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THURSMJ AOVRMRRR 11, 1926
T i3 Polk County Mows
; J.LISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING CJMPANY
LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor /
Entered at the Postoffice at Tryon, N. C., as Second-Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress.
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ARMISTICE DAY
To you who live, from falling hands
We throw the torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die >
We shall not#sleep, though poppies blow
In Flanders Fields.
Today- eight years ago, the Armistice put an end to the
greatest war in all history. While the national quarrels and
the fighting hvas confined to foreign soil, the United States
was drawn into it on the plea that "the world, must be made
safe for democracy." Many thousands of our youth sleep beneath
the poppies on Flanders Field, and many other thousands
are maimed or crippled, while still other thousands are in hospitals
or institutions as public charges.
It is no fault of the United States that its high and noble
purposes have not been realized. It may be true that a few
monarchics have crumbled and the people of Europe are blindly
groping for that promised democracy and the right of selfdetermination.
but after eight years we are compelled to face
the fact tha. th re are more men under arms in Europe than
before the war; that no one lost the war: that no one won the
war: t hat there were 110 victories and no vanquished.
Under these conditions it is peculiarly fitting that we observe
Armistice Day, not only as a day of world rejoicing, but
as a day when our boys we'e free to return home?home to
the land of liberty and the land of brotherhood.
It is fitting that we, the heirs of a noble past, should remind
ourselves, and our fellow citizens, of those great principles laid
down by our patriotic forefathers, and that we should dedicate
purselves anew to observing them by mutual understanding,
friendly accord and earnest cooperation for the common good.
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NAVY DAY
Most valuable work in popular education has been done by
the Navy League. This patriotic body has fixed upon October
27th for the fifth annual celebration of Navy Day. This movement
deserves cordial support in every quarter and the hearty
cooperation of our public and private organizations.
PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION
A large number of Massachusetts wool growers are.trying an
interesting experiment in manufacturing and direct sehing.
They are making 1,500 blankets from wool clipped last spring.
These blankets are to be distributed to the farmers who furnished
the wool, to be sold by them at retail. It takes about
10 pounds of wool to make a blanket, and after ali e. penses
are paid it will stand the farmer about $0.00 cstir.ating his
wool at 50cts. per pound. The blankets wholesale at $0.00 a id
retail at from $12 to $10. In this way the wool grower will
receive a much larger price for his product.
BOOST TRYON
The wheels of human progress depend largely on the spokesmen.
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Love for one's own community isn't blind: it has long foresight.
Industrial strikes and walkouts are not as bad as conditions
arising when citizenship lays down its instruments of cooperation.
An old saying is. "what town has done town can do." What
TRYON ought to say is, "what town has done TRYON can
outdo."
Don't hasten aviation too much. Man has to crawl before
he can walk; and man ought to be made to learn to drive
a motor car properly before he is allowed to fly.
Don't think it is a small job just to have helped to bting
a new family to TRYON. The average family is a minature
sovereignty, industry and social unit combined. Potentially it
contains workers, wage-earners, consumers, executives, and
leadership?the necessary factors in all progress.
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PISTOL
Many people charge that local communities can not successfully
cope with crime conditions: but history bears witness
to contrary, when citizens are aroused, the apparent vacuum
of lax enforcement is quickly filled. When Don R. Mellett,
Ohio editor, was slain as a climax to courageous effort at
throttling vice and g^ng rule, the situation looked mighty blue
relative to the capture of his assasins. The local officials,
. however, have not relinguished their search, nor will they until
the law has avenged this cruel act and cleaned up this dirty
mess.
- It is enough that men must lose their lives by accident, or
by the private foul of maniac or murderer. But when a man
must lay down his life upon the alter of good citizenship and
public morals, there is no effort too great, no expense too extravagant,
in bringing the guilty to the bar of justice.
Don R. Mellett has joined the long list of men and women
whose journalistic pen had to be dipped into the venom of law^
lessness to expose it to an otherwise listless world. Law en
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Th2 Nation's Ans,ver!
Courti-sy of tbe Klrhmond (Va.) Tlnu-s-PUjmtch.
forcemont will always and only keep pace with public interest
and approval. ,
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Drinking may be on the increase since 11)20, but somehow
we haven't noticed so**many bloated stomachs. It all goes to
the head.
EUGENE V. DEBS AND SOCIALISM
What some may term as "the grand old man of Socialism'
has departed. Eugene V. Debs, much hated and much loved advocate
of doctrines called visionary by some, and practical by
others, was devoted to the cause he esj)oused, and for which
he will be acclaimed by his followers as a martyr.
