The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07

Lies that he is an asset to u~nn9eaSur-
able value, for you can not measure
the worth of an influence that IS stea-
Oily al work for the advancement of
men and things.
Star and Dispatch as Assets.
mother clean-cut automatic is Cow
an, Of the Wilmington Dispatch. Lit
tie boys like COwaD are not made of
scissors and snails and so on. as
Mother Goose says. Dat of steel springs
and electricity, and maSnetos and six
cylinders and Self-StarterS. Whining
ton has a lot of these live wire news
paper fellows, and from the way they
handled their papers during the week
of the. association meeting they show
that the Star II Dispatch are assets
hat a town twice the size of Will
mineton could be nightly proud of.
The fact is that these two newspaper
shops are bound to be influential fac
tors in making Wilmington twice the
size il is before very long. / hope
Wilmington realizes the value of these
two papers, and / think she does.
Down from the mountains. like a
breeze from above the snow line, viva
cious and enthusiastic, came the edi-
tor Of "Skyland," Miss Lucille Smith.
a young woman full of enthusiasm
and Of confidence in the future of the
State. She carries about five hun
| dred volts and as an asset is worth
IfCOCty CdI tCII WI1dI d t1Vt puDllCd-
ton is worth to any State, but Sky
land measures up to the require
ments.
Becky Ann.
Becky Ann was another one of the
girls. Becky Ann came up from "a
place in the cotton mill to be a
writer on the Will News and she is a
cotton mill Jacob Riis. Hopeful, I'M
firing, sympathetic, seeing the sun
shine shed instead Of the gloom that
some of the professional survey work
ers seem to be hunting, Becky Ann is
a comforter. She is one of the val
used assets OF North Carolina. valued
in the mill settlements from Whining
ton to the western limit.
Beasley Ahead of His Day.
Beasley is another asset. North
Carolina does not appreciate just what
an asset Beasley is. There is a, thinker
in advance Of his time, and as Patrick
Henry said, if this be treason. make
the most of it. Beasley's recent DO
litical campaign has led a number Of
people to misunderstood him and his
motives. He has been taken to stand
for certain selfish personal purposes,
when he should be better understood.
The right light on this man will show
that he is a leader in advance of his
day, and you will not hurt yourself a
bit If you will get better acquainted
with Beasiey and with his doctrines,
for he is a sincere advocate and a
vigorous thinker. This is not the
tiIae nor place to refer to his views,
but as we are considering the assets
Of North Carolina it is a proper place
to advise that BeaSley be studied a
little with the desire to learn what Of
truth he may be advocating. and not
criticized until his views are thor
oughly understood. If Re never did
or said another thing his address on
the tyranny of the status quo would
have constituted an asset, for it is
bound to set men to thinking, and that
is the chief thing. The ability to
! think is What makes men.
: Good Roads warner.
,, Good Roads Warmer is another Of
the assets. AS long as men have two
> legs some way to use them is essen
tial, and q good road is the develop
ment of the means of getting about
When old man Warner is gathered to
his fathers, l hope he will be old mar
. Varner-~When the act is done, his
monument will already be built, and il
will be several thousand miles long
and criss-crossed like a bit of chicken
wire fence on a gigantic scale, for i
will be principally all of the roads OF
i the State of North Carolina. Warner
has other hens on, but as the roads
6 of Rome are still III use. l eck the
thing that will survive Warner as long
S as any other factor will be the road!
G he is procuring for his State. Warner
is an asset, all right.
6 More Assets.
1t is no use to continue to Sugges
e names. 1t may be Story Of EdentOn
the man from the modest place, o.
Britton, of a bigger place like Raj
eigh, Page of Kings Mountain Oh Hill
debrand, of Greensboro. They are al
assets. Higgins is a bright fellow
over at Marshville, for instance. II
II is a prospector. He is or the lookout
II holding an eye on anything hat give
"a promise of being Of benefit to his com
Ii munity. Something new comes up il
the big world. He is concerned il
- telling his people that It may hav
II a local application. lie is the spokes
d man for everything OF good that i
found in his community. lie is ty
u pical of the rest of the young fellow