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f Wayne Hopper, truck driver, was killed at North Wilkesboro; N. C., Tuesday afternoon when a pan* Hunger train hit hia truck at u grade crossing. The Engagement of Princess lleunu of Itumania to Count Von Hochburg of Germany, is reported on the rocks. It api>ears that the count is broke. When an aviator landed hia plum; at Zanesville, Ohio, Monday and damned the machine in the landing, police inspected the cargo. The machine wua loaded with ten sacks containing whiskey. A woman ia being sought by the police as the promoter of the airplune shipments. j One person in every 200 in the Uni ted States is said to be deuf. BUILD? lor 37 yearn Rogers lias unselfishly dtded in every go oil [ movement for the upbuilding of this city?litis state?this |. section. Civic and development clubs, churches, charities j and scores oj other worthy causes have been given (and are still being given) co-operation and aid by Rogers, a j ! Southern Institution. 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Health Bulletin) As a boy the Editor of the Health Bulletin spent many years on n North Carolina farm. Before ho was twelve years of age. he hud become thoroughly impressed with the slipshod methods prevailing in his community among the people, a majority of whom failed to provide themselves with the necessary food and feed-* stuff for their families and what little live stock they hud. In thbae days North Carolina had whut was known as open range territory. The farmers had, as a rule, a few hogs, and a few cattle?an exceptional one now and then having some sheep, but that was rare?and a few goats. The whole scrub outfit roamed the ranges for food, especially in summer. In the spring the pigs were caught und a mark put in their ears, so each farmer would know his stoek in the fall. The yearling cattle was treated in the same way, and then when frost occurred and the grazing became lean, the hogs and the cows that the ticks hud not eaten up would straggle back to some of the farms. After some confusion each farmer could locate his own property, if such measly animals could be called property. The stock was then turned in the little fields and fattened up, and the hogs utilized as meat for two or three winter months. In the summer the whole dependence would go back to western sow \>olly, shipped in from Minnesota jpr Iowa. In addition to the little cotton, and in some instances tobacco, production, the farmers largely depended on tar, pitch and turpentine for what little money they had. The turpentine was exchanged for flour, also from 'Minnesota; more western meat, and molasses from Louisiana, shipped in via Wilmington. The one saving feature of the whole enterprise was that game was rather plentiful, partridges, squirrels and rabbits being available any time in the year, and this afforded a little variation in the ordinary monotonous diets. It is hardly necessary to suy that this regime was not depended on 'by the better class, or at least the financially better off class, of farmers, but a large majority of the small landowners and all of the tenants depended on such a schedule. In many of the plantation homes year-round gardens, orchards, milk and butter, and the best of food was available, but such families were rather the exception. Our observation has been in recent years that the situation along this line has grown worse with time. The State Board of Health, through its various health department affilia lions in the dilierent counties, and through the literature that it has been sending out for more than twenty years, has constantly agitated for health reasons, if for no other, the necessity of a garden and diversified food for every family. Early in December appeals were going out in different sections of the State, especially the eastern part' bf North Carolina, literally begging for help for hundreds and even thousands of people?men, women and children? faced with literal starvation before another crop can rescue them. This whole section from which these cries are arising in increasing volume is as fertile as the Valley of the Nile in its palmiest times. As most garden and truck produce could be raised in any one county in that section as the people-of all the whole State of North Carolina could consume annually, if only the efforts could be made. It is a section where a year-round garden is possible, as proved by individuals here and there all over the territory. It is one of the finest countries in the United States for stock raising, especially for hogs. The agriculture departments of the State and Federal Government have made possible the raising of tick-free cattle. Hog cholera is no longer a menace, thanks to the activities of the animal husbandry department of the State Government, and yet, owing to a fool policy of raising only socalled money crops, these people face starvation year after year when there is a failure of crops due to adverse weather or market conditions. This writer regards the chief trouble as being a dog-eat-dog policy on the part of the landlord and tenant alike, in which the landlord exacts the last drop of blood in the way of tobacco and cotton acreage, and in which the tenant reciprocates by demanding all the credit at the time store that he can possibly get, each one gambling at the expense of the other. If the landlord would demand that his tenant have chickens, hogs and cattle, and n garden before a single acre of tobacco or cotton should be planted, and then if he should demand in