r*? cijut PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT IN ' AMERICA A GREAT INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM. J Jus? asa state wide prohibition be- > came a necessity in order properly to t, enforce village township ar.d county z Prohibition and just as national pro- I hib:?; i-ucie -ful and complete enforcement r of Natiorn Prohibit.":. in Arr.ricaSfc dependant .tor: the - operation of 11 Other nations. No nation in this day > ami age v-'h to -it. Modern in- * veo:.<" . graph, be v ' automo ie and the air- j j enact-<: rational prohibition. Across ' our international b? rd-r line however; ?"i every sid anu cry dirvvtio* < Pare located other countries protecting in varying degrees, the beverage ii-, cuor rafPc which America has pro- i hibited. The bootlegger who is a criminal ' : th?- American -;de o! the In 1 'ternational border, may be a respec- ! ?ab'? opsin*1 < ma- just across the boundary, b'nder the protection of the lav. of the rot;?.try just across j the boundary, the into: national boot-j 1 lc.wffir may o'ar. ano arrv forward I ' operation? f >- th? dcf*at of prohibition in America. Th? N :iai boundry line be- * tween he Oiiittd Stales and Canada ir."!.-:- mile in length. Tfcat which separates Mexico from the United ' fifca> 1,7 i l rrA'"< in length. The A v- * i- fo *h? * -: ' for 1 &rr.c i i\ .nousand clri- 1 iir-v . - operated ih ' the '1 ta* - " n I- p >s?.-lbl? -?? * iht : ? rent i- ' " r.. i. r ioHVe .Ir 1 > i>? :: . . v :n'.erior ef th< ! 9 I - in the ev ir after 1 darl. and anu her country ho- : fi ? daylight t ator ing R< a- I mom.' >-ur: ' he aeronautics t will niak'- : proportionate pro t. a<-- r . five years a* during the past five years that sis- t s'lmpt: >n l- reasonable, it follows ; the.: wc m-i confidently \|iect dr- 1 PTc.opifflEnus during tr.? next fivo yeais > to the place wBre tens of thousa|j$s * of a. ;-plane will be crossing ir?i ' An.ir at ... points < . our inter- 1 national t|t>rd?r at elevations ranging i between 50 feet ami 10,00n feet at t any hour of the nay or night. The t aeroplane of itself during the n? \t 1 few years will work a revolution i:? * international rafrnnierce and travel. i It will compel an entirely new inter- 1 natic ai diplo.and thorough re- : vi.-ion .< a decidciy important factor in h the -..ar'ai adjusti" r.t that 1U\ ? i?;?u: d to occur daring the n-.-xt fewyears. Ana : ; . -tatcsmew and the t :-intt sn.e'i at other c-ounirios of the ! c x-ot '. o| ne.ee: aty wii! comp- ll:-! i to rec'jgi iBjQte inr^GrU'n.&fitnd si:r'"act ii:;. i ir.u ': :.ui traffic I is a world traffic, that its attivitic. , fucfi nroiilom inn-i no of' riec:ihimor. availing aMon by the North Carolina authorities. 1 I tii negro who was am -ti-d last Wecne-uay as a suspicion- character. made His cnnfos-doT? :,i'rpr fonr 5 day iji-i icr.t grilling by the police. H s.-.id that one night last Sept cm - j Vor^vliiie Timing a wagon o:\ a lo.. ly road, he was halted by Sut- ) ton pd another white man known to him only as ,4Cy" who wern in an automobile. Sutton accused him of . stealing corn and ordered "Cy" to summon the police. The farmer then 1 drew a revolver, on,-p;u seized the negro, who drew a revoi- . ver and tired several shots into Sutton's body. Tho nfiOTG ill/. YiaIiaa cui/1 o/lmif- I ted the theft of the corn, and stated that when accosted by Sutton he had 18 gallons of whisky hidden under hay in his wagon. SAYS PROHIBITION IS TOTTERING TO A FALL ' Every day in every way" prospects for modification of the dry laws are becoming "better and better," ' W. H. Stayton, founder and executive head of the association against the prohibition amendment, declared in a statement issued Tuesday on the eve of the birthday of "so-called prohibition in this country." "After three years of unsteady reign, old icing prohibition is fast tottering to a'fnll," he raid, and "there are most encourageing evidences of a change in sentiment." & v' BOONE SENIOR B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening at six o'clocl anuary 21. we nave a IXoctrir.a ieeting. The Bible and Its Place li Christianity. Lots step over into Bra ,ii jus: for a few moments, all ove irazil there are village-: that hav me into being because of a wood n cross raised over the spot wherome one died or a crime was com nittcd. Such a cress becomes th of revererce, then some won :t rial story . told abc^i .. and i - not ong before it i_- decorate* vith ribbons and surrounied l? vooden and wax joints which the dt .