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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N". C. HEAVY BLOW FOR PRESIDENT TAFT WILSON-BICKETT COMBINE IS SUSTAINED IN FIGHT FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the 'State Capital. Raieieh. Delivering a side swipe at William Howard 'Taft, President of the League -:o Enforce - Peace, who has publicly ritirised President .Wilson's program tor a league of Nations, the Executive Committee of the League has adopted ihe suggestion of 'Governor Bickett, member of the committee, and has hedged its support to the President. This was made dear td the Gover nor in a letter trom Alien P. Ames. I ternary of the Committee on Infor- mating of the League, in response to -he Governor's telegram of suggestion, " our telegram addressed to the Executive Committee." the letter read, vreated a profound impression and if you have seen the press reports of the meeting, you already know that the omnvittee acted as you suggested and adopted a ringing resolution pledging support of the President in the estab lishment of a League of Nations." Increase in Manufactures. The records of the census bureau, w here the list of manufacturing plants iff the nation are kept, show that there lias been a very great increase in the variety and number or factories and mills of North Carolira in recent vears. This is especially true in the sections covered by the hydro-electric wwer plants of Charlotte and other industrial centers. T was predicted, jears ago; when the waterpower development first -oinnc:ieed. that there would come with the harnessing of the falls of the Catawba and other rivers many small mamif.-'-eturing' plants "that won'd nM'mately make the stale rich. The :u-editions have come fniP to rtato In addition to the factories run by' waternowpr there are scores of others -uprated in the old way. An interesting f-K-t about the devel mmenf in Catawba couhtv one of ''he most progressive counties in the tojth--i? that small factories there nave begun to compete with the West, 'or th work-glq-ve trade. Three or 1-yyir conepms are turning out thou sands of cam-as gloves for workmen. lmpcrtar.ee of Conservation. A food conservation and war relief -ampaign December 1 that is expect ed to arouse the people of North Car--T'lln-a and bring to them a full con-wr-iousncss of the continued impor tance of food conservation and the fl"tivrt'es of the fnxl administration generally was planned and outlined ;? the conference of countv food ad- lin'strators with th State food ad- ! -nlmstrator, Henry A. Page, and his staff, which ended here this morning. The fact, was emphasized that with -he ccming of .peace the demand for food for ex-port has been increased in stead of decreased, the minimum ex peotations now being twenty, million "ons instead of the eighteen million tons which would have been required if the war had ben continued. The starving 'peoples c Europe must be fed not only as a humanitarian duty! but also as the most effective means of preserving civilization and government in those nations. civil Scheme of Taxation. Governor Bickett and' his special "iftgislative commission for, proposing tr the next legislature a scheme of taxation that will be most equitable and bear as nearly equal as possible on all the peoples and interests in the - Slate, especially through suggesting amendments to the constitution, haver been in conference hers In preparation for something of the finishing touches for the report and recommendations that are to go through' the governor to the legisla'turewhen it meeta. Cotton Crop for 1918. According to the last ginning re port reaching Major W, A. Graham, vmMx:sskner of agriculture, giving production figures up to November 8. Nort.h Carolina has produced this year 15,178 bales of the fleecy staple against 278,013 for las year. The in crease is about 50 per cent. Robeson, as usual, leads the list of -o?ton producing counties in the State '"'Ith 37,000 bales, thirteen thousand ahead of its closest competitor, John ston, and 16,000 ahead of Jts Hear neighbor, Scotland. For Memorial Building. The proposal to erect a memorial building in honor of the North Caro lina soldiers who fought and died in the world war met general endorse ment and everywhere were indica lions of the response which an appeal for funds' will be met This week, it i understood, the movement. will take form with the a pr oartment of a com mittee by the Governor to map out plans. No time is to .be lost and Tar Heels returning from France will, be greeted by the growing memorial their valor. " Thanksgiving Proclamation. By the president of ' the United States of America. A. proclamation: It has long:beeh our custom to turn mthe autumn of the year in praise ant? thanksgiving: to Almighty God for His many -blessings and mercies to us araunatioa-lThiy year we have special and moving cause to be grate ful and to rejoice. God has in His good pleasure given us peace. It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, a mere, relief from the strain and tragedy of war. it has come as a great triumph of