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( : r it THE lOBNING STAB, WILMINGTON, K. ." SATURDAY, JANUARY 1,19ft. " FOUR ! t :.r St ar i THB OLDEST DA1IVT IN NORTH CAROLTNA" '-; Iljke4 Every Moral in the Year r Tke WIL.- AtlNttTON STAR CO 3D? ANY. Inc.. 10 Gacntaut Street, Vilaiiastoa Sovh Cdroliaa i , - i, ; ,y - , - , ' Entered at tfce PotofliCt at Jvfilmisngtpn. NC As Second Class flatter, . , ,1 Editorial....., EBusiness Office , : Telephone! 1 ............ i ........ .No. 61 - ' I" ! i SUMSCRUPTION RATES BY CAKRUm One Yea .w ....... .$7.00 (tlx Months .60 Xnree Months!. I-7 Une Momn :. ........... VlfSCRIPTlON RATES BY MAIL Postage Prepaid, - i Dally i only One 1'ear ,...$&. Ou Viz Months 2.50 Jhree Months ..1.26 n Month 45 Dally and Sunday ir.. . . I.7S .60 1 Subscriptions Not Accepted tor Sunday Only ; Edition i MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS t The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ue for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also th local, news published herein. All rights of re-pub- iliuation of special dispatches herein are also veuerved. . FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES i Atlanta: Candler Building. J. B. KEOUGH New York Boston s Chicago 125 Fifth Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples' Gau iiid. BRYANT, GRIFFITH A BRUNSON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1921 .Mm mm I A Mind Without A Set Wa j Senator Knox makes Jus contribution to Mr. Harding'sv "meeting of minds." Having brought a warning from the Irreconcilables that they will not suffer the new association of nations to be tainted, even in the least degree, by the existing covenant, he declares after a lengthy conference with the President-elect: I . I never credited reports that he would use ; the League machinry as a basis for the pro- v posed association. I could not imagine how ; ie . could misconstrue the mandate of the i American people or back-track on speeches i Jelivered during the campaign. -1 After talking with, him I am more than ever ! confident th'ait he will do no such thing. I am i assured that he has no set idea in, mind, and j I am convinced that he is going to work out ' something that will be entirely satisfactory ! not only to the Senate, but to the country. 1 Mr. Knox therefore agrees with; Mr. Oscar Straus that Warren GK Harding is a "harmonizer. He must be, if to be all things to all men, is the way to "harmony. : Mr.i Knox, the .enemy of the If a pi ti I til m if . mm League, .is convinced that he will work out some thing satisfactory to the Senate, meaning his own . group of bitter-enders. Mr. Straus, the consistent supporter of the League, after Mr. Harding had cast the light of his countenance upon him, re ' ported that he is "the man we heed, above all, for constructive work, for making realities." j Only one hint i$ Offered us as to the manner in which Mr. Harding accomplishes his necromancy. Senator Knox, it jviUUh observed, is sure that Mr. . Harding has no st -ldea in inind. Mr. Straus,' i appears, reached the same conclusion. Asked by I a reporter; "Dqes Mr-Harding's mind run along with yours on the international situation" he re plied,"! coirtd not presume to interpret his mind." Pressed further,' "But "do you I mean that you do not know what he thinks about the League, or do j not care to state?" -he admitted, "I do not know ! just what his course, will be." ' ; I I We have two excellent authorities, then for the I belief that Mr. Harding is still up In the air, that the vagueness which afflicted him during the cam paign has not been relieved, and that'a multitude of: wise men have' only helped ;tb addle an already bewildered mind. ! IWe wish to register this New Year's wish: That the man who is to be our President for the next four years may somehow cast off his intellectual timidity and stand out as a robust, self-dependent figure endued with sufficient zeal and .strength and vision to restore America to her deserted-place in ' the councils of the world. 