One out standing faeor in the lives of men and women who
seek another form of government or another system of society
is their zeal. And a man who (as did Debs) can poll nearly a
million votes for the presidency of the United States while a
convict in a federal prison, evidently carried marks of prominence,
if not eminence, that few others possess.
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eliminated, where rent, interest and profit are swallowed up in
a cummunal system of state ownership or collective governmgm
tal control of industry, agriculture and commerce, sonds good
io the millions of ears that listen to it. It appeals of
reason of countless thousands of people. But no application of
its theories in a practical test of national scope has ever worked.
The Socialist points with confident gesture to the postal
system and to other government and municipal ownership as
evidence of his correctness. But in every instance society is
shown to have recognized the fundamentals of public forms of
public service.
The trouble with socialism as a theory is, no one can put his
linger definitely upon it and say what it is. It can not be
Lagged. It certainly is not the political party which calls itself
that. There is socialism, industrialism, I. W. W. ism, communism,
bolshevism and sovietism; all in a mad scramble for
recognition. There may be grains of merit in all or any one
of them. But the world will not be pushed, it moves by evolution,
not by revolution. And if socialism ever "comes,' it will
not be by any overnight struggle. In fact, it will not be a
struggle at all. It will be a gradual adoption of such of the
principles of business and government as have proven their
worth and practicability when reckoned with freedom of initative,
private ambition and representative dealing. In other
words the world will have socialism only when it proves itself,
and so far no one can say definitely that it will. It will never
come in America by political action, but will come, if at all.
by commercial recognition and adoption linked with government
sanction. We Want None of the Red- Eyed, Soap-Box,
Bomb-Thowing Kind of Socilism That Has Been Incited and
Fostered by a Group of Frenzied Zealots Whose Belief in Oply
one Constitution, one Flag and One Wife Has Been Under
Serious Question.
But whateer may be said of the radical type of socialism, all
i will admit the sincerity of Eugene V. Debs, without whose
leadership in this precarious field of political endeavor the situation
might indeed have been far worse.
DAVID W. STEW AFT
J. M. HIJDSON
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David Wallace 8tewart, Sioux City ^acldad that "llttla bualneas" need*
la^ar and a t?p Mrgeant !n Smed'.y att#nt|on ? ? ? ^ bu,|ne^?
Butler'a Thirteenth United St.tee ma- ,nd h,reafter wl|, he, the r#taMer>
rtnea during the World war, ha. bean A new p#u|| dlv|(|on ha, boen creat#d
nominated by low. "<***>??. to All >nd j M Hudg0 former .acretary
tha vacancy cauMd In tha Unltad 8Ut* ^ the Blooml ton chamber of Comaanata
by tba daath of Senator Albert m , ? ^ ?
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j \ P1EF RECDRDS j
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j Heads Major Disasters ui iv-^.
j Red Cross Active in 62
Emergencies In Year.
ALSO SERVES FOREIGN LANDS
Prpnarfidness to Cope with Great
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Disturbances Gives Good i
Results in Action. |
Facing one of the largest fehablllUr ,
tlon efforts of its whole history, as a ,
result of the Florida hurricane, the ,
American Red Cross already had be- j
| hind it a record of service. Jn 62 disI
asters at home, up to the close of ^
! the fiscal yea(, June 30. 1926. ^
j When the hurricane struck Florida
I with such devastation and loss of life, '
| the Red Cross National Headquarters i
1 was just congratulating itself that a <
year had passed without a major dis <
aster within the borders of the country.
The destruction in, Florida has (
been tentatively estimated by Director
of Disaster Relief Henry L. Baker,
of the American Red Cross, in terms '
j of relief work ahead of the organiza- 1
| tion This takes 'nto account all suf|
ferers who must be cared for. I
Careful surveys by experienced au- (
I thorlties place the injured at 4,000,
j exclusive of the stricken Gulf Coast
cities of. Mooroheven and Cl^wiston. .
1 Of the 1.200 injured sent to Miami
j hospitals, r.OO wore suffering with ma- '
< Jor fractures. In two other east coast 1
communities the injured numbered '
I nearly 1.000. The homeless were con-j j
servatlvely estimated at 50.000. Such I ]
figures sketch only vaguely the human \f
and material 'p-oblem which the i
American Red Cross is still doing Its |1
utmost to s.olve. (1
j For cotnparisor the other outstar.d
ing recent disaster, the Midwest tor
i nado of March LS. 1925, can be de 11
I scribed in more detail. Tn that eatas- I
j trophe the final check showed 800 j
dead, 3,000 injured and 6.947 families !t
J of approximately 30,000 men, women |
and children rendered homeless The j
final relief operations of the R<>d j'
Cross were brought to a close March !
