OPEN THE DOOR
CAN EASILY REDUCE
HIGH LIVING COSTS
Prlcea Will Com# Down When Kvery
, one Put? Shoulder to Wtieel and
Increases Volume of Prod-uo
tion.
-PMt history haa pro red quite com-1
clualvely that you can no more legie
latc the cost of living np and down
than you lsjx slop Uie tide by build
ing a eea wall," saya Roger W. Bal>*4
?on, national expert In financ*. "The
baalc economic Law ot supply and da-i
maud alwaya has and aJwaya will de
termine prloee," he declree, "in spite
ot articlfloiaf restrictions which may
seem to interfere temporarily."
"When demand exceeds supply,
prlcea are bound to rlae. With three
hungry men with one loaf of bread,
but one thLng can happen. When aup
ply exceeda demand the / rereree ia
true. Three loaves of bread to one
man bring price? tumbling down.
"The real eauae for the present high
level prlcea la apparent when you
reallie that the United States Is ex
porting at present twice the foodstuffs
that It exported a yaar ago. and three
to four times the amount exported In
normal year?. We are feeding Europe,
what's more we must continue to feed
Europe until it gets back on Its own
feet again.
"Their crop of 1919 will help some,
but we mu*t wait until the harvest of
1920 before they are wholly Independ
ent of this country. If the general
public can be educated to an appre
flatlnr t*? situation aa It i?, apd
can b? m.ice to^???ro!l'l lliu wett-ba*.
Ing of * v*ty one of ua depends upon
every man producing as he haa never
produced before, supply can be In
creased to meet and exceed thla un
precedented demand and we shall
weather the storm with everybody
ahead ? ? ? ?
Tender the circumstance?,... it is
more of a re!!g!oBS que^:'on ac
economic one Maximum production
on the part of every individual moat
be made a moral iaene. ? ? ? ? De
creased demand means depression,
and employment and hard time? for
everybody Increaaed production will
meet the situation and ??Tve the prob
lem" j
*But that can only be acoomptlah
ed by every man putting hla shoulder
~ to the wheat, and producing a? he!
never produced before. ? ? ? ? When j
the majority of the peaple were made
to feel that slavery waa wreog. It was
abolished. When the majority of the
people were made to feat that drink
ing was wrong and were ashamed to I
be seen going into a Moon, we 90!'
prohibition
"In the same way. whea the people
begin to look down on the man who 1?
not a producer, or who cvrtail? hI?
production, ua shall strike at the) tap
root of the eoet of living problem?
We must go on a 'producing Cam
paign*." ' 1
The only road to
fchrlftlneee and economy.
The power a naa pnta into ?arvlng
measure? the p?fei of tfce m^n ia
everything he aAAartakee. '
There are 1,4*6 minutee tn eVery
day. H yea aft five ot them to tray
War Savings fttpnpe, yon atfll have
1.4SI left tor o&er thing?
-> ? quarter ?av?4 % day means |I128
tn a year, or mote thaa $100 if put in
War Savings fltaenpa. " /?
Ram won't make erope grow unleea
seed 1? in the gromnd. Interest can't
snake War Savings Btampe grow un
le?s your money la 1a thaa. Put your
STAMPS FOLLOWING
FUG AROUND WORLD
ThHft Oampalgn Goes Of* Wherevet
Old QI'ory Wavet?Ch*#rl?Q Ntvki
Comes From Faraway Con
stantinople.
?Jon| with the man of the Nary,
the War Sarings Stamp li following
Atoe flar rpund the world. In the Me
dlterrcsocn squadron, the gorernmeot
savings 6 ecu lit lea are aa much a part
at the battleship? and cruisers that
are aiding in stralghtantag out the
tangled affairs of Asia Minor as the
ammunition hoists.
For American thrift has not stop
ped at home. The sarings campaign
organised by the Barings Dtrlsion of
the Treasury Department Is being car
ried out by both officers and men
through War Barings Societies, Thrift
Stamp?. War Sarings S'empe and
Treasury Sarings Certificates.
A letter .^ist recetred by the Bar
ings Division from Captain Darld P.
Boyd, commanding F*6 S Olympia
at Con.'^ntlnople brings the Infor
raation that the thrift campaign on
that res*e' has been placed in charge
cf L'euterant H. K. Koeblg Captain
Eoyd csT- assurance of the oo-opera
tVon c! ti-nself and his men in the
wort k ,
-i
PAID FUR FUNERAL
W*r SaTlcgs Stamp? ar? u in
evitable u death and taxes, and
TLmm KE*m\\ II I . i ? . T..11
living
Recently John Klrkira* died In
Dayton, Ohio. He left no relative?
and tiro who ?ought to fire him a
proper burial were confronted with
difficulty In flnanolng the funeral.
