The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-06

" ~ 70 school anu acquire
tics and adenOidS, history and hook
worm, algebra n astigmatism, cube
root and consumption, Caesar and
spinal curvature" We are trying to
City the country school. The purely |
academic has been emphasized until
the country boy Knows everything |
except how to live and make a living
when he comes out Of school. The
city children have been given the
long term and the country children
the short term school. thereby re-
versing the teachings of Christ as set
forth in the parable of the talents. |
For If you want to find the ten-talent
children go seek for him in the coun-
try. There is a great man on the way
to North Carolina. Tonight he is not
wasting the hours in the billiard par
Tor or the dance hall. Tomorrow you
Will not find him at the corner drug
store drinking dopes and his fingers
will not be yellow it'll smoking cigar
cites. l will tell you where YOU will
find him. Tomorrow he will be out in
Gods great field following a mule,
and as he watches the rich soil turned
to be kissed by the summers sun he
will be dreaming dreams and seeing
visions. Tomorrow evening he will
walk out in the orchard, his soul will
be thrilled by the song Of the mock
ingbird and the call of the, whippoor-
will, and he won't forget to look up
through the trees and never cease to
wonder what makes h stars shine.
The men VIC are to govern North
Carolina forty years from now are
little farmer boys today. I know they
are because they always have been.
And we editors of the State will b.
%recreant to our sacred duty if we
fail to strike a blow for justice for
the children of the farms.
$ Fight Against Disease.
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portant than universal educations.
Victory in the fight against disease
r will mean more to US right now than
4 any other triumph. For what will
e other achievements mount to if we
e lose that fight? I like to think OF
Jesus not only as a teacher and q
preacher. but as a physician as we'll
For his disciples tell US that He heal
e ed many. If / know how to read the
Bible. the county health officer i:
just as much a minister of Christ a.
t any preacher that stands in our pull
e pits. DR.. Watson S. Rankin, who il
Q leading the warfare against disease il
North Carolina, is just as much a mis-
n sionary of the Gospel as any ministe,
h that ever crossed the ocean to preach
salvation to the yellow heather
Forty thousand people died in GU
;e state asst year. During the War Be
tween the States North Carolina sen
e III 900 men into the Confederat
1t Army. OF these, counting those VIII,
h died on the battlefield from wound
lie received or from sickness contracte,
during the war only 41,00O were lost
3 Yet in the year 1914, a year of peac
~ not four years of war-the Stat
70 lost over 10000 of her population.
IS. Who Fixes the Death Rate?
it If this death rate were a God-fixe
O, thing it wouldn't be SO bad. But Go
in doesn't fix it. 1t is fixed by the igno
id rance and carelessness Of the peopl
DO of North Carolina. Eighty per cent c
OF the diseases that curse humanity ar
IS. ~preventable, n l submit that not t
go prevent them when we can is nothin
short of community murder. Nobod
en- ought to die from tuberculosis, bl
I'd 5000 died from that disease in Mort
er Carolina last year; typhoid feve
ne ought not to exist in a civilized Lane
but 1900 fell victims to that disease
re our State last year.; the existence {
is contagious diseases is little short
SO criminal, but 200 graves were opeT
ed to receive the victims Of those di'
eases in North Carolina. I do not b.
m. lieve God ever intended for a chi
o. to die, yet $500 babies were snatche
- from their mothers breasts by di
b. ease that could have been p%revente
he I hope to live to see the day that Whe
lgs a human being dies from a proven
of able disease somebody will be pros
nd cuted and sent to Jail.
IF What Disease Costs.
lio The humanitarian side is not II
Der only side to this death rate propOs
of ton. There is a pocketbook sid
we Economists tell us the average perS(
we is worth $1,700. Estimating that on
Try third Of those Who die are victims
on euOIe Qloep ueql 'sesees!p eIQBluoA9
is last year cost North Carolina upWa
he of $4,000, 600. Yet we spent on
be- two cents per capital to stop death
raj a postage stamp apiece to save s.
per 600, 600. They tell US we cannot q
ford to spend more on a Board
.ity Health because funds are not ava
ers able. In the name of 40, 600 me
nee women and children who died IL
as year. l ask, What under high hea
en- is our money to be spent for if II
,es. to save the lives of human beings?
the lords of DR.. Batten: "Once
e a were content to build hospitals;
DOL day we teach the law of sanitatit