The Adair County news., 1916-04-19
From North Carolina.
baltimore, April S, 1916.

This is to inform your readers that
for the present am out of the har-
ness as the instructor of youth. Al
low me to further give the assurance
that I am solicited unanimously by
the committee, or trustees, as they
are called in Kentucky, to succeed my
self as teacher.
On the night of Jan. Is, 1916, we
had very successful box.supper, realiz
ing S3S. 95 The weather was inclem-
emit, the night being cold and sleety.
Had conditions been more propitiOus,
several dollars more would have been
realized.
Another cause of congratulation on
my part, was the fact that boy and
girl, each from my school, won second
honors ia a preliminary contest where
thirty competitors we're in forensic ar
ray. By a strange fatality, our Coun-
ty Commencement, for the last two
years, had bad days for the occasion.
last year it showed, and this year we
had cold, east rain. AS result, the
exercises were postponed until the
next Saturday. The weather oracles
were in the 81 Told You &c." con-
tingent; for it was son the New of
the Moon"
All the preaching, teaching, progress
of science cannot eradicate that fool
superstition. Every day of my life, l
am more and more surprised at faith
of certain people in the superstition
as to influence of the moon in its in.
fuence on planting, butchering, soap
making, and other fooIishneSs. 1
never believed in such rot, nor yet in
the predictions of an almanac. Yet l
know preachers and doctors who place
the faith that will take no denial in
these vagaries of the dark ages; and
they are not all IN North Carolina,
either. 1 have trave ed over twelve
states of this Union, and find this
superstition lurking in all benighted
regions.
This is of a piece that goes into
mawkish s. mpathy over England as
our darling another country" and has
borrow for heather and cruel Ger
many President Wilson is a great
statesman, and 1 was for him first,
last and all the time as President.
But he has unjustly Disseminated in
favor of England, our worst enemy,
and against Germany, our best friend.
England has made cotton, that has
hitherto made the treaties of the
world and bound the nations over to
keep the peace, contraband of war.
This was unjust to the people of the
South, and has wrought untold dis
aster to our commercial interest. By
lending the people of England $780,
600, 900 and furnishing munitions of
war where we claimed to be neutral,
we have forfeited every claim to neu,
trality. Germany is the most pro-
greSsive and powerful country on this
planet, in point of education, and in
every field of human .endeavor. TIE
best universities, best doctors and sur
geons, the best chemists, the best
farmers and soldiers, the feweSt pau
pers and Migrants, and the best expo
nents of sound minds in sound bodies;
are found in Germany.
/ am, also, against this craze for
Preparedness. W. ] Bryan, the
greatest living statesman, has enrolled
himself among the immortals by his
views on this question, as has Claude
Kitchin, of North Carolina. In our
proud domain every man is citizen
soldier, and will march forth at the
tap of the drum when the emergency
requires. We have second navy in the
world, and what has England done
with her immense navy in this titanic
conflict? Germany has destroyed
myriads of her battleships with sub
marines and mines and sub marines
are cheaper and more eficacious.
With our feet guided by experience
and judging the future by the past;
what cause have we for alarm? We
licked England in the Revolution
when we fought more Indians and
Tories than we had French allies; and
in 1872 when New England gave us no
support. At beginning of hostilities
we had twenty inferior vessels while
"Hengland'' had one thousand; and
many of them manned with kidnap-
ped American seaman. We won