; and those who were pro-
perly exempted from army service
cither for special service at home or
because they were unfit for military
duty, were not special objects of fav-
oritism, generally speaking. Hut- the
fact remains that those who were left
at home for any reason were not only
spared the hardships and dangers of
the fields, but they had opportuni-
ties— very limited in the war of the
Confederacy, but an occasional chance,
nevertheless — to safeguard their mat-
erial interests that the soldier in the
field could not have. And doubtless
when the survivors of the Confederate
army came homo, most of them stripp-
ed of their earthly possessions, and
found one here and there who had not
served in the army, better fixed, there
was a feeling of resentment, of in-
justice, that (lamed hot. Even if
those exempted from army service
Were justly and fairly exempted, as
they were in the majority of cases of
course: and even if it were admitted
that the stay-at-home had rendered the
to help dependents at home, and that
there was nothing shady in the tran-
sactions by which they profited, the
feeling of injustice remained. It
wasn't fair for one who had escaped
the hardship of army service to pro-
fit by it in addition.
There were few stay-at-homes from
the Confederate army who profited
because there were very few stay-at-
homes, comparatively, and few oppor-
tunities to profiteer. Therefore the
feeling of injustice was not so wide
spread, because there were so few ex-
amples to inspire it. The ideas sug-
gested by the Confederate veteran's
remarks, further suggest that no doubt
at the close of every war there is a
feeling among the men in active ser-
vice that they were made the "goats,"
while those who stayed at home were
the beneficiaries, who prospered at
their expense. The comparison is of-
ten unfair and the criticism of the)
stay-at-homes is often unjust. Some
stay-at-homes were willing and anx-
ious to go but were rejected by reason
of physical defects or were kept at
home for some other reason and
through no fault of their own; while
some who went did not go willingly.
Hut nevertheless, he who bore the
hardship and dangers of the field
feels that the man at home had the
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advantage — and that it isn't fair.
This feeling is intensified in the case
of those who served in the World
War because there were so few, com-
paratively, in the foreign service com-
pared with those at home; and the op-
portunities to profit at home were so
many. It is unfair to make it ap-
pear, as some of the former service
men do, that those left at home were
given a special privilege by way of
discrimination. The per centage
of those who escaped service by special
favor was small, of course. It simply
happened that way, not by prear-
ranged plan. Much of the profiteer-
ing was premeditated, but the fact
that the man kept at home, through
no fault of his own, had r.n opportu-
nity to work at $5 or $10 a day and
live in comfort while his brother en-
dured hardship and risked his life
for $30 per month and keep, makes
a contrast that rankles and is bound
to rankle in the breast of the man
who saw active service. It can't lie
explained away. And therefore, when
the former service man asks for a
small compensation that will go a lit-
tle way toward evening up matters,
his request is a matter for serious
consideration. We may not admire
the principle of the proposition. It
is impossible to pay in money for
army service. The value of the ser-
vice of the man who fought in France
cannot be computed in dollars and
cents. And when the man who came
out of the service sound in body and
mind demand extra pay, in the face
of the fact that the country is bur-
dened with war debts and that ample
jirovision should lie made for the phy-
sically disabled and the dependents
of those who perished in the struggle,
it is easy to say that they arc com-
mercializing their patriotism; ore
making an unreasonable request and
cheapening a priceless service to their
country.
But right here is a good place for
serious reflection. Those of us at
home, either because of age, disability
or circumstance, did not suffer hard-
ship and danger. Few of us com-
paratively, may have profited finan-
cially by the war — although there were
enough and more who did profit and
many who took unfair advantage for
gain — and we may have gone the lim-
it of our capacity to support the boys
at the front. But with all that we
had an advantage, we must admit.
The sum they ask is a small amount
per man, even if it bulks quite large
in the aggregate. If they feel that
it is coming to them should they not
have it'? Evidently the country is
opposed to the proposition. The only
thing that will put it over is the fear
of the soldier vote. But coming down
to a matter of exact justice and the
desire to have the men who did see
active service feel that they were not
objects of unjust discrimination, would
it not be best for us all to pitch in
and pay it .' Personally I do not think
those who did not see service abroad
should have almost as much as those
who went across, as the bills propose,
but that is a matter for the soldiers.
One thing I do not feel that we can
afford is to have these men think
their country has dealt unjustly by
them, that their service and sacrifice
are not appreciated; and so long as
their request is as reasonable as it is,
it seems to me that the duty is to levy
a tax and pay it; a tax that \vill bear
justly and fairly — heaviest on tli033
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who profited materially as a result
of their service. The great majority
of tin; former service men will not
profit l»v the payment. The few hun-
dreds they will receive will he speedi-
ly dissipated in most eases. But that
is their business, not ours. If they
feel they have it coming to them I
would not deny them.
It is all well to ask these men to
vait for a more convenient season;
I have felt that they should do that.
But they know, as the rest of us know,
that the propitious season will he a
long time coining, if it ever comes.
That what with the ship subsidies
and all the other demands that are
all the time being made on the govern-
ment, keeping far ahead or our re-
sources, their turn would be a long
time coming ajid their chances lessen-
ed with the passing years.
Candidly I have felt that this re-
request for additional compensation
should not have been made. But as
it has been made — and I have attempt-
ed to show that the reason for the re-
quest has a solid basis — and those who
offered their all feel that it is due
them, I could not and would not de-
ny them. But I would go square to
it with a tax levy, keeping in mind
the eternal principle that should
govern all tax levies — that all should
pay in accordance with what they
hi\ve.
The new guard on a Welsh railroad came to a station which rejoiced in
tie name Llanfairfechanpwllgogerych. For a few minutes he stood look-
ing at the signboaTd in mute helplessness. Then pointing to the board
.-Tid waving his other arm toward the carriages, he called, "If there's any-
body there for here, this is it!"
THE "OLD FIELD" SCHOOL
BY MORRISON CALDWELL
Dear to me are the days of the "Old Field" school, which I attended with
unspeakable delight after the "crops were laid by" and before fodder pulling
and cotton picking, and again after cotton picking and before corn planting.
The little log school house stood on the edge of an old field, which served us
for play ground. The cracks between the logs were daubed with mud. About
three feet from the floor a, log was About the room were slab benches of
cut out cm one side thus making a different elevations from the floor
long window, with a plank and leather for the comfort of the puplis of
hinges for opening and closing. Here different ages. In one corner sat
^as the long writing desk, where we the teacher with a bundle of fresh
sat upon a pine slab bench and wrote switches standing against the wall Q(t
in our copy books. About the walls her back. Her favorite discipline was
Mils and wooden pegs upon which
Wre suspened the hats, bonnets sat-
°iiels, and tin buckets of the puplis.
to hurl one of these "hickories" at
the feet of some culprit who was
guilty of whispering or taking his
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eyes off bis spelling book which was After the blue back we read in tk:
invariably held in front of the face MeGuffy's Readers, and the North
while the pupil kept up a perpetual Carolina Header and [ challenge (lis
noise by studying out loud. In the apostles of the present to show a
afternoon when the entire school was better selection of literature than was
told to get your "spells," a perfect compiled by Dr. MeGuffy of the I
bedlam broke loose with the whole University of Virginia, or a better i
school spelling the words aloud. In study of North Carolina history than !
order to appreciate the confusion one was given by Dr. Calvin II. Wiley in I
must understand the manner in which his readers. When it comes to
spelling was conducted or practiced in mathematics, 1 look back to those old I1
those days. The pupil was required days when we "ciphered" on slates
to call out the letters of each syllable with slate pencils and "worked out" i
and pronounce the syllable and then the "sums" in "Davies Arithmetic."
proceed in like manner with the next Here again I defy any modern school
syllable. Thus if the teacher should to show a larger percentage of pupils
give out the word to be spelled, who could work any problem in the
"publication" the process was as arithmetic studied. What we stud-
following; p-u-b, pub, 1-i, li, c-a, ca, ied in the "old field" school we
publico, t-i-o-n, tion, publication knew thoroughly and after learning ia
The principal text book — which every this severe school we had minds cap-
pupil in school was required to use able of thinking', which after all is the J
daily — was the famous blue back only education that is worth while. |
speller. And there were spellers in Much of our boasted education of to-
those days! Each pupil started with day, if weighed in the balances of
his a, b, e's, and ab-abs. ''Baker'' thoroughness, will be found wanting,
and "horse-back " were milestones In the "old field'' school we learn-
along his path of knowledge. "Imma- ed to spell correctly, to read for the
teriality " and "incomprehensibility " pleasure of friends, to declaim and
were the happy hunting grounds and recite the best masterpieces and
when he was graduated from the poetry of the world, and we know how
"blue back'' he could spell every to calculate any mathematical pro-
word in the book. I had a school- ■ blem of our after life. Thus equip-
mate, who wore out six blue back ped with the essentials we were sure
spellers and innumerable "thumb pa- of our selves whether we passed on to
pers," before he became thoroughly higher education or went out to fight
familiar with the contents. Xowdays, the battle of life.
methinks that fellow would have been Would that our school:- of today
promoted to second grade, especially would strive to emulate the. thorough-
if his father by chance happened to ness in these fundamental- It would
be a member of the school board, relieve us from an ocean 'f Sniattet j
The practical proverbs that we learn- and give us the Gibraltar of Thorough-
ed in tin- old blue back have been ness. Better a few things known
beacon lights in many a dark hour of perfectly, than a thousand thing*
life's journey. superficially studied.
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This picture ot tho old field ol ''Town bull." All of these were
I school would be incomplete with out out of door games. But when
a reference to our play time. Sad it rained and we had to spend
anil strange to say all the sports of the dinner hour playtime within
riV happy si'hool days have disappear- the school house our favorite
ed and are like the- "harp that once game was "Blind Man's . Buff."
through Tara's hall." I sometimes We accomplished this by piling the
sigh to think what the boys of today benches against the wall. Should the
arc missing in their ignorance of boys of Jackson Training School like
"Anty over", "Cat ball", "Leap to know how these games are played
frog," ''Bull pen," " Roly holy," I may take the time to tell them. I
"Hide eye," "Fox and geese," last feel that this article is already stiff i-
hut not least the old fashioned game ciently long.
Mr. Caldwell, though a lawyer, is a literary scholar, of wide reading, possess-
ing an uncommon memory, and once upon a time was a most successful teacher.
He never made a speech in his life, no matter what the occasion or the eireurn-
Etance, that in spite of all he could do the evidences of extensive reading would
pour out. He makes reference in his entertaining rvrtiele above printed that
forces"some more talk." For instance, that quotation concerning "the harp"
and "Tara halls" demands some attention.
Thomas Moore, the charming Irish song-writer — who was he? That calls
for another article at another time — poetically explains Mr. Caldwell's quo-
tation in these beautiful, singing expressions:
The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's "walls
As if that soul were lied.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is o'er,
And hearts, that once beat high for praise,
Now feel thijt pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells:
The chord alone, that breaks at night,
Its tale of ruin tells.
Thus freedom now so seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks,
To show that still she lives.
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SANDY, THE GOOD SAMARITAN
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS
Last summer I made the acquaintance of a most estimable dog. He is a
Scotch collie and his name is Sandy. He is a highly respected citizen, and if
he could talk, would occupy an eminent position in the community in which
lives.
Sandy spends a good deal of his
time at a little cabin in the woods, and
acts as superintendent over the place,
looking after the cattle, the horses and
the chickens, and driving intruders
away. His sense of hearing is so
acute, and his instinct is so keen, that
he can hear his master and mistress
driving toward the farm before they
come within a> mile of it. Sandy may
be snoozing on the veranda, or on the
grass under one of the trees: sudden-
ly he raises his bead, looks around
in an inquiring sort of way, his ears
stiffen up, his eyes gleam, and then
with a joyful bark he plunges into
the forest that surrounds the place.
Somehow be knows that the carriage
is coming, and he (lashes down the
road as fast as he can run until he
meets it with a joyful welcome.
Last summer Sandy's particular
duty was to look after the little chicks
that were hatched from time to time,
and that seemed strangely incapable
of caring for themselves. Xuthwith-
standing the anxiety rind warnings
of their mothers, these little stran-
gers would persist in running into the
high grass. This was almost sure de-
struction, because very few of them
could find their way out of it again.
Sandy took the matter into his
charge and with patience, gentleness,
and remarkable skill organized a life-
saving service that proved very suc-
cessful. No matter how he was en-
gaged, he never failed to make a
thorough examination of the hi«li
grass several times a day, and he set- 1
dom came out of it without brin»iV
in his .mouth a little chicken, which '■
he would drop gently before its moth-
er, a,nd then go back into the wilder-
ness for another.
Sometimes he would bring out lire
or six stragglers in succession. Scarce-
ly a day passed that his life-saving
service did not rescue a large portion
of the broods that otherwise would
have perished, fie never wounded
or bruised the little wanderers, but
carried them iti his mouth as tender-
ly as a mother would take a baby in
her arms. And it seemed to mc that ,
the little chicks understood that Sandy
was sure to rescue them, ami were all
the more reckless on that account.
There was always a colony of dojs
and cats about the camp, and when
supper time came, they acted ns if j
they were half starved. But Sandy j
always waited patiently until the rest f
were satisfied, and then in a most dig-
nitied manner he took what was left.
One day Sandy brought home with |
him a disreputable-looking ear wliicb
belonged somewhere down in the slums
of the city, and was called Major, i
He was a mangy skeleton covered
with wounds, and in a most pitiable
state of misery. Sandy coaxed him |
ii] > to the house, gave him his bed and
food, and licked his sores.
Under this Good Samaritan treat-
ment, Major rapidly recovered health
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ami strength, but nothing eoulil make separate Sandy ami Major. The one
jijni look respectable. He was such was taken and the other was left, but
a clog as would always be ugly and no sooner did Sandy realize this faet
untidy. He did not possess a single than he showed his disapproval. He
point of beauty, nor, so far as any one supposed that his friend was in a box
could see, a spark of intelligence. But in the wagon, but when it was unload-
he afterward proved the truth of the ed, and Major did not appear, Sandy
old proverb that appearances are oft- looked disappointed, and soon after
on deceit ful. disappeared, nor was he seen again un-
Sandy's master ami mistress did til breakfast time the next morning-
nut like Major. They tried all sorts when Major was at; his heels.
of ways to drive him off, but Sandy Sandy had trotted patiently back:
stuod by him and took care of him, into town, hunted up his friend, and
anil saw that he had a good bed and had brought him out to the cabin. He
plenty of food. made three trips of nine miles each
When it came time for the family that day, and that was a good deal
logo out to the cabin in the woods to for one dog to do for another,
spend the summer, it was decided to
But God's ways are not our ways, nor are His thoughts our thoughts.
Whether He would approve of a young woman dressed as a man appearing
in church, we cannot say, hut when we read that His servant was inspired
to write to the Corinthian Church that a woman praying with uncovered
hesd would dishonor her head, and that if a woman have long hair, it is a
glory to her, we believe that He demands decorous worship. — Eev. Dr.
Bridges.
THE WHITE MAN'S "BOOK OF HEAVEN."
D. D. PROPER, D. D.
One of the most pathetic incidents connected with the early settlement of
this country is found in a visit of four Flat Head Indians (sometimes called
Nez Pereez) at St. Louis in 1832. They came from Oregon to get a copy of the
white man's "Look of Heaven."
On Monday, January 10, 1910, Char- According to the story, which has
lot, the last great Indian chief of the been told ami retold many times, a
Northwest, died on the Flat Head missionary from California, about
reservation, Monta.ua, at the age of 1S30 or 1831, came into Oregon and
eighty-five years. Three Feathers, told these Indians about the "Great
were famous in Indian history. Vic- Spirit," and read from a book which
tor and his brother, Ignaee, a great Cod has given to men. He told them
medicine man, were of the company of Cod, the creation, of His love for
°f Indians who sent the delegation the human race and of the way of sal-
to St. Louis. vation through the Son, and of the
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Better Land Beyond. They were much
interested, but the. missionary went
away never to return. The Indians
decided to send four of their number
to St. Louis to get a copy of the white
man's Book. The way they had to
travel, it was a journey of nearly
3,000 miles.
Although their appearance upon
reaching St. Louis bore pathetic evi-
dence of their privations and suffer-
ing, yet one all-absorbing longing was
in their hearts, in comparison with
which all else was dwarfed into in-
significance. They came, they said,
from the land of the setting sun;
across the great snow-clad mountains,
and the wide prairies; for many moons
had they traveled. They had heard
of the white man's God, and wanted
the white man's Book of Heaven.
Finally they were brought before
the commanding officer of the military
post, General Clark, who, though a
kind-hearted man, was a Roman Cath-
olic. He took them to priests, and
while they were received with the
greatest hospitality, and shown the
pictures of the Virgin Mary and of
the saints, they were steadily denied
the oft-repeated request for the Bible.
They were entertained at theatres
and dances, but did not find the light
they sought. After a time two of
their number died and the other two
decided to return without the "Book."
A farewell dinner was given them.
At that dinner one of the chiefs arose
and said
"We are going back the long trail
of many moons, our moccasins worn
"with the journey, our hands heavy
with the gifts that you have loaded
upon us, but when we stand before
-all the old men by the campfire, and
they ask if we have brought back thai
which they sent us for, knowledge of
the white man's God and the white
man's "Book of Heaven," and we
have to answer, "Xo," then one by
one the old men will go out into th'e
darkness, the camptires will burn to
ashes, my people will go the long, saJ
trail to the hunting-grounds, no white
man to go with them, no white man's
Book to show them the Better Land
no white man's Clod in their hearts.
I have no more words."
One young man was so impressed
with the address that he wrote to
friends in the Fast an account of this
strange visit, and the pathetic appeal
of the Indians for a Bible. Some
Protestants became interested, but it
was two years before a missionary
started with the Bible for that land
Mr. George Catlin, the celebrated
Indian painter, met these returning
Indians on the' plains and made pic-
tures of them which hang in the
Smithsonian Institute in Washing-
ton. After leaving Catlin nnotherof
the Indians died, and so but one sur-
vivor returned to announce to the
great Council the death of his com-
panions and the refusal of t he white
man to give him the Book.
The tribe was embittered, and when
missionaries at length found these
Indians they received no welcome
from them, and the Flatheads remain-
ed unreached for many years.
Some time after this the Flathead
Indians heard of a devoted young wo-
man who was laboring among the In-
dian tribes on the Pacific coast. Many
Indians under her teaching had re-
nounced their sinful, s iperstitiota
lives, and were earnestly striving to
walk in "the way of the Cook.
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23
Strange rumors of this pale-faced wo-
man and the wonderful Book traveled
far south into Oregon, and some of
die Flatheads went to investigate the
stoi'Y for themselves. They had
meetings with the pale-faced lady, and
listened to the story oC the love of the
Great Spirit as revealed in His Book,
and accepted the great salvation.
They carried the good news home;
others also went and heard for them-
selves, and in their simple faith they
tried to live up to what they had
learned. — From ' ' Missions. ' '
Perhaps more ignorance is covered by the words "they say," or "it is
said," than many of us think. It is easy to throw responsibility for the
truthfulness of a statement on somebody not known and thus escape the
necessity of defending any false declarations. Gossip and scandal thrive
on such soil. These never care to stand back of their words, but they want
them to have the appearance of fact by giving credit for their truthfulness
to that indefinite authority, "They." All this indicates a lack of know-
ledge, possibly due to indolence in proving the facts. — Selected.
n
"STATE PROGRESS IN HUMANITIES
(At the recent meeting of the State King's Daughters, held at the Jack-
son Training School, there was among the other attractive features on the
programme an address by E. R. Preston, of Charlotte, who was specially in-
vited to be a guest of the convention. The Uplift made an effort to get the
address, but has just succeeded. While that particular meeting is passed for
some weeks, the address teems so much with historical matters of lasting in-
terest, that it will read well at any time.)
In introducing Mr. Preston to the and good wishes, and an invitation
audience, Mrs. D. Y. Cooper, now of
Richmond, Va., but for many terms
was treasurer of the State organ-
ization of the King's Daughters of
North Carolina, spoke as follows:
"At a meeting of the annual State
Convention in Raleigh in 1002 The
King's Daughters and Sons deter-
mined to adopt as their united work the
establishment of a, Boy's Industrial
and Training School, and at once be-
gan a vigorous campaign to inter-
est others, to secure funds and to dis-
tribute literature through the State.
Those of us who took part in the
efforts to obtain a charter with an
appropriation met only kind words
to come again when the treasury
was in better condition, until 1907
when a star from Mecklenburg came
on the horizon, and, like the wise
men of old, we followed, and joined
our forces with his. Who can for-
get the great mass meeting of women in
the House Representatives, when
Mrs. R. D. Johnson of Alabama —
originally of North Carolina, ad-
dressed the members, and a mammoth
petition, carried by pages, reaching
all the way down the aisle to the door
and back again, was presented? And
who can ever forget the thrills when
the bill was passed granting a charter
with an appropriation of $10,000.00.
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The leader of the fight is our guest of the State had known, but not the last
honor and speaker this evening Hon. however. It was wonderful to see the
E. R. Preston, and with him is his influence of these good women with no
-charming wife, who is the granddaugh- purpose in their minds except to help
ter of the great man for whom the the erring hoys of North Carolina.
school is named." Who that heard her can forget the
Mr. Preston, taking as his theme eloquence of Mrs. General R. D.
"State Progress In The Humanities," Johnson of Alabama, herself a native
spoke as follows: of North Carolina, as she told of her
"Fourteen years ago there assem- struggles in Alabama for a similar
bled in Raleigh, a small committee of School, and of its success, and how she
■women, less than one dozen, (some of had come back at her own expense to
the leaders among them, being pres- her native state to speak to the people
ent tonight), inspired by the noble she loved the best, about this work to
purpose to make another appeal to which she had given her life. Per-
the legislature of 1907 for the es- sonally, I believe that not withstand-
tablishmcnt of a Training School for ing all of our months of work, if it
delinquent white hoys, as they had had not been for this group of women
several times appealed to preceding an(J }[rs. Johnson's speech, the bill
Legislatures, but without success. would have been again defeated and
Prior to this time in the fall of the erection of this school delayed
190(i, a general committee had been
possibly many years.
formed to create sentiment in behalf Tt wns ., wonderful vision those
of such an institution, of which the women had, and tonight we stand
speaker happened to be selected as here as witnesses to its magnificent
chairman. This committee had done fulfillment . My study and observa-
its best through the newspapers, pam- tion of these matters, which runs
phlets and public meetings, to- arouse back for twenty years, leads me to
interest in this legislation, and had sav without flattery, that this is the
accomplished more than the forces equal, if not superior to any Boys'
opposed to a reform school realized, Training School in the United States,
as was evidenced by the monster peti- The Institution has been parti-
tion presented, which you may remem- cularly fortunate from the ven-
der reached twice around the Hall of beginning because of the untiring
the House. However, the battle was efforts in its behalf by you, Madame
a hard one and it seemed that the President, your associates. Miss En-
forces of obstruction and delay would dale Shaw, Mrs. I. YV. Faison,
again defeat the measure. Then it and the other ladies and gentlemen
was that as chairman of the general of the board, and also in having Mr.
-committee, I issued a hurry call for the J. P. Cook and his devoted wife, ad
representative women interested, to Prof, and Mrs. Boger, whose self-
come and stay until the bill passed. sacrificing and successful work a«
They came and the bill passed. knowa through North Carolina. And
This was the first "Ladies' Lobby" in this connection we should not for-
THE UPLIFT
25-
ret tin' years of unceasing work for
[he passage of this bill by Miss Daisy
Densoii of Raleigh, ami Hon. R. B.
Hi>d\rine of Monroe and the timely
aid of Col. W. P. Wood of Randolph
Count Vj who introduced the substi-
tute that we had drawn in the en-
deavor to meet all views, and was the
form in which tlie law was finally pass-
ed.
These Jackson Training School boys
are about the finest and healthiest
looking set I ever saw, and it is in-
teresting to know that of the 1000
bovs who have passed through its
elites, more than 900 have made good
and are now useful citizens. And
vet the Jackson Training School is
in its infancy. One Hundred years
from its foundation, it will probably
have reclaimed one hundred thousand
boys.
For some years after the bill pass-
ed, as Mr. Cook probably knows bet-
ter than any one else, the School was
in danger, but it has now become one
of the most popular Institutions in
the State, and The Uplift is a much
quoted paper, constantly keeping its
needs before the public. The appro-
priations made by the last Legislature
will permit many needed improve-
ments, and the policy adopted by the
board of allowing counties to build
their own homes, seems to have open-
ed the way for greatly increased use-
fulness. There are already five of
those cottages and others are in con-
templation. The total value of the
plant cannot be exactly estimated,
but a conservative figure would be
*500,0OO.
The long and strenuous fight for the
Training School was not onlv success-
ful in its primary purpose, but it
seems to have caused or at least aid-
ded in an awakening of the conscience
of the general public and the succeed-
ing Legislatures as to the duty and
necessity for humanitarian legisla-
tion. I'p to 1QU7, the policy of the
State had been limited to caring for
the violent insane, the blind and deaf
mutes, and providing in some measure
for the education of normal children.
Since that time each Legislature has
broadened the humanitarian activi-
ties of the State.
It may be interesting to briefly out-
line to you the State's Progress in
the Humanities as distinguished from
individual charitable efforts, since
the Jackson Training School, the first
of this particular class of Institutions-
was started.
In 1011, there was enacted the ten
hour law, followed by laws for the
protection of women and children
from night work, and improvements
of sanitary and health conditions in
and around the factories.
At this time also there was found-
ed the Sanatorium for the treatment
of tuberculosis, which is benefitting
those affected with the white plague
in many ways. This session also wit-
nessed the beginning of the Caswell
Training School for feeble minded
children, which will have in 1022, a
capacity of 400.
In 1913, the law for compulsory-
education was enacted.
In 1017, there was founded Samar-
cand for wayward girls after a, hard
tight in which the women of the State
rallied to the aid of Dr. A. A. Mc-
Geachy of Charlotte and others. This
Institution will in 1022 have a ca-
pacity of 250 girls. At this session
26 THE UPLIFT
also the Orthopaedic Hospital at marvelous and almost wholly new di
Gastonia, was created., or as it is com- velopment in the field of Legis.lr.tio!
rnonly known "Bob Babbington's There arc some pressing needs I
Hospital," for crippled children. Cer- which 1 wish to call your attention
tain ly no crusade in i\ holy cause was feeling sure that it' you undertake ti
ever actuated by the idea of Christ- aid along these lines, success nil;
like service, more than Mr. Dabbing- crown your efforts, as it lias done in
ton lias been through his long years so many ether instances.
of struggle, which at last have been It is estimated that there are hi
crowned with success. tweeu 1000 to 1500 epileptics, For
(Ine of the most progressive steps whom no provision is made bv t!
taken by the State for the protection State. There are many of the Cnui
and care of children in recent years, ty Homes, as was the case of ours in
was the passage of the Juvenile Court Mecklenburg County, until rccentlv |
Ai-t, (Chapter 97, Laws of L919.) "No which need modernizing, and here
State can claim to lie humane that might he well to say that the Conntv
tries children under a criminal code; ilome of Cabarrus is considered bv
places equal responsibilities upon the those who have studied this subject,
child and the adult; and that tries to a model to pattern after. If you have
get a conviction for a specific offense time while here, it might be interestiip
rather recognizing the fact that if a to visit this Institution,
child is in court for an act of delin- Inasmuch as it seems that the
queney, it is usually a result of con- present Federal Administration is i
ditions not of his own making, there- willing to give adequate relief to the
fore, he has a ehvira against the State hoys who fought in France, it should
to he saved from his surroundings certainly bo the duty of all organiza-
and environment and not punished tions such as yours, and I know
by reason of the same." This .act it will be. your pleasure to see that
gives the State, acting through its not only the soldiers themselves, lint
•Juvenile Courts and officers, control their dependent relatives are properly
of wayward indigent amd neglected provided for according to some or-
children under 10 years of age. All ganized plan.
of this work is under the general su- Probably the most inspiring devel-
pervision of Mrs. Clarence Johnson opment in the States Humanitarian
whose success furnishes a complete Work, is to he found in the Public
answer to the question, "Are women Health Department. The stamp at
qualified to manage public affairs. "If approval for what North Carolina is
her life is spare, 1 she will he of more doing, is shown by the election of Dr.
value to the State- than any number Rankin as the President of the Xat-
of mere "amassers of money." There ional Association of Public Health
were 10,989 cases looked after by these Officials. I believe it .tube said
courts from July, 1919, to Sept., 1021. without boasting that N'erth Carolina
As much progress as has been made now has as efficient public healtk
by the state in the humanities, we are system as any other State in the Union,
as yet only tit lite beginning of this Its benefits an/shown it the improv- .
THE UPLIFT
2T
ed health of the people, but there is a
vast amount yet to be accomplished
through all the various organized
<iocacicS| for we are rapidly coming
to the view point that a primary duty
of the State is to try to .see to it that
there are two and one halt* million
hcalthlv human animals in North
Carolina, with millions still health-
ier to follow after us in the succeeding
generations and we must start at the
birth of the babies. If the parents
are too ignorant or careless to look
after their children's health, the
State functioning through its schools
and courts owes to itself and the
child in question, the duty to step in
and see, to it that the little fellow is
made healthy from head to foot.
You are no doubt helping in this work.
If not, will you when you return to
your homes lend a hand by seeing
the Clerk of the Court in your County
who will put you in touch with the
proper officials and have your or-
ganization to aid them in carrying out
the program of the Health Depart-
ment ?
We have thus far out-lined some of
the concrete forward steps recently
taken by the State in Humanitarian
Legislation, but the greatest accom-
plishment is not material, but spirit-
ual. It is the complete change in the
attitude of the masses of the people.
Fourteen years ago it was hard to
arouse any wide spread interest in
social welfare Legislation. Now our
charitable institutions are the favor-
ites of the State as was shown by the
measurers of the General Assembly of
11)21, in appropriating for their en-
largement, a total amount of nearly
two and one half millions dollars.
It is the speaker's belief based nport
the best information obtainable that
no other State in the Union can show
such a record of progress in humani-
tarian legislation, during the past
fifteen years.
After all has been said and done, the
whole movement constituting as it
does, a grand epic in the life of Xorth
Carolina, is but the application of the
teachings of Christ, and the carrying;
out of the motto of the King's Daugh-
ters, "Not to be administered unto,,
but to administer." The old theory
was that the only responsibility of the
State was to protect society from its-
delinquents and unfortunates when
they became dangerous or a nuisance.
The new and more Christian policy
is to salvage every possible human
life, and to give to every child no*.
matter how bad its moral or physical
heredity, a fair chance in life, for, —
' ' We have come to believe
That nothing walks with aimless,
feet,
That not one life should bo destroyed, .
Or east as rubbish to the void,
When God has made the whole com-
plete."
The Beauty of the House is Order;
The Blessing of the House is Contentment;
The Glory of the House is Hospitality;
The Crown of the House is Goodness. — Anon.
28 THE UPLIFT
Lloyd George.
(Springfield Republican.)
No one need he deceived into thinking that Lloyd George's sun is rising3
instead of setting. He may swing in his orbit of supremacy awhile longer r'
but the night cometh. Since 1916 he has been a prime minister without a
party, in the ordinary sense. The coalition shows clearly the marks of ,
disintegration. British political genius has been shown not merely in the
cleverness of Lloy 1 George himself, active help of Amen iea's man power
bat in the ability of old-line tories Mr. George played President Wil
like Mr. Balfour to stomach thisold- son false and betrayed the liberal :j
time radical. That many of them principles of the peace-making in his
are now very sick of the premier is khaki election campaign of Dec-
evident, but Mr. Balfour continues ember, 1918 when his slogan \va>,
to regard him as almost as much a "Hang the Kaiser,'' and "Make the
political necessity as the throne it- Germans Pay the Cost of the War."
self. I his is a remarkable tribute Before Mr. Wilson had delivered his
to the Welshman. 14 point speech, Mr. George had de-
Mr. George was fixed firmly in livered one in the same spirit huthe
power by the victorious result of the forgot it and then the world forgot
war. That is to say, after ousting it at Paris. Mr. Wilson was made
Mr. Asquith on the ground that he the goat for the failure of the policy
was losing the war, Mr. George of appeasement in the Versailles
would have lost it himself if Amer- treaty, yet Mr. George's reparation
ica had not come to his assistance, demands made appeasement a phan-
The German break through the torn of the idealist's imagination.
British fifth army in March, 1918, Of Mr. George as a statesman of
revealed the military incapacity of the war period and after it may be
the George ministry. Two millions said that he did more harm to bal-
<jf American soilders in France be- ance the good he- did than any other
fore snow fell again that year saved statesman in the ttnglishspeakin?
Mr. George and made him a great world. As we Americans helped to
man in British history. Poor Asquith! make him such an overshadowing
What might not he have accomplish- world figure, it is permissable to tell
ed had he been favored with the the truth about him.
"Everything fails but love. The science of a generation ago means
nothing now. Institutions which seemed as firmly established as the ever-
lasting hills, have in the last years gone down in ruins. But the chang-
ing years do not alter the might of love."
THE UPLIFT 29
.o'-Jit«?-ia7ji1 l\Tr»$-«j. opened, has nn magazines for its so-
nstitutionai i^oie^. cietVi the ls( cottage very generous.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.) ly donated all it had for the new
cottage. The 1st cottge expects to
The orchard is being sprayed to have more soon_
aid the rich yield of fruit which i
expected of it this year.
When it is raining: at the school
and they cannot play ball out doors,
Parks Newton, of Fort Mills, the boys have games to take the
went heme on a hurried call to the place of out-door ball. Much enjoy-
sick bedside of one his relatives ment is derived from this pastime.
Monday. No dull days for the boys!
Dudley Pangle has left the school Capt. T. L, Grier, who has charge
on a visit to his home folks. He has of the beautifying of the lawn facing
sent his chum. Marshall Williams a the 6th 7th and 8th Cottages, has
box of candy. set out trees on the lawn to make it
,. , ., , similar to the one facing 1st 2nd and
The smaller boys arestill bottom- 3rd Cottages. Everything possible is
ing chairs, for this job they are b(?ing done t0 make the appearance
payed and they are quite proud of of (he schoo, more beautiful.
the honestly earnet money.
When Mr. Lawrence calls jut the
The pavilion is now fitted out whole band, th<»y usuailv practice in
with benches curved to suit the the pavilion. When a visitor who is
form of the pavilion. When visi- unfamiliar with the school comes,
tors go up into it, they can sit down and hpars ou[. bandi ha remarks.
and view the scnool. "whose band is that in the pavilion?"
Monday night is "roll night." The visitor is surprised when told
Thisis the night in which each cot- that the band is the school's, compos-
tage receives somewhere near 200 ed of boys, and he compliments its
rolls to be given to the boys. I need Paying.
not say that they are enjoyed, A lot of the caps worn by the.
' The boys who compose the Print- h°ys here we,'e SeUin£ <Jui-te d'3*
tng Office are anxiously awaiting reputable because of frequent use,
the new type which is to be used and not of abuse- Some of the boys
in this magazine, for they take pride jt is sad t0 SW> have no h°m%f,olks
in the appearance of their publics- to write to asking for caps Ihere-
tiun. ' fore for the past week the boys who
had badly worn caps and those who
Murray Evans, the "Ty Cobb" of were "capless" each received a cap
the school, was absent from the ball from the office.
field two Saturdays ago because of _, rtl . •., .. ,,
a lame ankle. He was welcomed , Jhp 5th cottage held its weekly
*hen he "came back" the next Sat- debate F rl,,ay-. ^ut not,wlth n%*%
urday. ual interest which attends one. Why.'
Because of the fact that niany of
Because the 7th cottage, newly the members are preparing for the
30
THE UPLIFT
debate which is to be held in honor
of Miss Easdale Shaw, of Rocking-
ham, who is to pay the boys a
anticipated visit in April and for
whom the society is named.
Because he could not resist the
bidding of his kindly heart, Mr. \V.
M. Crooks, in charge of the school
section Thursday afternoon, fore-
went the usual running around of
the lawn an^ drill and instead gave
the order: "By file, according to
size." Cheering arose from all
parts of the ranks, which gave him
to know that his kindly act was ap-
preciated.
Sometime Friday afternoon, it
was rumored around the school that
the school baseball tean was to play
the Concord "Y" team the next day.
This rumor was verified upon asking
Capt. Grier, in charge of the school's
team, Imagine the disappointment,
however, when Saturday came and
it was again rumored that for some
unknown reason the game had to be
postponed until next Saturday.
Capt. Grier also verified this rumor.
However the school team put on its
suits and had a game of practise
with the second nine. Of course
the second nine was defeated, and
it sure looked good to see our eld
battery, Russel & Hobby, back in
their old form.
The old well which was on the east
side of the school builaing, had ser-
ved its time at some previous date.
At that time, it was merely covered
with boards to keep the boys who
are at school, during recess period
from falling in it. It, being in the
way of the lawn grading, had to be
filled in. Capt. Grier who had the
job of filling it in, decided that a
good deal of time would be saved
he lodged a rock somewhere do?
in the well and filling it in from tin
point up. A big rock was chosen
and placed over the hole. Howevtr
when Capt. Grier tried to put th
rock in the aperture, it would w,
enter. This was not because of hi
that it would not fit, but because
some real strength was needed to
adjust it over the opening so it
would slide in. Many methodswere
tried, but of no avail. Finally some-
one suggested Pat. "Pat" is He'
nickname of Arvel Absher, the boy!
who takes any pi ize at the school of.
fered for plumpness. He has been!
at the school for some time no»,,
and is making a real good record.
So, when h^ was appealed to, he
came, and when he saw the difficul-
ty, he "wtnt to it." Very soon 1?'
had adjusted the rock, received his!
congratulations modestly, the Irofe
of admiration bent upon him he'
merely increased when he shrugged
his enormous shoulders as if to say, |
"Oh, that's nothing. You ought!
to see me when I really get started." j
Entering the Contest.
Mr. Fairbrother's offer in a recent
issue of The Uplift was made known
to the boys some time ago, a gc*F
many of them however, had a liter-
ary turn of mind and already Kn« :
of the generous offer by having red
it in this magazine. All through
the three weeks of preparation
every incident worthy of note for
use in the contest was stored in the
boys' minds, later to be placed m
paper.
Friday, with their previous note
and knowledge, the boy* wrote their
last manuscript with extreme u&
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of handwriting, punctuation, and lieing a carpenter and I'm going to
neatness. Many and various were win the first prize."
their topics: Doctors, Printers, "You're both dead wrong!" speaks
Preachers, Lawyers, Dentists, Me- up a third voice, owned by the name
chanics and Engineers. One boy of Wilson. "The sewing-room is far
wrote on a very deep topic, that of better than the shop or printing of-
a Chemist. There were it. any others; fice, either one. I'm going to be a
one thing being known, most of the tailor." And so on. This is a typi-
ompofitions are of such good quality cal conversation, every one confident
that the judges will have a "hot" of his abilities and championing his
time in. deciding which are best. It own special cause at the school.
is now foretold that this will be a To the ones that lose, we give
warm and hotly contested match. this consolation, that it is not be-
Conversation heard from a group of cause of lack of work,
boys: When they had finisned their com-
"What are you going to be, Bill?" positions, each bo,- handed his in
"Me? I'm goinir to he a printer, with a feeling of pride at the result
you bet I'm going to win that piize, of his work, full of hope, eager ex-
too." pectancy, and prepared to buffet the
"Huh! you haven't got a chance, disappointment, if he loses, with a
youknow the shop is better than the show of good-nature.- -One of The
printing orfice. Em writing about Boys.
Kindess
One never knows
How far a word of kindness goes;
One never sees
How far the smile of friendship flees
Down through the years
The deed forgotton reappears.
One kindly word
The soul of many here has stirred.
Man goes on his way
And tells with every passing day
Until life's end:
'•Once unto me he betrayed the friend."
We cannot say
What lips are praising us today.
We cannot tell
Whose prayers ask God to guard us well.
But kindness lives
Beyond the memory of him who gives.
—Edgar A. Guest.
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HAPPINESS.
Happiness is never an earning: it is a, by-
product; or rather, it is a gift. It is poured
into hearts prepared. I think that most of us
entertain a contemptible notion of happiness.
We think of it as one might of s, short potato
crop — not enough to go around. Indeed, that
is precisely the reason sometimes given for the
unhappiness of so many people — that there is
not enough happiness to supply the needs of
all. Whereas, the more happiness there is,
the more there is likely to he. Happiness is
not a fixed quantity, like the world's gold sup-
ply. Really, happiness is an infection: the
more who have it the more are likely to catch
it. Did you ever see one child happy with the
crudest toy, and another child unhappy with
arms full of toys'? There are not enough toys
to beget happiness. Happiness is a distilla-
tion, a recreation: a gift to hearts prepared
for it.— Geo. C. Peck, D. D.,
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Hie Uplif
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
Era Authority of Hie Stonewall Jackson Muin.. t ■ ■
School. Type-setting by the Boy's pS „ Sr^ **d,utrW
Two Dollars the year in Advance ^s-pton
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J C PISHFT? n- , „
=======L== ' Du'ect0> p™tihg Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec 4 1920 ,t +»,. ifT^L '
SONG TO APRIL.
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter;
inen, the moment after
Weep thy girlish tears! '
April, that mine ears
Like a lover greetest.
If I tell thee, sweetest,
-All my hopes and fears
April, April,
Laugh thy golden laughter
Weep thy golden tears!
-William Watson.
NOT FORGOTTEN
Mrs. Margaret E. Milliard, at the age of e,Vhtv ft u •
away at her home in Asheville This t * «7 KhtJ-three' ha^ ^ Passed
f-m Asheville; but it is not all'. "^ ^'^ that came out
The city went in mourning over the mssmo- „f „■
^loners, in extending ho o Tthf meJo y IfThT" ^ "*
ected that the firebell be tolled for a period of Z "T™' d'''
Revile T.mes answers quite fully the question- ? The
V'rtoUy ever, chant*!, institution that „»,■ „„« in thi. com.
ment
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munity found its inspiration in her. Early in life she realized the
duty of a people to its destitute and unfortunate. She not only gave
of her own time and money in relieving the needy and straightening
the paths in life of the straying, but she aroused the conscience of the
community. She drew the generosity and interest of others to her
aid and her individual strength was multiplied manyfold.
A woman of great personal charm, of wholesome intellectual inter-
ests and of nohle enthusiasms, she blessed the city with her life. Others
can take to themselves the credit for the business expansion of this re-
gion. To her memory belongs the distinction of a life that was truly
spent in the service of others and that revealed the heart of this city
to itself."'
Could any mar, or woman wish for a more beautiful tribute paid him by
the acquaintances, friends and neighbors of a life-time? This opportunity,
in a larger or smaller degree, is open to every one, who cultivates a vision
that reaches beyond self and self's family. One, who does not share ia
the spirit at all that governed che activities of this great woman,
who has just entered into her reward, are simply parasites, living off their
fellows and prospering because such folks as Mrs. Hilliard do live in the
community.
This woman threw out the life-line to many an erring sister; she aide!
them to find their equlibrium and make a new start. The work she did
touched every section of the state in some degree. In 1914 when a
certain sixteen year-old girl, the product of debased environment and with n
no wholesome directing influence, became entangled with the law and )i
was committed to the county jail for four months, by a City Recorder, who,
in explaining to some outraged ladies, cleared his judicial skirts i?) and
established his great wisdom by declaring, "I did that to protect the boys.''
But this Mrs. Hilliard, whom Asheville mourns, pursued the better course
in wanting to "protect the girls:" so after Governer Craig had commut :
the foolish sentence of four months in jail to "the care and keep" of Mrs.
Hillard's home, where Christian influences, wholesome environment and in-
struction were resorted to, the girl was transferred to Asheville, and was re-
cited, was restored to society, and, instead of being a menace "to the boyi,"
is now playing an orderly part in life's affairs.
The work and interest of this godly woman touched nearly every section
of North Carolina and Asheville, in honoring the memory of Mrs. Hilliard,
honors herself more in the expression of appreciation of the glorious work
this woman accomplished unselfishly throughout a long and useful life.
Serving rather than being served makes a memory that can never die.
Speaking of the great work of Mrs. Hilliard, the local King's Daughter;,
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who had much dealings with her and her institution, which she founded
and dii'pcted, recall a letter which reveals the deep interest and systematic
care that governed Mrs. Hilliard activities. Several months after the re-
ception of the girl, transferred from i ait above referred to, Mrs. Hilliard
writes:
"Madam President,
King's Daughters,
Concord, N. C.
Pardon my seeming neglect in failing to report sooner legarding
As you may know the Home is several miles in the country, and
in addition to the wintry weather, I have been unable to visit the Home
having been quite unwell for some months past. But I am more than glad
to report favorably— very favorably— as to since her arrival.
Mrs- .Montague, our most excellent matron, to whom I revealed the history
of the case---as a secret, not to be divulged to the other gir!s---has taken
special pains with her and she gives me from time to time, by phone and
letter, the report. She to-day assured me that is doing well,
and lias given, so far, no trouble.
Now, in regard to the matter of financial support to which you referred,
I should be grateful if the minimum rate of fifty dollars per year could be
secured, and paid monthly, if not conveneient in advance. You can im-
agine how without endownment it keeps the Board of managers busy to
meet the expenses of the institution.
Some persons not interested in rescue work ask, "does it pay?" After
an experience of 20 years, I can truly say, "yes, it does pay. There is so
much pathos and heart-breaks in the work of rescue, as you get a peep in-
to the underworld of lost purity. 0, if Christian women were only awak-
ened on this all important question of lending a helping hand to their less
fortunate sisters! (Signed) M. E. Hilliard."
AN AWAKENING
The light seems to have broken at last in Concord. The frequent mur-
ders that have occurred in the count}' and the sensational trials following
have given the county an unhappy advertisement with outsiders; but. in
reality, the morals and law-observance of the community are at no lower
ebb than in any other section of the state— it's just the advertising that
seems so conspicuous.
We started out to say that the light has broken. Civic organizations
have not thrived in our midst— they bob up with a flourish and then die a
quick death. That was the way they had of doing in the past; but to-day
well.
First, the Rotarians came into existence. They have lived for six months,
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and are doing- business. Second, a Kiwanis Club, of live, earnest men 01
all walks of life and professions -54 strong-came into life. Like the Rotthe
arians, they have caught a step. It is moving, in fact, in high gear The/he
are bringing to their meetings men, who have a visicn, a message and able*
to handle both cleverly before the Kiwanis. Such men as Dr. Frazier,
of Queen's College, has honored the Club with his presence, His appear
ance at the late meeting of the Kiwanis was a joy. He put the splendidea.
assemblage of industrious, active men in a good receptive mood by several,^
negro stories. Never heaid better ones— never saw one to surpass Dr. ed
Frazier in his impersonation. Had you not seen his delightful countenance. ed
you would have thought it was a real and genuine one talking. Having g„
done all this to the pleasure of his host, the able doctor led them off into he
a discussion of just what Kiwanis is, stands for and must be in a community. ,e
Third, here comes the organization of the Merchants & Manufacturers k
Club. There is plenty work for it to do; plenty for the Kiwanis; plenty
for the Rotarians. May the little measly jealousies, the cranky rivalries,
the gossiping clubs, the back-bitings and the blackguarding, all of which
have at times been raging in nooks and corners like a prarie fire, spend'11'
their last fury in the presence of an awakened town, whose citizen- ,s"
ship at last 'are willing to organize to promote the common good, divorced ^
of all personal selfishness and persona! profit.
It's a great day in the life of any community when men of affairs ar.d ie
responsibilities will knock off for a period and discuss matters that affect ™
the larger development and welfare of a young city. That's just what's ;D
happening in Concoid. Loafers, idlers, gamblers, murderers might just as !n
well give the old community a wide go-round.
The probable result: among other things, these agencies of communitj
welfare may ascertain if all the fifty million dollar road fund is to be spent |g
before a single cent touches Cabarrus soil. Every county in his district has L
something worthwhile going on except in Cabarrus. A delegation from one U
or all of these clubs might wait on Mr. Commissioner Wilkinson and aseer- ;;.
tain from him when the lightening is due to strike Cabarrus. All roads are k
supposed to lead to Washington ---certainly Charlotte does not want to push h
Washiugton off the roost.
THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS |.
|3
The Public Schools of Cabarrus county contributed the munificent (?) to- ,.
tal of thirty-five dollars to the funds being raised for the purchase of the Ms- i
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morial Chimes, as an expression of our love for the Cabarrus county
World War soldiers. One of the modernly certified teachers, explaining
his lack of interest and ability to aid in the cause through his school said,
"why, the chimes can't be heard in my district." We cannot see the
graves of the strong, young men of Cabarrus county who lost their lives
in answer to the call of their country, and we cannot hear the hellish nois-
' es that shook the earth when they were clashed into atoms, but we know
■ that soma of our boys made the supreme sacrifice; and the children of today
; should be taught and led to know that patriotism and a loving remembrance
of our heroes are not to be measured by sound or sight.
• •••»«•«
"SET A GOOD EXAMPLE"
The News & Observer, making note of the fact that Prof. Roswell
Miller has accepted a professorship in the New York University, has this
to say:
"Roswell Miller, the son-indaw of Andrew Carnegie, has accepted
a position as instructor in the New York University at §2,500 a year.
He evidently agrees with Lyman Abbot who said: The profession of
teaching is the greatest of all professions excepting only one. And
that one is motherhood." Mr. Miller set a good example for he does
not need to work at anything. He served in the Navy during the war
and such service makes men feel a compulsion to patriotic duty.
Teaching is the greatest profession only if —And that "if" must give
pause to all who dare enter it. Unfortunately too many enter itasa
stepping stone and too many more ply their holy work as if they did not
daily deal with immortal souls. The teacher who lacks the vision to
see and embrace the opportunity to lead children into nobleness as they
master the three "r's" should not remain in the honorable profession
for a day. They profane it."
He could beat that by coming to North Carolina if he's able to pass
the certification mill. A professorship in this state or even a county super-
intendent's job in a number of the counties, carries a more handsome
salary-even a clerkship in the educational department lays Prof. Miller's
compensation in the shade.
It looks like the News & Observer has made out a strong case for the
bond issue to improve the school facilities of Raleigh. The amount is stag-
gering-one million dollars— but those who have seen the sorry equipment
the Raleigh Schools have to go up against can well see how a million dollars
may be spent. 1 he Raleigh School equipment is not even comparable with
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Concord's, but Concord is making fight for $300,000.00. In Raleigh the
proposition is made to allow the City Aldermen to overlook and direct the
expenditure. This is a strong point in the vigorous campaign that is mak-
ing in behalf of the bond issue.
On the 20th of March, Mr. Herman Cone, theeldtst son of the late Cca-
sar Cone, of Greensboro, was married in New York city to Miss Louise Wolf,
a member of an influential and popular family. Mr. Cone is associated
with the large manufacturing enterprises that 'nave been signally directed
by the Cones of Greensboro, is a thoughtful and substantial young man
enjoying the highest esteem of the public. At a late meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Jackson Training School, young Mr. Cor.e
promised at the next meeting of the said board be would bring his bride.
The Cones, k -oping their promise, always make good.
Editor John.B. Sherrill, president of North Carolina Press Association,
had a meeting of his Executive Committee on last Friday. After trans-
acting its business, and a luncheon with Mrs. Sherrill, the Committee made
a visit to the Training School, going through every department ami ex-
pressing a delight with what they saw. Little Edwin liked the looks of the
visiting editors, and he's picked out the one he wants to work for when he
finishes his course in our office---Miss Beatrice Cobb, of the Morganton
News Herald may just as well install the very fastest linotype possible in
her office.
The mothers having failed and their own sense of modesty not turning
the trick, several of the large and fashionable department stores of Wash-
ington, D. C, have issued a ruling on the subject. Peek-a-boo shirt
waists, flesh-colored stockings and bobbed hair are outlawed. Glory be.
The world is certainly getting better, when the management of the depart-
ment stores recognize the necessity of insisting that its employees dre.;s
with more clothes and becomingly.
« a • 9 • »
Our capital city, Raleigh, is getting a deluge of evangelistic services.
The latest there is Gypsv Smith, Jr., ard the way he talks to the church
members makes his unchurched hearers appear pretty low in the scale of
goodness. If any one of the local pastors would say half as much to his
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congregation as does Mr. Gypsy Smith, Jr., that local pastor would he
waited on with a request for his resignation.
Another official will take a desk in the office of the State Educational
Department. The Executive Coir mi ttee of the North Carolina Teachers'
Association have elected an all-time secretary for the organization. His
salary is to he $4,000.00 per annum, or $12.78 per day fur each working
day. The selection of Prof. Coltrane, of Roanoke Rapids, is quite a hap-
py one.
Considerable hard-luck stories have been coming out of the east for the
past twelve months; hut an oasis in the desert appears by way of an an-
nouncement of the Elizabeth Independent, which is soon to have its own
home. Editor Saunders is preparing to erect a suitable office builiding on
his own lot.
Governor Morrison has named his commission to overhaul the system of
county government. It is a body of able men; and their task is monumental.
PHOTOGRAPH SMILES
This is a grouchy world. Ah, me!
A fellow seldom laughs.
Why don't we wear the smile that we
Use in our photographs?
THE SERPENT AND THE FILE ±
*
A Serpent in the course of its wanderings came into an amourer's
shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin pricked by a
file lying there. In a rage he turned round upon it and tried to
dart his fangs into it; but he could do no harm to heavy iron and
had soon to give over his wrath. •:♦
*
"IT IS USELESS ATTACKING THE INSENSIBLE."
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What Are You Going to Do About It?
By M. N. C.
What about it? Where can they go? Well, what about what? There
is a class in Cabarrus county and in other counties, who have no where to |
go. They belong' to the human family, ami they alone have to eke out a
miserable existence, and are a menace to you, to me and to all wherever
they move---and yet when they come among you, it is by accident or other-
wise that a discovery is made that they are carriers of the great white
plague. This, then, answers our questions above— that class of uninformed
poor, helpless individuals that go from post to pillar seeking just a living,
or a mere existence.
In this county, as well as in some
others, there is a movement on foot
to eradicate the tubercular cattle,
so that the health of the people may
not be impaired from that source by
the use of infected milk and butter.
That is a wise and progressive pur-
pose. It is highly humanitarian,
for it means that by the use of pure
foods nature is better able to ward
off diseases and to fit the body for a
successful wage of the battles of
life.
This suggests another phase of
the subject. The work is scarcely
begun when you eliminate alone the
tubercular cattle. Just think of
the many house-wives, as. well as
men, who are afflicted with tuber-
culosis and svho do the milking and
the butter-making. What is to be
done with these? A sound cow
handled by a tubercular attendant
may contaminate the milk just as
much as the danger would be with
a sound attendant milking a tuber-
cular cow. The best informed
among us are totally ignorant of
the pievalence of tuberculosis in
even our own county. Like a thief
in the night it is lying in wait for
the ignorant and the intelligent, the
poor and the well circumstanced,
seeking whomsoever it mav attack
unaware.
The treatment of bovine tuber-
culosis is one proposition; the treat-
ment and care of the indigent and
ignorant tubercular human is an-
other. Both are pressing needs in
this day. We cannot and mast not
side- step our duty, even if we do it
from a selfish standpoint---our own
safety. Bear in mind that it is large-
ly this class, generally in ignorance,
that is spreading the dreaded disease-
to a degree that is alarming. These
sick parents not only milk and
churn but prepare the meals for the
family; and in homes like many sve
have there is no way to segregate
the sick from the well and the child-
ren from the adults, even if a know-
ledge of proper precaution is pres-
ent.
The "John Smith" tenant class
are great people to visit, lor masr
of them cannot read and have no
other way of recreation or entertain-
ment. Together they love tc assem-
ble, tell their experienws, discuss
neighborhood gossip, talk of their
ills and misfortunes. Again, among
these people there is a prejudice
against intelligent and <- ;iern prac-
tices in dealing with vital protlenis;
among them thrive the faith in o=-
ing'' and in juices and teas from
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herbs and roots. This, of course, is
an abstract pen picture of a condi-
tion that prevails somewhat through-
out the country.
But here is a concrete example, in
fiesh and blood, and of the present
time, and within two miles of Con-
cord. The like of it are to be found
in every township, and from a small
spark a terrific and destructive blaze
may follow. I saw a whole family
the other day drive into the yard of
another "John Smith" tenant farm-
er. This family consisted of father,
mother ana three children, the eldest
just six years of acre. They had
lost out with a former land-lord;
they were drifting; no food, scarce
clothing; not a cent of money and
nothing to command money, not
even energy or ambition. The
shackly buggy and the bony horse—
mv God, what a picture!
There was joy over one John Smith
tenant meeting another John Smith
tenant. The children mingled and
were happy. The poor, emaciated
wife and mother tried to smile her
delight but the poor thing, hungry,
tired, worn out and diseased, made
a poor effort to he jubilant. The
fourteen months' old baby took sick,
bronchial pneumonia, that night. A
doctor was called. It was found
that the baby was under-nourished,
being cared for, rocked and fed by
a mother, galloping away hers.df
the victim of tuberculosis; and she
did not know it. and after being
told by the physician her real condi-
tion, refused to believe and resent-
ed the diagnosis. Already the fath-
er has been stung by the deadly
tug— he moves about listlessly, a
gui'ffle in his throat and a hacking
"°usrh. The world, the street, the
Pavement are his spittoon— you tell
that ignorant, lifless and hacked
father of three children and the hus-
band of a dying wife that be must
not e electorate on the street, on the
pavement or wherever he pleases
am: the occasion demands, he at once
regards you as interfering with his
privilege— the idea of an American
citizen not being permitted to spit
where he pleases he takes as an
abridgment of his rights and he
resents it!
L'nable to farm, unable to get
food, unable to get medicine, he pur-
poses to go to the mills where the
original troubles started. To make
a long story short, this man is carry-
ing a torch to a favored spot where
he may spread the great White
Plague among others, absolutely ig-
norant of the danger that threatens
them. This man is not the product
of immediate times and agencies and
perentage. He wss bred in gener-
ations of other years--he's just a
continuance, a reproduction of a like
kind. This leads us to ask the ques-
tion. What is to become of the three
children, who are not responsible for
their being in this world and in the
plight they find themselves? Echo
answers What.
To make every cow in the land as
healthy as healthy can bp, or kill off
every cow, even put them out of
commission altogether, will not save
these children and hundreds of others
in our own country, who are daily ex-
posed to tubercular parents. There
must be a place to segregate these
afflicted parents, a county Tubercu-
lar Camp; there must be enlarged
and increased efforts to educate the
people how to meet these situations,
how to avoid these situations. The
education that teaches a child his
letters and does not teach him the
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simple laws of nature and body-care Tubercular Camp for th? treatment'
is a fraud and a snare. Every intelli- of the indigent tubercular and in. ■
gent man and woman, individually crease our efforts to make every"
and in organized government, will body familiar with the necessary !
be held responsible for the crime of precautions to ward oil' this dreaded '
neglect of a sacred duty to the less disease and the other complaints
fortunate---a duty that contemplates which intelligence annihilates by'
rescuing the indigent and the child- the activities of health officers and
ren from a slavery of ignorance in other propaganda, then we mav
our midst and preventing a slow tor- stand up and be counted— short o'f
Turing physical death. When we this, we are dodgers, shirkers
have established in the counties a parasites.
When a college professor winds his intellectual tail around a limb of
Darwin's family tree he naturally looks down with contempt upon ordin-
ary people who walk on the ground and who were made in the image of
God. But while this gives amusement to the "tree niaoi," it does not
disturb the people, except when such men take charge of the educational
system of the country and undermine the faith of those entrusted to their
care. — Bryan.
THE BATTLES OF SKY
BY K. K. CLARK
Beheld the faker! He is always up and dressed, going to and fro in tie
ear-th and up and down in it, seeking whom he may rob, and lie works the game
successfully that he should flourish like the green bay free, if he dosen't. There
are major fakers and minor fakers — those who do business in a small way and
those who go after big game and make a killing. The amazing part of this
faker game is that the fish are always common that it is surprising that t.ij-
so plentiful and ready to bite. It body with sufficient knowledge to jo
is admitted at the outset that few about alone would fall for them, but
there lie who are entirely faker proof; which find ready and willing victims;
who do not at some time and in some and sometimes the same folks fall for
way, fall a victim, if even in small the same game twice or thrice,
measure, to the faker's wiles. So To enumerate the many anil devi-
matter how shrewd nor how careful ous ways worked out to separate the
one may be, he is almost certain to unsuspecting from their cash would
meet at some time, when he is not make a book. The common class of
on guard, a faker who will work him. fakers ever present with us are what
The purpose here is to consider are commonly ter 1 deadbeats—
the success of the fake games that those who make debts and never psj
are worked over and over, that are so them and have no purpose to par
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when they make the debt. They are
morally worse than the thief. The
thief robs in the darkness or when
your back is turned, and makes no
pretension of paying baek. The faker
violates the trust reposed in him,
destroys confidence and commits
robbery. He is doubly guilty. It is
amazing that tho deadbeat class can
work their game in the same com-
munity, and frequently on the same
people, through the years. In almost
every community there are people who
are generally known to be bad pay —
who can't be depended on to pay a
debt. And yet they continue to get
credit. They seem to have a way
with them that enables them to
successfully rob their fellow-citizens
and keep on robbing without reaching
tie end of the rope. Why people will
continue to trust folks whose reputa-
tion for untr.ustworthiness is well es-
tablished is one of the unsolved
mysteries. The honest man who pays
his debts is compelled to contribute to
the support of the deadbeats for the
merchant levies enough profit on
those who pay to take care in part at
least of his losses through br,d debts.
That rankles in the breast of the hon-
est man, and he would probably do
something about it if he could.
Among the major fakers the more
spectacular class are the check flash-
ers, the fake stock salesman, etc.
A stranger comes into town, buys a
few dollars; worth at store, offers
a sizable check in payment and wants
the difference in cash. The merchant
never saw him before, knows nothing
shout him, but the desire to accom-
modate and to sell a few goods re-
sults in !ns cashing the worthless
check, flu- same game is sometimes
worked on two or three business men
in the same town,, the bird of passage;
pockets the cash and is gone. That
game is so old, so common, that it is
a wonder that the veriest amateur iu
business would fa.ll for it. But it is a
fact that leading and experienced
business men constantly are taken in.
Why anybody should cash a check for
an utter stranger without some sort
of identification is one of the un-
solved mysteries.
The "phony" stock .salesman
flourishes like a green bay tree. It is
estimated that this class of fakers
took many millions from North Caro-
linians these past few years. The
papers are full of the exposures, but
the business goes on. Similar fakers
find easy marks where others have but
recently gathered a harvest. This last
game is more easily understood than
those mentioned. The buyer of "pho-
ny" stock is a victim of greed. He ex-
pects to get inordinate profits. His
common sense would tell him, if he
would exercise it, that there is no
such thing as getting something for
nothing and that when such offer is
made it stamps itself as a fake. But
greed overrules common sense. The
get-rieh-quiek schemes will •-always
flourish because the desire to get some-
thing for nothing, to accumulate
wealth rapidly, is so overpowering in
the average mortal that they who fall
into the snare are many and the num-
ber never grows less.
It is one of the unsolved mysteries
why so many people of intelligence
will buy stock from :* stranger, in
some enterprise of which they know
nothing, while they will refuse to take
stoek in a home enterprise?, manned
bv home folks, their friends and
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neighbors whom they have known brother would say. The fakers find sj :
all their lives. It is the distance that many people who are ready, willing
lends enchantment to the view. No and anxious to be relieved of their ,
man is hero to his own valet, tliey say ; surplus coin that sometimes I feel ;
and we will fall for a smooth-tongued they are not so much to blame. It's
stranger, of whom we know nothing, true that the same industry, in.
rather than trust our money with the genuity and rapacity that is expended |
jjeople we do know and in whom we in fake games would earn splendid re-
have confidence. The building and turns, better returns, in honest bu=i-
loaai associations, which do more to ness. But the desire to fake is so
build up a community than any other strong in tin- crooked that they prefer
agency, give a good return direct to that way with less returns than to
investors and a good return indirectly walk the path of recitude. And there
in enhancing all community values are so many who are tolerant of the
But the building and loan associa- fakers, who seemingly prefer to deal i
tions never have enough money to with the dishonest rather than the
supply the demands made on them. Too honest, that it is a temptation to lion-
many local citizens put their money est people to play a fake game, senng
into oil stocks or other ventures of that so many folks apparently pre-
like kind. fer that sort.
But what's the use? As Col. Fair-
In a sensible editorial concerning the work of Bliss Bs(in, representing
the American Social Hygiene Association, Col. Harris concludes:
"She believes that the moral standards of a. community are altogether
the rcsponsibiltiy of its adult members. Because youth must be served,
and it is the elders who furnish the knowledge and the diversions they seek
so eagerly. Whether there is wholesome and plentiful recreation, and up-
lifting educational facilities, is a matter for the grownups; it is their duty,
lest the children find for themselves the questionable diversions. For a
child is unquestionably the product of its environment and its education.
Perhaps, chiefly, environment, for, after all, morals are caught,— not
taught."
I here s Place In Life For Tbe Anecdote
HARDSHELLED BAPTIST: Fifteen years ago there was a man from
back in the cabbage counties of North Carolina or Virginia, who, knowing
the demand for a cabbage seed that came from the country where the fine
mountain cabbages prow, and having a desire to ramble and seethe
country, followed the courts in western North Carolina, carrying a haver-
sack loaded with these cabbage seed, his own raising which he retailed at
15 cents a teaspoonful. He was a ignoramus; and with ii all an un-
man of good qualities, far from an compromising "Hardshelled Cap-
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tist." he would give the company an ob-
[ was looking after the interests iect lesson that would clinch his side
0f a well known newspaper at this for all time; so he called for a black
time, and attending these same walnut and a hammer. Taking the
courts, and the man had the un- walnut he said: "this outer hull re-
nsual name of Chenault, by the way presents the Methodist, soft and
a very respected name in some parts, easy to fall. This hard substance
as I learned afterwards. It was at represents the missionary Baptist,
Taylorsville that I heard a man tell and mighty good folks; but now I
this story on our friend Chenault. am going to show you what is inside
He went home with or stopped this, the kernel, and it represents
for the night with a family back in the true church, the Hardshell Bap-
the foothills of Alexander county, tist;" and with that he cracked the
and there was quite a company of walnut with the hammer, and be-
neighbors and friends there that hold the kernel was ROTTEN,
evening, and in the conversation Mr. Chenault was dumfounded,
they got into an argument about but the laugh and roar and chiding
which was the greatest church, and that went up from that crowd was
Mr. Chenault had held up his end enough to make him leave in the
pretty well, so well that he decided night. ---Contributed.
THE STORY OF A PENNY
BY REBECCA CHAMBERS
One Jay soon after I was mined I was given to a man and lie put me iu his
cash register. Very' soon a man came and took me out and put me in his
pocket. I was not in there long before his little girl asked him for a penny.
He gave me to her, she gave me to a man for some candy and he put me in the
cash register. I was not there but a day when a woman came and gave the
man a niekle and wanted five pennies. The man gave me to her and four
others. This woman had five little children, she gave each child a penny
and they took it to Sunday School. I was given to the youngest child which
was a boy. He had a little poem to say this Sunday and this is what he had
to say :
Japan must he remembered
So I this penny give
To help to send the gospel
To teach them how to live.
After hi' had said His poem he gave me to the Superintendent of the Sun-
day School and sent me off with thousands of other pennies to Russia to help
the other people.
When we reached Russia a penny was given to every little girl. I was given
to little girl that had never had any money in her hands. All the other
children bought candy except this little girl, she was so happy that she would
lot spend me and I was happy too because I had made some one else happy.
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JOURNALISM, A PERSONALITY
BV 0. W. HUNT
This writer lias always said, and still savs, that no man could hire him
to edit a paper according" to the policy of the owner, whoever he was or
whatever the compensation. His idea of j lurnalism is personal journalism
by which I mean a paper the personality of the editor being the main
attraction to its readers. The editor may not have any great natural abili-
ty, but if there is a streak of personality in it, it becomes attractive. The
history of the great papers of the Daily Charlotte Observer. His un-
19th century, especially the latier timely passing did not kill the Ob-
part, stand out in just a few great server,, except- in the eyes of those
editors. Chas. A. Dana made the who loved and read it for the veal
New York Sun what was perhaps worth of the man. His personality
the greatest of its time. Without ami fompkins money made the foun-
Dana it has never had ?nv prestige dation on which a great paper rests,
as compared with its founder, and is These examples are shining lights,
now noted for its bitter partisan Otheis of smaller degree have sue-
politics. The New YorK Herald was ceeded by the personal vein thrown
the work of Janus Gordan Bennett, into the editorial pages. The It-
and when his personality went out, LIFT carries such, if the editor is
its great, name went also. These not aware of it. hew papers carry
can still be great as commercial pa- a cleaner, readable, interesting edi-
pers, and all papers can succeed torial page than does the UPLIFT,
commercially with no great editorial and it is this personal touch that
policy. makes it popular; as much s > as the
In the south the Louisville Con- cause it represents I have always
rier- Journal was the chili of Henry noted these things, and sometime
Waterson, and was an authority on they far outweigh money in building
liberal goverment. Men waited for a newspaper. I know there are those
the editoral of Henry Waterson who draw wages to edit a paper, and
and formed their policies by it. In and who do well, but history records
his death went the power of that few that ever reached an enviable |
paper as a leader of southern place. The paper that has a free hand
thought. Henry Grady and the ed editor and who has the knack of
Atlanta Constitution were synonim- handling men in a personal way,
ous terms, while Grady lived and edit- fair, yet critical, has a following
ed it, and it was Grady's personality that the generalizer and hinter at
that made it what it was; he thought things cannot command. Personal
correctly, fairly, ably, and in the touch: Knowing men and being
few years he lived made a national known of men.
name through a distinct personality. This rule, as I see it, applies to
The late Joseph Pearson Caldwell church and society organs. These
made a country weekly a great may be taken and paid for and nut
name through his personality, which read, and hence do little good. But
ability -vas easily transfered to the if they are taken on account of
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magnetism or personality of the man belief that editors, real editors, are
who writes its editorial policy and born, not made; and that many a
tl,e paper sparkles with all these, good thing has been ruined in the
then it is not only taken but read making because of the ambition
and digested, and accomplishes what for the honor such brings. Men
it was intended for, the good of the seek such places for the influence it
church, the good of the order. A bnngs to them, when they are no
man may have pers-.mal attraction more lilted 10 direct the policy of
only in the circle of his acquaintance an organ than a seventeen year old
or he may overstep such and become boy. Most editors of ability are
astate or a national attraction, both employed where they have free rein,
accomplishing the same in his sphere, and most always they are untramel-
ln cenciusion, it is my personal ed in ihe policy they undertake.
If I can teach these children hew to live that they may get happiness
out of the small things of life, how to make their own good times — to he
"their own hest company" — I shall not have lived in vain, and shall he
frorthy of the Neighborhood Mother. — The Continent.
BISHOP ASBURY NOT SO FRAIL
BY W. M. SANDERS
The Write-up in Sunday's Ne.vs and Observer of "The Man on Horse-
back" was read by the writer with keen interest. He staled that Bishp As-
bury was frail in body. In that he may be mistaken, I remember distinct-
ly that the late judge C. M. Cook, of Louisburg related an incident to me
40 years ago, which wil! rather go to contradict the impression in regard
to the Bishop's physical powers. About the time that Bishop Asbury held
the first conference of the Methodist er of Miss Jefreys took umbrage at
Church at the Green Hill home the the remarks made by the Bishop and
incident referred to occurred and is attacked him with a cowhide upon
as follows: the streets of Louisburg. Where-
Some young people of Franklin upon the Bishop took the cowhide
County near the home of Mr. Hill from young Jefreys, overcoming
participated in a dance and among him physically and broke it into a
the dancers was a handsome young dozen pieces and ordered the young
lady by the name of Miss Jefreys. man to "depart at once"— or he
On her return to her home from would do him likewise,
the dance she was kilied by a run- I remember distinctly that Judge
away team. Bishop Asbury was in Cook said to me that Bishop Asbury
the community at the time, or soon was a very powerful man physically,
thereafter, and referred to the un- Bishop Asbury was born at Hands-
fortunate tragedy from the pulpit, worth, Staffordshire, August 20,
and used it as a warning to those 1745. In 1771 he was sent by Mr. Wes-
who engage in the dance. A broth- ley as a missionary to this country,
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where he was consecrated in 17S4, Civil War. Mis son, Robert Jr., re
Daring a long life of almost inees- lntes this circumstance,
sant labor he traveled on horse- Upon reaching Richmond on the »
back 270,000 miles, preached 16, 500 12th from Appomattox his father
sermons and ordained 4,000 preach- was greatly distressed that Grace,
ers. He died in Richmond, Va., Darling, a brown mare and agiff.j
March 31, 1816. from General J. E. B. Stuart. Wy,
Of course the Methodists through- missing and he states that his father'
out the country are greatly inter- used unceasing diligence until the 'i
ested in the equestrain statue, which mare was found and brought to
is soon to be unveiled at the capital Richmond. Grace Darling, and Trave- er
of the nation. ler, his faithful iron-gray were cared r-
As a lover of the horse I share for tenderly as long as General Lee ''•'
a keen interest in the sentiment ex- lived and afterwards by his children it
pressed by Bishop Kilgo that the and given decent burials. r.
horse whi had shared his master's It is related of one of the promi- ,v
hardships will go with him to Heaven, nent generals on the other side thst te I
Referring to Bishops Asbury's hoi se he evidenced no affection for iht
I am reminded of the great affec- horses ridden- by him during the same |r|
tion entertained by General Lee for period and allowed them to be sold e j
the horses ridden 1 y him during the at public auction. ,
i)
In round numbers there are forty-four thousand illiterate native-horn
white women in North Carolina according to the 1920 census. If assembled
they would fill a city the size of Charlotte, or nearly so.
WOMEN BOUGHT WASHINGTON'S HOME
"Of course, every one knows that Mount Vernon was the home of General
"Washington/' writes Heloise Young in St Nicholas, "but comparatively few
know who now takes care of it. It is generally supposed that Mount Vernon
belongs to the government, or to the the Colonial Dames or to the Daughters
of the American Revolution, but these impressions are wrong, for it really be-
longs to the 'Mount Vernon Ladies' again offered it to the government,
Association of the Union,' which is which again declined to purchase it
composed of a representative from He then offered it to the State of
each State. It came into the pos- Virginia, which also refused it
session of this association in the fob Then it was, in 1853, that Miss Anne
lowing manner. Pamela Cunningham, of South Caw-
"In about the year 1830, Mr. Ji dm lina, went to Mount Vernon to see
A. Washington, Sr., uttered to sell Mr. Washington about purchasing
Mount Vernon to the government, it. After a great deal of persna-
but they would not buy it. After sion, he agreed to sell two hundred
the death of Mr. Washington) his acres, including the ho--,, and tomb
son, Mr. John A. Washington, Jr., of Washington, for £K>0.000, with
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Oie condition that if the ladies gethcr they began to re-store Mount
failed to take proper care of Mount Vernon and bring' it back to the
Vernon, it should go to the State of state in which it was when Wash-
Virginia. t ington lived there. And the asso-
" After the two hundred thousand ciaton today is doing the same thing
dollars was raised, .Miss Cunning- and carefully preserving this price-
ham called upon her women friends less heirloom to the nation.
from the different States, and to-
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THE KEY.
Love passed me by and dropped a key,
A worthless thing it seemed to be;
But, thinking he might need.it for
Unlocking some unyielding door,
I followed him and whispered clear:
"Vou've lost your little key, I fear!"
Love turned, without the least surprise,
But with a twinkle in his eyes,
And said: "I have some more like it.
Keep it. 'Most any door 'twill fit.
A'eep it and use it often, too,
It may unlock Success for you."
( Since then I've wandered to and fro,
( Using Love's key where'er I go,
And many gates have swung aside
When I the magic key applied.
So many doors I have passed through,
I've found that what Love said is true.
Perhaps you've guessed it all the while:
The key Love dropped is just a Smile.
Thomas Russell Shelton.
"You cannot control the tongue of another, but you are responsible for
year own tongue."
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PEOPLE ONLY HALF ALIVE ]
(The Health Bulletin)
That the average man and woman in the United States today is only half
living and is not doing half of the work nor getting half of the joy from Wurk a'
and life that the human being is capable of getting is the opinion of Dr. Irving"1
Fisher, of Yale University, the greatest student and authority of economic ?■
health conditions in this country today. Tn a study that he has made on rural 3I
health and national well-being he annum there are two persons sick '
finds that only something like 1 per during the year. This makes about r"
cent of people are really well and 3,000,000 people constantly lying ua ''■
free from impairment. He says: sick beds in the United States, of »'
"What would we think if 99 per cent which on the most conservative es- f-
of a dairy herd or a flock of sheep innate, at least half need not have )'
were found impaired?" been there. If we translate these w
Interpreting this low state of phy- preventable losses into, commercial
sical health in terms of what it terms, we find that, even by the most ir
means to the individual the writer conservative reckoning, this country s,
says: "It means that we are losing is losing over $1,500,000 worth of i,
a large part of our rightful life, not wealth-producing [tower every year. |o
only by death itself, which eats off "Personally,"' says Professor Fish- ;
many years we might have lived, but er, "I believe it can be shown that
also from disease and disabilities the chief cause of this degeneration
which are not fatal but which cripple is the neglect of individual hygiene,
the power to work and mar the joy partly from ignorance, partly from !
of living." indifference, partly from sheer help-
As to what this state of physical lessness. The degeneration of our |
inefficiency means to the producing bodies follows a degeneration of our
power of this country, the ■ writer habits. The cure for the degenerative
again says: "We may assume that disease is more personal hygiene—
on the average, for every death per more scientific habits of daily living."
WHAT PEOPLE READ.
Because a man whose name was not known to one American in a hundred
thousand, whose existence was of vmreckonably inconsiderable public hnpor- '
tanee, is killed, "news" of the Hollywood tragedy crowds from the front pages ;>
the daily records of a civilization which is in the throes of a struggle for es- •
istence. History of the most tremendous import is daily in the making— and >
sre are invited to follow fictitious clews, sniff around at the morals of a bevy of
young women, and wallow in an every morning bath of scarlet-and-yellow
sensationalism. Are people really as excited about this sort of thing as our
popular scandal purveyors believe? Or is it really an automatic response to an
artificial stimulus, administered by an editorial cult which itself blindly follows
false gods? — From Leslie's Weekly.
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ADULT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.
Miss Elizabeth Kelly
Organized classes for the purpose of teaching the rudiments of an edu-
cation and for tea ching other things that pertain to good citizenship are
tailed Community Schools.
United States census sheets for
1920 give the following facts:
1. The average illiteracy in North
Carolina among native whites of
voting age is 10.6 percent.
2. The average illiteracy in
North Carolina among native whites
from 10 to 20 years inclusive is 3.2
percent.
Various surveys in North Carolina
show actual illiteracy figures to be
on an average three times the num-
ber given by the United States cen-
sus figures. The above facts show
that native white illiteracy is fast
disappearing among the younger
generations. This is attributed to
longer-term schojls, better prepared
teachers, and the enforcement of a
compulsory attendance law. But
the above facts also show that more
than ten of every hundred white
citizens of voting age are absolutely
illiterate.
Consider the following facts:
1. A wise enforcement of the
compulsory school law will speedily
v-ipe out illiteracy among the young-
er generations.
2. A special class should be or-
ganized in every school for begin-
ners from 14 to 21 years.
3. County and city school boards
may appropriate funds for teaching
adult illiterates of any age just as for
teaching other public school classes.
4. The state provides a part of
the texts for adult beginners and
gives information concerning other
needed texts.
5. A special training school is
provided for teachers of these adult
beginners.
I his year we hope to have at least
one carefully selected worker from
each county and from each large
town attend the training school in
order that they may go back and be
able to help organize the work and
conduct it in an intelligent way.
This will come to pass only as citi-
zens realize the fact that North
Carolina might well boast less of her
native born citizenship and think
more of what should be expected of
such a citizenship.
Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. I Kings 17:11
Because the Master is not here with
his own hand today
To feed the hungry multitudes who
throng life's busy way,
He gives the task to ycu c,nd me, he
bids us hear their cry;
He says that if we turn from them we
also pass him by.
Our eyes are blind; we see only an
outcast at our door;
Yet said he not himself that they who
feed and clothe his poor
Give unto him? Them day by day for
such a royal Guest,
Shall we not bring with willing hands
our choicest and our best?
Edith H. DivalL
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THE MYTH ABOUT PREACHERS' SONS;
(Presbyterian Standard.)
The sons of the preacher have always been under a cloud in popular estima-
tion. As the dog with a bad name is doomed to die, so each preacher's son
has to prove his innocence rather than force the public to prove him guilty,
Occasionally some charitable soul will try to excuse him. on the ground that
more is expected of him and that he is not judged by the same standard as other
boy. All these excuses may be true, twenty per cent were sons of ii.lt-
but the fact of the ease is that they chants; twenty per cent sons of far-j
are not needed. Statistics prove that mors and laborers; twenty per eentl
the preacher's boy, with equal chance, sons of teachers, physicians and law-!
generally surpasses his fellows. vers; and that the sons of country I
Roger Babson, whose business judg- preachers were thirty per cent of the I
meut is known and respected, has test- whole.
ed the matter. lie took one hundred Notwithstanding these and similar
leaders in great business enterprises, facts, whenever any research is made,
and studied the influences that ap- the old myth will continue to function,
parently made them successful in life, and the good people will continue to
He states that of these hundred men, help it along.
five per cent were sons of bankers;
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those which never come. — Lowell.
MY CHILDHOOD ON THE ISLAND
BY CELIA THAXTER ■
I well remember my first sight of White Island where we took up our abode
when I was live years old. How delightful was that long first sail to the Kt
of Shoals! How pleasant the sound of the ripples against the boat side, as
we sat perched among the household goods with which the little craft was laden!
It was at sunset that we put a shore We entered the quaint little o!<l
on that lonely rock where the light- stone cottage that was for six years
house looked down on us like sonic tall our home. How curious it seemed,
black-capped giant. The stars were with its low, whitewashed ceiling, and
beginning to twinkle, and the salt air deep window seats showing the great
blew cold from the sea. thickness of the walls made to with-
Some one began to light the lamps stand the breakers,
in the high lighthouse tower. Rich A blissful home the little house he-
red and golden they swung around came to the children wli entered it
in mid air; everything was strange that quiet evening, and -h-pt for the
and fascinating and new. first time lulled by the murmur of the
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encircling sen. I do not think a hap-
pier triad ever existed than we were,
living in that profounded isolation.
It takes little to make a healthy child
happy, and we never wearied of our
few resources.
In the long, covered walk that bridg-
ed the gorge between the lighthouse
mid the house, we played on stormy
days. Every evening it was a fresh
excitement to watch the lighting of
the lamps, and to see the colored rays
shine out over the sea. In the great
lantern there were fifteen lamps, ten
of them golden and five red.
As I grew older, I was allowed to
help in caring for the lights in the
tower, and sometimes to kindle them
myself. It was a pleasure to think
how far the lighthouse sent its rays
and how many hearts it gladdened
with its warning light of safety.
Once or twice every year came the
old black, lumbering, oil boat that
brought supplies for the lighthouse,
and the inspector who gravely examin-
ed everything to see if all was in or-
der.
He left clear red-and-white glass
chimneys for the lamps, soft skins
for polishing the great silver-lined
reflectors, large bundles of wicks and
various pairs of scissors for trimming
them. All these together with heavy
casks of whale oil were stored away
in the round dimly lighted rooms of
the lighthouse tower.
The winters seemed as long as a
^'hole year to our little minds, but
they were pleasant, nevertheless. In-
to the deep window seats we climbed.
made holes in the thick frost on the
ttimlowpane. and peeped out at the
bright, fierce, windy weather.
We watched thy vessels scuddling
over tlie dark blue sea, all feather
white where the short waves broke-
hissing in the cold, and the sea fowl
soaring aloft or tossing on the water.
Sometimes the round head of a seal
moved about among the rocks, but the
seals were even more shv than the
birds.
We hardly saw a human face beside
our own all winter. But by the fire-
side, with plants and singing birds
and books and playthings, the cold
and stormy season wore itself at last
away.
We waited for the spring with
eager longing; the advent of the
growing grass, the birds and flowers
and insect life, the soft skies and soft-
er winds, — - these things brought us
unspeakable bliss.
In the spring came life to our lone-
ly dwelling. Our neighbors on t he-
mainland paddled across bringing us
letters, newspapers, magazines, and
told us the news of months. "With the
first warm days we built our little
mountains of wet gravel on the beach,
and danced after the sandpipers to
tlie edge of the foaming waves. We
fashioned rude boats of bits of drift-
wood and set them adrift on the great
deep.
We launched fleets of purple mus-
sel shells on the still jiools in the rocks,
left by the tide, — pools that were like
bits of fallen rainbow with tints of
delicate seaweed, crimson, and green
and ruddy brown, and violet. Rosy
and lilac starfish clung to the sides
of the rocks, little forests of moss
grew up in stillness, gold-colored shells
crept about, ami now and then Hash-
ed the silvery tins of slender minnows.
With crab and limpet, with grass-
hopper and cricket, we made friends
Any old dead fish can float with the stream: it takes a live one to swim
against it. — Gypsy Smith.
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and neighbors, ami we were never denied to us, though we had no daisitj
tired of watching the hind spiders nor violets nor wild roses.
thai possessed the place. Their webs Many a summer morning have I
covered every windowpane to the crept out of the still house before ain-¥
lighthouse top, and they rebuilt them one was awake, and climbed to the '
as last as they were swept down. top of a high cliff to watch the sun- '
T remember in the spring kneeling rise. Pale grew the lighthouse (lame '
down on the ground to seek the lirst before the broadening day, as I wattli-
blades of grass that pricked through ed the shadows draw away and morn-
the soil, and bringing thorn into the ing break. Facing the east and south,
house to study and wonder over, with all the Atlantic before me, what
"Whence came their color.' How did happiness was mine!
they draw their sweet refreshing tint Infinite variety of beauty always
from the brown earth or the limpid awaited me. Coming back in the sun.
air, or the white light ? shine, the morning glories would lift
the lonesome rock', but I made the up their faces, all awake, to my ador-
most of all I had. Ah, how beauti- ing gaze. It seemed as if they had
fid they were! Tiny stars of crimson gathered the peace of the golden morn-
sorrel threaded on their long brown ing in their still depths, ever as id; j
stems. The blackberry blossoms in heart had gathered it.
bridal white, the blue-eyed grass, Even then I longed to speak those f
and the crow-foot (lowers like drops things that made life so sweet, to .
of yellow gold split about among the speak the wind, the cloud, the bird's
short grass and over the moss. Dande- Might, the sea's murmur. A vain,
lions, buttercups, and clover were not longing, but ever the wish crew.
COLONIAL HEROINES
(Fred A. Olds In Oxford Friend)
One of the oldest, quaintest and most charming towns in North Carolina u
Edenton, which for many years was the seat of government of this Colony or
Province. Happily there have been preserved many -of the buildings of its
early period. No event in its two hundred and fifty years' existence is better
known than what is popularly termed the "Edenton Tea Party,'' of date Oc-
tober 25, 1774; apparently the first declaration by tho women of America of
their patriotism and desire to aid by the "Stamp Act," made an eft'i-
their country. <:y of Lord Bute and then burned
October 16th, 1765, North Caroli- it in the public street and made the
na men, at Wilmington, took very collector of customs swear he would
bold action to prevent the use of the have nothing to do with the stamps,
-much detested stamps prescribed The defiance was positive and it won.
I r
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The first Provincial Congress, or Secretary,
contention, of North Carolina, com- This meeting adopted a resolution
,,„,,,! of deputies of the inhabitants warmly commending the aetion of the
of the Province, held at New Bern, Provincial Congress above quoted
August 25, 1774, declared in the and declaring: "We will not conform
plainest terms that it claimed only to that pernicious custom of drink-
Ihe rights of Englishmen and that ing tea and will not promote the
it was the very essence of the Bri- wearing of any manufactures from
[ish Constitution that no subject England." The meeting then adopted
should be taxed except by his own the following as its solemn dsclara-
consent; that the tax upon tea and tion and those present signed their
other articles consumed in America, names thereto:
for the purpose of raisin- a reven- "Edonton, North Carolina,
Be, was highly illegal and oppres- "October 25, 1774.
sive. It then resolved: "That we " As we cannot be indifferent on any
will net, directly or indirectly, after occasion that appears to affect the
the first day of January, 17/5, im- peaee auc] happiness of our country
port from Croat Britain any East anfl M [t |las |,een thought necessary
Lilian goods, or any merchandise for the public goo,1, to enter into sev-
whatever, medicines excepted .That eraj particular resolves by a meeting
ire will not use of or suiter to be 0f members deputed from the whole
used East Indian tea after Septem- Province, it is a duty which we owe
ber tenth, next and we will consider not only to our near and dear con-
all persons not complying with this nections who have occurred in them,
resolve enemies to their country, but to ourselves who are essentially
That we will not export any of our interested in their welfare, to do ev-
coramodities to Great Britain after erything as far as lies in our power
October first, 1775." to testify our sincere adherence to
On the 23rd of October, Mrs Pene- the same and we do therefore accord-
lope Barker, a leader in Edenton so- ingly subscribe this paper as a wit-
ciety and of marked force of charae- ness of our fixed intention and sel-
ler ami distinction, called a meeting emu determination to do so.
of the ladies of the town, to be held "Abigail Charlton, Lydia Bonner,
on the 25th, at the home of Mrs. Eli/.- Elizabeth Creecy, Anne Horniblow,
abefh King. The house in which the Anne Johnston, Marion Wells, Mary
''tea-party" was held was a quaint Woolward, Sarah Matthews, Jean
ami handsomely built one, of wood, Blair, Elizabeth Roberts, Frances
facing the court house green, be- Hall, Rebecca Bondfield, Mary Cree-
tween the court house and Edenton cy, Sarah Howcott, Mary Blount,
Bay. Fifty-one ladies responded to Elizabeth P. Ormond, Margaret Cath-
tlie call and they were thoroughly cart, Winifred Iloskins, Jane Well-
representative of the finest influence wood, Sarah Valentine, Penelope
'ml sentiment in the Colony. Mrs. Dawson, Mary Bonner, Susannah
Barker was chosen as the presiding Vail, Mary Ramsey, Isabctle John-
officer and Mrs. Winifred Iloskins, ston, Tersa Cunningham, Elizabeth.
26 THE UPLIFT
Patterson, Lydia Bennett, Margaret ed to give a memorable proof of
Pearson, Anne Haugllton, Sarah their patrotism and have accordingly
Beasley, Ruth Benbury, Frances entered into the following houorablj
Johnston, Penelope Barker, Grace and spirited association. 1 send it to
Clayton, Mary Littledale, Anne Hall, yon to show your fair countrywomen
Elizabeth Green, Sarah Littlejohn, how zealously and faithfully Aineri-
Sarah Howe, Sarah Hoskius, Mary can ladies follow the laudable exam-
Hunter, M. Payne, Anne Anderson, pie of their husbands and what op-
Elizabeth Bearsley, Elizabeth Vail, position your matchless (italicized)
Elizabeth King." ministers may expect to receive from
It will be observed that the sign- a people thus firmly united against
■ers were English and Scotch entire- them.'' (Then follow the signed
ly. Isr.belle Johnston, a sister of resolutions.)
Samuel Johnston, one of the most A letter form Authur Iredell of
notable men in the Province, was the London to his brother James, at Eden-
finance of Joseph Hewes, whose home ton, (who married a sister of one
in Edenton was quite near the meet- of the signers) said: "Is there a fe-
ing-plaee of these determined women. male Congress at Edenton, too? I
Hewes was one of the signers of the hope not, for we Englishmen are
Declaration of Independence at Phil- afraid of the male Congress, but ii
adelphia, July 4, 1776. the ladies, who have ever since the
The news of this action by the Amazonian era been esteemed the
"Tea Tarty" was carried to London most formidable enemies; if they, I
with great quickness, for an English say, should attack us the most fatal
account of the affair says : "The news consequences are to be dreaded. The
of the meeting of the Society of Pa- Edenton ladies, who know well thai
triotic Ladies at Edenton appeared the more we strive to conquer them
in various English papers about the the more we are conquered, are will-
middle of January, 1775. ' Possibly ing, I imagine, to crush us into atom;
the imposing list of signatures at- by their omnipoteney. The only «-
tached to the resolution passed at the curity on our side to prevent this
gathering caused our cartoonist to impeding ruin, that I can perceive,
select this incident as fairly repre- is the probability that there are but
sentative of the moral and physical few places in America which posses
support the women of the Colonies so much female artillery as Eiien-
are contributing to the common ton."
cause." It is quite evident from readies
Another account in the Morning these London comments "'.at a pK-
Chronicle and Advertiser, says: "The ture had been made of tie Tea Par-
following is an extract from a letter ty. In 1828 Lieutenant William 1. 1
from North Carolina dated October Muse, of the United States Navy,
27, 1774: 'The Provincial Deputies whose mother was a Miss Blouni
of North Carolina having resolved of Edenton, while on a cruise stop-
not to drink any more tea and to ped at the Island of Minorca aw II
wear no more British cloth, many there saw in a barber shop a can-
ladies of this Province have determin- cature of the Edenton Tea Party, a
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mezzotint in lively colors, bought it
aIul in 1S30 took it to Edenton, where
it was placed in the court house and
ivas viewed with very great interest.
It is ten by fourteen inches in dimen-
sions and it is said that the repre-
sentation of the characters is so clear
that many of the ladies were easily
recognized in 1S30. Many of the
words of the document the ladies
were signing are plain. Mrs. Barker,
the presiding officer, is shown, gavel
in hand, her negro maid Amelia
standing behind her chair. The rec-
tor of the church, St. Paul's, at E-
denton, Rev. Charles Earl, is shown
in caricature as kissing the lovely
secretary, who turns a rosy cheek
towards his lips. The costumes of the
period are faithfully depicted. One
lady is pouring tea from a caddy up-
on the flour, another in handsome
costume is signing the resolve, while
under the table are a child playing
with a string and a dog asleep. Un-
der Mrs. Barkers 's chair is a hot wa-
ter jug, to warm the air. There are
fifteen figuring in the picture, some
of them slaves. Mrs. Barker is por-
trayed in a most dignified and effec-
tive manner. Below the picture is
the following inscription: "A Society
of Patriotic Ladys at Edentou, North
Carolina. London: Printed for R.
Sayer and D. J. Bennett, No. 53, in
' Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 25th
March, 1775." The printer, whose
name appears in a corner, was Rich-
ardson, who printed the famous
"Letters of Junius.'
Mrs. Barker was possessed of great
dignity, courtesy and courage. In
the War of the Revolution, when a
servant ran into the house and told
her that s0me British soldiers in
charge of an officer were taking her-
carriage horses from the stable she-
snatched her husband's sword from
tile wall, ran to the stable, cut the
reins, drove the horses back into the
building and informed the astonished,
men they could not molest their pro-
perty without peril. The officer ac-
tually apologized and informed her
that she would not again be molest- -
ed. She was married three times,,
her second husband having been a
nephew of Earl Craven. She and.
Mr. Thomas Barker, her last hus-
band, are buried in Edenton, in the
private cemetery at "Hays," then,
the residence of Samuel Johnston,
one of the finest colonial homes in
America. In the same cemetery lie-
also Joseph Hewes, who died of a
broken heart not long after the death
of Mrs. Johnston, his finance The-
latter rests beside him. In death
they are not divided.
In the North Carolina Hall of His-
tory at Raleigh are the tea caddy
from which the lady poured the tea
upon the floor; the punch bowl, which
was provided by the charming secre-
tary, who brought it from ''Paradise,,
her home near the town; the portrait
of Mrs. Horniblow, one of the sign-
ers, and the caricature which has
been described; together with a per-
fect copy in miniature of the Tea
Party house. In the rotunda of the-
state capital is a bronze tablet bear-
ing a teapot, commemorative of the
Tea Party and on the site of the
Tea Party house at Edenton is a large
bronze teapot surmounting a cannon
of the Colonial period. It should be
stated that Edenton, so long t he-
Colonial capital, was a social rival o£
Williamsburg in Virginia.
'
28 THE UPLIFT
THE GATEWAY TO HEALTH
BY C J. JOHNSON, D. D. S.
Good habits arc best established in early life, and this law may be applied
beneficially in cave of the child's teeth. The child is the foundation upon which
a, nation is built, The progress of nations depends on the health standard
of the child. TVe can't expect as much of the future men and women of this
age of defects if we ignore the developing age. The great call to-day is for
strung men and women. Defects cent would be defective. In some of
should be- sought, and means to reine- these cases there is lack of eneoura°'e-
dv, studied. They should be strong nu-nt, and in great many lack of pro-
and healthy in body during the de- per knowledge of oral hygiene which
veloping age to make strong men so many teachers so woefully neglect
and women mentally, morally. I in teaching. It is very clear we can't
believe one of the hardest problems do too much for children with defects
confronting education to-day is the of which our country's success de-
backward child. There is generally pends on future generations to make
some cause for backwardness in the it foremost of all others. The most
work of the school child, and I be- important of all is before school a»e
lieve the larger per cent is from is readied. To be successful in school
broken down decayed and permanent the child should enter strong in body,
teeth of which home conditions and mind and spirit. The proper foun-
habits play a big part. Vfe find a dation is the keystone to success, and
great number physical wrecks, and we children failing' to get it in the early
SO often hear it said they will out- stages of school life are handicapped
grow their trouble, hi some eases throughout life's journey. School
we do see a marked improvement in teachers should learn more the impor-
the child after they have started to tance of giving instructions ill oral
grow, but what the chid might have hygiene, and advising children of
been it' they had not had the several having their teeth attended to l>y coin-
years of standstill ? It stands to rea- petent dentists. Lack of Ihis will
son that a child during its developing cause a great many sub-normal c-hil-
age should have nothing to retard its dren, which not only causes more
progress in grasping things to culti- work for the teacher but holds otli-
rate, and make a full grown developed ers back in their progress, which
brain. Can that lie done from a causes loss of interest and fail to
weakened, poisoned body? I have get all they need in equipment for
asked teachers in different schools life's work. And [ believe a majority
about some child I happened to notice of these sub-normal cases could be
far below the standard physically, and be made normal it taken in time oven
they would invariably tell me the before they begin school.
child wasn't making any progress, We have thousands in our State
and was a repeater every year. Up- who have reached their teens as-well
on examination of his teeth 05 per as maturity who never have owned
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I a tooth brush nor have ever been in- rious schools to teach and train
j side a dentist's office. What more the children the importance of oral
; can we expect of men and women hygiene that they may grow up
- broken down physically am! menially strong physically and mentally; that
' before they reach the prime of life? they may have children they can
I The month is the gateway to health, teach to observe the laws of ''health
: and if we fail u> start in time to keep and Hygiene," and make them tit sub-
it in the best possible healthy condi- jects to perform the duties as strong
| tion we cant expect nothing else. So men and women that will reflect
it behooves the parents, health de- credit on their parents, schools and
partniclits, and teachers of the va- State.
Institutional Notes. *?d third cottage? is b-^buiit.
"*^ Tins road goes on down to the place
(Swift Davis, Reporter.) where the bakery, ice plant, laundry
and store room are located.
The dairy barn is being built rapid-
ly. The silos are also being built. Another Wednesday which pro-
mised to bring joy lo some of
Every evening because of favor- the boys has arrived and passed,
able weather, the boys play ball. Doyle Jackson and Horn t Coving-
ton were the recipients of that
day's
tage must soon be opened.
,, , ,r T n ■ , ... . , Lights have been placed on the
(.apt. f. L. Oner substituted a J_ , .:J_ tl_. ,_ „._ _t __ .r tl__
New bovs are arriving so fast , ,
that it seems that the eighth cot- da>' s Joy' beCaUSe U brought homc
good bit in school for Mr. Johnson,
posts beside the bottom steps of the
Latham Pavilion. These, when at
who ivas sick a few days ago. . , . .. ,. , . , . .,
night, they are lighted, make the
Because of rainy weather Monday, ground around Fifth Cottage the
the boys on the work force were un- brightest spot at the school, whereas,
able to do any work on the outside, this ground was formerly the darkest
part of the campus.
Stanly Armstrong, newly arrived
at the school, has been placed in the Duc,,ey Pan^e vvhose Vls'* to hls
Printing Office. He is making rapid home vvas notfd '" .last wet* s ls,sue
progress nas returned. His grandmother
who was sick and whom he visited
Responding to the work which has has improved very much. It is a
been placed upon them, the lawns pleasure to know that our boys can
are now getting green. They are be trusted to their homes and that
f«y pretty. tlley return unattended.
Capt T. L. Grier is now working Saturday is a day long to be re-
rathejawn facing first cottage. We membered by the bovs. It was the
nope it will be as beautiful as last rea, opening o{ the base-ball season
year's lawn was.
for them. On Saturday a fast
A street leading between second game of ball was played with the
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Winecoff High School team. The
game was seven innings long. At
first it seemed as if we were defeat-
ed but finally we came out on top.
Instead of going to schorl, Satur-
day, Capt. Grier, substituting for
Mr. Johnson who is sick, took the
boys- under his charge to the ball-
field, wliere he laid out a foul line
and improved upon the general ap-
pearance of the diamond- He was
preparing the grounds for that eve-
ning when the J. T. S. was schudul-
ed to play another team.
Next Sunday, the boys will re-
ceive new Sunday-school quarterlies.
They wonder of whom they will
study in this new quarterly which
will occupy their Sunday thoughts
for three months. And this is not
idle curiosity. The boys all like to
get up their lessons for the coming
Sunday. The quarterly which they
have just finished taught of the
prophets of Israel and of its down-
fall.
It is. indeed, a pleasure, to be at
the school now. Every living thing
is budding. Plants are budding
with new life, green leaves and beau-
tiful flowers. The boys here are
budding with joy at being alive;
praise to Him Who allows them to
live. The scenery around the school
is wonderful to behold, such is the
opinion of .Mrs. L. C. Withers of
Charlotte, who gave vent to an un-
controllable burst of delight in the
privilege of seeing it.
Friday Afternoon a committee of
the Association of Editors of North
Carolina met at the school. The af-
ternoon school s. ch'on"dressed--up"
for the occasion, cloning the uniform
dress suit. The bjys composing
this section sat in school for a time
ami, when the visitors arrived, fu!
went out on the campus and "show,
ed 'em how to drill." After this
the boys went to the ball-grounds
while the visitors continued their
inspection of the school. "Phe
reporter went with the crowd to the
ball- grounds and did not see the
visitors afterward.
STORY NOT HALF TOLD
That was a splendid write up Bro-
ther Cook, of The Uplift, gave this
County in a recent issue of his paper,
A double page cut of Bethel IT'tUffr!)
School was used, showing this splcn-
did building in great shape. Wo re-
gret that our issue containing tie
picture and write up of this splendid
school could not have had pictures
of the other four high schools, but the
schools did not think they could af-
ford the expense of the cut, hence
Bethel Plill got all of the praise and
glory, while Brother Cook doubtless
thought that was the only high school
building in the County with a house
worth displaying. Just another case
of where it pays to advertise.— Ror-
boro Courier.'
CONCERNING HEALTH
By Swift Davis
Recently the writer read an item
in The Charlotte Observer concern'
ing the influenza epidemic at the
Appalachian Training School. Strong
sympathy is expressed by the boys
here, for the afflicted ones and hope
for the near future of their recovery
is put fourth.
This leads to a reflection of the
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"Flu" epidemic here, at the Jackson
Training School and of its results
which were very favorable, to say
the least. Since that time very
little sickness has occurred at the
school. In fact, only two cases have
been noted at all.
The "White House," as the place
is called by the boys because of its
color, is where the boys who are sick
are conveyed, has had only these
two occupants. One of them had a
a broken leg.
Small wonder, that people like to
visit the school, taking into consider-
ation the delightful air and water,
which is ours. Good food, fine air,
pure water, plenty of refreshing
sleep are only a few of the assests
which make the visitors remark up-
on the health of the boys. Pallid
faces, colorless cheeks are very, very,
rare. After breakfast, dinner and
supper a rest is taken by the boys
so as to not injure their digestion.
During this period the boys have a
literature recreation.
Health is plentiful— will continue
to be so. This is mainly written for
the relatives of the boys who may
feel worried over the condition of
living for their boy. To them be it
said to rest in peace and when they
next see their boy, be prepared for
a big, manly member of our Institu-
tion.
ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING.
Spring is surely near at hand
when Editor Ashcraft of Monroe
Enquirer, can sing this Henhouse
poetry:
In she came,
Down she sot,
Laid an egg
And up she got.
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CONCORD, N. C. APRIL 8, 1922
NO. 22
THE CHURCH
One of the favorite paintings of critics is Millet's
"Angelus." A young laborer stands in the field,,
and by his side his wife, a simple peasant girl. He
holds his hat in his hand and bows reverently. She
clasps her hands, and is the expression of devotion.
They are the only figures in the picture. There is
a fork in the ground; at their side a wheelbarrow
and a basket of potatoes, all telling the story of a
day's work. The artist has made the light to fall
upon his bowed head and her folded hands. What is
the meaning of this scene. Why does it seem as if
the very windows of heaven are open r.bove it and
the interest of angels is centered upon that ordinary
field? Far away, in the dim outline, a church spiie
rises against the sky. You can almost hear tie
sound of the bell. It is the evening "Angelus."
At its sound the laborer pauses to worship. The
church bell is the keynote of the world's music, and
the church spire is the key to the world'sbeauty. The
triumphant march of human society depends upon
their preservation. Whatever forces in the world
militate against the interests of the Church ought
to be opposed with all the courage of true heroism
by all Christians.— From Cortland Myers.
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A WEEKLY" JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
llie Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. 'Typo-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post OfEcc at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
"Oh, every fly that skips our swatters
"Will have five million sons and daughters,
And countless first and second cousins;
Of aunts and uncles, scores and dozens
And fifty-seven billion nieces;
So knock the blamed thing all to pieces."
Walt Mason
G0!NG AFTER THE TRUTH OF THE SITUATION.
Elsewhere in this number will be found a most readable and serious ar-
ticle contributed by Mr- Zimmerman to the Raleigh News & Observer. He
analyzes the housing conditions of the rural sections of North Carolina,
and points out most earnestly and sensibly what must be done before we
may hope to be headed right in the great struggle of bettering living
conditions.
This writer knows some things and would give utterance to them, at the
risk of being criticised, that in his partiality and love for his section he
would resent were they uttered by strictly an outsider. Having lived
practically a considerable life-time in sight of the very conditions which
Mr. Zimmerman describes, he knows them to be true. Along this line, Mr.
Clark, in his letter of this week, touches on the subject. He emphasizes
ail that is said by Mr. Zimmerman in reviewing what Iredell county, large-
ly through Miss Celeste Henkel, did a year ago and is splendidly continu-
ing this year.
His the truth that makes us free. No chain is stronger than its weak-
est link. A people that have no vision are a lost people. The over-head
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embelishments, the inordinate desire to centralize things, to create new
elfices with folks on fancy salaries— conspicuously higher than they could
command elsewhere in normal organizations or corporations— will not brir?
our people into their own. The effort, the money, the propaganda, the
prayers must be brought to bear direct on the subjects. Oh, for leaders
that are not drunk with their authority and self-centred importance. Pay!
ing $3500 each a year to a dozen or so favorite satelites to glorify around
the person of the chief, all comfortably housed and working (?) short hours,
furnishes dope for the publicity agent; but the agents that go out in the
sticks, go into the homes and mingle with the folks carrying messages of
progress, developement and inspiration on salaries barely supporting them
— these be the ones that will right the mistakes and wrongs, if such a
blessing is to come.
LET'S GO.
Monday, April 3, is a date the people of Cabarrus may well remember.
It marks the time when public officials, seeing the light, put their hands to
the plough, and cried "Let's Go."
The County Board of Education made an appropriation to the necessary
funds for maintaining our All- lime Health Nurse for Cabarrus County. Its
wise action removes all doubt of the continuance of this vital agency in the
county.
Following this, the County Commissioners, joining the State and Federal
powers, authorized its part of the campaign against bovine tuberculosis !
in the County— a sensible and progressive step.
Now, if the County Commissioners, deserving much praise for its forward
vision, will get busy and provide for the building of a suitable tubercular :
hospital or camp for the indigent sufferers among us, it will have completed
a 'wise, sane and humanitarian programme. See that picture on another page.
If Cabarrus County had a place to properly segregate and treat this woman
and her husband (and scores of others), saving their lives, preventing a
spread of the terrible tubercular bugs and saving these innocent children,
weli — what a service!
Let's Go Some More!
I
The suggestion of consolidating the several state educational institutions
under one directorate—forming the idea of one great univers;ty system-
has met with a variety of opinions by the special friends of the respective
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schools and by the press generally. The accomplishment of this suggestion
may lead to the perfectly natural and logical business of adding another
Supervisor with a desk in the Department of Education. The monthly
salary pay-roll of approximately ten thousand dollars would not be material-
ly increased thereby: floor space might be lacking, but the department
could swarm again taking up additional quarters so as to have elbow-room.
It is a peculiar pleasure manifested throughout the state over the selection
of Rev. Dr. B. R. Lacy, of Atlanta, to preach the Annual Sermon at the
comnring commencement of the University. Mr. Lacy is one of the most
scholarly men of the younger set in the South, was a plumb good fighter
across the seas, and is a most able preacher. You could truthfully say many
of these things about his dadclv, State Treasurer Lacy, only the latter
while he can preach some mighty fine gospel sermons has not been offici-
ally licensed to do so.
The Utlit joins his many friend among the craft in congratulations over
the evidences of growth and prosperity that are attending the efforts of
Editor J. F. Hurley, as expressed in a new modern publication house which
he has just about finished for the Salisbury Post. There are larger buildings
given over to the newspaper business in the state, but none can surpass the
one Mr. Hurley is erecting for himself in the matter of light, convenience,
adapability and appearence. In addition to the new building, The Post is
about to get an entirely new outfit.
Messrs J. J. Blair and W. E. Credle, of the State Department of Educa-
tion, have gone to Nashville. Tenn., where they will, according to the
Raleigh News & Obeserver, "take a short course in school house designing
under Dr. Fletcher B. Dresslar." After their return, says the N. & 0.,
the Department "will issue a bulletin containing all the available develop-
ment in the design of school buildings."
The Contractor is nearing a completion of our Dairy Barn, which in all
its appointments and equipment will be the last word in dairy barn con-
traction. Much care has been taken with our herd of cattle, for milk
and butter are prim? neccessities where so many young folks are to be fed.
Greensboro is having a lively scrap among her citizens over the question
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of the city's lending its credit to the Southern railway for the funds needed
for the erect'on of a new pasjenger station. That fine, wideawake city
needs a new station where one may have elbow 100m.
9 9 9 9
There are too many-
fires taking place in North Carolina. The destruct-
ion of property, by accident, defective construction or otherwise, is getting
to be alarming.
Governor Morrison i= doing his part in making the County School Com-
mencements attractive to-dos and beneficial.
THE ASS'S BRAINS
The Lion and the Fox went hunting together. The Lion, on
the advice of the Fox, sent a message to the Ass, proposing to
make an alliance between their two families. The Ass came to
the place of meeting, overjoyed at the prospect of a royal allionce.
But when he came there the Lion simply pounced upon the Ass,
and said to the Fox: "Here is our dinner for to-day. Watch
here while I go and have a nap. Woe betide you if you touch my
prey." The Lion went away and the Fox waited; but finding that
his master did not return, ventured to take out the brains of the
Ass and ate them up. When the Lion came back he soon noticed
the absence of the brains, and asked the Fox in a terrible voice:
'What have you done with the brains?"
"Brains, your Majesty! it had none, or would never have fallen
into your trap."
"WIT HAS ALWAYS AN ANSWER READY."
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HOW HE TOOK ON FOUR POUNDS
The average layman and busy citizen, going about the duties that enter
his life, has never taken time to ascertain for himself just what thebuisness
of the Partent-Teaeher Associations, of which we hear so much now and
then in the newspapers, is.
The good old town of Concord,
which follows sometimes, often way
behind, the pattern set by other
communities, has a Parent-Teacher
Association. It got busy about the
public schools of Concord; and an old
fogy of a fellow inquired, "what's
this new thing Prof. Webb has intro-
duced into our schools?" This is all
the excuse The Uplift desires for
going slightly into details. It will
prove interesting and gratifying to
those who love childhood, and who
desire to give it the best possible
chance and equipment for life— it
will probably bore those, who live
to themselves and are obsessed with
the ideas and plans that governed
their activities, and who care not
for the conditions that confront
childhood, just so their own are not
involved.
The Uplift made inquiry of Prof.
A. S. Webb, superintendent of the
public schools of Concord, seeking
a story of just what the local Pa-
rent-Teacher Association was do-
ing in connection with his schools.
Prof. Webb, cordially and politely
responding, said that he had turned
the request over to Miss Mary King,
stating that she was responsible for
the existence of the Parent-Teacher
Association in Concord, had brought
it into life and was, with others, suc-
cessfully directing its operations, or
words to that effect.
The average parent, as is well
known— in fact oftentimes without
Schick or a child, or moving thing
charged to his household, he may set-
tle knotty educational subjects, give
valuable(?) ad /ice to teachers and
plan a day's duties -sometimes butts
in and makes the teacher's life a
sorrow. But this thing that has
spread over the country---the par-
ent-Teacher Association — has worm-
ed itself into the very affections of
a large class of patrons and has won
the respect and endorsement of
others simply because of its worthy
accomplishments and is gloriously
humanitarian.
Among the many fine activities
for which the Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciation stands for--bringing the
child and the parent closer to-geth-
er, arriving at the tiuth, the weak-
nesses and the deficiences and the
peculiarities are worthwhile --is hu-
manitarian; the care given to the
undernourished child is an outstand-
ing function of the Association.
This idea is the outgrowth of the
teaching and the propaganda of the
health forces. It is where a sensi-
ble and efficient recognition of the
duties toward childhood shine the
brightest.
The picture, appearing elsewhese,
was taken of the little tots in
their happiness and glory over the
delightful nourishment given thern
twice-a-day at one of the Concord
schools presided over by Miss King.
It is an inspiring picture. It has
long been settled that milk is one of
the finest and most essentia] foods
for the child. It is known that many
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THE UPLIFT
a child does not get the milk its
system requires, for one reason and
another. It is known, too, that
there is man/ a child, from hard-
ships at home, from carelessness, in-
difference or other causes, leaves
home for a day in school without
having eaten anything. That's a
hard proposition for the teacher ami
a cruelty to the child. Here is
where the undernourishment ob-
served in children becomes most no-
ticable and prevents that develop-
ment of body and mind, for which
all sensible school activities aim.
The source that furnishes milk
for carrying out the programme of
the Association is maintained by
volunteers. This good woman here
gives ten dollars. Seeing the splen-
did results, she will probably come
back with another ten. Another
good woman dropping in at this nov-
el feed time, arid becoming so en-
thused with the beautiful picture of
40 happy little Americans taking
their half-pint milk nourishment
through sanitaiy straws, dropped in
a five. She'll return with .another
five sometime. The local King's
Daughters, of course, have made a
contribution, By and by a number
of che men in the community, who
have prospered in this world's goods,
will see the noble efforts of the As-
sociation and the gratifying results
and they will come to its aid and
support. Good people do such things.
The very first thing done when
Miss King got ready to introduce
this beneficial innovation, was to
call in Miss Stockton, theall-time
Health Nurse of Cabarrus county.
This efficient and sensible woman
went about her job in accordance
with the rules that govern examina-
tions of this kind. The ages were
ascertained, then by a common rule
it. was understood what the height
and weight should be. Somewhere
in the forty's was the number found
who lacked the regulation height
and weight fur their ages; and in a
number of cases marked evidences
of undernouiishment w?re discover-
ed. '1 he great majority of the child-
ren took to the milk drinking feast
with alacrity; some balked because
they had never drunk milk and had
persuaded themselves that they did
not and would not like milk. A kindlv
persuasion, accompanied by sound
reasoning, soon brought the young-
sters to the attractive half-pint
bottles. Re it said to the credit of
the parents, not a one raised any
objection to this humanitarian act,
either from sensitiveness, pride or
foolishness. On the other hand
quite a number of the parents, know-
ing the value of this diet, and hav-
ing been unabie themselves to per-
suade their children to drink as
much milk as they knew they need-
ed, applaud Miss King's progres-
siveness, ideas and success, and even
gratuitously furnish some of the
milk.
Does it do any good? Isn't a
child, wdiose hunger has been ap-
peased, in better trim for school
duties? Is it a hobby that has got-
ten into the schools? The proper
nourishment, the increasing of
weight and vitality, producing better
spirits may be a hobby, it is a sound l
hobby. In a month, some of the chil-
dren increased in weight as much as
four pounds— all showed increases,
happier frame of mind, more energy
and a greater interest in their school
(Continued On Page 31)
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A MILK PERFORMANCE
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At milk-period in one of the Concord Public Schools, where the Parent-Teach-
er Association through Miss Mary King is carrying on the business of looking
after the undernourished. These little Americans are thoroughly enjoying what
humanitarirvn thoughtfulness is providing for them. From sanitary bottles,
clean straws, this life-giving, health-producing and foone-and-flesh making re-
past reaches the spot without coming in contact with fingers or outside influen-
ces.
Going on for only a few weeks, the wisdom is manifest. The children are
Appier, they go about their little school duties with enthusiasm, they are tak-
ing on flesh and all have gained in weight and strength. Let the people support
it—it will amount to lots more than burning gas in useless, show-off joy parad-
ing.
10 THE UPLIFT
THE WAY THEY DO IN IREDELL
BY R. R. CLAR/v"
:i
"We Iredell people are beholden to The Uplift editor for inserting in his pub- |
lication the programme of the home a.nd school improvement cainaigu in Ire. )
dell, in connection with our county school commencement. This as The Uplift !
has mentioned, is the conception of and is promoted by Miss Celeste ITenkel. j
who is in charge of the home economic work in this county. Miss Henkel's i
ability, industry, wide vision and per- community that has made tile most >
sonal popularity have made her work improvements in homes, schools and (
most successful. A year ago she pro- grounds the past year; to the com-
moted a similar campaign and the inanity that installs the most eleetri- i
results were so beneficial, pleasing and cal appliances, that paints the most (
attracted such wide-spread interest, homes and barns, etc., etc., it requires
that she was encouraged to similar no argument to demonstrate the ad-
effort this year. We are all looking vantages that will result form such
forward to splendid results on the a contest. Not only will there lie a
22d, the final date. The Uplift does healthy rivaJy as to the improve-
not give Iredell too much credit when meats, but a spirit of improvement,
it suggests the work iu this county as that will include modern eonven-
an example and inspiration to others. iences and attractive homes and sur- !
