The Monroe journal., 1922-03-31
HOW Did HE GET FROM
WAXHAW TO MONROE? I?
The Engineer Rode Eleven Miles But
the Brakeman Rode Twelve and
Walked One Mile
VERY LITTLE FERTILIZER
BEING SOLD AT RIDGFWAf
Estimated That Two-Thirds People Of
Columbia Are Idle-Dangereus on
Back Streets
By Novus Homo.


"Come in" said DIR. Burgess, as We
approached the door of the Enter
prise office the other day. "rve got
problem that | wish you would solve
for me-" We didn't promise him that
the solution would be forthcoming,
but waited for the statement Of it,
and then proceeded to mediate.
Here it is as the doctor gave il:
John Barleycorn walked out on the
Brooklyn Bridge and jumped into the
river, where was he when he jump
ed?"
Thinking there must be some catch,
in so apparently simple a statement
we suggested he was on the bridge,
but the ,ctor said not.
$50 long as the man was on the
bridge he had not yet jumped and
while he was betwe.n the bridge AND
the waters of the river, or while
travelling through the space between
these points was after he had Jump
ed" So VIII re was he when he jump
ed? We didn't tell him; can you?
After We had given this one up, the
doctor came across with another one
like this. :
"There is, we'll say, freight train,
one mile long standing with its cab
opposite the station in Waxhaw while
the engine is one mile down the road
on the way to Monroe. When the en-
gineer pulls out he is within eleven
miles of Monroe while the cab is
twelve miles from Monroe. The
brakeman comes out of the cab, gets
on top of his train, walks to the
engine and when the engine pulls ints
Monroe the engineer has ridden eleven
miles the cab has travelled eleven miles
it is one mile out of town when
the engine gets in-while the brake
man has walked one mile and rid
den twelve miles on the same train.
How is that?"
We had letter just the other day
from a gentleman in the eastern part
of the State who had been reading
some of the "stuph" we have recently
furnished the Union Republican on
the present taxation problem in
North Carolina. The writer express
ed hearty approval of the articles in
question, and closed his communica-
ton by saying keep it up something
must be done for the relief of the sit
uation else we are ruined" The COR
, respondent states in his letter that he
, is a cotton buyer. He has been in
South Carolina for the past six weeks,
and adds, Il want to tell you condi-
tions in South Carolina and Georgia
are alarming" He encloses couple
/ of newspaper clippings, one of them
: accredited to Mr.. j. W. Sanders which
: appeared in South Carolina paper,
/ and gives very dark picture of con.
: ditions in the boil weevil section of
t that state. To quote, Mr.. j. w.
: Sanders, who spent a few days in CO.
2 lumbia, Ridgeway and other points in
) South Carolina last week, says the
5 cotton farmers and time merchants
2 are financially ruined by the. boil vice.
s vii. Many of the big land owners
s who in years past raised hundreds OF
{ bales of cotton on their farms are not
able TO pay the taxes on their lands
: Farms a few years ago that woulc
5 have sold for a good s.zeu fortune
Q have become burden to the owners
V Thousands of negro tenants have
flocked into the towns and cities anC
now the white people are desertinS
the farms. Those who remain arr
planting gardens and propose to rais'
vegetables and chickens and keep ;
r, COW and live somehow. Last yea
# from 400 to 500 car loads of fertili
n [zers were sold at Ridgewayj Thi
IS year not sack has been solds 1t j
o estimated that two-thirds Of the peo
If Pile in Columbia are now idle, and MI
IS Sanders says it is dangerous to b
N found on the back streets at nigh
'e lest one get held up and robbed. H
s. says the farmers in this section -shoul
:, not delude themselves by besievin
r. that the boil weevil will do but littl
TX damage in this section of the countr,
lie The great pest gets in its destructiv
u work wherever cotton,is found.p