right. Complete vie tory has brought us, not peace' alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well. iu which justice shall re place force and jealous intrigue among the nations. Our gallant armies ha'e participated in a triumph which is not anarred or stained by any purpose of L selfish aggression, in a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind. God has indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strength ens in us-all the best traditions of our national history. A new day shines about Us, in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with new hope to new and greater duties. While we render thanks for these amies, and divine mercv and other things. let us not forget to seek th. divine guidance in the performance o forgiveness for all errors of act o purpose, and pray that in all we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship, and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations. Wherefore, I, Wood row Wilson, President of the United States of Am erica, do hereby designate Tnursday. the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, -and invite the people through out the land to cease upon that day from fheir ordinary occupations and in their several Itomes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the ruler ct nations. WOODROW WILSON. Tour for Highway Men. Supporters of the Bankhead Na tional Highway will go on a tour from Birmingham to Washington and Bal timore in early December. At the for mer place efforts will be made in be half of the passage by Congress of the Chamberlain-Dent bill appropriating $100,000,000 for roads, and at Balti- more ,-nc highway promoters will at- tend the annual meeting of the South ern Commercial Congress. Aerial Mail Route. . Washington (Special). The ncst oft'ice depaTtment will establish an aerial mail route across North Caro lina to the far south. At least one stop will be made in the state. This will give North Carcliim con nection by air with New York and make it possible for important mail and registry letters to be delivered several hours sooner. The department plans to establish these routes over the entire country. From New York to Chicago, to fetm Francisco; from New York to Jack sonville. Fla,, and New Orleans, mili tary truck mail, service, to make for speedier delivery in remote sections. is to be expanded. Tnis will be espe cially important to the rural sections and require thousands of army motor trucks and drivers. North will have truck routes. Carolina Monumental Peace Task. Chairman Edward M. Hurley, of the United States Stiuping Board, has called upon Chairman Ben-ehan Cam- eron, of the Highway Transport Com- mittee of the State Council of De fense. to aid in carrying on the monu- mental peace time task involved in the moving of foodstuffs from the farmers' door to shipping points and thence down to the great ports for transportation to Europe. Discussing this urgent request of Chairman Hurley for the stimulation in the most efficient manner of all forms of highway transport, Col. Cam eron said he will urge upon the patri otic people of North Carolina to tally to the support of the members and workers of the various highway com mittees throughout the Stae in the same spirit which has characterized their efforts during the trying times of war. Verdict Against the City. Among the 16 opinions filed by the Sunreme Court, the court found no er ror in the judgment of damages against the commissioners of Lexing ton for the death of J. C. Smith, an employe of a Chero Cola bottling plant. Smith was assisting in install ing machinery in the bottling plant and was . sitting on a large metal ma chine waiting for a change to be made in d gas tube. In getting down from the machine, he caught hold of an elec trict socket and was killed instantly. Masonic Red Circle. The Masonic lodges of Raleigh open d the Masonic Red Circle Club for soldiers and sailors on the second floor of the Masonic Tenp-le and the club will be open during the evening as well as during the day. It is equip ped with writing desks, easy chairs and a piano and will be operated as e lounging room for all soldiers and sailors who may he in Raleigh irre spective of whether they "be Masons or not." In this enterprise we see dis played that true spirit of frftternalism which is the bedrock of this order. - " - ' , ' t as"'' & i j i fii irii M i Temple O F all China's great cities I found Nanking the richest in historical interest, says Dr. A. B. Lea veil e in an account of his travels in China, published in ; able to pay 40 cents a day, to house the Los Angeles Times. It is 205 miles boats. inland on the banks of that wonderful ' Of course, we lost no time in seeing waterway, the Yangtze river. Its his- that great missionary hospital of which tory dates back, under different names, my brother is chief surgeon and super several centuries before Christ, and it ; intendent. He had three Chinese men has served under a number of dynas- and ten Chinese women nurses, trained ties as the capital city. Nanking is also as Bible students, and can aecom very