North Carolina Newspapers

w /tobw 10, 1918 BKEVASD NEWS, BBIVABD, N. 0. Vard news <4181116 changed from 4 Valley News, January 1,1917. L. SHIPMAN, Editor i. B. OSBORNE, Managing Editor and Publisher GERTRUDE R. ZACHARY, City Editor Published every Thursday. Entered at postofflce at Brevard, N.C.,as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One year ... - $1.60 Six months . - . . .76 Three montha - - - .50 Two months ... .35 Payable by check, stamps or money order. Cards of thanks, resohitions and memorials published only at half com mercial rate. costing 10 cents per inch or one-half ceiJt per word. Subscriptions not continued after ex piration of time paid for except on re quest. Thursday, October 10, 1918 Transylvania County is on her mettle. She has a big task ahead of her. Her boys are going over the top. We must go close behind them with our •dolars. What are our dollors compared with their lives? We are lending our money—they are giving their lives. Prompt lending may save your own boy’s life, or that of your neigh bors. Make this our big week. Make Liberty Loan Day—next Saturday—a memorable day. CAN UNCLE SAM PAY THE DEBT? Six billion dollars! Never before in all history has any nation undertaken to raise that much money by the sale of one issue of bonds. America is the only original breaker of rec ords, and here is where she breaks another. Between now and the 19th day of October this Government is going to fin ish the Fourth Liberty Loan drive and when it ends more than six billion dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds will have been bought by the American peo ple. Some doubting Thomas asks, *‘AVill the government ever be able to redeem these bonds? Can Uncle Sam pay such an enormous debt?” Can he? Why Uncle Sam can raise six billion dollars any morning be fore breakfast without hardly lifting a finger, if it is really necessary to have that much cash in hand. Can he pay the debt? What is six billion dol lars to your Uncle Sam? Com paratively speaking, nothing. Why this season’s corn crop alone is worth more than six billion dollars, according to the latest estimate of the United States Department of Agricul ture. This year’s wheat crop, according to the same estimate, is worth over two billion dol lars. This season’s cotton crop if put on the market right now v/ould sell for more than two billion dollars. There is ten billion, not including the oat crop, the potato crop, the fruit crop, the barley crop and last, but by no means least, the “las ses” crop, which Governor Bickett told us he liked so im mensely whether it came in jugs or calico. The man who questions Un cle Sam’s ability to pay this debt is ignorant. That is all. Uncle Sam is rich beyond the dreams of avarice. It has been estimated by the greatest fin ancial experts that he could sell one hundred billion dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds and pay for them without feeling it to amount to anything. A Liberty Bond is a first mortgage on every farm, every factory and every acre of land in the United States. And from all of these and more Uncle Sam will take his toll in taxes when it becomes necessary to redeem these bonds. If anything on the face of the earth is safe it is a Liberty Bond. And thr is why no less than fifty million people of America are putting their earnings and savings into these bonds—^that aild the knowledge of the sublime fact that every bond sold helps America make the world safe for human liberty and universal justice. LABORING UNDER DlFFl- CULTIES A new epidemic called Span ish influenza is sweeping over the country like wild fire and the rapid advance of this dan gerous malady in North Caro lina has created deep concern from one end of the state to the other. In many towns and cities the authorities have taken steps to close schools, churches,' Sunday schools, circuses, fairs, moving picture shows and pro hibiting public gatherings of any character. Around ten thousand cases have been re ported in the state and every precaution to prevent further spread of the disease is being taken. The situation is said to be acute in some sections and appeals for nurses are being mode where the local people appear to be unable to render necesary assistance. The cas ualty list exceeded fifty in num ber last week and continues to grow. The visitation of this epidem ic right at the beginning of the Liberty Loan drive brings the workers face to face with an obstacle which may render exceedingly difficult to raise the State’s quota within the time specified. Public gather ings and parades in previous drives have given great impe tus to the movement. Since these are deemed inadvisable on acount of the spread of di sease’ germs at this particular time the loan committees will be compelled to resort to a house to house canvass. This calls for the enlistment of