We haven't reached perfection, nor roundings, will be cultivated that will '
do I think that we are unduly puffed continue to grow. Prizes are also of- !
with pride. But in some things we fered fur the most improvements in i
feel that we are going ahead, and es- the schools, the buildings and grounds,
peeially in such w >rk as that men- such as can bo secured by community }
tioned. Other counties have' debates interest and co-operation; and for
and athletic events and similar con- home improvements — the most attrae-
tests in connection with school im- five bedroom, using old furniture :
provement and home improvement (fixing up with what you have), the j
contests such as Iredell is promoting, most kitchen conveniences, the most j
which mean so much fir butter living comfortable living room, mo. One
conditions in our rural districts. That can hardly estimate the good results
expression is not used in a patronizing from the cultivation of this spirit of
manner. The rural districts natur- home and community betterment.
idly do not have the advantages the There is one feature of the contest I
urban citizens are able to obtain. But that is some what unusual. In ad-
the rural people can have many advan- dition to the various prizes fur com- .
tages they do not have if the spirit positions and essays, there is a prize
of improvement, of home and oommu- to any adult in the county for the best
nity and school betterment, is aroused, essay on "One of Iredell's Distia-
So when prizes are offered— and sub- guished Men." This includes not
stantial prizes, too by our progressive only persons born in the county, bat
business and professional men— to the others who have done their life work .
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11
in Iredell; ami it means not those who
have attained material success only
but those who have attained distinc-
tion in their profession or in the pub-
lic service and who won success under
difficulties, and especially those who ''
have contributed to the public wel-
fare. A similar prize is offered for
a like essay to any adult resident of
Llooresville or Statesville; and there
is also a prize for a like essay from
anv high school boy or girl. There
is also a prize for the best essay on
a history of Iredell county. The first
two prizes were offered by ^ native of
the county who desired to promote a
study of the prominent men of Ire-
dell for historical purposes. As a re-
sult men and women, boys and girls,
are busy gathering material for write-
ups of Iredell citizens, the native born
and others who have conferred dis-
tinction on the county. It is an-
ticipated that a wealth of material
will be offered and the best of it may
he preserved in permanent form.
Some years ago I had occasion to
take note of citizens of Iredell who
had attained distinction within the
last half century or more and was
surprised to find that only two
native-born citizens in that period
had come to special prominence while
living in the county — Mr. Jos. P.
Caldwell, distinguished editor (and a
part of his most noted work was done
while a resident of an adjoining
county) ; and Hon. \V. D. Turner, who
was Lieutenant Governor 1901-5. The
county has had members of Congress,
Superior and Supreme Court judges,
and Speakers of the Legislature, but
all of them, in the period since the
>Var Between the States, were natives
of other counties. Hon. Jos. Pear-
son Caldwell, father of Editor Cald-
well, who was a member of Congress
at the time of his death in 1853, was
the last native born son to attain that
distinction. Judge Anderson Mitch-
ell, who lived in Statesville while serv-
ing as Superior Court Judge in the per-
iod early after the Wjir-of the Sixties,
was a native of Caswell county; Hon.
William M. Bobbins, who attained
distinction as a member of Congress,
serving three terms, and was a member
of the Gettysburg Battlefield Com-
mission for several years and at the
time of his death, was a native of
Randolph; Hon. R. F. Armtield, who
served two terms in Congress, was a
Superior Court judge and one of the
most eminent lawyers the State has
known, was a native of Guilford; Hon.
David M. Furehes, Superior and Sup-
reme Court judge, for a time Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, was a
native of Davie county; Hon. Albert
L. Coble, Superior Court judge, was
a native of Alamance; Hon. B. F.
Long, who was solicitor and who
succeeded Coble as Judge, is also a
native of Alamance; Hon. A. Leazar,
who represented Iredell for several
terms in the Legislature and was
Speaker of the House, was a native
of Rowan: and Hon. H. P. Grier,
Speaker of the hvst Legislature, first
saw the light in South Carolina. Some
native born Iredell men have won dis-
tinction in other States, but for more
than fifty years the county lias been
most hospitable to those who came in-
to the county from elsewhere.
While it might seem that native
born Iredell men were without honor
in their own baliwick, there has been
no apparent discrimination against na-
tive sous, and to our credit be it said
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we have never raised the issue of nati-
vity. But the honors we have given
to those coming anions' us is evidence
that Iredell is a good county to move
to. This same situation may exist
in many other counties, but it has
seemed to me rather unusual that so
many Iredell men who gained f]js.
tinetion while residents of the county J
were born outside the eounty.
MOVING AMONG US
"What are you going to do about it?" was the subject of a contribution of
M. N. C. in The Uplift of April 1st. Here is the subject and the occasion of that
article. A mother with tuberculosis, a father with tuberculosis, wasting his
strength in a torturing hacking cough, no money, no chattels except a dilapidat-
ed buggy and a bony horse, and about three hundred pounds of household ef-
fects, and now having nowhere to put them since his landlord gave orders for
his moving. The case of the father and mother is a trying ordeal— unable to
get treatment to stop the angry march of the cruel disease, the county hat-
ing no where to send them. But what of these children, innocent, irresponsi-
ble for conditions under which -they have been brought into the world— what is
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to become of them? Whajt? What? When organized government reaches
that point where it can take such people and house them and treat) them and
save the children from the lurking dangers that beset them in such a plight-
then that government will be reaching the glory of a proper functioning. It's
the thing to do, even if we do it to keep the clangers from our own household.
Tuberculosis bugs have no more respect for a well-to-do and finely dressed indi-
vidual than for poverty in tattered rags.
THE SORT OF SERMON FOR TODAY
(Greensboro Advocate.)
The long, prosaic sermon is clearly out of date. People who are accustomed
to clip off twenty-five miles an hour without breaking the speed limit will not
be content to give an hour to a little rambling history of the Jews,' a few plati-
I tucks as dry as last year's bird nest and about as useless, and a long drawn out
tale that has the flnvor of the graveyard, all of which together is called a ser-
mon. If sermons of that sort ever Amos got to his now charge he preach-
served any good purpose, their day ed justice and judgment. "Take
lias passed not to return. thou away from me the noise of thy
Another fallacy is to make the ser- songs; for I will not hear the melody
moil short and thin. That ruse will of thy voice. But let judgment run
not work. The needs of modern life down as waters, and righteousness as
: are too awful and too deep for any a mighty stream."
1 kind of trick to meet the demands That kind of preaching was not the
' of the hour. The call is not long ser- sort that they had been accustomed
mons nor for short sermons, nor Cor to hear. Samaria woke up, Amos got
thick sermons nor for thin sermons, a hearing, ami the world has never
but it is for sermons saturated with been the same since this prophet of
prayer, bathed in tears, and as high righteousness was sent of God to
as heaven and fts deep as the bottom- preach to those rich sinners in Sa-
1 less pit. If sermons are high enough maria.
and deep enough and hot enough, they John the Baptist did not give his
sill bear almost any length. The time to lopping oil limbs, or in "taking
courage of a prophet and the passion off the bark" as some preachers boast
of an apostle never fail to get a bear- of lining, but he laid the axe to the
[ in;: in any age. root of the tree, and that moral wood-
Amos was a poor country preacher, chopper soon had the crowds running
who had been inaicm' i living down !n after him. The multitudes (locked to
Judea raisin- serin cattle and trim- bear him, Herod could cut off his
ming fig trees. Cod sent hiu: up to head, but ghosts haunted Herod the
a big rich city church at Samaria, remainder of his days, and Jesus
where the peop:.> rolled iii wealth and brings His tribute of praise in the
luxury, went their -o,md id' formal immortal declaration, "Among them
religion and were content, lint when that are horn of women there has not
14 THE UPLIFT
arisen a greater than John the Bap- ception. Passionate prophets of Goi
tist." who address themselves to the grM
Such examples show with much essentials of the kingdom of God am
clearness and unmistakable emphasis to the universal needs of the luumu,
just what kind of preachers God can spirit, will have the approval of Gofi
use in any period of the world's his- upon their ministry.
tory. And this present age is no ex-
THE COW.
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("Nimrod" in Chatham Becord.)
The cow is man's most useful beast, her golden products grace his feast. A
pension she is justly due, and well deserves a, bonus, too; for few a better claim
can wield for gallant service in the field. Her milk and butter, cream and
cheese — she makes a specialty of these, and no good cook would ever dare to
drop them from the bill of fare, for cakes would only be delusive fakes. The
substitutes that men produce are known as just a poor excuse.
The cow should have good things to eat, like toasted flakes and cream of
wheat, and when she rests her drowsy head she ought to have a downy bed. We
need to watch her smallest ills supplied with liniment and pills. She's auto-
matic in a way and goes herself to cut the hay; whatever weather comes to
pass she swats the flies and cuts the grass. On passing let us briefly note, sle
leaves the tin cans for the goats. She eats most anything you wish, but onions
form her choicest dish.
The motor cars and tractors, too, perform most all the horse can do, but no
one yet has told us how to have good cream without the cow. And when at
last her hoary age has forced her from the butter stage, the butcher, ever wide
aws;ke, will carve her up in chunks of steak; the leather man, we might cos-
fide, will find a gold mine in her hide. All honors on her humble head, she ser-
ves us well, alive or dead!
How Shall We Plead To This Indictment?
(By C. C. Zimmerman, in News & Observer)
Whiie the commission appointed by governor Cameron Morrison to iffl
prove the food conditions in North Carolina has everybody talking about
how to swallow vitamines and how to put a cow, a hen, a hog and a bar-
rel of hominy on every Tar Heel farm, a few might be interested in so vit-
al a subject as the North Carolina farm home.
Did it ever strike you that there housed in two-room shacks? And
is little chance of improving either yet there are more than 8,573 such
the physical or moral conditions of shacks today in North Carolina,
people when whole families are which shelter approximately 50,00')
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13
Js'orth Carolina farm people.
In these days of efficiency no one
denies that better working facilities
increase the productiveness of labor.
We have improved our factores, put
skylights in them, painted them
white, made the walls all windows,
rearranged them and don? a thou-
sand such things because the physi-
cal and phychological effect increas-
es productiveness. We have passed
tenement and housing laws. We
have built parks and play-grounds
for urban families; and yet the farm
family, the only family unit in tne
world today which also remains a
self-sufficing economic unit, is still
in8,573 cases right here in North
Carolina, trying to live and eke out
a day by day existence cramped
within the unpaperd walls of a two-
room shack.
Largest Families, Smallest Houses
To make the matter worse, the
largest families reside in these small-
est houses, because the large famili-
es and the smallest houses are
characteristic of the poorer classes
Can a mother cook a decent meal
-with just the amount of carbohyd-
rates, fats, proteins and u'tamines
-if she is cramped by a bed, a table,
awashtub and a cradle in the same
littie room with her cook stove. Can
you expect her to be the same
mother as the woman whose kitchen
is a well-arranged special workshop
with running water and a kitchen
cabinet.
There is no getting around the
fact that every farm is a factory;
that every farm produces food and
law materials which feed the work-
ers and keep industry going; that
in addition every farm is a human
factory turning out boys and girls.
These farm boys and girls, like
the crops of food and raw materials,
flow in a constant stream to the
towns and cities. By the time the
farm boys and girls reach the cities
their ideas, habits and standards of
good and right are in a large degree
already formed. In too many cases
these tastes and standards were
formed or rather misformed in a
two-room shanty that could hardly
be called a home.
Let us ask this question— Which
of the three farm products is fun-
damental, food, raw materials or
people? Let us ask another question
— Are North Carolina farms as Well
equipped to produce people as they
are to produce corn, cotton or to-
bacco?
North Carolina has 269,763 farm
homes housing 1.339,279 men, wo-
men, boys and girls. For each hun-
dred houses there are on the aver-
age 515 people. Of these 209,763
homes, at least 8,573 have only two
rooms. If the families were of only
average size, these houses would
shelter 44,150 North Carolina peo-
ple. But as every body knows that
poor families are big families, it is
safe to say that 50,000 citizens of
North Carolina have not, enough
room in their houses for ordinary
privacy.
The Minimum Standard.
Housings experts have estimated
that the minimum housing standard
for purposes of health, convenience
and decency in an average of one
and a half rooms for each cccupant
of a house. Thus a family of two
persons should have a three-room
house, four persons a six- room house
and five persons at least a seven-room
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house.
Experts also tell us that theepuip-
ment ol a home, next to its size,
has most to do in determining its
efficiency and the kind of human
product, it will make. By that state-
ment they mean that homes with
screens, rocking chairs, rugs, baths,
indoor toliets and running water
most often turn out the best people.
If we are to improve conditions
in rural INorth Carolina, our primary
job is to improve the efficiency of
the farm home. This can only be
done by remedying the size of the
home and its equipment.
How many North Carolina farm
mothers toil from year end to year
end without washing machines, kit-
chen cabinets, running water, re-
frigerators or sewing machines at
their disposal? How many rural
homes lack electric lights, indoor
toilets, bathtubs, rugs, musical in-
struments, screens and newspapers?
No one seems to know. We have
never gathered the facts.
A college professor was invited
not long ago to make a talk in a
rural community on "'Better "Rural
Living." He was invited to have
sapper at the home of one of the
leading farmers of the community.
When he arrived for supper he fonud
to his surprise that not a rug was
to be found in the house; that the
family ate in the kitchen by the
stove and sat on boards nailed to
the table, There were three beau-
tiful daughters and one son in the
family. Three of these children had
been away to school.
That family could have afforded
to live bitter. As a matter of fact,
they could nave better afforded to
maintain a high standard of living.
Yet there are thousands of farm
families in North Carolina just like
the one described. They own their
farms and have a bank account but
they live as their grandfathers did
in the pioneer days of agriculture.
Increasing Efficiency.
We can increase the efficiency of
the farm home by educating the
people to want better homes. We
must educate the parents as well
as their children. Education for
children must come through the
schools. For the parents, there are
the farm papers and the home de-
monstration workers.
Rural schools are not doing their
job as they should. Every one knows
that so we will not discuss them here.
But for purposes of direct action,
let's talk about Mrs. Jane McKim-
n.on's home demonstration agents.
In 1021 there were 49 agents in
4lJ different counties doing home im-
provement work. How come! Aren't
there one hund.ed counties in North
Carolina? Can it be that the rural
housing standard of fifty-one North
Carolina counties is perfect? Does
every house in the fifty-one counties
without a demonstration agent have
a bathtub, an indoor toilet, a kitchen
cabinet, the proper rugs, furniture
and ventilation?
All the counties having home dem-
onstration agents showed need of im-
provements, thirty reported distinct
improvements in home condition as
a result of definite campaigns put on
by the demonstration workers. These
counties reported new equipment as
follows: 219 washing machines, 234
water systems, 473 lighting systems
and 81 heating systems. A totaLof
1 ,?.13 kitchens were screened and 780
rearranged on an efficient basis. |n
2,012 homes the walls were refinish-
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eS, and in 1,1348 others the floors
vrcre painted, recovered and improv-
ed. Kitchen cabinets were put in
219 homes previously without them,
and 017 families bought tireless cook-
ers. Living rooms in 917 homes
were refinished so as to give them
more of a homelike air, and in 538
homes the bedrooms were improved.
JJore than 2,600 houses previously
not protected from flies were screen-
ed during the year as a direct result
of the home demonstration work.
So you see North Carolina is start-
ing the job of improving the farm
home and doing it most efficiently
through the home demonstration
workers. Let us state the prog-ram
for the permanent improvement of
North Carolina rural home con-
ditions:
1. Put a good home demonstra ion
agent in every couatyin the State. la
each of the thickly populated counties
put two.
2. In each county that has a colored
'arm population of more than 1,000
families, put one or two colored home
demonstration worker.
3. Turn the searchlight of public
opinion directly upon rural schools.
If North Carolina expects to re-
move the social barriers which exist
between town and country, this piece
of educational work must be done.
The home of the farmer must be
improved until it is equal or better
than that of the town dweller. We
must fix a permanent rural civiliza-
tion upon the soil of the South that
will be an asset and pride to future
generations.
The United States refuses to join the league, and yet it insists upon
blocking every move the league makes without first consulting this coun-
try; and when the league does consult us, we wa,it a year before answering
the inquiry! Is it any wonder that we have become the most cordially de-
tested nation on th face of the earth? — Greensboro News.
ANCIENT WHALE PUT AWAY.
(News and Observer.)
Rib by rib, vertebrae by vettebrae, workmen have unhooked the vener-
able old whale from his moorings in the State Museum, boxed him up and
put him to rest for a period. Twenty-eight years is long enough for any
old whale to hang suspended from the ceiling anhow. He is deserving of
of rest.
A. year or so from now when the
new Agricultural building is finished
somebody will get out his bones and
the blue print of him, re-assemble
the skeleton and again the multi-
tude will gaze again upon the like of
which there is not in all the South.
The blue print is very materially im-
portant. Whales have a lot of bones,
this venerable specimen about 1,800.
MUSEUM IS EMPTY
All the relics, curios and what
not that have been collected into the
Museum in the 72 years of its statu-
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tory existence have been boxed up
and put away. The long, high-ceil-
ed rooms of the old building are
shut up and await the hand of the
executioner. 'J here is no Museum
any more, and the last of the ex-
hibits to go was this ancient Eubal-
cena Glacialia.
North Carolina has owned him 46
years. He was caught off Morehead
City in 1S75, and the next year his
bones were presented to the State
by Colonel John S. Woodard, then
president of the Atlantic & North
Carolina— "Mullet"— railroad. Lot?
of whales used to be caught off
Morehead when whalebone still con-
tributed to milady's wordrobe, and
whale oil was burned in lamps.
COL. WOODARD DONOR.
Just how the Colonal acquired the
skeleton of this demi- monster of the
deep is not a matter of record, but
he got it and gave it to his State.
Moreover, he paid the freight on it,
3,500 pounds. Railroads were more
human and convenient to live with in
those days before the Government
got so interested in their welfare.
No room was avaible for the mass
of bones, and the lot was thrown
carelessly on the floor. Nearly twen-
ty years they rested there, and might
have been there yet but for the kind-
ly intervention of the World's Fair
in Chicago in 1S93. Then practi-
cally everything movable was stripp-
ed away from the Museum and sent
to Chicago.
With most of his treasures gone,
Curator H. H. Brimley had time on
his hands, and some considerable
space. He got to working with the
old whale, and before the stuff came
back from Chicago, he had assembl-
ed the 1,800 bones in their proper
order, and hoisted the frame half
way to the ceiling. It has hung
there ever since.
CHINESE PUZZLE EASY.
Vast labor and vast ingenuity was
expended. There was no working
model to go by, and the things had
to be done by experimention. No
Chinese puzzle was ever more baf-
fling, and besides that, the great
bones, some of them 14 feet long,
had to be wired, or worse yet, have
steel rods inserted in them to give
stability. Eventually it was done.
North Carolina is one of the few
States that can boast of such a crea-
ture. Charleston has a smaller one
and there are cne or two in other
museums, but this is quite the finest
specimen of them all. In his glory,
the old whale was 51 feet long, and
weighed 200,000 pounds. The Skele-
ton is 45 feet and a few inches in
length. Every bone is included, and
when he is re-assembled, no such
labor as the first assemblage will be
necessitated.
how7 old? well-
How old the old whale might
have been is a matter about which
the Curator does not speculate. He
quit speculating about ages of his
creatures some years ago when he
dug up a prehistoric elephant down
in Onslow county. He was pride-
fully showing the thing to a good
churchman who happend to be on
his board at the time. The old
mountineer wanted to know about
the thing's age---when was it that
there were hairy elephants in this
State.
"That, of course, is uncertain,"
Mr. Brimley made answer. "Some
geologists -place the age of this
specimen at 50,000 years, others at
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perhaps 500,000 years. Certainly it
must be as much as 50,000 years."
"Wh-what's that?" spluttered the
churchman, who no doubt is a strong
supporter of William Jennings
Byran. "Don't you know the world
ain't but six thousand years old."
Mr. Brimley dosen't say how old
the whale was, or how old anything
else is that he has not exact figures
on. But the old whale was probably
in Methuselah class when he fell a
prey to Morehead City fishermen.
Davidson county, called by the scorner "Darkest Davidson," is forging
right to the front in education. The school districts arc merging so as to
sscure better houses and better teachers, and the school spirit generally is
strong and wholesome. There is a great clay ahead of old Davidson. — Char-
ity & Children.
STARTING A RELIGIOUS PAPER.
(Mooresville Enterprise.)
Ninety-seven years ago when there were very few newspapers printed
in North Carolina, Rev. Robert H. Morrison, A. M., the first presicent of
Davidson College, set on foot a plan whereby the people of North Carolina
should have a religious paper and issued from Fayetteville. The first copy
of the paper The Telegraph was printed in the form below, and the orig-
inal subscribers had their names appended. This- old paper was secured by the
Enterprise from Miss Julia Stirewalt, nities of Eternity, far
of this city. You will find it interest-
ing and it is somewhat of a curio in
the annals of printing of to-day.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING
The importance of periodical pub-
lications has long been felt and ac-
knowledged. By them intelligence
is diffused, error corrected, preju-
dice removed, vice restrained, and
virtue cherished, to an extent worthy
of universal regard. As men feel
a deep interest in whatever relates
to their political rights and temporal
prosperity, vehicles of worldly news
have, in all civilized countries, been
sought with eagerness and supported
with liberality.
But as the claims of Jehovah, the
interests of the Soul, and the solem-
surpass in
magnitude all other things, it is reas-
onable to expect that religious pub-
cations would rise up gaining patron-
age among men, and exerting a
beneficial influence in forming their
characters. Happily the present age
is beginning to answer this expecta-
tion by a growing anxiety for religi-
ous knowledge, and a lovely display
of benevolent enterprise. We live at
a time when plans for public good
are boldly conceived and fearlessly
executed. To bless others is becom-
ing the ambition of the highest and
the recompense of the lowest. To
stop the growth of human misery,
by opposing the march of human
corruption, is now attempted in al-
most every land. To carry "far as
the curse is found" the tidings of
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peace and the means of purity,
unties the strength of a thousand
hands, and engages the prayers of
ten thousand hearts.
These efforts are not without sus-
cess. The cause of truth prospers.
The kingdom of righteousness ad-
vances. The works of darkness give
way, and unnumbered triumphs of
the Gospel promise the approach of
better times. But the work is only
begun. Millions of the human fami-
ly are yet covered with darkness,
guilt and pollution. Thousands in
our own country know nothing of
the way of life.
To Christians the cry for help
must be raised. They are the hon-
ored instruments by which Christ
will set up his kingdom in the world.
His standard they are privileged
and required to follow; and to do so
without dismay, and fight under it
without defeat, they must act in
concert. To secure this they must
know their relative strength and
movement. In a well-organized
army there are watchmen to look
out for danger, and messengers to
report the acts of each division, and
the success of every attempt; so. in
the host of the Lord there must be
heralds to bear tidings of what is
doing, and sentinels to guard against
hostile invasions. The army of
Christ is not drawn up in one field
of battle. It is scattered over the
whole earth. Hence the necessity
and usefulness of religious papers,
by which Christians in every country
may know what is effected, what
remains to be done, and how to
cooperate with each other in doing
it. There is no other way in which
to make known the wants of every
section of the Church, and to ensure
concentrated and vigorous exertions
among the friends of Zion. Accord-
ingly, in all parts of the Church, arid
among all denominations of Christ,
ians, such publications are rapidly
multiplying and cheerfully support
ed.
N^rth Carolina, containing a pop-
ulation of more than six hundered
thousand, and many flourishing
churches, has not one such paper.
Why this lamentable deficency? No
State in the Union of equal import-
ance and respectability but supports
one or more.
The experiment is now to be made
whether the people of our Stato are
willing to patronize such a publica-
tion. That they are richly able none
will pretend to deny.
The editor of the Telegraph will
use every exertion to make it a faith-
ful Journal ofreligiousintelleger.ee,
and an impartial advocate of Christ-
ian doctrine and vital piety. He
will have before him a choice .;f sec-
lection of the best papers and magi-
zines in this country and some of the
ablest foreign Journals, from which
he hopes at all times to pre-
sent an interesting abstract of use-
ful information. He will also he
aided by original communications
from some of the most distinguished
gentlemen in the State.
As learning and religion :nlorn and
promote each other, and cannot be
separated without mutilating both,
the columns of the Telegraph will be
filled in part with select literary
pieces, designed to increase the
knowledge and gratify the taste of
all its readers. And as Christians
owe many of their dearest privileges
to the admirable Constitution of our
wise and happy government, and are
deeply interested in its prosperity, a
faithful detail of political events, do-
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niestie and foreign, will at all times
be given.
Appropriate remarks on agricul-
tural improvements and Domestic
Economy will occasionally be insert-
ed.
And 'last but not least,' the im-
provement, dignity, and usefulness
of the Female Sex will find in the
Telegraph a willing and sincere ad-
vocate.
The paper will be large, neatly
printed, and with the best type.
No advertisements will be admitted.
The first number to be issued as
soon as a sufficient number of Sub-
scribers is obtained.
Trice 'lhree Dollars a year, or Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents if paid in
advance.
Fayetteville, July 1, 1S25.
Thomas V. Cannon. Concord
John H. Alexander Concord
John C. Ross Walnut Grove
Stephen Alexander Do
Kiah P. Harris Concord
Mary L. Alexander Concord
Moses Alexander Concord
Levi Hope Walnut Grove
John W. Reed Do
John Stevenson Concord
Joseph Crawford Concord
Charles W. Harris Walnut Grove
Seth Rogers . Concord
Robert Querry. .Robert W. Smith's
Thos Hope Do
Johseph Wallace Walnut Grove-
Silas Young Concord
Benjamin Alexander Smith's
Geo. Fleming. .Missouri S. Jackson
Ambrose Alexander Concord
Abner Alexander. Smith's
James Cannan Concord
James Allison. Walnut Grove
Samuel Kellough Dc
David MeRee Concord
Isaiah Deweese . Walnut Grove
James Wallis.. . . . __ Walnut Grove
Jediah Wallace Concord
PAUL'S IRON EXCLAMATION
By Ladd Phurdey
Paul Xelson gazed from the window, hardly knowing he was looking out
into the railroad yards. The chugging of yard engines and the cheerful bustle
of the terminal only made Paul's heart more heavy. From time to time he
lifted a letter, gazing at it with misty eyes. The letter was a curt dismissal
from the road, couched in the abrupt style of the general manager, who never
fasted the road's type writing ribbons.
"Anybody might have made tin
blunder!" exclaimed Paul. He scowl
I'd as ho turned his eyes toward tin
wsk of the head clerk of the account
odd years, is an old bachelor in poor
health and living in a boarding house,
there are excuses for crankiness.
Blunders by the clerks in his depart-
ing division, Mr. Simpson, who had metn were considered by Simpson as-
unforgiveable crimes, and for months,
there had been a kind of an epidemic
of blunders in the accounting division.
Paul had made a blunder, a blunder
that outside a railroad headquarters.
gone home at five.
Simpson wasn't exactly a lovable
Man, but then, when a man has jug-
S'ed with railroad figures for thirty-
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might have been considered as rather
funny, but unfortunately the blunder
was made at the very time when it
was most dangerous. For the stiff old
manager, Jonas Crea, had let it be
understood that the next blunder
would most certainly eost the blunder-
er his position.
And the overlord of the road, dig-
nified and prideful, was not pleased
■when he received by the hand of a
messenger a communication which
read, "Dear sir: The road notes that
you are frequently late at your desk.
You are expected to be at your work
from eight until five. Ten minutes
.loss of time each day means monthly
a loss of hours of service to the road.
THIS NOTICE IS MEANT FOR
YOU."
Mr. Crea himself had given orders
that the notices were to be sent to
certain of the clerks, and that he
should receive a copy seemed to him as
a kind of insult. Moreover, the after-
noon the notices were enclosed in en-
velopes by Paul, other notices of a
meeting of the road's executives were
also sent out. The executive meeting
was an important one, and Mr. Crea,
who prided himself on keeping such
appointments, did not receive his
notice and was not present.
"Mad as a batter!" exclaimed
Simpson, when calling Paul down. "I
don't blame Mr. Crea. And he called
me down, as if I could lie expected to
put notices in envelopes myself. Mr.
Crea stated that the very next error
made in this department would cost
the clerk his job. He never goes
hack on what lie says. It's your
home town and the woods for you!
You draw your pay to the first of the
month, and you look for another job.
That's ali! Here's your dismissal!"
To go back to his home town a:\,\
acknowledge to his folks he had been
discharged! To Paul that seemed ah
most impossible. Yet there would lie
little chance for employment in the
railroad town, for any application
for future employment would require
a statement of his dismissal. Hi;
pay had been small, and he had saved
nothing, and at the end of two weeks
he would have nothing with which to
pay his board bill. There seemed but
one thing to do — to go back home.
It was late when with a sad face he
entered Mrs. Sullivan's railroad
boarding house.
"And what's ailing ye?" asked
Mrs. Sullivan, as she stumped into the
dining-room with Paul's supper. ''The
road's kept ye late before, but ye've
never been grouchy 'cause ye've been
kept late. "What's ailing ye, I'm ask-
ing?"
Mrs. Sullivan had a big heart in her
big body, and she had passed through
many troubles. The big heart and her
own troubles were the reasons why all
her boarders unloaded on her their
own troubles, and the story of Paul's
dismissal went across the table into
her open ears. Her bror,d fate
grinned when she heard of the anger
of the manager. Her husband had
been a trainman and she had heard of
the manager and his reputation as to
pride.
"We all gits our lessons," said the
widow, when the story was finished,
"Ye '11 no doubt make ither blunder-,
but ye 'II never again mix up letters.
Ami don't git to thinking everything
be ended wid ye. When a big trouble
hits folks it always seems so, but
t lure's many an engine gits busted m
re-
This
the
ther
lire-
iosi-
>ave
i' so
dy!
in
•ere
Sir.
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i .,11 accident and ye wouldn't know it
mien hits it out of the repair shop.
And if ye wants, when ye ain't got
; so pay envelope, ye can .stay right on
I liere. It's never meself as turns any-
f body out when his luck's down on
him!"
, Paul thanked Mrs. Sullivan, but he
[told her that as there would be no
jthanee of landing employment in the
I railroad town he had decided to re-
• tarn home and. that after two weeks
she could rent his room.
When a chap's income will be cut
I off at the end of a stated period it is
! amazing how fast the days fly. Be-
j fore Paul could realize it he was in the
j middle of his last week with the road.
His trunk was packed, but as yet he
kid not been able to bring himself
!o write to his folks of his disgrace.
Already a new junior clerk for the
accounting department had been en-
gaged, and it was Paul's final task to
train him. Aside from this his own
duties had become only nominal, and
lie now clerk attended to the mail and
ran all errands. Paul would spend
Host of his hours gazing longingly in-
to the railroad yard, very sad of face
and far sadder of heart.
On a Wednesday afternoon of the
last week he was sitting moodily in his
usual place at the window, when be-
low in the yards a hatless man raced
across. As he ran he yelled '"'Fire!",
the cry repeated by others who iui be-
hind him. Paul lifted the window and
leaned out. From all the windows nl!
Ac terminal exe'r?.! ra'lroad men and
Werks were gazing. The man who
bad been the first to yell an alarm
turned in a signal at a tire signal box,
"id a moment later an alarm sound-
ed from the whistle at the repair
shops. At first Paul failed to see
any evidences of the lire, then a black
smoke burst out of the upper win-
dows of the brick building next to
the building where Paul was leaning
from the window.
''The executive offices!'' gasped
Paul.
How the lire was caused was never-
known, but when afterward a lire in-
surance expert made his examination
he gave it as his opinion that the fire
was caused by a rat, which gnawed the
insulating material from an electric
light wire. Very likely he was cor-
rect; the building was an old one and
harbored many rats.
With some of the other employes
of the road Paul gave his aid, helping
to carry out the executive offices such
valuables and records as could be
hastily removed. The official who di-
rected the work, and who himself aid-
ed, was the general manager, Crea,
severe of aspect and of few words,
and as cool and collected as if he were
engaged at his usual tasks at his desk.
Above its first floor, where the offi-
ces were, the burning building was
stored with combustible material, and
before water could be turned upon
it by the fire engines it was .evident
that it was hopeless to save the build-
ing. What records could not be re-
moved were placed in safes, and it
was not until the firemen had ordered
all out that Crea was ready to leave
and gave the order himself. The
clerks leaped from the doorway. Crea
was behind Paul, the old gentleman
moving toward the exit with his
usual slow dignity. Suddenly, and
with no warning whatever, the entire-
front wall of the old building above
the first story collapsed, closing the
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doorway and the front windows with
a mass of debris and cutting oft' every
means of escape for the two who
Tvere behind the others. For in the
lower portion of the building, which
stood against another building, there
"were no rear windows. Paul was so
■dazed with the peril that had come
■with such suddenness that he hardly
knew where he was.
"This way, young man," said Crea,
the words rising above the crackling
of flames and the shouts without in
the yard. "There's a cellar. It
must be the cellar."
Mr. Crea turned, and quitch' led the
■way to a door in the rear that opened
on a flight of stairs and led to the
cellar. And what with the stoppage
of windows and doors the heat and
smoke had instantly become stilling.
At the door Crea stood aside, "Go
down, young man," he said. "I'll
close the door behind us. For a short
time we will be safe below."
Down the stairway Paul plunged
into the darkness. The cellar was
pithchy dark, for it was lighted by
electricity and the wires had been
burned out.
"Let me see," came Crea 's voice
from behind Paul in the darkness.
"Beyond where we are there's a door-
way at the front, and a portion of
the cellar extends out under the yards.
I have matches! We'll find the door-
way. We're not safe here, even for
a moment. If the floor should settle,
that ends us.
Crea led the way, lighting matches,
and, presently, they were in the ex-
treme front portion of the cellar.
"For perhaps a half-hour or so I
think we'll be safe here," said Crea
quitely.
"After that?" gasped Paul.
"We mustn't think of that," K.
plied Crea. He continued, "This
part of the cellar is out under the
yards. We'll both shout together
and with all our might. If the fire-
men hear they may suspect our posi-
tion. All they'd have to do to save
us would be to dig down a foot or so
and remove a few bricks. Ready!
One, two, three, — shout!"
Again and again they shouted in
unison, but it was evident they were
not heard.
"Very natural," remarked Mr.
Crea. "When the wall fell they must
have thought we were instantly kill-
ed."
Paul's heart pounded and his breath
came in gasps. The snappings of the
flames above were becoming hauler,
and even where they stood the air was
becoming acrid with smoke. Death in
this black hole seemed the most hor-
rible of deaths. Presently, as a sud-
den thought came to him, Paul gasp-
ed, "Mr. Crea! There's a coal shovel.
Pack in the other cellar! We passed
it."
"Vain hope!" snapped back Crea.
"We can't dig our way out. Even
if we could, it would be hopeless in
the time at our disposal.
"Don't mean that sir! Morse! We
might use the code! Hit the shovel on
something!"
"The old trick!" exclaimed Crea.
"But with all the confusion above us
nobody would hear. Besides, there -
isn't one chance in a thousand that it
anybody should hear he'd happen to
be a chap who understands Morse. It
we had some way of making a '»?
racket, a noise that would be heard
all over the yards, your idea urigW
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"The iron door, sir! Behind us!"
exclaimed Paul. When you lighted
mat i'Ii ps I saw it ! It' we had an ax
,ir a big hammer ! ' '
"C'ogan, the foreman of the yards,
uses the cellar tor extra tools," gasp-
ed Mr. Crea, for the smoke had be-
! come choking in the cellar. Pick-
, axes are in the corner behind us. [
I have move matches — follow me!"
Two minutes later the iron door
' kid been closed, and with a pickaxe
■ in his hand Paul was thundering up-
] on the door tlie Morse signal for the
; exclamation mark — three slow blows
i followed by one short blow. In the
rlose confines of the cellar the signal
I u;is almost deafening, but Mr. Crea
bad doubts if it 'would be hea,rd out-
side in the yards.
But among the men who were fight-
ing the fire were several who were ex-
pert with the Morse code. "Listen!"
exclaimed.
' Under us! The
extension to the cellar! Crea and the
young chap are down in there!"
Instantly picks and shovels were
j'lit in use, and not long after Mr.
Crea and Paul were lifted to safety,
by this time almost insensible from
'he effects of smoke.
On tlie following morning Paul was
simmioned to the temporary office of
tlie general manager, which had been
fitted up over the freight department.
As Paul entered, the old gentleman
seemed even more stiff than usual,
tot he smiled a genial smile.
"That was a mighty bright idea of
jours, young man," he said. ''And
it you hadn't got that hunch, — but
perhaps we'd better not talk about
that, it isn't a pleasamt subject. But
what I wish to ask is how a junior in
our accounting department, where his
duties are only clerical, should be so
familiar with Morse that he can use.
a pickaxe as a key and an iron door
as a sounder .' ' '
'-"Always wanted to be a, railroad
man, sir," replied Paul. Learned
Morse before I left school. Have an
old instrument in my room at Mrs.
Sullivan's boarding house. Been
practicing, sir, ever since I got my
job on the road."
"Let me see," growled Crea. Seems
to me you're the criminal who noti-
fied the general manager of this road
that he must be at his desk at eight!"
"Yes, sir," stammered Paul.
"I guess you learned your lesson,"
said Crea. After all, we all make
blunders. The important thing is
not to go on making 'em. But you're
discharged, young man. We can't
forget that. And, you know, the men
say that when I give my word I never
throw a reverse lever. Yes, you're
discharged. "
"Yes, sir."
Mr. Crea's face wrinkled into a
more genial smile yet. "But, then,
I see no reason why I shouldn't take
you on again," he chuckled. "I've
been thinking I need another clerk
in my own department. And, of
course,, I couldn't be expected to lift
a junior clerk from the accounting
department without giving him a sub-
stantial increase in pay. You can
report to my head clerk — he will have
a desk for you. Shake hands, young
man, shake hands!"
2G THE LTLIFT
There's Is Place In Life For Trie Ancdote.
ARMFIELD, BYNUM AND AVERY.-- There are times when every ),,,-.
son meets up with a situation that leads to a very serious self-examination.
Unable to fathom the conflicting; and confounding- predicament in which
men sometimes find themselves, they call in friends to re-assure them
Ever since Isaac Erwin Avery im-
mortalized himself with North Caro-
linians by his pen picture of the
simple Violet, his friends and ac-
quaintances always specially recall
him when the innocent little flower,
taking no note of lingering frost or
a snow in hiding, makes its annual
appearance.
The other day Lawyer Frank Arm-
field, a prominent member of the
Concorl bar, stopped me with the
-question, "did you know Isaac Erwin
Avery?" Continuing, he said, "I
shall never forget the all but paralyz-
ing situation in which he found him-
self on one occasion at Trinity
College, along about 1891." Avery
and a young man bv the name of
E. T. Bynuni, now a successful real-
estate dealer in Oklahoma stace, as
students left the University of North
Carolina and entered Trinity College
to complete their education. They
took up with Mr. Armfield. This
triumvirate became fast ;hums. and
often times attempted the unravell-
ing of some of the most obscure
problems that always bob up in the
researches of a college student. By-
num was a great tease; he carried
around with him an affidavit face,
like Jim Pnu, Herriot Clarkson and
Jim Bell. You think such people
are always in earnest.
This man Avery kept Bynum (and
possibly Frank Armfield, but he
would not admit it) eternally busy
in deep and profound thought over
some of the most serious matters in
life— Avery ran to psychologies;
theories at time. One day, Aver;
propounded persistently and in seri-
ousness a proposition to Bynum--!
what lawyers would term a hy-
pothetical question— it was too much
for Bynum, and probably the world.
in all its glory and achievements i;
yet unable to answer the question,
and at Avery's conclusion Bynm
would simply ask, "In what respect;"
From another angle Avery would
begin his proposition over; and al
its conclusion, Bynum, apparently
deeply concerned and puzzled, wouU
simply reply, "In what respect?"
Again, the brilliant young Avery
thoroughly aroused over his search
for light, and in maintenance of his
proposition, adopted another and
what he thought a clearer way of
putting his question to Bynum. But,
again, the affidavit faced Bynum
would respond, "In what respect'''
This thing went on and on. Avery,
becoming more in earnest and con-
founded over thv. inability ufmaking
himself clear or perhaps the go-
tuseness of his friend Bynum, called
Frank Armfield aside and seriously
inquired of him if be saw anything
unusual, about him (Avery) that .
would indicate a muddled brain, or
a slipped cog, or "what's wrong
with me?" to which Mr. Armfield,
knowing Bynum and having caught
his purpose to rattle and counfound
the brilliant mind that afterwards
painted in everlasting words the
violet, laughingly remarked, IN
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VHAT RESPECT?"
Avery saw the point but days and
•j afterwads he seemed to wonder
about the power of one mind over an-
other.
jay
The late E. A. Snow left $6,000 of his estate to orphanages and $1,000
to the High Point Presbyterian, church. These are the best of all the in-
vestments he made in his will, beq.ueath.ing nearly half a, million dollars.-
News & Observer.
How The Color Seas Were Named
There are saveral large seas which were named for their colors. The
White Sea bears its name with perhaps the best reason of any. Its shores
ire covered wirh snow the greater part of the year, and its frozen surface,
is for that time a snowy plain.
I The Red Sea is also entitled to its
Dame. Through its clear waters the
' reefs cf red coral are clearly to be
;;en. Much of its rocky bed is the
po\vth of the coral insect. Another
reason, and probably the true one for
the name of this sea, is the fact that
along its shores lies ancient Edom.
jiTiis name signifies red.
In the case of the Yellow Sea its
same is sufficiently accounted for
from the appearance of its water.
the sea receives a great deal of mud
.from the rivers of China, moreover,
litis shallow, and the sandy bottom
jives its own color a long way out
from the shore.
The Black Sea affords no clear ac-
count of its name. The waters are
wt black, but blue. The Greeks,
"hen they first became acquainted
' with this sea, called it by a name
»hich signifies The Inhospitable.
Later they changed it to The Hospi-
table. It has naturally been infer-
red by this change of nan:e, that
upon further acquaintance, trie-
Greek sailors found these waters
friendly. But the Greeks were in-
clined to give soft and flattering-
names to the objects of their dread,
and that may be what they did in
this particular case. The Greek
name holds to this day among the
older nations of Europe. The Rus-
sians called the sea Black. It seems
likely that this name was suggested
by contrast. The sea lies south of
Russia, as the White Sea lies to the
north. Had the latter been called
the North Sea, then the Hospitable
of the Greeks might have been nam-
ed by the Russians South Sea. In
the same way the B'ack Sea was.
named in contrast to the White Sea*
-—Classmate.
"Life is filled with sand bars, rocks and hidden wrecks. AH we have
to do to wreck our life is to give full play to our inclinations, passions
and lust and loves. For thousands of years brighter men and women.
than you and I will ever be, have had their lives wrecked on the shoals of
time because they insisted upon having their own way.— Gypsie Smith*
28
THE UPLIFT
A BIT OF ADVICE
J. E. PADDACK.
Do not pity yourself because of the name some one has given you. .Make
a name for yourself. We are the architects of our own fortune. If you have
made a mistake in life profit by it. Do not allow your spirit to droop and die
■with the setting of today's sun. Look for the glory of tomorrow's sunrise
with a thousamd landscapes all flooded with light and beauty.
Do not become soured on the world.
Be optimistic and cheerful. Do not
allow yourself to think that all the
good people have died off leaving the
world and humanity to grope their
Whitcomb Riley, who said:
"Taint no use to grumble and coin-
plain
Its just as cheap and easy to be
happy and rejoice.
way through unpenetrable darkness "When God sorts out the weather and
and gloom. This is a beautiful world sends rain;
in which to live. You and I can help
to adorn it by living beatiful lives.
When the clouds hang heavy with
darkness just remember that back of
the clouds is the sun still shining. Thy
fate is the common fate of all. Into
each life some rain must fall. Some
day must be dark and dreary.
When such days come let us not
forget the words of the poet who said:
""Let us, then, be up and doing
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still persuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
It was the Hoosier poet; James
Why, rain's my choice.
And so it is in this life. Things mar
not always be according to our liking,
but it will be much better for to try
and adjust our lives to an infinite plan
than to run counter to high ideals anil
lofty purposes. Live each day as
though it were the last. Crowd into
today all the good you can. To-mor-
row may never come. Life on earth
Mill soon lie over. Death conies to nil.
What about the future .' He who takes
care of the present need have any
fears for the future. Prepare for it
now.
* INSTITUTIONAL NOTES
* By S. B. Davis
The boys are bedding sweet pota-
toes.
ar, was a
Mr. Sam Frazier, of St
visitor here Monday.
Last Friday, the bo/s all wrote
their monthly letters to their respec-
tive homes.
Mr. H. C. Brown, of Lillington,
brought Watson O'Quinn to the
school Saturday.
The dairy barn is rapidly Hearing
completion. Soon it will be finished.
The dairy barn means more cream.
The J. T. S. played a game of ball
with Roberta Mills Saturday. The
school was defeated, but not without
a struggle.
As on Saturday a week ago, last
Saturday Mr. Johnson took the boys
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under his charge to the ball field and
cleaned it up before the game.
When going to chapel, last Sun-
day, the boys looked like real soldi-
ers, in their uniform. They crossed
the Memorial Bridge in single file,
keeping excellent step.
The newly-made benches looked
considerably out of place without
being paintpd. Realizing this, Mr.
Cloer took all back to the shop and
and painted them green.
Each night, as the days grow long-
er, more time is added to the time
the boys stay out on the lawn. Soon,
instead of going to the sitting room,
they will go direct to bed.
The lawn facing Guilford and Dur-
ham Cottages has been plowed up.
This was done so fertilizer could be
gotten into it, making it rich enough
to grow grass this summer.
A few officers on duty last Sun-
day took their boys for a walk. Up
and down th? highway could be seen
thirty boys more or less in single rile
enjoying themselves unto their ut-
most capacity.
Summer seems to be here once
again. It reminds the boys of delici-
ous water-melons to be eaten and
also of long, hot hikes to the river
which makes the water more pleas-
ant when they reach them.
At the time of this vriting paint-
ers were working on the school
building. -Ihey have painted the
halls and are now at work on the
various rooms. A great change of
appearance is accomplished by this
work.
Edward Cleaver, George Lafferty,
Johnny Wright, Milton Hunt, Lox-
ley Saunders and Homer Covington
enjoyed Wednesday verv much, be-
cause they were being visited by
home folks. It is not to be doubted
that the visitors enjoyed the recep-
tion here.
Frequent buffetings by the elem-
ents have caused the flags, Old Glory
and Old North State, to be quite
torn and worn. But this does not
decrease the boys' respect for them
and every morning when they are
raised, they are saluted with con-
siderable feeling.
A fence has been placed around
the little clearing in front of the
Printing Office to keep off all intru-
ders or trespassers who may pass in
that direction, for inside of this lit-
tle clearing has been planted flowers
with the intention of making the
outside appearance of the Printing
Office more beautiful and attractive.
Some surprises come seldom; some
come often. Some are pleasant;
some are unpleasant. But this re-
porter knows of a boy who was sur-
prised, but was surprised pleasantly
and delightfully W'hen this certain
boy's brother and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Randel Brooks, stopped to see
him They were on their way to
Charlotte coming from Winston-
Salem.
As was stated in last week's issue
of The Upift, when the entire band
practices, it does so in the pavilion.
The music can be heard plainly in the
school room. But, instead of de-
tracting the boys' attention from
their books and lessons, it fills them
with a new strength of will to
prepare their lessons so perfect,
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that when the class is reciting, not
one misses a question,
Sunday services were held in the
Chapel Sunday evening. Rev. Mr.
Myers, of Concord, took charge of
the services. He asked Rev. T. W.
Smith, our gf od friend, also of
Concord to lead the boys in prayer.
Mr. Smith did so. After the read-
ing of the text, Mr. Myers had four
of his girl choir singers to sing for
the boys. The boys surely appre-
ciated the singing, and this is a cor-
dial invitation for a return visit in
the near future. After the singing
Mr. Myers spoke from the topic
"Giants." He told the boys which
giants to obey and which not to.
Remarkable achievement in an
hereditably short time is tht record
of little Carlyle Hardie, one of the
smallest boys at the school. When
this prodigy, for such he is, came
to the school, he knew naught of
learning. Now, however, he is in
the third grade and is rapidly advanc-
ing. And all this in eight months.
The other day when the boys wrote
their monthly letters, his was of
such note, full of the doings of the
school, so neatly written by a bjy of
eight months schooling, that Miss
Greenlee, his teacher, sent it to the
other teachers, Messrs. Johnson and
Crooks, for inspection Their judg-
ment was also favorable. Little
Charles Blackrnan, his playmate, is
getting "green with envy."
HONOR ROLL.
"A"
Robert Pool Joseph Moore, Ber-
tram Hart, Malcolm Holman, Homer
Covington, James Honeycutt, Fitz-
hugh Miller, Doyle Jackson, Hoyle
Faulkner, John Moose, Victor High,
Vass Fields, William. F. Gregory,
Harry Ward Johnnie L. Wright,
Glenn Riddick, Ernest Jackson,
Everett Goodrich, Jake Willard,'
Albert Keever, Rufus Wrenn,
James Foy, Richard Johnson, Harry
Shir'ey. Roy Johnson, G. Everheart,
H. Tys<m, 0. Quinn, C. Rogers,
and M. Gibert.
"B"
Ralph Freeland Stanly Armstrong,
Floyd Huggins, Authur Montgom-
ery, James Shipp, Swift Davis,
Frank Thomason, Arvel Absher,
Murray Evans, Walter Shepard,
Elbert Perdue Allie Williams Robt.
Watson and Dudley Pangle.
Dohme Manning, Sylvester Sims,
Harvy Wrenn, Ernest Jordan, Ellis
Nance, Henry Reece, Charlie Rotb-
rock Harry Dalton, John Hill, L"
Grant, John Kemp, A. Corbett,
Hazen Ward, Murphy Jones, and
Herbert Tolley.
BRANDING RECALLED
Mrs. E. F. Fenton on Monday re-
ceived a telegram stating that her
brother, George D. Smith, had died
that day at his home in Fordyce,
Ark. Mr. Smith moved from Anson
to Arkansas 30 or more years ago,
and was very successful in his adopt-
ed State. He was the son of John
D. Smith, in his day a prominent
citizen of Anson, and of Mrs. Lilla.
Jacobs Smith. He is survived by
his wife, who was Miss. Sallie Stur-
divant,' of this county, and by several
children; also by one brother, Thomas
D. Smith, of Patrick, S. C, and three
sisters, Mrs. E. F. Fenton, Mrs. M.
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J. Roscoe, and Miss Rosa Smith, of
Rockingham.
The death of Mr Smith recalls an
interesting bit of history related by
E. F. Fenton. John D. Smith was
killed by a white man named Morri-
son in the days before the War be-
tween the States. Morrison was em-
ployed by Smith, who discharged him
on account of drunkedness. Enrag-
ed, Morrison picked up a hatchet and
threw it at Smith hitting him in the
head and inflicting a wound which
resulted in death. Morrison was
tried, and, as the crime was not pre-
meditated, escaped with his life. The
penalty was that he be branded in
the right hand with a large "M."
The procedure of branding wasa s
follows: The right hand was placed
in a vise and so tied that it could
not be moved. The red hot iron
was then applied to the palm of the
hand and held it against it for the
length of time it took the convicted
man to say "God save the State"
three times. Naturally ho talked
fast.
According to Mr. Fenton's rec-
ollection this was the last branding
under legal forms in the history of
the State, a law being passed doing
away with this penalty shortly there-
after
How Ke Took On Four Pounds.
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work. These children do not come
from poverty- stricken homes---they
are, in a measure, just the victims of
"not kon wing what- to-do- about-it."
Welcome, thrice welcome, to an ed-
ucation that seeks to have a sound,
healthy body along with an enlight-
ened mind.
Even a child of a boarding-housj
keeper gained four pounds last
month; is unusally bright; as happy
as a lark; and has begun to feel like
somebody and is Iearning---a radical
change.
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's' Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAJIES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord^
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
"Is it true that a trench and a casket is all there is at the end, or is
there something beyond life? Your life should bo a preparation for the
something beyond."
THE DOCTORS CAN'T AGREE
Probably every well-balanced person in North Carolina could be depen-
ded upon to testify that the state sends out much money annually for food
stuffs that could be produced at home. To condemn the sending out for
that which others can raise easier and with less expense, and our own
folks with the same energy and expense could raise that which would sur-
'. pass the value of that which is shipped in, is not just. The average farm-
' er if he has sense (and that's the best of all capital in farming), has just
] as much right to buy in the cheapest market and make a drive on that
crop out of which he knows that he can make the most, as does the mer-
chant when he goB3 intn the market and seeks the best prices and the ar-
ticle thac will be a seller.
There is eternal truth and sound wisdom in the claim that every farm-
er, tenant as well as land-owner, should by all means have at least one
tiog, one cow, one yard of chickens, and one garden. There is no wisdom
however, in demanding him to have any fixed larger number when he knows
that under the conditions which he encounters he cannot make them prof-
itable. The other day a "John Smith" tenant farmer carried nine puunds
of butter to the market and he had to take 81 cents for the lot because
Restores were stocked with butter. That proposition did not pay him—
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he sustained a serious loss. That tenant should have one cow to supph
his family demands, and let the stocked-up merchant look elsewhere fo,
his butter.
It has been claimed that the amount of the state's imports of food an:i
feed reaches one hundred million dollars annually. This estimate was combat-
ed by Zeb Greene and by thi> Monroe Enquirer, and they made out a good
case against the accuracy of the estimate. And now comes a manipulation
of figures, predicated upon a \'ery unsound basis, that puts the state's annual
' expenditure outside of the borders of the state for food and feed at the
enormous figure of .^235,000,000— so positive that it eliminates any odd
thousands or odd cents. On its face it carries a self-condemnation. This
estimate was made by a woman. No body that has eyes would admit that
North Carolina sends out annually for food and feed over and above hoi
own production the sum of one hundred dollars, on an average, for eveiy
man, woman, youth and baby in the state. Tne estimate is absurd.
In arriving at the foregoing figures, the author of the statement takes
for granted that every man. woman and child each makes way with $155,
00 worth of food stuff annually; and the estimate of the average cost for
the usual animals on the farm is just as fictitious and unreliable.
This campaign, "Live At Home," has done some good; it is a campaign
that has been conducted for fifty years; and must be conducted annually,
for a new crowd is ciming on every day. Rut the proposition is so serious
and so vital, that it is ill-advised to make hysterical statements that on
their face make, people lose confidence in the sincerity of the campaign and
the purposes of it.
North Carolina does not send out annually $235,000,000 for food and feed
stuff to supplement that whi:h she raises in order to get a year's existence;
and no reliable proof can be had to sustain the contention. The truth is .
bad enough, without manufacturing a situation worse than what we have
-■•it's bad enough.
"EDUCATIONAL EPOCH"
What is termed an epoch in the educational development in North Caro-
lina," has been extensively commented upon throughout the state. Years
ago Supt. Joyner inaugurated the idea of High Schools for the several
counties. Under certain conditions, the state made a direct appropriation
towards the building and maintenance of such high schools. A few coun-
ties, something like 28, had not been able to see their wav cleai for the
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establishment of the said high school.
Following up the programme, established and worked out years ago
'-inder the administration of Dr. Joyner, the State Department of Educa-
tion last week made an appropriation of $54,850 towards the building of
high school buildings in 43 counties. This, it is claimed, will amount to
frjm $500 to $1,200 to each proposition. Of course, this is just "a drop
in the bucket" towards a realization of the much desired progress. The
burden and the task are matters for the several counties.
The appropriation of $54,850, which has been heralded abroad as an edu-
cational epoch, would not build more than one modern, well-equipped high
school building were the entire funds centered at one spot. This tardy
act by the higher authorities may put pep and hope into the authorities of
the counties not yet blessed with a high school. Every little bit helps in
the great cause.
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COULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT
It is wonderful how many men in the history of North Carolina who side-
stepped an impending honor, which was shrouded in the uncertainty of life.
A certain prominent man of North Carolina, who had behind him a con-
structive record, could have been in a few months governor of the state
had his partisan friends not prevailed upon him to decline the nomination
for Lieutenant Governor. And North Carolina would have had another
presidential star in her crown had a certain North Carolinian not been too
modest. He lies buried in the Episcopal cemetery in Pittsboro. : But read
the interesting story elsewhere in this number of The Uplift. It was pre-
pared by that delightful gentleman, Mr. Henry M. London, the Legislative
Librarian, at Raleigh. This paper makes acknowledgment of the courtesy
of the News & Observer for the loan of the cut, showing the grave of the
North Carolinian who could hive been president of the United States had
he not been a stickler for political ethics.
WORTHWHILE.
What is called "The Tuberculosis Primer" has been issued by the Veter-
inary Division of the Board of Agriculture. . It is a fine catechism on a
subject that is becoming more and more of interest to the average citizen
as he is brought face to face to the startling revelations made in the numer-
ous health campaigns.
The opening statement in that Primer is simply unanswerable:
"There is an important moral side to the milk question which must not
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be ignored We may have the right-a very doubtful right, to be exact-
to neglect the dangerous to which we, as adults capable of judging and act-
ing for ourselvs, are exposed; but ,, have absolutely no right to neglect
the conditions that cause suffering and death among cb.ldren. The failure
to act and to act quickly and unceasingly, until a safe milk tor children,
at least is within easy reach of every mother, may be characterized as
barbarous if net criminal indifference, It is an offence against the innocent,
unquestioning confidence which children repose in their adult friends."
It is'positively a jov to see, day by day, the recruits to growing numbers,
who believe that we have no right to take advantage of childhood. More
and more we are coming to fully learn what our duty is to the child, who
had no responsibility for his entering into this life and the average
child's confidence and trust in the adults, is a challenge to us grown-ups
that must not be ignored, when vital problems come to be settled.
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That's a good looking set of men, sterling men, who compose the Board
of County Commissioners of Durham county. The officers of the Jackson
Training School have completed the Durham Cottage which this Board
authorized. In the near future they are coming with a number of their
fellow citizens, headed by a patriotic North Carolina speaker whom every
body in the state knows and loves, to officially open the building. The one
on the right, standing, is not a member of the Board but is one of the
livest County Welfare Officers in the land. If all connected with the state
organization and th^ county organization were as practical, energetic and
did not get excited over every little theory that trickles into the state from
Yankeedom, as is the sensible and working Mr. Stanley (that is his name)
the people as a whole would have a higher estimate of the activities of the
Welfare Organization.
Some kind of a Woman's School, for the study of political subjects, was
pulled off in Raleigh last week. Judge W. P. Stacey was an invited speaker
and made a forceful address upon • the observance of constitutional law.
It seems that Miss Prof. Elliott, of the Greensboro Normal, followed him
the next clay, taking a marked issue with the judge in some of his positions.
The gifted woman knocked the brilliant judge completely out on the first
round, having feelingly recited the time-honored story of Jack and Jill,
declaring most eloquently that had "Jill had her hand on the handle the
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catastrophe that overtook Jack- would not- have- materialized." No man
can go up against an argument like .that and -survive. ...
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A Fine "Example: the city of Greensboro'can get wrought up over the
settlement of a'pablic question to the f^ver-heat point, and then when the
struggle is over, the opposing forces" come together as if nothing 'ever
occurred. They remind one of the way lawyers sometimes do---cuss each
other out, then walk out of the court room locked arms, so to speak. A
great battle has been going on in Greensboro over the proposition of lend-
ing the city's credit for the building of a much needed railway station---when
it is over, there- will be no breach; Greensboro has a way of keeping down .
factions. -
Winston-Salem is preparing to try out segregation of the negroes. One
of the larger modern school buildings will be set apart for the colored chil-
dren, and located in the heart of a twenty-five acre tract, which is to be
developed and cut up into lots. These lots will be offered to colored peo-
ple, who, in turn, must agree to erect- good homes for themselves. A Char-
lotte cynic, not yet recovered from the shock that Winston-Salem gave him
in the little matter of population, by the last census, doubts that a 25-acre
tract will prove large enough for the segregation scheme.
A Thomasville correspondent sent out the word that Archibald Johnson,
of Charity and Children, was seriously ill. That made the hundreds of de-
voted friends of this genial and useful man most miserable. The latest
report is that .Mr. Johnson, in a steady improvement from a recent illness,
refuses to have himself considered down. and out physically. We can't get
along very well without the. original "Blockade Preacher" and he needs to
hurry up with his recuperative business. ...
If the Monroe Journal, whose entertaining piece appears elsewhere in
The'Uplift, can force Edison to 'present himself and take the examination
prepared for him, we will soon know whether the great electric Wizzard
can be "certified" as an educated man. Certification is the great hobby
in this period-they want to certify County Welfare Officers now, when
the simple fact is they' are born that way.
The alleged debate between Congressmen Hammer and Stevenson, of
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South Carolina (the latter a North Carolinian and he ought to be ashamed
of himself in trying to rob his native state of such an honor), attempting:
to settle the birth-place of Andy Jackson, has developed to that point by
partisans of the two Congressmen until it actually gives a black eye to the
memory of the distinguished gentleman. It is now clear that Jackson did
not know himself where he was born— that's awful.
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Dr. J. Y. Joyner, who has become a tobacco farmer, if not a horny-
handed son of toil, having put much ginger into the organization of the
Co-operative Plan of Marketing, is being mentioned in some quarters as
gubernatorial timber. Few men are more widely known in every section
of the state, and he has hosts of friends. But the ring for the hats is still
in the making.
In the parade during the school commencement at Beaufort. N. C, last
week, a dear old father expressed his pride over the fact that he had 48
grandchildren in the august parade, and 26 of them were in one school.
Eace suicide is an unknown ailment in North Carolina-
Last Sunday, April 9th, was the fifty-seventh anniversary of the surrend-
er at Appomattox. Not many of the thin gray line are left— following their
peerless leader, Robert E. Lee, they have gone to heaven.
Amid the great procession of humanity, will you make up your minds
that you will be poor or rich, low or high, successful or unsuccessful, as
God shall please; bdt that you will not be of the bad men and women, who
by dwarfish aims, and mean passions, and vile lusts, and acrid tempers, and
lying words, have made the world worse, and life darker, for their fellow-
men?— Farrar.
Ought a university president be a teacher by profession? The trustees
of the South Carolina University evidently do not think so. They have
elected W. 0. Melton, a prominent lawyer of Columbia and president of
the State Bar Association, to succeed Dr. Currell. He has had a successful
business as well as legal career.— News and Observer.
North Carolina is putting a million dollars a month into state roads;
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d what is better, a considerable portion of the construction 'is of good,
rd, permanent roads. ---Greensboro News.
THE JAY AND THE PEACOCK
A Jay venturing into a yard where Peacocks used to walk, found
there a number of feathers which had fallen from the Peacocks when
they were moulting. He tied them all to his tail and strutted down
towards the Peacocks. When he came near them they soon dis-
covered the cheat, and striding up to him pecked at him and plucked
away his borrowed plumes. So the Jay could do no better than go
back to the other Jays, who had watched his behavior from a dis-
tance; but they were equally annoyed with him, and told him
"IT IS NOT ONLY FIXE FEATHERS THAT MAKE FIXE BIRDS."
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■ -'HALIFAX-APRIL 12, 1776 ■'" ;
On our North Carolina flag is to be seen April 12th. This records and
commemorates a great and stirring event that took place among- the Carolina
patriots in 1771). The seed had been sown in nearly every section of the
state, which, sprouting in (he hearts of brave men and women, foretold that
absolute freedom from the English yoke was bound to come.
The event that took place in Char- Convention to rote for a Declaration
lotto, May 20th, 1775, while more of American Independence. And they
formal and expressive, was similar to did. And this is why the State
what had been engaging the thoughts appropriately carries on her flag the
,e
and spirits of North Carolinians date of April 12th, 1*70.
everywhere. As before noted in The Uplift, it is
April 12th is a legal holiday. It fcQ bg reg£etted that the grave of
celebrates the anniversary of the Richard Caswell, who became the first
Halifax Convention, which formally constitutional governor of North
instructed its delegates to the Con- CaroHnaj js uninarkeJ. Though his
tinental Congress to meet in Philadel- memory is commemorated by a county
phia to vote for a separation from be;ng name(J foj. him> flnd the s{ate,s
England. As representatives of North expression of care ,lnd ;nterest in her
Carolina the Halifax Convention feeble_mitlded is named for the dis.
named William Hooper, Joseph tinguished patriot and statesman,
Hewes and Richard Caswell— and Ki(.llanI Caswell,
they were instructed by the Halifax
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a
life worth looking at . — Holmes.
THE CHURCH AND JOHN SMITH
(Charlotte News)
A representative of a homo mission board of one of the well-known
churches of the South made a trip through parts of Eastern North Carolina
a few months ago and came back to report to his board and to the gover-
ning body of bis church that, in a long ministry in connection with home
missionary enterprise, he had seen few -sections so destitute of the Gospel
as he found in certain parts c-JUtkat section. He singled out Edgecombe
county as being one of the counties that such a religious status prevails
sorely in need of missionary work in Edgecombe county is because an
and his denomination has already excessive farm tenancy prevails there
undertaken the planting of. a mission also. What has happened in Edge-
in that county. combe county has happened all over
One of the reasons, undoubtedly, the United States. Wherever t Were
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is an unusually large amount of
tenancy, there is a dying church in-
terest, a drifting, shiftless popula-
tion that does not stay in any one
place long enough to take a proprie-
tary interest in such permanent in-
stitutions as the school and the
churcli.
[n the cotton and tobacco counties
of the South, which number about
800, we find this problem developed
to an aggravating degree, and that
is true also for North Carolina. In
21 cotton and tobacco counties of
North Carolina we have excessive
farm tenancy, and excessive white
illiteracy, along with very low ratios
of church membership. Here are
dead and dying white country
churches, due to decreasirg white
population, to lack of interest and
decreasing financial supporc, all of
which are directly traceable to ex-
cessive fa.m tenancy. The State
over, there are n.ore than 300 coun-
try townships that are dwindling
both in population and in church
membership. In the 21 counties just
spoken of we find more than one-
fourth of all the non-church mem-
bers of the entire State or 171,427
in all. These figures refer to people
10 years old or older. The ratios of
non-church membership for the coun-
ties as a whole range from 28 per-
cent in Vance to 69 percent in Edge-
combe. In eight of these counties
more than half of the people of re-
sponsible ages are outside the church
—in one county, Edgecombe, nearly
seven-tenths! Three fifths of the far-
mers are tenants and seven-tenths
of the population are outside the
church in Edgecombe county.
And there is not a county in the
whole State, not even Mecklenburg,
that is exempt from the peril of this
same condition. Wherever we find
tenancy prevailing to an overwhelm-
ing degree, we usually can put our
fingers on two great social and moral
defections, namely, an illiterate pop-
ulation and a non-church going pop-
ulation. And this is only another
name for no schools and no churches
in the rural regions, and that, itself-
is only another name for stagnation
or collapse or outright death.
The total of all the money in savings deposits in all the banks of North
Carolina, divided by the. total population of the state, gives us $45.39 per
capita in North Carolina. In Vermont the- savings per inhabitant are
3371.54,; and tjhe people of Vermont are not blessed with our soil climate,
diversity of argiculture, manufacturing and mining. The Vermont farmer
has a growing season of three months in the year. He sa'ves more than .
the North Carolina farmer because he appreciates the value of things and
"makes the most of the opportunities, he has. ' I hajveno doubt North Caro-
lina could learn a lot from Vermont,— Elisabeth City Independent. • •
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WHAT MODESTY DID
By H. M. London.
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In St. Bartholomew's Episcopal churchyard in the historic town of Pftts-
boro lies burk d a man who, but for his modesty, could have been President
of the United States. This man was John Owen, a native of Bladen county
who was twice elected Governor of North Carolina by the General Assembly
declining a third term.
The last and most distinguished
public service of Governor Owen was
when he acted as president of the
National Whig Convention which
met at Harrisburg, Penn., on De-
cember 4, 1839, and nominated Gen.
William Henry Harrison, the hero
of Tippecanoe, for President and John
Tyler, of Virginia, for Vice-Presi-
dent. Governor Owen was offered the
nomination for Vice-President by
this convention but modestly de-
clined on the grounds that he did not
think it proper to accept a nornina-
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liion from a body over which he was today not having been fixed at that
. [foe presiding officer, this in striking time.
[contrast to our present day politics. Governor Owen's death followed
[Had he accepted, the death of Har- a brtef illness while on a visit to his
hison, which occurred in the spring friend. Henry A. London, Sr., at
[of 1841, would have made him Pres- Pittsboro. . Due to lack of transpor-
[ident of ih-2 United States. ta.tion facilities in that day, he was
In this connection it is interesting buried in the Episcopal churchyard
' to note that Owen died October 9, there where his remains now repose.
i 1S41, within a few months after The man who might have been
! President Harrison's death. Had President still lives through distin-
1 Owen accepted the Vice-Presidency guished posterity. He was an un-
and succeeded Harrison, we would cle of the late Edward Kidder Gra*
have had an instance of a President ham, president of the University of
[and a Vice-President both dying dur- North Carolina, and of Miss Mary
ing the same term of office, which Owen Graham, president of Peace
e has never occurred in our American Institute, and was the great grand-
politics. In that event, the selection father of Judge Owen H. Guion, of
of the President would have been New Bern. Many other well-known
: thrown into the house of Represen- North Carolinians have his blood in
tatives, the Presidential succession their veins.
through the cabinet officers as it exist
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem
to have been only like a hoy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself
in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordi-
nary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Sir
Isaac Newton.
YOUNG FOLK'S EASTER
By. Jane A. Stewart
In many parts of the world young folks look forward to the joyous Easter-
tide; and in some lands the children take a great part in the general celebra-
tion of Easter.
In Great Britain, for example, joy as each receives the gift — a bag
many quaint customs are observed, of raisins, an orange and a sixpence!
especially by children during the And many visitors in London at
Easter season. Should you visit at Easter like to stop in at Westrninis-
Easter, in one of the London churches ter School to. see the historic game
you would see a pleasant practice, held by the boys there. They gath-
er nobody knows how long an Eas- er in the Assembly Hall and have
ler present is given to each one of fif- great sport in a grand rush for the
ty children. Imagine their shouts of pancakes, which are tossed in the
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Easter Sunday and Monday are
great days to the young folks in the
northern counties of England. In
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Nor-
thumberland, Easter Sunday is known
as "Pasehe (Easter) Egg Day."
The observance is one of the pret-
tiest festivities in the North of Bri-
tain. Every child, whose parents can
possibly afford it, is dressed in new
clothing; and it is a very unfortunate
"waan" who does not have something
new to wear at Easter. The children
make visits to their friends from
whom I hey receive nice presents of
Pasehe eggs and oranges with fre-
quently, a penny. The Sunday schools
join in the observance by giving simi-
lar presents. The country children.
in Scotland rise very early on Easter
morning to go on a search for wild
fowls' eggs. Happy are the boys
and girls who succeed in bringing
home some of these desirable tro-
phies !
The lively celebrations of the day
are postponed until Easter Monday.
Few British children can be found
on that day who have not received
gifts of eggs and oranges. The eggs
are hard-boiled, dyed in bright colors
and marked with the children's Chris-
tian names.
Young folks in Cumberland, Eng-
land, play Easter games like bowls
and balls. Eggs are used for these
games instead of wooden or rubber
balls. These contests take place in
the open fields; and are often held the
night before Easter Sunday. It is
a very pretty sight when the gay
colored eggs are tossed into the air or
rolled on the smooth, green grass
by the romping children.
The pretty practice of coloring eg»s
as part of the children's Easter eel-
ebralion, began so long ago that no-
body knows when it was first intro-
duced. The story goes that once a
time, people were forbidden to cat
eggs during Lent, and so the eg»s
were stored away for forty days.
At the end of that time there were
so many eggs on hand that the peo-
ple did not know what to do -with
them. There were no cold storage
plants then, you know. So they just
boiled all the eggs bard; colored them
bright pink, blue or yellow and gave
them to the young folks to eat on
Easter morning.
Later candied eggs came to com-
pote with the colored, boiled eggs.
Soon, the ordinary, every-day egg was
left to the boys who devised the game
of "egg-picking." This grew out of
their practice of testing the strength
of the shell; and it is now known
all over our country as well as in
many lands across the seas.
The boys begin to play this popu-
lar game some time before Easter.
They till the air with their cries of
"Upper." When somebody responds
to another's call, the two knock the
ends of their eggs together. The
boy who calls "Upper" first has the
privilege of using the small end of
his egg, which is not so easy to break.
The one whose egg resists the con-
cussion gets the broken egg. The
cracked eggs are not lost, however,
for they command a price in the mar-
ket. ;•>■■:
One of the liveliest of young folks'
celebrations at Easter, that can be
seen anywhere, occurs on the. lawn of
the White House every Easter Mon-
day. Without it Easter would not be
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;- Easter to the children of our National candies and pennies. Its size corres-
I Capital. .Each player lias a basket ponds to. the means of the family.
1 of eggs for the egg rolling contest The doll is usually made of clay or
on the lawn. Should an egg get some breakable substance. It is sus-
f broken as it rolls down the slope, its pended from the ceiling. The eager
J owner loses and goes back to the hill young folks crowd abput. Each one
I top to try again. is allowed three swing's at the "pin-
"Breaking the pinata" is an'Eas- ata" with a wooden club. As soon
• tor game of young folks from the as the doll is broken, the children
] Rio Grande to Patagonia. The scramble for the scattered candy
i "Pinata" is a hollow doll filled with and coins.
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DURHAM COUNTY COMMISSION
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Seated, left to right:
C. M. Crutchfield
H. L. Carver, Chairman,
W. D. Turrentino
Standi!
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D. H. Si
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On the 27th of this month and which falls on
Thursday will be a glad day at the Jackson Train-
ing School. The boys and the Officers will have the
choice privilege of entertaining the Board of County
Commissioners of Durham County and a delegation
of prominent men and women from that progressive
county.
This delegation comes primarily to officially open
the Durham Cottage, which has been completed for
some weeks and has been in service. It is under-
stood that these folks are going to bring with them
a speaker, we'll furnish the music and the luncheon
—that makes a fine programme. In this connect-
ion, The Uplift has authority to extend a cordial in-
vitation to any and all, who are interested in child-
hood, to join in this happy occasion.
These gentlemen have visited the institution be-
fore and are deeply interested in the work. They are
coming again with a renewed interest, for as good
business men and with a forward vision they are
deeply interested in the problem of restoring to
society that which was going a-stray.
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THREE MINUTES-NO DIFFERENCE
A talkative fellow traveler felt called upon to keep his neighbor informed
about a lot of things as they sped across the country. Incidentally, it was
evident that the talker knew far less than his listener, but the listener was
courteous, at least tolerant. One concern of the talker was "what time is
it?" When answered by a trainman, he found his watch was three minutes
slow. With marked desire to be satisfied even with his misguided watch lie
loudly and contentedly declared, "Three minutes! That makes no differ-
ence." Nearby were two keen business men who had b^on, not a little amused
at this effusive talker, but this betraying remark was enough to tell them the
undependableness of this young man. Their quiet comments were just what
would be expected from men to whom time means much and to whom correct-
ness is a requisite for worth.
This incident tells its own lesson. The only further comment needed is to sug-
gest where ' 'three minutes" would make a difference, if rightly used. There are
places and conditions of living so directed by the regular use of minutes that
none of them is disregarded. There are other places where being on time,
having the watch right, is little regarded. In the great city, with its fre-
quently running cars, it is not very serious to miss one, or more, and yet this
very convenience becomes a temptation to indifference and neglect. Out in
the country, where clocks are often set by the sun or by a distant whistle, and
where the day's work is from daylight to dark or later, it makes no very great
difference whether timepieces are three minutes, or more, slow or fast. But
the three minutes does make a difference. The boy who uses his three minute^
and he can find a good many of them to use "on the farm," in reading1
worth-while things, either along a special line which his ambition would fol-
low, or for general information and culture, will amaze the countryside by
his broad knowledge. Three minutes. may make a difference. — Selected.
THE OUTDOOR EASTER
By Delphia Phillips
Outdoor Easter celebrations are steadily gaining in favor from year to year
since the beautiful services on Mount Rubidoux, near Riverside, California,
first began to attract attention. Only within the last few years, however,
has the custom begun to spread to other localities. For a long time, 'he
thrilling service held at the great cross on the top of Mount Rubidoux, just at
sunrise, was the only thing of its so that at the present time, hundreds
kind, but the custom was so beautiful of pilgrimages to some hill or eleva-
and so appropriate that one by onp, tion are made from different loeali-
the surrounding towns and connnuni- ties.
ties began adopting it for their own, Because of the climate of Califor-
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aia the outdoor Easter gathering's are
peculiarly fitting. Fogs may obscure
tile sunrise, ami the early morn may
be chilly, but it is almost absolutely
certain that rain will not spoil the
festival, nor cold weather keep the
people away.
There is something wonderfully..
appropriate and inspiring in beginn-
ing Faster Day in this fashion. Thou-
sands yearly assemble in the town
of Riverside for this gathering, and
in the dim early morning swarm up
the slopes of the mountain to gather
about the cross. Famous singers and
speakers have from time to time given
their services to make this wonderful
celebration even more impressive, but
the chief inspiration is that of the
great, silent throng waiting before
the cross until the first rays of the
sun gild it with glory. It is symbolical
of the rays of divine love that first
lit with beams of mercy a dark and
sorrowful world.
If any of the throng should be ask-
ed which hymn was most appropriate
for such an occasion, there is very
little doubt that the answer would
he, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory."
To hear a great throng sing this hymn
m the hush of the early morning, sur-
rounded with matchless scenery, and.
wrapt in the mysterious sense of.' a.we '
that the scene engenders, is an experi-
ence never to be forgotten. i.lrV.i* •."
Here, Henry Van Dyke has read
his beautiful poem: "God of the Out-
of Doors," and famous, singers have
expressed the emotions of the'people^
through songs that stirred their
hearts to heights of feeling never .be-.,
foie dreamed of. ..■■ . ■ .,
Ml about the city. of Los Angeles
and her. suburbs, the people have
sought their nearest Easter shrines,
and whether they go on foot, by rail,
or in automobiles, the one purpose is
to seek the uplift that comes from the
heights, in company with those
"gathered with on a accord, in one
place."
The past year, the little town of
San Pedro held its first hill-top cele-
bration of the day. The town itself is
full of historic associations, and is
one of the oldest in the state. It, or
rather, the site of it, was discovered
by Cabrillo, the Spanish explorer, in
1542, and was made famous by Dana
in his "Two Years Before the Mast"
in later years. It is a quaint, old-world
appearing town, set in and on hills,
with a vista of ocean and hills for a
background.
Within the enclosure of Fort Mc-
Arthur, south of the town, rises a
splendid elevation, which was the spot
chosen for the cross. At four o'clock
on that wonderful morning, the citi-
zens of the sleeping city were thrilled
by the far-off notes of a bugle. They
were sounded by a company of Boy
Scouts, who had been instructed to
waken the people in time for the sun-
rise meeting at the cross.
A gray fog overhung town and bay,
but in a surprisingly short time, an
eager, silent .throng were wending their
way toward, the .Hill-top. There
was. jSome thing breathlessly expectant
in the very air, as if Nature joined in
the general subdued excitement that
pervaded the people. On'e was re-
minded again and again of the first
Faster Morn, long ago, when the "wo-
men hurried {b*0ie.fpnib.j though they
were, sorrowful, while these were. ex-
pectant. People smiled ,'as they pass-
ed each other on the wav, and none
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felt like strangers. Though they did
not say it in words, many faces ex-
pressed the thought: "He is risen."
Slowly, in single file, the silent
throng went np the hill to the cross,
looming black and forbidding in t lie
early morning gloom. The scene re-
minded one of the words: "Who shall
ascend into His Holy Hill V "Who, in-
deed.' There were people of every
nationality, and from every state in
the union. The little city is full of
foreigners, and many races and reli-
gions were represented. Up from be-
low sounded the tinkle of Catholic
bells calling to early mass, but people
of this faith were also at the cross.
Chaplains from Army and Navy took
part in the services, and blue coats
and khaki mingled together in the
throng.
A bugler from the Boy Scouts call-
ed the meeting to attention and sud-
denly, the thing we had hoped and
watched for took place. The fog lift-
ed, and a bank of clouds that had ob-
scured the eastern sky was over-
topped by the sun, which tipped the
dark cross with beams of light. How
changed now was the scene! The bat-
tleships that had loomed ghost-like
out of the mist, suddenly assumed
shape; the laden-lmed ocean caught
the rays of light on every swell, and a
thousand lights and shadows played
over the green background of hills.
"I know that my redeemer liveth,"
sang a beautiful voice, and in thou-
sands of hearts is the ' assurance:
"Because He lives, I too shall live."
The other day I heard a man say that there would be great prosperity in
this country when the merchants quit buying diamonds and went to buying
alarm clocks, and when the farmers quit buying silk shirts and went to
buying overalls, and when everybody got up early and went to work.
— Iilonore Enquirer.
WHAT IS AN EDITOR?
Winston Salem Journal
For a long time we have been looking for a good description of a real
editor. Some say he belongs to a profession; others that he is a member
of a trade. We believe some court recently decided that a newspaper re-
porter was a member of a "learned profession" and suppose that and edi-
tor would come under the same
hsad, in the opinion of said court at
least.
But, fortunately, we do not have
to search through, court deeisions-to
find the real status of the editor in
society. A friend has forwarded to
us a complete descripion written by
a little village boy who was given
the stunt by his father of writing
a theme about editors. Here is the
results:
"Don't know how newspapers
come to be in the world. Don't
think God does" eithpr. because He
ain't got liOthing to say about them
in the Bible. I think the editor is
one of them missing links you read
of, and stayed in the bushes until
after the flood and then has been
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jjere ever since. I don't think he
[ever died.
"I never saw a dead one and I
jever heard of one petting licked
Our paper is a mighty good one, but
the editor goes without underclothes
winter and don't wear any sox
and dad hasn't paid his subscription
jince the paper started. I asked dad
if that was why the editor had to
;uck the juice out of snowballs in the
,',inter and go to bed when he had
his shirt washed in the summer. And
then dad took me out to the wood-
shed and he licked me awful hard.
If the editor makes a mistake folks
say he ought to be hung, butif the
doctor makes a mistake he buries
them and the people dont say any-
tiring because the doctor can read
and write Latin.
"When the editor makes a mistake
there is a law suit and swearing and
a big fuss; but if the doctor makes
one there is a funeral, cut flowers
and a perfect silence. A doctor can
use a word a yard long without him
or anyone knowing what it means>
but if the editor uses one he has to
spell it. If the doctor goes to see
another man's wife he charges for
the visit, but if the editor goes, he-
gets a charge of buckshot.
"When a doctor gets drunk it is a.
case of being overcome by the heat„
and if he dies, it is heart trouble:
when the editor gets drunk it's a
case of too much booze, and if he dies,
it's the jim jams. Anv old college can
make a doctor, but an editor has to.
be born."
A bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district
—all studied and appreciated as they merit — are the principal support of
virtue, morality, and civil liberty. — Franklin.
HEAVY TUBERCULAR AFFECTION.
Ninety-six per cent of the children in the Methodist Orphanage at Winston-
Salem reacted to tuberculin tests, says the Raleigh News & Observer, fol-
lowing an investigation that was ordered when the entire dairy herd of the-
institution was found infected with tuberculosis and ordered killed, it be-
came known here yesterday. Very few of the children showed clinical
symptoms of the disease.
Health authorities here are not
alarmed at the result of the test,
and believe that little permanent
harm will come of the presence of
tubercular cattle in the institution's
dairy. Practically 95 per cent of the
adult population of the country
would show the same reaction to the
tubercular test, it is declared, and
with the remuval of the source of
active infection, the danger is be-
lieved to have been eliminated.
MOST ADULTS TUBERCULAR
"Everybody has tubercular infect-
tion, but relatively few have tuber-
culosis," declared State Health Offi-
cer W. S. Rankin, commenting or*
the condition at the Winston-Sa!en>
Orphanage. "Ninety-five out of"
every hundred people would show
the same reaction to the Von Pirquet
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test as did these children. It is only
when the physical resistance to the
infection is broken down that tuber-
culosis develops."
Veterinary inspectors, working
in eo-operatii n with the Forsyth
county officials, discovered the sit-
uation at the orphanage seveial
weeks ago. Out of the herd of 31
cattle, all but two of the milk cows
were found infected, and most of
them were in such advanced stages
of the disease that the carcasses were
burned after they were killed. All
of the infected cattle were killed im-
mediately, and healthy cattle sub-
stituted.
SCIENCE STILL SEEKS.
How large a part infected milk
plays in the actual development of
tuberculosis in the human body is a
matter about which scientists are
still disagreed, although it is a rec-
ognized source of dangerious infect-
ion. Although tremendious advances
have been made in knowledge of the
disease, the medical fraternity
frankly admits that there are many
things yet to be established.
The Von Pirquet test, brought to
this country twelve years ago by an
Austrian doctor who lectured at
John Hopkins, is the standard meth-
od for determining infection. The
test is made by hypodermic injection
of a dozen drops of tubeiculin poi-
son beneath the skin of the person.
If slight inflamation develops tuber-
cular -germs are present in the sys-
tem.,., r., ■ „
ri,, ;,.-• HOW TEST IS MADE.
- Tuberculin is'rriade in this fashion:
Tubercular germs are" grown in lab-
oratories. " The full grown culture
has the appearance of mold. The
meld is dried, placed in a mortar
and pounded to a powder with steri-
lized instruments. Salt water j;.
added, and the fluid strained through
a specially constructed filterer. The
germ poison seeps through, but no'
tubercular germ. Carbolic acid i;
added and the tuberculin is complete.
Scientists are unanimous in the
opinion that tubercular germs are
present in most people, awaiting only
a break down of the power of resist-
ance to develop tuberculosis. The
infection is inherited or contracted
either through the breathing,
through milk or food. Slight poison
is always generated in the body. but
is thrown off through the natural
processes. When the body is no long-
er able to throw off all the poison,
clinical symptoms develop.
WILL DESTROY DISEASE
"A hundred years from now we
will have conquered tuberculosis,"
Dr. Rankin declared yesterday. "It
will be as rare as smallpox or yellnv
fever. I don't know, but I do know
that we have got to do it. Removal
of these sources of infection will
help, but in some way the disease
must be dealt with, and eliminated.'1
The investigation at Winston-
Salem has had the result that every
institutional herd of cattle in the
State has been examined, and all in-
fected catte have been removed.
Twelve counties have adopted plans
for testing every dairy cow within
the county, and eventually the State
Veterinarian, Dr. William Moore.be-
lieves that . every infected cow in
the State' 'will have bedn removed.
Under' the existing' statutes, the
Federal government, the State and
the owner of infected cattle share
eqdally in the loss 'entailed by the
killing of diseased animals. Counties
ir
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o\v co-operating with the State and Davidson, New Hanover, Pender,
federal governments in examining Scotland, Cumberland, Robeson1, Ala-
very cow in the county are Pun- mance and Cabarrus,
orribe. Rowan, Forsythe, Davie,
The animal and the bird seeni to busy themselves as seekers for food,
but they know when they have enough and then stop searching. Too
often we keep busy seeking food and clothing and pleasure and gain, and
act as though we never coulcl be satisfied. We do not seem to know the-
vrord enough. Disease may incapacitate, or old age check, but we resent
their coming because they interfere with our desire. — Selected.
ANSWER THESE, THOS. A.
(Monroe Journal)
Mr. Edison has now proposed some questions designed to test the knowl-
edge of women. They are an improvement on the set which he put out some
ime ago for men. Only one man answered them correctly and -this was
:o unusual that he married into the Edison family.
In his line Mr. Edison is one of the
;reat men of the ages, but like his
Iriend, Henry Ford, also wonderful
n his line, he can slip a cog as badly
a the most of us when he gets out-
ride of familiar ground. Edison
<nows more about electricity than
sny man who has ever lived, and he
so dnubt knows mechanics, but he
noes not know the mechanics of the
human mind.
His questions were perhaps intend-
ed to test not only the memory but
the power of observation, but a man
Blight have failed to answer them
all and still be an educated man.
If a North Carolinian were going
to question Mr. Edison to test his
knowledge on about the same lines
thathe asked questions to test the
education of men, the questions
would run something like this:
Who was Windy Billy Henderson?
Quote Jake Harshaw's well known
remark *to the buzzard.
WHat distinguished North Carolin-
ian was killed by a turkey gobbler,,
and what were the details of the try-
ing circumstances?
Explain why a man can ever be-
crazy enough to suppose that An-
drew Jackson was born in South-
Carolina.
Shonld Captian Ashe and Mr. Van,
Noppon succeed in substantiating the
Resolves, as against the Declaration,,
what effect would it have on the social
standing of the alleged "Niggers"?"
Did North Carolina militia bolt at
the battle of Guilford court house,
or did they walk leisurely away un-
der orders of General Greene as ex-
plained by Judare Schenck?
Prove that North Carolina is the
greatest Stace on earth since she has;,
been found to stand at the bottom
of so many columns of figures. '.'
If your grandf Uher was not born
in' North Carolina, how did you hap-
pen to do so well?
• 'In your bpTnbn, is Unc'e. Jde a
credit or a discredit to the Stale'" ot
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■Jus birth. fall?
Which is the proper dinner hour, Of course there are many more
12 o'clock or 6 o'clock. questions which might be asked
Why was the Confederate navy profitably but unless- Mr. Edison
yard maintained in Charlotte? could answer all of the above he
Who told Zeb Vance so many jokes? couldjnot be considered educated
Was the late combat between Col. according to his own tests.
Watts and the Supreme court a dog
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the in-
telligent and well-ordered homes of its people.— Mrs. Sigourney.
ONE CENTURY AGO
(Edenton News.)
We are indsbted to Judge W. M. Bond for the loan of a copy of The Ed-
enton Gazette, volumes 24 to 27, dated 182S to 1831, from which we pro-
pose to use extracts of interest day by day.
The Gazette was a four-page ton that his second cotillion party
magazine size weekly paper, and will take place at the courthouse
such outside news as it contained on Friday. Gentlemen must be,
was derived from steamers calling provided with cards of admission
here or newspapers from oth<_r obtainable at Mr. John M. Jones'
cities. On the title page appears: store for a dollar.
"Printed every Tuesday by William Even one hundered years ago di-
E. Pell, for the proprietor, at the vorce was not unknown in Edenton,
cost of three dollars for year sub- since an or(3er was made to serve
scription, payable only yearly in a subPoena upon Jeremiah Mixscn,
advance; advertisements inserted faUing which publication for three
at fifty cents per square." Who moinhs was allowed in the case of
the proprietor or editor were is Mary jiixson vs. The Court. This
not revealed, nor is there any expla- publication was signed by John S,
nation of what a square of advertis- Wood clerk,
ing might mean. ' " - .
Bishop & Fowler offers for sale
Through the Gazette Postmaster fifty barrels of Old Gates apple
N. Bruner informs a number of per- brandy, whiskey and new rum as
sons, who have omitted settling well as cut nails and bale rope.
their postage accounts, that they A track of land, part of the estate
may have some trouble if they don't 0f the late Micojah Bunch, on
pay up, as the Postmaster General the main road from Edenton to Suf-
will not admit of submission to such f0]ki wa3 offered for sale by George
wilful neglect. Blairi specia, mention being made
Similarly P. H. Anderson informs of long credit to the purchaser,
fthe ladies and gentlemen of Eden- John Bonner offered $50 for the
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crehension of his negro man,
,ve, "a quiet likely fellow, about
•. 10. full set of teeth, ^whose fa-
ther lives at Mr. Nathan Winslow's,.
by the name of Spencer (known as-
fiddler.")
DON'T RUN AWAY FROM DIRT
(By M. R. S. in Woman's Work.)
Lolo was sitting in the sun. That was one of the few things he really cared:
out doing. There was pleasure in eating, of course; but no meal however
oJ, was complete without a long, dreamy lounge in the warm sunshine after
;rd.
tribe, had this same habit; they
would run away from dirt and leave
it, rather than clean it up. As for
what was on themselves, another
coat of grease would cover it up>-
and make them beautifully shiny
again !
While Lolo sat lounging there, he
saw a stranger coming up the path
that led out of the bush. Usually,
the first person who sees a stranger
calls out the whole village to look;
but Lolo was too comfortable to move,,
and he watched the man idly. At
first he thought it must be a white
man, for he wore a great many more
clothes than were the style in Lolo '3
village. But as the man drew nearer,
Lolo saw that he was as black as him-
self. His curiosity began to stir.
"Black man, in white man's clothes.
Uh!" he remarked to himself.
There was another thing that had
made him take the newcomer at first
for a white man. He walked briskly
along the narrow path, instead of
idling along like a native.
"Him walk fast!" muttered Lolo.
"What be after him?" But he could
see neither wild animal nor trouble-
some white man on the stranger's foot-
steps, so he wondered more and more
why he should walk so quickly — it
seemed quick to Lolo — when he didn't
Lolo was a man in years and in
;t. but his mind was smaller than
.1! of the American child who
irts to school for the first time.
1 the little African village there
is nothing to feed the tiny mind
the big body — nothing to see,
::hing to hear, nothing to do —
;eept things he didn't want to do.
Just now. he was thinking about
:e of those things, which all the
sple in the village would have to
) presently.
''Soon time to make new vill-
y." he thought lazily, and the
:or.ght disturbed the pleasant ease
1 his idleness. Making a new
iilage was not an agreeable task,
"." it was the less of two evils.
The ratives of that part of Afri-
'- where Lolo lived have a custom
::t would seem very strange to us.
^:enever the tilth in their villages
-for they never clean anything up
-becomes too bad to endure, they
-~'i to another place, clear new
:-'-l and build another village. This
:;~;;-S about once in eighteen
aaths.
K you had looked at Lolo, you
t;-'l cot have thought he was
-i'A of dirt, for there was plenty
•1 it on Lim and about him. But
'-'■■'■■ and everv o:her African in hi.?
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huvu tp.ilu.it., .... . . ,„ want, the stranger to see that. he was
On the, very >;.dg'e ;bf! hie village lyatclied. '.If he' ku'eW.Jt, he' might
stbocl a hut which nobody hail filtered stop 'doing those queer. things', and L>
for days. In it lay a pour woman in lo wanted mightily to sue what would
the clutch of that terrible disease, the happen next.
Africaiirsleeping-sieknessl .' With .no ' What 'did. happen was this: the
one who cared enough to, go. near her, ■, stranger set the gourd down again
she was sleeping her life away in a on the ground, and hung the cloth
on
filthy hut, among dirt and insects of the limb of a tree. Then, breaking
every kind. some branches, he proceeded to bind
The buzzing of the Mies about the them togther with long grass into tlie
hut attracted the stranger's notice as most approved form of an African
he passed it. He went to the' low broom.
doorway and looked inside. If Lolo In again he went', and presently
had not been too lazy, he would have Lolo saw him sweeping busily. How
called and told him what was within; many kinds of dirt and vermin came
but he thought the man would soon out of that hut in the next quarter
enough find out for himself, and hurrj hour, it would be hard to count. Tin
on his way. stranger was not content with sweep-
"Him be gone in!" said' Lolo sud- ing them outside. He made a tire,
denly, sitting erect with something with some strange device that Lolo
as near a start as his lazy "muscles could not see, because the man's back
could produce. "What for lie go in was turned. In this he burned every-
that dirty place? All him nice clean thing that would burn ; Jhen, diggin;
clothes be spoiled! Him foolish the loose earth with n stick, he buried
man!''' all that was left.
But the foolish man was coming Lolo had never seen anything like
out again. In his hand was an old this. But stranger things were I"
gourd dipper. He laid down the" little conic. The man, taking oft his
bundle he carried carefully beside the "white men's shoes," and rolling np
path. Then lie took the gourd down his duck trousers, carried gourd utter
to the stream that ran' a little way gourd of water, and with his broom-
beyond, and dipped some water in it. a'nd another one which he made when
Coming back; he knelt beside his bun- that one was worn out— he scrubbed
flit' and took from it a piece of White the hard earthen door of the hilt with
'doth. Then lie entered the h'ut again, all his' 'might. .The heat dried it al-
clirVying the cloth and the water. n'rdst as soon as lie was done.
Lolo V curiosity got' the better of "Xo'w, what happen'.'" Lolo asked
his laziness. 'Rising with umis'al quick- Himself; for the' man bad throim
ness, he started over to where l.e could away" his broom ami gone for nton
'get a view inshiethe hut. ' water.
":TluY strange man stood' within, ' Now the white cloth came dowr
lbolcing' a'roilnd for a'plaee to set the from the tree; the bundle came o'pei
gourd .down." Then he' shook his head again, and a 'queer little green cake
aiid'Tnrned to come out' again.' Lolo of something came out of it, and ivenl
Bt-epp'ed helnrra a hut. for he did 'not into the hut with the hum, the wSfei
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id the white cloth. Lulu had never
en soup in his life before.
The stranger bent over the rude
irthon bed where the poor woman
v, Tenderly he bathed her uueons-
ous face and her grimy hands. The
varms of flies were already leaving
,. hut, where tie odor of filth was
J longer to be enjoyed.
There were other things that came
ill of the bundle, but Lolo could not
>e what they all were. Something
rem a little black bottle was dropped
a!0 the woman's mouth, and the man
iroked her throat gently until she
flowed it. Then he gathered his
longings and put them into the bun-
"e again — all but the white eloth;
; At last the man started on his way
lain, right up into the middle of
Vs village. Lvlo followed him at
i °
•afe distance.
'One day, many sionths later, a. mis-
pary from the coast came into the
pvc interior, following the steps of
p native Christian teacher who had
be that way to bring the good news
: Jesus and .His love.
. At the little village where Lolo liv-
ed— which hadn't, moved since then;
it was cleaned up, instead! — he found
about sixty men and women waiting
to be examined for baptism.
The leader was a very big and very
black fellow who gave his native name
as Lolo, but asked to be baptized un-
der the name of Paul.
"What made yon want to be a
Christian?" asked the missionary
when he examined this man.
Then Lolo told him all the story
of the sick woman, die filthy hut, and
the man who didn't run away from
the dirt, but cleaned it up.
"Him take off shoes, roll up clothes,
carry water, sweep, wash old woman's
face, make her rest easy. Then him
come up in town, talk about Jesus,
say Him help people. Then I say,
'You good Jesus-man; do what Him
do. This be true talk; this be good
talk. Lolo be Jesus-man too.' "
Lolo paused for a moment. Then he
looked around the clean little village,
and waved his big hand.
"'Deeds never die!'" he said.
And that is an African proverb that
is just as true in any other country
in the world.
HURRY
[Hurry, say? an exchange, is peculiarly an American trait. It is one of the
dominant characteristics of our life. We ha;e almost made it a false
i.
!,.
i;tis mostly not an efficient factor
[to accomplishment of th? world's
A Rather it is a mark of sup-
'Mlity, the evidence of unbalanc'-
Wdgment, incompetency for the
Ntion of the work in hand.
■f.visan excuse for thoroughness
honesty.
Hurry has deep-seated causes.
At the root of hurried conduct there
frequently lies: want of self-direct-
ion, or the desire to appear en-
grossed in affairs; neglect of duty,
or the postponement of itsdischage.
The atmosphere of hurry is con»
ducive to ill temper, hasty speech,
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tmkindness and general irritability.
It is in open opposition to self-mast-
•ery. God works through nature sim-
ply and auiet.ly, and an imperturb-
able demeanor is in harmony with
the laws of the universe. The mod-
ern habit of hurry amounts to nega-
tive transgression. We do not
cultivate the virtue of self-controh
we do not learn the beautiful lesson
of patience. Habits of prayer ar;i
■contemplation are unknown in our
-distracted course.
What excellences of mind, what
riches of character, are possible to
those who do not hurry, who over-
"Com.tr external excitement and go oe,
according to Robert Louis Stevenso'
"like a clock during a thundf
storm"
Three desirable things, at lea-
may be attained by the refusal ■
hurry: adoration, friendliness, a;
the cultivation of selfhood. Woe
it not be worth vhile, amid o;
crowded existence, to take time
adore? To feel at home in chur:
when there is no public sen\
schedule? Are some of the peoj
among wnom our birth or occii;
tion has placed us worth knowir
better? What of the untouch;
resources latent in ourselves?
INSTITUTIONAL NOTES
By S. B. Davis
Soloman Thompson is the latest
arrival at the school.
Capt. Grier is giving the school
grounds a general good cleaning up.
Vass Fields who has recently been
sick, is now well aud back oh pun.p
duty.
The Printing Office is getting out
a time card for the Wood Workirg
Department.
Boys to receive visits last Wei-
nesday were; Claude Coley, James
Phillips, Victor High, JohnEdwaids
and Harry Suthers.
Harry Hayes, recent arrival at
the school, has been placed in the
Printing Office, He is expected :o
be the next successful reporter.
S. I. Sharp, of Greensboro, who
was a former pupil here and who
making good as a salesman, spa
Tuesday and Wednesday at t:
school. He is representing thp Wer
ern Electric Company.
The trees around the school a:
on the campus are taking on n.
life and getting green respond::;
to the coaching of the sun, S>
when the sun's rays grow strong-:
the boys will be seeking the c
shade afforded by these trees.
There are many unusual chars,
teis at the school so why can wer.
claim a poet? William Wilson -
the best at the school. He islv
because so far no others have ma:
their debut.- Perhaps by thenr:
issue another poet will appear.
Mr. Goer, assisted by his for.
of boys, has made a ditch leve
for the school and a tool cabinet:
Mr. Horton, our shoe mender. I
boys working under Mr. Cioer's;:
pervision are: James Shipp, Mar:
Butler, Bertram Hart and Clyde P
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lard. pleasures and profits of a radio. The
- .. . , , aerial has been raised ovtr the school
Quite a tew boys have been en- building and soon a]I of the a.
quiring as to when the decisions of tug wi], be cwip]ete. Then wiU the
the )udges (who were to judge the b6 hear_ by tfce dd of th(? radio
essays on what I Would Like to do many concerts from far away cities,
and why Would Like to do it) are Th an? enthused over the p,.ospets
to be made public. They are anxi: of the eruertainments that they will
ously awaiting to see who will win l
the prize.
, ., , „ ,T. , , , Sunday is Easter! Such is the
Mr and Mis. J. B Webb and thought which remains uppermost
Miss Dora Landreth. all of Kanapohs •„ the min(]s of the boys- Easler
were visitors at the sc ,ool Sunday. means t0 some hoIi j good tM
Miss Landreth took quite a liking to eat_ and d times. But t0 tho
for James Autry of the Meek en- b at lhe schoo, lt means more
burg Cottage. She told him that tban just these common things.
she was going to send him a box as prid ;s tbe anniversary of the
soon as she got home. crucifixion of Christ and Sunday is
Rev. Mr. Lawrence, of Concord, the anniversary of rising f.om the
held services in the Chapel Sunday. grave. They are happy to realize
He read Romans 12th: 9---2L and that on this day many, many years
then took for his text rather a long aS° Jesus d;ed that they might be
one it being found in Proverbs the. saved from sin-
30th chapter and verses 24---2S He' The Boger Literary Society, nam-
then spoke on prepardness. fortifica- ed in honor of Supt Bo and for.
tion, unity and persistence. med in the Durham Cottage, held
Workmen are busv with the in- its election of officees last Tuesday,
stallationof the huge McEary cold The officers elected were as follows:
air refrigerator which is being install- Jack McLellan, President; Richard
ed in the same building with the ice Johnson, Vice President; Simon
plant. We hope to be making our Gams, Recording Secretary; Ray-
own ice within the next few days. mond Keenan,. Corresponding Secre-
Onr drinking fountain at the Latham tar.v= William Hancock, First Re-
Pavilion will be cooled with ice. porting Critic; Preston McNeill,
Second Reporting Critic; William
^ We did not nave a game of ball Gregory Censor and Wesley Cook
Saturday and because of this, the Prosecuting Critic. This society
majority of the boys was disappoint- will make an unusually good record.
ed. However, the boys all went to
the ball grounds and played among The changes in bo>s after they
themselves tor an hour or so. Then have fPent a t,me at this sch°o1 are
line was called and they left for the wonderful to behold. When a new
cotta-es where a fresh bath and Pallid face' unhealthy boy arrives
clean clothes were given them. at th,s school> he ,s alwa-vs a subject
of the officers and the sober thinking
The boys will soon enjoy the boys. His development is watched
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intently. Soon the watcher? begin
to notice a change in the subject.
His cheeks begin to take on color.
His face rounds out. He takes on
weight. Soon he is a healthy spec-
imen of humanity. Many examples
of this development are to be found
but the most noticeable is the one of
Magnus Wheeler. When running
around the lawn he would always be
last and even then he could hardly
co.ue in. But he began to take on
fat and now— well, suffice to say,
that haidly a day does he miss in
leading the racers and coming in
ahead of all others.
Need More White Settlers
North Carolina is too sparsely set-
tled. We are trying to get better
roads and better schools, and Heav-
en knows we need both! But a county
with 50,000 people can support good
roads much more easily than a county
where there are only 10..000 or 20,000
people to carry the whole burden.
Not only do we need more white
settlers, but we have abundant room
for them. North Carolina is about
the same size as Iowa and Illinois.
Yet the li*20 census shows that Iowa
has 28,000,000 acres of improved or
cultivated land and Illinois 27,000,000
whereas North Carolina has only 8,-
000,000. North Carolina's 8,000,000
acres of cultivated land vs. Iowa's
28,000,000--there is the contrast!
Nor is the uncultivated land of
North Carolina to be found chiefly
on our mountain slopes. Most of it
is level, productive, easily cultivated
eastern North Carolina soil. Tlie-
state should redouble its emphasis
on drainage and encourage the com-
ing of good settlers. This will mean
better roads, better schools, and
lightered tax burdens Think, for
examp!e, how much one Ohio farm-
er, A. L. French, was worth to
North-Carolina! -Clarence Poe.
Summer Rates On Southern
During the coming summer tou-
rist season, the Southern Railway
System will sell round-trip week-end
tickets from principal points to all
mountain and seashore resorts in the
South at sixty percent of the double
one-way fare, or a fare and one-
fifth, for the round-trip. As a illu-
stration, where the one way fare is
$10.00, the round trip fare will be
$12.00.
These tickets will be sold on Fri-
days and Saturdays and will be gnod
for return trip until Tuesdays, this-
being a more liberal arrangement
than has ever before been in effect
and one which will enable the people
of the South to make week-end trips
to mountain and seashore resorts at
a very reasonable cost. It will be
especially advantageous to business
men who wish to make 'Weekly visits-
to their families- at resorts. These
tickets will be sold from Washing-
ton, D. C, Cincinnati, Ohio, and
Louisville,. Ky., as well as points
throughout the Southeast.
These tickets will be put on sale-
May 13th and will be sold until the-
latter part of September.
School houses are the republican Line of fortifications. — Horace Mann.
•NOTICE
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LOCALITY TO TAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO
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NO. 24
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There are no two persons alike. We differ from
one another in many of the characteristics and as-
pects of life. We could not be precisely alike if we
were to try. There are many reasons lying at the
basis of our differences. But I have been wonder-
ing if the reason is not in the presence or absence
of a real purpose in life. Sometimes we have seen
those who had a good start, who were generously
endowed with talents, whose standing was of the
best, and yet they drifted, amounting to almost
nothing. Then again we have known those who got
a poor start, gave little promise of even average
success in life, and who labored under many handi-
caps, and yet to our surprise they forged to the
front, passing others who had many more advan-
tages. A purpose is nothing more than a mind to
achieve something. It brings every talent and
energy to bear on the accomplishment of that one
thing. It has no power to increase our endowments,
but it does teach us how to unite them, draw them
together, and concentrate them upon the attainment
of one goal. The scattered rays of the sun would
not kindle a fire, but take a mirror and focus the
sun's rays on a given object and see the result.
Scattered human energies are dissipated and largely
wasted energies. To be able to say, "This one thing
I do," is the secret of an enlarged and useful career.
To flit from one task to another reduces our efforts
and paraly:es our energies. — Selected.
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KE PRINTING CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON
TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
MANUAL
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as seeond-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post OSiee at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
COMMISSIONER WILKINSON-- -THE PACIFIER.
If any one desires the truth, go tD headquarters. Some w<=eks ago The
Uplift, in noting the new and virile organizations starting up in Concord
for the common weal and expressing a pardonable delight that the old town
had decided to stop curb-stone knockings and complainings, bucking and
spite-work and blind devotion to the one-man idea, suggested that the Ro-
tarians and the Kiwanians might serve the public a good turn by delegat-
ing a committee to wait on Highway Commissioner Wilkinson, of this dis-
trict, and make inquiry "When lightening would strike in Cabarrus "
This was done in the course of time; and no sooner done, than irresponsi-
ble run.ors, deductions, prophecies, misunderstandings, and evidences of
dissatisfactions and cross-wires, began. Commissioner Wilkinson came to
Concord Saturday last. He brought his engineer, and a good one is this
fellow Pridgen, who knows his business from a to z. Mr. Wilkinson listen-
ed most eharmintrly to the remarks and resolutions. He was awake to all that
wasgiingon. He made his talk—clear, well-worked out, sounded very
sensible and was sensible all through. He soon satisfied the representative
partvthat had assembled that he knew his business, was doing the best that
could be done and just as fast as it was possible. He won the folks, and
what seemed at one- time the occasion for a division, factional struggle and
a mess, vanished by this man Wilkinson's gentleness, smoothness, clearness
and his most evident purpose to do the right thing promptly for the Cabar-
rus cause.
The problem was thus solved; and right on the heels of this amicable
settlement, Mr. Martin Cannon movid that the plan outlined by Commissi-
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oner Wilkinson be endorsed and accepted, and it accordingly and unanimous-
ly carried. It was all and entirely due to Commissioner Wilkinson, The
Pacifier.
The plan, as developed at the meeting on Saturday, involves (he letting
of the contract, at the May meeting of the Highway Commission, for the
Construction of a hard surface road from the corporate limits of C ncord
to the Mecklenburg line; and the survey of the road from the Concord lim-
its north to the Rowan line, rebuilding the old road, putting it into proper
repair and removing the grade crossing at Cook's Crossing. That has been
the idea all the while, and preparation had been making for months to bring
all this about, but idle gossip and irresponsible rumor had got the purpose,
the real purpose, into a tangled ball, locally.
Everybody lef r satisfied that Cabarrus would be properly and justly
treated, and all were glad the Pacifier came— when the love-feast was about
to start Col. Wade H. Harris, editor of the Observer, walked in smiling,
and we had the honor of convincing him that there are more than one
Hartsell in these diggins by introducing to him Mr. J. L. ("Tiny") Hartsell,
the Mill man, and Senator L. T. Hartsell, (Luther), the Lasvyer and both
of these Hartsells are good men---but Col. Harris insisted on knowing which
is the better. He was directed to look at the hair---he is now convinced
that we have in Cabarrus county just as many Hartsells as they have "Mcs,"
in Mecklenburg.
ANALYZING ACCURATELY THE SITUATION.
Elsewhere in this number will, be found a very strong presentation of
"North Carolina's Needs" as seen by the well-trained eve of Dr. W. L. Po-
teac, President of Wake Forest College. Dr. Poteat recognizes what thous-
ands of others in the state have been certain of, but he puts into language
the defects so clearly that conviction must follow the reading of th. very
sensible article.
The public is beginning to see the fallacy, if not the foolishness, f the
'edict-made or hand-made teachers. Just because a teacher has con .Meted
a certain course in a favorite school with an edict-made classification, r one
who has gone through the frolic of a theory summer school, does no; make
it safe for one to accept that teacher as a qualified and efficient teacher.
It is "too heavy emphasis on method", quoting Dr. Poteat, "at the e: pense
of subject matter." Growing out of this method prevailing in the i acher-
facteries that have been set up in North Carolina "many know 1 w to
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teach English, but do not know how to write it."
It is well enough to manifest pride in the physical improvement in our
public schoo's and to glorify ourselves in the attitude of the public to sub-
mit to the enormous increase in the public school fund---both of which are
objects of great pride and are necessary---but when the people come to feel
that there is too little response in the way of result for all this expenditure,
as thousands are coming to look upon it, there is grave danger of a severe
back set to the cause. The multiplication of departments and supervisors,
the building up of a machine far removed from the benighted souls for
which all those efforts are made, at an extravagant cost, does not^and can
not solve the great educational problem confronting the state.
Eliminate three-fourths of the machinery that has been set up by the
educational department, cut out fifty or sixty percent of the officialdom
that is being maintained at great cost, transfer more of the responsibili-
ties back to the people, where they properly belong, and cut out the useless
red-tape, then the "output" will have a chance to appear],commensurate
with the expenditure.
A COMPARISON.
We copy elsewhere in this number a pen picture of the prevailing saloons
of other days. This is from the Salisbury Evening Post, a fine old town
wheie there yet live a number of elegsnc gentlemen who saw with their
personal eyes just what Editor Hurley describes.
Twenty-five years ago the most popular one place in Salisbury was just
by the railroad, in a corner of what, was historically called the Mount Ver-
non Hotel. It has bsen junked; but before this occurred, 'there was enough
damage and evil wrought to serve a thousand generations in working off
the superabundance of wild oats. It is ?one, together with all the others
that damned humanity the country over,' forever. Glory be!
By and by, the lawless will have all been garnered in the penitentiary or
in an uncertain beyond, but the temptation in a large measure being re-
moved from the yonng there is a possibility that'the crop that makes the
bootleggers and the moonshiners somewhat profitable for a time will cease
to grow and thrive--and these, with public sentiment actively on guard
will perish from among us.
Isn't strange that men will risk their character, their reputation, their
lives and that of their famdy in a sorry business the history of which is in
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the finality pauperism, suffering and want nine cases out of tvn of those j]
who handle whiskey and other strong drinks, legally or illegally?
\ PROUD RECORD
It is announced that during the month of February, the record always
being kept carefully for each month, on the entire Southern Railway sy-
stem there was not a single fatality among the employes and less than two
hundred of the thousands that are employed suffered any injury of any
kind. That this is a fine showing over what used to be the record among:
railroad employes, demonstrates the great care that has been taken to em-
ploy every safety device known to the railroad world.
The Southern Railway has made a better record than jitney drivers and
joy riders; in fact its record makes the operation of flying machines look
like a vertible graveyard in comparsion.
It is noted with much satisfaction that Vice-President Henry W. Miller,
in charge of operation, has announced that owing to the large number of
of casulties that are oecuring at highway grade crossings each month and
to assist further in community safetv, the Southern will enter whole-heart-
edly into the careful crossing campaign, which will be conducted througout
the country during the summer months.
CLARK'S HUMAN INTEREST STORY.
You want to read the interesting and valuable contribution by Mr. R.
R. Clark in this number. He tells most entertainingly the story of an
educational cause that dealt with the lives of boys, who afterwards be-
came distinguished in the affairs of the country. The editor of this paper
was delighted over the reference to that gcdly man, Prof. L. H. Rothrock,
now of Gold Hill. Unostentatiously, with marked modesty, and with a
marvelous success, this man has taught hundreds of boys and girls who in
no uncertain manner reflect in their lives the wonderful influence and
thorough training this conscientious and able man exerted upon them. No
wonder; for the father of Prof. Rothrock, the late Rev. Samuel Rothrock,
when a youth, with fifty cents in his pocket, struck out a-foot for Gettys-
burg. Pa., College, where he was educated. That determination only
indicates the stuff out of which men are made---and his son, Prof. Rothrock,
of whom Mr. Clark so entertainingly writes, couldn't help being himself
an A 1 man. Though way up in eighty, Mr. Rothrock still teaches.
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Over 4,000 visitors assembled in Albemarle last Saturday to participate
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the Commencement exercises of the Stanly eocnty public schools. The
;althy and enthusiastic manner in which the people of old Stanly (once a
Kgard in some respects) are going about the business of making rapid
id progressive strides and her great accomplishments in the cause of
location, speaks volumes for the faithful and far-seeing wisdom of the
)unty's leaders. A great county and a great pe:ple. Stanly has a live
ire and a capable leader educationally in the person of County Supt.
eap
Mr. Cates, of the Observer Printing House, has placed with The Uplift
newedition.of the "Made-In-Carolinas" trade directory. It is a handsome
ieee of printing, full of valuable information = nd is a fore-runner of a
epetitionof that most splendid show that was puled off last year in Char-
jtte.
$ £ * ;;= * $. $ £
The Republican State Cjnvention. held in Win=:on-Salem last week, was
argely attended and was an harmonious meeting. Mr. Brabham, of Dur-
iam, succeeds Hon. C. A. Reynolds as State Chairman; and the latter
ucceeds Hon. John M. Morehead as National Committeeman.
THE NURSE AND THE WOLF.
"Be quiet now," said an old Nurse to a ch2d sitting on her lap.
"If you make that noise again I will throw yoi to the- Wolf."
Now it chanced that a Wolf was passing ekse under the window
is this was said. So he crouched down by the side of the house and
waited. "I am in good luck to-day," though: he. "It is sure to
:ry soon, and a daintier morsel [ haven't had 1 r many a long day."
So he waited, and he waited, till at last the clild began to cry, and
he Wolf came forward before the window, am: he looked up to the
Kiuse, wagging his tail. But all the Nurse did was to shut down the
window and call for help, and the dogs of the hi use came rushing out.
"Ah," said the Wolf as he galloped away,
'•ENEMIES- PROMISES WERE MADE TO BE BROKEN."
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New Home 01 Salisbury Evening Post
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Situate just opposite the U. S. post ■
office iu the very heart of Salisbury
the new home of the Salisbury Even-
ing Post is an actuality — Editar Hur-
ley, a Cabarrus product, has gone to
Salisbury and successfully establish-
ed an institution.
