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HONOR ROLL FOR NON-USERS OF IS INSTITUTED BJflWADMINISIRIlIN Mr. Page Issues Striking Resume of Wheat Situation and Inrites Patriots to Forswear Use of Wheat Products for Benefit of Fighters Until Next Harvest. littlamo" ttaTmonth ago we took' stock of our wheat supply in gantry and found that we had slightly more than one redjJW :SSSfJ our own people for the four months until the next crop cornea in, on the basis of our normal pre-war consumption. The Situation a Month Ago. Up to this time the Food Administration's policy had been to limit the shipment oeas to the exact amount we were able to save from onr normal : consumption by methods and policies of con serration But now we And ourselves up against it hard. Clearly our soldiers must be ,Clearly ioiir Allies in the midst of war's horrors must have at least half rations. To meet this imperative need, upon which hangs the result of the war and consequently the destiny of nations, we, here at home, must cut our con sumption of wheat products in half. And even this sacrifice would enable us Soenl our own soldiers and friends on the firing line only half the quantity of wheat they need. , This was the problem that faced us a month ago. What should we do about it Will our people change their habits of living, their usual food, make the sacrifice? Can they come to realize that government by the people In the earth depends upon breatd? - , , It was decided to set apart half the visible supply of wheat for shipment to Europe and to undertake to get-the information over to our own people so that they would understand the necessity for personal sacrifice, and maybe we might be able to increase our shipmetns to two-thirds or three-fourths of the real need abroad. Sacrifice Called For. There are many people In this country who have not eaten one single bis cuit or a morsel of wheat bread this year. They are the men jand women whose personal war consciousness gives them trouble when they fill them selves in the sight of a hungry world. It isn't just exactly comfortable, is it, to eat the last morsel upon which is fastened the longing eye of a famishing dog?( But this is not a matter of dogs, but rather of grief-burdened women. Innocent little children, and the fighters in the trenches. The wonder is that more of us are not disturbed as we go our usual easy way, feeding our bodies beyond their real need with the one food the whole devastated world of war so badly needs; Just because It is easier to procure and prepare than some substitute. Many of the best hotels have voluntarily agreed to serve no wheat pro ducts until the next harvest. Many families in this country are doing the same thing. It is easy enough for well-to-do people of more than average in telligence to get on just about as well without wheat flour as with it. Some iOf the substitutes, such as rice flour, cost more than wheat flour, and to pre pare palatable and wholesome breads, using the substitutes only, calls for a larger expenditure of forethought and care as well as money. Maybe it would be unwise for people of small earning capacity, aad those whose time Is pretty fully occupied, to undertake to get on entirely without wheat flour. But I am sure there are dozens of hotels in North Carolina with well trained cooks whose patrons would not suffer for lack of bread or biscuit if diligence and Ingenuity is exercised in the field of muffins, cakes and corn dodgers. Tht Patrotic Course. How many families are there in this state, that, with the expenditure of a little more time and maybe a little more money, can live just as well with out as with wheat flour? Just a little more time in the kitchen, madam; some serious study of "Aunt Jemima's Recipes," a larger knowledge of the values of foods; will not hurt any of us at any time, and in war times will be espe cially valuable. And as to the slightly increased money cost, (remember I am writing to the well-to-do (not that part of our people who face poverty and need) what boots it if we spend a little more to properly feed ourselves when the primary result is to feed our fighters and our friends, and the helpless all over the world? It is going to take all the money we've got to win this war; It ought to take the surplus first. When the war is won and the world may turn away from its horrors, you and I will be very happy if e have lost nothing more valuable than our money! Think of It, man, you could then enjoy over again th delight in having saved your first hundred dollars! The Personal Appeal. How many of us, so situated, will cut out wheat -flour entirely until the next harvest? We have the honor roll ready for your name. May