1 : ! - ' o- . . ' ; v , ; Becoming An American i- Professor Michael Pupin of Columbia Univer ; sitJy, jone of the most distinguished of livina working pf that jiemocracy was expressed In the country's acceptance of - Hayes election iln .the. hotly contested presidential election of 1876. - ; The seventeeri-year-old b3y who could grasp all this was not content to ork as a laborer. . He read and studied the speeches of tho great states men ;vhe studied English by going -io, see the 'best', the theatre had to offer; he went to Cooper Insti tute totudy drawing, physics and chemistry. By the time he was twenty-one, he had saved ?311, and was ready to enter Columbia University. It was through one of his professors, there that he "learned what America was by coming to know real Americans and their life at home. It mlde me feel that I was no longer an utter outlander,' a Serb among Americans; in one real American tiomp I had leen taken in, accepted. "Only the man who has felt himself a stranger, an. alien in a great country, knows what a little social warmth does for his soul." Is It not possible that the great mass of the inarticulate newcomers, who have not the power to analyze ' their feelings, or reason themselves into content, or understand the principles on which the country is based, feel the same way? So far, their only chance for "social warmth" has been through cleaving to their own people, in little groups far removed from the influences of every day American life. The students who- did not accpt the young Serb asrQnehQfj themselyes until he had won the "ca,ne Tush" for hisJelASSjT illustrated the conservatism, 'of ,the American which punishes itself as well as lhe one against , ....... j -v&iA wnoia it is airecieu. i Michael Pupin reached almost at a bound, through one year's study of the constitutional his tory o the United States; ,an understanding of the new theory of freedom, the democracy of AmeHca. We may well envy him that thrill, "one of the few great ones which mortal men expeJ rience during their lifetime rftiiSft en an American as many born and bred-in .the land are not. ' Let's Have The Resolutions We are hot of those who regard with indiffer ence or supercilious scorn the formulation of reso lutions for the New Year. We have unbounded admiration for; the man who swears off smdking just after dinner on the 'seventh of September or the thirteenth ' of December while there are yet three cigarettes in his Silver case or a eouple of mild Cubanolajs protruding invitingly from his outside pocket. All honor to his rough-and-ready efficiency, to his loyalty as,a-disciple of Do-It-Now. We are not in his company and our company is . considerably larger. Most of us are enslaved by the clean-slate philosophy which first took hold ot us in the 'rithniietic days. We like to block our allotment of time off into installments of fairly moderate duration, to compare the performances recorded within the succeeding blocks; and we extract a blessed consolation from the knowledge that there will be another following the one of which we have just made a mess. It is not of our will or bent to view life as a j single span of time or course of actionf continuous and undivided from the cradle to ther grave. W& must have the joyous incentive here and there of starting off afresh. Perhaps there are some for whom the alternate method of driving bVnd on, unmindful iof the clock and the calendar, is better.' They are; strong souls, peculiarly gifted in purpose and .courage, who formulate their New Year resolutions shortly after emergence from swaddling clothes and there after proceed toward the goal of life without re course to our beloved psychological trick of sort ing out months and years. But they are few and the race they run is not for the rest of usl Like Nature, we are seasoned, and there is "comfort in knowing that Nature is on- our side The life that Is about us conforms strikingly to our own chosen course. It is continually being renewed, failing in the struggle here and there and. build ing season after season upon that Heaven-sent new chance. We can not permit the cynic or the superman, to destroy, for us the beneficent symbolism of the New Year. . It is a new page in our book--the beginning of a new chapter, if we please o make it so. Let us regard it solemnly and hopefully ' before we begin to write.' Let us' cast up. a balance sheet and see wherein we. have fallen short in our performance for th twelve-month Which at mid night was ushered out Let us resolve in honesty and courage upon the course that we know o be laws whose enforcement will be more probable be cause of less severity of the prpvisions. ,The New ; iYork Herald states: J . 