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) tr- i i VOL.: XXVIII. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 3, 1917. NO. 32. I: :T - T 1 , PriskUrtfilsoiJippiilj tithe Soith MiItyFititkiNatiu. I take the liberty of addressing this word to the farmers of the country and to all who work on the farms. The supreme need of onr nation -and of the nations with vfhich we are cooperating, is an abondahce of supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The im portance of an adequate food supply, especially for the present year is superlative. Without a bundant food, alike for the ar mies and the people now at war. 'the 'whole geat enterprise upon which we are embarked will break down and fail. The world's food reserves are low. Not only du ring the present emergency but for some time after peace shall haye come, both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely upon the harvests in America. Upon the farmers of thiscountry, there fore, In large measure, rents the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count up on them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring a bout the meet effectual co-operation in the sale aud distribution of their products? The time is ehort. It is of the most impera tive importance that everything possible be done and done ini- mediately to make sure of large . harvests. I call upon youngand old alike; and upon the able bod ied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty, to turn iu hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no la bor is lacking in this great mat ter. I particularly appeaj to the far mers of the South to plant abun dant foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can Bhow their patriotism in no better or more convincing way than by resisting the great temptation of the present price of cotton aud helping upon a great scale to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty. Woodrow Wilson. Bif SmitoriuH Prapised. One of the most elaborate pro iects of the kind ever attempted by any man in Wilkes county is being planned by Mr. It. Don Laws, editor and, publisher of the Yellow Jacketat Moravian Falls. His plan is tp establish a fifty thousand dollar sanatorium at that place to be equipped after the most modern fashion and to be characterised as a Patriotic Protestant Sanitorium in con tradistinction of the Catholic in stitutions. Mr. Laws says the Catholics have a monopoly on the sanitorium and hospital bus iness over the iNorth and West and that this proposition is the first thing of the kind ever pro posed along the lines suggested. .He 'says by the time the good roads are completed across the mountains, he hopes to see this proposed institution in active op eration. It is through the co-operation of the quarter of a mil lion people who have supported the Yellow Jacket in tits ant- Catbolic campaign that this pro iect will be made possible. It is not "proposed that this institu tion shall become a competitor, with local sanitorums and hos pitals any .more than the Yellow Jacket in a competitor with the local newspapers. It proposes to look to wider fields and from a mong the hundreds of thousands of people who read the Yellow Jacket it will draw its patronage. -.Wilkes, Patriot, Thi First Click it tbs Submarine. Just what might be expected to happen to a German subma rine when it should encounter an armed American ship has hap pened. The submarine was sent bubbling to the bottom. It was an interesting incident aud one of a kind about which the people oi the United States has been waiting to hear. The submarine was first sighted across the path of itbe ship, which, made for it with the iutention of cutting it in two, but theGerman craft div ed and came up alongside some distance off, prepared to send out the merry torpedo, as German subs have so often done in t h e case of helpless ships, but before the submarine could discharge the deadly messengerj a neatly aimed Bhot from the American ship knocked her periscope into splinters and the show was over. The submariue is a vulnerable object for the gunner. Above the water its shell can be easily shat tered. The periscope is a hard target to hit, but there are fine marksmen behind the American guns, men selected with the eye and the hand for the job, and once the periscope is struck, it is to the submarine what a heart- thrust would be to a human be ing. The ability of the armed ship to to take care of herself has been of practical and convincing demonstration. Charlotte Ob server. Clear Away The Waste. Bowel regularity is the Becret of good health, bright eyes, clear complexions, and Dr. King's New Literals are a mild and gen tit laxative that regulates the con gested intestines by removing the accumulated wastes without gripine. Take a pill before re tiring and that heavy head, that dull spring fever feeling dissa pears. At your druggist, 25c. Deseltoriness may often be the mark of a full head; connection must proceed from a thoughtful one. Danby. BIG BRITI8H GUN8 HAMMER GERMAN