The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30

young man who goes out and rebuilds
q worm out farm, and thereby helps
the community forward and sets q
good example, the end Of which no
man can see-let him understand at
some appropriate time hat he has
Gone more than if he had some to
some distant city to clerk in some
body else's store, or had gone to the
cross roads and himself started a lit
tie store to sell ginghalns and side
meat to his neighbors.
County RiyaIries.
Why shouldn't YOU get the neigh
Dor III the county pitted one against
another in generous rivalry n then
pit your county against all the other
counties to see which can have
The best roads; or
The best schools;
The prettiest school house and
school grounds,
The most progressive farming:
The greatest proportion of painted
houses;
The most pure-bred livestock and
poultry;
The most labor-saving, money-mak-
ing farm machinery;
The strongest and most active local
Farmers Union;
The biggest percentage of boys en-
rolled III the Corn Club;
The biggest percentage of girls en-
rolled in the Tomato Club;
hi biggest percentage Of women
enrolled in United Farm Women;
The most active churches and Sun
day schools;
The best neighborhood baseball
Teams;
The best school and Sunday school
libraries;
The highest average number of
good books and newspapers read in
each home;
The best farmers institute and wo-
mems institute;
The prettiest lawns and flower
yards;
The greatest number of homes with
telephones:
The best average wat,r-supply for
the homes:
The greatest spirit Of cooperation
in buying and selling:
The greatest spirit of cooperation
III using farm machinery and in using
pure-bred sires;
The best sanitary conditions:
The largest percentage Of farmers
making exhibits at county fairs:
The greatest freedom from centers
of drink, vice and immortality.
Boost our Town. Too.
Or K the town you live in. Is
there llOl IoO1f1 l1ltIe loI the CRUSADER
editor to realize the truth Of Carlyle's
saying: 'Oh, it is great and there is
no other greatness to make some nook
of Gods creation more fruitful, bet
ter, more worthy of Cod"
our town, no doubt, is Boosting q
a great future; but are its citizens anG
officials really planning for such q
~future2 Are they now while land is
relatively cheap in the suburbs. set
ting aside ample parks in which the
denSer population of tomorrow may
find health and breathing space? Are
there Fairgrounds for the children
such as an intelligent and progressive
town should provide? Must the chill
dren and grown people get their eX
ercise Only IN Imagination by watch
ing hired men hit at a bah with {
stick" as some one has irreverentl,
Described baseball? Are the street
broad and wisely laid out or are the,
merely survivals Of primeYal cal
paths? Is there any real plan abou
the planting of trees, shrubs. ana
flowers, on streets and parks. or art
these matters settled by the individual
citizens as they MAJ desire? And o.
you boast of a CouDt house or city hal
Of magnificent architecture in whicl
You try your criminals, while yc'
house your school children "a tn.
formative period in their careers il
BUILDINGS hideous of sight n some
/ times nsafe in construction Ar
libraries and reading rooms few i
number. p~igPDn-holed in upper-st0cie>
: and serving only u handful Of people
: while h great masses are ~unreachel
4 by good literature or art'
2 But / mus bring my message 10
close. ! have referred 70 the matter
IN whica the editor houl1 be . cru
Sader in behalf OF his State. his coun
4 ty. and his town. 1t me III cona,.:
sion remind you but Briefly that tacr
) are other great Worldwide movement
affecting our whole human reca !;
{ which the editor must also be q or,