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GENERAL DIRECTORY
COURTS
Northern District—Circuit Court 3rd Monday in
February and August.
Chancery Court 1st. Monday in December and
May.
County Court 1st. Monday in January, April,
July and October.
P;obate Court 4th. Monday in January, April,
Ju'y and October.
SouthemDistrict—Circuit Court 1st. Monday in
March and September.
Chancery Court 2nd. Monday in February and
Septembe’.
County Court 2nd. Monday in January, April.
July and October.
Probate Court first Monday follwinjr that of the
Northern District.
By Peter Radford.
When you enter the agricultural de
partment ot the county fair, you feel
your soul uplifted and your life takes
on a new power—that is the inspira
tion of the soil Yot. are overpowered
by the grandeur and magnificence of
the scene—that is the spirit of the
harvest. You can hear the voice of
nature calling you hack to the soil—
that is opportunity knocking at your
door, it is a good chance to spend a
quiet hour in contact with the purity
and perfection of nature and to sweet
en your life with its fragrance, elevate
your ideals with its beauty and expand
your imagination with its powrer.
These products as food are fit for
the gods, and as an article of com
merce they ought to bring tip-top
prices on any market in the world.
The products of the soil are teachers
and preachers as well. Their beauty
gives human life its first entertain
ment, their perfection stirs the genius
in artists; their purity furnishes mod
els for growth of character and their
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marvelous achievements excite our
curiosity and we inquire into the won
derful process of nature.
Before leaving the parlor of agricul
ture where nature is parading in her
most graceful attire and science is
climbing the giddy heights of perfec
tion, let us pause and take a retro
spective view. How many of you
know that after these wonderful prod
ucts are raised, they can seldom be
marketed at a profit? Take the blush
ing Elberta, for example—they were
fed to the hogs by the carload last
year. The onion—the nation’s favorite
vegetable—every year rots by j the
acre in the Southwest for want of a
market and as a result hundreds of
farmers have lost their homes. Cot
ton—nature’s capitalist—often goes
begging on the market at less than
cost of production.
It is great to wander through the
exhibits while the band is playing
“Dixie” and boast of the marvelous
fertility of the soil and pride ourselves
on our ability to master science, but
it is also well to remember that there
is a market side to agriculture that
does not reflect its hardships in the
exhibits at a county fair.
UNIVERSAL PEACE
This nation is now in the midst of
a controversy as to how best to pro
mote universal peace. That question
we will leave for diplomats to dis
cuss, but peace within nations is no
less important than peace between
nations and it is heavily laden with
prosperity for every citizen within
our commonwealth. .
Many leading politicians and ofttimes
political 'platforms have declared war
upon business and no cabinet crisis
ever resulted. Many men have stood
| in high places and hurled “gas bombs”
i at industry; thrust bayonets into bus
iness enterprises and bombarded ag
riculture with indifference. Party
leaders have many times broken dip
lomatic relations with industry; sent
i political aviators sp;> ing through the
j affairs of business and political sub
; marines have sent torpedoes crushing
into the destiny of commerce. Dur
ing the past quarter of a century we
have fought many a duel with prog
ress, permitted many politicians to
carry on a guerrilla warfare against
civilization and point a pistol at the
; heart of honest enterprise
No man should be permitted to cry
out for universal peace until his rec
ord has been searched for explosives,
for no vessel armed or laden with
munitions of war should be given a
clearance to sail for the port of Uni
versal Peace. Let us by all means
have peace, but peace, like charity, !
’lid begin at home.
GRASPING AT THE SHADOW j
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No man—especially if he is mar
ried—would deny woman any right
she demands. Take the earth and i
give us peace, hut why does woman
long for the ballot?
When all is said and done, is not
the selection of the butcher more im
portant to the home than the election
of a mayor; is not the employment of
the dairyman a far more important
event in the life of the children than
the appointment of a postmaster; is
not the selection of books for the
family library more important than
voting bonds for jail and court house?
Why does woman lay aside the im
portant things in life? Why leave the
substance and grasp at the shadow?
Be it said to the credit of woman
hood that it is not, as a rule, the
woman who rocks the cradle that
wants to cast the .ballot; it is not
the mother who teaches her children
to say “Now I lay me down to sleep”
that harangues the populace, it is not
the daughter who hopes to reign as
queen over a happy home that longs
for the uniform of the suffragette. It
is, as a rule, the woman who despises
her home, neglects her children and
scorns motherhood that leads parades
and smashes windows.
POUTICAL GOSSIPS
When one class of people has any
thine to say, It has beoome largely
the custom to make a political issu<
out of It Instead of a friendly discus
sion, to print it in a law book insteal
Of a newspaper and to argue it be
tore a Jury Instead of to settle it ii
the higher courts of Common Sense
As a result, political agitators, polit
tool lawyers, political preachers anc
masculine women are powerful ii
politics and dissension, selfishness, in
tolerance and hysterics run rampam
in public affairs, for when the low
damp, murky atmosphere of mlsun
derstandlng envelops public though
it breeds political reptiles, vermin
bugs and lice which the pure air ol
truth and the sunshine of understand
ing will choke to death.
We have too many self-appointee
interpreters of industry who are in
capable of grasping the fundamental
principles of business and who at besl
can only translate gossip and add
color to sensational stories. No busi
ness can stand upon error and might
rules—right or wrong. No industry
can thrive upon misunderstanding
for public opinion is more powerful
than a King’s sword.
When prejudice, suspicion and
class hatred prevail, power gravitates
into the hands of the w^eak, for dema
gogues thrive upon dissension and
statesmen sicken upon strife.
The remedy lies in eliminating the
middleman—the political gossip—and
this result can be accomplished by
the managers of business sitting
around the table of industry and talk
ing it over with the people. Inter
change of information between indus
tries and the people is as necessary
to success in business. as interchange
in commodities, for the people can
only rule when the public under
stands Away with political interpret
ers who summon evil spirits from
their prison cells and loose them to
prey upon the welfare of the people
in the name of “My Country.”
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