1; : v 1 7 If the Jftws were strictly enforced in Dela ware, the whole machinery of civilization in 'j that-state 'ivouldcoine Co a practical stand-. f still. Under the Resent statutes it is an of- y v fence to erigage4ati"y occupation, to sell any. kind of goods or. travel on railroad or. trolley' . . or to- ride for pleasure; In an automobile; There Would be nowhere much to go except , tov church. Even "tho houses of w&rship would . be prevented from having paid singers, and the preacher who might serve one of them as ' a-"suppiy," could not get his check from the deasons aftfer the service. Pennsylvania has a -record for aged laws, dating back to 1705, some of which are enforced, while others have long since been forgotten. The act of April,, 1794, still unchanged, prohibits wordly employment and amusement; and permits only . works of charity and necessity. Time and again efforts have been made to legalize (. Sunday base ball,1 fishing, concertst and moving pictures, but the law has resisted all of them, and is enforced. Yet no one would attempt to enforce the law that the hitching of a horse to a carriage is legal on Sunday only if the owner and his family are going to 'church, and illegal if the drive is for pleasure only. There is a law against the Sunday sale of ' newspapers, also, thougnpapers are sold as on bq onvdown tne list, witu attention to sunaay naws ranging from New York's fairly good enforce ment tf very liberal laws regarding amusements and tiie sale of food, to Georgia's twenty-year neg lect of strict -laws, with, as a result, a Sunday observance very like New York. In this field of legislation, as in. most others, the goal to be sought seems to be, not more laws, but ;the enforcement of existing ones which are adapt $1.10 modern life, and the repeal of those whose absurdity makes law breaking a joke. There would be a greater respect for laws if there were fewer of them, and those enforceable and enforced. After allthe desecration of the Sabbath can not be leg islated away unless there is a moral fgrce in the people who live under the laws. ' o ' Letters to the Editor Home Of Models. -t "- V ----- - - ' . vr-v-, if-.X By Frederic Haskin KfiW r YbRK JCITY,;' Dec. 31-To have theiftrtists' modeiiU.ken sei-ijausiy Is the purpose of jan interestiJqlub wWich has its headquarters in art 'old fashioned house, on West -Fifty-eighth street here. Pass' this house : .at any hour during the day, and, if you are lucky, you are apt to see its ancient door creak open and the original ofi your 'favorite magazihe-cover-glrl trip sedately down the steps. For the house is usually full of them. It has about 150 such enchanting damsels on its membership list. a ' ;- But -they are to 'be taken seriously. Don't forget that. The other day a Broadway Dfcn j uan. QUESTIONS AND - v ANSWERS J. Which speaker of the, house served longest?. D. t). S. , A. This distlnctim Is divided be tween J.G. Cannon,1 who served rom 1903-1911; and' Champ Clark, who served from 1911-1919. Q. What wood will resist decay most successfully? R. M. A. The forest-service says that this cannot be determined,- since various species act differently .in tropical and .temperate climates. Lignum vitae prob ably comes nearer -to livingup to this term than any . wood in the worlds Gen erally speaking the following woods may be classed as very durable: black locust, cypress, green-heart, lignum nhv1ristn nnd on Invantn a( linti 4. i. . im m iVr7nJwnT TV C il' I. better,-the course that will tike us nearer those immigrants' whose greatest contribution.' to jiaii jJ-,' u,t!- iJL i oukuvuo ui uvuu-nuucD nuwu vui umuug uavc his analysis of national traits and ideals. The j foreigner who ca$- explain why he came here, what J he expected to find, and what I he did find, gives I us i our best insight into wb,at iW needed to Ameri canize the immigrant and to make ourselves '$.)--iw0thy of 0lV Pa8and of the European's concep l Sn);o our placelh; .the world.; Such a one is . -h ;:w-Profes8or "Pupin. . :-.. , - v- - ' llfl '.. ''V?iB Vte were :Serhs; of that branch of the I! pf vrace. which ? was panted spiritual and political IP-'Ml freedom in ex,Cha?ge for the protection of Austria- - m I against ine wrK - For two hundred years they ill' keptth'e compattthen the Em made ; the SerbsJsais pf : Hungary. . That act of ; betrayal by ihis juler . impressed itself upon the boy Michael's, 'mih, and was put into sharp" re lie by the stbries he read of the great Lincoln." pis sense of wrong in the loss Iof liberty was one pf he things which led the fifteen-year-old scho6l boy to run away from school, to America; greater than this perhaps was his idealization of America the land of legend' and romance" to him. i tf tfp -a :!; With five cents his only; ea'plta when he arrived, U I Professor-Pupi;i rathrgoo& eTidene'.ot the i wttji; Mini, auwve"zor ne wasi Hired at once by :; the; foreman of a tarmer in Delkware, wliose fam Uly jdid much for the young stranger In an in terview quoted in, World's or'i, Professor Pupin says,: 'I saw that tM farmer and his wfe treated the hired "men with respect and! kindliness; i saw that in this country there"wasno such thing as master and servant in the European' sense of the word. V That .realization, made a big impression Bjrijj v iM;uflyrwBwn ui aemocracy was intensified by - the; boy's experiences in New York, while he mfr: worked invacracker .factory. During his nooni fit is"- hour -walks:- he saw .Rrvafit s a ri,- WW 1 m Vfi':!'