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VOL. XI CONCORD, N. C. JUNE 30, 1923 No, 33

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I remember a friend of mine who wanted a gar- dener. He advertised, and got a letter from a gen- tleman concerning a man whom we shall call John Smith. This gentleman said, “John Smith has an excellent knowledge of gardening. He can manage a kitchen garden wonderfully and he can bring an ornamental garden to perfection.” And he went on through the list of what the man could do. As the other gentleman read the letter he said, “That’s the very man for me; he can do the very things I want.” He got to the bottom of the page and turned over, and on the other side were only three words, “But he won’t.” There are men and women who could revolutionise the districts in which they live, who could turn topsy-turvy the lives of their most intimate friends, but they won’t.—The Bish- op of Chelmsford.

—PUBLISHED BY THE PRINTING CLASS OF THE STONEWALL JACKSON MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. P. Cook, Chair., Concord R. 0. Everett, Durham Miss Easdale Shaw, Vice-Chair., Herman Cone, Greensboro Rockingham Mrs. W. H. S. Burgwyn, Raleigh Jno. J. Blair, Sec., Raleigh Mrs. A. L. Coble, Statesville D. B. Coltrane, Treas., Concord Mrs. T. W. Bickett, Raleigh E. P. Wharton, Greensboro Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, Winston H. A. Royster, M. D., Raleigh Mrs. I. W. Faison, Charlotte Chas. E. Boger, Supt.

CONTENTS.

EDITORIAL COMMENT 3-7 MAYVIEW PARK 8 N. C. ROOF GARDEN 9 WOMEN AT WORK 10 WHAT POLITENESS DID FOR A LAWYER 13 BEING A FRIEND 15 OLD TIMES IN THE SOUTH 16 JULY FOURTH IN HISTORY 18 NOT WITH DIRTY HANDS 21 SUPPOSE THERE WERE NO GOD 23 FURTHUR TALK ABOUT MA. R. R. Clark 26 LOOK AT YOUR DOLLAR 28 INSTITUTION NOTES 28 THE BUSY MAN 30 The Uplift

A WEEKLY JOURNAL

PUBLISHED BY The Authority of the Stonewall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School. Type-setting by the Boys Printing Class. Subscription Two Dollars the year in AdVance.

JAMES P. COOK, Editor, J. C. FISHER, Director Printing Department

Entered as second-class matter Dec. 4, 1920 at the Post Office at Concord, N. C. under act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rat© of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of Oct. 1917, authorized April 4, 1923.

SUGGESTION TOR LOCAL THOUGHT. The County Board of Education will make a visit through the Mountain Creek section Thursday afternoon, June 21st, with the view of determining the advisability of building a consolidated school building in the vicinity of Palestine, Mountain Creek or Prospect section.-Albemarle News-Herald.

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION AND ALEXANDER. Blowing Rock is becoming an institution in the make-up of the many at- tractive possesions of the good old North State. It requires some effort to reach that spot that tosses its head in the very sky. They have a road up to the Rock, but it lacks much yet of being an ideal road, but for a mountain road it is so much better than what we have been accustomed to that we are in- clined to give great thanks to those who brought it to its present condition. Men have tried—even the good women have tried it—to describe the in- describable scenery round and about that section of Watauga county that has come to be known as Blowing Rock. There was a fair attendance at this annual convention, but some familiar faces were most conspicuous by their absence. Business and health conditions kept them away from what is regarded one of the most delightful meetings of the Association. By the way, it was worth the trip up the mountain to hear Dr. Henry Louis Smith, president of Washington & Lee University, in his 4 THE "UPLIFT masterful address on General Lee. Though years have begun to show their work on this wonderful and charming gentleman, he is the same eloquent and forceful orator, whom North. Carolina will always claim as her own. His description and word-painting were so vivid and life-like, that one could actually see the great Confederate hero moving about doing his wonderful constructive work in the re-building of the educational structure after the War Between the States had done its worst. The Association tried its level best to persuade John B. Sherrill to continue as its president. It looked like a disposition on the part of the Association to ride a good, trusty horse to death. Notwithstanding Mr. Sherrill had fill- ed the position of Secretary and Treasurer of the organization for thirty- two consecutive years and the office of president for two terms, it pressed on him another election. He declined, giving such reasons that appealed to the Association., Upon his declination, the presidency went to Hon. Chas. A. Webb, one of the owners of the Asheville Citizen, who received the unamious vote of the Association. Webb is active and he will go about filling this office as if his bread and meat depended on his preformance. Miss Beatrice Cobb, of the Morganton News-Herald, one of the finest and ablest newspapers fellows in the whole gang, was re-elected secretary and treasurer. Miss Cobb takes her duties seriously and the affairs of the As- sociation will continue to have intelligent care. Editor Honeycutt, of Morrow Mountain fame, and the able editor of the Albemarle News-Herald, was made vice president. He is a subject, and a good one, for the lightening when the time rolls around. The committee on resolutions, composed of Mrs. W. N. Hutt, A. C. Honey- cutt and THE UPLIFT representative, taking into account everybody and everything that conspired to the pleasure of the Association, was called out by toast-master Carey Dowd, of the Charlotte News, for ignoring Savory’s incense pot, ‘which he brought doAvn with him from New York hoping to get the editors excited over the thing.. The Committee on Resolutions refused to be stampeded, and this was the only thing left out the chapter of fine things. The Association will hold its Mid-Winter meeting at Pinehurst, having had cordial invitations from that place and Charlotte and Raleigh. The creation of Mayview Manor, where the editors held this • meeting, is the happy fruition of a large dream. Mr. Alexander, a Charlotte man, has seen big things big and he came in for most hearty congratulations for his enterprise and his accomplishments. Elsewhere in this number we carry a short description of this wonderful spot by Mr. Jas. A. Robinson. THE UPLIFT 5

MILLION-DOLL AR GIRLS. In the most admirable Education Special issued by the Progressive Farmer, last week, was a picture that told a story that touches the heart of all on speaking acquaintance with human kindness and enjoy in the smallest de- gree a sense of official obligation and responsibility. The picture was that of a dilapidated shack of a house; a small, poorly clad girl standing in front; and drawing up to take her on was a school-truck. Under the cut Editor Poe made this comment. A three-thousand-dollar school bus, ,stopping in front of a two-hundred- dollar farm home to pick up a million-dollar girl and take her to a hundred- thousand dollar consolidated school. The motor truck and consolidated ; schools are giving this little girl in her remote country home educational facilities equal to any afforded the children of the cities. Break the news gently to the school officials of Cabarrus county, which en- joy the services of a superintendent who “ stands high among the educators of the state and knows his county and people,” that there are million dollar girls and million dollar boys out in the hills of Cabarrus county, who are educationally perishing for an adequate chance. “Knowing the county and the people” can Judge Buxton Robertson doubt that the county is full of just such boys and girls as Editor Poe has so well described and who have a right to look to him and his board for an intelligent and progressive adminis- tration of the school affairs of the county? * ❖ * ❖ ❖ * *

“CONSOLIDATION AND TRANSPORTATION” THE MODERN MOTTO. The issue of the Progressive Farmer of date of June 23 is the greatest paper that has been issued in the state for months. It is a special under the title of “Education Special.” It is all that it claims to be. It should be in the hands of every school official of the state. Among other things of information and inspiration we find this: The rapid progress made in the consolidation of schools in the South in recent years shows that the one room, one-teacher school has failed to give country boys and girls the kind of education they need today. Everywhere small schools are uniting to form bigger and better schools. Many counties in the South today are proud of the fact that a high school education is within the reach of every boy and girl in the county. Louisi- ana has 1,100 consolidated schools, Mississippi 770, Texas 757, and Ala- bama 306. Five years ago Alabama had twenty consolidated schools with 4,000 pupils enrolled while today she has 306 such schools with 52,- 728 pupils enrolled. Five years ago Mississippi had 290 consolidated high schools with over 30,000 enrolled; today she has 757 schools. 6 THE PPLIFT

