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LOUIS LEHI
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WHAT'S WRONG )
Rest quietly in your easy
about you and think. What is
the question vyith yourself wt
strike, poison booze, flappers,
ir/Mi+h rKvnme tHp wpathei
J vul/ily v?4 t v* vv) va*v .. ~ ? ? ? bread,
lack of vitamines, static,
crop outlook, or too much publi<
have decided to your own sati
these things are contributing t
ment of yourself and mankind,
and begin your day's work wit!
then wonder why you ever wc
wrong with the world. This j
Should it fail, however, you gel
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That was a grand old so
whether you kept sober or
is all right in a song of its kir
better Tryon, or help this coi
It will never j)ut efficiency inl
ment, or sympathy into neighl
fice as an excuse for residenc
Turn about is fair play. Tryi
here who are counted as popi
community to be here because
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"WIMMIN"
Of all the arguments agaii
one real sound objection, dnd t
of the ald-tiihe precinct votin
great American masculine insti
and we might say, downright i
"getting-the-votes-in-the^box" i
tine.
Woman?whose fine hand
invaded the last stronghold of
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at bay to see* sneiter ana proi
days that used to be. For worn
and has taken mere man from 1
When it comes to serving
can wield a wicked pencil, casl
born judgment. It used to be
the floor when you went to vot
find some law to put you out if
cured. It used to be you could
kidding you about being a Der
since women are guiding the d
^ you can't even get into the pk
you're not on her side of the f
booths, that's taboo. The last
ing cigar stubs outside the do
passers warm without splitting
from the grocery store. It's ai
of the ropes. While standing a
so loud over points in the elec
riot squad for the "bloody 7th,"
to arrest us, and his posse to
political complexion.
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IT'S ALL IN TI
For the second time in its
the cloture rule limiting debate.
The success or failure of all legi
pends largely on the machinery
ure by which bills and proposals
these forms seem unimportant,
must abide by them they mean
ceremony, the psychology of ti
ality have decided the fate of
world importance.
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Joseph Williams, a blind St
than $15,000 hidden about his '
A head to a thing generall;
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Divorce evils are no worse
At that, how could peace
arms?
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Wouldn't it be cheaper foi
confidence ?
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Oil man makes $25,000 a d
thousand years.
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Columbus discovered Amer
have cleaned it.
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Prohibition is in its infanc;
their bottle.
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You can't change a leopard'
.try's wet spots.
^ When a man says "I'll thiri
will co home and ask hia wife
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chair tonight; drafvv the curtains
wrong with th< jworld? Settle
lether it is the tariff, the coal
Congress, the i: idependence of
r, the parole system, white
landlords, the fceign debts, the
:ity for the ex-Keliser. After you
isfaction which di" how many of
o the lack of peace and contentgo
to sleep. Ar : le next morning
h freshness and :rdor. You will
indered that thei was anything
anlrlAnln foila tn Pnro
/I catl 1JJL1V/U ociuuiai 1UUO w vv** V.
t your agony bare.
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AUSE WE'RE fl^RE."
ng. That is, if you didn't care
not. The here-lecause attitude
id, but it will neyer help make a
nmunity grow iflore prosperous.
:o business, honffcty into governoorly
contact. I ; will never sufe
or as an alib for citizenship,
on is here becau se all of us are
llation Then we owe it to our
Tryon is here.
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IN POLITICS.
nst woman suffrage there is only
hat is on account of the passing
g place. What formerly was a
tution is now rei ned, effeminate,
ininteresting. T] e great g^me of
is quite blase?a mere legal rouhas
shaped the nations?now has1
man, and driver him like a stag
ection only in thle memory of the
an, lovely womait, is "in" politics,
the only place he had his last say.
on the election board, a woman
; a cautious iye, and use a stubi
you could spit tobacco juice on
,e, but now the women will try to
your nails are not properly manicuss
out thei election officials for
nocrat or a Vice Versa; but now
lestinies of t ie ballot emporiums,
ice if one of the women suspects
ence, And a^ for smoking in the
election therj were enough burnor
to keep the sheriff and ca^d
up and burning any empty boxes
vful. No mere fights at the end
round the polls we used to argue
tion law they would call for the
and here wculd come the sheriff
fix things up, depending on our
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history, the tj. S. Senate adopted
The world jcourt was the issue,
slative and deliberative bodies deor
the actual systems of procedare
determined. To the outsider
if not trivial, but to those who
about everything. The detail of
me, and the j influence of personmany
measures of national and
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home. !
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y puts it on its feet.
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than marriage scandals.
