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1 v - ,1 " 3 : VOL XXIX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1918. NO. 21. ?9. SUNBATS PRAYER BEFORE THE DOUSE. Calls fiofj Wrath oo "Wolfish Huns" ' md Brings Cheers From Members. .Rev: Bill.y Sunday, now in ti e City' of -Washington, made the opeuing prayer in the House of Representative instead of the regular- chaplain, and fo the flrt time in history the mcmbeis cl eered and applauded the invo cation. - " Billy's prayer was aa follows: . "Almighty God, our Hearenly Father, we thank Thee and re joice that through faith in Thee and ThyWord this 'government was built upon that foundation: "We thank Thee that the com pact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower by our ancestors was for democracy, liberty, freedom and the right to worship Thee ac cording to the dictates of our own conscience- "We thank Thee that as a pa tion we haye the courage to pro claim tp the world our continued belief in Thee, stamping on our coils the inscription "In God We .Trust." ' "We thank Thee that we are Americans and live beneath the protecting folds of the Stars and Stripes. We thank Thee that Thou canst look over the battle rn nts of glory on our land and see that there is not one stain on any star or stripe in Old Glory. "Thou knowest, 0 Lord, that we are in a life and death struggle with one of the most infamous, vilp, crazy avaricious, blood thirsty, sensual and vicious na tions that hiiH ever disgraced the pages of history. Thou knowest .that Germany has drawn from the e, es of man kind enough tears to make an other sea ; that "he has drawn en ough blood to redden every wave of that sea that . she has drawn enough groans and shrieks from the Hearts of men, women and children to make another mountain.- " ' We pray Thee that 1 hod will mike bare Thy mighty aim and beat bark , that gnat pack ol wolfl-h Huns whose fang drip with blood and gorp. We pray Thee that the star in theircour- 8 s may fight against them. "We pray Thee that Thou wj't bh-ss our beloved President, and give Uiiu strength of miod and body and courage of heart lor his arduous taks in these sorrow-laden, staggering times. We pray Thee to bless the. Secretary o State, the 8'cietary of War and the Secretary of the Navy and bless, we pray Thee, the na val strategy board. "Bh-ss, we pray Tnee, Lord, thepejeral at the head of our'dence that's fine, until th welkin party. Bless the boys across the sea,' "somewhere in France, and bless those protecting our transp rt8, loaded to the water's edge with, men and munitions. "Bless our boys at home who are in the cantonments. "Bless, we. pray Thee, the Sen ate and the House of Represen tative'", and give them wisdom an i strength, for they seem to have come iuto the kingdom lor such a time aa this. - And, Lord, may everyman, woman andebild from Maine to California, and Minnesota to Louisiana, stand up to the last ditch and ba glad nnd willing to suffer and endure until the final vlctorv shall come. "Bless our allies and may Vic tory be ours. -'And hi Your own time, and in Your own way, we pray Thee, man inou win release tne wince- winged dove of peace until it Blmll dispel the storm clouds that bang lowering over this sin-curs-ed, blood-soaked and "Borrowing world, and when ib is all over, w will uncover our heads and lift our faces to the heavens and sing As to the Sals By a ruling just issued by the State Food Administrator Hen ry A. Page, North Carolina far mers who have produced and are using their own com meal, hom iny, grits or other cereal substi tutes will be allowed to purchase flour in quantities up to 24 lbs. without purchasing an equal quantity of eereal substitutes. This ruling has been made by Mr. Page in justice to North Car 'lina farmers because theFood Administration at Washington has granted permission to the Food Administration of all Sou-1 them States to make such a rul ing and similar ruliugs are being made in neighboring states. The recent order of the Food Administration forbidding the sale of flour except in combina tion with cereal substitutes did impose some inconvenience upon farmers who have theirowq corn meal or cereal substitutes, but no considerable numberof North Carolina farmers who under stood the urgency of the pur pose of the order have made ob jection. The ruling follows:' ' Retail merchants are hereby