The transportation of pupils to and from schools, which is always a problem involved in consolidation, is being handled successfully, accord- ing to reports from the different states. Alabama transported 9,154 pu- pils in 285 trucks last year at an average cost of 3.2 cents a mile and Mississippi reports 2.4 cents a mile as the average cost for 56,900 pupils. Following are some interesting statistics on transportation of pupils, 1921-1922:— No. trucks No. pupils Cost of State operated transported transportation Alabama 285 9,154 3.2c mile Florida 9,360 Texas 247 7,110 North Carolina.... 528 20,359 Arkansas 1,032 To show how backward Cabarrus county is, under the direction of the superintendent that “ stands high among the educators of the state, knows his county and people,” it is only necessary, in passing with a modest com- parison, to remark that there is in the county not a single consolidated dis- trict nor a single school truck; and the fearful thing about it is that an intelligent survey of the educational needs of the county in order to put the county in the progressive class has not been made, and, judging the future by the past, it is folly to expect one as long as the rural schools are directed as now controlled.

EVEN UNION COUNTY TO THE FRONT. THE UPLIFT has in preparation a pictorial and word picture of the achievements of the school officials of Union county. The educational strides that county that touches Cabarrus on the South has made in the past few years are just as marvelous as the great accomplishments which Stanly has made on the East. This will be followed by what other progressive counties have done for their rural children. In one of the exhibits to follow are the pictures of the educational equipment of two towns, one in a 150-population town in an ad- joining county; the other the picture of the public school facilities in Mt. Pleasant, this county, a place of probably six hundred people, where a mem- ber (Prof. McAllister) of the County Board of Education lives. The compari- son is fatal, but it tells the story of genuine friendship for public education and a pretense. The picture themselves will do their own lauding and their own condemnation. An alibi, by no resort to statements or explanations or apologies, or selfish- ness in part, can be established. Inefficiency and indifference have been treed THE UPLIFT 7

—there is no escape. * * * * * # * WE ARE STILL REJOICING, The athletic field of the Jackson Training School is to have in the immedi- ate future an artistic and complete grand-stand 35 x 100 feet, with a seating capacity of 800 or more. It will be fitted up with dressing rooms, store room and lavatories. The building is to be of substancial construction, in keeping with the other splendid buildings on the campus, and will cost twenty- five hundred dollars. Instead of 340 boys being required to sit on the ground, in the broiling hot sun watching games and other recreational stunts, they will in a short time have all the comforts that any athletic field affords. This much needed ad- dition is made possible by the generosity and big-heartedness of three promi- nent and substantial Concord gentleman. The matter was presented to them as a fine opportunity for a kindly service, and they were not long in phoning their willing and hearty acceptance of this opportunity to aid the institution. These benefactors are Messrs. J. Archy Cannon, William H. Gibson and Geo. S. Klutz. The 340 boys at the school join the officials in the delightful sen- sation of writing the names of these gentleman in their little books, where other benefactors names are recorded. JUNE. By Mrs. H. S. Williams Oh, June, how glorious are thy days— So fresh and sweet and rare, All nature gently sings thy praise And perfumes fill the air. The stately hollyhock is fine— Sweet pea and roses, too, No time is pleasanter than thine, Thy days are all too few. And, June, I love each precious minute, No month is quite so dear; The thrush, the bluebird and the linnet Sing gladness in my ear. I wish you’d stay forever, June. '] You’re always at your best; When earth and people are in tune

Sweet June, you do the rest. ■ 8 THE UPLIFT MAYVIEW PARK AND MAY VIEW MANOR

By Jas. A. Robinson Development of Mayview Park was Mayview property on the north, while begun three years ago by W. L. Alex- on the east is the Boone area of the ander. The entire property com- Government National Forest. This prises Mayview Manor, the Wonder- government forest extends 15 or 20 land Theater, with about fifteen cot- miles to the east from Mayview tages and other necessary things that Manor. Seventy thousand acres of go to make up a complete and mod- government land is in this immediate ern community. There is a children’s tract. hospital, drug store, laundry, dairy, Blowing Rock is located on top of power plant, garages, ice plant and the divide of the Blue Ridge moun- cold storage, lake and bath houses, tains. It is on the State highway be- and everything else necessary to tween Lenoir and Boone, twenty round out all the things a person or miles from Lenoir and ten miles from family could want during a summer’s Boone. Another State higghway leads stay. Mayview Manor also maintains from Blowing Rock to Linville, New- a number of the finest tennis courts land, Spruce Pine and Asheville. It to be found. The water supply comes is 95 miles from Blowing Rock over from an underground reservoir di- this route to Asheville. From Blow- rect to the homes. This water is ing Rock to Asheville by the way of from pure mountain springs that are Lenoir, Morganton and the Central above 5,000 feet in altitude. Several highway is 105 miles. miles of graded and top-soiled roads Mayview Manor is built almost en- run through the prperty. tirely of native material. Native Three miles distant, the Mayview stone quarried from the mountain- property takes in a large area on sides was used in all the masonry. Boone Fork creek. Here is a trout The lumber used was cut from near- stream, possibly the finest in North by forests, while the chestnut bark Carolina. Ten miles of this stream siding is a typical product of the sec- are open to guests of Mayview tion. The inside finish of the hotel Manor. This property is being de- is in chestnut, while the furniture, however, are not allowed on this which was made in Lenoir, also car- property. The Co)ne estate joins ries out this design.

“Man’s progress has been by the breaking of chains. It doesn’t matter what chains you break, strike fearlessly at anything that tends to hold back or to hold down a man. It is legitimate to emulate Plato, Lincoln and the rest, but do not forget that whatever your station there are chains you can break. There are the chains of disease, there are the chains of ignorance, there are the chains of prejudice, there are the chains of false- hood, there are the chains of tyranny, there are the chains of death. ’ ’—Dr. Plato Durham at Chapel Hill. THE UPLIFT NORTH CAROLINA’S ROOF GARDEN.

(By Old Hurry graph) The Yonahiossee (which means the lovely Linville valley, where na- bear trail—and it is evident the bears ture and man have combined to make knew a beautiful route to travel) a little paradise on earth—the golf- State highway, from Blowing Rock ers heaven. The bark covered Eseeola to Linville, is one of the most fasci- Inn, and the cottages, are as natural nating and thrilling scenic highways to the lovely velvet-green valley as in the world. Besides the startling the trees. This wonder skyland was views of Majestic mountains, near a revelation to many editors who and far, on either side, rise rhod- have hot been here before. They odendrons in regal, riotous beauty; have gone home singing its praises. flaming azaleas, zealous of their beau- Big Improvements On The Way. ty, astound your senses; and the love- American men and women are ly laurel gathers in beauty—clusters everywhere realizing the importance to add to their charms to the ever- of devoting more time to the rest and changing panoramic scenes. There are recreation, if they are to meet suc- other flowers, and gorgeous ferns, in cessfully the intense demands of this avenue of wonder, but you buisness and social life. The number scarcely see them, being so intoxi- visiting the resorts of the Southern cated with the queenly rhododend- Appalachians is ever increasing. rons, azaleas and the caparicious There is room in this particular laurel. There are numerous glens, section for two millions of people fresh with fairy splendor and crys- who desire to sport and rest in the tal waterfalls, that catch the sun- play-ground and roof garden of shine through green tapestry of tress North Carolina, and America. Lin- and change it into golden laughter; ville is one of the most attractive dark pools where the musicial fall of spots on the globe. It is proposed the waters lulls into dreams of sweet to erect here a modern resort hotel romance. There are scenes and fra- and an 18-hole golf course, with grances in the heart of the forests, other features for healthful recrea- along the Yonahiossee highway that tion, at an approximate cost of $435,- play on the waiting heart like in- 000. It is on the way. cense. The forest breathes upon you It was revealed to the editors, on the natural perfumes of the pines, their short visit to Linville, thaty -balsams, firs and hemlocks, and you Linville, Mayview Manor, at Blowing inhale an exhilaration that is per- Rock, and the town of Blowing Rock verbial in this section. are working in complete harmony, for Up In Wonderland. each other’s interest. A beautiful This was the surprising introduc- spirit of co-operation, which is des- tion of the North Carolina editors tined to make this section the beauty .Saturday, to mountain scenery and spot and the play ground—more at- beauty, as they passed over the Yon- tractive than ever—to America’s ahiossee road, and were ushered into rest and recreation seekers. 10 THE UPLIFT

HON, CHAS, A. WEBB.

