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VOL. XXII WARRENTON, N. FRIDAY AUGUST 11 1916 NO. 19 $1.00 A YEAR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Warrenton and Warren County. 5c A COPY OLD TIMES IN WARREN.

CHEAPER MONEY FOR THE FARMER. In the fall of 1853, he made a profession of religion, and on the 22nd of October of the same year he was received as a candiate for baptism by the Warrenton Baptist Church. He was baptized by Rev. J. B.

Solomon, D.D., r- X- 1 might be prepared to give to each the needed portion of truth. In his death he did not forget those whom he had taught in the Sunday School, and sent them loving showed that even the waters of death could not quinch his desire for their welfare. To a class of boys that he taught for a number of years he sent this extent to which present or would-be farmers take advantage of the opportunities it offers them." This influential organ appeals to both the farmer and the investor to make the new system a success. Of the Federal farm-loan bonds it says "Secured by first mortgages on our well-managed farms, they (Literary Digest. Thousands of farmers who have seen their wives reduced to drudges and their children held back from proper education opportunities by the struggle to meet a five-year mortgage drawing high interest will doubtless echo the hope expressed by President Wilson when he signed, last wreek, the Federal Farm-loan Bill, generally known as the ru ral Credit Act.

This legislation, predicted the President, will be "immensely benefical" to the farmers of the country, because, in conjunction with "the very liberal provisions of the Federal Reserve Ac it "puts them upon an equality with all others who have genuine assets, and makes the great credit of the country available to them." This, he further remarked, is an act of delayed justice, since our farmers have hitherto "not had the same freedom to get credit on their real estate that others have had who were in manufac- wili not merely fail to accomplish turing and commercial interpris-! the purpose for which it was de-ss, and while they have sustain- signed; it will do a great deal of eu uur me, uu-y uiu not in me in the benefits of life." This, "great Democratic achieve-menv'says the New York World "means as much to the farmer as the Federal Reserve Banking and Currency Law means to the business man who hasno intimate association with the -few finanical autocrats of Wall Street who formerly ruled he loan market despotically." Hitherto the American farmer who borrowed on mortgage borrowed for five years, and his whole loan came due at once, the St. Louis. Republic Dqm. rc-mirxl3us, but "the farmer under the new law will borrow for forty i year if he so desires and nis-loan wn come uuo in iiiciny small instalments." More than this, he wil not pay more than six percent interest on his loan. Under present conditions, says the The World, "it is estimated T.

J. Taylor, D. (By A Mar Who Made Good. of have recently nnucu l-nlM1 bovs who vent i.s tner sections aim uiauc gwu, I Ird I could name many of them. i.

-foil vr-i rf atio weeK i Aii itu wj- wnt the greater part pi in Warren County, and V.nJupntlv successful I rff this man to encourage to tayar nonie, acniHv here, and buna their na- vp county. a out eighty-one years ago, v. County, N. a man born into the world, i Vl "Started on life's journey to i' -rv This child was Rich- W-i- Fleming, and the date rr hi birth was trie ot iiay, i.sa.". The home of his parent was bnut three miles from Warrenton, between Warren Plains and Here he spent his c-H' life, living perhaps no sign cf hose characteristics which dis tireuished his later years and jPied his influence to fee felt bv all with whom he came in contact.

Til pursued his academic stud- the famous old Academy nVTerton anrl there received Vrainintr which so eminently -noii-hpr him 101 a SUCCesSUl UIU- Professionally Dr. Fleming was but he also engaged interorises such as tarm 11 jLi.Lt merchandising and milling, he was successful in his various enterprises and accumulated larg estate. Dr. Fleming obtained his education at the Baltimore College of Dential Surgery, from which he graduated in 1856, Immediately after graduation he settled in Warrenton and began the prac tice of his Being a skillful dentist he soon had a large and lucrative practice. His proffessional career, which was interrupted by the war, "was resumed in 1865.

In 1869 he moved to Hopkinville, where for ten years he folowed his profession, and was eminently successful. He then came to Raleigh, where he opened an office and remained for two years; at the end of which time he returned to Warenton and spent the last years of his life in the scenes of his childhood among the friends of his youth. Some years before his death, to the great regret of the entire community, he discontinued the practice of dentistry, and devoted himself to his large and diverged business interests. On the 15th of February, 1866, Dr. Fleming was united in mar- ilcmVJr? TV- iIiCi mere to Miss Virginia Watson, the accomplished daughter of the Tnnn fern r-f UarvPTI late Jenn Watson of Warren.

io them were born five children, still livinsr. As a business man Dr. Flem ing was remarkable successful. The success he achieved was doubtless owing to his industry, energy, economy, honesty, and wonderful fund of common sense. To these characteristics ought to added.