-?-- sii-f v; hour rwalks, he saw Bryant, the - poet, then con-. nectea witft me- JfivenJng Post; President Hayesi .and other prominent Americans. The fact that they wore no decorations, no uniforms, no plumes. been mentioning so generously and earnestly uponi the approach of this new Btarting point. - ' , T 7 0 7 Some Facts About Blue Laws Most' people know that'blue laws" are so called because of the blue paper on which they were printed and distributed; probably few realize that there are enough of them in existence today to make Sunday a day of absolute calm, if they were enforced.. Connecticut, home of the blue laws, made no changes at all in the laws until 1866. Until 1902, there was a statute which forbade the operation of trains between sunrise and sunset on Sunday "except for necessity of mercy, or for the carriage of mails or preservation of freight." Street railways did carry passengers, however, and were not prosecuted, though the law worked the "other way in prevnting the payment of damages in case Of accident on the Sabbath.' In 1885,; the last prosecution under the Connecticut blue laws was" made, when two men were arrested for riding v in a, iiorseless carriage for pleasure on the .Sab bath; since then millions "ot automobiles have' passed oyer state highways on Sunday." ' " xNew Jersey's 1 Vice and Immorality . Act" re mains practically as it was revised in; 1846. In 1882 a man was arrested and fined X2 fotaking a surf bath on Sunday, but since then, though the law against all kinds fplaying, spbrts, pastimes -or diversions on the. Sabbath day" has been amended only' to permit walking, riding, and driv ing for . pleasure, the "surf is in constant use on Sundajr.' T ;v '"v'v- In. the '408, Tew Jersey was so moved by a tem 'Iperdnce and anti-vice wave that the; people even ; Cut down apple trees lest the sinful; make apple jack of the Jruit, but :the present tendency seemb toTbe to leave the strict laws on the statute books, and then forget all about them. Delaware, however, is at - present greatly con- vHiw.vbdtj dressed as simply us himself, was a , perfect cerned over tie non-enforcement of her blue laws, index ef democracy to the eager boy. The practical . The agitation may result in the enaction of new THE OUTLOOK Tq the Editor of The Stab: , There is no infallible rule to determine i the course of human events, or to accurately assess the forces of social and business development. In a general way, and on broad lines, a few funda mentals are sufficiently known to, forecast proba ble events, but even then unfathomable influences may operate to postpone or diminish these results. That deflation must eventually follow inflation, is an economic law as sound as the law of gravity itself; but when the inflation has reached its apex; when deflation has permanently set in; when the pendulum has reached its lowest sweep, are ele ments which no amount of business acumen or experience can reckon with so effectually as to provide by anticipation adequate . measures of safety and relief. It Is economically sound to in culcate the practice of constant economy and reser vation of profits and earnings, but this preach ment is Confronted with the frailties of human na ture. Prescience is woefully limited, the disposi tion to self-indulgence distressingly strong, . the cycle of responsibility restricted to the day. Yet on the whole the world makes progress. The propaganda against high prices, long un availing, finally culminated in such an avalanche of. falling prices as- to practically wipe out all accumulated profits for a number of years. And while government initiated the movement, it was unable either to modify its severity or limit its duration when once it was fairly under way. There is actually no over-production in any of the great staple lines. A large part of the world is on short rations, and a considerable part starving. But when consumption is artificially restricted, when apprehension of the unknown abounds, the condition of bare sufficiency is con verted into an oppressive surplus. This is the con dition that confronts us. Remedy Investment capital is the margin of savings over expenditures. Recent savings have been wiped