Cramped into a one-room quarter,
he grew weary. He purchased a lot
and built, suitable for modern news-
paper house, an attractive, well ar-
ranged and well lighted building. It
is the last word, up to this date, in
the constructor and arrangement of
a modern newspaper home. ',
Much of his equipment has been re-
placed by new and the verv latest
machinery. The future is bright; and,
if the people, vhom it splendily ser- .
ves, give it the support we are sur?
they feel due it. The Salisbury Even-
ing Post will bring to pass the truth I
of that big ele-tric sign seen across,
the street near the station: j
"Salisbury's The Place"
In vrorking out its disarmament plans, the "Washington conference en :
tirely overlooked governor's staffs. — Norfolk Ledger-Iispatch.
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A CENTENNIAL OF HUMAN INTEREST
BY E. E. CLARK
I: was my privilege and pleasure (and the-e words arc _.ot used perfunc.tsrily
in ; his case) to attend, Saturday, the 15th, the celebration of the ccntennhl of
Ebenezcr Academy, in Iredell county. At this centennial celebration I n :t a
number of people who bear good reputations, who told m_ they were atteniing
the second centennial at that place, death of Dr I l.-'i and the passing of
and none of them were a hundred his school the ! thany people foand-
vt'srs old or anything like it. It was ed the school that they oiled
tl r way. The celebration was held in Ebenezer academy, and which was
Bt-:bany church (Presbyterian), seven chartered in 1822. Il was taught it the
m-es north of Statesville. What is "session house" of the church intil
Ik: of Ebsnezer academy, a dilapidat- a building conic be elected. The nost
0,: old building, stands hard by the noted teacher ;; Ebonezer in that
cb"rch on the public higl .vay Erow period when it Nourished as a clissi-
St:.:esvi!le to Turners-burg and Har- eal school was Hugh K. Hall, I: her
mt-iy, in north [redell. Bethany of Dr. E. A. II. 1. a venerable p.ysi-
cl _rch celebrated its e stennial in eian yet living ii Bethany eouimii-ity,
1S75, 47 years ago; and many who at- grandfather of Dr. -las. K. [fall, dis-
tended the church centennial were on tii._-ai.~hed physician and alien.- of
! 1 for the centennial uf F.bene/er Richmond, Va. A. number of men who
.'.•: icmy, chartered in 1S22 and con- afterward bccai e prominent in ?ub-
•'.. ted as a classical school until 1850 j lie life were triined at Ebenezei un-
!_-n as a neighborhood school until a der Mr. Hall, a: ung these being ton.
n -•"" building was erected s ime years Jos. P. Caldwell member of Congress
ago. and father of tie distinguished e itor
Dr. Hall, a noted pioneer Presby- of t!"-" same nar.e; Judge Caldwfll, a
terian preacher and educator, who distinguished n.an in his day; Gen.
left the pulpit, put ou his fighting T. 31. Clingman. distinguished piblic
clothes and was a captain in the war •«*-- in the ante-bellum days, meaber
of the Revolution.' preached and of Congress. St-alor and brigadiir in
t. .lit in this section— at Bethany 'h- Confederate army; Burgess
til Fourth Creek (now Statesville) Gaither, long a prominent lawyer at
b:.h before and after the War of the Morgantown, 1-gislator and member
Revolution. He conducted a classical of the Confederate Congress: net to
s tool, called Science Hall, in the mention a host of men who wr. tght
■ rinity of Bethany church. That «'«■-- '" private station in their :]&y
tr'-ool .eased to exist after his death, and generation.
sV»ut the beginning of the last centu- The most int. resting visitor ai this
!J. The old Scotch-Irish believed centennial cell 'ration at FJIjexezer
- education and wherever they academy was Prof. L. H. Rotlroek
icanilfi a church they usually es- of Rowan county, long a noted t-ach-
:-''!ish d a school hardly. After the ei in Rowan and Cabarrus. Prof. 2oth-
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rock entered .school at Ebenezer
academy at the age of 13, 70 years
ago; and this was his first visit to the
community in GO years. He and Dr. E.
A. Hall were the only pupils of Hugh
R. Hall that were- present. Mr. Roth-
rock gave most interesting reminis-
cences of his school experience at
Ebenezer. tie was an only son and his
father was anxious to give him a
thorough education. He sent him to
such schools as were available and
when the hoy had reached the age of
.13 his father was on the lookout for
a classical school to prepare him for
college. Through a kinsman he heard
of Ebenezer academy. The fact that
this school was taught under Pres-
byterian auspices did not disturb the
Lutheran Rothrock, who brought his
boy to Ebenezer and not only install-
ed him in tile home of the teacher to
board, but on his departure gave that
Presbyterian teacher .^5 to buy Pres-
byterian Sunday school literature for
the Lutheran boy to attend the Pres-
byterian Sunday school. That he was
well drilled in the Westminster
Shorter Catechism goes without say-
ing, and the aged Prof. Rothrock had
with him the hymn book they bought
for him with part of that $5. Soon af-
ter he entered Ebenezer the Rothrock
boy became dissatisfied and wrote his
father to come and take him home.
The aged man called particular atten-
tion to his father's answer. The elder
Rothrock was in no hurry to reply,
but when he did answer he told the
hoy that 'Sir. Hall knew what was best
for him and he would stay in the
School. "He could have ruined me
by allowing me to have my way at
that time, "said the now aged man,
who saw in the later years that his
father and his teacher knew best, lie
paid high and touching tribute to
both. The elder Rothrock wanted |ijg
boy to go to college at llettsburg, I'a.,
The son wanted to go to Chapel Hill.
They compromised by agreeing for the
boy to go to Chapel Hill lirst and then
to Gettysburg. But the upheaval of the
(ios changed plans. Rothrock entered
the Confederate army and his only
sight of that Gettysburg college was
at the battle of Gettysburg, ami he
never got to Chapel Hill.
There wcr^ other interesting speak-
ers at the Ebenezer centennial, lint
Prof. Rothrock easily came first on
account of the association. Among the
others were Rev. Dr. M. L. Kesler,
prominent Baptist minister ami
superintendent of the Thomasville
Orphanage; and Rev. Dr. Clyde Tur-
ner, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Greensboro. Dr. Kesler
was reared in Cool Spring community,
adjoining Bethany, and was among
home folks. Dr. Turner was rear-
ed in Bethany community and his
father taught at Ebenezer academy.
Dr. Hosier's address, "The School of
Cur Memory," was a splendid des-
cription of the schools of the former
day— Hie old field schools as they
were commonly called; and he paid
high tribute to the teacher who train-
ed him. Futhermore he boldly de-
clared that the boys ami girls who at-
tended the old-time schools muler I
efficient and consecrated teachers, did
not lack for educational opportunities.
He not only distinctly rejected sym-
pathy in that respect, but lie made
some comparisons between schools ot
that time and this in which the old
schools did not suffer.
The Ebenezer centennial was an
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hisi.'iie event and as the country would say, "an interesting time was
conespoudent of the local paper had by all."
What is believed to be the first bond issue ever voted in North Carolina
before breakfast, is the recerd of Stanhope school district, Nash County,
vhen on the morning of the 11th before 7 o'clock, a majority of the regis
tered voters had cast ballots in favor of the issuance of $20,000 of school-
house bonds. The bond proceedings were under the management of At-
torney Bruce Craven, who —as at breakfast at his home in Trinity, when
the report of the election reached him by telephone, and he replied that
if the Stanhope people are zs early to bed as they are to rise, they ought
to "be "healthly, wealthly and wise" and that he thinks they are. The new
high school building will be :he community center for one of the finest ru-
rd sections of the state, situated in the fine fanning country along the
T:r river.
HOW SOON WE FORGET
(Lexington Dispatch)
Diriug the war everybody learned to stand at attention when the band
or nrchestra played the "Star Spangled Banner." Now, nearly everybody
seeitiS to have forgotten how the national anthem sounds. For instance,
a note in the New York World says that a group of Girls Scouts psssing the
Stat je of Liberty on a ferryboat stood and sang the "Scar Spangled Banner,"
•■-ar.d one man removed his hat. dropped as far from their spiritual
We don't have to go that far exaltation as they had beer, lifted by
though. At the county commence- the stress of the times. Cculd any-
ment he.-e last Saturday the band one imagine a band playing the
played the national anthem at astir- "Marseillaise" in the presence of a
ring point in one of the historical French audience and the French
pageants. The grandstand crowd remaining seated or with heads
that had seats kept them anc most covered. They wouldn't have waited
of those standing paid no attention to see if the other fellow was gcing
to tie air. Here and there perhaps to show respect for the flag.
a few ex-service men took mte. Have we forgotten all that this
During the war our nations! con- flag represents for us? Havewefor-
scicasr.ess was aroused because gotten those who sleep in its folds,
things came home to us when our or are we just naturally a careless
own kin and ken were ca::ed to people who wake up to a proper res-
fend that banner of white and red pect for our flag only under great
stripes and stars in a field of blue, stress or excitement?
The war over, nearly everybody
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NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS.
3y Dr. W. L. Potest.
1. North Carolina needs to sober in the lead of an ill in illicit alcoholic
her pride by recognizing her sins, to production. The intelligence and
drop tail feathers for a cod minute conscience of the state need to be or-
to glance at ugly feet. guniml and made practically effective
(1) Education. The tn ining of in expunging the stain of this bad
our public school teachers is inade- distinction. Our native independence
quate. Such training as they have is lasping into license. The personal
had puts too heavy emphasis on liberty folly goes unrebuked, is in-
method at the expense of subject- deed sometimes championed by men
matter. For example, many know of respectability, and ever and anon
how to teach English, but do not the mob digs into the foundations of
know how to write it; know how to our ordered life. Men of character
teach arithmetic; but not how to and better equipment are needed in
solve its problems. And then the the public service to displace men
amount of training is meager. As whose ambition is not .justified by
regards the instruction these teach- their gifts.
ers impart, we ought to remember 2. Xorth Carolina needs to t'elearu
that they have no chance a: one half our state motto: Be, not seem to be.
of our school population beyond the As a state and as individuals, are
sixth grade. In all the grades, and we not on a splurge of luxury.' We
in the high schools as well, the quality need lo recover the true perspective,
of instruction is inferior as compared and so our poise; to put first things
with results elsewhere in the United first. Enhance life, fe* its comforts
States. Are we not too much occu- wait. Enrich life, let the impression
pied with our elaborate educational it makes take care of itself. Let
machinery,, too little concerned "about income determine expenditure. In-
its output ,' Thirteen percent of us sist on efficiency in the public busi-
remain illiterats, and, according to ness. Revise the pay roll. Cut out
the tests, literate is far from being duplication in responsibility and ex-
the same as educated. Agricultural cess in offices. AVc do not need any
rank in the sisterhood of states, longer positions which were created
fourth, educational rank, forty- for men. Jones, he pays the freight,
fourth. and is getting tired of paying so
(2) Law and Order. Fourth in much for goods which don't come.
legitimate agricultural production.
Wise and patriotic met: of all political parties are to-day vividly con-
scious of the fact that we stand at this hour upon the edge cf the ahyss,
that the abolition of the autonomy of the State moans the destruction of
the liberty of the citizen and of the life of the Republic. — Senator S:. inley,
of Kentucky.
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EVERY HOUSE HAS A SILVER LINING-
BY J. GILBERT
Maizie was Justing', with, disdainful little dabs, the dining-room mantel.
; "What is the use," she grumbled, "of dusting a black marble slab, anyway?
It's just the same old tombstone when you're through."
She dumped three burnt matches door with a wrathful jerk and stood
out of a brass basket into the semi- staring moodily across the big, old-
cimilar 'stove beneath tin; mantel and fashioned '•sideyard" beyond the
scolded a fresh. porch. Glimpsed above the garden
"How could anyone put a nasty old wall, a hay wagon rattled along the
stove where they might have made an quiet street, leaving shining shrcda
open fireplace?" among the low-hanging branches of
A brisk step sounded on the porch the trees,
outside the door and her mother's "Quick, dear, "called Mrs. White,
voice called, "Open the door for me, "make a wish on the hay wagon be-
dear. My bauds are full." fore it's out of sight."
Maizie opened the door to admit Maizie was distracted only partially
her mother bearing a large tray upon from her wrongs.
which was arrved the fresly burnish- "I wish," she said, "a fairy god-
ed family silver. mother would come and change this
"I had it on here, so I didn't stop old house into an entirely different
to put it through the little window place — into something that T — "
piece by piece," Mrs. White ex- A long, jangling peal of the door-
plained, noting the disapproving ex- bell interrupted her wish and Maizie
prossion on her young daughter's face, threw down her duster.
Maizie found in this remark an I'll go, it's proably the mail," she
aggravation of her grievance. said, as she crossed the broad hall to
"Who ever heard," she demand, the front door. "Perhaps there's a
"of a kitchen that you can get to letter from dad."
only across a porch or through a little But the '"good morning" intended
window?" for the postman greeted quite an-
"Xow, childie," soothed her moth- other person. A tall, beautiful
er, "lots of southern houses are like woman, dressed with what Maizie
that. It does seem a little ineoii- described later as "expensive sim-
venient after the bungalow, but there plicity," stood upon the cracked white
are so many nice things about this old marble doorstep and responded to
place. You'll soon get used to it." Maizie 's salutation with these re-
Xlaizie refused to be comforted. mai'kable words:
''We've been here six months and "Will you be so very good as to let
I'm rot a bit used to it yet. I me come in and see your house? I
thought it a hideous old house the was born in this dear old place and
first time I laid eyes on it, and I shall spent my childhood here. It's a
always think so." scandalously early hour for such a
She -hook her duster out of the request, I know, but I have only a
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short time between trains and I could- had loved theui as a child Jlaizie was
n't resist the temptation to beg a willing to waive the point,
glimpse of my old home." As they progressed towards the
Maizie, though a little disconcert- dining-room Maizie thought the satis-
ed by the surprise of it, was un- faction of the careful finishing touch-
affectedly cordial. es she and her mother had just given
'"Why, certainly, come right in and to Mandy's thorough houseoieanin.'j.
look around as much as you care to," The crisp while curtains, the scarlet
she invited. salvia on the round table, the. glcant-
Thus welcomed, the attractive ing silver, seemed to radiate a sunny
stranger crossed the threshold with cheer which no black made mantel
pacer step, continuing her frank ex- in the world could chill. Mrs. Ju'l-
plriations. • son's enthusiasm, however- i-O'.iccii-
"Mv name is Judsou, Sirs. Judson tinted upon the half-round stove
It is twenty years since I have been "My brothers and I spent many a
here and the mere sight of this house jolly winter evening around that uoy
stir- a hundred happy memories." stove, or one just like it." she dc-
"Just go into the parlor and make dared, "popping corn an." roasting
yourself at home," said Maizie hos- chestnuts while mother re;d Dickens
pliably, admiring the way her visi- aloud to us after our lessons were
tor's hair waved and glinted undei learned. I never see a blu-k marble
lie;- smart hat. "I will call my mantel without a memory picture o£
mother. She will be glad to meet that dear little group."
I know." She brushed a gloved h: ml hastily
VI
But Mrs. White, Mandy told her. across her eyes and Maizie thought
had run across the garden to a neigh- it best to create a diver-ion.
bor's, and Maizie hurried back alone "AVas this little window hero
to do the lienors for the family. Sin then?" she asked, indicating the
found Sirs. Judson standing in the wooden slide over the shelf which pro-
mi Idle of the parlor rug. looking a- . vided a somewhat in-adequate means
bout her with a rapt expression in her of communication with tie kitchen.
lovely eyes. "Indeed it was," laughed Mrs Jud- ;
"How perfect that old gift pape: son, "that funny slit in the wall was
is with your mahogany, " she exclaim- for us children a ticket window, a
ed. as Maizie entered. "I do believe post office, a banker's cage and good-
it "s exactly the pattern that served ness knows what besides. We had so
as a background tor our old 1SG0 wal- much fun with it that we freely for-
nnt things. 1 always loved it." gave its being too small t-i allow our j
"It's probably the very same. Our Christmas turkey to pass. That bad
lav.. Ilord is 18(30 himself and objects to be covered with a cishpan to
.to change," Maizie contented herseit keep it hot while it was being con-
with saying. The stiff gilt peacocks veyed across the icy porch in formal .
strutting acrois a . buff ground line procession — like the Crate-hits'
been to her one of the eye-sores oi goose."
the house, but if the beautiful ladv Maizie laughed too at the idea.
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15
"Almost anything is fun in a big
family," slit; admitted. "There's only
one of me."
Ami when they went out into the
garden, Mrs. Judson's delighted rec-
ognition of the dilapidated old grape
arbor and her description of its haunt-
ed fascination for her childish fancy
went so far to soften Maizie's re-
sentment at their landlord's unwill-
ingness and their own inability to
make the charming old garden what
it should be.
Then back again to the house and
through the upstairs rooms they
journeyed, Mrs. Jndson finding at
every turn some reminder of the come-
dies and time-sweetened tragedies of
a much loved and long-scattered home
circle.
Even the little room over the kitch-
en, which by the same architectural
arrangement as that of the lower floor
was inaccessible except by a trip
across t lie porch, had its special charm
of memory.
"My father," she explained, had
his laboratory and did his research
work there. When he was very busy
lie used to hang out a " No admit-
tance" sign and on these occasions
the upstairs porch, which was our
usual rainy-day resort, became for-
bidden ground and constituted a sort
1 of zone of silence for father's pro-
tection."
Maizie smiled in quick appreciation
\ of this arrangement. She had never
j been able to think of any possible
" advantge to be derived from the
! whimsical isolation of that little room
, and had found in it only another
| object of her disapproval.
"My dear little girl," Mrs. Jud-
. son said, as they slowly descended the
wide stairway, "you cannot know
how much I appreciate your kindness
in taking me in as you have done.
Nothing will ever be home to me quite
the same way ;-s this quaint old place
and it has seemed like a sweet dream
to see it again. We have an entirely
ecfnvenient and very attractive house
in Canada, where my husband has
recently settled, and the children,
bless their hearts, are most adorable
interior decorations. But here, under
this old roof, I was a child myself,
rich in the priceless gift of youth,
with mother and father, like bulwarks
of love, guarding my care-free hap-
piness."
Mai/.ie had been unwontedly quiet
during this tour of her present home,
a real voyage or discovery for her.
She had made the proper polite re-
joinders and shown sympathetic in-
terest in her guest's enthusiasms, but
she had been thinking hard all the
while, and now, quite suddenly, she
spoke her thoughts.
"We used to live in Indiana, in the
sweetest, most up-to-date little white
stucco bungalow. But father was
moved here to superintend the new
mills and this house was the only
thing we could get. I have hated
it every minute since we came. But
now, after all you've told me," she
faltered a moment, then went on,
"well, you see, I am young, and — and
I have ray mother and father," her
voice caught in a little half-laughing
sob, and Mrs. Jndson said not a word
hut squeezed both Maizie's hands
hard in complete understanding.
When the visitor, with a surprised
exclamation at the tale told by her
bracelet watch, had hurried out to
the ricketv old station hack waiting
16 THE UPLIFT
at the curb, Maizie went very slowly hug and the news of the wonderful ,
back tu the sunny dining-room and thing- that hail happened in her half-5
regarded the black marble mantel and hour's absence.
the semi-circular slove with eyes that "Oh, motherkin," she cried, "my!
sparkled, yet were a little misty, wish has come true. A fairy god-,
too. mother lias been here and changed .
Then she heard her mother sing- this ugly old house into something en-
ing in the garden and rushed across t i rely different — into a beautiful pal-,
the porch to give her a breath-taking ace of youth with bulwarks of love." .
The correspondent who says that the matter of electing a judge and so-
licitor is a very important one is everlasting right. Some one has said
that there is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. The trouble
with justice as it is frequently dispensed is that it is mechanical. We
need tig men. good men, Christian men as the agents of justice and by
all means solicitors should be paid a straight salary so that their compen-
sation would not depend on securing convictions. — News and Observer.
ARE YOU A HUNDR1 D PER CENT MOTHER? i
By William R. P. Emersnn, M. D. in Woman's Rome Companion.
A man «ho has novo: served in war is scarcely justified in criticizing those
who have been at the front. Nor has one who has never been a mother a ,
right to sneak of mothers in any way but that of appreciation. The ambi- >•
tion of the normal woman to be an ideal mother is the greatest influence '"
for good that we have.
Although the bind of affection be- I. TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT FOR PHV f
tween imther and child is the essen- „,,,, i
tial foundation of all child training, .
it is not the only requisite tor sue- Tne first question I wish to raise J
cess in this matter, fir, with the best is your attitude toward your child's <
intentions in the world, everyone physical condition. Is he growing up ,
knows that there are very important physically and mentally tit? You are i
differences in the kind of care given quite right in saying that you are .
by various types of mothers to their ready to do anything in order that j:
children. It is in this connection that your boy or girl may be strong and ■
I wish to ask you m .thtrssome frank well. Pint just what have you been •
questions, and to suggest a scalp, of doing, and what are the next steps to e
points by means of which you may which you havp committed yourself j
determine wheibpr you are suceed- in order to accomplish this end?
ing or failing, in tne best job in the Hive you weighed each of your .
worlu- children to find whether they are up
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'
to the standard for their weight? Do mother, your child's physical condi-
not satisfy yourself by carelessly say- tion must be the first consideration,
ling. "Oh, lie is all right. He's on not only for its own sake, but be-
I the go all the time. There's no need cause it is the groundwork and
j to worry about him!" foundation of all other development.
It must be borne in mind that thus It is part of your duty as an
' far practically no attention has been efficient mother to see that the good
'given to growth itself. Even the physical care which your child was
physicians have been chiefly interest- given during the days of infancy is
ed in acute and chronic disease after continued through the pre school age
I it has developed, and with caring for and throughout the years of school
a deformities by means of braces and life, when there is a tendency to fo-
I splints after they are cleirly esta- cus attention upon other forms of
I Wished. It is only sine? the war that training. No facto; in the child's
$ there has been a general awakening development can be isolated, but
i to the fact that physical unfitness is his health should claim the mother's
1 retarded growth ■ TJ HQW MaNy p0JNTS Ff)R H0ME
Tne first ching to do it your child
i is un ler weigh' is to see that he has CONTROL.
.'.] thorough physical examination, to It would not be too much to say
:'i determine the cause of his condition, that good home control is "half the
;1 The examination forms list all dp- battle" in the proper nutrition and
:] fects that may be interfering with growth of children; but as I wish to
j growth. You should get your family be fair in acknowledging the honest
physician to go over each point, and intention of all mothers to do their
explain to you the indications of ab- besst in this matter, I am rating this
normal physical condition. Do not important factor at only twenty-five
let a single item escape you. per cent. In tin's sectii n let me re-
If the child is a mouth breather, late a few incidents out of my ex-
or there are enlarged glands, or perience with mothers and children,
other signs of inflammatory pro- and perhaps some of these extreme
cesses, let nothing stand in the way cases will help you to check vour-
of correcting every defect. Do not self up in this regard.
be one of those mothers whojjgrasp at 1 think it will be unquestioned
every excuse for delay, saying, "It that the first moral training a child
will be better to wait until a more should receive is the duty of obedi-
convenient time before having the ence. The act is so instinctive in
condition corrected;" or, "The sum- the relations between mother and
mer is a better time, and vacation is child that it might almost be said to
only a few months off; or, "I just be automatic, where the mother has
can't bear the idea of an operation!" blindly surrendered her natural
Excuses of this k"nd are responsible authority. Yet I have had a mother
for the continued sufferings and ill say to me when I told her to bring
health of thousands of children in her little son to my office, "l'l
every community. brnig him if he will come!" He
In 'nsid.'iing your rating as a weighed less than forty pounds; she
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weighed more than one hundred
fifty; but she could nut see the ab-
surdity of her position.
The maintenence of the mother's
authority depends upon firmness
from the earliest years, and upon
saying to the child exactly what she
means in every case. It is fatal to
say, "If you do that again I will
punish you," and then fail to do so.
The mother who surrenders to the
child for the sake of avoiding a fuss,
or to secure "peace at any price,"
not only finds the pric^ steadily adv-
ancing, but soon fails to get peace
at all.
I frequently ask a mother, ''Have
you spoiled your child?" And all too
often the answer is, "I am afraid I
have." Sometimes this over-indul-
gence is the result of the illusion
that the child is supersentive, and
that nothing must be done to hurt
his feelings, even when his best in-
terests are thus sacrificed. Pride in
a child may easily lead to the habit'
of making an exhibit of him. The
old idea that "children are to be
seen and not heard" was one ex-
treme, but no worse for the child
than the present tendency to "fea-
ture" him. If you have been spoil-
ing your child, stop it. Begin to ex-
act obedience, and you will be sur-
prised how soon your difficulties will
diminish.
The mother of a spoiled child is
apt to complain about the efforts of
others to discipline her child. She
accuses her husband of "interfer-
ing." instead of backing up the fath-
er in his proper assumption of au-
thority. Some mothers think they
can capitalize muther-love by leading
the children to look to them alone
for control.
In one household where the chil-
dren are my patients, the father has
been told to "keep his hands off the
children until they are twelve years
old." This mother is very sure of
her ability to manage her children
alone, yet when her own mother
came to pay her a visit she was so
exhausted from the lack of discipline
in the family that at the end of a
week she was obliged to take a room
in a hotel, and actually slept through
most of the first twenty-four hours
from sheer fatigue!
This same resentment against an;
share in the authority over the chil-
dren is shown in other relations. A
servent is often forced to adopt me-
thods for restraining a child which
are disastrous to the character, how-
ever effective in the immediate re-
sult. But these difficulties would be
less if nursemaids were selected with
due regard to their fitness, and train-
ed to cooperate with the mother's
system of discipiline.
In one of our large cities an inves-
tigation was made to find what be-
came of a large number of girls d
limited intelligence, some of whora
were actually feeble-minded, who
had left school as soon as the lai
allowed. A large proportion of
these girls were found employed bj
families in comfortable circum-
stances, where they had char.ee r.f
little children. In speaking of her
nursemaids one mother said"! tries'
to have h r help with the dishes,
but she broke three times as raanj
as even the cook does, so now she
gives all her time to the children."
The most important work in tee
world left to one incompetent to ;
wash dishes!
GIVE YOUR CHILD RESPONSIBILITY.
Next to obedience, the most in-
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portant points for the child is train- the daily program for her child with
jug in responsibility. All children close attention, making a forty-eight-
\ should have definite work suited to hour list of his activities and occu-
;, their ability, for which they should pations, to learn the unnecessary oc-
be held strictly to account. Even a casions of fatigue. She acquaints
toddling child has a natural instinct herself with even the seemingly un-
to help, which should be encourag- important details of his daily life,
ed if only by teaching him to put observes the amount of play and
sway his playthings or to pick up work he is attempting, and realizes
articles dropped. Many mothers the weak points at which friction is
say, "it is so much easier to io it most likely to occur. She makes the
I myself"; but the child should n: t be acquaintance of his teachers and sees
deprived in this way of the satisfac- to it that music and language are
tiori oi achievement, emitted if he is not able to carry
There are many ways in \ hich extra studies without losing weight,
growing boys and girls can hep in The same watchful supervision is
the household tasks. A simple task exercised over the child's amnse-
S daily givpn a sence of responsibility, ments. She must determine what
. and an opportunity for early fain- activities are within the range of a
ing in neatness and efficiency. A reasonable expenditure of eneigy,
boy who is g;ven a bicycle can he re and help the child to live within his
•' quired to take proper care of it. and resources, while exercising his facui-
i will not gnw up like the son of one ties to the fullest extent.
: of my patienr.s, who was gives an By carefully checking- up the
\ automobile and lee it stand outdoors child's food and heath habits she
; all night with the lights on! Fos- will s»e that he has favorable con-
sessions which are bought with ditiors for growth and a sufficient
money actually earned by the child daily total amount of the right kind
are usually priced beyond the r':hest of food. Earlier articles have out-
I gifts that come without effort! lined the esseiatial points to be ob-
Back of most of the factors ieal- served in these matters, but it is not
in? with proper home controls sands easy to keep id mind day after day
| the question. "Do you allow your the importance of eating slowly,
| feelings to pervaii over your judg- avoiding sweets between meals,
.'meot?" Is the basis of vour control sleeping with the windows wide open,
the desire to insure the child's high- and breaking away from a book or
est development, or are you swayed favorite indoor occupation to get the
by the influences and prejudices of necessary amount of exercise in the
pur friends and neighbors? For ex- open air.
IV. THE BALANCE OF THE SC0£2
ample, do you choose a school for
the character of the person in charge,
or is your choice dictated by rjper- Character is closely associated
ficia! and'-oeia! reasons? with health, for it requires character
not only to get well but to keep -.veil.
The remaining 2o percent, there-
in. TWENTY-FIVE POINTS F'
the daily routine fore, depends upon your answer, to
The 100-oer-cent mother fcltaws the question, "What are you doing
20
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to help your child develop high
ideals, which are the basis of charac-
ter building?"
The answer to this question will
depend largely upon the quality of
your own ideals. Are you keeping
your influence, which is the strong-
est in the life of your child, true to
its best possibilities as you see them?
One of the finest things repeatedly
said by mothers is, "I have a struggle
to live up to the ideals of my child."
There are ideals of having a good
time, of having one's own way. ideals
of dress, and ideals of living up to
social requirements. To these ideals
the health of thousands of children
are offered yearly as a willing sacri-
fice. It requires character to forego
pleasures for the sak^ of health, to
resist the tide of social custom, to
answer the question: "Jack and Lou-
ise do this, why can't I?" It requires
character to control the simple habits
of eating and drinking, to take rest
periods when other children are at
play, to observe good hours for sleep.
It requires character to plan and fol-
low cut a sane, wholesome program
for the growing child, instead or' fol-
lowing lines of least resistance.
Many parents, in an effort togiv=|
their children an "easier" time thi-.
they have had themselves, try to
shield them from every form of hard-
ship. They forget that many fice
qualities are developed in the hsrd
school of experience. Both stud;
and work are necessary to the de-
velopment of mental and physio!
power. Shielding children froa
work makes thero weaklings, sr_i
shielding them from study makss
them simpletons.
Health education, then, furnishes
one of the best me?ns for sound
character building.
In closing this article I cannot
forbear to say that in the task at
which I am working— the better car;
of growing children— the one sup-
port that has never failed me hu
been the interest and patience of the
mothers. It has been necessary at
times to admonish, to insist, to
speak very plainly, but I have met
with no resentment, for when tb:>
is done in order to get a child well
the mother can be eoanted on t°
understand.
APPEALING TO PRIDE
(County Superintendent Wright in Beaufort News)
Since coming to your County last summer I have traversed it from Ports-
mouth to Stella. The diversity of the County's industry is interesting ad
wonderful. I have stood upon the shore and looked upon vessels deliver their
wealth of sea food. The sight is delightful to look upon and it makes me glad
I have an appetite to enjoy my part of this cargo and thankful that we have
some to spare that we can pass on to ty. From the ''Land of the sky"
others and make the rest of the world
happy too.
I have viewed with delight our fer-
tile fields, teaming with verdue and
beauty. Our farmers tickle the soil
and it smiles with a harvest of plen-
in western North Carolina to the
broad plains of the east there a
no more fertile soil to be found thaa
here in Carteret. We should give
thanks and be glad, for nature ha
indeed been iknd to us.
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2?.
I have sliced the jury melons
. form Bogue Sound ami given thanks
: until I was too full for utterance.
I IS have sniffed the rich perfumes of
the fish scrap factory, which at time
! teems to cover the earth as the waters
■ cover the sea, and it makes me
; promt that we tune the tratermzmg
effect of a common tie that makes
us all akin.
This is a great Country. Its in-
dustries are in their infancy and its
possibilitis are only limited by the
energy, thrift and intelligence of
its citizenship of the future. I be
lieve in its possibilities and I glory
in its future.
I thought I had a glimpse of its
possibilities before, but it had never
been impressed upon my mind so
forcibly as it was last Friday when
I gazed upon the parade of the School
Children of the County. All of these
industries are important, but they
fade into insignificance when we com-
pare them with the great task of pro-
ducing men and women of the high-
en type out of these boys and girls.
Our crops are important but none
compare with the crop of future
eitizens low in cultivation. That
is to produce a generation to come
after v.s rhit is better than we. The
1 ; of the world is in its c-hildh >o'\.
When God created "he world in
its original form ■■-■l.A placed man in
the Garden of Eden, His plan was
to save the world through adult :ite.
This p'aa —as s-^h a failure that we
are told in the Bible that Cod re-
pented and was sorry Lti.it lie luude
man. His next attempt to save Iho
woild was through a child. And
since the time when the Savior of
man lay a bah'- in Bethlehem tho
hope of the world has been in its
childhood.
No community or State can insure
its own future except by seeing to
it that every youth within it:-! borders
is granted ample opportunity to de-
velop himself to his fullest capacity.
No community can hapc tor its
youth to attain their full stature
which fails to provide at least that
every youth within its borders have
the opportunity of a standard high
school education. If your communi-
ty has done this you are to he con-
gratulated. If it has .not '\-,r:(; it,
.r.!i;h-
I..
eaaer,
is SICCA!
you as an educational
not be satisfied until it
ed.
The history of a child that goes
out into the world without ;'■:-■ ad-
vantages of a high school ed .':■';' :oa
is already written. Competition is.
too _"reat. Only a genina car. »fntt
the tide without ar. education and
keep his head above the waves. We
must consolidate our ••■':.'.■ 'a and
make thern better. The ho; - of r.he
world is in it- childhood. A :-.--.a
-:. p M have hut 'if.C, T(tSs\ \t'.'j> ':..'i itlOQ
and that should -.--- to raake :. "> :or
a better and reore ...•-:.._■-;.• raaa
:':. in :.- is. Sow • .-. :- ' . Errink
about it.
;s, subsidies fcr nur.c-3. subsidies railroads, ?.:: th-.;i it
fdies to the taxpayers.— Philadelphia EeeoT&,
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TO-MORROWS WEATHER, WHAT WILL
IT BE?
By Sarah Graham Morrison
Ave you "weather-wise?" Some old people who live in the country can |
tell the weather for tie following Jay much more accurately than the observers!
of the government scientists. The insects and the birds and animals and the
vegetation tell all ab ut he weather. They know mure ban we do. And it h
from these that the < juutry folk get their informaiun.
Crows are good (feather prophets, tinue flying about very late in the
When you see thai early in the evening.. The floating of a gossamer
morning soaring to treat heights and and especially its presence on the
uttering a hoarse, making sound, you rigging of ships are indications of fair
may reasonably certain of a fine, weather, in v hi eh from time iinmemo-
clear clay. Swallows flying unusually rial sailors have placed much eou-
high in the early morning are anoth- fidence. The appearence of gulls,
er sign of fair weather, petrels and other sea birds ;it some
The loud quacking of ducks, geese distance inland presages stormy ■
and other water fowl is -a sign of rain, weather.
-Just before a storm you will always Flies are more troublesome and
find swine, roosters atd liens rubbing sting several hours before it begins to
in the dust and in utL-r ways showing rain. When the clew lies plentifully
their uneasiness. Ciltle and sheep on the grass in the evening you may
announce a storm 'ong before its look for a pleasant morrow, lint ii
arrival by huddling in one corner ■ there is little or no dew, a wet day
of the field with their heads turned is ahead.
away from the wind. The common English sparrow will
Just before a severs storm dogs are stop its chattering noise -even cr
apt to be very sk -jpy and dull and to eight hour's before the arrival ut a
lie all day before tie fire. If they storm, and become ominously silent.
bark long and loud airing the night All birds give some indication of an-
without any visille cease, it is a sign proaching storm and change of weath-
of a sudden change in temperature, er, but some species are easier to read
When moles throw up more earth, than others,
when numbers of spiders appear on To one who understands the habits
the wall, when pigeot.3 return slowly of birds, their actions foretell chafes
to their dovecotes, vhen the frogs in the weather with as much accuracy
croak with unusual "igor, and when as any government observer. Indeed,
the bees are relit, tar: to leave their there is nothing more remarkable i-
hives— all these are declared by close nature than the ability to forecast
observers to be the forerunners of the weather which most birds St-
rain, stinctively display, and which a little
When the next day is going to be study enables any one to pro Pi by.
fine it has been noticed that bats con- If birds known to llv high, and for
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I
I long distances, such as martins and more than u few minutes at a Lime,
. ,ii:Vi ront kinds of swallows, are ob- a storm is indicated, ciLhei lain or
I sorved dying' close to the earth, or snow, according t<j the seavjii.
J keeping near their homes, it is an When peacocks ami guin-u fowln
| almost certain indication of a storm, arc noisy we may expeel u Huddcri
I with heavy rainfall. squall or heavy rain. The cha tiering
The reason for this action is sim- foreshadows rain and wind ■ -. i\ir<:\y
I ply that these birds depend for food as any first-class barometer.
jj upon insects flying in the air, and blackbirds /r-jin^ quite early in
[insects do not fly high proceeding a the morning and continuing lh"ir Ming
j storut, becuse the atmosphere is too well into the afternoon, forteJI rain.
- heavy. During fair weather the at- When they utter very sww and !t-
mosphere is lighter, and insects can quid notes, fair weather h inditat-
r!v higher, and consequently birds ed.
have to My longer and higher distan- y,-.., ,.,,,; t,.:j ,;.,.•!,,.,• a •••..•.•.-,- ,VJj{
ees to secure food. }>e „vt.r(, ,jr ;,.;:,j }JS ■>,,,.;,,.. of th«j
A:i unusual silence is frequently gr.j^th ox bark ontrr* 5niuk« or
aotiee'l among birds a short time saplings, the growth be;?.2 much
prior to a severe or sudden wind or thicker --some vears than olh rs, a;.-!
thunderstorm. an ;.flusuaIIy "m\,\ winter \i;;*rW<>Vj
Robins sometimes sit upon a high foil inj when the bark ! growa
tTvij and sing loud and Ions: just be- thick. The .wo--. <A lichens that grow
:o:e what is called a "growing" on the :.;rtli side of ./.<•;_. •■■ er-gr«?e#
slower, but seldom do so if the storm trees wiSi be heavier 'luring the •**&-
i; it' :::^ to be a severe one. son i»rec;<ding a cold n'S/iter
Migratory birds and fowls that go I" said crickets vvjjj ••hi- sdvwjy
Eorth iii summer are sire to 2y sonth if '.: U j: t'.'.-'i Vj ■■ ■■■..'■■. :-r t. :.i.-^ '':.'-,
previous to cold or stormy weather, nezt daj or oo, and aga -j <- rp wjtb
and return north prior to warm or greater rapidity :! a >••; ■<-.•. -;-'-.] 3
pleasant "vejthrr. When these bird? ■•'•:/:.; t i.
are noticed rlyiEg in circles i - I dart- <".-}. (-f teissiz't ■■/> ^v--- -,:,-. v>
tig restlessly about, tier is •- tally a... &s bs.-ometm : •:.> ■...• ; . r :-vgi,
a severe atmospheric disturbance j.'.: 4;- jv^h ,: eaih ■■', gr^en, have i great
far .lis: ist. such as ■ y -]-jr^ or torna- r ..• . ; •..'... -, . ■ . • • ; ■-- . - - •- •-;
Jo. ■..-.;■'■-.::■■ y • •••• . li.\r
When chimney swa'l ws, wr./.- ■ • _ - ..,• sji3y be -ex: — - ! ••'-■.;%
Eid :.-r s:-e-:es •.■: sw< Loirs iv m \. ■ t . ,„>-'.. •-.;-• .■.■■■■■■_. \..-- ye-How
w!ft ssd tr; kr.:cly. there ; vttre ..._-,-, |;..v i lb • -- . b%.d
io >it riii in the n-trr few hoirs. •„ . ••_..■: ;. . -.- • .-...• ' ■-.? '>:■-.
". ■ :i'--s set e*ja . ^ - '- ■■ 6 -.,..;-;-.•■.--■ - • ' i.i*,
-."- i.-is^ -r_ii -r-:. :; b* -^v -•-. .v.v, -- •. - . ■=•'■.' .■ '^y^:-. rirough'
;-'- '. "~:.-e* -:.' :'. : -■■■ :'';■ - _■ ■'.'■ ■•■±; -_:> .■■■■■■■ ■ :. ■_•_-. \ „>-, -c ■,'Ju-
r is a -;;- '■•. . ' ■ -. : i rain. ., • • . oaAy ■■ '■ ■ - ■ ■•■^.i
'■•' :. the rr-:.: <.-..:-— ~. ■. v - are ■.." .• '-;- v '■ ■ -■-■■' -' - >ush*«
-- ' . •:::■_■-■ _l the — •■ ■ .' ■ r •'..■-•..•••:■:> ■- ,- ■■ HhiM
24 THE UPLIFT
hole in the web whore the spiiler to herds.
goes to hide. If your lawn is well A jingle that expresses substau ■:■'.
dotted with these webs in the moru- ly the same idea put it thus: •■>:,.
ing, regardless of how cloudy it may red at night is the sailor's delight.''
be, you are safe in assuming that it If the evening sky, near the wesuit
will be fair that day, at least for horizon, is yellow or greenish, tlii
more than half the day As far as prospect is for clear weather, foi
known, these spiders will not spin their these colors indicate a dry air. A>.;
webs if it is going to rain that day, so Shakespeare, it seems, was v.v„|i.
because they know it is going to rain erwise as well as a great dramatis:,
and that rain will spoil their webs. for he wrote:
Among the best weather proverbs The weary sun hath made a golden set j|
are those which have to do with the And by the bright track of his fietj
color of the sky and the appearance car,
of the sun, moo:, and stars, for chang- Gives token of a goodly day toaor-
es in their aspect are caused by chaug- row.
es in the atmosphere, which usually If, however, the evening sky ;;
appeac before d.-rmite changes ill the overcast with a uniform gray, tlie:
weather. Take the following example: we know that numerous water .'..:-
"A red sun has water in his eye." lets are present in the atmosphere,
Redness of the sun is caused most and that dust particles have hi \:
commonly by a great quantity of loaded with moisture. Such a nc-
dust or smoke particles in the damp dirion of atmospheric saturation r...-.-
atniosphere. When the atmosphere essarily favors rain and justifies tL:
is heavily charged with dust particles proverb:
that have boeoi/.e moisture-laden, we if the sunset is gray
see the sun as a fiery ball. And, in- <ry;e next vin be a rainy day.
asmueh as the formation of raindrops Many proverbs for telling rain ar:
depends upon dust or other parti- snow ;m. based upon the appears:..-,
cles, about which the water' vapor 0, colored rings around the sua ..:..
gathers, it follows that a dusty at- „.„:)IU Inasmuch as these are ob«rr-
mosphere is favorable to rain. Mole- e<] on\y when tiiere ;s mucu H]0isr.;r-
cules of water vapor in the atraos- ;n tue' a{Ti sayings of this class :-:
phere have the same sort of optical we]j founded.
effect. "Clear moon, frost soon," is tree.
There are m;.:.y proverbs, some of for on clear nights the heat oi in
them good and useful, concerning the earth is radiated into the sky, t-~-:
color of the sky at sunrise and sun- cooling the land surface. On the on-
set. From Shakespeare we have: er hand, clouds act as a blanket, n-
A red morn thst ever yet betokened terfering with radiation and kc< -"
Wreck to the seamen, tempest to the the earth's surface warm.
field, Increase of humidity ( favors".
Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto to rain) is noted by the gathericg •:
the birds, moisture in cold objects, the <■ ■■---'-
Gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and tion of perspiration on our
- -'• j
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|j]ie damp appearance on slone walls, learn to use his eyes, Do riot do-
I the tightening of cordage and of pend np.ni the sky find fdoudH nlto-
| strings of musical instruments, the gether, for despite nil the homely old
Ssettliiig of smoke, etc., all of which verses and prophecies regarding
■ phenomena are commonly recognizeil clouds and sunsets remember that in-
| as being foretellers of a coming storm, sects and birds and even vegetation
And so many who wants to become are R better weather prophet)! t Jjaa
! Mather-wise, to be able to foretell anything else. Make a study of th«*8<-»
f ihether today or tomorrow will lie things about you.
fair or stormy, wet or dry, should
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAX
By William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their esits and their entrances;
And one man in his tiro/- plays many part--,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining schoolboy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping iike snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
?r.-Z2^z like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress/ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded .':';:e the yard,
Jealous in honor. sudden, and quick in <ju.ir.-eJ,
Seeking the bubble reputation,
Eves ic the cannon's mo i:h. And the.-; the jti*ti%,
Iu lair round belly with good capon Kjied,
With eyes -evere and hesrd of formal est,
Full of wise sa-<r; and modern Is.-'i^^^t:
And so he plays his p&rt. The sixth aire hhifis
Isjo the I-san ar_i slippered pa^ta'o..-,
v\ rrb ST*ciacle5 ca n/jse a'd p-.---h ..-. i.ie,
His youtitui hose. well saved, a world too *'ide
F.- his shruri =h.iik; aid hie vlg .-.--aa!y •..>.>.
T tuning agfcin toward childish *.---.>. _-. pe*
Ajai wiistiss in Lis ~. ;a-L L*--. -.■>-.* vt ail
That -uois tils strange^ e esti . s •*-■';
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OLD-TIME SALOON.
(Salisbury Evening Post)
Do you ever pause in the great prohibition desert and conjure up a
picture of the saloons that flourished in this country only a few yeara ago?1.
Now and then men, passing- a pro- tite."
minent corner, point to a savings
bank or spanking new cigar store,
and say: "There used to be a swell
barroom here. Gosh! I can remem-
ber when Old Cro v was passed out
at 85 cents a quart and the barkeep
apologized for whiskey under seven
years old."
All that's left of these ancient
whisky dens is the path in the side-
walk' worn by the tramp of drunk-
ards, feet as they made their rounds,
lapping up so much they were asham-
ed to drink it all in one place.
Prominent among the customers
was the business man who ran in
at the stroke of every hour for a
highball or a small glass of water
with a large whisky straight for a
chaser.
By 8 o'clock at night, the regu-
lars were well tanked and below the
■din was the friend's apology: "Dont
mind him, he's a swell fellow when
he isn't drunk."
The owl cars carried them home
— to mothers and wives who sobbed
quietly in the stillness of night.
There was considerable privation
in the average hard drinkers home,
short on funds because of the bar-
room till's greedy appetite.
A drunken man was disgusting
to the good citizen and home-build-
er. A fathers greatest fear was
that his son would "get the appe-
There was another type of saloon ■
---the low-down type that hard drink-
era usually wound up in. It was
a den, the rendezvous of criminals,
where customers were thrown into
the alley after they had been stripped
of their last cent.
The amber fluid in the quart bottle
ruined brilliant men by the tens of
thousands, wrecked an intiinite
number of homes and, for those
deeply involved, destroyed nearly
everything for which life is worth
living.
That ancient institution, the open-
ly conducted saloon, is gone. Now
and then some one'with more mon-
ey than brains gets hold of a quart
$12 or rrwre.
But farthers aren't worrying
about their sons developing a chron-
ic thirst. Homes are happier, with
less jangling. More money in the
bank. A women can ride on an
owl car now without danger of be-
ing insulted.
There is a lot of talk, around the
country, about infringing on per-
sonal liSerly. much futile argument
about bringing back light wines and
beers.
But, at heart, the country is dry.
The proof is, that there's almost no
talk of bringing back the o'dtime
saloon.
A person ought to he thankful he has an income that is big enough to
to be taxed.— Detroit Free Press.
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2T
"THE LOST ARTS"
By Wendell Philips
I have been somewhat criticized, year after year, for this endeavor to open
the claims of old tares. I have been charged with repeating useless fables
■xith no foundation. To-day I take the mere subject of glass. This material.
Pliny says, was discovered by accident. Some sailors, landing on the eastern
coast or Spain, took their cooking
'jtensils and supported them on the
sand by the stones that they found
in the neighborhood; they kindled
their tire, cooked the fish, finished the
meal, and removed the apparatus;
ami glass was found to have resulted
from their niter and sei sand, vitrified
by the heat. Well, I have been a
dozen times critfzed by a number of
wise men, in newspapers, who have
said that this was a very idle tale;
that there never was sufficient heat
in a few bundles of sticks to produce
vartiffieation — glass marking1. I
happened, two years ego, to meet on
pariries of Missouri, Porfessor Shep-
liard, who started from Yale College,
ami, like a genuine Yankee, brings up
anywhere where there is anything to.
I happened to mention this criticism
to him. "Well," says he, "a little
practical life would Lave freed men
from that doubt." Said he, "We
stopped last year in Mexico, to cook
some vension. We got down from our
addles, and put the cooking appara-
tus on stones we foiled there; made
our tire with the wood we got there,
resembling ebony; and when we re-
moved the apparatus there was pure
silver gotten out of the embers by the
intense heat of that almost iron wood.
"Now," said he, '"that heat was
greater than any necessary to vitrify
tlie material glass.''
Well, now the very choice of
phrases betravs a confession of in-
feriority, and you see it
again creeps
out in the amount we borrow. Take-
the whole range of imaginative litera-
ture, and we are all wholesale bor-
rowers. In every matter that relates.
to invention, to use, or beauty, or
fonn, we are borrowers.
You may glance around the furni-
ture of the palaces in Europe, and
you may gather all these utensils of"
art or use; and when you have fixed
the shape and forms in your mind,
I trill take you into the museum of'
Xa:des, which gathers all the remains
of the domestic life of the Romans,
and you shall not fir.d a single one
of "hese modern forms of art or beau-
ty or use that was not anticipated
there. We have hardly added one
single line or sweep of beauty to the
antique.
All the boy's plays, like every-
thing that amuses the child in the
open air, are Asiatic. Rawlinson will
show you that they came somewhere
from the banks of the Ganges or the
sui.urbs of Damascus. Bulwer bor-
rowed the incidents of his Romaa
stories from legends of a thousand
years before. Indeed, Dunlop, who-
has grouped the history of the novels
of all Europe in one essay, says that
in :he nations or modern Europe there
have been two hundred and fifty, or
three hundred, distinct stories. He
says at least two hundred of these
may be traced, before Chritianity, to-
the other side of the Black Sea. If
23 THE UPLIFT
this were my topic, which is not, I glass of drink from the landlord, vim J
might tell you that even our news- pushed forward a wine glass about
paper jokes are enjoying a very re- half the usual .size; the teacups also
spectable old aye. Take Maria Edge- in that day were not more than half
"worth's essay on Irish bulls, and the the present size. The landlord said,
laughable mistakes of the Irish. Even ''That glass out of which you are
the tale vrich either Maria Edgeworth drinking is forty years old.'' "Well,"
of her father thought the best, is said the thirsty traveler, confemplat-
that famous story of a man, writing ing its diminutive proportions, "I
a letter as follows: "My dear friend, think it is the smallest thing of its
I would write you in detail more age I ever saw." That story as
minutely, if there was not an iinpu- told is given as a story of Anthem,
dent fellow looking over my shoulder, three hundred and seventy-five years
reading every word." "No, you lie: before Christ was burn. Why! All
I've not read a word you have writ- these Irish bulls are Greek, everyone
ten." This is an Irish bull; still it of them. Take the Irishman who
Is a very old one. It is only two carried around a brick as a specimen
hundred and fifty years older than of the house he had to sell; take the
the New Testament. Horace Wal- Irishman that bought who shut his
pole dissented form Richard Lovell eyes and looked into the glass to see .
Edgeworth, and thought the other how he woidd look when he was dead:
Irish bull was the best, — of the man take the Irishman that bought a
~who said, "I should have been a very crow, alleging that crows were report-
handsome man, but they change me ed to live two hundred years, and he
in the cradle." That comes from meant to set out and try it; take the
Don Quixote, and is Spanish; but Irishman who me a friend who said
Cervantes borrowed it from the Greek o him, "Why, sir, I heard you were
in the fourth century, and the Greek dead." "Oh, no," says he, "I would
Stole it from the Egpytian hundreds believe the man who told me a good
of years back. deal quicker than I would you."
There is one story which it is said Well, those are all Greek. A score i
Washington has related, of a man who or more of them, of a parallel charac-
■vvent into an inn and asked for a ter, come from Anthens.
"When things are allowed to remain in the latent state, they are merely
possibilities. We happen to remember that there is in North Carolina a lot
of latent resoueen, latent initiative, latent possibilities, latents people and
latent capital. When latent people and latent capital decide to get out
of that class and get together there will be something doing." — Wilming-
ton Star.
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istitutional
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By S. B. Davis
Miss Freeze, a former matron at
■ school, was a visitor here Sun-
h
rhe shop boys have made an ice
der to cool the water at the Lat-
n Pavilion. The boys work under
. Cloer.
Mr. R. B. Cloer ha? been sick for
2W days. The boys take this means
expressing to him Their hopes for
speedy recovery.
Mis? Mary Young, daughter of
s. Young, matron of the King's
ughter's Cottage, was a visitor at
• School Saturday.
While on one of his daily rounds
nday, this reporter learned that
mbert Cavenaugh. one of our
:s, was substituting for Miss
?en!ee in the school room.
lohnny Wright, Malcolm Holman,
try Wilkerson and George Howard
ipdly escorted their parents ar-
id the school Wednesday exhibit-
ir.gny sights to the parents'.
?he majority of the boys in all of
r joins except that of Miss Green ■
know the Ten Commandments.
Uizing the fact, Miss Eva Green-
h. s taught them to her boys.
ili:s Shotwell, one of the State
|)e ters, gave the school the "once
r" one day last week. Her in-
Mi :i was to study the school, to
it- needs and to report on her
?s?:gation.
lecause of the continual running
h pumps by young Vass Fields,
water is now plentiful. At one time
the big steel tank with a capacity
of 50,000 gal. overflowed and the
pumps had to be cut off.
Friday, a good many of the small
boys at the school rejoiced hecause
they saw a truck bringing to the
school more matetial for bottoming
chairs. As they are paid for this
work it is not to be wondered that
they rejoice.
Part of the work of the houseboys
is to make a trip to the store room
for a portion of goods to supply the
boys in the cottgaes for the day.
When a boy happens to see one of
these boys carrying a load of good-
ies his mouth sure does water. Mr.
Willie White has charge of the store
rooms.
Miss Lalla Teague and Miss Dora
Earnhardt sent Easter t-ggs to each
of the boys in tru-ir Sunday School
classes. This gift was enjoyed by
the boys not solely because of the
edible matter contained in them,
but because they knew that their
teachers were thinking of them on
this E-ister day.
A vacant spot on the left hand
side of the King's Daughters cottage
was showing up poorly in contrast
.with the other improvements at the
school. A rourd flower bed is being
placed in it. James Suther, Earnest
Jordan, George McMahan are now
working on this vacant plot of land.
1 he dairy is Gearing completion.
Two big silos on either side of
the entrance can be seen. This, of
course, is where the food for the
cattle is stored. One can baldly
realize when looking over the school,
that this is three miles out in the
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country. Frequently tourists on the
highway stop and asK some of the
boys: "'is this Concord?"
Then they leavr the school and suc-
ceed in life many of the boys will
look back upon the days spent at the
Jackson Training School with con-
siderable feeling; and affection.
James ShipD and some bo/s with
thoughts directed in the above chan-
nel and knowing- this fact, have ac-
quired note books and are writing
diaries of their life here. It is hoped
that when other boys read this, they
will do the same.
The many friends of Prof. W. M.
Crooks and the oncers and the toy?
at the Jackson Training Scbr ol will
be interested and pleased to know
that this officer's son, Master Ver-
non Crooks, won the honor and title
of best speaker in a preliminary
contest held at the Brown Mill school
house. At t'ois same contest Miss
Frances Talbert, daughter of Mr.
T. V. Talbert, ~on in the spelling
match. Master Crooks and Miss
Te'bert will represent the White
Hall school in a fcture speaking and
spelling contest.
''Hurrah! We are going to lick
the Cabarrus Mills ball team this
evening." Such ~vas the confident
assurance of jne of the boys Satur-
day morning. Soon this statement
spread all over the school. Excite-
ment prevailed. As soon as the
boys were gathered together from
their various oreupations, they
trooped to the ba:tle field to view
the conflict. "Bitter up," by the
"ump'', Mr. Wilson, and all youthful
eyes were fastened on the battery,
Russell and Hobby, for we were in
the field first, of course. Russell be-
gan his days work in fine form, but
because of lack of complete support
in the field our opponents possesed!
three runs to their credit to our none |
by the third inning But our boys
would not say C[uit so they battled
on. In the next innings, the fourth,
they manged to bring in a lonesome
runner. In the fifth inning Cabarrus
scored one more run. The J. T. S.
players had by this time learned the
deceptive curves and twists of Dick;
balls arid were making use of this
gladly accepted knowledge to the
tune of four more runs When the
fourth came in a deafening cry arose
from the J. T. S. rooters. In the
sixth the visiters werj obliged to
mark up a naught for their record
whereas we kayoed their by knocking
him to all parts of the field and add-
ing five to our already defeating
score, making the grand total of ten
runs. Their new pitcher managed
by the skin of his teeth plus a fast
working field support to It, Id us
scorless on that inning., The eighth
inning saw them add one more run.
Their third pitcher— we also knocked
out the second-managed to hold us
down to three home touches. In
the ninth they were held back by
our new pitcher Holman-- be it said
here, that Russell, was neither knock-
ed out nor tired, but we just wanted
to give Holman a chance. Because
of this last blank inning we triump-
hantly and rightfully claimed the
victory. A special feature of the
game was a home run by Russell
manager Grier shifted the line— up
and put out 16- of the opposing nine
by playing first base himself.
Score bv innings:
R. H. E.
Cabarrus Mill 111 010 010 5 13 10
J. X. S. 000 145 030 1310 6
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Give me the money that h:s been spent in
war, and I will purchase every foot of land on
the globe. I will clothe every man. woman
and child in an attire of rhich kings and
queens would he proud; I vril build a school
house on every hillside and in every valley
over the whole earth; I will iuild an academy
in every town and endow it, ■, college in every
State, and fill it with able jrofessors; I will
crown every hill with a plact of worship con-
secrated to the promulgation of the gospel of
peace; I -.vill support in eve.y pulpit an able
teacher of righteousness, so tlat on every Sab-
bath morning the chime on oze hill should an-
swer the chime on another nund the world's
wide ciicimference and the voice of prayer
and the song of praise should ascend like a un-
iversal offering to heaven.-Henry Richard.
PREYING
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A WEEKLY JOURN.-.L
PUBLISHED BY
' The Authority of :he Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Tv/o Dollars the year in Aivance.
1 JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, T'.rector Printing Department
i
Entered as second-class matter Dee. 4, 1020, at :he Post O.Ece at Concord,
X. C. under Act of March P. 1S79.
GOOD-BY, DAD.
I left my dad, his fain:, his plough,
Because my calf became hi; cow;
I left my da I --'twas wrong, of course-
Because my colt became his horse.
I left my dad to sow znd reip
Because my lamb became his sheep;
I dropped my hoe and stuck my fork
Because my pig became his pork.
The garden truck I made ti grow
Was his to sell and mjne to hoe.
A PROPHE :Y.
If there is any credence to be placed in the usual signs or the "hand-
| writing on the wail,'' when Govornor Morrison retires in 1925 it will fall
to his ;ot to present to the audience for the inaagural address the Honor-
able A. W. Mclean, of the state of Uobescn; ard by the same token, Gov.
McLean will present to a similar audience for a similar purpose the Hon. 0.
Max Gtrdner. This event is set for 19i9. Thc?e who enjoy big crowds and
a gaily time may just as well prepare for these two occasions and make
their hotel reservitions.
:;: *******
THE INTERESTING YOUNG THINGS.
On Mo. 46. Wednesday a week ago, happy, giggling girls bearded the
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train at every station in North Carolina, South of Greensboro. They nere
returning to the Normal from an Easter trip home. They greeted each
other, hugging and kissing in a manner that indicated a long separation.
It was an interesting sight for Col. Turn Yanderford and the writer. That';
the reason why some people stay so young, even though years have whiten-
ed their locks—keep young by enjoying the gurgling, gigling happiness of
young girls at the very least provocation. Cut one is tempted to ask a
serious question in this manner: are ali the girls that attend college these
days small and of low statures? There wasn't a single girl in all that big
crowd, several cars full, that weighed over one hundred pounds or was not
so tail that she could not walk under Col. Tom Vanderford's out-stretched
arm without disturbing he; head gear.
Have women decided to put up these precious objects into even smaller
packages than ever? Or ir it that the larger girls are going oft' to co-edu-
cationa! institutions? Or have they decided to stay at home, accepting
what the home schools may do for them? There is a reason.
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
The Albemarle News-Herald editorially announces what it regards "A
Magnanimous act" which, n reality, is a something new under the sun-
When prices were tangoing in the sky the congregation of West Albemarle
Baptist Church increased the salary of its pastor, Rev. Mr. Richardson.
At a recent service the pastor called his congregation to the consideration
of a personal matter, saying that the church owed him about -?300, of which
amount he proposed to donate $200 himself. He then offered his reso-
lution, which provided for a cut of $30o annually on the pastor's salary.
And here is where another new thing under the sun occurred: v. hen it
came to a vote on the preacher's resolution, there were about a half dozen
supporting the resolution and the balance of the congregation stage-struck
neither voted "yea" nor "nay."
WHAT A CHANGE!
The scene that gieeted one's eye as he entered Yarborough House lobby,
twenty-six years ago, on the occasion of a State political convention, is
burnt into memory. Scores were very happy under the influence from
the joy water from the various saloons,' other scores had just r turned
from Ed Denton's place of business where many a scheme was threshed
out; and probably other scores woubl have been perfectly willing to have
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the business been possible of negotia-
tion a bit ''for stomach's sake"
tion without observation.
The other day, on a similar occasion, that very same Yarborough lobby,
slightly changed in arrangement, was crowded and jambed. Not one man
but that was normal; not one had taken on a spirit of inspiration; not one
seemed to be looking out for a chance; and not an oath vas heard.
And, I thought how foolish it is to set up the claim that prohibition does
not prohibit. It does; and when the public mind becomes thoroughly edu-
cated tc the necessity of putting down the lawlessness that yet is in exist-
ence, and learns to know that in reality that one who purchases from these
lawless folks is just as guilty in morals as the salesman, a new era will set
ir, throughout the good old state. That era is coming, too.
;
If a Charlotte reporter were to call around at the Selwyn hotel, and
interview Col. F. B. McDowell, who, with Dr. Battle, of Asheviile, has just
returned from a two-weeks' f.shing trip in the waters of: the Western coast
of Florida, he would get a fish story that is a fish story; ana incidently he
would gather some valuable and highly entertainning news about other
things. We besought the genial and delightful gentleman to furnish us
an authentic account of his trip, with all the side-lights, but his intense
modesty defeated our desire. His story, if publicly revealed, would sur-
pass Ferabee's "Little Brown Jug," which could not hold a light to the
Spanish fishing vessels that frequent the waters off the coast in search
offish &c.
If Col. Harris, of the Charlotte Observer, doesn't stop marring his splen-
did editorial page by occasionally referring to the War Between the States
as "the Civil War" he'll deserve a reprimand from the Daughters of the;
Confederacy. In fai't, some:imes ago when a crusade was made against the
miserable Muzzy's History for its naughtiness and uglir.ess, a defender of
that history tried to justify his judgment and taste in its use by citing the
fact that Ccl. Harris, a real, genuine, un-reconstructrd Confederate by
birth and sentiment, accepted the term "Civil War" for the great strug-
gle in the 60s.
* * * * * * * *
Gerald Johnson, of the editorial sta.'i' of the Greensb.ro News, was mar-
ried Saturday afternoon to .Miss Hayward, of Staten Island, N. Y. and a
nkce of the late Judge Charles H. Duls. of Charlotte. This brilliant your.g
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.fellnw, who occasionally took paragraph privileges with the dear girls, will
doubtless become a little more careful in his survey of subjects and objects
for editorial notices. The happy event took place at the country home of
Joseph J. Stone, out from Greensboro, who is also an uncle of the talented
and attractive young woman whom editor Johnson has successfully won.
Mr. Hugh McRae, who perhaps has dune more for the development and
growth of Wilmington during the past generation than any other citizen of
the City by the Sea, has disposed of his large holdings in the T-'de water
Railroad, the street railway and other public utilities to a New York cor-
poration. It is said that the transaction involved a sum beyond live millions
of dollars.
The people of Piedmont North Carolina will have the opportunity of
hearing one of the most distinguished educators and remarkable men of
the whole South on the 29th of May, when ex-Senator W. R. Webb, of the
famous school at Bell Buckle, Tenn., comes to Concord to deliver the an-
nual address at the Graded School commencement.
Laiy Astor, a member of the English Parliament, but a native-born
Virginian, has got about everybody in this country excited. She is the
mother of six children, has great common sense, good-looking, and talks
out in meeting. She is having her fun, too, in answering all kinds of
fool questions put to her by interviewers.
********
And editor Earle Godbey is afraid. All around him there are shining ex-
amples of how to go about it, how to win and how to bring it to a success-
full issue, and yet he lacks the nerve to try it. A bird that can sing and
refuses should be forced to do so, even to the extent of passing a law.
# >£ :'/i >ls % i'n :Je sje
Brisbane, the most conspicuous editorial writer in the United States,
while he startles and shocks, sometimes produces a state of anxiety. Look
how easily he meets the cost of the soldier bonus proposition in the article
"WHY NOT PRINT BILLS AS WELL AS BONDS" appearing in this num-
ber.
* * * * * * * *
It ;vJst looks like lady Nancy Ast'.r is having the time of her life. It's
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I impossible for any other on the programme in any meeting to receive a
•?j passing notice until the English sister is persuaded to retire.
As we go to press it is definitely known that the peach crop of Georgia
has not yet been destroyed.
I THE HART AND THE HUNTER I
•:• ••♦
% The Hart was once drinking from a pool md admiring the noble %
% igure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such noble *
% horns as these, with such antlers! I wish I Lad legs more worthy to !»*
.;. jear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim and slight." £
•;♦ \t that moment a Planter approached and Srnt an arrow whistling .3,
♦ after him. Awav bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid of his .j.
♦ nimble legs, was nearly out of sight of the Banter; but not noticing
*
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,vhere he was going, he passed under some trees with branches growing ♦
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low down in which the antlers were caught, so that the Hunter had *
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time to come up. "Alas! alas!" cried the Hart: *
"AVE OFTEN DESPISE WHAT IS MOST USEFUL TO US." f
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DO NOT SPEND SUNDAY; INVEST IT!
Some one in a past) generation was guilty of an awful blunder. Ke made
popular the phrase "I shall spend Sunday." Perhaps he belonged in a de-
cade like our last one, when people poured out their resources — material,
moral and spiritual in a kind of mad hysteria, where every principle of wisdom
and reasoning was set aside, and the whole science of human economics was
exchanged for the studied foolishness of heedless extravagance.
God, who created the universe and made man in His image, set boundaries
and made distinctions. He established seasons, that nature might have
opportunity to restore resourcefulness. He induced the period of sleep, so tint
faculties of mind and body that are agencies of thought and choice may he
kept fit to think and choose. He instilled an instinct toward saving, that there
may he reserves on which to draw in times of opportunity and need Time
seems to he mere succession, but for even, this He made a law, that set apart
one day of every seven to be of service to mankind.
Tc spend what God thus assigns for purposes of reserve, recuperation and
continuance, is to bankrupt and to destroy. Rich harvests depend on rested
fields, clear minds follow regular and, adequate sleep. Men invest the fruits
of labor and husbandry that they mayhave something in store to guard against
disaster and to plant for a future gain. He who spends completely is but a
prodigal whose end is among the swine.
They who spend their Sundays imperil their souls and their heritage from •
on high. Every seventh day is to be kept, invested, used for certain capital
purposes. Communion with God, fellowship with man and rest from toil con-
nect with Sunday because only thus can men develop and continue to deve-
lop the kind of strength and character that last.
Study it fcr yourself. What sort of folk, what sort of homes, what sort of
communities, and what sort of society follow spending the Lord's Day?
Whence come blue Mondays, maimed victims of reckless pleasure-seekers,
crowded dockets in police courts, and lowered standards of right and con-
science? Business men fear the spendthrift; they know how often dishonesty
and unfaithfulness follow the lack of heed to laws of reserve. How bank-
rupt in wisdom we are, when we use up the measure of time assigned to be
kept against dissipation. Oddly inconsistent are bankers, merchants, social
leaders, and prominent persons, who remember not the Sabbath Day as set
apart from the rest of the week.
Invest Sunday. It is a kind of capital more precious than pleasure and
wealth. — Selected.
"He who takes something out of society and puts nothing back, is
thief."
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Grave 01 Rirhard Caswell is Mow Market!
Years ago when self-secrificing teachers from all over North Carolina
were accustomed to go tc Morehead City for the annual gathering-, where
joy and inspiration reigned supreme and where nature ability and personal
fitness counted for its face- value, without depending upon edicts, units and
certifications, and where real giants and educational heroes, and not pigmies,
led safely and unerringly, it was declared, in passing Kinston, "that Rich-
ard Caswell the first Constitutional Governor, rested in an unmarked grave.
It is not true to-day. Not only is 1880 and secured private funds with
his grave marked, but a monument
to his memory stands in a public
street of the hustling little city of
Kinston, and later the st£:e memori-
alized the name by baptizing an im-
portant state institution in Caswell's
name. But let Prof. Elisha B.
Lewis, thp hatless and charming fel-
low that every body in North Caro-
lina knows, or ought to know, the
private secretary of Congressman
Claude Kitchin, and the orator of
the Woodmen of the World, tell an
interesting storv about an accom-
plished fact:
The current copy of 'The Up-
lit," April 15th, on Pege 10 has
the following very misleading state-
ment:
"As before noted in Tee L'plikt
it is to be regretted that :he grave
of Richard Caswell, who became the
Constitutional Governor of North
Carolina is unmarked."
The great patriot soldier and state-
man referred to made his home in
Lenoir County, in Kinstcn, practi-
cally from the time he first came to
the colony from Maryland as a boy
of seventeen years. He resided on
the street now named for him, one
block from where it crosses Queen
street, and directly in front of my
own home.
The citizens of Kinston organized
the Caswell Memorial Association in
which the Associations erected a
monument to him at the intersection
of Queen and Caswell streets, In
1881. The cornerstone was laid by
the Grand Lodge of Masons of North
Carolina on August 3rd, 1SS1. In
the intense heat of the great fire of
1805 the granite shaft of this mon-
ument cracked and splintered. Some
years later Dr. John A. Pollock of
Kinston, then State Senator from
this District, secured a state appro-
priation of $500.00 for the purpose
and this shaft was replaced.
His grave is located two miles west
of the town in the family burying
ground on the farm once owned by
him, and 166 yards south of the State
Highway from Goldsboro to Kinston.
Some years ago St John's Masonic
Lodge of Kinston put the burying
ground in order, leaving a clump of
large oaks to mark the spot from a
distance, and placed on the grave an
immense granite block with the
word "Caswell" cut deep on its top.
Due north of the grave and ac the
curb of the highway the State His-
torical Society, the Caswell-Nash
Chapter D. A. R., and private citi-
zens a few years ago placed a 1-ronze
tablet, set in granite, bearing this
inscription:
"RICHARD CASWELL"
"South of this tablet, 166 yards,
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11
is the grave of Richard Caswell,
rhe first Governor of North
Carolina as an independent
State.
"I will most cheerfully join any
of my country - men, even
as arank and file man, and whilst
I have blood in my veins freely
offer it in support of the liber-
ties of 'my country". — Caswell
to his son in 1775."
In view of these facts I am con-
strained to remark that your state-
ment is, to put it mildly, some-
what misleading.
Crime is heralded to the ends of the earth, while goodness goes unnotic-
ed. The absconding cashier gets on the front page of She metropolitan
dailies, but no mention is made of the thousand and one chashiers who are
faithfully at the post of duty. Knightly deeds are passed in silence, when
one misstep is like the sound of a marching army. Such facts give one a
warped and erroneous notion of things. Our confidence must rest in the
unpublished goodness of the world.— Christian Advocate.
NORTH CAROLINA'S STRANGE MAN
By R. R. Clark
Iredell county has the distinction, as readers of the daily papers have nuted,
of being the home of a man who has refused to accept the government insur-
ance allotment due him on account of the death of his son, who was killed in
the world war. As it is the custom to accept without question whatever can
be secured from the government, and not infrequently claims are made
against the government that are not fur the local company to move. He
well founded, the Iredell man's atti- went West and enlisted in the regu-
tude has naturally attracted nation-
wide attention.
Mr. John Speaks is the name of the
man whose peculiar views have led him
to reject government money that is
lawfully his. He lives with family in
Union Grove township, 21 miles north
lars, getting on the other side quite
early in the game. He was killed in
action. The elder Speaks didn't want
the boy to go to the war and was dis-
posed to feel some resentment when
he learend of his death. He thought
the authorities were to blame for
of Statesville. His son, Thomas B. taking his son under age, but admitted
Speaks, enlisted in the Iredell Blues
at Statesville, before he was lfi years
old, his father says, and some time
before the company was ordered to
camp in preparation for service in the
world war.
Young Speaks was so anxious to
get into the fight that he didn't wait
the hitter's share in the blame (as he
no doubt misrepresented his age).
Young Speaks' remains were sent
home from France last year and were
taken to his father's home in north
Iredell last August. Soon the report
was abroad that the father was keep-
in" the son's coffined remains in a
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room of his house anil refused to bury mice on the life of his son. A gov-
them. Some of tlie (..unity officials eminent agent visited the Speaks
went to the Speaks home and found home and endeavored to persuade the
this to be true. The question wheth- father to Hie the papers for the money
cv the father should he compelled to due him and the boy's mother, but
1 iii'v the remains was considered. The Speaks was firm in his refusal. Ac-
county physician decided that the quaiutances have talked with him and
coffined bones of the soldier son were endeavored to try to get him to accept
not insanitary and that the physical what is coming to him, but without
health of the family was not endan- avail.
gered, keeping the coffin in the house, The story got abroad from Wash-
and Mr. Speaks was allowed to have ington that Speaks refused the money
his way. He said he would bury the on account of religious scruples — that
remains if it was decided that it was believing war to be morally wrong
illegal for him to retain them above he held that any one sharing in the
ground, but that he preferred to keep profits of war or any benefits accruing
them that way for the time — at least therefrom, was a participant in the
until an absent son returned home. wrong. What a sermon for the war-
Tim casket containing the bones of the profiteers, even if it does come from
son was kept in the home for about an ordinary citizen in the rural re-
six months, until the father could gions! But while -Mr. Speaks may,
build a place for it. He constructed and probably does, feel that war is
in the corner of his yard, near the morally wrong, it is the opinion of a
residence, a neat one-room structure. local newspaper man who visited his
In this the casket was placed, resting home and talked to him that the
on pedestals and draped in the Ameri- word "insurance" is the real trouble,
can Hag. On the walls of the room Mr. Speaks said that he bore no re-
hang the uniform and other army sentment against the government hut
equipment of the soldier and other that lie is very much opposed to the
personal effects. Mr Speaks makes principle of life insurance. He is firm
frequent visits to this resting place of in the faith — or professes to be — that
his soldier-son and the remains will the Lord will provide for His own
probably be left above the ground so and that to accept the insurance mon-
long as the father is able to exercise ey would betray a lack of faith in
his authority. Nothing has been said God which would result in pnnish-
of the attitude of the other members ment. Therefore he cannot accept
of the family — the wife and the ehil- the insurance money unless he should
dren that are at home; but it is un- feel that God desired him to take it.
derstood that Speaks dominates the So far the will of the Lord has not
family; that his will is the law of the been revealed in that direction. Mr.
home. Speaks, it is said, is quite a religious
Recently the story came out that man according to his lights. He reads
Mr. Speaks had refused to accept (he the Scriptures regularly and il is im-
allotments due from the !?5,000 insur- derstood conducts family worship, hut
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Joes not attend church nor allow
the members of his family to attend
church or Sunday school. This dis-
closes that -Mr. Speaks is, in all char-
ity, a "religious crank." It is hoped
that later on lie may change his mind
as to the government money. It'
doseu 't matter so much tor him, prob-
ably, but his wife and children should
have the benefit of it. He is a man
of small means and unable to give
(hern many advantages, if he were dis-
posed to do so.
The prejudice against insurance
money and the belief that carrying a
life insurance policy is morally wrong
did not originate with Mr. Speaks.
The writer recalls that, in his boy-
hood days, when life insurance was
almost unknown and not understood
in the rural regions, it was supposed
to guarantee that one would live for
a stated period. This was regarded
as an affront to the Aimighty. Even
st a much later period, when. the pur-
pose of this form of investment was
well known, old-timers not infrequent-
ly remarked that money from that
source rarely, if ever, helped the bene-
liciaiies; that it was soon dissipated
or lost in unwise investments, which
they considered direct evidence of
Divine disapproval of life insurance.
Within the past 30 years a Statcsvilla
man of the old school, an intelligent
business man, bought a life insurance
policy, soon afterwards came to the
conclusion that it would prove a
"hoodoo'' for him and abandoned it;
all a result of the ancient supersti-
tion that life insurance is morally
wrong.
.Mr. Speaks lives in the back coun-
try and has little contact with the ■
outside world. Therefore his reten-
tion of the ancient prejudice against
life insurance is well understood. If
the government allotment had been
called a pension he might have ac-
cepted it.
"Your children are obedient and so respectful in manner. You have
evidently a wonderful power in forming their habits," said an observer.
"Well," said the parent, "training children does not depend on magic,
hut an occasional sleight-of-hand performance helps. — Selected.
GARDNER PROVES HIS CALIBRE
(Cleveland Star)
The Democratic papers of the state are generously commending the lofty
unselfish announcement of our fellow townsman Max Gardener that he be-
lli ves "political equity entit'es Eastern North Carolina to the next norn-
inttion for governor." This statement is bound to become of historic inter-
est in the state.
There i? no thinking man or wo-
mai in North Carolina who does not
know that if Max Gardner had en-
tered the race as Governer Mor-
rison's successor that he would have
entered with brilliant prospects for
success: In the first place, he-has a
tremendous following of intensely
loyal, devoted and fighting friends,
who enthusiastically follow him with
14 THE UPLIFT
a zeal and spirit rarely known even Max Gardner for the reason, if
iu politics. In the second place, Gardner had marshalled his forces
Gardner's attitude when defeated backed by the splendid womanhood
by a small majority in 1920 was of the state, for whom he stood and
superb; he was heard to utter no suffered in 1920, and launched the
complaint, bat submitted without fight for the nomination in 1921, it
sulking to the mandates of his party might have broken and ruptured the
and plunged with courage and eon- Democratic party. The party can-
fidence into the campaign of his sue- not stand many campaigns such as
cessful opponent and made over it encountered in 1920
fifty speeches in behalf of Governor Of course the people of Cleveland
Morrison's election. This act alone county where Max Gardner was horn
established Gardner in the minds and reared and loved and served are
and hearts of North Carolina as a and have been ambitious for his
man of gubernatorial calibre, but his election as governor of North Caro-
recent convention statement reveals lina, but his friends are just as hnp-
the reason why Gardner has more py in the knowledge that our son
personal friends than any man in has the confidence, love and devo-
state. tion of North Carolina in full mens-
To our minds however his an- ure and that if he lives no power or
ouncement which puts him in the influence on earth can keep him
very front rank of North Carolina's from becoming in 192S, Governor
democracy means more to the fu- by the biggest majority in the
ture of the Democratic party in state's history.
North Carolina than it means to
Many a man who thinks he bears a great enterprise on his shoulders is
simply round-shouldered from carrying a large load of self conceit. — Bast
and West.
Why Not Print Bills As Well As Bonds?
By Z. E. Green, in Marshville Home
The Liberal, published at Detroit, advised its readers to listen to Arthur
Brisbane:
The highest paid, most widely read editorial writer in the United States,
in his editorial in the Hearst papers of February 13th, as a way to solve
the soldier bonus problem, says:
"Where to find money or the sol- now, and more later, to distribute
'fliers' bonus? Nobody wants to be among 3,000,000 soldiers. The mo-
taxed, least of all those that war and ment the money is given, it will be
the soldiers made rich. spent, distributed among 108,000,000
"Why is it necessary to tax any- Americans, quickly absorbed. Why
body? The nation wants $500,000,000 not simply print the currency and
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, pay the soldiers with perfectly good
' money manufactured by the govern-
ment at the cost of paper and print-
jag, without taxing anyone?
"Financiers will tell you that
would be ruin, 'INFLATION,' most
horrible of nightmares. Eut finan-
ciers proved, in their opposition to
the Federal Reserve, that they know
nothing about money, except their
own desire to monopolize it.
"There is not enough currency in
circulation. Our gold reserve is three
times what it has been in the past.
We could double the amount of cur-
rency without harmful 'inflation.'
Jlonev needed for the soldiers could
be printed, distributed and spent,
and it would have on the nation's fi-
nances no more effect than a few gal-
lons of water on the Majave desert."
ft ft * ft ft
Men like Edison and Ford also be-
lieve that it is more desirable for the
govemmennt to print an additional
amount of money than to print so
many bonds. If a printed govern-
ment bond is "good" without any
gold to redeem it can anybody except
the "financiers" tell us why irre-
deemable paper currency can not
perform all the functions of rrnney?
For instance, it" the United States
government sh.mld decide to print
two billion dollars of paper currency
to be used to pay for the building
of hard surface roads does anybody
ht!ie\e that those who sell construc-
tion materials or the workers would
refuse to accept the newly printed
money or even stop for a moment to
ask if it had enough gold stored in
the vaults to "back itupV"
In every age and in every country
it haj been the financiers who have
had nightmares when they thought
of inflation. In the colonial days' the
colonies used printed money but the
money brokers — the idle rich who
were known as financiers — always
objected when it was proposed to in-
'- crease the volume of money. In
his autobiography Benjamin Frank-
lin refers to this attitude by the few
wealthy men living in Philadelphia
when that city was s. small colonial
town. After the governing body,
however, decided to have more money
printed Franklin notes that immedi-
ately hundreds of new houses were
built and other developments quick-
ly followed.
*****
During the war this country be-
came short on houses. At one time
it was estimated that we needed five
million new houses to supply the del
mand. Millions of houses are stil-
needed and rent profiteers in many
instances are making the late war
profiteers look small in comparison.
There are millions of idle men wait-
ing for work. There is an unlimited
amount of materials waiting to be
converted into buildings The one
thing lacking: is monev, mor; money
—"INFLATION!" We have had a
bitter dose of deflation. It has left
the industries of the country stag-
nantly inactive. The Republican ad-
ministration could easily prolong its
administration under popular approv-
al if it could adopt the policy of
printing more money and less bonds.
Aruthur Brisbane says the volume of
money could be doubled with safety,
Henry Ford, who is not a stock
gambler or money broker, but a con-
structive financier, believes more
government money and less govern-
ment bonds will help to relieve the
stagnant condition of the country.
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Mr. Edison, who has been worth cost.
more to the human race than all the "But here is the point: If our na-
stock gamblers and money brokers tion can issue a dollar bond it can is-
will ever be worth, lucks with con- sue a dollar bill. The element that
tempt upon the fallacy of a geld makes the bond good makes the bill
standard for our domestic currency good, also. The difference between
and believes in what the financier the bond and the bill is that the bond
money brokers would call "Infla- lets the money brokers collect twice
tion." the amount of the bond and an addi-
» » ., , » tional 20 percent, whereas the cur-
rency pays nobody but those who
In an interview Mr. Edison sng- directly contribute to Muscle Shoals
gests that the government issue $30,- in some useful way. •
000,000 in currency for the develop- "If the Government issues bonds,
ment of Muscle Shoals. "Under the it simply induces the money brokers
old way," says Mr. Edisjn, "any to draw $30,000,000 out of the other
time we wish to add to the national channels of trade and turn it into
wealth we are compelled to add to Muscle Shoals; if the government is-
the national debt." sues currency, it provides itself with
"Now, that is what Henry Ford enough mone/ to increase the na-
wants to prevent. He thinks it is tional wealth at Muscle Shoals with-
stupid, and so do I, thatfor the loan out disturbing the business of the
of $30,000,000 of their own money rest of the country. And in doing
the people of the United States this it increases its income vithout
should he compelled to pay $60,000,- adding a penny to its dett.
000-- that is what it amounts t<>, with "It is absurd to say that our coun-
interest. People who will not turn a try can issue $30,000,000 in bonds
shovelful of dirt nor contribute a and not $30,000,000 in currency,
pound of material will will collect Both are promises to pay; but one
more money from the United States promise fattens the usurer, and the
than will the people who supply the other helps the people. If the cur-
material and do the work. That is rency issued by the government
the terrible thing about interest. In were no good, then the bends issued
all our great bond issues the interest would be no good either. It is a
is always greater than the principal. terrible situation, when the Govern-
All of the great public works cost ment, to increase the national
more than twice the actual cost, on wealth, must go into debt am! sub-
that account. Under the present sys- mit to ruinous interest charges at
tern of doing business we simply add the hands of men who control the
120 to 150 percent to the stated fictitious values of gold."
What is love? I think the genuine article is wise, unselfish interest in
other people's welfare, interst in other lives than my own; it is to be h;ippy
in their happ'ress. If I have but little happiness of my own, this is one
way to borrow some— by being glad in the gladness of others.— Chas. A.
Ames.
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GOVERMENTS PRINT SHOP.
(The Dearborn Independent)
"Uncle Sam's print shop produces all the tabulating cards by the United
States Census and Le Army and Xavy departments, these orders amounting to
approximately 250/ '10,000 cards a \ear. Special machines have been designed
and improved for This work. They print the cards on either or both sides,
clip off the corners, number ami per-
forate.
".Mr. Carter am! his assistants at
the Government printing office pre-
pare and print all the money order
applications and m< ney orders for the
United States post offices. Xine hun-
dren thousand domestic and interna-
tional money order books— each book
contains 200 individual orders — are
printed every year. Three special
presses which print the money orders
in two colors, but ran print in three
hues if desired, are used.
"The yearly purchases of the Gov-
ernment printing ofSee are necessarily
enormous. Last year more than 50,-
000,000 pounds of paper was convert-
ed into Governmend publications, re-
ports and circulars. Tt required 100,000
pounds of ink to print the text matter
on this paper. If ihis huge amount
of paper were spread out on the
ground it would cover an area of 135
miles square, while the ink — all of
which is made at the Government
print shop — would be adequate to col-
or many rivers.
"In the neighborhood of 65,000,000
public documents in the form of bul-
letins, reports, reviews and results of
research investigations are annually
distributed by the Division of Public
Documents of the G. P. O. It main-
tains a mailing list of 1,100,000 names.
It receives 325,000 letters of inquiry a
vear. ' '
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE GIRLS?
Figures compile' by the Metro-
politan Life Insurance Company
which relate to the ten year period
1911 to 1920, show that despite the
decline in the mortality from tuber-
culosis which has taken place during
the last decade, the disease is actual-
ly increasing amor.g girls between
the ages of 15 and 20 years. Adole-
scent girls constitute the only group
in which the tuberculosis death rate
has not declined.
During the six year period 1911
to 1916, the average annual death
rate from tubercubsis among white
girls aged 15 to 19 years, who were
insured in the industrial department,
was 144.5 in 100,000; by 191- this
rate had increased slightly to 145.8
and in 1920 it rose further to 151.5.
During the same time that the
tuberculosis death rate of adolescent
white girls was increasing five per-
cent, the mortality among adolescent
white boys was decreasing twenty-
five percent.
The records at the North Carolina
Sanatorium show that three women
apply for treatment for every two
men and yet the death rate for males
of all ages is almost twice the death
rate for females. It would seem
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1 of more care- possibility of an infection from
tbat girls are in need of moie care P ' sl jf the disease cannot
ful medical attention during ^the |c(] QlU by an exarai.
Sr Sd ;e%llf^_j;^ an expert on the d1Sease.
And yetl tb.^1 1 ^"^s^^rsss s
and lovely herrings ^/^^ m Michigan, coffee from Brad],
Florida, bacon from Chicago, J™*™ Louisiana-and not a thing except
sugar from Cuba, syrup for cakes from u ^ ^
the new laid eggs from Chowan county, an ^
home-laid, though hey J«ted fi«h and were ^ ^^ ^
Srto^trolf^CarLaWle^osephus Daniels at
Edenton.
FROM CYRYTO~COuiirOF ST. JAMES
By Josephus Daniels in News & Observer
t * f i ™t o write about the commencement of Cary High School and
sound policy wa? at sUke Bj t it ^ ^ ^^ rf the ^
iliv not much o his service as a cbun- a. i . r a0t, i ,
he entered upon bis duties and was then,. Rufus H Jo nes, A H. ^
not given time to demonstrate how ntt, Di. Malette, n. o.
well he would measure up in the Held Atlas B Yates, John VL C . , &*
to which he had been appointed. At A. D. Blackwood and o I e i*- awto
the same time he was at school here- it that there was as good a H
not the handsome and commodious tory school here as was po-bl
building that is oow the pride of the under prevailing condition ■ -^
county-Walter H. Page was bis few young men who gottb r ft*
schoolmate in the small wooden gleam of knowledge n t he CaJ
Bcboolhouse wheve they were taught school won high pace. Of ! thua a»
the three r's. At that time Cary Walter H .Page attain d the ><
was the home of Mr. A. F. Page, one eminence in public station .....
of the noblest captains of industry fleeted credit upon, the place o . £
and vision the Sfate has produced, birth. , He was ,a born lover of bo JU
It was here that Walter Page, after- endowed with high qualities t . ra.no,
ambassador to Great Britain with initiative and imagination
an
It
war
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freedom from conventionality. Per-
haps he owed as much, perhaps more,
to his mother than to his father.
Both were of line mettle and sterling
stuff. It would be difficult to name
two parents in the State who were,
looked up to more in their com-
munity or who gave to their country
children of stronger character or
larger usefulness.
It was a far cry from the little
wooden sehoolhouse in Cary in the
seventies to the Court of St. James.
But after all it is not so far a cry
as we are wont to believe. Most of
the great ministers and statesmen
of America have come out of coun-
try homes or homes in villages. It
is not how big a town a man is
reared in. It is how big the man is
and whether he permits himself to
be circumscribed by his environ
merit. A dilligent student, Page was
trained in college at Trinity, Ran-
dolph-Macon, Johns Hopkins (I
think) and later spent some time
in Germany where he broadened both
his mind and his horizon. But,
though whatever concerned mankind
in any part of the world interested
him and he read avidly books on
every subject, even when abroad he
was thinking of coming back to
North Carolina to do his life-work.
He won his position in other lines
but lie was first of all an editor.
He taught school, he took a dash in
politics, he was ambassador, but all
the while the editorial instinct was
uppermost. He learned after many
attempts to speak with power, but
lis gift was with the pen. lie al-
ways wrote a speech that was far
•letter than its delivery. This was
as trn- when he made his great ad-
dress at Edinburg as when he first
essayed to speak in the school here
on Friday afternoons.
After he had completed his course
in college and university, taught
school awhile, the one thing lie had
ever kept in view — the establishment
of a real newspaper in Raleigh —
brought him back home in 1S84. He
had written for other papers. He
knew he had the goods. He wished
to build up a vigorous, truth-telling,
frank paper in the capital of his
State. He essayed the task in per-
haps the most unpropitous era it
could have been undertaken. But
when he established the State Chron-
icle in brightness, in interest, in a
new and inspiring note it appealed
to the younger and more progressive
thought of the State. They hailed it
with gladness and hope. It was
wholly different from any paper then
published and since. It had his
original touch, his daring disregard
of convention, and his faith that the
average man wanted a different kind
of a newspaper than the State then
possessed. But he did not reckon
upon the chief thing that prevented
the success his venture deserved: the
poverty and illiteracy of the peo-
ple, coupled with the provincial
spirit and the pressure which poli-
tical solidarity imposed. I i emem-
ber the enthusiasm which thrilled
me, then just beginning as a boy
to try to write locals in the Wilson
Advance, when Page struck out on
new lines in the State Chronicle. It
seemed a call to rise above all hind-
ering traditions and to go forward
with faith along new highways to
larger freedom and larger pros-
perity. Young people of this day
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cannot appreciate the conditions that
then existed. A silver dollar looked
as big as a cart-wheel, and nearly
every man was forced to expend all
his energies to secure sustenance for
himself and family. The older men
had gone through Reconstruction and
just succeeded ill rescuing' the ship
of state from those who came dan-
gerously near scuttling it. They
were resolved not to risk a return to
those days of peril. Some of them
feared the new ideas of Page, though
lie hated the blight of Reconstruction
as much as any. Conservatism
with a big "C" was predominant.
Page called it Stagnation. The fine
men at the helm were true to their
ideals and in some tilings were fol-
lowing the only course that would
preserve all that had been won.
Page was impatient of ultra-con
servatism and scored it roundly. We
youngsters hailed the plainness of
his speech even when he seemed to
go too far. The people needed
awakening ami Page was truly wak-
ing them up. I came to Raleigh
in the winter of ISS5 to edit his
paper while he was absent for a
few weeks. At that time he had felt
the impossibility of the success of
which he had dreamed. He had con-
verted his weekly paper into an af-
ternoon daily. It was bright and
enterprising and he printed the
news and something of the modern
touch rather than in the brief para-
graph which generally prevailed. At
that time the big news story oc-
cupied, say, a quarter of a column
and the editorial upon some political
or literary topic had first place and
made a column or sometimes two.
Page made the l)ig news story two
columns, with a corresponding de-
crease in the length of the editorial.
But it had spice. Il hit the bull's
eye. It had style, "style all the
while," to quote modern slang.
But money did not How in, and it
required money to print a paper,
Page wished to keep ont of the poli-
tical atmosphere and never ask oilxe
or political favor. But he entered
the race ,iu the early part of 1SS5
for Publie Printer. That position
then paid a man $3,000 or more,
and that, was big money. More than
that: the editor who was chosen
Public Printer was supposed to be
the spokesman, the organ so to speak,
of the Democratic party. Page did
not aspire to that when he began
the State Chronicle. It was Car from
his thoughts. But in January his
friends persuaded him that the young
men of the State could elect him
and that his election woidd lift the ;
Democratic party out of the rati
ami make it responsive to a
and broader public service,
over, he desperately needed the
money. So he announced that his
paper would like to be given the
State Printing. It was a ringing and
clarion sort of announcement, pen-
ned more in hope than in desire.
Some of he younger fellows rallied
to his candidacy. But it was of no
avail, he only received 1<3 votes, hut
they represented legislators who
yearned for a Xew Day. The older
men — (were they wiser?) — felt that
the ideas we entertained would not
bring the results we desired, hut
might send the ship on the rocks.
Page then did a characteristic
thing. He could not continue h:i
paper as daily — it was losing
larger
service. More-
THE UPLIFT 21
' [money. He therefore converted it Raleigh was of deep interest to h
b
nru
lj back into a weekly, with a brilliant And, when lie passed into the be-
1 editorial entitled "Change— But For- vend, according to his desire his-
' In i'd." Soon in the Spring of 1885, body was laid to rest in the whole-
: he accepted an editorial position in some soil of his beloved state where
1 |Xew York, the State Chronicle wrfs he had planned to spend the last
' continued by Mr. Areudell and Mr. years of his life. And to write! ....
Shotwell until October when I went . "There is no man in America who
I to Raleigh to try the job. He loved can write so good a private letter"
I the paper, and, busy as he was, for said President Wilson to me one
i months sent a weekly letter signed, day. He was correct. In a period
£''\V. It. P." which was the brightest when letter writing had gone out
thing that appeared in any North of practice, he wrote with the flu-
1 Carolina newspaper. But it stirred eney, charm and grace; of the best
; up the folks! And when he got masters of the golden age of letter
latter the preachers and the women, writing. I had myself half an hun-
I declaring that "the preachers herd- dred, which showed his real soul and
led good women by sagnant pool" his true self, which were found in
I the batteries were opened. He hit The News and Observer file. They
B back. But other engagements de- were not written with the thought
I tunneled his time, and from that time that any eye would read them' but
She seldom wrote for North Carolina that of a younger co-worker, with
1 journals. He won large success in whom he was often in argument and
j large fields before the year .1013 sometimes in utter disagreement.
H called him to the great station where It is a glory to a town to have
■ j his devotion to duty in trying times given the world so eminent a diplo-
i cost him his life. He wasn't always mat and Cary is justly proud of
' i just to those laboring in the state, Ambassador Page, its most distin-
ct they were not always just to him, guished son. He will live in history
among the most brilliant of the bril-
liant diplomats who have represent-
ever he saw an old friend what was ed the United States in Great Britain.
hut he had an abiding love for the
Mate that gave him birth, and vrhen-
.
\
going on in Cary or Aberdeen or
At the several sittings of the late Democratic State conventions the first
man on had and the last one to leave was Alexander Smith Webb, of War-
ren county. He is the father of Charlie Webb, of Asheville, and Alex Webb,
of Raleigh. Though up in the eighties, he is younger than the foregoing:
named sons. He keeps young by enjoying himself, keeps a close watch on.
Jisgs, Mutt & Jeff and is proud of the fact that he never had but one
sweetheart in all of his life and he still lives with rer.
22 THE UPLIFT
CHIEF JUSTICE j\LARSHALL.
By Mary Tucker Magill.
John Marshall was one of a large family of children. Their father was not
a rich man, and when John was a boy it was not easy to get the comforts of
life. The father made up his mind, however, to send his children to school.
No doubt that in after years John myself," said the young man ."What
thanked him many times for this am I to do?" And lie was very angrj
schooling. Nor would he ever regret at the bare idea,
the hardships by which he gained John Marshall stepped up to life,
what made him the groat and good and said quitely, " Where do you live,
.man that he was. sir?"
You may be sure that he, like The young man turned, and seeia;
other little boys and girls, was often a shabbily dressed old countryman,
tired of his books, but he did not thought, "This old fellow wants to
give up lor that. make a little money, so I shall let hin
As John Marshall grew older, there carry my turkey." Handing over the
was no office in the gift of his country turkey, the young man said, "Yon
that he could not hafitve had. When may follow me."
he died he was greatly mourned, and Judge Marshall did so. When the;
it was felt that in his death the coun- reached the end of their walk, tt.
try suffered serious loss. young man took the turkey, and hand-
He was very poor, and often had ed the bearer a piece of money. Ihi
to dress shabbily. When he lived in young man was astonished when il
Richmond, he used to go to market was declined, and said to some oci
with his basket on his arm, and bring passing, "Who is that curious oil
home what was needed. fellow?"
One day he was returning away "That is Judge Marshall, Chiei
from the market with his purchasees, Justice of the United States/' wa:
when he heard a young man near him the answer.
•speaking harshly. Marshall turned You may imagine how the rouH
and saw a finely dressed young man, man felt as he said, "What madi
who had bought a turkey, and who him bring home my turkey ?"
-could not find any one to carry it "Perhps to give you a lessoa o:
iome for him. false pride," was the answer.
"Of course I cannot take it home
"Many a man who occupies prominent places to-day, has reached them
~by miking of his failures stepping stones to better and bigger things."
THE UPLIFT 23
-
Brilliancy vs Honesty
By Swift Davis (a pupil)
Randall and Withers were brothers. Moreover, they were twin brothers,
j Both were born on the same day and only a few minutes difference be-
1 tiveen their ages.
No two more physicially similar he not only has a conscience, but
S boys could be found. But at the he is subject to it.
;
I
surface— physically— similarity end- But not being aware of these
ed. -Mentally, Randall was wonder- facts, it is easily understood why the
ful. Very quickly he caught the parents are more indulgent to Ran-
point of each of his lessons in school, dall than to Withers.
■ He could write; he could talk; he We know the brothers' character,
could teach. Happy, indeed, were so, the curtain drops and twenty
his parents when they contemplated years elapse
the future of this prodigy. Withers and Randall are now thir-
Withers was a slow-going, ordi- ty-five years old. Neither have suc-
r.ary boy. B-illiancy was not his to ceeded to a remarkable degree in
claim. In school, how different he life. In spite of their diverse dispo-
was from his brother! Randall was sition, they, '.vith their wives live in
nick to let the teacher know he an apartment house each holding si-
ithers said naught, milar positions and drawing similar
sed his limit mark. salaries,
ha few words, Randall was bril- The wives are at home preparing
j liant; Withers was dull. dinner and doing their various house-
But far greater in importance than work. The bell rings. anrj upon o-
the mentality of these two boys are pening the door it discloses a tele-
J their morals. Randall, the brilliant, graph messenger. Randall's wife,
I is he honest? Yes, hut in this he Adelaide, signs and pays, as is the
! es not obey the dictation of his custom and opens the telegram
[heart. He is honest merely because (which, by the way, is addressed to
I be is aJrgiJ to do wrong. He is a- her husband.) The message:
quick to let the t
1 understood but Wit
He narrowly passec
| fraid of the law and i'.S punishment. Your father lie? on hlj death HhH.
How often this applies tO the case Come immediately.— Hand [Lwyer]
I ofsorae men of to-day. The wives are horror-stricken/?)
Withers, the slow-going— put the The husbands arc notified ar.d ail
same question to him: is he honest? leave for thecountry borne.
He is. but not in the manner of his The funeral is >ver and
-■'-'her. Many are the scoldings he Lawyer Jtck Hand reads the will
received from his parents because of only a section of which is printed:
& appearance at home with black "1, Clement Southeriand, be-
fje, blc Jy nose, scratched face and cjueath to rr,y son. Randall, the
torn clothes. No, he is not afraid the sum of ten thousand dol-
j of not being honest. Why. then, is lar= fSlO.OOQj.
^straightforward? Th<- contrast "l a!s«j bequeath to my Eon.
k'.ween him and his brother is that Withers, the sum of five thous-
24
THE UPLIFT
and dollars ($5,000)."
So you see the result of "standing
in" with the parents. But Randall
did it falsely. He was at heart,
corrupt.
Brilliancy is on top. Randall has
a better chance than Withers. Does
he succeed?
The news of their inheritance is
spread far and wide. As a result
many poverty-stricken inventers
with worthless inventions; sharps
with get-rich-quick schemes and
many others crowd their doors daily
with the assertion that all they
need to make a fortune is capital
and the brothers have the capital.
At last one idea appeals to Ran-
dall. This is a safe proposition-*-
apparantly. He and Withers can
make a big fortune out of it in a
year. But it is a dishonest propo-
sition. Randall is aware of this
fact, but it docs not concern him;
he feels safe. No conscience troubles
him. He tries to inveigle Withers
into the scheme. He works hard
to convince Withers, using all his
his brilliancy, for he may need -With-
ers' money. After a few days' ar-
gument Withers promises to give an
answer the coming day.
That night, in his slumber With"
ers dreams— dreams of his boyhood.
Once mere he is in his old school
desk working in his English. He
reads:
"Let your conscience be vour
guide."
Next sentence:
"Honesty is the best policy."
"The only"--breaking off from his
dream he awakens. When his mind
is back to the present, he reverts ■
back to the problem which confronts
him. But, strange to say, it is no
longer a pro 'lem. His mind is al-
ready made up. His decision fa-
vors honesty. In the morning he j
tells the waiting Randal! bis decision,
Randall is 'furious. He turns to I
leave. Withers calls him back to
plead with him to drop the scheme.
But Randall is firm and leaves.
Once more let us drop the curtain
for twenty years
Randall lives in disgrace, wretch-
ed and pitied. He has been desert-
ed by his wife; he has only a dollar
to his credit. Even the dogs when
passing him cross the street. He
has no future; no ambition. He
has sccceeded only in failure. This
is Randall, the brilliant, but dishon-
est.
Withers is now the president of
a local bank. He is respected by all ,
who know him. His happiness lies
in his family in which he rejoiced in
three healthy children. At the next
election he is to run for senatorship.
He is a director of many institutions.
Many men have received a helping
hand from him when in dire need.
Withers, the dull, but honest has
succeeded.
"It is all right to spend money to make character — it is all wrong to
spend character to make money."
THE UPLIFT 25-
TEACHERS MUST "KNOW THINGS"
By T. C. Clark
Time was when almost anything went in a Bible class. If the teacher
was known to be "pious" he was recognized as a fit instructor of the youth.
He might have little or no education, he might live in a rut mentally, he
might even be neglectful of what was happening in the great world; just
so he was "good" he received the visit a live young men's class. The
0. K. of the superintendent and the regular teacher was absent, ant) a
parents. substitute led the young men for the
But that time has past. The young one Sun lay. It was really pathetic
men of to-day are coming to know to note the failure of this man in
things. The high schools are be- winning his pupil's confidence. He
coming veritable universities, and knew nothing of their thought world,
the students are becoming experts and mumbled over obvious and in-
m social and philosophical questions, different facts in a way that brought
ml in science and current history an inner contempt. This teacher
are saining wide knowledge. The did r.ot know that religion is now
teacher who is uninstructed is a loi ked upon as a part of life, not
bold one to enter upon the responsi- some dead, musty cemetery of use--
hility of teaching young men. less facts. After a half-hour with
Such a tesfcher must have the him one felt that he wanted to get
modern point of view. That is, he out into the open air again, and
must see thine: ; in the large. Fie' breathe fully and freely.
must have his eyes turned toward Only the man who knows can suc-
the remarkable developments in the ceed with young men to-day, unless
world's life to-day, in science, in poli- perhaps he has the genius of heart-
ties in religion. Unless he has this knowledge and sympathy that come
view, he will fail in getting the con- without the learning of books and
iMenee of his pupils. It was the school?. Such a man can always
writer's privilege a short time ago to command respect.
THE AUTOMOBOOB
(Oxford Friend)
With more than five thousandmiles of good roads made or in the
making-, Nortb Carolina will be a paradise for that species of road
suisance, the party who loves to step on the gas in an automobile
£nd see all the various components of scenery blend into one futuristic
streak, unless some kind of suasion tative of the fair sex who is unfairly
is brought to bear on him. Some- jeopardizing the lives of other driv-
'inies he is a skillful driver and ers and pedestrians.
sometimes he is not. Sometimes it In this week's Collier's is an
knot a he at all, but some represen- editorial fulminating against the
26
THE UPLIFT
ignorant driver, is which a newly
coined name (or rather a rehashing
of names) is employed to describe
the person who knows just enough
about automobiling to pull or oper-
ate the wrong tiling in an emer-
gency.
Collier's new word is "Automo-
boob," but some how it feels that this
is too weak and polite a term and asks
assistance from the puplic in putt-
ing the label on the undesirable citi-
zen referred to. Also it sicks all
good drivers on him.
But read for yourself:
"What about the gentleman or
lady who knows nothing about the
•care of a car, or its operation, except
to press a few buttons and pull a
few levers and steer a lurching
•course through our swift and order-
ly motor traffic?
"Good drivers don't like him.
The American Automobile Associa-
tion, with 350,000 members, is after
him. It has conceived a punishment
that is both cruel and unusual— and
we are for it. 'the association offers
a prize for a name that will describe j
him. Collier's is glad to offer one
suggestion. Here it is:
AUTO.MOBOOB
"We will be glad to give wide
circulation to this or any other de-
scriptive term chosen by the A. A.
A. on behalt of the millions of sens:- .
ble, careful drivers who want real
comfort and pleasure on the roads.
"Farther, we guarantee that if
communities---instead of meting out
painless fines--would slap "Automo- j
boob" (or any better word they can
find) in big letters on the front and
back of the car of every driver con-
victed of reckless driving, and would
provide a heavy penalty for remov-
ing it before the time set, the roads
would soon be a lot safer for every-
one.
"If you know a better word, send .
it in."
WHAT IS THE- GREATEST EARTHLY
BLESSING? ;
By S. S. Harris in Advocate
The phraseology of the question excludes the right of advocating more
than one thing, yet it must be admitted that no one blessing entirely sep-
arated from all others could produce happiness; I have therefore selected
that which necessarily embraces or implies those blessing from which the
highest degree of happiness and usefulness eminate, namely, RIPE
INTELLECTUALITY.
It has been well said that know-
ledge is power, and the wealth of
the mind is the only true wealth.
It. is an incentive toenergyand the
inspiration of invention. It is the
motive power of commerce and the
masterwheel of mechanism. It has
harnessed steam and tamed electri-
city. It captures the wild ferocious
king of the forest and mak?s him as
docile as a lamb. It leads great
armies to victory and alleviates the
suffering. It discovered a vast sav-
age wilderness reaching from ocean
THE UPLIFT 25-
j TEACHERS MUST "KNOW THINGS"
By T. C. Clark
Time was when almost anything went in a Bible class. If the teacher
I was known to be "pious" he was recognized as a fit instructor of the youth.
1 He might have little or no education, he might live in a rut mentally, he
Imight even be neglectful of what was happening in the great world; just
-j so lie was good" he received the visit a live young men's class. The
|0. K. of the superintendent and the regular teacher was absent, and a
Iparents. substitute led the young men for the
| But that time has past. The young one Sun lay. It was really pathetic
amen of to-day are coming to know to note the failure of this man in
■ things. The high schools are be- winning his pupil's confidence. He
■ coming veritable universities, and knew nothing of their thought world,
:| the students are becoming experts and mumbled over obvious and in-
3 in social and philosophical questions, different facts in a way that brought
"j and in science and current history an inner contempt. This teacher
I are gaining wide knowledge. The did rot know that religion is now
Steadier who is uninstructed is a looked upon as a part of life, not
8 bold one to enter upon the responsi- some dead, musty cemetery of use-
jliility of teaching young men. less facts. After a half-hour with
| Such a teacher must have the him one felt that he wanted to get
graoilern point of view. That, is, he out into the open air again, and
must see things in the large. He ' breathe fully and freely.
must have his eyes turned toward Only the iran who knows can suc-
I the remarkable developments in the ceed with young men to-day, unless
I world's life to-day, in science, in poli- perhaps he has the genius of heart-
j tics, in religion. Unless he has this knowledge and sympathy that come
view, he will fail in getting the con- without the learning of books and
lidence of his pupils. It was the school;. Such a man can always
writer's privilege a short time ago to command respect.
THE AUTOMOBOOB
(Oxford Friend)
With more than five thousandmiles of good roads made or in the
making, North Carolina will be a paradise for that species of road
nuisance, the party who loves to step on the gas in an automobile
f-nd see all the various components of scenery blend into one futuristic
streak, unless some kind of suasion tative of the fair sex who is unfairly
is brought to bear on him. Some- jeopardizing the lives of other driv-
'iiies he is a skillful diiver and ers and pedestrians.
sometimes he is not. Sometimes it In this week's Collier's is an
13 nat a he at all, but some represen- editorial fulminating against the
26
THE UPLIFT
ignorant driver, is which a newly
coined name (or rather a rehashing
of names) is employed to describe
the person who knows just enough
about automobiling to pull or oper-
ate the wrong thing in an emer-
gency.
Collier's new word is "Autumo-
boob," but some how it feels that this
is too weak and polite a term and asks
assistance from the puplic in putt-
ing the label on the undesirable citi-
zen referred to. Also it sicks all
good drivers on him.
But read for yourself:
"What about the gentleman or
lady who knows nothing about the
•care of a car, or its operation, except
to press a few buttons and pull a
few levers and steer a lurching
•course through our swift and order-
ly motor traffic?
"Good drivers don't like him.
The American Automobile Associa-
tion, with 350,000 members, is after
him. It has conceived a punishment
that is both cruel and unusual— and
we are for it. '1 he association offers
a prize for a name that will describe i
him. Collier's is glad to offer one
suggestion. Here it is:
AUTOMOBOOB
"We will be glad to give wide
circulation to this or any other de-
scriptive term chosen by the A. A,
A. on behalt of the millions of sensi- .
ble, careful drivers who want real
comfort and pleasure on the roads.
"Further, we guarantee that if
communities---instead of meting out
painless fines— would slap "Automo- j
hoob" (or any better word they can
find) in big letters on the front and
back of the car of every driver con-
victed of reckless driving, and would
provide a heavy penalty for remov-
ing it before the time set, the roads
would soon be a lot safer for every-
one.
"If you know a better word, send
it in."
WHAT IS THE- GREATEST EARTHLY
BLESSING?
By S. S. Harris in Advocate
The phraseology of the question excludes the right of advocating more
than one thing, yet it must be admitted that no one blessing entirely sep-
arated from all others could produce happiness; I have therefore selected
that which necessarily embraces or implies those blessing from which the
highest degree of happiness and usefulness eminate, namely, PdPE
INTELLECTUALITY.
It has been well said that know-
ledge is power, and the wealth of
the mind is the only true wealth.
It. is an incentive to energy and the
inspiration of invention. It is the
motive power of commerce and the
masterwheel of mechanism. It has
harnessed steam and tamed .dectri-
city. It captures the wild ferocioos
king of the forest and mak?s him as
docile as a lamb. It lead;: great
armies to victory and alleviates the
suffering. It discovered a vast sav-
age wilderness reaching from ocean
THE UPLIFT
27
to ocean upon which it erected the
greatest nation of the earth. It dis-
covered the law of gravitation and
comprehended the solar system. It
is the foundation stone of govern-
ment and the capstone of civilization-
it has embraced Christianity and
controls society.
This is specially the greatest earth-
ly blessing to woman. It seems that
God in His infinite wisdom did not
intend woman to perform- manual
labor, and she is not supplied with
the sinew and muscle equal to the
sterner sex, but with Ripe Intellect-
uality she can launch out upon the
sea of life and paddle her own canoe,
ad in many vocations can excel her
masculine competitor. However, I
svould emphasize this bl 'ssine to
koman as mother.
' It not only furnishes an immense
i variety basket from which she can
'■elect almost anything that will grat-
ify the mine and heart and a shield
land balm to her own life, but the
devating influence to society as it is
transmitted down the lines of poster-
ity is inconceivable. Suppose all
bothers could be endowed with this
blessing, what a grand world this
a'oul'd be? It can be illustrated in a
measure by a great imaginary pen-
jfclum swinging from the hand of
God with circular vibration, swing-
tag around and around, widening its
scope with every revolution, reach-
's farther and farther, until the
■hole face of the earth is covered,
wiping out crime and misery, idola-
&S and superstition, vice pauperism;
*1 of which are born in ignorance
»d nurtured in illiteracy, and finally
"ting all humanity upon such a high
pne of development that Ripe
jwllectuality would pervade the hu-
san vac? and the Son of God be the
accepted King of the world.
Physical health, material wealthy
persona) friendship, public popu-
larity, etc., are necessary adjuncts,
to happiness; but a robust body may
have a feeble mind, and men of or-
dinary physical and mental capacity
quite frequently amass immense
fortunes, while it is an old axiom
that a sound mind necessitates a
sound body; with tnis combinaton
wealth its a natural result, and
with this triune blessing the vast
fields of usefulness, pleasure and
happiness are bounded only by the
limits of this world.
The most enviable position of
eminence, the dizziest height of
d'stincticn, the idea) embodiment of
affection are attainable. If you
would be a famous author take up-
the pen. If the heart panteth for
the plaudits of oratory mount the
rostrum. If you are ambitious for
military heroism buckle on your
sword and go forth to battle, or if
your aspirations reach out for the
honors of statesmanship don your
conventional suit and you are ready.
Where-ever inclination leads un-
excelled success attends you.
Let, the natural impluse of the
healthy mind and body have its
sway toward your fellow creatures
and friendship will be expressed in
every handshake, admiration twinkle
in every eye to which you are ex-
posed, public popularity will sound
in the bells and cannon of the great
citits which you may visit, and in
social circles you are monarch of all
you survey.
Imagine youself one of a partv of
such friends, comprising both sex-
es, with elegance and refinement
pervading the realm, breezes of
chastity fanning every face, decorum
23
THE UPLIFT
"vieing with gracefulness, loveliness
smiling upon the brow of graduer,
wit wrestling with sarcasm. I can
also see the electric sparks flashing
from eye to eye, and taste the de-
licious intellectual fruit gathered
from the richest fields of literature
and extensive travel among all
nations, tongues and peoples.
It seems to me after the enjoy
Tnent of such a company, and the
mind and heart filled to overflowing,
under the melodious strains of
"Home, Sweet Home," I would fail
asleep, and dream of "rising in the
air, and float up and away, away off
into those supernal regions, in the
impossible heights, which in the in-
finite mystery of their remoteness
mock aii mortal aspiiation," and as
all things terrestrial fade away in
the distance below, and the brain
grows dizzy and the heart faint, in
thp twinkling of an eye mortality
puts on immortality, and the loving
arms of the Savior reach down and
and lifts me into heaven, and there
with the angelic ho«ts drink from
the divine intellectual fountains
throughout the endless cycles of
eternity.
This leads to the climax of what
■constitutes Ripe Intellectuality. It
is not meant in the foregoing argu-
ment that the natural, unregenerate
man, even with the highest degree
of physical, mental and material
endowments can attain to the
sublime possibilities which ire
vouchsafed to the man who ias
been regenerated an born into i he
spiritual realm. Holy writ teaches
that "the natural man receivethnot
the spiritual things of God, nor can
■
he know them, for they are spiritual-^
ly discerned." ^
But with the new birth, and th^ y
light of heaven radiating into the ir
heart, mind and conscience, his soul.
is enthused with aspirations t> ;.
ascend higher and higher in pursuit's
of knowledge, wisdom and holiness,^
Egoism witli its motives dominat-ai
ing every activity is transformed in- ^
to altruism with the chief purpo.;- »
of his life devoted to the betterment s
of humanity; and as he grows in 3
grace and develops into ripe Chris- .
tianity which is the real essence of 5
Ripe Intellactuality, his natural and ']
supernatural powers are consecrated f
to the uplift of his fellowman anil .
the glory and praise to God. "Lord, .
what wilt thou have me to do?" i£e
the paramount thought and th' .
performance his greatest delight. {
The best exemplar of these fads?;
is the life of Saint Paul, who pos- .
sessed all the elements of Ripe J
Intellectuality more nearly than ad .
man of whom history gives an ac-fr
count, and whose beneficence hit-
been handed down through all ger,
eraMons for nearly two thousand
years with increasing power over- ,
shadowing all other earthly blessing: t
so completely that they are left in "
abject obscurity. '
It seems to me that the greatest,
earthly blessing is potentially the
greatest heavenly blessing also, fcj '
what is this life but a preparation
for the life beyond the grave!-'
Without she realization of which j
hope the infinite purpose of God1
pertaining to man, the crowninf1, ,
achievement of all creation woulj
be unaccomplished.
Guilford County has clone some more progressing. Cabarrus take notice.
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Institutional
Mo
tea.
Ey S. B. Davis
Mr. Ankers reports a depth of 28
feet in his new well, No. 4.
Marion Butler was ihe only one
to receive a visit Wednesday.
The barn beys bava a new mule,
having traded another one for it.
Wooden gallies to hold the mailing
type list have been made by the wood
shop.
Feet are tender and very sensi-
tive at first, but as they toughen all
will be well.
