J A Nor.-Partisarw Family VOLUME xxxiv ARMISTICE FINDS GERMAN REPUBLIC IN NEW CRISIS Ber'.i Nov. 7.?Armistice week find.? the five-year-old? German re public in the throes of an rationwide political < ?mic, and social crisis, the outco which may he determined thro uch minor factoi* as the risinj ailing prices of bread, potatoes . foal. It may also t ninate in the sudden proclamation of a national dictatorship. the demand for which is gaining perceptible momentum among all classes of the people who apparently are willing t charter their political liberty for even a hazy pros \ peel of amelioration of their social condition. Germany tonight outwardly suggests a loosely federated pseudo republic without such elementary prerequisites as a national currency or a safely anchored constitutional government supported by a representative parliament. Into this situation President Ebert and Chancellor btressenian tonight projected an appeal to the nation in which they affirm their determination to defend the republic and its constitution against all attacks from within and summons the citizens to couie to their aid. In part the j proclamation says: "In this very serious time Gor- ] many is threatens d with internal con-j vulsions. Certain sections of the con* j munity. although numerically not| strong, arc re lying on the distress of \ the people to attempt exercise illegal pressure on the government, and to throw the torch of international warfare among the people." After declaring the government's determination to repeal such attempt.-. the proclamation continues: "The maintenance of the unity of the reisch and law and order in the interior are necessary Drereouisitex for overcr ning the present distress! resulting from unemployment, serious economic conditions, and unparalleled political pressure." In the way of warning the proclamation says: "Those nations and landing .Personages who are aware of Germany's intolerable distress and who desire to help Germany should not despair of the German people. The German gov eminent possesses the necessary J Vptrength to deal with and protect the | constitution of the reisch. The police , loyal, to their oath, will do their j duty. The government firmly belie- j ves that it against its will, it is for- | ced to tight the whole German people .... ...... . . will Maim nenino ;t in aeiense 01 or-1 der and frit'dom." The jrovcrnmont's pronouncement ' finds the bake shops of greater Berlin shut down, market stalls locked ap, and long rows of shops in the I eastern section of the city disfigured ' by >roken windows, with shelves and counters looted. Berlin is virtually in the grip of a . hunger blockade, as agrarian pro- I dueers within a radius of 150 miles continue their refusal to deliver their products in exchange for paper marks. This is one aspect of the situation which suggests to the mass of the people a dictator that ruled with mailed fist would promptly coax forth flour, potatoes and such necessaries through the preliminary punishment of food profiteers and agricultural magnates. Yet the growing clamor for a dictator has failed ' \ thus far to mention one man, whatever his political antecedents, who would fit into the situation and even the nationalists, who are loudest in their demands for an iron rule, advocat ea government composed of a limited directorate. The chancellor tonight received a telegraphic appeal from the executive committee of the national league of V . -If l-n<-.wn 00 M1VIIC SUIUII IS u u-i the "Steel Helmets*" requesting the immediate installing of dictatorship free of partisan parliamentary influence and suggesting that he make % >fc immediate use of the prerogative accorded hira, before other elements as sume the leadership. The chancellor informed the conference of the German people*;: party today that he did not propose to retire from hi spost in the pre-ent internal and foreign situation but he intended to fill the gaps in his rump parliament witn men possessed of patriotic sentiment. He informed his party colleagues that he would not invite Geiman nationalists into his cabinet. He also declared that he was opposed, to calling up volunteers as A protection of the republic on the reichswehr, which alone would hecome masters of the situation. )t Hfe Newspaper Published in a BOONE. WOODROW WILSON'S TALK WILL BE HEARD ALL OVER THE GREAT CONTINENT Wood row Wilson will address the American people en the night of November the 10th. He will speak from his "S" street home in Washington and his message will be carried to every section of the country by radio. It will be the first time his voice was heard outside j of Washington since he was stricken in the west in September 1919 while carrying- to the country his fight for the league of nations. The former president had promised t? speak for 10 minutes and his friends believe he will devote much of his address to the subject closest '.o his heart?American participation in the establishment of the peace of the world. They would not be surprised if he should touch upon the present international situation. Mr. Wilson's message probably will : lie heard by millions, not only by | owners of home radio sets, but also j I i>y crowds at public gatherings for j expected to arrange, which his friends in many cities are Under present plans the former! president will begin to speak at S o'clock, talking into a microphone. Hi.