LINES. Apparently a big battle Is brewing along the front between Arras and Lens, where the British guns are again hammering the German lines. Except for this artillery activity and some gains south of Loos and between Ar ras and St. Quentln, in the region of the Havrlncourt woods. Likewise on that part of the front held by the French, artillery duels predominated, being intense between the Somme and the Olse. BRITISH HOSPITAL 8HIP 8UNK, MANY WOUNDED. London. The British Hospital ships Donegal and LanFranc, with many wounded aboard, have been torpedoed wi'hout warning. They were sunk on April 17. Ot those on the Donegal, twenty-nine were wounded men and twelve of the craw are missing. The LanFranc carried German wounded as well ns British. Of those aboard, nineteen British and fifteen Germans are believed to have perished. OFFICIAL NOTICE OF 8EVERANCE OF RELATIONS Washington. Official notification of the Turkish government breaking off diplomatic relations with the United States was received by the state de partment in a dispatch from Ameri can Minister Stovall ot Berne, Swit erland. The communication came from G. Cornell Tarler. secretary of thi American legation at Constantinople, acting for Ambassador Elkus, who Is (1L It was sent to the American lega tion at Berne and forwarded. i MANY GERMANS IN THE COUNTRY ARE BEING WATCHED, Washington. Approximately 3,000 German residents ot the United States are under close surveillance, Depart' ment of Justice officials announced, because of their activities In behalf of the German Government The De partment's field force of officers Is keeping so close a watch upon the suspects that It would be possible to arrest virtually every man under" sus picion within Z4 hours. GOT BR1TIAN 10 GET FIST MONEY UNITED 8TATES WILL MAKE FIRST BIG WAR LOAN TO THAT COUNTRY. DETAILS TO BE GIVEN OUT Amount of Loan and Other Matters Concerning Loan Will Be Made Pub No In a Few Dayi by Secretary McAdoo. Washington. The first American loan to the Allied Nations will go to Great Britain. The amount and other details prob ably will be made public by Secretary McAdoo within a few days. Whatever the sum, the amount will be available out ot the proceeds of the $5,000,000,000 bond issue soon to be offered to the public, of which $3,000,000,000 wlU be loaned to the Allies. Announcement to this effect was made at the treasury department after a day crowded with conferences be tween Secretary McAdoo and Federal Reserve Board officiate and American bankers and bondholders and official representatives of Great Britain and France. Another development was the announcement that the size ot the first Issue of bonds authorised under the $7,000,000,000 war finance measure will depend largely upon the immedi ate needs of the Allies. Reports as to this have yet to be received in detail. The entire $5,000,000,000 of author ized bonds will not be offered In one lump sum, according to present ten tative plans, but probably will be call ed for In several installments or issues. By this course, It is believed that financial disturbances which might re sult were the country called upon to absorb the whole Issue at once, will be averted. Details SB to the amount ot the first Issue, Its distribution among the Allies, the character and terms ot the bonds methods of disposing of them, and other questions will engage the alten tlon of the treasury department and Federal Reserve Board officials during the next ten days. The first of these conferences began with the visit tf Lord Cunllffe, Gov ernor of the Bank of England, upon Secretary McAdoo and Governor Harding of the Reserve Board- Nego tiations will be conducted with a view to disposing as rapidly as possible of details so that the bond issue may be offered without delay. SENATE BEGIN8 WRESTLING WITH FOOD PROBLEMS, Hearings By Agricultural Committee, Houston Outlines Plans. Washington. Congress took up the food problem In public hearings by the Senate Agricultural Committee, at which Secretary Houston set forth the Administration's food control program. At the same time, the Federal Trade Commission, directed by President Wilson to investigate with the Agrl cultural Department the causes ot high food prices, asked all state governors to send representatives to Washing ton April 30, for a conference on state cooperation In the inquiry. Before appearing at the commission hearing. Secretary Houston put his plans be fore the heads of five of the leading farmers organizations and received assurances of support for any meas ures the Government contemplates for getting a firmer grasp on food pro duction and distribution. The farm ers' representatives promised even to give their endorsement to legislation giving the Government power to fix maximum and minimum prices In smergency. As Its part In the Govern' menfs plan, the Department of Labor announced that It had undertaken the mobilization ot a million boys through out the country as active farm work' ers for the Summer. An organization will be formed to be known as the United States