The farmer and mechanic., 1911-01-10
Joyner's Chat
By ANDREW J. JOINER.

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Guilford county has been growing some
In the way Of increased population. ahd
taxable wealth III the past ten years. out
this doing more postoffice business III one
week this year than for % weeks tel
years ago, Is going some more.
| wonder II the enormous stamp safes
here and elsewhere last week, doesn't make
a better illustration OF the difference pc
tween the immense number OF Christmas
presents that are given nowadays, ana ~
the way Of ten yearS ago, than it does OF
the actual increase Of healthy business.
Every body knows Greensboros regular
everyday business now is more than Ten
times the amount Of ten years ago, but
it is not nfty-two times much. There
was Christmas week at the Greensbor"
postoffice ten years ago too, and we al
thought, 1 sure, that folks were mighty
nigh Christmas present crazy then. uut
Lord, how we have progressed since then
in everything.
Truth Is, most Of us are living so fast.
we have got the speed mania and the
spending mania. Telegraphs. telephones.
w W.relesS messages from continent to cOnti-
nent have all annihiated time; electric
power. and automobiles have conquered
distance. and airShipS have not only given
US the speed of the hurricane, but they
have made man absolute master OF the
realms of infinite space.
We live In such a wonderful era Of the
worlds existence we have just naturally
lost all sense of proportion from the
standard of measurement by another age
before these innunerable discoveries and
mechanical miracles were even dreamed
possible. Only the other day l saw Il
beautiful flash picture Of rabbit, as he
was flying over the snow, out Of sight
OF the dogs. SO accurate. 50 swift did
the thing work, it showed plainly why
rabbit makes his front tracks with his
hind feet, and shows him In the act of
doing it. When you see this miracle of
science, the rabbit puzzle, which many
boys. and philosophers vainly puzzled
over for centuries in the past, the reason
why, If you saw only the rabbit tracks,
you could not tell whether he was giving
or a-comin', is instantly explained by the
camera, which shows Molly Hare putting
her two front feet close together. almost
making a single trace, and reaching around
them with her back feet. thus travelling
apparently with her hind feet in front.
And everything has become more
rapid, more complex, more wide open.
We are bound to move on or be Gun
over. And perhaps it were best to recog
nize that the old standard OF measurement
had better be discarded for good and all
and begin a new recokoning with modern
tiIHeS as Tie StaIlluS pOiut anu luuS ccaSc
knocking about what is and must be from
the changed environment, and the wider
scope Of action human as permitted who
lives in this wizard age Of enlightenment
and progressive goodness.
a lady who turned over in an auto
mobile, along with several others. tile
other day, and two of them were thought
to be killed. and three of them were hurt
but Little, escaping death a hairs breadth,
foil mo hot fhnx,
niles an hour. 1--WE had ceased to think
If danger she said, "and just wanted to
goa little faster. All Of a sudden we struck
curved roadway when we expected n
straight line. the back wheel, skidded, the
ire exploded and the machine turned over
hree times. and If we hadn't been going
10 fast it would have turned over but
vice, and we should certainly have been
killed. That's the way she told it, and
the said another thing, which shows how
we are moving.
1.-TWO Of the injured were knocked
senseess for two days. And don't you
know she said, when they came to they
had not experienced any suffering at "a,
while we three suffered terribly at the
scene of the bloody accident, and in sym
pathy with the unconscious comrades.
One of the two was a lady, who wore a
lot Of imported hair, and when she came
TO next day and automatically felt to
see if her hair was all on, and found not
a one there but little wisp that God
had allotted to her. the poor lady suffered
awfully."
We had just well recognize the fact
that with these new tangled inventions
have grown new tangled race Of folks.
and adApt ourselves accordingly. thanking
God instead of blaming folks for the
privileges of living in an age, when, il you
don't move on you'll get run over.
And if you don't give Christmas and
New Year gifts and swell the postoffic
stamp sale receipts Of your city, just con-
slider yourself out Of date, q genuine old
fogy, for sure.
Really though you have no business
at the new standard if you have
just stod still and gazed at the old and
talked only about 1.-The good old tines
while the procession was moving on with
wireless telegraph. electric power long
distance talk, auto and biplane swftness
to accelerate their speed. evolving in this
revolution of event new standard Of i;fe
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