The White House, or our hospital,
has besn re-shingled by the workmen
and is now weather proof.
Word has been sent to each cot-
tage granting the boys a much cov-
eted privilege, namely, that of going
barefooted.
We ire busy installing a new water
main and hydrants. Ditches have
been dug in which to lay the pipe; it
looks as if we were going to have
trench war-fare.
Miss Wilson, a teacher in the
County schools, sister of Mr. Wilson,
one of our popular officers, was a
weekend visitor at the school Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
A half a dozen of Wenworth's
second year Algebras have arrived.
Three boys were placed in this study
and are making rapid progress.
Some new job type of the Wed-
ding Text and Gothic design has ar-
rived at the Printing Office. The
same mail broght a mailer to be
used in mailing our Uplifts.
A tract of land near our oichaid
has been broken up and harrowed
by the boys. This land last year
was our watermellon patch. It is
not known what crops will be plant-
ed there this year.
Miss Ollie Fitzgerald, daughter of
Mrs. Mattip Fitzerald. of Marshville,
who has been visiting her mother for
some time, took Kodak pictures of
the Printing Office force and of the
evening school section which was
drilling at that time.
Each cottage has received a dur-
able refrigerator which, of course,
will be filled with ice from our new
ice plant. The ice plant is not yet
quite finished but as soon as warm,
or rather hot weather arrives, it is
expected to be making ice.
The societies of the two cottages,
Mecklenburg and State, have
ajourned for the summer vacation.
The participants of the last meeting
of the Shaw Society were: Sims,
Allen, Kennon, Wilson. Absher,
Shipp and Autry. 'Ihe last named
did unusually well.
Allie Williams, before he was plac-
ed in the bakery, had been a house-
boy. He was making such a success
as a baker, that Mr. Hilton took
him to the bakery and gave him a
real chance. Now. Allie can bake
bread almost as good as Mr. Hilton.
The J. T. S. played the Cabarrus
Mills again last Saturday. On this
occasion, however, fortune did not
smile on the Grey Suits, for they
were defeated by a score of 7 to 1.
In spite of their team losing, the
boys all enjoyed the game and are
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looking for another one with this 'vas a square box connected to a
sarr.e team. Rossel pitched for four medium sized horn by a wire. A
innings and Holman traveled there- student was anxious to know "how
maining three In the first session can people talk through the air by
the visitors scored a run and from that?'' But just then Mr. Coltrane,
then on piled up an insurmountable happened to connect up with Pitts-
lead. Jack McLellon must be given burg and the speaker's question was
special mention because of his re- answered for him, but not entirely
markabb fielding in the right pas- satisfactorily. The horn began to
ture, Long runs forward and back- speak presumably announcing the
ward catches were pie for him. Then, playing of some instrument by some
too Williams, Cook, and Honeycutt person. Then after a moment's pause>
must, be given credit. The Cabarrus the playing began. The music was
Mills may accept this as a challenge easily distinguishable, but an irritat-
for some future game. ing noise like the sound of a needle
on a record after it hiss finished
Last Tuesday word was circulated playing, disturbed the sweetness of
from friend to friend that the stud- jt. Then, too, Charlotte would "but-
ents of the school would be enter- in" with some whistle on' other musi-
tained that night by the radio. Not cal instrument. But on the whole
a student had seen or heard a radio olr students enjoyed the ra:lio im-
until then, so a good deal of natural mensely. During one of the slack
curiosty was evinced. That night moments Supt Boger explained the
when t:ie bell rang each cottage went rat)i0 to the enjoyment of an afore-
into the auditorium where the radio sajfj speaker, and how it happened
was Lstalled. If some anticipated to be here. After a few more rnun-
huge and complicated machinery, bers. the students returned to their
they were doomed to dissapointment. cottages.
Tne only thing that met their, eyes
Two small boys were discussing the Two 0,d saUs who ,]ad gpent mo-
various excellences of then- respective of their Uve3 on fish;ng smackSi were
parents and the conversation had arguing about mathematics. Finally,
reached the highly critical and even the captian of the ship proposed a
personal stage. problem. "If you sold 126 pounds of
"Well," remarked Tommy Stubbs, codfish at 6 cents a pound." he said,
"you can say what you like, but I "how mnch would you make?"
reckon your father's about the mean- Both men worked awhile with
est man that ever lived. Fancy him pencilsand paper, but neither seem-
letting you walk about in them old ed to get very far. At last old Bill
shoes, and him a shoemaker, too!" turned to the captain. "Is it codfish
"Bah," replied Bobby Roberts, they caught?" he demanded.
"M father ain't so mean as your "Yep" replied the captian.
father, anyway. Why, fancy him "No wonder I ouldn't get an ans-
being a dentist and your baby only got wer!" exclaimed Bill in disgust. I've
one tooth!" been figuring on shad all the time."
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NO. 26
MEMORIES ENSHRINED.
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May 10
Twenty-four years ago, "when the tocsin of war
sounded, it was the blood of the old Confederacy
that laid the first red rubies upon freedom's altar.
The instantly the world remembered that it was
the South whose soldiership and valour wrested
Yorktown from the British — the South whose Pat-
rick Henry kindled the fires of the Revolution, whose
Jefi'erson wrote the Declaration of Independence,
whose "Washington commanded the Continental ar-
my, whose Madison framed the constitution, whose
Marshall interpreted the organic law — aye, the
South to whom the Union was indebted for existence;
and' if from 1861 to 1865 she drew her sword against
the Union's flag, it was in defense of the Union's
constitution!
"The men did not die in vain. They live in a
literature that loves a lost cause. Troy's down-
fall awoke the harp of Homer. The Greek-sung
glories of Thermopylae have sprung from the death
bed of Leonidas. The triumph of "Wellington at
Waterloo has not eclipsed the Marengo of Napoleon
and in the distant years to come, Fame's loudest
blast will sound to all the listening world the name
of Lee."
-PUBLISHED BY-
THE PRINTING CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON MANUAL
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHKD BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Suhscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1S79.
MAY MORNING
By John Milton
Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flowery May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow cowslip and pale primrose.
Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire
Mirth and youth and warm desire!
Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing;
Thus we salute thee with our early song,
And welcome thee, and >vish thee long.
MEMORIAL DAY— MAY 10th.
Memorial day had its origin in what was called Decoration Day. The
idea originated in the state of Georgia. Its observance has spread to most
of the states, both North and South. Officially it has become, and of right,
a holiday.
The date of month, however, varies. The reason for this does not con-
sist in any bickering over the propriety of the occasion, or from a lack of
appreciation of the the beantiful practice of remembering our heroes by
covering their graves with flowfrs. The different dates, observed by a
number of states, is the result of the seasons
Flowers seem their best about the 10th of May in North Carolina—and a
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the dear old Confederate who gave up his 11 fe for his country deserves in
memory their very best. In Virginia, for instance, the date is May 30th;
this being due to the profuse blooming' of flowers coming at a later date
than in North Carolina.
There is a reason, however, for North Carolina selecting the 10th and
not the 9th or any other aate near the first of the month. On that day---
the 10th of May-- -we have a reminder of the anniversary of the death of the
Confederate army's right arm, the sainted Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
:;: * $ * * $ * *
LEST WE FORGET.
This issue of The UPLIFT would honor the memory of all veterans of
the War Between the States and the actors in that awful period of Ameri-
can history. This writer, joining even those that engaged in that con-
flict wherein they bore the burden of the hardships and the sorrows, has
no feeling of animosity whatever against the leaders and their descendents
of the Federal side. He could very well do so, however, because in nature
there is, in fact and truth, what science has discovered and determined "pre-
natal influence."
The mothers, anxiously awaiting the news of loved ones on the battle
fields, receiving news of the death in battle of a soldier-son, brought into
existence all over the Southland child-life that had bred in it all the ten-
dencies of sorrow, anxiety, distress, suffering- -real and imaginary trials
that bind the children of the Confederacy without appeal to the mercy of
relief and freedom. These can never and should never forget the heroes
of '61-'65. ,
There is no disposition, no desire, to revive any bitter feelings. The
story of the Confederacy is a story that should engage the whole nation
with a feeling of pride mingled with sorrow.
That the young and future generations of the South should be pemitt-
ed to forget the heroic struggles and the actors in the Confederacy, is a
crime chargeable to the teachers and leaders of the South. Remembering in
love these heroes, is no offence to a Union, to which we are all loval, and
none stands more ready to uphold her flag and defend her against all
comers. History proves this, not only to our own glory but to the com-
mon glory of all American people.
Painful is the ract that many a high school pupil is permitted to pass
out into active life without a speaking knowledge of the simple facts of
the story and leaders of the Southern Confederacy— due entirely to the
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tranny of the course of study and the character of modern teaching and
ideas. It is nothing short of a sin against childhood. A citizenship that
takes no pride in the deeds of theic forefathers reflects no glory on a coun-
ty.
WHAT WOMEN HAVE CONTRIBUTED SINCE 1865.
On the first Easter morning the women remembered their dead, so the
Southern women of the nineteenth century put on their mourning attire.
There was scarcely a home in the whole Southland that did not have a new-
made grave to demand its care.
Right well did our women rise to the occasion, for early in 1866 Confed-
erate Memorial Associations sprang up like magic throughout the South, the
first one being organized at Columbus, Georgia, on April 26, 1S66; and at
Charleston, S. C, on May 14, 1S66. On May 31, 1900, a general Associa-
tion was formed at Louisville, Ky., now containing more than seventy dis-
trict associations. These associations have given a tender thought and im-
pressive activity in seeing that the graves of Confederate soldiers are mark-
ed; that the survivors are properly remembered; and that suitable exercises
are annually held commemorative of the courage.ius service of the Confeder-
ate soldiers, living and dead.
To their splendid and earnest organizations may be attributed the estab-
lishment, in large measure, the Soldiers' Homes of the several states. They
may have come, sooner or later, but the activity and the love of the noble
women of the South hastened the day of the establishment of these restful
places for such of the old soldiers as wish to avail themselves of their care
and protection. This writer well remembers thirty-four years ago, how
concerts and entertainments were held to create funds to aisist in the
maintenance of the North Carolina Soldiers' Home. One of the most
beautiful and engaging entertainments e\er held in Concord was a Confed-
erate Concert, engineered by Madames J. P. Allison, R. S Harris, Dr. Her-
ring, Dr. Fetzer and the writer. The proceeds, amounting to nearly two
hundred dollars, went to Raleigh, supplementing the maintenance of our
State Home. Like entertainments were held all over the state, and not
abandoned until the Legislature rose to a sense of its obligation for a com-
plete and just support.
Woman! First at the cross, last at the grave.
% ^ v ■£ "¥ £ ^ $fi
Something must be done, and that quick- Lady Nancy Astor walked
6 THE UPLIFT
into a Baltimore shoe-store, tried on a pair of shoes, she liked them; tried
another pair and liked them— this thing kept' up until she had invested
$188.40. Finally she put her feet into a 4 h C and walked oft' as if nothing-
had happened. Sister Astor is putting notions into the heads of our wives
and sweethearts that will hurt.
% ;*; % ^ >|i i'fi % %
NAME THEM.
If Cabarrus county be an average, there are now in North Carolina just
6 2.00 veterans of the War Between the States. In fact, no one knows the
exact number.
The Uplift has addressed a request to a representative citizen ot each
county in the State, asking for the names and addresses of the survivors
of the 60s. These glorious old heroes are passing so rapidly to join Lee
and Jackson on the other side, that it is necessary to fix a date and ask for
the survivors in the several counties of date of May 10, 1922.
These will be published in The Uplift as fast as received or is practi-
cable.
Our neighbor counties have pressed into a willingness two most excellent
gentlemen and experienced legislators to consent again to return to the
General Assembly, after an absence of some years. Hon. Z. V. Turlington,
of Mooresville, will go from Iredell; and Judge B. B. Miller will be one of
the representatives from Rowan. .That's fine.
Governor Morrison has declined to appoint colored folks to the office
of Notary Public. His course will be regarded as perfectly consistent.
WHAT WE MISSED.
Home and its delightful setting at this season of the year, is the best
place in the world; but the desire to be in Greensboro this week had a pow-
erful hanking in it. It would have been no small privilege and source of
entertainment and profit'to have looked in on and listened to the brilliant
women gathered there in the annual convention of the Federated Clubs of
North Carolina.
The annual gathering of these representative women from the several
towns and cities of the state^reflects a progressive spirit in the respective
communities from which they come. The deliberations, conclusions and
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legislations of these women carry a much greater significance than formerly
because they bear a political voice that attracts the interest of all mankind,
especially the political leaders and social welfare workers.
THE FOX AND THE MOSQUITOES.
A Fox after crossing a river get its tail entangled in a bush, ami
could nut move. A number of Mosquitoes seeing Ins plight settled
upon it ami enjoyed a good meal undisturbed by its tail. A hedge-
hog strolling by took pity upon the Fox and went up to him: "You
are in a bad way neighbor," said the hedgehog; ''shall I relieve you
by driving- off thoseMosquitoes who are sucking your blood."
'•Thank you, Master Hedgehog," said the Fox, "but I would rather
not."
"Why, how is that?" asked the hedgehog.
"Well, you see," was the answer, "these Mosquitoes have had
[heir till; if you drive these away, others will eome with fresh appe-
tite and bleed me to death."
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WE HAVE THEM YET FOR A LITTLE
WHILE.
of the Cabarrus veterans, who are
yet with us, is complete but it repre-
sents the surviving Confederate vete-
rans as revealed by the records kept
by Capt. H. Baxter Parks, of Con-
cord, who kindly furnished same to
The Uplift.
J. L. Stafford, Dr. S. A. Grier, Wm. N. Spears, J. P. Culp.
J. S. Harris, D. C. Dayvault, George Misenheimer, W. J. Hun-
Stop, think for a moment. How
many of the old Confederate soldiers
can you name in your midst? They
are going — going fast, to meet, on the
other side, the brave comrades who
fought as they fought for a cause
they believed right and righteous. I
do not know that the following list
Township 1.
Township 2
sucker.
Township 3. ALL DEAD.
Township 4. A. L. Demarkus, John Lowrie, W. A. Davis.
Township 5. ALL DEAD.
Township 6. J. M. Safrit, T. J. Safrit, J. C. Sikes, Billy Cruse.
Township 7. Henry Moose, John H. Moose, Mike Rinehardt, George Bice.
Township 3. John Cook, A. C. Barrier, George W. Blackwelder, William
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Barringer, J. T. Halm, George Page, John A. Barrier, W. H. Mincy.
Township 9. Jacob R. Barnhardt, Thos. Einehardt, Al. Boat.
Township 10. John S. Turner, Jas. S. Eussel, D. P. Boger, W. H. Hudson,
Charley Muse.
Township 11. T. S. Pharr, W. J. McLaughlin.
Township 12. G. M. Lore, Rev. T. W. Smith, C. A. Pitts, M. M. Gillon, H. S.
Pnryear, Columbus Holshouser, T. S. Shinn, G. W. Brown, R. 0. S. Miller, C.
W. Allman, Chal Plott, D. B. Coltrane, John Mclnis, A. M. Brown, H. B. Parks,
A. G. Bost, G. L. Winecoff, C. F. Walter, John A. Propst, Rev. Jacob Simp-
son, Joe White, Capt. Chas. McDonald, W. J. Hill, A. E. Walter, J. C. Honey-
cutt.
Just sixty-two ut' the brave, dear,
old fellows are lei't to us in all of the
whole county. They are going fast.
In the language of another:
'■Veterans, God bless you! You
served in the noblest army ever mus-
tered upon ihe planet. Your sears
link us to an immortal past. You have
been heroes in peace no less than in
war. You have taught us to be brave
in danger, patient in trial, magnani-
mous in victory and undaunted in de-
feat. Would that we could keep you
always, men of grey with hearts of
gold! But the remorseless hour-hand
moves round the dial. The voices of
comrades call from out the west. One
by one, Time is paroling the Old
Guard, and soon the last of Lee's
paladins will whisper to his mates be-
yond starlight: "I am coming, boys,
I am coming." What a gathering at
the river will the last reunion be —
'Where falls no shadow, lies no stain,
'Where those who meet shall part
no more
And those long parted meet again!' '
1 >n our memorial day, May the
10th "Mothers and Daughters of the
Southland! Fare ye forth! Let the
magnolia forsake its lofty bough! Let
the violet quit its lowly bed! Let the
lilies of the valley join the mountain
laurels in beauty's pilgrimage to
knighthood's holy land! Come, spir-
it of the Mother South! Come from
the haunts of the storied past ! Come
from the mansion's pillard pomp!
Come from the hovel's humble hearth!
Take toll of the gardens where the
roses bloom and squander the gar-
lands where the loved ones lie ! Bid
tlie live-oak don her widow's weeds
in the woodland's deepest solitudes
and make the wild rose wander to
the farthest couch on which a war-
rier dreams ! Zephyrs, sweep your
aeolian harps! Rivers, chant your
funeral requiems! Ocean, peal your
organ thunders! Your theme to-
day is Dixie's dead. Let the willows
weep on every lowland plain ! Let
the cedars sigh on every highland
height ! And if an unknown grave
be overlooked, 0 Dixie, round a dew-
drop there and whisper in the south
wind's softest breath:
'Thy mother loves thee still!' ".
"Everybody has his faults," said Uncle Eben. "De principal difference
in folks is whether dey's sorry for 'em or proud of 'em."
10 THE UPLIFT
SOWING AND REAPING.
(Presbyterian Standard)
Youth is tilt' sowing' season, and old ago is the harvest time, and in nothing
are there more erronerous views than as to the connection between what you
sow and what yon reap.
Tt is true the Scriptures are very plain in their teaching, but when men
and women wish tor pleasure, they can easily persuade themselves that they
will be exceptions to this general rule.
Parents have a great deal to do with
what their children sow, and they
will be held responsible for what they
sow, yet at the same time we must
realize that often parents with the
best of motives in training their chil-
dren have to contend with environ-
ment, and above all with inherited
tendencies, because the moral law is
speeted and sober citizens.
They hear them boasting of their
wild days, and thus they naturally
believe that such a youth is in some
way the natural way for preparing
a respected old age. These men who
thus boast are no exceptions to the
rule of sowing and reaping. Ihey
may have wills strong enough to curb
their appetites, and thus are nbta to
right when it says that the iniquities present a fair exterior, but too often
of the fathers are visited upon the
children unto the third and fourth
generation. That law of reaping
what is sown is inexorable. The sin
of some ancestor generations back
weakened the power of resistance of
your children and makes it* a fore-
gane conclusion that he must fall, un-
less some powerful counteracting in-
fluence is brought to hear to neutra-
lize this evil.
The parent not only has to over-
come heredity, hut too often then; is
a lack of concert between father and
mother, one being to stern, or the
other too indulgent. The result is
seen in the child's future life.
their hearts within are like the whited
sepulchres of scripture, ''full of dead
men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
Let no one deceive himself. This
law of sowing and reaping is lixeii.
Some one reaps the harvest, and as
a rule the one sowing has to do the
reaping. The very apparent nxi ep-
tions, when thoroughly examined,
prove to be no exceptions. That
man who sowed his wild oats in his
youth and now in his old age is full
of vigor and is respected in a com-
munity, by no means proves that the
law is not true.
Blessed with a vigorous- consti-
tution and a strong will, he may have
Then the young being free agents passed through the experience of
choose for themselves, especially in youth apparently unhurt, and he may
this day when the independence of the be cited as one who does not reap
child is encouraged beyond anything what he has sown. Old age, however
in the experience of the past. They too often brings the harvest, or even
may hear the warnings of the old, but granting that he does not reap the
they also see the example of those harvest in a wasted body, it too often
who were once wild, but are now rt- comes in the shape of heartaches ana
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sleepless nights, grieving over the life comfort. If we sow to the Spirit, we
of his sons. reap life everlasting.
The other side of the law is full of
LIES BURIED AT ARLINGTON.
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The foregoing is the picture and
surroundings of the grave of Ev-
erette McAllister, son of Mrs. Ro-
bert Lee McAllister, of Mt. Pleasant,
Cabarrus county. He was among
the first--if not the first---to volun-
teer from Cabarrus in the World
War.
He was, however, the first Ca-
barrus soldier to lose his life in the
war beyond the seas. Volunteering
in May 1917, he went into training
until on Thankgiving of said year
he set sail for the scene of the great
contest; and landed abroad and
reached his destination on Christams
morning.
He was killed in the battle of the
Marne, July 15, 19 IS. His remains
were brought to this country and
re-interred at Arlington July 21,
1921, three years after making the
supreme sacrifice.
Just twenty years old, with a
bright mind, having just finished his
education at the Collegiate Institute,
at Mt. Pleasant, when he volunteered
in the service of the cause of demo-
cracy. He gave his all. What more
could man do for his country than
to die for it?
"I wonder what makes the water look so yellow?" asked manima the
other day as she looked at the globe of goldfish. "Why, I des the gold
dust be tomin' off the fishes," replied little Irene.
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Talking About The Facts.
(Sfatesville Daily)
"Some of the things that startled the country as a result of investigations
made in connection with the war are now being examined critically," re-
marks the Raleigh News and Observer. One of the startling statements,
now being questioned, is that "nearly half the population have the menta-
lity of 12-year old children." This paper does not recall that statement.
but it was asserted that as a lesulc of the examinations in connection with
the draft act a large per cent of the persons examined were found deficient
mentally and physically. It is ab- tion are defective. The statement is
surd on its face to say that "nearly
half the population have the men-
tality of 12-year old children" for
the very gooJ reason that nobody
has made an examination, or found
it possible to make an examination
to determinine that fact. If any-
body said that it was simply guess-
work, not founded on any basis wor-
thy of serious consideration, and is
therefore valueless if not slanderous.
Reference is made to this state-
ment simply to call attention to num-
errus similar assertions made and
accepted as facts which haver.o real
foundation in fact. Physicians, al-
ienists, interested in their work and
examining large numbers of people
who are physically and mentally de-
fective, come to the conclusion that
few are mentally and physically
sound, and they proceed to declare
that a large portion of the popula-
accepted as fact because of the
standing of the man who makes it,
when a little analysis will convince
that while he may be honest in his
opinion the basis of his assertion is
unsound. His observation is comp-
paiatively limited, and the inference
that the larger part of the popula-
tion is made up fo similar types does
not always follow.
The truth is a whole lot of folks
take in too much territory in talk-
ing about things of which they have
not postive knowledge 2nd cannot
have. They simply assume that a
limited experience gives them knowl-
edge they do not possess. They
make a guess and the astonishing
part is that so many of them get
their guesses accepted as facts be-
cause their standings is such that
their assertions go unquestioned.
PUTTING BIBLE IN NEWSPAPERS
At an expense of one dollar for every million readers, the Back to the
Bible Bureau of Cincinnati, is getting one verse of scripture daily prinled
in about one thousand American newspapers and magazines. Its total driily
scripture readers are estimated at 10,000,000 now, two years after :he
bureau's inauguration.
A goal of 110,000,000 Bible verse tive.
readers daily is announced, with a The Bureau's idea is that d'-ily
five-years program to make it elfec- reading of one Bible verse makes for
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13
good citizenship, and that the best
pulpit through which to reach all
persons is the daily press. The or-
ganization is non-secta>-ian, its daily-
verses going to publications of all,
faiths, free of charge and not only
to newspapers but to trade journals,
and to society and labor publica-
tions.
How the idea started and its rapid
growth is described by George W.
Hartzell, a Dayton, Ohio, manufact-
urer, an advisory member of the
Bureau. The chairman is James N.
Gamble, of the Proctor and Gamble
Company.
The Bureau was inaugurated two
years ago by Addison Y. Reid, of
Cincinnati, who is now its secretary.
He had been conducting a propagan-
da for prohibition, sending daily
contributions to a number of news-
papers, and paying for their public-
ation. With the adoption of the
prohibition amendment, Mr. Reid
stopped that work, but decided to
try a campaign of Biblical verse.
At first he paid for the publication
nf daily Bible verses just the same as
lie had paid for the propaganda.
The verses went to only a few news-
papers. After about six months paid
publications, olher newspapers, be-
coming interested, and discovering
that Mr. Reid was furnishing the
scriptural quotations, asked him to
supply them also, offering to make
publication without, charge. There-
upon Mr. Reid stopped paying for
insertion of the verses, and the
present Bureau was inaugurated.
Mr. Hartzeil said that in these two
years the Biueau has expended $10,-
000, al! of it for printing and pos-
tage, as there are no other expenses,
all the work being voluntarilv done
by a group of Cincinnati residents.
The response to the Bureau's letters
offering the scriptures has been uni-
form from all sections of the coun-
try, Mr. Hartzell stated. The daily
papers now publishing include 46 in
Canada and publications in Hawaii
the Philippines and Korea.
Many papers have been putting
the daily verse at the bead of the
editorial column, but not all.
"A large Ohio daily," said Mr.
Hartzell, "is running the verse
completely across its daily comic
page. When I asked the editor why
he chose that position, he replied:
"Why, don't you want it in the
most conspicuous place?'
"This editor added, laughing.
'Perhaps the readers of the comics
need balancing more than anyone
else.'
"The editor of a Bellingham,
Washington, paper made a personal
investigation to discover whether
subscribers really read these daily
verses. He reported that he found
that thousands actually read them.
"The verses are selected by Mr.
Reid, who before having them mail-
ed, submits them to a committee
of ministers and church officials for
approval."
Mr. Hartzell said that the Bureau
is now engaged in raising a fund of
$200,000, the amount it is estimated
the wr:rk of extending the publica-
tion to a 110,000,000 daily circula-
tion will cost in the next five years.
Maybe Hank cannot cut the fertilizer bill in two, but the south would
certainly like to sea him try. — Greensboro News.
14 THE UPLIFT
MARRYING ON NOTHING.
(Greensboro Record.)
Former Govenor Osborne, of Michigan, informs the world that when he
married he had nothing and was able to give his bride only a five cent ride
on a street car for a wedding trip. He did have one other nickel and spent
that on a five-cent boquet for her.
Thats interesting testimony, first hand stuff, proving that all a couple
wanting to marry needs is courage and some ability. The ability that the
ex-governor and his wife had was tention of marrying. He spends
worth more to them than a house it to make a good appearance in the
and a lot, an automobile— if they had eyes of the intended,
automobiles then--and a nice collect- It is true that the parents of
ion of stocks and bonds and money young folks may have plenty of coin
in the bank. They took the plunge but that is generally the worst thing
because'^ they were not afraid that could happen to the youngsters,
and they came up, swimming nat- It keeps them from striking out vig-
urally and got to a nice place on the orously. They do not have to work
shore because they had some sense. and so perhaps they don't. What's
But they wasted no time in dream- the use? There are exceptions of
ing. It is a safe bet that they went course, some people would get ahead
to work, both of them, buckling no matter what the barriers in the
down with every ounce of energy shape of rich parents, but most of
and gumption that they had. Prob- us get in the habit of working be-
ably Mr. Osborne's wife had more cause we have to do it.
to do with his successful career than This is no advice to a fellow ivith
he did. only ten cents to go marry. The
It is doubtful if few couples have fellow waiting to marry until he has
much when they marry. Their par- $10,000, however, seeing marriage
ents may have something, but that getting further away can, from a
in many cases is a detriment, keep- consideration of the Mr. Osborne's
ing the young folks from striking case, quit being so afraid of matri-
out vigorously. It is a rare young mony. It will not hurt him if he
man who saves his coin with the in- is any good.
Sir Douglas Haig, the Scottish commander-in-chief of the British armies,
tells this: "A Scot bored his English friends by boasting about Scot-
land. 'Why did you leave Scotland?' a Londoner asked, 'since you liked
the place so much?' The Scot chuckled. 'It was like this,' he said, 'in
Scotland everybody was as clever as myself, but here I'm gcttin' along ver-
ra weel.' "
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15
DR. HUBERT A. ROYSTER.
In his address before the Medical
said among other things:
"The minimum requirements for a
career in medicine," Dr. Royster de-
clared, "are a preliminary educa-
tion) four years in the medical
school and a license to practice.
While these requirements are in-
dispensable, they are by no means
sufficient. Three high attributes
stand out as the real elements of a
successful physician, without which
all requirements fall to the ground.
This trinity is brains, culture and
character.
"The misfits in medicine, as well
as in other occupations, are due
largely to lack of understanding.
There arc many in the cornfield to-
day who ought to be in medicine —
they have brains; there are others
in medicine who ought to be in the
cornfield — they have none.
Common Sense Prime Requisite
"A finely endowed intellect is
needed to carry on in the. realm of
medicine, to withstand its tempta-
tion toward the illogical, to keep
clear-headed in the midst of fact and
fancy. Such endowment comes not
from science itself; it issues per-
manently from a mind nurture in
the ways of thinking. The hand-
maiden of brains, essential for the
doctor, is common sense, which is
simply the ability to put brains to
good account.
"Make no mistake about culture.
Culture is refinement, accuracy
poise., resourcefulness, it is not ef-
feminacy, weakness, conventionalism,
impracticability. We have been
Society, in session at "Winston-Salem.,
getting too far away from tho
humanities, from classical education,
from academic scholarship, if you
please. In the quest of science — ■
and there is no noble pursuit — wo
have set up ultilitarian courses,
called pre-medical and certainly pre-
medicated, for the purpose of re-
ducing to a minimum all those things
which do not bear directly upon tho
matter in hand, and swelling to a
maximum those that are concerned
in the material things of medicine.
In this picture we have left out tho
very bed rocks of learning — the
capacity to interpret the phenomena
and the power to express the find-
ings.
Inaccuracy Chief Sin
"We are living in an age the chief
sin of which is inaccuracy. ^Ye are
inaccurate in thought, in speech, in
spelling, in writing. We know a.
great deal; but do we know anything
very well,' Short cuts and practical
preparations are the order of the day.
Language, the only medium through
which thoughts are giving out, has
been almost forgotten.
' ' We cannot divorce science and
culture; we cannot go on rearing a
race of seekers after truth who are
not trained thinkers; we cannot fail
to preceive that the education of a
candidate for a learned profession
means for us, as it has meant for
all the older nations, a thorough
grounding in the ancient and honor-
able arts and classes before we ap-
proach the special study needed for
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our dignified calling. That way our
great fathers trod, who outstripped
us with the means at their disposal,
that way lies our hopes of elevation,
of bringing hack the well-rounded
medical man and adding to him the
marvelous scientific attainments of
the present age.
The One Big Asset
''The one big asset for the medical
man in the acquisition of the scien-
tific attitude in his student days.
Every physician should remain a
student the whole of his natural life.
A pitiable sight is the practitioner
■who was known as a 'good student'
lint who after five years, more or
less, has degenerated into a routine-
ist, never reviewing his former
knowledge or adding to his original
store.
The Cry of the Charlatan
''What has no place in science is
the post hoc erge porter hoc habit
of mind. It is the most dangerous
of all doctrines for the medical m'en.
It is the rankest empiricism and fur-
nishes the platform for all quacks
and imposters. 'Whereas I was
blind, now I see' is an insidious ap-
peal to effects in utter disregard of
the means — the cry of the charlatan.
Montaigne wrote that when a man
is sick and gets well, he cannot say
whether it was because of the reme-
dies used, the lapse of time or his
grandmother's prayers. It requires
a powerful mental efforts to get away
from the belief that whatever hap-
pens after an event is always on ac-
count of it; but we must get away
from this belief or we shall not re-
tain our clear thinkiner.
"A turn in the affairs of medicine
is just before us. Whether that turn
will be toward new and untired
fields or along some old and well-
worn paths, the future — the near fu-
ture— will determine. The struggle
is on between medicine as practiced
by the private physician in the time-
honored relation and practice by
groups in an impersonal collective
fashion."
As To Diagnosis
Dr. Koyster said that "due to the
multiplicity of technical detail and
the accumulating mass of new dis-
coveries in modern medicine, it is
now more than ever true that 710
man diagnoseth to himself." After
discussing diagnosis, the speaker de-
clared ' ' there never has been or
never will be anything to take the
place of cultivated brains and train-
ed special sense. The dual instru-
ment, ready for instant and proper
"use, will be found as the chief equip-
ment-in the office- of the real phvsi-
cian.
Asking the question "and what will
become of our specialism"? Where
will it end?" Dr. Royster said:
"But increasing sub-divisions of spe-
cialism give us pause, so much 30
that by reaction we are beholding
a newer, specialists the general prac-
titioneer. He is in a class by himself,
left in charge of those who are act-
ually sick, with the issues of life
and death on his hands, both early
and late. He is the keystone of the
medical arch; without his support
the whole frabic would fall to the
ground; family after family are de-
pending on him for counsel, relying
on his judgment in every crisis. Of
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what use are specialists unless there
is the intermediary to say when they
are needed? And since the general
practitioner is by distinction become
a specialist and expected to know a
little about everything, why should
not the professed specialist be re-
quired to know something about gen-
eral medicine? One finds oneself
somewhat in agreement with the re-
cently suggested proposal that ex-
amining boards may require five
years in general practice before al-
lowing the privilege of going into a
specialty.
Group Medicine
"Many are rushing into group
medicine as a solution of the whole
matter. Such practice brings to
bear upon each case the combined
study of a number of specialists,
who, examining the patient indivi-
dully, finally comes together for es-
tablishing a complete dignosis or
leave it to one member of the group
to pronounce the judgment. Work
in groups has come to stay, for it is
inevitable that men will associate
for mutual help and encouragement.
Team work is the modern slogan
and it is the way to win the game.
But if the group discounts the in-
dividual and the individual forgets
the patient, we have not group
medicine, but gang medicine, and
their product is syndicated science,
than which nothing can be more un-
scientific.
After discussing arguments for
and against group practice, Dr. Koy-
ster said "My feelings is that the
group idea is one of the most use-
ful modes of service in medicine.
But no group should be ironclad or
unwieldy; its tendency to send out
machine-made work should be
changed into that of a hand-picked
work. It should stop straining at
gnats and swallowing camels, and
i-learn that the group was made for
the patient and not the patient for
the group. Just as strongly should
we realize that the practice of medi-
cine will never — and should never — ■
get away from the personal relation
of patient and physician."
Need Of The Hour.
"Battling with custom, prejudice,
disease.
As once the sone of Zues with death
and hell."
"A spirit of uncertanity prevades
our rank and file," said the speaker,
who asked "What are we going to
do about it?" Continuing, he said.
"We are going to change to progress;
we shall go forword; we will meet
and master every disturbing diffi-
culty. A stubborn element of con-
servatism is the rule in this common-
wealth. We are to prone to 'be not
the first by whom the new is tried'
and often the boast of being 'the last
to lay the old side.' This is per-
haps a virtue; but a virtue run to
seed may constitute a vice. Are we
not something afraid of the new he-
cause it is new? Over and over
again it has been asserted that 'our
people are slow to change,' that they
will resent, any interference with
the existing order of things. It is
only true. Thus will come our ad-
justment to the forward movement —
not through compelling agencies or
rapid fire orders, but by seeing that
whatever benefits the people of a
state, who gave us the commission
we hold, also benefits the medical
profession whose highest aims we
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have at heart and whose noble prin-
ciple we as individuals are striving'
to maintain.
Goal For Profession
"In conclusion I have an idea to
express for this society. First. I
would have it conform in every par-
ticular to the specifications set forth
in Article Two of the constitution
adopted in 1902; which stated that
'The purpose of this society shall
he to federate and bring into one
compact organ the entire medical
profession of this state with a view
to the extension of medical know-
ledge and to the advancement of
medical science; to the elevation of
the standard of medical education
and to the enochment of just medi-
cal laws; to tile promotion of friend-
ly intercourse among physicians and
for guarding and prospering their
material interests; and to the en-
lightenment and direction of public
opinion in regards to the great prob-
lems of state medicine so that the
profession shall become more cap-
able and honorable within itself and
more useful to the public in the pre-
vention and cure of diseases and pro-
longing and adding comfort to life.
Prime Principles
"I would have this society embody,
these principles in the conscience of
its every member, especially recall-
ing the significance of the order in
which the principalis are presented:
I would have it a place where right-
eousness reigns and no mean thing
may live, I would make it a guide
and not a trades union; 1 would
keep it a heaven where politics doth
not enter and where selfish exploita-
tion both not corrupt: I would wish
everyone to think not of what the
society is, but what he is to give
tin' society; I would want it a com-
munion where freedom rules', where
each fellow may have the aspiration
and opportunity to develope what is
in him, but I would also carry its
standard so high that we may draw
all men up to it and never for one
moment trial its colors in the
wretched dust of the unqualified
and the unfit.
"We have every reason to feel
encouraged. My note is one of op-
timism. If only we may glorify
brains as the consummate need; if
we reverence culture as a means of
grace; if we set character above
circumstances then indeed shall we
grow in capacity, refinement and
virtue, assuming our rightful sta-
tion as devotees of a learned pro-
fession, and champions of the real
things in life."
Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we sire
From the loanly earth to the vatdted skies,
And we mount to its smnmit round by round
I count this to he grandly true:
That a noble deed is a step toward God, —
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a hroder view.
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THE TOWN THAT WAS LOST AND
FOUND
(By Emma Mauritz Larson in Young Folks.)
"Lost, somewhere in Ohio about a century ago, a town. Wanted now so
that its 150th birthday may be celebrated." That is the ad that might have
been published in the Ohio papers this last year) though of course it wasn't.
But there wore some people in the state so deeply iuterseted in finding the
exact plaee where Schoenbrunn used to be that they spent eight months of
historical research ami seven weeks of difficult tongues of many Indian tribes
actual digging, and it seems very like- and had the friendship of the Penn-
ly that they have located the place Sylvania Indians.
where the interesting little town was. It was springtime when he reach-
One of [he things that made the ed Geklemukpechunk, the capital of the
search hard was the fact that Sehoen- Deleware Indians in the Tuscarawas
brunn was bin ned to the ground when Valley. The chief, Xetawotwes, re-
it was only ten years old and the ceived him with favor and said, " Yes,
storms and snows and rains and suns we have heard of the work of our
of the 140 years since then have done white brothers, the Moravians, in the
all they could to obliterate every trace east, how they desire peace between
of the ruins of the sixty homes along the white and red men, and that there
the two streets that ran like a letter shall never be war upon the earth,
T. and how they teach the Indian chil-
But it was a town worth searching dren in schools and even build great
for, for it had the first school house, houses for my brothers, the red men,
and the first church, the first Tern- to worship the Great Spirit in. I will
perance Society ami the first Peace give you land for such a town. On
Society west of the Alleghany Jloun- the Tuscarawas river, that is the Open
tains, a big load of honors for one Mouth River of great plenty, is a place
village, and a town made up mostly cleared, an old Wyandot town site,
of red men at that. where you may make houses and fields.
Four vears before the American And near by is a spring to give you
Revolution broke out a young man water."
from the Moravian town of Bethle- So David Zcisberger, when May
hem in Pennsylvania decided that came around again, brought from the
since his church believed in giving Moravian towns of his own state five
the gospel to all men he would turn Indian families to start a Christian
into the wild country beyond the town in Ohio. The chief's gift of
mountains ami work with the Indians. land was indeed a good place for the
Tie was well equipped to follow the new town, and during the spring and
two Moravian missionaircs who had summer the axes were busy cutting
just "one out there, for he knew the logs for houses ami the school and
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the church. By autumn the town had
been named Sehoenbrunn, or Beauti-
ful Spring, from the natural spring
which supplied them with clear, cold
water, and September saw the chapel
dedicated.
By this time other Indians had
been converted, but it looked like the
chapel built to accommodate five hun-
dred could never be filled out in
this wilderness of heathen red men.
But the preaching and teaching of
David Zeisberger was winning and
the lives of the Indian families who
had laid aside blankets and tepees
and were building good homes and
raising grain and cattle and living
in peace and happiness with each oth-
er made even a stronger sermon. So
the red men poured in to the chapel
at Schoenbrunn and lief ore long it
was crowded to the doors for the ser-
vices.
The Indian Agent for the Western
District of the American Colonies
came for a visit and was amazed.
"You have, way here out in the wil-
derness, such a state of civilization as
wouuld be praiseworty if you had a
town entirely made up of white men.
How you have accomplished it with
these savages I cannot imagine."
After a time there were sixty hous-
es on the two streets shaped like a T
and the fields and meadows stretched
out far with fine harvests and sleek
cattle. There were neighbors of their
own belief now too, a few miles farth-
er down the river two other Moravian
Indian towns had been started,
Gnadenhuttcn and Salem, towns whose
very names meant the home of happy
peace. But peace was not to last
The Revolutionary War had brok-
en out and it brought troubled times
to the white Moravians in the east
because of their convictions against
lighting-. But their sympathies were
strong for the Americans and they
opened the big .-tone Brethren's houses
in their three Pennsylvania towns
as General Hospitals. Two thousand
wounded were sent to them at one
time, among them Lafayette, who
chose to stay in one of the comfortable
homes in Bethlehem and who went
away praising the Moravians for their
kindness and skilled care and the in-
dustry which kept every one busy
spinning and weaving blankets for the
army. Washington came to this Penn-
sylvania town of the Moravians tou,
and was most pleased with the ser-
vices being rendered by these peace-
loving people.
Count Pulaski, the Polish patriot,
who was helping the Americans, came
to the Moravian town of Bethlehem
and was so interested in the tine acade-
mies and the industries that when
some of his 4,00 troops camping
around the town became rowdyish,
the Count himself stood .guard all
night long. The grateful Moravian
women embroidered him a banner in
the fine stitches they knew so well
and he was carrying this when he fell
at the battle of Savannah. One of
his officers snatched the fallen ban-
ner from beside his dead leader and
long years later it was secured by tbe
Maryland Historical Society, a vivid
record of the faith of the Moravian
women of Pennsylvania in the right-
eousness of the American cause.
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So, though the Moravians were not
in the army, they did valiant service
in the East in hospital work and in
supplying food and clothing for the
lighters. They kept up their mission-
ary work in the three little new towns
in the Ohio wilderness, Sehoenbrunn,
Gnadenhutten and Salem. This might
well lie called direct war service, for
the towns influenced the Indians in a
wide circle, keeping even the heathen
Indians from attacking the colonists
in this time when their home defense
was weakened by fighting the British.
So David Zeisberger went on with
his work among the Indians, using
Sehoenbrunn as a center for his teach-
ing and bringing to it the red men
who wanted to build permanent Chris-
tian homes. It was a most uncomfor-
table place for a town to be located
in these days of war, for though the
Pennsylvania Moravians thought their
mission towns far out in the wilder-
ness and safely away from the white
men's war, Seholenbrunn was really
half way between two wilderness
forts. The one, Port Fitt of the
Americans, and the other, Fort De-
troit of the British, both looked sus-
piciously at the Indians in between.
One day in the late summer of 1781
when the gardens were at their best
and the fields almost ready to harvest,
a strange company appeared on the
streets of Sehoenbrunn
"You sympathize with the Amer-
cans," said these British). "We
don't like to have you half way be-
tween our Canadians post and Fort
Pitt." And they carried the entire
population of the three Moravians
towns on the Tuscarawas away to-
ward Canada. But near the Sandusky
river in Ohio the homeless captives
were halted for a winter of great
suffering. Their only food, corn, was
so scarce that famine was near and
they begged their captors to allow
them to return to their old homes to re-
cover what corn from the fields might
have lasted sound through the win-
ter.
At last their British captors con-
sented to an expedition back to
Schenobrunn and Gnadenhutten and
Salem, all of whose fields had been
left with the harvest ungathered.
David Zeisberger, who was always in.
the mist of the greatest danger, never
afraid, was not there to lead them
back to gather the corn, for he had
been sent to Detroit to be tried on a
trumped-up charge and though he
was quickely acquitted, he was not
allowed to return to his suffering
friends wintering on the Sandusky.
But one hundred and fifty men, wo-
men and children, were selected from
the whole population of the three
Ohio towns to go back for the food.
It was early march when they came
to the deserted towns, and cold winds
were still blowing, but they went at
once to the fields, leaving only two
or three Indians in the homes to ar-
range things for their staying sever-
al days until they could gather all of
the harvest that remained in the fields
after the winter storms.
Before many hours, though their
steady labor in the Gnadenhutten.
fields were broken by visitors, a hun-
dred soldiers from the east under Col.
Williamson, of Virginia.
"Ah, you are friends then," said
these Moravians Christian Indians
of the wilderness. "We have heard
from David Zeisberger and others of
the brave tight the Americans are ma-
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Icing- to be free. And we are glad that
the people of our mother church in
Bothelehcm in Pennsylvania have
-had tlie chance to take eai-e of your
wounded and weave blankets of your
coats for the lighters. We are sorry
we have been too far away to help,
■and that we are even more helpless
now because all of the people of our
three towns were earned off by the
British towards Canada. We have
been all winter in the terrible cold
without houses, in a place on the
Sandusky and have only now been
allowed to return for corn. Xincty
or so of us are here in Gnadenhutten
and the other sixty are at Scheno-
brunn, Xorth of here, and Salem,
south of here, to bring their corn.
We will slot finish for several days.
You will stay all night witli us in
our log houses in the town.'''
And the American militiamen
-Said they would stay, that they were
glad to have found friends. [t is
one of the great shames of our early
history of America that this Colonel
who had been sent out by the colon-
ies to find certain wild border In-
dians who had been robbing and
molesting white men in eastern settle-
ments, was neither honest nor brave,
nor just. lie pretended to be friends
with these Moravian Indians, accept-
ing their hospitality, and moving in-
to the town for the night. lie knew
that they were peaceful Christian
Indians, that they had been held cap-
tive by the British and could not
possible be the few robbers he was
after, and that as Moravians they
were strongly in sympathy witli the
.American cause.
Hut instead of meeting honor ami
faith with honor and right dealing
from these first moments, he had
planned to kill these red men and
women and children. ''All Indians
are alike. What does it matter
that these are Christians whom
the Moravians have taught not
to (ig)it. They are the easier for 115
to kill,'' he told his men. "You see
how easily they gave us their guns
which they had in the field to kill
game for food when I said we were
Americans and were their friends.
They are an easly lot to get rid of, hut
we'll wait until we have all the
crowd together from the three towns.''
Strangely enough, the Indians un-
consciously helped this plan for they
suggested that they send word of the
arrivals of these white friends to
Scheoenbrunn ami Salem, and they
sent two messengers on horseback.
Rut, fortunately, the Indians of the
other two towns hadn't arrived when
the Colonel carried out his cruel plan,
and in two of the big log shops, built
for their industries, he killed the
ninety peaeefid Indians.
Taught by their religious leaders
not to tight, they bravely faced these
new captors who had tied them up
men in one building, women and chil-
dren in another. They begged only
for a night's time and .--pent it in
holding services, and singing and
asking for courage to meet death.
The story of the end of these nil ety
Christian Indians martyrs is too cruel
to tell in detail, but two little lads
escaped anil ran to the other towns,
meeting their Indians on the way, com-
ing to celebrate the arrival of white
friends. So the two little lads trrn-
eil back the sixty who lied in to the
wilderness and finally reached Canada.
There thev had a settlement on the
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Thsmies river and when David Zeis- time went on they were buried in the
berger was released from the Fort at fields, and now for more than a huh-
Detroit lie went to them, still undaunt- died years no one lias known postive-
Dcl in Ids plan to build many towns ly where Sehoenbrunn stood. Five
for Christian Indians. 'sites near the famous spring have been
Uleanwhile, the cruel militiamen, mentioned, and each has its adherents.
who with their Colonel shared the So the searchers of 1021 who wished
blame for when he took a vote only to lind the exact site for a public
eighteen of the hundred soldiers voted commemoration on May 3rd, 1022, of
for mercy and life for the peaceful the town's founding by David Zeis-
Imlians, pressed on the Sehoenbrunn. berger, went eagerly at the search.
When they did not meet their expect- Records at Washington and in the
ed prey on the way and found no one historical archives of Ohio were
in the town they were the more en- searched for months and every tiuy
raged. phrase that would help to locate the
"We will fix it so that no one will two streets was gathered. A map.
ever dare to come back here," they drawn by David Zeisberger in 1772,
said and set lire to the school and showing the layout of the streets was.
the big chapel that, in its ten years a help and it indicated a bank of earth
had seen many a beautiful service which was a help in the final surmise
of music, and preaching, ami to every of the location. But alas, this map.
home and shop. did not include the spring which.
The ruins must have been clear would so simplify the exact location,
enough in those early days, but as
There are so many church members, if interested at all, it is no more
than to get a seat in the grandstand. Some) folks go to church, to be en-
tertained by the preacher and the choir, just as the players are expected,
to entertain on the baseball grounds. But grandstand religion will not
get one very far on the road to the slues. — Christian Advocate.
CASE OF THE COUNTRY CHURCH.
One has to live in the rural section to understand and fully appreciate-
the uneven chance and opportunity offered to our citizens. The eternal-
sapping of the vitality of the rural section is so serious that the matter de-
serves a first-hand and intimate study of the situation.
The Uplift has had much to say they are not functioning to the ad-
along this line for the past months, vancement of the rural cause. It may
In it was nothing personal, but the be treason to say this; but one who.
hope alone of bringing the people knows the conditions twenty years.
who are in the saddle and drawing ago and knows them to-day through
easy salaries for short hours under an intimate association, is perfectly-
delightful comforts to realize that aware that the machinery inaugura-
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ted to care for the rural problems
is not functioning efficiently.
Somewhat along this line just read
this story furnished the Christian Ad-
vocate by Rev. H. C. Byrum, who
has most clearly analyzed the situa-
tion in his section-- one of the best
in Lincoln county. Read what this
earnest and emphatic preacher has
to say:
"I am now on the old historic Rock
Spring circuit. Some of its churches
date back to 1790. One has the
honor of beir.g the first Method-
ist church organized west of the
Catawaba river. For more than a
century Methodism has been operat-
ing in this territory. We have now
somewhere about 950 members.
Think of this. No college graduate,
for this more than a hundred years,
has ever lived within the bounds of
the work and served the church or
as superintendent or Sundy school
teacher. We have two graduates as
members at present, but both are
teaching away from the charge.
We have one graduate teaching with-
in the bounds of the charge, but is
with us only while teaching.
This year will finish my twentieth
year in the conference. Four years
•of the time I had a Trinity College
graduate to superintend a Sunday
school. My recollection is now that
I have never had a college graduate
to teach a class. I believe I did get
one Davenport graduate once to read
the lesson text for the class. I am
throwing no stones at education or
college work. I believe in it with all
my soul. The hour is at hand, we
need to deliver some goods. The
leadership of the church came to
this charge and asked for $10,000. It
was promised. Then for six or
eight thousand more. One thousand
of it was promised. There is not a
Sunday school room on the charge.
We have three students in our church
schools from this charge. We have
more than this number in other
church schools. When I ask why
are you not in our schools, they say
we get the same advantages in oth-
er schools for one hundred dollars a
year less. When I call attention to
this, I am informed that the differ-
ence is in quality. But with this long
list of years without any experience
with the products I am dumb.
I was thinking that the powers to
be might think on these things. If
we are dead sure of our course, then
go ahead; if not, see if the fodder is
to high and kick down the rack.
There is something out of balance
when it comes to getting the rural
people to patronize our schools.
Again, there have been 21 nam's
transferred frcm this charge within
the lasc six months; 19 of them have
gone to the towns and cities. We
have about 250 more who live in
towns and cities who seldom ever
meet with us in services. We have
had chapter after chapter on "Com-
munity Life." Well, that thing has
been tried out right herein the vil-
lage of Denver. More than 50 years
ago this was a great community
center. Today we have signs of de-
cay and death. Our young people
are leaving just as fast as they grow
up. The old folks are dying. Scon
we will furnish a fine subject for a
story-writer who wants to write on
"The Deserted Village."
We would have some interesting
facts before us if we only knew
what per cent of rural pastors'
salaries have been paid to date.
How many of them are beseiged
from every side to get the money
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from every hand for the various will make Christian Scientists out of
causes. Oh, these secretaries. I them if we don't mind. The first
have a high regard for them person- thing you know some of them will
ally. You cannot find a finer lot actually be believing that they have
than the ones - we have. But we jobs when they have not."
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE
- NEGRO YOU OWN?"
(Progressive Fanner)
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels was one of the speakers at the
recent unveiling of the monument to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, Ala-
bama. He says that the thing that perhaps impressed him most about his
visit was the practical, horse-sense talk a colored woman made to the Negroes
"In the old days the owners of to him. How can you do it ?
slaves found slavery profitable to "1 Make the Negro you own get up-
them. That is why they owned slaves and out in the morning,
and why they opposed emancipation. "2 Make the Negro you own work.
How did they make a slave profitable "3 Make the Negro you own come
to them? They did throe things: in at night. "
"1 They made the slaves get up As Mr. Daniels said, "This is just
and get out early in the morning. about as good advice for white folks
"2 They made them work after as for Negroes." Every white boy
they got out in the morning. and every white man ought to say to
"3 They made them come in at himself: "I own a white man it is
night and. go to bed and get their up to me to train him and treat him
night's sleep. so he will be ten times more profitable
"Now, every Negro who hears me to me — by inspiring him to use both
owns a Negro — you own yourself, brain and muscle for me, than the
You can make that ownership of a mere muscle-service of a slave was
Negro as profitable to yourself as the ever worth to a master."
slave-owner made the slave profitable
THE 'LOWANCE
Another beautiful idol born of the rosy days that came out of the war,
which was set up in the modern household, and which now finds itself crowded
close to the outer edge of the ring, where it lies considerably disfigured, is the
"allowance." We can recall the amusement of a group of the older and more
experienced fellows as they sat in a club room in the days when everybody
Seemed to have money, and listened between two young men recently em-
t'o (he conversation being carried on barked in matrimonial enterprise.
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One was telling the other how well
he was providing for his wife. There
was to be no drudgery for her — he
Lad given her a fixed "allowance"
of !?50 a week for household expenses,
and she should never know an hour
of worry. The other was be-moaning
the hardships that had been the lot
of his sisters and of his mother, and
there should be none of that for his
wife. He had also given her an "al-
lowance." Last week it became known
that tin- ifoO-a-week-allowanee man
was going around trying to find a
friend to endorse for him al the hank.
The fellow who was not going' to allow
his wifey to undergo the hardships his
mother had faced, had long since quit
dropping in at the club. He had driv-
en in his brass tacks and was rolling
the baby carriage. And so the coun-
try is gradually getting back to earth
and the high-fliers with it. The Ob-
server is mentioning this incident be-
cause of the trouble many young men
got themselves into by reason of the
emulative impulse. Because other
young fellows were establishing their
■wives on "allowances," why should
not they do likewise? Everything
was lovely and the goose was hang-
ing high so why not give the wife an
■"allowance" and live in ease and
''style?" And in most instances, the
lovely young things that had the al-
lowances sailed around in tine style,
buying a good many things they could
done without, and when "deflation"
came along they had blank checks
enough, to be sure, but not much at
the bank back of the checks. The sys-
tem of "allowance" was good enough
when money was to be shaken from
the bushes, but it was found not to
work so well when the "over-drawn"
notices began coming in from (ho
hank.
If Keesler were writing this edi-
torial lie would he sure to put in some-
thing just here by way of prodding
the young people lor not having put
part of the " allowance " into building
and loan investment, either for stock,
or on savings account, but as Keesler
is not writing this, we will say it for
him. In the days when the married
men, young and old, were setting up
their house-holds on the basis of the
"allowance," the country had entire-
ly lost sight of the lesson of thrift.
They divorced themselves from all
ideas of economy, as if times were al-
ways going to lie Hush and the goose
would always hang high. If the al-
lowance had been soaked down into a
savings account, some young men and
some of the older men, also, would
not now he going around hunting an
endorser. But no very great hurt has
been sustained — the greater blow has
been given to pride, and recovery from
that is easy. While, in many cases,
the allowance has been mutally agreed
upon as an incident of the past and
conversations overheard in the clubs
are cast in soberer and more sensible
tone. We are making return to the
sane ways that mother lived, even if
some hardships and some drudgeries
are involved; the spirit of envy of
the life of others better conditioned
is undergoing a wilt, and a disposition
is being cultivated to make the best
of one's opportunities and to live ac-
cording to these opportunities.
The greatest blessing that could
come upon a household is content-
ment, and than contentment there is
no better foundation in the world up-
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on which to build. It abides when forgotten. — Charlotte Observer. '
the "allowance" has fled and been
DURHAM COUNTY'S DAY.
On Thursday, April 27, the institution had as honored guests a splendid
delegation from Durham. Headed by the Board of County Commissioners,.
this delegation came to officially turn over to the institution the completed
Dormitory Cottage which the county had authorized and paid for
Tn the party were the commission- tor the Board of Commissioners of
ei's, Messrs. II. L. Carver, chairman, Durham County, he officially turned.
C. M. Crutchfield, P. S. Thomas and over the Cottage to the institution
D. H. Stalling*, Commissioner Tur- with the best hopes and prayers of his
routine being prevented by illness to county, for the success and progress,
come. of the School. J. P. Cook, for the
ilr. \Y. E. Stanley, the wide-awake Board of Trustees, accepted the splen-
County Welfare Officer, was the mas- did and handsome gift which re-
fer of ceremonies. After a luncheon presented a cost of $22,250,00.
in the Durham Cottage — and it was Following this, in a most interest-
a hungry crowd having come by mo- ing and effective manner Mr. Wyatte
tor cars, 157 miles — all repaired to the Dixon, representing the Junior Order,.
Auditorium, where the student body presented the School a Bible and U.
had assembled, headed by the institu- S. flag. When Mr. Dixon unfurled the
Hon band, which Director Lawrence Hag the student body, without notice,,
lias so splendidly trained. rose as one boy in doing respect to-
Rev. T. jVI. Green, representing the Old Glory. These thoughtful and
Durham Ministerial Association, con- much appreciated gifts were accepted
ducted religious exercises, followed by Supt. Boger in a happy manner
by some worthwhile and helpful re- making clear that no opportunity is.
marks. At this junction Mr. D. B. ignored to make a proper use of the
Coltrane, Treasurer of the Jackson fullest meaning and influence of these
Training School, spoke the words of two — the Bible and the tlag — in the
welcome to the visitors and made an conduct of the institution,
effective address in which he traced Throughout the exercises Lawren-
a devotion for and a service in ee's Band dispensed thrilling music,
behalf of "A Vision" which cul- And America and Carolina, with
initiated in the establishment of the Miss Mary Gaither at the piano, was
Jackson Training School. sung by the entire audience.
Judge W. H. Young, of the Juvenile Throughout the rendering of the
and Superior Courts of Durham Coun- pleasing programme, there was in evi-
ty made a pleasing address, touching deuce the high esteem in which Mr.
forcibly upon the necessity of an or- Stanley, the Welfare Officer, is held
gaui/.ed service in behalf of the un- by the officers and citizens of Dur-
fortunate, at the conclusion of which, ham. He is recognized as one of the
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best in the State and he shows that
ability and good common sense that
would shine even in the State De-
partment of Welfare Work. Gen'l
J. S. Carl", who was scheduled to be
present and make an address, sent his
regrets because of an unexpected call
out of the State. This line and be-
loved gentleman never loses an op-
portunity to give to the Jackson
Training School his blessings and oth-
er evidences of an encouragement.
In the Durham party were, besides
the officials already mentioned, Miss
Magaret Clark, (the only lady,) who
is the assistant to Mr. Stanley, and
Messrs. C. W. Stallings, T. L. Pender-
grass, Sid High, E. ('. Smith, W. T.
High, Jack Flodge, A. P. Carlton,
S. G. Marshall and last, but not least,
J as A. Robinson, long time a popular
and beloved newspaper man of Dur-
ham, who is deeply concerned in ren-
dering a faithful service himself in
the cause of all uplift work through-
out the State.
The entire student body and offi-
cers of the Jackson Training School
enjoyed the presence of the Durham
folks and felt honored by their visit.
It was, indeed, a happy day in the
life of the institution which seeks
to serve humanity.
HONOR ROLL.
''A"
Edward Cleaver, Lambert Caven-
augh, Ralph Cutchin, Joseph Moore,
Malcolm Holman, William Handcock,
Jas.Huneycutt, Henry Faucett, Jack
Mcleland, Swift Davis, Fitzhugh Mil-
ler, Hoyle Faulkner, Murray Evans,
Victor High, Harry Ward, John
Wright, Newian McDonald Marshal,
Williams Floyd, Linville Arch Brady,
Tom Hanna, Richard Johnson,
Dohme Manning, Albert. Keever,
Sylvester Sims, Rufus Wren, Lloyd
Winner, Max Thompson, Chas. Roth
rock, Paul Leitner, Murphy Jones
Preston Winders, Willie Harvel, Car
Iton Hager, Milard Gilbert, Julius
Kemp. Allen Oglesby. Paul Kim-
mery, Jack O'Neill, Alvin Cook, Roy
Caudill, Nomie Williams, Robert Hol-
land Eunice Byers, Walter Mills,
Ben Poteat, Grover Cook, Walter
McMahan, Johnie Branch, Dick H.
Johnson, Cleburn Hale, Walter P.
McNeil, Fred Mills Herbert Apple,
Carlye Hardy, Connie Loman, Ram-
ond Scott, Paul Green, Walter Tay-
lor,
"B"
Thomas Moor, Chester Shepherd,
Elvis Carlton, Earnest Carver, Char-
lie Stone, Charlie Jackson, Charlie
Lisk, Garfield Mercer, James Allen,
Plaz Johnson, Luther Chenault, Kel-
ma Smith Magnus Wheeler, Ray-
mond Keenan, Lox'.ey Saunders,
Floyd Huggins. Arthur Montgom-
ery, Jas- Shipp, Frank Thomason,
Doyle Jackson, Jno. Moose, Allie
Williams, William Wilson, Marion
Butler, Vass Fields, William Gre-
gory, Washington Pickett, Aster
Adams, Brevard. Bradshaw, Moses
Fasnacht, Everett Goodrich, Pa^ks
Newton, Harry Sims.
Institutional Notes.
By S. B. Davis
Lyman Sikes, a former boy who
is now working on a farm, was a
visitor here Tuesday.
Mr. Jenkins, wolfare officer of
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Halifax county, brought a boy
the school Friday
to
Mr. Ankers has left for bis home in
Richmond Va., for a short vacation.
Work on the well No. 4 will stop
i for a time.
Doyle Jackson, Edward Cleaver,
Earl Crow, Worth Stout, Winders,
and Edgar Warren were the recipi-
ents of visits last Wednesday.
One of the students, by the name
H of Luther Chenault, has returned to
j the work force after an absence of
u some time which was compelled by a
hurt ankle.
I
Bertram Hart and J. A. Shipp are
; now rescreening the doors of all the
1 cottages, to keep out the summer
? pests, flies. Hart supervisers the
work.
I A new flag, Old Glory, has been
I hoisted on high, to take the place of
i the old one which was getting quite
I ragged, due to the buffetings of the
I elements.
Work on the Gaston Cottage is
I rapidly advancing. The Rockingham
| Cottage has been finished some time
Ago and now is awaiting the ar-
rival of furnishings.
William Hancock was visited
Tuesday by his sister, Miss Francis
Hancock and her friend Miss Sadie
White, both of whom are now stu-
dents of King's Business College of
Charlotte.
The boys learning the Linotype
are getting quite efficient. The
fastest operator is Edward Cleaver.
Soon the printing office will be turn-
ing out as good operators as any
Linotype school.
Mr. KnoxBaines, Memphis 'lonn.,
who is connected with Bakery Equip-
ment work, was at the school Mon-
day looking over our own bakery.
'He was accompanied by Mr. R. S.
Monroe, Savannah, Ga.
Along with the delegates from
Durham, came Messrs. S. R. and
W. T. High, who are brothers of
Victor High, student of this school.
To say that Victor was surprised and
delighted to see them, is putting it
mildly.
The butter churn is being worked
daily now, at the Administration
Building. Monday, Arthur Mont-
gomery, the very adept worker of
this machinery, churned 301bs. of
butter. On this day he distributed
three pounds of butter to each cot-
tage for the boys.
It is expected that the ice plant
will be opened Thursday, of this
week. The fountain at the pavilion
is now supplied with water cooled
by ice; but this ice had to be bought.
The ice plant will save this small,
but nevertheless important expense
and many more larger ones.
Rev. Kenneth McKeever of Con-
cord and Dr. Shaw, of Statesville
were visitors here last Tuesday. Mr.
Crooks had known Rev. McKeever
when he was a small boy but had
not seen him in twenty y?ars more
or less. Therefore the visit was very
much of a delightful surprise to him.
He also knew Dr. Shaw.
The barn boys are now planting
their watermelon crop. Last year
the boys had watermelons two and
three times a week. And yet a good
deal of that crop was killed by late
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frost. If no late frost occurs the 12: "Prepare to meet thy God,''
boys ire confident that this delicious he spoke on the topic of "Proof of
edible will be as plentiful if not more and turning to God.'' Bev. Swarin-
plentiful than last season's eiop. gen, please accept this as hearty
invitation for another in-the-near-
Upon a recent visit to the now- future visit,
being-erected dairy, the reporter
learned two facts not very well Monday and Tuesday of last week
known among the students and of- the Institutional Band played at the-
fleers. These are that the silos are White Hall School entertainment.
30 ft. high and have a special ap- The band boys enjoyed going to play
paratus for conveying the food to for this audience,, and by the applause
the cows. The cement floor is now accorded them, it is evident that
being laid and one of the workers the audience also enjoyed the play-
gives it as his opinion that the work ing. Arthur Montgomery deservts-
will be finished this week. credit for his beating of the big
drum and Mr. Boger says, 'If you
Miss Lalla Teague, Matron of 2nd want to hear someone really beat a
Cottage, has left for her home in snare drum, you ought to be around
Newberry, S. C. Miss Teague is when the band is playing in the-
high in the opinion of the boys who pavilion." Parks Newton beats the
were under her charge and they, to- snare drum,
gether with all the boys, express the
wish that she has a pleasant and School was recessed Monday from
happy visit. May she return soon! Air. Johnson's room to aid Mr. John-
Miss Eagle is substituting for her Goodman in carrying a number of
for the time teing. large poles which are to be used in
_, . „ , „ _ , rebuilding our te'ephone and elec!ric
The boys of the State Cottage have [ines The wires are not just now
received a Bible from a friend who being instaliedi but new pole sites
is very dear to them. More than are desired. The poles were balanc-
once has Mrs. M. H. Freeland do- ed and tied on the fore whf?elg of
nated articles to the boys. Some a wagon Then thjs strange ccn.
were edibles. Some were practical traption, which was called a "batter-
gifts. The boys of the State Cot- inK ram» by Mr. Johnson, waspnsh-
tage surely appreciate this gift. It ed by boys from . behind and -l]ed
will always be a reminder of her to bythe boys.'in front. Ailment well
them. Mrs.^ Freeland has a son 0n the first trip until student Absher
here, and he is making a worthy .ec- decided to ride. Absher, you must
or"- know, is not a little boy, and he, at
Rev. R. A. Swarengen, of Kan- a rough estimate weighs somewhere
napolis, conducted services in the near two hundred pounds. So, when
chapel Sunday, April 23rd: He first he perched his bulky self on the eon-
became aquainted with the students veyance, it stopped suddenly. No
and won their approval by telling one could guess the cause until a
and acting a joke for them. Then, boy's glance perchanced to rest
taking for his text part of Amos 4: UP«» "Pat" Absher. Then, he let
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out a yell and pointed to Pat. Pat very much enjoyed by the boys.
! abdicated from his lazy but lofty Following- a song sweetly sung- by
I throne- After that the boys saw Miss Helen Fisher, Miss Margaret
£ that he, too, worked. ..Hendrix next told a story of ''St.
Christopher" in such a manner that
Sunday was an unusual dav in jt held the students breathless with
I that it detered from the usual interest until the very end. Another
I routine. On this day, instead of a duct hy the Misses Morrisons was
I preacher holding services, ladies as mucn appreciated as their first
I from Concord, assisted by a few song was. Miss Annie Snider next
I men, came out and told stories, conducted a reading for the students
| spoke, sang, read and recited. Mr. anfj after a song by the audience and
i J. J. Barnhart presided, and opened the Benediction by our ever present
I the exercises by reading a selection and faithful friend, Rev. T. W.
I from the Bible and then leading in Smith, the students were dismissed.
I prayer. The Misses Cedelaide and To the ladies who took part in this
1 Mary Morrison sang a duet. Then program the boys and gentlemen
I Miss May White gave a very insper- desires to express their gratitude
ing and uplifting talk, which was for their kindness.
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
20th OF MAY— MECKLENBURG'S GLORY
Though Mecklenburg furnishes the name of a great event (at that time
Cabarrus county was embraced in the Mecklenburg territory,) the whole
state has a lively interest in the history-making event, which Charlotte
jealously presses to her bosom, and ought to.
There are yet some doubting Thomases, but they assume this attitude
simply in a spirit of tease or influenced by the results of a little hair-split-
ting. But something like the Mecklenburg Declaration, which is to be ob-
served in some style this year, did occur in such a way and manner as to
warrant our pride and perfect safety in accepting.
Dr. Wiley's North Carolina Reader has this reference to the event that
took place in Charlotte May 20th, 1775, or thereabouts :
"At the time of the adjournment of the second provincial congress, the peo-
ple of North Carolina were in a state of high excitement-
There can be no doubt that many then, and even before that time, looked
forward, with hope, to the prospect of an independent government; and those
who are familiar with the character of the inhabitants and the course of events
at that day, will not doubt that a republican sentiment was gathering strength,
and had many able and fearless advocates. There could be no prosperous or
secure government in North Carolina, unless founded on democratic principles;
and this was seen, felt, and acknowledged before the -flight of Martin.
4 THE UPLIFT
In this state of the public ruind, Col. Thomas Polk, of the county of Meck-
lenburg, issued a notice to the committee-men of the county to assemble in
Charlotte, in the month of May, 1775. It was understood that the most mo-
mentous questions would come before the committee; and when it met, in the
court-house, a great crowd of people were in attendace.
Abraham Alexander, a former member of the legislature, was chosen chair-
man, and John McKnit Alexander and Dr. Ephram Brevard appointed clerks.
A number of papers were read to the committee and the people; and a hand-
bill, brought by express, and containing an account of the battle of Lexington,
in Massachusetts, on the 19th of April preceding, was also read. Several elo-
quent speeches were made; and, at their conclusion, the people loudly cheered
for independence.
A committee, consisting of Dr. Ephrim Brevard, Rev. Hezekiah J. Baleh
and William Kennon, Esq., were appointed to prepare resolutions suitable to
the occasion; and while they were out, the question of independence was
still discussed.
On the 20th, at noon, the convention reassembled, amid an anxious throng
of spectators, and amid breathless stillness the resolutions absolving the people
from all political connection with England, and declaring them a free and
self-governing community, were read. They were discussed and unanimously
passed; and then, from the court-house steps, Col. Polk read them aloud to
the concourse of people, who received them with , three prolonged cheers,
throwing their hats into the air and manifesting other extravagant signs of joy;
u Capt. Jack was engaged as their bearer to the president of the provincial
congress, and was also instructed to deliver copies to the delegates from
North Carolina to the continental congress. As Capt. Jack passed through
Salisbury, the general court was sitting, and at the request of the judge, Mr.
Kennon, one of the committee who drew them, and an attorney of the court,
read these resolutions in open court, in the hearing of a large multitude of
people, judges, lawyers and citizens, attentively listening and approving
The delegates in congress at Philadelphia thought it prudent not to present
these proceedings to the body of which they were members, and by this
cautious policy the resolutions were in a measure smothered, lost to history;
and for nearly half a century were unknown to the world, and until a copy
of the "Cape-Fear Mercury" containing the resolutions was discovered and
made public."
THE LATE D. A. TOMPKINS WROTE:
If William Tell never lived, none the less does the story
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represent a sentiment that did live, and which will continue to
live for all time, iconoclasts to the contrary notwithstanding.
If it could be proved that the meeting ascribed to May
20th never took place, still would the Mecklenburg spirit
of independence in advance of the rest of the country sur-
vive. The emblem of the hornets, the resolves of Mav I-ilst,
and abundant other proof of the independent spirit of the
times survive to sustain the fact that everything else here
was in accord with the Declaration of May 20th, 1775.
The same evidence and plenty besides goes to show that
there was a declaration.
CONFESSIONS ARE IN ORDER.
Rev. Dr. J. R. Bridges, editor of the Presbyterian Standard, in a late
number of that paper makes note of the tenth anniversary of the '"Woman's
Auxiliary" which has been doing great business in the affairs of the Pres-
byterian church.
• The Standard, noting' the doubts entertained by certain ones over the wo-
men entering into such great activity with any good to the church, and oth-
ers taking comfort in the belief that the movement would prove '"a flash in
the pan," makes a most splendid confession that amounts to a declaration
that all is well. The Standard says:
"This was not due to any doubt of woman's ability, but to the feeling
that the conservatism of the Church would finally compel them to be
content to work in a quiet corner of the vineyard. This dream proved
that married life, though extending over an experinece of thirty odd
years, had taught us no lesson as to woman's persistency when once
she has decided that she intends doing a certain thing.
Ten years have passed, and with each year has passed our inherited
conservatism, and now we are forced to confess that the Lord's hand
was in the movement."
The truth of the matter is that except for the work, the activity and the
vision of the women, organized and unorganized, the church would be
struggling at a harder rate than now characterizes her efforts to accomplish
her great work. The women, if they have not kept the church alive and
in action, have at least kept her growing.
Some of these days, the cause in all its nakedness and greatness, will
appear to the leaders that the proper field of activity for the churches is in
the unchurched world and not in the folds of the. several denominations.
This canibalistic religious enthusiasm is repugnant to fine taste and order-
ly religious action. The church gains nothing in the sight of the unchurch-
6 THE UPLIFT
ed by her ability to capture the sheep of other folds: and the weakness of
being changed and captured does not reflect such a credit upon the vacilat-
ing as to influence any converts and souls from the great multitude of the
unchurched in our own state, which should be the slogan of all wise, relig-
ious leaders.
It was, after all. a happy dcy in the life of the church when women ral-
lied to the work of the church. They were needed: they have proven the
wisdom of the movement in all the denomonations and .it's a mighty agency
that is now working in the cause of the church. Christianity, good morals
and correct society. The women have by their faithful service issued a
challenge to the men, including the preachers, in this work of the Lord,
by bringing into the fold those who are now unchurched.
MEETING OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL BOARD
The semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Train-
ing School was held at the Institution on Tuesday of this week. In atten-
donce were Madames T. W. Bickett and Margaret C. D. Burgwyn, Miss
Easdale Shaw, and Messrs. R. O. Everett, Herman Cone. D. B. Coltrane
and J. P. Cook.
Various satisfactory reports of the activities of the school were received,
plans for a further growth and development were agreed upon, and a gene-
ral inspection of the plant was made. Just before luncheon, the winners
in the Fail-brother story-writing were called, and Mrs. T. W. Bickett, in
beautifully chosen words, of good cheer and fine advice, presented to each
his earned prize. This was a pleasing event to the Board and. of course,
it was a very important event in the lives of these promising youngsters.
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A CORRECTION.
In THE UPLIFT of May 6th an error of omission occurred in the list-
ing of the surviving Confederate soldiers now living in Cabarrus county.
This is most likely a clerical error that crept into Capt. Parks' report.
Mr. M. M. Gillon. one of the best men that Cabarrus ever produced, him-
self a follower of Lee, calls attention to the omission of the names of J.
Frank Fink and H. W. Barnhardt. of No. 5. Thomas Brumley. of No. 2; and
Dr. L. A. Bikle and Col. James N. Brown, of No. 12. Col. Brown is in
his 95th year, and in. addition to being a Confederate is a veteran of the
Mexican War. This addition, which we believe is now correct, makes the
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total number of the surviving veterans of the War Between the States in
Cabarrus county just 67.
The ravages of the Mississippi river, having broken through the levees
and flooded tens of thousands of acres in the state of Mississippi and Louisi-
ana, are among the worst of all history. Thousands of people are homeless
and destitute of food or property, and the loss and suffering are appalling.
There is always something occuring to make us understand that we cannot
tell when a catastrophe may overtake us; and these things teach people every-
where that the spirit of man must not feel too secure and arrogant. At best,
we are helpless — and never independent of the interest, help and associa-
tion of our fellow men.
* * * * * * if!
'.'You may tell the women of North Carolina that if they want to do
something they must get out and fight. The opportunity for service was
never brighter nor the necessity greater." That is the message sister
Nancy Astor sends to the women of our state. Had this delightful woman,
who has turned the head of all Virginia by her return visit, after becoming
famous and popular in England, found it possible to come among us she
would have discovered that the Tar Heel sisters are thoroughly aroused
not only to their privileges but are conscious of their power.
********
Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. It is probably
well that the state is not to continue paying out its good money for the
services of a man, whose attitude and remarks are so beclouded as to leave
the impression that he is not orthodox, who ignores certain social laws
and is so uncertain in the views he entertains as to make the conservative
fear that his influence upon the young is unwholesome.
The rat-killing women, who drove a spanking good trade in Concord,
leaving not a very good recommendation for the efficiency of their stock-in-
trade, and whose method of business was followed by an inspector from the
national government, have had themselves '"writ" up in a syndicated let-
ter, carrying their photos. That very same pair could make a return trip
and find suckers on an ecpially as sorry a proposition.
******** ,
The winner of the Fairbrother 1st prize, whose little story is published
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in this number of THE UPLIFT, is known among his associates as-
'"Woodrow" Wilson, while his name is really 'William. Master "Woodrow"
gives a novel reason why he does not desire to be rich; but the fact that
he aspires to "run a train down the mountain by his mother's door" is a
worthy spirit and a fine ambition .
Friends of the craft will please observe the long article in this issue, un-
der the title of '"Stories and Picture Studies" covering about seven pages.
The entire piece was set up on the Linotype by Master Edward Cleaver,
a mere strip of a youngster, with only a few weeks' practice, in (i hours.
If it can be beat, in the language of Venus, a famous rural Rowan corres-
pondent, "trot out your operator."
********
Is there any earthly excuse or reason for sending out of the state for men
and women to perform services for which they have had no special training
when we have in our midst many men and women far superior to the im-
ported ones? Unqualified surrender to theory and bluff make actions in-
defensible.
It is claimed that the activity of theK. K. K. forced the resignation of Prof.
Lindeman of the faculty of the N. C. College for Women. This is hardly
correct. There were probably other and more vital reasons for the ending
of the unfortunate situation.
********
Mr. Clark's letter this week carries a perfectly legitimate and timely
challenge to the women. Let's begin now to fight for the obliteration of
the double standard, which is a cowardly disgrace that has too long afflict-
ed society.
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From all sources the reports indicate that the women had a glorious
meeting in Greensboro last week. They are wide awake to their privileg-
es and responsibilities.
********
Cotton — the great king of the South — has its eyes open and is moving in
the right direction.
********
Lincoln County has two women aspiring for the office of County Treas-
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urer. They are seeking the honor, however, through two different chan-
nels.
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f BEASTS. I
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,J. the goat came to the Lion's cave, and stopped there listening for a ♦
j£ long time. Then a Sheep went in, and before she came out a Calf .;.
♦J* came up to receive the last wisnes of the Lord of Beasts. But soon ^
»> the Lion seemed to recover, and came to the mouth of his cave, and *;*
X saw the Fox, who had been waiting outside for some time. "Whv »>
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♦ Fox.
^* do you not come to pay your respects to me?" said the Lion to the
*
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^* the track of the animals that have already come to you; and while I ♦:♦
* see many hoof -marks going in, I see none coming out. Till the animals %
* that have entered your cave come out again I prefer to remain in the %
»♦♦ open air." ♦
% "IT IS EASIER TO GET INTO THE ENEMY'S TOILS THAN OUT %
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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN.
By R. R. Clark.
Since the women have been admitted to membership in the electorate
they are giving attention to the rank discriminatory laws enacted under the
regime of the mere men; and it is cause for wonder if the men, those who
are broad enough to comprehend the depth of the iniquity of some of the
enactments that discriminate against the wonmen, are not heartily asham-
ed that these statutes are permitted by consent of parents or guardian,
to disgrace the law books. It would
seem that those who are not so pre-
judiced that they never can know and
never will understand, would embrace
the opportunity to wipe the offend-
ing statues off the books as quickly
and as quietly as possible, so that they
may be forgotten.
The clubwomen, in session at
Greensboro, adopted a legislative
programme, mentioning quite a numb-
er of things that they will bring to the
attention of legislative candidates and
urge on the next session of the Legis-
lature. They will ask, among other
things, that the "age of consent" be
raised from 14 to 16 years; and that
the law which prohibits the accept-
ance of the unsupported testimony
of the woman in cases of seduction
or abduction, be amended so that
jurors can have the privlege of be-
lieving the woman if they think she
is telling the truth. These are the
statutes I had in mind as cause for
shame, as a disgrace to our civiliza-
tion— laws that the men should want
wiped off the statutes books quickly,
so that their part in the shame may
be soon forgotten.
Our laws authorize a girl at the age
•of 14 to consent to her own ruin,
to voluntarily commit an act which
may damn her body and soul. But
a girl is not permitted to contract
legal and honorable marriage except
until she has reached the age of 18.
That is, a girl is not supposed to have
capacity to choose a mate in honor-
able wedlock, without supervision, un-
til she has reached the age of 18
years. But at the age of 14, yet a
child in mind and body, she is left
entirely free to become the victim
of the wretch who may presume on
her youth and ignorance. So far
from seeing any inconsistency in this
matter, our law-makers, within re-
cent years, men who aspire to leader-
ship in public affairs, have brazenly
and defiantly defended it and refused
to increase the age to 16, two years
short of the legal age of marriage.
The infamous double standard of
morals, and the false standards of
society, which make the erring woman
an out-cast while her partner in guilt
suffers little if at all, should move
one to cast all possible protection
around the girls. But so far it has
failed in North Carolina because re-
spectable men, husbands and fathers,
simply cannot get away from the idea
that the man should be allowed great-
er priveleges than the woman in sex
relations.
The other law is no less infamous,
if not more so. In case of indictment
for seduction or abduction the woman
may testify, but the jury is not per-
mitted to accept her testimony un-
less she is corroborated. Let that
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sink in. The lowest specimen on the
face of the earth, if he is in the form
of a man, no matter what his color
or his character nor how infamous
his offence, may go on the stand and
testify in his own behalf, and the
jury can accept that testimony un-
corroborated if they believe the wit-
ness. But no matter how high the
character of the woman previous
to her fall, her unsupported testi-
mony is not sufficient, no matter how
strongly the jury may believe in its
truth. , The law was made, of course,
to shield the roan. It is obvious that
in ease of that kind corroborative
testimony is rarely available.
It is impossible to understand how
men of breadth and fairness and jus-
tice can defend such infamy as these
laws represent. They were enacted
at a time when all laws were made
with the purpose to subject the wo-
man to the will of the man; or at
least they denied the woman an equal
show with the man. And men who
have accepted the practices of cus-
tom, without considering the injus-
tice, may not have realized the enormi-
ty of the disgraceful statutes. But
. there is no longer excuse, if it be ex-
cuse, for lack of understanding. The
women have the vote. If they do not
use it to rid the statute books of
such infamy, if they do not refuse to
support, but do their best to defeat,
candidates who refuse to aid, and that
promptly, in blotting this discrimina-
tion from the statute books, they will
deserve all that and more. In other
words, if the women do not use their
. new freedom to secure justice for
themselves along with the promotion
of better morals, they will prove their
unfitness for membership in the elec-
torate. I do not believe they will per-
mit the discrimination to continue.
They may preceed slowly until they
get their bearings ; but once they feel
sure of themselves, I am of the opinion
that trouble is coming for the unrec-
onciled reactionaries who would con-
tinue to treat the women as children,
notwithstanding the equality of citi-
zenship. I admit that the wish may
be father to this thought, but I have
faith in the women. If I did not
believe they would do better than the
men I would not have championed
woman suffrage.
What I Would Like To Do And Whv I Would Like
J
To Do It When I Leave The Jacks on Training School.
Answer to Col. Al. Fairbrother's Question.
Some weeks ago, Col. Fail-brother
sent the editor a cheek for fifteen
dollars, asking that the boys of the
training school be called upon to
put on paper their answer to the
question involved in the title of
this article. A great number of the
boys told the story of their desire.
By elimination on the part of
competent parties, the many papers
were reduced to seven in number.
These were turned over to Prof.
A. S. Webb, superintendent of the
Concord Public Schools, to select the
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1st, 2ond, 3rd, 4th and 5th best. He
marked the papers simply by figures
for no names appeared on the pa-
lst — William Wilson
2ond — Edward Cleaver
3rd — Swift Davis
4th — Jacob Columbus Mead
5th — Vass Fields
This writer can very well under-
stand the reason for Prof. Webb's
feelings when he was prompted to
accompany his decision with two one-
dollar bills and this note :
"My dear Mr. Cook:
I am not sure that the awards
are right but that is the way it ap-
pealed to me. I can't leave any of
of them out so I am inclosing a dol-
lar apiece for six and seven.
(Signed) A. S. Webb."
6th, and 7th are : William Gregory
and Loxley Saunders. So, after
all, these little fellows get honorable
mention, through the kindness and
tender heartedness of Prof. Webb,
to the tune of a dollar eaeh.
The Uplift congratulates the boys,
who are winners, and it wants to here
assert that every one of the papers
turned in exhibited real merit ; and
all showed that each boy had a laud-
able ambition tucked away in his lit-
tle self, that under favorable circum-
pers. Taking the key, we find that
the following is the result of Mr.
Webb 's decision :
?5.00
4.00
3.00
2.00
1.00
stances and the great kindness of the
state must finally blossom into some-
thing worthwhile.
This friendly little contest amount-
ed to no little. It put pep into the
boys, it gave them something to think
about and the occasion to search seri-
ously and earnestly their own hearts
and minds. It put many of them,
perhaps, to the point of deciding that
they had a mission and that there is
a service for them to perform. Aside
from this, the practice of putting on
paper what thoughts went through
their minds is of incalcuable value.
To anybody else that wants to fath-
er or mother another research, the door
stands wide open; the boys are ready.
Let us have your proposition. The
winners particularly desire that The
Uplift assure Col. and Mrs. Al. Fair-
brother that their generosity and
thoughtfulness are fully appreciated
bv them.
WILLIAM WILSON-WINNER 1ST PRIZE.
It has always been my way of thinking from the time I knew right from-
wrong that every boy shonld learn a trade. There is no use of a man be-
ing a beggar, it is because he wants to be one; if he is a plumber, it is be-
cause he wants to be one.
Get up and get, don't wait for fourteen years old and ever since I
things to go your way; get up and was seven I wanted to run a train;
help them to go your way. I am now my father was an engineer, and so do>
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I want to be one.
When I leave the school I am go-
ing to finish my books at high school,
then go to college and learn all that
an engineer needs to know. Then
after I do all these things, I am
going to work and work until I am
twenty-one years old. By that time
I will surely have a reasonable a-
mount of money. I will then go to
Asheville and ask for a job as an
engineer. The run I will want will
be down the mountains from Ashe-
ville through Saluda right by my
mother's door.
All this might sound kindly side-
ways to some people but this is what
I mean. I don't want to be a rich
man when I am grown. Of course,
I don't want to be in want. It is
not because there is no chance of my
being rich but because my people
always said, that it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a
needle than it is for a rich man to
enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I
am look'ng to go to heaven when I
die and a rich man can't very easily
go.
When I am on duty on the train
I can learn more about the good
Old North State and can see the
scenery and at the same time be
earning an honest living. It may
seem strange but it is the truth that
J can run a train as young as I am.
I can start it. I can stop it. I
know a good many things about one.
My father has taught my biggest
brother, I have also been taught by
my father.
The question of why I would like
to be an engineer is a simple one.
I have been at the Jackson Training
School for about two years and I
like the place very much. I had
not been here over a year before
Mr. Boger put me in the sewing
room to make the boys clothes. I
had never before sewed on a sewing
machine. Now I can make any-
where from four to seven shirts in
one afternoon, not counting the
forenoon. I can also make overalls,
sheets and uniforms. I could get a
job in a tailor's shop but I don't
want to take the women's work
away from them.
I want to be an engineer tc help
my country along. My country has
got to have somebody to run the
trains, so 1 might do it as well as
anybody. I want to make my
mother proud of her boy.
"We must hold it as precious charge, this fulfilling of all that citizen-
ship means, to the memory of those veterans who suffered throughout the
unrealization of years. So what are we doing to seal our union with the
national body politic? In what way can we co-ordinate in national ef-
ficiency? Where and what is the use of having citizenship if we do not
apply it." — Mrs. Sidney P. Cooper.
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SURVIVING CONFEDERATE VETERANS
OF IREDELL COUNTY.
The Uplift is endebted to Hon. J. A. Hartness, the Clerk of Court of Ire-
dell county, for the furnishing of the names and adresses of the living Con-
federate soldiers of Iredell county.
Though Iredell county is above the average North Carolina county both
in size of territory and population, the list shows that there are living
just eighty-one of the heroes of 61-65.
IN STATESVILLE:R. E. Beaver, J. C. Brown, J. M. Clark, R. B. Cook,
Wm, S. Eagle, D. W. Edwards, W. J. Evans, Frank A. Freeze, W. H. H. Greg-
ory, W. G. Hendren. R. B. Joyner (96 years old), N. L. Lewis, F. E. Menis, W.
M. Mills, C. A. Mills, G. F. Mitchell, G. W, Nash, Jas. G. Page, E. K. Robbins,
J. M. Shook, J. E. Simpson, A. W. Taylor.
STATESVILLE, R. F. D.: J. A. Fox, P. W. Brawley, J. M. Crawford, H.
Huffman, Wm. F. Orren, J. M. Rickert, J. P. Stout, H. A. Tomlin.
MOORESVILLE:J. P. Austin, John W. Cowen, Aaron Plyler, W. A. Raney,
N. L. Robinson, F. S. Shook, T. A. White; A. A. Kelley, Mooresville R. F. D.
TROUTMAN:W. M. Bradshaw, J. Y. Cavin, Geo. C. C. Dearman, J. A. Gal-
ligher, W. M. Hoover, W. H. Hunter, W. E. Ledwell, J. H. Link, E. P. Rog-
ers, and E. W. Overcash, Mooresville, R. F. D,
ELMWOOD: John Foster, Silas Freeland, Hail Hair,
HARMONY: J. C. Joyner, (R. F. D.,) Thomas Renegar, J. B. Stroud,
(R. F. D.), William L. Wooten.
HOUSTONVILLE: L. Barnard, Z. R. Tharpe.
TURNERSBURG:W. R. Moore, T. B. Campbell (R. F. D.,) H. H. Harhin,
(R. F. D.) Wilford Horn.
LORAY:A. C. Combs, J. A. Morrison.
SCOTTSiJ. A. Deal, A. Guy.
EUFOLA:W. A. Fisher, W. W. Stewart.
CLEVELANDsG. L. D. Eller (R. F. D.)
NEW HOPE : John J. Godfrey, Thomas M. Snow.
BARIUM SPRINGS:.. Henry T. Johnston, W. P. Whitley,
STONEY POINT: T. M. Marshall, (R. F. D.,) W. A. Prim, F. M. Teague, W.
T. Watts.
MT. MOURNE: Robert E. Mayhew.
OLIN: J. C. Siceloff, Thomas M. Walker, H. C. Warren.
CATAWBA: L. York.
A.nd the foregoing be all that are left in Iredell county of the brave fellows,
who risked all uncomplainingly in answer to the call of their country. The
line is fast growing thinner.
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THE NEGLECTED DUTY OF THE
SCHOOLS.
By Dr. Clarence Poe.
Again, people are asking this question as never before: What are our
school doing to give worthy ideals to the multitudes of eager, aspiring,
truth-seeking boys and girls who pass through their portals?
The schools of today teach facts, but what are they doing to develope
character or even happiness? If Edwin Markham was right when he said
that man's three great needs are re- fairer world."
presented by three B's— "bread, And if our schools are failing to
beauty, and brotherhood"---what train the young for noble citizenship,
are our schools doing to train our
youth for this three fold challenge
of life? In our country schools the
practical subjects like arithmetic are
taught in terms of tjwn things and
town interests, and it is often hard
to get half-way recognition for agri-
cultural subjects. Beauty is largely
forgotten and brotherhood even more
largely so. Do we not teach boys
and girls to think of individual and
personal success rather than of
success through service to one's fel-
lows and one's community? As Dr.
Henry F. Cope says:
" J here, I am convinced, is
the very heart of our weakness
in educational matters—that
our present system uf public
education is organized for the
education of individuals in in-
dividualism .... It matters
not at all what the youth has
learned of the encyclopedia of
science if he has felt no passion
for life, if he has never quicken-
ed with a thrill for humanity, if
he has never seen a vision nor
dreamt a dream of a better,
for community service, for neigh-
borhood betterment, are they not
also letting our boys and girls drift
without moral chart or compass?
Are they not failing to provide any
compelling moral guidance for life?
Granting that parents themselves
should give moral, training to the
young, must we not face the fact
that half the parents are not giving
such training? And is not the
general public suffering seriously
because of this widespread neglect?
Can our nation afford to let such a
condition go on without remedy? *
Here in America, we of course
cannot, must not, teach the doc-
trines of any religious sect. But
even though this is true, should not
the fen Commandments, the Gold-
en Rule, the Two Great Command-
ments, and the Sermon on the Mount
be early taught to every boy and
girl as forming a universally accep-
table moral basis for life, whatever
one's sectarian views may be? And
will the seeming moral degenercy of
today be checked until we do give
such training?
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard society against
thel oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against
the injustice of the other part. — James Madison.
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HARVEY BIRCH.
By J. Fenimore Cooper in "The Spy"
"Well, Tom, a slanderous propensity is incurable — but," stretching for-
ward his body in the direction he was gazing, as if to aid him in distinguish
ing objects through the darkness, "what animal is moving through the field
on our right?"
"'Tis a man," said Mason, looking
intently at the suspicious object.
"By his hump 'tis a dromedary!"
added the captain, eying it keenly.
Wheeling his horse suddenly from
the highwav, he exclaimed —"Har-
vey Birch!— Take him, dead or
alive!"
Mason and a few of the leading
dragoons only, understood the sud-
den cry, but it was heard throughout
the line. A dozen of the men, with
the lieutenant at their head, fol-
lowed the impetuous Lawtcn, and
their speed threatened the pursued
with a suddenly termination of the
race.
Birch prudently kept his position
on the rock, where he had been seen
by the passing glance of Henry
Wharton, until evening had begun
to shroud the surrounding objects
in darkness. From this height he
had seen all the events of the day
as they occured. He had watched,
with a beating heart, the depart-
ure of the troop under Dunwoodie,
and with difficulty had cjrbed his
impatience until the obscurity of
night should render his moving free
from danger. He had not, howewer,
completed a fourth of his way to
his own residence, when his quick
ear distinguished the tread of ap-
proaching horse. Trusting to the
increasing darkness, he determined
to persevere. By crouching and
moving quickly along the surface
of the ground, he hoped yet to es-
cape unseen. Captain Lawton was
too much engrossed with the fore-
going conversation to suffer his eyes
to indulge in their usual wanderings,
and the peddlei, perceiving by the
voices that the enemy he most feared
had passsed, yielded to his impa-
tience, and stood erect, in order to
make greater progress.
The moment his body arose above
the shadow of the ground it was
seen, and the chase commenced.
For a single instant Birch was help-
less, his blood curdling in his veins
at the imminence of his danger, and
his legs refusing their natural and
necessary office. But it was only for
a moment. Casting his pack where
he stood, and instinctively tighten-
ing the belt he wore, the peddler
betook himself to flight. He knew
that by bringing himself in a line
with his pursuer^ and the wood his
form would be lost to sight. This
he soon effected, and he was strain-
ing every nerve to gain the wood it-
self, when several horsemen rode by
him but a short distance on his left,
and cut him off from this place of
refuge. The peddler threw himself
on the ground as they came near him,
and was passed unseen. But delay
now became to dangerous for him
to remain in that position. He ac-
cordingly arose, and still keeping in
the shadow of the wood, along the
skirts of which he heard voices cry-
ing to each other to be watchful, he
ran with incredible speed in a par-
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llel line, but in an opposite direction,
to the march 01 the dragoons.
fl$The confusion of the chase had
been heard by the whole of the men,
though none distinctly understood
the order of Lawton but those who
followed. The remainder were lost
in doubt as to the duty that was re-
quired of them; and the aforesaid
cornet was making eager inquires of
the trooper near him, on the subject,
when a man, a short distance in the
rear, crossed the road at a single
bound. At the same instant the
sentorian voice of Lawton rang
through the valley, shouting:---
"Harvey Birch--take him, dead or
alive!"
Fifty pistols lighted the scene,
and bullets whistled in every direct-
ion around the bead of the devoted
peddler. A feeling of despair filled
his heart, and in the bitterness of
that moment he exclaimed:—
"Hunted like a beast of the forest!"
He felt life and its accompani-
ments to be a burden, and was about
to yield himself to his enemies. Na-
ture, however, prevailed. If taken,
there was great reason to apprehend
that he would not be honored with
the forms of a trial, but that most
probably the morning sun would wit-
ness his ignominious execution; for
he had already been condemned to
death, and had already escaped the
fate by stratagem. 1 hese considera-
tions, with the approaching footsteps
of his pursuers, roused him to new
exertions. He again fled before
them. A fragment of a wall, that
had withstood the ravages made by
war in the adjoining fences of wood,
fortunately crossed his path. He
hardly had time to throw his exhaust-
ed limbs o\?er this barrier before
twenty of his enemies reached its
opposite side. Their horses refused
to take the leap in the dark, and
amid the confusion of the rearing
chargers, and the execrations of
of their riders, Birch was enable to
gain a sight of the base of the hill,
on whose summit was a place of
perfect security.
The heart of the peddler now beat
high with hope when the voice of
Captain Lawton again rang in his
ears, shouting to his men to make
room. The order was obeyed, and
the fearless trooper rode at the wall
at the top of his horse's speed,
plunged the rowels in his charger,
and flew over the obstacle in safety.
The triumphant hurrahs of the
men, and the thundering tread of
the horse, too plainly assured the
peddler of the emergency of his
danger. He was nearly exhausted,
and his fate no longer seemed
doubtful.
"Stop or die!" was uttered above
his head, and in fearful proximity
to his ears.
Harvey stole a glance over his
shoulder, and saw within a bound
of him the man he most dreaded.
By the light of the stars be beheld
the uplifted arm and the threaten-
ing saber. Fear, exhaustion, and
despair seized his heart, and the
intended victim fell at the feet of
the dragoon. The horse of Lawton
struck the prostrate peddler, and
both steed and rider came violently
to the earth.
As quick as thought Birch was on
his feet again, with the sword of
this discomfited dragoon in his hand.
Vengeance seems too natural to
human passions. There are few
who have not felt the seductive
pleasure of making our injuries re-
coil on their authors; and yet there
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are some who know how much
sweeter it is to return good for evil.
All the wrong of the peddler
shone on his brain with a dazzling
brightness. For a moment the de-
mon within him prevailed, and Birch
branished the powerful weapon in
the air; in the next it fell harmless
on the reviving but helpless trooper.
The peddler vanished up the sidet'of
the friendlv rock.
Work is one of the greatest blessings to the human race. It is noble
to work and ignoble to shirk. Work is the noblest birth-right of the hu-
man race. Fit yourself for some honorable work and then follow it prop-
erly.
ON A BATTLE FIELD
(Henry W. Grady)
A soldier lay wounded on a hard-fought field, the roar of the battle had
died away, and he rested in the deadly stillness of its aftermath. Off over
the field flickered the lanterns of the surgeons with the litter, bearers,
searching that they might take away those whose lives could be saved and
leave in sorrow those who were doomed to die with pleading eyes through
the darkness. This poor soldieJ flame. He watched it inch by inch
poor
watched, unable to turn or speak as
the lantern drew near. At last the
light flashed in his face, and the sur-
geon, with kindly face, bent over
him, hesitated a moment, shook his
head, and was gone, leaving the pocr
fellow alone with death. He watch-
ed in patient agony as they 'vent
from one part of the field to another.
As they came back the surgeon
bent over him again. "I believe if
this poor fellow lives to sundown to-
morrow he will get well.'' And again
leaving him, not to death but with
hope; all night long these words fell
into his heart as the dew fell from
the stars upon his lips, "if he but
lives till sundown he will get well.''
He turned his weary head to the
east and watched for the coming
sun. At last the stars went out,
the ease trembled with radiance, and
the sun, slowly lifting above the
horizon, tinged his pallid face with
as it climbed slowly up the heavens.
He thought of life, its hopes and
ambitions, its sweetness and its rap-
tures, and he fortified his soul
against despair until the sun had
reached high moon. It sloped down
its slow descent, and his life was ebb-
ing away and his heart was faltering,
and he needed stronger stimulants to
make him stand the struggle until
the end of the day had come. He
thought of his far-off home, the
blessed houss resting in tranquil
peace with the roses climbing to its
door, and the trees whispering to its
windows and dozing in the sunshine,
the orchard and the little brook
running like a silver thread through
the forest. "If I live till sundown I
will see it again. I will walk down
the shady lane; I will open the
battered gate, and the mocking
bird shall call to me from the orch-
ard, and I will drink again at the-
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old mossy spring."
And he thought of the wife who
had come from the neighboring
farmhouse and put her hands shyly
in his, and brought sweetness to his
!ife and light to his home.
"If I live till sundown I shall
look once more into her deeo and
and loving eyes and press her brown
head once more to my aching breast."
And he thought of the old father,
patient in prayer, bending lower and
lower every day under his load of
sorrow and old age.
"If I but live till sundown I shall
see him again and wind my strong
arm about his feebie tody, and his
hands shall rest upon my head while
the unspeakable healing of his bless-
ing falls into my heart."
And he thought of the lict!f> child-
ren that clambered on his knees and
tangled their little hands into his
heartstrings, making to him such
music as the world shall not equal
or heaven surpass.
"If I live till sundown thev shall
again find my parched lips with
their warm mouths, and their little
fingers shall once more run over my
face "
And then he thought of his old
mother, who gathered these children
about her and breathed her old heart
afresh in their brightness and attun-
ed her old lips anew to their prattle,
that she might live till her big boy
came home.
"If I live till sundown I will see
her again , and I will rest my head
at my old place on her knees, and
weep away all memory of this deso-
late night." And the Son of God,
who died for men, bending from
the stars, put the hand that had
been nailed to the cross on the ebb-
ing life and held on the stanch until
lhe sun went down and the stars
came out and shone down in the
brave man's heart and blurred in his
glistening eyes, and the lanterns of
th.'1 surgeons came and be was taken
from death to life.
It is said, that it cost more than $10,000,000 a day to run the government
of the United States. Stupendous as that sum is, it represents less than
a dime a day for each citizen of Uncle Samuel's domain. — Monroe En-
quirer.
SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS AT
CAPUA.
(By Elijah
Ye call me chief; and ye do well
to call him chief who for twelve long
years has met upon the arena every
shape of man or beast the broad Em-
pire of Rome could furnish, and who
never yet lowered his arm. If there
■be one among vou who can say
Kellogg)
that ever, in public fight or private
brawl, my actions did belie my tongue
let him stand forth and say it. If
there be three in all your company
dare face me on the bloody stands, let
them come on. And yet I was hot al-
ways thus — a hired butcher, a savage
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chief of still more savage men. My
ancestors came from old Sparata, and
settled among the vine-clad rocks and
citron groves of Syrasella. My early
life ran quite as the brooks by which
I sported; and when, at noon, I gather-
ed the sheep beneath the shade, and
played upon the shepherds flute, there
was a friend the son of a neighbor, to
join me in the pastime. We led our
flocks to the same pasture, and partook
together our rustic meal. One even-
ing, after the sheep wern folded, and
we were all seated beneath the myrtle
which shaded our cottage, my grand-
sire, an old man, was telling of Mara-
thon and Leuetra : and how, in ancient
times, a little band of Spartans , in a
defile of the mountains, had withstood
a whole arniy. I did not then know
what war was; but my cheeks burned,
knew not why; I clasped the knees of
that venerable man, until my mother,
parting the hair from off my forehead,
kissed my throbing temples and bade
me go to rest, and think no more of
those old tales and savage n;.i, That
very night the iioir .us kidded on our
coast. I saw the breast that nourished
me trampled by the hoof of the war
horse; the bleeding body of my father
flung amidst the blazing rafters of
our dwelling ! To-day I killed a man
in the arena ; and, when I broke his
helmet clasps, behold, he was my
friend ! He knew me, smiled faintly,
gasped, and died; the same sweet
smile upon his lips that I had marked
when, in adventurous boyhood, we
scaled the lofty cliff to pluck the first
ripe grapes, and bear them home in
childish triumph. I told the praetor
that the dead man had been my friend,
generous and brave; and I begged
that I might bear away the body, to
burn it on a funeral pile, and mourn
over its ashes. Ay, upon my knees,
amid the lust and blood of the arena,
I begged that poor boon, while all the
assembled maids and matrons, and the
holy virgins they call Vestals, and the
rabble, shouted in derision, deeming
it rare sport, forsooth, to see Rome's
fiercest gladiator turn pale and trem-
ble at the sight of that piece of bleed-
ing clay. And the praetor drew back
as I were pollution, and sternly said,
"Let the carrion rot; there are no
noble men but Romans." And so,
fellow gladiators, must you, and so
must I, die like dogs. 0 Rome I
Rome ! Tho'u hast been a tender
nurse to me. Ay ! Thou hast given
to that poor, gentle, timid shepherd
lad, who never knew a hasher tone
than a flute note, muscles of iron and a
heart of flint ; taught him to drive the
sword through plaited mail and links
of rugged brass, and warm it in~the
marrow of his foe; to gaze into the
glaring eyeballs of the fierce Xumidian
lion, even as a boy upon a laughing;
girl. And he shall pay thee back, un-
til the yellow Tiber is red as frothing
wine, and in its deepest ooze thy life
blood lies curdled.
Ye stand here now like giants, as
ye are. The strength of brass is in
your toughened sinews, but to-morrow
some Roman Adonis, breathing sweet
perfume from his curly locks, shall,
with his lily fingers, pat your red
brawn, and bet his sesterces upon
your blood. Hark ! Hear ye yon lion
roaring in his den .' 'Tis three days
since he tasted flesh; but to-morrow
he shall break his fast upon yours —
and a dainty meal for him ye will be.
If ye are beasts, then stand here like
fat oxen, waiting for the butcher's
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knife. If ye are men, follow me.
Strike down yon guard gain the moun-
tain passes, and there do bloody work,
as did your sires at Old Thermopylae.
Is Sparta dead"? Is the old Grecian
spirit frozen in your veins, that you
do crouch and cower like a belabored
hound beneath his master's lash. 0
comrades! Warriors! Thracians! If
we must fight, let us fight for our-
selves. If we must slaughter, let us
slaughter our oppressors. If we must
die, let it be under the clear sky, by
the bright waters, in noble, honorable
battle.
STORIES AND PICTURE STUDIES.
By Mrs. E. E. McMillen.
Picture study usually implies nothing more than looking at pictures for
mere entertainment or with more advanced students an examination of master-
pieces for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the technique of the artist.
The story teller makes no use of the second of these methods of approach,,
but an extended use of the first. Pictures entertain but each masterpiece-
has an additional interest in the story that is associated with it. A picture
Hofmann — Worship of the Wise
Men.
Hofmann — In the Temple with the
is the starting point for many an in-
teresting narrative. The child may
learn the story back of the picture
and something of the life and work
of the artist who painted it. Pic-
tures may be selected and arranged
in an orderly sequence so as to set
forth the significant event in a life or
in an epic.
Perhaps the most beautiful and
complete picture story one could ar-
ranged is that of the life of Christ as
shown in the picture of the masters.
Here are a list of pictures that may
be supplemented with other pictures
and may be purchased from Perry
Picture Company.
Plockhorst — The Announcement.
Correggio — The Holy Night.
Da Pabriano — Adoration of the
Magi.
Raphael — Sistine Madonna.
Raphael — Madonna of the Chair.
Bodenhauser — Mother and Child.
Durer — Flight into Egypt.
Van Dyck — Repose in Egypt.
Doctors.
Hofmann — Christ and the Doctors.
Hofmann — Christ blessing little
Children.
Hofmann — Driving out the Money
Changers.
Hofmann — Anointing Jesus' Feat-
Hofmann — Teaching from a Boat.
Hofmann — Christ's enter into Je-
rusalem.
Geiger — Kiss of Judas.
Rubens — Descent from the Cross.
Munkassy — Christ before Pilate.
Naack — The Resurrection.
Spurgenberg — The Three Marys at
the Tomb.
Plockhorst — Easter Morning.
Ender — Holy Women at the Tomb.
Hofmann — Easter Morning.
The children should become fa-
miliar with at least 15 or 20 masters.
Of the Italian master we might take I
Lenardo Da Vinci. (1452-1519>
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Michael Angelo (1475-1564) Titian
(1477-1576) Raphael (1483-1520)
Correggio (1494-1534) Guido Reni
(1575-1642) They should know some-
thing about the life of each one.
• Lenardo Da Vinci's great strength,
both of bodv and mind should be not-
ed.
A story should be made of the fol-
lowing incident of the Master Verro-
chio and his pupil. Verrochio com-
manded his pupil to paint in one of
the angel heads in a picture which he
was hastily finishing. Seeing that his
pupil could paint it better than he
could have done, he hastily burned
his brushes and palette and declared
lie never would paint again.
The two Da Vinci's pictures that
are best know and of which the most
should be made are ' ' The Last Sup-
per" and "Mono Lisa."
Michael Angelo and Raphael might
be studied together for they were
leading artists of Rome and Florence
in Sixteenth Century. Michael Angelo
loved architecture and sculpture bet-
ter than painting., but at command of
the Pope he was obliged to drop the
mallet and chisel to take up the brush,
and adorn the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel, tho ' he told the Pope that this
shoidd be the work of the painter
Raphael.
Raphael was also a sculptor but we
Lnow him best as a painter. He
painted "The Madonna Delia Sedia
'"or Madonna of the Chair and "The
Sistine Madonna.
The Sistine Madonna was perhaps
the last picture of the Holy Family
■ever painted by a master artist.
The story associated with the Mad-
onna of the Chair was that of an old
hermit who had but two friends, one
a young girl named Mary, the daugh-
ter of a wine dresser and the other an
old oak tree which stood near his hut.
A terrible storm destroyed the old
man's hut and he was compelled to
find refuge in the tree. Mary took
him to her home and cared for him.
The oak tree was cut down and casks
were made from the wood. Before
the old man died he prayed that both
his friends might be remembered,
Mary was afterward married and be-
came the mother of two beautiful
children. One day the painter Raphael
passed her home and saw Mary and
her two children in her garden. He
took the top of one of the casks stand-
ing near by (which happened to be
one of the casks made from the her-
mit 's oak tree) and sketched them
upon it. He carried it home and from
this painted the Madonna della Sedia.
The old hermit 's prayer was answer-
ed.
The Sistine Madonna is named for
St. Sixtus. The left hand figure gives
us a feeling of a divine moment in the
lives of the people pictured.
Perhaps one reason for this lies in
the ethereal setting of the picture.
The Madonna is standing upon and
being lifted up by the clouds. St.
Sixtus is looking in adoration upon
the Mother and child, while St. Barba-
ra upon the right is gazing down up-
on the earth. The two cherubs at the
bottom complete the unity of the
picture. While Michael Angelo and
Raphael were working in Rome and
Florence Titian was working in Ven-
ice. The Venetian pictures were not
able for their brilliant coloring, while
perfection of line was of secondary
importance. When Titian accepted the
invitation of the Pope to come to
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Rome, Michael Angelo admired the
wonderful coloring of the Venetian
painter, but deplored the fact that he
could not draw better.
The Roman painter believed that
the secret of good art was in correct
lines while the Venetians tho't more
of coloring. Titian's picture of St.
Christopher is a wonderful represen-
tation of the old legend of the giant
carrying the Christ Child across the
stream. Correggio 's life and works
differs from any other Italian artist
we have considered. He was never
placed under any great painter but
studied in an art school in Mantua.
Correggio painted that famous picture
' ' Holy Night. ' ' In this picture the
Holy Night radiates from the child in
Mary 's arms and lights up the moth-
er's face. At the left ~ i ■ 1 -s are figure^
of a shepherdess and two shepherds.
The woman shades her face from the
light with one hand, while with the
other she holds her offering two doves
in a basket for the Christ Child. In
the background is Joseph with a mule.
Day is just breaking as is indicated
by the faint light in the East. Above
circles and angelic choir. Correggio
was very fond of painting Cherubs,
angels and children
Guido Reni should be included in
our list because he is the creator of
the Aurora. This picture and the
story it portrays should be taught to
every Grammar Grade child. This
picture enriches the old Greek stories.
Aurora, the Goddess of the dawn, is
opening the gates of the morning for
her brother Apollo, the sun god. Be-
low is the earth wrapped in darkness.
Apollo, is his chariot drawn by his im-
patient steeds, is surrounded by the
hours in the form of graceful maidens.
There are two Spanish artists with
whom the children should be familiar.
Velasquez (1599-1660) and Murillo-
(1617-1682) Velasquez was the court
painter for Philips IV. At the age of
23 his teacher advised him to leave
Seville his birthplace, and go to Mad-
rid. He wished to see the King, but
did not till some time later on his sec-
ond visit. TVhen the King saw one
of his portraits, he sat for a portrait
himself. "When the picture was finish-
ed the King was so delighted that he
kept Velasquez with him, fitting up a
studio for the young painter in his
palace. Soon Velasquez and his fami-
ly settled in Madrid. Rubens the
great Flemish painter, when on a visit
to Madrid, told Velasquez of the great
master pieces of Italian art.
Velasquez then asked permission to-
go to Italy and see the masterpieces
of these artists. Philips, after some
argument gave his permission to go,
with an exact understanding from the
artist that he would return to the
Spanish court. In 18 months he was
called back by the King and painted
court pictures there until the end of
his days. Because of these pictures
of Velasquez the court of Philip IV.
is made familiar to us.
Murillo 's works differs from Velas-
quez in that his subjects were usually
children or religious subjects. He
painted peasant children while Vel-
asquez depicted the children of the
court. Velasquez depicted realistie
truth, while Murillo depicted sym-
bolical truth or that which was more
or less imaginary, His Saint Anthony
of Padua the story of whose life
Murillo was very fond won for him
the title "The Painter of Heaven."
Murillo 's Madonnas are very beau-
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tiful.
While Velasquez was painting roy-
ality in the court of King Philip in
Spain. Van Dyck the Flemish painter
was preforming a similar service for
King Chas. of England. He now a
court painter had studied with the fa-
mous Ruben and was considered his
best pupil.
We have two important Dutch art-
ists Rembrandt the painter of people,
and Paul Potter the painter of ani-
mals.
In Rembrandt's work we are par-
ticularly drawn by the strong faces
which he portrays. Paul Potter began
. his study of animal life very early and
at the age of 14 be was able to paint
with great success the animals he
loved.
His picture The Bull is one of his
best.
Of the English artists we find Rey-
nolds (1723-1792) Turner (1775-1851)
and Landseer (1802-1873) Reynolds
held first place in the realm of por-
trait painters. Some of his pictures
of children remind us of Murillo's
children. He had the happy faculty
of catching their attitudes while in
play. Reynold's child pictures are
fascinating to children, and their
imaginations often run riot in inter-
preting these pictures. One little
girl of nine years upon seeing "Age
of Innocence" for the first time ex-
claimed, "Oh!" she must be looking
straight into fairy land. Turner was
a lover of color and never cared so
much for correct form.
Landseer, the animal painter who
has been called ' ' The Animal Story
teller of the Victorian Age," is a
•great favorite of the children. Each
■of his dog pictures for which he is
famous tells a story.
The French painters who the chil-
dren should know are Trayon (1810-
1865) the artist who received his in-
spiration as an animal painter from
Paul Potter pictures. He considered
one of the best painters of sheep and
oxen. Also Corot (1796-1875) the
lover landscape. His trees and foliage
are distinctive and children like his
nature picture. The two peasant
painters Millet (1841-1875) and Bre-
ton 1827 should be studied together
so that their lives their ideas and their
general effect may be compared.
After a sixth grade class had been
looking at the pictures of Millet and
Breton one child in comparing their
work said, Millet 's people look like
real working people and Breton's look
like city folks dressed up to look
like people who worked in the fields.
This remark we know was very true.
Rosa Bonheur who was a lover and
painter of animals is a favorite with
the children.
It is said What small boy has not
wished for a horse like the Noble
Charger.
Of the American artists children
should know something of the work of
Whistler and Sargent.
There are many more who contri-
buted to the world of art of which this
book does not mention. So in present-
ing an artist to the children it is good
judgment not to leave out the many
little incidents which may be told
about their lives. For example take
the story that is told of Landseer when
he was presented to the King of
Portugal. The King said, "Mr. Land-
seer, I am delightful to make your
acquaintance I am so fond of beasts.
If the children forget Landseer for
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a time this will recall him to their
memories.
Miss Amy Foote of the state Teach-
ers College of Colo, ^has used the
following plan to make picture study
very attractive to her sixth grade.
In order to gain interest of the
children several pictures by the same
artist were shown to them every day
two and then a little of the life of the
artist, or some of his characteristics
were given in an attractive manner.
After interest was developed, grad-
ually some of the technique of the
work was considered unity, balance,
rhythmical lines, and atmosphere.
Unity was introduced to the class in
the picture. ' ' The Return to the
Farm. ' ' by Troyon, by saying to them
"Which cow did you think Troyon
liked best? Why"? The pupil agreed
upon the white cow, but second ques-
tions brought forth a variety of
answers. Then Miss Foote showed
them how every picture has its center
of interest a unit toward which all
other figures and lines in the picture
pointed.
Men like "Willet and Corot" she
said did not have any difficulty in
arranging their lines and figures by
Vanduek or the court painters who
painted the children of King Charles
and many other royal groups had dif-
ficulty. I wonder why ? Then one
small boy excitedly answered, "Be-
cause they'd all wanted to be unity."
In some of Millet's pictures we can
show balance very effectively. For in-
stance cover up the small figure of the
horse and rider in the background on
the right side in ' ' The Gleaners ' ' by
Millet. Show the picture to the class.
Determine whether or not they feel
that something is gone. The same
may be done with "The Woman
Churning ' ' Cover the doorway and
the chickens entering the house. Here
you can introduce atmosphere because
of the glimpse you caught thru the
door gave distance to the picture.