more workers and the call will doubt less be answered promptly. A splendid start has been made and hundreds of volunteers should keep the movement go ing forward. The situation opens up an opportunity for all patriots to do a real service in addition to subscribing to the loan from their own funds. The boys “over there” are going forward and no back ward steps must be taken “ov er here.” While we are fight ing this new plague let us also back up our fighting men to the limit. They, too, are labor ing under diflftculties. THE BICKETT DEMOCRACY First and foremost. Governor Bickett is for winning the war. Second, he wants North Caro lina to remain democratic and send ten representatives with Senator Simmon’s back to Washington to stand steadfast ly by President Wilson in the execution of his plans to do the job quickly. His Excellency made a speech at Spencer on Labor Day which breathed the spirit of patriotism. But a few republicans did not like it and here is his reply to the critical ones, in amplified form: “I may have been inept in saying North Carolina’s change from democratic to republican control would be regarded in Germany as a repudiation of the war. But I have a pro- iciiiid conviction and would be a moral coward if I did not ex press it, that to change from democratic to republican con gress would mean the death of many more America^ boys. “And I have no apologies to make to any man in the world for that conviction. I do not make it the test of anybody else’s patriotism, but my own. I would not be a patriot myself if I did not express it. If the country goes republican this year what is it going for? Who is interested in antebellum is sues? Who would go out to hear anybody discuss them? You could not run down a crowd with blood hounds to hear issues that we used to dis cuss. If North Carolina goes republican this year, it will go that way^ because it opposes the war. There is nothing else that could cause it. There is noth- nig else being discussed now. If a republican changes to a democrat this year, he changes because he believes with Lin coln that ‘it is dangerous to change horses in the middle of the stream.’ If a democrat changes to a republican he changes because of the war. There is nothing else for which to make the change and my conviction is that any such change is a publication to the kaiser that the country is not behind the war.” During the Spanish-Ameri- can war Mr. Roosevelt, at that time the republican candidate for governor of New York, and other leading republican, ex- presed similar convictions in the appeals they made for a re publican congress to support President McKinley. The re publicans have shown them selves to be loyal in the sup port of war measures, but the moral eflTect abroad is the thing which most concerns those who are interested in the winning of the war program. The ar guments made by the republi cans in 1898 apply in equal force today. The Governor is right and the people share in his convictions. A vote for Simmons and Weaver will be a vote to sustain the President. FOR SUNDAY READING Since the churches will be closed again Sunday, Rev. W. E. Poovey, pastor of the Metho dist church, is using printer’s ink and postage to convey his message to his people. And in order that the public may have the benefit of the brief but timely message we are giving it a prominent place on our first page. Suppose you make a careful study of it in the home- circle at.the usual hour of the morning or evening worship Sunday. DAYS OF DIZZINESS Come to Hundreds of Brevard People. There are days of dizziness; Spells of headache, lanj»nor, back aches; Sometimes rheumatic pains; Often urinary disorders. Doan’s Kidney Pills are especially for kidney ills. Endorsed in Brevard by gi-ateful friends and neighbors. Mrs. C. S. Hale, Whitmire St., Brevard, says: “About a year ag:o I had a bad time with my kidneys and back. I had a dull, aggrevating ache over my kidneys and it made me feel tired out. When I bent over to dust or sweep, sharp pains would dart through my back and I could hardly straighten. Dizzy spells came over |me and black specks came before my leyes. Mornings I was tired and run /down and my kidneys didn’t act prop erly, either. Hearing of Doan’s Kid ney Pills I got some at the Duckworth Drug Co. and they relieved me right away. I continued their use until I was entirely cured.” 