Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume], October 02, 1913, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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For Conscience Sake,
We propose to state a, few plain
facts familiar to every skillful breed-
er of live stock. Facts, , nowever,
woefully neglected in their applica--.1
tion to the highest type of animal de -
velopment men and women.
It has become custom to allude
boys and girls as the best crop of our.,
country. Yet we -have been-shame-
fully slow in giving them the practi-
cal advantage of the principles we in-; civilization.
ist on using for the improvement and j, Fresh aid and cleanliness were the
perpetuation of. the farm crops and - slogans of the great nurse of the Cri
animals we produce. , 1 mean war, who went through crowded
For generations we have had breed-
ers' associations organized and at
.work solely for the improvement of
breeds of cattle and hogs. For years
kundreds of men. have been systemat
ically working for the improvement
. . 1 M i.A
VI strains ui uuru, cuiwu, giaea nuu
potatoes. Yet the few men devoting
, themselves to the development of a
better race of human beings are little
understood and are commonly classed
as fanatics. We recognize the theory
oX heredity. We confidently assert
that "blood will tell." Then in prac
tice we apply the principle to chick
' ens and hogs and indifferently let
chance control its application to men
and women.
We systematically and scientifical
ly exclude hereditary disease from
cur breeding pens. We rigorously
exclude infected cotton, corn.oat and
potato seed from our plantings. Then
we neglect the simplest fundamental
precautions against contaminated
blood from which is to spring the
next generation of human beings.
We once knew of the marriage of a
young man to a young woman whom
he first met' as an inmate of an insane
asylum while he was visiting his
own sister, who was also an in
mate. The only justification urged
was that these two people loved each
other. There could be but one nor-
may result tne aeveiopment 01 a
family of insane persons. Disease and
crime are daily being perpetuated by
similar wanton violation of the first
principles of heredity the simplest
elementary precaution against racial
degeneration is- persistently neg
lected.' What are we going to do about ii
The remedy for these undisputed evils
. Ues in simply exercising the sanVe
Xtecautions used in controlling -he
.parentage of live stop's :n relation to
the percentage of human beings. Yo
do not go so far as urge control
of selection of parents for the scien
tific improvement of the race. We
mean merely the prevention of par
entage which must Inevitably result
in disease or menfel and moral deter
ioration of future generations. We
mean that mere accident shall not
longer be permitted to determine the
parentage and consequently the in
herited characteristics-rof the human
race. We protest against longer sub
jecting humanity to methods whlcfc
have determined the nature of scrub
cattle and razorback hogs running
wild on open ranges.
We mean that the welfare of future
generations of men and women and
the world they are to control de
mand that mere falling in love is not
sufficient justification for the respon
sibilities of parentage. We mean that
the time has come when marnige :
Fhould not be allowed between per- j
sons physically, mentally and moral
ly unfit to become fathers and moth.
ers of normal children. We mean
that marriage certificates should be
issued only after these proper safe
guards have been legally provided.
institutions for the blind, and feeble
minded, hospitals for incurable and
loathsome diseases, cemeteries fill?''
because of premature deaths, divorce
mills grinding of innocent victims at
test the crime of continued neglect.
For conscience sake let us prepare
the way for pleading: Not Guilty.
Southern Rural' st.
Something doing' every minute at
the W. N. C. Fair, Ash evile, Oct. 7-10.
Wholesome fun, entertainment and in
stiuction for everytQly. Adv.
IF YOU OWS YOUR FAR3I
USE PREXTEL STATIONERY.
Every farmer who owns a hundred
acres or more ought to have printed
stationery with his name and the name
of his farm and his postoffice address
properly given. The printed heading
should also give the names of what
ever crops he specializes on, and of
whatever varieties of seed or what
ever breed of hogs, cattle or poultrv
the keeps. Printed stationery gives
you standing with whatever person or
firm you are writing to and gives you
, a new dignity besides insuring that
your name and address wW always
be given properly and "'ai full.
Moreover, such printed stationery
Increases your credit. A prominent
advertiser wrote one of otir readers
paying: "We usually require cash with
order fo all our goods but we have
found that it pays to trust a man who
uses printed stationery so are ship
ping your order at once.