Result of the children's interest in
pictures was that they begun to got
copies of pictures for then-selves and
wanted to study the artists according
to their Nationality beginning with,
Italian masters.
Miss Estelle Hurll in her book
"How to show Pictures to Children,"
tells us of the use of picture posing.
The pictures which illustrate a
story would naturally be the first ones
used in the story hour. A list of
these pictures are;
Leonarda da Vinci Last Supper.
Titian The Tribute Money, Saint
Christopher.
Raphael School of Athens, Saint
Peter in prison, Saint Catherine,
Saint Cecilia, Sistine Madonna, The
Transfiguration, Madonna of the
Chair.
Correggio — Holy Night, Repose in
Egypt, Marriage of Saint Catherine.
Guido Rini — St. Michael and the
Dragon Aurora.
Rubens — Descent from the Cross.
Van Dyck — Portrait of Charles I.,
Children of Charles I., Baby Stuart.
Velasquez — Prince of Balthazar,
Portrait of Aesop.
Murillo — St. Anthony of Padua,
Christ Feeding the Multitudes, Saint
John and the Lamb, Saint Francis of
Assisi.
Rembrandt — Christ Blessing the
Little Children, Sacrifice of Abraham.
Reynolds — Angel Heads, The Infant
Samuel.
Turner — Dido Building Carthage,
Ulyssess Deriding, Poly-phemus.
Millet— The Angelus.
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The Story of Saint Christopher.
Once upon a time a long time ago
beyond the seas, there lived a boy
named Christopher. As he grew up
lie was unusually strong and giant
like. He drove cattle to field and liv-
ed in the mountains and on the plains.
Being alone much of his time, he had
little opportunity for play or sport
with the other children, and when he
came home his parents did not play
with him or entertain him, and so he
sought recreation where he could find
it in other places. He was so full of
energy and his parents often scolded
him. This drove him off to himself in
bad moods. On one occasion he set fire
to a forest all in sport because he had
no one to join him in better things.
His stepmother scolded him and pun-
ished him so that he would often go
away alone or join bad companions in
mischief. Finally one day quarreling
with a man, he killed him because of
his greater strength.
Fearing to return home, he wander-
ed in strange lands, sometimes work-
ing for his living, and sometimes liv-
ing on what was given him. YVhere-
ever he went people admired his broad
shoulders and manly form, for he was
giant like in size. One day he heard
■of the Emperor of Germany who was
king and the mightiest man in all the
world. As Christopher admired and
worshipped strength he wanted U>
serve the Emperor. At last after
long journeys, he came and stood be-
fore the German Emperor and offered
his services. The Emperor was at
that time waging wars for his king-
dom and when he saw Christopher,
giant like and strong he admired him
and readily accepted his services tak-
ing him along as a body guard.
Christopher was delighted, and threw
his whole strength into the service of
the Emperor, and did many wonder-
ful deeds.
So strong was Christopher that he
would bear lugs on his shoulders and
place them across ravines to build a
bridge for the army to pass over.
The Emperor always encouraged him
all of which pleased Christopher for
he tho't he had at last found him who
was most worthy of worships and ser-
vice.
But on one occasion as the Emperor
was riding near a forest he made the
sign of the cross and turned in another
direction. Then Christopher said to
the Emperor ' ' Why did you turn back
from the forest ? ' ' The Emperor said,
''The devil lives in that forest, and I
fear him." Christopher then said
"Why! I tho't you were afraid of
nothing. But the Emperor answered,
' ' This demon of darkness is very
strong and I fear him." Finally
Christopher said "If you are afraid
I wish to leave your service and join
myself to the devil because I do not
want to serve any but the strongest.
So Christopher parted with him as
soon as the king paid him his wages.
Now Christopher turned his face to-
ward the dark forest, and there in
the depths found a black altar where
on the devil sacrificed the body of
people and hard by it he found the
devil and likewise offered his services
to him which were accepted. Every-
thing went well till they came by a
hill in an Eastern land. On the top of
the hill there stood three crosses.
The devil turned aside as if in fear.
He said to the devil, ''Why are you
afraid?" Then the devil said "On
that middle cross was crucified a man
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who is greater than I and I fear him. ' '
Again Christopher said, if your are
afraid, why, then I am done with you
I want to serve him wlio is not afraid.
And so he parted from the devil, and
as he went away the devil laughed and
mocked him. Christopher wandered
for a long time inquiring here and
there for the man who had died upon
the cross. Finally one day he found
a priest who lived in a cave that open-
ed upon a beautiful river. Tired foot-
sore and weary he sat down at the
invitation of the priest who brought
him refreshing water from the spring
and gave him food. After he had rest-
ed a moment, he said to the priest,
' ' Can you tell me about the man who
died on the cross ? ' ' For he had never
heard of this man until the devil had
told him. The priest consented to tell
him the story of his life. He told
Christopher how the man of Galilee
had lived and toiled, and suffered to
make the world better and how he had
been crucified, dead and had risen
again and that tho' this man was dead,
his spirit was still in the world to
make the world better. Then Christo-
pher'said to the priest. "He is the
one I wish to serve, but how can I ? "
The priest said, You see this river?
There is no bridge for the people to
cross; it is wide and dangerous at
times and if you wish to serve him
help those who try to cross it for
you have mighty strength and in that
way you will be serving him who, tho '
dead still lives.
This pleased Christopher so much
that he built a house of logs and
boughs by the river side, and when
people came to the river he would
wade through the water, take them on
his shoulders and bear them across.
Years passed by Christopher grew
gray in the service of humanity and
flis Master. He soon became a friend
of all the eountry and loved by all.
One dark night when Christopher
lay upon his bed he heard someone
calling like the voice of a child. ' ' Oh,
Christopher, kind good Christopher
come and help me across ! ' ' He arose
from his bed and seizing his great
staff waded thru the water until he
reached the other side of the river,,
but there he found no one. So he wad-
ed back thru the water and lay down
upon his couch again. No sooner had
he done this, and he heard the same
voice again. He responded faithfully
as before but found no one. Still a
third time he heard the same voice
calling- for help. This time he sat up
in his bed and was troubled for he
tho't some one was calling him he
could not find him.
Now he made a third trip across
the river, and there he saw a little
boy.
He asked who he was and told him
that he had crossed the river twice to
find him. The little boy told him ho
was there all the time.
Then Christopher bent low and
took the little man on his shoulders
and waded thru the water but the boy
grew heavier until he seemed as heavy
as a man. When Christopher reach-
ed the other side and put him down,
he saw in his presence a young man
in appearance, with a shining face.
This man said to Christopher, "I
am he whom you serve ; bury your
staff and after a certain number of
days buds will appear thereon. ' ' Then
he. disappeared vanishing as a mist, or
as a shadow, tho' Christopher saw not.
Then he went and lay down upon his
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•couch and slept in great peace of mind
•and body.
Years passed. Christopher "was
still loved by all the people and faith-
ful to his work, but his days were
numbered. Tho' somewhat feeble, he
still bore the people on his shoulders
across the river. One dark stormy
night when the wind roared thru the
tree tops, and the rain fell, Christo-
pher lying upon his bed, heard a voice
call. He tried to rise and answer, he
"did go in response to the voice, but
it was his spirit only that went, the
last call had come to him.
The next morning the storm was
gone and the sky was blue. People
came to cross the, river and called as
usual to- Christopher but there was no
response. They tho 't perhaps he was
asleep and went to the cottage. There
they found him asleep but it was the
long sleep. And a smile was on his
face. Because of his service to the
people they afterwards called him
Saint Christopher.
(Master Cleaver, who set the fore-
going article, followed the piece of
re-print. It contained a number of
typographical errors which must not
be charged to him. In the entire ar-
ticle he made just one error, taking
the copy as a perfect guide. This er-
ror was leaving out "is" — Editor.)
THE KING-KILLERS.
CROMWELL having died in 1658, the English, most of whom were
still greatly attached to the royal family, soon begged Charles II. to come
back and take possession of his throne. He gladly returned ti England,
where he punished no one for the revolution, except the men who had con-
demned his father, to death. A few of these king-killers, or "regi-
cides," as they were called, fled overtake them.
from England as soon as they heard
the king was coming, and three
took passage for America.
Two ' of these men, Goffe and
Whalley, after some trouble, reach-
ed the New Haven colony, where
Puritan friends helped them to hide.
The king sent orders to arrest them,
and magistrates began to search
every house to secure the regicides.
For about eighteen years these two
men lived in constant dread of be-
ing caught; but, thanks to their
many friends, they always escaped.
They dwelt for a while in a desert-
ed mill, then in a cave, and once hid
under a bridge while their pursures
galloped over it, expecting soon to
The fact that the New Haven
people had sheltered some of his
father's judges, added to the com-
plaints of the Quakers and discon-
tented colonists, displeased Charles
II. greatly; and he finally declared
that New Haven should cease to
form a seperate colony, and joined
it to Connecticut, which received a
new charter (1662).
It is also said, however, that these
two colonies were united mainly to
please, the Connecticut people, be-
cause they had won the king's favor
by sending him a pretty message to
welcome him back to the throne.
The charter he gave them was the
most liberal ever granted the colo-
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nists, although the one Roger Wil-
liams secured for Rhobe Island also
granted many privileges.
You doubtless remember the
treaty made between the Indian
King Massasoit and Governor Carver,
when the Pilgrims first came to Ply-
mouth. This treaty was kept forty
years, and Massosoit and his tribe
faithfully helped the colonists to
fight the other Indians. But when
Massasoit died, his two sons, who
had received the names of Alexand-
er and Philip, began to rule in their
turn.
Alexander knew, by the wampum
belts which were the history books
•of his tribe, that nearly all the land
•of his Indian father had been sold
to the white men, piece by piece.
It had been given in exchange for
beads, kettles, blankets, etc., and
now very little was left. But the
Indians fanced that, although they
bad sold the land, they could still
hunt and fish there as much as they
pleased. The colonists, however,
would not allow them to do so, and
drove the Indians farther and fath-
ers off, until they began to feel
cramped for space.
It is said that when one of the
colonists once came to bid an Indian
chief to remove still farther from
the white settlements, the red men
invited him take a seat beside him
on a log. Crowding nearer and
nearer his guest, the chief bade him
move again and again, until he forc-
ed him to the very end of the log.
But when the colonist declared he
could not move another inch without
falling off, the chief calmly answer-
ed: "It is just so with us. We
have moved as far as we can go, and
now you come here to ask us ot move
farther still.''
This feeling of unfair treatment
made Alexander so angry, at last,
that he formed a secret alliance
with the Narragansett Indians to
kill all the white men. But the Ply-
mouth governor, hearing of this,
promptly sent for him, bidding him
come and clear himself of the accus-
ation of treachery. Then, as the
Indian did not obey at once, Wins-
low quickely set out, with his men,
to bring him by force.
Alexander, turions at being thus
compelled to mind, fell seriously ill
from fever. The colonists then al-
lowed his followers to carry him
home; but on the way back, the In-
dian chief breathed his last. Ever
after, his people were in the habit
of saying that he had gone to the
Happy Hunting Grounds, where the
palefaces could never come to crowd
him out.
THE SANDPIPERS NEST
By Celia Thaxter
One lovely afternoon in May, when I was wandering up and down look
ing for flowers, I heard a cry of distress In a moment a little sandpiper
crept from under a bush, dragging itself along as if every bone in its body
had been broken.
Its wings drooped and its legs hung of pain and kept just out'of the reach
as if almost lifeless. It uttered cries of my hand, fluttering along as if
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wounded.
Suddenly I remembered that this
was only the sandpiper's way of con-
cealing from me a nest. Her object
was to make me follow her by pre-
tending she could not fly, and so
lead me away from her treasure.
Then I carefully looked around for
the nest and found it quite close to
my feel, Mrs. Sandpiper had only
drawn together a few leases, brown
and glossy, a little green moss, and
a twig or two, and that was a
Institutional Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
The school has purchased two
new mules to help in the spring-
planting.
The morning section operator of
the Linotype is Jack Pressley. He
is rapidly acquiring a first hand
knowledge of the machine.
Mrs. Wrenn, of Hoffman, .has
taken charge of the Durham Cattage'
in the place of Mrs. Fitzgerald who
has left for her home.
Another boy is proud of the fact
that he has had his first lesson on
the Linotype machine. Young Vass
Fields is expected to make good at
his job — a printer.
One boy at the School possesses a
gold tooth. This is admired by the
boys, some of whom would lose a
tooth to get a gold one. Smith is
often asked. Is it pure gold?''
Capt. T. L. Grier went on a busi-
ness trip to Charlotte last week.
While he was there he saw a few
ball games. As he is the manager
pretty enough house for her.
Four eggs about as large as those
of a robin were within. No won-
der I did not see them, for they
were pale green like the moss, with
brown spots the color of the leaves
and twigs.
I could not admire them enough,
but in order to remove all fear from
my little friend, the sandpiper, I
came very soon away, wondering-
that so very small a head could con-
tain so much cunning,
of our own team, seeing these games-
will certainly aid him in coachings
our boys.
Rev. Mr. Myers, of Concord,,
preached to the boys Sunday in the
Chapel. He spoke on the topic:
"The True Character of Satan.5*
Along with Mr. Myers came his.
choir, who sang a few selections.
"His little girl" sang a solo for the-
boys, which was enjoyed very much.
It was mentioned once before of
the originality of the boys. Xow one-
of the chief of these boy inventors is
working on an invention, the nature-
of which he will not divulge. His
name can be given however. It is
William Wilson.
The new body type which was
ordered some time ago. has arrived
at last, to the joy of the boy-printers>
This issue is set out of the new
type. It very nearly matches our-
Linotype design and greatly im-
proves the appearence of The Uplift.
William Hatch. of lit. Olive, receiv-
ed a crate of strawberries from his
mother. Mrs. C. B. Hatch. But un-
like an average boy. he shared his
fruit with the other bovs in the cot-
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tage — thirty-three boys. He does
not know the meaning' of selfishness.
Mrs. R. B. Cloer has been sick for
a time, but we are glad to report
she is now very much improved.
There was no matron to substitute
for her during her illness, so Mr.
Cloer deserted the shop for a while,
and took her place. The boys un-
der his charge voted him a capital"
matron.
Mr. Ankers arrived at the school
Tuesday night. Work on well No. 4
was begun Wednesday. Thursday
the reporter went down to the well
digger, to see how he was progress-
ing. Mr. Ankers said the depth of
48 ft. had been reached. Mr. Ankers
was putting in a new pipe during
the reporter's visit.
Ice made in our newly finished
ice plant has been given to all the
cottages. To the old house boys
getting ice from the ice plant is an
unusual procedure. The house boys
all grasped wheel borrows and
rushed to the plant. In a minute
they vere all on their way to the
various cottages each conveying
ten to fifty pounds of ice
The State is erecting another cot-
tage at the School. It is located just
behind the School Cottage. Mr.
Misenheimer is doing the surveying
and other work needed first in buil-
ding a cottage. Then when it is
finished it will house thirty boys.
These thirty boys will be taken from
unfavorable environments and plac-
ed in this school. Soon they will
take an interest in doing right; next
they will take pride in doing right
and after a time they cannot be com-
peled to do wrong.
Saturday, April 29th, the two
rooms under charge of Messrs. John-
son and Crooks matched their spell-
ing ability. After a long and hotly
contested struggle, Mr. Johnson's
students finally defeated those of
Mr. Crooks. When the spelling
match was over, Mr. Crooks realized
that more time was still available,
so he procured some grammars and
had a grammar match in the same
manner as in a spelling match. This
contest was not finished, however,
for the boys knew the English so
perfectly none would sit down.
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CONCORD, N. C, HAY 20, 1922
NO. 28
BREAKING HABITS.
That great scientist of California, Luther Bur-
hank, takes a tree that has been going to the bad
for some reason or other for hundreds of years, and
at last has become altogether ugly and noxious and
by the shock of a new creation he breaks up all its
old habits, turns its energies into new channels, and
makes of it a lovely and fruitful thing. And if
your magician can work that miracle, and break up
the habits of a tree, and make of it a new thing,
beautiful and fruitful, why should it be thought
a thing incredible that God can break a man off
from his past, and recreate him in the image of
righteousness and true holiness? — W. L. Watkinson,
D. D.
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The UpII
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class, matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
COME UP HIGHER.
J. G-. C.
I saw the mountains stand
Silent, wonderful, and grand,
Looking out across the land.
When the golden light was falling
On distant domes and spire;
And I heard a low voice calling.
'Come up higher, come up higher,
From the low land and the mire,
From the mist of earth desire,
From the vain pursuit of pelf,
From the attitude of self;
Come up higher, come up higher."
SEEM PROUD OF THEIR ANCESTORS.
Dr. J. C. Massee, formerly pastor of Tabernacle Baptist church of Raleigh,
hut now of Boston, Mass., is back in Raleigh delivering a series of lectures.
Tn one of them he made this declaration: '"it is impossible for a man to be a
Ghristam, and believe in evolution." The reverend doctor does not be-
lieve that he evoluted from a monkey or an ape. and he is conscious that he
is a Christian, and he knows that to believe that stuff he must discount the
powers and teachings of the Bible. Most normal men — in fact, all normal
folks are in sympathy with Dr. Massee's views.
Now come six men, posing as professors and members of the faculty o
4 . THE UPLIFT
the department of Biology and Entomology i'1 the Stale College, at Raeligh,
taking issue with Dr. Massee and declare that, "that all scientists ami im-
partial students of the subject are convinced I hat evolution is as much of
an actuality as is the phenomenon of gravity." While that is not so. it may-
be these scholarly gentlemen think that those who do not agree with them
could not be classed as "scientists and impartial .students." ■ It is time
to call a halt in this progammo of instilling into the minds of the young any
doubts that would lead to their abandoning the great truths, which the
Bible clearly teach, and which have for ages made men upright, honorable
and of service to their fellow man. Profs. Z. P.-Metcalf, B. W. Wells, C.
0. Eddy, I. V. Shunk, J. E. Eckerfc and A. C. .Martin are the professors and
"scientists and impartial students of the .subject." that sign the protest a-
gainst Dr. Massee's utterance. Are they North Carolina folks? Doesn't
sound like it. If they have any ccnifort or special joy and pride in having
descended from apes, let us not deprive them of any thing they may get out of
it; but North Carolina should not at this stage of unrest be paying out its
good money to men to teach Darwinism to our youths and young men.
Dr. Riddick, President of State College, ought to send for Col. Bryan.
This is not a subject for the '.I K's.
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*. MASTER SWIFT DAVIS— INSTITUTIONAL REPORTER. '
1
This promising young fellow is the institutional reporter. Those who ,
read his "items" are compelled to recognize that he 'has a nose for news." j
Whenever the editor walks into the office with a bunch of the morning pa-
pers or a magazine. Swift easts a wistful eye at them, and soon he is gain-
ing permission to "look over them." He has a wonderful memory and no
little ability. He will read an article, and come, as near reproducing it us
many of more advanced age. He aspires to be a. chemist; but somehow
THE UPLIFT has picked 1dm out for a Feature Writer at some future day ,
on the Charlotte Observer or one of its prominence and character.
This young fellow won the third prize in the Fail-brother inquiry, aud ;
no sooner than bis prize of three dollars was turned over to him he asked -
the privilege of making an investment of a subscription to the Charlotte
Observer. At that end of the line, Col. Harris, taking note of Master t
Swift's communication, lias the following interesting editorial in Sunday's ;
Observer: '
"We are inclined to handle this morning a letter received during the
week from Swift Davis, a Charlotte lad who is equipping himself for a.seful x
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purposes in life at this Jackson Training School, mainly because the letter
is illustrative of the inspirational services of that institution and of how
it lends opportunity for constructive work in the direction of developed
good citizenship, The letter from the young fellow is in itself an editorial,
easily woven into a good story for the hoys. He presumes the editor will
be surprised that he, a student at this school, should be subscribing to
The Observer, but. says young Swift, one reason is that 1 was born and
reared in Charlotte. "That, however," he writes, "is only incidental.
1 know thai you have read and do read THIS UPLIFT, our official organ,
and 1 work in I he department which publishes this magazine. 1 have learn-
ed here the power of writing and the love for writing. Loving to write,
naturally I love to read not only articles that enterain but articles of instruct-
ion and of a political nature. Some may say that one cannot 'love' material
objects, but if 1 do not Tove,' I know I like The Charlotte observer. The
editorials never fail to give mo food for thought. Who knows but that some
day 1 may be writing for The Observer'/"
This young chap who is unquestionably training for a. useful citizen, then
tells how and why he profits by reading this paper and how his personally-
earned money is being invested in an individual subscription, but that is
aside. The point is. that here is a lad who has seen a vision and finds in
the Jackson Training School the instrumentality through which this vision
is to be realized. The printing office at that institution not only affords
opportunity for a practical education in the art, but affords boys like Davis
a chance to develop their talents as writers. The lad who writes so intel-
ligently and well as young Davis is bound to improve with maturity of body
and mind, and The Observer believes it can see indications that for one
thing, the Training School is turning out a future editor of qualifications.
The building up of young Davis is but an example of how the Jackson
Training School is building up several hundred boys every year and turn"
ing them out into useful pursuits. Swift Davis, of Charlotte, may not
realize the fact at present, but he is giving this splendid institution one of
the best advertisements it has ever had.
BEEN LOOKING AT HER FOB FIVE YEARS.
One of the truest pictures yet painted of an actual condition is that ex-
hibited by Mrs. Charles W. Sewell. of Indiana, herself a farmer's wife, at
the National Agricultural Conference recently held in Washington. Among
Other things she said:
"The farmer's wife is his business partner as the wife of no other busi-
ness man can possibly be. The man who has a shop or factory or of-
fice closes the door (if his business when he goes home. His wife has
not been there. She knows nothing about how the day has gone for
him, in a business way. whether for weal or woe.
"But the farmer's wife is an entirely different position. She lives
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fn the factory. She washes lor and boards the men that work in the
shop. She knows if the cattle break into the growing corn that financi-
al disaster will result; so unaided she drives them out and then with
her own hands builds up the fence. Shi; knows full well when the
tractor doesn't run right. She can tell it by the unmistakable brittle-
ness of your temper at the noon hour!
The farm woman sees the storm sweep down over the prairie, de-
stroying the ripening harvests. The uninitiated, the city person, would
see only a line growing crop and think how many dollars it would mean
if properly harvested and marketed. But your farmer's wife sees far
more than that in the growing crop. She sees new linoleum for the
kitchen floor, a new suit for the good man, a trip to her childhood home,
long-deferred music lessons for the little daughter, or the first quarter
of advanced education for the promising farm boy. That's what she
sees.
"But in the face of all that, when the storm does come — fully realiz-
ing all its impart in wiping out the work of the farm family for an en-
tire season — she bravely hides her own feelings, slips her hand into
her husband's, and says. Never mind! We will weather it somhow.'
She is his real partner, asking not only to share the pleasures and the
profits but ready and willing to drink to the last drop the dregs of his
bitter cup of losses and discouragement."
And what she receives towards the educational qualification of her child-
ren for life's work is in many instances an incompetent teacher, a grocery
clerk, an imbiber of coca cola, without animation, without experience, and
with no interest other than in the little salary attached. While this farm
woman is bravely meeting her task, the man who placed over her children
a make-shift of a teacher draws three thousand dollars for his valuable and
expert service.
CO-OPERATION.
This thing we call co-operation is of dynamic force. What can't be ac-
complished single-handed, may prove of easy accomplishment when heads,
hands and hearts of a fcr.v people join in one common purpose.
It is a very easy mattor to organize most any profession or occupation;
but the difficulty is in getting that particular organization to function dilli-
gently and unceasingly. There is one exception, however, to the forego-
ing statement. The hardest proposition that genius ever went up against
is the matter of oi-ganizing the farmers anywhere near a 75 per. cent basis;
and when the organization is effected it becomes a problem how to make it
function and survive.
The Grange lost its pep; the Alliance hit the ceiling; the Farmers' Union
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is petering out; and now comes, perhaps, the most practical measure that
ever confronted the farming interest, that of co-operation. There is just
enough business and reason in the premises to make it appeal to practical
folks. But it, too. is having a hard time. Conflicting interests are at-
tempting to throw a monkey-wrench into its organization; all kinds of ad-
verse stories are being told about its alleged failure where tried out; hut
THE UPLIFT, somewhat of a homy-handed son of toil itself, is inclined to
subscribe fully to this editorial declaration in the Progressive Farmer:
"enough falsehoods have been told [about co-operative marketing] to make
Ananias turn over in his grave with jealousy."
In the finality all legitimate businesses will profit by the outcome of co-
operative marketing, well organized and heartily and faithfully supported.
Let the leaders take courage; laugh the opposition to a rout; and let the pro-
ducers participate in legitimate and remunerative profits. Justice can hurt
no honest man.
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WAS MAJOR FINGER'S WHOLE DREAM REALIZED?
When the late Mar.jor S. M. Finger, then state superintendant of the public
schools of North Carolina, conceived that the girls of the state deserved and
should have a state-aided educational institution, and developed the idea of
what resulted in the Greeneshoro Normal, he cast about over the state for
| two men to make the campaign. His idea was to prepare girls for teaching
in the public schools of the state. After considering all the' available men
for the campaign, he proceeded to make the selection by elimination. Every
time his wise conclusion came direct to the door of Dr. E. A. Alderman
and the late Chas. D. Melver. Major Finger's dream was realized in the
final establishment of the school for girls. It would be interesting, however,
to know what percentage of the graduates of the Greensboro Normal (now
the N. C. College for Women) actually take work in the rural public schools,
the purpose Maj. Finger had uppermost in mind.
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A DEAD GIFE-AWAY
The Presbyterian Standard in a late number carried a most sensible article
bearing on the commoness of titles. That they may be had— these Ph.D's,
D.D's. A.M. &c— from some Western institutions by the payment of a fee
of twenty-live dollars and the answering of a very simple questionaire,
makes them common and of little value. Whenever you see a contribution
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in the papers signed with "Rev" or "Dr." or has behind it "A. M." or
seme other title, nine times cut of ten it is either the name of a negro or
some one who came by his title by the easy route and is using it to lend im-
portance to himself, which otherwise could not be had. To avoid sorrow
and the waste of precious moments, we always look to see how a communi-
cation is signed before we read it — we have been "sold out" too often al-
ready by reading seductive medicine advertisements. The average negro
always puts "A. M." after his name; and some small preachers write "Rev."
before theirs. They can't resist it.
The school board of the Concord schools very properly and wisely turn
ed down the proposition of the twelfth grade. Confidentally, couldn't the
equivalent of the work of the twelfth grade be absorbed in the eleven grades
without injury to the child or hardships on the teachers? The belt might
be tightened slightly, a few more hours could be devoted, some lost motion
eliminated. Honestly, isn't fifteen years of a boy's or girl's life spent in
attaining an A. B. degree too much time? In the days past when they made
fine A. B. scholars, the equal of any of to-day. the deed was accomplished
in less than twelve years all-told. The claim that college and universi-
ty curriculms have been extended is untrue — a slight rearrangement only
has taken place to lit into a fad or a hobby.
********
Fads have to spend themselves. Playgrounds and parks grew out of a
condition of a thickly-settled, tenement congested city, where homes have
no yards and the sun-shine is rarely seen except on the tops of sky-scrap-
ers. The average North Carolina town and city have homes blessed with
ample, shady lawns. There need be more concern about light, pleasant oc-
cupation for the children rather than so much play. The men who are ac-
tively doing things to-day, and the women who are good mothers, fine
house-keepers and faithful church-workers, were men and women who play-
ed, when children, in their own yards and answered the call of father and
mother when some light task needed the attention of a dutiful, ambitious
youngster. The play idea is getting too rank.
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In this great progressive and statistical age, there need be no surprise
if, in the interest of promoting the growth of "scientists," the next Federal
census includes this very logical question: ''Who was your ancestor — an
ape, a monkey or a baboon?" This is just as important, in fact more so, as
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10 know whether the subject is white or black, foreign or native born. It
would be very interesting to know the folks in good old North Carolina
who feel certain that they sprang- from the baboon.
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By way of the News and Observer, and from the pen of Ben Dixon Mc-
Neil, THE UPLIFT lias in this issue a most entertaining and instructive
story of what it means to build the hard-surfaced roads which now engage
the activity of the state. The finest thing of all that occurred in the admin-
istration of the late Governor Biclcett was his discovery of Frank Page and
the engagement of his service in this business of building roads for North
Carolina.
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Alfairs are getting better. A recent trip down the Seaboard ottered ab-
solute proof of this statement. The 5 P. M. train was crowded to the doors
—most of them were traveling men. You know them from their grips, the
little sheets they are studying and the examination of Dunn's and Brad-
street's reports. When "drummers" begin to stir lively, there is a reason
fur it. Demand is in the air; people are wanting something; and others,
detecting this, hasten to supply their wants. Glory!
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Every crime and evil doing, while sin is at the root of them, is occasion-
ed by idleness. Keep the child and man busy and interested in the ac-
complishment of something useful, and this tiling you call the crime-wave
will recede. In all probability a good habit will thus be formed.
The Concord Rotarians and Kiwanians could render the local public an-
i other very valuable sarvica were they to find out why the local cotton
market is under that of nearby towns, and cause the local market to stand
| up with others.
[[' the constitution forbids the teaching of the Bible in the public schools,
is it not unconstitutional to teach u theory that sets at naught the great
! truths taught in the Bible?
Hiving a painful recollection of the last one applied, we rather rejoice
that the U. S. Senate- has put a tariff tax of 25 per cent on mustard plasters.
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It took an S-hour debate, however, to make tin- piaster tax stick.
* * * * * * # *
Today one hundred ami forty seven years ago, we have reasons to believe,
the folks in Charlotte village were having- a big and exciting time.
THE BAT, THE BIRDS,
BEASTS.
A great conflict was about to come off between the Birds and the
Beasts. When the two armies were collected together the Bat hesitat-
ed which to join. The Birds that passed his perch said: "Come with
us;" but he said: I am a beast." Later on, some Beasts who were
passing underneath him looked up and said: ''Come with us;" but
he said: "I am a Bird." Luckily at the last moment peace was
made, and no battle took place, so the Bat came to the Birds and
wished to join in the rejoicings, but they all turned against him and
he had to fly away, lie then went to the Beasts, but soon had to
beat a retreat, or else they would have torn him to pieces. "Ah,"
said he Bat, "I see now
HE THAT IS NEITHER ONE THING NOR THE OTHER HAS NO
FRIENDS."
LIVING
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, justly called the
Wizard nf the North, was born in
Edinburgh, in 1771. He was lame
and in delicate health, and. in con-
sequence Of tins, spent much of his
youth in various parts oi the country
with friends. This made him fa-
miliar with the Scottish charac-
ter and habits, as well as Scottish
anecdotes, tradition, and history.
more especially the Scottish border
history. He was exceedingly fond
of out-of-door life, and his reading
was mostly romances. He was a
great reader, and in this way as well
as by conversation acquired that
mine of information upon which he
drew so freely in after life. As a
hoy he was not scholarly in his
tastes, and did not apply himself
well. He knew some Latin, but no
Greek. Later he learned to read
German, French, Italian, and Span
ish. He had great fondness for in-
venting and telling stories, and did
it vefnarkably well, thus early show-
ing his bent of mind. His poems
were written before his novels.
The more noted ones are "Lay of the'
Last Minstrel." "ilurmion," "Lady
of the Lake," '"Rokeby," and "Lord
of the Isles." His first navel was
published anonymously. The long
list that followed cannot be given
here. Among the most famous are
"Kenilworth." "fvanhoe." "Heart
of Midlothian." "Old Mortality."
'The Talisman," "The Antiquary.''
The Bride of Lammermoor,"
"Quentin Durward," and "Waver-
ley."
Scott was ambitious, not only to
Mke a name, but to establish a great
estate. In 1S11 he bought the first
THE UPLIFT 11
HISTORY. '
of what afterwards became Abbots-
ford. In the course of years he ex-
pended great sums of money here,
altogether not less than 8300.000.
He became connected with a pub-
lishing: house, and its failure in
1S20 involved him in a debt of silill),-
000. He attempted to pay this great
sum by his pen. and before his death
six years later he had paid $330,000,
a task never before equaled. The
amount of work done in this period
by Scott is marvelous, but he broke
down under the strain.
Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes was born in Eng-
land in 1S23, and died in 1S96. His
"Tom Brown at Rugby" and "Tom
Brown at Oxford" made him im-
mensely popular. Aside from these
hooks, he wrote a great deal, largely
in favor of a form of socialism.
Among his most popular books, be-
side those already mentioned, are
"Our Old Church— What shall we
do with it?" and Rugby," an
account of a cooperative colony, at--
temptedinthis country, in Tennes-
see. He also wrote "The Manliness
of Christ." a strong and very origi-
nal work. The following extracts
from "Tom Brown's School Day's,"
though very far from giving you a
complete story, will give you an
excellant idea of the character of the
work. You will certainly read it in
a complete form. While it may not
rank high as literature, it is a book
that will do you good to read.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher. son of Dr.
Lyman Beecher, and brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born at
Litchfield, Conn., in 1813 and died in
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1S87. In childhood he gave little Locke," "'Two Years .A go.." Yeast,"
promise of future distinction, He and "Hereward the Wake" are all
began preaching at Lawrenceburg. excellent. You are most likely to
Ind., but soon removed to Indian- be pleased with "Westward FTo."
apulis. In 18-17 he went Brooklyn. Kingsley died in 1 8-17 .
as pastor of Plymouth Church, whore Daniel Webster
he gathered an immense eongregatii in
and became the most noted preacher
in America. He was also a popular
writer and lecturer. He wrote one «'«??t«-™ Ionosphere was born at
novel1 Norwood." a tale of New Salisbury, fc. H.,inliS2. He uttond-
Englandlife. He published manv ed PI»»>1« ?*?"' Academy, and
volumes of sermons, essays, lectures. wa* *o <hthclent that he could not be
-,,-,,1 .,,i,. . .„t. induced to declaim before the' school
t L 1 1 1 1 t u l l t ' a S fc JIa . r r . t.
.Daniel Webster, one of the great-
st orators that has over lived in the
Charles Kingsley
He entered Dartmouth very poorly
prepared, but led his class before
Charles Kingsley was born at the close of the lirst year. After
Dartmoor. England, in 1819. He graduation he taught school for a
took honors at Cambridge and was time to earn money to help his broth-
ordained, becoming first couiateand er through college. lie studied law
then rector of Eversby. lie was and was admitted to practice in lSllj.
always ready to plead the cause of In 1812 he was elected to Congress
the oppressed and neglected, and and opposed the war with Great
none the less ready to attack abuses. Britain. In 181(i he removed to
He was intensely fond of nature; per- Boston. He soon came to be re-
haps this taste made possible the, garded as the foremost lawyer in
Water Babies," one of the few per- New England. His reply to Hayne
feet fairy tab's of the' language. is one of the most memorable
Kingsley 's descriptive powers were speeches ever made in Congress.
very great; lie is not excelled, per-- His Bunker Hill Orations, and the
haps, in this respect by any English Oration on Adams and Jefferson, are
writer. While he wrote some among the greatest speeches ever
poetry, and some of merit, and that delivered in this country. He was
which has been popular, on the Secretary oi State under Harrison
whole, he does not take high rank as and opposed the annexation of Texas.
a poet. His greatest novel is "Hy- He died in lSa2.
patia," but "Westward Ho," "Alton
This wonderful country of ours is now spending $70,000,000 a year on
cosmetics. And it is getting so that when one sees a girl without auy
paint at all on her face, it seems as if s^e must have left home in '4 big
hurry, and that nobody ought to whisper to her to run right back and put
something on her face. The woman of the east thinks it a dreadful thing
if a strange man should see her regular face, and it may come to that in
this country. — Greensboro News.
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CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS OF DAVID-
SON COUNTY.
Mr. C. M Thompson, a prominent feitizun of Lexington, and himself a
veteran of the sixties, upon request of THE UPLIFT, has kindly furnished
iH?™-™™ r Confederate Survivors now residents of Davidson county
LEXINGTON: Capt. F. C. Robbins, C. W. Trice, C. A. Hunt. C. M. Thomp-
son, George Musgruve, R. M. Shouf. Lindsay Byerly (4). Andrew Sink
Robert Cooper. Joel Cranford, (1), Alex Evans (3). Andrew
Cicero Goss, J. A. Richard, J. T. Byerly (2).
i'arborough, Harvey Trantham. 'COMPLEX': John Kerns. Jim
George xV. Tliomason. .1. A. Aber- Kerns,
nathy. Alfred Smith. DENTON: S. J Buie G W
LEXINGTON, R. F. D's: L. L. Williams.
Cohard (1). West Philips (3), G. W. NEWSOM: T. B. Stokes. William
Crouse, (I!): J. L. Hedriek (6). John Walker. E. M. Reeves.
H. Smith (2). Henry Bower (2), LINWOOD, R. P. D: W. P. Miller
James Myers (3). Riley Leuoard (3), (2), Alfred Kuster (3), W. A. Sharp
G. F. Hedriek (5). G. W. Beeker (5), (3), Thomas Lanning (f ). J. G. Shoaf
Capt. John Koontz, (3), Wesley By- (3), J. H. MeCarn (2). Henry Feez-
erly (3), Obe Byerly (2), Robt. Scott er (2). C. A. Barnes (1). W. A. Me
U),R. J. "Wagoner (1), D. S. Leon-"wBride (1). Sam Simmerson (1),
ai'd (1). Lewis Willams < D.Rowland Frank Vonnts (2).
Walser (4). Philip Hedge (4). James HIGH ROCK: Fred Morris; R, F.
Thomas (1). John H. Swine- (6). D.— A. D. Kinnev (1). Silas Cross
George Easter ( 3), Henry L. Sink [1].
(31. Frank Miller (1). J. EL Thomp- THOMASVILLE: B. L. Owen;
sun (3), R. B. Gentle (3). R. F. R. F. D.— William Jarret [4]. An-
Hedrick (fi), Wm. Fritts (2), Wiley drew Clodfelter [3] T. W. S. Grimes
Leuoard (6)'. Goe. A. Hedriek (li). [4]. J. W. Lee [4].
Barton Myers (3). Albert Myers (3). JACKSON HILL: C. L. Badgett.
B. C. Gobble(3), George Koontz(3), HANDY; Jack Keith.
Jake Bylery(2). Zeno Tusseydi). Total in Davidson. 34.
David Hedrick(5). David PerrellU).
What I Would Like To Do And Why I Would Like
To Do It When I Leave The Jackson Training School.
By Edw.-,rd C!eaver---2cnd Prize.
Upon seeing Col. Fairbrotherskind oiler in the THE L'PLIFT. I at once
determined to express my veiws on "What I should like to do and why I
fOiil.-l like to do it when I leave the Jackson Training School." After I
leavi this institution 1 will finish at the Higli School, and then I hope to'
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Lave the opportunity to go throujrh college. Having had a thorough educa-
tional training, I hope to be fitted for the position that is now my ambition,
An Editor.
One reason why I .should like to of seeing her.soon rallied and left
be an editor is that I sincerely do- the sickbed. Undoubtedly the pa-
sire to be of great service to my state per aided in his recovery. The mo-
rn which I live. Many of our great tlier realized this and was grateful to
men have come from the editorial the newspaper.
chair. Another reason why I want Another reason why I want to he
to be an editor is that 1 want to make an editor, is that North Carolina
a profitable living in the world. An needs men to take the place ofthose,
editor's position is one of great re- who are continually going to their
sponsibility. He may lead us to reward in the great beyond; and I
peace or to war. to bliss or sorrow. hope to lie able anil competent some
All news, if it is to circulate fast. day to till one of these vacancies.
must bespread by wide-awake news- The whole world in every depart-
papers. I know a woman, who had ment of life and activity is looking
a son in the late war. He was wound- for such men as want to be of service
ed and unconscious. No identitica- to their fellow-men and their state.
tion card or book was to lie found People depend upon the editors in
upon him. As a result his mother a large measure to lead them; and in
was not notified of his condition. order to do this. the editor ought to
A comrade, however, knew his name lie not only conscientious but be p:e-
but nothing else. In the list of the pared to had them in the right way
wounded, his dear mother saw his and not in the wrong.
name. She forth with went to his To lie an editor is my life's ambi-
bedside, and he, because of the joy tion.
It is necessary for the welfare of the nation that men's lives be based
on the principles of the Bible. — Theodore Roosevelt.
ETERNITY ONLY CAN MEASURE.
By C. W. Hunt.
I have been thinking for seme weeks along a line I had thought on be-
fore, but somehow it came with more emphasis, and after 1 had read Dr.
Poe's splendid article on education in last number of THE UPLIFT, my
thoughts centered on this: do we not do too much agitating, on the order
of a broadcasted radio message, much of which is wasted on desert air,
like the flower "born to blush un- energy was centered on some dw-erv-
seen?" Often time money and good ing boy or girl with an ambition,
postage and paper are wasted send- but who has no show, instead of
ing matter to these whose names are wasting good intentions we could
among the well known, but who develop and set in motion a wave
need none of the "dope" when if that that would roll on when all who
THE UPLIFT 15
had to do with it had turned to homes, better food and such. A
dust again. life touched for belter things by
At the breakfast table we were such an act as I refer In here not
discussing a certain talented girl, only brightens it, but it brightens
without means, but with an ambi- others around it. Nothing like a
t ion for an education, whom a ecr- personal touch: the seeing and real-
tain welfare worker [in private] izing at close quarters what can Ik;
was securing .1 scholar ship for in done to make things better around
college, that she might help to work those we labor for.
her way through, and come out to A man seeking to do good, that
teach others and thus send on down will hist, after he has gone hence,
the ages an influence that only eter- could do nothing that would raise a.
nity can measure. That is real grander monument to him than the
work, by the side of which broad- education of a sweet aspiring girl,
casting pales into insignificance. the taking up of a deraliet boy, plac-
Often it has occurred to me that a ing him in a plaee like Jackson
canvass to ascertain where those Training School, making a man with
are that can lie helped would amount an intention to do all the good he
to ten times the good to be done by can.
campaign in general for better
"The great and satisfying happiness of life need never he Hought after.
It always comes as a ty-product of ordinary daties."
A GLINT METEOR FOLLOWS NANCY
ASTOR.
Something was bound to happen to keep the Virginians braced up ■•\ym
the departure of the brilliant and charming Lady Astor. tt'ir triumphant
visit through the Old Dominion and to the scene of her childhood stirred
the folks so that something out of the- ordinary had to be pulled of to '/.>:>■;>
the Virginians from a state of pining.
Nature took care of them. Under a nated the heavens over southern
Norfolk date line and 3Iay VI this Virginia and sections of North Caw-
accvunt of a giant meteor was sent lina. The trail of Sight, as ihejae-
out to The press; ;• or feJJ in a -!w e .;■■. t- '.'.■;■:■ the /.--
"The shock of a twenty-ton meteor nith at an ahgJe • \ u^xi >1 \~> d.< -j.-- -.s.
Tvhi -h ci-^-Led to the ground in an was visible in this eity, ftkS;,'KO.<id
isolated spot in Nottoway County, and at points aiong the Juu&h ii'tvvr,
12 n Lies rorth-west of BSaek.sto.ne. creating geneiai exeiten* rat t-.-.d ev-
ite 'ast night was felt for a radius en consternation on she j/art <rf ti.-;
of : tv miles while the briliiam negro"*
glar of the ineadecent bodv illumi- The meteor. eo/.<jpo»ed of a meitai-
10 THE UPLIFT
lie substance, crashed into a grove Meteors are small, erratic bodies
of oak trees with an explosive roar rushing' through the planetary sys-
some distance from any house, mak- tern, and getting hot in the process,
ing a hole with an area of 500 square appear in the atmosphere surround-
feet and birrying several trees with ing our earth as shooting stars."
it. Flames which immediately shot Some of these falling bodies have
up were visible for many miles. reached the earth, as did the one of
while trees caught tire. Thursday night, and such are called
The shock of the tall was felt at "aerolites" or "meteorites." Nuru-
Lawrenceville, Petersburg, Chase bers, of course, are burned up before
City, and at other points. At Law- they reach us, and who can tell what
renceville, 100 miles west of here, destruction such a catastrophe may
windows were rattled and houses represent, or whether it bo or be not
were shaken while at Chase City inhabited world which has thus been
similar effects were noted. Auto- plunged to destruction by fire,
mobilists on the roadways in Meek- They are of a metallic or stony
leu burg county said it seemed as nature. On certain nights in Au-
though their cars had caught fire, gust and November it has been eal-
so great was the illumination. dilated that these meteors will ap-
In Norfolk the meteor appeared to pear. They fall from certain con-
be about half the diameter of the stellations, after which they are
full moon and much like a street named; as Leonides, from Leo, in the
arc-light. Its tail, of orange bril- November displays. The star show-
liance with a sharp blue flame fading ers sometimes present the appear-
out at the extreme end, apparently artee of a beautiful display of rockets.
was about tenor twelve times as Millions of them imsh around the sun,
long and fully as broad as the body. and when, as occasionally happens,
In Richmond a streak of light was our earth comes near them, we have
noticed before the ball of tire was ' a grand display of celestial tire-
seen swirling through space to be works.
followed by the reverberations of It is estimated that the average
an explosion. The entire southeast- number of meteors that traverse the
ern skies were illuminated as if by atmosphere daily, and which are
a flash of lighning and a burst of large enough to be visible to the eye
names." on a dark, clear night, is 7,500,000;
Parties, returning from Charlotte, and if to these the telescope meters
saw this meteor at a point below be added, the number will he in-
Concord. It was described as be- creased to 400,000.000. In the
ing of the size of a grape-fruit and space traversed by the earth there
displaying a tail. It appeared to are, on the average, in each volume
reach the earth not many hundred the size of our globe [including its
yards away, and afterwards finding atmosphere], as many as 13,01)0
that it realy touched earth in Vir- small bodies, each one capable ot
ginia about two hundred miles away, furnishing a shooting star risible
the Concord parlies were proud that under favorable circumstances to
they did not quit their automobile the nakedeye.
and attempt a location of the visitor.
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SENTENCED TO DIE.
(Near East)
17
Twelve Men, with grave faces,
were met to decide and issue of life
or death.
Xo burly criminal stood there to
receive punishment for his crimes,
—only a little child, begging for life.
Her sin was hunger and naked-
ness.
She trembled, and almost fell, as
she stretched out thin, bare arms in
supplication.
"Hunger! — Bread!'' were the only
words she spoke.
A long time passed, while those
men fought to escape the verdict
they must render. But then the
words came:
"We have not found anyone who
will give you bread, little girl. We
have told a great many people about
you, but they have given to so many
other boys and girls that they arc-
tired of giving. There is not enough
bread, now, to go around— no, not
even a crust. We are very sorry,
dear little girl, but— we must let
you die."
A cruel jest? No! A cruel fact,
multiplied thousands upon thous-
ands of times! If only one such
pleading child were condemned to
die ! iecause'Sveare"!tiredof giving"
it would be enough to blanch the
cheeks of every man and woman
who readsthispage. But upon many
thousands of boys and girls the sen-
tence of death lias just been passed.
In Armenia a Christian race is be-
ing blotted out — while the world
looks on. In Armenia peace did not
com. when the rest of the world
stopped lighting. Last year 140 vil-
lages were destroyed; thousands of
mothers and grown daughters were
violated and slain; fathers were
herded into buildings and burned;
multitudes of orphaned children
were driven into the wilderness to
wander and die. unless, perchance,
they might be gathered, like lost
lambs, into folds of safty by the
Near East relief. Conditions are
worse than at any time since the ar-
mistice. Frantic appeals for more,
food to save the children, for more
clothing to cover their naked bodies,
for more hospitals and orphanages
to give them refuge come surging
over the cables to ' kind, generous
Americans," the hoped-for savior of
Armenia.
And in the moment of this crisis,
when the question of life or death
for unnumbered thousands of chil-
dren must be answered, the tender
charity of American mothers and fa-
thers has begun to fail. Their an-
swer to the multitude of little orph-
ans whose only sin is hunger, and
nakedness and immeasurable grief,
has been. — in December, and Jan-
uary, and Feburary, and March —
not more money, and more clothing,
and more food, but less. And so the
cruel order has gone forth from the
offices of the near East Relief to re-
duce all expenditures twenty-five
percent. Twenty-live children from
every hundred now receiving care
must be turned away. Among the
many thousands whose wails of hun-
ger, ami sickness, and cold have not
vel been answered, not one can be
satisfied.
18
THE UPLIFT
HOW FRANK PAGE WORKS.
Een Dixon MacNeill in News and Observer.
'■you can't sit down and write a le
find $250,000 for which please ship to
roads. Roads arc not in the catalogue
Thus did Highway Commissioner i
tive citizen who had come to Raleigh
to be pulled to get a piece of road
finished, why somebody didn't get
behind that fiddling contractor and
make him do something.
"He's been piddling along there
now since last September, and not
done yet Looks like lie will not be
through this whole summer. Why,
look to me . ' ' And so on,
He just couldn't understand it,
couldn't see any reason why they
didn't go on and finish it and let
people get some use out of it some-
time.
A Lesson From Home
"How many tons of fertilizer did
you buy this year.'" The question
took the restive citizen somewhat
aback. He was thinking about the
slowness of contractors.
' I got forty tons this year. Win
it
"How far did you have to hau
and how long did it take you?"
"Four miles, and off and on, the
boys were about a week at it, maybe
more than that. The weather was
bad some of the time and — "
"Do you know how many tons of
rock and sand and cement that pid-
dling contractor has got to haul, some
of it ten miles, before he finishes that
job you are kicking about ?"
He didn't know. He hadn't
thought about it, though he had seen
trucks going back and forth. "Well,
I'll tell you. That contractor has got
tter to Sears Roebuck saying 'Euelosed
me at once ten miles of hard surfaced
, ami you have got to build 'em."
rank Rage illumine the mind of a res-
to find out just what sort of wires had
to move 4,336 tons of stuff, some of
it ten miles and all of it an average
of live miles, and he has got to haul
it in good weather," stated the Com-
missioner.
Why Not Hurry?
"Well, why don't he get him some
more trucks and get through with
it?" The inquisitor was in no wise
ready to surrender.
"Why didn't you get all the wag-
ons in the neighborhood and get
through with your fertilizer in one
day?" the Commissioner countered.
"Wouldn't pay."
Wouldn't pay you, would it? Well,
how long did it take you to get your
fertilizer in the ground?"
"Part of it is under the shed yet.
You know how to put out fertilizer.
It took about two weeks, one dis-
tributor, one plow and then a cotton
planter.".
"Why didn't you get half a dozen
distributors and half a dozen plows
and do it all in one day?"
"Say, don't you know any more
about farming than that? Don't you
know that's foolishness?" The res-
tive citizen, who happened to he a
farmer and a member of the board
of county commissioners back at
home was beginning to think that the
Commissioner was gone plumb be-
yond all reason, or that he was not
good enough Tar Heel to know even
THE UPLIFT 19
the rudiments of fanning. tent ion to the minutest detail in the
"Don't you see it, don't you see measuring and mixing of the aggre-
that there has got to he common gates, and the 14-day vigil that conies
sense in building mads just like while the cement is getting its "set."
1C Miles Per Week
there is in tanning. You can't get
your fertilizer home in a day, plant
'your crop the next, harvest it the Three hundred feet of pavement
day after and spend the rest of the ',cr dav> a!ul :m average of four days
year doing nothing. It just doesn't w'"'lc a w'eok '" t,le sPrinSi summer
work out that way. It's the same and fal1, is a" average that eontrae-
way about building a road." The tors and lliSh«"ay engineers and in-
Commissioners had convinced one sPeetoi-s Arcam about at night. Just
citizen that it takes time to build a now ""'"' are 70 construction gangs
roail in the Slate maintaining- that aver-
All of which about sums of why a=e' ;'1"1 S4'00 Eeet "r Pavement are
Xorlh Carolina can't get its road's added to tllLJ State svstem every
built overnight. BuilcL.ig a mile of week- But lhink baek to t,le <'ailis
bard surfaced road mi • ws mini and snows and freezes of last win-
labor aol ni..i'.j mate.ial than the tel'' and the rains lhat are ahead.
construe'i -: pf a ten-3iurv builder.?, Figured baek to the basis of the
but str >1k 'J oai along h.'-'Mi feet lndlvldual J"1', it is less than a quar-
of ground it doesn't show up, and ter o£ a raile a ttcek- and a mile Per
most' of the woik is done out or sighl month ls a Potable average in
ood weather. That is where the
of the public.
Soni'3 Scier.eo In II
Building a roa 1 involves
citizen who wants his road when he
wants them gets restless and not
infrequently gets so restless that he
highly developed technique linn l.v.il.l- gets uis ],.,, .m(1 (.01nes (lown to
ing an value b'lildirjg Tilings have Raleigh to see what 's the matter. If
got to be just so, even to the number lu, ,..m-t come> (le buys ., stamp.
of seconds that the rock and sand -'Why can't he get along faster?
and cement are mixed together ill nave we got to stand for that detour
the mixing machinery, the number for the rest of our lives ? " Constant-
of gallons of water that go into the lv t]H, question recurs, the folks
mixture, the accuracy of the measure- euss anout getting stuck on a de-
ments of material, the texture and tour somewhere and write sarcastic
qualities of the material, the set and liters about the whole business.
the curing of the mass after it is Chief Engineer L'pham calls it 3
belched out of the mixer. "detour year," a year when so much
The weather has got to be right. ,)f; [ue touring in North Carolina will
It can't he done in the rain, 7ior |x. detouring.
It's a Sizeable Job
light after rain, and when it doesn't
tain, the creeks run dry, and drouth
is likely to stop work for weeks at a But why can't it he done faster?
time. Hard surfaced roads come only How many of these restless citizens
through patience, and constant at- know what the State of North Car-
20 THE UPLIFT
oliiui asks for when it oilers a road where it should cross this hill. Afler
to a contractor, or how he "ill go the first survey came other eiigi-
abont ^«-'l 1 i nu the road to the S t ;i t c ? neers, anil designed the road, no-
How many ever saw the specifications counted for every shovel full of dirt
of hard surfaced construction. Take thai would have to be moved, eom-
l'or instance the project to be let down puled the last truck-load of rock
in Cumberland county week after next. that would he needed. Then l he
This is what is wanted: plans came to Craven's department
Clearing and grubbing, 17 acres; and every foot of the read, grades,
excavation, 59,200 cubic yards; ditch- curves and the like were made
es,2,000 cubic yards; 1,184 lineal df ready for the blue print,
east iron pipe, Hi to30 inches in di- Find Local Materials
ameter; pavement, 116,940 square ,> ,- ,, -,. ,-
, ' . , ... „,, ' . , Belore the specifications are sent
varus; u-b men thickness, lhe lob f ,, , f ., ,-, . .
_ •' to the contractors, the Department
is 11.0/ miles long, stretching toward .. T . ■ i -c » > i
, . "1 lllS]>ectlons and lests takes a
Raeford, and in most particulars is an , , ,-. .■ •. ,
1 liana. Une or its men goes iinwn to
average of the conditions throughout
the State.
the prospective job and over every
acre of the ground looking for na-
The contractor will figure the ,• . • , ' ,., t ■,,
. ° ■ tive materials that will come up to
tiling out on the unit basis, and sub- , ,, , :« .t; .,, ir n,„_ ;.
. ■ ' the specifications. It there is any
nut his bid. Should he happen to stone> ,u, flnds Qut if i(. wiU do for
be low, he will assemble about *7o,- n,a(1 buiklillg. He looks fol. san(lj
000 worth of maehinerv and equip- ,■ i i i , i »i n
11 tor gravel, calculated the quality,
meat, buy 005 carloads of crushed , .,, , , ,, , , , ,
anil measures the haul, and takes
stone, 3-jS carloads of sand and 107 . ,. .,, , •, •>,•. ,
' _ note or the accessibility.
carloads of cement. lie will go to
work, and in a year or so, he ought
Reports of these investigations are
attached to the call for bids. The
to be through the job. contractor can figure just how mad,
How Job Is Started . ioeai material he can use, and how
Back of the bidding in of the con- much he can save. One contractor
tract is yet another story, of how recently made out his bid before lie
the State found out exacly how got the material survey, and when
much work there was to be done, he did get it, he eut.fGSjOOO oil1 his
and set the specification down on a bid and got the job. Otherwise lie
piece of paper. First, of course, might have been buying stone from
Commissioner McGirt designated West Virginia when there are .:cres
that road as one he wants built as of it within a stone's throw of his
soon as possible, and it \ys desig- job. This department costs some-
neted for "immediate construction.'' tiling like $2,00 per month, and
Instructions went out to the engi- saves, well, nobody knows how much,
neering department. Ordinarily the contractor does not
Preliminary surveys were made to buy his cement and in some cases
locate the road, to mak whether it the purchase of the sand and -tone
should go this side or the other side is left to the Commission. A fixed
of such and such a field or just price is made on materials, and the
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bid is figured on that basis. The to be laid down. It has to be drained
Commission buys through eompeti- and smoothed out and solidficd, and
live bidding in large quantity, and settled and made: ready for the tre-
generally is able to effect a big sav- mendous weight that it is to carry
fog. If he does his own buying, he for the next few decades. It is as-
gets start' as low as he ''an, and us- important as the foundation of a
ually at a price obtained before the Sky-scraper.
bid is submitted At Last the pour
Included m the contractor's out- rnl ...
. . ,^ then tliev begin to pour, as the
fit is a concrete mixer, eight to . . ;,,. ° , \
, o i i , ' . , saying is. that is tliev begin to put
twelve 3-ton motor trucks, with , , ' , ,
down concrete. A truck comes lum-
ilumn-bodies and a very short wheel
hasi'i a loading crane, steel forms,
and a raft of smaller miscellany.
bering down the right of way, load-
ed with three tons of rock, cement
and sand. The aggregate is "one-
Fur the grading, twenty to forty
far [lie Ljiaoinu, iweniv to Iortv , , , . ,. ,T
, .„ ;, ,' . , ■ two-ana-a-hall-live, or one part ce-
leams, and it the work is heavv . , ' , ,„ ' ,
llient, two and a hair parts sand ana
five parts crushed stone Jt mounts.
a turn-table, is turned around, backs-
will use, the railroad will provide , , • , ,
., . , o- i -i i i i- , "1' 1° the mixer and dumps the ag-
side tracks. He builds loading and
enough, a steam shovel. For t
1,190 carloads of material that h
measuring bins, and a warehouse for
cement.
gregate into the hopper of the mix-
er.
Xinety seconds, after the mass is.
Get Ready First whirled ' around and around in the
First the grading. Any school boy mixer a sluice opens, and the gray,
who hasn't forgotten the formula for sticky mass comes out into a travel-
extracting the cube root from 60,000 ing bucket. The bucket shoots Out
cubic yards will be able to figure along a sweep, the bottom drops out
just how big a pile of dirt that is. and the mess is spilled out over the-
It is a tremendous pile of dirt, but subgrade, which has been smoothed
it comes in handy filling up low out like a floor. There laborers with
places on the right of way, making spades smooth it out, and tuck it
embankments and tills and the like, up against the steel sides of the
Five per cent is the maximum grade forms. The first concrete is laid,
allowed on a State road, a rule that two and one third cubic yards of it.
has been abrogated not more than More trucks and more whirling
twice in all Xovth Carolina, and then of the mixer more falling out of the
for special reasons. bottom of the bucket. Three hun-
Wuter pipes have to be laid, and dred feet in one day is a tremendous
| the machinery set up. These things trip for the mixer to move along- -
are done usually while the grading the right of way, and there are;
is getting under way, and the sub- smiles of satisfaction, [f the sched-
grade allowed to settle. If sub- ule of the trucks is not carefully
grade is too technical a term, it is worked out, the mixer must wait, or
the -round, just plain, everday truck- must stand in line waiting
ground, where the concrete i- going their turn to di.sgore the dry ele-
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merits that will presently become
concrete. Or if the water dosen't
.flow in a steady stream. It is a high-
ly synchronized business.
But that is not the end of the
road. It is not finished. The next
fourteen days are as critical as the
proverbial baby's second. Then is
the time that the summer meticulous
care must be taken. Otherwise the
concrete will crack. It must get its
set, and then it must be cured, and
somebody has got to sit up at night
with it.
First comes a man with what they
call templates, a sort of a glorified
and magnified trowel that smoothes
the smallest wrinkles out of the wet,
soggy surface, and leaves it as clean
as a pane of glass. Then very ten-
dely they lay burlap or canvass over
the new laid pavement, and turn on
the hose. For 24 hours a steady
stream of water kept running over
it. The burlap is kept soaked.
After that they take of the burlap
and spread two inches of earth ovei
the surface. More water constantly
keeping the earth always wet for 14
days. Twenty one days and the
earth is removed and at the end of
the '23th day, traffic can begin to
travel over it. By that time it has
its set, and has been thoroughly cured,
to use a phrase that these roads tech-
nicians have borrowed from the to-
bacco grower. The road is finished
"Contractors are just as honest
and conscientious as any other class
-of men in the world, but some of
them have to be watched." Mr. Page
says now and then He watches
them all the time.
Never a seconl while the work is
in progress is it away from the eyes
of an inspector. Lung investigation
and costly experience have taught
road engineers how to compound the
mixture that goes into a road, and
the specifications say what it is.
Sand is cheaper than cement, and
stone is cheaper than sand, ami
there are contractors who would not
hesitate to put in less eeiiitnt it'
they could get away wi'Jl it.
The specifications say that l ho
road must be six inches thick on the
sides and eight inches thick in the
middle. Half an inch cut jl't the
depth anywhere would mean eight
per cent less cost in the road, ant
that much more prolil 1,> the con-
tractor if he could "e." away with
that. Some of them tr. it, and sotne
of them lack training, and many ol
them don't need wiUhiug. But they
all get it.
Fp at the loading bins, there is
an inspector who watches every hag
of cement that goes into the lk,\,
measures (lie -tones lor it and the
sand. Down at the mixer is anothti
man who watches the indicator to
see that the mix is ninety seconds.
Thirty seconds off would speed up
the job, but it would show up later
when the cement began to crack.
Another check is maintained back
in Raleigh in the testing labratory.
The contractor submits to the Com-
mission an account of every bag of
cement that he uses ami an account
of every foot of pavement he lays.
They can figure out to a yard how
much pavement he ought to have
laid with so much cement. They do
figure out, and some recent fig-
uring will probably develop some
things.
One inch of the right sort of ce-
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ment have two and half billion par- ent locations would double the size
tides in it. On that depends its of the organization, the overhead
value. Other cement is not good cost of operation, and the cost off
for roads, but the contractor can get equipment. Concrete work lias its.
it for less money. Some contractors limitations, and anyhow the roads
would use it, but the testing depart- ..are going to last several life times,
men tests every shipment of ce- if time is taken with building thom.
ment that comes to a job in North The restive citizen got his hat and
Carolina. Very often the inanufac- went home. He din't know until
hirer wails and gnashes his teeth he got to figuring on the gaek of an
and sell a rejected car load of ce- envelope that this year North Caro-
iiient to somebody who is less care- Una will buy 19,512,000 tons of road
fill. building materials, dump them into
But why can't all this be done a hundred hoppers and see them
faster? come out on the other side in the-
llard surface roads are IS feet shape of 450 miles of hard surfaced
wide, and there is room for but one roads, or that the State was so al-
concrete mixer and three men work- mighty particular about it.
mt
abreast. Two mixers on differ-
A man becomes at last what he loves best. — David Gregg.
ADOLESCENT BOYS OUT OF SCHOOL.
A recent investigation of 245,000 employed boys yield many facts about
such boys that are interesting and suggestive to educational authorities,.
The study, which was made by Mr. EL C. Burdge for the New York State
Military Commission, is based on a questionnaire sent to sixteen, seventeen
and eighteen-year-old employed The median employed boy left
boys and shows the following find- school at about 15.5 years of age.
ings. The median employed boy eomplet-
Six sevenths of all sixteen, seven- ed about 8.3 grades.
teen and eighteen-year-old boys in The grades completed by the med-
New York State are out of school. ian employed boy vary from 8.3 in
Over sixty-five per cent of the em- Greater New York to 7.7 in the farm-
ployed boys remained in school one boy group.
or more years beyond the complu- The vast majorty of these boys
sory ai>e limit. left school because they "wanted to-
Over thirty per cent left on or be- go to work" and not because they
fore reaching the legal age for leav- were obliged to.
in<* school. Less than fifteen per cent report-
About six per cent left illegally. ed that they were obliged to go to-
About thirty per cent left school work,
before fifteen. About ninety per cent of the em-
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ployed boys received their educa- in getting1 employment. "
tion in the public schools. About one-fourth get their jobs
Relatively few employed boys re- through friends and acquaintance,
ceived any training in State-aided About three-fourths get them by
vocational schools. applying.
Mathematics is the best liked Over forty per cent spent less than
study among the employed boys. four and one-half months on their
English is tin' least liked study. last job.
Less than ten per cent of the em- About sixty per cent spent less
plo3"ed boys attend night school. than seven and one-half months on
Over sixty per cent state that they their last job.
do not wish to attend. Most boys leaving school on or be-
Less than three per cent of fore- fore completing the eight grade enter
ign-born boys attend night school. and desire to enter the industrial
The median employed boy receiv- trades and occupations.
ed between fifteen and eighteen dol- Most boys who complete one or
lai'S per week. more years in the high school enter
Less than two per cent of the em- and desire to enter professional,
ployed boys are assisted by schools, clerical, and retail business occupa-
churches, and employment agencies tions.
Whether v/e climb, whether we plod,
Space for one task the scant years lend-
To choose some path that leads to God,
And keep it to the end. — Reese.
THE HYGIENE OF THE HOME.
By Muriel Barnes.
It is universally agreed that a woman who honestly and intelligently
supervises or cares for her home makes a Worthwhile economic and social
contribution to her community. More and more' the present day social
order is recognizing the force that well ordered homes can exert
Therefore, our homes now must or linger. Insects.- such as water
be something more than mere places bugs, tlees, mosquitoes or roaches
of protection or of peaceand pleasure. must be kept out of the home by the
To ful fill this real purpose they must simple device of keeping that home
contribute to mankind's efficiency by free of unsanitary waste improperly
contributing to the health and disposed of.
strength of every member of the fam- Fortunately, the modern hnme-
ily; hence a home to really lie of ser- maker is baring menanee of uver-
vice in these modern times must be furnishing. With decreased furni-
a safe and sanitary place to live in. tui'C and so-called ornaments the
It must be free of dirt, dust or task- of keeping the home clean is
of any kind where germs may lurk made infinitely lighter. Rut it is
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not only the interior of the home the heat-making qualities of the sun.
that makes for its sanitation ; the These elements should be freely ad-
grounds, the yards, the out houses mitt eel not-only to the : living and sleep-
all play an important part in the ing rooms but to the kitchens and
health of the home. storage rooms; to pantries and pro-
A home where the common house vision closets and to all places where
lly is permitted to roam at will is the the necessary articles of living-
net a place of protection but a place are kept.
of potential danger. A home with- Doctors and druggists, pills and
Out adequate ventilation; without fa- potions are indeed powerless topro-
cilities for letting- in the air and sun- tect us if we neglect the elements of
shine, is not a place of safety but sanitation in the home. Each day
a place of actual peril. We now real- this is being learned more thorough-
ize that man lias never manufactured ly and it is the homemakers' obvious
a disinfectant or ag erm-destroyer duty to society that the practical ap-
cqunl to that created by nature from plication of those lessons be not de-
oxygen and nitrogen, of the air and laved nor their benefits denied.
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest. — Longfellow.
THE VALUE OF YOUTH.
By Elizabeth Forman
It is a scathing indictment of our Men who have honor and who will
spiritual progress that man is the not lie.
hist of God's creatures to be scientif- Strong men, uncrowned men who
ically studied. Not till the end of the lift their head above the fog in pub-
19th century was discovery made lie dutv and in private thinking."
of the child. It been heralded as The cry will be needless in the
the crowning achievement of that future in proportion to the realization
century; that the result of that dis- of the world that in it's hands lies
covcry has been so meager is a mat- the plastic mind and heart of youth
trr of concern to all of us. At every and so all the hopes and possibili-
crisis in the world's history the bit- ties of the future,
ter cry has gone forth. "God give us Just here I feel that I must go
men." A time like this demands back of my subject a little and ex-
great hearts, strougfaith and willing press some impatience with our
hands. governing bodies; because they are
"Men whom the lust of office can- not yet awake to the necessity of
not tempt, safe-guarding the value of youth by
Men whom the spoils of office can- proper laws for the elimination by
uot buy surgical procedure of those unfit for
Men who possess opinions and a reproduction. The social value of
will youth is enormously reduced for
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lack of such laws. Someone has
put it simply and clearly by saying
'We must get the right people born
and the wrong- people not born."
"We have estimated the national
value of youth by numbers alone
and so put ourselves in the position
of the men who estimates his wealth
by the number of coins he owns not
knowing whether they are counter-
feit. Ruskin says, It is a matter
of no final concern to any parent
whether he shall have two children
or four, hut, it is a matter of quite
final concern whether those he has
shall or shall not deserve to be
hanged."
A nation's real strength and hap-
piness do not depend upon proper-
ties or territories, nor on machin-
ery for their defence, but on their
getting such territory as they have
well filled with none but respecta-
ble persons which is a way of in-
finitely enlarging one's territory
possible to every country. Darwin
says that except in the case of man
himself hardly anyone is so ignor-
ant as to allow his worst animals
to breed.
The world never put forth its
strength against evil when they are
small. The multiplication of jails,
poor houses, insane asylum and cor-
rective institutions to take eareof the
youth which come from the degener-
ate and mentally deficient warns us
that this evil has reached gigantic
proportion and that legislation must
soon begin to provide for youth
its proper heredity.
Five hundred million dollars are
invested in prisons, two hundred
million for their maintenance. Six
billion dollars spent on crime each-
year. Youth comes into the world
a potential asset to society as it
comes in response to a universal call
and in fulfillment of a natural law.
When it becomes a liability the fault
is with society as society has the
advantage of the accumulated know-
ledge and wisdom of the ages, to
which the child has an inherent
right and society suffers when youth
is deprived of it. Heredity gives
us potentialities, environment makes
them actualities. Their relative im-
portance is a secondary considera-
tion so that we have them both per-
fected, and as, unhappily, we cannot
as yet secure for our youth freedom
from heredity taint we must use
that powerful weapon environment
to the limit of its possibilities.
If every child born into the nation
this year were correctly trained
what period of time would elapse
before graft, political trickery, mur-
der, theft and all the greater anil
lesser brood of evils would be rel-
egated entirely to the barbarous
past? Will you accuse me of extra-
vagent optimism if I say fifty years,
and yet I think you must agree with
me that so powerful are the influ-
ences of environment that we can
almost absolutely determine the
moral and spiritual destiny of our
youth.
Walt Whitman expresses the idea
very happily in his poem:
"'There was a child went forth every
every day.
And the first object he looked upon,
that objedt he became,
And that object became a part of him
For the day or a certain part of the
day,
Or for many years or stretching
cycles of years."
Beginning young, action becomes
habit, and habit becomes character,
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27
supreme
which gives to youth its
and eternal value.
We should give our youth a sound
liody and such training as shall en-
able him to make a living. Mental
and moral self-reliance and the pro-
per outlook tor social efficiency.
We might spend hours counsell-
ing with each other as to the' value
and methods of acyuirment of these
things, but what especially con-
cerns us who are banded together
'"In His Name" is the awakened con-
science. Jesus said "I came that
you might have life and that you
might have it more abundantly."
There is no fullness of life in this
sense unless one has part in the
life of God. It is the goal to
which all this training must lead;
without this spiritual awakening
and growth youth will be of very-
little lasting worth to society be-
cause it will not have that to bestow
which society most needs for its
prosperity am: happiness. A youth
:mbued with courage, morality and
ofty purpose shall feel a burning
indignation at wrongs, at injustice,
at foul living, shall bring rich con-
tribution of enthusiasm tothe world's
life, shall replenish the soul of the
world.
Now. have we as professed fellow -
ers of the Master banded together
In His Name" no obligation or re-
sponsibility other than to talk this
over?
Quite recently in California a boy
lfi years old was sentenced to 30
years in prison for murder in the
second degree. The judge in pass-
ing the sentence said it, was sad but
he said we can't shut our eyes to the
past, the boy had been associated
with a dangerous element. What
about shutting your eyes to the fact
that a boy 16 is sent to prison for 30
years as a result of h.s environment?
Who is responsible for the fact that
there existed a dangerous element
ready to contaminate a boy of l(i?
Thirty years of prison life will make
this boy a dangerous enemy of soci-
ety. Is that the best that civilizat-
ion can do for the protection of youth.
What can we do? What is our part
in the great work of throwing safe-
guards around the youth?
Do good, — all the good in thy power, — of every sort, — and to every per-
son.— Adoniram Judson.
SUMMER RAIN.
By Henry Ward Beecher ■
Men begin to look at the signs of the weather. It is long since much rain
fell. The ground is a little dry, and the road is a good deal dusty. The gar-
den bakes. Transplanted trees are thirsty. Wheels are shrinking and tires
are looking dangerous. Men speculate on the clouds; they begin to calculate
hew long it will be, if no rain falls, before the potatoes will suffer; the oats,
tie corn, the grass — everthing. To be sure, nothing is yet suffering, but then —
Rain, rain, rain! All day, all night The hay is out and spoiling. The
Stotidy raining. Will it never stop? rain washes the garden. The ground
28 TIIE UPLIFT
-is full. All things have dvunk their Indeed, sir, your humble servant
fill. The spring's revive, the mend- even, was stirred up on the day after
ows are wet; the rivers run discolor- "Fourth of duly." The grass in tlio
ed with the .soil from every hill, old orchard was not the best. Indeed,
Smoaking cattle reek under the sheds; we grumbled at it considerable^- while
liens, and fowl in general, shelter it was yet .standing. But being cut
and illume. The sky is laden. The and the rain threatneing it, one would
clouds are full yet. The long fleece have thought it gould, by the nimble
covers the mountains. The hills art' way in which we tried to save it!
Clipped in white. The air is full of Blessed be horse rakes! One..:
moisture. half a dozen men, with half a dozen
Rain, rain, rain! The winds roars rakes, would have gone whiskinz up
down the chimney. The birds are and down, thrusting out and pul'inu
silent. No insects chirp. Closets in the long-handled rake, with slow
■smell moldy. The barometer is and laborious process. But no more S
■dogged. We thump it, but it will of that. See friend Turner, mounted
not get up. It seems to have an under- on the wheeled horse rake, rid'rgj
standing with the weather. The trees about as if for pleasure. Up go the
"drip, shoes are muddy, carriage steel teeth and drop their collected
■and wagon aresplashed with dirt, load, down go his feet, and the tc.th
Paths are soft. So it is. When it are at work again; and at every ten
is clear we want rain, and when it or fifteen feet the windrow forms.',
rains we wish it would shine. It is easy times when men ride and
But, after all, how lucky for grumb- horses rake! No more hand rakes,
lers that they are not allowed to rued- and no more revolving horse rakes!
die with the weather, and that it is Meanwhile, the clouds come howl-
put above 'their reach ! What a scramb-' ing noiselessly through the air, ami
ling, selfish, mischief-making time we spit here and there a drop prelimi- jj
should have, if men undertook to nary. But the hay is cocked, the
parcel out the seasons and the weath- sides dressed down, and all is ready ;
■ed according to their several humors — except the hay covers! Alas for our
■or interests! negligence. The manufacturers had
But if one will look for enjoyment, offered to send us some for trial, and
how much there is in every change of we had forgotten to say, "Send them
weather. The formation of clouds, along!" And now., with our hay cut
— the various signs and signals, the and the rain coming, we mourned our
uncertain wheeling and marching of carelessness. With good hay cover;,
the lieeey cohorts, the shades of light our two dozen little haycocks ivould
and gray in the broken heavens, — all have been as snug as if in the barn.
have their pleasure to an observant Well, if one thing .suffers, another
eye. Then came the wind gust, the gains. See how the leaves are washed,
distant, dark clouds, the occasional the grass drinks, the corn drinks, the
fiery streak shot down through it, the garden drinks, everything drinks. It
tun and hurry of men whose work is our opinion that everything, except .
may suffer! man, is laughing and rejoicing. Trees.
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29
shake their leaves with ;i softer sound.
Bucks look moist and soft, at least
where the muss grows. Even the
solitary old pine tree chords his harp,
and sings soft and low melodies with
plaintive undulations.
A good summer storm is a rain of
riches. If gold and silver rattled
down from I he clouds, they would
hardly enrich the land so much as the
soft, long rains. Every drop is sil-
ver going to the mint-. The roots are
machinery, and, catching the willing
drops, they assay them, refine them,
roll I hem, stamp them, and turn them
out coined berries, apples, grains,
Institutional Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
Mr. Ankers has reached the depth
of 153 ft with the well.
Judge Willams, of Charlotte, was
a visitor at the school Saturday.
The house-boys are now getting
ice so frequently it seems a regular
part of their routine.
Mr. R. B. Cloer, popular officer
here, was visited by his lather,
Mr. J. W. Cloer, of Taylorsville.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Tuesday, the 9th, was a day of
vacation from the studies of school.
But it was not one from work, how-
ever, for some raked hay, others
hoed and still others did needful
work.
Rev. Mr. Dryman, of Brown Mill
Methodist church, was the conducter
of services in the Auditorium, Sun-
day May 14th. A few minutes be-
fore, his arrival the boys sang a
and grasses. When the heavens send
clouds, ami they hank u[> the horizon,
be sure they had hidden gold in them.
All the mountains of California
are not SO rich as are the soft mines
of Heaven that send down treasures
upon man without asking him, and
pour riches upon his held without
spade or pickax — without his search
or notice. Well, let it rain, then.
Xo matter it the .journey is delayed,
the picnic spoiled, the visit adjourn-
ed. Blessed be rain — and rain in
summer! Ami blessed be he who
watereth the earth, and enricheth it
for man and beast !
number of religious songs and
hymns. Rev Dryman spoke on the
topic "Man."
Mr. .T. D. Haney, Charlotte elec-
trician, worked on our electrical ap-
paratus last week, transfering the
wires from the old to the new poles,
lie also fixed our apparatus so that
the authorities will not have to
send to Concord to have the supply
of electricty cut off over the whole
school. This can now be done
here.
The Fairbrother Contest being
over. Mr. Johnson announced to his
students that another contest per-
taining to the Latham Pavilion is
now open. Many boys are writing
for the prizes which are as follows:
1st prize, §3; 2nd prize, 82; 3rd prize
Si. The ones who won in the Fair-
brother Contest are all striving to
their utmost capacity to win at least
one of these prizes.
Boys in digging ditches prepara-
tory to laying pipes, frequently en-
countered big rocks which barred
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their further progress. The sup-
ervisor of the ditch digging, Capt.
Grier, decided the the quickest.
easiest and best way to remove the
rocks would be to blast. Now ex-
plosions startle different working
parties and caused them to scatter
helter-skelter for safety. The
blasting does the work, though, and
it is well worth its trouble.
Louis Norris. Claude Coley, Ellis
Nance. Fred Parrish, Lick Brock-
well, Earnest Jordan and Kieth
Hunt joyously dropped whatever
work they were doing when came
the news: ' Someone is here to see
you!" They then, after greeting
parents and relatives, showed them
around the School, filling the ones
who had not visited the school be-
fore with new-found admiration of
the scenery and buildings; increas-
ing the admiration of the old visit-
ors.
Sunday the 14th was the day
which is celebrated the country over
with reverence. It was Mother's
Day. The students feel that dedi-
cating a Sunday to the Mothers of
the world is the only fitting tribute.
They know that no one is more bless-
ed than Mother. When they speak
of her, their voices take on a lower
and softer tone. Their eyes well
with feeling whenever they hear the
word Mother. The students wrote
home Monday, the 15th, with letters
full of expressions of gratitude to
mother.
The Institutional Band under the
capable leadership of Mi-. Lawrence,
sojourned to Concord Tuesday, the
9th, to play for the American Legion.
The next day being the Kith of May
— Memoral Day — they went again to
Concord to vie with others in doing
high honor to tin1 still surviving
Confederate Veterans. Each Band
individual came back with stories of
wonderful 'good times" each good
time reflected upon the unselfishness
of the Citizens of Concord in making
the Jackson Training School stu-
dents feel at home. Whenever any
of the boys go to Concord, they are
always treated kindly, curteously
and helpfully.
Something "has occured at the
school which made all of the hoys
happy. It has made the Mecklen-
burg Cottage boys happier and vet
made the reporter happiest of all,
because he is a native of Mecklen-
burg. The joy bringing event
was the installing of the bronze tab-
let on Mecklenburg Cottage. There
is no need of pointing out the Meck-
lenburg Cottage to any visitors be-
cause they can see it in print. The
Mecklenburg Cottage boys areeager-
ly awaiting the visit of the committee
from this up-to-date county who are j
to present the cottage to the school.
The Mecklenburg Cottage was made >
possible by the efforts of Rev. A. A.
McGeachy, pastor of the Second j
Presbyterian Church, of Charlotte.
J. T. S. WINS.
Saturday witnessed one of the
most exciting games of ball that was
ever played on J. T. S. soil. The
J. T. S. met and defeated the team
hailing from St. John's Church.
The game was one full of features
and remarkable plays. From the
first until the fourth innings neith-
er side scored, although it called
for some unusual fielding on the
J. T. S's to hold the other side score-
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less. The St. John players sure full of hits For both sides. Then
hit the pill! Singles constituted came the turning point of the game.
their main hopes, but the clever When the school went to bat it scor-
playing by the J. T. S, still held ed one run. School fans' hopes ran
tlieni down. The home team pitch- high again, and such cheering and
er was batted freely as he did not rooting! But after that erne run the
wear himself down by pitching in his side was retired. Anxiety prevail-
utmost strength. He had a justly ed until St. John was also retired and
placed confidence in his fellow team when the J. T. S. again went to bat,
mates. In the fifth inning the each player was told to "do your
fun commenced — fun for the visitors. best." Each player must have,
The J. T. S's opponents began that obeyed this instruction, for again a
inning by applying the stick to the run was placed to the credit of the
ball. The out-fielders were sent to J. T. S. Now the two learns were
scurrying to all parts of the pasture tied and such a race for she victory!
collecting knocked-away balls. The visitors were again turned back
Three outs were finally called against without a run. The home team came
them after they had chalked up a 1 to bat full of hope. This hope was
toll lead over the J. T. S. The realized, for soon one of the J. T. S.
School scored not a run in the next players crossed the home plate, coin-
session, but the visitors .^repeated ing from third. The game was over,
their previous performance. Faces J. T. S. won by the score of 3 to 2.
grew long and many of the School Score by innings:
fans believed that the J. T. S. had R. H. E.
lost the game. But. like others the St. John 000 Oil U00 0—2 ? 5
players "died fighting." The next J. T. S. 000 000 Oil 1—3 (5 8
inning was void of any runs, though
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NO. 29
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ACQUAINTANCE W 1TH
AUTHOR.
"One Sunday afternoon Margaret Bottonie was
returning to her home in New York City," said Mr.
S. D. Gordon. "She had been attending the famous
Bible class of Dr. William Thomson, the man who
made 'The Land and the Book.'
"As she reached home she found a caller. He
was a scholarly, cultured gentleman, a professor in
one of the New York City universities. In express-
ing her regret at being out when he called, she ex-
plained she had been at Dr. Thomson's class.
"With his contempt only thinly veiled by his fine
culture of manner, «ie caller said, 'Oh, you believe
in the Bible, do you?'
"Margaret Bottome was a woman of rare person-
ality and Attractiveness. She turned to her visitor,
and very quitely said, 'Oh, you see, I have the
pleasure of a personal acquaintance with the Author
of the Book.'
"And that made all the difference to her. With
her unusual gift of simple speech she had told the
secret of getting an understanding and nKstery of
this Old Book."
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. tie Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
"ha Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Eoy'3 Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor,. J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
The truly richest old man in America probably carries a dinner pail and
measures his wealth in health and happiness and not money. — The Buffalo
Times.
♦ ~Y * -!< $ J(t Jfc 3ji
' ' CHILDREN FOR SALE CHEAP. ' '
That's a very engaging article elsewhere in this issue from the pen of
Prof. C. C. Zimmerman, of the State College, at Raleigh. He analyzes the
educational problem in the rural districts of North Carolina in such a way
that there seems no chance of escape from the charge of a seriously neglected
responsibility on the part of the leaders.
Prof. Zimmerman dates the educational revival in North Carolina from the
popular administration of the late Ayeock. Unfortunately the great boost
Gov. Ayeock gave to the cause of education stopped almost wholly in the
'owns and cities— it spent but little of its brilliant force on the rural prob-
lem. ' It's a hard thing to say— it is a most painful thing to face— but
it is the everlasting truth that in the main the rural schools, except in a
few instances, are not functioning one whit better or more efneienty today
tlian they did in the days when Major Finger, John C. Scarborough and C .
H. Mebane administered the educational matter's of the Stat 3. In recent
years, the leaders have been running after half-baked theoiies, making the
machine top-heavy and in some instances very fancy and high-sounding—
working the end fartherest from the child and the cause, making a great
and spectular posing, but the average rural child has been growing
I noise
«p in ignorance.
This took place, too, in the face of the fact that the funds collected for
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educational purposes is twenty times as great as formerly,
Let's make the platform of the ''modern cavalier" carry an even half
dozen planks. How would this do for the sixth: "Give the County School
authorities more legislative power— latitude to exercise some, good common
sense in handling the one hundred! lm) counties) different school problems;
and demand that they make service rather than salary their slogan.
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DR. ALEX GRAHAM'S HISTORICAL COHTRIBUTIOK.
THE UPLIFT has a security box. where it places its few valuable collect-
ions. In that strong box yoes the fourth page of the Charlotte Observer of
May 20th, H)22. It is Prof. Alexander Graham's contribution of evidence
as to the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
It is valuable, entertaining and, in a large measure, very satisfying.
Those of us who revere the memory of the Confederate cause and the
heroes that made it immortal in history by their valour, their bravery and
great sacrifice, cannot but regret that Dr. Graham would offer as testimony
anything that may have been said by Muzzy's History, already tahoocl,
condemned and kicked out. Dr. Graham quotes Muzzy as saying: "North
Carolina led all the colonies in the matter of independence, and Massachu-
setts and Virginia and all the other colonies fell in behind and followed her
example."
We are unable to find in Muzzy's History (The Revised Edition) the
foregoing quotation; but at the bottom of page 113, in a foot-note, printed in
very small type, this occurs: "In May 1775, some North Carolina patriots, j,
of the county of Mecklenburg, had voted that the king's civil and military j
commissions were all annulled and vacated.' This vote was practically a
declaration of independence by the patriots of Mecklenburg County, but no I
formal declaration was drawn up, and the North Carolina delegates failed
to report the resolution to the Continental Congress." The ' much cussed
and discussed Mr. Muzzy," therefore, must have undergone a slight change
in his views about the character of this historical event. But the historian
(?) Muzzy did not repent of what he said on page 47 of his Revised Edition:
"There is little in the history of the Carolinas to detain us. It is a story
of inefficient government, of wrangling and discord between people and gov-
ernors, governors and proprietors, proprietors and king. North Carolina
was described 'as a sanctuary of runaways,' where 'everyone did what was
right in his own eyes, paying tribute neither to God nor to Caesar.' "
Dr. Graham's citation of other evidence is from high and reliable sourc-
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cs. which he has marshaled in a fine manner toward making out a strong1
ease for the Mecklenburg Declaration; and. years and years to come, copies
of his story and account of this great event of 177o. and handled so splendid-
ly by the Charlotte Observer May 20th, 1922 will be brought out from
various sources and homes to enlighten new comers and new generations.
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REMEDYING SOME WEAK POINTS.
Dr. Brooks, the State Superintendant of Public Instruction, has issued a
letter to the county school authorities, that indicates that his thoughts just
now are running along very practical lines. He notifies counties that they
need not expect any contributions from his department towards the salaries
of the County Superintendents. Very wise act. When lie started contrib-
uting towards the local salaries, the cost of the local offices shot skyward.
Jumping from SI, 500 to $3,000 with a salaried clerk, was traveling at a
pretty rapid rate. Under the new ruling the salaries must be met locally
and doubtless 'mi the future will be fixed on a basis commensurate with
the services rendered.
In the very same pronouncement from the State Department of Education,
may be seen another ruling which is headed in the right direction. The
requisite for a two-teacher school, underlie crazy-quilt school law, was an
average attendance of thirty. The ruling now makes the minimum of 38 for
a 2-teacher school, "preferably forty." This basis for designating the- two-
teacher schools seems, to practical school teachers in the rural sections, as
fundamentally wrong. This matter should be decided on the grades repre-
sented in said schools rather than entirely on the number of pupils in atten-
dance. But the fact that a bad error has been acknowledged and a correc-
tion attempted, by which a waste of school funds will.be avoided, shows
very gratifying evidence that the real problem of rural education, for which
the "department is primarily maintained, is receiving business-like atten-
tion.
Let's go some more.
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Miss Bessie Thompson, of Leasburg, Caswell county, is an avowed can-
didate for the State Senate from the district composed of the counties of
Durham, Alamance, Orange and Caswell. She is described as a woman of
the highest intellectuality and thoroughly progressive. If M.ss Thompson
succeeds and THE UPLIFT is pulling for her with all its might, she wdl
be an outstanding historical figure in North Carolina-the first woman to
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sit in the North Carolina Senate Chamber with all the rights of full citizen-
ship including the privilege of voting and being heard on all questions.
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The officials of the Statu Fair are having some little excitement
over whether to move or enlarge the fair grounds, or stay put. General
Julian S. Carr, who saved it Iran bankruptcy twice, made a public confes-
sion of his regrets in naming a certain gentleman assistant to the president..
The general public had ccme to wonder why the General was thrusting
honors so carelessly.
Our neighbor, The Concord Observer, is moving into new quarters.
Editor Keistler is conscious of his surroundings. In full view of the Court-
House and the City Hall, and right at his door is a grave-yard. If the
brothel1 be not good, the authorities will have but a few steps to take in
bringing him to account.
The Monkey ites in the high places in North Carolina look foolish and very
monkeyish before the great majority of our people, who believe The Book
is the one infallible guide.
V. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A *.*
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1 THE MAN AND THE WOOD. I
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*■£ A man came into a wood one day with an axe in his hand, and beg- T
* jed all the Trees to give him a small branch which he wanted for a *
<• particular purpose. The Trees were good-natured and gave him one •:*
% of their branches. What did the Man do but fix it in the axe head, !•'
'£ and soon set to work cutting down tree after tree. Then the Trees *
♦> saw how foolish they had been in *
* GIVING THEIR ENEMY THE MEANS OF DESTROYING THEM- *
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FINDINGS OF AN INSPECTOR.
For several days last week we had
from up North. Thcyaro coming e\
and -.everybody else who feel an intei
Training School. Occasionally a foo
one who has absolutely no practical 1
confronts an institution of this kind
and then goes into tin.' details of
giving advice, instruction and a
general rcvisvmont of methods.
These folks make one tired. But
these occurrences are rare.
Some months ago a pretty little
Yankee girl, wearing her dress on
a level with her knees, assuming
a superiority of authority and a com-
mission from a higher sou re .'.monkey-
ed about the premises for a period,
then went off with her eyes skinned
for "'defects"and closed to the things
that loomed large and important and
even remarkable for an effort of just
thirteen years. The tragedy of the
thing lies in the fact that the pretty
little Yankee girl knows no more
about the science and prevailing
methods concerning the handling
of the delinquent • then a jay-bird
knows about evolution.
Rut Dr. W. H. Slingerland,
special' agent of Child-Helping Rus-
sell Sage Foundation,' of New York,
(by the way he is typical of our im-
aginary picture of an orthodox
Kentucky Colonel, and is a real plea-
Mi re to look at and listen to) spent a
few days on the ground. Dr.
Slingerland has visited every instu-
tioii of this kind and some trying to
be of this kind in the United States.
Up<.in his leaving, the editor of The
Uplift handed him a self-addressed
enveloped and requested him to
write back his opinion of the Jackson
Trt ining School. We did not care to
in our midst an interesting gentleman
eryfew clays, ail of them are welcome
est in the great work 'of tin.' Jackson
comes among us — I mean by "fool"
nowledge of the great problem that
take his remarks lor publieation
while the excitement of his enthu-
siasm was at fever heat — we preferr-
ed the impressions of a cool and
deliberate moment
And tin: following is Dr.
Slingerland's letter:
"In response to your special re-
quest for a few paragraphs in regard
to the Stonewall Jackson Manual
Training and Industrial School, I am
glad to say that the institution im-
pressed me as one of the best of the
schools for delinquent boys in the
southern states, and one that will
rank well with such schools in any
of the states.
I congratulate you on an excellent
site, high and sightly, well drained
and healthy, and attached to a fairly
fertile body of tillable land.
I congratulate 3-ou on your build-
ings, which are above the average
in kind and quality. Especially do
I feel that your fidelity to the Cot-
tage Plan, and it in its entirety, so
that each cottage is a complete do-
mestic unit" is to be highly com-
mended. The possible home life in
such a plant is far above what can
be attained in one that is congregate
or has more or less of centralization.
I also feel that your growth is
phenonmenal, especially for the last
year or two. I note that seven cot«
tages are now occupied with their
complement of boys; that two more
are practically ready for their fami-
lies; and that contracts for two more.
s
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are let. and they will be available in
a few months. This will give you,
wh .n they are all occupied, eleven
cottages with 30 boys each, or a
total population of 330. You expect
to reach this point within a year.
Let me suggest that this number
will very In gely increase your res-
ponsibilities, and the numbers and
variety of members in the Staff. I
trust that a high grade of workers
may be maintained; that the aca-
demic school may lie properly en-
larged and strengthened; that more
high grade Industrial or Vocational
departments may be maintained,
under the leadership of competent
Trade teachers; and that the excel-
lent spirit that now seems to per-
vade the School may not be lost
when numbers multiply.
I am glad to express my appreci-
ation of your excellent Superinten-
dent, Professor Charles E. Boger,
to whom I feel much of the steady
advancement of the School is due. I
also found serveal of the Staff, with
whom I- was brought in contact, ex-
cellent and devoted persons, for
whose influence and efficiency there
can be no doubt.
Your Chapel is a Gem. It is one
of the bestv though far from the lar-
gest, in such schools throughout
the Nation. You are favored above
many in having the special co-opera-
tion of the Kings' Daughters, and
this their latest and most expressive
gift is indeed noteworthy.
Your School Building is one that
is a credit to the School and to the
State. I rejoice to find a school
building erected with definite re-
gard to future needs, not barely so
as to accommodate the population of
today. Here you . can adequately
supply rooms and the equipment for
several hundreds more than you now
have without undue crowding. It
is a splendid way to build, thus an-
ticipating growth. I note also the
special service rooms. To have a
central library room, and a librarian,
seem to me very desirable. I was
pleased to find that provision was
made for a Clinic Room, where all
sorts of examinations and minor
treatments tan be given. The excel-
lent auditorium must supply a "long
felt want." I hope the basement
Gymnasium may soon be equipped
for service. Altogether, it is one of
the best and most inclusive buildings
of the kind I have seen anywhere.
The School has been highly favor-
ed in the matter of health, and so fur
there has been little need of a real
hospital. But that favor may not al-
ways last, and especially as the
numbers are doubling up so fast.
I beg to advise that adequate hos-
pital facilities be provided the earl-
iest possible day.
I was impressed by the homelike
spirit of the institution, and the de-
sire of most of the boys to remain as
long as possible. One of the lads
said there was only one thing he was
worrying about, the fact that he
probably would be sent home the
next parole day. If he is a sample
of many, and I think he is, the
Board and the Staff are to be con-
gratulated on the success of their
work.
If I may judge from sample copies
of THE UPLIFT that came into my
hands, this little paper is not only
unique as an institution periodical,
but is worthy of a place among the
very best of those published in
the Industrial Schools of the coun-
try. Its office, the printing olfice of
the School, is an excellant example
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of an Industrial Department that
does real vocational work.
The State of North Carolina may
well be proud of the exeellant start
made hen.1 in building a plant for a
real School for this class of immature
citizens. Let me emphasize my
pleasure in the fact that the institu-
tion is without any. 'visible signs of
the penal idea." It is not a juvenile
prison, it is a SpecialSehool.andthe
School idea is written large in every
part and structure of the plant.
The small element of custodial care
necessarily a part of the institution
can almost be ignored in our vision of
its larger and better function. I
wish that all of your citizens could
visit and study the school, and rec-
ognize these important facts."
It is believed by some outsiders looking in that the learned brethern,
if they did not descend from the simian tribe, at least are making monkeys
of themselves just now. — Monroe Enquirer.
POWER OF CUSTOM.
By R. II. Clark.
It is usage that fixes the standard in manners, conduct, form of expression,
the habits of the individual and the mass; custom fixes the standard of con-
vention and continued practice takes the form of unwriten law. Usage, cus-
tom, is constantly changing and the matter of vital concern is whether it
changes for better or for worse. Forms of expression, the use of words,
change and are tixed by usage, re- He went to the origin of the word, its
gardless of the original meaning of derivation, and insisted on its use only
the words. Chester A. Lord, and old in its original meaning. For instance
New York newspaper man, has been to say that one is "in the prime of
writing in the Saturday Evening life" means, according to usage, mid-
Post some very interesting remini-
seenes of newspaper men and news-
paper work in New York in the old
<lays. Naturally the reminscenes deal
much with Mr. Dana, who made the
Xew York Sun famous for so many
years. Mr. Dana, as older newspaper
readers know, was a very scholarly
man and under his adminstration the
Sun was a model of correct English
and altogather a splendid production
as to scholarship and language. Mr.
Dana frequently "called down" the
writers on his newspapers for the mis-
use of words. Neither usage nor the
dictionary counted with Mr. Dana.
die age. Mr. Dana didn't allow that
to pass. Prime, said the scholarly
old editor, is from the Latin word
primus, which means first, and a man
in the prime of life is in the first of
life and therefore a young man.
But with all the instruction of Mr.
Dana and others like him usage goes
on fixing the standards for the use of
words and the customs and practices
of life. In recent years it has be-
come the common practice to say and
write " Congressmen and Senators"
in referring to the members of our
national legislature. Congress is
made up of two bodies or houses, the
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House and the Senate. There are
Senators in Congress anil Represen-
tatives in Congress, and, strictly
speaking, a Congressman is a member
of either house. Hut it became cus-
tom to refer to the members of the
House — the Representatives in Cou-
gress--as Congressmen ami that has
been iixeil by usage, not because it is
correct.
Change of usage, of custom, is nec-
essary and desirable. Hanging on to
a practice simply because it is custom,
is foolish. The thing to determine is
whether the change is right or desir-
able, is for the best. In the old and
sinful days it was not' 'accounted
wrong, generally speaking, to keep a
little strong drink about the premises
and custom sanctioned its use within
reasonable bounds and sometimes
within unreasonable bounds. But the
abuse of the custom resulted in the
outlawing of the liquor traffiic and
the use of intoxicants is no longer
considered respectable, or at least not
in good form. One instance when
the change is for the better, it must
be admitted.
But there are other changes in man-
ners and customes that can't be com-
mended which are tolerated, and the
toleration mtTans they will soon he-
come fixed practices. That is where
the trouble comes in. In attempting
to break away from fixed standards,
which in many instances could be re-
laxed without harm if not wish profit,
the disposition is to go too for and the
wrongful practice, being tolerated,
gradually becomes fixed and accepted
because of usage. I haven't the time
nor the reader the patience, to enum-
erate some of the changes which have
been for the worse, in manners ami
conduct, but I am going to suggest one
of vital concern, and that is in the
standard of honesty.
There have always been dishonest
people ami always will be, but [ am
suggesting that certain forms of dis-
honesty have been tolerated until they
are brazenly put into practice and
even find defenders. Formerly when
hanks were few and the use of checks
uncommon, worthless checks were rare
because it had not occurred to many
people that they could till out a check
and pass it over for an obligation,
w!ie
ther or not thev had any fund
s m
bank to meet the check. But after
the use of checks became common
giving cheeks without funds in bank
to meet the payment came into prac-
tice and it is becoming alarmingly
common because drastic measures
have not been taken to check the
worthless checks. In any gathering
of merchants or bankers this practice
of giving worthless checks in payment
of bills is a subject for discussion be-
cause it has become an almost every-
day practice among some of our so-
called "best people." It isn't con-
fined to the sharpers and fakers who
get forged checks cashed by the un-
wary and then pass on. It is your
home folks, some of them high in so-
cial, business and religious circles,
who readily write checks and pass
them for value received when the
cheek is worthless because the drawer
had no funds in the bank when he
wrote it and knew he had none. ;iome
of the worthless cheeks are mad. uood
after more or less trouble, the drawer
adding lying to the first sin by pre-
tending that he didn't know h / had
checked all his funds out of tin: bank
when be wrote the check. At 'cast
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99 per cent of the people who write
cheeks know, or can know, whether
they have the money in the hank.
Of course the practice is dishonest.
It is false pretense, pretending to.
give something of value for value re-
ceived when it is well known that the
cheek is worthless. Why isn't some-
thing done about it ? Because so many
so-called respectable people have fal-
len into this disreputable and dis-
honest practice that it has attained a
sort of standing by usage. If the
practice continues, and it is being ac-
cepted, seemingly, as a necessary evil,
presently if one should be arrested for
giving a worthless check, as lie should
he, a cry of persecution will be raised.
It is custom; others do it; and he
who objects to it will be criticised as
unreasonably severe. Nevertheless ev-
ery man who accepts in good faith a
check which proves worthless should
immediately send and officer with a
warrant for the drawer, unless he
has reason — sound reason — to be-
lieve that an honest error was made.
Certainly the warrant should be next
in every case where it is learned that
giving worthless checks is a habit.
A few cases of prosecution would
break up the practice and honest peo-
ple owe it to themselves and to the
public to place a brand on those who
persist in dishonest practices simply
because they are allowed to get by
with them.
In accepting usage as a standard
be certain that the usage isn't moral-
ly or legally wrong. The conscience
if given a chance, will in most eases
lix the moral standard.
I was entering the Concord postofnee, Monday afternoon, and, in pass-
ing two baby carriages, each with a child, one of the dear little fellows
(or may have been a little sister) raised up and smiled. The colored nurse
'Angrily gave the child a push and ordered, "Durn you, stay, clown dar."
It is not "where is my wondering boy;" but rather "where are some
wondering mothers, these days?"
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CHILDREN FOR SALE CHEAP.
By C. C. Zimmerman.
In these days of million dollar bond issues for city schools and peti-
tions for a fatal reduction of county expenditures for school and welfare
work by '"citizens and taxpayers" organizations in the rural districts, some
of the more public-minded and progressive Tar Heel folks will perhaps be
interested in the rural schools of the State. Rural schools mean the 7,738
schools in North Carolina, of which
Schools 4. SOU in this year of grace
19:.' 2 are one- room one-teacher
schools.
People haven't always had schools
of any kind, and free public schools
have existed only a few decades.
Primitive people taught their child-
ren the productive habits of the
tribe by singing, dancing, and play-
ing together. As these people made
their living by hunting and fishing,
and by taming the wild animals,
their schools consisted of war games,
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fighting games, fishing games, and
dances for the development of the
individual.
Tarheel citizens of today don't
make their living by hunting, fish-
ing, and the taming of wild animals.
Unlike the Tarheel before the day
of Sir Walter Raleigh, the present
day citizen of North Carolina makes
his living by growing tine leaf to-
bacco in the face of tobacco wilt, by
growing fine cotton under boll wee-
vil conditions, by selling factory
made shoes under conditions of busi-
ness depression, and by all the other
trades and occupations characteris-
tic of industrial civilizations.
So the Tarheeel of today must
have a higher brand of intelligence
and training than was required dur-
ing the fishing and hunting days or
even during the days immediately
prior to the boll weevil, the income
tax. and the coal strike. What is
North Carolina doing about it. and
what has she accomplished?
North! Carolina under the leader-
ship of the great Charles Brandy
Aycock, has seen that every North
Carolina child has a chance for an
education." Every county and
every townshyp is dotted with rural
schools, and every town has from
one to a dozen — all for the purpose
of teaching Tarheel boys and girls
the things necessary for modern
citizenship and modern methods of
making a living.
The most sacred institutions in
North Carolina right now are her
schools. They are sacred because
these schools are the seats of know-
ledge, the brains of civilization, and
the hope of all future progress.
Take the public schools from
North Carolina over night and keep
them away for ten years. At the
end of that time the civilization of
North Carolina would have gone
back a hundred years.
But there are two things about
the schools of North Carolina that
should engage the attention of every
citizen. First, the towns because
of their increased wealth and better
facilities of communication have im-
proved their schools faster than the
country, so that the country boy is
handicapped in the competition for
the things which make life comfor-
table and agreeable. In the second
place, modern methods of gaining a
living are changing so fast that busi-
ness has outstripped our schools,
that while our schools teach Latin,
Greek, and theoretical mathematics,
business men are talking about pro-
tits, sales, international trade, and
cost accounting.
And while our rural schools are
telling about young Lochinvar who
came out of the west and about the
boy that stood on the burning deck,
our farmers are talking about credit,
world conditions, diversified farm-
ing, boll weevils and war finance
corporations.
Let's take Wake county rural
schools as typical of North Carolina.
There are still 03 white one-teach-
er, two-teacher, and three-teacher
schools in Wake county, and only 11
outside of Raleigh and Wake Forest
have four or more teachers. Forty-
six of the jo rural schools for negro
children are only one-teacher and
two-teacher schools. These condi-
tions exist in spite of the fact that
the North Carolina Educational ('em-
mission in its 1920 report found it
almost impossible to have an el)'' lent
rural school with less than four
teachers.
The terms in 23 of Wake county's
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132 rural schools arc only 4 or 5
months long, and the terras in S2
Others are only li months long".
Thirteen, or less than ten percent
of the schools outside of Raleigh and
Wake Forest, have terms of 8 months
or longer. Yet every school in
Raleigh has a 9 months term.
An average of more than 5,000 of
the 13,700 rural school children are
absent each day. The greatest per-
centages of these absences occur in
the smallest schools with the shortest
terms and the lowest paid teachers.
Our rural people through false
ideas of economy and lack of interest
in these sacred institutions are hand-
icapping their own boys and girls
—their own kith and kin — in the
struggle for existance.
The salaries of 21 of the 373 rural
teachers iu Wake county are less
than S300 a year. Of all the rural
teachers conbined, only 22, or (>
percent, get more than SHOO a year.
Wake county rural people are just
kidding themselves if they think
they. are going to get the kind of
school teachers they ought to
have for less than $1200 a year or
$100 a month. The 22 teachers
who do receive living salaries teach
in the towns such as Zehulon. Wen-
dell. Apex, Cary, Fuquary Springs,
and Holly Springs.
Don't blame it on John C Lock-
hart, Superintendent of county
schools. Mr. Lockhart is one of
Wake eounyt's most ardent expon-
ents of good schools but he has
been handicapped by a lack of fol-
lowers.
There never was a time in the
history of North Carolina when
farm boys and girls needed educa-
tion more than they do now. Each
; succeeding age only increases that
need. Have farmers of North Caro-
lina ever faced the problems they
do to day? Cooperative marketing,
proper credit conditions, the pro-
blem of home raising of food, diver-
sified farming, the boll weevil — are
not these tough problems for far-
mers to face?
That the prosperity of the town
and the country are independent
is no longer a question of doubt.
Good business on the farm means
good busines in town. Good busi-
ness— profit-paying business — will
never settle permanently on North
Carolina farmers until the country
schools teach each embroy farmer
the correct solution of agricultural
problems.
The superintendent of schools in
a county of the kind which shelters
several taxpayers organization that
are now clamoring for such an-
archistic changes in public expen-
ditures as would be fatal to all pro-
gress, told a recent visitor that 70
of 86 schools in the county were of
the one, room one-teacher type with
terms of six months or less. The
county had only one improved road,
and this road was impassable dur-
ing the rainy season. Yet these
people were demanding the resig-
nation of this county superintendant
because he had increased the school
expenses $9,000 the previous year
by making the educational standards
a little higher.
There they were! More than one-
fifth of the people in that county
could neither read nor write. Stuck
in the mud. and cutting up their tow
line.
Need one be surprised to find that
the town and city boys who compose
the freshman classes at North Caro-
lina State College of Agriculture and
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Engineering have an average of 96
months pre-College education com-
pared to 77 months pre-college edu-
cation for the country boy who en-
roll in the same class.
A smaller percentage of the coun-
try hoys ever go to college at all, and
those who do are handicapped to the
extent of more than two years of pre-
liminary training.
North Carolina citizens, the time
has come to call to arms. Let anoth-
er Aycock step forward to bear the
banner of the rural school.
Here's the program this modern
cavalier should battle under.
1. An eight month school law com-
pulsory for every child in North
Carolina, white and colored.
1. A taxation system whereby
every man will be forced to give un-
til it hurts. People are not conscious
of the loss and cost of the inefficient
six-month school system.
3. A salary increase for every ru-
ral school teacher by twice, and an
efflciencp increase in every rural
school by live times.
\. A mcas'ure proposing to sprin-
kle some quintessence of Dodo juice
upon the tail feathers of certain poli»
ticians. who live in towns with elec-
tric lights and good schools, and
further their private ends with poli-
tical speeches to farmer organiza-
tions on false economy and tax re-
duction.
■). A measure proposing the paint-
ing of a sign on the door of every
North Carolina School with a term
of less than eight months reading
thus:
"Children for sale cheap. This com-
munity thinks more of dollars than of
its boys and girls.''
People who wish to stop this in-
tellectual suicide in a large num-
ber of North Carolina communities
can do so by the backing of such a
modern cavalier. One generation
of proper schools in North Carolina
will make her a garden of Eden. She
can build a rural civilization higher
than any civilization that every lived
on paved streets or in city blocks.
North Carolina has the people.,
the land, and the money. What she
needs is the vision.
THE WOMAN WHO HAD SEEN LIFE.
The farmer's wife is the woman who has walked across the ploughed
fields some stormy, wintry night that she might help her sister in that
greatest hour of trial. She has taken into her arms and tenderly dressed
the tiny, heplcss hahy. In other times she has reverently composed the
limhs of the silent de.4d. In the eyes of the city woman she has sc for
forgotten poise and dignity as to know how to milk cows, harness the horses,
and learn the rude surgery of the farm. Yes, she goes even further than
this — in the spring time of the year she will carry hahy lamhs and I-'itle
pigs into her clean warm kitchen thi.1; she may save them from peri0 "'ng.
But after all, isn't she the woman who has really saen life? — Mrs Or vies
W. Sewell.
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Lankey Johnson is suffering; not suffering from poverty, but from jealously.
Though he ran down the rich, he envied them — and envied in particular "Runt
Koster, the little millionaire of the school.
Now, it was no more "Hunt's" him favors which he didn't seek
I fault that he was wealthy than it was didn't need and didn't desire.
Lankey 's fault that lie was poor, and Rant had two rooms and a bath iu
I although Lankey couldn't believe it, the new school building which his i'ath-
Runt was suffering too. While Lankey er had presented to the school. Runt
could talk about his poverty and didn't want them but his father laid
glory in it, Runt couldn't blow about down the law and it must be admitt-
: his wealth — some boys might have — ed that even the great ones of the;
; lint Runt wasn't built that way. school bowed before his wealth.
There was a good deal of truth in Runt was pampered openly in class,
tl)e things Lankey said. They were coached by the instructors so that his
mean things and cut Runt, deeply, but weekly report might be a „\>od one. In -
they were true; even Runt couldn't athletics it was the same thing; he
deny that, though they just hurl the was picked for the substitute center
same. Yes, Runt's wealth brought field on the ball nir.o— tin position
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which Lankey Johnson tilled, and filled
on his merit alone. Runt played in
games, of course, but only when those
games were won or lost beyond all
hope. The Coach, Pop Squires, rode
in Runts automobile and received
many favors from Charles Koster, the
millionaire.
But Runt with all Iris wealth and
.influence complained within himself
that he didn't have a chance. He lik-
ed baseball and knew he could make
good if lie was ever put in a position
where he had to stand alone — a posi-
tion where his money wouldn't help.
He had always made good in his exam-
ination when his opportunity was equal
with tile other boys. But how could
he make good in base ball when he felt
the sneers of his comrades as soon as
he ran uponthe held. They knew that
wealth and not merit was sending him
out to center and with a heart full of
shame and eyes dimmed with tears
was it any wonder that he invariably
struck out and his nervous twitching
lingers dropped easy tlies. If he ever
got the chance — the chance where
something depended on him — but he
hjaved a sight — it would never come
to him without the asking and he just
couldn't stoop to that.
Lankey Johnston's envy turned to
hatred. He wasn't exactly a mean
hoy, but his whole being cried out
against the injustice of the thing
When a game was won ; simply packed
away; and nothing but the glory left;
lie was taken out and Runt put in.
Runt hated to go in, but he went
for he wouldn't admit before the boys
that his position was brought.
Runt had many companions but few
friends and as time went on and the
whispered scandal was brought to his
ears lie sunk more and more within
himself. So the rich boy who loved
games and company sought seclusion;
and as he wandered off by himself the
phrase "stuck up" was added to his
burden.
Came the day of the big game — the
day when the entire "Smith School"
traveled lifty miles to play their
greatest rival "Austen Prep." The
boys had a special train and a baud
for this was the gala celebration of
the whole school year.
Poor Runt stood by t lie window in
his magnificent room gazing down at
I lie activities on the school grounds.
The ba ml was playing — banners were
waving — and the boys were joyfully
forming in line to march behind the
automobiles, which bore the team to
the station.
Runt turned from the window. He
was a member of that team but no one
missed him, no one inquired why he
was not with his comrades. lie in-
spected himself in the long mirror;
his base-ball suit was new, unsoiled
and of better material than that of his
companions. Money had done that
and more. But one thing he felt it
could not buy him; a place in the
hearts of his school mates. He didn't
want to ride in the train with his
friends with the team didn't the glory
he didn't deserve.
Runt rode to Austin in the big
Pierce Arrow with his father and lit-
tle sister, Betty. His father didn't
understand him and Balked constant-
ly of the glory of the day the honor
due the team of which Runt was a
member.
"We'll see that you play to-day,
son," his father patted him on the
back. "Don't look so downcast," he
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misunderstood the boy's looks. "A
>vord to Pop Squire will lix things.
You just leave it to your old Dud. He
knows how to handle men.''
"Please, father. I don't wish to
play." There was real agony in the
boy's voiee. "Nonsense — there is
glory to be won and I'll see that you
have a hand in the wining of it.''
It was Betty who understood only
to well Runt's position, for he had of-
ten confided in her when his heart was
near to bursting. It was she now
who smoothed away the mental pain;
explaining that Punt was not well
enough to play and so obtaining her
father's promise that he would not
urge it.
Runt sat in a field box with Betty
and his father; lie just couldn't sit
among his team mates. For eight
innings he watched the game go steadi-
ly against his team until the score
stood seven to four against "Smith.''
Then with two outs and none on base,
Lankey Johnson came staggering in
from center. A delay in the game;
then came the announcement that Lan-
key had a touch of the sun and could
play no more.
Pop Squires was in a diemma; he
had used all his available players in
an inaffective effort to obtain the much
much needed runs. Now he looked
hopelessly about— there was no one
left — there was nothing left for him
to do; he signaled Runt. Runt ran
out in the field; not as he had run
before, for there was no shame. His
money hadn't bought this. There
was no one else to go, to be sure, and
his appointments wasn't compliment-
ary or flattering, but they needed
him — no mater how bad they might
think him — they needed hi:n. When
the next player struck out Runt ran
gayly into the bench with his team.
In the first half of the ninth,
with two out, and all hopes seem-
ingly gone. Benny Hoffman knocked
out a single and Joe Rogers stretch-
ed a long single into a double.
This left a man on second and third;
and Harry Percy, with a brace of
doubles to his credit came to the
bat.
Xow the Austin pitcher had a
good pair of ears and had used them
to advantage. He overheard the
talk concerning Runt's poor playing
aad as runt Was next to the bat he
decided to take no chances; so he
passed Percy.
The bases full, two out and Runt
up; Runt who had never made a
hit. The game seemed hopeless
to the "Smiths" boys. Oh, for Lan-
key with a single and then Bull
Robison the heavy hitter of the
earn. There was no cheers as Runt
steppped to the plate, nothing but
silence — the silence of despair.
But Runt had confidence. He had
played the whole game in spirit as
he sat in the box and had studied the
pitcher and new he threw a straight
ball that he could hit. He knew
more than that, for he knew when
that ball was comming. He had
watched the piteher closely and
knew that every time he threw that
straight ball he bent his right knee
almost to the ground.
It was with an easy, confident air
that the pitcher faced Runt; then
with the grace of assurance he de-
livered the ball. Straight towards
Runt it sped so that he stepped back
to avoid being hit. But just before
it reached the boy it broke and curv-
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ing out came across the center of the that the Austen pitcher most prided
plate. himself on.
"Strike one!" Runt's chance. Hunt's hope. He
A groan broke the silence. never waiter for that ball to reach
Alone, of all that mass, Hunt seem- the plate, but holding his bat at the
ed undisturbed. He walked back to very end he swung; swung with all
plate and pounded his bat upon it. the force, all the power of his hidden
His eyes were clear and steady and muscles.
the hands that held tile hat .lid nut Crash ! Through that silence the
tremble. He had longed for this chance heavy crack of the ash against the
and it had come — this tight against leather sounded like a pistol shot.
the wealth which was smothering Like a flash Runt was off; speeding
his ambitions. towards llrst. He knew he had hie
Another quick delivery ami the ball the ball fairly, and with all his
cut the corner of the plate just above strength but he did not know just
Runt's knees. Still the boy held his how far. As he ran he raised his
bat over his shoulder — the ball re- eyes; a thrill of pride went through
-sounded in the catcher's glove. his whole body for as he looked the
.''Strike two!" the centertlelder turned and with
There were several who cried out — hunched shoulders and bent head
but the majority set in silent agony sped out towards the high grass.
or arose to leave the Held. Cry after cry came from the stand —
The pitcher smiled prepartaory to followed by the shout,
his third delivery. So sure was he "A homer— a homer!"
that victory was within his grasp And it was a home run, for Runt
that he gave but a passing glance to crossed the plate a good ten feet a-
the three base runners. head of the ball.