Mr. Chas. A. Webb, Of The Ash- Association Was Elected Its Presi- ville Citizen, Who At The Recent dent. Meeting Of The North Carolina Press

WOMEN AT WORK.

This is taken bodily from the News & Observer, the same being contributed by Miss Nell Battle Lewis, a very brilliant young woman, who has attached herself to the State Welfare Department as publicity manager. Miss Lewis contributes some lively discussions to the Sunday issue of the uOld Reliable This one is highly charged with sound philosophy and good sense, though written in a vein of humor. Somewhere we read recently that erful instrument in bringing about certain organizations of women are the entrance of women into the busi- planning to join in a celebration in ness world. honor of the inventor of the type- Probably more women have enter- writer, (apologies for not being more ed this sphere, to' which we seem to

accurately informed)—the idea being have heard that they do not “ be- that the type-writer has been a pow- long, ” by pounding the keys of a THE UPLIFT 11 type-writer than in any other one a large proportion of the more intel- way. As one whose daily and night- ligent women workers. ly work is done mainly on this ma- In the old regime in the South, the chine, manipulation of which has work that women did was, almost en- given us some of the keenest pleas- tirely domestic. The superior woman ure of our life, we herewith paw the who worked then usually had to be constant Corona to the effect that a domestic executive or nothing, for participation by women in such a to her lot fell the management of a celebration seems to us decidedly in large number of servants in the order. plantation home. A few, usually con- This suggests the whole subject of sidered unfortunately penurious, women at work, not only the work- taught select private schools. But ing girl for whom, it is said, that the general ideal for a woman then Heaven has special protection, but al- was a creature of beautiful leisure so those women of maturer years who, who could not do better, with or in constantly increasing numbers, are without children, than to decorate finding satisfaction in regular em- the world by sitting on a cushion and ployment, In our own conception of sewing as fine a seam as possible. If the Ideal Republic every woman she had children to rear she had therein whose time is not taken up what is still, of course, the highest r with rearing her family, as well as and most valuable employment for' a those exceptionally gifted women who woman, but women who did not have are capable of handling efficiently children were, in the main, doomed,—- two jobs at once, will, as a matter of and “doomed” is the world.—to course, be regularly and actively at graceful idleness. work. In our own republic the An atavistic throw-back on our idle woman will not merely be out part has always made us admire the of fashion. She will be completely hoop-skirted femine costumes of the and fortunately extinct. ’50’s and ’60’s as the loveliest that With the recently rapid progress of women have ever worn. But we con- that fascinating phase of human evo- sole ourself for having been born too lution, “The Woman’s Movements,” late to wear them by reflecting that a great change has come about in the women of that peroid, although the popular attitude in regard to the unquestionably more decorative, must employment of women. The rise of have been much more subject to en- industrialism with its need of thous- nui than enterprising ladies of the ands upon thousands of machine present. workers has given work to countless This ideal of idleness as proper women. The typewriter has brought for a woman has, happily, been to a out of domestic life countless more large extent modified, even in the as stenographers. With the increas- South where the ante-bellum leisure ing, though reluctant admission of was especially fashionable. But, un- the intellectual capacity of women, fortunately, there are still vestiges many of the superior among them of its survivals among the local have entered professions other than “quality” and among others who ape that of teaching which still claims its members. The most entirely fool- 12 THE UPLIFT ish utterance that we think we ever of it, the unmatched satisfaction that heard from the lips of a well-born results for the person who, as Emer- woman in this section was her apol- son, (himself of the “quality”) says, ogy for having to work. “Pm just “is relieved and gay when he has working for furbelows,” said she done his best work.” A. C. Benson with what seems to us complete stu- even goes far as to declare that “the pidity. There was, too, a certain secret of happiness is in congenial business man in Raleigh who employ- labor” and he mentions no restrict- ed a number of giris in his office. ions as to sex. So many of them simpered, “I don’t All of which does not mean that have to work,” when applying for a we rush to work every morning with job, that he finally became properly a blithe song on our lips. Not at all. disgusted and said, “Well, if that’s But it does mean that if we were the way you feel about it, thenl don’t asked to name the source of content- want you-” Which, in our judgment, ment and satifaction in our daily was exactly the succinct reply these life which we would be least willing particularly foolish virgins deserved. to dispense with, we should unhesi- The woman whose time is not tak- tatingly answer: “My two jobs.” en up with her household duties and The ridiculous assumption that who does not work is missing one of work is in some way degrading either the greatest pleasures as well as one for a man or for a woman result, of of the greatest lessons in life. Be- course, from confusion in regard to cause of pitifully false pride or in- the relative importance of what a dolence she is voluntarily foregoing person does and what a person is. one of the real joys of living. In our It is almost platitudinous to say that estimation this woman is short-sight- the latter is practically all important ed. and that the former follows and takes A lot has been said about the dig- its entire character, good or ill, from nity of labor,” no so much about the that. fun that is mixed up with the stress

“Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome. But when I am stretched beneath the pines, When the evening star so lonely shines, I laugh at the love and and the pride of man, At the sophist’s schools and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit When man in the bush with God can meet?” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. THE UPLIFT 13 WHAT POLITENESS DID FOR A LAW- YER.

Hon. Josphus Daniels missed the annual convention of the N. C. Press Asso- ciation last week at Blowing Rock. He is out west filling Chatauqua engage- ments hut occasionly contributes the impressions and good stories that are suggested in “Riding on the Rail.” This is particularly an engaging story because behind it is an incident in the life of one of the greatest men the South ever produced, and teaches a les- son that all could adopt with fine advantage. Does courtesy pay ? we couldn’t get off. Finally the I mean the courtesy in travel that conductor found two camp stools and includes giving up your bunk for we were trying to make ourselves somebody else—somebody you never comfortable when Chief Justice Ed- saw? ward D. White came up the aisle. The late Chief Justice White told He was not then Chief Justice. I me a story once out of his own ex- had known him when he was Sen- perience that prompts the question ator. We exchanged greetings and with which this “ Riding On ‘tihe he soon learned our predicament. Rail ’ ’ opened. With his innate courtesy, the great My wife and I had been to New man said, “Why this is very fortu- Orleans to attend the National nate.” We thought is most unfor- Editorial Association and also to tunate and could not grasp his mean- take in the Mardi Gras. We plan- ing. He continued: ned upon leaving to run down to “I am on my way back to Wash- Beauvior and spend a day at the ington and have a hard day’s work home of Jefferson Davis. As it was to do, having my law books here a trip of only a few hours, I had with me. So I engaged a whole sec- not engaged seats on the train. tion. It is fortunate I ^have the Our bus was late and we got to the space and you will come and share it train just in time to rush aboard and with me.” our bags were tossed on the last car His gracious hospitality was ac- as the train moved out. cepted and we listened with delight “What reservations have you?” to his stories and incidents of his asked the conductor. early life in New Orleans. In the I explained we had decided late course of the evening the Justice said to take the train, were going only to the opportunity to share his space Beauvior, and had no reservations. with us recalled an incident that “There is not a seat on this happened when he was a young law- train,” he said. “The depot mas- yer just starting practice in New ter ought not to have permitted you Orleans. “I had almost forgotten to board the train without reserva- it, for it happened many years ago,” tions.” and he gave us this leaf out of his It was a predicament. The train life: was going forty miles an hour and One night he was coming out of 14 THE UPLIFT