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treaties ever be signed without
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r France to take straw votes of
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lay. With us, a day would last a
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ica, but the real estate boosters
y. That is why people still want
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Mr. P. a T.pwIr. who recently Dur-.
chased a lot In Denton Sprlngp Park,
has secured plans and let the qontract
to Mr. M. D. Sprinkle for th(e erection
of an attractive little sjlx-room
bungalow. The water line his been
extended out to this new development
and the the electric line will be extended
soon. Lots are sellipg fast
in the development, and from all reports
this is to be one of the leading
residential sections of Columbia.
Mrs. E. W. S. Cobb will be hostess
to the Outlook club at its regular
monthly meeting next Wednesday afternoon,
February 10th, at 3:45.
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Messrs. C. R. and Fred W. Blanton
left Tuesday for a trip to Florida.
They will be gone about a w$ek. '
The Woman's Missionary Society of
the Baptist Church will mefet with
Mrs. W. S. McDowell next Tuesday
evening at 7:30.
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Among those from Columbus, who
enjoyed the meeting of the I Drama
Fortnightly at the Parish Hlouse in
Tryon last Wednesday night, were:
Misses Arledge, Holderbaum, Bodie,
Seidel, Thelma Mills and Messrs. John
W. Artz and Archie Feagan.
The county council, composed of one
or two women from each Home Demonstration
Glub in the county, met
with Miss Holderbaum in OolumbuS
Monday, February 1st. The, mereting
was held in the library of Stearns
High School. After the meeting, during
which plans for 1926 were made,
the Columbus Girls' Club served tea.
Miss Hattie Parrott, assistant state
rural supervisor of schools, slpent several
days in the county last vfeek with
Polk county's rural supervisor, Miss
Seidel, and visited the schools in Columbus,
Green's Creek and (Tryon.
THE CHARM
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We came to Tryon last; fall and
drove our stakes and pitched our tent
on the mountain side. Nowi the oaks
are seared and leathery, thje maples
and, the dogwood are bare] and the
mountains wear patches of grizple and
gray. But the pines are green and
feathery, the laurel still wears its
rich, glossy emerald, and the azalea
has lost none of itB summer beauty.
If one drives only through] our highway,
he will not see the charm and
beauty of Tryon, for Tryon Is cloistered
on the mountain sides and cradled
in the valleys. You ! will find
beautiful homes clinging to the moun
taiB Slopes like Swiss chalets in the
Alps; or perched on the hill tops as
in Tuscany. You will find quaint bungalows
along narrow serpentine roads
that wind down the valleys; you will
find them along by-paths where the
shivering sunlight dances across your
path, where the air smells of the pines
and where you tread on sof|t cushions
of green moss and the wibds tiptoe
through the trees and you hear the
noisy bagpipe of the squalling bluejay
or the twitter of the chickadee
and the song sparrow.
One of the most charming sights on
a clear morning is the pageantry of
fleecy clouds lazily climbing the
mountain sides, then resting awhile
and pitching their white tents near
the crest, with the mountain top sticking
through like a ridgepole or a
chimney pot. Then lazily lifting their
draperies, they drift away.
We do not have the heather or the
picturesque cattle feeding on the hills
as in Scotland, or the sheep climbing
the mountain sides as in Palestine, or
the red-tiled roofs as in Spain, but
our mountains have a magical color- i
ing that cannot be found anywhere i
else. On a clear morning the sides :
are radiant with a varying glow from i
the soft purple to the rich brown, and I
then to pale yellow, as mystical and i
varied as the shifftlng lights of the
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Tryon the Unspoiled Paradise.
Editor Polk County News:;
In a recent article I suggested that
though the surroundings i of Tryon
warranted the above caption, the manmade
part of town seemed badly out
of tune with its environment. I cited (
iu? water tana as a sirixing exam- (
pie. The street leading from the ata- .
tlon to Melrose avenue Is another. As ,
we all know, the banks on either side t
of this most important street?important
because of its location and ,
because it is the only connection be- ,
tween the two sections of the town?
are of red clay. .
Nature has done little to these (
banks beyond washing the soil down ]
to the sidewalks and thus distributing |
It over the rest of the city.
If Nature has been niggardly here,
man has been more so, and the trav- 1
eler up and down this street must
view an ugly expanse of unbaked i
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The Columbus Circle of the Presbyterian
Church will meet with Mrs. H.
F. Sikes Tuesday afternoon, February
12th, at 3:30. The circle will, begin
the study of the new Foreign
Mission Study Book, and the chairman,
Mrs. F. M. Burgess, is anxious
that every member be present at this
meeting.