we have your pledge? HENRY A. PAGE, Food Administrator. Raleigh, N. C, April 27, 1918. As Great Military Necessity as Cannon and Shells Food Administrator Page's Attitude. Raleigh. The food situation in England and France has become so acute that unquestionably white wheat flour is as great a military necessity as can non and shells. The bread ration of the French and Italian soldiers who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with our own boys has already been reduced to a considerable extent, and the old men, women and the little children of France, England and Italy are existing o nexceedingly short rations. I the face of this situation, the Food Administration which sometime ago requested that all surplus wheat in the hands of wheat growers should be marketed by May 1, is making plans for more drastic course to be followed In the case of those farmers who for unpatriotic or pro-German motives fail to market their wheat within something like a specified time. A list of such farmers will be prepared after May 1, and shortly after that date machinery will be set In motion for the carrying out of the course determined upon by the Food Administration. North Carolina farmers, according to a resume in a recent issue of the Literary Digest, have been receiving a considerably higher figure per bushel for wheat than the farmers of any other state, the average price in this state having been $2.31 per bushel as against $2.24 in Tennessee, which wag the next highest state, and against $2.03 for the whole country. Food Admin istrator Henry A. Page is unquestionably to' be thanked by the farmers of : North Carolina for this difference as it was through his activity and demands that the smaller mills of the state were left unrestricted as to the price they might pay for local wheat, while the mills of 75 barrels capacity or more and the smaller mills working under agreement with the Grain Corporaton and securing their wheat from outsid the state have not been allowed to pay more than around $2.12 to $2.15 per bushel. This has meant, of course, that practically the entire wheat crop of North Carolina has been sold to the ; smaller mills at prices considerably higher on an average than the larger i mills were paying for wheat secured from other sections. Mr. Page is hopeful that it will not be necessary to make a single seizure of wheat in North Carolina, especially since the smaller mills of the state are : paying a much higher figure for wheat than the Grain Corporation will pay if the wheat is commandeered, the presumption being, of course, that wheat that !is commandeered will be paid for at the rate that the larger mills are allowed t opay for local wheat around $2.12 to $2.15 per bushel, certainly not higher than $2.20. It is a well-known fact, of course, that the use of wheat or rye as feed for livestock is regarded as wilful waste and is punishable under Section 4 of the Food Control Law by. a fine of $5,000 or two years imprisonment or both. SURPLUS COTTONSEED SHOULD BE MARKETED. Raleigh.The Food Administration has information that If there is no late rrost which would necessitate the replanting of cotton there will be a consid erable surplus of cottonseed left in hands of the cotton planters in the state after the planting season. Inasmuch as cottonseed has asumed a place of : very considerable importance from a food and feed standpoint, the Food Administration Is urging every farmer who has any surplus of cottonseed at .'all to sell such surplus to the nearest oil mill. as soon as he is satisfied that he Is not going to need them for replanting. Refined cottonseed oil as the basis for compound lard is absolutely dominating the food and oil markets of the world while cottonseed meal is Increasing in popularity and importance as a i . vTHE POTATO CAMPAIGN WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. 4 Ralelgn. The potato campaign put on by the Food Administrators in the cities and towns of North Carolina at the request of Food Administrator HenrjrA- Pag has been successful to a marked degree. There was a sur. PiS more than 25'000 busnels of Potatoes in the hands of the producers in S25?ef Vf ,Nrt5 CaK,lina and milns of bushelS above m l2?S?f the hands producers and dealers in Wisconsin and other West- st ? inMilfw1 Vh camPa,5n No'tb Carolina the surplus in this state Is rapidly being exhausted and thousands of bushels of potatoes ax being ordered from Northern States. uuaao oi potatoes are 1 pi. . ol HOLDING WHEAT AIDS ENEMY. 1 Kaleigh. Since wheat exports must be maintained if the war is to to on and we must go on or go under the Food Administration ha tbat position that refusal to release wheat gives aid and fl 6D the FO LLOWING 1 FALSE GODS By S. STANWOOD MENKEN, President of the National Security League. . - ;r I" .