Memphis where he had been on pro- wife thanked Mr. White, and the fessional business. Just before the future Chief Justice went in the train started, a young woman came smoker, read his book, and at 3 a. m. in the car. She was very pale and the porter made up his bed, he slept was supported by her husband. He to New Orleans and thought no more had Pullman tickets for Lower 6. about the incident. He seated his wife, handed his Until—a few months later as he tickets to the conductor, at the time sat in his law office (he did not have remarking, “Please have the bed many cases then) there was a knock made up at once. My wife is ill on the door, a gentleman came in and the doctor has ordered her to X and asked, “Are you Mr. White?” at Once.” The conductor looked at Receiving an affirmative answer, the the tickets, and said, “I am sorry, young man introduced himself as sir, but this seat has already been the local representative of one of purchased by another gentleman and the biggest corporations doing busi- it has been assigned to him.” The ness in Louisiana, He explained young man told the conductor he had that as the result of a serious ac- bought the Pullman tickets from the cident in the plant of his corporation uptown ticket office- from the regular a number of employees, and others agent, and, as his wife was sick, he had lost their lives and others had ■would not surrender it. The conduc- been injured. ‘ ‘ The company is in tor said, “Perhaps the gentleman great trouble and I have come to ask would surrender it, but if not I am if we can retain you ? ’ ’ asked the helpless. My diagram shows that local representative. he is the rightful owner of Lower 6 Mr. White asked the facts, ac- and I am powerless.” cepted the retainer and looked into The other holder of. No. 6 would the whole matter carefully. He soon not surrender it, and there was a learned that the company was to quarrel and excited words between blame and had no real defense, and the young husband and the other was liable for many thousands of holder of the tickbet for Xo. 6. When dollars. He took charge of the case a conflict se'emed inevitable, Chief for the company, made the best Justice. White, the a young lawyer, possible settlements and the North- wTent over to the young husband, and ern representative who came down told him he would be most happy to expressed his pleasure that the com- surrender his lower to the sick wife. pany had gotten off so well. When “Your train,” said Mr. White, the matters were all settled up, Mr. “arrives at your destination at White told us he asked the young 3 a. m. I am going to New Orleans, man, ‘ ‘ Why did you happen to select and am in the midst of reading one me as the attorney you desired to of the most interesting books I ever represent your company in this case ? read. It is not my intention to go I did not know you, I had never to sleep now, and as I am going represented your company. I am through to New Orleans I will get curious to know how it happened.” plenty of sleep after 3 a. m. ” The The young man replied by asking young man was most grateful, his this question: “Do you remember THE UPLIFT 15 one night coming out of Memphis much litigation and he attended t® yon gave your Lower 6 to a young it all until he was elected to the man who came on the train with a United States Senate, sick wife?” This incident does NOT teach that Mr. White said he did. because a man has courtesy and “I was the young man,” said the sympathy, his generous acts will client. “I did not know your name, bring him clients or money. If but a short time thereafter as I was ever a man lived who never mad® walking along the street I recognized merchandise of chivalry that man you as the man who had rendered was Chief Justice White. His me that courtesy on the train. I courtesy was innate, in the bloody asked a passerby your name, he told and he could no more have refrained me that you were Lawyer White from giving his Lower 6 to the sick and I made up my mind if I ever lady than he could have committed had any litigation I would ask you a wrong. The grateful thing to him to represent me., 1 was that there is appreciation in this The Chief Justice looked out the world of kind deeds. He illustrated window after he had related that in- in his own life and experience that teresting incident, and after musing “Kind hearts are more than coro- a minute or two as was his wont, nets went on to say that the corporation And simple faith than Norman represented by the young man had blood.” large ajnd important interests and J. D,

BEING A FRIEND There is no word like friend. It is about the finest word we have to tell the closest relationship we can know. It is hard to explain, for it has no reasonable cause back of it. It is easy enough to see why a mother and her child grow to be closest companions; it is not hard to understand how husband and wife become firmest chums. But when two persons, with nothing of blood relationship to draw them, become friends that is a mystery. It would be no small thing to try to define a friend. Friendship may be described as to its actions and its outcomes, but just what it is defies definition. Maybe the boy was close to the truth when he gave a definition of a friend that must have come out of his unforget- able experience. He said, “A friend is a fellow who knows all about you and yet likes you.” Pretty good, we think, from a practical view- point. It may be weak in the fine points of a scientific analyst, but there are some things, such as friendship, and some person, such as friends, that are removed from the realm of analysis. We just take them and enjoy them and profit by them, asking no question as to why or how. It might be a good thing for each of us to try to conduct ourselves so that the more people know about us the better they would like us. Maybe that would help register us in the list of friends kept by many people.—Young Folks. 16 THE UPLIFT “OLD TIMES IN THE SOUTH.” (The Progressive Farmer) I—AN EXPERIENCE WITH “Are you the owner of this YANKEE RAIDERS. place?” he said. “Yes,” I told him. “Are you Shortly after the surrender of Lee Yankees ?” and the departure from Richmond of “Yes, we are. Where are your President Davis and his Cabinet, horses ?’’ there passed through this part of I told him I had sent them away. South Carolina a number of United “Sent them away, did you?” States soldiers, popularly estimated “Yes,” I replied. “I sent them at 5,000 men. away so you wouldn’t get hold of These trops claimed to be in pur- them. ” suit of Davis. They had the impres- “Well,” he said, “you come up sion that Jefferson Davis had passed to the house and we will take care this way with the specie belonging to of you.” the Confederate Treasury and that We went up to the house together he had spent the night at the home of and my escort told the other men my brother, Robert Adger, four what I had said. As he was speak- miles out from the village of Pendle- ing I saw that some of his comrades ton. Accordingly a major with his had gone into the house and I im- battalion came back from Anderson mediately turned and went in. One to Mr. Adger ,’s house and demanded of the party who had gone into the the treasure, threatening to hang house demanded my watch. I gave him if it were not forthcoming. it to him, but said, “Does your gov- The officer even insisted on telling ernment send you through the coun- ■where the money was hidden. There try to rob private citizens?” was a place under the basement of “Do you suppose I would go the house always covered with riding all around here and not take planks, and some Negro had told anything to my family?” he re- the major that Jeff Davis’s gold was torted. under those boards. Mr. Adger had Several ladies of my family were the boards lifted and a hole dug near and he said, “Don’t be afraid, deep enough to satisfy the major ladies. We only want to get that he had been misinformed. pistols and watches.” II They took whatever jewelry and While these men were at my articles of value they could find. brother’s place, seven or eight of Ill them came over to my house. I was I followed this man about as well lame at the time and obliged to use as I could with my crutch and final- a crutch. When they came up I ly walked with him along one side was at some distance from the of my side piazza and down the house but they saw me and one of back steps to where his horse was them came over to me. standing hitched. When he start- THE UPLIFT 17

The world’s greatest need is resolute, energetic workers. Ability is worthless without the power to put it into action.—The Way. 18 THE UPLIFT

