The Big Stone Gap post. [volume], January 10, 1917, Page 2, Image 2

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riirc RIO STONK GAP POST
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10, 1017
rublnhrJ Ever/ "VVedniKlsy by the
WISE PRINTING COMPANY.
tucorpofetiMi.
RILBKRT N. KNIGHT, - tidltor.
LINDSEY J. HOBTON, A9S-t Editor
Unu Vetr,
Six Months.
Tliruo Monlhs,
SI -Of.)
.60
.25
Kntorvd according to postal regutstlons
at tlio post-office at III? Sumo Gap a* soc
ond-rlaaa matter.
SUBSCRIBERS art- earnestly ro
quested to observe Iho dato
printod on their address slips,
which will keep them at all
times posted as to the date
of the expiration of their sub?
scription. Prompt and timely
attention to this request will
save all parties a great deal of
annoyance.
AreWeLosing
Our Energy?
If prices of provisions keep
on climbing as they have hern
doing during the past year the
elTect should be a great stimulus
to the "back to the farm"
movement of which we have
heard so much the past decade.
Common sense and observa?
tion should teach any man that
one of the main causes of the
high price of food stuff is (In?
growing scarcity of farm labor,
and the consequent curtailment
of acreage cultivated. Thou
sands of farmers all over this
country, unable to secure ade?
quate help, are gradually cur?
tailing their operations until it
is no uncommon sight 10 see a
farm that former!) sold four or
live hundred bushels of com
now hardly producing enough
to food the stock and fatten the
pork.
Of course we all know that a
gang of unprincipled blood
suckers have seized upon tin
wares an excuse for boosting
the price of exorything that we
consume, but if a scarcity of
production did not exist the
foreign demand for foodstuffs
would be met and there would
still remain in this country a
sultlcieut quantity to supply all
home demands at reasonable
prices.
Just why young men, and
older ones, too, should wish to
leave the farm and rush olf to
the overcrowded cities is not
easy to understand. True, the)
work hard <n the farm. And
equally true, they work even
harder in the city and save
less. Ina majority of cases,
unless they are intellectually
far above the average of man?
kind, they live in penury and
die in want.
W ith the present demand for
farm products it would certain
ly appear the height of folly to
abandon the certainty of plenty
on the farm for the precarious
life of the average city dweller.
A New York writer gives as
a reason for men leaving the
farms, that they dread being
known as "Country Jakes."
With the present easy mean if ol
communication between town
and country it is difllctiU in
these days to distinguish the
town man from the country,
man. If anything, the country,
man approaches nearer to mas?
culine perfection than the oity
cousin.
Looked at from whatever
angle we may view it, the
question of the future of the
farms is serious. That our
young men are leaving it by
the thousands is ? fact. That
there are none to replace them
is also a lamentable fact.
Ami in endeavoring to locate
the cause one is almost forced
to the conclusion that the men
of this nation are gradually los?
ing that love of Inmost toil
for which their forefathers
were noted.
Town Vs Country.
One serious obstacle to the
cordial relations tbut should
exist between all classes of
American life is tho unreason?
ing nntugonism that so often
exists bet ween tho town and the
country.
Why this should exist is hard
to see, in view of the fact that
each is largely dependent upon
the other in many of the rela?
tions of life.
Unfortunately, however, it is
n fact with which wo have to
deal when considering any mat
tor of import lo the people <>f
any given section.
'This prejudice shows itself in
political life, in church life, in
social life and even in business,
It frequently manifests itself in
a conviction of the country m in
that the (own man is always
watching fm nu opportunity lo
"do" him He is convinced
that all exist.nit evil has its
origin in the towns. The tow n
man, to this man, exists for no
other purpose than to prey oil
the farmers.
On ihe other hand it frequent?
ly occurs that the ].pie of the
towni become imbued with the
belief that the country people
'?have it in for them."
Thus are the relations be?
tween tin- two in a strained
condition, anil in many cases
even the inns I ordinary busi?
ness relations are hindered und
blocked by this unreasoning
and unreasonable jealousy.
Perhaps you say the picture
is over drawn. It is not. The
writer has seen and is familiar
with just such communities. I
Anil, unfortunately, in many
instances the prejudice is well
founded.
It is u fact that the clannish
spirit is the last to die of all the
saVago instincts of man. "My
clan anil my class meansevrv -
thing to me, und your clan and
your class are my natural ene?
mies." That is the still con?
scious reasoning of many men
even yet?and of men in whom
we would least expect it.
Is there, you ask, a remedy!'