Through the silence, as the pitcher It was a happy red-faced, panting
wound up, came a cry. .boy that took his place on the bench.
"Oh Runt." It was Betty who He' watched hissis ter-his only friend
called out. The cry was wrung from —standing on the seat and waving
her — for she felt the' sneers of the her tlag well above the shouting
school and thought what her brother throng. His cup of happiness was
must be suffering. very nearly full for the score was
As the echo of that cry died away eight to seven with the "Smith"
the pitcher threw the ball; but just team one rdn ahead; and Kun( had
before that ball left his hand the done it The homer was needed, too,
pitcher's knee bent so that it nearly for Bull Robinson, the heavy hitter
touched the ground. the team, struck out. Let there
That was the signal that Runt was something lacking in the praise
awaited; that was the sign his steady of his comrades. So strong was the
eye had sought and he knew before feeling against Runt and so deep.
that ball started that it would be a rooted the opinion that thi boys
straight one and would cut the very held; that more than once Runt
center of the plate. It was this ball caught the word "Luck."
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It wasn't luck and Runt know it
unci he could not help but resent the
whispered comments. Was it pos-
sible that after all, his money was- going
to over power common justice. Yes;
.he could even fell the restraint in the
words of praise of Pop Squire. Deep
in his heart Pop was putting it
down as luck; and Runt knew it.
He looked up in the stand; no, they
didn't put it to luck, there; they
were too happy — bdt when the whis-
pered word had passed around. What
then.' Runt eompressd his lips. He
knew the answer.
It was with a feeling of bitterness
that Runt took up his position in
center Held. Could it be that other
things besides money Stood between
himself and his companions ?
The lirst man of the "Austen"
team drove a single through short and
the next took his base on balls. The
third player grounded through second
and it was only by Runt's quick
fielding that the first batter was held
J on third. He got a cheer for that
| and his spirits rose. Perhaps he
might yet be able to earn a position
on the team.
It was looking mighty bad for the
"Smith" School nine. Bases full;
none out and but one run needed to
tie tlie score. And worst of all the
most dangerous man of "Austin"
Prep, was advancing slowly to the
plate.
Sow, it came to Runt that the run-
ners were laying- pretty far off the
bag. He wanted to call the second
base-man's attention to it, but he
feared it would be considered pre-
sumptive on his part. But he had an
Wer what was taking place. They
wer^ going to try a triple steal or
the hit and run pl.iy. He didn't
stop to think wheth c or nut he was
doing right, he bacice I his own judg-
ment and started running toward sec-
ond. Then the pitcher threw the
ball.
Bung — there was a crack like the
snap of a whip as the Austen player
leaned heavily upon the ball. The
ball shot straight and low out to-
wards the unprotected second bag.
A sigh went up from the Smith boys
for it looked like a sure hit — good
good for two runs at lciast, for at the
crack of that hit all the base runners
had started.
Then a cry went up, for Runt was
not in center field but well in towards
second and running like chain light-
ing toward the speeding ball. Could
he get it — could he even stop it.
They answered, no. The best player
on the team never could have made
that catch — but Runt. Well it was
enough to make them laugh — but the
situation was too serious. T'wn as
they watched, the small form of Runt
drove through the air — he turned a
complete somersault; but those who
watched closely saw that the boy's
bare left hand had grasped the ball
and held it, before he ever touched
the ground.
But the fall, severe as it was, had
not dazed Runt. He was up in a
minute and before the runner from
first knew just what had happened
Runt touched him out. Two out —
then a cry went up from the Austen
school. The runner from second heard
it and was making a mighty effort
to return to the bag. But if Runt
acted quickly, he thought quickly also,
and as the runner approached the bag
Runt made a dive and reached it a
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second or more ahead of him — three Then Pop Spuires, who only
out. Runt — the despised Runt had hoard the end of the conversation,
made a triple play unassisted. spoke up.
It was some moments before that "Oh, you won't loo.se tenter, Lan-
vast throng understood just what had key. Runt's too valuable a man to
really taken place — then a mighty stay out there. He used to think he
shout rent the air. The game was was somewhat of a pitcher and- some
over and "Smith" had won. how I think so, too."
Lankey Johnson was one of the first "I made good, then .'" Runt 's face
to reach Runt. was beaming.
''Oh, forgive me," he cried. "I Pop Squires raised his hand,
did it on purpose. I hated you so I "Listen." was his only answer,
pretended to be siek. I wanted to Prom the stand came the lusty
show you up. But I'm so glad you school yell and at the end, "RUNT—
made good. Von deserve my position R-U-N-T — RUXT. "
and I am glad you are going to get The next instant the entire school
it. For you will get it." bore down upon him and hoisting him
"You won't loose center." Runt high upon their shoulders bore him
laid a kindly hand upon his shoulder. triumphantly from the field.
FROM FAMINE FIELDS.
By Martha Haskell Clark in The Outlook.
I am a little better than a movie show
Because I speak reality.. You kno 7
That I was there, have worked and shared and seen.
And yet. like shadow pictures on the screen.
The scenes I paint brings but a passing thrill.
Of pleasant horror. Self-complacent still.
Your murmur, "Sad! So sad!" and go your way,
While cards, and tea-rooms, and the latest play
Will reap their easy millions through the week.
You cannot sense the things of which I speak.
You are not heartless. Could I only lay
One baby's body at your feet today.
Or here and now bring swift before your eyes
One mother watching by her child that dies,
You would be pitiiul. would strain to give, —
And thousands doomed by apathy would live.
Great God of Nations, give me words to stir
These sleek-fed aisles oi broadcloth and of furl
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SURVIVING CONFEDERATE VETERANS
OF STANLY COUNTY.
Mr. S. H. lleurne, a substantial friend of the Jackson Training School and
!iie «f the leading- citizens of Albemarle and well known throughout North.
Carolina, has gone about the business of listing all the surviving Confederate
Veterans now living in Stanly county. There are just S8 of the heroes of the
»0s yet with us. They are:
ALBEMARLE: E. M. Biles, U. F. mfthcock, E. W. Williams, B. F. Snuggs,
J. L. Gilbert, R. D. Thompson, W. H. Honeycutt, J. D. Smith, M. MeKethaw^
J. Cicero Pickler, Enoch Williams, William D. Blackwekler, G. W. Watson,
Eowell Harwood, M. M. Poplin, Joseph Morton, John H. Underwood, (R7),
jFrank Melton (Rll).
| NEW LONDON: Henry Arey, Job Calloway, J. H. Hearne, Silas Luthan,.
J. E. Reeves, D. E. Ridenhonr, William Southerly, Eli Vandengriff Amrij
'Vankoy, J. M. Etafioid (R 12).
PALMERVILLE: J. W. Jenkins, W. D. Reinhardt.
NORWOOD: D. C. Poplin, J. W. Eddins, R. S. Ellis, J. J. Colson, W. H.
Catkins, W. D. Nichols, J. J. Cooper, James Floyd, Walcom Thomas, Fi'ank
,2arkey, George Lee.
| RICHFIELD: W. A. Misenheimer, G. M. Misenheimer, H. D. Plyler, J. B.
Parker, D. H. Ridenhour.
\ BLOOMINGTON: Eben Burleyson, D. Basworth, W. F. Furr, D. E. Hun-
'sycutt, E. R. Harris, C. L. Harkey, C. W. Lambert, William Mason, Frank
jHason, J. E. Hatley (R 11).
i LOCUST: Eli Himeycutt, Dock H»neycutt, Jackson Huneycutt, James Bur-
las, Israel Little, Jesse Long, Jacob Hathcock, J. B. Jenkins, (R 8).
| BIG LICK: Wesley Burleyson, W. R. Brooks, Daniel Hinson, Wesley Whit-
ley, 0. F. Dry (R 7).
; ENDY: A. L. Eudy, Nathan Poplin, J. W. Burleyson, J. W. Whitley, T. L.
[Ticker (R 5).
I OAKBORO: E. L. Whitley, J. E. Hartsell.
AQUADALE : L. T. G.'-kldy, F. G. Turner, J. S. Curlee.
I COTTONYILLE: Frank Cooper, W. R. McSwain (R 5).
! MILLINGPORT: H. H. Eudy, Julius A. Fisher, Fileman A. Harward.
GLADSTONE: Marvel M. Ritchie.
I MISSION: Adam Burleyson.
FINGER: Isaac Shoe, G. H. Sides (R 12).
To be sure ! The people that heard the Raleigh debate on evolution know-
just as much about it as they did before. * * * * * There is but one-
sources of reliable information about the origin of man, and The Book is
that source. — Charlotte Observer.
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QUESTIONS FOK THE MONKEYITES.
As
By D. D. Cochran, of Rocky Mt.
.ich person or living thing, is the outcome of a previous life, back to
:She beginning of all life, we would be glad if the evolution scientist, who is
a Christian, would answer two questions only; inasmuch as all Christians be-
lieve that man has an immortal soul.
Do animdls have immortal souls? If not at what stage of evolution from
-inimal to man does the soul appear? I for one would like to know.
THE HOLIEST THING ALIVE.
C. D. Bulla in Christian Advocate
I do not remember when my eyes lirst looked upon her beautiful face.
I have heard that she went down to the valley of deep darkness to bring
me from God's everywhere into the here. When I found myself in the
country home, she "was with me. She drew me close to her warm bosom
and spoke gentle words. I have not found those words in my books, but,:
[ knew their meaning from the first, snows in little boots with red tops
and copper tips. Seated near the
teacher's desk, for reasons good to
the pedagogue, I looked through tin'
windows of the "Elementary Spell-
ing Book," by Noah Webster. L. L.
D.. in Wisdom Land.
That apron string streched out to
the village church. When the great
bell rang on Sunday morning, she
took me to the services. Sometimes
as the good man prayed or the peo-
ple sang she shouted. I did not
know why she said "Glory" and
"Hallelujah," but her face "'as
bright and she said she loved every-
body. At such times I thought she
might go away into the blue ::kies
and was glad when she became ijuiet
and put her arms about me, saying:
"God bless my boy 1" She gave me
money with which to buy a New
Testament. My sister taught v a the
"Blesseds" by heart; and be.ausejj
she did, I know more about humility Q
and penitence and mercifulness and ;
and they comforted me.
I soon learned that a low cry
brought her to me; and when she
came near, hunger and cold and fear
vanished. Often when she looked
down into my eyes as I lay in the
cradle' her lips moved, though I
heard not a word. Whether baking
or sewing or spinning or reading,
she was never out of reach of the
high chair. It is written: "He
shall give his angels charge over
thee."
For a long time I was not farther
from her than the length of her ap-
pron string. It reached to the yard.
She watched me from the porch as I
played on the carpet of soft grasses
and gathered posies and listened to
the song birds in the trees that shad-
ed our home.
That narrow strip of gingham
reached to the schoolhouse across
the bridge. She gave me a basket
lunch, and I walked through the
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23
singleness of purpose. For those
gracious words spoken by Jesus on
[he Mount have never left me.
The time came when Iheardsome-
bocly say:'" A fellow should't always
be held by an ap von string." 1 was
sorry to hear anybody say that, be-
cause at the other end of one apron
string was the best friend I ever
had. The slightest pull at my end
of the string brought her my side
day or night. She bound with soft
bar dages and balm all my hurts of
land and head and heart.
Later on I heard about a land of
gold and sunshine and flowers, be-
yond the village and the church
steeple, on the western sky line.
One foggy day when I did not see
dearly I slipped my hand from the
loop of the apron string and wonder-
ed far in the twilight country. I
saw many strange and interesting
things, yet I was not happy. I had
money in my purse, but it did not
buy the things I needed. When I
prayed the only answer was a voice,
saying: 'They love and miss you
at home." Something kept tugging
away at my trunk until I started
back to the home of my childhood. It
was bright and cheery at the old
hue side. A new life began to course
through my veins. T slipped my hand
into the loop of the apron string,
to remove it again never, please
God. Since then 1 have journeyed
far at the call of duty, but again and
again a slight tightening or' the' apron
strings has brought me into compan-
ionship with the guardian angel of
my whole life-time,
My mother has reached the one
hundredth milestone on her way to
the land of day and song. The Lord
has been her sun and shield. He
has given her grace. He will give
her glory. I shall miss her when
she leaves me for that sweet and
blessed country, but I shall find her
again by the gentle drawing of the
apron string of deathless love. I
do not forget that my children have
a mother.
A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive."
What I Would Like To Do And Why I Would Like
To Do It When I Leave 1 he Jackson Training SchooL
Answer to Col Al. Fairbiother's Question — 3rd Prize
Upon reading Mr. Fairbrother's kind offer in the UPLIFT, I deemed it
an opportunity — one with the door open — to express myself on a subject
which has long been a pent-up hope in my soul.
Before coming to this school I "dabbled", so to speak, in chemistry.
A few simple experiments, such as testing water, making ink, etc, delighted
my science-hungry soul. Little di
,1 tl en realize the true value of tin'
'profession of chemist; but now, after
i ten months from this work and little
[experiments, I find that my desire
(for it has not decreased in the least.
On 'he contrary, it has grown.
Perhaps, to some boys, who lead
a happy-go-lucky, take-what-ever-
comes life, it would seem foolish to
have a life's schedule already plann-
ed, but this is so in my case.
When I leave this school, it is my
desire to take up my special educa-
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tion where I left off (Due to the fact'
of the kick of education among' the
boys who come here, no higher
grade than the eighth is required).
This means three more years of
earnest work in the High School. If
it is possible by exerting my utmost
effort, I must go through college.
Perhaps, I may write a few articles
and stories which may appear to the
public interest. Regardless of the
mode — be it cleaning the streets, or
doing some higher work — I will go
through college but go honestly.
After a college experience, if my
information is correct, I must take
a special four-year course in chem-
istry. This I mean to take, and, if
successful, I will attain to the much
desired position of expert chemist.
And now comes the ugderlying
reason for this ambition: the value
of chemistry to mankind. Once a
painter disappeared; he was last
seen painting a newly-finished
building. Most people believed that
he had fallen from his scaffold into a
cask of acid, which was standing
below the spot where he was seen,'
and thus he had been destroyed.
But how was this to be proved?
No one had seen him fall into it;
■consequently his grief-stricken wife
was unable to collect the insurance
on his life, because there was no
proof his death. She had no rela-
tives and no means; she was slowly
starving for the lack of proper food
and care. Herein is the part tin;
chemist plays: a chief chemist, whoso
name is unknown, took a sample of
the suspected acid and tested it
with favorable results, confirming
the former suspicion and thus sav-
ing a life-
Liquid air is a very important
chemical discovery. Submarine nav-
igators desire great motive power
andalso air for the crew to breathe.
Airship inventors want great power
and tightness combined. In sugery,
the intense cold of liquid air has the
same property as great heat without
causing a blister and frequently it
take place of a surgeon's knife.
Hence this discovery in chemistry
saves many lives without disfigur-
ing the patients.
Other similar testimonies could
be cited, but space does not permit |
— suffice to say, that chemistry, be-
sides being a very interesting sci-
ence, is a professian of importance 9
and great profit if one becomes an
expert in it. If, by some invention
or discovery, I can make the life of
man on earth more comfortable and
profitable, WHY SHOULDN'T V!
Editor Sherrill and I were chatting in front of the City Hall late Sunday
afternoon. Two young girls (apparently eleven or twelve years old) rig-
ged out in spectacular costumes passed by. Their stockings were rolled
clown three or four inches below the knees; and the flimsy, short dresses
lacked at least four inches reaching the knees. Mr. Sherrill, in astonish-
ment, said, "look there! What is that?" We agreed they were twin
orphans. Oh, womanhood, rise up in your might and demand in this land
the preservation of that womanly modesty, which our mothers used to
rightfully claim and did possess.
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ENCOURAGEMENT.
Two men met on a steamer crossing the ocean. Something drew them togeth-
er. Each did not know that he should have known the other. They had many
conversations before they reached the other side. ....They talked on almost every
conceivable subject. At last their talk turned to the Sunday school. The
elder seemed eager to speak. He made a bold confession. He said he did not
2nd himself able to get up much enthusiasm on that subject. He said he wafe
once a Sunday school teacher, but he could not see that he was doing any
' good and so he droppd out. The testimony of the younger man was different.
jHe said he could not help believing very firmly in the Sunday school. He had.
| started attending when very young. With more earnestness than was hi3
usual manner he said that he had very good teachers in school and that some
of the deepest impressions of his life he received in that class. So effectual
jVas the teaching that under it he gave his heart to God and entered joyfully
j into His service. In the course of the testimony the young enthusiast named.
the school he had attended. Instantly the other said, "Why it was that school.
I attended. It was in tihtt school I taught. My name is so-and-so." Reach-
ing forth his hand the. younger said, "And I was in your class. I remember
iyou now. Some of the lessons you taught I shall never forget." From that
! day a new tie bound those two men. They were often seen standing side
\\>y side recalling old memories and Agreeing on the silent influences set in
notion in the Sunday school.
SIR ISAAC. NEWTON.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On Christmas Day, in the year 1G42, Isaac Newton was born, at the small
■village of Woolsthrope, in England. Little did his mother think, when she
i beheld her new-born babe, that he was destine.] to explain many matters which
had been a mystery ever since the creation of the world.
; Isaac's father being dead, Mrs. saws of various sizes, manufactured
X'ewton was married again to a by himself. With the aid of these
clergyman and went to live at Issae contrived to make many euri-
Korth Witham. Her son was left to ous articles, at which he worked with
] the care of his good old grandmother so much skill that he seemed to have
who was very kind to him and sent been born with a saw or chisel in
jliiin to school. his hand.
In his early years Isaac did not The neighbors looked with vast ad-
appear to be a very bright scholar miration at the things which Isaac-
hut was chiefly remarkable for his manufastured. And his old grand-
ingenuity in all mechanical occupa- mother, I supose, : was never weary
Hon. He had a set of litle tools and of talking about him. "He'll make
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a capital workman one of these
day," she would say. " No fear
but Isaac will do well in the world
and be; a rich man before he dies,"
It is amusing to conjecture what
were the anticipations of his grand-
mother and the neighbors . about
Isaee's future life. Some of them,
perhaps, fancied that he would make
beautiful furniture of mahogany,
rosewood, or polish oak, inlaid with
ivory and ebony and magnificiently
gilded. And then, doubtless, all the
rich people would purchase these fine
things to adorn their drawing-rooms.
Others probably thought that little
Isaac was destined to be an architect,
and would build splendid mansions for
the nobility and gentry, and churches
too, with the tallest steeples that had
ever been seen in England.
Some of his friends, no doubt, ad-
vised Isaac's grandmother to appren-
tice him to a clock maker; for, be-
sides his mechanical skill, the boy
seemed to have a taste for mathema-
tics, which would be very useful to
him in that profession. And then,
in due time, Isaac would set up for
himself, and woidd manufacture
curious clocks like those that contain
"sets of dancing figures which issue
from the dail plate when the hour is
struck; or like those where a ship
sails across the- face of the clock,
and is seen tossing up and down on the
waves as often as the pendulum vi-
brates.
Indeed, there was some ground for
supposing that Isaac would devote
himself to the manufacture of clocks,
since he had already made, one of a
kind which nobody had ever heard of
hefore. It was set a-going, not by
wheels and weights like other clocks,
but by the dropping of water.
This was an object of great wonder-
ment to all the people round about;
and it must lie confessed that there
are few boys, or men either, who
could contrive to tell what o'clock it
is by means of a bowl of water.
Besides the water clock, Isaac made
a sundial. Thus his grandmother
was never at a hist to know the hour;
for the water "clock would tell il in
the shade and the dial in the sun-
shine. The sundial is said to be
still in existence on the corner of the
house where Isaac dwelt. If so, it
must have marked the passage of
every sunny hour that lias passed
since Isac Newton was a boy. It
marked all the famous moments of
his life; it marked the hour of his
death; and still the sunshine creeps
slowly over it, as regularly as when
Isaac first set it up.
Yet we must not say that the sun-
dial has lasted longer than its maker;
for Isaac Newton will exist long af-
ter the dial — yea, and long after the
sun itself —shall have crumbled to de-
cay.
Isaac possessed a wonderful faculty
of gaining knowledge by the simplest
means. For instance,' what method
do you suppose he took to find out
the strength of the wind? You will
never guess, how the boy could compel
that unseen, inconstant, and ungovern-
able wonder, the wind, to tell him
the. measure of his strength. Yet
nothing can be. more simple. He
jumped against the wind, and by the
length of his jump he could calcu-
late the force of a gentle breeze, a
brisk gale, or a tempest. Thus, even
in his boyish sports, he was cont- anal-
ly searching, out the secrets .of. phu-
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27
osopby.
Not., far from his grandmother's
residence there was a windmill which
worked on a new plan. Isaac was
in the habit of going thither frequent-
ly, and would spend whole hours in
examining its various parts. While
the mill was at rest, he pried into its
internal machinery. When its broad
sails were set in motion. by the wind,
lie watched the process by which the
millstones were made to revolve and
crush the grain that was put into the
hopper. After gaining a knowledge
of its construction, he was observed
to be unusually busy with his tools.
It was not long before his grand-
mother and all the neighborhood knew
what Isaac had been about. He had
constructed a model of the windmill.
Though not so large, I suppose, as
one of the box-traps which boys set
to catch squirrels, yet every part of
the mill and its machinery was com-
plete. Its little sails were neatly
made of linen, and whirled round very
swiftly when the mill was placed in
i draught of air. Even a puff of
rind from Isaac's mouth or from a
pair of bellows was sufficient to set
the sails in motion. And what was
Jiost curious, if a handful of grains
of wheat were put into the little hop-
per, they would soon be converted in-
to snow-white Hour.
Isaac's playmates were enchanted
ritli his new windmill. They thought
that nothing so pretty and so wonder-
ful had ever been seen in the whole
Torld.
"But, Isaac," said one of them,
"you have forgotten one thing that
Wlo'igs to a mill." . . .
" .Ykat is that?" "asked Isaac, for
he supposed that, from the. roof of
:le mill to its foundation, he had for-
gotten nothing.
"Why, where is the miller?" said
his friend.
"That is true; I must look out for
one," said Isaac; and he set himself"
to consider how the deficiency should
be supplied.
He might easily have made a min-
iature figure of a man; but then it
would not have been able to" move,
about and perform duties of a miller.
As Captain Lemuel Gulliver had not
yet discovered the island of Lilliput,
Isaac did not know that there were
little men in the world whose size
was just suited to his wind-mill.
It so happened, however, that a.
mouse had just been caught in the-
trap; and, as no other miller could
be found, Mr. Mouse was appointed
to that important office. The new
miller made a very respectable ap-
pearance in his dark gray coat.
To be sure, he had not a very good
character for honesty, and was su-
spected of sometimes stealing a por-
tion of the grain which was given
him to grind. But perhaps some
two-legged millers are quite as dis-
honest as this small quadruped.
As Isaac grew older, it was found
that he had far more important mat-
ters in his mind than the manufacture
of toys like the little windmill.
All day long, if left to himself, he
was either absorbed in thought or
engaged in some book of mathema-
tics or natural philosophy. At night,
I think it probable, he looked up with
reverential curiosity to the stars and
wondered whether they were worlds
like our own, and how great was their
distance from the earth, and what was.
the power that kept them in their
courses.. Perhaps, even so early ia
life, Isaac Newton felt a presenti-
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raent that lie should be able here-
after to answer ;ill these questions.
When Isaac was fourteen years
•old, his mother's second husband
being now dead, she wished her son
to leave school and assist her in man-
aging the farm at Woolsthope. For
a year or two, therefore, he tried to
turn his attention to fanning. But
iis mind was so bent on becoming a
scholar that his mother sent him back
to school, and afterward to the Uni-
versity of Cambridge.
I have now finished my anecdotes
of Isaac Newton's boyhood. My
story would be far to long were I to
mention all the splendid discoveries
which he made after he came to be a
man. He was the first that found
out the nature of light; for, before
his days, nobody could tell what the
sunshine is composed of.
You remember, I suppose, the story
■of an apple's falling on his head and
thus leading him to discover the force
of gravitation, which keeps the hea-
venly bodies in their courses. When
he had once got hold of this idea; he
never permitted his mind to rest un-
til he had searched out all the laws
by which the planets are guided
through the sky. This he did as
thoroughly as if he had gone up a-
mong the stars and tracked them in
their orbits. The boy had found out
the mechanism of a windmill; the man
explained to his fellow-men the me-
chanism of the universe.
While making these researches, ha
was accustomed to spend night after
night in a lofty tower, gazing at the
heavenly bodies through a telescope,
his mind was lifted far above the
things of this world. He may be
said, indeed, to have spent the great-
er part of his life in worlds that lie
thousands and millions of miles away;
for where the thoughts and the heart
are, there is our true existence.
Did you never hear the story of
Newton and his little dog, Diamond!
One day, when he was fifty years old,
and had been hard at wark more
than twenty years studying the theory
of light, he went out of his chamber,
leaving his little dog asleep before
the fire. On the table lay a heap of
manuscript papers containing all the
discoveries which Newton had made
during those twenty years. When
his master was gone, up rose little
Diamond, jumped upon the table,
and over threw the lighted candle.
The papers immediately caught fire.
Just as the destruction was complet-
ed, Newton opened the chamber door
and preceived that the labors of twen-
ty yeais were reduced to a heap of
ashes. There stood little Diamond,
the author of all the mischief. Al-
most any other man would have sen-
tenced the dog to immediate death.
But Newton patted him on the head
with his usual kindness, although
grief was at his heart.
"0 Diamond, Diamond," he ex-
claimed he, "thou little knowest the
mischief thou hast done!"
This incident affected his health and
spirits for some time afterwards;
but, from his conduct toward the
little dog, you may judge what was
the sweetness of his temper.
Newton lived to be a very old man,
and acquired great renown. He was
made a member of Parliament and
received the honor of kimjhthood.
But he cared little for earthly fame
and honors, and felt no pride in the
vastness of his knowledge. All that
he had learned only made him feel
how little he knew in comparison to
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what remained to be known.
"I seem to myself like a child,"
he said, "playing on the seashore and
picking up here and there a curious
shell or a piety pebble, while the
boundless ocean of truth lies undis-
covered before me."
At last, in 1727, when he "was four-
score and five years old, Sir Isaac
Newton died — or, rather, he ceased
to live on earth. We may be per-
mitted to believe that he is still search-
ing out the infinite wisdom and good-
ness of the Creator as earnestly as
while his spirit animated a mortal
body. He has left a fame behind
him which will be as endurable as if
his name were written in letters of
light formed the stars on the mid-
night skv.
Li'3'Hcriiional Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
Mr. J. W. Clore's visit at the
School was noted in last week's issue
of The UPLIFT. When he arrived
at home he sent back to the school
a much needed and appreciated
gift.
A medicine chest for holding rem-
edies for stumped toes, cut hands and
scratched faces will soon make its
way to the office where the aforesaid
injured boys take their complaint
and ask for cures.
Malcolm Holman. Charles Mayo.
Everett Goodrich and Ralph Poter-
field rejoiced last Wednesday. To
some the visit of, their parents was
asurprise; others expected and were
looking for them.
The lumber, brick and other ma-
! terial that is needed in construct-
ing the new cottage, has arrived.
This material is being rapidly un-
loaded so the construction of the cot-
tage will not be delayed.
The digging of our well, by Mr.
Ankers, has been delayed because
of ruck obstruction. Mr. Ankers says
this delay will soon be remedied,
however] and work will go on faster
than ever. His depth at the present
is 70 ft.
"Practise makes perfect." This
adage sure holds out in the case of
our ball phi vers. Every evening two
boys chose' and have a game of
practise. Each boy does his best and
of course when one does his best he
can go his last trial a little better
and so on until we have a very near-
ly unconquerable nine.
Rev. T. X. Lawrence, minister
of Concord, preached to the boys
Sunday, May the 21st. This was
the third Sunday of the month — the
time for the Charlotte minister to
come, but none arrived due to some
unknown condition. Rev. Lawrence
read the story of David and Goliath
from the Bible and then told the boys
of some of the present day Goliaths
they will have to contend with and
and struggle with.
Preston Holbrooks. of Greensboro,
was a visitor at the school Saturday.
When he was told of the societies, and
their need of money, he promptly
and generously donated three dollars '
to the Cone Literary Society. This
money will, in all probability, be
used in subscribing to some useful
magazine or paper which will in-
crease the knowledge of the society,
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individually and as a body. Mr. Hol-
broolts formerly was a boy here and
he realized the needs and value of
the society. He was dressed in the
attire of a successful citizen.
Dr. W. H. Slingerland, Specia1
Agent of the Department of Child-
helping. Russell Sage Foundation,
New York City, visited the School
Thursday, the 18th. He was on a
visiting tour of schools similar to
the Jackson Training School and
had already viewed sixty of them.
Dr. Slingerland answered a question
which had long confronted the stu-
dents. The question was this:
"What do the plain citizens think of
schools of the Jackson Training
School sort? Dr. Slingerland said
that when these schools were first
established most people thought of
them as prisons for delinquent boys.
"Now," said Dr. Slingerland. "the
thought has arisen that these schools
are just special schools for special
boys under special conditions." Dr.
Slingerland 's talk was enjoyed by all
hearers.
ANOTHER VICTO&Y .
Roughly estimated, 230 yelling
and cheering spectators saw the J.
T. S. again wallop Cabarrus Mills
by a score of r> to 1. This gave the
J. T. S. credit for two victories out
of three games played with Cabarrus
Mills.
The game commenced with J. T.
S. in the field, Holman pitching and
Cook catching. Faucette command-
ed the first station pending the arri-
val of Hobby. The visitors could-
n't connect up with Holman's puz-
zling delivery and were forced to
take the field' scoreless. J. T. S.
players were unable to do anything:
with Troutman's heaving also, so
they ended the first session similar-
to the visitors.
In the first half of the second
frame Holman again retired the side-
without allowing them to gallop
over the platter with a single tally.
But when J. T. S. used the warelub
the second time she became acquain-
ted with the platter to the tune of
one run. Holman clouted a single
and by stratagem trotted over the
marking point. Fortune ■ again
frowned on Cabarrus in the next in-
ning, for she failed to tie the score.
But to the J. T. S. fans it must have
seemed that Fortune's grin extended
from ear to ear. Three more runs
were placed on the J. T. S. side of
the scoreboard!
For the next four frames neither
side crossed the platter, though
both sides clouted the pill. Wil-
liams, a sure center fielder, traveled
a large portion of center field just
in time to snatch a fly from the war-
club of a Cabarrus Warrier. It was
in the third inning when the Cabar-
rus Mills manager dcrricked the
pitcher, Troutinan, and because of
lack of players, sent him to the mid-
dle pasture, taking the place of a
kid of fourteen birthdays. Simpson
took charge of the mound. In the-
eighth session Holman lost his
chance of pitching a shutout game
when one of the Cabarrus Millers
scored. But one run was all the
visitors could claim and when the
last out was called on them, the J.
T. S. still lead by the aforesaid score.
Russell was clearly the leading slug-
ger, getting a trio of hits in four
trips to the bat. Troutman headed
the visitor's clouting list, getting two
bingles in four chances. Evans and
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Honoycutt, both I'or the .1. T. S.,
smashed out two baggers, Honey-
cutt made two hits in font- trips to
the bat and Evans copped two hits
in three trips.
Score by innings:
R. fl. K.
Cabarrus Mills 000 000 010— 1 7 9
J. T. S. 013 000 01x— 5 13 4
Batteries: Troutmau, Simpson and
\\>st; Bolman and Cook.
BIG DEVELOPMENT
$ ! That it may continue adequately to
'"Serve the South." Southern Rail-
way System has recently plated or-
ders for new equipment consisting of
20 locomotives, 5.390 freight cars of
steel construction. 500 automobile
cars of steel construction, 100 steel
passenger cars, and 250 cabooses cars'
of steel underframe construction.
The magnitude of the order can
better be appreciated when it is rea-
lized that if it were possible to place
the freight ear equipment in one train
it would be 47 miles from the engine
to the caboose. If broken up into
trains of an average length, it would
comprise 250 freight trains, or one
train every 2i miles from Washing-
ton to Atlanta.
The new passenger ears, if coupl-
ed into one train, would be a mile
and a half in length from the engine
to the rear coach, and represent 20
trains of the average length. The
coaches are of the latest design and
are of all steel construction.
In placing this large order for
new equipment, which will be de-
livered in time for the fall business,
the Southern has demonstrated its
faith in the return of business pros-
perity in the South and this will
place the Southern in position to
handle with safety and dispatch this
increased business.
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CONCORD, N. C., JUNE 3, 1922
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WE DETERMINE OUR
CONDITION.
A contractor a.sked a young employee once to es-
timate the probable cost of a house that he proposed
building. After careful emulation he "P1^ 1
think we can afford to build that house for §3,000.
"Very well," said the employer, "you., go ahead
with the house and you may have., the profit you
make. " Now the young man was soon to be mar-
ried aid he thought he might increase his profit by
using inferior cement, poor shingles, and cheap lum-
ber and by covering up all defects by., putty and
paint. In this way he added., considerable to has
gains. By and by the wedding day came, and ctaumg
his wedding presents he found one from his employ-
er-the deed to the house he had just finished, ine
bride was delighted, but John did not seem so en-
thusiastic. After their honeymoon, however, they
moved into the house. At first all went well. But
in the course of a few months the found, ions be-
gan to settle; great cracks appeared in the walls
and ceilings; the roof began to leak. He had built
Ms own house, and so he could not complain In
"outh we are building the characters that will be
ours through life. If we put in poor mate n* xrt
ten motives, warped ideas, vicious hVbits, or even
ill second grade qualities, we must remember that
■we cannot escape from the ultimate consequences.
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Ffee Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
Tha Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Eatered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
JUNE.
Clad in the glorious robes of royalty,
Bordered with verdure, fringed with nodding ferns,
And gemmed with starry blossoms, June returns,
"While all the misty batteries of the sky |"" ' ,
With peal on peal of thunderous revelry
Salute her coronation. Fiercely burns
The lightning's crimson fire; the tempest yearns s -;
Its soverign to proclaim right loyally. ' "■
In proud review, down from their cloudy camp,
Poured the massed squadrons of the rain, with tramp
And clash of arms. Then swells the melody
Of bird-notes in a joyous symphony.
The sun breaks forth, June reigns, and eaSrth the while
"Worships the radiant beauty of her smile.
—Willis Boyd Allen
STATE-AID TO FARMERS.
In certain quarters a new idea is being earnestly advocated by certain
propagandists. Accepting' as a fact that KM) thousand families live in other
people's houses in towns and cities and that 117 thousand are cultivating.
ether people's hinds, these propagandists are advocating state-aid to those
to purchase on easy terms their homes and their farm lands. There is
some merit in the proposition, if we are to accept at full value the reports
ciming out frcra Denmark, Australia. Ireland, England. Scotland and even
California in our own country.
Facts will pretty well sustain one's observation that there are hundreds
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of families in towns and country that have not the remotest desire lu own
their own homes. These are, of course., nol the very best people. One
of the first indications of a good citizen is his absorbing- desire, whether ho
ever succeeds or not, is to own his home. Whenever a man owns his home,
or wauls in own his home, he becomes vitally interested and exercises a
healthy concern in all questions that alTeci the community of which he anil
his family arc a part. Home-ownership and farm-ownership should be en-
couraged. . .
The plan is for tlie slat.- to lend ils credit, as is being done in the matter
of building school houses, in issuing bonds at a low rate of interest ami
then lend the money to individuals at a slightly higher rate, but lower than
the legal rate, for the purpose of purchasing homes and farms; ft i,s apart
ot the contract, however, in the scheme that the borrower agrees and binds
himself to pay the annual interest and one-thirtieth of the loan every year.
The only difference in this and that which prevails in the matter of school-
house building, the act recently having been declared by the North Carolina
Supreme Court as constitutional, is that iii this the state deals with an in-
dividual and in the former the. state deals with a corporation or a county
unit. ■ _ . ■
The advocates of this. proposition claim that what is usually spent in fili-
form of rents will meet the annual expense, and at the end of thirty years
the people will have something to show for what they have paid out in the
way of rents and part of the crops.
The idea is practically worked out in the Farm-Loan Banks which the
national government is conducting. 'The benefits of this system the advo-
cates desire to extend to a larger number, by having the state finance the
matter by way of lending its credit. The scheme is gaining ground and
some able advocates; and it is entirely possible and probable, that in a few
years some statesman, wishing to attract the attention of the dear people to
his progressive spirit and his humanitarian impulses, will mount this pro-
gramme and ride it through to success. Stranger tilings have happened.
We have just started. For ages the' idea of the State's function was to
check and prevent things — the prevailing idea is now to urge them on ami
give a lift.
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SUPERINTENDENT POU'S REPORT.
Elsewhere THE UPLIFT carries a late report by George R. Pou of arairs
relative to the State Penitentiary. Though it represents a series of acts
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which threw- men ami women into prison, there is something about it that
makes entertaining reading— not because of the crime and the criminal,
but the information it gives regarding the activity of the courts, a picture
of the lame places in society, what laws arc must frequently violated, and
last but not least the very sonsiblciobservations made by Mr. Pou.
For a great state like North Carolina the entrance of 3S0 prisoners dur-
ing the past twelve months - an average of three, to the county, and one a
day — does not seem large; but when we remember that this report does not
include the scores and scores that each county find guilty but do not go to
the penitentiary to receive their punishment, the 'picture is such as to cause
a serious consideration. That the population of the penitentiary has increas-
ed from about seven hundred to nearly eleven hundred, is occasion for
serious study of the question of law-observance in North Carolina.
The average person, also, would think that the majority of law violators
were of the colored race. The statistics for the past year disprove that
view. Of the 380 admitted to the Raleigh prison, during the year 21(1 were
white, and 1(34 were colored. Taking into consideration the relative num-
ber of each race, the percentage of colored folks placed in the penitentiary
during the past twelve months is far ahead of that of the white; but this is
nothing to be proud of.
The most startling thing about the exhibit is the large number of the
population of the state prison that have had educational advantages. Was
there something lacking? This is a vital question that should concern the
leaders. It would have added to the interest of Mr. Pou's statement if he
could have supplied the information as to how many of his prisoners had
taken interest in Sunday Schools or had any active church affiliations.
What Mr. Pou says about the criminal insane is gospel truth. The in-
timation is that Gov. Morrison may suggest some humane legislation, bear-
ing on this matter.
*******
"IGNORANCE IS DEATH."
A large audience attended the closing exercises of the Concord High
Scoool. The entire programme was entertainingly carried out. Supt. A.
S. Webb seemed happy in the close of what is regarded a very successful
year. The graduating class numbered thirty-three. In the class were
seventeen girls and sixteen boys. This looks good; for in former years too
many boys, stung with the' clerkship-bee, dropped out before reaching
graduation from the High School department.
Perhaps never before in the history of the school has an abler address been
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delivered than the address of Hon. W. R.Webb, of Bellbuckle, Tenn. A
most engaging manner is his; his message profound, full of wisdom; deep
thinker, superb scholar, His deliberate, clear delivery was oratory itself.
There was magnetism in every word the great scholar used, so much so that
a- crowd of foolish, silly girls and dudish boys in the rear soon became quiet
and joined in the enjoyment of the work of this master.
Mr. Webb, the famous teacher of Tennessee, and for a short time a Unit-
ed States Senator, filling out an unexpired term, is a native of North Caro-
lina, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and did a brave sol-
dier's part in the 60s. In emphasizing culture, Christain' living and acting, a.
continnous growth, with ideas and ideals, the charming and eloquent speaker
and teacher proved beyond doubt to a vast audience that faced him in the
school auditorium, Tuesday evening last, that Ignorance Is Death.
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COMPLETE DIVOECE.
The elimination of the Bible from the public schools is perhaps about
complete. There may be and there may not be any explanation in this of
the statement of Supt. George Pou. of the State Penitentiary, who shows
how many of the convicts have reached the seventh grade and even beyond.
But it is a fact that the Bible plays but little part in the education of the
vast majority of our children. The other night, at the graduating ex-
cricesofa large and interesting class of boys and girls, who had completed
the course in a High School, not even the suggestion of a simple prayer
appeared on the programme. It was immaterial whether there was Divine
care and direction of the efforts of the young engaged in the exercise, nut
even asking for guidance for the judges, giving them wisdom to make just
decisions in matters that were forever to be of some concern to the partici-
pants.
Man feels his keeping; he wants no assistance; he depends on his own
powers and wisdom. Bnt it was a proof anyway, that the constitutional ,
separation of the church and state in this instance is absolute — a complete .
divorce. I
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Public selfishness and living-to-one-self spirit in the land would become
intolerable and make one have, after all, a poor estimate of the good of man ,
spending just afsw years on this earth and then ''cut down," except forthe "
occasianal manifestations of broad thoughtfulness for and "nterest in those, r
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who are to com.- after us. Aa example of this unselfishness, which make us
think more of I he high purposes of this life and give a sustaining hope,
was the completion of the magnificent gift-of Mr. J. A. Odell, of Greens-
boro, in the form of a much needed building at the Greensboro College for
Women. It is a memorial to his sainted wife, but it is a living contribution
to the aid of worthy women for years to come. Here's where money does its
loudest and best service.
They arc tearing down the old court-house in Greensboro, to make room
for a seventeen story building for which the Jefferson Life Insurance Com-
pany recently let a contract. The building was erected in 1857. When the
cornov-stone was placed, in keeping with the practices of those days, a
quart, bottle of corn liquor wis placed in the chest. The whole of Greens-
boro, it appears, is terribly excited and watching for the time when the
corner-stone is reached. What happens then is very problematical. What
a change has come upon this country and its people and their customs.
It is safe to say that a do/en people in all of Guilford would never consent to
introducing intoa cornor-stone of any kind of a building to-day a whole
quart of pure corn liquor. They couldn't if they would; and they wouldn't
if they could.
Gov. Cam Morrison was about to be written down as the ''Good-Roads
Governor" of North Carolina. He himself has thrown a monkey-wrench
into that arrangement of historical events. Hear him:
''Some people say that'I want to be known as the 'Good Roads
Governor of North Carolina.' This is not true. My ambition is to be
known — at least for a while — in the traditions of North Carolina as
the 'Health Governor.' Good roads are very important, and I hope
to see ours the finest system of highways to lie found in the Republic;
but good roads are not of any account to sick or dead folks. It is
much more important to have a healthy population."
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It seems to be a real pleasure for some people to share their possessions
with their friends— it is easy for them to be generous. As we write this
we have in mind a certain person who each year sends a check for a con-
siderable sum to the Training School. This friend of ours has the spirit of
the ideal giver; for in making his gifts he has no thought of recompense
nor is he seeking the admiration of the public, but he gives because ho
forgets to hoard and has learned to live. We refer to none other than Mr.
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Parks of the Parks Belk Co. whom we wish to thank openly for the liberal
check which he sent to us recently.
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In a number of counties of the state, we note that the County Superinten-
dents have made engagement for teachers for their several schools for tin;
coining year. This method will save the necessity of picking up at the last
moment, alleged teachers in the persons of grocery clerks, who actually
don't know the name of the Governor of North Carolina, to lead the educa-
tional work in some of the districts.
********
"I expect to live to see a woman Governor of North Carolina and there ait*
many who would do a better job of it than some men have" — Josephus
Daniels in a speech at Carolina (Maxton) Commencement. Why, of course!
Every county has a woman or two big enough and smart enough to till that
great office. Nominations are in order.
********
Tom Lacy, son of State Treasurer Lacy, won the essayist medal at David-
son College. My. how time flies! Just a few years ago, it seems, Tom Lacy
-was playing around on the floor of the Treasury office with blocks and
picture books; and. now. modestly walking off with a prize that represents
a genuine achievment.
****** * *
They are re-locating Meredith College, the Baptist- school for girls. Hav-
ing purchased a site at Method, out a few miles from Raleigh, a wa^ eon-
fesses that there is no design to make it a Method— ist institution. Rut turn-
ing down Greensboro's offer near unto $]aO,OOO.OU, shows how the Baptist
cling to Raleigh.
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That 87-year old Scotchman in Robeson county, who had himself examined i
and then went up thousands of feet into the air, had a very lively curoisity
to know how it feels to ride in a Hying machine. The gay snort declared!
after landing that it was one of the greatest enjoyments of his life.
********
There is much worthwhile to think of in the interesting article that Prof.
C. C. Zimmerman contributes in this issue of THE UPLIFT. He seems
justified in declaring that there are ''Only two kinds of deaths excisable'' !
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which is the title of the article.
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The next time the dictionary is revised, it would be probably just as well
to eliminate the word, '"modesty." t
THE DOG AND THE WOLF
A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to
meet a House-dog who was passing by. "Ah, cousin," said die Dog,
"I knew how it would be; your irregular life will soon be the ruin
of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food
regularly given to you?"
"I would have no objection," said the wolf, "if I could get a
place. "
"I will easily arrange that for yon," said the Dog; "come with
me to my master and you shall share my work."
So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On
the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the
Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that had
come about.
"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place where
tlie collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it chafes a bit,
but one soon gets used to it."
"Is that all?" said the Wolf. "Then gooddjye to you, Master
Dog."
"BETTER STARVE FREE THAN BE A FAT SLAVE."
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CAPTAIN SALLY THOMPKINS.
i By H. E. Zimmerman
Captain Sally Thompkins was bora in Virginia. Her father died several
years before the war, when the woman of the family moved up to Richmond,
taking with them their retinue of servants. For awhile the young woman
buised herself with church work ami in nursing the sick. Then came the war.
The terrible days of lighting around Richmond in 1So2 showed that the city
could not adequately. care for the thou-
sands of wounded men streaming in
from the battlefields. The city was
already chocked with refugees from the
outlying country. The army hospitals
were crowded to the doors. There
seemed no end to the stragglirg am-
bulance trains. It was Miss Thomp-
kins who saw most clearly the need
of private hospitals. She got a house
and went to work. The house be-
longed to Judge Robertson of the Su-
preme Court of Virginia, who placed
it at her disposal for as long a time
as she might need it. Using her well
trained servants as attendants, Miss
Thompkins opened the Robertson Hos-
pital, and from then till the end of
the war devoted herself, her time ami
her private fortune to its mainten-
ance. "Miss Sally," as the soldiers
called her, was a beloved figure in
the quiet wards. Her patients- wor-
shipped her. Other private hospitals
started, and many did good service,
but after awhile abuses crept in. Pa-
tients were sometimes overcharged
and sometimes neglected. Finally
Gen. Lee ordered that every hospital
not under the command of a commis-
sioned officer should be closed. The
first Miss Sally knew of this order
was when the ambulance drew up be-
bore her door to remove her patients.
She met the crisis with character-
istic decision. Leaving orders that not
a man should be moved until she re-
/
turned she hurried across the city and
laid her case before the president.
Mr. Davis shook his head. Of course
he knew of the good work she had
been doing and he would like to help
her, but there was the order. ""Why
not commission me?" asked Miss
Sally. That certainly was one way
out. Mr. Davis approved her sugges-
tion and she got her commission at
once.
When the new captain returned to
the hospital, she found the work of
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removing the wounded already begun, were low end the appetites of the
She showed her commission, the men convalescents voracious. Every penny
were carried back into the house and of the new income went for feeding
the ambulance drove away. Accom- the inmates of Robertson Hospital,
panying the commission was a salary. , which remained open till the end of
That was a godsend, for her funds the war.
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy,
little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temp-
tations— these are the silent threads of gold which when woven together,
gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life thtft God approves. — F. W.
Parrar.
DOING THE BEST WE CAN.
A few days ago our committee on Sunday school lessons was extended an
invitation to visit in a body the H. J. Heinz factory in Pittsburgh. The
invitation was accepted. The heads of the plaat were very cordial. It was
not my first visit there, but I went with greater eagerness than a stranger,
for I knew about what was in store for us. After luncheon we gathered in
the auditorium to listen to a state-
ment of the phenomenal growth of
the plant and of the character of the
work it is doing. Instantly our eyes
were caught by a mot'.o in large let-
ters on the arch over the platform.
A number of us simultaneously took
out our notebooks and copied it.
This is how it runs, "Do the best
you can, where you are. with what
you have, today." To those of us
who know the circumstances, it is a
brief but accurate biography of Mr.
Heinz. It may also be the rule un-
der which all of us shall doourwork.
To do our work. To do anything
less than what we can is notsuccsss.
To sit down and lament the unfavor-
able circumstances in which we are
placed in which we are, placed and
to wish to be in another's shoes is
the strright road to failure. To say
we have no talents and therefore can
do nothing is cowardly and leads to
defeat. To defer till tomorrow what
we should do today and to wait for
other times and seasons is bound to
spell failure. Read that motto again
and perhaps it will put into you a
measure both of contentment and of
aspiration. — Selected.
The world is full of roses,
The roses are filled with dew;
And the dew is full of heavenly love
Which drips for me and you.
—J. Whitcomb Riley.
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ARE CHURCH PAPERS READ?
The Dearborn Independent
In a discussion of the results of an multiplicity of religious publications,
the California Christian Advocate questions the benefit to the church of so
many as are at present struggling for existence. The same multiplicity ex-
ists in the secular field, and for the same reason, but the elimination of su-
perfluous literature is not so simple as it is with the religious bodies.
One great trouble is that so many it from a sense of duty has no use for
inferior and useless offerings are put
on both markets. Individuals as-
pire to teach the world who them-
selves lack the equipment either to
instruct or to interest.
The editor of a church paper
should be of the brightest mentality,
thoroughly educated, with an ability
to compel attention, and with aknow-
ledge of the world few of the stud-
ents of theology possess. Not only
should he be fitted for his work, but
he must be fitted to it. The aptitude,
the natural talent, is not to be gain-
ed, but thorough education gives a-
bility so to clothe his ideas as to
present them as polished jewels to
an eager clientele. That clientele
must be won by merit.
No paper has the right to claim
support merely on the ground of
loyalty on the part of sect or party or
class it claims to represent. It may
achieve a financial support that will
keep it alive, but the man who takes worth while.
it usually, and its printed contents is
not known to him. He subscribes
justas he would give to a beggar — to
get rid of the suppliant in the easiest
way.
The pastor who suggests from the
pulpit the need of the general sup-
port of the church paper should lie
more careful than he is in general to
avoid aid to the unworthy. No pas-
tor should except a commission as an
agent for private enterprise. He is
paid to do a certain work for his
church. If he knows or believes a
publication to be of value, there can
be no criticism if he says so, pub-
licly or privately, but there his eff
orts should cease.
Two propositions made by the
Advocate are not to be questioned:
the multiplication of papers does not
increase the number of readers, and
the expence is a waste and a drain
on the sources of supply to those
Believe ine when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after Ufa
with a usury of profit beyond your most san3uin8 dreams, and that wasto
of it will make you dwindle jjike in intellectual and moral statue beyond.
your darkest reckoning. — Gladstone.
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THE CHANGE
By Dr TV.
ZMin-li oE the evil of this age grows o
people remained among their kinsmen
with a moral restraint that they lose
multiplicity of occupations make reside
oils. Immigration and emigration
have (hanged the habitation of man-
kind. Mankind is, therefore one in
interest; and the gospel is right that
says: "The field is the world."
The state is no larger than a county
was a hundred years ago. The gospel
in that day dealt with the individual
and the family; now it deals with the
community and the world. In those
"good old days" family life Ojnd fam-
ily character counted in religion as
well as business and politics; but
those days cannot return. They
passed away with the passing of the
muzzle loader and the tallow candle.
People take more risk in the business
fnd in the social circle where they
are unknown; and that accounts for
the multiplication of crime and lust.
This new order has created a de-
mand for a new application of the
gospel on a larger scale. It is not
enough, now, to make a good family:
it must be a good community to pro-
tect the individual. It is not enough
for the individual to keep the Sabbath
the Sabbath itself must be kept holy:
and the community must be kept
virtuous for the safety of the individ-
ual. When families lived far apart,
each family could have its own pig-
pen; but when the community grows
into a city no family can have a pig-
pen. The question then becomes a
community question. The individual
n.crges into the community. All
sanitary laws grow out of this eoni-
W. Staley
tut of peripatetic population. When
and acquaintances it surrounded them
among strangers. Transportation and
nee ajul birthplace no longer cotermin-
munity relation. This new relation
grows larger all the time. The gos-
pel for the whole world grows as an
obligation upon the church. The
time is coming when no nation can
lje safe till all nations are safe. The
urge for world-peace grows out of this
necessity. The missionary program
is not an ideal of enthusiasm; it is a
huge obligation for protection of
Christianity as well as the salvation
of mankind. What is called the so-
cial gospel is simply the application
of the gospel on a larger scale. This
of coarse, does not neglect the indi-
vidual, but blesses the individual in
countless ways. Business is no longer
an individual enterprise, but a corpo-
rate enterprise, which is simply legal
co-operation. As the world comes
closer together, this is a necessity.
Democracy is nothing more nor less
than monarchy expanded into the rule
by the people instead of by one man.
Individual rulership is dead; individ-
ual religion no longer covers the
ground; though the individual spirit-
ual power is greater as it becomes a
factor in community religion. One
steel rail does not make a rail-road,
but one steel rail out of place in the
track may wreck a train. The single
rail becomes more important as it
joins its brother-rail in the hundred
mile track. Individual religion be-
comes mighty linked up with commu-
nity temperance, honesty, virtue and
social purity. *
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N. C.
POPULATION.
News and Observer.
Murder is the most widely practised and the most generally punish-
ed felony in North Carolina, according to a census of the population of
the State Prison for the year ending May .">, 1922. Of the 380 men and
women admitted to the prison during the twelve months period, 94
were committed for murder on sentences ranging from two years to life
tiire.
Larceny and house breaking take
second and third places in the roster
of crimes for which men are sent to
prison, with highway robbery, rape,
assault with deadly weapon, thief of
antomobiles, burglary and violation
of the liquor law sfollowing in the
order named, with a scattering of
other crimes down to the one man
who was committed for wrecking a
bank, and two for embezzlement.
During the year the prison popu-
lation registered a net gain of 272
prisoners over discharges, paroles
and pardons. The total population on
May 5 was 1,052, and since the pri-
son was established in 1873, forty-
nine years ago, 17,900 men and wo-'
men haved passed through its doors.
The gain in population has been
slight from year to year until this
past twelve months.
Last Tuesday Superintendent
George Ross Pou issued to each
member of the Citizens Committee
of One Hundred, named by the State
Welfare Confluence to study prison
condition and suggest remedial leg-
islation, passports that will take
them into every prison and prison
camp in the State. Actual conditions
ean be learned in that manner, and
-Mr. Pou hopes that out of it may
come some plan for better prison
management.
The general knowlegeof the aver-
age citizen of the State about the
place where North Carolina punishes
its men and women convicted of
felony is usually vague. The prison
is to most a place to which a man
is sent if he is over taken in wrong-
doing serious enough to warrent a
sentence of two yearsor more. What
comes of him after that, nobody
knows exactly, and not a great many
people have been seriously concern-
ed about It.
Three classes of work are avail-
able for the prisoner when the judge
sentences him to years at hard
labor." The prison can either build
roads, it can farm, or it can engage its
forces in nining. Laws and customs
prohibit competition with any skill-
ed aritzan. Most of the prisoners in
the State are either at work on high-
way construction, or are employed
at the State Prison farms.
Last year the prison took in 380
men and women convicted as fol-
lows: murder, 94; grand larency, Ii9;
housebreaking, 07; highway robbery,
19; rape, 15; assault, 14; theft of auto-
mobiles, 14; forgery, 12; burgalry,
12; prohibition laws, 11; false pre-
tense, 0; bigamy, 4; kidnapping ab-
duction, 4; arson, 3; conspiracy, 3;
secret assault, 3; embezzlement, 2.
The remainder are for a miscellany
of crimes.
Two hundred and sixteen of the
380 were white men, and 104 ncgroos.
The average age of the prisoners
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admitted is 2S and the average sen-
tence is 7 years. Of the 3S0 prison-
ers, 95 are illiterate., 23U have educa-
tion reaching as high as the seventh
grade; 75 are high school or college
j trained. Two-thirds of them are*
physically lit lor road work.
The physically fit are sent out to
prison camps. The less able bodi-
ed are sent to the Prison Farm four
miles west of Raleigh; the disabled,
totally or partially, arc kept atthe
central prison here. The negro male
population of the prison is 543; white.
380; females, white 11 and black, 33;
criminul insane, (!."). In the Central
Prison are kept 169 men and women,
black and white.
This is the reaction of Superinten-
dent Pou to the appointment of the
Citizens' Committee:
'What do I think of the appoint-
ment of the Citizens Committee for
thestudy of prisons? Fine! Iftheydo
notallow fanaticsand sentimentalists
to sway them. They must not heed
the fellow who believes a prisoner
is no longer a human being — those
whom we sometimes call hard-boiled;
this elass believe a prisoner is not
entiteled to any consideration but
should lie cuffed and banged about
until his very soul and spirit is
broken,
"Then the opposite elass — fanatics
andsentmentalists — they believe pri-
soners should be rolled in white, ask-
ed if they will work and be fed on
ice cream and chicken three times a
day.
I do not know which of the
above class of people do more harm.
Then comes the middle class, those
v ho believe a prison is a prison, not
a Sunday School Conference. They
believe in providing good clothes,
good food, good quarters, proper
medical attention, treated humanly
and worked as in theintentof the law.
I hope 1 belong to the hitter, elass.
' Show me a prisoner in the State's
Prison who is dissatisfied with the
treatment accorded him and 1 will
show you a prisoner who hasnotper-
formed his duty.
'Relative to our support I cannot
understand why it is deemed proper
for us to compete with the laborer
anil the farmer and not with the
manufacturer. There is a class. of
prisoners who are unlit for manual
labor who could be utilized in some
industry.
"The Criminal Insane Department
of the State Prison should be abol-
ished. While [ have made some im-
provement since my incumbency the
State> of North Carolina is really
guilty of crime for its past and pres-
ent neglect of the Criminal Insane.
Why don't 1 remedy it? Because I
have neither the authority or tho
funds. Because a demented person
commits a crime is no reason why
the great State of North Carolina
should deprive him of all possible
chance of cure and proper treatment.-
Govenor Morrison realizes the ne-
cessity for placing the Criminal In-
sane where they can receive the
same attention given other unfortu-
nate Insane persons.
Is the State.Prison self-support-
ing? in a manner — yes but only by
rigid economy in every department
(as it should be) and partially by
deprivation of some things prison-
ers are really entitled to. The rec-
ords of the State's Prison disclose
that it has hardly supported itself
from it earnings for the past few
years. And now we have not a
fertile, easily cultivated farm to pro-
duce from.
"The majority of the farm we have
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near Raleigh is naturally poor laud.
A part of it is very susceptible to
proper fertilization and cultivation,
but the most of it is in a run down
gulley-washed condition and it will
be several years before it can show
a profit. So we cannot depend upon
our farm to assist us materially in
support of the prison. Candidly 1
do not believe we will do more than
make farm expenses.
Why we now have a population
of nearly eleven hundred while a
year ago we had nearer seven hun-
■ dred. About one-third of our popu-
lation are crippled or diseased and
are non-producers. About a year
ago we received $3.25 for prison
labor, today we receive S1.7."> per
day. A year ago we paid guards §50
per month, board and lodging; to-
day we pay them $-10, board and
lodging. The price of labor was
therefore necssarily cut practically
fifty per cent in order to hire them
out, while we were only able to re-
duce our guards pay t venty per
cent. One half our expense is for
guarding.
We had rough sledding the past
winter, Capt. Busbce, who has been
with the prison for thirty years, says
last winter was the most disastrous
he has seen with the prison from
the standpoint of bad weather and
no demand for labor. You know we
receive no money for our men when
it rains or it is too wet for work.
We begged contractors to take our
man but they would not do so. We
were only able to put cud. about half
the number available.
What do we raise on our farm?
Well I am cultivating live hundred
acres on old Caledonia in corn and
peas. The' yield of peas if we have
good seasons, will furnish us suffi-
cient quality to feed our men for one
year. We will have sufficient corn
to feed our teams, fatten our hogs
and grind a great deal into corn meal
for our prisoners. We have wheat,
oats, corn, peas, sweet and Irish po-
tatoes, a large truck patch includ-
ing fifty thousand cabbage plants at
our Camp Polk Farm. Pigs? Yes,
we have about four hundred head
and they are a sight worth seeing.
We also have one hundred acres in
long staple cotton and three hundred
'and fifty acres in short staple."
Whatever it msjy be called, we know that enthusiain warms our hearts
and Alls us with a thrill of happy purpose. If we are enthusiastic ?(bout
our class, about our schools, about our town, about our home, our farm,
our car — anything, indeed, to which we have a bond of ownership — we
must certainly have nothing within us that is mean or hampering, nothing
but which will be helpful, inspiring, uplifting. Whatever we are enthu-
siastic about that do we love and cherish. If it is our job, then our job
is a thing of glory, however, humble it may be. And doing our work, wheu
stimulated by the fire of enthusiasm, we will render service worth while —
Young Peoples' Weekly.
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VI
J V
JLjI
OF DEATHS EX-
CUSABLE.
By C. 0." Zimmerman.
A Factory is thought of as a place when' peaple pi'oduce finished goods
—shoes, bicycles, or gingham aprons. But North Carolina has 209,763
factories of another and no less important kind — places where raw goods
are produced. These are her 2t>9,7(>3 farms— raw goods factories.
For a long time after the begin-
ning of the factory system of produc-
tion, states allowed the factory own-
ers to produce the goods under the
most uncomfortable and unsanitary
conditions. But the last quarter
century has proved that unsanitary
factories and unsanitary working-
conditions endanger the lives and
the working capacity not only of the
wage earners but also of society as a
whole. The results is that today we
subject our factories to strict health
inspections and sanitary laws.
It is now time that progressive
Tarheel citizens should turn their
attention to the sanitary and health
conditions on the 269,763 farm • fac-
tories of the state — 72,594 of which
in this year of the Lord 1922 con-
tinue to dump their dish water, slop,
and house refuse from the kitchen
into the back yard.
If a hotel in North Carolina was
to serve a meal from an unscreened
kitchen the sheriff would close the
p'ace overnight. Yet 77,425 farm
mothers serve meales to 77,125 fami-
lies from an unscreened kitchen
three times a day— a total of 232,275
n;eals, not one of which is protected
from disease laden flies.
A common boast of the farmer is
tLathis occupation is the most health-
ful occupation in the world. Yet
in the last 10 years the death rates
in the cities of four states have
dropped below the rate for farm
people in those states.
In 19011 approximately 20 people
in each thousand died each year.
In 1921 the death rate was only
about 12 per thousand. But the
death rate of the city people has
declined twenty percent in those
two decades and that of the ceuntry
folks only three and a quarter per-
cent. Let the reader ask himself
this question; If farming is the
most healthful occupation in the
world, why are the city disease and
death rates declining faster than
those of the country?
It is because the city people have
made sanitary rules and regula-
tions. It is because the city people
use tooth brushes, bathtubs, and
typhoid vaccines, while country
people continue to use patent medi-
cines, castor oil, and kerosene rags.
The city people call on the doctor
or dentist; the country people wait
for the patent medicine vender to
call.
The people of this country spend
half billion dollars annually for
drills and medicines, more than
three hundred million of which goes
for patent medicines, Four fifths
of this money spent for patent medi-
cines is spent by country people.
Instead of calling the doctor the
country people turn to the bottle of
Soakems Penuria or Dowom's Tal-
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nacko.
The health of the city people has
improved because they have increas-
ed the consumption of health goods
and because they teach, preach and
practice preventative hygiene. Thir-
ty years ago there were less than 2-
700 drug items on the market. To-
day there are more than 45,000 each
of which aims to eradicate some de-
finite ailment of society.
The city doctor goes into the
school and eliminates the unfit by
making them tit. The city teacher,
an expert in her line, teaches sanita-
tion and hygene. The city sanitary
and health officer polices the disease
germs from the street. The city
boys are tit.
The country doctor is handicapp-
ed in his work by the antagonism of
the rural people. The country tea-
chers, most often an eighteen year
girl with no teaching experience,
does not ofter have either the prop-
ideals or the prestige that will tit
her to teach proper health practices.
Each farmer considers his home a
castle and will not listen to the ad-
vice of the rural health officer. The
farmer in his ignorance allows the
fly to tract from the privy to the well
and the butter dish. On the average,
the country children are not so fit as
the city children.
Only two kinds of deaths are ex-
cusable— those from oid age and
those from accidents, [n the last 20
years the people have begun to learn
that death from disease are inexecus-
able.
Where four died from typhoid
fever 20 years ago only one dies now.
The reductions in deaths from meas-
les has been three to one; scarlet
fever three to one; diphtheria
three to one; tuberculosis ten to six;
pneumonia three to two; yellow fever
has been eradicated, and small pox
and typhoid fever are beginning to
see their finish.
The country is the most healthful
environment in the world. The far-
mer possesses the sunshine, the air.
tlie growing grass, and the running
water. The city dweller has the
foul slum, the disease laden wind,
the paved street, and the pipe juice.
But the farmer closes his window
at night to keep out the pure' air.
He throws the slop from the poarch
and kills the grass in his yard. He.
places his house, barn, and privy at
a too convenient distance from the
well and invites the fly to bring in
disease germs through unscreened
( 1 oo r s a n.d w indo w s .
Shall we wonder that the city is
fast stealing from the country the
prestige of good health?
Shall we wonder that the farmer
is handicapped by sickness, disease,
and death. Shall we wonder that
tin' patent medicine man considers
the farm folkes his owu particular
game.
North Carolina has as her adviser
a first-rate public health expert, Dr..
W. S. Rankin. But Dr. Rankin can't
remake a rural civilization by him-
self. . He must have the help and
cooperation of the 270,000 farm fam-
ilies. He must have the help of
thousands of good health preachers
— the teachers, ministers of the gos-
pel, farm and home demonstration
agents, doctors, and county health
nurses.
And they are willing to help.
More than 3, 000 farm homes were
screened last year as a direct result
of the advice and urging of Mrs. Jane
S. McKimmon's 49 home demonstra-
tion girls. The community picture
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shows under the directions of Colo-
nel W. G. Crosby showed health films
and gave health lectures last year to
more than 450,000 farm people. Dur-
ing the same year puplic health of-
ficials under Dr. Rankin's guidance
! treated thousands of teeth and re-
moved thousands of tonsils for the
. rural .school children. The rural
' school teachers, where they have
I the proper training, are giving their
help. Through these agencies count-
less numbers of rural people have
| heen vaccinated for typhoid, small
j! pox, and diphtheria.
North Carolina has done a great
J ! work for her people, but she must
j ; do more. She must stop this continu-
','' al race suicide which comes through
i ignorance of sanitation. She must
! breed a race of people to run her
factories and till her idle soil.
Here is the progamm on which
she can do this work. Read it and
see if yon can help.
1. Put an active county health of-
ficer in every county of the state.
Where negroes live give them speci-
al officers — disease germs do not
draw the color line.
"2. Put at least one Home Demonst-
ration agent in every county to work
with the rural people.
8. Multiply by five the efficiency
of the open country and village
schools.
4. Coordinate these forces for a
continuous drive against diseases
and unsanitary practices.
If North Caroliua is great in the
future as she has been in the past,
she will be great because she rears
great people.
No people can be great unless
they possess strong and healthy
bodies. We cannot have a great
civilization unless we have a heatlhy
population.
"A short time ago there' /died Jnjthis ..country a woman who .was. known far
iad wide for her philanthropy. She had never had a great deal of money nor
a great deal of time, hut the world is a hetter place because of her generosity.
Someone who knew her well said this of her, 'It wasn't what she gave but the
way she save it. When she did you a; favor ,it was a pleasure for her to do it
When she gave a Christmas gift it was not only carefully chosen but it was
beautifully wrapped. Whatever she gave, she gdve magnificently.
"The teaching profession is primarily a giving profession If a teacher has
nothing to give or does not know how to give it, he is not ready a teacher at all
He may be a storehouse of valuable information or a theorist of parts but he
is not a teacher. If he cannot bridge the space between the pnpil and himself,
"••Trwiy'in'which he bridges this space is the measure of a teacher's suc-
cess in his profession. One sees, from time to time, teachers with sour faces
uiyieUling demeanor. These are the unwilling givers; the miser of the profes-
sion How does the successful teacher teach? Willmg ly; dynamicaUy; as f
hnoved it. He not only gives; he gives magnificently. "-Connecticut Schools
bulletin.
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SURVIVING CONFEDERATE VETERANS
OF BURKE COUNTY.
Mr. John ('. McDowell, a prominent citizen of Burke county and one who
esteems most highly these heroes of the War Between the States, has kindly
furnished the names of the survivors now living in Burke county. Mr. Mc-
Dowell reports 105, and adds that in the list there is only one surviving officer,
Captain L. A. Bristol.
MORGANTON: W. W. McGimsey, N. W. Allen, Joseph L. Allman, Charles
Bradshaw, L. A. Bristol, W. A. Brittain, Julius A. Brown, W. T. Oausby, J. M.
Chester, W. A. Clontz, B. Coffey, L. A. Crawley, A. N. Crawley, D. F. Denton,
W. T. Dula, H. C. Fisher, J. L. Fox, R. G. Gibbs, W. J. Gibbs, W. F. Hallybur-
ton, J. P. Hawkins, Daniel Hicks, George A. Holder, J. A. Houck, S. A. John-
son, I. I. Davis, W. A. Ross, N. T. Keaton, Edney McNeely, J. P. May, Joseph
Mull, Jr., Samuel M. Mull, Mark Poteet, J. A. Rector, J. S. Scott, S. B. Scott,
S. L. Settlemyre, John Shoup, Julius Smith, Daniel Smith, Willi?,m M. Sparks,
Leonard Whisenant, Richard WiUiams.
MORGANTON, R. F. D's: S. M. Asbury, Jackson Miller.
CONNELLY SPRINGS: Nathan L. Chapman, J. T. Brittain, D. A. Cook,
W. A. Hildebrand, Amos Huffman, W. L. Lowman, J. W. Parish, J. A. Perry,
W. P. Rhoney, S. W. Roper, W. A. Stanley, Louis Warlick.
GLEN ALPINE: John E. Arney, T. S. Bright, W. L. Carswell, G. M. London, j
J. L. Simpson, Joseph W. Simpson
GIBBS: Nathan Clark, Amos F, Alexander, W. H. England, J. J. Wise, Dan- I
iel Ramsey, B. B. Clark.
DREXEL; W. A.. Berry. D. C. Hudson.
TABLE ROCK: "William L. Allen, J. W. Jaynes, Theodore McGimsey,' J. B,
Williams. . . . . ,
ENOLA: William Benton, Ambrose Hudson, .. .
VALDESE: M. A. Holler, Jones M. McGalliard, Edney Powell, R. M. Powell, |
W. M. PowelL
HICKORY: Silas Berry, S. M. Wilkie, W. A. Wilson.
CHAMBERS: John Chapman.
HENNESSY: Ephriam Lane.
DOGWOOD: Joe C. Baird.
GILMER: John C. Coffey.
BURKEMONT: D. J. Dale.
EILDEBRAN: Leander P. Hildebrand.
WORTMAN: Peter Lail.
PERKINSVILLE: R. P. Laxton.
GAMEWELL STORE: C. H. Lewis.
ROLLINSs Malton Moses.
FONTA FLORAS J. P. Parks.
DYSARTSVILLE: T. P. Sa'tterwhite.
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BURKEtAlva Smith.
PARK HILL: Alexander Smith.
CHESTERFIELD: R. W. Sudderth, Peter Swink.
HARTLAND : J. W. Williams.
MARGARETTA: Stanhope Johnson, Hugh Howard.
The average young person loses enough time between the ages of twelve
dnd twenty to become the best informed citizens of his or her com-
munity if only the lost hours were put to use.
AITING FOR THE ARMADA
By Charles Kingsley
See those five talking earnestly, in the center of a ring which long's to-
overhere, and yet is too respectful to approach close. Those soft, long eyes,
and pointed chin you recognize already; they are Walter Raleigh's. The
fair young man in the liamecolord doublet, whose arm is round Raleigh's
neck, is Lord Sheffield; opposite them stands, by the side of Sir Richard.
Grenville, a man as stately even as oddly with.the huge gold chain about
he, — Lord Sheffield's uncle, the Lord his neck, waddles up, as if he had
Charles Howard of Effingham, Lord been born, and had lived ever since,
j High Admiral of England; next to in a gale of wind at sea. The upper
i him is his son-in-law, Sir Robert half of his sharp, dogged visage
. Southwell, captain of the Elizabeth seemed of brick-red leather, the low -
; Jones; but who is that short, sturdy, er of badger's fur; and as he claps
, plainly dressed man, who stands Drake on the back, and with broad
; with legs a little apart and hands be- Devon twang shouts, ''Be you a-com-
' hind his back, looking up with keen ing to drink your wine, Francis
'gray eyes into the face of --each— -Drake, or be you not? — Saving your
speaker? His cap is in his hands, presenee,.my lord," — the Lord High
so you can see the bullet head of Admiral only laughs, and bids Drake
crisp brown hair and the wrinkled go and drink, his wine; for John
forehead, as well as-the high cheek Hawkins, Admiral of the Port, is the
bones, the short, square face, the patriarch of Plymouth seamen, if
broad temples, the thick lips, which Drake be their hero, and says and
| are yet firm as granite. A coarse, does pretty much what he likes in
plebeian stamp of man, yet the whole any company on earth, not to men-
figure and attitude are that of bound- tion that to-day's prospect of an
S less determination, self-possession, Armageddon fight has shaken him
j energy; and when at last he speaks altogeather out of his usual crabbed
a few blunt words, all eyes are reserve, and make him overflow with
; turned respectfully upon him; for loquacious good humor, even to his
his name is Francis Drake. rival Drake.
A burly, grizzled elder, in greasy, So they push through the crowds
! sea-stained garments, contrasting wherein is many another man whom
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-one would gladly have spoken with
face to face on earth. Martin Frob-
isher and John Davis are sitting on
that bench, smoking- tobacco from
long silver pipes; and by them are
Fenton and "Withrington, who have
both tried to follow Drake's path
round the world, and failed, though
by no fault of their own. The man
who pledges them better luck next
time is George Fenner, know to
the seven Portugals," Leicester's
pet, and captain of the galleon which
Elizabeth bought of him. That short,
prim man in the huge yellow ruff,
with sharp chin, minute imperial,
and self-satisfied smile, is Richard
Hawkins, the Complete Seaman,
Admiral John's hereafter famous and
hapless son. The elder who is talk-
ing with him is his good uncle Wil-
liam, whose monument still stands.
■or should stand, in Depotford
Church; for Admiral John set it up
there but one year after this time,
and on it recorded how he was "A
worshiper of the true religion, an
■especial -benefactor of poor sailors,-.a
most just arbiter in most difficult
•causes, and of a singular faith, piety,
and prudence." That, and the fact
that he got creditably through some
sharp work at Porto Rico, is all I
know of Willian Hawkins; but if you
or 1, reader, can have as much, or
half as much, said of us when we
have to follow him, we shall have
no reason to complain.
There is John Drake, Sir Francis's
brother, ancestor of the present stock
of Drakes; and there is George, his
nephew, a man not overwise, who
has been round the world with Am-
yas; and there is Amyas himself,
talking to one who answers him with
fierce, curt sentences, — Captain
Barker, of Bristol, brother of the
hapless Andrew Barker wdio found
John Oxanham's guns, and owing
to a mutiny among his men perished
by the Spaniards in Honduras twelve
years ago. Barker is now captain
of the Victory, one of the queen's
best ships, and he has his accounts
to settle with the dons, as Amyas
has; so they are both growling to-
gether in a corner, wddle all the rest
are.as.. merry as the flies upon the
vine above their heads.
I AM.
By Swift Davis (A J. T. S. Pupil) .
lam your most valuable possession, yet you never give me a second
thought. I show you many pleasures, yet you never thank me, I cannot
be regained once I am lost, yet to an utmost degree you are careless with
me. You use me every day, yet I receive no salary from you. Because
of me you rejoice, sorrow, laugh, weep; sing or curse. You would rather
lose a fortune than me, yet men do
without me. If I leave you, you are
helpless, yet some men have never
had me but attain great heights of
success. I am guarded by you vig-
ilantly, yet unconsciously. I am
priceless, yet every one of you own
and are careless with me. Some
men use an imitation of me, but io
not profit by it. I show you many
others similar to me, yet you never
care to look at me unless I am hurt.
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You do not see me, yet you can sec Eye. Now that you know me go bade
me. By me men usually judge your over my assertions and see if they
character, for I do not deceive. are true. i,
Can you guess who I am? I am your :.-J
The birds are moulting. If man could only moult also — his mind once a
year its errors his heart once a year its useless passion! How fine we
should all look if every August the old plumage of our natures would
drop out and he blown away, and fresh quills take the vacant place! But
we have one set of feathers to last us through our threescore years staid ten —
one set of spotless feathers, which we are told to keep spotless
all our lives in a dirty world. If one gets broken, broken it stays; if one
gets blackened, nothing will cleanse it. No doubt we shall all fly home
at last, like a flock of pigeons that were once turned loose snow-white from
the sky and made to descend and fight one another and fight everything
else for a poor living amid soot and mire. If then the hand of the un-
seen Fancier is stretched forth to draw us in, how can he possibly smite
any of us, or cast us away, because we came back to him black and blue
with bruises and besmudged and bedraggled past all recognition? — James
Lane Allen.
What I Would Like To Do And Why I Would Like
To Do It When I Leave The Jackson Training School.
By Jacob Columbus Mead---4th Prize
1 am just a small hoy at the Jackson Training School; and I think that
every boy would like to do something when he leaves the school — and : f
think that every boy should do something.
It has been my desire to be a mechanic ever since I can remember; and
I am going to be one. Any boy who tries is always what he wants to be.
I am going home and show people what I can do.
If a boy tries there is always a go home and worry my mother for-
helping hand to aid him; and if a boy money— I mean to work for it and
tries to win he wins; but if a boy give it to her, not take it from her.
does not desire to be anything, he I can be doing something all the
need not expect to be anything. I time for there is machinery all over
am going to work and earn what I the world. I can help people and
can and be of use to people in that be doing myself good, all at the same
way. >• time. I mean to be a mechanic not
Why I would like to be a mecban- a piece of one. Look, if one of these
io. is because I like the trade, and I big machines gets broke I could
already know a little about it audi then fix it. There would be lots of
can learn more. That's what I am tilings I could do.
going to do; and I do not intend to Sometimes a boy gets into trouble,
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und people say that lie will never he
anything — they know not what they
say. Send him to this institution,
and when he returns home ask the
people what they think of him. This
place makes something out of a hoy.
This institution has done lots for me
and I sure do appreciate it.
Most peroidicals for women are edited by men. The majority of wo-
men's dressmakers are men. Music appeals most largely to women, but
it is composed largely by men. The membership of the church is largely
of women, but the world's greatest preachers are men. Why?
JAIKIE'S FLOWER GARDEN.
By S. R. Crockett
Once I wrote obout two little hoys who played togeher all through the heats
of the Dry Summer in a garden very beautiful and old. The tale told ho\: it
came to pass that one of the boys was lame, und also why they loved one an-
other so greatly.
From over seas there came lettersone, two, and three, asking to be told what
these twodid i the beautiful garden of Long Ago, what they played at, where
they went, and what the dry sumer gnarled trees green-mosed, that bore
little fruit, but made a glory of shade
yi the dog days.
Up among the branches Jiminy made
a platform, like those Jaikie read to
him about in abook of Inhian travel,
where the hunters waited for tigers
to come underneath them. Ever since
Jaikie became lame, he lived at the
manse and the minister let him read
all sorts of books if so he wished.
Jiminy eared little about books, but
Jakie looked upon each one of them
as a new gate to paradise.
Once iit who used always to do
what Jimmy bade him; but, after
Jaikie was hurt, it was quite different.
Jimmy now came to Jaikie and said,
"What shall we do to-day?" A. id
then he would wheel his friend in a
little carriage the village joiner made,
and afterwards cany himamong liie
orchard trees to the place Jaikie wan-
ted to go.
"Jiminy," said Jaikie, "the flow-
heats had to do with it all. Perhaps
it is a foolish thing to try to write
down in words that which was at once
so little and so dear. Yet, because
I love the garden and the boys, I must,
for my own pleasure, tell of then once
again,
his father's, which is the same thing,
It was Jiminy 's garden, or at least
or even better. For his father lived
in a gloomy study with severe books,
bound in divinity calf, all about him;
and was no more conscious of the ex-
istance of the beautiful garden than
if it had been the Desert of Sahara.
On the other hand, Jiminy never open
a book that summer except when he
could not help it, which was once a
<3ay, when his father instructed him
him in the Latin verb.
The old garden was cut into squares
by noble walks bordered by boxwood,
high like a hedge.
There was an orchard also, with old
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ers are bonnie in the plots, but they
are all prisoners. Let us make a
place wher they can grow as they
like." Perhaps he thought of himself
laid weak and lonely, when the green
world without was all a-growing and
a-blowing.
"Bring some of the flowers up to
this corner," said Jaikie, the lame
boy, and it was not long till Jiminy
brought them. The ground was baked
and ry, however, and soon they would
have withered, but that Jaikie issued
his commands, and Jiminy ran for
pails upon pails of water from the
little where now the water had stop-
ped flowing, and only slept in pools
with a little green scum over them.
"I can't carry water all night like
this," said Jiminy at last. "I sup-
pose we must give up this wild garden
here in the corner of the orchard."
"Xo," said Jaikie, rubbing his lame
ankle where it always hurt, "we must
not give it up, for it is our very own,
and I shall think about it to-night
between the clock-strikes." For
Jaikie used to awake and count the
hours when the pain was at the worst.
So in the little room next to Jim-
iny, Jaikie lay awake and hearkened
to the gentle breathing of his friend.
Jiminy always said when he went to
bed, "I'll keep awake to-night sure,
Jaikie, and talk to you." And Jaikie
only smiled a wan smile with a soul
in it, for he knew that as soon as Jim-
iny's drowsy head touched the pillow,
he would be in the dim and beautiful
country of Nod, leaving poor Jaikie
to rub the leg in which the pains ran
the next stroke of the clock.
As he lay, Jaikie thought of the
flowers in the corner of the orchard
thirsty and sick. It might lie that
they,like him, were sleepless and suf-
fering. He remembered the rich car-
nations with their dower of sweet
savor, the dark indigo cornflowers,
the spotted musk monkey flowers,
smelling like a village flower show,
They would all be dropping and sad,
and it might be that the ferns would
be dead — all but the hart's tongue;
which, though moisture-loving, can
yet train itself to endure and abide
thirsty and unslacked. But the
thought of their pain worked in Jai-
kie's heart.
"Maybe it will make me forget
my foot if I can go and water them."
So he arose,, crawling on his hands
and knees downstairs very softly,
past where Jiminy tossed in his bed,
and softer still past the minister's
door. But there was no sound save
the creak of the stairs under him.
Jaikie crept to the water pail, and got
the large quart tankard that hung by
races up and down, and to listen for
the side of the wall. It was a hard
job for a little lad to get a heavy tin
vessel filled, — a harded one still to un-
lock the door and creep away across
the square of gravel. "You have no
idea," he said afterward, "how badly
gravel hurts your knees when they
are bare."
Luckily it was a hot night, and not
a breath of air was stirring, so. the
little white-clad figure moved slowly
across the front of the house to the
green gate of the garden. Jaikie could
reach out only as far as his arms would
go with the tin of water. Then pain-
fully he pulled himeslf forward to-
ward the tankard. But in spite of
all he made headway, and soon he was
creeping up the middle walk, past the
great central sundial, which seemed
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shigh as a church-steeple above him. "Bide a little while,'! said he,
The ghostly moths fluttered a!j.ut him "and yon shall have plenty for root
attracted by the waiving white of and flower, for branch and vine and
his garments. In their corner he stem."
found the flowers, and as he had There were not many little boys
thought, they were withered and more loving than Jaikie in all the
droping. II« lifted the water with world; and with his work and his help- j
his palms, and sprinkled it upon the ing and talking, he had quite forgot-
plants, taking care that none dripped ten about hisfoot.He began to creep
through, for it was very precious, and back again in the quiet, colorless
he seemed to have carried it many night; but before he had gone away,
miles. As soon as they felt the wat- the honeysuckle said, "Remember to
er upon them, the flowers paid him eome back to-morow and water us, ami
back in perfume. we will get ready such line full cups :
'•[ wish I has some for you, dear of honey for you!"
buttercup," said Jaikie to the golden And Jaikie promised. He shut the
chalicces which grew in the hollows gate to keep out the hens. lie crept .
hy the bumside; "can you wait an- across the pebbles, ami they hurt his
" \Ye have waited long,'* they knees more than ever. He hung ap
seemed to reply; "we can surely wait the tin dipper again on its peg, ami
other day?'' climbed the stairs to his bedroom.
Then the honeysuckle reached down Jiminy breating as quietly as a lazy
a single tendril to touch Jaikie on the red-spotted trout in the shadow of the
cheek. "Some for me, please," it bank on a warm afternoon. Jaikie i
said; "there are so ntany of us at our crept into his bed and fell asleep with-
house, and so little to get. Our roots out a thought.
are such a long way oft',and the big He did not awake till quite late in
fellows farther down get most of the the day, when Jiminy came to tell him
juice before it comes our way. If you that somebody had been watering the
cannot water us all, you might pour (lowers in the Corner of the Shadows |
a little on our heads." So Jaikie lift- during the night. "I think it must;
ed up his tankard and poured the few before Jaikie had time to tell him how ■
drops that were in the bottom upon have been the angels," said Jiminy,
the nodding heads of the honeysuckle it all happened. "Hy father theinks [■'■
blossoms. so. too."
A man has no more right to make a living out of a community with-
out giving something back to that community than hs hrjs to receive that
for which he does not give value received. — Christian Sun.
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CLOCKS RUN
NIGHT THAN
RAPIDLY AT
DAYTIME.
They run faster
Clocks today are formally listed in the high-life class.
at night than by day, says Science arid Invention.
If the first clock ever made had run correctly, at noon on Thursday it
would show S: 13 p.m. Saturday: would have gained 20.293 seconds — 2 days,
S hours and 13 seconds — since clocks of our present type were invented in_
A. D. 9% to supplant hour glasses,
water clocks and measured candles.
The 20,923 seconds include the leap
year gains.
At last, so the volunteer statis-
tician says.
However, as the clocks have been
corrected day by day, at noon today
it is noon today.
The vagaries of the clocks have
been disclosed by Dr. R. H. Tucker
of Lick Observatory, a prominent
astronomer, who has given special
attention to clocks.
He find that three first-class clocks
at Lick Observatory have gained
.06 of a second every night for sever-
al months,
The results of his investigation
are included in the annual report of
Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of
Lick.
The clocks w.ere checked from a
large list of stars whose positions
are known with high precision. The
report says meridian transits were
recorded .06 seconds of the time too
early in the sunsit as compared
with thh sunriseperiod. Differ-
ences of temperature would ac-
count for only 5 per cent of the dis-
crepancy.
Nobody knows the cause, but Dr.
Tucker is still at work on the prob-
lem.
Prof. Charles Burckhalter, di-
rector of Oakland's Chrbot observa-
tory, asked for his opinion on it, said
that Dr Tucker was the expert of
experts on this question, but that
the public need not be alarmed, as
the discrepancy discovered by Dr.
Tucker has been rectified day by
day automatically.
THE QUAKERS.
While the English were founding
changes had taken place in England
Charles I., and the English, weary of
promises, rose up in rebellion in 1643.
By this time, the English Puritans
had increased so that they became
masters of the country. It was gov-
erned by their chief, Oliver Crom-
well and called the Commonwealth of
England. The Puritians, being in
power, made the Roman Catholics
the New England colonies, many
King James I. was succeeded by
monarchs who did not keep their
and the Church of England people
as uncomfortable as the latter had
once made them. Many Catholics
Anglicans were therefore only too
glad to cross the ocean, in their turn,
so as to found new homes where they
could worship as they pleased; and
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you shall'soon hear how they prosper-
ed:
Cromwell, as Protector of the
Commonwealth of England, made a
new law (1651), called the Naviga-
tion Act. By this law it was decided
that the colonist should build no
more ships, and that all their goods
should be carried across the ocean
only in English vessels. This law
was very unjust, and captains of
English ships speedly took advantage
of it to raise their prices for freight.
So, while England was rapidly grow-
ing rich, her colonists grumbled sore-
ly at the heavy rates they had to
Pay-
That sarr.e year began the great
■ Quaker excitement in Massachusetts.
The Quakers wc-re the disciples of
a very good man,7 George Fox
They called themselves Friends,
but were called Quakers by the other
people, because they often said one
■ought to quake at the thought of
the wrath of God:
As some of the months and days of
the week bore the names of the old
Jieathen gods, the Friends would 'not
use them, but, instead, numbered the
-days and months, speaking of the
first day of the sixth month, the
twelfth day of the second -month,-,
and so on. They would not take any
oaths, either, but used only the
words "yea" and "nay." They
further treated all persons alike, call-
ing even the king hy his given name,
and refused to take off their hats in
his presence. Although generally
quite and modest, a few of the
Quakers were so anxious to spread
the teachings of their preacher Fox
that they came over to Massa-
chusetts, knowing they would be ill-
treated there.
Nevertheless, ...they began preach-
ing, and firmly but quietly refused
to stop when told to do so. : 'I hey
were therefore tortured and punish-
ed in many ways. A few were whip-
ped, sent to jail, or put in the
stocks. Their books were burned;
they were driven out cf .the colony;
and "as all this was not enough,
four of them were hanged. The
Quaker excitement finally grew so
great that some of them were sent
.back to England and the rest forced
to take refuge in Rhode Island,
where they could practice any re-
ligion they liked. But. th.2 Quakers
who had been shipped back to Eng-
land, and especially a few discontent
ed colonists, complained very much
of the Massachusetts government,
-and. made considerable trouble for
New England.
I
"Why is it, when one is wakeful at night and waits for the clock to
strike in order to learn the time, it is always half-past something? — New-
ark Evening News.
When you know a thing, to hold that ycu know it ; and when you do not
know & thing, to cllow that you do not know it; this ia knowledge. — Con-
fsciua.
"It is poor economy that save3 ourselves at the expense of another,'1
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;::^:a:iuc:!af Notes.
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
Supt. Bogor wont to Charlotte.
recently, on a business trip.
Garland Banks was visited by his
'home folks' one day last week.
-Miss Hattie Fuller is being visited
by her sister, Miss Elizabeth Fuller.
of Chester, S: C.
The State Cottage defeated the
Mecklenburg Cottage j Monday in a
fast game of ball.
Thomas Hannah/ a third Cot-
tage hoy. has left our tnhlst to
go' home on an honorable parole.- ■'
Sunday afternoon, after preaching,
the band played in the pavilion,
much to the enjoyment of the boys.
Mr. Hilton was visited Sunday,
j by bis wife, Mrs. Hilton, his little
| son and his sister-in-law, Miss Pace,
' all of Charlotte.
Mr: and Mrs. Rr B. Cloer have
been visited by the hitter's father,
Mr. J. M. Picker*, and his daught-
er,'both of Trdell.
Sunday, a few weeksago Mr. Cloer
borrowed the camera of Paul Green
and snapped a few pictures of the
boys in Mecklenburg Cottage. Sat-
urday the pictures came back devel-
oped and many were the demands
for them.
John Edwards, Malcolm Holman-
M array Evans, Johnnie Wright, Os,
ear Johnson, Roy Johnson and John
Kemp were the lucky ones Wednes-
day, May, 24th. They showed the
visiting parents or relatives around
1 ho school.
The lawn facing our cottages is
so pretty and inviting that it is hard
to keep otf it. But the students
know far too well not to mar a lawn
as beautiful as this one by romping
and playing on it. Therefore every
day adds to its beauty.
<V ball game with the Hartsell's
Mills, was-to lie played Saturday.
Indeed, they did play a few innings,
and when the game was called be-
cause of rain, the J. T. S. led by a
score of 1 to II. It is planned to
play this same team next Saturday.
.. The dairy barn is now completed
.This means many more cows, must
be purchased, and many more cows
mean much more milk. pMilk lm-ans
.health for the boys. Health cannot
be bought with money, and knowing
this, all the boys feel as wealthy as
.any'millionaire. .
As no school was held last" week,
the lines were assembled and the
best cott6n hoe rs were picked out and
were sent to hoe the cotton of vari-
ous planters. ' Some went to Mr. A.
B\ Pounds' crop and after hoeing
it, they were "setup" by Mr. Pounds,
who brought them ice cream.'
Saturday, Miry 20, when the cot-
tage lines assembled at the trees,
Mr. Boger introduced to the bo3's a
real friend. This was the friend
who has clone so much for the school.
She was Mrs. J. S. Grierson, of Char-
lotte. This was her first visit, but
the boys hope it will not be her last.
For their Sunday School lesson
last Sunday, the boys studied one
entitled: "Jeremiah Speaks Boldly
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for God." They derive many prac-
tical solutions to every day obstac-
les from such lessons as this. It is
because of this fact that interest is
always taken in the next Sunday's
lessons.
The school section has. of late,
been improving the crop of potatoes.
Part of this work is to sift lime ov-
er the plants to kill the bug's which
destroy the potatoes. Other work
is to hoe the potatoes, giving them a
better chance to grow and produce
abundantly. Still other work is to
set out young sweetpotato plants.
The fire hydrants have arrived
here and are soon to be put in use.
A fire is one of the rarest occu ranees
at the school. Indeed, only one fire
has occured in the life of the school
and that was only a small one one.
But the superintendent believes in
prepardness and that is the cause
for the installing of the fire hyd-
rants.
Mrs. H. S. Willioms, Mrs. John
G. Parks, Mrs. J. V. Davis and
Mrs. Williams of Guilford College
were the guests of Miss Mary Gaith-
er, Friday, May 19th. Miss Gaither
conducted the visitors around the
the school. They were especially
interested in the work being done
in the Printing Office and each re-
quested a sample copy of THE UP-
LIFT.
Mr. Hilton, in charge of the bak-
ery, decided to move his oven to a
more spacious and desirable location.
But moving the oven was too much
of a job for his boys, so he had to
beg permission from Mr. Shaw, in
charge of the printing office, to use
the physical strength of the boy-print-
ers. "They went, they saw, and
they conquered." Now the oven
is established and Mr. Hilton is pro-
fuse in his thanks.
Our grapes, strawberries and oth-
er edible fruit are now growing ripe.
Some strawberries are already ripe
and many are gathered to be made
into pies and various other forms
suitable to the palate. Many are
eaten uncooked. But in the rahuls
of the boys a fixed picture remains.
It is a picture of summer Saturdays.
On these Saturdays the boys all
walk through the hot sunlight to
the river. But they do not object
to the hot sun, for the waters are
more pleasant because of traversing
through it. • When , they arrive at
the school again watermelon awaits
them! Cool delicious watermelon!
Then a ball game — then supper—
the weekly allowance of candy-
then bed.
Continued work on the State Cot-
tage will soon cause its completion.
Perhaps some people may think that
the attitude of the boys at this school
toward improvement of the school
is one of utter indifference or may j
even suspect the students bear ar
ill will towards the school. But in
this they are badly mistaken. Tht ;:
reporter has good reasons for ruak :
ing this statement, for he is one o
the boys and is intimately acquain
ted with them and their thought!
and moods. He knows that when '■
ever the news comes that anotbe
cottage is to be built here, the hoy
rejoice. Why? For the sirapl
reason that they have learned thei
life's lesson, have profited by i am
are glad to know that other boys ar
to have the same benefits.
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Antbsrity of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Ty^e-setting by tha Boy's Printing Clas3. Subscripton
Two Dollars the yoar in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, 3, C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered £S second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1S79.
"IRE WAY UP AND OUT."
The most ignorant person among us will admit that no chain is stronger
than its weakest link." That county in which the town and city folks are
in sympathetic touch with the peoples of the surrounding country, is the
most prosperous. Take a map of North Carolina, and you can by this very
rule pick out the most progressive and prosperous counties.
Genuine patriotism and a progressive spirit would have us say, I'm a
Cabarrusite." not a Concordite; 'I'm a Mecklenburger," not a Cliarlottean;
and so on down the line. Without a particle of the spirit of criticism or
knocking, it seems unfortunate that the leading bodies — such as the Kiwan-
ians and the Rotarians— in their commendable enthusiasm and forward and
constructive vision confine themselves entirely to those things that concern
' Concord alone. It is a fundamental truth, that none would gainsay, that
' the more the rural section that surrounds Concord or any other town
| prospers in all things that make people and causes successful, the more will
the towns and cities in that territory thrive.
The health conditions, the school advantages, the moral attitude of the
rural sections should be of just as much vital concern to town people as
those just around them. What if every child in town is highly educated,
I and the children of the outlying districts are ignorant by being deprived of
'; proper educational facilities? What if every individual in town is pros-
' porous, has a nice working bank-account and enjoys all the modern privi-
leges of civilization, and the rural sections around can lay no claim to any
; ' of these possessions? Even if the selfish influences of business did not in-
' spire a more active concern over the welfare of the surrounding rural sec-
tion, that higher law of service to fellow man should be invoked.
It is no wisdom and justice in urging "John Smith" to keep a cow, in-
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vite him to carry his surplus butter to market, and the dealer pays him
just fifteen cents a pound and in trade, and then turns around and sells it
for forty and forty-five cents. This is no fanciful citation — it is done, and
done week after week. If John Smith out in the country had the proper
educational advantages he would escape this imposition. Have you any
just reason to suppose that the child of John Smith will be any better able
to protect himself against such injustice, when you are, making no ef-
fort to carry light to his darkened soul?
With all the mills in our mist, and the consequent demand for raw cot-
ton to supply their needs, is there any reason why the price of cotton on
the local market is not equal to that in other towns in the same geographi-
cal territory? Will one buyer better the bid of another? Why not? Is there
any good reason why cotton on the Charlotte market should be usually
quoted half cent higher; or a whole cent on the Monroe market? Did you ever
stop to think how much is lost to the producer by the simple term of ' off-
grade" being applied to his bales of cotton? The farmer doesn't know, and
he accepts the statement of the buyer and thinks he got by with a good
bargain. There is absolutely nothing personal in this; but it is a citation
of facts that confront us. Why not an ofTical grader?
When the farmer fails to get that extra $2.50 for his bale of cotton be-
cause his home market is one-half cent under the market of a nearby town,
you weaken his purchasing power just that much; and thereby some legiti-
mate business or profession in the town loses that much trade. And who
gets the benefit of this two dollars and fifty cents that should have gone to
the farmer? Suppose that farmer sold ten bales rather than one, who gets I
the extra twenty-five dollars that missed the farmer's pockets?
More and more theevidenceaccumulat.es that salvation demands the 100
percent organization of the Co-operative Marketing Plan among the farmers,
or they will continue to be sufferers. If the splendid bodies now meeting
■weekly in Concord could devise some means to right this condition, they
will be doing a service to their fellow countryman; and, just like all good, !
just acts have a habit of doing, they will be making of their own town a
better market and adding to its volume of business, and better its reputa-
tion,
The Chapel Hill News Letter, on this point, speaks thus:
"Think of it — in seventy-five years, Charlotte, Winstom-Salem, and
Greensboro have managed to accumulated bank capital, surpluses and
undivided profits amounting to thirteen million dollars all told, and
in a single year thirty millions go out of Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guil-
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ford for imported food supplies.
If these three counties wore selffeeding, the banking capita! of
their capital cities could be doubled and their business in loans and
discounts twenty times multiplied in a single year.
The local market for home-raised food and feed supplies is the big-
gest economic problem that our growing cities have to solve. And the
commercial club secretary who is not working at town-and-country in-
terdependencies and mutual prosperity has not even begun to learn
the abe's of his job.
He serves his city's business best who best serves the farmers in
the trade territory."
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WHERE VISION GOT IN ITS WORK.
We have had five years of medical inspection of school children in North
•Carolina, the provision for which was made by a law whose passage was
secured by the late Thomas W. Bickett. During this 5-year period this re-
cord has been made: 3,595 children operated in tonsil clinics; ti(j,452 given
free dental treatment: 240.123 examined by school nurses, physicians and
dentists; and .500,000 examined by teachers. What an army! At the be-
ginning of this campaign there was sharp professional opposition because
of the feeling that it was encroaching on the rights of doctors and dentists
and others. That fear was groundless, as has been happily demonstrated.
No physician or dentist has perished or been put of business; on the other
hand their number have increased and are busy. It is a fact, that this cam-
paign has emphasized the importance of this care for the children, and
growing out of it hundreds have gone voluntarily to the doctors and the
dentists, who otherwise would never have seen the necessity.
Tlje' dynamic force behind this great accomplishment is none other than
Dr. Watt Rankin, to whom all of North Carolina is deeply indebted. It is
popular now, and there are many who claim some credit for its benign oper-
ation among us, but the true evidence runs right straight to the door of.
Dr. Rankin.
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THE GREATEST INVENTION
Hon. W. R, Webb, the famous teacher of Bellbuckle, Tennessee, found
himself delayed among a gathering of folks at a country store. They were
installing a telephone— in the thing's early day— and, of course, there were
doubting Thomases present, One loud-mouthed, know-all fellow declared
it an impossibility. To convince him they made connection with an ac-
quaintance of his twenty miles away; called Mr. Doubting Thomas to the
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phone, and notwithstanding he conversed easily with his friend, and recog-
nized his friend's voice, he refused to be convinced until he had looked into'
every box in the store, thinking his friend had been concealed near by.
TheD the crowd began a discussion of the greatest inventions. Some named
the sewing machine, others one thing and another. Finally, they called on
Prof. Webb, who up to that time remained quietly enjoying the conversa-
tion, in this manner: "Well, stranger, what do you think is the greatest
invention." The great scholar, rich in experiences and wise with the les-
sons of more than eighty years, gently replied: 'I consider the invention o*
the alphabet the greatest of all ages.'' Who be there to deny this? And
how can one be content not to make an acquaintance with it?
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THE SORE EYE.
Elsewhere in this number will be found an intertaining and instructive,
article on how to beautify one's premises cheaply, quickly and pleasingly.
When we consider the fact that woods are full of attractive shrubbery,,
vines and flowers, growing wild in profusion, it is astonishing how many
otherwise good and substantial country places are left nude and bare of
these flowers which nature has with a lavish hand thrown at us.
An ugly fence may be concealed with vines of beauty; the staring naked-
ness of country homes may be eradicated by a small drawing upon the
near-by forest — costing just a little time, some enthusiasm and not one cent.
The expenditure of this little effort' would enhance the value of a place;,
give joy and comfort to the family; inspire, a love for the beautiful in other-
wise blank souls; and contribute to the advancement of a community.
Read the article. It will do us all good. The pictures that aid the full
appreciation of the little story, carry conviction. Nature all about us issues-
a challenge. Let's meet it.
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AH ABIDING FAITH— ES3ULTIH(J ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
THE UPLIFT takes over bodily a most engaging article written by Col.
Wade H. Harris, for his editorial page in the Charlotte Observer, on the
operations and accomplishments of Mr. HughMacRae, a constructive genius-
of Wilmington, N. C.
It's a picture that Mr; Harris has painted of the phenominal success-
attending the constructive and ambitious plans which Mr. MacRae adopted
some years back. Enhancing his own fortune, showing to the world the
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possibilties and the opportunities of his state, giving the opportunity to
others to better the i r condition materially and otherwise, Mr. MeRae mani-
fested a faith and exercised a nerve that few men of this day possess. And
this man of energy is not dune — he fe making others plans; but read Col.
Harris' story.
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Announcement is made of the withdrawal of Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, of
Winston-Salem, of her candidacy for President General of the National
D. A. R. Till-; UPLIFT, knowing the capability, the attractive personality
and the popularity of this most beloved North Carolina woman, joins thous-
ands of North Carolinians in regrets that the State could not share the
distinctive honor of furnishing to this noble organization a President Gener-
al, who would reflect not only great credit on the state but on the organiza-
tion itself.
I: THE WOLF AND THE KID.'
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ȣ A Kid was perched up on the top of a house, and looking down saw
% a Wolf passing under him. Immediately he began to revile and at-
* tack his enemy. "Murderer and thief," he cried, "what do you here
♦> near honest folks' houses? How dare you make an appearence where
£ your vile deeds are known?"
* "Curse awav, mv young friend," said the AVolf.
* "IT IS EASY TO BE BRAVE FROM A SAFE DISTANCE
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THE TRICKS OF TIME.
It would be an interesting piece of business to examine an inventory
taken of the views of men and women as to what class they fall to in the mat-
ter of age. Foralong time the ktf Joseph P. Caldwell used to ask the ques-
tion "why do a rabbit wobble its nose." and "when does a pup become a
dog,"
ing. This is the report under a
tripple head that the New York
"World makes of a certain service:
"Spiritual blues," the essential
difference between ah optimist and
a pessimist and the possibility of
learning to see the cheerful side
of things, were the topics of the
Rev. PaulE. Scherer at Holy Trini-
ty Lutheran Church.
It is as simple as crossing from
the shady to the sunny side of a.
street, Mr. Scherer told his congre-
gation. One cause of pessimism
just now, he added, is that people
keep their noses too close to 1922
and fail to remember right has
triumphed in the past over wrongs
as firmly intrenched as those of the
present.
Spiritual Blues
It is generally accepted, regard-
less of size, weight, or equipment
that one becomes a man when he
reaches the age of twenty-one. It
would be of interest as intimated
above to know when a man regards
himself as an old man, or when he
" thinks he is approaching that point.
No two would agree on the fatal
date.
But to see folks, having become
fathers and mothers, prominent in
the affairs of church and state, when
it appears that on just yesterday
they were children playing around
in the innocence of childhood, there
are those among us who have men-
tal pictures of certain ones, who
in their pleasing manners and hap-
py dispositions made impressions
on us. This writer well remembers
a happy-faced, pleasing little boy
yet in little dresses, back yonder in
1895, Even then he aspired to be a .
preacher. It was great sport to have
the little fellow stand up and say
over and over his first little sermon,
which was short but full of good and
whoesome advice. It was, 'You
must be good and kind and gentle.
Amen."
The other day I picked up a copy
of the New Yoi'k World, which is
making a practice of sending men out
to report weekly certain of the lead-
ing representatives among the 1,600
churches in that city, to find out
whut the preachers are talking about
and Tfhat the congregations are do-
Nothing in human experience,"'
said he, 'tends to give a downward
slant to every thought like repeated
private failure to clinch the mastery
of the best in ourselves over the
worst. All of us have some notion
of what we ought to be and most of
us are at swords' points with what
we are. We have lost so long we
are by no means as confident as we
used to be of what we can be. 'The
measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ' seems impossible. Give
us a goal we can reach!' we cry.
And thtre you have the beginning
of a chronic case of spiritual blues.
"We like to read of the life cf
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Christ in Palestine, but at the idea
of making any remote approach to it
here in New York, we smile and
shake our heads.
Imagine thinking of others more
than of ourselves in the rush hour
■on the subway! Things that seem
not unnatural when we read of their
happening in Judea hundreds of
years ago seem utterly foolish when
we think of their happening on
Broadway today. Actually we
have come to take many of Christ's
commands with a grain of salt. We
think they are beautiful but not
workable. Even His great promises
seem 1 ardly possible. 'Whatsoever
ye ask in My name, that I will do.'
Is there anybody here who really
believes that? The theory we ac-
cept but the paretiee we deny.
I think it is really all because
this private warfare of ours has
gone so poorly with us. When a
.man is beaten back clay by day, he
begins to lose faith in the ideals
that beckon him.
That v is just the point where
■Christ comes in. He tell us with
perfect assurance we can win. If
you have to fight, my friend, at
least step over where the Master
is, and fight in the sunshine.
Evil On Every Hand
'The conference at Washington is
followed by war in China. The con-
ference in Genoa almost goes on the
rocks. We read of crime waves
and the loosening of morals and
preachers who babble treasonable
nonsense about the uselessness and
it >rality of creeds. It is pretty
hard to keep our good cheer in the
face of all that.
"When Christ was driven out of
Judea to die He said: 'Be of good
cheer, I have overcome the world.'
"Paul just escaped death at Da-
mascus, and his road after that lay
through suspicion persecution and
death.
"When we count up victories the
unanimous vote goes to Jesus and
Paul. I have never yet seen a bal-
lot for Pilate or Ceasar."
This Rev. Paul Eherman Scherer
is none other than the little fellow
who yet in dresses was preaching
his tine little sermon, in 1895, in his
neighbor's home on West Corbin
Street, of Concord.
Boys and girls, under proper en-
vironment and with reasonable ad-
vantage, quickly become men
and women and go out into the
world and leave their impress upon
it. It is a wonderful development
that nature uses in preparing suc-
ceeding generations to take the
places of the retiring ones.
This morning, just outside of town, I saw two little boys wading about
in a shallow pond fishing for tadpoles, studying nature, exercising their
little bodies and making plans for the accomplishment of their quest
One half hour later I saw on the streets two boys about the same size
taking their joy out in smoking cigarettes and listening to some vile talk
going on. A little further up the street wats a three-year old boy lounging
around, the pick of every passer-by. A little further up a dress-maker
was finishing some little skirts for two little girls, each carrying eleven
yard3 of ribbon. That's the system prevailing for the rearing of chil-
dren.
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IMPROVE HOME SURROUNDINGS.
By William Wallace Fairbanks
The man or woman or the boy or girl who takes no pride in keeping the
home outwardly attractive, is very liable to have little ambition to advance
in life. When we enter a front gate tliat is minus a picket or two and hangs
by one hinge we expect to rind a grassgrown, and untidy walk and the
porch and entrance way likewise untidy. From these outward signs we will
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The home of a well-to-do farmer where no effort has been made to beautify
or improve surroundings.
be pretty sure to decide that the hab-
its of the whole family are careless and
indifferent. Their going out and com-
ing in are without system or order;
and their treatment, each of the other
is along the same careless lines. Chil-
dren who go out from such a home
are pretty sure to carry with them
the habits thus formed; they take
them into the business place, the store
and the work shop; habits that hold
down: that prevent one getting any-
where in any walk in life.
The gate hanging by the one hinge
iind the neglected, untidy walk are
seemingly but little things; but from
just such is the character of a lifetime
formed. A little attention given each
day to the improvement of the home
surroundings; a few touches here and
there is all that is required to over-
come the appearence of neglect; and!
the same pride that prompts; us
to keep our home premises neat :".d
orderly, will have the same effect as
regards our personal habits and daily
life.
Modern and up-to-date homes 3re
expensive possessions these days, not
all can have them; but even if cur
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11
homes of ancient make: if it's a bit
the worse for wear and looks shabby
arid weather beaten, it yet should be
the very best place on earth and may
easily be made so attractive that we
need feel no shame in its ownership.
A little effort will make and keep it
looking home-like. Instead of look-
older and shabbier it should show im-
provement with the passing years.
No great outlay of money is required
— only a concerted effort where every
member of the family may do his or
her part. Enthusiam and ambition
along this line will prove contagious
and soon each will be trying to outdo
the other in effort to give the home
surroundings a thorough overhauling
and a general clean upp.
In painting a picture, none would
think of placing unattractive objects
directly in the foreground; the first
glance would displease. A few strokes
of the artists' brush, however, would
have changed the offensive object into
something beautiful; and so the un-
attractive features about our home
may be easily changed. Accumulated
rubbish may be removed. An unpleas-
ing fence corner may be partly con-
cealed with vines. In front of a shed
or other necessary outbuildings may
be planted a clump of shrubs or trees
or a vine covered trellis.
The direct approach to the home it-
self is of great importance; this need
not be in any sense imposing. A de-
lapidated gate-way or a front fence
with pickets missing here and there
gives an air of poverty. Pickets may
be easily replaced and an old and shab-
by fence that cannot be rebuilt may
have a rose or other hedge planted
xdong its length. Any boy, handy
vith tools can make an attractive gate-
way, even if only by planting two
heavy posts in the ground with a tim-
ber cross-peace on top. Let the ends
of this project over about a foot, place
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The planting of shrubs and (lowers
has made this simple cottage
home-like and attractive.
a narrow pannel of lath at the sides
where the fence joins on, plant and
train vines over the whole, and simple
as it is, you have a.n entrance to your
home you need not be ashamed of it.
To give your gateway a rustic effect,
use small tree trunks that may be ob-
tained usually from a nearby wood.
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Instead of vines, a clump of trees or
may be planted at its base. And so
with only tbis slight effort you have
greatly improved the appearance of
your home.
Flowers and shrubs and trees about
the home afford the simplest and eas-
iest means of converting it into a beau-
ty spot. Give only ordinary attention
to seeleetiions, planting and care and
nature will give full returns; besides
this, Ihe cure and cultivation of (low-
ers is a most delightful pastime for
old and young.
A front yard or walk devoid of
flowers, trees, shrubs or running vines
is but a barren waste no matter what
else it may possess. These are so
easy to get and grow that no homo
should be without them. Native
frees or shrubs from a nearby forest
or wood are often as beautiful and
desirable as any that the florist shops
supply. Some sort of flowers will
grow and flourish in every locality —
it's only a question of making select-
ions adapted to your particular neigh-
borhood. For quick growth for the com-
ing spring and summer, consult the
catalogue and some dependable florist
and choose what your home is most in
need. of. Such "common" plants
as sunflowers, hollyhocks, or foxglove
planted in mass, will till an unslight-
ly or unattractive corner; while a
morning glory vine will convert a
woodshed or fence into an object of
beauty.
A home, whether it cost much or
little, whether it be quite modern or
very old fashioned, is the very best in-
vestment a family can make. It is
the place about which sentiment cen-
ters and its influence goes with us in-
to the outer world and follows all
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An Old Fence may be made to
form an attractive support
for a rose hedge.
through life. Whatever effort may
lie expanded to make this more at-
tractive or to raise its atmosphere
to a higher level, will bring returns
greater than mere money could ever
buy.
It is possible to be so intent on good manners that we attain nothing
else. Even manners need a heart to make them of much real worth; an:-,
insincerity, however polite, is still insincere.
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HUGH MACRAE, BUILDER.
By Col. Harris in Charlotte Observer.
Naturally, (lie people of Wilmington manifested an interest, not unmixed
with concern, over the possible direction the future activities of mr. Hugh
McaRne might take, since severance from the ties that bound his time to the
welfare of the Tidewater Power Company left him foot-loose to engage in
other development endeavor, for in MacRae, it was long since evident, was born
the ideas of the promoter, the developer and the builder. This interest on part
of Wilimington was shared by the
State, for MeRae has kept a big iron
in the forge of the west as well as
several in the clay hearth of the east.
He founded Linville City from the
cutting of the trees and the grubbing
of stumps, while at the same time
watching the blossoming of the colon-
ise he had planted in Xew Hanover and
Pender counties. What we are going
to write is an establishment of our
conviction of the purposes which are
to actuate Mr. MeRae for the immed-
iate future. Through importation
of picked secleetions of thrifty Ital-
ians, Poles, Germans, Hollanders and
Hungarians, Mr. MeRae has succeed-
ed in establishing what might be de-
scribed as "object lessons'' in what
can be accomplished in the fertile soil
and friendly climate of the vast coast-
al country of the State, where thou-
sands of acres of rich lands have been
left idle since the time the turpentine
industry was abandoned by reasons of
exhaustion of the trees. In one par-
ticular locality Mr. MeRae has a de-
monstrated success in dairying; in
another in the growing of nursery
plants and several other localities
examples of success in diversified
farming. The owner of the demon-
stration dairy is a German named
Schwartz. .Mr. MacRae loaned him the
Irnd and staked him to a couple of
cows seven years ago. Schwartz has
a wife and family of six sons and as a
matter of course, all are industrious.
He is now undisputed owner of one
of the finest dairy barn in the entire
county, with two rows of stalls and fif-
ty line milkers to the row. The barn is
as clean as the kitchen, the floors daily
scoured and sanded, with no more of
the order of a cow barn about it than
could be detected in the parlor of any
city home. This man Schwartz and
his six sons are now making $100 a
day out of their dairy business — and
the father did not own a copper cent
seven years ago! His place consti-
tutes one of the oases in what was for
40 years an abandoned pine barren,
and it is six miles from Wilmington.
A few miles from this $l,00-a
day dairy is the nursery farm of
Verzaal, the Hollander who has de-
veloped the $4,000-a-year acre which,
was described in The Observer a few
days since. Verzaal came over ten
years ago, his only asset being a
thrifty family of boys and girls. On
one acre of ground he grows things
that bring him an established income
of $1,000 a year and he has half A
dozen acres which he uses in the na-
ture of a savings bank in which he
has planted a ten-year account. Two
acres of this ground, for example, is
set out to boxwood seedlings which
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have been coaxed to the proper height
and left to broaden and expand in
girth. At the end of ten years they
-will be dug up and the account closed,
Verzaal collecting both principal and
interest in the shape of checks com-
ing in from nurseries in 37 States to
the total of $41,000 for the matured
boxwood crop. The acre which
brings him in £4,000 a year profit is
latticed over, and it is under its dif-
fussed light that he coaxed its plants
into a growth in one year that would
require 10 years in the open. The prin-
ciple is simple. It is a known law of
nature that plants reach up or out
for the light. Potatoes and onions
mid things of the kind sprouting in
the celler affords illustration of the
theory. The lattic. work developes
alternate squares of shade and light
on the ground under it. The plants
constantly reach the sunny spots and
in that way they rapidly attain tall-
ness in growth. The young boxwood
plants coming up under lattic would
not be recognized as such at first,
glance. They have the spindling
characteristics of young willows.
When they reach the height desired
they are put out into the open fields,
as stated, to attain body. Verzaal
lives in a bungalow on which the
architect did his best. It is equipp-
ed with water, baths, electric lights,
books, victrola and telephone, with
the radio receiver on the way, and
his wife "cooks with gas," His
farm and stock is worth #30,000, and
if he owes any balance on it, he is
ready to pay off that balance when
called for — and all this in ten years!
On the individual colonies in Pen-
der and New Hanover the industrious
workers have scored successes in
every case and they need no credit,
for they have the cash to pay their
way.
It is now Mr. MaeRae's purpose
to do for the native people of am-
bition and industry what he has done
for these foreigners. He has shown
our people "how," and he intends
helping them to it. Perhaps the
shorter the story, the more easily it
may be understood. All that part
of North Carolina coastal plain is of
the same quality of richness as that
developed by the colony farmers. Mr.
MaeRae proposes to divide it up into
small farms of an average of ten acres.