The Group Center Teachers' meeting
for Columbus township will be
hehl in Columbus Friday at Stearns
High School.
The Little Girls' Club of Columbus
met with Eloise, Ruth and Emmi
(Catherine Cobb Tuesday afternoon
Miss Holderbaum gave a demonstra
tion in whole wheat muffins. Afte;
the demonstration the members weri
invited into the dining room wher
refreshments were served.
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Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Stroup atifl
family spent the past week-end wit i
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Laney at Maidei,
N. C.
Misess Marie Burgess and Dorotl y
McChesney, teachers in Green's Crek t
School, spent the past week-end [i t
home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Landis sp? : it
Monday in Landrum on business.
Shortly j after boasting that he d
climbed many high structures withe it
an accident, Alex Hassen, a steep ejack
of Hayattsville, Md., fell eig it
feet froni a shed he was painting,
breaking jan arm and a leg.
A girl suspected of stealing a] d
swallowing a $1,600 diamond fr< 21
the store of I. C. Newman in Chica ;o
was proved innocent by an X-ray p cture.
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aurora borealis. The sun is the pa ter,
the 1 ill sides his canvass and le
mountains the great galleries.
Tourists from the North and E st
are con ing in; men with' knici srbockers
and golf caps, women w( iring
thi< k-soled shoes and carry lg
walking sticks. They ride horseb: ;k
and tramp in the woode, listening or
the bugle call of Spring, for the I >rsythia,
vith its little yellow star fl wer,
is already in bloom and the b ds
of the ihododendron are swelling I
saw a mrty of tourists watchini a
mountai leer coming down a stiep
road; in one hand he held the riijns
that guided a pair of weary looking
mules, in the other he held a ripe
attached to a long pole that answered
for a brake. The wheels grated and
slid ove- the hard ruts as slowly he
crept diwn the sharp side of the
mountai 1; when level ground 'ras
reached, he pulled his hat over his
deep-shamed, grizzled face and mo red
contentedly along.
Since we have been in Tryon we
have seen only a few red sunsets sach
as one rees at sea when the departing
sun flames the west with its
flamboyant splendor. But the beauty
of the t vilight before night locks aer
iron doirs is unexcelled anywhere.
The whiteness of the dawn reacies
along the western verge and the rugged
mountains stand out like gimt
watch towers, with the outline of
pines sharply etched against the sky,
and all us silent as the hills of home.
The rights are none the ltss enchanting
; the setting of the p.'anets
in all thair hrillianr.v nvar thp mnnn
tain tops, the myriad of stars moving
with the same silent tread as when
their trembling light first left die
cradle cf creation and the Pleailes
and Orion first took up their still
inarch through the trackless firmanenti
The heavens are whitened with
their beuuty and all the vaulted blue
is diamended with radiance.
Such is the magical charm of Try on.
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orick. fet this is a country whore,
vith a minimum expenditure of time
ind eve a less than that of money,
bis unsightly stretch of road could
ie made into a thing of interest ind'
possibly into one of beauty.
Shrub! i, vines, trees, any or all of
;hese planted along either or both
sides of the walk and given a reasonible
amount of raro fnr a fom wodra
would soon change this dreary secion.
Why lot start a fund to change
'Red Cliy alley" Into what It should
>e?one of the beauty spots of toWn?
If we are to keep Tryon an |unipoiled
paradise, here is a good place
.0 begin. Water tanks and cjlay
janks go a long way towards making
t a pan.dlse lost. A. N. O.
An Appreciative Audience.
Sditor polk County News:
Those of the Drama Fortnightly
*rho wefe responsible for the seleof
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Among recent arrivals at Oak Hall
are Mrs. Paul Bo\*ren and Mrs. Dougj
las Donald of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. W.
C. Niblick and Miss Anne Watson of
Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. David Van Da
sen of Detroit, and the Misses Wat
kin of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Holden and Mrs. Peattie int
vite all who may be interested tp
view the pictures of Ernest Barnes
at Mrs. Peattie's home, "Dunwanderf
ing," Thursday, February 11th, from
3 to 6.. | < Feb 11th
Mr. Thomas, a brother of Mrs. C
W. Ballenger, is spending a few days
in Tryon en route to his' home in
Colorado from Florida.
Mr. M. R. McCown was in Raleigh
the early part of last week on legal;
business.
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I and N. E. Williams made at business
; trip to Rutherfordton Monday.
Wilhern and Lain Gibbs were guests
at Mr. G. L. Taylor's Sunday.