-ott-es ' a.v as they make th. r prom ses to some saint. Speculation bt fins ajid the Catholic Church reap -s harvest. With the coming of pi! :rm> to worship at the shrine sma tuts are built, and so it goes on ur :ii a village springs up. The stor s told as follows: Several years ag :wo men another in the w ods ant . is customer}*, they nailed a boar icross the tree against which he fel Nothing more was thought about : _ntil two years ago, when a clearin vas being made for the purpose c planting seed. Then the tree wa iiscovered with the board alreaa early covered with bark. It iooke iike a cross upside down The pr< arictor scon. decided upon . schem< ta a failure. The following Sunda vhile the converted ones were i Lheir homes he organized ancthe and which ended in the Bible-burr ng. He gathered as many B'bics an estaments as he could and burne hem in front of the Baptist churct fie still continued his carnpaig igainst the Book, if anyone wen fhert selling the Bible, he woul folfow him around and get as man us he could and burn them. The Rc nanism is the same every where she does r.ot like the book. If th Ionian hierarchy could she woul rn every Bible in the United State: thank fixod she can't. Dear friend* is not this enouff o show you how bad we need yeuni i,.......1 .u _i.i : 11 kvui^cis, ini- wiinu i.iu : _ you, wont you .ay here am 1 ake me. Don't expert someone else to cran! ou, to explain or tc!l pou ail yoi ItouM know. The world needs mei i:h . )? tai'tera, so begin in th V. P. U. HERMAN WILCOX LIGHTS (By Burton Braley) (fountains have mighty magic, th gea has a wondrous lure, Vis?! the spell oi the desert-places i a spell that will long indure. It ' ! - in the heart ?.f the <-it> bred is a love to eat to per . r he lights the lights, of the city that welcome them home agair rhough the sons of the roaring or shall roam to the ends of th earth. Straining in work and battle, idlin in love and mirth; Vs the darkness falls about then they shall peer across the skie: For the lights of the city, to gladde their homesick eyes. \nd they in their sleep shall visio the glamorous streets that glov With the lamps of ten thousand itu tor cars that scurry to and fr< \nd the Hare and the glare of th blazing signs where the rushin crowd goes by, [ri the lights, the lights of the cit; that flaunt against the sky. V\7hen once the wonder grips yoi you shall no more be free; They wield enchantment greater tha mountains, waste, or sea. Though you wonder the wild worl over to the furtherest hauni of men, The lights, the lights of the cit; shall summon you home agaii FOl5T~SALE: New f> room house an 3 1-2 acres of land adjoining the pr< jerty of of Mr. John E. Brown, or mile west of Boone. It is situated c the Boone Trail highway. A vei piece of property indeed, if you ai interested see or write, 2t-12-p JACK GRIMES, Bo"?ne, N. jC. PROPOSED DRUG LAW TO CAUSE HOT FIGHT c 1 Statewide interest promises to dei velop in the legislative fight of the - North Carolina Pharmaceutical iissor ciation to govern the sale of 'jiediv cines in stores, other than drug stores - and present indications are that the e the North Carolina Merchants asso ciation. which has druggists and genee ral merchants as members, may be - forced to enter the fight with sen 11 mer?t divided. Several u?*neral merchant, mem f the State Merchants' association. it i: under.'* o(*i. have already wired J. Paul Leonard, of Statesville, state secretary,-, to protect their [3 interests, as they feel that a ban on the sale of medicines by general " stores as heretofore is ev j! i Firtt Visi. To a Fourth CI PostoTic The d- v .-.ri iijj to trjii earth < !>( dav IAr.u -fcriiight to Cm \? -. ulice wended his way, _ l -?i. i ii.- \nc patrons nau iratnereu 0 around To ask for the mail the\ expected 0 from town. h ,j Now the devil a postolh.ee lever had seen, e l or in his dominions no office had bd o; .So with no other purpose than to train iiis desire y The devil came up to the earth to x. inquire. r? ,r Soon a patron stepped up with a visage quite grave, (j And pronounced the postmaster a (j fool and a knave; 1 And the devil 'tis said, was realty p amused t To hear the pest master so loundly ,1 abused. w*mm Another approached and in tunes cold and hard ' Inquired lor mail from Montgomery (J ? Ward. Xu; nothing: today, the poor man replied. ^ And if words could have killed he would surely have died. r An angular lady just then took the floor An dinquired for niail from the k Charles William store. [1 Also from Giuib'.e's and Sears-Koen buck, too; " Then cussed the postmaster because it. hadn't come through. They grumMcd and grouched and quarreled so long, 'Twas hard tc distinguish the right from the wrong. Concluding he'd heard quite enough of the fuss. The devil retired and soliloquized s thus: "Now if half that they told that post\* mastei be true, ' The devil, 'tis plain, has been robbed of his due. I