He will clear it, cultivate the fields,
build the home, the barns and the
garage, and turn it over to the invest-
or the same as a newly-finished and
completely furnished home. The aim
is to put the settler first in position
to make a living and pay for his
farm. When he has made enough
money to take up the title, the ex-
change of money and deed .will ho
made. Philanthropy? Of course
it is, but Mr. MarRae is only doing
what the Hollander Verzaal has
done. In due course of time, Ver-
zaal will close on his boxwood ac-
count, as Mr. MaeRae will realize
on his farm-furnished account.
As a first step in development of
the small farm idea, Mr. 'MaeRae has
laid off the Oleander .estate of several
hundred acers into small farm lots.
The suburbanite will not only have
a home, but a farm surrounding it
from which, by due diligence, he will
be enabled to make an independent
living. These city farms will contain
from three to five acres. The home
will be there, the land cultivated aid
all the investor will have to do wili be
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to take off his coat and buckle down
to work. These city farms from
which he expects to step to greater
accomplishment, will be known as the
Oleander States, and the rural life
will be ideal might be anticipated
from the fact that the elegantly
paved, pergolaed Oleander Park, with
its beutiful grasses, flowers, camphor
and other trees, will be established as
the Community Center.
More small farms and more popu-
lation is the developing idea of Mr.
Hugh MacRae; he is a man who has
never failed in carrying out his ideas
to the visioned success, and it may
not be to previous to write him down
now as Master Builder of the Soil.
The fertility of this eastern land
has been known for years, but the
trouble encountered was in solution
of the drainage problem. It was nec-
essary for these lands to be drained
before they could be cultivated, but
drainage has been made easy. It is
not now the work of days and weeks;
it has become the work of a minute, of
the flashing of an eye, for drainage
ditches and canals are now "dug"
by dynamite. The stick are laid
along the desired course, very much
after the manner in which Lousiana
sugar planters lay the joints of cane
and the ditch or canal is laid open its
entire course at the touch of the
button.
Having given practical demonstra-
tion of what can be done in the way
of making money out of the soil by
small farms intensively cultivated
and of how it is practical to capitalize
the dairy barn Mr. MacRae wants to
convert these table lands of the coast-
al plain into a great pasturage for
growing beef cattle and live slock.
It was discovered by him that along
with the boll weevil came a new
species of grass which takes the com-
mon name of carpet grass. Mr. Mac-
Rae has developed experimental pas-
turages with this grass combined with
.Tapcnese and common white clover,
which forms a lasting and depend-
able pasture ten months out of
twelve.. He is going to cover Xew
Hanover and Pender counties with
pastures of this kind as another
example of what ean be done in live-
stock raising in the State. He has
fenced off an old pine field, rank with
native wild grass, over which he graz-
es cattle. Over this he distributed
— sowed is the better word — carpet
grass and the two clovers at the rate
of two pounds to the acre. The cattle
will this season graze off the old grass
and there will then come into being
the permanent new pastures of a com-
bination grass that is indestructible.
It is this combination that makes
the greenery of the neighboring golf
links. But the doubtful say that" was
cultivated. For that reason Mr. Mac-
Rae scattered his carpet grass seed
wild from which he proposes to de-
velop a pasture alongside as pretty
as the golf links. He is a man of vis-
ion backed by faith. The country
would do well to watch him for a year
or two, because he is undoubtedly
lending his Influence and his sagaci-
ty to the breaking of a new day in
North Carolina rural life.
The man who is worthy of a kindness is the man who will pass it on
when it comes to him. ■ • ■■•:■■
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J\
GEORGIA WOODMAN.
Ey V/. Gilmore Siimns
Mark Forester was a stout, strongly-built, yet active person, some six feet
in height, square and broad-shoulderd — exibiting an outline wanting, perhaps,
in some of the more rounded graces of form, yet at the same time far from
symmetrical deficiency. There was, also, not a little of ease and agility, to-
gether with a rude gracefulness in his action, the result equally of the well-eom-
bined organization of his animal man and of the hardy habits of his woodland
life. His appearance was youthful,
and the passing glance would per-
haps have rated him at little more
than six or seven-and-twenty. His
broad, full chest, hefiving . strongly
with a consciousness of might — to-
getherwith the generally athletic mus-
cularity of his whole person — indi-
cated correctly the possession of pro-
digious strength.
His features were frank and fear-
less— moderately intelligent, and well
marked — showing an attractive vi-
tality, strong and usually just feeling,
and a good-natured freedom of char-
acter, which enlistedcontidenee, and
seemed likely to acknowledge few re-
straints of a merely conventional kind.
Xor, interpret the inward man. With
the possession of a giant 's powers, he
was seldom so far borne forward
by his impulses, whether of pride or
of passion, as to permit of their wan-
ton or improper use. His eye, too,
had a not unpleasing twinkle, promis-
ing more of good-fellowship and a
heart at ease than may ever consort
with the jaundiced or distempered
spirit.
His garb indicated in part, and was
well adapted to, the pursuits of the
hunter and hte labors of the wood-
man. We couple these employments
together, for, in the wilderness of
North America, the dense forests, and
broad prairies, they are utterly insepa-
rable. In a belt made of buckskin,
which encircled his middle, was stuck,
in a sheath of the same material, a
small ax, such as was well known to
the early settlers as a deadly imple-
ment of war.
The head of this warlike instrument
(or that portion which was opposite
the blade and made it weigh to corres-
pond with and ballance the latter when
hurled form the hand) was a pick of
solid steel, narrowing down to a point,
and calculated, with a like blow, to
prove even more fatal, as a weapon in
conflict, than the more-legitimate mew-
■ ber to which it was appended. A.
throng of oxhide, slung over the wood-
man's shoulder, supported easily a
light rifle of the choicest bore; for
there are few matters indeed upon
which the wayfarer in the southern
wilds exercises a nicer and more dis-
criminating taste than in the select-
ion id' a companion, in a pursuit like
his, of the very last importance; and
which, in time, he learns to love. TLe
dress of the woodman was composed
of a coarse gray stuff, which, lining
-o.i sii( jjo iss o; p8A.ias 'a'iSuus enq
bust and well-made person to the '.-.t-
most advantage. A fox-skin cap,, of
which,, studiously preserved, obviated
any necessity for a foreign 'tasieli
rested slightly upon his head, giving
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u, unique finUh to his appearance have supplied.
which a fashionable hat would never
A Mental Expert, imported, by the state to pass upon the mentali-
ty of Worth Carolina subjects in school and other institutions — when
there are scores and scores of capable experts among us — asked a boy,
in testing his mentality, what would you "regard that occasion, at which
Share were present a doctor, a preacher and a lawyer?" The boy
quickly replied, "A wedding." Because the boy did not answer "A
Puneral" he was classed of low mentality. That boy evidently had nev-
^r seen a doctor follow his patient to the grave.
HOW FOLKS LIVE.
Onehalf of the world does not know how the other half lives" is as
true a.s sunlight. Then in each there Ls a variety of living and acting.
Even in the same country, the same county, the same town and — to bring
it down to the smallest unit — in the same community there is a variety of
living, conduct and habits.
There are people; who must, in
keeping with their system of living,
have a daily bath; and it appears,
from appearances and otherwise,
that there are some people who re-
duce their bathing to an annual af-
fair. There are families that have
but one washing day in a month for
wearing apparel, and that is done
■on a Saturday. The first think and
know the second class are ignorant
and without ambition and without
pride; the second class think the
first are ''powerfully dirty to have
to wash every day."
Here is a. story I ran across which
tells something about the Wild Men
of Siam. After you have read it,
dear reader, make an observation
and figure if something, so far as
practical results are concerned, just
is bad cannot be found nearer home.
And what are you doing to correct
k— to curry a light, information and
knowledge to these benighted souls?
IP.ut the story: "An entirely hea-
then folk living in the mountains
about fifteen miles out of Tapteang,
Siam, have made their first advances
toward the mission station there.
These people, who have negro
features and the kinky hair of the
black man, are living in the open
under the big forest trees, without
houses or shelter. They do not seem
to know the meaning of agriculture,
but live on roots and wild plants
and nuts. They also go cpiite with-
out clothing, though they are great
hunters, and shoot monkeys, birds
and animals with poisoned arrows
blown through long reed blow pipes.
"A hunting expedition usually
takes all the women as well as the
men. and when they go they dig holes
in the ground and put their smaller
children and babies inside. The
mouth of the hole is covered with
branches and leaves, and as no ani-
mal in Siam will go anywhere near
anything that looks like a baited
trap, the tiny tots are perfectly safe
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till their parents return.
"Home of these "wild" people,
however, have learned enough of
the ways of civilization to speak a
little Siamese and wear clothing
■when they come down from their
mountain fastnesses to the villages
and towns. Not very long ago they
visited the mission station at Tap-
teang. It was just at the close of
a prayer meeting when a social hour
with tea and music was being enjoy-
ed, and of course the uninvited
guests were asked to sit down also.
The strangers were not quite sure
of the proper etiquette for the occa-
sion, but observing the other guests
sitting on the floor in groups, they
went off into a corner by themselves
and sat down also. A cup was given
them, and they placed it in the center
on the floor and took turns sipping
a spoonful at a time from a single
spcon.
They had apparently learned to
beg — indeed, the members of the
tribe who can speak Siamese and
wear clothes after a fashion, come
down to the villages lor the express
purpose of begging—and before they
left the niissionaires brought out
some old clothes and shoes for them.
There was confusion in properly
adjusting the garments, and the
Christians had much ado to keep
from showing their amusement at
the' men trying to clothe themselves,
in the women's dresses and the wo-
men trying to get into trousers and
coats. The shoes interest ed them
the most, though, but there were
not enough of them go a round. This
occasioned no trouble, however,
and they finally bade their hosts
goodby, each nan and woman went
off very contentedly with one foot
covered with a shoe and the other
bare.
"Before they left, however, the
niissionaires had asked them whom
they worship — if they were Budd-
hists. "No," responded one of the
men, TVe worship the big person
up there." And he pointed to the
sfcy-
A man (and this does not exclude wonum) should never he ashamed
to say he had been in the wrong, which is hut saying in other words that
lie is wiser today than he was yesterday.
WHAT PSYCHOANALYSTS CAN'T GIVE.
By R. R. Clark.
The papers written by the young fellows in the Training School, in whi
they tell what they hope to be and do, their hopes and aspirations as to I
ture careers, have been interesting. They reveal the bent of the mind of t
boy. Too often the young folks get little encouragement to talk about th.
plans for life. Many of them are timid about telling their hopes and asp::
tions for fear of the rebuff they often receive, instead of the sympathetic i
terest they deserve. The older people unfitted to choose on their lifewoi
usually think children are not capa- Sometimes, often perhaps, that
hie of deciding for themselves; are true. But they should be eneoura~
1-
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to talk about what they want to do.
It is foolish for a parent to decide on
the child's lifework and [Hit him at
.the career chosen without some intel-
ligent effort to discover the berit of
Ms mind and the physical and mental
equipment for the vocation chosen.
Many failures, misfits, result from
that too common practice.
If youngsters, as these boys at the
Training School, decide they want to
do some one thing and continue of
that mind, all the time trying to do
.something in the direction of the fav-
ored vocation, it is generally accepted
as satisfactory evidence that they
have chosen their calling; and the rule
probably holds good. But it must be
admitted, too, that the fact that they
may think they want to do some one
thing is by no means postive evidence
in all eases that that is the thing at
which they will succeed. A man in
middle life recalls that when he was
a small boy he harbored a desire to
become a preacher. That might have
been taken (and fortunately was not)
as indications of a call; and if the
aealous folks who would make preach-
ers out of any material offering, re-
gardless of fitness, had caught that
boy young, they might have thrust
him into the ministry. But as a mat-
ter of fact the yearning for the sal-
vation of souls never entered that
boy's mind. lie was reared in the
country and the preacher was to him
the biggest man he knew. He thought
it would be grand to stand up and
'•orate" to admiring throngs. That
boy simply had a desire to lie a pub-
lic speaker for the"big of the thing;"
for the admiration he thought he
could command. Fortunately for him
and the Church his lines fell in other
work.
It the choice of vocation is discuss-
ed witli the young and they are given
ail the information possible about the
ins and outs of the work in which
they think they want to engage; if
they still "hanker" for a particular
calling after they have learned as
much about the unpleasant side of it
as they can assimilate, and they have
mental and physical characteristics
which seem to tit them for the calling,
and they should be encouraged to go
to it. While I am not posing as ex-
pert in such matters, I think it ex-
tremely hazardous to over-persuade
or to force a young person to adopt
some particular line of work against
his will, or to yield to his desire to
follow some particular calling without
first trying to let him learn as much
as possible about the difficulties he
may expect.
With us the selection of life work
is a sort of hit or miss process. It
isn't always what we would like to
do, or what we think we would like,
that is chosen; we often have to take
what offers. We can't always exer-
cise choice for lack of opportunity.
And sometimes when we have the op-
portunity, subsequent events show a
mistake. It is usually considered a
bad sign when a young person changes
occupations frequently. Justly or un-
justly the idea gets abroad, and it is
not without foundation, that one who
is trying first one thing and then
another, is no good. Sometimes the
changing is simply an effort to find
what one is fitted for. By and by the
changer may strike his stride and suc-
ceed. But frequent changing is dan-
gerous. Hence the great importance
of young people gathering all pos-
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sible information about (he calling
they think they want to persue before
they take it up; and in making the .se-
lection the wisdom and experience of
older pople is helpful. Nobody can
pick for you a job for which you are
fitted so well as you can do that for
yourself if you use intelligence in
making the selection; for nobody can
know the secret urging and inclination
of your mind as you know it.
. I am inclined to believe that the
psychologists and the psychoanalysts
are doing good work in helping young
people rind their proper calling., The
study of the mind is entertaining and
helpful. .Some of the psychologists
claim too much, 'there are experts
not a few who claim the ability to
give one the once over and tell him
what he should do — all about himself.
"While I don't know enough about
psychology to discuss it, I draw the
line on the claim. After all is saic?
and done, there is more or less guess
work. The man has yet to be. born
that can accurately read another's
mind on all occasions. But there is
much that can be done in that direc-
tion and I count it distinct, progress
that the young have opportunity to
secure some information as to their
fitness for a particular calling with-
out the hazard of going into some-
thing blindly only to find afterward
that they have made a mistake.
And don't forget that the greatest
asset in any calling is something the
psychoanalysts can't give — the will
and the determination to succeed at
all hazards. It is lack of these quali-
ties that make more failures than tak-
ing up the wrong job. "Whatsoev-
er thy hand tindeth to do, do it with
thy might.''
A pretty little story comes out of the comniencement of Fassifern
School at Hendersonville. Three Seniors tied with a Freshmen for the
Bible medal. The three Seniors, Misses Catherine Goodman, of Concord,
Louise Belden, of "Wilmington, and Elizabeth Shelton, of Charlotte, put
their heads togeher and asked that the medal go to Miss Frances Scales,
of Greensboro, the Freshman who tied with them. The Seniors were per-
fectly satisfied with honorable mention, and that beats drawing straws.
What I Would Like To Do And Why I Would Like
To Do It When I Leave 1 he Jackson Training School.
By Vass Fields-- -Winner of 5t'i prize.
I think every boy should learn .some useful trade when lie leaves the-
Jackson Training School. It has always been my desire to be a printer. B: t
first I want to go to high school and get more education, because no man win
get very far in this world without a thorough education. lam expecting
too, to go to college, but I am not go- After finishing school, I mean '■>
ing to ask father for the money — I work to make enough money to sup-
mean to work my way through. port my father who has work so Ici.j
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for me and whoexpected to see me an
honor to my community and to the
slate and not a disgrace. [ am thank-
ful to say that while I am at the
Jackson Training School I can learn
much about the printing business
and I am going to take advantage of
the opportunity. The reason I want
to be a printer is because it is hon-
orable work, and is a service to the
poor people who are not able to see
the world except through the news-
paper.
I am not going to stop at just an
ordinary printer, or else I would Jet
collage experience go; but my desire
is also to bean editor. I believe by
working my way. I can become
wl at I want to.
But before I become a real printer-
or editor I want to get one year of
military training, so if war should:
ever again come I will be ready to
defend my native country. I want,
too, to become a Christian and to give
my heart to Christ. I believe that
all men who have done anything
worthwhile are men who have given
their heart to Christ. If you are a
Christain you will be happy and
cheerful and "do untoothers as yon
would have them do unto you."
I sincerely want to show the
world that I can make something of
myself in spite of all hardship. To
win an easy race is easy — to win a
hard race is hard.
THE NAME OF YOUR STATE.
There are few studies more interesting than that of the origin of geographie-
names. We do not need to go to foreign lands for this, but can draw from our-
own fertile country, from its states, cities, towns mountains, lakes and rivers.
In this wide territory we shall find names both curious and commonplace. Yet
from them all we ean learn both history and geography as well as something
of the character of the pioneers who chose them.
Take for example the subject of refer to the heights of Boston over-
American state names. Here we find looking the hay. Connecticut is also
names of Indian, English, Spanish, of Indian origin, meaning "Long
and French origin, each one having
a special significance. At least half
of them have been derived from the
picture language of the red man and
■when translated tell of some natural
feature of the region. The rest
have had their source in the colonists'
love for their mother countries and
I sj^ak to us of the Old World and its
! rulers.
The fist state to boar an Indian
na ne was Massachusetts, which
means in the red man's tongue "Near
tin Great Hills." It is thought to
River Without End." This state has.
taken its name from its principal
stream; it was originally written
Quonoktacut.
Passing to the westward many
states are to he found taking their
names from important rivers. Ohio
was derived from Ohionhiio, mean-
ing "Beautiful River." The French:
translated it "La Belle Riviere" on
their early maps. Tennessee was once
written Tanasse; the original mean-
ing <d' the word has been lost, but
it is sometimes translated "Bend irt
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■the River." It is applied to both
:gtate and stream.
Kentucky is another name of In-
dian origin. It has various transla-
tions; the best known is that recorded
by Daniel Boone as "Dark and
Bloody Ground." Somewhat happier
translations' are "Meadow Land,"
and "At the Head of the River."
Mississippi, in a similar way, is best
known as "Father of Waters,"
though the translation is no longer
•considered technically correct. The
word means "Gathering in of All the
"Waters."
The name Alabama was first ap-
plied to the river and later adopted
by the state. It is usually interpret-
ed as "Here We Rest," though there
is question as to its true meaning.
Texas, our largest commonwealth,
likewise bears an Indian name. The
word is said to mean "Friends," or
^'Allies," being used as a form of
greeting by the red mam
Illinois is peculiar in that it is a
■combination of the French and the"
Indian language Ilini, meaning
■"Men/' was the name of a powerful
tribe living in that section of the
country, while "ois" is the French
Rdjective termination. By the state
of Iowa another tribal name is per-
petuated. It was taken indirectly,
being first applied to the river.
Michigan as one would expect,
means "Big Lake" or "Great
Water." In this case the state has
adopted the name of the lake much as
the others have that of the principal
stream. Wisconsin is usually trans-
lated as "Wild Rushing Channel."
the. name referring to the river.
French explorers wrote it Quiscon-
sin."
Minnesota has derived its name
form the Indian word moaning
"Cloudy Water," or as is sometimes
given "Skytinted Water." Our
greatest western stream gives its
name to the state of Missouri. Those
who know its yellow coloring can ap-
preciate the translation "Muddy-
Water."
Arkansas has taken its name from
the river of the same name. A pop-
ular translation is "Bend or Bow in
the Kansas," but it is believed that
the true meaning has been lost. Ear-
ly French explorers wrote it "Alkan-
sia" or "Alkansis. " Nebraska took
its name for the stream now called the
Platte. It is a descriptive term,
meaning ".Shallow Water," or
"Broad Water."
The two Dakotas bear an Indian
name signifying "Allies." It was
originally written "Dakota," of "Na-
kota," as well as in its present form.
Kansas bears a tribal name, first ap-
plied to the river near which the red
men lived. Translated it is "Wind
People," or "People of the South
Wind."
The state of Oklahoma also bears a
tribal name. It has the' pecularly
significant meaning of the "Red Peo-
ple." Wyoming was named for the
historic valley in Pennsylvania. The
Word has two meanings, "Extensive
Plains" and "Mountains with Val-
leys Alternating." Both apply equal-
ly well.
Mexico is said to have been derived
from ' ' Texitli, ' ' the name of an Az! eo
god. It is sometimes given another
meaning being translated as "Habita-
tion of the God of War." The name
of Arizona has come from "An.:o-
nac" meaning "Place of SaMl
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2ST-
Springs." The Indians first applied
il to a locality near the present town
of Nogales.
Utah has taken its name from the
Ule tribe of Indians. One meaning
assigned to it is "Home on the Moun-
tain Top." Idaho, which completes
the list of states with Indian names,
shows another happy choice. The
word is translated "Gem of the
Mountains."
Twelve of our states have names of
English origin. Virginia was so ehris-
ened by Sir Walter Raleigh in honor
of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of
England, who was ruling at the time
of the first settlements. Maryland
likewise perpetuates the name of an
English pueen Henritta Maria, wife of
the unfortunate Charles 1.
New York state also was named
for English royalty. The Duke of
York-, in whose honor the Dutch settle-
ments were re-christened, became
James II of England. The Carolinas
take their name from royalty, but
there is some question as to which
King Charles should have the honor.
The French named the region for
Charles IX of France, while the Eng-
lish proprietors named it for Charles
II of England.
There is however, no confusion a-
bout the origin of Georgia. Though
founded by General Oglethorpe, it
was named for and by George II of
England. As it happens, Pennslyva-
liia is the one state in the Union name-
ed for its founder. Penn himself
preferred to call his grant ' ' Slyvania ' '
hut Charles II would not have it other
than with Penn's name incorporated
in it.
Xew Hampshire was named by John
Mason, the proprietor of the colony,
for the English county of Hamshire.
Xew Jersey likewise perpetuates the-
name of the Channel Isle of Jersey,.
I lie hereditary home of Sir George
Carteret.
The diminutive state of Rhode Is-
land is sometimes said to have been
named for the Island of Rhodes in the
Mediterranean. Put it. is more than
likely that the name is the anglicized'
form of Rhode Eylandt (Red Island)-
applied to it by early Dutch navi-
gator.
Delaware, the second smallest state,,
was likewise named for an early ex-
plorer. Lord de la Warr, first gover-
nor and captain-general of Virginia,
made some explorations in the bay and
river now bearing his name. It is
said that the tribe of Indians known
as Delawares took their name from
these features.
We find but three states with names,
of French origin. Vermont was first
explored by Champlain, who named
it Vert Mont after its Green Moun-
tain, the dominating natural fuature
of the state. Maine is also thought
to have been christened by French
explorers. Xo doubt it had its origin
in the province of that name, which
was the home of Henrietta Maria,
queen of Charles I of England. Loui-
siana commemorates the name of
Louis XIV of France.
Gf the remaining stales six have,
names of Spanish origin. The first,
to bear a Spanish name was Florida,,
discovered by Ponce de Leon on
Easter Day, 1512. The word , it
seems, commemorates the holy day-
though it is possible that it was used
in reference to the "llowery" aspect
of the country.
The other states with Spanish.
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names lie in the west. California
"was list given by some of the follow-
ers of Cortez to the peninsula we
know as Lower California. It was
the name of a fabled island in an old
Spanish romance that had stirred the
imagination of the explorers. It has
proven most fitting for the state that
has adopted it.
Colorado, is Spanish for "red." It
■was first applied to the river whose
important tributaries flow through
the state. It may have designated
the ruddy color of the stream, or the
red earth that abounds in some re-
gions. Xevfcda, meaning "snowy,"
has reference to the snow-elad peaks
■of the state. Montana is another de-
scriptive term from the Spanish, trans-
lated as "Mountainous."
There are several theories as to the
origin of the name Oregon. To Joa-
quin Miller, the poet, is accredited the
one that it came from the Spanish
"Aura Agua," meaning "Gently Fall-
ing Waters." Another explanation
is that it was derived from the Span-
ish "Oregones, " meaning "Big-eared
Men." and applied by the early mis-
sionaries to the natives of the region.
There are two states that may be
said to have names that are distinctly
American. Washington was named
for the father of his country, and
though the word is of English origin,
it belongs to us in a way that none
would deny or dispute. Indiana,
though suggesting the red men who
made their homes in the territory, is
a coined word like many another to
be found.
In all the list there is no state that
commemorates the name of the dis-
coverer of the New World. We have,
however, the District of Columbia,
and the famous western river of the
same name to make up for this defi-
ciency.... • ■
CONE-DERATE SURVIVORS OF MC-
DOWELL COUNTY.
Hon. D. F. Giles, school man and '
in the Western part of the state, has
a list of the living- Confederate solide
They are sixty-two in all and are as
D. N. Davis.. W. C. Elliott, W. A.
Silver, John Suttles, Lee Williams,
S. M. Howard, S. F. E. Gruber, J.
M. Godfrey, E. G. Sherrill, A. B.
Watson, John Houek, xV. Yount, J.
M. Clay, Geo. MeCormack.S. H. Cur-
tis, T; J. ,-Wise, G. W. Bradley, G.
T. Mangum. E. Burnette, J. A.
Hemphill, James Gilliam. J. G. Holli-
field, John Collis, William H. Gil-
liam, S. M. Collis. A. F. Mor-
gan, A. L. Beach, A. C. Gardin,
egislator, wielding a large influence
kindly furnished THE UPLIFT with
rs, now resident in McDowell county,
follows:
S. A. Hensley, A. B. Halford, M. G.
Perdergrass. James Swann, James
A. Pyatt, James Morris. J. F. Mor-
gan, T. M. Cuthbertson, J. L. Bur-
gin, C. C. Bradley. W. C. Ja.v es,
A. F. Mode. Lee Holland, J. L.
Walsh. S. P. Tate, W. F. Early,
S. E. Poteat, M. Buchannun. T, Y.
Little, J C.Brown. A. Wilkersoi!. A.
B. Mashburn, John Chapman, John
Presnell, Enos Green, D, L. Y.'el-
born James Hemline, Daniel Holland,
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D. M. Laughridge, Joe Swan. J. L.
Burgin, J. L. Cowan. W. B. Rat-
lift', W. G. Bateman.
Some Corrections.
Our attention has been called to
several errors that got into the Ire-
dell list, and for the corrections we
are indebted to Mrs. Harry P. Deat-
tn, President of the U. D. C's Chap-
ter at Mooresville. Of the printed
list in THE UPLIFT, Mrs. Deaton
states soldier Aaron Plyler lives in
Rowan county, and that Messrs. F. S.'
Shook, A. A. Kelly and E. W. Over-
cash are dead, having passed away
during the past twelve months. Mrs.
Deaton. iurnishes the following nam-
es to be added to the list as publish-
ed:
J. A. Kennerly, W, A. Rainey, S.
A. Hoover. N. L. Robison, J. W.
Johnston, T. A. White, A. A. Gab-
riel, J. A. Howard. Daniel Plyler,
Alfred Fisher, William Deal, J. M.
Steele. H. H. Cope. N. L. Cranford,
D. B. Brantley, J. K. Mayhew, John.
W. Cohen, J. B. Atwell, J. E. Elien-
burg, J. F. Fail-child, Rev. R. ..W.
Boyd, J. W. Whitley, Dr. R, PL
Morrison.
In the list published recently for
Cabarrus, these failed to be report-
ed: Messers C. Edney Barringer,
Adam M. Furr, Thos. J. Shinn,
Georye W Bost, Caleb Cruse and'
Rufus T. Honeycutt.
(The truth of the matter is that
it is no easy matter to get a complete
and accurate list in a first publica-
tion. Many of these old heroes are
growing feeble, stay close to home
and thus drop out of sight. It will
l>e a matter of appreciation for any
one to call our attention to any er-
rors, either of commission or omis-
sion, during the course of the pub-
lication of the survivors of the
several counties of the state. — Edi-
tor.)
MOTOE'S ELEPHANT HUNT.-
By Henry M. Stanley.
After a good breakfast of rice and curry, which the chief of our band
sent me from his table to make me strong, I started. It was then about
neon, and the sun was very hot, though in the forest it would be cool
.
enough .
In a short time I washy the river,
and clear water. I walked along
i coking to the right and left constan-
i :ly tor hours, when just about two
I burs before sunset I heard a hollow
1 pound, as though the earth wasshak-
j H>
I knew, after listening, that the
\ our.d was caused by a herd of ele-
phants walking in file along the
hardbaked road, and that they were
approaching the stream to drink.
In a moment I was down on my
face like a dead man. The grass was
about two feet high, and very thick,
so that hvas quite safe if J did not
stir, and I am too old a hunter not to
know what to do in the neighborhood
elephants.
As the elephants passed by, I lift-
ed up my head cautiously, and count-
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•*;d them. Two-four-six-eight-teu
enormous beasts, who tossed their
trunks aloft, as if they were the
masters of the forest, and knew it.
They passed on, and [ wriggled out
until I was some distance away.
Then I jumped up and leaped
across the stream, and on all fours
crept across a deep bend of it. Lying
Hat on tiie, ground. I moved toward
■agreat tree, a baobab, that stood be-
tween me and them.
If the elephants had all stood in a
row drinking from the river. I could
never have come up to them unseen;
but one greedily thirsty fellow was
standing in the middle of the stream,
almost touching the baobab tree
with his side, so that he completely
hid me from the others.
Bringing down my gun, I pointed
it three inches or so behind the left
fore leg, on a level with the beast,
and fired. The elephant sprang
forward. By doing so, he left me
right under the eyes of the others
as I hurred away. I was bounding
over the low bushes and grass tops
as if I were an antelope.
The elephants got over their sur-
pries in a second. Then a wild
snort of rage greeted my ears, and I
krew by the crash of the bushes and
splash of water that they were after
me.
The awful crashing came nearer,
and nearer, and I saw that the lord
of the herd was but thirty paces from
me. He seemed to tower up to three
times his usual height, and to swell
out to three times his natural size. •
His great ears stood straight out
as flat as a board, and his eyes were
like coals of tire. His trunk' was
lifted up, his head was stretched
"out, and the two long, mighty,
gleaming teeth seemed awful just
then.
I suppose that he was only fifteen
feet from me when the tricks of the
elephant hunters came to my mind.
In an instant I tinned half-way. and
ran out straight to the right from
the direction that 1 had Hirst been
going.
The elephants passed on, rushing
ahead. I had got fifty yards away
before they could turn about. Only
for an instant they stopped. They
caught sight of me again and with
loud furious snorting, again they
charged in a mass.
I am a swift runner, but the best
of us seemed to crawl, compared
to the speed of an elephant for the
first few hundred yards. The elep-
phant were gaining rapdily.
A little distance off before me,
and to the left, was a clumpof brush-
wood. If I could gain that, I might
find somewhere to hide.
In a few momentsl reached it. and
looking sharply about, I found a
hole" in the ground. It belonged to
.a wild boar, but I though thai it
would be a good plase to hide, so I
dropped down and crawled in.
I beard the elaphant thunder
overhead. At the same instant there
was a grunt behind me, and 1 was
shot out of that hold, like a bullet
out of a gun. I lost all knowledge
•of everything for many hours.
When I recovered it was night.
My friends found' me, and eaivied
me back to the camp.
Next day the elephant was picked
up, about two hours' distance ivom
the place where I had shot him, .The
tusks were as large-as any that vrere
ever seen, and brought a large sum
of money. - :..!-.. •" ■ i'i
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THE ARISTOCRACY OF YOUTH.
By J. E. Paddock
The words aristocracy comes from two Greek vords, Aristos, best, and'
Kratein, to be strong, to rule and it rightly means, the rule, not of the high-
born, but of the best.
We are apt to think of the word aristocratic as meaning those who are
stylish or put on airs as we sometimes say.
There is a real aristocracy and a
false or counterfeit.
We usually ascribe it to those
who are above the rank and tile of
the crowd.
But for my purpose, on this occa-
sion I desire that we shall divorce
it from its accommodated forms of
meaning and adhere strictly to the
original meaning.
The first years are the best be-
cause they furnish the best opportu-
7iity. It is virgin soil clean and
ready for use.
The mind in its early years is
' plastic, when it is easy to learn.
j Memory work can be done much
more readily than at a later period
: in life. In fact it is the period of
! memory when it comes natural for
memorizing.
First years are the best because
; things learned then are more per-
manent. The mind functions more
'. easily and accurately.
The reception, retention and the
; reproduction of mental activities
'; best accompany the early years.
The best years of life properly
1 used develop strength for the exi-
1 gencies of life. Strong to do and
1 be; to rule in the affairs of life.
' Youth is the period of religious
i susceptibility. The conscience is
i : tender and clear. Impressions for
good are easily made. More per-
il sons become religious during the
early years in life than later on.
It is natural that it should be so.
During this period hero stories
make a strong appeal. It is the
time of great awakening. When the-
nature is changing and the youth
finds himself possessed of new and
strange feelings.
. The boy wants to look like a man;
and dress like a man. He finds,
himself breaking away from his.
usual way of living and wants
things different. He is changing in-
to manhood. He will never be the-
same as he has been before.
There is a close and vital rela-
tionship between purity and
strength. The youth is strong in
proportion as he has kept himself
pure. One cannot be impure and
hope to remain strong.
Purity and strength are twins and
always reside together. The type
of purity that is conducive to strong;
manhood is that which has been,
carefully and well directed. There-
comes a time in the life of every
child when the parent should in a.
sensible way, tell the child just
what it should know.
Why not?
Better a thousand times that a
parent should inform his child than
that such information should reach
the child through some other-
source.
There is no more sacred duty falls
on a parent than that of telling a.
child what he should know, and at
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"the proper time.
The early years are the most to
be coveted. The whole course of
the life can be shaped in just a
few years. As the twig is bent the
tree is inclined. It is during these
years that the child gets his educa-
tion, shapes his course in life, forms
his habits, developes his character,
becomes interested in religious mat-
ters and practically settles the whole
course of his future, years of useful-
ness.
It was because of these things
we were told Remember now thy
Creator in the days of thy youth
"when the evil days come not nor the
years draw nigh when thou shalfc
say, I have no pleasure, in them. If
we do these things we shall never
have anything to regret. If we
fail in doing them, we shall never
know but little of the aristocracy of
youth, for these years are the best
years life affords and are the ones
most greatly to be coveted by think-
ing persons.
What the world needs most to-day
is the rule of the best.
The best, the strongest, the pur-
est that the youth of America can
furnish — this is the aristoei'acy for
which the world is calling.
Insti
iuoaai
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
g»e just been completed by the printers
~'S of the school.
Rev. Mr. Lawrence conducted
religious services here, Sunday,
June 4.
Claude Coley and Murray Evans
received visits from home folks Wed-
nesday.
The band did not play in the pavi-
lion last Sunday, and was missed
very much.
The boys studied ' Jehoiakiin
Tries to Destroy God's Word," for
their Sunday School lesson May
HI.
Lamp post as pretty as the ones
-around our main lawn are soon to
be placed upright around the lawn
facing the last finished cottages.
Work on a phamplet, "The Occu-
pation of Suffolk by the Yankees
during war between the states" has
The band boys are in eager anti-
cipation. They are to go on a pic-
nic soon and of course you know
what picnics suggest to them. All
sorts of good times.
Due to tireless work by Mrs. II.
B. "Cloer, matron of Mecklenburg
'Cottage this cottage's lawn is filled
with flowers, and it often causes
visitors to stop and gaze at it with
admiration.
Mr. Ankers has gained some in
his quest for water. Soon he will
strike this soon-needed substance
and new cottages will be opened
without fear of lack of this life giv- j
ing substance
The pipes are being laid away in
the grounds now. One necce.- siv$
of this pipe laying was to dig up ihe
highway, causing tourists and trav-
elers to pass through the schools
campus. Of course the pupils en-
joyed this, for they could see (he
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travelers better and could excange
heartier greetings.
In a fully featured and yet rather
o^or game, here Saturday, June 3,
Hartsell Mill was unable to stop the
winning streak of the J. T. S. and
lost their game thereby with a one
sided score of 10 to 2. Hegu'.ar, a
former boy here, and who is suc-
ceeding in life, held the important
position between second and third
.stations.
Holman twisted the apple for the
J. T. S.. using many deceptive
curves and drops which the visitors
were unable to connect up with. J.
T. >S. acquired an overwhelming
lead in the first frame and was nev-
er in danger afterward. The J. T.
S. players knocked the delivery of
Thomas V. all over the orchard.
Honeycutt and Williams were on
bases, namely 2nd and 3rd, when
Holman, the pitcher, did something
unusual for most moundsmen. He
lammed the pill for a three base hit!
The hit would have gone for a com-
plete circuit but the ball landed on
a tree, enabling the middle pasture
player to get it and send it to the
main works, preventing Holman
from claiming home run honors.
In this inning the home team gained
four runs.
The next session ended for the
opponents in the same manner as
did their first trial, for Holman
would not allow his slants to be
straightened; he issued no free pas-
ses 'and struck out many men.
I, T. S. increased her lead by
gaining one more run in her next
frame.
For the next two innings neither
side scored. It sure was funny to
.fee the way the Hartsell Millers
walked backward from the diamond
when Holman grasped a warelub
and fa:-ed the hurler,
In the fifth Hartsell Mill repeat-
ed her previous performances, while
the Griermen dented the apple for
another run to be placed on their
count. The sixth session was the
only lucky one for the mill team.
Holman again lost his chance for
pitching a shut out game; his oppo-
nents look two runs from him. But
this was their first and last score.
In the last two innings J. T. S. scor-
ed four more runs and the Cabarrus
Millers had to chuck in their lost
column a defeat by a ten to two
score. The J. T: S. has to its credit
seven victories and two defeats.
Mooresville must be a dandy
place for training and making real
ball players, for two of the best play-
ers on the team, Honeycutt and Ev-
ans, hail from this place w here clean
ball is taught. They were candi-
dates for and won a place in the
Hall of Fame at the J. T. S. Honey-
cutt copped a two bagger in the
last, two games played and Evans
claims one for the game with Cabar-
rus Mills.
Williams, keeper of the middle
pasture, besides making a spectacu-
lar forward catch and ''aiding and
abetting" in a double play, clouted
the pill for a two bagger.
Cook. Hegular and Russell played
fine ball.
But the remarkable part of the
whole thing is that only a few days
previous to this game, the regular
nine was defeated by the scrub team
in a walkaway practice match. Capt.
Grier, manager of the Griermen,
when told, laughed long and loud at
this strange psrank of fate. How-
ever, "we should worry" if the loo-
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als continue winning games. Who
can stop our winning streak?
Score by innings:
R. H. E.
Hartsell Mill 000 002 000—2 2 3
J. T. S. 410 010 22x— 10 13 1
Thomas V. and Frank K.; Holman
and Cook.
HONOR ROLL
"A"
Chas. Rothrock, Brevard Brad-
shaw, Richard Johnson, Mark King,
JakeWillard, Albert Keever, Sylves-
ter Sims, PaulLeitner, Chas. Bishop,
Harvy Wrenn. Rufus Wrenn, Henry
Reece, Frog Suther, Carrol Guice,
Sam Dixon, Thomas Oglesby, San-
ford Hedrick, Joseph Pope, Blois
Johnson, Julius Camp, Dallas Hen-
sley, PaulKimmery, Thomas Moore,
Jack Frazier, Worth Stout, Watson
O'quinn, Lee Bradley, Brady Vene-
able, Walter Mills, Ben Pot eat, Chas.
Stone, Autery Wilkenson, D.H.John-
son, Charlie Jackson, Cleburn Hale,
Herbert Apple, Paul Green, Chas.
Lisk, Walter Taylor, Plez Johnson,
Claude Friske, Joseph Jorden, Ar-
thur Duke, Earnest Laster, Newlan
McDonald, Jno. Hughs, Bertram
Fart Kelma Smith, Magnus Wheel-
ler, FredParrish, ChallieLee, Lam-
bert Cavenaugh, Loxley Saunders,
Joseph Moore, Malcolm Holman, Wil-
liam Hancock, Jas. Honeycutt, Hen-
ry Faucette, Floyd Huggins, Arthur
Montgomery, Jack McLelland, Argo
Page, Frank Thornason, Columbus
Mead, Doyle Jackson, Murray Evans,
Roy Baker, Robt. Watson, Victor
High, William Wilson, Dudley Pan-
gle, William Gregory, Harry Ward,
Jno. Wright, Swift Davis.
"B"
Milton Hunt, Aubrey Weaver,
Earle Crow, Ellis Nance, Lloyd Win-
ner. Anderson Hart, Archie Brady,.
Julian Piver. Garland Banks. John
Hill, Luther Grant, Forest B5'ersv
Murphy Jones, Luther Cray. John
Kemp, Hazen Ward, Ralph Porter-
field, Herbert Tollie, Lee Smith,
Clifton Rogers, Chester Shepherd,
Elvis Carlton, Eunice Byers, Earnest
Carver, Walter McMahan. .Tohnie
Branch. Chas. Parton, Chas. Mor-
row, James Allen. Hugh Tyson,
Homer Covington, Luther Chenault,
Jerome Bruton, Clyde Willard,
David Underwood, Edward Clever,
Edward Thomas, Ralph Cutchen,.
Chas. Mayo, Jas. Shipp, Louis Press-
ley, Harry Lamb, Fitzhugh Miller,
Arvel Absher, HoyleFaulkuer, WTal-
ter Shepai'd, Jno. Moose, Allie Wil-
liams, Marion Butler, L( e Rogers.
A GBEAT STATE ASSET.
Gradually the plant at the Jackson-
Training School, at Concord, is ex-
panding into proportions wrothy the;
great State institution that it has be-
come and to the broadening of the-
purposes which it was designed to-
fulfill for the youth of the State. The-
proposition for a joint cottage for the-
counties of Iredell and Rowan has
materialized and this assures a hand-
some addition to the colony of coun-
ty buildings. The capacity of th*-
Jackson Training School has been
strained from the day it opened its.
doors, but the cottage system point-
ed the way out of the difficulty. No
county could make better provision
for the future welfare of its youth,
than investment of this kind, and
each new cottage adds to the great-
ness of the institution. The enclc-
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avor of this school has been to turn olina. To feed his stock, numbering
out a State asset in the shape of an into the hundreds, he grewhay— lit-
educated and a trained young man- erally hundreds of acres of it-^on his
hood, and North Carolina is today large farm to the west of the city
filled with living examples to the And what do you suppose his prin-
succcss of its work.— Charlotte Ob- eipal forage crop consist of? The
stn'ver- . lowly popcorn. He sowed it alone
— ■ and sometimes mixed withcowpeas.
MAKING HORSE FEED Not "nl-v did tllr P°P«>rn make the
finest kind of hay but grain as well.
The older farmers of Union coun- for there were on the stalks little
ty remember the late John W. Wads- ears of corn which stock ate cob and
worth, the big liveryman of Char- all. Popcorn may be planted or
lotte. Twenty-five or thirty years sown as late as July and it is cut
ago he operated perhaps the largest before it is well matured to make the
livery and sale stables in North Car- best forage. — Monroe Enquire.
THE PESSIMIST FIREFLY.
The Pessimist Firefly sat on a weed
In the dark of a moonless night;
"With folded wings drooped over his breast
He moped and he moaned for light.
"There is nothing but weeds on the earth," said he,
"And there isn't 'a star in the sky;
And the best I can do in a world like this
Is to sit on this weed and die."
Then be your own star, then be your own star.
The Optimist Firefly said,
If you'll leap from your weed, and will open your wings
And bravely fly afar,
You will find you will shine like a star yourself,
You will be yourself a star;
Yes, the thing you need
Is to leap from your weed
And be yourself a star."— Sam Walter Foss.
CONCORD, N. C. JUKE 17, 1922
NO. 32
! THE ALTRUISTIC SPIRIT I
I ' *
% In the Boxer rebellion, China sadly wronged tho *
£ United States. The indemnity awarded our coun- %
| try was nearly $15,000,000. We might have gone *
* • to wur with China to collect it. Instead, we for- *
% gave China her debt, remitting nearly the whole of %
* it. China was surprised and pleased at this unex- %
* pected turn of affairs, as was Jacob when Esau, * .
* whom he hxd wronged, fell on his neck and kissed ♦
;?: him. What has been the result? China at once sent *
* a high dignitary to Washington with an expression %
* of his nation's deepest gratitude. And then China *
% met our nation's courtesy with a courtesy of her ♦
^ own: she set aside this great sum, and decided to *
* use the income in educating Chinese students in %
America. Every year 650 students, her brightest *
young men and women are studying in our various *
£ colleges, because of this fund. The United States %
* is being abundantly rewarded for boing kind, tender- %
% hearted, forgiving, to China.— Tarbell.
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1S79.
He who believes in eternal justice cannot be beaten in life. He may
be stung; he may be half dead with the wounds of life, stricken, of he'art
in the lonely desert; but he is sure to start into energy the .moment he
sees t'he fresh sunlight or the breeze of the new impulse, such impulse
as God sends a man who clings to Him by faith. — Stafford A. Brooke.
A CALL TO CONCORD CITIZENS.
The question of adequate school facilities for the children of Concord, of both
races, is a vital one1 — too vital to be mussed up by an unnecessary public de-
bate, out of which will grow, if anything, a feeling of discord and bitterness.
This is no time for any further discord in a town that is trying at the eleventh
hour to live in unison with its honored name.
There is no reason of any kind whatever for abuse of anyone, whether he
favors or opposes a bond issue for $225,000 for the enlargement of the school
facilities. If free men have not the privilege and the perfect right to oppose a
measure, until they are convinced of the merits of that measure, then we have
coine upon evil times.
If the school board of the city of Concord would take the public into a full
and frank confidence as to all the ffoets in the case, there is no reason to doubt
that the citizens would register a just verdict. If the Board is in debt and
needs some of the bond money to discharge that obligation, why tell the public
ifs their business; if the Board means to enlarge the present high school
building tell the public how much enlargement and what amount of money is
reeded to do the work; if the Board intends to build another High School
building, tell the public what the site is to cost, what the building is to cost
and their reason for such a course.
There are real good men in Concord, men who have contributed large ser-
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vice towards educational advancement in Concord and want to do the proper
tiring at this critical period, who desire lo be informed. As it stands they
do not think that ■'{''225,000 is required to solve the educational problem; but if
the Board can and will make an open and frank exhibit of how it intends to
spend this enormous sum, these men will have the light to govern them in
casting an intelligent ballot.
If it van be shown that there is a probability of on increase in the school
population within tin' next tea years, then it would certainly be wise to
take this into consideration. The simple statement of any person or board
or organization to say that "we are building for all time to come" is absurd-
ly foolish and foolishly absurd. No one has the knowledge to warrant
such a statement; and no one, not even the school board itself has the au-
thority to bind its successors, or rather attempt it, not to ask for additional
bond issues for a future enlargement.
THE UPLIFT stands unequivocally fur full school facilities for every
child wherever he be — that is a bounded .duty we owe the child, and any-
thing short of this is courting criminality in this enlightened age. And
it thinks, too, an unnecessary amount, an amount beyond the immediate
needs for the next ten years, is a brutal injustice against the public.
If there be any responsible party that knows the real facts and the de-
mands and has authority to speak for them, let him take the public into his
confidence by making a full and complete exhibit. The education of our
children is too vital a matter to be committing blindly inexcusable errors;
but cut out the threatened joint debate.
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j GOVERNOR, MORRISON AT N. C. COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
Gov. Cameron Morrison was the Commencement orator at the late finals
of the Women's College at Greensboro. He broke a precedent, in the
matter of what the public heretofore has regarded a proper subject for a
Commencement occasion. But what does Gov. Morrison care for precedents
when the house is on tire or something is going wrong in the state. His
subject that day before the ninety and five sweet, attractive graduates was
''Agriculture and Horticulture."
The Governor was impressed with the brilliancy of the occasion, and him-
self was in tine trim, looking every inch a Governor with all that term im-
implies. It seemed that the great audience was shocked when he announc-
ed his subject — at least several near this writer gave evidence to that fact
and they sat in enrapt attention to the really admirable address, abouad-
I'HE UPLIFT 5
"rag in unanswerable argument and bearing in every sentence a heart-felt
•conviction that even converted the audience. Not a stir, or smile, or ap-
plause, after the opening and very hearty greeting, was in evidence among
that intelligent audience until the Govenor eloquently and dramatically de°-
clared, 1 am in favor of children and others having chicken every other day
in the year.''' Then it was the entire audience gave a hearty and unani-
mous endorsement, including the gowned faculty on the stage. From that
time on Gov. Morrison had his audience in perfect control; and under other
environment he could have led the crowd right into the heart of actual and
sensible farming, which everybody now knows is not being done in North
Carolina.
As A Country Woman" elsewhere in this issue deplores that among
the ninety-five graduates only one has manifested a determination to take
on a missionary spirit and go back to the country, where God knows the
condition is appalling, and do her might, let us hope that she will preach
the Governor's sound doctrine until others join her in the task. Because
of this breaking of a precedent, Gov. Morrison got talk started, and his
truly admirable advice will travel all the furtuer.
A LITTLE SHOP TALK.
Gentle reader, look up in this number "Margeret Martin's Adventure,"
and read it — read it to your girls, to your boys, to all. It's a delightful story
— it's a picture of beautiful home life, home co-operation. .and home manners
— it 's goodness and naturalness combined. . ...- :.. i.,
Master Edward Cleaver, a little more than 13 years o£-age, with less than
one months study in the use of the Linotype machine, alone and wifliout
direction set the article in 5 his. and 45 minutes, sending the proof to the editor
who was unable to find a single error. Those conversant with type-setting,
will realize at a glance that this piece, full of commas,-' quotation marks, dash-
es etc., is not the easiest composition.
Talk about the dropped stitches of a vanished' or palsied' hand— wherever
the spark of divinity nestless, active or dormant, there is an engaging hope
tu beckon onward those who recognize the brotherhood' of man' and the God-
given spirit of service.
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In the light for solicitor for thejlaleigh district. In "the second' primary,
the bio- guns are in evidence. Lawyers Hinsdale and" fcvTiiis, tl~e latter tho
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leader in the first primary, are contesting-. It seems that a majority of
the bur has lined up with Hinsdale, but Lawyer J. William Baily. who is
supporting Evans, stirred the animals in the court-house on Monday last.
From his angle Mr. Baily sees that the Underworld" are against Evans
and are attempting his annihilation. Mr. Evans was an orphan, educated
at Oxford Orphanage, is a man of strong mentality, fearless and aggres-
sive. Mr. Hinsdale belongs to one of the old-time families of Raleigh and
as a lawyer has had some Ifttle experience.
* * * * * * * *
Miss Gertrude Weill, ofGoldsboro, has broken a precedent. She bold-
ly walked up to a polling place in Cioldsboro during the primary June 3,
and. dieovering that a large number of tickets were marked in accordance
with the sympathy and desires of a certain henchman, bodaeiously tore
them into bits. One lady, in meeting another lady in Greensboro a few
days afterwards, expressed our sentiments exactly in this hearty saluta-
tion, "Hurrah for our Gertrude" and then the two women right where they
are tearing down the old court-house began hugging each other in joy and
glee.
********
Commissioner of Agriculture Graham should get a copy of Gov. Morrison's
Greensboro Normal address on Agriculture and Horticulture, issue it in
pamphlet form, send a bunch to every school-district in the state for general
distribution. That speech should reach the people out in the sticks, where
it can and will do great good. It will get nowhere with town farmers ' and
agriculturists — let those, who will profit by it, have an opportunity to see
and study the line ease the Governor made out against our way of farming.
********
The Charlotte cotton market on Monday was quoted at 21 3-4 to 22, while
in Concord it was reported as just 21. There is .a reason for this, and so
long as this difference occurs in the price of that product which touches an
all but helpless class (as things are now), just so long will Concord, Concord's
reputation and Concord's business houses suffer. This is a wrong that should
not be permitted to stand longer.
********
Sister Nancy Astor has reached home after her triumphant American
visit. The cold-blooded neighbors didn't meet her with a brass band, or
call out, the fire company, or do so small a thing as having the courthouse bid
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■rung. Lady Astor will have to come hack where real personality and
an effervescent brightness are recognized and appreciated.
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A \ irginia lawyer has been sentenced to jail for live days for contempt
of court. Must have been a mighty sorry court, whose contempt would
bring down on a lawyer only five days in jail. Gov. Trinkle. in trying
his nerve, refused to pardon the lawyer.
There have been 3S.000 business failures since May 1920 .vhen deflation
set in. Experts claim with a degree of plausibility that the tide has turn-
ed.
Work on the Rowan-Iredell Cottage is going toward rapidly.
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PENT.
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* closer he saw it was a Serpent to all appearance dead. But he took £
* it up and put it in his bosom to warm while he hurried home. As *
♦> soon as lie got indoors he put the Serpent down on the hearth before *>
% the fire. The children watched it and saw it slowly come to life .>
*;* again. Then one of them stooped down to stroke it, but the Ser- £
* pent raised it head and put out its fangs 'and was about to sting the
»:• child to death. So the Woodman seized his axe, and with one stroke <;•
* cut the Serpent in two. "Ah," said he, <.
* "XO GRATITUDE FROM THE WICKED." *
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ONE, ..GIRL WILL TACKLE
By A Country Woman.
By reading THE UPLIFT I've learned to have a deeper interest in human-
ity, for the thoughts expressed through the columns of your paper pulsates
with a depth of feeling for mankind in every walk of life.
The great London preacher, who spoke at the recent commencement of
Trinity College, truly gave a lucid definition of true leadership when he
said; "The true leadership that feels the pity of the multitude and seeks to
give true guidance to one's fellows
is the aristocratic gift of God. The
object of the pulpit is to create an
atmosphere for the factory and the
farm." As I read I felt that he
could have so easily added, 'and the
object of the Press ought to be to
create the same interest,'' for more
people read the newspapers and
periodicals than attend divine wor-
ship. Do you realize that if the
editors of North Carolina had one
specific thing in mind, written up
in the same spirit of earnestness,
and issued on the same date that the
power and influence brought to bare
in behalf of that object would be in-
calculable.
Why? Because there are news-
paper readers in every community
and there is the other class who love
to tell the news first and thereby in-
formation is carried to the illiterate.
One can easily see the dynamic pow-
er of the press if such an experiment
were to be tested out. I venture to
say that the most isolated community
of our state would have some, even
though vague, information of the
subject matter in the papers of that
date.
Hearing Governor Morrison, last
week, in his annual address to the
graduating class of the N. C. Wo-
man's College, in which he most
strongly stressed Agriculture and
Horticulture and Gardening — that
every home ought to have its vege-
tablegarden, fruit trees, pecan trees,
poultry yard, hogs, cows etc — the
thought came to me row can these
girls afford to goto the rural section
to teach after spending money and
time on their education when the
county schools as a general thing
have such pour inducements in the
way of school facilities and homes to
offer in return for service unless
there were some endowed with that
gift of God — the real missionary spir-
it. I made it my business to impure
how manyofthe95 garduates, whore-
ceived diplomas on .Tune 6th at the
N. C. W. College, expected to teach
in the rural schools of the state. The
answer is appalling but true. Just,
one of that large crowd of bright and
attractive girls has the pity of hu-
manity in her heart to such an extent
as to venture out in the country to
give true guidance to her hobbled
rural sister and. brother. I fear the
subject so ably and earnestly dis-
cussed by Gov. Morrison will never
be broadcasted to the extent of real-
izing extensive and intensive results
through one lone representative of
that big class.
There is a chasm between oppor-
tunities of the town and city on the
one hand, and those of the rural sec-
tion on the other hand. Now, how-
can this chasm be bridged? Surely
there is no disposition on the part of
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any one to take from the towns and
cities any conveniences of modern
civilization, or to lower the stan-
dards of the College so as to make her
products lit into rural -life; but there
ought to be a desire in the heart of
every patriotic North Carolinian to
reach out and help to make the life of
a teacher in the country attractive
by better school facilities. Herein
the news-papers of North Carolina,
getting the lay of the land, could
start an educative propaganda that
would help this honest but timid
people, the rural fathers and
mothers, who by their very en-
vironment have been denied the ad-
vantages of town people, to find the
way to proceed about establishing
better school facilites for. their chil-
dren. If something radical and
positive is not soon done, history
must repeat itself and this coming
generation will not be and cannot be
any improvement on the past. The
only hope of the future home-
building, such as Gov. Morrison so
eloquently and clearly pictured, lies
in the character of the school life
and the influence of the teacher in
every community.
CJood schools help to make thrifty ■
and intelligent house-wives; and
surely you could not expect so much
of the dull-eyed mother eking out
the miserable existence which was
bequeathed her, unless you bring to
bear upon her and her family the in-
fluences of broad-minded, capable
and enthusiastic teachers, who have
a vision and the spirit, of service.
Teachers, having had superior ad-
vantages amid luxurious comforts,
naturally look for a salaiy and home
comforts commensurate in every way
with their past experiences. Many
are even educated out of and away
from their former sphere and ,' en-
vironment.
Let us hope that the day is not far
distant when the rural child will be
given an even chance with the city
child. The school must come first,
and, as sure as day follows night, so
surely will all the other good things
come to make complete an ideal rural
home, the kind that Gov. Morrison
suggested in his address to the grad-
uating class of the Greensboro
Normal, last week.
Mr. Dave GaskilL of Salisbury, is a fine, good fellow; in fact, he is an
institution within himself. When a mere boy he came up from Morekeid
City to make his home with his brother in Salisbury. It is interesting
to hear him tell how his eyes were opened in his trip across the st?ie.
"You know," said he, "I £iai a IleUhodist. When I was in Morekead I
thought there were only two religious denominations— Baptist and Metho-
dist. Here in Salisbury I found that there were others.- But when I had
an opportunity to go with my brother to New York, I was astounded. In
the hotel there was a church directory, and I do believe Share were , h In-
dred different denominations inviting you to their service:;." _ier
we get from our narrow bound£.Vies, into the greater opportunities, all
the bigger and more important seems the world; .and from every hand
comes the call for service.
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CHASLE3 WOJITH JOHNSTON
Charlotte, IT. C.
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U
CHARLES WORTH JOHNSTON.
The above is the baptized name of our subject, who. without his know-
ledge but by his natural atfabilityand delightful approachableness, has come
to be known by his hosts of friends as just "Charlie Johnston." From a
■country iad. born Oct. 14. 1S61, when the affairs of this country were in a
chaotic state and when men and women were suffering the terrors and
sorrows of war, Charles "Worth John-
ston, now of Charlotte. N. C, has
justly and fairly earned a proud
place among' the big and dominant
leaders and captains in the busi-
ness and industrial life of North
Carolina. This has been accomp-
lished by his native ability, his
.strenuous devotion to duty and his
high sense of honor and integrity.
Our subject was born in Cabarrus
•county on the old Johnston home-
stead near the Jacob Stirewalt old
mill, in No. 3 township, of sturdy
.and strong-minded parentage. His
father was Samuel Johnston, whose
brother was for years pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Char-
lotte, and his mother was Mary
(Smith) Johnston, a sister of the
late Dr. G. G. Smith, once a leading
and popular citizen and practicing
physician of Cabarrus county and
Concord. In this union there were
just three children, one daughter,
who died in infancy; and two sons,
one the subject of this sketch and the
other, Mr. Edgar Horace Johnston,
a prominent business man and lead-
ing citizen of Rock Hill, S. C.
Though the schools of the period
of Mr. Johnston's youth are looked
upon to-day by the modern doctors
of education as feeble and peculiar
efforts after education, there were
nevertheless in that time outstand-
ing examples of the finest educa-
tional training ever known in all
the history of the state. Young
Johnston had the privilege of being
under that master. Prof. Augustus
Leazer, a justly famous teacher of
that period and whose efficiency and
fine reputation still survive in the
lives and conduct of hundreds of
manly and succcessful men. Young
Charlie Johnston was under the ed-
ucational training of Prof. Leazer
for six years, having attended his
school at Prospect and afterwards at
Coddle Creek. In 1S79 he entered
Davidson College, remaining there
until 18S2 when he accepted a clerk-
ship in the town of Davidson.
Mr. Johnston married Miss Jen-
nie Stough, of Davidson, and bless-
ing this union are three children,
Mr. Horace Johnston, who is now
associated with his father in the con-
duct of his extensive manufacturing
enterprises, Mrs. R. W. Stokes and
Mrs. E. J. Brasswell, all residents
of Charlotte. In 1921 death entered
tins home, and Mrs. Johnston, the
devoted wife and mother, was called
to the great beyond.
In 1884, becoming connected with
the firm of Stough, Cornelius & Co.,
Mr. Johnston and his firm built the
Cornelius Cotton Mills, of which he
became secretary and treasurer. The
enterprise was successful in every
particular. In 1895 Mr. Johnston
removed to Charlotte, where he be-
came the secretary and treasurer of
the Highland Park Cotton Mills, of
which at that time the late Col. W.
E. Holt, and the late J. S. Spencer
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were the outstanding directing offi-
cials. Upon (lie burden of advanc-
ing years oftCol. Holt, to Mr. John-
ston was handed down the active
management of this enterprise,
which then had just 150 looms.
Later an enlargement took place,
providing fur the necessary spin-
ning machinery to make the mill in
every respect a well balanced manu-
facturing plant. This organization.
the Highland Park M'fg. Co.. under
the direct and masterful direction
and control of Mr. Johnston, has
grown into a mammoth industrial
machine, consisting today of No. 1.
at Charlotte, with 16,000 spindles and
5,00 looms; No. 2, at Rock Hill, with
10.000 spindles, and 800 looms; and
No. ?,, at Charlotte, with 30,000
spindles and 1,036 looms. No. 2. at
Rock Hill, S. C, is under the direc-
tion of Mr. E. H. Johnston, a brother,
who just 'a few years ago was making
his living on the old. Johnston home-
stead-.in. western Cabarrus. At
Rock Hilljs owned arid operated by
this .company, a Cotton Oil Mill of
sixty ton .capacity.
In addition ,to tin'- already men-
tioned manufacturing enterprises,
Mr. C. W. Johnston is president of
the Brown ■ and Noreott mills, at
Concord; of the -Jewell mill at
Thomasville. of a mill at Selma; of
the Park Yarn mill, of King's Moun-
tain; and is owner outright of the
mill of the Johnston Mfg. Co. Mr.
Johnston is the president and chief
stockholder of the Johnston Mills
Company, a million-dollar corpora-
tion recently charted, which is en-
gaged in the commission business
alone. One would think that with
these interest, going and virile, the
energy of one man would be suffi-
ciently occupied and entertained;
but not so. There is building today
under the direction of Mr. Johnston
at Spindale a large mercerizing
plant, which, lam told, will be the-
latest word in the construction and
efficiency of such an institution. The
activities of the subject of this
sketch are not confined to the work
of cotton mills and allied interests,
fur he takes a lively interest in the
commercial and banking life of
Charlotte, and is now' a director of
the Commercial Bank and interested
as a stockholder in other financial
and various institutions.
As I write of this very success-
ful and useful man, knowing no
little about his early youth, his op-
portunities and his environment , I
cannot keep back the wonder as to-
how many men, successful and out-
standing men, reached that posi-
sition in business life, who followed
their first impulses and leadings.
Answering my own curiosity, I am
constrained to believe that there are-
but few. When a great big, strap-
ping boy, Charlie Johnston attended
a "writing-school," conducted by
E. W. Scott, a genius with pen
and ink. Young Johnston display-
ed wonderful talent along this line,
and Scott made him believe as most
normal men do to-day that good
pensmen, like poets and teachers,
are born that way. While Mr.
Johnston was paying court to the
goddess of the writing art, he drew
with a pen a picture of an eagle, 18
X 2-1 inches the picture is, that was-
so well executed and looked so like
the real thing in nature, that his
contribution took a medal in 1880 at
the famous Poplar Tent Fair. This
event and occurrence were enough
to turn the head of an average boy,
and make him believe that he had
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13
struck his calling and stride; but
Charlie Johnston, thennot quite nine-
teen years old, had too much sturdy
material in his make-up to fall to
the temptation of becoming a Writ-
ing-School -Master— that would have
been a tragedy. Even today Mr.
Johnston, practical business man
that he is, writes "a most beautiful
hand" that puts a copy-plate on its
good behavior.
There is a time in the life of an in-
dividual when somebody puts into
his mind an idea, a thought, a sug-
gestion, that sticks and takes root,
and develops. Mr. Samuel John-
ston, the father, a very observant
and thoughtful man, made an ob-
servation in the1 presenceof his two
sons when the late Capt. J. M. Odell
bought the McDonald mill in Con-
cord and began its enlargement
and development. Said Mr. John-
ston: * That's logical; theSouth isthe
place for the cotton mills; here the
field of cotton, over yonder the fac-
tory; here the help and the climate.
The day is coming when this sec-
tion will be the real home and the
leader in the cotton mill interest."
The boys may not have realized it
at the time, but the man closest to
them sowed the seeds that found
a "welcome soil in the lives of his two
sons.
It is the material side and record
of a man that attract the interest and
admiration of the public in general.
13ut„when this success is applied to
the material and to selfish ends a-
lone, it requires but a short time
after the funeral for the hero of in-
dustry to become lost in the realm
of forgetfulness. God and fortune
have met the character and th e
energy of Charles Worth Johnston; '
and the. combined, forces have re-
sulted in a most wonderful accom-
plishment. Success and fortune
have faild to turn his head — he re-
mains the same natural spirit that
made for him friends in his youth. He
has not forgotten' his God, nor the
widow and the orphan. Probably
there is no .nan in North Carolina who
does (and the left hand never knows
what the right hand does) more for
distressed humanity than does Mr.
Johnston, and yet the hounds of
publicity are commanded to keep
still. I know this to be a literal
fact; and I have been impressed
by the man's simple joy and pleasure
in the doing of the acts of mercy,
helpfulness and service, that can be
traced to his generous and benevo-
lent heart. He counts it a high
privilege to contribute to the promo-
tion of the welfare of the living and
the coming generations. Literally
he belives and acts on the theory
that God blessed his efforts that he
might render a service to his fellow
man — not his to harbor in selfish-
ness, but to do good with. That's- a
man's estimate of the true life.
Left in 1879, when his father died,'
with probably less than the small sum-
of three thousand dollars, and now
conservatively placed into the million-
aire class, is a record that attests the
virtue and glory of energy, faithful-
ness and integrity to young men as a
good working-capital and a foreshad-
owing of success — that success that
makes the world better and more pros-
perous by having lived in it. This is
truly the record made by Charles
Worth Johnston, of Charlotte, a cap-
tain of industry and of benevolence.
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BURR REFUSED CHRISTIANITY.
By Mrs. H. E. Monroe.
Burr himself tells us that a the age of eighteen the Spirit of God
came upon him with such power that lie fled to the woods to settle
that great question which faces every human being — "'.Shall I be a
Christian?" He said to himself: " I purpose as a lawyer to succeed by
the tricks of the trade. There is many a short cut in business winch
aCliristian could not take, therefore I shall not be a Christian." He
tells us that the Spirit of God never
again troubled him. He sinned
against the Spirit, that unpardon-
able sin. Left to himself, his desti-
ny led him to a high place only to
make his fall more terrible. Social-
ly he was the most charming man of
his day, but he entered no home
which he did not defile. No woman
loved him but to her sorrow. Bun-
was holding the position of Vice-
President as a Republican when he
was nominated by the Federalists
for Governor of New York. Some
of the leading men of that party re-
fused to support him, among them
Hamilton. This led to the duel in.-
which Hamilton was killed, July 11,
1804. Burr was disfranchised
and banished by the laws of New
York, and was indicted for murder
by the authorities of New Jersey
for having killed Hamilton on the
soil of that State. He could not en-
ter either New York or New Jersey
to settle his business. He was .
bankrupted, and more than 55.000
in debt when all his property had
been sold and the results paid over.
The day before the duel Burr had a
right to suppose himself a more im-
portant man than Hamilton. Was
he not Vice-President? Had he not
just received a majority of the votes
of the city of New York for Gover-
nor of that State, in spite of Hamil-
ton's greatest exertions? Yet the
day after the duel the dying Hamil-
ton had the sympathy of every
human being, and Burr was a fugi-
tive from justice, not knowing
friend from foe. Never was there
a greater revulsion of feeling. He
went back to Washington and again
presided over the Senate, but was
simply scorched by the open, daily
manifestations of the scorn of Sena-
tors. On Saturday, March 2, he took
leave of the Senate. That body was
in executive session, therefore no
spectators were present. Mr. Burr,
one of the most eloquent as well as
one of the handsomest men of his
day, rose in his place. after, the gal-
leries had been cleared. He began
his address by saying that he had
intended to remain during his con-
stitutional time, but he felt an indis-
position coming upon him and he.
now desired to take leave of them.
The silence could be felt. There
was no shorthand reporter present,
and exactly what he. said is not
known — perhaps nothing very dif-
ferent from what other retiring
Vice-Presidents have said. No ref-
erence was made to the duel, no:e
to the scorn he had merited, unless
it were in his words, "For injuries
received, thank God, I havenomem-
mory." He thanked the Senators
for kindness and courtesy. Heju'O-
phesied that if every political liburty
in this country died, its expiring ag-
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15
onies would be witnessed on the floor
of the United States Senate. As he
walked out no man rose, no man
shook hands with him; when the
door closed on him it shut him out
forever from position, usefulness,
home, country, the love of women,'
and the friend-ship of men. At the
President's reception on the follow-
ing Monday two Senators were re-
lating the circumstances to a group
which had gathered round, them
On being asked, How long did Mr.
Burr speak?" one of them answered,
I can form no idea; it may have
been a moment and it may have been
an hour; when I came to my senses
I seemed to have awakened from a
kind of a trance.." Purr, hurled
from power and honor, wandered
a fugitive from justice, and at
last would have been laid in a
pauper's grave but for the care
of a woman who had loved him
in his better days. Surely the
Pslamist was right when speaking
of the righteous andtheunrighteous,
he said: "And lie shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he docth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so; but are like
the chaff which the wind driveth
away."
COLUMBUS COUNTY VETERAN HAS
EVERYTHING READY
Whiteville, June 10._"j. J. Prosperforme D. W. Doctor DeVowell
Conner, Born Nov. 9th, 1830. Joined the Confederate Army 1861. Re-
turned home June 26th, 18(15. All things to the glory of God."
The above is an exact inscription of the monument in the Fair Bluff
cemetery. However, the well known gentleman whose epitaph it bears is
not dead and in spite of the snows and storms of 92 years is' a hale and happy
old gentleman and can be seen on the streets almost every day of the week
when the weather is pleasant. He says that his grave will not be dug for
some time yet, but he is risking no chances whatever on getting caught
napping when that eventful day comes off and has procured his coffin which
has been stored away until it becomes necessary to use it. No explanation
is forthcoming why the old man wants to be on time about his final ceremonies,
while the name he bears is a heavy weight for his shoulders to carry.
Why He Flewsseau
A lady, who purchased her trousseau,
Now thinks she was foolish to doesseau,
For the man she would wed
Has just bolted instead —
That is why the poor maiden boohooseau!
Wayside Tales.
in
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"WE DONT BUY FROM AGENTS."
The world is full of all kinds of people. Probably it is well, or else it
mignt prove a very dull, monotonous affair. Every community has its out-
standing man of pecularity — the mystery man. Some people are afraid of
him; some have a contempt for him; others try to forget that such a fellow
moves among them.
A Salisbury man gave us an inter-
esting story, illustrating how a man
of mystery operated and caught by
his own acts, but up to this good day
he never found it out unless there is
a way of earthly things breaking
through the mist that shrouds the
other worlds beyond. It seems, as
the story goes, this mystery man had
a few folks hypnotized and proceeded
very largely to attend their busi-
ness— taking the bit in his own
mouth. One of these hypnotized
gentlemen was having a building
erected. A plate glass represen-
tee desired to figure on the materi-
al in his line.
Having succeeded in reaching
the inuer innerness of the myster-
ious man's sactum, the agent pro-
ceed to request the drawings that he
might figure on the material and
make a proposition." We don't deal
with agents," said the man of myst-
ery, "we buy direct from the fact-
ory;" and unceremoneously dismiss-
ed the agent.
Unwhipped the agent made a
hasty trip to Charlotte, bought the
plan from the architect for five dol-
lars, sent them to the Pittsburg
factory with this request: "The man
who is locally sitting on the job re-
fuses to deal with agents or repre-
sentives, claiming that they buy di-
rect from the factory. I haveseeur-
ed these plans from the architect.
Figure out a proposition and send
direct from your office to Mr. So and
So. While my commission is a
usual 5 percent, but this fellow put
me to extra trouble and an extraex-
pense, I vish you to add a 10 per
cent commission so I may be re-
munerated properly.
The Pittsburg factory earned
out to the letter the instructions of
their", i-.epresenti.ve ('"agent"), and
in a few days the man of mysterd
sent his acceptance of the proposy
tiou and the plate glass that are ii-
that building which the man of mysn
tery controlled were bought, after-
all, from an agent," who received
111 per cent rather than a 5 per cent
commission from the man, who
'never buys from an agent." That
building is in North Carolina, and
still serves a useful purpose.
That's a peculiar performance they pull off at the commencement of
the North Carolina College for Women, at Greenshoro. After the ninety-
five pretty, bright young girls had finished their march down the main
aisle, hound together in a rope of daisies, they were buried at the foot of
the stage for t':e balance of the exercise, while the multitude of gowned
teachers occupied the stage in full view of the great audience that wer_t
there primarily to see the ninety-five graduates and to hear Gov. UorrisOTi.
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-•ONE BILLION DOLLARS FOR EDUCATION
Selected
In two periodicals that came to my desk to-day I found two significant
statements on the subject of education. The first stands as the caption of
this article. America spends through compulsory taxation one billion dol-
lars for education. The figures are huge. We can form only a faint con-
ception of so large a number. So committed are we to the need and prin-
ciple of universal education, and so To establish and maintain a
necessary is it in a democracy, that
we are willing to expend vast sums
of money to wipe out illiteracy.
The other statement reads. "Ur-
ges Education to protect Nation.
Head of National League of Women
Voters says this is Safeguard of
Republic." These may be eonsider-
•ed random estimates of the value of
secular education, but they are
voices from the crowd representing
a very deep and general feeling. We
may not give assent to the popular
assertion that knowledge alone will
keep us as a people in the safe way;
but without question ignorance is a
foe of the most formidable character.
Not a cent do we begrudge for the
maintenance of the public school
system of the United States.
We wish it were possible to set
down here the annual budget of the
Christain Church of this country
for religious education. We have
seen various statements, supposedly
from reliable sources, purporting to
give us an approximate estimate of
the money we put into Christian
schools of one sort or another. But
those estimates differ so widely that
we shall not name any one of them.
It goes without saying that
Christian schools cost money just the
same as secular schools. Teaching
religion is very little different from
teaching history, literature, science,
or any other branch of knowledge.
jhool
for the dissemination of the Gospel
in any part of the globe requires its
stipend, [t has been claimed we
spend two cents a week for the re-
ligious training of each young life
under our care. We may spend
that much, or many times that
amount, but in either case our con
tributions are pitifully inadequate.
The work of the Church schools
must be placed on a basis that com-
pares favorably in equipment curri-
culin, teaching force and result with
the public school system of our coun-
try. We can never hope to gain the
co-operation of trained educators
for our cause if we insist on being
content with impractical and anti-
quated methods. One of the imme-
diate needs is a budget sufficiently
large to make possible a building in
which a school may be expected to
do good work. It reflects on the
manner in which we approach our
tasks when we contribute willingly
through taxation toward secularedu-
cation and then keep our dollars
in our pockets svhen au effort is put
forth to make more thorough the
program of the schools of the Church.
We believe no education .is com-
plete without religion, . We further
believe it is the Church's duty to
teach religion, but how can she
hope to assume this' responsibility
without a'de'gree of support com-
mensurate with the opportunity. In
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addition to a spiritual basis this wort must have a dollar liasis.
Now that the old Confederate is beginning to march upon Richmond for
the Reunion, one naturally thinks of the events of the gre'St War between
the States. Out in No. 3 township, Cabarrus County, near the eld Stire-
walt mill and the playground of Dr. Watt Rankin, there lived one of the
county's sturdiest citizens. He was Mr. Samuel Johnston, the father of
Mr. Edgar H. Johnston, of Sock Hill, S. C, and Mr. Charles W. Johnston,
of Charlotte. The story, as recalled, has a crowd of Yankee soldiers
moving £.bout in these quaters during the later part of 1365. They were
largely foraging.
They called at the home of Mr. Johnston. They were seeking butter and
eggs and such like. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston has not enjoyed real coffee for
months and months. Mrs. Johnston exchanged somee butter with the
Yankees for coffee. The husband was away in the field. When he turned
in for dinner, he caught the odor of what carried him back to former days.
"What's this I smell," he said to his wife. "It is coffee, for which I
exchanged some butter with several Yankees who came along." Mr.
Johnston belonged to that large class of good people who thought that the
South could not be whipped; and when that event took place, they con-
soled themselves that they "were not whipped, but overpowered." "Pour
it out, my clear wife," s£.id Mr. Johnston, "we can't afford to drink '
Yankee coffee at this period." Mr. Ed. Johnston, the son and who was
about eight years old, remembering the event as if it were burnt into his
memory, with a twinkle in his eye, said, "and they did| pour that coffee
out, into cups and saucers."
THE IDEAL HOME.
Selected.
Occasionally we see an advertisement in the newspaper stating: that a certain
real estate 'agent has "a line home for sale." It is a mistake. Xo one can buy
or sell a home. What the real estate agent really means is that he has a house
to dispose of. It is a business of the people who live in it to make it a home.
It is a comparatively easy thing to a good home. Integrity should ! e
build a house if one has the money, its architect ; industry should be i'.s
An architect, with the assistance of ventilator; tidiness should be its uo-
bricklayers, carpenters and masons, holsterer. It should be lighted by
will soon put up a dwelling, but to cheerfulness, warmed by affection,
construct a real home takes much more and over all should be the canopy >f
time and thought. The materials that God's blessing. "
enter into it are invisible. The ideal home may be in a cot-
Old Dr. Hamilton, in his quaint tage, in a tent, in a log cabin in the
way, says: "Six things constitute woods, in a shack on the prairL —
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anywhere but if it is the abode of
friendship, love and sympathy it is
a heaven on earth.
The ideal home is a place of real
comfort. What a line old English
word "comfort'' is, and how much it
suggest! Every man ought to feel
that this element exists in his home
whatever else may be lacking. It is
rough enough outside; there is a great
deal that rasps and annoys in the busi-
ness life of today. For every worried
working man the home should be a
kind of sanctuary.
The furniture of a dwelling should
be chosen with a view to comfort
rather than style. Some housewives
have a strange liking for antique ar-
ticles of furnishing, and others are
determined to have the latest fash-
ion, but there is usually very little
satisfaction to be had in either of
these extremes. There is probably
nothing that a man appreciates more
than a roomy, old-fashioned chair in
"which he may read his evening paper, .
or a wide sofa with sufficient length
for him to stretch out in what he calls
"solid comfort." This is the element,
perhaps more than any other, that he
■craves in his home.
A true home will be a place of har-
mony and peace. When Frederick the
Great, we?iried with the fatigues of
war, built a house for himself, he or-
dered the words "Sans Souci" to be
inscribed over the doorway, to indi-
cate that nothing disturbing should
be allowed to enter it.
Demon of Discord
It is to be feared that there are many
homes where the demon of discord
: prevails. It is quite a common thing
to see the motto, "God bless our
home," in the dining room. That is
very beautiful, but there is no use
hanging such a motto if the father
is in the habit of bottling up his
wrath all day and then uncorking it
when he gets home, or if the mother
is a continual scold, tilling the house
with perpetual clamor. Under such
circumstances the motto is a mockery.
A prominent employer of labor
states that domestic quarrels greatly
lessen the business efficiency of men
and women. Xo man can do his best
work if he comes to his task after a
quarrel with his wife, and the wife
at home is miserable for the whole
day.
Domestic disagreements are often
caused by a very little thing. A
foolish remark, a sharp word, a severe
reproof, a flippant jest are often suffi-
cient to precipitate a wrangle, and un-.
fortunately when it is started neither
party to it seems to have sense enough
to keep quiet. Cross words add fuel
to the fire, and the happiness of the
home is gone. What a pity!
A very fine motto to hang up in the
home and strive to live by would be
the words of Paul to the Ephesians:
"Let all bitterness and wrath, and
anger and clamor, and evil speaking
be put away from you, with all malice.
And be ye kind one to another, ten-
derhearted, forgiving one another,
/even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you."
This injunction translated into the
life of every member of the family
would make an Eden of every home.
Home ought to be made an attrac-
tive place. A man may honestly aim
at possessing a beautiful house. Dr.
Dwight says: "Uncouth, mean, ragg-
ed, dirty houses constituting the body
of any city, will be regularly accom-
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pained by coarse grovelling manners.
The dress, the furniture, the mode of
living, and the maimers will corres-
pond with the appearance of the
dwellings."
It is not necessary for every house
to be what "Abbotsford," Sir Walter
Scott's home, was called, "A poem
in stone," yet there is room for some
display of taste even in the smallest
and poorest dwelling.
Leigh Hunt illustrated that a pleas-
ant dwelling can be made in the most
unfavorable circumstances. lie was
imprisoned for nearly two years for
an alleged libel on the Prince of
Wales. During this time he did not
yield to depression, but spent his time
in decorating the walls of his gloomy
prison. With the simplest of means
lie made his cell so attractive that
Charles Lamb declared that there was
not another such room except in fairy
land.
Pictures a Power.
Among the silent influences that
count much in the formation of char-
acter are the pictures that hang upon
the walls. We see them so often that
they make deep impressions. It is
of great importance that they be
bright and cheerful. A book agent,
one day, wanted to sell me an illus-
trated copy of Dante's works. It
contained a large number of fearful
looking pictures of goblin and fiends.
I told him that I would not have such
a book upon my library table if he
gave it to me. Put up bright, cheer-
ful pictures and let the song of glad-
ness and the shout of laughter ring
through the house.
The ideal home will be a cheerful
place. Cheerfulness is partly a mat-
teer of temperament, but it is also
the result of effort and habit. It is
more than a pleasure — it is a posi-
tive duty. Black is not one of na-
ture's favorite colors. Nature re-
joices in things bright and gladsome.
Toys, playthings, games, jokes, romps
are a valuable part of the home pro-
gram. The loving words and the sun-
ny smiles that children get from their
mother in the early days of life make
an indelible impression on them. No
finer compliment could be paid to a
mother than the epitaph once put up-
on a tombstone: "She always made
home happy."
"She made home happy!" these few
words I read
Within a chutvyard written on a
stone;
Xo name, do date, the simple words
;alone,
Told me the story of the unknown-
dead.
A marble column lifted high its head
Close by, inscribed to one the world
has known;
But ah! that lonely grave with moss
o'ergrown
Thrilled me far more than his who.
armies led.
"She made home happy!" through
the long sad years, .
The mother toiled and. never stopped
to rest,
Until they crossed her hands upon her
breast,
And closed her eyes, no longer dim-
med with tears.
The simple record that she left be-
hind
Was greater than the soldier's to my
mind.
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CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS OF ANSON
COUNTY
Through the kindness of Mrs. Mary Bennet Little, formerly president of Hie
state organization of the V. D. C, and who jealously grasps every opportunity
0 keep alive the cherished memory of the heroes, living and dead, of the GOs,
'he Uplift is enabled to give below the surviving Confederate soldiers, now
esidents of Anson county. They number just 53.
P. C, Allen, J. M. Billingely, John A Boggan, S. Benton, W. M. Brower, W.
H. Bryant, Henry Bailey, W. A. Curlee, Davidson Curlee, Ed Caudle, Cul Caudle,
Henry Covington, Henderson Davis, E. F. Fenton, Peter S. Grooms, Ed Gaddv,
S. F. Caddy, Joel Gaddy, Frank Gaddy, George W. Gulledge, J. C. Goodman,
Milton Griffin, George W. Huntley, Noah Hinson, W. H. Kelly, E. S. Kiker, J.
A. Little, T. H. Lewis, W. J. McLendou, John McAllister, James McRae, 31.' B.
Martin, John Moore, Peter F. Morton Thomas Morrison, John A Xewton, W.
\\~. Pigg, Riehard Poplin, James Porter, Hugh Pinkston, A. Redf'earn, "William
Ricketts. C. H. Rivers, Wm. A. Smith, E. F. Shepard, G. T. Sbepard, Samuel
Stegall, Jas M. Thomas, E. W. Treadway, Z. T. Treadway, Rufus Trexler, J. B.
Tarletou, Thomas B. Wyatt.
CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS OF RICH-
MOND COUNTY.
Hon. W. X. Everett, of Rockingham, at our request has furnished us with
3 list of the surviving Confederate soldiers of Richmond county. Mr. Everett,
"ho is one of the outstanding citizens of the state, an experienced and able
legislator, enjoying the confidence not only of his own people but thousands
• throughout the state who have learned to know him, writes that he is satisfied
ihat there are several other Confederate soldiers in the county who have
noved into their bounds, but at this date he was unable to secure their names.
Ihe Uplift, therefore, is constrained to believe that in all of Richmond there
re probably not over forty-five, Mr. Everett's list showing just thirty-seven.
■Tnev are:
I E. F. Fenton. J. K. Austin, F. L. Cole, Thos. B. Covington, E. X. Ingram, E.
JC. Cole, Stephen Wall, William R. Covington, W. H. Dabbs, W. B. Dawkins,.
Janes Palmer, M. B. Garret, Jas. F. Gay, E. S. Hart, Wm. D. Ingrain,
stealer Jacobs. Josaph Lemlay, LaTrrence Lalham, B. W. Luther, John A. Mc-
Wl, Nelson Mc A skill, Starland C. McDonald, A. L. McDnffie, Arch McGreg-
:, P.. C. Meacham, M. L. Morrison, W. B. Morse, J. C. NeT?, A. B. Nickolson,
Saieon K. Pate. Arnold Perdue, A. P. Quick, W. M. Eoberts, Harrison Shepard,
■•obi Snrgne'r, John H. Thrower. J. B. Williams.
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CONFEDERATE "BATTLE ABBEY.
•>■)
The old soldier's of the b'Os. or as many as can do .so. will be moving on to
Richmond on the 20th. A news item coming out from Richmond, Va., un-
der date of 11th, gives a good idea of the preparation making' for this event.
perhaps the last one that be can held with an appreciable attendance. The ,
story runs: ,
Leisurely inspection of the Con-
federate Memorial Museum, bettor
known, perhaps, as the "Battle
Abbey," promises to be one of the
most interesting features of the thir-
ty-second annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans, which
will open here on June 2U and con-
tinue three days.
The ''Battle Abbey" was complet-
ed not many months ago, and this
will be the first time Confederate
"veterans living any distance from
Richmond will have the opportunity
to view it.
Houses Famous Painting
This building, superbly situated
in the center of a beautiful park in
Richmond's fashionable West End,
now permanently houses most of the
fine paintings and portraits of fa-
mous battles of the "War Between
the States and of the immortal chief-
tains who followed Robert B. Lee,
"Stonewall" Jackson, Pickett and
Pettigrew, Semmes and Buchanan.
The mural paintings which adorn
the walls of the museum in them-
selves well deserve and have earned
the highest praisefrom international
art critics. Charles Hoffbauer, a
French Alsatian, executed this
work, and the results he produced
bespeaks the hand of the master.
Hoft'bauer's work was interrupted
during the World War when he re-
turned to France and fought beneath
the Tri-Color.
Eventually the "Battle Abbey"
will house the larger bulk of Con-
federate relies, and, it is expected,
will become the South's greatest
shrine — a shrine to which pilgrims
from the whole world will journey.
Still the Capitol City
Richmond is still the Captial City
of Southern memories, and in call-
ing- again for the remnants of that
army which defended her sixty
years ago she does so in the con-
sciousness that they will respond to
a man, as their years permit. Re-
ports reaching General Julian S.
Carr, of Durham, Commander of the
United Confederate Veterans,
through the Richmond Reunion
Headquarters, indicate that not less
than 5,000 of the surviving 45,000
Confederates will be here for the
elaborate ceremonies and entertain-
ments.
Richmond has not only summoned
her heroes of more than a half-cen-
tury ago, but has also beckoned
their wives, their widows, their
daughters and their sons.
The Convention of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans, the United
Daughters of the Confederacy ind
the Confederated Southern Memorial
Association will open on June 19;
that of the United Confederate ' '*et-
terans on June 20. All will conclude
on June 22.
Usual reduce railroad rates lave
been granted by all the trans; orta-
tion systems in the Southeastern
States to Richmond and returt for
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the exclusive benefit of the veterans,
members of their famlies, auxiliary
organizations, sponsors and maids
and matrons-of-honor.
The program of exercise and en-
tertainments probably will make
this the greatest reunion in the
history of the Confederate veterans.
There will be addresses by some of
the youth's greatest orators— Unit-
ed States Senator Pat. Harrison, of
.Mississippi; W. Tate Brady,' of
Oklahoma: Dr. Henry Lewis Smith.
president of Washington and Lee
University; General Julian S. Carr,
who will also preside at all business
sessions; Governor E. Lee Trinkle,
of Virgina; Dr. Douglas Freeman.
of Richmond; Mayor George Ainslie,
of Richmond and other distinguish-
ed men.
To Honor Confederate Sailor
Richmond has done much in honor
J nf the Confederate Soldier and now
wishes to pay equal tribute to the
j Confederate sailor. Another of the
; principle features of the reunion will
be the laying of the cornorstone of a
■ monument to Matthew Fontain Maury
Pathfinder of the Seas," and hero
of the Confederate Navy.
Richmond plans to receive the vet-
erans in royal style. There will be
a welcome for each of them as they
, alight at the railway stations. Each
will be greeted by a member of the Re-
union Committee, given proper
eredentails and provided with quar-
ters in ease's where reservations
have not been made in advance.
That the vistors here for the re-
union will form a throng of many
thousands is already attested by the
fact that Richmond hotels have
closed their reservation books,
boarding houses have prepared to
accommodate thousands and it has
been found necessary for hundreds
of private homes to be thrown open
in order to assure that every visitor
will have a comfortable lodging.
The reunion program includes-
three Confederate balls, reception
after reception, a great parade and
review, band concerts and trips to
nearby battlefields, which are al-
ways dear and near to the hearts of
all Confederates.
MARGERET MARTIN'S ADVENTURE.
By Frances McKinnon Morton
Margeret Martin came into the comfortable family living room, threw her-
self down on the old davenport and slumped disconsolately into the corner.
"Well, Sue, it's happened!" she said shortly.
"What's happened, Margeret Martin?" her sister asked with quick and
loving solicitude.
"I'm invited to spend the week-end with Nancy Willis out at Roaedale—
I've been afraid it would happen and I knew Nancy Willis last year in High
now it has." School and she's a splendid girl."
Sue laughed with a little catch of "Oh, I know it," Margeret inter-
relief in her voice. "Why, honey, you rupted, "there isn't a thing wrong-
talk as if a real disaster had happen- with Nancy Willis. I love her my-
|.d to you, when I think it's lovely, self, bat—"
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"Well, what's the matter then?"
Sue queried anxiously.
Margeret looked at her in mild sur-
prise. "Why, Sue,'' she said, "I
thought of course you'd understand
— this is a house party — I don't kuow
all those who are invited, but I know
Mary Edith Vamey, Josephine Gard-
ner and Jean Roberts are all invited —
oh, and Murray Atkins and Frank
Lambert and some others — all rich
people who can buy everything they
want to wear, and I — "
"Oh, is that all that's troubling
you?" she laughed with relief. "Well,
I guess the Martin family can rise
to an occasion — write aud accept your
invitation."
"It wasn't written — she just saw
me at school and asked me and I
couldn't refuse without hurting her
feelings, but — " returned Margeret
briefly.
"Well, don't worry any more
then," comforted Sue with a lovely
'older-sister' sweetness. "I say the
i'aiuily can rise, to the occasion — we
Lave till Friday afternoon to get
ready and 1 say you needn't feel
ashamed of your clothes when we get
through with you."
"Honey, you know I'm never
ashamed of my clothes," Margeret
interrupted with a heightened color.
"I know that mother makes the pret-
tiest dresses any girl could want, but
you know my things are all just sim-
ple school-girl clothes and these girls
are all older than I am — they will
have party dresses and dinner gowns
and — and — "
Sue laughed and Margeret gave a
deep sigh. "You see," she said dis-
consolately, "I dont even know what
all thev will have because I never
went to a house-party in my life."
Sue stooped to kiss the firm, round
cheek of the younger sister who was
so dear to her. "Never mind, honey,
we'll fix it up all right for you."
"But," protested Margeret, "I
don't want you all to deny yourselves
to dress me up — still I don't want to
go out there looking so plain and
shabby that Nancy will be ashamed
of me before her friends — Nancy
dresses plainly for school herself aud
we read Latin together all the time
and are good friends and I know she
likes me but don't you see, I have a
little pride myself and I don't mind
not going places, but I don't want to
go like the 'guest without the wedding
garment,' you see, don't you, Sue
dear?"
"I do see how you feel, Margie,"
Sue answered quitely, "but we'll
manage it all right for you and don't
you worry about it any more. It's
just a few weeks till final 'exams' and
you know we all want to do something
for you when you graduate anyway."
Margeret lifted her face and smiled,
"Oh, Sue," she said, "you surely are
the sweetest sister in the world and j
I know you and mother can make all
sorts of pretty things, but you see I'm !
not willing for you to spend a lot o£
money on me now — father hasn't it
to spare and I know it and I don't
want the- rest of you going without
things — if she had only written I
could have refused — "
"Nonsense," interrupted Sue, "you
oughtn't to want to refuse — it would
hurt Nancy to have you to do that.'
So Sue took matters in her own
hands and with the wonderful skill
she had learned with, her mother first
and her Domestic Science teachei
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25
afterward, she tucked and stitched
and altered first her mother's pretty
grey silk dress and then her own be-
loved pink organdie until they fitted
Marger e t perf ec tly .
"But I won't have you do that,"
Margeret protested in spite of the
pleased smile that would come over
her face at the sight of herself in the
pretty finery.
"We've already done it," she
laughed, "and we loved doing it —
didn't we, .Mother-mine?''
"We certainly did," agreed Mrs.
Martin with a pleased smile that well
matched Margeret 's own, "you are
going to take my rose silk scarf that
father brought me from France, Ro-
land is going to lend you his precious
traveling bag that his science profes-
sor gave him when he took him on
that western trip."
"And oh, yes," interrupted Sue,
''Ellis insists on lending you his pon-
i gee shirt that mother made him. It
j will just fit you and with my plaid
1 skirt will be just the thing for a sport
suit."
Margeret sighed, "You just load
me down with kindness," she said,
"and I don't know how I'm to pay
it a.ll baek."
"Just go on and enjoy your house-
party," Mrs. Martin laughed in reply,
"we'll all find something else to wear
] while you are gone and I know some
girls do take lots of clothes for an
, occasion like that."
j "We want you to reflect credit on
jibe Martin family," Ellis remarked
gas he came in and smiled at Margeret
looking so stately and dressed up in
: the grey silk with the rose scarf.
[ "You'll do it all right," Roland
seconded as he brought out his beau-
tiful traveling bag ready for her to
pack it.
"You'd better take my new slip-
pers too," Sue offered as she brought
them from her closet where she kept
them wrapped in tissue paper and in
her dainty shoe box.
"And I want to come in on that
too," said Mr. Martin coming that
moment into the room. "I've met
Nancy and I think she is a fine girl.
I don't know Senator Willis personal-
ly but I admire his public career and
wouldn't want my little girl not to
have what she needs for an occasion
like this."
Margeret 's eyes shone through a
little mist as her father handed her
five dollars — she knew very well that
her father's long illness had cost so
much that five dollars just to spend,
was not easy for her father to spare.
"Well, the Martin family certainly
did rise to the occasion," Margeret
declared, when dressed in her own sim-
ple blue taffeta she was all ready to
start on Friday morning, "and I just
love you all for it. I'm going to do
my best to reflect credit on you."
"Lemme give you a pointer about
the knives and forks, Sis," Ellis of-
fered with all earnestness of a four-
teen-year-old boy w-ho likes to appear
well. "I found it out last year at the
Boy's Banquet — you begin at the out-
side and work in toward your plate
and you won't get far wrong."
So with the advice and all the 'best
things' the family possessed, Marge-
ret started on her eventful journey.
The journey on the train was only
of about twenty minutes duration and
before she was half through wonder-
ing if there would be a party every
night, except Sunday of course, the
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brakeuian called "Rosedale Station"
and she had to got oft' the train.
She wondered who would meet her
and if they would come in the big
luxurious car that the family some-
times drove about in. In spite of
herself too, she couldn't help wonder-
ing what Josephine and Jean and the
Other girls would be wearing.
She had a comfortable, well-pre-
pared sort of feeling though with her
brother's beautiful traveling bag and
all uf her pretty tilings safely stowed
away inside of it. How good it was
of all of them to semi her away with
all these pretty things ! ' '
"Beg, pardon, but are you Marge-
ret Martin?" asked a fine looking
man in khaki overalls and a clean blue
shirt.
Margeret smiled as she answered,
"Yes." It must be the Willis's
driver but he certainly had a fine,
sweet face she thought, and Margeret
was never one to grudge a smile to
those who served her comfort.
''Then come right on this way, Mar-
geret, " he said as he shook hands with
her and introduced himself as Mr.
Willis. "We've another guest around
here — the boys wanted to come for
you in the car but Judge Lambert and
I were going fishing and we wanted
the old buck-board so we slipped off
and came to the train ourselves."
The two grey-haired men chuckled
over the joke as gaily as if they were
just good-natured big boys.
Margeret had been supposing that
the over-ailed driver must be some
country relation of the Senator's, but
the porter at the station called him
"Senator," so maybe it was he after
all.
Surely she couldn't tell from what
the two men said to each other for
they called each other "Hill" and
"Joe" as simply as Margeret's own
father and her dearest uncle called
each other "Sam" and "Jimmy."
It was queer and it sort of upset her
ideas of things a little but she hadn't
time to think much for she was crowd-
ed into the old buck-board and driving
down the shady road to Rosedale be-
fore she eouldJ get it all straightened!
out in her mind. .
''That's a line traveling bag you
have there," the Senator admired as
he took hold of it, "better stow your
old valise underfoot there Joe, and
hold on to this yourself. We don't
want to get it lost. It sort of reminds
me of an old friend of mine — Profes-
sor Richards — he's sort of an ex-
pert on traveling bags — has them
made to his order."
"Professor Richards gave it to my
brother Roland," Margeret answered
proudly, and before she realized that
she was talking with a United States
Senator and a Judge of the Supreme
Court, she had already told them a
good deal about that beloved brother
of hers and the special kind of work,
he was interested in.
The house at Rosedale was another
surprise to Margeret — it was a big
old-fashioned country house, roomy
and comfortable arid well furnished to
be sure but plain and livable and lov-
able.
Not more lovable though thai: Mrs.
Willis in her fresh blue ehambray
morning dress.
"Do you know, Nancy," she found
herself saying easily as Nancy went
up to her room with her, "th:,t this
house and your mother look alike.'
"Of course they do," Nancy laugh;
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27
ocl "we all know it, but I'm glad you
caii see it — the rot of the boys and
girls have gone for a horse-back ride
and I 'in helping mother with the din-
ner, so I 'ill going to leave you to hang
your things up and get into something*
you won't mind having a good time in
— hang your things here in this closet
and — "
Margeret had already hung her hat
up and begun slipping out of her blue
dress as naturally as she would have
done at home.
"I see you brought that pretty
cheeked gingham,'' Nancy laughed as
Margaret lifted it out of the traveling
bag, "it'll be the very thing to wear —
hang your things up now and hurry —
you're to help me hull the dew berries
for dinner and set the table."
And Nancy was gone smiling down
the stairs while Margeret hung up her
beautiful things and in her heart gave
thanks that her own good mother had
insisted on her bringing the checked
gingham and the pink chambray.
There was a wholesome heartiness
about the way Nancy had left her to
hurry that made her finish her task
with a rush so that she could do her
share of the berries.
Mrs. Willis gave her a real mother-
smile of welcome as she appeared in
' the sunny kitchen, all fresh and sweet
in her simple gingham dress.
•"Here's a blue apron dear,-' she
said simpl.v, "there's always lots of
j work to do in the country and we all
i help out here — we don't keep servants
1 at Rosadale. It seems so homey and
] nice to get together on the work that
; w< keep it that way."
And 'homey and nice' Margeret
found it all — straight through from
the rishice excursion on the river, with
sandwiches and supper and a row in
the moonlight, through the sweet .ser-
vice in the little country church, the
quiet Sunday afternoon and finally
the trip home in the dewy dawn of
Monday morning.
The Martin family were at break-
fast when .Margeret slipped in on
them. "Shame 071 you, lazy town-
folks," she laughed happily, "wo
country people have been up for
ages."'
No use to ask .Margeret if she has
had a happy time, her smiling lips,
her sparkling eyes and her glowing
cheeks all told the news without words.
Still the family had to ask the natural
question.
"Then tell us about it, dear,'"
came the mother's understanding
question. '
"And what I have to tell will be
interesting I know, because I — Mar-
geret Martin, spinster, and at present
in good health and of a sound mind-
have had an IDEA — a good, straight,,
clean, clear idea that I'll never for-
get— I thought it out for myself, but,
of course, I had a living illustration
to help me do my thinking."
"Well, let's have it," interrupted
Ellis, who was always impatient of"
Mai'geret's dramatic effects in con-
versation.
"You shall have it, my dear broth-
er, when I come to it. I 'in going to
tell the story my way, beginning at
the beginning. Senator Willis and
Judge Lambert met rne at the train —
they were dressed in over-alls and
driving a beautiful trotting horse to-
a little old shabby looking buck-board,
but their manners were just as courtly
as — as, well as any gentleman's could
be. Nancy had stayed at home to
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meet me, the rest of the young peo-
ple had gone for a horseback ride.
Mrs. Willis cooked dinner, Nancy and
I helped and it was all so homey anil
sweet, it — it made me think of you,
Mammy dear, and I just loved the
peace and the flowers and trees and
all the nice country things. After
dinner Jean and Herbert washed the
dishes. It wasn't Jean's turn — every-
body, company and all, took turns
at the work ami it was just like play
— but Jean loves to wash the dishes
and she changed with Josephine, who
likes to sit and churn. It was the
nicest sweet country butter, you would
have liked it so much, Mammy.''
"Didn't you have any parties?"
Ellis asked wonderingly.
"It was all a sort of party," Mar-
geret answered, "and you can inter-
rupt me all you want to for I see I
can't tell it straight. I'll just tell
about the nice things you let me have
and then you '11 see what my idoa is
even before I get to it."
"Traveling bag" Ellis began as if
he were going to call off the things
one by one.
"Glad you reminded me of that.
Senator Willis liked it so much and
knew right away that Professor Rich-
ards had something to do with it. lie
was so friendly. He made me think
of you, father, ami it was easy to talk
to him. 1 told him about you, Ro-
land, and the work you had done with
Professor Richards, and he says he
•can get you the very place you want,
to work in Washington."
Roland's face fairly beamed. He
had wanted to ask Margeret to talk
to Senator Willis about that very
thing, but had not wanted to presume
on their friendship for his sister.
"You are a jewel of a sister,
Madge," he began, but Margeret;]
waved him back into silence. "i\ni[.
father dear, I didn't have one mite of
use for your live dollars so I've
brought it back to you to buy yoii
some fishing things — I told Senator)
Willis how you loved fishing and he
is going to invite you out there next '
Saturday. You're going too."
Mr. Martin did not interrupt in
words, but his smile demanded special :
notice, which Margeret stopped to,
give in her own way.
"Mammy dear and Sister Sue, I
brought all your lovely things back'
to you just as nice as they were wheu
you gave them to me — I didn't oncej
put I hem on, but it was a grand feel- 1
ing it gave me to know I had them"
there if I needed them."
"Hut what did you wear/" Sue
interrupted her with this very natural
question.
"My checked gingham," Margeret'
answered as gravely as if she were
making an important announcement.
"But," Sue began, and Margeret
answered.
"Could I keep it clean when I \\ja
going through the woods and having
a real sensible good time? No, 1
Couldn't — I washed it and ironed it
Saturday morning; at the same time
I washed some tea-napkins for Mrs.
Willis. They try to keep down the
washing so it won't be so hard for the
caretaker's wife. No, they don't ketyj
servants out there. They say the)
don't need them and they like doings
things and just being busy and natural
and happy. Mrs. Willis is coming to]
see you next week, Mammy. She says
she likes the way your daughter cooks
and washes and irons."
There was a general laugh around
the breakfast table and then Margeret
;.
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31
pipe in the well just across the road
from the Printing Office.
Alter religious services in the
Auditorium Sunday, the boys under
charge of the Mecklenburg Cottage
officer went down to the pasture
where cool breezes abound and took
a f.'\v pictures of each ether.
Evidently fast work is being done
in the sewing room. Prom June 1,
to June 1 1. 22.") shirts were made by
the boys. And they were madegood,
too. The seeing room is under
charge of .Miss Lottie freeze.
The fire hydrants, which are nec-
essary to the growing school, huve
been placed in the ground, and soon
will be ready for use. But it is hop-
ed by all boys and officers that a de-
mand for such a use will never arise.
'Jeremiah Cast Into Prison."
Such was the subject of the Sunday
School lesson Sunday, June 11.
This lesson went on to tell the boys
not to be discouraged if their efforts
to reform and aid others were repuls-
ed or disdained. Each boy went
his own way feeling better, for
down inevei'5 one's heart there was
a secret desire to find the lost sheep
and "bring them in."
No ball game was played Satur-
day, much to the disappointment of
many of the boys. Some were glad
of this because they would get to
play themselves. So two boys chose
for players on the big diamond and
two chose on the smaller diamond.
The boys "fell t0" for an afternoon
of pleasure. It was with reluctance
that when the whistle was blown
they obeyed the call for assemblance.
Rev. Air. Lawrence, of Concord,
took charge of religious services in
the Auditorium Sunday, June 11. in
harmony to plans. He read for his
selection tin.1 first chapter of Psalms.
Then he spoke from the rather
strange but interesting topic: "En-
gines and Boxcars." Had he so de-
sired, the boys could have repeated
his selection for him, for this Psalm
had long since been memorized by
them. Some of the boys are of the
opinion that the officers are the ''En-
gines" and the boys the ''Boxcars."
Or.s of the > chool's hens recent-
ly took up her habitat with Mr.
doer in the shop, because of the ex-
cellent laying places available there
and other personal reasons she
would not divulge. Good food
soon started her to laying. In the
course of time she had fifteen eggs
at her disposal; Mr. Cloer had not
taken them. Naturally she did the
same to them as others of her spe-
cies would do. One afternoon Mr.
Cloer continually heard a "peep!"
"peep!" He investigated and his
surprise was boundless when he
found his friend with fourteen sons
and daughters. He is now count-
ing his chickens after they are hatch-
ed."
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CONCOftD, N. C. JUNE 24, 1922
NO. 33
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DOES SIN FAY? 1
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The jostle says: "Tie wages of sin is death." *
But that lecompense is net very alluring. Again I *
Mk Does sin pay? Is it profitable to do WTOng? Is *
disobedience to God tetter than obedience? Is *
Ohere a single illustration in all history from tie ^
foundation of the earth to prove it? Certainly, sin £
> has its rewards. Deformity, weakness and physical *
j! ailments lie in wait for a shining r::arh in L>notter J.
E generation. A main may make a few hundred dol- .:.
i lars more by being dishonest. He may escape pop- *
I alar condemnation through deliberate falsehood. *
| He may experience a certain type of pleasurable .:.
* enjoyment by violating the morstt standards of so- |
I ciety. Ee may gain office by slandering his oppo- |
| nent. And still I urge the question. Does it pay? «
% Is the reward satisfactory? |
* Ave we satisfied with our wages? What pay |
* master are we serving? \
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY
The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
Ah, how skillful grows the hand
That oheyeth love's command.
It is the heart and not the brain
Thrft to the highest doth attain,
And he, who followeth love's behest,
Far exceedeth all the rest. \\
, — Longfellow.
THE ISSUE IS NOW JOINED.
In the issue of THE UPLIFT of the 17th editoral expression, entirely
neutral, was made, calling for a full and frank exhibit from the Board of
School Commissioners of the City of Concord, relative to the proposed bond
issue of 8225,000 for the enlargement and change of the public school
equipment of the city.
After that article was iu type and printed, but before THE UPLIFT
reached its readers, the said Board published an exhibit of its plans and
purposes. This statement seems necessary to avoid leaving the impress-
ion that the School Board of Concord refused to ''take the public into its
confidence," which is not the case at all. THE UPLIFT standing for the
education of all the children, city and rural, merely called for the exhibit
that all men and women might the more intelligently decide what their duty
with respect to the issue of bonds is.
The School Board has shown its hand— the case is with the people.
ifE ffi # $ # & *
"BUT GOLD IS NOT ALL"
There is carried in this issue anediturial from the Charlotte Observer of
4 THE UPLIFT
the 17th. which is not only the finest kind of a sermonette, but shows a
singularly fine knowledge of the philosophy of the art of true living' and
conduct.
It recognizes the fact that we come into the world all naked and bare,
and that when we leave it we go helpless and shorn of all the fruits of ma-
terial effort and striving. .Some rich men. not particularly in worldly
possessions, but in those fine things of life, refuse to die and live on. On
the other hand there' arc men, who have conquered the commercial and
manufacturing world, amassed great fortunes, live singly to the glory and
advancement of their immediate own. that die. when the last call comes,
the- eompletest obliterating death that ispenniltedniantoehoo.se. The
grave marks the end: the imposing and costly monument is of no avail in
keeping alive the memory of him who lives, acts and dies in selfishness.
Too often men. drunk with success and affluence, forget that this life is
merely a period of probation, unmindful of the intense importance of giving
thought to the great hereafter.
y "A 'TIP' FOE THE JACKSON BOYS."
Under the foregoing caption Editor Harris, of the Charlotte Observer,
makes the following remarks that are very pleasing and encouraging to
the management of the Jackson Training School — in fact the boys them-
selves manifested a great appreciation fur the kindly notice by the Obser-
ver. The editor was reminded of what the Observer had done by at least
a dozen of the youngsters.
They were real excited over their effort to find out something more
about Mr. J. Levin, who gave evidence of his approval of what is being-
done here and how it's being done. But here is Col. Harris' editorial
remarks in a recent number:
Mr. J. Levin, a New Yorker "looking about'' in the South, stopped
in at The Observer office a day or so since, to make remark upon the
Jackson Training School which he came upon unawares on his way out
of Concord for Charlotte. He had seen nothing of the sort in his
travels and he regarded it a credit not only to the State, but to the
South. The purpose which the institution serves made strong appeal
to him, but he appeared most deeply impressed with the character of
the plant which has been provided for the carrying out of the work
for which the school was designed. It is, he declared, the most com-
pletely-equipped plant for training purposes that he has known, and
the harmony in design was especially a feature for commendation.
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Ho had been considerably interested in the developing possibilities of
the cottage plan, and his thought was that the eoun'.ies contributing
the buildings ought to establish their beneficence by lettering the cot-
tages. He declared he desired to make note of the names of the coun-
ties contributing in this substantial manner, but there was no way in
which the respective buildings could be designated.
As a matter of course, the same thought may have come to other
visitors to the institution, as well as to the many travelers who pass
that way, and it suggests an opportunity for the management. There
need bo no going outside for a sign painter to do the job. Give the
painting class — for boys are taught to paint signs as well as to do
other things at this school — a few papers of gold leaf, the ""gum and
the tools, and let them set to work painting a sign to go over the door
to each cottage. Fine crops are raised there — the boys do it; one of
the neatest, specimens of the typographical art in The Weekly UP-
LIFT, is printed there, and the boys do it. The handiwork of the
boys is seen in every detail of grounds and buildings, and why could
it not lie said that they painted the signs indicating the Mecklenburg,
the New Hanover and other cottages in the building scheme? It is a
good guess that while some readers are applauding the idea, the
boys at the institution are laying plans to put it through.
From the National Highway the tablets of each of the County Cottages
can not be read: but, as a fact, each Cottage already bears the name of the
county in letters cut into marble. The Mecklenburg Cottage enjoys a
bronze tablet which the building committee donated for the purpose.
A drive through the campus will reveal the names of the cottages the
first one at the head of the driveway is that of the "King's Daughters"
and the last one towards Charlotte, now building, will ivhen completed,
be tabled "Rowan-Iredell Cottage." Interested friends are always wel-
come on the grounds — it's a great big institution made up of home units, of
thirty members to a family, with no more secrets or skeletons than can be
found in one of the best regulated homes in North Carolina. Here's hoping
that Col. Harris will bring Mr. Levin to see us. The UPLIFT voices the
welcome of the management and the youngsters to all interested friends,
who find it covenient to drop by and pass the time of day.
*$*****♦ ' ;~
HOW CAN THIS BE ACCOUNTED FOR?
Some weeks ago THE UPLIFT took editorial notice of some statistics re-
lative to the population and affairs of the State prison, the same growing
out of an interesting article prepared by the genius Ben DixonMcNeil, of the
News & Observer. This paper expressed the suggestion that had Mr.
g THE UPLIFT
George R. Pou, the very efficient and sensible supi rintendent of that insti-
tution, indicated how many of his guests had been attendants upon Sunday
School or members of the Christian Church, prior to their going to prison,
the statistics would have offered additional interest.
Supt. Pou. under the date of June 15, writes THE UPLIFT the follow-
ing courteous letter, and gives the statistics which THE UPLIFT had ex-
pressed a desire to see. Mr. Pcu's letter follows:
''I have received and read with interest THE UPLIFT of June 3rd,
I note your reference to the fact that information was not given as to
the number of prisoners who were church members and Sunday
School attendants prior to their committment to the State's Prison. In
reply I wish to state that I was not requested by Mr. Mac-Neil to give
this information.
Feeling that you might be interested in these statistics I beg to ad-
vise as follows: Of the three hundred and ninety-one white men and
women in the State'sPrison two hundred and seventy-six were Sunday
School attendents and one hundred and ninety-nine are church mem-
bers. Of the five hundred and seventy-six negro men and women in
the States prison two hundred and sixty three attended Sunday School
and three hundred and fifteen are members of the church. Of course
none of the above include the Criminal Insane Department of this Insti-
tution.
It may further interest you to know that we make every effort pos-
sible to have religious services at the Central Prison and State Farm
and all our camps. In some instances, however, it is not possible to
have services each Sunday as some of our camps are in remote sections
of the State where, it is inconvenient for a minister to get to the camp.
If at any time there is any information you desire relative to the
State'sPrison I will be only too glad to furnish it to you upon request.
Of the white men and women in the State prison -IS per cent plus were
church members; and of the colored men and women 54 per cent plus were
members of the church. This is a bad showing, just on the face,- for the
efficacy of the restraining influences from evil of the Sunday School and the
Church; but who is it that will deny that except for the influences of these
agencies for good the record would be more appalling. But these fig-
ures, while accurate, do not carry conviction on the subject. As indicated
in the former article there has been a large increase in the prison popula-
tion, during the past two years. . This, as can be well accepted, is a direct
result of the demoralized condition of society as an after-war effect; and the
Sunday School and the Church have had a struggle to combat the bad in-
fluences and the riot of the times precipitated by abnormal conditions.
The foregoing information will be of interest to the Committee of One
THE UPLIFT 3
hundred, winch is studying prison conditions, and no doubt will engage the
serious attention of the State Welfare Department, which, while not a i-eli-
gious agency, takes a lively interest in all such matters.
* * * * * * * *
Miss Beatrice Cobb, the owner and editress of the Morgan ton News-
Herald, was so pi'oud of the acquisition of-a new and modern hotel The
Caldwell — she issued an enlarged and an historical number of her always-
attractive newspaper in celebration of the opening of what the town was,
like a number of other towns in North Carolina, in great need. About the
.same time the gifted and industrious Miss Cobb was hostess of the weekly
craft, who met in Morganton.
********
Mrs. Gordon Finger, a brilliant Sundy contributor to The Charlotte Ob-
server, picks up some striking sentences in an address by Thomas Glasgow ,
who addressed the Woman's Club. Says he; ''Women and men with stam-
ina and courage must keep the faith and beat back the tide of change and
petty indulgence and seeking for pleasure which are the little foxes de-
stroying the vineyard of American manhood and womanhood".
********
Of course no one expects a corporation to have the privilege of meriting
a place in heaven; but the question arises what will become of the man or
men who fixed the rates the Southeastern Express Company charges for
the hauling of packages. Is there a heaven for a man that would charge
81 cents express for hauling a two bushel bag of soy beans from Charlotte
to Concord, twenty-one miles?
********
Mr. Hinsdale, one of the candidates for solicitor of the Raleigh district,
diagnoses the ailment of one of the candidates for Governor of North Caro-
lina as "insane egotism." That may or may not be so. but the courts
ou«'ht to investigate it— we don't need any 'brain storms" at this period
ot the state's prosperity.
And Statesville has a new hotel. It is The Vance. There is not
anywhere a more attractive hostelry- It cost §250,000 and is named for
the middle name of the chief promoter, Mr. C. Vance Henkel.
********
It's
■•ot the thoughtful and watchful pose, but the New York man
s
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missed it when be failed to put into the moutli of our friend. Hon. Her i of
Glarkson, his faithful cob-pipe. The story is alright and well deserved.,
but the picture " ain't" good of the active and fearless Charlottean.
*
♦
THE SWALLOW
B]
AND THE OTHER
It happened thai a countryman was sewing some hemp seed in a
field where a Swallow and some oilier bird's were hopping about pick-
ing up their food. " Beware of that man," quoth the Swallow. " Why
what is lie doing?'' said the others. "That is hemp seed he is sow-
ing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else you will repent
it. The birds paid no heed to the Swallow's words, and by and by
the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and of the cords nets were
made, and many a bird that had despised the Swallow's advice Was
caught in nets made out of that very hemp. " What did I tell you?"
said the Swallow.
"DESTORY THE SEEDS 01'' EVIL, OR IT WILL GROW" UP TO
YOUR RUIN."
THE UPLIFT
ECHO FROM RICHMOND
Gen. Julian S. Carr, Commander-in-Chief.
Where the Boys of the '60s are in
annual convention.
A touching scene was enacted in
connection with the opening of the
session early today when Gen. Julian
R. Carr, commander-in-chief of the
veterans, arose from his chair and
extending his arms with dramatic
gesture exclaimed to the old veterans
in a low voice:
"God bless you all, I love you, I
love you."
