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A voL.xxvin. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. G, THURSDAY MAY 10, 1917. NO. 33. i S1 CI lb COXVERf CORPSES INTO FERTILIZER. thistly Work if Germaos Under tbi Nam if EcoEomy. London Dispatch, May 1st. That the Germans are syste matically collecting the corpses of their dead and shipping them to rendering plants where they are subjected to a process for re covering the oils and fats for use as fertilizers seems incontestibly borne out by the latest informa tion. When such stories were first published they were generally disbelieved. American consuls for merly in Germany who arrived here after their ! redall said that the Germans were distilling nitro glycerine from the corpses and so obtaining the essentials of explo sives. It now'develops that the German censors are allowing the German papers to printaccounts of, and even to boast about, the efficiency which allows nothing to be wasted. The Belgian news paper L'lndepenrence Beige, of .April 10, prints an accountof the industry; in winch it says: "We have long known that the Germans stripped their dead be ' hind the firing line, fastened them iuto bundles of three or four bod ies with iron wire and then dis patched these bundles to . the rear. Until recently trains laden with the dead were sent to a town ear Liege and a pointnearBrus bels Much surprise was caused by the fact that of late this traf fic has proceeded in the direction ot Gerolstein, and that on each wagon was written D. A. V. C. "German science is responsible for the idea of the formation of the Lentsche Abfalls Verwertun BgesellscbafV or German Offal Untilization Company, Limited, a dividend earningcompany with a capital of 1240,000. The chief factory has been constructed 1 , 000 yards from the railway con necting St. Vith, near the Belgi an frontier, with Gerolstein, in the lonely and little frequented eifel district southwest of Co hen tz. - . "The factory deals especially with the dead from the western front. If the results are as good as the company hopes another will be established on the eastern front. The factory is invisible from the railway and is deep in the forest country. Electrically charged wires surround it. The works are about 700 feet long, 110 feet broad and the railway runs com pfetely aVduud them. "The trains arrive full of bod ies which are unloaded by work ers who live at the works. The men wear oilskin overalls and masks with mica eyepieces and are equipped with long hooked . poles. They push the bundles of bodies to an endless chain which picks them up by means of hooks at intervals of two feet. The bod ies are transported on an endless chain into a long, narrow com partment, where they pass thiu a bath which disiufects them. They go through a drying cham ber and are automatically car ried to a great cauldron, into which they are dropped by an apparatus which de'tatches theiu from the chain-. "They.-remaia six to eight hours in . the' cauldron, where they are treated by steam, which breaks them up while they are slowly stirred by machinery. The fats are broken into stearine, a form of tallow and oils, which re quire to be redistilled before they can be used- Distillation is car ried out by boiling the oil with carbonate of eodaand Home part of the by-products resulting is used by the soap makers. The re fined oil ; is sent but in small casks like those used for petrote Intrust the Acrew if Sweet Potities ib tbi South. The following article has been released for publication by the United States Department of Ag riculture: "Seed to plant an acre of Irish potatoes cost about $40 this spring. Seed sweet potatoes will not cost more thau $4 per acre where vine cuttings taken from enrly-set plants are used. The yieM of sweet potatoes per acre is usually greater than that ol Irish potatoes, and as a food they are as nutritious. Sweet potatoes may be grown through out the Southern States and of course in certain other sections, Specialists in the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture are urging an increased acreage of this crop wherever it can be easily grown Sweet potatoes, it is pointed out, are the South's chief instru ment for a quick and effective in crease of the food supply. Seed is plentiful; last year's crop was the second largestever produced. By means of vine cuttings it is possible to plant almost unlimi ted areas of this crop and at the same time conserve the present supply. That is, a farmer who wishes to plant 10 acres will bed seed enough say 8 to 10 b ush els to get slips for one acre. Vine