The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-23
TIMES ARE CHANGED

One-Galius Day in the Sanctum Rel
egated to the Past-And the Farm
er Knows What it is to Wear YaI-
Ter Shoes and Dissect Breakfast
Food
Charlotte Observer.
Yes, sir! Times are changed in
North Carolina. 1t used to be that
when the average Tar Heel editor
wanted to get anywhere he would
write begging letter to the railroad \
for a free pass, wait a week or two
for its coming, and then feel under a
| perpetual bondage of debt to the hand
that had enabled him to get a few
| miles from. his home town. He would
take any sort of country produce on
subscription and the farmers would
short weight him on load of water
soaked wood, and eye editor" as he
was fond Of calling himself in his AL
bum of Weekly Miseries, would not
forget to thank God while he toted
his bucket of kraut to his wife and
shucked his coat to assail the soggy
woodpile with we'll gaped axe which
was his because it was not worth
stealing. And now, presto! Here is
little item which caught our eye
in The Lumberton Robesonian, tell
ing of the visit to that town of Col.
Joe Thompson of The Wilmington
Star in the style assumed by the ed
itor Of today. Thompson, it tells us,
arrived in his "car"-yes, sir, by
heck, he owns an Acknowledgment
three days in town in the meantime
Visiting" several farms he owns in
: Robson county," Mark it-"several
FARMS" while the man who owns one
Robson county farm might be put
: down in the class of the well-to-do.
This Wilmington Editor is nothing
short of a plutocrat-that's what he
is. There are other evidences of gen
eral prosperity among the craft which
indicate that the one-gallus day in
! the North Carolina sanctum has been
who cannot burn gasoline rides Pull
. mans when he travels, just like the
nabobs who formerly laughed him to
scorn.
l And the thrifty farmer, long since
: expert in the arts of the painless tan
ner-for he can skin man so quick
his victim never gets chance to real
: ize it at the time of the operation
knows what it is to wear yaller
: shoes and dissect breakfast food. He
: can make his automobile bounce as
2 high and his horn toot as loud as
:, the best Of them. No more creaky
buggy or slow going wagon for him.
:, The Marshville Home arrival yes
e terday, tells of a recent farmers
t auto excursion" that embraced d
tour of of one hundred and fifty
f miles. Every farmer in that section
of Union county met at the place ap-
e pointed for the start. Some had
:, touring cars some roadster but all
had automobiles of some make. They
e made visits to many sections of their
n own county and into South Carolina,
:, inspecting the improved methods of
:, agriculture and improving themselves
t by observation, this having been es-
: pecially the case in connection with
n their inspection of the celebrated Co.
t ker Farm, near Huntsville, where
|, they had an interview with the most
: famous agriculturist in South Caro-
Il lima and learned from his the prof
), liable way of harvesting fodder, peas,
0 soy beans, cane, clover, rye, oats and
: other frage crops. They will make
: enough money out Of the application
:. of the new ideas they secured on this
: 150-mile auto trip to buy machines
S for the wife ard children. These
: Union county farmers accomplished
e this observation tour all in a day,
n having plenty of time to spend by
e the way, and returned home for
supper. Verify, times and condi-
tions are changing in this delightful
n part Of the moral vineyard.