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VOL XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 27, 1919 r NO. 20
THE 8UTIM BRIGHT.
Lenoir Topic. ?
! A bill has been introduced in saloon convention held at Colum-
the Legislature Allowing certain bus, Ohio, where delegates from
WortJIidi PrtWitin
Three months ago at the anti-
li text Tin 6m Tkin is a Ith Vki
CuUviHYii SiytbiWtrt
(By Bruce Barton.)
I sometimes picture it to my-
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
townships in Caldwell county to temperance organizations of ten self this way,
vote bonds lor rauroad extension or twelve other nations were ' Suppose that somewhere down
j-the object being to build a rail- present, the Anti-Saloon League town in New York, or in Chicago
roaairom morganron to Lenoir put itsell on record for world- or St. Louis, there were a huge
ana irom uranain to Lienoir. une wide prohibition. auction room, where the lives of
citizens of Cleveland county are The first move to advance such men and of little children were
working on extension of a road was the decision to send a com- on sale,
from bhelby to Morganton, so mitlee of three, headed by Bishop Suppose that every day the
that if present plans are carried Cannon, to the Peace Conference auctioneer's red flag hung out as
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ifout, a new rauroaa will De duih at Versailles. a sum that on that dav an mtnv
from bhelby to urandm through There were those who were men were to be allowed to die; so
Morganton and Lenoir. skeptical concerning this move, many women: and so many little
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The permanent improvements saying that the committee would ones,
now being made on the U.N. W. accomplish nothing. Butthefol- Allowed to die, just for the
Railway between Lenoir and lowing clipping from the Rich- lack of a few dollars. Just for
Edgemontmdicate unmistakably mond Virginian show quite the the want of the little sum that
that this road would will be ex- contrary: ' would ransom them
tended through the mountains in In addition to the other mo- Suppose that were the case. I
I the very near future. mentous issues aereed upon by say to myself: could I possiblv
the Peace Conference in the out- stav awav? Ta there unv unrn.
T'Viia tirMild in'AaaA moon mntli I.. - I . - .
" " , , lmed constitution for the League ment I could give to myself that
" oi .Nations is a clear recognition would keep me irom going there
but should the schemes outlined 0f the international character of day after day, and buying with
materialize, Watauga is certain to the liquor traffic and the classifi- all-my power?. Buying men and
be one of the big beneficiaries, as cation of this business with the women and children, at that auc-
an extension of the C. & N. W. trade in slaves and the illicittraff- tioneers block, with the dollars
DeyonaMorumer.itgoeswitnoui icbarms- that would mean life to them?
jr,u8 umt i, wui uuuie uiruuBu Never before has such a direct It's not a very pretty picture;
uraey s uap, ana mence, it is ea- declaration of the world view of . rnmm to the niotnre-thn
the traffi c in intoxicants been I have seen from stricken Arme-
given as in Article aia oi tne ma and oyria, and ail the em
league's constitution, which says pires of the Near East, it is al-
among other things: most beautiful.
Other peoples, especia 1 1 v I For men and women and chil-
wasramera non-paying propo-uunaD nf rwi a
Biwon, aim una new me umi, " such a stara that the mandatorv for the lack of anm, that eem
naswiKenon means unquestion- mof k,..; a I n ,ui n
ministration of the territory, sub
ject to conditions which will guar
antee freedom of conscience or
religion, subject only to the main
tenance of nublic order and mor-
ing laid, new bridges erected and als the prohibition 0f abuses, business, and wheremy income
cement abutments put .in, and ..atu.) fKoov,- ,m ,.,k
uumor says uw a corps oi en traffirt anfl linUftr tftffl-. th tAta n1n,A
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prevention of the establishment But I have a worse worry than
of fortifications, etc." that. The worry for what my
The Brussels conferences rec- conscience will say to me, if in
ognized the evils of the1 liquor this hour of the world's tribula
traffic in Africa and specifically tion I do not do my share,
recommend its abolition so far as The worry lest in my life there
the native population is concern- should be the cry of a man, or a
ed. The League of Nations, which woman, or a little child whose life
has behind it the combined power I might have have saved.
of the orreatest Governments on
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tne ooutn. ana me company lb earth farther and definitely dav. stretching out their weak.