Yes, there is one, but it is an
individual remedy. That is
chaiit) -that charity which
'?COveroth a multitude of sins"
- that charily which "Thinkeih
no evil."
lake many other causes of
friction between people, this
condition grown from slight
causes, and a little toleration
and charity at the right time
and place will go a long way
toward remedying matters
Also stress the fact that the
two elements are mutually tie:
pendent upon euch other their
interests one. Let each say lo
himself, as said another of old,
"we be brethren."
Kvor try a genuine dose of
charily toward your neighbor?
Try it. You will he surprised
how rapidly he will grow in
your estimation.
Too Many
Middle Men
Says a h ading southern agii
culttiral paper:
''Fifteen just plainMississippi
farmers got together with mt
any frills and shipped a car
loud of very ordinary hogs lo
St. Louis, getting as high as
ten cents a pound live weight
for them."
This item (ells a tale that
Should be of tleep interest to
every farmer w ho ban anything
to sell.
Why should it be thought
necessary that everything pro
duoed on the farms of our coun?
try should go through thehanils
of half a dozen middle men be?
fore it reaches the consumer?
Take the case in point. Or?
dinarily these farmers would
have sold to a small stock job?
ber, he to a shipper, he to an?
other go between at the other
oud of the route, when the
stock would posoibly have
reached the packers for whom
it wits intended.
The action of those Mississip?
pi farmers is to be commended.
The farmers of this community
might do-well to afford a like
opportunity for commendation.
They would get more for their
products and the ultimate con?
sumer in the end would ptty
less for the necessities of life.
There are too many middle
men. And middle men are ex?
pensive and in many cases
wholly unnecessary.
Young Railroad Mart Killed.
Joseph Hurley, aged 20, of
Mbhtiwki Teno., a (1 reman on a
steam shovel of (he Southern
Railway, was fatally scalded
Sunday afternoon near Si.
Charles by being caught under
the shovel when il overturned,
lie was given temporary medi?
cal aid at the time and later
brought to Appalachia and
from there removed to till] hos?
pital a( Sloiiegn, biit died be?
fore reaching there. Other
members of the crew escaped
without injury and upon exam
ination Hurley's body revealed
no bruises with the exception
of one linger cul Off, although
lie was caught squarely under
the shovel, the escaping steam
from the engine literally roast?
ing him from head to foot. He
lived about live hours after the
accident.
The body was brought to Big
Stone i lap Sunday night, where
it was prepared for burial by
\V. \V; Taylor & Sons, under?
takers,; and shipped to the
hoilti) of the deceased at Mo?
hawk. Tonil., Monday morning.
Slenip Contributes to Mary
land's Prosperity.
Koekvillo, Md., .Ian. 5.? ,
Among those arrested at Chevy
?base by Deputy Sheriffs Penko ,
mil Trail, charged with violat?
ing the automobile regulations
if Maryland, were KeprcSoilttl
live C. B. Slump, of Virginia, ,
ttld Andrew ,1 (Uy)CutilllliugB,
ixoisc commissioner of Wash
inglon. The Congressman ami
Mr.Cununings were taken be- 1
lore Justice .lames A. Kcliher.
i ?Ibers gathered in by the
deputies' net were K II Pilsen,
II O. Osttnnlt, .lohn I,. Miller,
Preston Lowe, Benjamin Ken?
dall, William Harrod, M. K.
Aih s and K. T. McKnow,Wash?
ington, und .1. <i. Murray, of
Silver Spring. Some of the al?
leged violators were lined, the
penalty ranging from $fi and
costs to $30 and costs, while the
cases ol I he ethers will be dis?
posed of later.
High Prices Ffty Years Ago.
Abingdon, Vu., .Ian. 2.?In
December, 1804, a speculator
said to me: "I am going to
l.ee County to buy lip stock.
,l ou are wounded and not able
for duly. < lo with me."
I went with him through
Scott, Wise ami l.ee counties
to Turkey Cove, in the latter
county. Th?h wo came hack
to a friend of ours on the north
side of Wallen's Ridge, in \N ise
county, where we found some
fat hogs. He bought our
friend's hogs and 1 bought
twenty six or twenty eight fat
hogs m the same neighborhood.
We paid fifty cents per pound,
gross, for the hogs. My lot
weighed a little over 0,000
pounds. 1 also bought four fat
cattle (oxen) there, 1 gave $1,000
for one pair and t--;.-, f,,r t|M,
oilier pair.
We drove our slock two days,
when ive met a man on the Pin?
eas! lo road in Russell county
Ile said he was and agent for
a company at Saltville, and
wished to buy our begs for his
company. After some time
spent in reaching a trade, we
sold him the hogs for $1 per
pound as weighed (o us I
drove the cattle home, where
they were slaughtered. They
Weighed 1,820 pounds, not.
They failed to pay lirst cost by
n|small amount.?,1. Ll.inBristol
Herald Courier.