1 JULY FOURTH IN HISTORY. i 1 By Earle W. Gage in Young Folks dered an army to the enemy. It was only a small army, but a fort was included. He experienced on this occasion his first defeat in war, at the hands of the French. Although at that time only twenty- two years of age, Washington had been placed in command of a small body of troops, which was marching toward Fort Duquesne. At a point on the Monongahela River, less than forty miles from his destination, he heard of the approach of a party of French and Indians, sent to inter- cept him. Accordingly he fell back to the Great Meadows, fifty miles from Cumberland, and hastily erect- ed a stockage which he called Fort Necessity. It was well named. With the aid of a friendly Indian —Sachem, Half King—Washington attacked the French in their camp at night, their commander being The signing of the Declaration of killed, several prisoners taken. It Independence on the Fourth of July, was the first blood shed in the French 1776, by fifty-six daring men was so and Indian war. A few days later important an event in American Fort Necessity was stormed by 1,500 history that when the day is men- Indians and French, under De Vil- tioned throughout the world that liers, and Washington surrendered event is immediately connected with on honorable terms, rather than it. have his entire company massacred. Yet, a great many other important This was on the morning of July things in connection with the history Fourth. He marched out with his of the United States happened on the army of four hundred men, drums Fourth of July. Only a deep stu- beating and flags flying, and he and dent of our history—one who has a his soldiers returned peaceably to wonderful memory—will be able to their homes. recall these events, yet they are of On July 4, 1846, the independence especial interest on this, the 147th of California was declared. There anniversary of American indepen- were at that time in California— dence. then part of Mexico—some two hun- It was on July 4th, 1754, that dred Americans, nearly all of them Colonel George Washington surren- men of exceptional vigor of body THE UPLIFT 19 and alertness of mind. Of Mexican Meanwhile, news had come of the Indians there were 6,000, and the outbreak of war along the Rio aboriginal (Indian population num- Grande, and on July 4 Fremont call- bered perhaps 200,000. ed a meeting at Sonoma, which for- Capt. John C. Fremont had been mally proclaimed the independence sent to California on an exploring qf California* He was appointed expedition the year before. He was its first Governor. on his way to Oregon when he was Soon afterward there came intel- overtaken by an officer sent from ligence that Commodore Sloat had Washington with a message, order- arrived at Monterey, July?, and had ing him to wait and to co-operate raised the American flag; also that with the Pacific squadron in case by his orders Commander Montgom- of hosilities with Mexico. The ery of the United States sloop of message had been in writing, but war Portsmouth, had taken posses- the officer was obliged to destroy it sion of San Francisco. while crossing Mexican territory Sloat, having heard of the hostil- after committing it to memory. Ac- ities with Mexico, had sailed im- cordingly, Fremont returned to Cali- mediately from Mazatlan for Cali- fornia and took up his headquarters fornia, where he took possession of at Sutter’s Fort. the country and raised the American A few days later, June 14, a party flag on his own responsibility. He of fourteen Americans organized a was none too soon, for exactly a small revolution on their own accord, week later, July 14, the British man- captured Sonoma and declared war of-war Collingwood, commanded by against the Goverment of Mexico. Sir George Seymour, arrived at Needing a flag and not daring to Monterey to proclaim British sover- use that of the United States, they eignty. It was thus by only a nar- made one, not out of an old lady’s row chance that England did not be- petticoat, but from a Mexican’s re- come the possessor of California, bosa, or scarf of unbleached muslin, which she had coveted greatly for a yard wide and five feet long. many years. Along the bottom they sewed a strip On July 4, 1584, two barks which of red flannel and in the left upper had seen sent by Sir Walter Raleigh corner they painted a star in red. to discover and annex the American The middle of the flag was occupied Continent of Florida, arrived off the by a picture of a grizzly bear, be- coast. Sailing for one hundred and neath which were the words, “ Cali- twenty miles they entered the mouth fornia Republic. ’ ’ of the river and took formal posses- The temporary government thus sion of the country for the Queen of established is known in history as England, naming it Virginia.’ They the “Bear Flag Republic.” Its landed qn * Roanoke ilsljand^ after- banner now ornaments the rooms of ward occupied by the first English the Pioneer Society in San Francis- settlement in the New World* co. The grizzly bear was rather This colony, consisting of 110 per- crudely drawn, and the ^Mexicans sons, sent out in April, 1585, was said it was a pig, calling the flag a abandoned in less than a year, the “pig flag.” settlers carrying back with them to 20 THE UPLIFT

Europe the first tobacco and pota- from Wilkesbarrq, had assembled a toes introduced into Europe, later garrison of three hundred, largely planted experimentally on Raleigh’s old men and boys. This force de- estate, not far from Cork, Ireland. cided to march against the invaders, On July 4, 1754, Benjamin Frank- which it did, resulting in disaster. lin laid before the Commissioners of Taken in flank, it was routed and the Colonies at Albany, a plan for a destroyed. Major Butler reported Federal Constitution, aimed to ac- taking 227 scalps and five prisoners, complish a union for defense against the English loss being two white French encroachment. It was adopt- men killed and eight Indians wound- ed, but afterwards was rejected by ed. some of the Colonies and by the Incredible deeds of cruelty and British Government, wTho feared or- ferocity are said to have been com- ganization on this continent. This mitted by the Tories on this occa- was exactly twenty-two before the sion and the whole valley was left a signing of the Declaration of Inde- scene of desolation. But it is not pendence. Curiously enough, the true that women and children were document was rejected by the Colo- massacred. They had fled in time nies because it put too much power to escape the enemy, though many into the hands of the king, and it, cf them perished in the swamps was vdted in England because it along the Pocono range in endeavor- gave too much power to the Coolnies. ing to escape. This gives sme conception of the un- On July 4, 1780, Continental derstanding of independence in those currency notes were worth two cents times. on the dollar, and it was said “a On July 4, 1770, umbrellas were wagon-load of paper money was re- first introduced into this country, a quired to pay for a wagon load of shipment of them arriving at the prqvisions.” Nothing could well port of Baltimore. They were gen- give a more vivid notion of the erally regarded as an absurdity and desperate situation of the Revolu- it was considered that only foolish tionary Party at that period. an effeminate persons could possibly Nine wagons of anthracite coal use them. were hauled one hundred and six The massacre of Wyoming Valley miles to Philadelphia, July 4, 1812. occurred on July 4, 1776. In the This, be it noted, was exactly one previous autumn two companies had hundred and twenty-three years ago. been raised in the valley and had Two of the loads sold for the cost of been ordered to join General Wash- transportation and the remainder ington. Several stockade forts had were driven away. The sale was been built during the summer, but afterward denounced as a fraud, be- those left behind to guard them were cause the stuff was “nothing but mostly old men. stones, and would not burn,” the A raiding force of Tories, Cana- fact being, of course, that people dians and Indians, under Major John did not know how to use coal. They Butler, a Tory of Niagara, entered kept poking up the fire instead of the valley and set fire to some of permitting the coal to burn unmolest- the forts. Forty Fort, three miles ed. But nevertheless, on that date^ THE UPLIFT 21 the commercial coal industry saw its adequate for the purpose that the birth, for every good cause is usual- monument remained a mere stump ly first brought under the fire of about one-third its present height,, ridicule before being accepted and until 1881, when /Congress appro- adopted. priated the amount necejssary for On the Fourth of July, 1826, its completion^ It cost in all about Thomas Jefferson, third president of $3,000,000. the United States, and author of the There was a similar and even more Declaration of Independence, died, important ceremony in Washington aged eighty-three, exactly thirty on July 4, 1851, when President years after the date of the birth Filmore initiated by the laying of a of this historic document. On the corner-stone the construction of the same day died John Adams, second two great white marble wings of the president of the United States, aged capitol. There was an impressive ninety-one. James Monroe also died assemblage of dignitaries and an ora- on the Fourth of July, 1831, aged tion by Daniel Webster, then Sec- seventy-four. retary of State. Of special interest On July 4, 1848, the Treaty of was the presence of a few persons Peace with Mexico was proclaimed who had witnessed the laying4 of the at Washington. And on the same first corner-stone of the Capitol by day the corner-stone of the Wash- George Washington, on September ington monument was laid with 18, 1793. great pomp and ceremony. Money Thus the Fourth of July means for building it had been subscribed much to the people of the United by individuals, but the sum thus States, and should be held in patri- obtained proved to be so far in- otic reverence.