am satisfied now?I can easily y tell ' That this bunch would ruin the morals of hell. Jr They'ye worried and heckled that postmaster's brain, Till I'm almost convinced that he's going insane. They've cussed hi on and called him most every thing bad. " And if they continue they'll soon 1' drive him mad. > J' I "They puzzled the man with their IC villainous cavil, e And I'm free to confess that they jwxzled the devil. My agents were right to let that crowd alone, If I had them they'd soon hound me out of my throne." n IRA B. FORREST. Messick, Va. d The snow has come flying down; The earth is a carpet, white, it comes crossways, it comes n' Longways, flying all 'ound, _1 Like a bird wounded in its flight, l(j Trying to keep off the ground, o|e Snow, beautiful snow! >n It amelorates, it evaporates, ,y And comes back in the Spring, re To tincure Sunshine On the growing grani. I On the growing grain. ?Dr. W. R. Butle ii tarn i n TODAY'S STYLES RANGE P BACK TO OLD EGYPTIANS WomanV dress will never approach ^ the uniform type of the man's dress. >* declared Madame Jeanne Taquin. j ^ ' founder of chief owner of one of, the oldest of the Paris houses, who i s has just rounded out her .'{3rd year 51 as fashion leader and maker of dress- a es for those who would appear beau- * t: f ui. J r "The styles of today range back Vo 1 those worn by the Egyptians, such 1 as I saw once on the mummies of the now sunken island of Philae," r said Madame Paquin. j-* "If we admit that dressing a beau- * tiful woman is an art. then it follows }f that ihis art changes as other arts.'1 One cause of such changes lies in 1 social conditions. J 1 v "The seaman to season changes ' come from the fact that fashion ere- ; ators wish to continue to create. I t j for instance, as soon as I have com-; < j plcted a creation, wish to pass to J something different. I can't heip it. j j i It is the creative instinct I obey. js "There can for two reasons never | 1 j he a set. uniform style for women, so I long as women wish to be beautiful f and men wish to have them so. 1 "The feminist movement mear.s ' ! de-Jib to women's beauty, and for this } 1 reason it can never succeed in r ranee. , Our women wish to appear beaut*fu'., | our men approve cf their desire.; I a.iti. within their means, are wiilir.gr j to pay the loEf' j Wi.v it i.- pjinteil out tu Mad-: aim* Fac.utn that her own success in business was used as an argument j for the feminist movement, she objected energetically: | "Whatever success I have had was , due In large part to my hu.-hand My j i mother insisted that as a girl I should : j learn a trade, to ha ." as a weapon, j ; in Kfe. ' s tidied millinery and when. ! 1 married a' ib, mv ht*?band j a:- i decided to take ur? chat line, j He knew little about it, hut he had: ous. ? he.id. Without mat] I , ' ?tr would have succeeded. Wo-1 me' are careful. They need I omebedy ?o push them to >:i: sault were found upon the girl, | much doubt has been expressed by j people in Winston's neighborhood as I to the absolutely smcerety of the girl I it* accusing her father of the crime. ! An interview with several people I , eiosely connected wii.h the Winston j family i uveal the facts that they , were of the oninion that the fanner's daughter, in retaliation for a wi.sjt ping her father had given her, and as an excuse so she could leave home and marry* brought about the serious 1 . charge. With the exception of drinking, Winston proved a good character, and has been a hard working farmer. FIRE DRIVES GUESTS FROM CENTRAL HOTEL AT SHELBY SHELBY, Jan. 15.?When fire broke out in the basement .of the Central Hotel here tonight at 10:30, the 150 guests were forced to flee into the streets, many of them scantily attired. However, no one was injured, and the damage to the hotel is estimated tonight to be about $1,000. The hotel was crowded when the# fire alarm sounded and smoke soon spread throughout the guest rooms. The fire department quickly responded and within a short time the blaze was under control. The guests returned to their rooms after the fire I was extinguished. / \ - , : Jj OTATOES AS A MONEY CROP N IN I, being one of the victims of the testified Seed Potato Growers this ear. wish to tell you how I made j * e ive acres succeed as a money crop. I bought 10 bushels of certified ? eeo from Farmers* Federation for u 98.58 Fertilizer cost $00. and spray r ,nd spray mixture $50. making a otal of $238.58. I sold ">00 bushels -f graded potatoes for $750 and kept he smeller ones for home consump- V ion. r I wish to point out o few simple t u'.es 1 observed in growing these poatoes: 11) I prepared potato ground 1 arly by turning under a good crop i> f clover and land well covered with