cuttings from this acre would plant many more acres, plant tags being possible until the first of August in the lower South. rhis system, now widely used in the South, enables the utiliza tion of land from which early po tatoes, cabbage, and other truck crops have been taken. Sweet potatoes are not exjen ive to grow. : The main limit ing factor to the production o vast quantities by this plan is abor. Yields from fields set with vine cuttings are as largeasfrom plants grown from slips. This method has the further ad van tageof preventing the transfer of diseases which are carried on the tubers. The South doesn't need to learn how to grow sweet pota toes, the specialists point out Farmers know how to produce arge yields ol thiscrop. Butthe farmer muHt be impressed with the necessity of increasing his acreage of this crop, and then when harvest comes, to prevent the enormous loss from improper handling and storing. The best way to keep sweet potatoes is to store them in well ventilated sto rage houses, not "dugouts.' Storage houses should be made ready as soon as possible. Farmer's Bulletin 548, "Storing ana Marketing Sweet PotatoPS, instruction for building sue houses and for converting ' old and unoccupied buildings are given. Get Kid Ol Yourltheumatism, Now is the time to get rid ol your rheumatism. You will find Chamberlain's Liniment a great ml p. 1 lie relief which it afford is alone worth many times its cost. um and is yellowish brown. "The fumes are exhausted from the building by elect ric fans and are sucked through a preat pipe to the northern corner, where they are condensed and the re fuse resulting is discharged into a sewer. There is no high chim ney, as the boiler furnaces aro eupplied with air by electric fans. "There is a laboratory, aud in charge of the works is a chief chemist with two assistants and 78 men. All the employees are Holdiera attached to the Eiirhth army corp8 Tbere ig a 8anatori. u in near the works and under no pretext is any man permitted to lun vn Thuv n.rp irnnriluH na nriu. - t thi(J appamnK work r THREE GREAT FLAGS FLOAT OVER TOMB GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND UNITED STATES RAISE COL ORS AT MT, VERNON. VISITORS PIT HOMAGE TO AMERICA'S GREAT SOLDIER Eminent Gathering, Including Mem-1 bere of British and French War I Commission, Presidents Cabinet . ' . J and Members of Congress, Stand With Bared Heads In Seml-Clrcle Before Tomb of Nation's Founder. Mount Vernon. Va. The flam of Great Britain, France and the United States floated proudly together over OF GEO. VASHIKGTON the tomb of George Washington. Be- conscription, voting down by over Death them, spokesmen of the three whelming majority the volunteer army great democracies paid homage to amendment around which opponents America's soMier and statesman, and ot the Administration plan had cen- pledged themselves, each to the other, I In the name of the dead, to prosecute I In the Senate the vote on the volun the present mighty struggle against teer amendment was 09 to 18. and in Autocracy on the line he himself had I lonowea in winging America into do- i it was 279 to 98, supporters of con-,nK- I icrlptlon marshaling a strength which In groups of twos and threes, an I eminent gathering, Including the mem- bers of the French and British war I commission, the President's cabinet I and members of Congress, had stroll- ed up tnrougn we sloping grounns from the river bank until perhaps half hundred people stood with bared heads In a semi-circle before the tomb. The day which had been heavy and threatening u the party approached on .1.. . ...aaL,- ..... sunlight which played through toe trees on the unlVrom. and faces of those assembled. I Without formality, Secretary Pan- lels motioned to M. Vlvlanl, minis- ter of justice and former president ot France, who advanced slowly into the center Before the tomb of Wash- Ington whose efforts towards liberty his own ancestors had gloriously aid- A M Vivian. rtllvrrt .n aiMrflRS. ,h. r i.i..mn. t!oal power, deepened by the ..gnift- cance of the occasion, fought for ex- .,. n,C L-A ., V . iao IcWrB, v. could not understand French, caught the suppressed feeling and fire of the orator ana noiiowea uis w. -i..