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TTTE MONRO JOCTWAX. TUESDAT, ArCUST IT. ItN.
THE MONROE JOURNAL
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Co not renew your suoscruuioii.
lllAY, Alutsr 17. 1WM.
Though opposed to woman suf
frace. Governor Bickett would hate
the state open the gate for the women
and receive them with a smile. Ia
Illustrating his point he said: "In
other davs, wheu I was a private
citizen in Louisburc. I would some
times be sitting ia a cozy corner on
my porch deeply ensrossed In some
tale of Dickens or Scott, when
would hear the front gate click, and
lokinc ui). would see a lady coming
up the walk. Now, while chivalry
shrinks from it. candor, forces the
confession that I did not want bei
to come tn. Just then I greatly pre
ferred the society of Dickens or
Scott. But there s'le was. coming up
the walk! And every instinct 01
southern chivlary forced tue to walk
down the siti. give her a slad band.
and say. 'My dear madam, walk right
tn, we are dtlighted to see you.
Cen.lcmen, the front gate has click
ed. The women are coming up the
walk. They are going to enter our
home. Shall we receive them with
a smile or with a frown?"
ItKTTKU S(.HtMLS.
"The educational system of North
Caiolina," says a writer in the Lex
ington Dispatch, "is a disgrace to the
state. Besides the shameful pay and
Incompetents that pass as teachers,
look at the building and equipment
it Is shameful a linle one-roomed
bouse back in some coiner, with a
few old shackled, tut-up desks and
ben :.?, end old broken stove, some
antimiattil. time mot use) worn
maps h.tRing on one side of th
room au.l peihapt not a widow
fcUa'it !.
"V- Imagine a teacher in thai
echini house with sixty or seventy
at lull ills covering t lie seven grade?
ami some Uiiiis more. Such a school
Ins thiiiv-tive or forty classes. What
kind of instruction can any teacher
let In r mulificat ion be what it may
give ta.it school? If there are sixty
students the teacher nas an average
of live mim ics each fer l he Hlideiit.
during the day, and less than ten
minutes for each class. Those are
the facu in the case, jet we appear
atlslied with the situation.
"The fault lies at the door of every
citizen In the stale, but mere especi
ally at the door of those who nre and
have been In position to remedy the
evils. There is one way and only
one to give the state the proper
school equipment and an officii nt
corps of teachers. It is just like any
thing else, you must pay the price
Good salaries will get the good
teachers and nothina else will. Con
solidated schools with adequate build
ines and equipment will give the
necessary material side. Consolidated
schools and better paid teachers are
the solution for the existing evils
There is no oWier."
Mr. MeCauley's Solution.
To the Editor of The Journal:
In your issue of the ICth instant,
I find the following problem pro
pounded by one Mr. Maugiun. Two
men contract to dig a ditch one hun
dred yards long, for one hundred
dollars. One of them agrees to do
the soft work for seventy-five cents
a yard, the other (probably stronger
and more robust ) consents to do the
tough work for one dollar and twen-ty-flve
cents a yard. How much of
the work will they have to do respec
tively, (provided they don't get dis
couraged and quit before the Job Is
flnlp.h"d.) so as to receive equal
amounts of money.
fJow don't you think any Intelli
gent nmn who propounds; or a pub
Ilsner who puOiishes so unfair, fool
ish end unreasonable questions,
ought to feci very much ashamed of
himself?
The problem In the form In which
It Is published. Is utterly unsolvabl;
unless you add six and two thirds
yards to the ditch, (and if you did
that, I fear the poor fellow who Is
working for seventy-five cents per,
would have cold feet). But let us
change the form of the problem and
word It as follows:
Two men contract to dig a ditch
one hundred yards long, for one hun
dred dollars, one to dig the clay or
soft part, the other to dig the rocky
or hard rough part, and it Is under
, stood and agreed between them, that
the man who digs the rocky tough
nart shall receive In payment fifty
cents more per yard than the other
fellow gets per yard. And having
completed the work, they find they
re entitled to equal sums of money;
that is to say, fifty dollars each then
what Is the respective length of ditch
that each has dug.