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. Diversified Ads Are Business Builders One cent a word tor e.ich insertion; each initial or abbreviation counting as a word. TOWN LOTS, farms and timber lands for sale. Franlc Jenkins, Brevard, N. C. tf WANTED—Walnut logs, 12 inches and up in diameter, eight feet in length. Miller Supply Co. 2-22-tfc FOR SALE—Wooden packing boxes of various sizes at Red Cross. BUTTERMILK FOR SALE—Call at Mrs. W. H. Faulkner’s store. FOR SALE—2-story pebbledashed house, 7 rooms, practically new, and completely furnished, subject to lease till June 1st, 1919, $3,500 GREEN’S AUGUST FLOWER has been a household remedy all over the civilized world for more than half a cen tury for constipation, intestinal troubles, torpid liver and the generally depressed feeling that accompanies such disorders. It is a most valuable remedy for indiges tion or nervous dyspepsii and liver trou ble, bringing on headache, coming up of food, palpitation of the heart, and many other symptoms. A few do.ses of August Flower will relieve you. It is a gentle laxative. Sold by Duckworth Drug Co.; 30 and 90 cent bottles.—Advertisement. IS YSUR RED CROSS PLEDGE PAID UP TO DATE? IliE AMEBiGAII PEOilE MUSI BE-DOUeiE IHEiR EFFOilT, DEWS FOOD ADiNINiSmTOR PA6E Food Requirements of Allies 50% More This Tear Than Last— Failure to Win in 1919 Will Cost One Million Extra Lives and the Issue is ClenJy Drawn, *‘Sacrifice at Home or on the Battlefield”—The Humanitarian Impulse Mr Pa^ Explains Situation. The gigantic task before the Food Administration and the American peo ple in the matter of saving foodstufts was explained by State Food Adminis trator Henry A. Page today upon his return from Washington where he, with Executive Secretary John Paul Ijucas, attended a conference of all Food Administrators with Mr. Hoover and his staff. The purpose of this conference was to discuss in detail and determine upon details of policy dur ing the present fiscal year. What the Food Administration and the American people are up against may readily be seen from the state ment that the Pood Administration has promised to send to the Allies during the present fiscal year 15 mil lion tons of foodstuffs as against the 10 million tons saved and shipped to them by the most strenuous effort during the last fiscal year; and in ad dition fo this Increase of 50 per cent in exports, to lay up a reserve of wheat and other foodstuffs as insur ance against a short crop next year which, without such insurance, might well prove disastrous for the Allied cause. Must Strip to the Bone. "This whole nation must strip to the bone if our armies are to be given a fair chance to win this war next year,” declared Mr. Page. “The view is frankly expressed In Government circles at Washington that our failure to win the war in 1919 will cost the lives of a million addition American soldiers. “The whole thing resolves itself Into the question, ‘Are the American people at home going to make sacri fices to make probable the winning of the war next year, or shall our armies sacrifice a million red-blooded Ameri can boys because they do not get the backing at home which they must have from this very minute if they are *o win. “The food products are pretty well balanoed. We are not going to have any spectacular drives on meat sav ing, wheat saving or fat saving, but we must have a terrific drive on the saving on all foodstuffs. We must actually get down to bed rock and live by this motto: “Buy Less, "Eat Less. “Waste Nothing,** While the producers must ad4 to that motto the further injunction: “Produce More.” Must Taste of Real Sacrifice. "Our people have not realized yet what real war strain is. Before this war ends they must taste of real sac rifice. They must have a war con sciousness that will make them direct the course of their affairs in such direction as will aid in the winning of the war. Every individual must con sider the effect of every action upon the course of the war. In no other way can we win without useless sac rifice or lives and the continuation of the appalling suffering in our Allied countries and in the countries of friendly neutrals. “One very great incentive to the quickest possible winning of the war Is the condition of ISO million neut rals, extending from Roumania on the south and including Poland, Norway, Sweden and Holland. In some of those countries there is the most acute suffering. Hundreds of thou sands of those people can see abso lutely nothing ahead except slow starvation. It is our humane duty, in addition to our duty to our own sold iers and Allies, to win this war just as quickly as possible so that we may relieve these people. We can do noth ing for them as long as the war lasts and all of our exports are required for our Allies. Non-Essentials Must Go. "Not only in foodstuffs must the American people economize; we must economize in labor particularly and in other things that are large factors in the war situation. It is expected that we will have between two and three millions additional men in France early next summer, with a million or more under arms in camps in this country. At the same time we must very greatly increase the number of workmen in shipyards, munition plants and other war industries. All of this means that there is to be an unprece dented drain upon the