Kirk 1 nu had died learlng no ready
cash, and the solicitous friends
were afraid that public charity
weuid have to be charged with the
burial espenaee.
They dlacovered, however, that
before he died the man had In
?ested In about $100 of War 3av
tng 6taro?a. A trip to the Dayton
poetcfttce and the observance of
the neoeeaary formalities enabled
them to pay the undertaker's bill
THE SOBERING BUNDLE
I
Wbw you hsrs a tronoh of boodle
In the bank Just up the pik?, you'll
stand for YukM Doodle, law and or
der sad the lik?. Thau do creed of
devastation. such m Rossiaa outlaws J
shrlak, -vili reoefre foor confirmation
?j#iU denounce It Ilka a streak
When a man is brok? and toasted, with
ao pa?ka?? laid away, h? ta erermare
disgusted with the laws w# an ?bay.
He would see oar courta all lersled.
and the Jtidgee 00 tka raek. and the
plutocrats bedertled till tkey car? up
all their stack. Ha would aee all thine*
upended, Justiee be weald reader
?tte; then hie ehanoea would be
end id to accumulate aome loot. I
hare eeen aome agltatora stirring up
the peopled souls, aad they all ware
oaat-ofT gaiters aad their pants were
fall of holee. And they aald their
oka las were clanking aa they damned
the plutocrat; If they'd only do soma
banking they would ?000 get orer
that. I hare heard the spielers thrift
less pitting up thai t weary song; T -
hare heard the weak 4nd shiftless say
ing everything is wrong.| Bat tha
man wha mtm his money thinks the
Russian creed absurd, and he thtaks
lit beastly funny that ao many yawps
lare heard.
Ntrkrl 2Jaiii}
By
IZOLA FORRESTER
(Copyright, ISIS, by the McClur* Ntw#
p*p?r Syndicate.)
Stubs named her that the very first
day she appeared In the square and
passed <rat nickels to those youngster*
who were lucky enough to please her.
Stubs and Marlska saw her first.
Peaceably enough they were offering
advice to the old man who cleaned out
the dry leaves from the fountain. It
was the sure mark of summer time
when they started up the fountain,
and the children regarded It as the
1 signal for celebration.
| "If youll Just stand still for m mln
. nte I'll give yon a tllckel," the girl
! called to Matiska, as she stood with
] a little pad and pencil by the edge of
j the circular walk around the fountain.
I And Marlska took up the offer In
I stantly. I
Stubs eyed the proceedings with
alert suspicion, but as he managed to
1 edge about and get a look at the
sketch the girt was making of Marl
ska, he approved, and from that first
day he had championed the cause of
the "Nickel Lady." as they all named
her.
j One evening he met her on Second
avenue lathe rain. There are degrees
of social status about Stuyvesant
square that are quite as peculiar and
as rigidly drawn as those around
Washington square. Along Its far west- ;
em and northern boundaries It is ex
clusive and undemonstrative, but the
park Itself on either side Is a flower- ;
bed of youngsters on summer days. \
And they he d their favorites besides 1
the "Nickel Lady," foremost of all the ;
"White Doctor."
He was young and always dressed
In white, and when his ambulance
would swing across Second avenue he
never failed to wave In answer to !
Stubs' greeting and the rest of the
"bunch."
Therefore Stubs honored Mm and
when the "Nickel Lady" hesitated
laughingly as the rain beat down upon '
her. and before be could stop her,
had slipped across the street under
the very wheels of the huge gray mall
car, the first thing he thought of was
the "White Doctor." He stuck by her
when the crowd gathered, and it was
he, too, who got Bandy Mi ran and
Chick to carry her to the sidewalk
where she lay still, and white.
When the ambulance swung around .
the corner and the "White Doctor" '
Jumped dotm. Stubs explained the situ
ation to him briefly.
"I'm her best friend around here"
tc said loftily. "Is she hurt much, i
Doc?" '
Skillfully Rex Fuller knelt beside
the slender figure, making his exam- ,
inatlon. "Just shaken up and suffer
ing from shock, old man," he told |
Stubs. "What's her name and where [
does she live?"
Stubs^amtched his head doubtfully. ]
He dldlPtMiow. Neither did Marinka,
nor Banty, nor any of the "bunch"
hanging around mournfully. She was
Just the "Nickel Lady." So they took
her up to the hospital, and Stttbft
made his arrangements with the doc- ;
?"? *?" ' li II Ill I lil '
friend."