19. 1926. exactly a year from the day |<
the tornado struck five states. I
So terrible did the death and de- t
strutcion Impress itself on 'he experi- j
enced Red Cross forces rtish'd into
Florida that Chairman John Barton
Payne did not hesitate to call for p js
relief fund from th' who'e country of |
$5,000,000 The -d Cnvs concern;
trated every resor-ce In trnim > per
onnel on the stricken region. ]
The New Jersey munitions explo- '
alon, In July, while terrible as a spectacle.
could not compare with e"her
of these other two disasters in final
destructlveness. It save the Red Cress
I an opportunity for service In which
| Red Cross nurses treated 86 injured.
and during the height of the eme> I,
j gency fed between' 700 and 800 peo j
pie driven from their homes. Mo-e
than 400 cases were registered with '
the Red Crocs after the explosions I.
for assistance In regaining their hold '
j on life through rehabilitation work. .
' This latter Is a regular part of the
Red Cross relief operations In all disasters,
and means a task continued
1 long after the country has ceased to
think of the occurrence itself.
The year has seen a new measure
of disaster relief preparedness inau
gurated by the Red Cross, under
i which a trained reserve of medical
and other relief experts Is constantly
on call for any service. This prepar
edntss Justified Itself In both the New
; Jersey explosion, and in the Florida
hurricane. In the latter the Red Cross .
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1 had at cay more than 300 experienced ^
j disaster workers with a network of ?!
prepared Chapters all orer the coua- ^
try. This preparedness, constantly i i
! demonstrated, Is cited as material as- J
1 snrance that the country le better j <i
! protected today than ever before from \
\ the suffering such misfortunes engen '
j der. J
Bad as were domestic disasters In *
j both the last fiscal year and recent \
months, some of those abroad in the
! same time have been comparable, es ,
peclally a flood In Mexico. Altogether '
the American Red Cross served In the <
| name of the American people In more H
than IB foreign catastrophes. \
The Tenth Annual Roll Call for <
membership to maintain such actlvl- )
ties will be held from November 11 to '
25, and 1? an opportunity for all to !
enroll themselves in the American 1
Red Cross. J
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Astronomers tel 1 us of thaousands .
of worlds beyond ours, which must ' |
make Mussolinla take up another ] J
notch In his belt. ??
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The Rumanian princess says she ? >
will be dissapointed if she doesn't < .
see Indians and cowboys on her trip ] |
to America. My dear, the same may
be obtained in abundance for a few <?
cents at any motion picture theatre.
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Imagine moter asking for- a fire ?
day week! J ^
who won
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Germany, with heaviest losses of jug
Men and money, is now preparing Hi, ?
io loan money to France. Her finan- '< rt.
:iaj recovery is due to two things i:,
? the practical repudiation of much . . in;,
of her internal debt, through the km
oollapse of the mark, and her free- ua
tlom from a standing army. Still .
she is poor. * . ih
France. with heaviest losses ami
imong the allies, burdened herself t ir -';H
svith a standing army, after freeing I'eyi
Germany from that burden, and has tin i: ' '?* B
inertased her debt by wars of con- by
luest since the "peace." Financially afii-i -H
the is nearly ruined. . iiarl.;. . fl
Russia, once in the grip of a ter- by '
rible aristocratic tyranny, is in the "lis u, < " f(?B
?rip of a bo'shevist tyranny, trying th "
i new experiment in government 'I l.>
vithout religion or private property. ; >.? !" "tB
Turkey is in (he htuids of a die- 1, n,. '^1
:ator who has overthrown ancient slam:
jutsoms and religion, lias destroyed .
he power of the Mohammedan work
church, and has given the grand < nu: "
Jounce to the Caliph, who was for fun:- , "
jleven hundred years the Father of d> r < .......
die Ture Believers. > a stir.., ,"'^B
Itlaly htis a dictator who will prol}- irii-iui "^B
ilily seek, like Napoleon, to overrun.^Anii-rh .1 ." ''B
Europe .and who, like Napoleon, i!} rum 1.
treatly strengthening the industries
if his country, at the sacrifice of Who I
if democracy. is imp*.
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Spain has been since 1923 in the war.
lands of a dictator who 8S7relent- V- t n . -i.B
ess. sunn- . ...
Dictators have mastered many of win i' ,
h/i ritvri- (riu-ornmotifs Got* iin hp. iioil I !;
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ween Russia and Central Europe. ernine ! -. ; , .
Filsudsky has recently by a revo- sid*- i'- ;_.,X
ution mastered Poland. pises '>.9
Greece has had its government nation nr:
hanged so frequently by force applies hat
a fleeing Greek president on and v-r.
he Mediteranean is a common fea- borders
lire of the general burlesque. Such a a ... v.
Holland, obliged to maintain a o it fight
itamflng army of enormous size dur- What d *h:r.k'
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