labor of the country. Non-essential industries must go. Women must take the place of men in some industries that are es sential. In France 95 per cent of agri cultural work is being done by women and children and the other 5 per cent by old men and wounded men. We ■hall not approach any such condition fts this, but patriotic women must volunteer for such positions as they can fill and men just be relieved wherever possible for the harder man- uel labor required in agriculture and the essential industries. "The ‘Work or Fight’ order of Gen- oral Crowder applied to the new draft is going to work venders but in this country we'must depend upon the vol untary, patriotic effort an4 co-opera- ti'^n by every individual ma%i, woman an-» child. Off'c:als. and Allies Have Confidence. “Mr. Hoover and all members of the Fr.f'fi Adminiscration and of llie Gov- Washington and our Aliics are confidenet that the American pe<^ pie will not fail in this matter. It is a source of constant wonder to the English, French, and Italians that we have been able to accomplish through intelligent, voluntary co-operation the savings in foodstuffs that were abso lutely necessary to keep those nations in the war. **We shall not have the direct ap peals of ‘meatless days’ and ‘wheatless meals,’ et cetera, from now on, but I am confident, speaking for North Caro* linians, that our people have acquired such a war consciousness that they need only to be told what is necessary for the winning of the war. The few food slackers, labor slackers, and other kinds of slackers among us must be made to feel the withering scorn and burning contempt of patriotic and decent people, so that they will not dare endager the success of the war through their disloyalty and failure to do something like their duty. "Our leaders feel that our people desire to share in the sacrifices that have been made and are being made by our Allies. Our people do not need to suffer to the same extent as our Allies have, but it shall be their priv ilege, as well as their duty, to cut out non-essentials in every thing, espec ially in those articles that must be transported, so that they may not add to the strain upon our resources and upon our railroads. Sugar Still Scarce. "The sugar situation is unchanged. The October allotment will be the same as the September allotment, and it is not likely that there will be any change in the sugar ration until next summer. It is hoped by that time we will build up a sufficient reserve to take care of the canning situation for the next season. There are going to be further restrictions on the use of sugar for the less essentials. The Flour Program. "It is very probable that within m short period practically all the flour sold throughout this country will be ready-mixed, so that the housewife will not be inconvenienced to the ex tent of having to mix her 20 per cent of corn meal or other substitutes with flour. Until the mixed flours are ob tainable it is very earnestly desired that every patriotic American house wife will not make any bread, cake or other wheat product without incor porating with it one pound of corn meal or other cereal substitute for each four pounds of flour. Necessar ily this mixing will have to to be done in the home until the mills are prepar ed to turn out mixed fiour in large quantities. “All in all, instead of letting up be cause of good crops, we must look ahead and tighten up in all things so that this war may be won quickly and decisively and all the horror in neutral as well as belligerent Europe may be ended.” Raleigh.—“The cottonseed industry, from‘Producer to refiner, has been sta bilized on a basis much higher than any one could have hoped for a few weeks ago,” today stated John Paul Lucas, Executive Secretary of the Food Administration, upon his return from Washington where he, with State Food Administrator Henry A. Page, attended a conference, of all State Food Administrators with Mr. Hoover. The price of cotton seed has been stabilized at a slightly higher average figure than the figure received for them by farmers last year. The price of oil has been stabilized at the same figure, thanks to the Food Adminis tration’s inlluence with the refiners and compound lard manufacturers through its control of export sales of their products. The price of hulls will be $20 per ton. The price of meal will be a little higher at the mill than it was last year unless the War Industries Board can be influenced to increase the price of linters from the present figure of $4.67 per hundred. If the price of linters is increased, the price of meal will be decreased. The price of cottonseed was fixed at the figure suggested by the produc ers of cottonseed as represented by the Commissioners of Agriculture and farmers’ organizations throughout the South. This basis was approved and recommended by the Pood