That night when she "lay conscious
for the first time, Rex waited on tU i
the nurse had gone down the ward, !
before he asked her the necessary .
questions to fill in her card.
Her name was Phyllis Truax, she
told him. Alone In New York and trn- j
married, an artist by profession. That I
was all, only when Stubs came to visit, I
she sent- him after stationery so she j
could write a few letters, and he ;
noted they all required out of town '
postage.
"Ton and me've got to stand by her, !
Doc," he told Rex out in the corridor, '
and Rex agreed to do his part.
Three weeks she stayed there, the :
first rest since she had come to the
city, and every day up In the beautl- |
ful roof solarium Rex sat with her, I
according to his promise to Stub?. But I
the day before she left she had an- I
other visitor. He was very confident
when he first met her, but she sat
with drooping lashes as he talked, and
fiaally she said something to him,
and after he had gone she mulled at
Rex somewhat anxiously.
j "I'm a perfect fraud, doctor," she
I Bald. "You won't care for me a bit j
j any more or Stubs or Marlska or any
body. I'm not Just a stray artist
stranded In New York. I'm a regular |
| person with a home and family and I
plenty of money, and I've Just refused i
i half a million more. I'm afraid I'm |
spoiled for that sort of thing. You've i
i been so wonderful to me up here. I j
' think HI be a nurse."
I "You will not," he told her sternly.!
: "In the first place you're not strong
! enough to train, and In the second I
promised Stubs to look after you. If
you had not known that I would,- why
did you send away the half a million
chapT' -
Stubs was on his way to visit her,
with two large strangely red carna
tions he had managed to bargain for,
i but when he caught sight of the
"White ? Doctor" bending over the
I "Nickel Lady," with unmistakable
I proprietorship, he stopped and turned
I hit bt.ck. At least he knew when It
j T?a? time to umpire the gome OTef td
the winner.
CHEERFUL HATS FOR WINTER
Millinery laughs In the face of win
ter with hats that are mast cheerful
and most becoming. Many of .them
?re made of velvet, bnt beaver on one
hand and filmy mallnes on the other
Indicate a long range of materials.
In the group of three hats shown
above there are only velvet hats bat
one of them has a brim of mallnes. It
Is In black with a gay wreath of silk
flowers across the front Just below
It a small hat Is embroidered in silk
while soutache braljl almost covers the
soft nat at the laft.
BLOUSE FOR BUSINESS GIRL
Of ?11 sheer materials used for
blouses that are required to be both
dainty and sturdy, fine cotton voile
proves to be the best. It wears like i
Iron, outlasting all but the strongest
laces and returns from laundering as
good as new as long as It lasts.
The business girl will appreciate
the charm of freshness In a blouse
like that shown above. It Is made of
crossbar voile, having separate collar
and cuffs of sheer white organdie.
NOTICE
Land Owners!
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Our calls for land are over-reaching the number of
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farms we have for sale,.
WE WANT TO BUY tyAND, ANY AMOUNT,
ANYWHERE.
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Cash or time prices. Good prices paid. See
T. W. RUFFIN, Manager. Louisburg. N. 0.
Car ready at all times for business.
TRY US
with your next Prescription. It shall have our
MOST CAREFUL ATTENTION.
We use only Pure and Fresh Drugs
and rhemicals. We also carry a full
line/of the Best Toilet Articles to be
\ w.
V
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Aycock Drug Co.
Phone No. 329 Louisburg, N. C.
A BIG SURPRISE
But a Bigger Bargaur Por YOU?
MANNING & HUNT
The well known and prosperous merchants, of Ingleslde, haTe decided to
clone out their business. They do this of their own accord?to work as
well as sing "down on the farm"?oyer In Chatham?and may also engage
In the same business later on. Aside from the trouble of mOTlng thedr on
ly regret Is in tearing the good county of Franklin and some as line people
as they care to know or lire amongst But this Is Immaterial. What they
will do before going Is the most interesting part, and the public will hare
the benefit of their going?In one respect at least,?for the goods will be
sold
A T j C O S T
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and must go at that. The ?tpek of General Merchandise (about *4,000) Is
clean and fresh, consisting ft Shoes, Shoes I Dry Goods and Notions, Grocer
les, Medicines, etc. Sale begins"^with this date, and will contlnne until
goods are sold, unless the etock is bought as a whole. The doors are open
and the public Is cordially lnrlted. Even the few delinquents can come to
this sale and not be afraid. Ton will And tills a clean cut, honest proposl
/? Hon they are up against, and they are going to stick It out I