The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-11-08

"Opportunity has hair in front Be-
hind she is bald. If you seize her by
the forelock you may hold her, but
once permitted to pass, not Jupiter
himself can catch her again"
So runs an ancient aphorism. This
year opportunity stands before the
farmers of North Carolina with a
forelock that reaches to the ground.
You have with splendid foresight
canned and dried your surplus fruits
and vegetables. For you the high
cost of living holds few terrors
Empyrean prices are being paid for
the products of you toll. Never be-
| fore in this generation, and possibly
| never again, will there come to the
| average farmer so large an oppor-
tunity to lift himself and family 10 a
higher level of happiness and hope.
Temptations to fritter away the pro-
ceeds of your crops will crowd thick
upon you. Improvidence will lure
to sleep, and pleasure and prodigali-
ty will cali on you with many voices.
The "blue sky" artists are already on
your trail. They have heard that you
are fat, and have marked you for
their own All kinds of get-rich-
quick schemes will be danglcd before
you, and the voice of the agent will
be heard in the land. Smooth and
wordy vendors Of lighting rods, and
ranges, and organs, and pianolas, and
sewing machines, and churns, and
washing machines, and patent medi-
ines, and county rights, and crayon
portraits, and shares in excessively
capitalized stations will spring UP
around you as countless as the frogs
that came up in the land of Egypt,
and seek to enter into the reward of
your labors.
In my inaugural Address and in
= series of bills submitted to the Gen
c-al Assembly, | endcavorcd to make
plain purpose to make life on the
farm Just as profitable and attractive
u life in the town. The intensity
of that purpose has dccpencd with
the passing months and now call
upon the farmers To make Il supreme
effort in this direction, and to capital
iZc the opportunity of the hour. To
this end earnestly bcsecch the farm
ers Of The state to set apart the month
of November as Thrift Month, and
urge every farmer to do something
definite and substantial during that
month that will insure TO the pcr.aa-
ncnt bcttrrmcnt Of his condition in
life. | suggest the following specific
accomplishments and appeal to every
farmer to do one or more OF these
things:
|. To pay off all debts, and go on
a cash basis next year
=. TO start s&vin%G account IN
some bank or credit union.
3. To buy Liberty Loan" bond.
4. To buy milk COW or brood
SOW.
| >. TO install home watcrworks and
lights.
! G.ro paint his house.
Z. To So, out an orchard
8. If he be a tenant to buy, if pos
S'blc, snail farm ard make tkc first
/ payment on the purchase price.
The Agricultural Department, the
Joint Committee on Agricultural
! Work and the State Department Of
Education will generously cooperate
with the farmers in making Thrift
Month a notable month in the agri-
cultural lift Of the state. | call upon
the teachers in the rural schools to
read this appeal to the children. Com
pletc plans for taking a census dur
ing the first week in December will
be arranged to the end that we may
know at the end Of the month Just
how many farmers have redeemed the
great opportunity that now confronts
them and have preserved for their
wives and children some portion OF
the blessings of this unparalleled
year.
r. w. BECKETT, Governor
Raleigh, n. G..