The Warren Record from Warrenton, North Carolina • Page 1

An Unequal ed ADVERTISING Medium An Unequaled ADVERTISING Medium JE vol. WARREN TON, N. CX, FRIDAY JULY 24, J914 NO 17 i.OO A YEAR A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Inter sts cf Warrenton and Warren County. )PY II oS yCOLA ITEMS. doit.

As far as we; can see we will never reach our limit in. thi as is the case in other States where the utilities must be assembled. We are not compelled I don't mind telling you a trade secret if you will go home and profit by if. Every time we start something new over in jsjorth Carolina Sloppy With Opportunities. Vhat Can the Press Do Developing Them.

In the last census period the State more than doubled its farm product. In the last five years it has almost doubled again. -garland. bupton is at home ain after being in Rocky Mt-- for several months. Mr.

Weldon T. Davis and Mrs. Beaufort Scull attended the District Conference at Roanoke Rap--ids- The protracted Meeting is being conducted at Bethlehem church this week. Rev. R.

H. Broom, of the Warrenton Charge is assisting the pastor Rev. W. Bailey. Messrs Linnie W.

and Garland Gupton and Johnny Harris, went to Norfolk last wek and spent a short time pleasantly there and at nearby points. Mr Willie King has accepted a. position at Fosburgh Miss Lucy Perry Burt, of Louisburg, is spending some time with her grandmother, Mrs. R. Davis, while her parents are on a trip to the mountains.

Misses Lola Duke and Iris Cook visited their aunt Mrs. J. P. Pleasants, near Louisburg recently. Among those visiting in the-neighborhood and attending the-meeting here are the following! Mr.

and Mrs. T. A. Cooper and children, of Rocky Miss. Eva Davis, of Weldon; Mr.

and. Mrs. Neville so a and daughter fof Enfield; Mr. Joe Scull, of Richmond; Miss Iris Cook, of Annopolis, Md. Mr, Andrew Crinkley, of Raleigh Beaufort Taylor, of Brinkleyville; Mr.

Norman Pleasants of Louisburg; Mr. and Mrs. F. Leonard of Centeryille. Mr.

and Mrs. Bobbie Shearin and children, of Rocky Mr. andMrs. Willie Roe, of Wood; Mr. and Mrs.

John Hood, of Macon, visited their daughter Mrs. J. T. King, a few days ago. Miss Eva Duko spent from Sunday.

until Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. George Raynor and Misses Emma and Ina Underhil at Wood. Mrs. Ella Mabry, of Halifax Countv, visited Mrs. R.

M. Conn last week. Messrs. Robert Arrington and Perry Conn were here Sundav to see relatives and friends. Mr.

Willie Bobbitt spent the week end with his people near Littleton. INCOGNITO. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to the crditors and others interested in the estate of T. W.

deceased, that I hagfe this day qualified as adinistratoor with will annexed cum testamento annexo upon the estate of the said T. W. Shearin, deceased. All persons having claims a- gainst the said estate will present them to me on or before-the 26th day of June, A. D.1915, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery, as provided by law, and all persons indebted to the estate will please come forward and make imedi-ate settlement.

This the 26th day of June, A. D. 1914. J.E.Frazier, Admr. C.

T. A. ot T.W. Shearin, deceased. Kerr, 3j5t Chattle Mortgage Blanks For Sale at RscDct Office.

Subscribe to The Rscori, oil $1 year. State- We have land enough agger our ccncepticn What we lack is people. We need to show people that an3'thing that can be done in ariy section of the United States can be done to a little better advantage here, with few exceptions. We can make as good cantaloupes as Colorado, and a thousand miles nearer market. Yet Rocky Ford melons are known everywhere and Scotland county mellons sell for Rocky Ford.

Think what rainless Montana or Idaho would do with our rainfall and convenience to market. Yet those people are no more intelligent or industrious than our people They simply have to pump or drown out there, and they pump and show other people they can pump. The Lord has been too good to this State. Here it is not so necessar3T to pump, and we overlook the amaz ing advantages. We do not appreciate them sufficiently to talk of them to others.

(Continued on page 5.) SECTION 34 OF THE TOWN ODINANCES. Every person found guilty of permitting any stagnant water, human excrement, animal manure, decaying vegetable matter, filth heaps or an3 other matter hurtful to health or comfort to remain in' any cellar or other place on his or her premises under his or her control within the the corporate limits of the town of Warrenton for twenty-four hours after having been notified by the Town Constable or Health Officer of Said Town to remove the same, shall be fined Five Dollars for each of feme. NOTICE. Having qualified as Administrator of M. B.

Alston, deceased, late of Warren County, N. this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned Administrator, on or before the 4th day of June 1915, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons i ndebted to said Estate wil please make immediate payment. This June 4th 1914. J.