- message will be cairied over aj 1 telephone wire to an imput speech apparatus mounted on a truck -lationed in the yard of the "S" street home. Amplified by this apparat"it will be carried on telephone wire sto the WCAP broadcasting station herv id on another jet of wires to the WEAF station in New York, where it will \u? nmnli. tied again before being broadcast on a different wave length from that used by VVCAP. 1 This message by Mr. Wilson will be quite apart from any he may deliver to the crowds that will make a third visit to his home on Arm is-1 tice day. Arrangements for this demonstration are now being made by a ' committee headed by Huston Thompson, of the Federal trade commission. ASHE COUNTY WILL HAYE J A NEW NEWSPAPER Mr. D. Clinton Nance, formerly, of the Winston-Salem Journal hnsi announced that he will start a week- j ly newspaper in the near future at j JelTerson, Ashe County. A cylinder1 press and other equipment is now on ( the floor of his building, and it is \ the intention of thr promoter to be-, gii? of the new lournal j ?u;>i u> miuii as int* remaining necessary enuipmc.it may be secured. 1 he paper will start out, we arc toid as a four page all "home print" sheet and will be essentially a local news and home development periodical, looking to the further development and improvement of Northwestern Carolina, and particularly the good neighbor county of Ashe. Mr. Nance has had a good be of j newspaper experience and his ven- j lure will doubtless be crowned with I success from the start. LOCAL BASKET BALL GAME HAS AS BIG FEATURE THE TALLEST MAN IN SOUTH The basket ball season at the A. T. S. opened last week. The boys ' have won two games ar.d lost one. iLast Friday afternoon they lost to the strong Mountain City team in I Mountain City. Next Friday afternoon at 3:30 the Tennessee boys will play the return j ^ame in Boone. The tallest man in I the south playing basket ball plays center for Mountain City. He is i seven feet, one-half inch, flat footed without shoes. He is still growing, bci ir.g only eightceny ars of age. This ! is expected to be one of the fastest j games played here this season. REALLY, ISN'T IT FUNNY? ; That a Man who thinks he is a Business M an I Will get up in the morning From an advertised mattress Shave with an advertised razor And put on advertised underwear Advertised hose, collar, shirt and shoes, Seat himself at the table and Eat advertised breakfast fod Drink advertised coffee or substitute Put o nan advertised hat, Light an advertised cigar, Get in an advertised automobile, And go to his place of business And turn down advertising on the Ground that IT DOESN'T PAY. ?Courtesy Greenville (Tex) Banner tfattQ ncl for Boone and Wataug WATAUGA COUNTY. NORTH C. LIEUT BROW MAKES THE FASTEST SPEED ANY MAN HAS EVER YET ATTAINED Navy Aviator Flip* 259 Miles Per Hour Breaking AH Records >Viitvheii Field, N V.?The fastest j speed ever attained by man was made I today by Lieut. H. J. Brow, navy av- J iat or who flew over a three kilomc- { tor straight away course at an aver- j age speed of 259.10 miles an hour. J On one leg: of the course he travel- ' ed at the phenomenal rate of 265.21 miles an hour. Biovrs record was attained :n com! petition with Lieut. A. -J. Williams former pitcher on the. New York Giants baseball club and winner of the Pulitzer race, both men flying Navy-Curtis planes. Brow was second in th E'ulitzer contest. Brow 'v*er.t up first and set a pace of 25? miles an hour and Williams was soon in the air intent on beating that rec? rd. When his plane reached t?roum he found that he had flown 258.1 m les an hour. As he was being cop; ratolaied by army officer ' nv?l IN! jvho - ....V. "?vv..^l III. -""I trials Br >w ran '.n "lis plane. "\>uirl the propeller, boys/* he shouted o his mechanics, "I'm going after it. ' The spectators held their breath as his plan.