Silence prevailed for a few sec-
onds, when veterans and 'women in
the audience were seen to wipe away
tears. Then a storm of applause
followed.
10 THE UPLIFT
TWO MENANCES TO CIVILIZATION.
By Charles F. Moore.
EVOLUTIONIST. SPIRITUALISTS.
The evolutionists are greatly to Xow appears another real cause of
blame, and add greatly to tile gen- unrest. It is that class nf deluded
oral unrest by their insane theories, people who call themselves spiritua'l-
beeause many people have no mere ists, or occult scientists, ami claim to
sense than to believe them. 1, too, lie able to communicate with the dead.
believe in evolution to a certain ex- It is astonishing at the large follow-
tent. The fact is that true evolu- ing these pretenders have among that
tion seeks the perfection of life al- class of people who are always ;iu-
ready formed into species, rather xious to he decieved. It is really
than changing one form to another, amusing to read of some of the
Some evolutionists claim taht we messages these people claim they
first lived in the sea, and came out in receive from the departed spirits. I
the form of crabs and lobsters; then do not deny that angels, or the
became monkeys, and finally became spirits of those passed on into the
human beings with all our God-given beyond might possibly be communicat-
powers. By their theory I wonder ed with. Here is how it would have
what we would bo ages from now. to he accomplished however. One
The evolutionists may indeed have would have to live a life nearly per-
had monkey ancestors a few genera- feet in faith in (lod, and be a perfect
tions back, but no absolutely sane Christian, like the prophets of old;
man believes he is descended from a then I would say that one mi"ht
monkey. We are the sons of God, and possibly be able to see the angels' of
desire to bo followers of Moses rather God an 1 the spirits of the dead and
than Darwin. Will su::m ardent be- talk with them, for angels certainly
liever in evolution please explain why do exist. But the ouija board crowd
the universe is here, and how it oper- are mistaken. Xu angel would coll-
ates? The goal of evolution may be descend to touch such clap-trap as
said to be perfect psychic or soul life. that. The honorable A. Couan Doyle,
By that term is meant perfect faith and Sir Oliver Lodge are' victims* of
in God and perfect life and health their own hallucinations.' They are
of the soul. The perfection of the helping to drive the world further
soul is what evolution is for. in no awav from God.
other evolution could I believe.
Whence came conscience? Did dead matter educe the divine sense of
right 2nd wrong? Did a concourse of atoms create that primeval vice-
gerent of God, "a prophet in its inspiration, a monarch in its peremptori-
ness, a priest in its sanctions and anathemas?" — he then who sa!ys there
is no god does not solve even the most elementary difficulty of the hirm.au
mind while he creates difficulties a million times more numerous, and a
million times more insolube. — F. W. Farror.
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H
WHAT A WOMAN THINKS.
By Mrs. W: A. Eliason.
That justice must neither be 'de-
nied, sold nor delayed is a funda-
mental principle of our government.
Justice means right between man and
s
, ..-,
i
Hon. Zeb Vance Long
man — woman being implied in the
term "man" and the punishment of
the transgressor of this right.
To prosecute the transgressor,
one must not only know the law, but.
must have the courage and integrity
to execute that law.
Mothers and teachers know that
there never was a rule that some
child did not try breaking it and.
unpunished, the broken rule be-
comes a fiction, "Men and women
•are but children of alargei growth"
and every law of our land is tested
daily ami. if unpunished, it becomes
a scrap of paper; because Mr. Zeb
Vance Long is a lawyer, trained at
the U. X. C. Law School and having
twenty years successful practice, the
women will be safe in trusting him
as Solicitor in so far i.s legal know-
ledge goes. He has prosecuted in
a number of murder cases and as
County Attorney has seen to it that
justice was executed.
He comes of fearless quick-witted,
courageous, Never-surrender,"
God-fearing Scotch Irish folk. His
father, Dr. J. F. Long, for sixty
years was practicing physician in
the northern half of Iredell and per-
formed the first surgical operation
in this part of the county; his great-
great grandfather. Maj. Mussenden
Mathews an elder in the first church
in the northern half of Irdell County,
was one of two Reverent patriots to
out-wit twenty Redcoats; his mater-
nal uncle, Col. Robert Cowan of the
old Thyatira Cowan family was in
the last tight at Appomattox and
never surrendered; and his brother,
Dr. H. F. Long, has knocked the
life back into more dying folks than
any other .surgeon in the State and
Money is not a necessary equivalent
for aD operation either.
Tempermentally a Methodist, his
wife's long line of Presbyterian Min-
ister ancestors and his own inheri-
tance have made Zeb V. Long a
Presbyterian who can be commend-
ed as a fearless, just, yet withal, a
sympathetic advocate, characterist-
ics invaluable in a Solicitor.
Mr. Long served four successive
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terms in the Legislature where he
stood for the strengthening of every
moral law, having the honor to be
twice chairman of the Appropriation
committee. Here he worked with
the women in the chartering of the
Stonewall Jackson Training School.
Mr. Long says if the action recently
taken by the Women's Club at
Greensboro reflects the woman-hood
of the State he lias no fear of the
political outcome of women in poli-
tics.
The thing in Mr. Long that should
appeal most to the women of the dis-
trict is the interest he takes in the
education of youth of our land; for
it is not the punishment of law
breakers but the education that pre-
vents law breakers that marks real
progress of civilization. Not having
had the opportunity of a college
education, Mr. Zeb V. Long ap-
preciates the value of all educa-
tion. Mr. Long owes his educa-
tion to the common schools the "Old
Academy" and to private tutors, J.
A. Matherson, Vernon J. Hill and
that great educator, and venerable
man, Prof. Amos D. Kestler. whose
character as 'veil as teaching formed
a mighty influence in the life of more
than one young man who was so
fortunate as to have him for a pre-
ceptor.
There is no man of like age in the
State who has made more school,
Sunday School and patriotic addres-
ses than Mr. Long, all of which take
time and thought, often he quotes
this simple poem most effectively;
I wandered in the woodland meadow
where the thrushes sing,
I found on a bed of mosses a bird
with a broken wing,
1 healed it's wound and next morn-
ing it sang it's sweet old strain.
But tin/ bird with the broken pinion
never soared so high again.
I found a young life broken by Sin's
seductive arts,
And touched with Christ-like pit}-,
I took him' to my heart.
He lived with a noble purpose and
struggled not in vain.
But the bird with the broken pinion
never soared so high again.
The bird with the broken pinion
saved another from the snare,
And the life which sin had ruined,
lifted another from despair,
So, each loss has its compensation,
there's a healing for every pain
But the bird with the broken pinion
never soared so high again.
Because he stands for the preven-
tion of 'Broken wings" as well as
the punishment of the breaker of
wings", I commended Mr. Zeb V.
Long to the women of this district
as well-fitted for the office or Solici-
tor ft. r which he has been unanimous-
ly nominated by his party.
Heard in a Barber-Shop: I listened to an interesting converssftion down
in Alabama. A boll-weevil jumped onto the hood of a ford and looked
the driver square in the face, and asked the privilege of driving the tin
lizzie for him. The request was indignantly denied. "All right," the boll-
weevil is alleged to have replied before taking departure from the hood of
the Ford, "You decline me a privilege just now, but next; fall I'll call a-
round and drive this blame thing under the shed." !
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PLAYING OPEN WITH THE PUBLIC.
By R. R. Clark.
The editornl in the last issue of THF* general conditions, and the attitude
UPLIFT, urging the local school board of these school boards is typical,
to take the public into its confidence The idea that those who manage the
as to its plans and purposes with ref- public business are not called "on to
erence to a bond issue the voters are keep the public, the taxpayers, the
asked to authorize, was especially in- stockholders whose money they ex-
teresting to me. It was a forcible re- pend, advised as to the conduct of
minder of my experience as a news- their business, prevails generally,
paper man, when I used much space more especially as to local affairs—
urging, imploring, and at times criti- county and municipal. The people
cizing, my home school board for its are frequently called on to vote bond
methods of secrecy in handling the issues, for good purposes; money is
affairs of the public. But notwitb- frequently borrowed on the faith and
standing the people seemed to be with credit, of the people and large lloat-
me — SO much with me that on ing debts accumulated, ami the pub-
one occasion they rose up and smote a lie generally is left in the dark as
school bond issue which I favored, to the details of the expenditure,
.solely to give expression to their feel- The honesty of these local officials
ing against the secret and autocratic is not generally questioned. I be-
methods of that school board — none of lieve that, generally speaking, very
these things moved that school board, few of them have any purpose to
They pursued the policy of ignoring "put something over." But it is
the public except when they wanted a ignoring the rights of the people,
bond issue voted, and got away with whose servants they are — even if so
e
t. The people were aggrieved, but it few of them realize it — that remains
never seemed to occur to them that it a mystery to me. It is indefensible.
was possible to put folks on that The people have a light to frequent
school board who would recognize that and full explanation as to the ruanhge-
the people had some rights ill addition meat of ' their affairs; how much
to paying the bills. The men who com- money is being collected, the pur-
posed the hoard were fine men, leading pose for which it is expended; the
citizens, and to this day, I have never amount of the public indebtedness, the
been able to understand their attitude annual interest charge, and whether
of secrecy and disregard of the public the indebtedness is being reduced or
as to their proceedings. But they increased; how many people are em-
kept it up and do to this day. ployed at the expense of the public
Hut be it understood here and now and what for; and the total paid in
that I know nothing about and have salaries, etc.
nothing to do with the situation in the How many people in the average
local habitat of THE UPLIFT; neith- town or county in North Carolina
er am I offering advice as to that. I know the amount of the county and
am submitting a few remarks on municipal debts, or anything of con-
24 TEE UPLIFT
sequence about their public affairs? been suggested. This should be done
Very few. They can't know because several times a year, so that the peo-
tliey are not advised; and few of them pie Mould be kept fully posted and up-
have the time or the capacity to to-date with reference to the conduct
make au examination. It is the busi- of their business. It should be done
ness of the officials to have these mat- first, because it is right. The people,
ters at their " fingers-ends, " able to all the people, have a right to the
tell all about it on short notice, which details of the conduct of their blisi-
few of them can do. But if they ness. They do not elect and pay
do know they won't take the pains to public officials to keep these things
tell the public. They seem to fear concealed from theni. Secondly, it is
that publicity will hurt in some way; not only right but it is good policy
or at least that is the only reason I to be candid with the people. Here
could ever figure out in years of wrest- are kickers and unreasonable coiu-
ling with this problem. The officials plainers among the masses of course,
should know, if they have intelligence but the great majority are reasonable,
sufficient to exercise the overlordship fair and honest. If they are told the
to which they have been called, that truth and kept advised as to their
the indisposition to tell what they are affairs, so far from complaining they
doing and why created suspicion and will be the more ready to meet the
arouses dissatisfaction. Very often expenditures and to increase cost
there is grossly unjust criticism of the when they are shown that money is
management of public affairs and ser- needed for good and neccessary pur-
ious charges are whispered, or made poses and that they will get value
openly, against good men who have received for what they have to pay.
been guilty of no wrong. But usually I sometimes think that if our public
they who are unjustly accused deserve officials were determined on a policy
no sympathy; their refusal to take that would eventually undermine pub-
the public into their confidence is the lie confidence they could not select a
cause; whatever injustice is done them better one than their general attitude
is their own fault. of secrecy ami indifference. It is
Sometimes there is an audit of pub- no answer to say the "the books are
lie accounts and a so-called statement open." They know that few people
published. What can the average can examine the books and get satis-
reader get out of the statement of the factory information. Sometimes
average public accountant? Nothing, even the experts can't understand the
or so little that he is more dissatisfied the system of keeping public accounts,
than he was. It would be easy for the The remedy for this condition is
officials whose business it is to know in plain sight. It is possible to find
to write out — or tell the local newspap- somebody to manage public affairs
er men, who will be more than glad to who will be willing to do what their
do the writing — a simple, concise state- employers want done. Hut the people
ment of the fac'.s, the amount of the either do not care, for all their coin-
indebtedness, the interest charge, the plaining, or they do not seem to knov.'
salaries, etc., such information as has how to go about applying the remedy.
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IS
;1 HAV1
FOLKS"-VIRGINIA
BO YE1*
IX.
By Zoe I Hart, in The Lutheran.
On Monday, May 22. the even-
ing papers brought us the shocking
news of the death of our missionary
friend, Miss Virginia M. Rover.
We read over and over again the ac-
count of the collision of the two ocean
vessels, trying to convince our
selves that the Miss V. M Hover
named among the missing could not
possibly be our Miss Virginia. But
the next evening's papers brought
us further details, stating that Miss
Dover was a missionary on her way
hack to India. Finally a communi-
cation from the office of , the Amor-
can Board removed, all possible
doubt as to identity.
Miss Buyer was born in Pitts-
burgh. She was left an orphan at
a very early age. She had no recol-
lection of her Father] but the impres-
sion was with her that lie had per-
ished in the flood at, Johnstown.
She had a few definite memories of
her mother. On the day of her
mother's funeral she was taken to
live in a family where she was treat-
ed very unkindly. One day. when
she was running away from abuse,
she met a policeman and appealed to
him for protection, lie proved to be
a kind-hearted man. for lie tool; the
little child to his home and finally
adopted her as his own. The fos-
ter-mother was a sincere Christain
woman, and from her Virginia first
heard of missionaries and their work.
She was still a child when her
much-loved foster-mother died, and
very soon thereafter she was re-
ceived into the Orphans' Home and
Farm School at Zelienople, Pa.
When her foster-father died some
years later he feft a small legacy to
Virginia, with the Be v. .1. A. Kribbs
as her guardian.
When Miss Agnes Schade was at
home on furlough one time and
visited the Orphans' Home, she said
to Virginia, then a girl in her early
teens, '"You must come out to India
some day and help me teach in my
Girls' School." The girl said that
she would like to do that.
She was a bright student and
those in charge of the Home encour-
aged her to make the most of her
talents. Her elementary education
was that given to all the children in
the splendid Home school. She at-
tended Zelienople High school, and
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then went to the State Normal
School at Slippery Rock. After her
graduation she taught for three
years in the Home school; where the
children fairly idolized her. Then,
in order to secure proper certifica-
tion uuderthe education laws of the
State, she taught in the public
schools for three years.
It was at Thiel Summer School in
1914 that Virginia finally heard
■what sounded to her like a clear call
to missionary service in India. In
her Mission "Study Class Mrs. E. 0.
Cronk presented the need for more
missionaries. She appealed espec-
ially to mothers to give willingly of
their sons and daughters for such
service. This appeal aroused in
Virginia's heart the question:
May it be that God took my mother
from me and gave me into the keep-
ing of a Home mothered by the
Church because Fie wanted me to be
a foreign missionary?"' It did not
take her long to reach a decision.
Then she set about to prepare her-
self more adequately for her new
work. She studied Theology,
Church History, and Christian Mis-
sions under the direction of her
pastor, the Rev. G. if. Sehmir, who
was then serving the Zelienople
parish. At the same time she was
tireless in her zeal in the work of
Sunday School, and missionary
Society, making it hard (<>r those
organizations to till her place when
she left for India.
It was quite natural to think that
it was much easier for Virginia
Royer to go to India as a foreign
missionary than for one who must
leave mother, father, and others
near and dear. But on two occasions
we had glimpses into the dear girl's
heart that caused us to think diff-
erently.
When she was all tired out, after
having bidden farewell to many
friends the last night of Thiel Sum-
mer School in 1915. she opened her
heart to a friend. She said she be-
lieved it would have been much
easier for her to start off for India if
her mother were living here in the
homeland, loving her and praying
for her while she' was gone. She
said she had never so longed for her
mother as since she had begun pre-
paring to go to India.
With seven others. Miss Rover
was commissioned for service at the.
meeting of the General Council in
Rock Island, in September, 1915. In
all the other cases, the outgoing
missionaircs were accomplished to
the commissioning service byatleast
one relative, in most cases by sever-
al members of the immediate family.
Lingering in the Church after the
beautiful service, those young peo-
ple stood, each one the. center of a
group. Miss Boyer stood a bit apart,
alone. A friend who saw her thus,
reading the expression on her face,
stepped to her side and clasped her
hands, whereupon the lonely girl
said, with almost a sob, "I haven't
any folk's!" ' Yes, you have," assur-
ed her friend, 'every one here, to-
night is a. member of your family."
But it wasn't quite the same as hav
injf "folks."
Aside from these two instances,
we never saw Virginia, unhappy or
sad. Her habitual attitude was one.
of smiling optimism.
Soon after she reached tho Rajah-
mundry mission, she began to teach
English to some of the classes in the
Girls' Central School. Rut before
she had mastered Telugu sufficiently
well to teach in the vernacular, her
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health became impaired. She had Brenau College. Gainesville, C4a.
togo to Madanapalli for treatment in During the winter her physical
the Tuberculosis Sanitarium. FTer condition improved so much that she
health improved and she went buck was able to make a contract with the
to Raj ah n Hind r j- . But it was soon American Board to go back to Kodai-
evident that she could not live on the kanal to teach in the Highclerc
plains. She went to Kodai kanal in School for five years!
the hills and soon was able to teach She sailed from Boston on May 3,
in the Highclerk School there— a going on the maiden trip of the new
school t'.»r missionaries' children. Cunarder steamihip Samaira. After
When Miss Boyer returned to ten days in England, she started
America early in 1921. it seemed forward on the last part of her jour-
doubtful wh, r.her she would be able ney. on the British steamship Egypt,
to return to India. The report.-- of tu the dense fog on the evening of
examining physicians in Baltimore May 20. the Egypt was rammed by
and Pittsburgh caused her to send the French freight steamer Seine,
her resignation to the Bourdof Fore- oft the Island Ushant. The liner
ing Missions of the Church. But sank about a half hoar after being
■she did not give up hope, of return- struck. Ten passengers and about
ing to India because she could not eighty of the ship's officers and crew
endure the climate of the plains. She were lost,
went to sfcudv for a school year at
"How are tlie tomatoes coming on?" asked the gardener of the wife
•of the new summer resident. "I'm rather afraid we shan't have any,"
was the reply. "Why, I thought you said that you'd planted half your
garden with tomatoes." "I did, but Iforg'otto open* the cans."
BUT GOLD IS NOT ALL.
Charlotte Observer.
There is something more in life impotent. It should be the. ambition
than the acquisition of gold. In the of every man to do the thing that
scheme of creation every human be- God wants him to do. To be a good
ing is allotted a task to perform, carpenter is to fulfill a laudable am-
Carpenters and bricklayers are as bition. If all of us studied law the.
necessary in building the struotu:o wheels of industry would cease to
of the universe as are bankers and turn.
over-lords. Ambition does not mean Wealth is merely the accumula-
te striving after great vealth; there tion of property. Any fool can gath-
are higher ambitions than that. er together a few dollars, but it is
Were ft not for the artisans who only the appointed ones who can
lay together the warp and woof of make a song for.the morning stars
things the money barons would be to sing together. All of us leave
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our footprints on the sands, even another half score of years to the
though our names may bo foi'gotten. measure of his life. The picture of
The pot of gold at the end of the Edgar Allen Poe grubbing for doll-
rainbow of life is the promise of re- ars would be as ludicrous as that of
ward for a duty well performed. All the Angel Gabriel digging for earth-
the wealth of the world cannot keep worms. to angle for minnows. This
the breath in our bodies after the child of circumstance, lashed by the
thread of life shall have run its gods into the fulfillment of his des-
couise. The Kings of the earth and tiny, unable to get away from the'
the diggers of ditches in the last forces within that drove and whipp-
day will lay them down together in ed him on and on. expressed his
a trench that other men have dug. agony in song that will live as long
Death is no respecter of persons. as the- written word shall last. When
The only heritage of a man is six the monolithic stone at the head of
feet of the earth he trod in life in the banker shall have crumbled into
which to sleep after he is dead. dust and be forever forgotten, the
There is something more in life name of Poe will still be as sweet as
than the acquisition of wealth. honey on the tongues of men.
There is something higher and bet- \\ is better to have been a Poe and
tor and sweeter than the accumula- lived in poverty than to have been a
rion erf property. Money cannot ere- Midas and leave nothing behind than
ate the miracle of a tree or breathe the sordid tale of wealth. It is bet-
the breath of life into the body of a lit- ter to have been the author of Ann-
tie child. A frightened puppy in the abel Lee and Ulalume and the House
maze of a congested corner will cause of CJshur. and to have died in pover-
busy men to pause because they see ty upon the streets of Baltimore,
behind the appealing eyes and the than to have hoarded a few pennies
wagging tail the mystery of creation. in a bank in order to live another
An infinite wisdom puts into us all little span of years. What did Poe
the instinct that drives us forward. care for gold and the accumulation
(t is the man who uses the talents thereof while his heart was flooded
that God has given him and does not with a song toosweet for utterance?
covet those things that are his He was a brother to the feathered
neighbor's who reaches the ultimate minstrel in the trees that sang be-
of his destiny. The gold that men cause God had put the song into his
strive for does not mean as much to throat. He fulfilled the purpose
the Creator of it as does the life of a for which he was put upon the earth,
little feathered creature splitting his The world is a little happier because
throat with the ecstasy of life in his of his having lived in it.
arbor of green leaves. Xo. this is not a preachment
A grave and reverend banker dis- against thrift, nor even is it intend-
plays upon a placard in a window of ed to discount tin; great importance
his counting house the admonition of that principle and practice. It is
that if Edgar Allen Poe had saved merely a reminder that gold is tut
his money he might have added 'all.'
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19
MAROONED 0:
By Henry
Above the famous Shoshone Falls. in
southern Malm the Snake River,
winding serpent-like thru its deep
gorge, runs smoothly enough. Upon
the surface there is no hint of the
many suction holes and fissures in the
river bottom nor is there a warning
of the sheer drop of two hundred and
■twelve feet just beyond. The pres-
ence of a cataract rivaling Niagara
•would not be even remotely suspect-
ed by one unfamiliar with the stream.
In spite of this quiet appearance
which has lured countless swimmers
to destruction, it is one of the most
treacherous streams in the world and
has a peculiar reputation for not giv-
ing up many of its victims. Bodies
often sink to the bottom and are then
sucked into' deep holes and fissures
by currents of tremendous power.
Tragedy and near tradegy are link-
ed with the history of Snake River.
Accidents to swimmers, canoeists and
explorers are all too common. Each
year warnings are issued and each
year adds to the list of gruesome
tragedies. Swimmers continue to risk
themselves in the evil water, seeming-
liy unmindful of danger.
Approximately two hundred feet
above the gigantic falls a huge, motor
driven ferryboat is operated, carrying
passengers and conveyances to Je-
rome and Twin Falls counties. Great
cables spanning the river at this point
keep the Mat-bottomed craft in the
right position and prevent it from
drifting toward the brink of the cat-
aract and certain doom. No one ever
went over Shoshone Falls even in low
water and survived.
Nf THE RIVER.
H. Graham
During a hot, midsummer day when
a strapping six-footer who sat at ease
business was light for the ferryman,
in the boat idling the lazy hours away,
a number of boys came down and went
in swimming. For some time they
swam around and disported in a live-
ly manner, enjoying tie cool water.
At length, tiring of swimming, one
of the boys took a canoe and started
paddling out into the river. He was
clad in a bathing suit. His compan-
ions were engrossed in their own sport
and paid little heed to him. The
ferryman saw .at a glance that the
lad was unfamiliar with the manipula-
tion of a canoe and called to him to
go back.
Due to the shouting and laughing
his warning was unheard and the
young canoeist steadily moved toward
mid-stream. One thing, however, he
failed to realize; his stroke was too
weak to keep the craft from going
downstream. So slowly was it drift-
ing toward the brink that the boy did
not realize it.
Before long it became evident to
him that it would require hard pad-
dling to get back to land. All at
once his perilous position was under-
stood. He noticed that the current
was moving more swiftly. For a mo-
ment his face became ashy pale and in
his fright and anxiety to return his
paddle was carried away from him
and over the falls. Then a row boat
. put out from the ferry upstream and
more vividly than before he realized
his situation.
If he was helpless in the hurrying
mass of green water before, he was
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doubly so now and ;it the merey of
the current. During the few moments
required to drift onward to the brink
his mind was keenly active trying to
formulate a plan of escape.
The ferryman had turned back un-
able to brave the current. The lad's
comrades on the bank became frantic
over the sudden turn of affairs and
were thoroughly alive to the situation.
Yet they seemed powerless to aid.
Nothing could save him.
As tile canoe swept on the boy
caught sight of a projecting rock,
rather flat on top. This lay directly
ahead of him. If he could only get on
that rock he would be saved temporari-
ssud ooub.) s|i( ppio.vv jng ; jsimj \\s \[
on the right side? Ahead yawned the
abyss of death and a deafening roar
bewildered him. 'Death fairly stared
him in the face! Could he do it?
With lighting rapidity he sped on-
ward until opposite the providential
boulder. He had passed on the right
side. Preparing for a mighty effort
he threw himself on the end of the
jagged rock and hung on tenaciously.
Part of his body was in the water
and it taxed his endurance to the limit
to hold on. His legs ached and his
arms seemed like inanimate, lifeless
things. lie felt as though it would
be a pleasure to give up and lloat on.
He was so weary, so absolutely help-
less. But he had not been used to
giving up. His chums had nick-named
him "Plucky" and he meant to live
up to the name.
Tightly he dug his finger nails into
the lava rock above. Then he slowly
tried to pull himself up. The rush-
ing water pushed and pounded against
him, making the task difficult. His
entire body ached and pained; his
arms lacked the usual strenght. He-
dimly knew that his lingers were
bleeding and his swimming suit was
almost torn off.
Inch by inch he drew himself up,
his heart pounding like an engine and
his lungs paining. But he was gain-
ing. Another six inches would find
him on top. His knee rested on the
rock and a few seconds of strenuous
pulling in a last enfeebled effort saw
his body stretched out at full length.
Then, a million glittering stars flutter-
ed before his eyes'and unconsciousness
crept over him.
Upon awakening the lad felt re-
freshed. Naturally strong, his stal-
wart, young body needed but a few
moments rest to restore strength. Sit-
ting up, he ascertained his injuries
and found he was almost unhurt ex-
cepting a bruise on one side which
had scraped against the "rock, and his
bloody lingers which had served him
so well in clinging to the boulder.
Then he began to look about. The
rock upon which he had been saved
was irregular, being long and narrow
with ragged edges. Cautiously ho
moved to the outer edge and peered
over. The sight almost made his heart
cease beating. Xot over ten feet dis-
tant the mass of water was pouring
over the precipice to a lower level ac-
companied by a sickening roar.- A
fine mist blinded him.
Then the thought suddenly came to
him that he was not actually saved.
All around him rushed the turbulent
green waters and he was like a fly in
the midst of it all. The south bank
was over live hundred feet distant
while the north was not more than
fifty.
"So near and yet so far," he mur-
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22
mured.
To venture forth in the stream
would have invited death. Yet to
stay where he was and starve! He
didn't know which would be more ac-
ceptable.
It was late afternoon yet the sun
was a couple of hours high and he was
hopeful. Far across the river he could
plainly see the stunted cedars fring-
ing the water, the numerous look-out
points for tourist and the steep grades
winding out of the canon. A grim,
faint smile lurked about his lips as
he prided himself on obtaining the
best view of the falls.
All at once his mind beuame active.
Where were his companions '■ Had
they deserted him or were they search-
ing for his body in the dangerous,
whirlpool rapids below the falls? The
bodies of two boys who had slipped
into the river a year previously had
been found on the shore several days
afterward and the lad thought, as he
sat there in the midst of swirling
waters, that he ought to be thankful
for not sharing a similar fate even if
he had not yet been saved.
Suddenly a bit of water splashed
over the big rock. Never had the
river done this before. Always it
had confined itself to its bed. The
river was rising! They were letting
out some water at the storage reser-
voir at Milner. One look told the lad
that the water was two feet higher
than when he climbed upon the rock.
Inch by inch it was rising and a few
moments would see the rock inundat-
ed.
A look of horror covered his face.
Rescue must come and come speedily
for it would not be long before he
would be swept into the current and
hurried over the falls. It was im-
perative that succor come at once.
Looking shoreward a joyful yet un-
expected sight lay before him. There
on the bank were his chums and the
ferryman all motioning and beckon-
ing to him. They were shouting at
the top of their lungs but the roaring
water drowned their best efforts.
A bare fifty feet separated them
yet death hovered in that short dis-
tance and there did not appear to be
any possible way to roach shore and
safety. After calling to their marooned
comrade the boys stood around, not
knowing what to do. Every few sec-
onds their hands served as mega-
phones for their hoarse cries, but as
before, with no effect.
Shortly afterward the ferryman
produced a strong and long rope.
Hope tilled the lad's heart as he
caught sight of it. If he could only
catch hold of it.
The first throw fell short as did a
second. On the third attempt the
rope fell over the rock, but the water
carried it away swiftly before the
waiting hands of the boy could seize
it.
During the intervening seconds the
water was steadily rising until the
rock was given a shallow bath. The
man redoubled his efforts to throw the
rope to the boy.
After a number of unsuccessful
casts it reached its destination. The
rope was caught and fastened to a
projection. First the lad pulled it
tight and then made it fast. A shout
of sheer joy arose from those on the
shore. Success was not certain but
the first lap of the journey was com-
pleted.
The force of the wateragainst the-
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rope was terrific and all wondered
that it did not give way
Well the lad knew that the struggle
to gain land even if the rope held
would teat his strength to the utmost.
It would be necessary to cling tightly
and pull himself forward.
lie paused briefly before lowering
himself into the water. Then, notic-
ing that the shore end of the rope was
fastened securely to a rock, he sank
into the water and started to pull a-
head. The force of the current WHS
even more than he had anticipated
Twice he felt certain the rope would
break, but it did not.
His endurance was taxed to the limit,
for the rushing water pushed, twisted
and pounded against his exposed body
and pounded against his exposed
body. Nevertheless, foot by foot he
advanced until his bare feet rested
on the rocky shore and safety.
DURHAM COUNTY VETERANS.
General Julian S. Carr, Comman-
der-in-Chief who never loses an op-
portunity to lighten the burdens of a
veteran or to do him full justice and
protection at all times— his courage
and faithfulness always jewels in the
sight of Gen. Carr— furnishes this
list as the surviving Confederate
veterans now resident of the county
of Durham:
W. T. Redmond— Commander G. E.
Lougse J. H. Shields W. H. Xumi J.
W. Ferrell A. J. Lloyd J. E. Lyon, G.
D. Langston, J. J. Moring, Jim Black-
wood, W. Holder, J. I. Murry, G. C.
Stallings, J. D. Lewis, H. O'Brien, S.
M. Khew, J. A. Shipp,A. Oakley I. S.
Barbee, W. J. Maynard, J. T. Ladd J.
W. Rodgers, A. C. Freeman, T. C.
Martin, B. A. Summerlain, J. YV.
Garrard, J. L. Rogers, S. W. Young,
W. W. Teasley, YV. B. Copley, J. K.
Billings, J. T. Ferrell, W. T. Hailey,
J. W. Hamilton, J. F. Bailey, Lovet
Ennis, William llolloway, Woodward
Holloway, K. E. Howard, James B.
Blacknall, Julian 8. Carr.
Col. W. P. Wood, late State Audi-
tor and legislator of wide experience,
whom everybody in Randolph county
esteem, has gathered up for THE UP-
LIFT the names of the surviving
Confederate soldiers now living in
Randolph county. Just think, this
county furnished to the great con-
flict over 3,000 men, and of them less
than one hundred are yet with as.
They are:
CONFEDERATE VETERANS OF RAN-
DOLPH COUNTY.
Col. W. P. Wood, late State Audi- Confederate soldiers now living in
tor and legislator of wide experience, Randolph county. Just think, llus
-whom everybody in Randolph county county furnished to the great con'.ict
esteem, has gathered up for THE LP- over 3,000 men, and of them less than
LIFT the names of the surviving one hundred are yet with us. I hoy
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23
William T. Fox, R. T. Mclntire,
John T. Tun. or, Z. XL Williams, W.
C. Hooker, A. L. Jarrell, Doc F. All-'
rod, W. B. Allied, John Wesley All-
red, T. W. Andrews, \\". R. Aslnvorth,
\V. II. Bran. Jesse \Y. Bowdoin, John
S. Bowden, L. B. Brady, Wyatt
Brady, .1. D. Brown, I'. \Y. Burgess,
Murphy Burriss, II. C. Causey, D. 0.
Cobble, A. M. Cress, G. A. Cross. XL
H. Cross, W. S. Crowson, W. Davis,
\V. Xoniian Davis, \V. J. Delk, .1. W.
Ellis, <i. XI. Frazier, Hiram P. Gard-
ner, Henry XI. Gardner, Franklin
Gray, X. B. Gunter, T. YV. Hall, James
Hancock, .John Hancock, YV. H. Han-
rock, D. H. Hill, -J. II. Hill, 1). C.
Hilliard John W. Hoi, In-, J. C. Hoov-
er, J. P. Hopkins, XI. XI. Hopkins, J.
W. Howell, XI. XI. Hughes, L. \V.
Hunt, D. J. Jarrett, F. L. Johnson,
I.. Johnson, Frank .Ionian, I. XT. Lam-
bert, Kelly Latham, Jell Lineberry,
\Y. S. Lineberry XIadison Lowe',
George Luther, Thomas D. XlcXIaster,
William H. XlcPherson, T. F. Xlilli-
kan, B. X. Xlodlin, Xfilo Xloffit, John
Xloore, F. Morris, A. G. Xlyrick, II.
H. Xelson, B. L. Owen, -I. XL Pounds,
S. F. Pugli, William Reddiek, Samuel
Rightsell, Iredell XI. Robbins, A. C.
Hush. A. J. Rush, Stephen P. Sear-
let, James Scott, K. F. Seehrest, Jesse
T. Shaw, W. D. Siler, Thompson Siler,
S. B. Spencer, Lemuel Spencer, Rich-
aid C. Stokes, W. A. Stout, L. 0.
Sugg, A. E. Tillman, Alpheus Upton,
Flkana Wall. R. XI. Wellborn, F. J.
White, J. 8. Wilkinson, T. J. Wood,
Xoah L. Yates, J. W. Yeargin, S. C.
Yolk, Larkin York, S. L. Younts, P.
H. Xlorris, Dr. F. A. Asbury, Sam'l
Alldridge, \Y'. P. Wood.
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all
around; and most of us can, if we choose, make of this world either a pal-
ace or a prison. — Lubbuck.
A XVORD ABOUT BOOKS
This is a reading age. It can he
more truthfully said now than ever
before that "Of the making of books
there is no end.'' The amount of
literature that comes from the press
each year fairly staggers one. Each
of us can read only a small portion of
it. It is not all intended for you
and me. Much of it is good, but
maybe not good for us. Much of it
tits into a need you and I feel. Xow
Mnee I cannot read it all. I must
-elect what I shall read. This pro-
cess of selection should be done with
the utmost care. Much of the litera-
ti re now being produced is without
a message or a soul. It is a sheer
waste of time to try to read it. We
are told that out of every thousand
books published. 650 do not see the
end of the first year. Xlost of the
others are forgotten in two or three
or five years. Out of more than one
million volumes in the Imperial
Library at Paris, over 700,000 are out
of print. We can help to put some
volumes out of business by not read-
ing them or recommending them to
others. We may share in an enter-
prise of the noblest kind by speak-
ing well of volumes that have help-
ed us. The literature problem is
one of the most vital that home-mak-
ers and homekeepers have to deal
with. — Selected.
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LINNAEUS "THE FATHER OF MODERN
BOTANY.'"
By Lena C. Aiders
May brings the birthday of one of the greatest naturalists, who has ever
live,] ' Though, Linnaeus was not wealthy he yet possessed eyes that could
see the richness of the beauty of this world, as few other men have done, and
ho helped to teach others to see this wealth, too. Linnaeus right name was
Carl von Linne, which was changed to Carolus Linnaeus, in Latin, when he was
made a nobleman, and it is by this name he is best known.
Carl von Linne was bom May 23, containiugViny books on science and
17D7 in Rushult, Sweden. His father nature, into winch Carl delved. 1 au-
was a Lutheran minister with a large in* to get Carl interested in either
parish, liven as a baby, Linnaeus the ministry or medicine, at the end
showed his fondness for animals, of the year Doctor Rothe took him U
flowers and nature, and as he grew Kill am Stoboeua, who was a physician
older showed a marked preference, for to the king.
them. His great love for nature puz- .Doctor btobae.us bad a large coJIec-
zle.l his devoted father, for he tion of natural history curiosities that
thought the boy should like books bet- he did not have arranged, and put
ters. He hoped Carl would become. Carl to cataloguing these The boy j>
a minister or doctor, but his fear in- writing was almost illegible, and he
creased that the boy would not, as had an impatient temper, so he often
the years passed, and his son grew to quarreled with the doctor Several
love the .rreat out-of-doors more, and ■ times the physician turned hun from
the house, but upon Carl s promise
The Lim.es had a beautiful garden, to do better, let nun try again. A
in which the whole family worked, last in desperation the doctor sent
and when Carl was eight, years old he Linnaeus to the University o Upsalfc
was .riven a corner for his very own. Once inside tbe university am
He was delighted, and Idled it with with his beloved nature books it
bright flowers, which he tended care- seemed to the young man he had en-
fully Try as he would Mr. Linne tared a new world. He round unlunit-
could not get his small son interested ed opportunities to study botany and
in books,' and becoming alarmed he the sciences, and was greatly en-
took him to a doctor to be examined, couraged in this by teachers in the m-
Doctor Rothe was a kind and under- stitute. In Doctor Rudbeek, the pro-
standing man, and understood the fessor of botany, the young student
boy's desire to be a naturalist better found a good friend, and supported
than did his' father, lie advised Mr. himself by working in the professor S
Linne to let Carl stay with him for a office. He found chaos among (ho
year which the minister consened to botany and natural history specimens
do 'The doctor had a grand library, in RudbcckV office, and arranged
T11E UPLIFT 25
them in order. During this time he degree in medicine so he went to
wrote his first book on plant life, Harderuiak and attended school there,
which was short and appeared in 1729. He was soon awarded a degree, and
The same year he began a scries of then visited Leyden, where he pub-
tours in which he gave lectures about Misheil the first sketch of "Systcma
(lowers. Nature."
Through the interest ami kindness In 1731, Clifford, who was then the
of Doctor Rudbeck and others in the English ambassador, urged Linnaeus
university, Linnaeus was si nt on an lo come and live with torn at Harte-
exploring trip to Lapland. It. was as camp. Linnaeus accepted the invita-
t hough the young botanist had found tion, and stayed with him the great-
a new country in which to roam to er [art of several years, living like
his heart's satisfaction. Alone, ox- a prince. During this time he wrote
f.ept lor a horse and dog he remained "I foetus Clifford iensis," and other
in Lapland from May to November, hooks. In 173C he visited England
1731, exploring the hills and valleys. and in 1738 he wen to Stockholm, as
gathering much material. In 1773 he ;| physician
wrote a book about the plants he [„' ]74o Professoi Rudbeck died
found on this trip, calling it "Flora a,„i Linnaeus was appointed to suc-
Laponica. ,.ct.(] njm as professor of natural his-
By this time Linnaeus had become lory at Upsala University. At last
famous, but was earning hardly Linnaeus had found his life's work, and
tnough to support himself. Many of in 1 7.10 his "Philosopbia Botaniea"
I lie persons at Upsala were jealous of was published. Three years later ap-
him, and nicknamed him the "Gypsy pearcd his "Species Plantarum." In
botanist." Discouraged with the 1778 he started again the labors of elas-
li-ealment he received at the univer- sifying plants, which he had begun
sity Linnaeus went to live with the when a student. He classified them
famous Professor Bcevhaave at Am- according to the number of stamens
sterrlam. Here with a class of young and pistils, which was a great ini-
tial uralists he had many delightful provement on any classification then
rambles, and during this time be in existence, and from which he has
wrote " Kud anient a Botaniea/' which given the name "V'alher of modern
is one of the most valuable botanies botany." To him science is also in-
ever written. While at the proles- debted for a new system of naming
Mir's house he made the acquaintance plants.
of Peter Kalm, another great natur- Daring this time Linnaeus wrote
.ilist, who visited America, and a book, "Heaven's First Law," a
brought back many rich specimens of treatise on minerology and zoology,
flora for himself and Linnaeus to which made him an authority in
classify. science, as well as botany, fie wrote
Then for a time Linnaeus made bis about a hundred and eighty books,
home with Dr. MVraeus, whose daugh- which was either about plants or
tor, Sara, he married. The doc-tor science. Shortly after his Scientific
il^ested 'to Linnaeus that lie g.'i a boo!; was published, he was given the
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Knight of Polar title, with the rank apoplexy on his beautiful estate near
of nobility. Upsala, in 177b, but his memory has
Busy all bis life Linnaeus died from lived through all tlie years.
Some more signs. Men have destroyed their influence with a majority
of the rural folk by showing a lack of faith in the moon. David Houston,
former Secretary of Agriculture, went out his way while holding that
great office, to reflect on the power of the moon, and, ds a result, the aver-
rural operator thinks him a sorry farmer. But old "Aunt Jane," a typical
ftnte-bellum negress, who boasts of having nursed Col. Leroy Kirkpatrick
and yet laments that the Colonel took to the law because of suspicion over
his welfare in the hereafter, says that every body, most, in Sharon town-
ship, Mecklenburg county, fuvve great faith in the control of moon signs.
For instance, when the sign is in the feet (the fish) three clays in succes-
sion, the month will be wet; and that it is the proper time to wean things
and such. According to this prophecy, July will be a very wet month for
the sign is in the feet for three successive days, on the 12th, 13th and 11th.
By this very token, look out for a flood in October, for in that month
the "sign in the feet" occurs three clays in succession and on two occa-
sions in the month — 2, 3 and 4, and 29,, 30 and 31. If this happens the
reputation of the moon in its control of weather, weaning babies and
such like, will be thoroughly established.
UNFAIR TO THE WOMAN
Columbia S. C. State.
The decision of the court of appeals of the state of Washington that "legally
•alimony for a husband is an unheard of thing" is of minute interest in South
Carolina, where devorces arc unheard of things, but it is astonishing that so
curios an exposition of law should have- come out of the Far West where
women have been far in advance of their Eastern sisters in gaining political
equality with men. pelf and plenty of it and if the pom'
Wherefore in a suit for divorce man in the case be equipped with
brought by the husband, if the nothingbetter than a hard luck story,
woman be in the wrung, should she what possible reason should stand in
not be in the same way liable for the way of his derivirg sustenance
alimony and for attorney's fees as from the abler partner that had
the husband would have been had treated him with contumely,
the circumstances been reversed? If it happened that a kindly gentle-
As the earner and holder of money man possessed of nothing but good
and property in these times, there looks and winning ways have a
is no discrimination between man spouse possessed of a royal income,
and woman if the woman be superior shall she be allowed, in Washington
in the acquisitive arts, if she have or elsewhere, to throw him over-
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27
board, if she grows tired of him,
and make no compensation tor his
unremitted devotions?
The State believes that the women
of the United States will resent the
imputation of the Washington court
that, despite the erasure of the an-
cient insult the woman is weaker
than man, she is still not strong-
enough to pay for the riddance of a
husband of whom she has wearied.
In 1922 can any sort of distinction
in law between men and women be
rationally defended?
One of the handsomest and most attractive girls in all this section has
heen off to school — one of the oldest and of the sahest and hest reputations,
whose great work touches every state in the South and has for generations.
She returned the other day. Her naturally beautiful face and fine complex-
ion were all bedaubed with an extravagant amount of commercial daub.
Being remonstrated with by a friend for substituting the false for the
natural, she fired back, "Well, all the girls do it; and I followed suit."
That's the sorriest excuse in the world for any one to give in defense of
a slavery to a foolish fashion.
THE WHITE SEAL.
By Eudyard Kipling.
Kotick was a little baby seal, all head and shouders, with pale, watery
i eyes, as tiny seals must be. But there was something about his coat that
made his mother look at him very closely.
"Sea Catch" she said at last, "'our baby is going to be white."
I "There
never has been such a
thing in the world as a white seal,"
Sea Catch snorted.
"I can't help that," said Matka;
"there is going to be one now."
And she sang the low crooning seal-
ing that all the mother seals sing to
iheir babies:
You musn't swim till you're
weeks old,
'
will be sunk by
.rales and Killer
Or your head
your heels;
And summer
Whales
Are bad for baby seals.
Are bad for baby seals, dear rat.
As bad as bad can be;
Hut splash and grow strong.
.vnd you can't be wrong,
Child of the Open Sea!
Of course, the little fellow did not
understand the words at first. He
paddled and scrambled about by his
mothers side, and learned to scuffle
out of the way when his father was
fighting with another seal, and the
two rolling and roared up and down
the slippery rocks.
The first thing that Kotick did
was to crawl inland. There he met
tens of thousands of babies of his
own age, and they played together
like puppies, went to sleep on the
clean sand, and played again.
Little seals can no more swim than
little children, but they are unhappy
till they learn.
The 'first time that Kotick went
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down to the sen, a wave carried him
out beyond his depth. His big head
s.ank and his hind flipper flew up ex-
actly as his mother had told him in
i he song, and if the next wave had
not thrown him back he would have
been drowned.
After that he learned to lie in a
pool, and let the wash of the waves
just cover him and lift him up while
he paddled, but he ah-ays kept his
eyes open for the big waves that
might hurt.
He was two week's in learning to
to use his flippers. All that while
he floundered in and out of the water.
He coughed and grunted and crawl-
ed up the beach, and took cat-naps
on the sand, and went back again,
until at last he found that he truly
belonged to the water.
Then you can imagine the times
that he had with his companions,
ducking under the rollers: or com-
ing in on top of a comber and landing
with a swash and a splutter as the
big waves went whirling far up the
beach: or standing upon his tail and •
scratching his head as the old seals
did; or playing "I'm the King of the
Castle." on slippery, weedy rocks
that just stuck out of the wash.
Now and then he would see a thin
fin, like a big shark's fin, drifting
along close to the shore. He knew
that this was the Killer Whale, the
Grampus, which eats young seals
when he can get them. Then Kotick
would head for the beach like an
arrow, and the tin would jig oil' slowly,
as if it were looking for nothing at
all.
Late in October the seals began to
leave St. Paul's for the deep sea,, by
families and tribes. Matka and Ko-
tick set out together across the Pa-
cific.
Matka showed Kotick how to sleep
on his back, with his flippers tucked
down by his side, and his little nose
just out of the water. Xo cradle is
so comfortable as the long rocking
swell of the Pacific.
This was one of very many things
that Kotick learned and he was al-
ways learning. .Motka taught him
how to follow the cod and the halibut
along the under sea banks, and
wrench the rockling out of his hole
among the weeds: how to skirt the
wrecks lying a hundred fathoms be-
low water, and dart like a rifle-bul-
let in at one port-hole and out at an-
other as the fishes ran.
She taught him, too. how to dance
on the top of the waves when the
lightning was racing all over the
sky. and wave his flippers politely
to the Stumpy-tailed Albatross and
the Man-of- War Hawk as they went
down the wind.
She taught him how to jump three
or four feet clear of the water, like a
dolphin, flippers close to the side
and tail curves; to leave the flying-
fish alone because they are bony; to
take the. shoulder-piece out of a cod
at full speed ten fathoms deep; and
never to stop to look' a* a boat or a
ship, but especially a row boat.
At the end of six month, what Ko-
tick did not kno 7 about deep-sea
fishing was not worth the knowing.
And all that time he never set flip-
per on dry ground.
Deliver us from fear and favor, from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. —
Stevenson.
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29
ON FLORIDA RIVERS.
By Madison Cawein
Along the St. John's River soft maples, ruddily turl'ted, made bright the
somber banks, showing only occasionally a pine or palmetto amid the wild-
erness of cypress trees trailing' with the moss. Cherokee roses to rarely
ran a rambling riot of great white blossoms around the boll of some live
oak. The water, of a sullen blackness, had no more current than a pond or
lagoon. The furrow of our little neath which swim their images amid
steamer fell away from the stern in a
. sort of yeasty, smoky-topez foam.
Water lilies laid long banks of blos-
soms along either shore. An alli-
gator, a sluggish bulk, slowly cross-
ed a lilypaven inlet.
Lilies; more lilies seemed to spread
over the entire river a cloth of gold.
Hemlocks, cypressses, and black
gums seemed to welcome us with the
waving of funereal banners, long
streamers of Spanish moss, as we
entered the Ooklawaha passing a
leaky-looking rowboat with an old
negro in it, picturesque among the
yellow lilies of the lagoon. Lilies;
lilies, holding up everywhere in-
numerable lists tight full of gold.
The dogwood and jessamine, in full
bloom, diversified with white and
gold the seemingly impenetrable
woods. Here and there on the
high-lifted, desolate branches of
twisted trees, looking like huge-
nests of unknown birds of prey,
great clumps and masses of mistle-
toe were seen.
In its placid, mirror-like depths
the skies and woods are exactly re-
produced that you are often de-
ceived as to which is the real and
which is the reflection. Bittern and
heron and egret haunt here; often
winging slowly over the ivied and
creepered solitudes. And startled
by our approach, crane and king-
fisher swing alouj its surface, be
the green streaks of grass, that re-
minds one of the streaming hair of
kelpies. Hell-divers or didappers
rise, flash away, and the teal, with
their instant wings, skip the water
into ripples. At twilight the limp-
kins begin their wild wailing, plain-
tive as that of a lost child; and like
a vulture, silent and solitary, on the
aead Limb of a tree the water turkey
sits, somber above the uncurling,
ghostly spider lilies, hanging, long
strips of white, among the cypress
knees.
In the darkness, before the coming
of the moon, we seemed passing be-
tween immaterial walls of phantom
forest, clothed in the fluttering cere-
ments of the dead, the dark, wild-
trailing moss — or was it the waving
of spectral arms, ghostly shrouds
and mantels of dead Seminoles?
Enormous hands, taloned and crook-
ed of finger, seemed clutching up at
us out of the unseen waters, or im-
pended, threateningly above, eager
and waiting an opportunity to snatch
us away into the phantom forest;
nearly always they resolved them-
selves into the gaunt and twisted
limbs of leaning trees.
From an almost sleepless night in
my narrow cabin, having been kept
awake by the clattering and crash-
ing of branches that raked, every
now and then, the sides of the boat
in its passage up the stream, I arose
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to find the moraing massed and
streaming with mist: the forests
seemingly more spectral looking
through the banks and flying shreds
of vapor than they were last night.
Suddenly the sun rose, scattering
with level crimson lances, wildly
glorious, the routed and ribboned
fog. We had left the Ocklawaha
River and were steaming up Silver
Spring Pain. Drenched with the
mist and dew the moss hung motion-
less from the trees, smoky-brown
and dripping. The butterflies that
had taken shelter upon our decks
during the night were too weighed
down with the wet to lift their
wings.
The water of Silver Spring Run is
perfectly pellucid; to the depth of
some forty odd feet everything is
plainly visible. Garfish, bream,
black bass, pickerel, and turtle are
discernible swimming slowly or
swiftly away from our advancing
keel. At Silver Spring itself we gaze
down, as. we pass over it, upon a
mighty ledge of rock, magnified by
the refraction of the water probably,
forty-eight feet from the surface; it
seems to be, with its great rift, the
entrance to some vast cavern that
INSTITUTIONAL MOTES
(Swift Davis, Reporter.)
"Work on the new well has been
pushed forward so rapidly that the
depth of 97ft. has been reached.
Mr. Zebulon Teeter, of Concord,
and a graduate of Trinity College in
the recent finals, lias accepted work
at the school. He has charge of the
Rockingham Cottage.
The boys on the working force
disgorges an underground river
which furnishes the water of this
great spring. At the depth of eigh-
ty-four feet the bottom is perfectly
visible and the ripples of a rowboat,.
oaring and breaking the surface, are
magnified a hundredfold on the rocks
below, irisated into wonderful colors:
emerald green and ultramarine blue,
blurring and streaking the • bottom;
the effect being thj same as that of
some glimmering submarine scene-
presented in pantomime on the
stage,
The clear, round lake, hemmed in
as far as the eye can see with for-
ests of cypress, black gum, live oak,
pine, and palmetto, solemn hung
with their gray moss, is a weird sett-
ing for its mysterious crystal. Here
and there the cypresses ar.d black
gums, swollen by the water, bulge
out abruptly, the tree trunk seem-
ingly supported on a black pedestal.
The cypress knees, extinguisher-
shaped (like so many giant clubs
thrust knot downward into the
water), bristled along the shore
and the forest towering, above them,
silent and sad, was like some strange
woodland turned to stone.
are hoeing peanuts at the present
time. This work is done cheerfully,
even willingly, for the boys know
the fruits of their labor will be giv-
en to them.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Howard, of
Dunn, were at the school Wednes-
day, June 14, to visit their son,
George Branch. Having a plenti-
ful orchard of their own, they
brought some baskets of peaches
and when the boys were assembled
in the rest room young Howard in-
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sisted on giving a few baskets of
seven occupied cottages and placed
, . -.---. ...... "pan v.ui-bugua aim
the peaches out to then,. in the Rockingham Cottage, making
The doors of the Rockingham Cot- !n ***[ °f *wenty-e«h* boys*
* .,„ „, n "ui.K.iii0nam oot When ei,ch cottage s completely
tagewerethwn open on Friday, .filled again the total number of boys
June lb. The opening was attend- hera will he two mmdl.cc, d >
cd « rth unusual interest by the boys fom, The Qew L.ott . Q( ^
ofTime horn Je1; ° m*Cl™isfi0n spotlessly clean and each ne'ly
r, ,"e Th Pu1,ng , U'him moved youngster's ambition" is to
Cottage This cot age makes the ktep it so. Not because he . a
e.ghth to be occupied and in use. Mecklenburg Cottage boy, but be-
The opening o this new cottage Cause he knows, the reporter can
merely marks the step to another say with pardonable pr ide that if
round taken by the Jackson Train- the Rockingham Cotta/e b k
mg School on the ladder of im- their cottage as clean as Mecklen-
provement and progress. Four burg Cottage, then they .will do
boys were taken from each of the u-en
There is nothing that abides except character. There is nothing truly
interesting but a ms.n, excepting, of course, a woman, but she is so inter-
esting that the study of the female of the species becomes too absorbing for
analysis. — Hon. Josephus Daniels.
b(cN
Cr»vinjt your interest, I
Institution would rejo
to. enroll you as a sub;.
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VOL. X CONCORD, N. O, AUGUST 12, 1922 NO. 40
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I "LOOK IN THE WAGON." %
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* A farmer in North Carolina once drove with two <♦
* high-mettled horses into town. Stopping in front of %
% one of the stores, he was about to enter when his *
*£ horses took fright. He sprang in front of them he- ♦
* roically seized the reins. Madden by strange noises, *
the horses dashed down the street; the man still %
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4. clinging to the bridles. On they rushed, until the *
|| horses, wild with frenzy, rose on the haunches, and *
* leaping upon the man all came down with a crash to %
* the ground. When people came and rescued the ^
% bleeding body of the man, and found him in death's *
* last agony, a friend, bending tenderly over him, *
* asked, "Why did you sacrifice your life for horses ,£
•j. and wagon?" He gasped with his breath, as his f
*:* spirit departed, ' ' Go and look in the wagon. ' ' They *
Jj turned, and there asleep in the straw, lay his little 4*
*:•• boy. As they laid the mangled form of the hero *
% in the grave, no one said, "The sacrifice is too f
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The Uplift
A WEEKLY JOURNAL
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The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial
School. Type-setting by the Boy's Printing Class. Subscripton
Two Dollars the year in Advance.
JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department
Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920, at the Post Office at Concord,
N. C. under Act of March 3, 1879.
If a task is once begun,
Never leave it till it's done;
Be the labor great or small,
Do it well, or not at all. — Phoebe Cary.
AGAIN, THE MATTER OF RURAL POLICEMEN.
While the brutes that attacked Mr. and Mrs Ketehen, New York tourists
enroute home from Florida, while camping in a rural spot in Moore county,
have been caught, are in prison and have confessed to the hellish crime, the
fact remains that under the lack of rural protection the fiends might have
escaped, as many violations of the law are going unpunished because of a
lack of police regulation in the, rural sections.
That diabolical act, where a young woman, soiled and fallen she may be
was outlandishly and brutally treated by three white men, at a notorious
resort of sin and vice in Cabarrus county, might have not occui'ed had rural
policemen been on duty; in fact, the dirty joint, maintained with a per-
fect contempt for law in the pursuit of nearly every vice known to sin,
might be brought to an accounting were there moving about minions of the
law bent on sustaining the majesty of the state.
There is one thing certain that were brave and courageous rural police-
men, who make no distinction in the discharge of their duties, in service in
certain quarters of Cabarrus county and in some others, there would be a
perceptible falling off cf the presence of certain professional and business
folks, who cannot give a plausible excuse for their presence at such places
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at certain times.
The time has arrived where the safety and the peace of certain communi-
ties require the diligent services of courageous rural policemen; and the
authorities should provide for them. Lacking the legal authority to put
on rural policemen, a bold request should be made for such authority to
the end that decency may enjoy its rights and privileges. Crime in the
rural sections is just as bad as crime in incorporated towns; and the fact
that certain citizens of incorporated towns use the rural sections to carry
on their dirty work, should not be overlooked in such a way as to make
such jo'nts appear privileged or licensed.
REQUIRES MORE THAN MONEY.
Sometime ago Raleigh voted one millions dollars for the enlargement and
improvement of its public school facilities. The brave act was heralded
throughout the country, and it deserved to be norated.
Since that time the Capitol city has been tied up amongst its disagree-
ments as to locations and other matters connected with the expenditure of
the princely fund, and nothing tangible has come from the appropriation of
a million dollars for school facilities. It requires many things besides
money to make schools prosper — unselfishness, vision, energy and hope
are among these.
VERY PROMISING.
That a reciprocal responsibility exists between the town and rural inhabi-
tant is becoming more and more acknowledged. People in advance sections
have learned that there can bo no healthy and substantial progress, if their
surrounding communities are backward, untbriving, ignorant and depriv-
ed of educational advantages.
In a number of the counties of the state there is noted with much pleas-
ure organized plans and efforts to bring the town and rural population into
a better knowledge of the problems that confront each. Thus the bar of an
imaginary line of incorporation is coming to be disr egarded, and that there
is a great big and vital problem that needs the best wisdom ard interest
of all.
The sooner the authorities learn that the substaniability of any civiliza-
tion rests not on a few select of its population but upon the general aver-
age of the. citizenship of the whole county and section, then an ideal con-
dition will become possible. Let us hope, while the towns have advanc-
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ed at a marvelous rate in educational facilities, that those who are charged
with this duty will cease excusing themselves for a lack of function by
pointing at these evidences of progress, which is not their making, but
set themselves to work at the jobs which belong to them. In a recent is-
sue of a prominent paper a high sehool-ofnaial pointed with pride, with
word and picture, to what had been accomplished, but every example was
a town or city proposition, in which he and his machine had no part, but
was silent to the conditions in the field for which his high office is prima-
rly maintained.
Come clown to earth! The rural child is not getting what is due him,
except in spots where genius and vision hold sway. A leader with a
sympathy for the whole people, who can rise to the grave responsibilities
of his duties, in county and state, is an outstanding demand of the times.
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A BOOK OF A PAPER.
Sunday's Greensboro News was an edition of ninty-six pages. The only
way any suggestion of improvement is possible, is to say that it should have
had four more pages, an even hundred. This could have been accomplished
by putting on the whole a thing a four-page back and binding it, thus mak-
ing a book.
It represents a vast amount of genius, lab jr and ability of the first water,
that issue does; but the subject is a good one. and deserves all the noto-
riety given it.
It would be interesting to be able to estimate just how many new citizens,
how many new enterprises and how much capital that very admirable exhi-
bit will bring to Greensboro. It surely points the way.
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A PUBLIC SERVICE.
Mr. Sidney H. Hearne, perhaps the oldest living native of Albemarle
yet a resident of that wonderful community, has rendered a large and un-
selfish sei vice to his fellows. It is announced that Mr. Hearne has ten-
dered to the town authorities the gift of an attractive and convenient
site of three acres for a Public Park.
The generosity as well as the business foresight of Mr. Hearne is
attested in that the offer carries no flare-back or insurmountable obstacles,
all he requires is a business-like development and maintenance of the site.
Without this, the propositon would be worthless.
This leads to some reminiscence. Thirty-two years ago there was only
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one brick structure in Albemarle — this was a brick ''smoke house" on the
lot of the late Samuel J. Pemberton. To-day, Albemarle presents quite a
solid appearance in her substantial and attractive brick buildings. And
this growth and development are just the results of having in Albemarle
men of vision and service, =ueh as is now, as in the past, being exhibited by
one of the state's finest characters, Sidney H. Hearne.
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A MYSTIC MASE.
Somebody started the puzzle of ascertaining the twelve outstanding,
worthwhile men of the age in this country. Others are amusing themsel-
ves in the mystic mase of a smaller territory.
Now comes Miss Nell Battle Lewis, the artist of '"incidentally" in the
Raleigh News & Observer, undertaking to pick out the most conspicuous
and worthwhile dozen North Carolina women. She is treading on dangerous
ground. Take one hundred well-informed women of the state and set taem
down to make their list of the twelve notables, and you will have a hi.ad.red
different selectiors. THE UPLIFT, however, can see now the sp:.rkling
eye, the amused smile and the nervous little twitch while Miss Le\ 'is was
engaged in the work of elimination and substitution in this labor of dis-
covery.
Perfectly willing to accept Miss Lewis' work as fairly well done, THE
UPLIFT must insist on its belief that the famous twelve can be easily
found in Cabarrus county, without straining the imagination over the
whole 52,000 square miles of N. C. territory.
But, seriously, when it comes to the contributing to real joy and enter-
tainment, we insist on making her list a baker's dozen by adding the name
of Miss Lewis herself.
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"TROT IT OUT."
We are indebted to the Salisbury Post for the entertainment of the art-
ticle portraying some of the history of '"Venus," the Rowan correspondent
that has become famous throughout the land for his unique "items" and
his observing '"nose for news" — nothing escapes his eagle eye, not even an
old-time country dinner, a big pumpkin, or a pretty girl.
A finer selection for his newspaper name could not be had. That Morn,
ing Star, which moves in an orbit between that of Mercury and that of the
earth, at a distance of 67,000,000, miles from the sun, Venus, fits most fine-
ly the subjects that attract the attention of this faithful correspondent.
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He finds the unique, the extraordinary, the curious, the. oddities; and,
with a faith that is beauty itself, he challenges the world everywhere that
''if you can beat it, trot it out."
THE UPLIFT has a devoted friend in New York city to whom is oc-
casionally sent some of the productions of Venus from the Post and the
Concord Tribune. That friend calls in his friends at dinner after the
day's work is over, and it is asserted that the originality and choieeness
of the subjects that this artist displays has prolonged their lives, and made
the grind of their work in that old town much more tolerable.
THE LTPLIFT is surprised, however, to learn that Venus is of English
extraction. He sees too many funny things and displays too much humor
to be a regulation Englishman.
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FEELING MORE COMFORTABLE
Now that a complete water system has been installed, including a 50,000
gallon steel tank, a well that gives up 4,(300 gallons of water per hour (not
to speak of others giving a total of 55 gallons) five hundred feet of standard
fire hose, the Jackson Training School plant is in the least danger of fire.
And with two watchman constantly on duty, life and pi'operty are subject
to a minimum of danger.
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* the mouth of his cave, gasping for breath. The animals, his subjects, •:♦
4» came around him and drew nearer as he grew more and more helpless. %
£ When they saw him on the point of death they thought to themselves : j£
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4. the Lion lay helpless before them : so the Ass, feeling quite safe from %
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* into his face. "This is a double death," growled the Lion. *
"ONLY COWARDS INSULT DYING MAJESTY."
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"VENUS" THE UNIQUE.
Per flesse azure et gules, a bar-
nacle argent !
You don't know what we are talk-
ing about? Neither do we, but we
have been threatening to "trot it
out ' ' for some time.
It's the inscription on the coat of
arms of the Virginia Wyatts, accord-
ing to one of the Richmond, Va.,
newspapers, the forebears of our own
Faith scribe, Venus, who, the paper
says, is a descendant of Sir Francis
Wyatt, one of Virginia's early colon-
ial governors, who was a son of Sir
George Wyatt, of Boxley, Kent, Eng-
land, who was born in 1621 and be-
came governor when he was thirty-
three years old.
In addition to the inscription on
the coat of arms, the Virginia news-
paper says, "ringed on the crest is
an ostrich proper, holding in the
beak a horseshoe argent."
The writter has never lamped the
coat of arms of the Wyatt family and
has to take the description of the
Virginia paper as correct.
The Virginia paper did not trans-
late the inscription, probably for the
'same reason that we are not going to
try it. The man who translates our
Latin is on his vacation.
But the coat of arms of the Wyatt
family is not what we started to
write about. This is a sketch of Sir
John Thomas Wyatt, of Faith, better
known as Venus, descendants of Sir
Francis, son of Sir George, of Brox-
ley, Kent England, etc.
Born in Davidson County.
The subject of the sketch was born
(Salisbury Post)
in Davidson county October 31, 1851,
and is therefore seventy-one years
old.
He was married forty-two years
ago to Charlotte Elizabeth Philips,
oldest daughter of Esquire E. E.
J. T. WYATT
Philips. He is a member of the Re-
formed church and has been writing
"Items From Faith" for the past
forty-six years.
He moved to Faith just fifty-one
years ago. He is a granite contrac-
tor.
Since his wife's death, he has been
living alone at Faith.
Items, Curios and Granite.
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He has divided his time about
equally between his granite busi-
ness, the writing of items and the
collecting of curios.
His curios which have been dem-
onstrated at many county and state
fairs include some of the most
marvelous collections of Confeder-
ate Veteran reunion medals, arrow
heads, newspapers, articles of
clothing, etc., ever assembled.
His writings attract great admi-
ration from readers for the mar-
vels of the vegetable world which
he "trots out" for other corres-
pondents to beat.
Thru his correspondents, young
couples have met and started on the
jaunt thru life in double harness.
He attends virtually every pub-
lic gathering in the county and many
•outside the county to collect his "I-
tems From Faith. ' '
He has attended practically every
Confederate reunion since there has
been a reunion. He always has
something interesting to write, and
furnishes the newspaper guys with
copy — for example the lead to this
story was carried by one of the lead-
ing Richmond papers.
Sir John says he was a member
of Company B, Freeman's Battalion.
Shipped First Car of Grahite.
But why should we attempt to
write a history of a writer when he
is alive. We submitted a question-
naire to Venus and it covers our sub-
ject accurately.
"I was married to Charlotte Eliza-
beth Philipps, Oldest daughter of
Esquire E. E. Philipps, we lived hap-
pily together for nineteen years. She
has been dead about twenty-four
vears, am a widower, living alone in
my own home in the center of Faith
and am boarding with Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Peeler and have been for
several years and I am almost just
like a member of the family. He runs
a big store and is a wealthy man and
has plenty of everything good to eat.
I have retired from business arid am
.taking the world easy and am having
the best time of my life. Am the old-
est man living in Faith now."
"Everybody who is living in
Faith moved here since I did. I have
been living here longer than anyone
else here. I shipped off the first oar
load of granite that ever went off
from here and started up the greatest
granite industry in the Southern
states and now thousands of people
are benefitted by this granite business
and the good work with continue for
many years to come as the granite bed
is from twenty-five to thirty miles
long and from one and one half to
two miles wide and from 5 to 6 miles
from Salisbury and crosses the rail-
road track at Granite Quarry and runs
thru the center of Faith and Faith
is the home of the North Carolina
Granite Millstones for grinding corn
and wheat.
"The outside world don't know
it but thousands of dollars are sent
to this section by the portable corn
mill factories and other mills to pay
for the little granite stones that go
in these portable mills.
"Faith has about 500 inhabitants
and nearly everybody works in the
granite quarries, except the women
folks. The granite works is a fine
business and that is the reason so
many people are moving here to make
it their home. I fill all orders for
granite work that I receeive."
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THE ART OF FORGETTING.
(Monroe Journal)
It is said that wanting things that
we cannot have and which we could
very well be without causes much
of the disappointments of life. An
ancient philosopher is credited with
the saying that he was wealthy in
being able to do without so many
things. "Forget it.'' has become a
popular bit of modern slang. Sup-
pose we should practice the art of
forgetting, not only forgetting the
desire for a multiplicity of things
beyond our reach, but forgetting the
disagreeable things of the past. To
many people it would be a rejuve-
nation.
It is a question which class of un-
happy people is the largest, those
who make themselves miserable by
longing for things beyond their
means or those who warp their lives
by harboring the things that should
be forgotten.
The person who harbours all the
petty annoyances, the vexing irrita-
tions, the mean words, the unkind
acts, the wrongs and the disappoint-
ments he has suffered is travelling a
road that leads straight to perma-
nent unhappiness if not to an insane
asylum.
No superior person ever does this,
for the one who does it cannot be
superior. His faculties are too
much warped, his vision is blurred.
He can have little wholesome initia-
tive and no poise. He cannot build
character worth while [because his
thoughts turn inward like an in-
growing toe nail, not outward for
the absorption of more strength.
You have often heard the expres-
sion, "I can forgive but 1 can't for-
get." But no one can do any such
thing. You can only say that you
forgive while making the mental
reservation to remember. While if
you forget first, there will be no
trouble about forgiving. Pretty
soon you will see that it is not worth
thinking about one way or the other.
Passing by the annoyances or the
irritations or thepetty injustices and
thinking of more important things in
life is like leaving the brush and
bushes and drift that clutter up a
winding foot path and passing out
into the broad and clean highway,
where you can cease to think of
your feet, and hold your head high
and behold the far spaces, the widen-
ing rivers and the far flung horizon.
Holding a high head" has a
deeper meaning than is commonly
supposed. The high head which
comes of mere vanity and the at-
tempt to be disdainful is nothing and
is justly and quickly sized up as
opera-bouffe. But the high head
which comes from a determination to
respect one's self too much to be a
quibbler, a nagger, or a reservoir of
petty recollections, gives poise, and
universally challenge admiration.
"Chew your food, Doris, before you swallow it; your stomach hasn't
teeth to chew with."
"Mine has. I swallowed two last summer."
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FORD ON THE MODERN SCHOOL.
Henry Ford, in an article in the
Dearborn Independent, criticizes
modern methods of teaching says :
"The first thing that school vaca-
tions impress upon us is the help-
less condition in which the schools
leave most boys. They have learned
nothing that they are eager to prac-
tice; they have studied nothing that
they are eager to test. So far as
their own feeling goes, there is a
gulf between the interests of the
classroom and the interests of the
world at large. To the eyes of the
boy, the school and the world are not
engaged in the same things at all.
His experience has not given him
any practical hand-hold on the life
that swirls about him. As a conse-
quence, the vacation period is not
nearly so pleasant for the boy as
older folks think it is. It throws
,him out of the routine that exer-
cised authority over him; it does
not throw him into anything else
but vileness. He is largely left to
his own devices. He tries to 'play'
but it is harder for a boy to ' play '
in this mechanical age than it evei
was before. After his temporary
gladness because of his release from
school, vacation becomes really a
problem for the boy of energy.
' ' Sometimes he tries to work, to
get a job somewhere, but there are nol
many jobs for boys who can stay on-
ly two months; and so we learn an-
other thing from vacations, namely,
we have no place for our boys. We
have not taken them into considera-
tion. We have rid ourselves of them
by placing them in school, that is, by
placing them in the atmosphere and
under the control of the most un-
practical element of our population;
and then we have forgotten them.
' ' The dangerous age for a boy is
that period when the school is
through with him, having told him
everything but how to get a start in
life, and practical life looks at him
askance. The truth is, we have left
no place for the boy. We have re-
fused to give hifcu a hand-hold on
life at a time when his development
urges him to get that hand-hold. We
have forced him to pursue a course
which if it does not unfit him for
his part, at least does not fit him for
cised authority over him ; it does
it. The result is that, to many, study
becomes abhorrent in youth, and
work becomes abhorrent in matur-
ity. Instincts thwarted at both pe-
riods become obstructions all the way
through. Freedom is an essential
developement in life; freedom with
discipline is consistent ; freedom with
repression is not. ' '
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must
toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by
self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a
happy one. — Ruskin.
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SOME REMARKABLE ESCAPES IN
THE LIFE OF A BOY
By George Cleaton Wilding.
When one looks back over the ad-
ventures and risks of his red- blood-
ed boyhood he falls to wondering- how
half of the boys ever pull through it
and reach manhood. But it is simply
amazing how much a healthy, lively
boy can endure and yet survive it,
and come out of it all smiling; how
nearly he can walk into the jaws of
death, and then swing back into the
sunny path of life. I think that all
normal boys relish a risk. I am sure
that to me it was the spice of life
when I was a boy.
My first real exciting adventure
took place in a Pennsylvania coal
village, when I was bit of a lad, say
about seven years old. It was a
rather raw day in late November,
and a half-dozen of us little fellows
were playing on top of a coke fur-
nace because of its warmth. In a
furnace of this sort the coal is shov-
eled in through the doors in the front
of the furnace on a lower level, while
the vent-holes, or chimneys, are on
the level at the top of the furnace
where we were playing. In theexcite-
nient of our game I tumbled into one
of these holes. Fortunately the work-
man had just shoveled into this par-
ticular furnace a lot of fine coal, or
slack, and, luckily, I fell into the
black center of this smoking heap.
Instantly I fell to screaming and
thrust my hands as high as I could
reach them. The boys gathered quick-
ly around the hole in the face of the
rising smoke, and, reaching down,
they caught me by the hands and
arms, and after a hard tug yanked me
out. The flames were gathering
about me as I was lifted out. My
clothes were scorched, and my hands
were slightly burned, but I was saved.
One of the boys had raced to our
home, near by, to tell my mother, who
was busy getting dinner. She came
at the top of her speed, with a fork
in her hand, and catching me up in
her arms she dashed home with me.
What a wonderful being is a mother!
My second exciting escape occurred
when I was about eleven years old.
My father was the superintendent of
the coal-mines. A lot of large, emp-
ty coal-barges were made fast to the
shore near the tipple. That old Ohio
River was at flood-tide. Its turbid
surface was covered with floating
driftwood — planks, slabs, logs, trees
and small buildings. A great lot of
this miscellaneous stuff was packed in
front of the bows of these big barges.
The current was so strong that it was
jammed very close together, so that
we boys could walk upon the surface
of it. I carelessly stepped upon a
place where were small pieces of wood
and bunches of froth. Down I went,
and that swift current promptly car-
ried me under the half acre of drift-
wood. Instantly I felt that I must
not allow myself to be carried under
the coal-barge. So I grasped firmly
the limbs of a fair-sized tree, and felt
carefully for a soft place over head,
and after a good deal of effort, butted
my head through. At once the boys
saw me and lifted me to freedom and
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safety. As I gazed about me at the
blue sky and trees on the hillside, how
beautiful it all looked to rue.
My third risk occurred in a little
village on the banks of the Ohio Riv-
er, in a part of Virginia which is now
"West Virginia. It was an inspiring
winter morning. The day was crisp
and cool with brightt sunshine. It was
a great temptation to a boy, even if
it was Sunday. I was about for-
teen then and passionately fond of
skating. So, hiding my old fashioned
skates under my overcoat, I sallied
forth. In the outskirts of the vil-
lage I met a number of the boys on
their way for a day skating. The
river had risen, and the backwates
had lifted Broad Run out of its
banks over the creek. The ice was
hard and smooth, just ideal for our
sport. Soon we had our skates
strapped onto our boots, and we were
gliding over the glittering ice.
Soon we were so interested and
excited that we forgot all else. In
the meantime the water was steadily
rising, but we failed to observe it.
At last it had lifted the ice loose at
the shore, and we were carelessly
skating on one huge floating cake of
ice. As I turned suddenly the heel
of my skate split this great ice-cake
clear across the creek, and I dropped
neatly down into this yawning crack.
I could swim like a duck. Although
I was burdened with a heavy suit of
clothes, overcoat, boots and skates
I managed to swim to the edge of the
ice cake. As best I could I put my
elbows upon it and tried to pull my-
self up. But the edge of the ice
broke off and let me slip back into
the cold water. I tried this several
times with the same wretched luck.
I was by this time getting very cold
and weak. I felt that something des-
perate must be done. So I again
swam to the edge of the ice, and this
time I came up to it sidewise. I
lifted my hip up upon the ice and roll-
ed, and this time it sustained me.
All of this time that bunch of boys
had stood at a distance, scared stiff,
and utterly unable to help me in any
way. They all had succeeded in get-
ting unto the shore. Stiff and numb
I rose to my feet and slowly skated
to the end of a huge log, that reached
to the shore, climbed upon it and thus
reached the bank of the creek.
Quickly taking off my skates I flung
them to a friend, and, with "Pets"
Roush, I raced over frozen fields, with
that ice-water in my boots, splashing
up my legs, for almost a mile to the
farmhouse home of "Pets" father,
Mr. Philip Roush. Here, luckily, we
found nobody at home. "Pets made
an immense wood fire in the great
stone fireplace, and I stripped off and
lay down on a big thick blanket in
front of the roaring fire. My, but it
did feel good. I put on a new suit of
' ' Pets ' ' clothes, while mine were dry-
ing, and, in the meantime, we filled
up on apples and doughnuts. Then I
got into my own clothes again, and we
went back to the creek and the boys,
finding a safe place, we skated till
dark. How quickly a boy forgets!
And mother was to settle with when I
got home.
My fourth escape happened when I
was about sixteen years old, in the
Ohio River, near the place of the sec-
ond adventure. A lot of those empty
coal-barges were tied to the shore near
the coal tipple, in the lower end of the
village. A bunch of us boys were
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having our afternoon swim one warm
summer day. We were in a contest,
diving from the watchmans boat, the
' ' Garibaldi, " in an open stretch of
water, inside the flotilla of big barges.
When my turn came I made my dive,
determined I would win by making it
a long one. I turned to much to the
right, and when I came up I was un-
der a barge.
I bumped my head pretty hard,
and, for a moment, I was slightly
stunned, so that I lost my sense of
direction. I could not be sure which
was the way to shore and safety.
Any other course meant certain
death. I remembered reading that
at the bottom of a stream one could
find out which way the current flowed
I instantly dived to the bottom,
thrust my fingers into the soft mud,
and at once, I felt the flow of the
stream. Now I knew the way, and
''pulled for the shore."
But the remarkable thing is that
while a part of my mind was busy
with the important problem of mak-
ing my escape from death, another
section of my mind was busy with a
great moral or spiritual problem. My
life passed before my vision like a
vivid panorama. There was no haste.
It passed by steadily and slowly. I
saw and estimated the moral events
of my life. My acts of disobedience to
my parents, to the voice of my inner
conscience, to my God, all stood out
before me in plain view. I stood
condemmed at the bar of righteous
ness. When I reached the shore I
was exhausted and faint, and I stret-
ched out on the sand in the sun, as
the bovs gathered around me. Of
course, for a time I was the hero of
that gang of boys. But it was a long
time before I told all of that story.
My fifth adventure took place when
I was a big boy, almost twenty years
of age. I was on my way home from
college for the Christmas vacation.
I took that lumbering old-fashioned
sled-stage at Athens, Ohio, for Pome-
roy, a distance of some twenty miles.
We started at about 8 p.m. through
a pretty deep snow. It was a bitter
cold night. After an hour or so I was
the only passenger. I curled up in the
straw and tried to keep warm. But I
got colder and wanted to go to sleep;
but I knew that I must not do that.
At last I must have yielded to this
drowsy tendency, for the driver sai<
he spoke to me several times and I did
not answer him. Then he was uneasy
so he stopped the horses, and came
back to me. He talked to me, shook
me, and yet he could not waken me.
He then picked me up bodily and
threw me out on the hard frozen
ground. The sudden jolt aroused me,
and I became conscious.
The early sensations of freezing are
delicious. As the blood trickled up
my arms and legs the tickling, prick-
ling feeling made sort of gentle lull-
aby. It all seemed like a beautiful,
dream. But when that same blood
rushed back into my hands and feet,
the pain was terific, as sharp as a
knife. The blood seemed to be as hot
as molten metal. When I came to my-
self I was irritable cross, angry. I
wanted to light the driver. He laugh-
ed and backed out of my way. But
when my mind cleared. I thanked him
warmly for saving mv life.
A spoiled child is to be pitied. Also its parents. — Exchange.
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LOCAL MARKET PROBLEM.
(The Robesonian)
"The local market for home-raised
food and feed supplies is the biggest
economic problem that our growing
cities have to solve," says the Uni-
versity News Letter. Here's a job for
a whole-time commercial club sec-
retary to tackle, if we had one in
Lumberton, a man-size job in solving
which he would earn his salary.
News items from Fayetteville and
Gastonia recently have told of the
success of curb markets in those
towns. The News Letter says that our
farmers will never produce ample sur-
pluses of bread and meat for the near-
by town dwellers under present con-
ditions. "Peddling food products
from door to door," continues the
News Letter, "is peddling business
and the stomach of robust farmers
rebels at it. Our towns and cities
must provide local market arrange-
ments, conveniences, and facilities for
home raised food products just as
cotton and tobbacco. The local mar-
ket for home-raised food and feed
products means regional stockyards,
shipping facilities and advantageous
freight rates; abattoirs, chilling and
packing plants ; warehouses, ware-
house certificates, and bank loans on
these certificates; open air curb mar-
kets, and well managed free publie
market houses in the larger cities;
camping yards and sheds, rest rooms,
and so on and on. But even more it
means the marketing habit on part of
housewives and merchants, along with
fair prices and profits for the farm-
ers. It means town-and-country co-
operation, and the lack of such co-
operation spells inevitable failure."
Not lcng ago a farmer upbraided
a Lumberton man because when he
brought some potatoes to town he did
not find a market for them. "And
yet farmers are urged all the time to
produce food and feed products suf-
ficient to supply the home towns,"
he said.
Farmers will supply bread and
meat for the town dwellers, no doubt
when the town dwellers supply the
market.
"He serves his city's business best
who best serves the farmers in the
trade territory," concludes the News
Letter.
Chinese automobiles are now being manufactured for the first time by
a machine company in China. — Exchange.
BROADENING EDUCATIONAL FIELDS.
(New York Evening Post.)
Education was once a private fam-
ily concern. Then it developed into
a local or community matter. Next
it passed to State control. Now it
alized through the operations of the
Towner-Sterling bill, which is de-
signed to furnish Federal aid and
maintain fairly uniform standards
is on the verge of becoming nation- over the whole country. The next
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step in the process is towards inter-
nationalism, and it is highly signifi-
cant that the National Education As-
sociation, which emphatically de-
manded continued support for the
Towner- Sterling bill, should have
arrange to send invitations to forty-
five countries asking their teachers
to join with ours in a world confer-
ence on education in 1923.
So far each of these sweeping advan-
ces has brought boons far outweigh-
ing, from the standpoint of a de-
mocracy, the incident aldifficulties.
While the home and the school dis-
trict may have lost authority in the
process at least a strong case may
be made showing such loss was the
cause rather than the effect of edu-
cational reforms. With the meas-
ure before the country, that is un-
doubtedly the case. If all the
States were meeting their several
educational problems fully enough
to satisfy the conscience of the coun-
try, there would be no call for legis-
lation of the sort embodied in the
Towner-Sterling bill, with its pro-
visions for Federal aid, a national
education programme, and an edu-
catior in the cabinet.
The value of the first world con-
ference on education may be chiefly
inspirational, but later gatherings
may produce solvents for interna-
tional discords, sedatives for nation-
alist spleens, and tonics for world
thought.
The block of granite which is an obstacle in the path of the weak, be-
comes a stepping-stone in the path of the strong. — Carlyle.
SHOES IN BANK BOX.
(Salisbury Post)
Shoes in a bank deposit box!
Doubt it? Don't blame you. But
Dank employes are to be trusted!
Admittedly, it wasn't a shoe for
an adult man. Quite the contrary;
it was the shoe of a little child. Per-
haps the first pair the baby had ever
worn.
Mother was saving it until her
boy" became a man; that's why it
happened to be in the bank deposit
box — it was asserted. The little
shoes was worn slightly; but that
didn't matter. They were his"
shoes; which in itself was sufficient.
Perhaps this was the most sur-
prising relic depos.ted in the bank
boxes. Ijook in the boxes? Not
one peep; just gathering the dope
from the memory of clerks who had
accidently seen certain things plac-
ed in the boxes from time to time
during the past decade or longer.
Money, old coins, life and fire in-
surance policies, mortgages, deeds
and commercial papers of all kinds
and descriptions were said to have
been desposited in these boxes.
One old confederate veteran proud,
of his long service under General
Robert E. Lee; proud of the day's
of the confederacy; proud of their
money even though it had eventually
become worthless, — had deposited a
wad of old confederate bills in his
box.
Another peculiar document was
a marriage license — the cetificate
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too! Drawn up properly and incor-
porated before a year had lapsed?
Funny, eh? Well maybe not. No
■one knows— except the parties who
had it placed there — why it was
there. Probably to save it? Pre-
vent wifie or hubby, in a case of a
vehement disagreement, from tear-
ing it in shreads?
That's just a guess. Haven't in-
vestigated the cause; don't even
know who the parties are and if
that knowledge was given out. — far
be it from a reporter to expose the
.guilty parties.
But it's worth preserving — any
register of deeds or judge of a super-
ior court can tell you that!
Curios innumerable also fill the
boxes. S.ome were "unnamable."
Vague descriptions could only be
secured; too vague to bank an argu-
ment on so, it won't be necceseary
to enumerate.
Any old love letters there? Didn't
hear of any — but there might have
been for you never can tell!
Pa and Ma wouldn't admit it if
they had preserved any?
Could vou blame them?
"If the troopB are denying you or those you represent, the right to do
anything you want to do please let me know at once what it is, and, if,
it is not against the law, I will see that they are requested to let you do
it." — Gov. Morrison to President Barrett.
A PAIR OF LABRADOR BOOTS.
By Greta
The people who live in Northern
Newfoundland and along the Labra-
dor Coast are accustomed to look up-
on many of our necessitties as lux-
uries from the very force of circum-
stances. Stores are few and far
between, besides they usually carry
only staples, and money for even
these is not alwa3's plentiful. The
men make and mend their own nets
whenever possible as well as their
own komatiks, snowshoes, and dog
harness for the winter. The women
knit, make mats, fashion the sealskin
trousers and warm, fur-fringed 'dik-
•ey, ' as the parka is called here, for
winter wear, and often provide every
member of the family with a pair of
sealskin boots in addition to all this.
These boots are very cleverly design-
ed and are interesting examples of
G. Bidlake
neat workmanship. The English
and Newfoundland women learned
to make them from the Eskimo wo-
men who were already proficient in
the art when the former came strang-
ers to the Coast. Still, one observes,
that to this day the women who
turn out the best boots are nearly al-
ways pure Eskimos or of a decidedly
Eskimo ancestry.
Labrador sealskin boots are not
made of the soft, silky, brown-furred
seal familiar to commerce. Several
different varieties are used for their
making, all rather light in color
though spotted with dark brown along
the back and sides. They are local-
ly known as 'harps' and 'jars,' and
there is a third variety which I have
never seen but which is quite com-
mon and is called 'square flippers.'
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Seals are usually killed in the
Spring, though the Labrador people
also get a few in the Fall and shoot
a stray one "whenever they find it. A
great deal of work goes into the bus-
iness of making a pair of boots. The
old recipe for cooked hare said, 'first
catch your hare' and if you want to
have a pair of sealskin boots you
must first catch your seal. This is
done in more than one way. I shall
first tell you how it is done by the
Newfoundland seal hunters. The
Labrador men do it differently.
Seals, you know, come down from
the Arctic regions in the Spring
w-hen the ice breaks up, about March,
on floating pans or large masses of
moving ice called 'floes.' Each moth-
er seal has a baby seal by her side-
For the first six weeks of their lives
the young seals are almost pure white
and are known as 'white coats.'
Perhaps some smart boy or girl can
tell me why they are this color. Lat-
er they shed their jackets and are,
for a while, called 'ragged coats.'
The people of the North often call
all seals 'swiles' and refer to the seal
hunt as ' swiling-time. '
As soon as the ice begins to give
way off shore, steamers, guided by
aeroplanes, leave the Newfoundland
ports and brave the bergs and 'slob'
ice in order to find the seal herds.
Sometimes these ships are crushed in
the ice and founder; sometimes they
are wrecked or almost submerged
by the 'calving' or parting of a huge
berg near them ; sometimes the men
get too far away from their ship or
become detached from their party
and, not being able to get back be-
fore nightfall, suffer tortures from
exposures or often freeze to death.
A. great deal of danger attends ont
of these seal hunts.
When the seal herds have been lo-
cated the steamer stops and its crew
go out on the ice. They leap, from
pan to pan, killing the seals by a blow
from a 'gaff' or 'bat' and, after
'sculping' or skinning them, leave
the pelts upon the ice. A collection
of five or six pelts is called a 'tow'
and each man hauls his tow to the
ship if she is near. If she be distant
he leaves them in a heap and the
steamer collects them. When a suf-
ficient quantity of skins has been
packed away in the hold the ship
'bears up' for home and off they go
back to Newfoundland where anxious
friends and relatives look hourly for
their coming and long to know that
the trip has been a success. Every
year the women wait at home while
their men face the danger of the seal
hunt.
The Labrador hunters do things on
a smaller scale as they mostly want
the sealskins for their own use and
not for sale. They practice what is
known as 'inshore fishery' and take
the seals in nets laid along the shore
or shoot them from their row boats
in some secluded bay where seals
seek shelter or become stranded whei
a pan of passing ice drifts in anc
melts.
Here, after the seal is sculped, the
flesh is not wasted, but comes to the
family table in many a dark, rich,
wholesome dish. The skin is lashed
into an oblong frame for stretching
and drying and is laid in some high
place to dry so that the dogs, which
become wild at the scent of meat, may
not get in. This high place is usual-
ly provided by the top of the house
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or a shed.
When the skin is dry one of the
men rips it from the frame and
stores it away. From time to time
throughout the summer he brings it
•out of the wooden chest in the corn-
er of the kitchen and 'works' it with
his hands to 'break the grain' and
make the hard dry skin soft and pli-
able. I have seen men roll the skin
up tightly and stamp on it during
this process.
The leather once softened, the skin
is handed over to the women of the
house who do the rest. They wet it
thoroughly, sometimes in the brook
and sometimes in a tub of water,
and roll it up in a piece of thick, wet,
woolen cloth, taking care that there
is always a thickness of cloth be-
tween the layers of skin. It is then
put away in a warm place where it
will keep damp and left for about
eight days. If it shows signs of dry-
ing out the cloth is dampened again.
At the end of the eight days it is
brought out and the hair scraped oft'
with a sharp knife. The leather is
now ready for cutting. It is quite
light in color but becomes dark from
frequent applications of seal oil ap-
plied while in the wearing.
The skin, however, is not the only
part of the seal that goes into the
making of a pair of boots, for the
sinew with which they are sown
comes from the neck of this same an-
imal. It is a circular portion about
three inches in diameter and five
inches long. While still moist, it is
stretched over a round stick and left
to dry. The drying finished, it is put
in the chest with the skins, having
been slit up in order to remove it
from the stick. When both leath-
er and sinew are in shape and the
time permits or necessity demands,
a woman begins to make the boots.
She cuts pieces about half -inch wide
from the sinew, which now looks like
brown parchment, and puts it to
soak. When well soaked these strips
stretch out into a coarse, dark thread,
which is twelve or more inches long.
There are times when the supply of
sinew becomes exhausted and then
stout linen or cotton thread must be
used. This rots quickly after the boots
are exposed to the water so sinew is
always used if it can be had.
Every woman who makes boots
has a number of brown paper pat-
terns which she carefully keeps. The
dav the boots are to be made she
brings out the skin, cuts the sinew,
puts it to soak and lays her pattern
on the leather. She is careful not
to waste a bit of it in the cutting
for families in the North have a way
of growing larger while seals are be-
coming scarcer year by year. She
first cuts two wide, long, double leg
pieces that narrow toward the bottom
and slant down to a point at one side,
slant down to a point at one side.
She clips off part of this point so as
to leave a curve. When the leg is
joined by a seam up the back this
leaves a half circle bending up near
the instep. To this she sews a piece
shaped like a half sole, except that
it is rounded at both ends, and the
uppers are done. She now cuts two
wide, large sole pieces and gathers
them. If she is a good boot maker
here is where her best work will come
in. All the pieces have been soaked
to soften them and now these soles
must be gathered with fine stitches
for several inches around the toe
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and heel. The 'heel strings' at the
back betray a poorly made boot and
great care is needed to pucker them
in just right and get them sewed
firmly thus. Three of these heels
strings are used. The large sole piece
turns up all the way around so that
the few inches around what was the
edge when it lay flat really form a
part of the upper when the boot is
worn. You will know more of what
it looks like if you will examine a
pair of shoe packs or mocassins for
some makes follow out the same idea.
The boots are finished when a band
of sealskin, perhaps with the hair
left on, has been sewed round the tops
as a binding. If they are boots for
a grown person, it has taken a quick,
skillful woman a day to make them
but if for a child, and the children
look very quaint and odd in their
shorter boots which come only half
way to the knee, it has not taken
more than five hours or so.
Boots of this kind are commonly
worn by men, women and children
though many have ' store boots ' for
Sunday and festive wear. The seal-
skin boots last well except during
the summer when they become scuff-
ed from traveling over the rocky hill
trails and the stones in the door
yard. The pair I have has been half
soled by sewing new pieces of leather
on both where the leather on the ball
of the foot has worn through and
where the bottom of the heel was
showing the wear. I often saw wo-
men soaking the sole and heel pieces
for this and I noticed they chewed
them around the edges after. This
was to soften the stiff, hard leather
even more and it is an effective mea-
sure for when put on the stitches in
these pieces are very close, do not
come through to the surface and caa
scarcely be detected.
These home-made boots resist wat-
er fairly well, especially when oiled,
but they would be very cold footwear
in the winter were it not for the
thick, warm, flannel lining which
goes inside them. It is made so as
to look rather like a bed sock and is
worn outside at least two pairs of
home knit woolen socks. The boots
always pull on and are made to fit
over both socks and lining.
Slippers of sealskin are made too,
and one may have the fur side inside
or outside as one chooses. These,
however, are mostly for sale to sum-
mer visitors and volunteers at the
Grenfell Mission hospitals, while
the boots are for the daily wear of
the people of the Coast.
"I see, "remarked a gentleman as he paid a small newsboy for Ms pa-
per, "that you are putting up a good many new buildings in your town."
"That is the only kind we put up here, sir," replied the little fellow
with a touch of civic pride.
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EDUCATION IS THE BASIS OF AMERI-
CAN GROWTH.
By George F. Day
The first postmaster general made
the rounds of the offices under his
supervision upon horseback, so few
were they in number. But now he
is one of the busiest men in the
Union with an arary of clerks at his
command. The increase in letter
writing has not been entirely ac-
cording to America's growth and im-
provement in that service but has in-
creased according to her advancement
in education.
Inside of the first month after the
landing of our Puritan fathers on that
bleak, cold New England shore, the
first free school of America was es-
tablished and within a year the foun-
dations of Harvard college had been
laid so that when the children and
grandchildren of these pioneers grew
to maturity and took their places
they need not live in ignorance but
might be able to enter into the duties
of life knowing their rights and will-
ing to fight for them.
Our country has advanced ever
since its founding rapidly and it is
due to her attention to educational
■interests. Where was the first iron
stove invented? The world had for
years been struggling along the best
it could with the old-fashioned fire-
place and a hole in the roof to let the
smoke out. It was left to Benjamin
Franklin, a poor American, to invent
the first practical iron stove and thus
revolutionize this kind of manufac-
turing. Would he have been so suc-
cessful in any country where he could
not have received a liberal education?
We have no reason to think so. So
it was with the invention of the plow.
People had for years been using
crooked sticks and big, heavy, cum-
berson implements. It was left to
an American to invent the first prac-
tical plow. So we can trace the
growth of the invention and adoption
of practical tools from the earliest
time until the present day. People
may say that education is not respon-
sible for this development, yet Ameri-
ca stands first in practical inventions
and manufactures and is the shipping
place of the world. Why should it
have been left to America to revolu-
tionize the trade of the nations un-
less it was because of her superior
advantage of education? It is the
practical man educated in the prac-
tical way tht knows the needs of the
masses and the easiest way to meet
them. That is why Americans have
succeeded. The nobility and higher
class of England have always enjoyed
the privilege of education but they
did not know the necessities of a com-
mon man and not knowing paid prac-
tically no attention to his improve-
ment and laboring man without edu-
cation could not better his condition.
Our land is full of schools and col-
leges for the purpose of educating
the children of just such men and
they are not only urged to send them
but are compelled to do so. Gradual-
ly there has been introduced into our
school system in a great many places
a course of manual training. Where
the hand as well as the mind can be
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trained; where the rich man's chil-
dren work side by side with those of
lower rank; where the boy or girl is
taught what handwork is and how
essential it is to their success. As
a result students became more in-
terested in their work. Tl|ey ^are
taught the dignity of labor. It has
been proven in a great many case*
that students who had no interest in
their school before this system de-
veloped have become enthusiastic over
their work and look forward with
pleasure to the two hours spent at
the bench or in the study of domestic
science. By constant association with
labor they learn to respect it as one
of the noblest things in our existance,
and come to realize how much we de-
lend upon the common laborer ft*"
even the smallest necessities of life.
This system of manual training has
been introduced into our schools. It
may be argued by some that education
is not essential to a man's success,
that a person with a good knowledge
of business is far ahead of the person
who has a good book education but
does not know anything of commercial
life. That must be true to a certian
extent but how much more easily a
person can learn business methods
and the way in which business con-
cerns are conducted if his mind is
trained thoroughly in his high school
course and if he knows how to acquire
a knowledge of business under his
consideration and how to use it to its
best ends. It certainly seems practi-
cal that a person whose mind is train-
ed, has knowledge of other things and
can apply the one thing to its best
advantage, it is far superior to a per-
son skilled in one branch who has been
educated in one business only and
whose mind is narrowed down to one
consideration. He cannot conduct his
business so as to receive the benefit
of other things but must carry on his
work in that one narrow channel in
which he has been educated.
Education is essential to a full en-
joyment of life. You can get no
pleasure out of a thing you do not un-
derstand. A person must be educat-
ed to understand even the most com-
mon things in our every day life.
What pleasure is there for a person
to witness anything he does not un-
derstand. He sees the action but
never having given the matter any
thought, does not inquire what are
the causes and what the effects. He
simply witnesses it and if it is out of
the ordinary, wonders a little and
dismisses the matter from his mind.
It is not this way with a person who
has received a general education. He
understands the causes of an event
and what its significane is. He gets
pleasure out of the smallest occurren-
ces which to some people mean practi-
cally nothing. It may be that these
things are of no practical use but it
is just the men who do observe and
understand that make the successful
men of the world.
America has grown from thirteen
struggling colonies to one of the most
powerful nations of the world. She
has arisen from her dependence upon
Great Britain to an independent
nation. Because Americans had been
educated they knew their grievances
and were able to convince other
nations of the fact.
It is due to education that America
is such a Democratic country in its
belief. It is because America under-
stands the dignity of labor that the
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laboring man is respected, and it is
just these things that unite the states
into a closely bound nation and makes
it one of the more important powers
among the great nations.
The only hope for the lasting pro-
gress of our race is constant reform
in social life. To bring this about
we must begin with the children. It
is in consideration of them that our
school system comes into use. That
system which is the pride of our race,
which has aided so materially in bring-
ing about the great rise of this re-
markable country. Scattered all over
this broad land of ours are schools,
colleges and universities. All design-
ed for building up the character of
the younger Americans. Such is the
state of affairs in our own country.
Thus it is that America has achieved
her dazzling success, not by one great
lead as the old empires of the East,
but gradually and evenly advancing
to her present magnificence. She
has spread about her into every coun-
try where her influence could pos-
sibly be left a helpful inspiration.
What better thing can be said of a
country than that education follows
the flag.
Ex- Vice President Marshall, upon Ms return from Europe, received a
report on the operations of his 100 acre farm and found his net profit
for the year was $2.39. He will probably return to the lectture field-
News & Observer.
A MILLION NEW CARS
Considerably more than a million
new automobiles were licensed in the
United States last year. No wonder
we see shoals of new cars on the
streets every day.
The serious problem, in connection
with the operation of automobiles,
is chance taking at railroad grade
crossings. In spite of the frightful
mishaps reported each day, there is
only a slight checking of the evil.
The only known remedy is to ever-
lastingly keep on urging drivers to
observe the following precautions :
When you drive near the railroad
tracks that are to be crossed Think
of Trains of Cars. Right there on
the tracks, is the only place you will
find any.
With such thoughts in your mind,
you will be p^pared for any emer-
gency. Most times, there will be no
train near enough to hinder you, but
DON.T trust to LUCK. LOOK and
LISTEN every time.
If you trust to luck, you are not
giving yourself and your passengers
a fair deal. A professional gambler
will bet almost anything, but he nev-
er wagers his Life. He might lose
a lot of money once and then recoup
his losses in another venture. But
every one of us know that when he
loses his life he is going to sfiay dead.
That man who is killed at a cross-
ing yesterday, had no desire to die.
There w£s no end of things to make;
life worth while. The man simply
followed in the steps of thousands,
who made the mistake of yielding to-
a quick impulse of trying to beat a
train over a crossing.
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Sober second thought would have
saved him; so we close this little ap-
peal with a solemn warning that now
is the time to Call a Halt, and Cross
Crossings Cautiously.
The doctors say that the people do not drink enough water, and -there
seems to be no way to make them drink it -except to prohibit it. — Boston
Transcript.
THE FAMOUS SEDAN-CHAIRS OF CHINA
The «edan-criair, which is com-
monly used in the south of China
for short journeys, is a very com-
fortable vehicle. The elastic poles,
fastened to the sides and twelee or
■sixteen feet in length, act somewhat
as springs, and the motion is agree-
able, except upon a steep hillside;
there the oscillations given by the
steps of the carriers grow emphatic
and discomforting.
The sedan-chair is often handsome-
ly finished within and without. It
<?an be closed to the public view,
and affords a fine protection from
sun and rain. It has the right of
way over all things except official
processions, and the carriers on a
thronged street mark their approach
by loud outcries for room, and use
little ceremony in pushing the un-
wary or slow out of their Way-
When two chairs going in opposite
directions meet, it is a trial of cour-
age, bravado, strength, and noise,
as to which shall turn aside for the
other: The chair of a bride, or of
an official, takes a recognized prece-
dence, and such chairs are often mark-
ed by unusual elegance of color and
upholstery, or by an extra number
of carriers.
No other mode of travel for short
distances in China is equal to the
chair for comfort and convenience,
although one's sympathy for the car-
riers mars one's pleasure at times.
The Peking cart deserves a more
energetic characterization than one
can give it. Imagine a two-wheeled
vehicle, built like the ox-carts on
New England farms, although a little
more than half as large and without
any seat, surmounted by a cover of
blue jean, drawn by a mule and driv-
en by a hardy Chinese, the passenger
being left to dispose himself as well
as he can in the interior. Then keep
in mind the dirt roads in China, left
to time and chance and the weather
from year to year, full of ruts and
unsuspected stones and holes, often
more like the bed of a brook than a
public highway. Pack the cart and
pad his exposed points as carefully
as he may, the luckless traveler is at
the mercy of his driver and the road,
and is liable to carry on his person
for many weeks the impressions of a
few hours' travel.
And yet this is the chief mode of
travel in the north of China. Seven
miles of it are about all the average
Occidental can endure. A donkey's
back, even one's own feet are much to
be preferred.
Donkeys abound in northern China,
and are much used for moderate dis-
tances. They are piny creatures*
hardly four feet high, and their backs
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and their slender legs seem insuffi-
cient to bear more than their own
weight, yet they receive their burden
meekly, and amble at a good pace
along the dusty roads. It is comical
to see a man six feet in height and
weighing, it may be, two hundred
pounds, astride one of these little
beasts, and moving soberly along at
the pace of four miles an hour.
The litter is the luxurious mode of
travel by land, and merits special
attention. A hundred miles or more,
all the way from Peking to Pao-ting-
fu, one can try this conveyance, which
combines dignity and ease. If one
doubles the capacity of the covered
sedan- chair and fills it with a mat-
trees and blankets and other baggage
for a reclining seat, puts mules un-
stead of men betwen the poles in
front and behind, and adds a driver
to keep the mules to their work, you
have the Chines litter. You mount
the litter before the poles are placed
on the mules' backs, and you dis-
mount when the mules are unharness-
ed and the litter set down, unless
you are willing to risk your neck and
limbs in a leap from the side window
to the ground which is some four
feet below.
If the mules keep step and do
not stumble or trot, all goes well.
When they break step, or gallop, or
stop to graze, or to drink at a chance
pool, one's reverie is rudely broken,
and all one's strength and skill are
needed to keep right side up and un-
side the litter. But as the sides are
open to the breeze and the view, and
as one may sit up to read, or recline
to rest or sleep, this mode of travel is
next to that by chair for pleasure,
and far better for extended journeys,
especially if one have agreeable com-
panions to share the m3als of the day
and the luxuries of the native inns
at night. — Wellspring.
I believe in the boys and girls, the men and women of the great to-
morrow ; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe
in the curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of schools, in the dignity of
teaching, and m the joy of serving others. I believe in the wisdom as
revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of a printed book; in les-
sonstaught, not so much by precept as by example ; in ability to work with
the hands as well as to think with the head; in everything that makes life
large and lovely. I believe in the beauty in the schoolroom, im. daily
life and in out-of-doors. I believe in laughter, in love, in faith, in all
ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of ev
ery day we receive a just reward for all we are and all we do. I believe
in the present and its opportunities, in the future and it promises and
in the divine joy of living. — Amen. — Edwin Osgood Grover.
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WHERE ARE YOUR EYES
Doctor Galin said our eyes were
placed at the top so that we could
see things at a distance. It sounds
simple enough, but' not many of us
have thought of it just that way.
Signals in light-houses are elevat-
ed so that they may be seen from
afar. Many other instances might
be cited to show the value of high
lights.
The driver of an automobile, as he
sits at the steering wheel, has a clear
view ahead and ought to be able to
protect his passengers from danger
at the railroad grade crossing. The
risk of being killed by a train of cars
is something we all learned in child-
hood days.
There should be no haphazard
driving across railroad tracks. Any
driver who assumes that because
trains run only at occasional inter-
vals he is relieved of the necessity
of being vigilant every time he cros-
ses the tracks, certainly takes a big
chance of being numbered with the
slain.
Careful use of eyes and ears is the
first consideration : nest comes some-
thing else quite as important, the ex-
ercise of good judgmnt in meeting
the situation that confronts us.
Much has been said about the safe-
ty habit — what a good thing it is.
Evervbody gives assent to it in the-
ory, but that many fail to practice
it, is demonstrated daily at railroad
crossings, where lives lost and bodies
maimed are the heavy toll paid for
Thoughtlessness.
Thank your lucky stars for those
good eyes, placed high up at a point
of vantage in your anatomy! Yes,
and see to it that you make 100 per
cent use of those same eyes at a place
of known danger, like the railroad
grade crossing.
Who drives across
In a careful way,
Will live to drive,
Another day.
THE POWER THAT CONTROLS.
Many of you have read about Xer-
xes, a great king of the East, centu-
ries before Christ was born. It was
this man before whom Esther appear-
ed in order to intercede for the lives
of her people, the jews,Xerxes was in
many respects an able ruler and gen-
eral, but he took himself more seri-
ously at times than he should have
done. He was one of the greatest
kings of all time but not so great as
he thought he was. Once when he
was conducting a millitary campaign
against a powerful foe, he ordered
bridges constructed across a sea so
that his army might pass over.
When they were completed a storm
arose and swept the bridges away.
Xerxes flew into rage and ordered
the sea to be lashed with whips. He
hoped in this way to punish and tame
it. But how foolish. Man has little
control over the winds and waves of
the sea. But I should say he has
about as much power to calm the
tempestuous sea as he has to control
his own passions and evil tendencies.
RAIL AND WATER RATES PHIL-
ADELPHIA TO SOUTH.
Norfolk, Va,, June 30. — Announce-
ment was made by the Southern Rail-
way System of the establishment of
rail and water freight service be-
tween Philadelphia and the South in
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connection with the Inland Steam-
ship Company, via Pinners Point, the
Southern's terminal opposite Nor-
folk.
Rates with the usual differentials
under the all-rail rates will apply on
traffic moving via this route between
Philadelphia and contiguous territory
on the one hand and points in the
Carolina, Southeastern and Mississippi
Valley territories on the other.
The Inland Steamship Company has
a line of self-propelled barges with
daily service between Philadelphia
and Norfolk. Freight leaving Phila-
delphia one day will be delivered at
Pinners Point the following morning
in time for forwarding to the south
on the Southern's fast manifest
freight train, No. 53.
INSTITUTIONAL NOTES
(Swift Davis, Repoi-ter.)
Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Talbert, the
former an officer at the J. T. S., are
being visited by Mrs. J. C. Faggart,
of Chase City, Va.
Watermelon twice last week! It
sure is a sight for sore eyes to see
a line of two hundred and fifty boys
each devouring a fourth of a melon.
But they ate carefully and no ail-
ments resulted.
The old clippers which are run
by the movements of the fingers,
are so out of style that ways and
means of procuring some electric
clippers are now being discussed
by the authorities.
Nothing so grand as a sincere,
constant friend. Mr. R. S. Hunt-
ington, ot Greenville, S. C, is this
kind. He makes frequent visits,
mingles with the boys, te'ls them
stories, performs, stunts and acts
generally the "big brother." His
latest visit was particularly a joy.
There are certain officers at the
school who are extremely admired
by the boys — in fact they take these
officers as their models. Then there
was a small few who consider them-
selves above the boys. They are
forever on their dignity. These
few &oon find their littleness out and
leave. Those officers and matrons
who have been here for some time
can take it for granted that they are
in the first class. May the first
class survive and increase!
Elbert Perdue and James Phillips
were taken to Concord recently to
have their tonsils removed. Both
were brought back two or three
days later nearly recovered and able
to do light work. This simply
means that our bojTs are always in
the "pink of condition" and even in
an operation they can come from un-
der it with "flying colors." With
their tonsils gone these boys feel
more free and do not have the disa-
greeablefeeling of "swallowing their
tonsils."
The bakery of the Jackson Train-
ing is now being deservedly lauded
and is receiving its just rewards.
Compliments and good wishes come
from all sources. One of the main
reasons for these compliments is
that as Mr. Hilton proudly states,
"It's one of the cleanest bakeries
in North Carolina.'' The bread
baked down here is so delicious
that many of the boys prefer it to
cake. And Allie Williams, the com-
ing first bakeryman of the J. T. S.
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has learned from the skillful Mr.
Hilton how such palatable bread is
cooked. It is indeed good to see
the wonderful clock-work machinery
way in which the students of the
bakery trade handle their jobs.
When the oven is to be filled with
pans of dough, each knows his
place in line; one boy grabs a pan,
hands it to his left hand neighbor,
who in turn gives it to the chap on
his left side and the pan of bread-to-
be thus eventually reaches the oven
in which a boy places it with a long
paddle. Long before the first pan
reaches the oven another is started
down the line. This is a fine exam-
ple of the idea of co-operation. The
oven is emptied just vice versa. Ours
is a modern bakery lacking only a lit-
tle machinery. Many patrons of Con-
cord desire to buy bread from
our bakery, but as the school grows
larger, the demand for bread increas-
es so this cannot be done. Suppose
you come to the J. T. S. and see the
best bakery, for its size and equip-
ment in North Carolina.,
NEXT!
By The Reporter
Beginning his first tilt with the in-
vading Flowe's Storemen Saturday
by completely whiffing the first
two men who had garnered enough
nerve to face him, and striking out
the last baffled and puzzled man of
the initial frame, John Russell won
the aforementioned game by the
nose to nose score of 3 to 2. But
Russell's opposing pill twister, John
Boger, was also in fine form and by
way of letting the J. T. S. batsmen
know this irritating fact he dupli-
cated J. Russell's performance on
none other than J. Russell himself.
After Russell had considerably
disturbed the air around the gutta
percha in his endeavor to bite the
apple, J. Honey cutt grasped a war
club and strode up to the home plate,
confident of fulfilling his rather
vicious intentions. But he too
walked away a much disappointed
boy, consoling himself with the
thought "I'll do better next time."
Then R. Kiser performed and the
first session was declared over.
Two more frames pushed along
much in the same manner as the ini-
tial chapter, intersprinkled with
occasionally a single or two. In
one inning the J. T. S. had men on
third and the keystone sack but in
this pinch Boger settled down and
struck 'em out.
Then the fourth performance
sauntered along innocently enough.
The Storemen straightened out three
or four of Russell's sizzling, puzzling
slants and though under extreme
oppression carried in two tallies
just before three of them were "kill-
ed." Then the batters, the "killed"
ones and all ran out to their stations
in field and with retaliating revenge
in his heart each Grierman went to
bat determined to hit the pill. And
they did it! Holmon changed the
J. T. S. goose egg to a 1 and A. Wil-
liams tagged up on a long fly to cen-
ter field and split the path open get-
ting to the last station — home.
Later the winning run came in.
Under threats of rain two more
innings were played, but neither
side scored. Russell held the
Storemen down to three scattered
hits and the moundsman in the pit
for the visitors let the Griermen
down with five hits. In the begin-
ning of the seventh frame Jupiter
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Pluvius, who had threatened befor9
to come see the game finally arrived.
and he must have brought a few of
his damp friends, for the game was
■declared '"called" by the best um-
pire who has officiated a game at the
J. T. S. this season— Mr. M. L. Dor-
ton. In the game Hobby annexed a
three bagger, Cook coming next in
honors getting a keystone sacker.
Honeycutt, of the locals and Bigger,
for the visitors each claim four as-
sists. Freeman, one of the op-
ponents, who tended the first sta-
tion, gathered laurels for his put-
outs — eight in number. Peculiar
as it may seem, Holman and Wil-
liams both had perfect days at bat,
for even though they got only one
hit apiece, the one time at bat gives
them the above mentioned honors.
The Jackson Training School de-
sires battles with other teams of
high standing. Some real teams!
Send them along and they'll be tak-
en down a notch or two.
Isn't this a good enough reason
for desiring some regular teams?
We are not prejudiced in our own
favor but — well, see for yourself:
Club Standing
W.
L.
Pet.
J. T S. 11
3
.786
Pitching Record.
W.
L.
Pet.
Hegular 1
II
1.000
Cook 1
0
1.000
Holmau 0
1
.857
Russell 3
•>
.600
Bailey Groome, Sporting Editor
of the Charlotte Observer, made
note of the fact that the ball field of
the Jackson Training School had
been named "The Manassas Field,"
in his "One Man's Opinion on Sport
Topics." He also told the reason
why Stonewall Jackson was such a
wonderful military commander. Mr.
Groome might be interested to know
how the J. T. S. lads play ball — in
fact how they enter into all sports.
To say that these boys play ball and
other forms of sports just like Stone-
wall Jackson would play were he a
lad of today is sufficient to guaran-
all teams who enter into competition
with the J. T. S. fair play and also
a close match of strength and skill.
Then too he may know that of all
papers of sport which come to the
J. T. S. (and that isno small amount)
the boys prefer the Charlotte Obser-
ver. The writer, who is a subsrerib-
er to that paper, is beseiged by
scores of boys who want to see
Charlotte's Sports." "One Man's
Opinion on Sport Topics" is read,
re-read, and then read some more.
Small wonder is it that when the
writer receives his paper again it
is a sadly ragged remnent of what
it was.
Want another victim on Manassas
Field!
Saturday's score:
Score by innings:
Flowe's" Store 000 200 00—2 3 2
J. T. S. 000 300 00—3 5 5
Game called 6th, rain.
P. S. I want it distintly under-
stood that the 'Cook" referred to is
not our editor. He has no time for
the "pill" — he's busy with the pen
and typewriter. — Reporter.
I had rather suffer for speaking the truth than that the truth should
suffer for the want of my speaking it. — John Pym-
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down
and put out, so also a false accusation when brought
against a man of the purest and holiest character,
boils over and is at once dissipated and forgotten.
— Cicero
Southern Railway System
Announces
Greatly Reduced Round Trip Fares
—For—
SUMMER SEASON, 1922
Take Your Choice
Week-end fares. Sunday excursion fares. Summer excursion fares.
Special excursion fares to Atlantic City and Nigra Falls
Atlantic City and Other Jersey Niagara Falls via Washington ro
Seashore Resorts Philadelphia
Dates sale via Sou. & B&O Dates sale via Sou. & PRR
June 29th. July 13th and 27th, June 28th, July 18, August 1st
August 10th and 24th. and 15th.
Dates sale via Sou. PRE, July Date sale via Sou. & B&O
5th and 19th, August 2nd and July 6th. 12th and 26th, August
16th and 30th. 9th and 23rd.
MicrofiHnri
SOUfCT/ASERL PKOJOT
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TICKETS GOOD FOR 18 DAYS
Tickets good for stop-overs on return trip at Washington-Baltimore-
Buffalo and Philadelphia.
Week-End Excursion Fares
On sale Friday nights, Saturday and Sunday mornings to Seashore
Resorts and Western North Carolina Resorts.
Tickets good until following Monday and Tuesday (Exception
tickets to Western North Carolina sold Saturday and Sunday morn-
ing, good return until following Monday.)
Sunday Excursion Fares
— TO —
Norfolk, Wilmington, and Morehead
City
These tickets are on sale Saturday nights and Sunday mornings
from Salisbury, Hight Point, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Durham,
Raleigh, Princeton and all intermediate stations. Good returning
Sunday night. Not good in sleeping or Parlor cars.
SPEND SUNDAY AT THE SEASHORE
Summer Excursion Fares
— TO —
All Resorts
Mountains, Springs and Seashore.
Tickets on sale daily, final limit October 31st, 1922.
Stop-overs permitted in both directions.
Through Pullman Sleeping Cars to All Important Points
Excellent Service — Courtesy — Convenient Schedules.
Write for Beautiful Southern Railway Summer Resort Booklet and
Other Literature.
For Further Information Call on Southern Railway Ticket Agents or
Address :
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