advantageously situated for de- ; rnodate about 150 patients. They have fense and has the vantage point striv-1 every heinous disease and affliction en for by many of the leaders of Chi- conceivable leprosy, typhus, Asiatic na's numerous rebellions. It was here ; cholera, smallpox, tuberculosis; dengue that Dr. Sun Yaf Sen lived and took i fever, opium smokers' poison, and his' oath of ohe as president of the i plague. The first sight that struck my HcfJublic of China in 11112. During our ' eves was a woman who had just come stay in this city we were entertained in that great yamea, formerly owned by Li Hung Chang, ex-minister to quickly stopped, and the Bible women America. , going' to work at once, found that she I The present walls of Nanking are had suffered from guilty conscience among the finest in China, being,' SX) and cut her throat to let the evil spir feet high, 10 feet thick and 22 miles '; its out of her body, long. In their construction no fewer i than 4,000,000 workmen were employ ed. These walls have now been built ! more than 1.000 years ami, though moss covers most of the brick, are well preserved. The past glories of this city are indi- cated by arched bridges of carved i stone; by the ruins of the world-famous porcelain pagoda ; the examina tion halls containing cells for 30.000 students, the near-by ancient Confuci an temples; the drum tower, and the precious stone tea houses. The cele brated mausoleum of Hung Wu, the humble founder of the Ming dynasty, we saw just outside the city walls. for miles it is aurrouuuea by nuge carved granite figures of animals and an(j' canf5 solid stone images, known as the Ming j 'QUite equal to the men at this tombs. This is one of the most pic- j job says the foreman of the screen turesque places known to history. j nff house, where all the coal is care Purple Mountain That Was Chained, j fully screened into different sizes, All is overshadowed by Purple mountain, where the greatest battle of Chinese history was fought. The wife of one of the emperors declared she could see this moutain move, arid to relieve his people of their terror be set forth with 1,000,000 coolies and con structed a huge iron chain about its base: - Since that day it has not moved. Taking a stern-wheeler we proceeded up the world-famous West river right through China's present theater of war. Our good captain, having a big con signment of silver aboard, was sure the pirates would take usi and at night fall placed "Big Doc" (my brother) and me in a private cabin adjoining his on the bridge, all of which was enclosed in iron grating with locked doors. We bad 300 Chinese herded below on the deck which had no beds, as they preferred the floor. I was glad of the chance to see them at their eve- ) ning meal of rice, bamboo sprouts and j chopped duck, served before them as . 1 1 ; 3 . 1 1 .7 they reclined, a half-dozen or more eating with chopsticks out of the same large bowl. It certainly was a great sight. Then they passed around the community water pipe, which after a few puffs would lay them out to sleep Oh, say, did you ever see a duck boat? Well, all along here you see these peculiar boats with overhanging sides equipped to accommodate some thing like 4,000 ducks. They land at a new grazing place each day, throw down a bamboo gangplank and herd them like sheep a call will bring back any straying drake. In the afternoon when the call is given "all aboard," you never saw such a scrambling and Ail'llnrf inA tha u-fltff to O-Mt 111) that gangway, for the last half-dozen get 'the vicinity. Popular-Mechanics Ma g a sound thrashing for being, late. It azine looked like a crush at a theater fire. j ' .. , A Flood at Vuchow. ! Light Reading, We finally reached Vuchow, the "Big Doc" and his charming wife, formerly of the bine grass, -showed me the most Interesting ten days of my life.. I could forgethree-f pnrths of it all and. still, have enough left to write a book. I arrived in lime to see what their city Near Nanking. j is most famous for, a flood. It rose 45 feet, inundating a great part of the city, driving the natives to the hills, on to house tops, and a few who were in with her throat cut wide open and 1 bleeding to death. The bleeding was BRITISH WOMEN IN WAR-WORK Gentle Sex Is Certainly Doing Its Share in the Great Contest Being Waged for Liberty. With a gay laugh, the pit-brow girls bend to their task over the picking belt. Their duty consists of picking out and casting aside all the "dirt" and rubbish from among the coal which ; moves slowly along in front of them i on the belt on its way to the shoots ! into the waiting wagons below. ! Splendidly strong, hefty lasses they 1 ori trtrt in hr firir.Wiie overalls from huge lumps to tiny pieces no larger than a very small bean. We wander from here into the lamp room, where the miners' lamps are cleaned, trimmed and filled. Here, again, the girls do the work, with the aid of machines in which rapidly re volving brushes play a large part. As the miners come out of the pit they hand their lamps to the girls through a little window in the lamp room, receiving them again next day, cleaned and filled, on their return to work. Sawing the timber into lengths for rkit.nrnns to snnnort the roof in the J,.. r.