sparing neither time nor money L id f th ti vrohh. tired arms. And its a marvellous
in completing the work, and we tion of the liauor traffic. Dlacinc thoueht to me. that modest as
are all highly pleased with it, the it soecificaiiv in the same class mv incoma is. its bitr enoueh to
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oniyoDjecuon ueiug uav wr M the Bave trade. ffive me a man. or a woman, or
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soumern ouuemi. cirumv- The purpose 0f the league is child, who wiU never cease to be
OUS, tne result neing a ireignt j Wo- in tnft ftnw,.ppd. thanlrfnl that T did mv nart
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rateuiatwamiosipiuiiioiuve ing , paragraph, which provides They are waiting for our an-
1 ne prodiue s upper, urn mecom fc, t territories are to be swer over there: vouraand mine.
pany is m no waj jvwmsww lor d . , te d th , of A Door man stricken and broken
this-the distance and tranfers ihe mandatorv states as inteeral bv the war: and a woman, weak
necessitating theseemingexorbi portion?thereoff subject to the from her struggle and terror;
tantrate. safeguards above mentioned in and a babv who can live and
the interests of the indigenous grow up into useful manhood if
population." Again the prohibi- only you say the word,
tionfl attain st the slave trade, the
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. " traffic in arms and the liquor r,Wi hl i. ..wfcu.
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Lenoir is to get $45,000 for the
building of a new post office.
Col. William Bishop, the lead-
gy to suppose, down the Watau
ga to Butler, Tenn. The road
from Lenoir to Edgemont, since
the lumber industry ceased at
the head of the line, we are told,
ably that the line is to be extend'
ed, which has been the intention
of. the company for many years.
Two work trains are now on the
Mortimer road, new rails are be-
gineeers is now on the line be
tween Edgemont and the Gap.
With this good news from be
yond the Ilidge:areasonablehope
and an abiding faith that the Vir
ginia-Carolina Road will be exten
ded from Todd to Boone indeed
"The Outlook is Bright" for, Wa
tauga also. We have now one of
the best railroads, of its ' kind in
Mwt Have Roads. Another Inmate ittbi Couty Honi.
If the North Carolina legisla- This paragraph is printed with
ture, unable to agree on the shame, and should cause the hot
Scales-Stevens bill or the Stacy blood to tingle with indignation in
measure, should fail to enact any the breast of everv decent tax
road tax law at allit would be a paver in.the countv. Some few in8 British aviator has to his ere
calamity. And while there is years aso one Harve Baldwin. alt offlcial victories over enemy
ittle likelihood that the legisla- with no means and just about as Planes
tors will make such a disastrous much sense, was indicted, with Jess Wiliard has been notified
'ailure, it is perhaps well enough his paramour, a poor-half-witted by Tex Rickard that Jack Demp-
to tell them that the whole State girl by the name of Bristol, on sey will be his opponent in the
is looking to them for a law that the charge of fornication andadul- championship fight July 4
will assure a system of hard- tery. The case came to trial and
surfaced roads with government the Court, mind you, the court,
lunds to pay half the cost. agreed that if they would take
The need for good roads is re- the marriage vows their case
ized today as never before in would be nol prossed. To this
North Carolina. This fact was the imbecils agreed and the sol
strikingly illustrated in Ashe- emn vows were taken in the court
ville a few weeks ago when over room. Result In a few years the
00 representatives of the west- husband died, leaving the unfor
em counties met to endorse the tunate wife and two little chil
Scales-Stevens bill and to pledge dren, who soon became inmates The whole United States invested
their support to thecause of road of the countv home, where thev ltOlo,0b7,471.8O during thJ cam
building that would connect all have since remained. This is in- PaiSa
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tie county seats and important deed shocking, but listen! Only Fifteen of the Winston-Salem
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towns in the state. Never before a few days since another child rioters have been given sentences
in this city has there been such was born to thispoor woman, and ranging from 16 months to' six
enthusiasm for the promotion of to the mind of the writer another years on the roads. It is under
Detter roaas. case should be disposed of in the stood that the council for nil the
The roads questions is espec- courts against someguilty scoun
drel. An illegitimate child born
in a county home? Horrible! At
last, maybe the idea of anew
ally important to the mountain
towns and ceunties of this re
gion. There are still sections
I am not rich, and I have all
the little worries that are com
mon tous middle class folks.
