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. v v.- ,J; f ( . ,;r .J , t .... , . : 'V:.- - ...-.! J . VOL. XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918. Na 3. 1 vj u r, ui in 'tj hfT i . i hfT wail k, m i if ' -X fi SKntvy likir's tepressiert if Aaar ieaSi&srt la wrij? W IheUwociated Press Hdrold E. Becbtol of Lon don states: In an interview a$ the home of General BlddW here, Secretary of War Balder Kave me his first impressiotis of the First United 8tat Army. . Baker was just7 back from France, where he spent many days with the American lighters and watched them in battle the first complete American Army to take part in the war. "Serious soldiers" he called them; "determined and efficient." Be told of Incidents be . bad witnessed to illustrate their grit, their eagerness to ,4bave a go" at .the Germans, their gaiety. He termed their morale "su perb," and' told how they all smile broad American smiles. ' "But the outstanding impress ion the American soldier makes,' he added earnently, "the impress ion I carry away, is one of a sol dier who understands perfectly well the righteous cause for which he Is fighting." " "" Secretary Baker made' it very . emphatic that the ; Americans' splendid spirtt their light-heart, edness in no '''sense' dulled their determination' or their apprecia tion of the Kenous "business" a head. Ho continued: "The transformation of these young Atnericaus, fresh from civ il life, into determined, compe tent, unit of a thoroughlv efflci fitt ar:ii;. k .-liovr h time is simply wonderful." Be recalled seeing these Ameri cans when" they were "rookies" back home in training camps. "Their astonishingly rapid de veloprant has been marie possi ble by thir aptitude and intelli gence, their zeal and energy; and the wholewnled spirit in which they dropped everything el and set about to learn their jobs in the Army." Baker xtood on a hill and watched their victorious advance east of St. Mihiel. " "It was an advance by thor oughly competent troops," said Baker. "Their conduct was mag nificent." The secretary visited hospitals where the wounded men just back from the firing line were being oared for. This incident, he said Ulustrate3 the grit of the wound ed Americans and the solicitous cre they receive. "When I entered one hospital two orderlies were trying to pull off a wounded soldier's boot A bullet had gone through the boot - into his leg. "Don't try to pull that boot off like that! ordered, a surgeon. "But the . wounded roan-grit- ted his teeth and said it didn't hurt, and started to help the or derlies get it off. " 'Hurt? Of course it hurts,' insisted the surgeon. 'Slit thp boot clear down the leg!' And the bo6t was slit." SDeakinz of - the Americans' physical fitness, Baker said: "In the German arrav, and in the French army, there are older rnn and young boye: and in lesser degree this is tru even in the British army. But the Amer icans are almost all between 20 and 80 strong, muscular fello s in perfect physical trim." Baker talked with scores of sol diers -soldiers of practically ev ery branch of the service, and of every rank from General Per shing to Private Jones. And he found everywhere the same eagerness to "get at it." He related this incident to illus trate their spirit: "An officer going about on in inaction out at the front asked a group of men whether they had Focb Knows His Pins. ' Marshal Foch is the only man who knows just what moves he is planning ior tomorrow or next week or next month, but there is growing in the fighting armies a feeling that the German is not going to be permitted to rest this winter., Fijrht in good weather and dig in for bad has become almost an accepted principle in this war. Men traioed in the theory of war prior to 1914 and its practice since have agreed every year to the uselessness of attempting to drive the enemy from its trench es, once the rain and sleet and snow set in, but there are indica tions that the initiative taken by the allies in July will be retained regardless of bad weather. If Marshal Foch Foch calls up on his army group9 to continue jumping at the Germans they will do it as they did in the ear ly part of the war, .for. in addi tion to the reinforcements that America has provided, there is a spirit revived. The freneh are fighting with a con fide net restor ed and the British are going in with great enthusiasm than had been apparent for many mouthy, They are not merely "carrying on." They are slashing away like one does when he knows there is another one right by his side hit ting just as hard. The Germans are not exhaust ed. They are not so badly fed. Their clothing ia not bad and tb"V probably have plentv of ara munition notwithstanding the enormous stores they have aban dohed. But there is something wrong and men who have com manded troops in the recent Franco-American-British offens ives are inclined to believe it is the realization by the people of Germany of the hopelessness of keeping up the fight against a foe who obviously is growing stronger instead of weaker. German newspapers, official and semi-official documents and private letters that occasionally come to the bands of the allied troops no longer contain sneers regarding the American assist ance. It is recognized that the American army cannot be dis posed of so easily. Ex. "No one answered. " 'Oh, come on!' the officer In sisted. 