The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09
BtON II. BUTLER.


Nontrose. March 6.--"Though /
,r-aE with the tongues OF men and
hi angels and have not charity, l am
become as sounding brass and
riattlirg cymbal." SO wrote Paul to
she Corinthians. and his doctrine has
oeeu repeated many a time, for it is
,reditahie 10 MIN. But I have dis
covered another prophet who is
worthy OF being heard. 5 few days
4te in the Marlborough House in
2sleigh Or ]. y. McBrayer passed
,ut thrGuet til. lobby and as he
v.et out u bunch Of men fell to dis
ruSsine tne state Sanatorium at
Ntontrosr, and Senator j. W. johnson,
lf H"ke county, gave Us a new idea.
Sid he, some of these things You
tal haTity are strictly business.
%ov ] am in favor Of giving that
man enough money to make that
hospital an emphatic success, or of
hurtn@ il mp right now without any
more deha.e. It j. the climax Of fol-
g. to ask "a man like DR.. McBrayer to
latre his work up AT Asheville, where
he was well asta bished, and come
apNn here to MOntrose unless we
mean ~ State to profit by the
nuiGtv aui professional knowledge he
puts al the disposal of that institu-
tiuu lie can't afford to waste his
lime fiddljng with that thing the
way IL has been going on, and unless
we mean 10 do something that NJill
make il possible for him to do some
thing | see no sense in running the
place another day. That is one OF
the best business institutions in
North Carolina, and the sooner we
insist emphatically that the Mcntrose
SaDatorium is one of the best busi-
mess projects of this State the sooner
"e viii deal with it sensibiy."
Charity a Misnomcr.
There was more talk along that
line hut Senator Johnson had cut
into the jugular. We had quite a lit
Die heart to heart talk on the subject
80 charities, and by the time We were
ready 10 turn 10 something else the
meeting was pretty we'll agreed thai
charity was all right in the days o.
ST. Paul, but that what most Of Us
call charity in these days is strictly
punk. Since that night in the Var
borough House l have seen this thing
from three points of view, and it II
SH the same. charity is simply I
mtSnomer.
At the Marlborough the night W.
were discussing the Sanatorium l fel
'n With DR.. Graham, of Chapel Hill
3t The supper table. He was over a
which brought DR.. McBrayer III
'rom Montrose, the effort to secur
as big an appropriation as possibl
for the State University. l stOppe'
4t me University not long ago, an
20 my mind came this one question
why must a man of the caliber Q
br. Graham waste his energy in go
ing over to Raleigh to hold out nj
nat TO the Legislature and ask TO
tn III l. .af tVllvl
tog our young men?
Within the last few days ] wander
- over the campus at the Greensbor
Normal College with DR.. Foust, an
taefe IT was the same thing. Thl
man is an educator. He is doing
Sleal work in training young men
undertake the task of developing tn
Do!s and girls who are to be the me
ma women into whose hands is
'e put the future of North CarOlin;
North Carolina that is to be muc
more pretentious and important tha
me North Carolina of today. Yet h
.s constantly hampered by the nece'
eiy or standing out with his han
"Peh asking for largess.
happened in Col. Pogue'S Offit
~ italeigh within the last few da.
ma IN came John E. Ray, the ma
VINO - fighting the battle for tt
o'nd, and the burden OF his sor
was the same. Funds. John E. Re
q broad and sympathetic ma
whose heart is in his work, but il
stead or being at the work he is COZ
S<erhed in you see him wasting h
puie trying to get money to carry {
ms institution.
Mere Matter oil Business.
lhen | got back to Senator Johl
"h again. for while I cannot reca