NOT WITH DIRTY HANDS. In a sermon recently preached in Central Church, Chicago, the minister. Dr. F. F. Shannon, drew the following from his personal experience to illustrate a point he was making: “But I reckon that making a saint is worth all it costs. When he is finished he is worth more to God, in this world at least than an angel. I had this brought home to me in my pastoral work. I have an old friend whom I call “My Lace-Maker.’’ She is in her eighty-seventh year, but almost every time I call I find her making the most beautiful English lace. It .is a sight fit for angels and men to see Auntie, without glasses, handle her forty bob- bins and create the most exquisite designs. As her dear old hands, soft as the hands of a baby and almost as frail, showed me how well she could weave, she paused for a moment, held up her hands and said: ‘You see, I couldn’t do this work with dirty hands.’ It was so suggestive that £ ventured: ‘And Auntie, we can’t make a true life with dirty hands, either can we?’ Quick as a flash, she answered, ‘No, no; to make & beautiful life we have to say with Peter, ‘Lord, not my feet only, but alsoh my hands and my head.” 22 THE UPLIFT

religion? It is a hqiax—a hoary- wonders!)—all this “started itself!” headed hoax. Your heaven ? It All this and everything else in the is no more than another Utopia— universe, whether material and in- -a dream-land. Your life? It is a animate, with or without reason, or vapor-without continuity, purpose mental, spiritual, metaphysical, emo- or meaning. Your Mind? It is tion, comprehensible or incompre- only a bit of wind and water and hensible—originated itself—started waste—signifying nothing. Your in the bosom of a protoplasm or a soul? It is a mixture of imagina- microcosm, evolving, of itself, into tion and metaphysical ether-dust. larvae, etc., etc.—then into all the Your world? 'It is a mad-house. glories of a multiplex and infinite Your friends. They are only a lot world! Nothing designed it! Noth- of gibbering idiots in a vast cosmic ing defined it! Nothing behind it! Not insane asylum—with no hope, no even Reason. Just a Process started destiny, no> ultimate and no .'pri- itself! “If anybody likes that kind mate. Nothing about you has any of a god—that is the kind of a god meaning—it has no significance—no he likes!” Is there any sense in end—no purpose and no intelligent it? Any reason? Is it really scien- interpretation, cause or origin. tific?' Is it indeed not absolutely No God! Then your Bible and absurd ? Quite Quixotic! your Church rest on a bubble. It is related that Bishop Brooks 4‘The heavens declare the glory of called in Bob Ingersoll and showed God. ’ ’—no! The heavens declare him marvelously executed globe—a the glory of Science! The heavens reproduction of the world in minia- —and the earth, and this vast myr- ture—done with infinite skill Jand iad-planetted universe—they all de- care and scientific accuracy. “Who clare th glory of Chance, of Matter made it?” asked the noted infidel. and the Molecule! And the firma- “Nobody,” was the reply. It is ment showeth—not God’s handiwork said that this came nearer convert- -—but the handiwork of Blind Chance ing Ingersoll, according to his own and Innate Material Energy—Mole- alleged statement, than did anything cular Motion and Material Evolu- that ever hapj>ened in his life. And tion! who can believe that either he or No God! Then all your hymns, anyone else with rational faculties all your prayers, all your aspirations could live and die in absolute and —these are merely a snare nd a delu- categorical denial of some sort of sion! We are still thinking in belief in some sort of Infinite Intel- terms ; of mythology and supersti- ligence ? tion ! The vast universe—stars, Again/ if there be no God—then planets, fire-mist and gases—trees, Christ, the master mind and heart flowers, fruit—fish, fowl and flying of the race—Christ, the Incompar- creatures—mammal, mastodon, man able One, was self-deceived; or else —space, time, energy, gravitation— the Best Man who ever lived (and it electricity, radio-activity, winds and is beyond peradventure that He did storms—Niagaras and all the Sev- live) has decieved us! Not only has en Wonders (all the seven million He eluded us, but He has founded a THE UPLIFT 23 SUPPOSE THERE WERE NO GOD. By Thos, F, Opie

Ps. 116: 11.—All men are liars. mention the whole world, would Ps. 14: 1.—There is no God.—Men benefit! who are saying there is no God are If there be no God, then Moses doing what I have done with these was insane! But no—he was among famous texts. They have torn the the wisest of the ages. He was material world out of a contiguous the world’s first law'-givelr. Black- universe and failed to read the whole stone the eminent English authori- of the world’s history. You have ty on things legal, based most of his seen railroad tickets that are per- law on Moses! And to this day* forated and that have a coupon at- young attorneys the world over, tached which reads, “Not good if study Moses throught Blackstone detached.” I have '“detached” If there be no God then David those two statements from the was an idiot. But no—he was a Psalms, 11 All men are liars ’ ’ and great statesman, a great warrior, a “There is no God”—and there is no great poet—clear-sighted and wise, truth in either. The complete texts if human and clay^clogged. Then read, I said in mine haste, “All men Daniel was a fool. But no-—he was men are liars” and the fool hath the wisest and most astute man in said in his heart, “There is no God.” the kingdom—a statesman of genius Scientific and philosophical con- and foresight—honored and re- clusions and pronouncements which nowned, even in a foreign state. leave out the Infinite, the Divine, Then Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, which leave out the spiritual, the Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Omniscient, the Great First Cause— Micah, Nahum, and all the other these have “detached” things tan- prophets of righteousness, were un- gible and material from the ultimate der an hallucination—all suffered and complete cosmos, and have read from mental aberration—or else and interpreted to the world only a from .spiritual degeneracy—de- part of the text. And it is evident ceived or else deceiving. that these pronouncements, like the We put Cromwell, Victoria:, railway tickets, are no good if de- Shakespeare—Jefferson, Washing- tached. Let us have the whole cos- ton, Lee—Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, mic reading! Harding—Bryan, Spear, Mott—We Suppose there were no God! Then put these against Tom Paine, In- let the race war and destroy and kill gersoll—and ever several infidel, and murder! Let only the “fit” agnostic and unbeliever that the survive! If there were no God the wide world has produced—dead or only one who would benefit, would living today! be the “Fool”—he would be vindi- No God! Then your pastor is a cated ! The fool hath said in his fake and a fraud—or else self-de- 'heart, “There is no God.” Judge ceived and a fool. Your church? you whether even the fool, not to It is a temple to a myth. Your^ 24 THE UPLIFT’