authorized to sell flour alorfe and I in (quantities "not exceeding 24 pounds to farmercustomers wl o sign a formal certificate stating that they have produced and are using corn meal, grits, homi ny, or other cereal substitutes contained in the list included in the recont order ofthe Food Ad ministration to the same extent they use flour. "Wholesalers, jobber, millers a'ld brokers are hereby author. izd to sell to retailers flour alone in such quantities as said retail ers have B'tld to farmers under the ruling above stated, balanc ing against such sale of flour the cert-ticutes received by the re tailors fiom the farmer. These certificates in turn may be used by the wholesaler or other dealer to balance against purchases of flour from mills." Be CheerfuL" Don't tcll your troubles to a friend; it isn't fair or proper, i! you must lot . your wails ascend, cro, siirinir them on AcooDer. TIip cops uiv paid a princely wage to i;en t your railmg, to harken w hile the leathen rage, and fill the air with wailing. Hut we aiv not in uniform, we pack no shields or billies; and when you come and beef and storm, you give us all the willies. We have our little troubles, too, as evil fortunes plan them; when they're inclined to make us blue, we do our best to can them. We boost a confi- rattles we know that shedding 1 pints of brine won't help us ii. '0ur battles. And itisensy work ' to beam, when all the boys are cheery; but one old grouch can raise a scream that makes the prospect dreary. 11 o w often, when we start downtown, we're feeling glad and gaudj; on no tares brow there is no frown, and nothin's base or shoddy. Theh someone joins .s in our walk, on joy a cheap infringer, and puts up such a doleful talk, we lose our pep and ginger. He's spoiled a cheerful gday for us, a day we'd spend serenely, but for I t hat grim and grizzly cuss, who thinks nud ixlks so meanly. If your old Jjug is full of bile, go, plug it with a stopper; bring usa j.aay and gorgeous smile, take trouble to a copper. W.-dt Ma- son with a new manning, of "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing," ; "And thn' "prafa "shall bo " to Thee fjrever. Through Jesus Christ. Araen." AMERICAN RED CROSS TO ENROLL 24,000,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN IN JUNIOR AUXILIARIES To the School Children of the United States: A Proclamation - The President of the United States is also President of the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined in one that I write you a word of greeting: at this time when so many of you are beginning the school year. The American Red Cross has just prepared a Junior Membership with School Activities in which every pupil in the United States can find a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. Through it you can best work in the great cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other communities all over the world and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffer ing children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wound ed soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you through the Red Cross Bulletins the thrilling stories of re lief and rescue. And best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things under your teacher's direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all ; love. . - " And I commend to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has worked out to provide for your co-operation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruction of their teachers. Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs? (Signed) WOODROW WILSON, President September 15, 1917. Under the slogan "Every School a Red Cross Auxiliary and Center ton National Service," the Junior Rtd Cross has perfected plans for the en rollment of every school child In the United State as a member of a Red Cross Auxiliary, the date of the cam paign being from Lincoln's birthday, February 12, to Washington's birth day, February 22. The Junior Red Cross Is a branch of the American Red Cross through which every school in America is giv en the opportunity to carry on author Iced Red Cross work by forming a School Auxiliary, upon the payment of twenty-five cents membership fee for "each pupil enrolled in the school or by a pledge of satisfactory service In Red Cross work. It is the' only agency which is approved by school authorities