out, and investment capital proportion ately diminished. Investment capital is accumu lated either through expanded profits or increased efficiency of production. The era of expanded profits has for the time passed, and the only re maining resource is savings from increased effi ciency.! Production must be brought down to the limit, not of consuming ability, but of consuming, disposition, and kept there until the condition of artificial surplus disappears through resumption of normal consumption. As respects the farmers, they should curtail acreage with the view of (a) "measuring produc tion against supply for (wo years instead of one, and. (h) of commanding a sufficiency of labor to practice intensified cultivation. . All theories apart, this isthe remedy. f. J. A. Taylor. Wilmington, Dec. 31, 1920. h - - FORGOTTEN? Editob of The Stab: ! Surely .the attendance of only about one hundred people, the majority- of them ex-service men, at the funeral of the first ex-service man to be re turned from overseas to this community, is a .terrible commentary on the memory of those whose actions have always proven them to be patriotic. Has the time been so long since these men trod the bloody fields and muddy roads of a foreign soil that you cannot pause for an half hour to do homage to one who fell?1 . Shrouded in his, bit of red, white and blue, this man who died upon the field of . honor for you, represents all that is best in America and yet from a population of thirty five . thousand a hun dred paid him tribute the others, well, perhaps they were too, busy watching the, dying year to miry one who gave his life to make their nev year peaceful and more blessed; perhaps they did not know the Soldier and yet he died for millions that he did not know. , , It seemed to me as the last sad note of taps sounded over the grave prepared" by his comrades there was a lilt in the tone as though the bugler were reaching out for the opening nqte of reveille a reveille to awaken a great people to a sense of their obligation to those who gave their all for theJr country. May they not let the1 busy din. of commercial life, the .strident voice of their own selfish interests, close their ears t0 its appeal. v ; ; " Ctbcs D. Hogue. Department Commander, American Legion. THE FRONT, STREET GALLERY . Editob of The Stab: . What is Wilmington coming to when we allow such things as that shooting gallery, between the bank- building and the Bijou? I? am a. resident here and ' certainly " do hate .to see Front street messed up -like that - v - ' Let's get together and see if we can't do some thing to keep Jont street looking better: . Kindly publish this if possible so we can try and do something. -' "-'"-. Mrs.' E. Cy Mubphx. bewitched t the sight of his favorite Uritae, mesquite, teak and tltie aedafs. bathing girl -picture i actually walking! 42. Can Indians own property, ana down-Seventh avenue not in a bath ing suit, "you . undjsrTstand. but' recog nizable nevertheless proceeded to ac company, her at a discreet distance as she turned down.-rFifty-eighth- street. When, sheT left the' pavement and ran " up a palr- of 'steps, - he stopped in his tracks and stared in deep pre-oecupa-tion at the door-. '"where she had van ished.'" ' ; , ' t - ' Suddenly, the door opened a second ti sir,- and a . grey-haired, sweet-faced matron came outv "Young , man, what do you mean , by following One of our girls?" demanded the lady quietly . but .firmly. "Now , suppose you just run along back to Broadway where 'you belong. The girls in this clubarer nice, quiet, re fined girls, and they don't want, to be annoyed, and, furthermore, we -are not going to have a lot of idle, gaping men standing out here in front of our house.'. Thus did the secretary of the 1 club, as' she later explained to the reporter, nip in the bud a movement on the part of the male .population ,of New ."York to give the! club its enthusiastic en dorsement. ... "The attitude of tlve public, especial ly the masjeuiine public, toward . the artist's model,'' said the secretary, sadly, "ii much the same as it is to ward the ctiorus girl entirely frivol ousl tit is also incurably romantic. ' People seem to have an idea that an artist's model is a gay young thing, wh earns an easy, if not luxurious, living by posing for fascinating artists with long hair, or Oriental- fezes, if they have bald heads. Now,, as a mat ter of fact, posing is hard work, and untu recently the average artist's model has been poorly paid and has been given about as -much considera tion as a table or chair." X Getting: Job For Model N Here the telephone on the