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Miss Lucile Taylor visited jBessie
Helton Sunday. I , 'I
Reuben Wilson and AntansaJ Jackson
were Sunday afternoon visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. jClarence Stepp. j
We are glad to report that Mif.
Fairest Lawter, who has been very
ill with tonsilitis, is improving and is
again ready for work.
Mr. Dorcas Lawter called to see
Miss Nettie Bradley Sunday.
Mr. Pink Brown, from Morristown,
Tenn., is visiting relatives in thiB section.
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tion of the play presented Wednesday
night, January 27th, were greatly
pleased over the enthusiastic reception
given It by a lafge and Intelligent
audience. . ~
IMany of the plays presented in the
arge cities appear to be written for
>eople of questionable tastes and dull
comprehension, the producers apparently
thinking it necessary to play
down to their audiences. Witness, for
example, the four-year run in New
York of "Abie's Irish Rose."
Evidently Tryon audiences are not
in that class, as the Subtle wit of
Sacha Gultry, the author of Deburau,
found- quick response and appreciation.
The new draping of the stage,
the colorful costumes and the really
excellent acting combined to make a
most entertaining evening.
It is rumored that the next play to
be presented will be "The Swan," a
comedy by Franz Molnar, an eminent
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Miss Lucile Smith has gone to Gaatonia
to accept a position with thp
| Gardner Music House,
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Harold Crandall is confined with the
grip.
Miss Margaret Law is improving
from a spell of the grip.
The Carol Society will meet every
Monday night. Voices are invited to
take part.
The Congregational Church wi 1
have a supper party Friday night.
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Miss Gladys Gibbs and Mrs. Justice
were in Spartanburg to see "Sally." j
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Sunny View,
Since the snows and'jrainjs We are
having some of the very j"wprssep
roads out," around this plaice. Bpt
we hope some time soon we vyill be
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able to have better ones.
On account of the rain wp did not
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have any Sunday School Sunday.
Some of our young people ^rer; very
badly disappointed.
Miss Holderbaum, our hojne agent,
met with her club members hire on
last FridayL and awarded prises to
the following girls: Miss Luis Jackson
and Sarah Eliott, Nellie Lynch
and Creola Taylor, as they ha\ e been
making and serving cocoa, and the
judges decided in favor of these four
girls as keeping the nicest l;ltchen
and furnishing the most foods lor preparing
this. |
Little Herman Lynch is very sick
with pneumonia. We hope h m Bpeedy
recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dinsdale and
little son, John Henry, from' Kansas
City, Kas., are visiting their parents.
We welcome them very much,
Mr. A. H. Lynch was a p easant
visitor at Mr. W. D. Helton's Sunday
afternoon.
Bill Jackson and family vis ted at
his father's, J. L. Jackson's, feuikday.
Messrs. Clarence Stepp, J. J Price
gtiews
Mis! Mary Sharpe, from Massachusetts,
^vill spend the winter in Tryon.(
Mr. ind Mrs. Wygal have come back
to Tr 'on from Galveston, Texas.
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Dr. Justice ana Key. \j iieujc
judges at a debate held at Landrum
Thurs Jay.
Mr. Ebelle of Asheville was in
Try or Sunday.
> Miss O'iver, city librarian, who has
been in the hospital, is improving
rapid1 y.
Nujhbers of Tryon theatre goers
w^nt to Spartanburg last week to see
''Sall|-."
Mrl H. L. Griffith of Hendersonville
has Accepted a. positiop with E. E.
Merr ck, local engineer.
Th 3 Group Center County School
Teao iers' meeting was held last
Tyesjlay at the Tryon Schools.
Mils. J. W. Heatnery 01 saiuaa apem
the week-end in Tryon with Miss Lenirs
Lankford and her son, Mr. J. W.
Hea hery, Jr.
M \ C. T. Price of Inman, S. C.,
i was in Tryon Tuesday on business.
IM r. J. R. Burgess of Coluumbus was
aivisitor in Tryon on last Tuesday.
M rs. W. W. Graham has returned
tci Mimosa after a visit to New York
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r,ie bad weather causing a little
IUmss, I failed to give you any Items
last week, but will say that the snow
(o t rather hail) did much to loosen
up the land, and where it was sown
in : rain or vetch, kept in good shape;
buj where the land had no catch crop
to irevent it ?rom leaching, when the
ha d rains came it did considerable
da lage. ^
he bad weather not only prevented
more land being sown, but also
th preparation for next crop. The
lnnH is better nreDared now for an
otilsr dry season, however.