e siaaurc: <2> plowed early and deep; p f3) used high grade fertilizer; (4) jlanted early; to) cultivated and a prayed often. I found that spraying kept the t rines healthy, insects away and blight i iisease olT until potatoes were well t 'ormed. I know that it pays to spray lot only for certified seed but for * ocal market. You get a larger, i moot her potato free from scab, black ot. etc. ^ To get the early 'ocal market , rrade your potatoes, demand a marsot price and get it. When 1 started 1 selling this summer I had no trouble getting $1.50 a barrel among the 2 leading grocery men, restaurants, and * hotels for they were buying from ' South Carolina a much infei it?? p<>- 4 Lato to mine for the same price and more. In less than two weeks I began :o see the need of more co-operation. * My neighbors began taking their po- ' :aloe. in (which were Just as good as piine) and selling them for $3.00 : to $3.75 per barrel which was lower 1 than the market demanded at the ' Lime I had made i:p my mind not ' to sell for less than $'.50 per barrels and I did not. in C. CKO\* : C'ha ler. N. ? . ?Farm Federation v 1 Wl-tC DISCOVER CD AMERICA? w j . v r not :?vv.e- { rally accepted view: in ?*egard lot' the fir?-T ??f America were j presented t?? the Americ an \ s-.ci.t-j Lion for Advancement f Science | lit its 1 erg ri Cambridge . week | by ?>r. Roland it. Dixon of ilarvi.r-ij i i. * ' I; i m U1 . \\t.< iiv;u IIUilll-M'. it different times had crowed over from Asia by way of the bering straits, and tha t among them were some black or negroids. His paper made a stir in the anthropological section, ami did not pass uncontrovertod. His theory ;s based upon the measurement of tens of thousands of skills, both those of Indians of the present day and tnose of * heir remote predecessors; the formation of the. nasal bones was much used in these investigations. That there was anciently a connection between Asiatic and American life has long been conjectured and is now generally credited, but the prevailing view is that the American Indians arc a single race, allied most closely to the Mongoloid people of northern Asia. Against this I)r. Dixon sets the view that the Indians, if a race at all, are a highly-mixed race, and that probably the mixture was never complete, some tribes retreating before new waves of migration representing a different and more powerful or hi.ore nanierous stock. The Eskimo of (; ro nn Iniifl h.i l-oor-inlo t K? I ^ ?*- >u 1 " * vors of a early migration of an Asiatic stock closely related to the Nor die type, which after crossir.gr the straits was driven by new invaders to the very margin of the continent. Similar survivals he linds amopg the mountain tribes of South America, hi his opinion these Caucasians elements came first ar.d may be considered the first Americans, and were followed by a wave of negroids who left their mark on the prevailing type. Rat. other waves of widely-divojcs character followed in the course of centuries,, with the result that instead of being a pure race the Indians are a corn posit of many of the races of the old world. Although Dr. Dixon's critics did not undertake on the spot to controvert his theory in detail, both Dr. Franz and Columbia University and Dr. Ales Dedlicka of the United States national museum at Washington expressed scepticism, declaring that such far reaching conclusions could not safely be drawn from the measurement of skulls. A prolonged and searching discussion of the new theory may be looked for, and the problem is one of the most interesting with anthropology has to deal. That migration from Asia to An\prica uucurt'u is "criam, ic wouiu oe oi great interest to know when and why it ceased. Asia might have poured its hordes across Bering starits by the million; if that had happened Ameri-1 ca would have had a very different i history. ?: ! SOLDIERS TO BRING GERMAN WIVES HOME American soldiers who have married German girls and who have been ordered to return home from the Rhineland, will be able to bring their wives with them although the wom^n are not, under the neW law. citizens of the United States until they have taken out naturalization I papers. About 67,000 immigrants from ] Germany can be admitten to the United States annually under the new immigration laws, and records show that on Dec. 1, only 48,000 had come in. That makes it possibile for 19,000 more to enter before the i end of the fiscal year, June 30. JAnuARV lg. IK) ^ IORTH CAROLINA SETS THE IATION A FACE IN ROAD WORK Probably the most glowing tribute ver paid North Carolina by an outf IJir I fltf journal is that appearing n the last issue of the Manufactures Record dealing with the State's ronderful road building