-u ' " , ' 1 " " - mine is another branch of labor under taken by women and girls. Thus do the girls assist the miner to fulfill his great task of supplying the allied nations with the coal which Marshal Foch assures us is "the key to victory." Thus do they help to light his way and to keep him safe. Cupid, too, is busy at the pits today. Many a knight of the Silver Bade returns to find a bride among the bonnie lassies on the pit-brow. London Mail. Hot and Cold Water. A sanitary drinking fountain from which gushes both hot and cold water j is the decidedly novel feature to be found .on a street in Ouray, a mining town in western Colorado. The foun tain consists of an ornamental cast iron post from which extend two j curved arms, each supporting' a basin. in the center of which is an overflow ing cup. From the one flows cold wa ter piped from snow-fed mountain streams, while from the other runs hot water drawn from near-by hot springs, of which there are many in "Wall. I'll declare,? exclaimed oia Missus Prude. "The stories , in some of these current magazines are enougr. to shock a body.'? . And so saying sne threw , off her switch for the sake of j comfort and wired her eye? to tb 'page. SHIPS IN CONSTANT PERIL I Sailing Without Lights, Navigators j Can Only Rely on Quickness of Per- caption and 'Professional 'Nerve.' i . i - I Ken If the linns are escaped, the , life of ;i merchant, ship man in these i flays is far removed from beer and skit j ties. An example of what they have. Jto go through is-fhrnished by the nar j row squeak the Empress of Britain and j the Cardiganshire had one night in the Aegean sea, Tialph E. Cropley writes 1 in the Atlantic. Poth are big ships, i find they' were loaded with troops and going at full sneed y.iirziiirL'in" not I a light showing. It was one f .those ! nights when you can hardly see your i hand before you. There were no stars, no phosphorous nothing -nothing but ( to trust to luck and the ears of the man on the I ridge. ! The captain of one of the ships has told me that, before he knew it, there ! was a ship, bow on him. dead ahead, j Of course the first impulse was to shift his helm; but if iie did so, the dan .ger, would be of one ship giving the. : other a glancing blow. Fortunately, ; rh,v other skipper appreciated ihis also, j Their nerve, in spite of seve.-al years of war-ZdiK' work, was still equal to . tire occasion. It all happei.i'd in the twinkling of an eye. and tl.ey passed ' s; . hough there had been les than ; -lO feet separating the ships, and their j outswung lifebonts nearly seruped. The j captain of the Cardiganshire, though j he- could not see him, heard the cap i tain of the Kmju-ess of Iir.tain aluive ! the noises of the sea heard him yeM : "For God's sake, old man. don't shift j your helm !" so close were they on their respective niutges nigh above the sen. Instances of this kind, vh:eh try men's souls, nightly occur, and quite frequently there are coll.sions and tragedies in the pitch dark. The only way that the two ships identitied themselves was ten days later, at Sa- lonIk,i' . when th! Ptaln of the Cardi ganshtre heard ihe skipper of the Empress of Britain asking a friend if he knew what ship he nearly bumped on a certain night. I am sorry to re port that the captain of the Empress of Britain lost his life in the Halifax explosion while doing hospital work. Night Photographs From Airplane. An Italian invention which permits photographs being taken at night has been submitted to the signal corps of the United Stales army. Accoiding to the men who control the new device it will soon be possible to take excellent pictures of enemy positions from air planes flying at a low height on' moon light nights. It i also claimed that the invention can be fitted to r motion-picture cameras, which would permit the photographing for the screen of much of the lighting in the air, the greater part of which takes place in the ear'y morning hours. Up to the present time the chief obstacles met by the daylight aerial photographers Is that the anti aircraft guns force the flyers to rake pictures from a great height, and much of the deta-I of the enemy lines is therefore lost. It is held, continues Aviation, that llyers are in little dan ger from artillery when flying at night. Scientific American. Mental Attitude The mental attitude rules the won,. It means success or failure, whether on the field of battle, wlrere .courage counts for more than physical strength", or in the home, or the store, or the fae- tory. Courage in facing life, courage jn taking unnbles and rising to a high- er level, because refusing to acknowl edge defeat, faith and trust that life Is wonderful and good and beautiful will help to really make it so for us at least, and more than anything else in the universe , will our state of mind determine what manner of fortune shall be ours. Always Source of Strength. Look well i:.u thyself : v there is a source which will always spring up it thou