If you want to write to your Con
gressman or member of the legisla
ture, or if you have a request to make
of your county superintendent of
schools, or if you wish to get informa
tion from any business house, in any
case your letter will have increased
weight and get prompter attention if
you use printed stat'onery.
Even if you use postal cards, buy
200 to 300 at the1 time and have your
name and address printed, in the cor
r.er. ' .
Get the habit of using printed sta
tionery. The next time you go to
town, why not drop into the job print
ing office and give an order for 1,000
sheets of printed note paper and 1,000
envelopes to match. It will be one of
the best Investments you have ever
irade in your life. Progressive Far
mer. "When Lot had spats with his second
"wife he referred to his first as the salt
of the earth. . . -
Anyway, the man , who wants the
earth gets a lot of mud thrown at him.
! HII II
III
HEALTH & HYGIENE. I
Ill-
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Fresh Air, Sunshine and Cleanliness.
"Windows' were made to be opened.
floors to be shut," . said Florence
1 Nightingale, pioneer of modern war
hospital work and famous forerunner
0f the Red Cross Society in its world-
wide labors, that have been crowned
; With a '-success to" be1 measured only by
the limitations of the globe and of
, hospitals all over the world during
, war and peace, and carried literally
fresh air. and sunshine to the ill and
wasted. And then, when the ill and
the wasted ones grew strong they
srose and called her blessed.
The gospel of fresh air and sun
shine and cleanliness then received
in impetus that has never since been
reriously checked, but has gone on
gathering its believers, until now the
faithful and 'healthy, in a great army
with sanity and sanitation . writ large
on its banners, are mobilizing all over
tne civilized world in numbers that
would alone make their progress irre
sistible. Add to that numerical
strength all the physical and mental
energy that comes to the individual
components of that army of the par
takers of the sources of health, and
you have a force which, by personal
efficiency as well as by teeming mul
titude, must in time overwhelm all re.
naining resistance.
JVight Air.
But some old fogies still say that
right air is dangerous. In the first
place, there is, of course, nothing in
this old superstition; and in the
second' place, if there was anything in
it, pray what kind of air would you
breath at night? True, night air is a
little cooler, but it has not a bit more
moisture than day air, in fact not
quite so much. The only difference is
that after the sun goes down and the
ar gets cooler the moisture In it be
comes more apparent. We see the
raist or fog and we shrug our should
ers and shudder, "Ugh! damp night
air!" It is the same principle illus
trated on a frosty morning, when you
gee the mist or fog from your breaht.
This" occurs not because there is more
moisture in your breath, in winter
than in summer, but because, when
any air is cooled, the moisture in its
t ecomes more apparent.
So don't be afraid of nfght air, be
cause, after all, that is the only kind
we have at night. Remember, too,
that too much fresh air is just
enough .
Woman's Opportunity.
An incident was cited a day or two
ago where two sisters, born in this
State, were confronted with the pro
position of furnishing legal proof of
their ages in order to obtain an in
heritance. Unfortunately, when these
girls were .born in North Carolina
there was no law requiring the reg
istration of their births, although, of
course, if they had been fine blooded
cattle, hogs or horses, instead of just
girls, they would have been properly
registered and recorded.
Now, the new state law for regis
tration of births and deaths in the en
tire state will go into effect October
first next. It is needless to say that
the success of this new system will
depend upon whether or not the arm
of the law is upheld, for it is almost
axiomatic that a law that has no
public sentiment back of it, or at
least the support of the majority of
the c'tizens is difficult of enforce
aient. . -
The other day, speaking to the del
e gates to the American Public Health
Asssociation in session at Colorado
Springs, Dr. Cressy L. Wilber, Chief
Statistician of the D vision of Vital
Statistics of the Bureau of the Cen
fus at Washington, D. C, said that
some people thought that all that was
needed was to pass laws requiring
the reporting of deaths, births or
marriages, and that the matter was
then settled.