Miss Moilie Asliworth, of
Blue Springs, is visiting rela?
tives near ?tale Oily.
The ordinance commute of
the town council has under
consideration for presenting for
final passage by the Town
Council ordinances prohibiting
the spinning of revolving doors
in public buildings and the dis?
charging of air guns that shoot
metal or other hard substahco
on streets or platt od j parts of
tow n . I
Will Amer?
ica Redeem
Mexico?
Now thai the election in over
and Mr. Wilson lias beeti en
trusted with tho reins of gov?
ernment for another four years,
there, is one piece of work that
will forcibly demand his atten?
tion, und that is the pacifica?
tion of Mexico.
Wo are well aware that the
Mexican problem presents irreal
difficulties, view it from what?
ever angle we may. Hut they
are difficulties', that may and
can be overcome, and us time
goes on it becomes more- anil
more apparent that it is up to
the United States to overcome
them.
'fhe truth of the whole mat
ter is that Mexico is suffering
from the stunt* misrule from
which we freed Cuba- the de?
cadent Spanish rule.
Mexico is a republic only in
name. Not the lirst principle
of popular rule has ever pre?
vailed in that country. The
forces that have always con- !
trolled her destiny have biieil
those bequeathed by Spain, i
With misrule and oppression oil
the one hand, and Bill ton hatred
and resentment on the other, it
is small wonder that she has I
been in a perpetual state of tin- {
rest and turbulence.
President Diaz waa the only
ruler in her history who ever
maintained a semblance of or- '
der, und he did so solely by the
use of (he mailed hand. Since
his day poor Mexico has seen
naught but anarchy. Anarchy ,
prevails there today?anarchy ]
and wholesale brigandage.
Argue as we may against the
idea of intervention, the fact is
daily becoming more apparent
that it is the only solution. ,
That enlightened America
should sit idly by and make no
effort to remedy the intolerable
state of affairs prevailing there,
is inconceivable. Mexico is a
blot on thuYYoatorh civilization,
and only Western civilization
can eiuse that blot.
(>f course every American
wishes that the redemption of
Mexico may be accomplished by
peaceable means if possible.
Hut the progress heilig made in
that direction appears to the
nvarage mind as negligible.
'I'lie matter seems no nearer a
solution today than it did fifty
years ago.
From the days of President
Buchanan until today, every
president has had the same dif?
ficulties to'contend with there.
Buch has had his vexing "Mex?
ican question," and it is re
mnrkuhlc how similar have
been the circumstances that
each has had to face.
Not only the present genera?
tion^ hut the Iiliborn genera?
tions of the future of thai un?
happy land demand of \\n that
we confer iipou thorn some of
the blessings that our forebears
bequeathed to us.
Twenty years ago Cuba was
in as pitiable condition as Mex?
ico is today. We have rem ad 0
and rehabilitated her, anil to?
day she is enjoying that peace
and prosperity which her
natural advantages merit.
We can do the same for un?
happy Mexico. We should do
the same for her. Hut will we
do it?
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Help For the Alcoholic
Addict.
"If liny man doubts thai
enndy will relieve the drink
hnbii", say s the M< dical World
linder recent date; "In1 can
easily teat it."
This paper goes on: "The
man who puts lets of molasses
on his wheat cakes al break?
fast will lind hituseli gradually
forgetting I" stop in for his
customary drink on his way to
work. If the man who "goes
O?I' bet ween times for liquid
refreshments will go into a
candy store instead and get
live or ten cents worth of candy
and eat it, he will be surprised
ai the effect. It will not be
very long until he will have
candy on his desk and carry it
in his pockets; Not one man in
a hundred knows why he for
got to go out and see a mall
when attending the theatre, if
he had bought a box of candy
for bis companion and eaten a
little of it himself for polite
lies?! sake."
1 have known many men who
were accustomed to the use ufj
alcoholic stimulants,und among
iheiil I have never known a
man who cared anything for
candy. The reason for this is
simple: Sugar luken into the
system is acted on by the di?
gestive fluids, fermented and
thereby produces a mild alco- j
holic ferment, which, while
not in (he least harmful, sup?
plies elements absolutely noces
sary in the human economy in
producing bodily warmth and
blood vitality. The moderate
eating of candy at frequent in
tcrvials will absolutely relieve
the alcoholic craving as no otb- j
or thing will do, and this infor?
mation is jf stich vital import
mice that it ought to be given
the widest publicity to insure
the greatest benefit to those
who need it most K. 11. Lu
Baume.
"If a man can write a better
book, preach a hotter sermon or
make a heller mousetrap than
his neighbor, thought he build
bis house in the woods, the
World will make a beaten path
to his door."?Emerson.
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