Church on the sand, like the Foolish and million worlds—with just a Zero Man in His Parable of the Build- for their origin—a Cipher as their ers—if there be no God, as repre- creator and makers If that be sented and supposed by this Church. Reason—if that be Logic—if that be Christ deceived ? Christ a deceiv- Science—give me hemlock and dead- er? Christ knew less than your in- ly drugs that will destroy me— fidel and your smart professor of reason, affection, soul and spirit! agnosticism? I will take my chances But no! I am “incurably religio- with Jesus, in His Church, with the us 7 ’—and so is the whole human high-minded spiritual leaders of the race. Rule out God and you have a ages. Then, to put the matter on world darker and more hopeless than the flimsiest of bases for argument, would be this planet with no sun— if in the end of the age we find there no light, no comfort, no life! Re- is no God—I have nothing to lose! ductio ad absurdum. I have lived nobly, serviceably, “A haze on the far horizon, the in- spiritually, deeply—but have lost finite tender sky— nothing in the process. But, if in The ripe rich tints of the corn- the end of the age, it develops that fields, there is a God whom we must all And the wild-gesse sailing high; meet, and in whose presence we And aR over./ up-land and low- stand or fall, then the agnostic and land the infidel and the blasphemer and The charm of the golden-rod (God7s the reprobate, the degenerate and glowing smile!)— the self-deceived—these all have Some of us call it Autumn-—and much indeed to lose! I have two others call it God. chances to the unbeliever ys one to “Like tides on a crescent sea-beach, come out well and happily in the When the moon is new and thin— end! Into our hearts high yearnings Nd God? Then millions have Come welling and surging in;— lived and died all but in vain. Then Come from that mystic ocean whose three billion dollars7 worth of rim no foot hath trod—■ churches in this land—and quin- Some people call it Longing—and tillions7 worth of cathedrals and others call it God. church buildings throughout the “A fire-midst and a planet—a crys- Christian era, have been dedicated tal and a cell; to Nothing—sacred to the Great and A jelly-fish and a saurian—and a Infinite Negation—a divine, infinite, cave where cave-men dwell; omnipotent Negative! Then a sense of Law and Beauty— No God? Then 1 say we have a And a face turned from the clod— material, metaphysical, spiritual uni- Some call it Evolution—and others averse, a universe of over four thous- call it God.77

“Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “goes fishin’ not so much foh de sake t>f de fish as foh de chance to loaf without bein’ noticed.” THE UPLIFT 25

“OLD TIMES IN THE SOUTH.” him to the spring. As I stepped out,, (Continued From Page 17.) hot as a freshly baked potato and round as I was long in my four thick inked the name for him. dresses, I saw the officer hide a smile When his brother looked at the behind his hand. I pranced ahead grave and its inscription, tears came of him as stately as possible, never to his eyes and he said, “You did glancing at him. all you could for my poor brother.” “ ‘Are all the young rebels as I told him I would do no less for plumb as you, Miss?’ he asked as he any man who died at my door. stalked after me to the spring. ‘I Six mjonths afterwards a squad would certainly like to have your of soldiers was sent from Anderson picture to show up North as the hot- for the remains of the dead sol- test little rebel south of the Mason- dier. Dixon line. ’ ’ ’ Jno. B. Adger, D.D. “I interrupted him with a stamp Pendleton, S. C. of my foot that sent all four of those II.—“THE HOTTEST LITTLE skirts around my ankles in a swirl, REBEL” showing the various colors of my It was the 20th of May again, and 'attire. ‘Perhaps you can take an- a warm day. I was sitting on the other picture of the hottest rebel steps, while on the porch were my back with you,’ I retorted, as a sud- father in his wheel chair and Aunt den idea entered my head, and with Kate, a dear old lady who was bare- a quick twist of my arm I drenched ly four feet tall but had a dignity him and his fresh uniform with a all her own. bucket of the cold spring water. Be- “It’s warm today,” said Daddy., fore he recovered I had scampered “But not as warm os the 20th of up the hill and out of sight. May, 1864,” said Aunt Kate. “I Aut Kat.e’s merry laugh joined walked down the hill that morning ours, for the memory of her wilful with one of Sherman’s officers, wear- deed still gave her a happy sense of ing four, my only four, homespun satisfaction. dresses all at once.”' “He was quite a spectacle as he ‘ ‘ Four dresses at one time, marched back to the wounded sol- Kate?” asked Daddy. dier,” she concluded. “At once “Why, Billy, don’t yo uremem- more soldiers joined him, and I think ber? If Sherman burned our house, they enjoyed his discomfort as much I was determined he should have as I did. From my hiding place I no chance at my clothes!” could hear and see them, and I heard “This Yankee officer had come to him tell them that the cause of his the door and asked if he might have plight was ‘the hottest little rebel I some water for a wounded soldier ever saw, fighting for their blooming nearby. We had drunk every drop Confederacy in her own way.’ ”—- in the house, and Ma told me to take Mrs. W. S. Adams, Senoia, Ga. 26 THE UPLIFT FUTHER TALK ABOUT MA. By R. R. CIARK Editorial suggestions in the last I sincerely hope that it will be built Issue of THE UPLIFT, concerning on the plan suggested. my remarks on Ma and her relation But I have long had it in mind to to the scheme of things, are respon- urge not only that Ma’s burden be sible for this second installment on lightened, but that she contribute the subject. to her own emancipation by refusing I was, as the editor suggests, talk- to longer allow herself to be made ing about the old-fashioned Mas, the the pack horse for the family; and real Mas who make up the great that she contribute to changing the majority in the realm of mother- system by training her children to hood; the Mas who sacrifice and consider what is due Ma. Ma’s place serve. And let it be understood that 'in the scheme is being improved, but I bow in reverence to this type of she will never get what is her due womanhood. It is to that type that until she takes her own. It takes a every man worth his salt is mainly long time to change custom. We indebted for whatever character he accept things as they are when we has and for whatever success in life know they are wrong simply because he may have—to them and the good they have always been that way. woman of similar type who has Talking with an old-time Southern shared his fortunes and sacrificed for gentleman a few years ago, one who him. Sometimes the wife is entitled shined as the master of the “big to more credit for the making of the house, ’ ’ with blooded stock, dogs and man than she gets, but she is general- plenty of negro servants to do his ly included in the homage paid to bidding, we discussed horses because mothers and her task has been much we both loved horses and preferred lightened if the man has a good them to an automobile. But I spoke mother. I am delighted to see that up for that machine so common in the lady who was responsible for the the countryside because of what it institution of Mothers’ Day, now so has done for the women. It gives generally celebrated annually, has a many Mas and Grandmas an outing plan to erect in Washington an that they could not have had under immense, towering monument to the old conditions; and when I see the Mas who wear aprons; to the millions old ladies from the remote rural and millions of Mas who served parts sailing along in the machine— their own, their country and the going to town, to meeting, to school world with an unselfishness beyond closing or the picnic, I take off my compare; whose names are unknown hat to the Detroit man who has re- beyond their immediate neighbor- ceived so much free advertising. And hood in most instances. It is the my age companion answered with a memories of these unknown heroines sigh, “Yes, it was a crime, the way in the world’s work that the monu- the women have been treated; but At ment would perpetuate for all time. was custom and we didn’t realize the THE UPLIFT 27 wrong. ” It is a custom I would but in actual service and courtesy break; and I want to impress the fact due mother and sister. A boy so that they who would be free them- trained in the home will make a good selves must strike the blow. husband. Then the idea of equal I could hardly express in polite partnership in the relation of hus- language my opinion of the Mas who band and wife must be stressed—- neglect the duties of home, leave the an equal share in labor and sacrifice children to the care of incompetent in home-building and an equal divide servants or to their own devices, who of the proceeds. The woman who have no conception of the making of demands that her husband support a real home for their partners, but her in idleness, who keeps his nose who give their whole time to social to the grindstone by her extrava- or civic or other outside duties; eith- gance—spending without regard to er living frivolous lives or giving his income—is of course unfit for the their time to re-making the com- partnership. But she is the reaction munity or the country while their from that type who slaved in unre- own domestic affairs are neglected. quited toil, who got nothing because Neither could I compliment those she didn’t have the spirit to demand who accept wifehood but refuse it and who was always left at home motherhood and who prefer a board- when Pa went on the outing. ing house because it frees them from Modern standards of living—living the duties of housekeeping, of home- beyond one’s means and constantly making. But we must admit, beloved, under the stress of debt—tend to that this is but a reaction from the wreck domestic peace. If the young- slavery of wives and mothers of sters who decide to form a partner- which I have been talking. Ob- ship would be entirely candid with serving what mother has endured, each other before the contract is being many a daughter has solemnly re- made binding, there would be resolved that she will be free, and in fewer wrecks, The fool male will escaping the mother’s lot she has pretend to the lady, or at least leave gone to the other extreme. It is the her under the impression, that he system that has been at fault. Ma can maintain her in style when his hasn’t had a square deal; and she sense, if he has any, tells him that hasn’t had a square deal because she he can’t; while the silly maiden may has accepted the heritage of the ages. look upon marriage as an escape from But when the revolt comes, as is al- work, as having a good time with- ways the case, it is overdone. The out any responsibility. last state is really worse than the We must get away from these no- first. But it is the striving of the tions, which do not yet predominate woman for a square deal. In that in our part of the country, praise he, striving she is often unjust to the but which are entirely too common man, unjust to herself and most un- for the general good. We must get just to her offspring if she has any. away from the false standards if the I would have the mothers begin in home, the real foundation of all the training their little son as to civilization, is to be maintain- their duty to women; not in words ed. 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where all real worth while work has true relationship of matrimonial always started. Ma must free her- partnerships and the equal profit self from voluntary servitude without sharing in real home-building, which going to that excess which will make is building civilization, by example her freedom a mockery; and Ma must as well as by precept. train her sons and daughters in the