"If I should be asked," said he,
"what is the greatest, the underlyine.
the everywhere present, and, so far
ns our present experience esxenas. j
the insuperable difficulty or hind
d ranee to the effectictive registration
of vital statistics in the United States,
I m'ght reply: 'Contempt of law.' W
may pass the best possible 'model
laws, but if the state registrar or the
local registrar fails to enforce them,
or if the social workers, the physi
cians, and the members of the Amer
ican Public Health Association fall to
respect them, our wor.k is almost in
rain."
And Dr. Wilber might have includ
ed the citizens at large in his cate.
r.ory. Let this not be the case in
North Carolina. The fate of the law
is in the hands of her citizens.
Dr. Wilber went on to say this con
tempt of law could be overcome only
M a thorough process of education.
For instance, in the registration of
births there was needed most of all
a better understanding and a greater
.--oper.t'on on the part of the wo
men. Once the women realize that
the new bureau, established for their
benefit, is seriously handicapped be
cause of inadequate registration of
births and infant' deaths, there would
be an irresistible demand that every
I A. J
birth and death be properly recorded.
Women of North Carolina, your op
portunity is at hand. You have failed
before. It ip not feared that will do
so now.'
The Ninety and Jfine.
Every county in North Carolina is
now in line for the eradication of
hookworm disease except Ashe, whose
county board of health recently failed
to take favorable action oh the pro
position to make an appropriation for
the establishment of hookworm dis
pensaries and a hookworm campaign
in that county. When Orange coun
ty's Board of Commissioners at its
last session voted an appropriation of
$250.00 for the purpose of co-operating
with the . State Board of Health,
the ninety-ninth county was in line,
for recently Randolph and Davidson
have made similar appropriations. It
Is parnestlv honed that Aahfi will fln-
I ally come into her own.
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My E
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(Soimiff afc Half Price
Every thing must
My entire stock of shoes will
be placed in my open front and
each pair marked in plain fig
ures. $4.00 shoes for .$2.75
$1.50 and $2.00 shoes . .98c
They must all be sold by Nov
ember 1st. .
FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.
Come e?irly and take your pick while the picking is good.
Remember Everything .must be sold regardless of cost.
J. and P. Coats Spool Cotton 4c
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One fine lot of Ladies Hat pins worth 25c going at . . 9c
TOMERCHANTS-MyliFixtures, 5 show cases, 3 pair counter scales, 3 big cloth
ing tables, 2 oil tanks,' 2 peanut roaster, 2 j pair platform scales, one paper cutter
EXTRA BARGAINS
Best Flour per 98 lbs Bag
Slightly Damaged.
Coffee 25c grade per lb
Sugar, 17 lbs for .
Canned Peaches per Dozen
35c Bacon per pound
j8 cent Bacon per pound
$1.35 Bran, slightly wet
This is not
say.
MAIN STREET
Property Yersus Life.
To the legal mind, apparently, the
r'ghts of property have always seem
ed of more importance than human
life. For hundreds of years it was
possible for a man brutally to mal
treat his child with less legal risk
than if he had poached a hare. Grad
ually human life became more valua
ble; but-even today it fails to receive
the protection that is accorded to
property. It is no uncommon thing!
to nna reported m uriusn newspa-y8ni
pers cases in which a drunken navvy
nas kicked and otherwise abused his
wife, to receive no greater punish
ment, at the hands of the law than a
raltry fine, while the unhappy wight
who, driven by hunger, steals a loaf,
is sent to prison. . Nor do we need to
go oversea to find such instances of
tke worship of property. An excel
lent illustration of the workings of
rhe legal mind in. problems of this
kind is to be found in a study of ten
Notices of Judgment issued by the
United States Department of Agri
culture and giving in detail the ac
count of ten violations of the Food
and Drugs Act. These ten cases deal
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be sold by N
NOTICE?
To those who owe me on Nov.
1st, all accounts, notes and mort
gages will be placed out for col
lection. So if you do riot want
the sheriff knocking at your door,
no w is the time to settle up.
This means YOU, if you owe me.