'You can't tell me that not one of you fellows has a thing to complain about' "There was another silence. Fi nally one sturdy American could hold it no longer. " 'Yes,1 he said, I've got a com plaint- We have good weather today and good weather yester day, and good weather day be lore yesterday, and ' pointing toward the German lines, ' there those eons-o -guns are, right over there, and we don't go over!' " The war secretary, in St. Mi hiel just after the French and A merican attacks had sent the Germans scurrying, talked to many citizens. They told him that the Germans' had been tery strict, but not cruel. ' Although the Germans bad been gone ouly a very short time when we entered St. Mihiel, al the worn n and girls, from the smallest toddlers to the oldest women, were togged out in re markably good clothes," Baker continued. "Iasked some of the women where they gDt su h nice clothes. " 'We've been saving these for four years' they said. "Even more surprising was tho remarkable 'number of French flags flying everywhere. The Germans had just left, mind you So I inquired about the flags. " Those, too said an elderly ; Frescb Timber Cut for Wir Usi Timber cutting for the use of the American army is proceeding on avast scale in some of the great forest?' region's of France, as well; as in ; Switzerland and Spain. The1 cutting of a tree in France has been, in peace time?, little short of a felony, and no tree could be removed until another vigorous ' sapling was ready to take its place. But the stern requirements of the war have compelled a change in tbf conservation of the forests, and the French are yielding the trees they have so long safeguarded. Great as the sacrifice is, it bag been recognized as a war meas ure, since the bringing over from America of the vast amount of lumber required for construction purposes would be practically impossible or if unde r t a k e n would stop the transportation of troops. So the forests are go ing, and for the first time solid stone construction is giving place t6 the lighter-and much more rapid wood construction. Besides the gathering of this huge stock of material, requir ing thousands of forest?, there is the work of building the hospi tals, docks, barracks, etc. The vastness of these building opera tions can be judged from the one item of building hospitals. Hospitals are built on the ba- si of beds for 10 per cent of the strength of troops,-so that with an army of a million men in sight the actual estimate for hospitals is 200,000 beds. As there are as many attendants as wounded oc cupying beds, this makes require ments for 400,000, or the size of a great metropolis, in the one item of hospitals. Several 10,00 bed hospitals are under way, and two 20,000 bed hospitals are being provided. One of these 20,000 bed estab- ishraents, with its 20,000 attend ants, makes a large village of it self, of 40,000 people, with their own electric light, water and sew- er systems, and all the organiza tion of a large municipality, The building of warehouses, d jcks, etc., on the same gigantic scale as hospitals. At three dif ferent points there is an average construction of three warehouses each day, and each 500 by 500 feet in dimensions. Ten miles of docks is about keeping pace now with the requirements of an ar my of a million men, but with a prospective army much great than a million, thirty miles of docks is the minimum require ment. Much of the barracks and trench construction U rush work which will have to be completed before winter. These are some of theoutstand ing features of this huge work of army construction carried on by the engineers, far exceeding the work of the Panama canal or any other enziueerine operation the United States has ever before un dertaken. Exchange. CURE FOR DYSINTERY. 'Whila I was in Ashland, Kan sas, a gentleman overheard me speaking of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy," writes William Whitelaw, of Des Moines Iowa. "He told me in detail o what it had done for his family, but more especially his daughter who was lying at thepoiSt of death with a violent attack of dvsintery, aud had be.n given up by her family physician. Some of the neighbors ad vised him to give Chamberlain's Colic and Di- arrhoeaRo.ne.lv, which he did, and fully believes 1 hat by doing so saved the iif. of hi child. He j stated that he had also used this rnmprfv himsplf withenuallv cratxl ifying results." . T ' " tvuiuou, uau u.uucu way for four jears, waiting for our soldiers to come back.' " THE WOUNDEIT. What should be done with the maimed and crippled ' soldiers and sailors? Men who have giv en the best of themselves and are wholly or partially incapani. tated for work cannot be allow ed to suffer. The crippled fighters during their period of service make greater sacrifice than the average man doe9 in a life time and are entitled to tbe greatest care a grateful government can give. Heretofore the situation has been bandied through the pen-; sion system. This, however, has been so abused as to bring about a new method of managing it. Fifty years after the close of the Civil War still finds the pension bill carrying ten millions of dollars. Of this huge sum millions are obtained fraudulently. Clearly a better and yet generous enough system was required and has been found. Though tbe bars are tightened up against fake claimants, the wounded fighters are properly provided for. . The French and British gov ernments, who perforce bad to tackle the problem before Ameri ca did, profited by the experien ce gained through study of our pension system, and found 'un proved measures. We, in turn, have profited from their later ex perience and have tbe best plan yet devised. This plan provides for helping tbe soldiers, but it does not con template making him independ ent of what ability he has for partial support of himself. Voca tional schools are founded to teach crippled men to do such work as they can and thus keep them from the necessity of be coming objects of public charity. And it also serves to