I think he would have nnt if I nisi, ins liul in sno nis determination to do His 1 ihink he had less tole- rarirn -ei il that, including commissions, Farm, Stock, and Home, the oldest agricultural paper of the Northwest, characterizes the bill as "just good, old fashioned po litical bunk," but thinks it may I may have some good results if real representative of the farmers" is appointed to the Federal Board. The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.) while admitting that "the President can not be denied a fair share of optimism" concerning ths measure, goes on to say: "But there was another note which the President might well have sounded in the course of his speech, the note of warning that much will depend on the proper administration of the act. If it is to become no more than an instrument for creating cheap money for farmers by fiat, as it were, and at the public expense, without earful regard for the safety of the risks, and for the economic problems which the borrowers have before them, it narm tne process. It is cus- tomary to think of rural credit laws as derived from European experience and their value so long tested in the Oxaer countries.

So they are. But as Myron T. Herick explained in many speech es last fall as a result of his close study of the system in Europe, the Continental acts have by n-) means had in view the establishment of low interest-rates high expense to the government. They have been directed at the effective mobilization of credit, the grouping of capable farmers tc secure developments which could not secure by their single efforts, and the cooperation of Government plans to improve iarming the Governments funds." But another influential paper, the New York Tribune, welcomes the new law as "throughly sound in which they could not by their principle and predicts that it will perfected gradually in prac- tice." As evidence that the A- merican farmer has not had adequate access to capital in the past this paper notes that "out of a total of $21,000,000,000 of loans and investments made by American only about 250,000,000 go to the farmers." i Since one tendency of this law will be to make our ood-produc- tion greater and cheaper, says the Boston Advertiser Ind. it deserved the support of all our law-makers regardless of party-politics.

But the Democratic Brooklyn Citizen cannot refrain from remarking that its passage "would have been impossible un- der a Republican Administration, because, like the Federal Reserve banking system it means the emancipation of the debtor class from the money monopoly" And in the Socialist Now York Call we read: "Laws of this kind we Socialist enthusiastically indorse. They are attempts at least to check the rapacity of the profit-monger, and though they may not succceed in the long run, still they are worth while." W7hat this new law does is thus concisely stated by the Chicago Journal (Dem.) "The bill creates a group of twelve farm-loan banks, presided over by a Federal board of live members, and provided for loan associations. The farmer borrows from the bank through the association, on mortgages running from five to forty years. These mortgages are used by the land-banks as the basis for farm-bonds as a means of safe, quickly realized investment. In other words, this new law makes liquid the enormous amount of capital now locked up in the farm lands of America.

The purpose of the law, in brief explains the Boston Christ- ian Science Monitor, "is to bring together the small farmer who wants to borrow money and the small investor who has some savings to be loaned on reliable se- il win ue uenenciai juctmies nu icss ctuLnuxny man The American Agriculturist (New York), according to the I a a I cum cil unce uecame an active member of the church. Hp was a spiritually-minded christian. His religion was positive and real, and his life was the result of his faith in God and the convictions of duty. This is aptly illustrated in the following incident. Rev.

L. J. Ho'dcn. at that time pastor of the Warren Circuit, was not oni an ae preacher, hut was also a good business man In the erly days of the tobacco market in Warrenton, he was a successful tobacconist. He knev mor iv the business, but needed money than he could con- trol to conduct it successfully.

He, therefore, made a proposition Co Dr. Fleming for a partnership. To which the doctor replied, "Brother Holden, your proposition is a good and but for one thing I would accept it. You say that God has called you to preach the gospel. If he has, and I have no reason to doubt it, he would not be pleased for you to turn away from the work to which he has called vou and engage in a secular calling.

I cannct believe that he wook! (be friendly to such a course, and am unwilling to engage any iso nun uuu -v. sicie. ror tms reason i cannui accept your preposition." t- it Dr. Fleming was a man of one book, and that book was the Bi- ble. He wanted a thus saith trie Lo for every article ot and unless this could be produced he would accept neither the aoc-trine nor the practice suggested.