- shot through the air and the thri'l of Ihe day came on the second leg. when flying with the light w ind that wafted over the army post field, he sent his machine at the bre;?th-ta ing clip of nearly five miles a minute. "It w;u almost unbelievable," said Major WiLiam N. Honsley, commanding officer at Mitchell field, wa; in direct chaige of the contests. "Pretty good. Brow," said Williams. as he congratulated his compet*t? v. "but ! am going to heat it tomorrow." Brow oi.b smiled. Today's contest a-as viewed by officials of the National Aeronautic Association and American represei tatives of the International Aeronautic federation. It was declared the record would have official recognition. The contestants were prohibited from starting their speed trial with a liivA inrronir.l nr. rh,. tulrA .Of i They were required to fly not higher than approximately 164 feet. The speed tests had been postponed several times because of unfavorable weather. The wind declined to about three miles an hour early this afternoon ctuu tilde v??ir> a migut ufecAv thus cutting off the glaring sun which has often bothered the aviators. Brow's first trial, in which he flew at the rate of 257 miies an hour was approximately 21 miles an hour faster for three kilometers than the speed of 236.87 miles an hour which Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, of the army air service, made in an army CurtSss races at Dayton Ohio on March last. Statisticians figured out after the trials that on Brow's fastest leg his engine was turning over at the rate of 2800 revolutions a minute. The propeller hut, going at this speed sent the propeller through the air so last that it was describing a seven foot circle at the ratp of 1100 feet a second. These were declared the fastest times either a motor or propeller ever had turned without dying to pieces. Both machines, Brow's and Williams' are biplanes wit hwing spans of 22 feet. The over-all length is 18 feet and the total heighth three inches less than six feet. Fully loaded each weighs 210*) pounds. ONE DOLLAR REFUND DUE CAROLINA AUTO OWNERS Raleigh Dispatch. ? Secretary of state W. N. Everett must return $1 to ^u * -r to aha . vx VIIV I U,VWV <_? I IIIVIL who have applied for automobile certificates of title under the new NorCarolina Automobile Title Registration Act, according to a ruling made today by Attorney General J. S. Manning holding that a fee of $1 charged for affixing the seal of stale is voided by a clause in the new statute The statute, the attorney general held, provides that the seal fee is included in the 50 cents prescribed as a certification fee. Secretary of State Everett, notified of the attorney general's ruling today, although he had not been presented with an official copy, said ! he v/ould make arrangements to re-! fund the seal fees of $1 charged j pr ions already granted automooile I tie^ Northwestern North Carol ZR 8, 1923. NEWS FROM THE APPALACHIAN SCHOOL I* t- reported that Boor.o is prt - i j paring ?o issue bonds to make asphalt streets in the town. This will: ! mean much for the place. The scu.ients of the Appalachian | ;a County, the Leader of AROLINA. THURSDAY NOVEMB1 , WO AND HALF YEARS TAKEN FROM SPAN OF LIFE COST OF T. B. IN THE STATE AND NATION Something of the tost of tuberculosis -both in time and money, has been determined by Louis D. Dublin Statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He has made an extensive study of facts and figures pertaining to the thousands of policy holders in the industrial department of the Jompany, and gathered over a period of five years. An interesting fact revealed by the stud., is that tuberculosis is cutting short the life span of individuals two and one half years. In other words if tuhereulosis \>ere entirely, eliminated and if other causes of death continued at the rate then prevailing. the result would he that two1 and one-half years could be added to the life -pan of individuals. That rumber of lost venrc ing to Mr Dublin, when translatedi into money value means a loss to the I individual of two hundred and fifty dollars, or twenty six and one half billion dollars to the nation.To pu* in a different phrase, the present genoration would add that much more net wealth if tuberculosis were entirely liminated. But for each death from tuberculosis add the waiter, there are probably five or six other persons who are?desperately ill from the disease. The ages of these were found to be between twenty and forty five! years. For a large number work must be suspended entirely for a time and probably for all their working capacity is more or less impaired over :l considerable length of time. This reveals a serious picture of economic loss at an age w hen men and women should be at the heighth of their earning capacity and when deprivation of earnings places a heavy burden upon individual and family standards. It is estimated that tuberculosis is costing North Carolina every ye'ar fifty million dollars. This is ten timethe amount of the deficit said recently to exist in the state treasury which caused the public not only sogreat concern hut also an expensivej investigation. It is four times a> much a.-> is spend to conduct the public schools of the state and twice as much as the public school prop-: ertv is valued. It is one eighth as, much as all the crops in North Car-' our a were valued in 1020. Hut thanks to the forces at work in the state j tc eliminate tuberculosis, not only! th?. number of deaths from this di-( sense but the cost of it as well ha>, been cut in half. COVE CREEK NEWS Dr. i!olden spent three days last week at the Cove Creek High School doing dental work for children under fourteen years of age. Mr. J. F. Wilbrought the children down from school Thursday tor work also. Rev. W. E. Wilson supplied for the Cove Creek Baptist Church or. Ir.