to enlist the children in patriotic work during the war. All other organizations must work through the medium of the Junior Red Cross, whose services have already been re quested by. the United States Food Administration and by the War Sav ings Stamp Committee, of which Frank A. Vanderllp Is chairman. The schools, however, are not the only units in which School Auxiliaries may be formed. The other educational units which have been recognized as suitable centers In which to organise Junior Red Cross work are Agrlcut tural Clubs, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire' Girls, Night Schools, Sunday School classes and ucb authorised educa tional centers as may be properly or ganized under the supervision of the local representatives of the Red Cross Chapter. The United States Department of Agriculture has already offered. to use the Agricultural Clubs for Junior Red Cross work. Every child who is en rolled In a School Auxiliary Is entitled to wear a Red Cross pin, although not considered a regular member of the Red Cross. Conference at Washington. A Conference of prominent educa tors and persons Interested In. the work of the Junior Red Cross met In Washington, D. C, January 7th and 8th, at the call of Dr. Henry N. MacCracken, National Director of the Bureau of Junior Membership. The presiding officer was Dr. John H. Flnley, Commissioner of Education for the State of . New York, and prominent among those in attend ance were Dr. Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner' of Edu cation, the Red Cross Committee ap pointed by the National Education Association, consisting of Dr. Flnley as Chairman, Mrs. Mary C. Bradford, President of the N. E. A. and State Superintendent for Colorado, Pro fessor Marlon L. Brlttaln, State Su perintendent of Georgia, Dr. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Illinois, and Dr. Margaret McNaught, Assistant Commissioner of Elemen tary Education of California, and the War Savings E 'ucatlon Committee appointed from the N- E. A., consist ing of Dr. Finley as Chairman, Mrs. Bradford, Professor F. B. Pearson, BUte Superintendent of Ohio. . and Professor John D. Shoop, Super tendent of Schools of Chicago. The keynote of the Conference war an effort to define tiu function o tho Junior Red Cross, which wai stated by Dr. MacCracken to be First, Educational, Second, Productive and Third, Financial, In the order ol Importance named. The following are the members o' the Honorary Advisory Committee : Bernard M. llaruch, Council of Nation al Defence; Mary C. C. Bradford, Pres ident National Education Association; Carrie Chapman Catt, President of th National Suffrage Association nn Woman's Committee Council of Na tional Defence; P. P. Claxton, Unit ed States Commissioner of Education; His Eminence James Cardinal Gib bons, Archbishop of Maryland; Wal ter F. Gilford, Director of the Council of National Defence; Samuel Com pcrs, President. American Federation of Labor; Henry John Heintz, Chair man. Executive Committee World'E Sunday School Association; Herbert C. Hoover, United States Food Admin iBtrator; Julia Lathrop, Chief Chil dren's Bureau, United States Depart ment of Labor; Eva Perry Moore, President National Council of Worn en: Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con gress; Frank E. Vanderllp, Chairman of War Savings Committee, United States Treasury; Frederick Walcott, Food Administration; Mrs. Joslah Ev ana Cowlcs, National President of the Federation of Woman's Clubs. Dr. Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education stated that he had carefully invest! gated the program of the Junior Red Cross and had decided that it was the organization most practically fitted to enlist the interest and activity or the school children of America into a sys tematlzcd program of practical patriot fsm. state Advisory committees. State Advisory Committees to the Jtinior Red Cross composed of men and women prominent in educational work have already been appointed in the Ave states of the Southern Divi sion as follows: Tennessee: 8. W. Sherrlll, State Su perintendent of Education, chairman; A. A. Kincannon, School Superintend ent of Memphis: W. E. Miller, School Superintendent of Knoxville; C. H. Winder, School Superintendent of Chattanooga. Georgia: M. L. Brlttaln, State Su perintendent of Education, chairman: C. H. Bruce, School Superintendent of Macon; "C. B. Gibson, School Super intendent of Savannah; Chancellor David C. Barrow of the University of Georgia; Mrs. John W. Rowlett, Stats President of the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation. Florida: W. N. 8heets, State Super tntendent of Education, chairman; J. E. Knight, School Superintendent of Tampa; F. A. Hathaway, School Su perintendent of Jacksonville; Dr. A. A. Murphree, President of the Unl verslty of Florida. North Carolina: J. Y. Joyner, Stats Superintendent of Education, chair mani C. P. Harding, School Superin tendent of Charlotte; John J. Blair, School Superintendent of Wilmington; Dr. Edwin K. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina; Mrs.. Thomas W. Lingle, Dean of Women of tho University of North Carolina. South Carolina: J. E. Swearingen, States Superintendent of Education, chairman; A. B. Rhntt, School Super intendent of Charleston; Frank Evans, School Superintendent of Spartan burg; Dr. W. 8. CurreH, President ol the University of South Carolina, j As to tbe Poultry Situation. There iins been considerable confusion throughout North Car olina, us u lci-ult of the publish ed order of the Food Adminis tration uffictinpj the trade inlivi and freshly drew-ed hens und pul lets. According to Food Admin- istiator Henry A. Tage, tho or der does not affect local trade in North Carolina, siucc it applies only to licenhcd deulei'H, princi pally tLecold Mornpe coin-ems. F.veiy owner of a floik of poul try is I eiuR ui Red ns a patriotic duty to refrain from felling for sluuliter liiiy hens or pullets. Kve.ry l.en 1 but is sold before the 1st of May will represent a foTd loss to the nui ion of an a vera e of not less tliun thirty rpgs. If the average number of hens ar.d pullets usually sold from Feb. 1 to May 1 is sold tins year it will cause nn nggreKate lossof 150,. 0(10,000 egfis. The value of these egs is 80 per cent to 100 per cmt ofklhe actual vuiue oftlie hen?. The program being 'urged by the Fool) administration and the Department of Agiiculture will not entail a loss to the far mer but mi actual gain. Ti e co-operation ol all consn meis of poultry products is also requested. They are asked to forego the use of fowls on heir table during the next few weeks except male stock. Boons Voted Bonds to Extend Railroad. Joluiptn City .Si ii IT. The long talked of building ol the i tiili ad from Shulls Mills, N. 0. to Uoone, N. '. w ill probably he cctuidized this year. In an lection held at Uoone yesterday tint township voted $25,000 to mid the coustiuctiou of the road. This will 0 en a virgin terri tory fur Johnson Cily via the E 1 & W. N. C. H. 11. and the Lin ville River Railroad, and John on City business men will not be slow to tiikendvnutngcof it. The rnw link will be eight miles in length and the officials of the narrow guugo stale that con tracts will be let, work will be sin at once and completed with in n year. Miss Jans Van Ds Vrede Nominated Director For 1919-1920. Mlas Jane Van De Vredo, of Sayan nah, director of the Bureau of Nurs ing, Southern Division, American Red Cross, has recently received word from Mrs. Charles I). Lockwood, chair man of the nominating committee of ths American Nurses Association, of her nomination as director of the as sociation for the term of 1919-1920. This Is one of the highest honors that can be given a member of the nurulng profession and comes as a recognition of Miss Van De Vrede's splendid service. The nomination will be confirmed at the asmclatlon convention the first week in May. MAGAZINE Mf fin IpiMCMuWtVMO " 360 ARTICHS 360 ILLUSTRATIONS BETTER THAN EVER lSe a copy At Ymt Nws4alcr Yearly Subscription $1.50 Send for oar ncu frtt cat alog of mechanical book Popular Mechanics Magazlu Narth MfeMsa Avmim, Chlcasa riECHANlCS PR OFESSIONA L. E. Glenn Salmons, Resident Dentist. ECONE, N. V. Office at d itcher Hotel, OFFICE HOUBS: 0:00 to 12 s. m; 1:00 to 4:00 p. in, EJ7MJD JONES LAYEli LEJS01H, N. ( WW Practice liegnlai-ly in theConrts at M aipvza, 6-1 ii l. D.I.UWX T.'A OVK, Buuucr Elk, N. C. Pliienla, N. C LOWE & LOVE ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Tiactice in the'eourts of Avery and surrounding counties. Cnio ful attention given to all mat lei a -of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, -A'lTOUNEy AT LA W, BOONE, N. C. 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