secretary's desk burst noisily into her confidences, and s-he grabbed a, notebook and pencil. "Excuse me' just a minute," she said, taking up the instrument. "Tes I think we have just the girl you need ' Miss -B. You know her? Too thin? I don't believe We have anybody plumper. We consider her one" of the plumpest girls we -ha've. About 150 pounds, I should say, but tall and well proportioned.. Yes, I think you might Nbe able to use her face, too. She's a good Spanish type. Well, she lives right up in y'our neighborhood sup pose I have her come in and see you anyway. If she doesn't suit, perhaps we can get you some one else. Miss M.. frhom you had before, will be back from vHavana Friday." The secretary then explained that the club ruffs an employment bureau for its members, who are all registered and classified by types. PosinK is some what like private nursing; a girl never Knows now long her job is going to last or how much money it Is going to pay ner. iorae artists take a long time to complete their work,- and others work very fast. Some can a ford to pay 'a high rate for a model, and othejrs can scarcely afford to-employ one'at all. But conditions in. this respect are better for posers than they have. ever been before, thanks to the persistent mercenary efforts of the club. A good model can now demand and collect a dollar an hour lor. her work, at which rate some of them; make as much as eight dollars a day. Besides its employment bureau, the Art Workers' club, as 1t is called, op erates a restaurant on the first floor of the house, which serves excellent meals at cost, while 5 o'clock tea is served every-afternoon absolutely free. To this artists as; well as models are ln the two factions together for the pro vited, since, asithe secretary' explainedj "the chief object of the club.is to bring motion of a better understanding." Thus, on a rainy afternoon, the big club room Is filled with models draped about the furniture in graceful atti tudes, while they chat and drink tea with sociably-inclmd artists. The ro6m, with its artistic draperies and comfortable couches and easy chairs, looks more like a drawing-room than ya,-.cluli room, and the casual stranger would never guess from the frivolous repartee and engaging manner of its guests hat serious business was being transacted. 'Yet it is at these teas that many New York artists find their' vari ous types of models. The Costume On.xth third floor? of . its large, old fashioned home, the chtb maintains a costume department, which contains costumes of every period and national ity. '. These are often rented at a norni-? nal fee with the model.. For instance, while the reporter was visiting the club the other day, a wealthy artist, ' who lives in a suburb of New York. came in and told the secretary he was in search of a Dutch type and a Dutch costune of the kind worn by a certain grpup of " peasants living on' an' : island in the Zuyder Zee.. The artist was told to go up to the -club room1 and make himself at home while the secretary found him a model. In a remarkably short time, a flaxen-haired girl, with broad cheek bones and a robust figure came in the front jdoor in answer tp the secretary's telephone summons, and was rushed up ,to the third floor to be fitted for the said peasant costume. 'The same afternoon she was-out at the artist's suburban studio, ready to take her pose. - Once, every February, the club has a' models' review, which is considered one of the--most important events in artistic circles. To!-this review all of the known artists In the city are in- vited The club . room is turned into a small auditorium, with rows of chaira to accommodate a large-sized artist audience, 'while in the center of the rpom js an elevated platform for the exhibition df'the models.. The girls appear in the most beautiful costumes that the' costume department is cap able of turning out costumes f pre senting everything., from the . early Greek' and" the Italian Renaissance periods to the latest; frock and chapeau coming from-one of th Paris maisons. By reviewing these models, the artist! often gets the inspiration of his life, so we are told; while the model gets a well-paid job. ' Faikini In Model N,pt all of the models in greatest de- 1 mattdare beautiful, but all of them are distinctive. Types are what' the artist wants-rnot .." tiecessarily: pretty f aces. This year girl of the" Spanish type are much n demand, while last year there seemed to be: a general pref erence for French girls. Xtew of the models, who are kept very busy posing for murii1 decorations and character : (Continued on fage. Seven). Daily Health TaftJ" By William Brady, M.d" ' CATARACT AXD VlSiftv Every 3eye Is provided by natur. a lens of crvstallin rtrn. . .r ana,. fectiy focused. Sometimes tTiis na. lens becomes cl is called cataract ThA o: 1 y- -'"'lents l4i me iiujouiiieiii or lOjj eyesight in such a condition by'some opaque substance "tw8" lens .AnA. . U A.. .. 