Worries about next year's in
come tax; and about the futureof
where for monthsduringthe year County home had best be aban-
it is practically impossibe to doned, and try to enforce decen
travel over the dirt roads because cy and right living in the make-
of the mud. The mountain com- shift we now have.
munities are every year asking
tourists in thousands to spend
their vacations here. But the
tourist is becoming educated in
the matter of roads; and while it
will always be desirable to have
Sill Of Pin Bril Joft.
ther of the three evils is condoned,
at all, the native populations will
suffer.
There will, of course, be pro
tests from those who have gain
ed great wealth through the deg-
redationof undeveloped peoples
I by the promiscuous sale of liquor
Premier Georges Clemenceau
was attacked on Feb. la, by an
anarchist, Emile Cottin, known
as "Milou." Seven shots were
fired, three struck the French
Premier. One bullet lodged in
the muscles of the shoulder, pen
etrating deeply, but not injuring
the spine, or penetrating to the
lungs. Two bullets bruised the
right arm and hand, while two
other bullets passed through the
gent of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service, is now arranging expianation being that they are
for several sales of pure bred "in the interest of the indigenous
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hogs to be held in tne ataie. une popo,, The League of Na
OI inese Will ue ou rieuucaunj, Hf,a , v -amtmizea that if el
Feb. zo, wnen tne American ro-
land-China Association ' will' have
a sale at Hickory, in Catawba Co.
when if will offer about 50 high
grade registered animals.
A number of other sales will be
held in differant sections of North
Carolina. All of these sales offer
some exceptional animals at rea- andfromtheir sympathizers. But premier's clothhig. Ute reports
sonable prices, and farmers in- .uTne of Nations haa adon- are to the effect that his condi-
tirested in building up their ted the view expressed by the tion WM satisfactory, and that
herds will do well to attend one gUDreme Court of the United ne remamea very cneeriul
of these sales. Rtte that "the excentional na- uttin, believed to be a some
ture of the commodity controlled what harmless person associat
...... in cr with and aidincr anarchists
m i .t tl.-l. a the nasis utxm wnicn tne exer- "
Abinii nam. pr-mnat reat." declared that he tried to kill the
We sincerely desire to thank Ttanat.nreiaaoeTtremeTveTcen. Premier because M. Clemenceau
our friends and neighbors for the ... ... lt nftt,UPftllv and nron. "was the enemy of humanity and
kindness shown us duringthe . f . toth , was preparing. Jor another war.
long sickness, death and h" the slave traffic, condemned by
of our dear husband and father, the entire civilized world. News
ay God's blessings rest on each and Observer
of them. . Subscribe for your county pa-
V-M s. John I. Green & Children per, One dollar per year In ad-
OSnas, JM.U, t . ' wx;Ynm;c.
i Good schools and good roads
are the two fundamental things
necessary for any state or coun
ty to be and become what they
should be. -Greensboro News,
American troops have arrived
in Berlin. The troops are said
to belong to the "113th New York
Regiment," and their duty will
be the protection of expected
transports of food.
Citizens of North Carolina have
more than $21,000,000 invested in
War Saving's and Thrift Stamps.
defendants will take appeal to the
supreme court.
The Transylvania Tanningcom
pany at Brevard, N. C. was prac
tically wiped out by fire Wednes
day morning, the 19th inst. The
plant which was valued at near
one million dollars was practi
cally covered by insurance.
A large Handley-Page bombing
airplane en-route from Elizabeth
N. J. to Houston, Tex., landed at
Americus, Ga. the 19th inst'. The
machine carried 11 passengers
made the trip from Columbia, S.
C. to Americus, Ga., a distance
of 227 miles, in three hours.
The 8,000 boilermakers . who
An the Stars TalkiPf tolls?
(Wilkes Patriot.)
Our local astronomer, Mr. R,
Don Laws, furnishes The Patriot
with some rather interestins,sntr
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access w u wrenw m us nuany ffestiiono onnf,rnit1(r thft
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primeval condition as possioie, signals that are continually com
summer visitors are weary of ing out of the ether from some
uwuuguidi wajr wreui . uvei where outside the earth as noted
miserable roads. It IS said that u thfi Marconi wireless instr,,
One OI the drawbacks to summer mQ0 vr t am went on a strike at Relfastnearlv
mcaiio, iui, uawo ixiaiutaiua i t- r-- -
tent colonies in the Pisgah Nat- th.t t.hmiiffhmit the immeno0n. amonthaeorusumed work last
ional forest is the lack of good iverse there are doubtle88 many week under the terms laid down
roaus leaumg snrougn a numoer other worlds inhahite(i with in. by their employers. Under these
OI COUnUeS to tne government tn u.c, knnA tArma thp wnrlrmon mt. a lA.hnni
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anas. Moreover, many tourists mysterious signals are theefforts week pending a national settle
onng tneirautomooneswitntnem of the inhabitants of otherworlda ment of the controversy
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uuu ......v. ... vmw ovvuuu, I tr fnmmiinmilta urith na Un in I n i .1 .1 . . .