program. Cot only does Editor Richard H. Idmoids praise the forwardness of he people of North Carolina for heir progress in roads, but also for heir advancement in educational actrities, end in the "law-abiding characir of it citizenship. The energy of the eopie of North Carolina sets a stand rd, says the Record, which few states r. the Union have ever been able o surpass. he Ir. addition to the editorial quoted, t'.ie Record also carries another trticle covering five pftges, dealing 11 detail with the road program in North Carolina. It is illustrated, cith pictures of road scenes taken ruin ali over the s ate. The entire uo ol the Record is given over to the importance of pood highways tnd the tetin.g of the story oS what ligbways mean for the advancement >f humanity. The article in the Re:ord says: "With $120,000,000 going into the juiiding of highways through state, ountv and federal co-operation as old elsewhere in this issue. North 'nrolina 11 proportion to its popuation and wealth is, we believe, takr.g the lead far and away over every vther slate in the union. The buildng of the enignway.; aved North r'arolisia from much of the business depression that existed elsewhere, it stirr?d the- ambition of the state. I: trmulaied the people. It created . mploymcnt at *i time when employmeat was essential. And so this good old North state :;ns been rushing forward regardless jf th ;?ad times with an energy that X . standard* which feu .states in Liu ITnidc nave over been able to . It - work should he an in- 3 :ration to e\ on r Late. More\ i, there ?.r?- othei features concted v .ih the progress and pros- 1 .? r:ty of North Carolina as evinced 9 ;r wonderful road building procrum which may weii cause the nation to pause and study. "Probably no staate in the Union i. at the present time surpassing North Carolina in material and educational progress. It is doing niarvelnib things outside of its road building amp&ign; and in the study of these tatt? xl snoum oe remcmoerea tnai North Carolina stands at the bottom i>f the lise as to foreign population ami has cwly seven-tenths of one per cent of foreign stock. Its progress is not halted by the lack of foreign immigration as many people are claiming that the progress of other sections is halted. North Carolina " finds full employment for its own people, and it asks no help from foreign immigration. It is proving to the nation that abounding prosperity can prevail and that progress, which stimulate the nation, is feasible without depending upon the foreigner. North Carolina is building schools and colleges and universities with amazing activity. Its cotton mill development has been one of the mar- || vols e? the age- It ranks as one ox the greatest furniture producing centers of the country. Indeed, it has J a wide and every increasing variety of industries, created, managed, and s financed mainly by local people and local money. In doing this work it lifts up ihe standard, and it chalieng- jjj es every other state in the Union to match the growth"; and the whole of lis growth is largely typijied and j measured by the tremendous and unprecedenled road building campaign J which that state is carrying on. There is another feature in con- g ncctioii with North Carolina's won- ? derful progress which should cominand attention. It is one of the most law-abiding states in the Union, and alv/ays has been. No state in the Union, we think, surpasses North Carolina in that respect. Its law-abiding * qualities are indicated in the fact that during the past year there was not a single lynching in North Carolina, !j though there were live each in Ark unsas and Florida and to their everlasting disgrace eleven in Georgia, ; and nine in Mississippi, with Texas j leading with eighteen. Whatever the mob law which finds expression through lynching prevails there is a spirit of lawlessness which ' lessens the moral backbone of the people, breaks down every sense of morai responsibility, lynches the sove reignty of tne state and lessens its i progress in material as well as in educational things. All honor, then, to North Carolina, which has done so marvelously weil in material progress and which had not a single lynching in 1922 to blacken its fair name! May its f'XJimi)!p irt thic w?e-Tvrw?* u , ?- vopcvbj OS 111 tU^U ^ay building, school expansion, church construction and all other good things, be followed by all other states of the Union.?Gastonia_ Gazette. ^ IDR. ALFRED W. DUU I ~ JYE SPECIALIST SEE BETTER I JSP SEE DUU I I? Ye.r. Experience g i: The Best Equipment Obtainable. I I * Glasses Fitted Exclusively I I MARTIN BLOCK, LENOIR, N. CJ I *If jou ?ot It from DTLA. It's All Rlxb*. I WAlCU. FARfcii IlOR UATiS. _ *