The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17

size that will make everything stop
or arouse a storm of protest that will
disturb sleep, and Lexington Will be
one of them.
ness blocks. a big modern hotel run in
the right style. live wire bankers. nus
Ting cotton mill men, and a general
Already Lexington is shaping for
the days to come. The wise folks at
Washington have seen h is ahead
and have built a fine government
building that you have to go and see
before you are in Lexington very long
A lot of handsome homes, good bust
clatter of hand saw and hammer are
the prophets in Lexington.
Varner-Likc an Old Acquaintance.
Possibly because as a fellow of the
newspaper craft, H. 3. Warner seems
a little more like an old acquaintance
than anybody else it is natural to OBJ
serve what he is doing in Lexington.
But when a newspaper man "a
reach the point where he puts up one
Of the handsomest business blocks in
the smaller cities of the State, equips
his printing outfit with linotype, and
the mmi that go with an office
OF that Kind, puts in the finest moving
picture show in the bailiwick, pro-
vldeS two or three of the finest store
rooms in the State, it is widen that
this man is doing his share in some
way to help along.
On general principles. the newspaper
men are the apostles of altruiSm, the
leaders Of the crusades for humanity,
and Warner does not fall back any
when this test is applied. He is a
chronic campaigner, for good roads,
good schools, good corn yields, good
wheat yields, good any old thing that
IS better than something not so good.
and fortunately he has behind him a
newspaper reading constituency that
hangs to his heels when he moves
forward.
A lot Of hat kind Of fellows are
IN the county and in the town. Tha
is the significance Of the live stock
show. The restless spirits noted the
gradual arrival in the county of good
nlma1 and encouraged the farmers
TO bring them together to stimulate
others to get better stock and more
Of it, and the crowd thai poured into
Lexington on the day of the stock
snow went home impressed with the
wisdom of paying more attention to
animal crops.
Has Discovered Itself.
Davidson county has discovered it
self, not fully, but sufficiently to be
encouraged to cut loose for a move
ment that it had not ANTICIPATED un-
TIL recently. The farmers Of David
son county have not suspected that
their county could make wheat rec
ords and corn records that are ex-
~traordlnary. They had not realized
just what enormous potentialities are
IN thelr lands and their climate.
Gradually they are coming to realize
these things, and it stirs up an en-
thuslasm. The wheat rivalry is grow
ing interesting. The cattle rivalry. the
horse rivalry, the pig rivalry are
bringing life into the ranks Of the
breeders.
l said there was one difference be-
tween the Davidson county Of Tennes-
see and the Lexington of Kentucky
n the Davidson and Lexington Of
North Carolina. I forgot another
dlfference. The western Davidson
and Lexington knew years ago what
they had. Here they are just finding
OUT. put n finding out is all that is
neeoed. The cautious small farmers
OF davidson want to know that their
Ieet are safely under them. Then thew
go ahead. You would be surprised to
know the money these farmers have
IN the banks, and how many of them
carry deposits. They are not worry
ing much about the price of cotton
prosperity seems to have stuck tn
davidson more persistently than to
many OF the sections OF the South. he
cause the Davidson folks have a va
rlety OF things to trade They don't
eenu taelr money to Wilmington for
Iertlllzer, or to Chicago for wheat. or
to a lot Of other places for a lot ~
otner things. They are full Of the
honon or making things instead OF
buying things. "
Dld 1t ever occur to you that flour
n meat are the two things
Of human subsistence? The ration 10
hour meat, sugar, vegetables and
Irult. Put your finger on the story Of
human development and you viii see
II you trace it from the mornin. Of
creation that the nation or the n.o
pie that have those things in their
ration are the people who acbiarn
n Chinese civilization, fed on rice
- 80 oio NOBODY knows it's story, but it
is not a second rater even. The Jans
are making a great play, but in snite
OF their age they are only interesting
n people Of India, rice fed. are re
away PACK INTO n morning Of his
tory, but the ~beef-eating, wheat-eatine
EngliShman, holds the authori+y rs