He would neither admit human inter preation nor human reason, unless they were in perfect accordance with the Word of God. Convince him that a theory was taught in the Bible, and he would believe it with all his heart; show him the thing you wanted him to do in was required by the Word of God, and he needed no further augument to induce him to do it. He wasthekind of man of which martyrs are made, and in the, defence of God's Word, would-have surrendered his life. He was consumed with a burning zeal for the church of God, and would tolerate no society or institution that interferred with her work or her honor. He believed that he church was the divinely appointed agency for the salvation of sinners the moral uplift of the voiiox fnr ViArnnrrmd needv and XXiVJ- XVI Jv in accordance with this view he nersistentlv strove to induce his brethern to put forth all their efforts for the reiiei.

uliiting, and salvation oi jth the churcn 0 th these humanity of Christ. rwi nf rhp Ui tllC llViilft vjujvi, ward to a speedy and glorious contest. Dr. Fleming was interested in various interprises in which his denomination was engaged for the extension of the Redeemer's kin e-dom. He frequently con- jtributed to 25 missionary Wp work but he gave his best love j.

anct nis Dest enui ls phanage and the Sunday School work. He wrote tne iirst line inSLllULlUll ItO vyx tl j-v -1 i ,1 4 1- on rl if tO tHe time Oi lUSUWUi, xi x. is safe to say that he was one of its wisest advisers and most liberal supporters. Living and dying, he remembered the orphans for whose benefit liehad given so many years of his life. Perhaps as a Sunday School TW TTlmrnncr did his best -r-.

viM- worK. ie.careiuiitv a-M pnly the per oi tne cjasa, wiw should gradually become a most popular investment for small sums or large. Every individual should aim to own a Federal farm-loan bond, if only to the amount of $25. Let these farmland bonds become the people's saving-bank. They are tax-free, safe, should be quickly salable when cash is needed, and yield an insured income." And the farmer is admonished as follows: "Farmers should be quick to organize to make the most and best use of the new Federal farm-loan system.

Unless this is done, the joint-stock land-banks, which the new law also authorizes, may get in ahead of the farmer's co-operative mort gage societies and exact high rates." The new svst'in, concluded The Agriculturist, be an evolution," and "it needs the sympathetic co-operation of farm borrowers, investors in farm-loan bonds, bankers and brokers, and the press. It is based upon sound principles." ARCOLA ITEMS. A large number Irom this section were present at Harriss' Chapel Sunday where a series of revival services are being conducted by Rev. Mr. Plyborn.

Mr. Walter Conn spent Thursday in Raleigh with his sister the Rex Hospital. Mr. Earl Chappell, of Nash-this section last week. Mr.

Sandy Capps has treated himself to a nice car. Mr. John R. King is having a store built at Hollister where he and Mr. Robert Arrington expect to sell merchandise.

Mr. M. T. Duke, of Marma-duke, Master Eugine Davis and Miss Iris Cook visited in the home of Mr. Duke's brother, Mr.

Walter Duke, Sunday afternoon. Miss Bertha Hicks has returned from a visit to relatives here. Her cousin, Miss Harriet Thar-rington, accompanied her for a visit in and near Warrenton. Mr. and Mrs." Robert Radford visited their people here Satur- day and.

Sunday. Mrs. Bobbie Shearine and friend, Miss Bradley are the guest of Mrs. Capps and other relatives. The baseball lovers from here were at Hollister Saturday to see the game.

Mrs. Rebecca Davis and Miss Lula Hunter have returned from the beach. Mrs. M. Loughlin is visiting friends in Greensboro and Durham this week.

MAKE A PARTERNER OF THAT BOY OF YOURS This seems to bo a good time to repeat the injunction, "Remember your community in your will." Leave some money to buy books for a library. Or paint the school house. Or to equip a playground. Or to keep flag floating over the building. Or you might leave money to buy school farm, a domestic science equipment, a piano, or to add an extra room.

Or you might leave a trust fund to buy books for children of needy widows. No man of means should be hour.t-a good citizen unless he remembers the community in his will; and even ordinary well-to-do farmer make some bequest for the community school of at least anywhere from five dollars to five hundred or more, according to his means The -Progressive Farmer. Rev. Dr. W.

R. Cullom will tell the story of his trip through Palestine and Egypt at the following' places and dates. Macon Baptist Church 8 p.m. next Tuesday. Warrenton Baptist Church 8 p.m.

next Wednesday. Browns Baptist Church 8 p.m. next Thursday. The Story will be illustrated by Sterecphticon views. T.

J. TAYLOR, Pastor. message: "Tell my class that I can never teach them again, but they have the Bible; and I hope they will live by its teachings and meet me in heaven." Again he said: "Tell my present class that I can never teach them 'again. I would like to be wit them tomorow morning, but that time I may be in heaven, where I hope they will meet me." Dr. Fleming's interest in the colored race was shown in many ays For a number of years he supported sev-ral ctudcnt in Shiloh, Institute, and he was always ready to give them the benefit of his counsel, and to extend to them a helping hand in time of trouble.