, v ......m.wuv. - rvepons mat tne outn aivision
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and every new mile of improved habited that communication with i v, k v... rut r
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them some day will be possible rence Brown, U. S. A., debarka
and tnat the time may be near, tion officer of the southeastern
Continuing he says: "One of the department. The latest infor
greatest obstacles in the way is mationis that the Thirtieth di-
the apparent lack of a universal vision has not reached its port of
language, but thru the means of debarkation,
mathematics this may be over
come, since it is evident that the
science of mathematics is the
same everywhere, that 2 plus 2
road will help to increase the
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number of tourists who spend
their vacations in Western North
Carolina.
The value to the whole State of
a scientific road road system can
oe demonstrated, nobody anv
longer asks for the arguments.
And for these reasons the gener
al assembly would turn back the
clock of progress and disappoint eauai8 4 to a Junerite or an in-
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every county in tne rate 11 11 aa- habitant of Mars or to the dash.
journ without passing a road law ing denizens of Halley's comet
ma wiu onng leaerai money w The next greatest difflcultyisthe
me aia 01 me otaie in roaa con-1 i :
xui a TViAdcoo 0115"
struction. Asheville Citizen.
Iilshevisi Is Aiirchy.
Anarchism and Bolshevism are
synonymous terms.
The American people do not
want to consort with anarchy, and
this applies to all classes of the
American people.
But anarchy is dangerous when
nal to make the long journey to
even the nearest planet, or to
reach our earth from them, as
A new Fprd touring car, an ov
ercoat and 13 gallons of whiskey
were left in the road in Bandy
townshiy, Catawba County, last
Wednesday when Deputy Sheriffs
Abernathy and Gilbert found the
car with its five male passengers
stuck in the mud. All five of the
men ran when the officers ap
proached.
The Lenoir-Blowing Rock Turn
the distances are sb tremendous Pke Co. will spend alarge amount
that it would require over ten 0' money this summer putting
years for a message sent from tne road to the mountains in
Mars to reach , this earth. But good condition. New mile posts
regardless of time or distance, it have been put in, the road is be
seems that there is something ing surfaced with crushed rock,
going on. These are wonderful and a new amendment is to be
days and within the next dozen built around . the power , dam at
new and mysterious name that is we. pmy
not .reneraiw ,,ndertd nave a League oi JNatlons, but Representatives of the several
The so-called bolshevismthatis 7aue 01 im universe ' so townships of Wilkes county met
todav runninfif ramnant fnl?naaia I l,,B"v wn5uisu mm messages in Wilkesboro last week to dis-
is simply the wildest kind of an- ay be passing between us and cuss the voting of $250,000 more
archy, and the spirit that creates Vlars whose nearesfc aPProach to county bonds for the finishing of
aa 13 iori,y muiion mues, or oe- 3 in WUkes County and their
tween earth and Venus or Mer- maintenance. R. N. Hackett in.
cury as they lie hidden away in troduced and passed the follow
it is spreading throughout the
world. It is found in what was
Austria, in Germany, in the Bal
kans, in Italy, in Frace, England,
and even in America,
The press of America, and es
pecially the press of the smallei
cities and towns, can do much to
prevent th spread of this terror,
the blazing glory of the sun.
ing resolution: That it be the
sense of this meeting and so com
municated to our representative
to the General Assembly that no
member of the former road com-.
ward keeping this country of ours
a safe and desirableplace in which
to live.
Let us all do what we can to
by simply billing it by its right wolf that is seekingto devour the 9uch tatny legislation enacted or
vuo to(vuio ut nuiewui , vi IJRtinn nf thamnprt anHmhnoo . .
left upon the statute books reia-
uiuab lUBiuiuua tuiu uanerou pro
poganda is its name. Wright A.
mtterson.
name,
will use the terms anarchists anc
anarchy i istedof bolshevists ano
bolshevism thsy will do much to
tive to the completion or mainten-
anc3 of roads in Wilkes county.
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