- thrill of his Imagination. . uuunu m woj Mu.v.ncu - " . ,7, . as m. v.... .... u, kAAsma annrama with trifl SAllRrftl realization that no applause could ei- -minn. .mu.Mi Then came forward Artnur Jam. Balfour, foreign secretary of Great Britain, who stood for a moment in iino . n kindlv fleure. ft.mnn, with nil hut the situation meant In the lives of the two great rnnnirlfiR. Mr. Balfour abandoned Ms decision not to speak and gave expression to a tew poignant sentences, evidently straight from the heart. England had honored Wash- lnxton as she never had before. "M. Vlvlanl," said Mr. Balfour, "hM expressed In most eloquent words the feelings which grip us an nere loaay. He has not only paid a nwing inouxe In a rrent atatesman. but hj bSS brought our thoughts most vividly down to the present. The thousands who have given their lives French, ;.ranKm. and British were fighting tor what they believed to be the cause of lib- ltT. "There Is no place In the world where a speech for the cause of Mb- erty would be better placed than here mi ine lomu oi tvuoiiihbiuw. "u that work has been so adequately dons by a master ot oratory, perhaps you will permit ms to read a tew words prepared by the British Mission for the wreath we are to leave here today: ' ' "'Dedicated by the British Mission to the immortal memory of George Washington, soldier, statesman, pa. trlot, who would have rejo ced to see the country of which net was by birth "SnanellXce!flght citizen, and the country which his ' "i: Governor Stuart ot Virginia spoke as the host oa Virginian soil. Waahlnston." he said, "originally , belonged to Virginia, but his priceless J memory has now oecome a common Heritage oi me worm, no here today a struggle bearing the su preme test of the Ibsuss for which he lived, foueht and died." Marshal Joffre, victor of the Marne and Idol ot the French people, next I .a i- .m m.hii nnl. J form. simply, but earnestly, he spoke w. i. aafiaKaa CONGRESS PASSES ARMY PIRflFT Ml I I Willi! HlbM HOUSE VOTE WAS 307 TO 24. IN SENATE THE VOTE WAS 81 TO 8. , VOLUNTEER SYSTEM KILLED Senate Favor Roosevelt Plan to Take Troope to France. Age Provision Not Fxed. Conflicts to Be Settled In Conference. Washington. The House shortly ha ? midnight Saturday passed the Kill amknJ.,ln. II a i Z " ,Z . "m,n,slrallon 8 P'n for a selective draft, The vote was 397 to 24 The Senate passed the bill by a vote to 8. Earlier In the day both Senate and Houso voted approval of the Admin- 'ration's proposal to raise a great wsr wny on the principle of selective tered their right. committee of the whole In the House surprised even Administration leaders. On a roll call the House relected the volunteer army proposal by a vote of 813 to 109. an even areatar m. Jorlty than that by which the amend ment had been eliminated from (h bill earlier In the day on te)ler vote in Committee of the Whole, mmik., .. ,. , . . " " "' " " th" " v "-" 8ralng the ages between which con- J " ,ho ,d "PP J k. h.u,. . "T. w" -w l. UD " " " " S. " V" " r l" " '" ""UU1U " " J nm" munm A Th House voted J " chane8 , he Com"mee s recommendation " " "m,l UB uea al TheM BD1 number of lesser SJ8!? tr '"'n "JT" the hope that the measure may be I lnium 1I IIIB BlKIllt- tre bv the mId(e Qf th,g we()k Senator Harding's amendment, do ,gne(1 to permU Coljnel RooMe'u to . f infn.P- jiiui. I vine In Pronto n, .,nn. 1,. !, fi.riflt. Kft . J '.,. for A similar amendment was rejected by the House, I "' pu umunumeni by Senator Fall to provide for raising hre regiments of volunteer cavalry to Patrol the Mexican border. The v'e " Jo 25. 0n the objection of Chairman Fltz- SerttI(1 ' the Appropriation Commit tM $3,000,000,000 appropriation Provided for carrying the bill into ef- fe Anally stricken out by the Ho"s by vote of 351 to 25, and It " reed that the committee should nng in a seperaie measure AMER)CAN TANK STEAMER i SUNK BY 8UBMARINE. London.-The American oil tank I steamer Vacuum has been sunk. The cmptaln Bnd p. of the crew ana the tt Bnd ,e American naval gunners are missing. The Vacuum was sung by a German sub- marine while she was on the way to the United States. The chief mate and can yy gmMrti havo bcen ,anded, 17 men, Including three of the Amer FRENCH COMMISSION TO MAKE TOUR OF WEST. Washington. The State Department announced that the French War Mis slon would leave Washington Thurs day to visit Chicago and later would go to Kansas City, St. Louis, Spring ni M concluglon of the 4k-lA fllllMnlB DKIlAAlnKIn Maw Vnplr tour, the party will return to Wash : M.r,h.l Joffre. ths hero of the Marne, will travel on a special train. ii.. r..i, ormv nllLvennrate th nd memory ot Washington. , rMpectfUliy salute hen tho greni goj0r in(j ay upon nis lomo iu tA m we offer ou roldlers wh ) nnve died for their country." Two French offli-ers rame forward with the bronze wreath from the French Mission, the humblest and the highest mark ot honor which the French Nation can, accord the dead. REVENUE