That the colored people regarded him as their friend is proved by the fact that although he differed from them in polo- of them wanted to send him to the Legislature from this county; because they believed he would be true io the interest of the people. As a Christian, Dr. Fleming was devout, spiritual and tender in his daily life he was circum spect and consistent in his Chris tian work he was active, energetic, untiring and liberal; and in his devotions he was mighty in prayer, sang with the spirit arid the understanding and delighted the Law of God. Of him it may be said, he loved Gcd and his neighbor. Being a man of large means, some may think that the greatest loss the church sustained in his death w7as the the loss of his contributions, but this is not true for although he was a liberal man his contribu tions are not worthy to be mentioned in comparsion with his life as a moral and spirtual force tle church ad community; bu! t'len these not loss: for one's influence, like the soul, lives forever His last message to his church was characteristic he said, "Tell the church to live in peace and unity with one anot in peace and unity with one another; for this is Christlike, and in no other wray can we be like him and meet in heaven." This man was not above doing any work that was necessary rV matter how menial that work might be.

In the prime of his early manhood, and in the midst of a successful carrer, he served "I 1 1 1 1 mien as seciun, aim ne mag- i if ied his office, and showed how a sec ton could be the right hand man of the preacher and the most valuable member of a congregation. In speaking of the successful carrer of Dr. Fleming it should never be forgotten that his wife was his true helpmate. He could always count on her sympathy and co-operation, and rely on her excellent judgment. This man of the old school had to hew out his own destiny, and make his own fortune.

He achieved most of his success in Waren County, and what he did any other young man may do, but he will have to pay the price and alas many are unwilling to do this for it means willing industry, rigid self-denial, strict economy and above all faithful ness to God, and Christlike liberality in time, talents and means in the service of God and humanity. I earnestly commend the example of Dr. Fleming to the young men of today. THE UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ASKS DO YOU Clean your teeth and then Expectorate in the washbowl? Omit lunch to reduce weight and then Overeat at dinner. Go to the country for health and then Sleep with your windows shut tio-ht? Wonder whv vou havp earache and tnen iiy vnilT.

mn, I merican farmers are paying 8 1-2 percent on their loans, which is about twice the rate paid by the farmers in Germany, France and other European countries where land-banks have long existed." That the American farmer has been an extensive borrower despite these difficult conditions may be inferred from the fact that during Presidents Tafts administration the farms of the nation carried a mortgage deM of $6,333,000,000 on they paid an annual interest on more than "It is not too much to declares the New York American "that no manufacturer or merchant could possible do business succesfully today if the obstacles in the way of securing credit and the interest exacted of him for loans were as great as in the case of the farmer." The law that aims to remedy this situation was passed by overwhelming majorities in both Housed, and its signing by the President was something of a ceremony. Uniy ten votes were registered against it in the House and five in the Senate. It marks, says the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind. successful ending of "a battle of fifteen years, conducted by grangers and some banks and some banks of the South and Middle West." The purpose oi such legislation had been indorsed in the platforms of all the parties, but the effort to discover flaws in the present act is naturally a little more noticeable among the Republican than among the Dem ocratic papers. Thus the Pittsburg Gazette-Times (Rep.

declares that it is "distinctly class legislation," and "not as Mr. Wilson said, 'an act of but apiece of pap" and the Phil- ClUClj-xlia J.IiLAUll CX V. xtcxJ' CCi5 XXX it "an ill-considered and dangerous measure, for which, there is no necesstiy or justification." The' Hartford Courant(Rep.) JlnUin ci Ann in doubts whether this attempt to curry iavor witn tne iarmer work even and the Minneapolis Farm, Stock, and i md dishonesty than any man 1 1 that to the foundling of the ever knew believed Baptist Orphanage at TJomas-ttat they were the chief caroesiyiUe. which nvas the tetij-ot the poverty and distress that tutHm of heHeS greatly afflict so large a part of 1 by a denomination of Christians Population, but while he nad 1 1" this State. Be1 little patience with those the organization of the Bap-hacUhua blighted their own tist Orphanage Association, 'v.

he was already to extend ltached founded the Ths; flpfn sympathy to the unf or-j vdle Orphanage, and a n.ber Mate poor who were doing their the Board of Trustees of 1, at i3 Pfh-VOT. Inn Wo lrol i-r, hat he esteemed the best interest of mg country, and took a ti7eiy interest in every thing nat affected the community in J'-ftich he lived, the State that he 1Qved, and the country at large, fro, frequently dissented om his? views on public matters, jpposed his methods but no one spected his honestv or doubted hjs motives..