-t Sunday, with a very interesting acd able sermon. The protracted meeting is to begin Monday Nov. 5. Rev. W. R. Davis w !! he in ehnruperai:nu r aims Ej)worth League 2,205.00 Sunday Schools u.26s.00j i Bishops Fund 8.23&.00 j Amer. Bible Society .... 2,390.00 i i General Con. Expenses ....2,574.00' J Temperance and social .>er\. 563.00. j Hospitals .... 185.00 ? Lav Activities 1.729.00 ' , - i $97,146.00 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ASSESSMENTS 1 Church Extension $10,000 00 Conference Claimants. . 35.500.00 Conference Expense .... 6.000.00 Conference Missions ....36,000.00 Education 30,000 00 Epworth Leagues 3,500.00 , Lay Activities 1,000.00 Sunday Schools 13,000.00 $135,000.00 A good newspaper helps to make a good community, but the editor ! needs the cooperation of the community to make a good newspaper. at ina.? Established in 1888 NUMBER 44 OUTSTANDING HERO OF THE WORLD WAR WILL BE HIGHLY HONORED Tb?? Remains of Private Dilboy Will be Buried at Arlington. With fu!J military honors the body of Private George Dillboy of Massachusetts. who has been recognized by the war department as "one of the outstanding heroes of the world war will be buried November 12 at Arlil.ft . * ? former comrades of the lad who was awarded the congressional medal of honor will join in paying tribute to his memory. Dillboy lost hi.*j life at Belleau Wood. His body was sent to the home of his parents at Alachata, Turkey, where it has been charged, Turkish soldiers broke open the casket. stripped it of the American flag and desecrated the body, the incident resulting diplomatic exchanges between the United States and Turkey. Diilboy's body has been sent to the United States for burial at his parents' request. An aninri; ment of plans of the funeral ceremony made public by the war department, suid; "The story of %he heroism of this young soldier ??f Greek extraction is a giorious one. His platoon badly punished by German machine gun nre. the Lit ate: ant started to go out to the front to see how this, nest could be flunked. A young man with an automatic rifle jumped up and said: 'Lieutenant, I can wipe out the*at* men.' and the lieutenant answered, 'go ahead.* "The lad, who was Dillboy, threw him-(ll flat and wriggled forth, k: 11ing several of the machine gunners with hursts from his automatic rifle In his progress h<- was hit twice by n German sniper, hut he never stopped to think about himself and kept ??n. When he reached the place to charge the two remaining Germans, he stood up and receive,; a? burst from tlie machine guns which literally cut oil his light log lie dropped on his back and with his ieft heel pushed himself forward. There he turned his head, aimed his last shot and killed the two men. Lying on his hack with his right hand uppermost the iad motioned to his platoon to go forward ana died with a smile on his face." 9 FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB The Friday Afternoon Club held its regular meeting with Mrs. E. S. CoiTey on November the second. The siti ng ror.i in Halloween array with festoons of crepe paper, black cats witches and skulls. The program also carried out the Halloween idea Mrs. 0. L. Hardin rendered a solo which was greatly enjoy. ,1. Mrs Roy Johnson read a paper on the origin of Halloween. Mrs. A. E. South gave several selections on the piano. Mrs. 1. G. Greer read by John C. .?ic.n?mi. an<* rest 01 w:e nour was sjK-at in a discussion of the departmental work a:, laid out l-y the State Federation of Women's Clubs with which this club has recently become affiliated, fhe condition * i the town cemetery was discussed and a movement was started to put some on.- in charge of the work of putting the cemetery ir. better condition. The color scheme of yellow and black was carried cut in the refreshments the plates being decorated with yellow chrysanthemums and halloweeu favors. A delicious salad course'was served followed by cream and cake. RECITAL MONDAY NIGHT AT TRAINING SCHOOL The music pupils of the Appalachian Training School will give a recital in the auditorium Monday evening at seven o'clock, under ihe supervision of Miss Ruth Coffey. Director : t?i .iiiiMi- ai vnai institution, me I public is invited. Ott Hughes i t C raven county won j first prixe for the best judge of livestock among the club boys at the State Fair. W illiarr. ("ape! of Montgomery County won second place. Aniong the teams one from Montgomery county won first place. The Alamance creamery made 67,149 pounds of butter, paying out $22,993.96 for butter fat to the farmers of the county during its first year of operation ending September 30th Glad to learn that Mr. H. H. Green whose il$iess has been mentioned before, is now somewhat improved and hopes for his permanent recovery are now entertained.