-. Just .as the test of the Individual Is best found under the stress of great trial or play of passion, so "nations prove themselves in time of, war and are able to Judge, and 8. Stanwood Menken should be I placed in their leaders. It has befep said that Americans don't h a!v e to prove that they are the "greatest people ont'earth" for they ajnlt It ; and yet, M&en we look backf over our history and consider how we have met great problems such as slavery, by a great war; tariff, by fourteen bills and a like number of panics; conservation, currency, fbank Ing, anti-trust and railroad questions, by making the same matters of poll tics it may be doubted whether we are quite as great as we think we are. In considering how we exercisjfe our Judgment, we should remembe the extent to. which we have devote our selves to the education of the young and the large sums we have snefit at all times for public schools and for colleges. When we look back and see the mistakes we have made, It fould almost appear as if we had falld to apply much that had been taught lis in school and college, or that perhaps the school and college had not taught us how to solve great political measures. Then, again, the thought comes 1 to us of whether or not we have not had false leaders, and have not clung to false gods. - I Corporation Wrongs. We all remember the outcry against vested interests of the capitalists. There have been great wrongs 4one by many corporations some of tjielr franchises have been obtained by J cor ruption and theft and great Injuries have often been done to the 'rights of the people ; and so, when we fcjund times hard and things going wrong, we have vented bur anger upon icor porations and upon the capitalists vho controlled them. In many caVes! we allowed ourselves to become atigry with a class or with certain individ uals and, expended our strength on our temper, rather than upon a stidy of the cure of the conditions about which we complained ; and In miny Instances we punished corporations for the wrongs of their predecessors In ownership, much as sins . of parents are visited upon their children, f Demagogues, knowing the . public mood, appealed to prejudice and I Ig norance in discussing public matters and made issues like currency, anti trust laws and. the railroads political footballs, Just as If the question f of whether money could be saved by Joining together companies and pro viding for economy In purchases' afid sales was political. Of course it was a matter of economics (which Is the science of commerce). Such matters call for a conference between repre sentatives of farmers, laborers, sci entific students of world conditions, and manufacturers and purchasers 'pt goods, to consider and determine hpjw goods can be produced with a far wage to the employee, a fair profit o the employer and the maximum bene fit to the public. I Future Problems. In Europe they have taken these questions up in this, careful way and the result has been of great benefit. Now, and in the future, America will have to deal with countries that are short of resources through the exhaus tion of war and have, of necessity, t get down to rock-bottom. The thrifty, intelligent, industrious European 1 apt to be a good merchant, and we are going to have a hard time competing with him for commerce and for world position, so we must consider all oi! our problems more carefully than ever before and cast aside those men who attempt to lead us away from a not alone of the qualities of which their, peoples are so the measure of Contracts written at reasonable connoencef u" prices. TRYON, N. C. WB SOLICIT i. Tour orders to? floorm. celling, aiding, finish, mouldings, framing. We manufacture tills and can save you money. See us for lath, bnck, doors and sash. TRYON LUMBER CO.. . GEO A- GASH JUSTICE OF THE PEACE - AND NOTARY PUBLIC Collections a specialty. Deeds and Mortgages prepared, WALTER JONES. ATTORNEY AT LAW Office up Stair In Jno. L. Jackson Ce., Bid's. We Have the Right Prices 'AND Kind of Materials to do your building. Full stock Doors, Windows, Siding, flooring Ceiling, Shingles, Loths, Interior Finish and Moulding, Rough and Dressd Lumber- Carry complete STOCK OP FEEDS HEARON LUMBER CO. SALUDA, N. C. IsThere An Electric Flat Iron In Your Home - Price $4.50 30 Days Free Trial Guaranteed For 10 Years IRYON ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY NOTICE. Having qualified as Executrix oi the ebtaie oi J. W. Kennedy, deceased late of Polk county, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceasd to present them to the undersigned Executrix for payment on or before the 2nd da of May 1919, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their payment.. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 2nd day of May 1918. THEODOSIA JONES KENNEDY. . ' . Executrix. Walter Jones, Atty. 4t NOTICE OF SALE. By virtue of an order of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Polk county !dj'iTTthe sPecial Proceeding en- t 'n,W J Scrivens, Administrator ; McClure, deceased, vs. Jane McClure, Floyd McClure, and others,' wherein the undersigned was ap pointed commissioner, the said under signed commissioner will sell at pub lic auction to the hio-hocf hiAA. cash, m front of the Pnt nffl v . rri ' , " " ViJXV-c ill Hie ?fZ0rth Colina, on Tuesday thoughtful, dispassionate view fnt oVi vui',t.. Questions. - iH j ""I l uwms uescriDed i aim premises, to wit: Draft nnri noclor1 In 1ao1 a...mI I A trn r rr- t-. i e 1 " . ---r.-"- 'vi vuwujuiii' . -- pai-ci ui iana situate ties of political duties by the average e Town of Tryon, County of citizen are responsible for the ralseoy- j Jand State of North Carolina i i ... . . "and desrnhp o o -piix,. x viuiiieiu uiai ureeug uisrespect. Where 1 t r 1u""vb to wit: i i,i u I. . r xjecmnincr at nmnf o we Biiuuiu imve pnue Decause or the efficiency of our people. The first con- we should have pride because of the f rif3i"mn at a n on the Smith efflclencv of our neonle. Th o. Lbfiti31 !me' which bears south 89 cern of the citizen in every community RKanT STOfeSttterS m 2 must be to see that it is eovemixi tn Ihi A . . w i & va uiwiwcsl corner ot tho coin a way that will assure the approTftl - jSmith's subdivision; thence with ?aiH v uicM nuu womeii. """m-vyieveiana line south 89 dpo- a viijr re-i --- w.av uvu xeei, to a Stake the quire the same kind of clear thought no?9est corner of lot No. 5 in said nuu mreiui wore as tnat given to i ; XTr "lcIlce a"d with the line shop work or farm planning and Pf i?iJ9J: ti P south 0 deg. 40 min. wMt good American must feel that at this i0f the s CwSi the .northern margin time tbtre is nothing more worth 90(T thi& llloc Oct. while. WfsL ".j n x" " Bwuwiwesieny di- r . 4. . rrrywu,:ru m northern mars-m nf If we do these things well. wWni said road about, ska .j -i-,.01 not have to worry about the foreign- J;h?, northeastern corner of lot No 1 oorn loving America, because living ru ai vision; thence north' 0 dec m d so excellent wv Acet 10 tne begin- that they simply, cannot heln it Mn &g' contaming 2 acres, more or daily when they are tiven not inn. 1 good government andhealthy ,ondl-BXLJLA k 1 2f . 6 and wotk on an were conveyed to j T shop, but also education, opportunity fcClure by deeds from Geo A- Smini and c carter of liberties which will and Frances L. SnS, aj5 of wWch mean happiness to them, if w are fully referrpH n i uLlcr form our duties as citizens. Jthe above fitted pSSeSS Mtention Mr. Farmer! Everything made of wood7and iron is higher in price all trie time. We were f0T enough to place an order about nine months 0 a car load of the celebrated Weber Wagon, all fr made by the International Harvester Co aSt1Ze,s' prices, and can today sell you cheaper than w now buy, even if we could get' them at ail. Can We can save you money while they lt n, sen on easy terms. 111 We are also getting a few Ford Cars Vv farmer that has lots of hauling should hav the new Ford Trucks. Call and talk it over with us. one of THE TRYON MOTOR CO ill ASHEVILLE SUMMER SCHOOL OF THF NORMAL and COLLEGIATE Asheville, N. C, six weeks, June 11 tc Julv 24 iqio TT',,i-, 1 .a, zx.: 4.1 a. 1 , n' 1io. xnAcepLiuimi upporLuiiiti tu tiiue ueacners wno desire profw ' ' Sttong courses id education. school teachers, sunervisors and sunerintpnrlpnfo k Special attention to cooking and sewing, manual training dra ana oiner nanaworK, music, writing, pnysical training and hi v Bible. Faculty comDosed of members of thp lN-moi giate faculty, and of heads of departments in recognized coV nuu liviiuai ocuuuia. usccihi ly strung in primary Work Pprf cates granted upon completion of the six weeks roi iro will L. cepted by the State Board as satisfying their requirements t nrofessional stndv. Tm'tinn fpp Q 00 for tho to d j ' room in the dormitories, $5,00 per week. For announcement td f formation and reservation of rnnms nHHrPCQ- 'T t' President JOHN E. CALEEE, "Director, Normal and Collegiate Institute, Asheville, N. V. .c(" rc: 9 s 9 f - ii ! An Ambition and a Record IHE needs of the South are identical with the needs of the Southern Railway t the rroWth and success of om: meana the upbuilding of the other. The Southern Railway asks no favors no special jrivilcre not accorded to others. 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