LOOK AT YOUR DOLLAR. Reader, have you a Greenback in your pocket? Oh, yes there are Greenbacks—much as the “expert would have you think otherwise, there are still Greenbacks!—Take one out of your pocket —a dollar bill—and mark well the language which it bears. It is money—except! Look at the fine print on the bill and find the word “except.” Although it is American money, it is not good for everything, as the following inscription attests: “This note is a legal tender at its face value for all debts, public and private. EXCEPT duties an imports and interests on the public debt.” So, good citzen, you perhaps handle every day this transcript of the famous Exception clause of the Legal Tender Act—a clause which has in- spired millions of words in denunciation and defense. This way only one of a score or more amendments which the Senate added to the original House Bill, all conceived in the interests of the money brokers. Thaddeus Stevens fought all these amendments to the last ditch. —Exchange.

INSTITUTION NOTES. By Pressly Mills Master James Allen has been Master Robert Rising, who was placed in the carpenter shop. paroled last January, paid a visit zzzz to the instittuion last Sabbath after- noon. The carpenter shop boys are making new tables for the different zzzz places of business. Miss Dora Barnhardt, the matron Z Z $ £ of the 9th Cottage, left the institu- The boys discarded their blankets tion, last Saturday, for a few weeks a few days ago. No more hot nights vacation. for them now. ZZZZ ZZZZ On Tuesday and Friday nights The oats, that were reaped by the band boys practice. Each night Mr. Horton a few days ago, are being they learn from one to two new stowed in the barn. pieces of music. THE UPLIFT 29

Master Erwin Cole and Master of the time. Henry Brewer were taken to the tttt Concord Hospital, where they under- Last Monday morning the boys went operations for appendicitis started harvesting the Irish pota- last week. toes. It will take some time for them tttt to finish this task for about twelve Last week Master Walter Mills’ hundred and. fifty bushels are ex- foot was badly cut by a mowiug pected to be tallied when all have machine. He was taken to Con- been harvested. cord, where his foot was dressed tttt by a doctor. The following boys received visit- tttt ors at the institution last Wednes- Fresh vegetables, such as cab- day: Grover Cook, Alphonso Wiles, bage, cucumbers, potatoes and Herman Cook, Harry Shirley, Erma beans, are beiug obtained from the Leach, Obed McLain, Avery Roberts, farm. Soon other vegetables will Nomie Lee, Mack Wentz, Roy John- also be obtained. son, Oscar Johnson, Claude Frisch, tttt Judge Brooks and Sylvester Honey- Mr. Jason Fisher came out to the cutt. institution again last Tuesday and tttt Friday nights. The boys are get- The Rev. Mr. Rowan, of Concord, ting good practice during the few conducted the religious services in hours they have these nights. the Auditorium on the Sabbath tttt afternoon of June 17. Rev. Rowan Mr. T. L. Grier has returned to preached so earnestly, that his ser- the institution from a much enjoyed mon was carried home to the hearts vacation. Mr. Grier, accompanied by of all in his presence. Rev. Rowan Mr. George Lawerence, made a tour is a good preacher and we hope to of several of the Northern States. have him with us again soon. tttt tttt Three more months have passed This year the base ball club is and the boys have received new falling behind compared with the quarterlies again. They are proud of record made last year. Last year their quarterlies and we hope that a good record was made. The boys they will get as much good out of won 10 and lost 2. Good team these as they did out of the last work enabled them to make this re- ones. cord. The Pet. of the club last tttt year was .833. This year the pres- The weather is becoming so hot ent Pet. is .556. that the boys of Mr. W. M. Crooks tttt school-room have bought an electric At the dairy barn eighteen cows fan. Now the boys can study easily are being milked. From these as the fan drives out the hot air and cows fifty five gallons of milk are keeps a circulation of cool air all being obtained daily. About three 30 THE UPLIFT gallons of milk is obtained from each Mr. Boger told the boys they were cow. Mr. Hobby is feeding the cows going to the “ole swimmim’ hole’% Spartan dariy feed and he sees a de- they showed their appreciation by cided change* in the milk production. giving a loud cheer for Mr. Boger* Also another Holstein cow was After the long walk to the creek purchased last week. the boys sat down for a brief rest* tttt Then they took to the water sixty at a time. Each squad remained The boys received one of the in the water about twenty minutes most agreeable surprises they have and they had more fun in these few ever had last Saturday afternoon minutes than they could have had about one oclock, when the Cottage anywhere else during the whole lines assembled at the tree. When day.

THE BUSY MAN. If you want to get a favor done By some obliging friend, And want a promise, safe and sure, On which you may depend, Don’t go to him who always has Much leisure time to plan, But, if you want your favor done, Just ask the busy man. The man with leisure never has A moment*he can spare; He’s busy “putting off” until His friends are in despair. But he whose every waking hour Is crowded full if work,* Forgets the art of wasting time- He cannot stop to shirk. So when you want a favor done, And want it right away, G-o to the man who constantly Works twenty hours a day. He’ll find a moment, sure, somewhere, That has no other use, And fix you while the idle man Is framing an excuse. —Selected. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Passenger Train Schedules

Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains, Concord, N. C, LV. NO. BETWEEN NO. AR. 1:40A i 30 i New York-Birmingham i 30 i 1:40 A 2:37A i 29 i Birmingham-New York i 29 i 2:37A §:12A i 44 i Washington-Atlanta i 44 i 5:12A 8:32A i 31 i Atlanta-New York i 31 i 6:32A 8:41 A i 137 i Atlanta-New York i 137 i 8:41A i 9:25A i 11 i Charlotte-Norfolk-Richmond i 11 i 9:25A 10:55A i 36 i New York Birmingham-New Orleans i 36 i 10:55A 3:20P i 45 i Washington-Charlotte i 45 i 3 *20P 3:45P i 46 i Charlotte-Danville i 46 i 3:45P 7:10P i 12 i N orf olk-Richmond- Atlanta 12 i 7:10P 8:18P i 32 i New York-Augusta i 32 i 8:18P 10:20P i 35 i Birmingham-New Orleans-New York i 35 i 10:20P 9:45P i 138 i New York-Atlanta i 138 i 9:45P 9:31P i 135 i Washington-Atlanta i 135 i 9:31P Through Pullman sleeping car service to Washington, Philidelphia* New York, Richmond, Norfolk, Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, New Orleans Unexcelled service, convenient schedules and direct connections to all points. Schedules published as information and are not guaranteed.

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