Boys' Working Reserve. Its operations will be directed from Washington. GERMANY TO TORPEDO ALL H08PITAL SHIPS. Paris. "Contrary to all the rules of International law and humanity," says an official note issued by the govern ment Monday, April 23, "the Germans have announced that they have decided that they will torpedo ah" hospital ships without warning. "Under these conditions, the French government give notice that German prisoners wXl be embarked on the vessels." . FOOD CONTROL IS PUT OP TO SENATE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF PRO DUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION IS PROPOSED. ASKS FOR AN APPROPRIATION Secretary Houston In Communication With 8enate Asks For $25,000,000 to Put Plan Into Operation. Wants to Fix Prices. Washington. The Government's program for food control during the war was put before Congress by Sec retary Houston in a communication to the Senate asking power for the Department of Agriculture to take direct supervision of food production and distribution in the United States and requesting a $25,000,000 appropri ation for putting the plan into opera tion. Authority was asked for the Council of National Defense, in an emergency, to buy and sell foodstuffs and to fix minimum or maximum prices. As outlined to the Senate, the Gov ernment's plan is first to make a com plete survey of the country's food supply to determine Its ownership and distribution, then if necessary to license and control the operations of all concerns engaged in the manufac ture of foods or feeds, agricultural Implements and all materials required for agricultural purposes. Authority is sought for the Agricultural Depart ment to take over and operate the concerns if it appears at any time that course is demanded by the public in terest. Giving the Government power to deal directly in foodstuffs probably would make its application unneces sary, Secretary Houston declared, as Its very existence would tend to keep conditions normal. Market grades and classes for farm products, Secretary Houston said, Is one ot the chief needs of the country to Insure proper condl tlons in producing and marketing farm products. Authority also was asked for the Department to require of tranHporta tlon companies preference for thf movement of farm machinery, seeds, fertilizers and materials that entei into the processes of food production The Department wishes to allow ltf market service division to assist It obtaining rerouting ot foodstuffs tc relieve congestion on transportation lines. In Its plan for an Investigation o! the present food supply, tho Agrlrul tural Department has arranged fot the help of the Federal Trade Com mission, which, with the Department was directed by President Wllsor early In the year to make an Inqulrj to ascertain the amount ot food stock! and determine if the anti-trust lawf have been violated in food produc tlon, storage and distribution. As soot is Congress makes the necessary ap proprlatlon for this specific inquiry the Trade Commission will proceed. Some officials believe the Tradi Commission has enough power t make unnecessary the use of extremt legislation In regulating the contro of food, although additional powen should be given for an emergency. Officials of all Departments and divisions of the Government realize that the facts of the situation exist Ing must be learned before remediei can be planned. STEADY PROGRESS BEING MADE BY THE FRENCH Driving Back Germans In 8olssons antf Rheims. - Steady progress is being made bj French troops In driving back the Germans in the regions ot Solssom and Rheims. In a new offensive, tht French also have entered the German second line In the Argonne forest. Ger man counter attacks on the Vauclerf plateau, south of Laon, have been re lulled. Since the beginning of the French offensive last Monday, more than 19,- 000 Germans have been taken prison ers. Guns captured exceed 100, not Including machine guns. OFFICIAL ROUTE OF BANKHEAD HIGHWAY. Birmingham, Ala. The official route of the Bankhead Highway from Wash Ington, D. C, to Little Rock, Ark., will be seelcted by a pathflndtng commit tee, which will make the trip In the next 30 days, the Bankhead Highway Association In convention here de elded. Points 'to be reached by the Bankhead Highway Include Lynch burg, Va Reidsvllle, Greensboro and Charlotte, N. C; Atlanta, Ga., and Holly Springs, Tenn. FOLEY GtlHARHC PfiLrTS Em Suaaca SwtlAate -Bevels Ketultf STARS STRIPES HONORED PARIS AMERICAN FLAG IS FLUNG HIGH TO BREEZES IN FRENCH CAPITAL. WAS "UNITED mil W Great Day In Paris. Twenty-one Gum Are Fired and Procession Marches to Statue of Washington at Foot of Which Bronze Palm Is Laid. Paris. The Stars and Stripes were flung to the breeze from Eiffel Towei aud saluted by 21 guns. This marked the opening of the, ceremonies ol "United States Day" In Paris. The French Tri-Color and the Star Spang led Bauner were at the same hour un furled together Jrom the residence ol William O. Share, the American Am bassador in the Avenue D'Eylau, from