$2.25
15c
$1.00
: . . $1.00
. . 12 l-2c
15c
. . $1.00
'hot air, we
-Save yourself;-
buymg now
with charges brought against the firm
of Hawley and Hoops, New York, who
are in the candy business. Hawley
and Hoops sell what is known as
"penny goods"; that, is tlie kind of
catfdy purchased by the little tot, who
has been given a penny to spend. Ten
different specimens of Hawley and
Hoops' penny goods were seized by
the officials of the Bureau of Chemis
try and analyzed. All of them were
found to be adulterated with arsenic
most of them contained shellac.
All of them were being sold as choco
late, candies, yet the officers reported
that some did not even have the pre
dominating flavor of chocolate. In
every case the -nrm pleaded guilty.
Jn nine out of the ten cases no pen
alty was imposed, ,the court suspend
ing Judgment. In the tenth ' case a
fine of $50 was imposed. The case In
which a fine was imposed' was the
one, in which the company had not
merely sold a poisonous product to
little children, but has misstated the
net weight of the package in which
the arsenic-containing candies came!
Selling to little children as chocolate
candy a mixture containing arsenic
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ST T
OV. I-,--
Doors open Friday 12 m.
C L 0 THIN G
$5.00 Pants at... '.-.v $1.50
Odd Coats, all wool and worth $6.00 to $8.00 price. . $1.50
$1.50 Hats ............ 75c
$100 Shirts . 50c
Gloves per pair, 18 cents up to ... r ..... '. 75c
75 ct Enameled, White Lined, China and Crockery ware go
ing at . . . . . ...'...."...... ................. 35c
25c Dishes and Bowls 15c
75c plates only 45c
75c Lanps only .45c
50c Lamps only . , 30c
Tc Lamp Chimneys only 3e
756 Coffee Mills 29c
lc Ax Handles only . 6c
15c Axe Handles only 11c
mean eveiry word we
FTYlDF
Notes for the Sheep Raiser.
Keep the sire of the flock to himself
till lambing time is past. What's th9
us of allowing him to bunt the whole
herd around, perhaps crippling some
of the lambs, or seriously injuring
some of the pregnant ewes, causing
abortion.
Good, "bright clover hay, with a little
ensilage or corn fodder added, three
times a week forms an ideal feed for
iheep during the winter; Feed on the
ground when it is frozen, otherwise
feed in. the racks in the 'sheep barn.
Scatter feed well, or much will be
trampled, cut up and wasted.
If you ever expect any material Im
provement in your breed sheep, invest
a few extra dollars, in a lilgh-grade
tare ana piace him at the head of your
flock.
and shellac ts, apparently, In the eyes
of the law, a trival offense. But sell
ing to a dealer a package marked five
pounds that really contained only four
pounds fourteen and five-eights
ounces, that is a crime! -
. . - a mr r s t t i f,m m. am.k jrirm mrmm
FOE RENT MY STORE
Building, on Main Street,
with repairs, and put same in
shape to suit the party desiring
to rent or lease same at a reas
onable figure.
'by
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FIRST DOOR ABOVE TOWN HALL
rrince Albert Again on Visit to Amer
ica. .,
New York, Sept. 29. Prince Al
bert of Monaco, the tiny principals
surrounding and including the famous
gambling resort of Monte Carlo, arriv
ed in New York bay today on his yacnt
tho Hirondalle, for a visit to the Unitea
State. It has been reported that w
will go to Wyoming for a bear hum,
and inspect western oil fields, in wmcn
he is said to have invested more tnau
$i,000,000. 4 The prince is traveling in
cognito, as was the case of his Jas
trip here, in April, 1912.
Ttr-i-na Alport whr, is an lDtim1
f friend of Emperor William of t raa.
Jis sixty-five years old. In 1884 his fac
er's yacht was wrecked off tne
Sweden, all the crew perished exce
Hereditary Prince Albert. He n
been twice divorced, his wife nau
teen Lady Mary Douglas HamiKo
and his second the daughter of Micne
Heine, a St. Louis Banker.
On his way over Prince Albert
been pursuing his hobby of rnaK
oceanographic investigations m -north
Atlantic His yacht i eQuiPP.
with one of the finest sets.of appar
us that money can buy for sucn w