his contract with the tenant that this garden must be kept up the year round, that the hogs and the cattle must be cared for properly, and all the supplies grown at home, there would be fewer and fewer cries going out to the general public for help. It is nothing short of a suicidal policy which the Agricultural Department and the Health Department have failed so far to prevent. Twenty years ago we excused ourselves for these delinquencies largely cm tbtf' ground that our population had been so greatly infected with hookworm and malaria, especially our farming and tenant population, that they were unable physically to do the work nee-essary to raise their food supplies -1-J ! Ji->- -- - J.. H ... and otherwise arrange an intelligent living schedule for themselves. lloforo that period, and very properly, we attributed a large part of our delinquencies to tire devastating effects of the Civil War. This was undoubtedly true. The best blood in the State was left on the battle field, and the widows and orphans of these fighting men were not only left to procure food under the most adverse circumstances, but the whole section bad to fight an economic policy, .saddled upon us by the victorious North, which it took fully a generation to overcome. This writer would be the last to blame the acute sufferers of the Civil War for apparent shortcom irgs in anything. He would also be slow to blame the poorer class of the population afflicted with hookworm and malaria for so many years, but there is no excuse now-a-duys for any human being having hookworm or malaria. Safeguards ure provider! for every individual, free of charge, who cares to avail himself of the protection offered by health agcncics in North Carolina. So it seems to us that it comes down now to a matter of sheer laziness and selfishness and indifference to the needs of our own families, and our own communities. If we are ever to shake off the situation as now exists it is time we begin. The month of February has always been the period in this State for starting u garden. There is-no better time than right now to go out and stake off and plow up a garden plot sufficient to afford all the vegetables necessary for the whole family from now to the thirty-first day of December. There is no better time than now to procure a good milk cow and to feed and care for that cow, and to produce enough milk and butter for the entire family to the end of the year. There is also no better time than now to start a bunch of pigs on the road-to pork for the December smokehouse. When these things are done, it will be ample time to lay off the acreage perhaps for tobacco and cotton. Then if the Agricultural Department warnings are listened to, and if the acreage in either is hot excessive, and if the protection which modern science affords against the boll weevil is practiced, regardless of weather, rains, or droughts, a fair crop may be expected, and if living supplies are produced, and not bought at a credit store, there may be some money for the family next December. However, if there is little or no money forthcoming, if the family has milk, butter, eggs, chickens, and pork, together with all kinds of vegetables raised in the garden, there will be no appeals to the public to feed the starving people in the garden spot of the United States next December. a. . . Governor Gardner of North Carolina, has stepped down hard on a proposal that an extra session of the legislature of that state be called to consider tax reduction problems. English scientists confirm the American view that use of the telephone is making the hearing power of the left ear more acute than that of the right. HOW COTTON ] ~li l* CHAMPIONS MAKE THEIR CROPS I \^EAR after year the cotton championship of your State is won by u farmer who fertilises his crop with Chilean Nitrate of Soda. This doesn't just happen to be _ true. Chilean Nitrate has been the main reason for every cotton championship in every Southern state for five consecutive years. S. C. Cotton Champion 11. R. SMITH. Johnston, $. C., won S^t-o Five-Acre Contest. Yield. 5779 lbs. lint on 5 acres (1154 lbs. per acre). Fertilizer, 100 lbs. per acre, Chilean Nitrate, with acid and potash at pi ant inn. 300 lbs. Chilean Nitrate per acre as siSe dressing. "I would not consider farming safe i--S without the use of Chilean Nitrate." B. R. SMITH, S. C. Cotton Champion. ; r'j Chilean Nitrate is the world's only natural nitrate fertilizer?not synthetic, remember. It speeds crop growth. Increases crop yield. Makes better quality ... always. See your local fertilizer dealer. If he doe# not carry Chilean Nitrate of Soda lie can cunily get it for you. Free Fertilizer Book Our new book, "How tQ Fertilize Cotton," tells exactly how to use Chilean Nitrate. It gives all the facts. Free. Ask fbr Book No. 2, or tear out this ad and mail it with your name and address. mmmmmam -m -m 1830-1930 This year marks the 100th year Mince the first use of Chilean' Nitrate on American Crops. tun t/iiiean Nitrate of Soda EDUCATIONAL BUREAU 810 Carolina Life Bldg., Columbia, S. C. In replying, please refer to ad No. 69 *rrH loo* WOT tUCK" ; ~ clays of "Plenty come to those who regularly deposit their Money SEEDS NEVER GROW UNTIL PLANTED. DOLLARS DO NOT INCREASE UNLESS YOU KEEP ADDING TO THEM. IF YOU WISH TO HAVE MONEY BEGIN BY DEPOSITING YOUR DOLLARS IN OUR BANK. KEEP IT UP REGULARLY AND IT WON'T BE LONG TILL YOU HAVE A NICE SUM TO YOUR CREDIT. OPEN AN ACCOUNT TODAY. $1.00 WILL DO IT. 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