the American Embassy, from the City Hall and from other municipal Gov- nment buildings. It was a great dav for the Red- white and Blue. Over all the CaDltaL street venders did a thriving trade In the colors of both Allies, while 40,000 American flags, handed out gratis by tbe committee, were waved by the people who thronged the vicinity of tbe manifestations. Jules Cameon. General Secretarv of the Ministry of Forelan Affairs: Gen eral du Bail, Military Governor of fans; the members of the commit tee and others were received at 1:30 clock by Ambassador Sharn at his residence whence they preceded to the Place d'lena, where a bronze plam was deposited at the foot of the top of Eiffel Tower. Members of the American LaFav ette flying corns, a delegation from the American Ambulance at Nullly, and the American field amblances. with a lnree reoresentatlon from the Association of Veterans ot the Marne, were the guard of honor before the .aFayette statue at the Tullleries Gardens, where the official orocei sion haltod to deposit a brouze plam. WASHINGTON WELCOMES ARTHUR BALFOUR AND PARTY Greeted at Station by Lansing and Other Officials soldiers Guard. Washington. The American capital extended a eHmplo, but heartfelt wel come to the British minister for for eign affairs, Arthur Balfour and the other members ot the British com mission which has come to Washing It, "to mnke co-operation easy end ef fective between those who are striving with all tholr power to bring about a lasting peace by tho only means that can secure it, namely a successful war." Thore was no music to greet the visitors, the origin! plan, Including the presence of the Marine Band, hav ing been amended to conform to the view' expressed by President Wilson and Secretary Lansing that this was a grave and serious event in Amorlcan history, and not to be lightly treated or regarded as a social affair. On the Union Station plaza were gathored some 6,000 peoplo waiting patiently for a glimpse at the nation's guests, restrained at a proper distance by hundreds of blue-coated policemen ond by two troops of the Second cav alry, commanded by Colonel Fenton. part of the garrison at nearby Fort Myer. Within the station lines had been drawn separatelng the traveling pub lie from the space at the eastern end ot the concourse across which the visiting party wae to pass on the way from the train ehed to the presl dent's room. All of the polire vaptainf of the district had been rangod here in a double line as a guard of honor to keep back intrudera. Two score news paper men, standing to the east of the concourse, were the only unofficial per sons permitted In this section of the station. Detectives swarmed every where through the crowds and at va rlous angles where any danger might lurk. Altogether, the precautions tak en to Insure the safety of tbe nation's visitors exceeded anything ever known In the history of the District. Bnst Renitdf for Whooping Cougb. "Ltist, winter when my little ivv Imil I he vlinoDine coouh nvi him Chfliiiltcrlaina Conch lleiiiHiiiv," writer Mrs. J. H.Itnh. it. Bust Sr. Louis. 1 . "It kept lii rough loose and relit' ved tiiii of thnHM dreadful coucinc m ils. 1 1 m t hp mil v cousrh med- rint I keep in (he bouse because I haye the uiont confidence in it. riiia remwiy in albo good for colas auu croup. PROFESSIONAL. E. Glenn Salmons, Kesident Dentist. BOONE, N.C. Officeat Critcher Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 K12 a. ni; 1:00 to 4:00 p, in, Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treats Diseases o( the Eye, EarlNose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., 1 15 '14 ly. E. S. COFFEY, Proxnpt attention given to all matters of a legal nature. tor Abstracting titles and soim tioa ol claims a special li-'ll. Dr. Nat. T. Dulaney - SPECIALIST - tig, KAR; BOSK, THROAT ASD 0HB8T KTKS BIAIIIHKD FOR ' GLASSES FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va. EDTTUJND JONES LAW YER LENOltt, N. C,- ill Practice Regularly in the Courts ot atURa. 6.1 n l. I). LOWE T. A. LOVK, Pineola, N. 0. Banner Kilt, N. C. LOWE & LOVE ATTO RNE YS-AT-LA W. Prnctice in the courts of Averv and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. r-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ?UOONE, N. C. Will; practice in the courts of Wrluiiga and adjoining roun iff. -l-H11. VETERINARY SURGERY. When in need of xxt erinary surgery call on or write to G. H. Hayes Veterinary Svrgecn, Vi tas, N. C. 6-15-16. .F. Lovill. w. K. IoU Lovill & Lovill -Attokneys At Law- -HOONE&U. C- Special.attention given to iU2 business entrusted to heir care. .. .. T. E. Bingham, Lawyer IJOONE, i ..... . N.C "PnuptBttention'pivn to II mnfiers of h lunl nature 'olleclioui. a specialty. Office with 8olicitor4F. A. Llo- 'iej 9. ly. pd. DR. R. D. JENNINGS RESiDENlL)ENTISTc" BANNEKsJEtKiN. C. B&"At Boone on first Monday of every month for 4 or 5 dajs and every court wek. Office t 1 the Blackburn Hotel. - mtmmtmt mmm Mymia. ! m TT ' 3i 1 7
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