This gives us a basis for an alge
hrale demonstration, and If we let
represent one man's price per yard
and X olus 50 cents the other man's
sriM oer vard. wt find that the
oswer as follows: -
One digs 1 yards 2 feet S inrhe
at 10 9-10 cests per yard . The other
sign 31 yards 7 Itches at one and
thirty and nine tenths one hundredths
dollar per yard.
This answer is cot abtolutely cor
rect, but is near euoocn (or all prac't
ral purposes,- "Wai. McCauley. .
MethmlUt Leader Aail Tin Who
"Eat Bread But Hoe Xo Own. Who
Wear IT.Hhes But Plow No CutUw.
It smacks a bit of scientific form to
say. "the high cost of living is due to
underproduction." says Bishop John
C. Kiigo lu a recent article, but in
cood wholesome and honest English
ibis can mean but one thing, namely,
this land is overcrowded with dead
i.eati aud able-bodied loafeis. No land
can survive a multitude who eat
bread but hoe no com, wear clothes
aut plow no cotton. It does not call
for an expert survey, eveu by the Inter-Church
Movement, to secure
k iott ledge of the disgraceful number
jf loafers that dead-beat Industry. A
!-ort visit to any town or city is am
ple enough to lurnish the proof. Dur
ing the present summer it has been
exceedingly common to see won.ei!
and sir.a 11 girls, both white and b!: '-
working In the fields while the c:
were full of loafets in the streets.
iKWl-rooms. picture shows, and other;
i-psorts of their sort. . St. Paul de-l
clared to one of his churche. "if any
wnnld not work, neither should he
eat." and this is the law or jus
tice. Eating anj working belong to
Working slackers are not as toler
able class of folks as war flackers, as
unpardonable- as this class is. A pub
lic sentiment that indulges idleness
courts the ruin of a nation. It Js true
there are laws gaainst vagrancy, but
the manner l:i which they are enforc
ed comes very near making an aris
tocracy of loafing. The vagrant has
little difficulty of securing a certtn-
cate that he has employment, and this
piece of paper has the genius of con
vincing the court in the lace oi oauj
loitering about streets and lounging
laces.
But Idleness is Idleness regardless
of t'.io social standing. The luie, anu
he idle rit-h nre no more to be prais-
d th in any other class of loalers. .no
man can be so rirn tnai ue im-u nm
work, any i.iore than he may commit
u.v other sin. and it is as s.niul not
o wcrk six dajs as It is to violate the
. until day. A wealth that coddles
lilem's is a veritable menace to civ
ilization, and when a person accutnr-
nes so much wealth that he feels it
dishonorable for his children to work
his riches are a peril to society. Work
virtue, idleness Is a vice, ana
uiouu Hie hardtsi workers one may
frequently find millionaires.
There must he a vigorous aviin-"-
itig on this subject. People must go
io work or be graded among ine oui-
itits. thnt Is. be socially spurned. A
riv:ii.vttloii has fallen to great depths
a-hen i's puis euvei nmetit approval
:,u placer of I.Mflni.. such as dance
n.ills. I"'"l ioui.is, and other of a like
Vmi. lioblievi-ia is the invention of
, ;;r.i! a. I l,M"'s ianu.ii iv...
ry projects ai''.' im-ubalcd in
vine atmosph'Te. Madison
New York anu Hide imik
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Working
inulut ions
will vet be the untloinu
ill.. I of I'll i: 1. 1 m'.
people i'.o not liairh out
and the eities that give
Marriage of This PojkjUt Young Oou-
pie Is lo Take Place Soon..
Marshrille, August U. The pro-;
tracted meeting at the Baptist church !
began Sunday and will continue
throughout the week with services at
10:30 in the mornirg aud 1:00 ia the
evening. Rer. A. C. Sherwood Is do
ing the preaching.