keep the un willing worker from impbsing up on the government. It has been found that wonder ful results have followed teach ing, harmless, legless or blinded men how to work even under the reat handicap ol such maimed conditions. It is a blessing to them in more ways tLan one. To a man, ambitious and sensitive, it is disspiritiug to remember himself as an independent, able- bodied citizen when he is support ed entirely and has no opportu nity to engage in the activities of the busy world about him. He A WORD WITH WOMEN. Valuable Advice for Boone Read ers. Many a woman endures with noble patience the daily misery of backache, pains about the hips, blue, nervous spells, dizzi ness aud urinary disorders, hone less of relief because she doesn't know what is the matter. It is uot true that every pain in the back or hips is trouble'pe culiar to the 6ex." Often when th" kidneys get congested and mtlamed. such aches una pains follow. Then help the weakened kidneys. Don't expect them to get well alone. Doan s Kidney nils have won the praise ol thousands ot wo men. They are endorsed right in this locality. Read this wo- man's convincing statement: Mrs. C. E. Huffman, 601 Chest nut Ave., Hickory, N C, says: "Isuja l0 Ir0? fd kidneys. I wasi shaP 1 culd 'I anffuPL.n n lff. ft'rm m r- hnrlr in such bad straighten Biuu, x.i F u ... m ba couldD thave been more severe if someone had run a kmf, rae' I couldn t hleep and gj miserable Doan s Kidney f'11? rem10ved1 the J' "!v hack and made me feel like a dif- ferent Per8on- Price (JOc. at all dealers. Don't V . , . t I.SJ 1 Simmy asu ur u muuwv ikujbuv . get doan's Kidney Fills-tbo jjcjy recoraraended. Millburn Co., Props., ! Nqw York. umer Buffalo eventually co nes to feel usoli-ss and a handicap. This i? a crutl and sorry plight for a brave man who has honorably and nobly eerved his country. The voca tional school removes him from that status entirely. Though a grateful country helps him, Jhe is left the opportunity of engag ing in productive work and maintaining in full dignity h i s place as a valuable worker in the world. He is not isolated, which he would be as a pensioner net fitted for work, but remains a useful toiler in spite of his par till disability. The working of the system is thus explained in a clipping: "Compensation will be paid by the government to every disa bled soldier and sailor, irrespec tive of his earning capacity; but it may be withheld if he shovs himself indifferent to the oppor tunities for vocational educa tion that the government will of fer. For permanent disability the monthly compensation ranges from $360 a year for the man with neither wife nor child to f 900 a year for the man with a wife and three children. In ad dition to this amount, if the man has a widowed mother, he re ceives $120 a year. A man who has lost both hands or both fret or both eyes will receive $1200 a year. " The government does not ex pect disabled soldiers to be solely dependent on government com pensation. It proposes to fit each man for earning hisheravst abor. The work of traiuiLg crippled and blinded soldiers to be self-supporting has been brought to a high degree of suc cess in both trance and hng- an 1, and we may expect it to be equally well managed in this country. "The man who must find h's chief happiness in dwelling (n the days when he was uselul has a sad life. It is a life from which most of our wounded soldiers, however handicapped they may be, are to be upared. The gov- ernment will provide them with the means lor the continuing du rable happiness that comes from useful and congenial employ ment." Orphan's Friend. .(133 REM!) $133. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there i at least one dreadful disease that science nan been able to cure in all its stages and thatiscatarrh Catarrh bning greatly influenced by constitutional conditions re quires constitutional treatment Hali's Catarrh Mirineis taker internally and nets through thi. blood on the muscular surface of the system thereby destroying the foundation of tho disease, giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and ussisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative pow ers of Hall's Catarrh Remedv that they offer One Hundred Dol lars for any case that it fails to cure, oend for testimonials. Address F.J. CHENEY 4 CO, Toledo. Ohio. Sold by all dru ? iiAti. 75c. FOR SALE. Farm of 07 acres more or less, near Three Forks Church, about 1 7 Hcrfs cleared and remainder in timber that will biing more than I ask for place. New house and new barn. $1,200 right now will buy it. Also one Baboock surry, cut-under and double springs behind, run verv little; cost $220 now first $100 eets it. Also rood strong hack $25. JOHNS. WILLIAMS. Blowing Hock, N. C. BURLESON DRUG MEWL AND, N. C. GO. j)rUgS & Druqqists Sundries Avuiuuirir nun ui wikv ainunp, - , ! . ' j : . .it,. j uiuBis kivbu pruuj(ju atwu- tion. uiVti Vli ATRIAL. PROFESSIONAL E. Glenn Salmons, Resident Dentist. ' BOONE, N.t " Office at Critcher Hotel. OFFICE H0UB8: , :00 tola 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT'UND JONES LAWYER -LENOIR, N.C.- Will Practice Regularly is he Courts ot Watevua. 6.1 it L. V. LOWI T. A OVK, fin tela, 4. C Bauntr Elk, N. C. LOWE & LOVE ' 'ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW"" Practico in the'eourts of Averv ind surroundinfl-' counti. Pa TO. ful attention given to all matters i a legal nature. 6-12. F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, N. C, Will "practice in the courts o Watauga and adjoining conn Mes. -l 1-1911. W. P. SPEAS, M. D. PB.VCTICE LtMlTED To Eye, Ear t Nose and Thnat HICKORY, N. C. 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