wilt always search there. cus Antonius. Bobolink Restored to Favor. By reason o1j its depredations ) the rice fields, the bobolink was form erly rated the most destructive feath ered creature on this continent. But the rice has moved away from the path of its migration, and on this account it has become almost barmfess Hence forward we may admire the protean bobolink without qualification, and. protected against its only important enemy, mgji. it will dou',,bKs become a much more numerous His Great Task. T want to gel some information." said the tired man with three suit cases. "'Why don't you apply to the bureau of information V "I'm work ing up to that. Kirs; I've 'ot to get inforniauori, as to how I an find the bureau of informal ion." Washington Star. The war industries board has direct ed manufacturers of cotton thread to limit their ortpur of whito thread to 14 sizes, of black to snven sizes and colored to one, with spo Is regulated to certain diameter, r ade to bold pbout yards. Aim in Pruning Cherries. Like the cherry, plum trees bear tipon one-year-old wood, and spurs of one to two years of age. Heavier cut-, ting than in the case of the cherry Is desirable as more fruit Is borbe upon one-year wood and fewer on spur, heavier pruning produces this new wood. Apple Tree Worth Saving. An long as. an apple tree is worth favtag, save it, but when its period of usefulness is past, make It do duty i the cook store. .1 i.mn ' - . SHEEP ON SMALL SCALE PAY European. War Has Developed Very Important Enterprise for the New England Farmer. . ... (Prep&.ed by the United States 0esrt rr.ent of Agriculture) - Conditions created by the European war nave made sheep raising o a. small scale a very important enter- prise for the New England fanv so situated as to take advantage of the economic conditions. I'rior to tJie1 recent remarkable advance in ptib? " of wool and mutton, sheep raising in v New England was comparatively sta profitable, but now, undei certahnrwa- -ditions, a revival of the indttsnrj seems desirable. In a study made of sheep raisin? in the New England states by spcaal ists of the U. S. department f agri culture it was found that this iadt try when conducted on a small seal was more profitable than daiTjiBp They therefore recommend that lAee replace the unprofitable cows and thus. the industry be given more attcsfr a. in sections unfavorable for dabyinc Kept li small numbers, sheep do not replace other kinds of live stocfc fcyc are kept in addition to 1h ivsafcir quota of other stock on such taanri as have available pasture. It was found that regardless T. whether sheep were kept in cvhJsbm? tion with dairy or with beef cattle farms with sheep have practically th Good Type fr Any Farm. same kinds and numbers oi ofTicr'fcr stock as did farms without &orp Moreover, farms with the sh" kJ an average of 15 more acres mS. pav ture than did farms without the te:uw warranting the conclusion made hj tlx specialists that sheep in New EEjjisrut have not been kept to the excfcisioB. of other live stock but have bi LepC on farms with large pasture rt utilize the extra pasture. avKfiAfclft. Though sheep raising as mow ducted on the farms studied i a imClh able business at present prices, tAufcre is much room and great n ci fr eh Improvement of the industry, d tif specialists say tha t the average jwwer could, with better care, make tu fca$K ness a much more profitable oie "ve under normal eonditionsawl wi3tSvct the artificial stimulus to prices give, by the war. By propor are in ing and feeding, the lambing rat should be increased one-third ami ilv wool clip lit per cent, which at jwrst prices would mean an increase "m re ceipts) of nearly $3 per sheep.' f SMALL OR BIG SHEEP FLOCK Many More Animals Can Be Ktp&Witk Little Added Labor -Overlies Charges Are Less. (Prepared by the United State rKjperls ment of Agriculture.) The economical disadvantage of jl ery small Cock lies in the fact that the hours of labor are practlcaDy tfcie same for a dozen or 20 ewes as for th larger flock. The fencing t alkwr de sirable change of pastures or to sve protection against dogs is about th same In either case, so that Use mer head charges per ewe are mod) fiantt er in the case of the larger flock. Wtu- thermore, the small flock on a Carw. having large numbers of other afrnig is unlikely to receive the study an! --'. tention really needed or that wotM t given to one of the chief am rl the farm income. NO PROFIT IN STAR BOARDER Feeds Are Too High Priced to Waists Them on Animals That Do Net Earn Their Living. 1 Kick out the star boarder. TWta"3 not the time to feed animals that not work. Feeds are too blah and too much needed for the wiBbuoj1 of the war to waste them ob sladmx. Nearly every farm has one r smt animals that are not paying fr tfcrfr feed and care. They may he 1m Om beef herd, in the cow stable w & hog lot. Try to spot them .sixt Arm get rid of them before they "at Hdr heads off." It is the patriotic 4o(y f every breeder of llve'stock to e1 1 th butcher any animal that faEks t giTe satisfactory returns on ffce consumed , : ; "j' I ; . .- f 4 r V.