Miss Emma Biggers of Mecklen
burg is spending a (ew days here r'-,
iticg friends. Miss B.ggcra was trim- j
u.iT for Marh-Let Co. for seveiai;
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin of Charlotte!
are the guests of Mrs. Austin'a sister.1
Mrs. J. M. Long. i
Miss Mildred Plyler of Monroe '
the guest of Miss Gladys Long. j
Kev. Mr. Da 1 1 is c.f Indiana is tN I
gue.t of his sister, Mrs. J. T. Garland j
Mrs. E. H. Moore spent several j
'.ays in Charlotte last. week.
Miss Margie Marsh entertained ai
:. umber of the younger set at a jolly
...w.. EVi.lii. &v.liiikir Thj, fr&l. v-u
i.ljnned for the roof garden of Cn !i
lovelv home, but the weather forced
change of plans, and the tuexts wer
received iu the reception hall and
parlor, which had been prettily deco
rated with flowers. Lively gai.ns
were enjoyed and dainty refresh
ments served.
Miss Virginia G:iffin entertaned the
Junior Missionary Society of the
Methodist church, of which she is tN
president, on Saturday arternoon.
Twenty-three of the youthful mission
aries gathered in spite of bad weather
and a profitable devotional hour was
spent, business attended to, then a
number of games enjoyed. Lemon
ade, rakes and mints added material- j
ly to Ihe pleasure of the hour. j
Invitations have been issued to inei
martiage of Miss Bessie Mae Hallman ,
to Mr. Koy Augustus Marsh om j
Wednesday morning. August 25. ai !
n'rlni k. at hotiit. The cerenun-1
in will be performed on ihe porch of j J
the home which will be tastefully dec-c-rated
in green ami white. There wiil
be fo;.r bridesmaids and the bride
nd groom will enter together. Kev.
A. C. Sherwood will officiate. Miss
Virginia Gareil of Wake Forest will
sing prior to the ceremony and will
be accompanied on the piano by Mi.-s
Elsie Braniley of Spring Hope, who
will render the wedding march also.
Th couple will leave Immediately af
ter the ceremony for Charlotte and
thence to the mountains or iort'i
Carolina. After Sept. 1 they will be
at houi lu Kulherfordton. where Mr.
Marsh is superintendent of the school
Mr. and Mrs. John Green of High
Point are visiting relatives here.
Misses Viiiiuia Gareil of Wake
i-V.osi, Elsie Brantley of Spring Hope
ami Gertrude Hunt of Greei.ville, S.
I'., will arrive Saturday night to at
tend the Mnvsh-llallmnn wedding.
Mrs. J. S H.
n
W. I. Mk.(& Bro.1
V
Department Stores
Carolinas Largest
Distributors of
Reliable
Merchandise for
LESS .
ijtiarieis to Idle mincims mane uhmh--elvo-
i lie diseased points of a na
tion. The sick, feeble-minded, and
ian.e nuij be excused from labor, hut
ihe list stops with them. Mr. Hoover
-poke the wisest thing that has been
spoken to Europe since their troubles
began when he said. "Tell Europe to
go to work." They have had two full
crop vears since the Armlstiea was
lLMied and should at least he able
rinse Ives, alt lOUgll It
feed themselves, amiouni " 1J,1,ibH k-i,i with true French polite-
1 1 iv I in - . ,c
in
fnl-
of -Kiinnle food. Begging
Europe ought to go out of rastiion.
and America would do well to estao
lish an embargo against the i'ile in
her borders.
A San Francisco life underwriter
was receli' IV llianeo mm uie mint.
and Immediately upon his arrival
a c.inin dinrv was started. The
lowing Is from this record:
They took me from a good Jon
anrl put me in the army. Ihry took
wav mv good clothes ami gave me
olive drab and heavy clothing. They
save away my name and gave me a
aumber. No. 4i4. They made me go
to bed when 1 am not sleepy anil
make me get up when I am. incj
make me go to church, which I never
did before. The other day the preach
er said :
We wiil now turn to No. 434, 'Art
Thou Weary. Art Thou Footsore,'
and I said. "Hell, yes,'' and they gave
me ten davs In the guardhouse.