11 . j . . . J B Llni any the can they vote? A. -A. M. " i f A. A -great many Indians are very wealthy and own a" great deal of both. real and personal property. A large number of them are" fully enfranchised citizens of the United States. The com missioner of Indian affairs says that every effort Is made to induce the In dian setlers on the reservations to im prove themselves and make use of the opportunity America offers them to be come citizens. - Q. When did music notes Jirst come into use? t Z. W. K. . A. It is not known exactly when music notes came into use. In the first half of the 13th century notes of definite length were introduced. The first real school of composition was in Flanders, William Du Fay being the first of the composers of this school. He was orn shortly before 1400, and died in-1474. Q. How can the corduroy lining to a go-cart be cleaned without removing? W. J. W. A. Clean the corduroy witfi gasoline or oenzlne. Apply' with abrush, wipe off with cloth dipped in clean gasoline, and place in sun to dry4 Q. please explain just what "proof" means when used in regard to spirits and liquor. Such as "whiskey 100 proof." F. -W. L. A. ''Proof" or "proof spirit" is alco holic liquor which has a specific gravity of 0.91984, as compared with water of which 0.495 of its weight, or 0.5727 of its volume is absolute alcohol. Liquors having a greater alcoholic strength are said to be above proof, those haying less to be below proof. Q. What is an accolade? C. H. A. An accolade is literally an em brace. The term is generally applied to a ceremonv - or salutation which marks the conferring of a knighthood or similar distinction., . ' Q. Please give me a quotation of the Spartans. L. S. r A Probably the most famous quo tation attributed to the Spartans is the laconic sentence of the Spjartan mother who said: "Either this, 6r upon this when she handed her son his shield,. Q. How did gypsies get their name? F-AF' 'The name "gypsy" is probably derived from "Egyptian." by which term the gypsies were known in tne English statutes. Q. Where is the Long Bridge? R. G A. ' This name is applied to a bridge over the Potomaci river, connecting Washington with the Virginia shore. During the Civir war it was the chief line of communication with the Army of the Potomac, and was strongly fortified. ' . . i, Q What is a pheasant shell? I. M. C ' N " a. Ttt. narriA Is erlven to the shells of a gastropod mollusk of the family or Turbinidae, which are much valued for their beauty, suggesting by their gor ,,, metallic tints the plumage of pheasants - EIGHTH ROBBERY COMMITTED IN THE TOWN OF OID FORT . (Special to The Staf) , ASHEVILLE, Dec. 31. Bardley s store at Old Fort, was entered and robbed last night. The robbers took money and roods valued at many dol lars This is the eighth robbery that has occurred at Old Fort within the oast few months and the situation has become so serious that the authorities are contemplating hiring a private de tective, It is understood. That it is sometimes dangerous to stand for law and order in this section is the experience of members pf the law and - order league of Fletcher. At this village, just across the Henderson county line, a- meeting of the league was fired Into by unknown persons, the members of the league were in session when a shot rang out and a window was shattered. A careful search failed to reveal any clues. i MISTRlAJi IN MURDER CASE ! OF JUDGE WM. H.'M'GANNON growing upon the eyeball, as manv i agine.'. It Is an opacity within th a clouding of the Jens through vc oco, xma ji jTBaiune lens ! essential for all vision, any more th1 are ssectacles used bv'on dividual with weak sight. Tho I . A II ! I - - . . . - V laiiiuc lens is esseniiai tor cleam of vision of near obleets. a " in inc. But a. Rllitahlo long nf i 6'iS8 n. which the natural lens would M, Therefore victims nf naio.,.., Tt es - ,aio. to i . iiivi cm, inn evi cxpeciaiion di recovering comfortai)! usiuu tiuvutn proper S'asses course, after such operation the dividual - cannot expect to, have ioivu . ivi anj' near uujt'l'is With the glasses, which, take the place t Vl a v ota 111r a htnDAe Kw.U i . v jowuiut uoco n mill "rh. submit to the only curative tne operation, in which the opaque destroyed by the disease