L. ALSTLN, Adinistrator. Essex, N. C. June 12 6t Broken Machine Parts and Castings Repaired.

We are equipped to weld castings in iron, brass and aluminum. Do not buy new parts when the broken ones can be repaired for much less than the cost of new parts and with less 1 ca nf timp. We carry a jmplete stock of mill supplies and machinery both new and second hand. TATE MACHINERY SUPPLY itteton, C. to crowd into centers of population.

Look at the cotton mills rtavolnnmont thai" lint's thff Southern Kailway from the Vir-1 ginia boundary to the South Carolina frontier. It is a continuation of mill communities with their farm settlements about them At the last census North Carolina ranked eighth among the states in rural population. Only seven other States are developed all through the rural regions more than our. In city population this State ranks thirty first, but we are practically alone in having farm and factory property development scattered over the entire State. The farm is where it can feed" factory and supply such raw materia! as cotton and tobacco and the facfory is where it can bene fit by farm, and find labor and subsistance and afford a market.

North Carolina is sloppy with opportunity. 1 can no more tpll you the limit of that opportunity than I can tell you the limit of the water of tne ocean out there in front of us. This one single thing of electrical development that hab commenced in the State means a revolution in industrial things, with North Carolina as a cradle of expansion and training ground. Ten years from now the electrical atmophere of in dustrial North Carolina will be a marvel You realize the opportunities. How can the press help to develop them? By becoming thoroughly familiar with what is here.

We know of many op portuhities. but there aie many opportunities we have overlooked. We must become iamiliar with as many as possible, and get our people to know and appreciate them. My people laughed at me for an enthusiast when I told them North Carolina has the best climate in the United I showed them the weather statistic which tell that in every State along the Canadian frontier except New York and New Euland the thermometer goes higher in summer than in North Carolina. They are surprised when I tell them the Catawba has powcr enough to turn all the wheels of Connecticut, a prominent factory State, or that one big dam building on the Yadkin would run two thirds of all the -wheels in Vermont.

The newspapers put.these things before the peo ple vigorously. In the North and East North Carolina is an unknown region, almost as far out of public knowledge as Roosevelt's river of doubt in the Amazon country. Every. North Car-lina newspaper should have several exchanges in the North and ni New England, that what is printed might be passed along to people elsewhere. The newspaper must be a clearing house for information concerning the State, the county and the town.

Every new farm, every new factory, evsry new thing that tells of development and expansion should get place on the first page with a two stackhead. 1 figure that in our paper that building a dozen new tobacco barns on Pinebluff farm is of more consequence than the vote of the candidate for Congress or Governor. An example of this helpful enthusiasm is the Southern Pines Tourist, of one of the most ag-gessive development factors in he State, as well as a mode Mlage newspaper. I 1 Hoke county we trv to tell it (to thfi Observer th- TSIowc: anrTOW server, the Star and all the other papers that want to know what is going- on in tho State. They can't keep a secret and they tell it to their reaacrs and every few days vou notice something news breakng luose in in the sandhills.

I don'i know whether our section is any better than but we go on the the Dry that our section is the best on earth, and our favoied bird is nit the American eale. but the wi se old hen who makes a note the occurrence every time she lays an egg, and alludes to it several times during the day, before and after laying it. We believe in advertising. It is useless to enumerate the opportunties in North Carolina. We.

coul accommodate i State many millions of people. People is what we lack. We lack people because the rest of the country, which is supplying settlers for all the United States and Canada, does not know North Carulina. Within the next year, and nearly every vear a million or mjre Americans will hunt new homes. I'hey will not find anything better than North Carolira, but they will go elsewhere for want cf knowledge of North Carolina.

You who print papers in the tobacco helt should get some of your paper into the hand of people in the tobacco sectiDn of Pennylvania. and elsewhere. You ia the corn counties; shoulj De in touch with people, in the cora country of the North and West. The climate of the i North and West is fierce and people are running away from it constantly. Our climate is one of our greatest assets aid len it is known what a climate we have and what other advantage we will get people.

We should have an agiresive publicity bureau in the assccia-1 tion. The Western States spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle their country which, is not half so attractive as ours, but they settle it, and get their money back in tRe increised business. The get marvelious and rapid results. If California, with the hustle those folks have, should unite the rainfall of North Carolina and the climate to their hustle they would make fi-c million bales of of cotton a year and spin it. On the sandy lands of this State could be made cotton to clothe millions of people of Europe if farmers were here to use the available cheapland.

The United States makes fifteen million bales of cotton a year. Thecotton States of the South constitute the only part of the globe that makes enough cotton to satisfy its needs In the United States we, each of us, use an average of about thirty pounds of cotton a year. In most of the world the average amount for each individual is not above three pounds- To provide the world liberally with cotton would take a crop of a hundred and fifty million bales a year. North Carolina is the safest cotton State on earth, and raises more to the acre than any other State. Half the world has never yet had half enough clothes to be comfortable because there was never enough.