Ilr. and Mrs. vNewton received a
$il| on the 12th?a bouncing girl.
j ontez Jones has caught two owls
anj 12 hawks during this unpleasant
we ither that were catching the partri(j;es
on his premises. He set poles
Ui in the midst of the field and
pi iced a steel trap on top which did
th; work.
| During the unpleasant weather for
fa m work a small number of hands
have changed the Cone road near
M >untain. Valley Church, where lit
wis first laid off, thus getting rid
of the worst piece of road between
Un church and Saluda?eight miles.
T1 ey also decided at no very distant
tine to ,j meet and change another
sn all piece of road on the mountain,
m iking it better and nearer by cut,'tii.g
out a turn or two.
iVe had several inquiries why we
do not continue our articles on the
hi story and customs of this section.
W 3 will say for the readers' benefit
th it we now have one written and
is in the printer's office or lost, but
as the News has been changing the
pr;sent editor probably knows nothing
of it. If he will publish the articles,
I will continue writing from time
to time such things as will interest
the readers.
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IBiliie Hfll, only seven ycr.-s -if
age, lives In Los Angeles oiii' js predicted
to be the "coming genius
of the violin," by Efrern Zin)'.r.!?.-;t
i Such wor<i* coming from so g?-ot
a master is P'^i?? in-Iced
Why Not a City Playground?
The idea advanced by Carter Brpwn
at'the meeting of the Tryon Chamber
of Commerce last Friday night for a
city playground should have the approval
of every citizen in this community.
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Be careful about 1,1 .
mund Briebart, call 1
man in Germany, beiu
his hands, tore hors.
two horses pulling j.g;> ,.. ,
u -li if
He scratched hinis^
blood poison devcb,,
Germs too small to "
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microscope are strn,
man. Such germs an .
(ft
hands.
Bean Inge, einitei.i,. r,._.
clergyman at the h v.it ,( y
Cathedral in London. i.i.,,rs
trol. He says "LIMIT KI:ke~>
CATION to not more n,, ""
dren, from any one laiailv.?
He believes parent- - .ill ^
number of children, it ih-y u
educate all but three at.tL.
expense. Good, gloomy ^
knows little about hum i. u.
And he worries !> < ,,
people have most of the , hill,
birth rate being lowered acj
educated classes.
What would the dean havs
Nancy Hanks, with bare fee?
unable to read or writ*-, care
heavy baby in abut with aland
without windows'.'
He'd have said "Leave child>
to the educated upper class;
dear." But the big baby
ham Lincoln. You never car-.
The latest asinine, inters.ijs
ous proposition is that the}
States should sign tin int.-r
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"protocol." pledging ourseht-j
the use of chemicals, includiit;
gasses and other gases in
fare.
Chemical warfare, in add:-:-;
ing MODERN warfare, is t:brutal,
most merciful for:r.
thus far devised by human bn:
Chemical warfare could Miconscious
the inhabitants/.f i
city, capturing without kiliir.:
The old style of war was to
city, kill the men and wrr.-:
poison gases, so-called, inus-stear
gas and other gases a:1
merciful than powder or bulkas
powder and bullets are more
ful than weapons of an ear!;-%
In the big war entire rec
made temporarily blind by
were taken prisoners and line
camp, tears streaming d?*:
faces, unable to see their
not a man wounded. Not :
and the blindness did not las:
Only a sickly sentim-titaic?l
:hat kind of warfare "ns
rible" than the old-fashioned :
shot men to pieces and Iff' die
of festering wounds on tt-i
field.
Meanwhile the army's ch-r:
partment, concentrated on sa
chemical warfare and (hem:;"
erally, Is engaged in work;
to the nation, APART from r'
We are not going to a"*2
body, and should develop i est
point every known
warfare, including chemical n
to be ready for attack.
Meanwhile, poison gases used
more and more in I.KGFT
war, in fighting the boll
the European corn borer,
already appeared in severs
and might, if unchecked. 12
corn.crop as the boll we>vii:'
cotton crop.
Real estate is a respect*3
considerable business. Aug-5
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scher, who says'he is like tr."
horse in Dickens, that *
down if its driver allowed it
goes on working and ?lW
buys something.
A fo%M7 Have a trn fi ir "ill- '
bought a 32-story buiMiric 2"
Broadway, New York, f?r iThat
would surprise old Afused
to buy farms on
land.
Moral: Buy a piece of
now, where the $17.0on."""
will be later.
"T ryon."
T Is for Tryon, a nea' !i"!"
R is for roads, which ar>
and sound;
Y is for vontier a iim 'in'4
see;
O is for on top, to fill
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