MEASURE TO RAISE BIG SUM HOUSE COMMITTEE PREPARES WAR BILL TO RAISE BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS. LOWER INCOME EXEMPTION Increase of Excess Profits Tax Is An other Proposal of 8ub-Commlttee. Increase Taxes on Liquor, Beer, To baccos, Soft Drinks, Freight and Pas. senger Traffic, etc. Washington. A war revenue meas ure designed to raise not loss than $1,500,000,000 by direct taxes during the coming year was reported to the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesduy by a sub-committee which had been drafting the bill In secret sessions. Reduction of the Income tax exemp tions from $3,000 and $4,000 to $1,000 and $2,000 for single and married per sons, respectively, and an Increase of the excess profits tax from eight per cent on all amounts over eight per cent and $5,000 to sixteen per cent are two of the sub-committee's pro posals. The tentative bill also carries In creased taxes on liquor, beer, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco, new taxes on automobilus, soft diinks, ammunition places, freight and passenger tariffc and a stamp tax of wide scope. Much of the bill follows the lines suggested by Secretary McAdoo, but many of the most Important proposals are re jected. The total of the propored bill falls millions ot dollars short of the orig inal figure ot $1,800,000,000 to be de rived from taxes this year. Fordney Responsible. Opposition of Representative Ford ney, of Michigan, ranking Republican member ot the committee, to raising more than $1,000,000,000 by direct taxes Is largely responsible for this situation. A bitter fight on the bill In full committee Is certain. Resentment among some members aroused by the prolonged executive meetings of the committee, coupled with vigorous op position to the income and excess profits tax proposals, make storms In evitable. A now cloud also has appeared In the threat of a Republican member to demand doubling of the present one cent duty on sugar. Secrecy, which has marked sub-com mittee conferences, will rule In ths full committee. Unprecedented safe- gards are being established against "leaks." Only one copy of the tenta tive bill for each committeeman has Been printed, and an effort will bs made to prevent members taking them from the committee room. There have been Insistent demands from all sections of the country for public hearings but none will be held It present plans are carried out. A normal tax of two per cent would be levied by the proposed bill on all Incomes above the proposed exemp tions. Above $3,000 and $4,000 and up to $5,000 four per cent would be levied. Surtaxes would begin at $5, 000 and continue upward. Higher Liquor Tax. Decision to recommend Increasing the tax on whiskey from $1.10 to $$ a gallon and that on beer from $1.50 to $2.50 a barrel wis reached after determined efforts to make It higher had failed. In an effort to protect the manu facturer and smoker ot cheap cigars, It was decided to Ox a graduated tax on all kinds of cigars. Cigarette taxes would be doubled. Suggestion ot a flat four per cent rate on freight and passenger trans portation proceeds was rejected In favor of taxes higher than four per cent on passenger tickets and four per cent on freight charges. A five per cent tax on the factory cost of automobiles and musical In struments Is recommended. -Amusement places, Including mo tion picture houses and baseball parks would pay stamp taxes equal to ten per cent of their gate reeclpts. Bnht Remtdv T or Whooping Cough. "Lnst winter wbea my little ( duti ti e whoopiui couRh 1 ill vi- him Chtniib rloina Cough Ufint'tny," writer Mrn J. M. Iiob itH. lOint Sr. Louih, in. kept Imh r uzh Iooho ond relit ved tint of II o dirndl ill rot ging w. U w ihe onl.v congt. med ii iiii- I keep ui I lie house hi cause have i he most cot fldenreinit." This nroedy is aleo good for toldxoud crcup. Clear Away The Waste. Bowel regularity is the secret of good health, bright eyes, clear complexions, and Dr. King's New Liie t ins are a tniiu and gentle laxative that regulate the con gested intestine by removing lie accumulated wastes without ripine. 'lake a pill before re tiring and that heavy head, that lull spring lever feeling dmsa- pears. At your di ugist, 25c. PROFESSIONAL. E. Glenn Salmons, Resident Dentist. BOONE, N. C. Office at Critcher Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 to.13 a. ui; 1:00 to 4:00 p. in, Dr. G. M. Peavler, Treat sD If eases of the Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., 1 15 '14 ty. Dr. Nat. T. 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