Insurance Field.
True Courtesy.
In one or the smaller cities in cen
tral Frame fed by a division head
quarters during 111 wln'er of 191s
1M!. Alphonse the barber endeav
ored to learn to fpeak English. . T
this end he was diligently coached h
uuuieroiis Yank dispatch-bearets.
sergeant majors and clerical workers,
and Alphonse learned fast.
No less a personage than Ihe com
manding general of the division
strode into the barber shop one day
and demanded a shave In a hurry.
Alphonse, who was tending a lowly
enlisted customer, knew rank when
he saw It and rose to the occasion.
Snd tnlnlee.. moil general." be re-
30
Big
Department
Stores
Belk Bros.
seLl more and retter goods
FOR LESS.
30
Big
Department
Stores
n. "Sect down, nion general.
you be nex', you beeg steef."
The general waited.
an'
Some people get
not much else.
a good start and
JJcirture yrur work with a
junctor pel-Willi a deck, ' ,
Three er Common Mistakes.
First we permitted a sllck-toiigued
agent to sell us a Rtove for Jus! twice
what It was really worth, when we
could have bought a satisfactory
cookina stove through a local mer
chant or directly from the hardvrare
df aler.
Then we neglected to plant bur
clover, which does well In our section,
and not only furnishes winter grai-
ine for stock, but pus new 1 fe into
land that has been depicted by years
of growing row crops.
Again, we failed to make a place
suitable for growing fruit trees, as
the old orchard is fast dying out. A
farm that does not grow everything
that It Is capable of growing for the
pleasure and comfort of the family
is not worthy of the name of borne.
Fanner, in The Progressive Farmer.
MEN' WHO'KK AFUA1D OF WOMEN
MIGHT LEAK A THIXC, OK TWO
HV WATCHING ELIZA. SHE WAS
4 VST A SIMPLE LITTLE OKPHAX
GIP.I. AXI YOU'D XEVEK THIXK
SHE HAD IT IS HEK. BUT WHEN
SHE GOT ESTABLISHED IN THE
B.( HELOU'S HOUSEHOLD.
SEE HOW SHE DOES IT. YIOIJs
DANA IX "DAXGEKOUS TO MEN"
AT THE STKAXD THEATKE WEDNESDAY.
Cut Flowers
Floral designs, wedding boquets
and flowers of . all kinds.
Prices reasonable.
We make shipments to Waxhaw,
Marshvl'.le, Wingate and other
nearby towns.
CODE MORGAN
At Union Drug Co, Phone $21.
ISU
Canniog' Outfits'
, CANS
Soldering Irons
Wire and Bar Solder
S FRUIT JARS.
I Pints Quarts, Half-Gallons
FOR SALE
t
Attractive Suburban
home with six acres of land,
2 -miles from town, modern
9-room house, good barn
and outbuildings and fine
young orchard.
PINHIX EEALTY CO.
LAW BLDO. PHONE 495
mimiiimixxmiiiiiin
niniiTTiniitiiiTiiiiiiTi
FOR SALE
Two tracts of good land
containing . 6. acres and 10
4-5 acres respectively, on
Wilmington Charlotte
Highway, 1-2 mile from
WiEgate. Both cleared and
in cultivation. Ideal home
siws near finest school in
thi section.
PINNIX REALTY CO.
LAW BLDG. PHONE 495
Jar Rings
Peach Peelers
Apple Peelers
Paring Knives
'fj , , -' Mo. TOO
iHTuraitt
jj ?U "... ) Mssw Csssw
Fruit Jar Wrenches
Fruit
Drying Pans
Everything for Putting up Fruit
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Monroe Hardware Co.
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