North Carolina is making more cotton goods every day, and ever3' day the commerce of the world is expanding into figures of gigantic importance. The work is to be done. We need more people to rd Warren Countv Ed Bion H. Butler Before N. C.

press Association. Recently IJsaid one day in the fsjews and Observer that North Caroina is sloppy with opportunity. That expression has been brought back to me to set fie pleasant task of pointing rut some of these opportunities and tellng how the newspaper may help in th development of them. Thirty two vears agotns summer I caught my first glmipse of North Carolina. At that time I had seen enough of the industrial development nroerress ot the United States from Texas.

Kansas and Minnesota east to new England jneans and to recognize the op- iortunitv fordevelopment where it appeared. Fifteen years of my newspaper work was passed I ih nrntrrpss nf the big industrial expansion in' the Pittsbure territory where vfTiinr nredone. hat me further insight into what opportunity is and what it is worth. It more than twentv year? ago that I commeced to irrite in the Pittsburg Times stories of opportuities in North farnlina. In that twenty years I liave been showing people what here, and in eroing out to UVW Aow them I continually fall oih more thing to show.

I did not discover North Caroina all flfa sudden. It has been a gradual finding of new possibils ities until it is easy to see that State in the Union today can present so much of opportunity as North Carolina. This is said in ail deliberation, for unsupported claims are of no use to anybody. It is follv to deceive ourselves. I make this claim 1 after an acquaintance with al most everv community of consequence in the United States.

The chief factors that are putting forth Carolina in the front are climate, rainfall, water pw-r, transoortation, convenience to the markets of the United States and of the world, the permanent supply of raw material for factory use, and a population of intelligence and up right character. I do not include those temporary resources like timber, mineral deposits, etc. which, valuable in themselves, and of sreat imoortance, are still temporary, and not in the same class with those permanent things that are of everlasting worth. In hunting a plae for a permanent home for myself and family I picked North Carolina deliberately from all the rest of the country because it offered a ger inducement in natural advantages. It has the best climate and the best rainfall.

Climate makes a State fit to live in- Rainfall and mild clmate makes it an agricultural possi-bility. Soil is a factor, but fertility can be made. Kansas and California and other States of the West are not so fertile now a when I first knew them. North Caroina is more fertile. Fertility is under the control of man.

climate and rain fall are not. Tnerefore we miiSt regard Worth Pov.i:-. foremost agricultural possibili- vaiuiina as unts ui mc dSt tifteen years bears out this. This surprising record if kept up another ten years will put North Carolina among the first three or four States of the Union. ill development is fully as rapid.

Fourteen yeas ago the State factories produced about 86 million dollars worth of goods. Now they make three times that value. Factories are springing up to build the widest variety of products. The factories are diversified to scores of different Knes. They will diversify more bcause they have the power.

In a dozen years the develop- ment of waterpower in North Carolina has been one ot the marvels of the industrial world What is ahead nobody can guess, but almost any guess seems safe enough. The State isgridiioned with power wires no and in that respect has no peer on the globe, Ours is one State that is self contained and self providing, It has the farms on which to feed the people, the factories in which to employ them, the nower to run the mills, the yearly crop of raw material for t-hp faetorv. the river and sea to carr the freight to market the railroads in all directions, besides the surplus of product eagerly sought by other States. Rising in the highest mountains east of the Rockies North Carolina rivers have more fall to the sea. a erreater distance to the sea, a greater annual rainfall to carry down and a greater area a to drain water from than any other State of the East.

How much power that means is pure guess. It is a limit we cannot overtake for years. We have no idea of the limit of our abil ity to produce cotton for the ever growingjNorth, or of anything. We hae no idea where we are going but we are headed somewhere, and are mnning away on half a dozen roads at one time. It is no use Jfor me to point out to ou the opportunities of Noith Carolina.

Fi ve thousand people could find opportunity in Jones County to go to raising cotton. As many more could go to the mountains to raise cattle. As many more could go to Guilford to raise corn, or Moore to raise scupernongs for the grape juice plant starting there, to Henderson to raise applis. to Roberson to raise cantaloupes, to Cumberland to raise tobacco, peanuts for oil. svveetpotatoes to make starch for the cotton mills and alcohol for the arts and for the automobiles when gasoline is scarcer.

Every county in the State could place ten thousand people as fast as they could come and opportunity would await them. One of the greatest advantages is that our resources are so distributed that in every township in the State it is possible to es tablish a varied industry, Here in one State that has power a vailable in every locality, raw material in every locality, transportation in every locality. We do not have to bunch our industries in cites where coal and on and shop room can be had.