Adminis trators of the cotton-producing States and accepted by Mr. Hoover and the Cottonseed Division. The price for seed will range from $64 to $73 per ton, depending upon oil and protein content. The whole South is being divided into zones, according to the oil and protein content in the respective zones. North Carolina will be divid ed into two zones. Zone No. 1 showed last year an average oil content of 307 1-3 pounds per ton, and the price of seed in this zone will be $70 per ton. The content of oil in zone No. 2 was last year 320 pounds per ton, and the price of seed in this zone will be $73 per ton. Zone No. 1 embraces all of that territory east of the eastern boundaries of Robeson, Hoke, Harne'-t. Wake, Pranklia and Warren counties and zone No. 2 the counties namer and al3 counties west of theai. AlffiRKAitEAiniFUL (Tune—“Oh Mother Dear Jerusa lem”) O beautiful for spacious skies. For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the_ fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And cro^ thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stem impassioned stress A thorougMare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirmtiiy Mul with self-control. Thy hberty in law! 0 beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine,, Till all success be noblenesfe^ I And every gain divi^^lL O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Y.W.C. A. Helps French Munition Woricers Twelve social centers, or foyers, as they are called by the French, are run by the American Y. W. C. A. for girlj and women who are working In th< great munition factories of France. Two of these are in St. Etienne and three in Lyon. All have cafeterias connected with them. Girls and wouion who work in these factories are of all clas.sos and ages, but all are French. Tlie men em ployees are of every nation—Chinese, Cingalese, Algerian, Moroccan and Portuguese. Many of tlie women are refugees. Multitudes have lost every relative and friend. Tliere are (laugh ters, mothers and grandmothers among them. TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE FOIKASTY CdOMEL Starts Your Liver Witiiout Mak ing You Sick and Can Not Salivate. Every druggist in town—your drufrgigt and everybody’s druggist has noticed a great falling-off in the sale of calomel. They all give the same reason. Dodson'^ Liver Tone is taking its place. “Calomel is dangerous and people know it, while Dodson’s Liver Tone is perfectly safe and gives better results.” said a priminent local druggist. Dodson’s Liver Tone is personally guaranteed' by every druggist who sells it. A large bottle costs but a few cents, and if it fails to give easy relief in every case of iivt-r slujigishness and constipation, you have only to ask for your money back. Dodson’s Liver Tone is a pleasant-tast- ing, purely vegetable remedy, harmless to both children and adults. Take a spoon ful at night and wake up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick headache, acid stomach or constipated bowels. It doesn’t gripe or cause inconvenience all the next day like violent calomel. Take dose of calomel today and tomorrow you will feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don’t lose a day’s work! Take Dodson’s Liver Tone instead and feel fine, full of vigor and ambition. —Advertisement. SERVICE OF SUP/IMONS BY PUB LICATION—NOTICE North Carolina, Transylvania County. In ths Superior Court. L. M. Puett vs. W. P. :Mu11, A. L. Mull, Margaret Mull, Jim MuJl, Bill Mull, Sallie Her* ier^on, Angie Sformg- laeld. Hence Childers, Fop Hen«f- Maggie Clarke, Marian Mull, 'IRhc Mull, Irene Mills, Sarah :\Iull, (Fran Mull, Bob Mull, George Mull Marian Mull, Jr., Charles :\Iull. Florence Zachary, Rachael Payne, Carrie Trot ter, Mollie Mull, Redmond Mull, Gus Mull, Walker Mull, Harrison Mull, Eugene Mull, Clyde IMull, Smith Mull, Vance McCarrol, Annie Halliburton, Edra Morbit, Estelle Hicks, W. L. Mull and Worrior Mull, heirs at law of William and Angeline Mull, de ceased, defentants. The defendants above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Transylvani County: The purpose of said action being to have any claim of the de fendants to the tract of land describ ed in the complaint adjudged null and void and the plaintiff adjudged to be the owner of said land and to permanently enjoin each of the de fendant from asserting title to or trespassing upon said land; And the said defendants will fur ther take notice that they are requir ed to appear at the term of the Su perior court to be held on the 12th Monday after the first Monday in September, 1918, at the Court House of said County in Brevard, N. C., and answer or demur to the complaint in said action or the plaintiff will apply to the court for theirelief demanded in said complaint. „ , This the 9th day of September, 1918. N. A. MILLER, 9-19-4t Clerk Superior Court.