and- stase cataract js ( 1 CLEVELAND, O., Dec. SLTlfe Jury in the case of William H. McGannon, chief justice of the municipal court, on ' trial Cor secona oegree minum old Cv Kagy on May , was una Die 10 agree on a: -verdict at 5:45 o'clock to night and was aiscnargea oy juuge Maurice Bernon. Tne jury receivea the-caae at 6;15 p. m. on Wednesday and had been deadlccked ever since. " ) 1 i T - by. the oculist. In Its early percepiiDie to tne oramary cliw, thpugh readily detected by an exum nation pf the interior of the eye i the I surgeon or oculist. Only in" f thl PTA ftlio TOlnrlnn-l K viously greyieh or. cloudy in appear. - Cataracts occur both in infancy ar,. in via age. aome inrants ar,e bor blind in consequence of cataract. i seems that cataract is directly inherit in some families. In childhood eata ra is usuauy incomplete, involvin cniy part or tne Jens, so that some e. gree of vision is retained. Cntortt nateiy not ail cataracts ill children art' suBjjocuuie oi cure oy operation, owin to associated disease o,rJ clegeneratioj or omer parts or tne affected-eye. lilinaneBs Is by no means the inov taDie IM of the elderly -yjctim of cai act. In a great many ihstanees, 0v tnougn no treatment is given, the opa ity or 'naze reaches a fortain degn nnu. men remains stationary thnmp out me vision much .impaired but lost. " f Boisenmes tne opacityj occurs in th center of the pupil or window and ,e mi.lv I . : . 1 . : ' : UUU'J IIIICI 1C tB VV HI1 VlfllOIl ironv ery Deginning, long Dtorc catara would be suspected from the outvi'a appearance of the eye. B&t in most in stances tne opacity starts.near the'bor. der or circumference oi tbe l.ens and wen developed before the victim n seriously troubled about i vision. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Alan, a Lioss. n hann Please don't say you djpn't knov ot any fprmula that will stop tne froa growing any taller, or that if you u It would! harm me. If you say so never write to you again, j am is, ?n( weigh .102 pounds and I am 64 inc tall. (E. L.) Answer I won't, my child, not f tne world. The average weight an height f girls 15 years old are 1 to 115 . ppunds and 61 to 62 inch Doh't cast me pff coldly. ' Write aga and Inclose, a neatly addressed envc ope with . a. stamp :pn ,the proper enr ne,r and 111 ten you how 10 brir.d your weight up to' proper proportion. Serplnr (he Tongue I have always had the habit scraping my tongue mornings when brusn my teeth, but a woman friend noticed me doing it and said it is ver harmful. (G. K. C.) Answer No harm n It if you ai gentje and use no sharp-edgeri impi ment. ::. . Oat , When I was a boy I-vi-as fond of ea ipg raw wheat and oats. 1 still hk to chew them, but am told that it wi cause worms, and . at oats not cookd! at feast half an nour are as bad as it in tne stomach. Please give your a) vice. J.G.) Answer It is all right to eat wheat or oats raw. As for cookinp oats, fr normal adults the shorter the nerirt of cookirfsr' the more laxative t he oa It i only foe Infants and certain fe.!bi invalids that oats require proJong cooking. Indeed, It has been urged th? oats cooked but a few minutes are pr ferable for i?erons. with intestinal putrefaction, because the residue Wni reaches the colon favors the whole some lactic fermentatiPn and that op poses the .activity of putrefactive -w ganisms there. GIANT v, SEAPLANE WRECK IS FOUND OFF FLORIDA COAS1 CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to our friends for their many loyal acts of kindness and sympathy to ourselves and family since tne aeatn oi our weiuvcu on. ho been indeed a source ef strength audi the water. comfort'to us and we humbly pray for God's - blessins on every one. MR. AND MRS. G. R. NELSON (Adv.) , l-I-3t!, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 31 A cording to information reaching her late today from Melbourne, Fla., the east coast, the wreck of a gis::t seaplane, No. F-5 L. A. 4312. lie? ) the- ocean five mlleB pff the north bead of Melbourne. The ' wreck wasdiscovered at noon by Dudley" A. Johnson and Edwar Campbell. There -was no trace of tli occupants of the machine. It i " known liow long the wreck had been u It is ' stated that only the engr n can be salvaged and in this connectioi prompt action is necessary. Tlie o.vn ers of the craft are unknown here. January 1st- 3rd Deposits made on or before January 3 bear interest from January L Number "Systematic Saving" amongi your New Year's Resolutions. Wilji Trust Co. "Oldest and Largest Savings Bank In North Carolina ' -, V..- I m Ml: - 1 I 1 ' mt I,
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